UKTeX Digest Friday, 17 Aug 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 27 Today's Topics: latex hinting How to get \typeout to ... new version of emTeX, with TeX 3.0 tex files OzTeX PostScript previewer for VAXstation 3100 (and all VAX VMS ...) \typeout problems emTeX warning - get new version new version of german.sty (2.3) DVI driver for Panasonic KXP1124? Re: [Oren Patashnik : BibTeX-for-plain-TeX cmssbxsl font dvitops 1.1 available RE: UKTeX V90 #22 Missing TeXhax V90 #52 DVITOPS for VMS ?? Building TeX V3 from Aston Archives Crop marks AMSTeX version 2.0 in the archive English documentation for MTeX ------------------------------------------------------------ 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$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.UKTEX.90] Latest TeXhax: #55 Back Issues: These are stored in the Aston archive, in the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TEXHAX.90] Latest TeXmag: V4 N3 Back Issues: These are stored in the Aston archive, in the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TEX-MAG] E d i t o r ' s N o t e I have changed the format of this issue to allow the use of digest `bursting' software which can break down a digest into individual messages. Technical details: the messages were collected from a VMS mailbox at Aston, EXTRACTed into a single file, edited to remove VMS Mail headers and change message-separator characters, then transferred to a Unix system where the file was `inc'luded into an MH message folder using the Rand MH message handling software, release 6.5. The digest was then constructed using the -digest flags on MH's `forw' program, each message being filtered using the standard mhl.digest filter. ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Aug 90 17:11:02 -0000 From: SPQR@UK.AC.SOUTHAMPTON.ECS Subject: latex hinting > > I want to put the LaTeX file header stuff in a file, do a \input and > have it remind me where to start. So I want my header "style" file > to output a message like "Letter heading read. Now continue with > \begin{letter}{addressee}". But how do I get \typeout to output > Allan Reese. I dont know the answer to the question you asked, but the more generic answer is `don't do it that way' - use a template file, or an intelligent editor. I use emacs, and hitting M-x letter asks me a few questions, then puts me at the right place in an automatically generated file for LaTeX letters, including my name, date etc sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Aug 90 17:28:45 -0000 From: P.TAYLOR@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAX Subject: How to get \typeout to ... Allan --- >>> I want to put the LaTeX file header stuff in a file, do a \input and >>> have it remind me where to start. So I want my header "style" file >>> to output a message like "Letter heading read. Now continue with >>> \begin{letter}{addressee}". But how do I get \typeout to output >>> characters like \ and {} ? I've tried \typeout{\backslash} and it >>> comes out as \delimiter weird number! perhaps something like: \documentstyle {article} \begin {document} \begingroup \def \passivate {\count 0 = 0 \loop \ifnum \count 0 < 128 \ifnum \catcode \count 0 = 11 \else \catcode \count 0 = 12 \fi \advance \count 0 by 1 \repeat \catcode `\| = 0 % escape \catcode `\[ = 1 % open group \catcode `\] = 2 % close group \catcode `\^^M = 5 % end of line \catcode `\^^I = 10 % tab \catcode `\ = 10 % space } \passivate |typeout [A message containing \s and {s and }s] |endgroup \end {document} ** Phil. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Aug 90 17:43:07 -0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: new version of emTeX, with TeX 3.0 Eberhard Mattes has re-released his entire emTeX distribution with many changes and improvements. Obvious highlights are: - TeX 3.0 - MF 2.0 - drivers support virtual fonts - deskjet driver but there is plenty more to keep people occupied for a few weeks updating their installations. The new set of ZIP archives will be available in the Aston Archive from Monday August 12th, in BOO-encoded form. The English documentation may now be out of date in places, until that too is updated. Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 90 08:31:23 +0100 From: G.O.Randall@uk.ac.durham Subject: tex files Files are required to use TeX on a PC1512 (with HD), printer is Epsom comp.24 pin. Assumed required are public domain DVI generator Preview and printer driver. Any assistance? Thanks. George. