UKTeX Digest Friday, 10 Apr 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 14 ``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}: Re: Tex Previewers for Dec-windows dvi to lq Re: dvi to lq VF Re: VF Re: Sun previewers (see UKTeX V92 #13) Re: Sun previewers (see UKTeX V92 #13) New version of LaTeX---style file bugs LaTeX nfss \default@family Apple Laserwriter IIg using postscript in LaTeX Re: using postscript in LaTeX Re: using postscript in LaTeX using PS fonts on a PC about fonts for TeX RE: about fonts for TeX Re: about fonts for TeX {Announcements}: eplain 2.1 released Update to STYles at FILESERV/Niord FLI files for EmTeX Hyphenation patterns for Catalan ready for beta testing BoxedEPSF for OzteX 1.4 on FILESERV/Niord {Archive News}: dvips5.482 (beta test) tex `user surface' available fro DOS DVIPJ HP PaintJet driver in the UK TeX Archive C2LaTeX translator in UK TeX Archive 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, 02 Apr 92 08:47:00 +0100 From: Max Calvani - Italy Subject: Re: Tex Previewers for Dec-windows Well, I don't know about Motif, but for sure XDVI runs on my Vax/vms Decstations. Max ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 12:41:03 -0100 From: J.D."J.D." Wright (by way of P.Abbott@uk.ac.aston) Subject: dvi to lq I am running sbTeX34 (TeX 3.1) with LaTeX macros with dview 2.5 on a twin drive ibmpc XT. I am having problems printing to an epdon lq850. 360*360 dpi i have dvipan, dvieps and dvidot dvieps, dvipan look for fonts in magniforacation 1000,1200,1440 which i do not have. dvidot also will not use the fonts i have pk 96,105,115,138,166 and the corresponding pxl ones. can someone tell me have to get the drivers working. i cannot use the font libaries, or unpack them all i want is the correct magniforcation fonts for this printer. the fonts supplied with dosTeX for its dvieps also did not appear to be in the correct magniforcation for sbTeX34. also if someone can help can they give the directory structure needed to set tjhis up thanks jon ------------------------------ Date: 06 Apr 92 15:46:51 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: dvi to lq J.D."J.D." Wright writes: > i have dvipan, dvieps and dvidot > dvieps, dvipan look for fonts in magniforacation 1000,1200,1440 which i do > not have. > dvidot also will not use the fonts i have > pk 96,105,115,138,166 and the corresponding pxl ones. > can someone tell me have to get the drivers working. which dvidot is this? if it is the one which came with emTeX, it will not use PXL files, only PK ones > i cannot use the font libaries, or unpack them > all i want is the correct magniforcation fonts for this printer. if you do not have the `fontlib' utility which is part of emtex, then you cannot unpack the libraries. it is contrary to the conditions of distribution to give you just bits of emTeX (like dvidot), so complain to your source! how dvidot searches for font files, how to set up configuration files, libraries, directory hierarchies etc are all explained in the dvidrv manual which is part of emTeX. it *is* a bit heavy reading, but there is really no alternative. any canned explanation over email would come down to `it all depends' sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 17:27:54 +0000 From: M Grinfeld"M Grinfeld" Subject: VF Hi, I got EmTeX, Virtual fonts (and the corresponding *.tfm files) and Dvips32. Dvips32 works fine with cmr fonts (again from EmTeX), but does not seem capable of using VF's. Where can I find some documentation on using virtual fonts? Thanks in advance, M. G. ------------------------------ Date: 06 Apr 92 15:57:05 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: VF M Grinfeld"M Grinfeld" writes: > > I got EmTeX, Virtual fonts (and the corresponding *.tfm files) and Dvips32. > Dvips32 works fine with cmr fonts (again from EmTeX), but does not > seem capable of using VF's. Where can I find some documentation on using > virtual fonts? > if your copy of dvips does not find the virtual fonts, then it is simply a matter of paths in the configuration file `config.ps' being set wrongly. Use the debug options (-d nnn where nnn is a number specifying what you want to trace) in dvips to see where your program is searching. dvips is an excellent driver which supports virtual fonts to the hilt. how to use them is another matter... the dvips manual has a section on it, for starters sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 18:15:30 +0000 From: Dr RM Damerell Subject: Re: Sun previewers (see UKTeX V92 #13) I believe that the best previewer available for suns is DVIPAGE by N.Hunt. It is on the Aston archive (uk.ac.tex) in directory [tex-archive.drivers.dvipage] On our machines (sun3/60, sun-os3.5, 19"mono) the times are: startup about 10 sec; display new page 1 sec, and the display is legible without having to use magnifiers. It should be faster on a sparc. The disadvantage is that it uses suntools not X windows. I have a problem with dvipage; with the current default mono resolution declared at 120 dots per inch, you cannot quite get a whole page on screen at once. I wanted to try using 100 dots/inch to see if it is still legible. Please does anybody have a suite of font files at 100dpi available for FTP? Thank