----------------------------------------------------------------------------- UKTeX V90 #23 Friday 20 July 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's topics: RE: Drivers for HP DeskJet Re: Drivers for HP DeskJet Multiline math formulae placement of figures Q & A for emTeX DVI Driver for HP DeskJet+ lplain and splain for TeX 3 lplain and splain for TeX 2.x and TeX 3.0 Re: Gentle Intro, and Dropped Caps UKTeX V90 #22 UKTeX query For UKTeX HP LJ II for LaTeX with graphics ? Re: UKTeX query 24 pin Epson printer driver Landscape mode for HP Laserjet driver? TeX and the Archimedes mode_def for Agfa P400PS sought. founts for QMS printer funnies in the Aston archive RE: For UKTeX Some rather superannuated TeXserver requests dvitops under VM/CMS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moderator: Peter Abbott This issue edited by: David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Submissions: uktex@uk.ac.aston Administration: uktex-request@uk.ac.aston Back Issues: These are stored in the Aston archive, in the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.UKTEX.90] Latest TeXhax: #51 Back Issues: These are stored in the Aston archive, in the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TEXHAX.90] Latest TeXmag: V4 N2 Back Issues: These are stored in the Aston archive, in the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TEX-MAG] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 14:02:33 BST Subject: RE: Drivers for HP DeskJet From: MALCOLM@UK.AC.ICRF there is at least one, termed `rumjet', which is a hack of one of beebe's drivers. not all requests automagically get responses. if i ever find an ibm pc which works, i'll put the rumjet driver into the archive. now it's your turn. what services can you offer the TeX community? malcolm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 14:09:37 BST Subject: Re: Drivers for HP DeskJet From: SPQR@UK.AC.SOUTHAMPTON.ECS > In my previous enquiry (about UKTUG) I tagged on a request for > information about drivers for the HP DeskJet. > > There was no response to this. Are there not any drivers available for the > DeskJet? If you use Nelson Beebe's drivers, there is a new module for the Deskjet; I have placed this in [tex-archive.drivers.beebe.src]dvidjp.c at Aston. If you have not got the Beebe stuff at all, you will need to get the whole shebang and compile it. The dvidjp will not appear in Makefiles etc. I have not tried this, I merely collected it from a news posting sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Subject: Multiline math formulae Date: 14 Jul 90 04:51 From: SIEBENMANN%CH.CERN.DECNET.LALCLS@UK.AC.EAN-RELAY > Subject: mathematics > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 18:04:50 +0200 > From: beig@EARN.FRULM63 (Jacques Beigbeder) beig@EARN.FRULM63 (Jacques Beigbeder) asks:-- > A question for Tex'gurus! > Consider the following text: ------------------------------- > \documentstyle{report} > \begin{document} > \begin{eqnarray*} > x & = & \Biggl( a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i + j + k + l + m + \\ & & n + o + p + q + r + s + t + u + v + w + x + y + z \\ > & & + \frac{d}{1+\frac{f}{g}} \Biggl) > \end{eqnarray*} > \end{document} ------------------------------- > Using \Biggl, we get with no difficulty parenthesis with the same size at > the beginning and the end of the formula. Is there another to get this > effect, with something like \left( and \right), but for a formula > on several lines? This problem occurs naturally with mathematical displays that accidentally exceed line length. The typist casually throws in \\ when the overrun occurs, and disaster ensues if the elastic (self-sizing) \left( and \right) are separated by the \\. To avoid a TeX error, you would have to balance the "\left(" with an invisible "\right." on the same line and similarly for "\right)". But that may lead to parentheses of different sizes, a minor tyographic disaster rather than a TeX error. A nasty problem that typist repeatedly lose time on. Indeed many math typists completely abandon use of the self-sizing mechanism to avoid this one hitch. I use AmSTeX rather than LaTeX and the macro chiefly involved there is \multline ... \endmultline. Over the past couple of years I have mentioned this problem to Mike Spivak, author of AmSTeX. His answer has always been: FORGET IT, THERE IS NO WAY OUT! What he really means, I