UKTeX V87 #3 GTtoPK Xerox 2700/3700 laer printers CTeX shar files missing Addison Wesley AM/CM saga DVI2PS and Laserwriter+ fonts EULER fonts Bug with \pagestyle{empty} Problems with parbox and contents in LaTeX --------------------------------- Editors note aston.kirk::[public]000aston.readme has been updated. New items crudetype PL and TFM files for resident fonts in Apple Laserwriter and Laserwriter+ In the pipeline TeX and LaTeX macros John Sauter files for cmr on LN03 GF200 and GF300 amsfonts GF118 Gf200 Gf300 cmfonts LaTeXfonts in GF118 Gf200 GF300 plus others from John Pavel I am testing at present to provide `TAR' and `SHAR' facilities for UNIX implementations and `SHAR' and `backup' for VMS systems to avoid you having to issue ftp commands for each file in the required directory. --------------------------------- Date: 10 Sep 1987 09:55:26-GMT Subject: GFtoPK From: Sam Nelson To: info-tex@aston.mail Anyone have the source for this? We have such a program in the ArborTeXt DVILASER/PS distribution, but only as a VMS .EXE, which then leaves us with a nasty problem of transferring several megabytes of .PKs from VMS to UNIX. Sam. --------------------------------- Date: 10-SEP-1987 10:06:41 GMT From: RHEAD@UK.AC.NOTT.VAXA To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Peter Abbott's wish list (4th September) included VAX/VMS software for DVI to Rank Xerox 2700. We have been looking for such software for some time (or, to be more precise, we want VAX/VMS software for DVI to Xerox 3700) but haven't been able to find anything off-the-shelf. The following software is all relevant, but not quite what we want: Ohio: John Gourlay offers TOPS-20 and Unix software for DVI to Xerox 2700. (See tables in TUGboat.) However, it uses the am series fonts, rather than the cm series. We have two tapes but have not done much with them because we'd prefer the cm series. Xerox 1: I had a letter from a firm in Michigan who said that they are planning to use a VMS driver, written in Utah, provided through Xerox's public domain library. I wrote back to the firm concerned asking for the name of a Xerox contact. They did not reply. Xerox 2: John Gourlay put an entry in TeXhax saying that his software is now available via Xerox channels in the USA. I've written to the relevant person asking whether (i) it now works under VMS (ii) it now uses the cm fonts (iii) it can be obtained through UK Xerox channels. I've had no reply yet. Bochum: Norbert Schwarz offers CDC and IBM PC software for DVI to Xerox 2700/3700. (See tables in TUGboat.) We have a floppy disk, but haven't done any conversion to VMS. Brighton: Graham King has TeX producing output on a 2700, but he uses the Xerox fonts rather than the cm series. RHBNC: If, for the time being, you regard the 2700 as a printer that "cannot print the fonts that METAFONT generates", Mark Damerell's Crudetype (TUGboat vol. 7, no. 3, page 159) might suit you. My colleague David Osborne may be doing an adaptation for our Xerox 3700 that you could use. Illinois: David Osborne noticed that someone in TeXhax said that they were using some VAX/VMS software for DVI to 2700, and that they got it from Illinois. David mailed them but has had no reply. Berkeley: I see from TeXhax that the Vortex software includes a Unix DVI to InterPress driver. If Xerox upgrade 2700s and 3700s to accept InterPress, this may be relevant. Warwick: Rob McMahon has a Unix DVI to 2700 driver. David Osborne reckoned that this looked the most promising approach, and is hoping to try to produce some Xerox-specific modules to go with the general and VMS modules of Nelson Beebe's driver. We had a meeting with our local Xerox person, who said that they would supply technical information to help us. (Our Xerox person is Irwin Bidgood, who may well also be Aston's Xerox person.) However, no information has yet arrived. --------------------------------- Date: 10-SEP-1987 11:39:12 GMT From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTT.VAXA To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: Common TeX on Unix SVR2 Sender: David Osborne (at Univ of Nottingham) Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, UK Mailer: VAX/VMS Janet_Mailshr V2.7(a) Congratulations to Sam Nelson on his reporting in UKTEX V87 #2 of a complete CM implementation running under SVR2. I'm pleased to say that the Common TeX shar files I fetched from Aston last week compiled cleanly first time on