you, mark ------------------------------ Date: 07 Apr 92 09:28:51 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: Sun previewers (see UKTeX V92 #13) Dr RM Damerell writes: > > I believe that the best previewer available for suns is DVIPAGE by N.Hunt. [...] > The disadvantage is that it uses suntools not X windows. and, so far as I know, is not under development. xdvi is being enhanced to use virtual fonts, for instance. sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 17:48:48 +0100 From: Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.uknet-relay Subject: New version of LaTeX---style file bugs Mike Piff wrote: The latest version of LaTeX seems to have some bugs in the style files. I have not had time to check all of them, but here is an example. In BOOK.STY, we find \def\theindex{\@restonecoltrue\if@twocolumn\@restonecolfalse\fi \columnseprule \z@ \columnsep 35\p@\twocolumn[\@makeschapterhead{\indexname}]% \@mkboth{\uppercase{\indexname}}{\uppercase{\indexname}}% \thispagestyle{plain}\parindent\z@ \parskip\z@ plus .3\p@\relax\let\item\@idxitem} Now, because of the way \uppercase operates, \uppercase{\cs} just gives \cs again, without any change, and so the index is headed Index and not INDE X. a) It *is* headed INDEX and *not* Index. (Proof by empirical test.) b) You're analysis is wrong since the \@mkboth's arguments are expanded when they are put into the \mark nodes, and thus \uppercase{Index} is put into them which gives the desired result. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh Heilbronner Strasse 10 am Morgen schon so D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!'' Federal Republic of Germany or ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 19:52:04 +0100 From: Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.uknet-relay Subject: LaTeX nfss \default@family You wrote: That is, even though I've defined the default roman to be cmss, this gets reset to cmr by \begin{document}. The reason is that \document calls \@normalsize, which calls \@setsize, which includes: \fontfamily \default@family and \default@family is defined to be cmr. Thus, setting \rmdefault and calling \rm is not enough to set the default roman. To get round this, my document styles redefine \default@family: \def\default@family{\rmdefault} Shouldn't this be the defintion in fontdef.*? No, since \default@family is used to find the last resort when the font selection scheme doesn't find a font. Also, if you use newlfont.sty, \@setsize does not switch to \fontfamily \default@family as the following transcript shows: This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (fftest.tex LaTeX Version 2.09 <14 January 1992> (/silo/tex/inputs/latexsrc/article.sty Standard Document Style `article' <14 Jan 92>. (/silo/tex/inputs/latexsrc/art10.sty)) (/silo/tex/inputs/nfss.new/newlfont.s ty Style-Option: `newlfont' v1.3a <91/11/27> (FMi and RmS) English Documentation <91/03/30> (FMi and RmS) ) > \cmss/m/n/10 . \font l.3 \showthe\font ? No file fftest.aux. > \cmss/m/n/10 . \font l.5 \showthe\font ? [1] (fftest.aux) ) Output written on fftest.dvi (1 page, 240 bytes). Transcript written on fftest.log. Rainer Schoepf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 09:10:35 -0100 From: P.Abbott@uk.ac.aston Subject: Apple Laserwriter IIg I recently took delivery of a new processor board to upgrade my Laserwriter II to a IIG and found that the inaging area was approximately 7mm smaller on each edge of an A4 sheet of paper. After various tests to find a solution (without success) I complained to our supplier. As a result my printer memory has been upgraded to 8mb free of charge and the problem has been cured. Peter Tel 44 (0)21 359 5492 direct FAX 44 (0)21 359 6158 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 11:58:12 +0000 From: Piglet Subject: using postscript in LaTeX I use LaTeX within a Unix environment, and use dvitps as the dvi file to postscript file converter. I have a postscript file (which originated in MacDraw) which has a picture in the centre of it (it's actually the university crest). I would like to be able to include the picture, but not the whole page, in a LaTeX document, and know how to position it, (left, right, or centered), as I may want to use it on the front page of a report (centered), or as part of a user-defined letter head (left or right, depending on my mood!). Does anyone know how I can do this? Also, does anyone know about the TeX users group, and how I can join? I also believe this query will get put onto a weekly bulletin; how do I get hold of this? Thanks very much in advance, Tim Hunt (a.k.a. Piglet) ee01th@ee.surrey.