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 90 08:54:38 -0000 From: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.VAX.SPOCK Subject: OzTeX Note from Peter Abbott I also have mail from Andrew and he will send version 1.3 for distribution in September. I can contact him easily and any bug reports sent to me will be forwarded in the next batch of mail I send. Andrew makes a point of mentioning hash_size as being defined in OZ.config. Peter > Date: Sat, 11 AUG 90 10:58:56 BST > From: ARCHIVEGROUP@UK.AC.ASTON.VAXA > To: abbottp@UK.AC.ASTON.VAX.KIRK > Subject: Oz > Reply-To: , > "Aston TeX Archivists" > Originally-sent:Sat, 11 Aug 90 03:49:37 WET > Originally-To: uktex@UK.AC.ASTON > Originally-from:LS%EARN.FRMAP711@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY > > > Subj: OzTeX 1.3 > > > Date: Wed, 08 Aug 90 13:19:28 BST > > From: David Osborne > > > > > > i had an airmail letter this morning from > > Andrew Trevorrow, who's now in India, but > > hard at work on his Mac IIcx on the latest > > version of OzTeX. > > > > News indeed. Is there any way to quickly send to Andrew > bug reports on the current version OzTeX 1.2 ? > Otherwise, I fear that OzTeX will again go forth with > quite unnecessary bugs and incompatibilities. > > Laurent Siebenmann > SIEBENMA@FRLAL51.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 90 12:53:28 -0000 From: PJH1@UK.AC.YORK.VAXB Subject: PostScript previewer for VAXstation 3100 (and all VAX VMS ...) VAX VMS PostScript Previewer: The situation regarding the VMS "PostScript Previewer" is that DIGITAL had not agreed licensing for multi user Display PostScript, specifically X DPS, until the beginning of this year. By this time it was too late to include in VMS 5.3. XDPS, and thus the "PostScript Previewer", is included in VMS 5.4 which is now, I understand, at Software Distribution for release. It may well be that the implementation that was described in the early VMS version 5 manuals differs from that released, hence the deletion of reference from the 5.3 documentation - but that is guesswork! Peter Halls, Chairman DECUS UK GRAP SIG. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 90 16:27:58 -0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: \typeout problems R.A.Reese@Hull wants to know how to type out backslashes and braces. Braces are no problem. They come out as braces. Control words and active characters---such as ~ ---need to be preceded by \string. In LaTeX, \protect works too. Thus \typeout{\string\begin{document}} \typeout{\protect\begin{document}} \typeout{Use Mr.\string~Ious rather than Mr.\protect\ Ious} will work. A non-paired brace will present problems, but would you want that? Mike Piff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield, The Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, SHEFFIELD S3 7RH, England. Tel. SHEFFIELD(0742) 768555 Extension 4431. JANET MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Aug 90 17:37:12 -0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: emTeX warning - get new version Between Saturday 11th and Monday 13th August, the copies of the emTeX drivers in the UK TeX Archive at Aston were a version with a bug in; this manifested itself with Hercules cards, and could cause damage to your files. Eberhard Mattes has installed changed versions, and these are now at Aston. But if you got the files dvidrv1.boo dvidrv2.boo dvidrv3.boo pkedit.boo before 6pm Monday 13th, please get fresh copies. Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 09:51:20 -0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: new version of german.sty (2.3) Readers of UKTeX who typeset German will want to know that the current version of german.sty in [tex-archive.latex.contrib.german]german.sty at Aston in the UK TeX Archive has been updated to version 2.3, as described in the header below. Thanks to Rainer Schoepf for keeping us up to date. Sebastian % This is GERMAN.TEX or GERMAN.DOC or GERMAN.STY, Vers. 2.3, 7 Aug 1990, % collected by H.Partl (TU Wien), % using ideas by W.Appelt, F.Hommes et al. (GMD St.Augustin), % T.Hofmann (CIBA-GEIGY Basel), N.Schwarz (Uni Bochum), % J.Schrod (TH Darmstadt), D.Armbruster (Uni Stuttgart), % R.Schoepf & F.Mittelbach (Uni Mainz), P.Breitenlohner (MPI Muenchen), % and others. % DOCUMENT STYLE OPTION for writing german texts with TeX 2.x or LaTeX 2.09. % It can be called via % \input german % or (with LaTeX) via % \documentstyle[german]{anystyle} % % +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ % ! This file conforms to the standard for "Einheitliche deutsche ! % ! TeX-Befehle" as proposed at the 6th Meeting of German TeX Users ! % ! in Muenster, October 1987. ! % +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 15:52:22 +0000 From: PS0050163 @ UK.AC.OXFORD-POLY.PRIME-A Subject: DVI driver for Panasonic KXP1124? Dear Peter, Do you know of any DVI driver programs that run on PC's and generate output for a Panasonic KXP1124 which is