UKTeX Digest Friday, 20 Mar 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 11 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Q&A}: ti micro laser plus Tree-TeX and friends Re: Tree-TeX and friends guru help on floats in LaTeX? {Announcements}: INCLUDE Preprocessor available on FILESERV/Niord {Archive News}: rotating package, version 1.4 TeX v3.141 now in the Aston Archive Re: TeX v3.141 now in the Aston Archive additions to UK TeX Archive (many and various) Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 08:41:28 +0000 From: Malcolm Clark Subject: ti micro laser plus are there any mode defs for a ti micro laser plus? (yes, i've looked through the `obvious' aston/karl berry files). it looks write white. suggestions? malcolm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 14:32:53 +0000 From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Subject: Tree-TeX and friends I have been asked to locate a program (a TeX program would be ideal) which will process, transform and print the results of cladistics analysis for plants and birds. The data will represent a tree, with typically 12 levels and circa 200 terminal nodes. Questions: (1) Is this something for which Anne Brugeman-Klein's `Tree-TeX' is well suited? (2) If so, where is it documented, and where does it live? (3) If not, or perhaps even if, are there other programs which I should consider? * Phil. P.S. It will not be necessary to label all non-terminal nodes; typically, only one non-terminal level will need to be labelled. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Mar 92 15:29:36 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: Tree-TeX and friends > I have been asked to locate a program (a TeX program would be > ideal) which will process, transform and print the results of > cladistics analysis for plants and birds. well, it doesnt take long to look in the archive listing, does it... Directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TEX88.TREE] 00FILES.TXT;1 L_PIC.TEX;1 Total of 2 files. Directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX-STYLE.TREETEX] 00FILES.TXT;1 CLASSES.TEX;1 EPODD.BBL;1 EPODD.TEX;1 L_PIC.TEX;1 README.;1 TREETEX.TEX;1 TREE_DOC.BBL;1 TREE_DOC.TEX;1 not got your copy of TeXeter 88 to hand, Phil? its all in there, and again in Epodd. whether there are better things, I know not. hack it up raw PostScript? sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 12:47:06 +0100 From: Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.uknet-relay Subject: guru help on floats in LaTeX? Sebastian writes: Can anyone solve this one for me? I have defined an environment sideways, and a new type of float called rotfloat. now, according to my reading of latex.tex, the contents of the float is in \@currbox, so I rotate this and put the result in a box called \rot@tempbox, and add it to the \@currlist like the normal float. This runs, the \typeout does its stuff, but NOTHING ever appears. why not? where is it? answers gratefully received, pliz How about setting the height of \rot@tempbox instead of \ht\@currbox? Rainer Sch"opf ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 14:44:11 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: INCLUDE Preprocessor available on FILESERV/Niord There has been some recent discussion about an \include or \input preprocessor for (La)TeX. Charles Franklin forwarded me his package for doing this, which is now available from FILESERV/Niord. Below is the FILESERV description file for the package. Thanks to Charles for contributing this to the TeX community and for allowing us to distribute it. - --George =========================================================================== INCLUDE ------- The INCLUDE package includes a uuencoded .ZIP file including the Pascal source, executable, and documentation for Charles H. Franklin's INCLUDE utility (v1.5). This program replaces LaTeX "\include{myfile}" and "\input{myfile}" statements with the actual contents of the included file. "Inputfile", "outputfile" and "myfile"s are assumed to have extension ".tex" if none is given. If no "outputfile" is given, the output is written on "included.tex". "Inputfile" can be a TeX file or it can be a simple list of \include (or \input) statements. Included files may themselves contain \include or \input statements. This nesting can be up to 14 files deep. No file may include a file in which it is itself already included. To do so would cause an infinite loop. Charles notes in his contribution: > I've been using INCLUDE for about a year and it works fine for me. > However, no one else has tried it, so I expect to get bug reports from > those who try it. To retrieve INCLUDE, please include the command: SENDME INCLUDE in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp retrieval, the file is in the [.INCLUDE] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INCLUDE.UUE 30 INCLUDE.UUE (UUdecodes to INCLUDE.ZIP; ZIP file has INCLUDE.EXE, INCLUDE.PAS, and INCLUDE.DOC Approximate total blocks in full INCLUDE package = 30 ------------------------------ Date: 17 Mar 92 10:35:23 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: rotating package, version 1.4 I have made some changes to my `rotating' package (in UK TeX Archive