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 12:15:22 +0000 From: Mark.Bush@uk.ac.oxford.prg Subject: Re: using postscript in LaTeX > I have a postscript file (which originated in MacDraw) > which has a picture in the centre of it (it's actually the > university crest). I would like to be able to include the > picture, but not the whole page, in a LaTeX document You first want to change any `translate' commands or `move' commands so that the image comes out in the bottom left hand corner of the page. Then remove any `showpage' command. You should then be able to include it with a suitable \special{} command such as: \makebox[WIDTH]{\vbox to HEIGHT{\vfill \special{psfile=FILE}}} where WIDTH and HEIGHT are the width and height of the image including units and FILE is the name of the file. Mark ------------------------------ Date: 09 Apr 92 11:16:47 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: using postscript in LaTeX Piglet writes: > I use LaTeX within a Unix environment, and use dvitps as > the dvi file to postscript file converter. I'm biased, but if were you i would switch to dvips, which has better support > I have a postscript file (which originated in MacDraw) > which has a picture in the centre of it (it's actually the > university crest). I would like to be able to include the > picture, but not the whole page, in a LaTeX document it depends on your driver how you include PS figures. dvips, dvitops, dvitps, dvi2ps etc all have different conventions. There are two generalized schemes, psfig and boxedepsf (both can be got from the UK TeX Archive), which try to present a uniform interface. Personally, I used psfig, and say something like \psfig{figure=foo.ps,width=1.5in} This produces (in TeX terms, a vbox, which you can position how you like, eg \centerline{\psfig{figure=foo.ps,width=1.5in}} to solve your layout questions. If you have never fixed this before, you have a nasty coming. viz the mangy PostScript produced by many Mac programs, like Macdraw. You may have problems with having to include a Mac header file. Have fun, then go and buy a copy of Adobe Illustrator ... > Also, does anyone know about the TeX users group, and how I > can join? I also believe this query will get put onto a > weekly bulletin; how do I get hold of this? i leave this to another archivist; you will get added to the list. sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 09 Apr 92 12:42:30 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: using PS fonts on a PC Allan Reese is posting this message via me so I could check it. Hope its helpful to people. Sebastian ********************** Using PS fonts on PC. Thanks to SPQR for good advice and for making the new dvips (5.482) available. The afm2tfm obtained with dvips last July still won't run on my PCs (two makes tried) under DOS 5 (significant?) even after recompiling. But it did compile and run on a Unix machine. The afm2tfm with the new dvips is half the size (!) and runs without a hitch. The latest dvips has a much expanded document file and fully explains and supports A3 and other paper sizes. However, it still took a few tries to implement the Adobe font, so I've noted what I found difficult to spot in the document. Adobe provide font disk with .pfb (binary version), .afm and .inf (info - of use for hinting?). Out of date dvips versions won't accept the binary .pfb. I had dvips V5.395 obtained with emTeX last July. V5.482 is now in the archive. The dvips document describes how to run font conversion, but the plethera of names is confusing. It needs: a TeX-name -> a virtual fontname -> a raw fontname -> an Adobe fontname -> a PostScript modded Adobe font What you end up with is ... in TeX document \font \tex-name = vtfm-name [at size] The tex-name is then used through the document. The vtfm-name is a DOS filename for both a virtual font (.vf) and its .tfm. These files were written by vptovf. (One problem is that the document is a hybrid of Unix and DOS notation so refer to Times_Roman.xxx.) The virtual font (.vf) then makes a connection to another .tfm for the "raw" font. As suggested in the dvips document, the two .tfm's should be distinguished by starting the virtual tfm-name with P for PostScript and other with R for raw. You then have to set up a link to the actual PostScript file. The information is in the dvips document (5.3, 5.4) but not explicit. It is done by a line in psfonts.map, which includes the DOS name of the raw tfm file, the Adobe font name (found in the .inf file), a pointer to the source of the Adobe font, and any PostScript mods. If the font is built-into the printer or known to be already there, you just need the Adobe name. If you want it downloading, you include a pointer to the .pfb file in the TeX PostScript header directory. So typical entries on DOS for a non-resident font are: psir StoneInformal Subject: RE: about fonts for TeX To: Dusan Prodanovic on the ELGYJ@UK.AC.ASTON, ph. 359-3611/ext.4538 Dear Sir --- You should find what you require in [TeX-Archive.Fonts.Ipa...] Philip Taylor, RHBNC. ------------------------------ Date: 10 Apr 92 11:24:56 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: about fonts for TeX ELGYJ@uk.ac.aston.mail writes: > I am looking for fonts containing English phonemic transcription symbols > (the symbols that describe English pronunciation sounds). I screened most > of the sub-directories of TEX machine, but I couldn't realize where they > could be. Please note that I am using LaTeX on PC with HPLJ 300 dpi > printer. > I think you want the IPA phonetic symbols. If so, the directory is as below. Get the TFM files and the GF300 files, then convert the GF files to PK format for your driver sebastian Directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.FONTS.IPA] 00FILES.TXT;1 00README.TEX;1 GF118.DIR;1 GF1270.DIR;1 