UKTeX Digest Fri, 11 May 90 Volume 90 : Issue 15 From: uktex@uk.ac.aston Reply-To: uktex@uk.ac.aston Sender: JANET"uktex@uk.ac.aston" (UKTeX) Subject: UKTeX Digest volume 90 number 15 Date: Fri, 11 May 90 15:29:31 Moderator: Peter Abbott Submissions: uktex@uk.ac.aston Administration: uktex-request@uk.ac.aston Back Issues: These are stored in the Aston archive, in the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.UKTEX.90] Latest TeXhax #44 Back Issues: These are stored in the Aston archive, in the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TEXHAX.90] Latest TeXmag V4 N1 (3 parts) Added 3 May 1990 Back Issues: These are stored in the Aston archive, in the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TEX-MAG] ***********The Archive is temporarily unavailable due to a head crash. Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible. *********** Today's Topics: (2 msgs) ChemTeX -- macros for chemical structure diagrams Co-ordination of Non-English Use of TeX emtex emTeX (summary ) [for uktex] LaTeX on A4 paper LaTeX page-headings new Unix TeX tape PostScript fonts and ligatures Problem with BibTeX for VMS TeX finds its way into the real world ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30-APR-1990 20:01:16 From: UBCG09S@uk.ac.bbk.cr Subject: Dear Peter, I am interested in obtaining TeX / LaTeX that would run under SCO XENIX or UNIX on a PC 386. Could you please advise me if your Aston-Tex-Sources are appropriate for our configuration and how to get hold of them? I can use NIFTP and a tape unit on a VAX VMS system hooked to JANET (however, I was not able to NIFTP transfer binary files from other UNIX machines to our VAX). We also have a standard 150 MB tape drive for a UNIX PC. Thank you very much for your time, Andrej. Andrej \v{S}ali Dept. of Crystallography Birkbeck College Malet St London WC1E 7HX (01) 631 6124 ubcg09s@uk.ac.bbk.cr ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 May 90 18:15:04 BST From: MD2RJH@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.IBM Subject: I am using MF84 on a PC and would like to know where there is a copy of a GFTODVI program that can be used on MS-DOS. I have looked in the archive but the versions available there can not be compiled under Turbo Pascal 4.0, which is the only pascal compiler I have. Can you help? Thanks Richard Hillier. (MD2RJH@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 MAY 90 09:25:07 BST From: ARCHIVEGROUP@UK.AC.ASTON.VAXA Subject: ChemTeX -- macros for chemical structure diagrams The ChemTeX macros, written by Roswitha Haas, are installed in the directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.LATEX.CONTRIB.CHEMTEX], which contains 00FILES.TXT;1 ANNOUNCE.;1 APPDB.TEX;1 APPDC.TEX;1 CHAP3A.TEX;1 CHAP4.TEX;1 CHAP5.TEX;1 CHAP6A.TEX;1 CHAP6B.TEX;1 CHAP6C.TEX;1 CHAP6D.TEX;1 MACROS.TEX;1 README.;1 The chap*.tex and app*.tex files are extracts from Roswitha's thesis, explaining the use of the macros, with examples. Further details may be found in @ARTICLE ( AUTHOR = "Roswitha T. Haas and Kevin C. O'Kane", TITLE = "Typesetting Chemical Structure Formulas with the Text Formatter \TeX/\LaTeX", JOURNAL = "Computers and Chemistry", YEAR = "1987", VOLUME = "11", NUMBER = "4", PAGES = "251--271" ) dave osborne, University of Nottingham pp Aston TeX Archive group ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 MAY 90 15:53:15 BST From: Subject: Co-ordination of Non-English Use of TeX Michael --- I note from your article in the current TUGBoat (V11 #1) that `[you] have volunteered to collect hyphenation patterns for ``all'' languages', (or) `volunteered to act as a coordinator of the non-Englisg use of '. I wonder whether the union of these two voluntary acts encompasses collecting hyphenation patterns for BRITISH English ? We in the U.K. feel singularly discriminated against, as there appears to be a plethora of activity concerning the acquisition and generation of hyphenation patterns for non-English languages, the {\it de facto} standard of AMERICAN English patterns within PLAIN.TEX, but nothing (so far as we can ascertain) for what some of us, at least, would regard as the definitive form of English ! Philip Taylor Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, ``The University of London at Windsor'' ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 MAY 90 12:36:23 BST From: Subject: emtex Aston TeX Archivists Originally-sent:Sat, 5 May 90 12:10 Originally-To: uktex@UK.AC.ASTON Original-Ident: <05 MAY 1990 12:25:46 UCGADKW@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID> Originally-from:Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-E