UKTeX Volume 87 #2 PC version of TeX HP Laserjet emulation Postscript for GINO Laserwriter+ Postscript fonts Whence apmersand PXL files and PXLID LaTeX files over JANET Better subject field CTeX on SysV R2 --------------------------------- Editors comments I have discovered that when using the defer option to send mail the external copies appear to have been sent by another user called allin1. As a result when I checked the log it seemed as if none of the external mail had been sent. My apologies if you received two copies, it should not happen agian. --------------------------------- FROM: Malcolm Clark pc versions of \TeX. 1. micro\TeX\ and PC\thinspace\TeX. fonts: both currently use the amr family. as anyone who has these will know, they also come with the tfms for cmr. ArborText, who supply the screen drivers and laser drivers for BOTH versions claim to have been using cmr fonts on all their products for some time (look back through texhax). however, like most things, this didn't happen here for some time. A-W claim there is some difficulty with cmr, or to be more accurate, the pk formats (they are taking the oppportunity to do both things together). So they are reluctant to send out something they know is problematic. If you hassle, they will acquiesce. I do not believe that Diane Kitchin would sell you \TeX\ with amrs now, and then charge you for an upgrade. these are real people Phil, who really do have an interest in \TeX. Of course those who bought micro or PC \TeX\ will have to pay for the upgrade. Personal \TeX, Uni\TeX, Addison Wesley are involved in the business of trying to avoid being a non-profit making organisation. I understand Ewart North (Uni\TeX) is shipping out the cmrs now too. There are of course other screen drivers besides ArborText's Preview (which incidentally drives more than just Hercules). I saw ?DVISCRN running on a DG laptop. Quite good, although font representation was a bit lax, compared with Preview. Has anyone seem MAXscrn? 2: does pc only mean the boring obsolete IBMs? How about Atari ST versions of \TeX (at least 3 out there), or the Amiga version (from $n^2$), and of course I leave the best till last, the superb Macintosh versions (one of which has proper cmr fonts, always has done, always will). 3: I personally don't want to read through reams of who has what, unless some public spirited soul is going to data base the information, so I can find it when I need it, rather than somewhere in my listings. 4: I would prefer these listings not to be known by the same name as the texhax (except for the directory name). Very confusing. Are you going to do an index? 5: TUG (let me say that again, TUG). I have noticed from the texhax listings that many people who use \TeX, \LaTeX, etc., do not have access to, or even know about TUG. In case you haven't, it is the \TeX\ Users Group. It costs about $40 to join, but is probably well worth it, if only to provide information about micro versions of \TeX. It also contains useful information like macros (which sometimes work), words from DEK, and adverts (even job adverts). I do feel that anyone trying to implement \TeX\ really ought to look at the TUGboat. (sorry, got carried away and forgot to mention the newsletter, TUGboat). I als note that many people who have \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ queries obviously don't have a copy of the relevant books. I'm deeply impressed by those who can handle \TeX\ intuitively, without reading the manual, but hardly surprised when they have problems. Please don't let these listings get the same way. 6: What's wrong with Leslie Lamport? His replies in texhax are very tame now. 7: \bye malcolm clark texline@ic.cc.vaxa --------------------------------- Date: 8-SEP-1987 11:49:55 From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL HP LaserJet emulation. Lots of laser printers claim to do HP LaserJet emulation. The Kyocera does, and doesn't (at least as far as ArborText's hp driver is concerned). Does anyone have experience of any of the others, like the Epson? malcolm clark texline@ic.cc.vaxa --------------------------------- From abbottp@uk.ac.aston.mail Does anyone know if there is a driver to produce postscript ouput under GINO. We want to be able to use the Apple laserwriters which are available on the network from the VAX system. Peter --------------------------------- Glad to see your uktex is working so well. i have been away (at TeX users group!), so I just read the backlog. a) lac and dwb in soton are the same machine as me: lac@uk.ac.soton.cm dwb@uk.ac.soton.cm some mailer implied they were at Maori, which is not true b) i vote for digests of info every week or few days c) do you want to put the .tfm files for the LaserWriter+ PostScript fonts online? they may be useful, if people are into dvi2ps. is it possible to compile that under VMS? it shouldnt