GF300.DIR;1 IPASETUP.TEX;1 IPC.TEX;1 OLD-WSU.DIR;1 TFM.DIR;1 WSU.DIR;1 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 12:21:53 -0500 From: karl Subject: eplain 2.1 released I have released Eplain version 2.1. It is available by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z} ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.1.tar.Z You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'. btxmac.tex no longer unconditionally defines \\ (to nothing useful), in case some previous macro package has already defined it. I inadvertently left arrow.tex out of the original 2.0. It's in 2.1, so you can hack commutative diagrams to your heart's content. I've included a section in the documentation on software patents and user interface copyrights. For those of you who haven't heard of Eplain: it is a collection of macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 14:29:43 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: Update to STYles at FILESERV/Niord I'm truly sorry to those who have forwarded styles for me to add to our archives. Things have been sort of busy, so I've gotten a little behind. I will be sending out some notices within the next few days regarding updates which have been made, but are either undocumented or unannounced. This is my first set of announcements, so please bear with me. The first files of interest are two updates by David Carlisle to longtable.sty, and newarray.sty. longtable.sty defines the longtable environment, a multipage version of tabular. New in version 3: * The table does not have to start at the top of the page. * The documentation uses Mittelbach's doc.sty, so the documentation file longtable.tex is no longer needed. * Support for footnotes. * Many minor modifications. (One of the problems with using doc.sty is that it makes the author read his own code!) newarray.sty is an extension of Mittelbach's array.sty, which allows the user to easily specify new column types, and delimiters around the alignment. Also \extracolsep works with this style. Version 1 has a rather embarrassing bug in the treatment of @ and ! expressions. These were prematurely expanded inside an \edef, which may cause some rather spectacular errors. Please upgrade to Version 2 if you have a copy of Version 1. To retrieve either of these files, please include the commands: SENDME STY.LONGTABLE SENDME STY.NEWARRAY in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.edu (FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET). The second set of files were submitted by James Darrell McCauley . First is an update to endfloat.sty, which puts all LaTeX figures and tables on pages at the end of an article in individual sections (optionally labelled). In-text references can be made where the text of the table of figure should have been placed. This new version (1.2) provides internationalization in naming and verifies that the floats were used before a section is created for them. Include the command SENDME STY.ENDFLOAT in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this file. Second in Darrell's submissions are cea.sty and cea.bst. These are the unofficial LaTeX and BibTeX style files for Elsevier's ``Computers and Electronics in Agriculture'' submissions, respectively. To retrieve these, include in your mail message to FILESERV: SENDME STY.ENDFLOAT SENDME STY.CEA* The third file set of interest is Peter Ungar's cropmark.tex, a TeX macro to produce cropmarks in plain TeX. Include the command SENDME STY.CROPMARK_TEX in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this file. Finally, Darrel Hankerson submitted a clean-up of pagefoots.sty. This style numbers footnotes beginning on ``1'' for each page. By default, it uses the \fnsymbol to "number" the footnotes (this is controlled by the first line of \newfoots); and it gets rid of the usual footnote rule, and inserts more vertical space for footnotes. Include the command SENDME STY.PAGEFOOTS in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this file. - --George ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 12:48:21 -0100 From: P.Abbott@uk.ac.aston Subject: FLI files for EmTeX Michael Cole has kindly repackaged some files and the following are now available FX FLI files (3 disks) P6M FLI files (3 disks) The first disk in each set has a small utility (for DOS) to copy the files from a hard disc to the floppy in the tighter arrangement. The sets are available from Aston. Please send the required number of disks, together with the details of which set you require, plus a return label and return postage. Peter Tel 44 (0)21 359 5492 direct FAX 44 (0)21 359 6158 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 10:23:57 +0000 From: goncal%es.cnm.ssws1@uk.ac.uknet-relay Subject: Hyphenation patterns for Catalan ready for beta testing Hyphenation patterns for Catalan are ready for beta-testing. Anyone interested in testing them, please contact me. Specify if you are using 7 bit or 8 bit fonts. Goncal Badenes Centre Nacional de Microelectronica goncal@ssws1.cnm.es Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona goncal@cnmvax.uab.es E-08193 Bellaterra (Spain) Goncal.Badenes@lambada.oit.unc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 13:11:57 -0600 