at UCL) X-Serial: 00000035 Eberhard Mattes sent me his emtex system a week or two ago (I sent him the requisite no. of diskettes, and international postage coupons). He has also sent me his alpha version of TeX 3.0, MF 2.0 and screen and printer drivers that support Virtual Fonts. His distribution can only be described in one word: superb! He notes that his TeX 3.0 is -- slightly -- slower than Wayne Sullivan's sbtex. That is because he is compiling in C, and MS C 5.1 doesn t allow inline assembly language. version 6 does, and he hopes to tune TeX 3 a bit when he gets the upgrade. I have not used his TeX and MF in real production use; just little runs to try them. But they seem absolutely fine. As Sebastian points out, it is *very* useful to have the BIG versions of TeX, although I have never run into trouble with sbtex But I have been using the HP LaserJet and VGA screen drivers. They are among the best I have ever seen, if not *the* best. They both support Virtual Fonts and \specials, as well as 256 character fonts. They are extremely flexible. Everything that the HP driver does can be done on the screen too, which is a nice seamless system. The drivers include marvellous things like about 8 ways of rotating and/or reflecting one's page. I printed out a mirror image of a page, which I have never been able to do on any other driver. (Couldn't read it, of course, except by standing in front of a mirror. But what fun!) They allow scaling, shifting, memory usage adjustment, two/four/eight up printing, etc. There really isn't anything I can think of that has been left out. They create very useful log files that tell you exactly what fonts have been loaded, and what options you have chosen. Etc. There is a nice link between TeXCAD and the emtex drivers. You can make drawings with TeXCAD (which needs a mouse), and it will output the LaTeX \picture code for you. But as we all know, this has definite limitations. Lines can only be at certain angles, and so on. So you can tell TeXCAD that you are using an emtex driver, and it will let you do any lines you like, and insert emtex \specials int the LaTeX drawing to cope with the lines etc. Isn't that neat? Finally, about translating the documentation. As was mentioned, README.DOC has been done. I did FEATURES.EMTEX. I have made a start on DVIDRV.DOC. One helpful fact is that when you run the programs, all prompts, help and error messages are in English, which helps with translating the documentation in keeping with Eberhard's usage. I have uploaded emtex on the CIX bulletin board, along with the English documents mentioned above, and I have tried to get the guys in the TeX conference on CIX interested in doing translations too. So something may develop there. Don't hold your breath for my version of DVIDRV.DOC. My German is rudimentary, and translation is pretty slow. In my opinion, emtex is *the* DOS TeX of first choice, even including PC TeX and Turbo TeX. Except, perhaps, that I would slot Wayne Sullivan's sb30tex in as TeX.exe. Dominik ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 May 90 13:18:58 bst From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: emTeX (summary ) [for uktex] Sorry to bombard UkTeX with `adverts' for emTeX, but this summary which Chris Martin translated might well be interesting: - ------- Advantages (no attempt at completeness) Complete TeX/Metafont distribution, everything you need, including .sty files, printer drivers and cmr .mf files (Zeichensaetze??). Full size (64k mwords), even with small available memory as virtual memory techniques are used. SB29TeX and MicroTex, for instance, allow only as much memory for TeX as there is chkdsk memory available. There is a BigTeX (262141 mwords) Expanded memory is used when available. Quick. Probably faster than its competitors---it has been compared with SB28TeX, publicTeX (Dante), MicroTeX and PC-TeX 2.1 Comparatively error free. publicTeX's virtual memory doesn't work (at least in the version at RUSMV1). Reliable, as it has been translated by machine---(there really are people who have typed in TeX from the book and hand converted it to C). A fairly new TeX version (2.99). Version 2.993 (version 3.0 after two months without an error) soon. Umlauts and other accented and other national characters can be translated into TeX if required. Metafont is included. Really good printer drivers for dot matrix printers (at present, Epson RX-80, FX-80 LQ-800; NEC P6, P7; C.Itoh 8510a, Apple Imagewriter) and HP LaserJet Plus. Unfortunately no PostScript driver yet. Dot matrix driver which