UKTeX Digest Friday, 1 May 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 17 ``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: LaTeX Re: LATEX Better \bar in TeX emTeX beta-test and ^C trapping tiff files into Tex RE: tiff files into Tex Re: RE: tiff files into Tex Hyphenation problem with EmTeX feynman - macros Re: feynman - macros Re: Graphical input to LaTeX? location of demacs for anonymous FTP Re: location of demacs for anonymous FTP {Announcements}: TUGboat 13 #1, April 1992 EuroTeX 92 call for papers reminder EuroTeX 92 announcement ukhyphen.tex for first public distribution TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord {Archive News}: tr2latex in UK TeX Archive PStricks package in UK TeX Archive OzTeX 1.42 in uk tex archive harvard styles updated in UK TeX Archive GhostScript V2.4.1 now available OzTeX V1.42 changes Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 30-APR-1992 23:10:42.49 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: Fri, 24 Apr 92 10:15:00 +0100 From: Max Calvani - Italy Subject: Re: LaTeX You can find in [.latex.general] all files needed to build Slitex. Max ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 08:59:54 +0000 From: Malcolm Clark Subject: Re: LATEX assuming no-one else has picked this up (i've just been on holiday for a few days). latex is a `macro' package which sits on top of TeX (approximately). although there is a diffeence between latex format for mac (i assume that's what you mean by apple) and ibm pc, that's not a real problem. the sources are identical, and provided you have a running TeX, the results are the same. lightning textures is a commercial product, available through texpert systems (o71-435-8983 or fax: 071 433 3576) in the uk. it only works on macintoshes (preferably with 2Mbyte or more). there is a windows version of TeX which is vaguely similar (available commercially in the us, see TUGboat), but not nearly as nice (i'm a mac user). there are pd versions of TeX for both pc and mac (and atari, and amiga, and...). malcolm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 15:07:02 -0500 From: Brett Presnell Subject: Better \bar in TeX I was going to send this directly to J%org Knappen but I couldn't get through. Would you please forward? - ------ This is something that I made up a long time ago. It's probably not the best solution to your problem, but it has served me well enough. If you get other responses, I'd appreciate it if you would forward them to me. I'd be interested in any better ways of doing this. % \newbox\df \def\barrer#1#2{ {\rlap {$#1 #2$} \setbox\df=\hbox{$#1 #2$} \hskip .2\wd\df \raise 1.15\ht\df \hbox{\vrule height.4pt width.8\wd\df depth0pt} } } \def\mybar#1{{\mathpalette\barrer#1}} \def\barhatter#1#2{ {\rlap {$#1 #2$} \setbox\df=\hbox{$#1 #2$} \hskip .2\wd\df \widehat{\raise 1.15\ht\df \hbox{\vrule height.4pt width.8\wd\df depth0pt}} } } \def\mybarhat#1{{\mathpalette\barhatter#1}} % Now try $\mybar\Psi$ and $\mybarhat\Psi$. - --- Brett Presnell presnell@stat.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 14:02:59 +0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: emTeX beta-test and ^C trapping I have been using emTeX' beta-test TeX386 for some time without any problems except for the following. I find it impossible to reliably interrupt with ^C as usually TeX386 halts without any message apart from "^C". The DVI file is then unusable, since use of DVISCR gives the error message *** Fatal error 2102: DVI file corrupted (DVI file ended prematurely) This halting of TeX386 is not, however, always what happens. I could not reproduce it on a small test file, yet on a larger file it almost always happened. I am using a Viglen SL3sx PC which has 640k memory plus 384k extended memory. I have device HIMEM and also NDOSEDIT resident in memory. Mike Piff ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 15:50:39 +0000 From: Hania Allen Subject: tiff files into Tex Is it possible to import TIFF files directly into TeX, without first converting the file to PostScript? Replies to me directly, please. Thanks Hania Allen (H.Allen@uk.ac.st-andrews) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 16:46:16 +0000 From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} Subject: RE: tiff files into Tex In a message to UKTeX of Tue, 28 Apr 92 15:50:39 BST, Hania Allen wrote: > Is it possible to import TIFF files directly into TeX, without > first converting the file to PostScript? I have a sort-of experimental program that can convert some types of TIFF files; although still only experimental, it *has* been in the TeX Archiev at Aston for nearly a year now. It can handle line images, which it converts into a Sixels file; the latter can be printed directly on a number of DEC printers and terminals, and notably can by included (through \special) in TeX output processed by my DVI-to-LN03 driver. But more usefully, if the TIFF image is grayscale, the program generates a file of TeX commands for typesetting the image through use of a grayscale font: this is therefore truly device independent, although may cause problems (just through the sheer megacharacters/page) under non-BIG implementations of TeX. The program is written in WEB, and could be extended fairly readily: would you be interested in so doing? 