From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade" Subject: BoxedEPSF for OzteX 1.4 on FILESERV/Niord In <1992Apr8.005123.3348@ncsu.edu> (comp.text.tex, 8 Apr 92 00:51:23 GMT), Caglan M. Aras posted: > I am looking for an ftp site that has the BoxedEPSF macro for OzTeX 1.4. > Also, if it does not come with documentation, and if anyone has it, I would > greatly appreciate it if they could post or mail it. Thank you very much. I've been meaning to post this since I put the files in place, so now's the appropriate time. - --George BOXEDEPS -------- The BOXEDEPS package includes the files associated with Laurent Siebenmann's BoxedEPS, a highly portable package for insertion of EPSF (Encapsulated PostScript Files) in TeX documents. It is a fraction of a larger less portable package for several graphics norms on the Mac which was initially put together for the GUTenberg special year for graphics, 1989. Included in this package is a new file (BOXEDEPS.OZTEX) for OzTeX 1.4. OzTeX 1.4 interprets the Mac subdirectory delimiter ":" as a separator between keywords in the \special command. This breaks the use of subdirectories for included graphics files. You may retrieve the entire package of 3 files by including the command: SENDME BOXEDEPS in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.edu (FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET). A complete distribution of this version of BOXEDEPS requires all 3 files in this package, so this command is suggested. If, for some reason, you should only need one of these files, say BOXEDEPS.OZTEX, use the command: SENDME BOXEDEPS.OZTEX in your message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp retrieval, the files are available from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [.BOXEDEPS]. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOXEDEPS.DOC 63 Documentation (very extensive) BOXEDEPS.OZTEX 2 For OzTeX 1.4 BOXEDEPS.TEX 48 The driver/macro file Approximate total blocks in full BOXEDEPS package = 113 ------------------------------ Date: 07 Apr 92 10:58:17 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: dvips5.482 (beta test) copies of the latest dvips are now in the UK TeX Archive as [.src.unix-archives]dvips5482.tarz_uue [.drivers.dvi2ps.dvips.pc]dvips.boo the latter is a BOOed ZIP archive containing DOS executables (normal and 386) set up for use with emTeX. sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 09 Apr 92 10:38:01 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: tex `user surface' available fro DOS Thomas Esken's `user surface' for TeX under DOS has been added to the UK TeX Archive [tex-archive.utils.texsurface]texsurfa.boo this is a BOOed Zip archive with some self-uncompressing archives which explode into German and English versions of a DOS shell for running TeX, previewing, printing etc. If you pick this up, please observe the author's conditions of copying, and post a review to UK TeX saying what its like in practice Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 13:48:24 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: DVIPJ HP PaintJet driver in the UK TeX Archive Dave Love's DVIPJ driver for the HP PaintJet printer is now in the UK TeX Archive in [tex-archive.drivers.dvipj] The README follows. - --David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group) ========== This is a fairly dirty hack of Nelson Beebe's HP InkJet driver (dvijet) to support colour printing on the HP Paintjet referred to in TUGboat 11 (1990) p. 652--6; the LaTeX style file upon which the article is based should be available in the contributed styles collection. The driver assumes PaintJet transparency mode (which doesn't make a great deal of difference to paper output, I find). The output is a little faint with the materials we use, but OK for slides. You might also like to investigate the GNU Ghostscript backend for the PaintJet. v 2.1 will cope at least with dvips-generated PostScript, it seems, as long as it doesn't use virtual fonts, whereupon the spacing seems to go wrong. (v 2.1 doesn't have proper save and restore.) You will need Beebe's distribution, v 2.10. If you have the patch program use `patch Snail mail: | JANET: d.love@uk.ac.dl Dr. David Love, | modern BIT/INTERNET: d.love@dl.ac.uk SERC Daresbury Laboratory, | old UUCP: ...!ukc!daresbury!d.love Warrington WA4 4AD, | alternative BITNET: d.love%dl@ukacrl UK | alternative ARPA: d.love%dl@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 13:55:01 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: C2LaTeX translator in UK TeX Archive John Ramsdell's c2latex utility to translate C programs into LaTeX is now in the UK TeX Archive, in [tex-archive.utils.c2latex] comprising a Makefile, a C program and its embedded documentation, as well as the documentation extracted into a LaTeX source file. A description extracted from the LateX file follows. - --David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group) ========== \ctolatex provides simple support for literate programming in C\@. Given a C source file in which the comments have been written in \LaTeX{}, \ctolatex{} converts the C source file into a \LaTeX{} source file. 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