be too difficult, I would have thought +++Editor Once a few problems are cleared the .TFM will be made available+++ i spent an interesting three days at TUG. I will write a report and send it to you for redistribution -- Sebastian Rahtz Computer Science University SOUTHAMPTON S09 5NH UK spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm // ...!ukc!sot-cm!spqr // cmi011@uk.ac.soton.ibm (telephone (0703) 559122 ext 2435) --------------------------------- Date: 8-SEP-1987 18:49:56 GMT -01:00 From: THOWARD@UK.AC.MAN.CS.CGU To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: Whence ampersand Having recently discovered the following pleasant fact, I thought I'd share it. Whence ``ampersand''? The character was originally a ligature of `e' and `t' (et = Latin and), and stylistically became `&'. You can just about make out the e and t in some italic versions---try {\it \&}. The name derives from ``and per se and''---i.e., ``&, by itself, and''. It's also been called ampussyand and ampassy. Toby - Toby Howard - Computer Graphics Unit, Department of Computer Science Manchester University, England, M13 9PL. Phone: 061 273 7121 x5429/5406 Janet: thoward@uk.ac.man.cs.cgu ARPA: thoward%cgu.cs.man.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk --------------------------------- Date: 9-SEP-1987 10:26:17 GMT +01:00 From: BLACK@UK.AC.OX.PH.V1 To: TEX-INFO@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: PXL files Sender: Willie Black on Oxford HEP VAX Address: Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK. Telephone: Oxford (0865) 273501. International +44-865-273501. Reply-to: BLACK @ UK.AC.OX.PH < I have just hooked the DVITOVDU program from your machine and find < a problem. We are running an old TeX, version 1.3 and currently print < on to a HP laserjet+ using a modified verion of a the DVIQMS program. < < when I run DVITOVDU it complains on opening the first .PXL file < that the PXLID is not 1001. The PXLID is in fact 1001 , checked by < DVIQMS and various other thingies like TYPEPXL or PXLPRINT, < is my problem a PXL format problem, do we have IBM type PXL files < with twisted bytes? or is there a flag that I can set on DVITOVDU < to read our PXL files? < < Gareth Hughes Knowing the original DVIQMS quite well, I suspect that it the old VAX problem of ordering of bytes within a longword. The original DVIQMS assumed one order and I suspect that the DVItoVDU uses the opposite order. The solution is either to redo all the PXL files and fix the printer driver - or to change the DVItoVDU to use the old order. In fact I have a sneaky feeling (without actually checking the code) that the original DVIQMS checked the PXLID and if it found it wrong, tried reversing the order of all the bytes. I also suspect that DVItoVDU uses the preferred ordering. Hope this helps, W.B. --------------------------------- Date: WED, 09 SEP 87 15:27:59 BST From: CS1CWM @ UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA To: info-tex @ UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Peter: Is is possible to FTP the latest versions of the LaTeX files via Janet? I seem to remember someone on TeXhax asking the same question but I don't remember the answer. Chris Martin +++ Editor I will set up the files if someone can identify and supply the latest copies. (Aston would like to have the uptodate ones as well)+++ --------------------------------- Date: 10-SEP-1987 08:51:19 GMT +01:00 From: BLACK@UK.AC.OX.PH.V1 To: TEX-INFO@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: Better Subject: field Sender: Willie Black on Oxford HEP VAX Address: Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK. Telephone: Oxford (0865) 273501. International +44-865-273501. Reply-to: BLACK @ UK.AC.OX.PH Keep up the good work - but could we possibly have a SUBJECT: line in the mail header that WORKS. VAX/VMS seems unable to pick up the one which is present so that DIR in MAIL does not reveal any subject. W.B. +++Editor This is tied up with the rubbish at the beginning. ASAP is the best answer+++ --------------------------------- Date: 10 Sep 1987 09:01:12-GMT Subject: CTeX on SysV R2 From: Sam Nelson To: info-tex@aston.mail I appear to have a complete Computer Modern implementation running. I reckon it must be possible to mess about with Beebe's DVI-->PS driver to get it to use the LW-resident stuff---anyone done anything on this? The code, while nicely portable, is about as badly-organised as it could be; some warped mind around here thinks it might be a neat idea to inflict this on an undergraduate project student---can anyone save him? Sam. * On the distribution side, I'd prefer a relayed-mail list myself, although I am aware this is difficult to achieve from a VMS site, Phil Taylor's magic tricks notwithstanding... --------------------------------- !! !! 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