in [.latex.contrib.rotating], viz - fixed a type which stopped the documentation printing without a TeX error :-} - *finally* made the `sidewaysfigure' environment work; this gives you a new type of float where both the figure and the caption are rotated together through 90 degrees. thanks are due to the never-failing deus ex machina, Rainer Sch\"opf, for suggesting the tiny fixes which made the difference. sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 18:35:37 +0000 From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} Subject: TeX v3.141 now in the Aston Archive Don Knuth has just announced the release of revised versions of TeX and many of its friends and relations. These will all be installed on the Aston Archive over the next few days/weeks; as a start, the file [tex-archive.tex]tex.web is now the source of this latest revision, at v3.141. The change file for the VMS implementation will be found as [tex-archive.tex.vms]tex.ch. The previous two versions of the TeX source remain (for the time being) as [tex-archive.tex]tex.web-3-1 and [tex-archive.tex]tex.web-3-14; they may be deleted at some time in the future after change files for all other implemenations have been installed in the archive. [Note for fellow archivists (and anyone else that's interested): I have followed a new practice on this occasion --- the timestamp of the tex.web source has been manually edited to match that of the canonical source file at Labrea --- since the latter is timed at 05:10 local (presumably PST) on the 16th March, the Aston copy is timed at 13:10 GMT on the same day. I would strongly advocate that all other archives attempt to follow this practice: it helps both ourselves and our clients --- it would be even better if an FTP directory listing could be obtained with a fixed time datum, such as GMT! ] 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: {mcsun,ukc,uunet}!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: 18 Mar 92 09:46:11 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: TeX v3.141 now in the Aston Archive Brian {Hamilton Kelly} writes: > Don Knuth has just announced the release of revised versions of TeX and > many of its friends and relations. These will all be installed on the > Aston Archive over the next few days/weeks; as a start, the file > [tex-archive.tex]tex.web is now the source of this latest revision, at > v3.141. The change file for the VMS implementation will be found as > [tex-archive.tex.vms]tex.ch. A note for Unix users - Karl Berry is preparing a new release of his web2c system anyway, and TeX 3.141 will be included in that. So interim Unix changefiles are unlikely to be added to the archive. Karl will release his stuff soon Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 18 Mar 92 10:38:28 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: additions to UK TeX Archive (many and various) Additions to UK TeX Archive We have added a miscellany of items to the Uk TeX Archive. Some are recent, some are just us catching up with other archives. Apologies for the length and simultaneous brevity all of this, but life is too short to catalogue them all properly. People *should* take note of the PSFIG, TUGBOAT and CMFONTS entries Short shrift will be given by the authors to people who report problems with older versions of these packages. Users will no doubt report experiences. Sebastian Rahtz ***************************************************** CMFONTS: [tex-archive.fonts.cmfonts]*.mf This is the March 16th release of the Metafont source of all the CM fonts. Donald Knuth has made some changes, and recommends that people regenerate all the fonts. To be honest, individuals shouldn't need to bother - but if you use CMR for production, you'd better do it. PSFIG 1.9: [TEX-ARCHIVE.PSFIG] (and subdirectories) also [.src.unix-archives]psfig.tarz_uue NEW IN VERSION 1.9 Version 1.9 fixes allows magfication and works with amstex. New features in version 1.8 include better rotation ability (\psfig{...,rotate=100}) and support for including compressed figures (use the included "pscompress" script). CROPMARKS: [.tex-style]cropmark.tex From: eijkhout@cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) A while ago someone posted a cropmarks style on this group. I was quite disappointed that this relied on the format that was being used. Quite unnecessary, if you ask me. Hence the following little ditty... It has been tested to a moderate extent, but please report bugs and suggestions. CIRTH FONTS: [tex-archive.fonts.cirth] CIRTH.MF Standard cirth font CIRBF.MF Boldface cirth font CIRSL.MF Slanted cirth font CIRSS.MF Sans-serif cirth font MACROS.MF Macro file RUNES.MF Letter definition file LIGS.MF Ligature table file CIRTH.TEX Latex file showing use NUM.TEX La/TeX macros for using fonts README This file Find out from your local guru what settings to use for running Metafont and where to install the fonts. On my PC for my HP laserjet printer I use mf &plain \mode=hplaser; mag=1; input cirth For the other fonts just substitute cirbf (say) for cirth. For more information on its use see cirth.tex. Comments and suggestions gratefully received. I have a germanic rune font as well for rune enthusiasts. For Tolkien enthusiasts there is a commonly available tengwar script font. I have a modification of this giving roman letters. For the truly wierd I am working on a cuneiform font two (64 letters done, 2946 to go!). Jo Grant 9 March, 1992 SAUTER: [.TEX-ARCHIVE.FONTS.SAUTER] Karl Berry writes: 've again updated my packaging for Unix of John Sauter's Metafont files to make Computer Modern fonts at any point size. This version (1.2) puts in the bold-math.mf file that I somehow left out last time. It also adds two files to make the LaTeX symbol and bold symbol fonts, contributed by Friedrich Haubensak, hsk@infko.uni-koblenz.de. For all of the standard Computer Modern fonts, these files produce the same TFM files as Knuth's sources. So it is ok to call the output from these `cm...'