believe, is that it is a hard problem to solve inasmuch as it would require careful rewriting of the hefty macros involved. And Spivak is very busy with LamSTeX... However, at least in AmSTeX, the problem is 90% concentrated on just one macro \multline... \endmultline. So there is just one macro to rewrite!! LaTeX buffs please note that the AmSTeX math macros will become available soon under LaTeX. So a lot of users could be satisfied by rewriting just one macro! Here is another feature I would like to see in a rewritten \multline... \endmultline. In typing a long formula the typist usually vaguely foresees the possibility of a break, and would be able to indicate the best breakpoint. What one needs is a **discretionary equation break**, say \notch. It should behave like the well known discretionary hyphen. Anyone ready to take up the challenge? Laurent Siebenmann Mathematique, Bat. 425, Univ de Paris-Sud, 91405-Orsay, France siebenma@FRLAL51 (bitnet) siebenmann@LALCLS.decnet.cern.ch Tel 33-1-6941-7949; -4735-8862; -4655-7885 ------------------------------ Subject: placement of figures Date: Sat, 14 Jul 90 14:46:19 bst From: SPQR@UK.AC.SOUTHAMPTON.ECS anyone out there having a rainy weekend and wants something to think about? I am preparing a longish book with LaTeX (200 pages) with a lot of floating tables and figures. the publisher complains, rightly, that there are occasions when I refer to a table/figure on a right hand page, and the object itself comes on the following left-hand page, forcing the reader to keep turning the page (as opposed to flicking). The figure is inserted in the text at the same place as the reference. SO, anyone got any suggestions about how to fix this up? it strikes me as almost impossible to do algorithmically, even if LaTeX understood about forcing tables/figures onto odd-numbered pages. Sebastian ------------------------------ From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 13:49:11 bst Subject: Q & A for emTeX The current version (22 06 90) of Eberhard Mattes' "frequently asked questions about emTeX, with answers" is now available from the UK TeX archive at Aston as [tex-archive.tex.ms-dos.emtex]help.eng Thanks to the hard-working Chris Martin of Sheffield for the translation It is small enough that I am happy to mail it to overseas readers who have difficulty with the mail server sebastian ------------------------------ Subject: DVI Driver for HP DeskJet+ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 14:50:10 +0100 From: B.BACARISSE@UK.AC.UCL.CS Does anyone know of a good DVI driver (for MSDOS) for an HP DeskJet of DeskJet Plus? Ben Bacarisse. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 16:07:54 CET Reply-To: German TeX Users Communication List Sender: German TeX Users Communication List From: Rainer Schoepf Subject: lplain and splain for TeX 3 I have just installed new versions of the lplain.tex and splain.tex files that work with TeX version 3.0 as well as with version 2.x. These files will eventually become part of the standard distribution. Up to this date they can be found in the LTOOLS FILELIST on LISTSERV at DHDURZ1 under the names of LPLAIN3 TEX and SPLAIN3 TEX. To order them send a command of the form GET LPLAIN3 TEX LTOOLS to LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.BITNET. Note: if your mail goes via one of these character mangling gateways you should not try it. This applies especially to those in the UK who are connected via JANET. I will make sure that these files will be installed at the Aston archive server. Rainer Sch\"opf ------------------------------ From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 16:37:24 bst Subject: lplain and splain for TeX 2.x and TeX 3.0 Rainer Schoepf's files of `lplain3.tex' and `splain3.tex', which can be used to build LaTeX and SliTeX under both TeX 2.x and TeX 3.0, and are brought up to date with the latest plain.tex, are installed in the UK TeX Archive as [tex-archive.latex.styles]lplain3.tex [tex-archive.latex.styles]splain3.tex They will be an official part of the next version of LaTeX. Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Tue,17 Jul 90 14:09:20 BST From: R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull Subject: Re: Gentle Intro, and Dropped Caps Michael Doob replies to Allan Reese's comments: I've just caught up on my mail after being in Europe and America for the last little while, and want to comment on your email message to me; I've noted that in the meantime that you've added some similar comments to the Aston server; I hope you will also include my comments there. Your comment that the Contents were not generated by the macros included as the source for the manual is just not correct. What is true is the following: The macros will generate the titles of the sections and the page numbers correctly, and these can be printed using TeX if desired. The page numbers can be extracted by an editor (mine can do column replacements so this is easy) and then be hard coded back into the document. It was necessary to follow this (not completely automatic) method to avoid certain problems; some types of hardware (IBM mainframes) assume that all input comes from card readers (80 columns) unless the user says otherwise. Bitnet tranmissions are notorious for this problem. The chapter title with all the delimiters will, as you noted, make a mess without some intervention. I also avoid two pass solutions since some users (at MVS sites, for example) have to jump through hoops to declare and open auxillary files. If all the world used UNIX, I would have done things differently (wouldn't we all). Incidently, it's easy to print the contents directly (French style) at the end, but I didn't want the (English style) reader to have to shuffle the pages of (possibly two sided) output. There is a similar situation with the index. The macro given in the source will print the correct numbers, but it is still necessary to alphabatize them and delete duplicates. This is easy with a little UNIX script. Incidently, the macro avoids writing initial backslashes to make things come out easily at this point. The point is the following: I want the document to be easy to use at orphan sites where no one knows TeX, and I have made several compromises in order to be sure that the source runs easily at any location. The method of listing the contents and index was one of them. The Aston server is one of the best sources for TeX documentation and programs. It's important that some users with certain types of hardware not be excluded. The new user of TeX will only be turned away if the documentation does not print. Thanks for your comment about right aligning text using tabs. Actually, what I wrote was correct (you cannot right align the last column using \hfill in the same way as in other columns). What you have done is changed the last column to the penultimate one (cute!). It's worth a mention; I do welcome further comments. I am not actively working on the text now, but I will include suggestions a little later if there is a demand. I included the section with answers in response to an avalanche of requests; I have already been asked to make a list of tables and order the control word listing vertically instead of horizontally. I'd be glad to hear thoughts of anyone with suggestions; after all, this point of giving away the introduction is to be useful to new users. I'll send you the lastest version of the introduction in a separate mailing. I would certainly be interested in having any sections of text that might have disappeared. I have included a version number to keep track of these things. MD ----- The paragraphs that had been dropped were: \section{Getting Started} \subsection{What \TeX{} is and what \TeX{} isn't} \TeX{} is a program that is used to produce typeset output; it is particularly suited for text that has many mathematical symbols. Learning how to use \TeX{} is a bit like learning a foreign language. At first there seems to be a totally bewildering array of new terms to learn, some of which are typesetters' terms and others of which are like programmers' terms. But, as with a foreign language, if you start with the simpler ideas and structures first, you will then know enough to handle most situations, and the more complicated ones can be learned later when the occasion arises. The most complete source of information about \TeX{} is unquestionably {\bf The \TeX book} by Donald E. Knuth\footnote{$^1$}{Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13447-0}. This book is a complete encyclopedia and dictionary for \TeX{} users, and it should be available to anyone who uses \TeX{} regularly. But, just as it would be almost impossible to learn English by just reading a grammar book and a dictionary, it is difficult to