Monday on our Clan7 (taking about 8 min elapsed to compile and load an 'initex' occupying 247415 bytes). It's interesting to read in Pierre Mackay's column in the latest TUGboat that Pat Monardo's Common TeX will eventually form part of the Unix TeX distribution. I think a reference to Barbara Beeton's article in TeXhax Digest V87 #73 regarding terminology over C versions of TeX should be made. None appear to have passed the TRIP test yet, so shouldn't, strictly, use the name TeX. Also, there was a recent item from Tomas Rokicki claiming that *his* is the TeX_in_C called "CTeX", and that Pat Mondardo's should really be called "Common TeX". Nomenclature is clearly a difficult area! Peter Abbott's response to my original enquiry in these columns mentioned 9 shar archive files, "ctex.shar1..9" in the LaTeXstyle directory at Aston. However, the index file shows only 1-6. I read in Ken Yap's latest TUGboat article (p.198) about the Rochester collection that there are indeed 9 shar files, so I assume that what's missing must be documentation and/or macro files, since the sources in files 1-6 compiled ok. Anyone know what's in files 7-9? I offered to summarise details of 'TeX_in_C' implementations if people would mail them to me. As I had but one response, I'd better quote it here: > Subject: Common-TeX > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 87 15:04:23 BST > From: John Pavel > > I have it in version 2.1. It works (10% faster than Pascal version on > Sun-3, but object code rather larger (I compiled with -DBIG so that I > could run LaTeX)). > > John Pavel > > Department of Trade and Industry > The National Physical Laboratory > Division of Information Technology and Computing > Protocol Standards Group > Queen's Road > Teddington TW11 0LW Dave +++Editor TUGboat is out of date, there are only six shar files in the distribution, I have verified this with Ken+++ --------------------------------- Date: 10-SEP-1987 12:18:48 From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: Addison-Wesley Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB" (Philip Taylor, RHBNC: University of London) Reply-to: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB Mailer: "Janet-mailshr V2.8" The (continuing) story of Addison-Wesley and the AM/CM fonts: A-W telephoned me today, somewhat hurt to learn of my accusations via UK-TeX. However, we now agree that the statement as issued was factually correct: A-W will make a charge for the CM-series upgrade. However, the charge is not astronomical: 28 pounds for the Preview upgrade, and just over 60 pounds for the DVIPS upgrade (these figures include educational discount). It is not clear whether MicroTeX itself requires upgrade: I believe that it may, since PLAIN preload certain fonts; since it was shipped with only the AM-series, I must assume that it preloads AM-series. A-W have been advised that they should obtain an upgrade disc, but are told that no such disc exists! The CM upgrade for DOTPRNT is not yet available. Incidentally, I omitted a (possibly significant) item from my site list: Device drivers: Author: Flavio Rose (DEC) Title: DVI2LN3 Version: 9, 10 Output device: DEC LN03 & LN03+ Language: 'C' Author: Flavio Rose (DEC) + Adrian Clarke (Bae) Title: Texlase Version: 10 Output device: DEC LN03 & LN03+ Features: Auto-print at e-o-j. Author: Flavio Rose (DEC) + Brian Hamilton-Kelly (RMCS,) Title: DVItoLN03 Output device: DEC LN03 & LN03+ Language: WEB Version: 2.7 Distributor: Addison-Wesley Title: Dotprnt Version: 1.1 Output device: Epson FX-, MX-, RX-, series Originator: ArborText Distributor: Addison-Wesley Title: DVILASER/PS Date: 1985 Output device: Any PostScript device, defaults to 300dpi. --------------------------------- Message-Id: <19796.8709101759@maori.soton.ac.uk> Received: from sot-cm by maori.soton.ac.uk; Thu, 10 Sep 87 18:59:53 BST Date: Thu, 10 Sep 87 18:56:01 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail (UK TeXxies) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 87 18:55:54 GMT Subject: Using POostScript fonts with DVIALW X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5] We have a hacked dvi2ps that uses the LaserWriter Plus fonts properly; when we got Nelson Beebe's DVIALW, we tried to go over to it (apart from anything else, it uses .pk fonts or .gf, whereas dvi2ps still uses .pxl), but it appears that Beebe constructs a whole wodge of text at a time and vomits it at the