EPSON 2500 compatible. Both are 24 pin dot matrix printers. I have tried a number of dvidot programs without success. Thanks very much, Andrew Darnell, PS0050163 at Oxford Polytechnic. OXPOLY.A or OXFORD-POLY.PRIME-A ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 20:00:13 -0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Re: [Oren Patashnik : BibTeX-for-plain-TeX macros ] > From: Oren Patashnik > Subject: BibTeX-for-plain-TeX macros > > There is now distributed with BibTeX a set of TeX macros that makes > BibTeX work with plain TeX (and presumably with other macro packages > that don't deviate too far from plain TeX). The file is btxmac.tex, > stored on Labrea.Stanford.EDU's BibTeX area (pub/tex/bibtex). now available at Aston as [tex-archive.tex-style]btxmac.tex sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 23:22:28 -0000 From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: cmssbxsl font Hi all, After my request for a cmssbxsl font I received seversal replies, some of them telling me they were in search of the same thing. With this message I would like to summarize the responses. Sebastian Rahtz, spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk, wrote: = you'll tell me i'm boring if i say that Lucida Sans has an excellent = bold italic, as do all postscript sans fonts.... = = sebastian I knew, but that wasn't what I was looking for this time Don Hosek, DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET, wrote: - - If you send me the size, expansion factor etc., I can send you the MF - - for this (part of my custom font services). Since this is a fairly - - simple task, I'll gladly do it for a good bottle of Dutch beer (you'll - - have to mail it to me though since I don't see myself in Europe anytime - - soon). - - - - -dh Thanks for the offer Don, but by the time your response reached me we already had a solution. The way to go was pointed by Dave Osborne (cczdao@clan.nott.ac.uk), who wrote: = when i needed a slanted form of cmssdc10 (sans serif demibold condensed), = i changed the setting of slant from "slant := 0;" to "slant := 1/6;", = saved the result in a file called cmssdcsl10 and METAFONTed it. = it is trivial to do the same to cmssbx10, to make cmssbxsl10, = which should meet your needs. = = i asked Don Knuth at the time about the choice of name (basically, = `was i allowed to call this a CM font?') and he said something to the = effect of `yes, we use one-off fonts at Stanford all the time'. = = - dave osborne = university of nottingham & aston TeX archive group = Inspection of the difference between cmr10 and cmsl10 learned us that this was the only difference (apart from the header). Inspection of cmssi10.mf revealed a slightly different value for slant: slant:=sind 12/cosd 12; % tilt ratio $(\Delta x/\Delta y)$ We tried both values for slant, but the one retreived from cmssi10.mf looked best to us, so that's what we're using now. Summary: Take cmssbx10.mf and modify the following lines: % Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended 10 pt if unknown cmbase: input cmbase fi font_identifier:="CMSSBX"; font_size 10pt#; into % Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended Slanted 10 pt if unknown cmbase: input cmbase fi font_identifier:="CMSSBXSL"; font_size 10pt#; Than replace slant:=0; % tilt ratio $(\Delta x/\Delta y)$ with slant:=sind 12/cosd 12; % tilt ratio $(\Delta x/\Delta y)$ and you have created cmssbxsl10.mf The same can be done to smaller versions of the font if needed. The only thing left to do is fire up METAFONT to create the font(s). I hope this helps all who have the same need for a font like cmssbxsl. 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: Wed, 15 Aug 90 21:09:26 -0000 From: James Clark Subject: dvitops 1.1 available I finally got round to doing another version of dvitops. I have tried to merge in support for various systems that people have kindly sent me. There are now separate configuration files for UNIX, MS-DOS, PRIMOS, VAX/VMS and VM/CMS. The bad news is that I now only have access to UNIX systems, and so that's the only configuration that I've tested; there are likely to be compilation glitches on other systems. If you do try it out on a non-UNIX system, and find that changes are needed to make it work, please let me know what they are. It's available at Aston in [tex-archive.drivers.dvi2ps.dvitops]. James Clark jjc@jclark.uucp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 11:38:00 -0000 From: CENSWM@UK.AC.HERIOT-WATT.VAXB Subject: RE: UKTeX V90 #22 A REQUEST TO HELP an Indian Charity ===================================== PIPASSANA (A Charity recognised by the Indian Government) are looking for a person to volunteer to help them with a PostScript