learn how to use \TeX{} simply by reading {\bf The \TeX book}. The purpose of this primer is to introduce the ideas necessary to produce routine documents using \TeX\null. Having mastered the basic ideas, the more ambitious \TeX{} user will then be able to produce more varied and original results with the aid of {\bf The \TeX book}. As assistance in that direction, references to {\bf The \TeX book} are given in the right margin. In this section we will get an overview of what we want to accomplish. We'll look at what \TeX{} can do and what it can't do. Along the way, we'll learn a few useful terms, too. In the end we'll be able to produce some typeset material. First of all, let's see what steps are necessary to produce a document using \TeX. The first step is to type the file that \TeX{} reads. This is usually called the \TeX{} file or the input file, and it can be created using a simple text editor (in fact, if you're using a fancy word processor, you have to be sure that your file is saved in ASCII or nondocument mode without any special control characters). ... ----- I have now received MD's latest, done a text comparison and incorporated his (minor) revisions into my working copy. His comment about keeping the production of the G.I. is very valid. I got it as a na\"\i{}ve user and was able to run it off straight away. RAR ----- MD comments on another previous bulletin topic. I recall that you were looking for macros that used a dropped capital for the start of a paragraph. Here's a little macro with a feature that I didn't notice in the replies that you received. If a paragraph starts with a single capital letter (like this one), you will want to throw the following space. In fact when any single token is followed by a space, the same problem will arise. Here is a sample to show you what I mean. ------------------------------------------------------------------ \def\SP{\ } \def\throwaway#1{} \def\checkspace{\ifx \next\ \let\result=\throwaway \else \let\result=\ignorespaces \fi \result } \font\bigfont=cmr10 scaled \magstep5 \def\bfl#1{\setbox0=\hbox {{\bigfont #1}\thinspace} \noindent \hangindent \wd0 \hangafter -2 \llap {\vbox to \ht0{\kern\baselineskip \box0 \kern-\baselineskip}}% \futurelet \next \checkspace} \bfl This is the big test! The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs. \bfl {And} {\sl this\/} is another big test! \bfl \TeX\ is a wonderful program! -------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition you could check \pagetotal to be sure that you don't drop the capital off the page! Thanks for your comments. I appreciate the interest. Michael ------------------------------ Subject: UKTeX V90 #22 Reply-To: Olivier PLAUT Date: Tue, 17 Jul 90 16:08 From: PLAUT%CH.UNIGE.SC2A@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY > From: uktex@uk.ac.aston > Subject:UKTeX V90 #22 > Date: 13 Jul 90 15:15:36 GMT > Message-ID:<51810@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > UKTeX V90 #22 Friday 13 July 1990 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 90 12:11:03 BST > From: R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull > Subject: Discuss: French language. > > The following news item appeared in the Daily Telegraph (London 6 July 90). > > `Au revoir \~{} > > France's language experts abolished the circumflex yesterday. > Circumflex accents and hyphens linking compound words will not be > used in schools after next year.' > > It is not explained why the French need to simplify their character > set. Are they all using some inadequate American keyboard? > Do their minitel keyboards have \~{}s? > What are the implications for TeX? -- Attention! The circumflex is NOT totaly abolished! It remains where is exists two different words, one with and the other without circumflex. So for TeX, it doesn't change anything. The french experts didn't want to simplify their character set, but tried to simplify the french grammar, which is very (too) complicated. The modifications are very minor and complicated (!), even if the fact itself is a revolution. Olivier Plaut University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland INTERNET: plaut@sc2a.unige.ch BITNET: plaut@cgeuge52 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 JUL 90 11:29:04 BST Subject: UKTeX query Dear Peter, I am a student working at the research labs here at Martlesham and my project has resulted