LaserWriter, which makes it tricky to have occasional bits of LW fonts - or so I understand it. Can someone more authoritative comment? I saw results from, and the manual for, Bechtolsheim's new version of dvi2ps, which has some good ideas. But he's got a lot of problems left, so far as I could see. I would not recommend anyone FTPing it just yet. I also note that MacTeX (as opposed to TeXtures) have gone over all the CMR math fonts with Fontographer to create PS downloadable fonts, thus eliminating the last need to use CMR bitmaps. Does anyone have MacTeX to confirm this? in re the database of who has what, I am less interesting in knowing who has got a copy of MicroTeX or runs Metafont on a Vax than in knowing what people think they are good at, and will answer questions on.... this hardware stuff is pretty dull, lets find out who thinks they are the UK bees-knees at creating BibTeX style files (Ok, so Knuth didnt write BibTeX, and its part of the much-hated-by-Clark-and-Taylor LaTeX system, but its jolly useful all the same). The obvious place for the giant list of whats what would be next year's Exeter affair - someone work at a map of Who-and-What-is-Where-In-British-TeX, and publish it for Exeter. why, i'll even do it myself, if people were willing to send me details of what they have... 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) --------------------------------- Message-Id: <19864.8709101831@maori.soton.ac.uk> Received: from sot-cm by maori.soton.ac.uk; Thu, 10 Sep 87 19:31:52 BST Date: Thu, 10 Sep 87 19:18:53 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail (UK TeXxies) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 87 19:18:46 GMT Subject: Euler fonts X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5] I just got a new Sun TeX tape from Washington, and note that it has the Euler fonts (a weird collection of gothic Fraktur stuff from the AMS) on, which our previous tape didnt. If anyone else does not have these, I could send them off to you, or put at Aston. Note that the .mf source is NOT available, I only have gf300 and gf200 on this tape. there also seems to be a set of .mf files for the LaTeX fonts, which I dont recall seeing before. --- 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) +++Editor I will make them available ASAP. I am also loading a distribution of material from John Pavel at present+++ --------------------------------- Date: MON, 14 SEP 87 11:01:33 BST From: CS1CWM @ UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA To: info-tex @ UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Peter: I am have not been able to suppress page numbering using \pagestyle{empty} - can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? I have a single page document with a title but no sectioning. I have moved the \pagestyle command from just after the \documentstyle through the preamble to just after the \begin{document} and from there through the text to just before the \end{document} and I still get a page number. I have looked through LATEX.BUG and I can't find any reference to this problem. Chris Martin +++Editor Aston use this facility with LaTeX without problems. I suggest that you send me the input file to run here at Aston to check against our version+++ --------------------------------- From Peter Abbott Aston Two problems One Using the following code in LaTeX. \parbox[t]{1in}{SALES} \ \ \parbox[t]{2.05in}{Sale of documentation, hardware, disks etc.} \parbox[t]{1in}{ADVISORY} \ \ \parbox[t]{2.05in}{Software support, terminal support} \parbox[t]{1in}{DATA INPUT} \ \ \parbox[t]{2.05in}{Via a Kurzweil} The line spacing in the parbox is incorrect and does not follow the standard line spacing of text. We are trying to produce information in a column of 3.5in. We have had the same problem on normal A4 output when there is more than one line of text. It looks terrible. Any solution? Two When producing the contents page using article the subsections are double spaced whereas in Leslie Lamports book they are printed single spaced. It can be overcome by defining macros with negative space but this is clumsy. Any offers on how to modify the .STY files (if that is the correct place). Peter abbottp@aston.mail --------------------------------- !! !! Replies/submissions to info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail please !! distribution changes to info-tex-request@uk.ac.aston.mail please !! !! end of issue