. The distribution includes an lfonts.tex for LaTeX and a MakeTeXPK for dvips which take advantage of these fonts. TUGBOAT: [TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TUGBOAT] all the style files (plain and latex) for tugboat and the tug meeting proceedings (a variation on the tugboat style), as well as author guidelines for the use of both, have been upgraded and installed on most of the major archives. the following files are involved: ltugboat.sty (latex style -- tugboat) ltugproc.sty (latex style -- proceedings) tugboat.cmn (macros common to plain and latex styles) tugboat.sty (plain style -- tugboat) tugproc.sty (plain style -- proceedings) guidepro.tex (proceedings guidelines) tubguide.tex (tugboat author guidelines) XARTICLE: [.latex.contrib.xarticle] Some time ago someone with the initials pxl posted a modified article.sty and art7, art8, and art9.sty files, to allow 7,8,9pt options for the article style. I have updated these files to match the current (14 Jan 92) distribution of the LaTeX files. Mark Roth (mroth@afit.af.mil) CHANGEBAR: [.latex.contrib]changebar.* version of November 1991 using \specials CHGBAR: [.latex.contrib]chgbar Change bar document-style option for LaTeX. without specials % % Copyright (C) 1990 by David B. Johnson. % % dbj@titan.rice.edu (Dave Johnson) DCOLUMN: [.latex.contrib]dcolumn.sty A fairly general mechanism for specifying columns to be aligned on a `decimal point' is defined. This style requires my newarray.sty and Mittelbach's array.sty. David Carlisle carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs 17-Feb-1992 TABULARX: [.latex.contrib]tabularx.sty \begin{tabularx}{final width}{tabular-preamble} tabular body \end{tabularx} In the {tabular-preamble} argument, X should be used to denote a column that gets the final specification of p{}. So for example \begin{tabularx}{250pt}{|cXcX|} ... \end{tabularx} is equivalent to \begin{tabular*}{250pt}{|cp{??}cp{??}|} ... \end{tabular*} where the ?? is chosen automatically. This style requires my newarray.sty, and Mittelbach's array.sty. David Carlisle carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs 30-JAN-92 SUPERTAB: [.latex.contrib]supertab.tex,doc,sty shortpackagename = {supertab}, longpackagename = {supertabular}, baseformats = {\LaTeX 2.09}, version = {3.6f}, date = {1992-03-11}, author = {Theo Jurriens, TAJ@HGRRUG5, P.O Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen}, abstract = {This file provides the supertabular environment, which is an extension to the standard tabular environment. Large tabulars are automatically split across pages. Seperate commands for the table-head and table-tail are provided, in order to repeat these on each page.} infauthor = {Johannes Braams, J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl, PTT Research, P.O. Box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam} DECALIGN: [.latex.contrib]decalign.sty, decalign.readme A problem occurs in TEX and LATEX when you try to align columns in a table on the decimal point (or any other character). There is now a document style option in LATEX called `decalign', which adds a new column specifier to the tabular and array environments. Use a `d' to indicate that a column should contain entries aligned on the decimal point. An optional character after the `d' indicates the character to be used as the separator; the default is a period. Stephen Meatheringham 1987 MOREFLOATS: [.latex.contrib]morefloats.sty This is morefloats.sty as of 27-July-1990 Don Hosek, Quixote The task at hand is to increase \LaTeX's current limit of 18 unprocessed floats in memory at once to 36. BIBUNITS: [.latex.contrib]bibunits.sty BIBUNITS is a style to generate separate bibliographies for different units (parts) of the text (currently only one of chapters, sections or bibunit-environments). The style will separate the citations of each unit of text into a separate file to be processed by bibtex. The global bibliography section produced by LATEX also can appear in the document and citations can be placed in both at the same time. by Jose Alberto CHESS: [.fonts.chess] (and subdirectories) Chess fonts and a chess style (Version 1.2 / Febr. 1992) This is version 1.2 of my chessmacros for typesetting chess with LaTeX and/or TeX. This new version contains an improved chess style file (chess.sty) complete with documentation and example files. The documentation is the article as it will appear in TUGboat. 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