with me doing a lot of work using TurboTeX on an IBM PC. I am writing to enquire about any screen previewers that may be available. Also could you please send me details of the user group. Thanking you in anticipation Ian Tracey British Telecom Research & Technology Laboratories Martlesham Heath Ipswich IP5 7RE Tel Ipswich 0473 2828 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 JUL 90 11:31:06 BST From: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.VAX.SPOCK Subject: For UKTeX Reply-to: Peter Abbott (Aston University) 13 July 1990 Your reference Our reference IC/SAS/0090Z/15 Extension 2640 Dear peter, Further to our telephone conversation today, I confirm that I would be interested in anywhere that Lloyd's of London could acquire .pk files for the following TeX fonts (I have the .trm's): Palatino New Century Schoolbook Times Zapf Chancery Zapf Dingbats Bookman Courier Helvetica I run Unix (HP-UX 7.0) on Hewlett-Packard series 800 and series 300 machines, and use a Laserjet Series 2. With thanks for your assistance. Ian Corfield Analyst Programmer Telephone 0634 830275 ------------------------------ Subject: HP LJ II for LaTeX with graphics ? Date: Wed Jul 18 08:23:30 1990 From: JUDY%UUCP.HARWELL@UK.AC.UKC We may soon find ourselves needing to buy our own laser printer, rather than continuing to use someone else's DEC LN03 Plus. At present we are using ln03dvi to process our LaTeX output. On cost grounds alone, a LJ III seems to be a reasonable buy, and I know that drivers are available for LJ II's. However we are currently using the \specials in ln03dvi to include graphics within documents. Do any of the LJ drivers handle this, and if so, what sort of memory would we require for mixed LaTeX and bit-mapped graphics ? Judy Booth, Harwell Laboratory judy!harwell.uucp ------------------------------ Subject: Re: UKTeX query Date: Wed, 18 Jul 90 13:15:14 bst From: SPQR@UK.AC.SOUTHAMPTON.ECS P.ABBOTT@UK.AC.ASTON writes: > I am a student working at the research labs here at Martlesham and my > project has resulted with me doing a lot of work using TurboTeX on an IBM > PC. I am writing to enquire about any screen previewers that may be > available. Also could you please send me details of the user group. For future reference: Screen previewers for TeX under MS-DOS -------------------------------------- We recommend three public domain previewers for TeX running on a PC. They all do a good job, but are not really worth the trouble on a machine with less than an 80286 chip. 1) DVIVGA needs a VGA display, and comes with a set of fonts at 85 dpi; it is fast, but has the disadvantage that you need a set of fonts at a different size from those for your printer 2) DVIMSWIN is the same basic code as DVIVGA, but runs under Windows 2 or 3, and uses a mouse and menus in a friendly way 3) DVISCR is part of the emTeX distribution, and works under VGA, EGA and Hercules. It can use the 300 dpi fonts you probably have for your printer, and has a wide variety of functions. sebastian I append the directory listings from Aston. Note that: + DVIMSWIN needs all the fonts from DVIVGA + from EMTEX you need at least DVIDRV1 DVIDRV2 DVIDRV3 FONTLIB.ENG DVIDRV.ENG this will also give you printer drivers for dot matrix and HPLaserJet Directory $1$DUA19:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.DVIVGA] 00FILES.TXT;4 00README.TXT;2 DVIVGA.BOO;1 PK100.BOO;1 PK110.BOO;1 PK121.BOO;1 PK132.BOO;1 PK145.BOO;1 PK174.BOO;1 PK208.BOO;1 PK250.BOO;1 PK300.BOO;1 PK70.BOO;1 PK76.BOO;1 PK84.BOO;1 PK92.BOO;1 SOURCES.BOO;1 Total of 17 files. Directory $1$DUA19:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.DVIMSWIN] 00FILES.TXT;2 DVIMSWIN.BOO;1 DVIMSWIN.DOC;1 Directory $1$DUA19:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX] 00FILES.TXT;7 BIBTEX.BOO;1 BLATEX1.BOO;1 BLATEX2.BOO;1 BMF1.BOO;1 BMF2.BOO;1 BTEX1.BOO;1 BTEX2.BOO;1 BTEX3.BOO;1 DVIDOT.BOO;1 DVIDOT.ENG;1 DVIDRV.ENG;1 DVIDRV1.BOO;1 DVIDRV2.BOO;1 DVIDRV3.BOO;1 DVIDRVMA.BOO;1 DVIDRVMA.ENG;1 EMSY.BOO;1 ENG-DOC.LST;1 ENGDOC.BOO;1 FONTLIB.ENG;1 LATEX1.BOO;2 LATEX1.BOO;1 LATEX2.BOO;1 LATEX3.BOO;1 LKURZ.BOO;1 MAKEINDX.BOO;1 MF1.BOO;1 MF2.BOO;1 MF3.BOO;1 MFWARE1.BOO;1 MFWARE2.BOO;1 MISC_MF.BOO;1 PICTEX.BOO;1 PKEDIT.BOO;1 README.ENG;2 README.ENG;1 TEX1.BOO;1 TEX2.BOO;1 TEXCAD.BOO;1 TEXWARE.BOO;1 TEXWARE.ENG;1 WEB.BOO;1 Total of 43 files. ------------------------------ Subject: 24 pin Epson printer