can be converted to (nearly) all dot matrix printers. Very good screen previewer---uses gray scales to display pages in reduced size display. All the drivers can insert graphics in the text. Line graphics are also possible. All programs run under OS/2 in protected mode. emTeX is faster and larger (memory) than OS2TeX. Will work on networks (network aware?!) Utility programs such as MakeIndex and texchk are supplied. MFjob, a program to run Metafont in comfort, is included. Very soon TeXCAD will be included in the software set, a program to draw pictures on the screen which will be converted into picture environment commands (I am negotiating with the author at present). Errors are quickly corrected. --------------------------- Disadvantages (no claim to completeness) Quite a lot of disk space is needed as quite a lot of programs are supplied. No Postscript driver yet. --------------------------- Summary of the comparison with other TeX versions: MicroTeX slower, less memory available, not free. PC-TeX: the only reasonable alternative but not free MuTeX: not yet compared (appears to be not as good but I haven't been told why). Not free. DOSTeX not yet compared (apparently much slower) publicTeX slower, not error free. OS2TeX slower, less memory available, only OS/2 SB29TeX slower: to get the full 64k of TeX mwords you need to reduce the space taken by DOS quite a lot. TurboTeX: what's that? ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 MAY 90 13:54:41 BST From: Subject: LaTeX on A4 paper Aston TeX Archivists Originally-sent:Tue, 8 May 90 14:27 MET Originally-To: InfoTeX@UK.AC.ASTON Original-Ident: <9A083613B51F40005A@pttrnl.nl> Originally-from:"Johannes L. Braams" X-Serial: 00000051 Hi, I was kind of surprised when I saw the complete A4.doc appear in UKTeX after a discussion about how to print on A4 paper. One of the remarks was about our A4.sty not being able to treat twocolumn (or, for that matter, multicolumn) text right. This observation is true, the reason is we simply didn't stopped to think about these modes. Obiously some ot the page-layout parameters can have different values for a multi-column layout.` I think we might add a check for xxxcolumn-mode in the future, but I'm not sure as to when that might happen, I'm afraid I don't have the time right now to look into that thoroughly. Regards, Johannes Braams PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail was : EARN/BITnet : BRAAMS@HLSDNL5 UUCP : hp4nl!dnlunx!johannes SURFnet : DNLTS::BRAAMS INTERnet : BRAAMS%HLSDNL5@CUNYVM.cuny.edu PSS (DATAnet1) : +204 1170358::BRAAMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 MAY 90 10:06:49 BST From: Subject: LaTeX page-headings Aston TeX Archivists Originally-sent:Fri, 4 May 90 09:58:59 BST Originally-To: uktex@uk.ac.aston Originally-Cc: David.Handscomb@uk.ac.oxford.na Original-Ident: <9005040858.AA00160@nagp12.na.ox.ac.uk> Originally-from:David.Handscomb@uk.ac.oxford.na X-Serial: 00000024 I think I may have seen an answer to this query somewhere, but can't call the place to mind. The page-headings in LaTeX appear to be defined at the point where the page is output. Thus if the page-heading includes a section or subsection title, the one that appears refers to the last (sub)section started on or before the current page; so, for example, if a page includes several short subsections, the page-heading will refer to the last of these. Is there any easy way of arranging for the page-heading to refer to the (sub)section relevant at the top of the page: i.e., if a new (sub)section begins the page, then that (sub)section, otherwise the previous one? Failing this, can one at least arrange for it to refer to the first, not last, (sub)section started on the page, when there is one? ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 May 90 20:44:45 BST From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: new Unix TeX tape The latest version of the Unix TeX tape from Washington is now available in Sun cartridge form. The only substantial difference is that it now contains TeX 3.0 and MF 2.0, and the release of von Bechtolsheim's dvitps is more recent. Please send blank tapes and postage to Peter Abbott as advertised at the foot of this digest. Please do not order a new Sun tape just for fun; I personally mount these tapes, type in the copying command, watch our system slow down, put the result in an envelope and so on. While I am happy to do this for the good of the community, fetching items via FTP or the mail server puts much less strain on the resources of the UK TeX archive. Please note that the Aston archive holds a much wider (and sometimes more recent) collection of TeX-related stuff than can go on this tape. Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: 03-May-1990 12:06 GMT From: (Paper mail) Subject: PostScript fonts and ligatures 26th April 1990 Re: PostScript fonts and ligatures Adobe PostScript fonts do not contain ligatures and virtually every PostScript printer will have ROMs which are either Adobe or clones of the Adobe PostScript font set. If you require ligatures on PostScript fonts, a number of vendors offer extended fonts such as the Monotype `Expert' series which contain ligatures, small and large capitals, lining and non-lining figures and other typographic niceties in a range of classic typefaces. Bitstream, The Font Company and others do similar extended fonts but all of them will require downloading. You will also have to modify TeX to access the correct characters as the character mapping is bound to be different. The question of mapping is probably also the answer to your second problem. Compare Fig 1 and Fig 3 - Appendix F of the TeXbook. Adobe PostScript fonts have the opening bracket at Octal 074 and the closing bracket at 076 i.e. `typewriter' layout and not `text'. Both Helvetica and Courier have the opening and closing brackets in the same position in Adobe PostScript fonts. Regards Mike Black The Text Formatting Company Suffield Works 1 Suffield Road London N15 5JX Tel: 01 802-4470 Fax: 01 800-5780 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 MAY 90 13:28:43 BST From: Subject: Problem with BibTeX for VMS "Aston TeX Archivists" Originally-sent:Wed, 9 May 90 14:11 MET Originally-To: TeXhax@EDU.WASHINGTON.CS, InfoTeX@UK.AC.ASTON Original-Ident: <99414342D3FF400098@pttrnl.nl> Originally-from:"Johannes L. Braams" X-Serial: 00000073 Hi all, We are experiencing a problem with the VMS implementation of BibTeX by Northlake software. My diagnosis sofar is that the way filenames are handled in this implementation causes a problem when the logical name TeX_Inputs is defined as a search list with e.g. $ define tex_inputs [mydir],texinputs,texsamples In this case bibtex searches only the first member of the search list ([mydir]) for its style file. Ofcourse it can not find the file there. BibTeX then complains that it cann't find the file instead of looking in TeXinputs (which is a search list as well...) If anybody knows a fix for this, please contact me. I have located where filenames are handled in BibTeX.ch and I suspect the routine add_defaults, which joggles with FAB-fields like FAB$L_DNA, where it puts defaults to be used by RMS when an incomplete filespec is given. It might be that this causes the problem, the original Bibtex just puts TeXinputs infront of the filename Thanx in advance, Johannes Braams ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 MAY 90 16:30:14 BST From: Subject: TeX finds its way into the real world ... The following message is taken from POP-FORUM, a discussion list for the POPLOG community: -------- From: pop To: pop-forum Message-Id: <9005021810.AA01398@roo.cs.umass.edu> Sender: pop%edu.umass.cs.roo%uk.ac.nsfnet-relay@com.hp.hpl.hplb Pantechnicon, or `Lets suppose the Inmost Secrets of Emacs, Tex and Hypercard Lie Open to Programmers'. Robin J. Popplestone Department of Computer and Information Science University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 01003 USA pop@cs.umass.edu ABSTRACT This paper describes the development of an environment, Pantechnicon, which provides for the active display of information predominantly in the typeset paradigm familiar to users of TEX. Pantechnicon provides an editing environment which allows users to compose a document in a manner similar to EMACS, but extended by the ability to compose technical matter such as mathematics, tables or figures using a technical keyboard which appears in a window and is mouse-activated. The internal form of the document is manipulable by programmers in Common Lisp, ML, POP-11 and Prolog, running under the POPLOG system. Functions written in these languages can be associated with a displayed object as scripts, making the document active with Hypertext like qualities. The system is designed so that the incremental operations associated with editing have $O(\log n)$ time complexity, so that it scales appropriately to treat large documents. THIS IS AVAILABLE AS A TECH REPORT OR TEX FILE ------------------------------ End of UKTeX Digest Volume 90 : Issue 15 !! !! Files of interest !! [tex-archive]000aston.readme [tex-archive]000directory.list !! 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