programming problem. They need someone who can add some simple accents to the Bitstream Fonts, or the Laserwriters own fonts. They are using Ventura on an AT compatible. If anyone out there is interested..... please contact Geoff Caplan 13 Rankeillor Street Edinburgh EH8 9JA Phone 031 668 2837 for more information. Thanks. Stuart Munn Computer Centre Heriot-Watt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 16:06:59 -0000 From: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.VAX.SPOCK Subject: Missing TeXhax V90 #52 The missing TeXhax V90 #52 has been installed in the Aston archive. Peter Abbott ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Aug 90 20:12:00 +0000 From: "Edmund J. Sutcliffe " Subject: DVITOPS for VMS ?? Has anyone got a working copy of Jim Clark's DVITOPS running under VMS ? If so can I have a copy of the source ? Edmund ps I have been having problems getting fonts back from the archive. The are com ing back to this VMS machine in a format other that 512 byte fixed records, This means the VMS binary read isn't coping with them to well. Any ideas ?? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 12:22:23 -0000 From: BANKS%CCF@UK.MOD.HERMES Subject: Building TeX V3 from Aston Archives Building TeX V3 from Aston Archives I have obtained all the TeX V3 files from Aston via TEXSERVER during July. I used the MMS DESCRIP file to build the EXEs. When I try to build the FMT files I get a Pascal run-time error. %PAS-F-ARRINDVAL, array index value is out of range %MMS-F-ABORT, For target TEX$NEWFORMATS:PLAIN.FMT, CLI returned abort status: %X1021BE84 The message is the same from INITEX and BIGINITEX. The compilations used the /CHECK qualifier as specified in the documentation file. We are running VMS V5.3, MMS V2.5 and Pascal V4.0-2. Has anybody been through this process before, with or without problems. Is it something I have done wrong ? All suggestion welcome. Colin Banks BANKS@UK.MOD.HERMES ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 13:26:50 -0000 From: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.VAX.SPOCK Subject: Crop marks The following file % cropmark.sty, for use with LaTeX 2.09 % ver. 1 % January 11, 1990 % Dominik Wujastyk % Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine % 183 Euston Road % London NW1 2BP % England % JANET: wujastyk@uk.ac.ucl.euclid % Internet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu % % % | | % | | % --- --- % This is a LaTeX style that % prints crop marks (or corner % rules) at the four corners of % the page, to help with % cutting and pasting. % Loosely based on Knuth's % \setcornerrules (TeXbook, % pp.416f.). % --- --- % | | % | | % % is now available from [TEX-ARCHIVE.LATEX.CONTRIB]CROPMARKS.STY Peter Abbott ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 15:36:43 -0000 From: David Osborne Subject: AMSTeX version 2.0 in the archive Version 2.0 of AMSTeX is now installed in the archive. There are a number of changes from the original AMSTeX, the most important of which are: - - new fonts: the Euler and Math Symbols fonts have been redesigned in METAFONT84, to replace the old METAFONT79 versions, which had previously only been available in GF format; the METAFONT sources of all the AMSTeX 2.0 fonts are now available. The Cyrillic fonts from Washington University are included in this release, in PK and source versions. - - new macros: the AMSTeX macro package has been updated. Note that this is incompatible with the old fonts from the original AMSTeX, and that the new fonts from AMSTeX 2.0 require the new macro package. - - support for LaTeX: a set of macros is available to allow the use of AMSTeX from LaTeX, in addition to the `traditional' use of AMSTeX with the Plain TeX format. You will find the fonts, TFM files, documentation and macros below the directory [tex-archive.amstex2] - --David Osborne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 15:48:23 -0000 From: David Osborne Subject: English documentation for MTeX Fran{\c{c}}ois Jalbert's User's Guide in English for Steinbach and Schofer's MTeX package for typesetting music is now in the archive, in [tex-archive.tex-styles.mtex]guide.tex The original German documentation is now in that directory, in file mtexinfo.tex, with the macros in mtex.tex and a demo file of two pieces by Bach and Distler in mtexdemo.tex. The music fonts remain in directory [tex-archive.fonts.mtex] - --David Osborne ------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- !! UK TeX ARCHIVE at ASTON UNIVERSITY: !! !! Files of interest !! [tex-archive]000aston.readme [tex-archive]000directory.list !! [tex-archive]000directory_dates.list [tex-archive]000directory.size !! 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