driver Date: Wed, 18 Jul 90 15:47:32 BST From: NDN@UK.CO.NATIONAL-PHYSICAL-LAB.SEG The title says it all really - does anyone know of a DVI driver giving output for 24 pin Epson printers? Nick North ndn@seg.npl.co.uk National Physical Laboratory ------------------------------ Subject: Landscape mode for HP Laserjet driver? Date: Wed, 18 Jul 90 17:10:30 BST From: NDN@UK.CO.NATIONAL-PHYSICAL-LAB.SEG Is there available a driver for the HP Laserjet which supports landscape mode? There is some correspondence in the Beebe collection which suggests that one exists but there is no code for it. Any help gratefully received, Nick North ndn@seg.npl.co.uk National Physical Laboratory ------------------------------ Subject: TeX and the Archimedes Date: Wed, 18 Jul 90 16:46 GMT From: RHORNE@UK.CO.COMPULINK I am one of the few people who have tried both Graham Toal's version of TeX and that from TooLs GmbH. They are both written in "C" and the early versions which I have both run at about the same speed, that is to say, fast---on my Archimedes 410/1 with a Rodime HD the TooLs version TeXes the TeX book in 13 minutes and TeX the Program in 16. I have been told by Frank Lancaster of TooLs (fl@tools.uucp) that TeX 3 and Metafont 2 are about to be released. These are compiled with the latest version of "C" and run about 10\% faster than the earlier versions. The TooLs version is supplied with an INITEX having only a 20K main memory; howver I have been told that bigger versions will be provided for shipping and handling costs only. The TooLs version comes with a number of printer drivers and a screen previewer. The latter is not as fast as the Amiga TeX version, but is far faster than anything I have seen under MSDOS. The HP laserjet printer driver is slow and can easily crash on a one-megabyte machine; I have not as yet tried the dot matrix drivers. (I ususally transfer the dvi file to an IBM-compatible to print it.) Several companies now produce add-on boards that change the Archimedes processor to the ARM3. On some programs this will increase the speed three-fold. Surprisingly the reduction in the time taken to TeX TeX the Program is small according to Edgar Fu\sf of TooLs---it takes 12 minutes. A *few* Archimedes versions of TeX utilities can be found in the TeX conference on the CIX commercial bulletin board---081 390 1244. Roger Horne 7 New Square Lincoln's Inn London WC2A 3QS Telephone 071 405 1266 ------------------------------ Subject: mode_def for Agfa P400PS sought. Date: Wed, 18 Jul 90 18:56:43 BST From: ARO%CS.ABER.AC.UK@UK.AC.ABERYSTWYTH.COMPSCI I'm about to start work with METAFONT on producing some CM fonts for an Agfa P400PS PostScript printer, a 400dpi machine. If someone has already done this, or can offer some suggestions, I will be most grateful. Many thanks, Andrew Ormsby aro@uk.ac.aber.cs Department of Computer Science, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3BZ, Wales. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 90 14:34:41 BST Subject: founts for QMS printer From: CUDAT@UK.AC.WARWICK.CU Someone here at Warwick University wants to be able to print LaTeX documents on a QMS PS810 laser printer. This printer can apparently behave like a PostScript printer or a Hewlett-Packerd LaserJet Plus printer. It is connected to a computer running MS-DOS. I think I'd prefer to use PostScript. I already have a .dvi to Postscript program for MS-DOS (James Clark's DVITOPS) but I would need some founts for the Computer Modern typefaces. The Aston archive has a directory called (I think) [TEX-ARCHIVE.FONTS.CMFONTS.QMS-FONTS] containing a collection of founts in GF format. I haven't copied any of these, and before I do I'd like to be sure that they are what I'm looking for. Does anyone have any advice for me? I'd also be interested in anything anyone has to say about PostScript printers in general, like how much RAM one is likely to need in order to print an A4 page of Computer Modern. -- Jim Hicks, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL Office: Coventry (STD O2O3) 523262 On JANET: cudat@UK.AC.WARWICK.CU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 90 14:51:58 BST Subject: funnies in the Aston archive From: CUDAT@UK.AC.WARWICK.CU While looking through the Aston archive a week or two ago I found the following things:- The file [TEX-ARCHIVE.LANGS.XETTEX]00README.TEX doesn't seem to say an awful lot. The