TeXhax Digest Tuesday, February 3, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 07 TEXHAX07.87@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Moderator: Malcolm Brown Today's Topics: % nefarious notes: BITNET distribution revisited Contents of LaTeX style collection, 27th January 1987 Aegis site coordinator Pretex Response to weird alignment natsci BibTeX style Re: BibTeX (non)features Help installing LaTeX(2.09) MF(1.2) from Unix 4.2/4.3 BSD distr. Re: psfigtex BITNET & WISCVM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: BITNET distribution of TeXhax Date: the present From: the moderator % The last item in today's digest is a note regarding an alternative for % BITNET subscribers. If you like, you can receive TeXhax from TEX-L. If % you do switch, please send a note to TeXhax-request so that you don't % get duplicate copies. I am hoping that TEX-L will be available also % for distributing items that are too large for the digest. When I've % made arrangements, I'll post a note here on TeXhax. % % Although there was talk of severely curtailing the network traffic % through WISCVM in December, I haven't heard anything since then. % As long as such limitations are not imposed, I think it best to make % the switch to TEX-L optional. Should, however, they be imposed, it % may be necessary to require all BITNET subscribers to receive TeXhax % via TEX-L. We'll see. % % In the meantime, I've been slowly converting the distribution % list so that TeXhax uses the Forsythe gateway at Stanford. % % Malcolm Brown ------------------------------ 26-Jan-87 21:49:36-PST,3516;000000000000 To: texhax@score.stanford.edu, unix-tex@ward.cs.washington.edu Subject: Contents of LaTeX style collection, 27th January 1987 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 87 00:53:38 -0500 From: SKY The LaTeX style collection now has the files listed below. More submissions are very welcome. 00directory ieeetr.bst spacecites.sty 00index layout.readme suthesis.doc 00readme layout.tex suthesis.sty a4.sty lfonts_ams.readme texindex.doc acm.bst lfonts_ams.tex texindex.pas amssymbols.sty lgraph.shar texindex.sty biihead.sty newalpha.bst texnames.doc cyrillic.sty nopagenumbers.doc texnames.sty deproc.sty nopagenumbers.sty threepart.sty deprocldc.tex siam.bib uct10.doc docsty.c siam.bst uct11.doc docsty.readme siam.doc uct12.doc doublespace.sty siam.sty ucthesis.doc drafthead.sty siam.tex ucthesis.readme dvidoc.shar1 siam10.doc vdm.doc dvidoc.shar2 siam10.sty vdm.sty epic.shar1 siam11.sty vdm.tex epic.shar2 siam12.sty ws87.p format.sty slem.doc wsltex.c fullpage.doc slem.sty wsltex.p fullpage.sty spacecites.doc 1. For Internet users - how to ftp: Here is an example session. Disclaimer: ftp syntax varies from host to host. Your syntax may be different. The syntax presented here is that of Unix ftp. Comments in parentheses. % ftp cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (a.k.a. rochester.arpa, a.k.a. 192.5.53.209) ... (general blurb) user: anonymous password: ftp> cd public/latex-style (where the files are) ftp> ls (to see what is there) ... (lots of output) ftp> get 00index ... (more blurb) ftp> quit 2. Non-Internet users - how to retrieve by mail: An archive server has been installed. Send a piece of mail to LaTeX-Style (@rochester.arpa, @cs.rochester.edu, via uucp or your favourite gateway) in the following format: Subject line should contain the phrase "@file request". Body of the mail should start with a line containing only an @ (at) sign. (Important!) The first line following should be a mail address FROM rochester TO you. Then follow by the names of the files you want, either one to each line, or many to each line, separated by spaces. End with a line containing only an @ sign. Case is not significant. For example, if you are user at site.bitnet, this is what you should send: To: latex-style@rochester.arpa Subject: @file request @ user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu 00readme 00index @ A word to the wise: it is best to fully qualify your mail address. Our mailer knows about some gateways but not all. Examples: user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu user%site.csnet@relay.cs.net Do not include any messages in the