file [TEX-ARCHIVE.FONTS.CMFONTS.PK.PK300]CMR10.300PK seems to contain a bad fount. (I did remember not to copy it as a text file, and several other founts in the same directory seem fine.) The file [TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV.ENG seems to differ substantially from the file called DVIDRV.ENG in the archive in ENGDOC.BOO . The file [TEX-ARCHIVE.DOC]ARCHIVE.TEX doesn't mention the [TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS....] directory. Many thanks to the archivists for looking after all the goodies, and I hope the above remarks help to make things even better. -- Jim Hicks, Computing Services. cudat@UK.AC.WARWICK.CU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jul 90 15:51:30 BST Subject: RE: For UKTeX From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX > > Sebastian Rahtz asked me to give you a paragraph about Lambda.sty for > inclusion in UKTeX. OK, we know what it is (real beaut, as they say at CSIRO): but where is it? chris {Sebastian Rahtz has written to say lambda.sty is in [.tex-styles] ---Ed.} ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 JUL 90 18:09:09 BST From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS Subject: Some rather superannuated TeXserver requests Reply-to: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} The other day, systems management staff at Aston University discovered that there were many TeXserver requests that had been sent to TeXserver@uk.ac.aston instead of to TeXserver@uk.ac.aston.tex. It should be noted that the latter address is the only one that has ever been advertised for access to the TeXserver. Some were quite recent, but many dated back as far as May 1989. After a little difficulty, we've managed to redeliver these messages (all 262 of them!) to the correct address and they should now be processed correctly, including delivery of acknowledgements to you. However, their time of receipt will not be back-dated, so you may be surprised to see a receipt for "Your message to TeXserver received at ..." --- you DID send a message, honest, but perhaps you'd forgotten about it by now. It may well be that many files requested no longer exist (or rather, that they may have moved to other directories) --- tough luck, I'm afraid: you should have sent the request to the correct address in the first place, to get a more timely response. The receipt will indicate whether the file is capable of being accessed. To prevent future occurrences, TeXserver@uk.ac.aston now forwards its mail to TeXserver@uk.ac.aston.tex! Brian {Hamilton Kelly} +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs + + BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ac.uk + + INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk + + UUCP: ...!mcvax!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex + + OR ...!ukc!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex + + Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military + + College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. + + Phone: Swindon (0793) 785252 (UK), +44-793-785252 (International) + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Wednesday 18th July 1990 15:03:49 BST From: "Tony Sumner (0734) 318436" Subject: dvitops under VM/CMS I have developed the changes needed to get James Clark's dvitops to work under VM/CMS and this version is now in service at Reading. The version in the archive will be updated shortly (ie when James has got clear of the project he is on now) to include the CMS changes but meanwhile if any CMS site would like to see a leaked preview please send me a note. Tony Sumner (Computer Services Centre, University of Reading) A.Sumner@uk.ac.reading ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- !! !! Files of interest !! [tex-archive]000aston.readme [tex-archive]000directory.list !! [tex-archive]000directory_dates.list [tex-archive]000directory.size !! [tex-archive]000last30days.files !! !! I have a tape labelled TeX 2.993(==3.0) LaTeX 2.09 Metafont 1.9 (2.0) !! Unix 4.2/3BSD & System V. Tar 1600 bpi blocked 20 1 file dated !! 28 March 1990 (from washington.edu) --Peter Abbott. !! !! FTP access site uk.ac.aston.tex !! username public !! password public !! !! I have the facility to copy this tape for anyone who sends the following !! 1 2400 tape with return labels AND RETURN postage. 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