mail. It will not be seen by human eyes. Be patient as the server is actually a batch program run once a day. Files will be sent in batches, each not exceeding 100kbytes in size. Ken LaTeX-Style@Rochester.Arpa LaTeX-Style@cs.rochester.edu ..!rochester!latex-style ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 87 22:06:28 est From: gropp-bill@YALE.ARPA Subject: Aegis site coordinator To: texhax@su-score.ARPA I'd like to try once more to find someone to be the Aegis (Apollo) site coordinator. Much of the Yale CS department, including my group, has been moving away from Apollo for some time, and we don't have the resources to maintain or distribute TeX. If you are interested, please contact me at gropp@yale.arpa, (203) 432-1200, or, as a last resort only, through this list. Bill Gropp ------------------------------ Date: 28-JAN-1987 12:48:16 From: CHAA006%vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK To: TEXHAX <@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK:TEXHAX@score.stanford.edu> Subject: Pretex In the light of experience, I have modified the source of Pretex (the DEC-169 to TeX conversion utility). The original version produced TeX composite sequences for all TeX active characters (e.g. {, }. \); the new version passes through unchanged all characters in the range ASCII 0..126 with the exception of double-quote, less- and greater-than, and solidus, for which four characters composite sequences are still produced. ** Phil Philip Taylor (Royal Holloway & Bedford New College; University of London; UK) Bitnet/NetNorth/Earn: chaa006@vaxa.rhbnc.ac.uk (or) chaa006%rhbnc.vaxa@ac.uk (or) : chaa006@vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk (or) chaa006%rhbnc.vaxb@ac.uk Arpa : chaa006%vaxa.rhbnc.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa (or) : chaa006%vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa ================================= PRETEX.PAS ================================== % Phil's PASCAL source code is too lengthy to include in the digest. It is % available for anonymous FTPing under % PRETEX.PAS % at score.stanford.edu. For those who do not have FTP access to Score, % send a note to texhax-request and I'll mail you a copy % % Malcolm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 02:16:47 PLT From: Andrew Vaught <29284843%WSUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU> Subject: Response to weird alignment To: TeXhax@su-score.arpa Dear Hax- Well, you asked for it, so we did it at 2:00am, losing precious sleep, but gaining valuable insight into boxes and halign. At the problem looked trivial, but when we actually tried it, it took us a while... Anyhow, here it is R & A \font\myfont=cmr12 \myfont % Hacked try, slightly wrong \hsize=3.15in % Half of \hsize \hbox{\hfill \vbox{\line{\hfill Name \hfill} \line{\hfill Address \hfill} \line{\hfill City, State, Zip \hfill}} \hfill \vbox{\line{\hfill Name2 \hfill} \line{\hfill Address2 \hfill} \line{\hfill City, State, Zip2 \hfill}} \hfill} \vskip .3in \hsize=6.3in % Reset \hsize % The TeXnical way (hopefully) % Look-- Structured TeX!! \hbox to \hsize{\hfill \vbox{\halign{\hfill#\hfill\cr Rex Wheeler\cr 104 Streit\cr Pullman, WA 99163\cr 90720579\@WSUVM1.BITNET\cr}} \hfill \vbox{\halign{\hfill#\hfill\cr Andrew Vaught\cr 733 Rogers\cr Pullman, WA 99163\cr 29284843\@WSUVM1.BITNET\cr}} \hfill} \vfill \end \:-) % (A local macro) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 10:43:36 est From: Stephen Gildea To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: natsci BibTeX style > As a final note, does anyone have a .bst file for the "Harvard" Format, e.g. > Hayes, P.J. (1984a) The second naive physics manifesto, ... > In this format the cite command would produce the year with the appropriate > suffix. I have written a BibTeX style called NATSCI which is close to what you want. It is a generic natural sciences format with no labels in the bibliography, and citations in the text of the form (Gildea, 1987). The year appears last in the bibliography entry. The style is available from the LaTeX-style@cs.rochester.edu collection or directly from me. < Stephen gildea@eddie.mit.edu mit-erl!gildea ------------------------------ Mail-From: PATASHNIK created at 28-Jan-87 08:17:39 Date: Wed 28 Jan 87 08:17:39-PST From: Oren Patashnik Subject: Re: BibTeX (non)features To: texhax@Score.Stanford.EDU This is an answer to William LeFebvre's request: > Perhaps this is asking too much, but I would really like to see some > sort of parameterized string expansion. Currently, you can only > predefine a string with the @STRING command Maybe an example will make > what I want clearer. > > I have citations to several different years of the "Proceedings of the > 19?? ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming", where "??" > could be 80, 82, 84, 86, etc. References to papers from the POPL > conferences suffer a similar fate. It soure would be nice to define a > string, or macro, or whatever you want to call it, say "LFP(year)" so I > could say BOOKTITLE = LFP(1986). Sure, I could define one string for > every year, but this would even be better. Add it to the wish list. > Or is this too extreme an idea? Creeping featureism? This is something we thought about including in BibTeX, but the benefit didn't seem to outweight the work required. It still doesn't to me (especially since I'd have to do the work, and I don't really have the time) but if there's enough demand for it, it may be included in the next (and essentially final) release of BibTeX. Those who've found a need for it should send me a message (and if the lack of this feature has slowed you down by at least, say, 15 minutes I'd appreciate hearing the details). --Oren Patashnik (patashnik@score.stanford.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 12:15:16 PST From: Reply-To: ANDERSON%UREGINA1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu To: TEXHAX@score.stanford.edu Subject: Help installing LaTeX(2.09) MF(1.2) from Unix 4.2/4.3 BSD distr. Could anybody help me please. I have a few questions about installing LaTeX and Metafont. The first is, should the files "lcirclew10.tfm" and "lcircle10.tfm" should be renamed to "circlew10.tfm" and "circle10.tfm". If I do not rename these files LaTeX it complains that"circlew10.tfm" and "circle10.tfm" does not exist. Also related to LaTeX is do I have to create all the pixel files for LaTeX's *.tfm files with gftopxl utility supplied with Metafont? If so I have the problem that following the instructions to install Metafont does not work. Could someone tell me how to install Metafont for UNIX 4.2BSD running on a VAX(11/750) and also a SUN3 running Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.0. As far as I understand it both installations are the same except for running different setup files. I am trying to install Metafont(1.2) and LaTeX(2.09). I have TeX(2.0) installed correctly(I think!). Any help at all will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time. Send you suggestion or answers to me directly please. My email address is: Dale Anderson Computing Services University of Regina ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 17:02:12 EST From: trevor@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Trevor Darrell) Posted-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 17:02:12 EST Subject: Re: psfigtex The psfigtex.shar file mentioned in the previous psfig/tex posting has been broken up into 4 separate files for ease in distribution. The files for FTP are on linc.cis.upenn.edu (upenn-linc.arpa) in ~ftp/pub/psfigtex.shar[1-4]. They have also been sent to mod.sources. Also, I'd like to keep a list of sites actively using psfig/tex in case there are any updates or modifications; if you have had sucess getting psfig/tex up and running, send me a note. Thanks, Trevor Darrell trevor@linc.cis.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 87 17:48:34 PST From: Reply-To: KLASSEN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu To: TEXHAX-REQUEST@score.stanford.edu Subject: BITNET & WISCVM I encourage all BITNETers to join the distribution that comes from Texas A & M, and then to ask you to drop them from your list. Just tell them to: 'TELL LISTSERV AT TAMVM1 SUB TEX-L Firstname Lastname'. The "list owners" are: * Thomas Reid, Px.D. * David Lippke * Glenn Vanderburg * ------------------------------ % %\bye % End of TeXhax Digest **************************