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: Thu, 30 Apr 92 08:55:37 +0000 From: Adrian F Clark Subject: Re: RE: tiff files into Tex Brian writes: > But more usefully, if the TIFF image is grayscale, the program generates > a file of TeX commands for typesetting the image through use of a > grayscale font: this is therefore truly device independent, although may > cause problems (just through the sheer megacharacters/page) under > non-BIG implementations of TeX. Unless the `greyscale' (I presume you mean halftone) font you're using is different from that developed by Knuth, you'll find that it is resolution-dependent; and so the size at which an image appears in a document differs with the resolution. That's why I have had to give up the halftone font approach (which was much more aestetically satisfying and doesn't suffer from many of the problems found in conventional halftoning algorithms) in favour of \specials: with specials, I can guarantee that the image comes out the same size on a Linotronic as on my PS printers. ..Adrian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 08:37:52 +0100 From: lmdmhi%se.ericsson.ludvig@uk.ac.uknet-relay Subject: Hyphenation problem with EmTeX Hello, I am having some trouble setting up a DANISH format for EmTeX. I have a set of danish hyphenation patterns, but the problem is that they contain the `special' danish (and norwegian) characters \ae, \o and \aa (which the PC can display, using code page 850/865). Appearently, EmTeX won't allow these characters in the hyphenation tables. I have tried catcode'ing them, which works just fine with SBTeX. Any hints? /morten ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 15:47:16 +0600 From: Peter-Klaus Schilling Subject: feynman - macros when trying to ftp the FEYNMAN package from the UK TeX Archive [tex-archive.latex.contrib.feynman] and [.doc] i got the impression that most of the files are empty or incomplete. what did i do wrong? regards, peter ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 92 06:45:55 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: feynman - macros Peter-Klaus Schilling writes: > when trying to ftp the FEYNMAN package from the UK TeX Archive > [tex-archive.latex.contrib.feynman] and [.doc] > i got the impression that most of the files are empty or incomplete. > what did i do wrong? nothing. for some reason my upload failed. i can see no reason why at all. all the files are empty. now I have to find out how to get it back! s ------------------------------ Date: 29 Apr 92 14:30:45 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: Graphical input to LaTeX? Don Ward writes: > > I'm writing a document in which I would like to insert several computer > produced graphs. Can anybody suggest a suitable way of producing smooth > interpolated curves from points, adding axes and inserting it into a > LaTeX document (either as a figure environment or as postscript)? > > The program to produce the points is yet to be written, so the input format > to the graph tool can be whatever is required. three possibilities: a) use a common-or-garden spreadsheet package or other similar package. many of them do what you want b) look at `gnuplot'. this reads data and generates many sorts of graphs, in various formats including LaTeX `picture', PicTeX, PS etc c) look at PiCTeX. the result will be pure TeX, but will need a big TeX to run it Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 92 10:52:06 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: location of demacs for anonymous FTP Someone asked where GnuEmacs for anonymous FTP could be found. We do not keep it in the UK TeX Archive, but lost of sites have it. try Host ftp.uu.net Location: /systems/msdos/simtel20 DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x 512 Apr 12 23:50 demacs Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 17:00:04 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: location of demacs for anonymous FTP In message 00001018 of 30 Apr 92 12:11:03 GMT, spqr@uk.ac.york.minster said: > Someone asked where GnuEmacs for anonymous FTP could be found. We > do not keep it in the UK TeX Archive, but lost of sites have it. > try > Host ftp.uu.net > > Location: /systems/msdos/simtel20 > DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x 512 Apr 12 23:50 demacs For UK users, it's MUCH better to use the Imperial archive, which shadows simtel20. demacs is in doc.ic.ac.uk:micros/ibmpc/simtel20/demacs/ AND this is accessible via JANET NIFTP, for the impoverished. As Imperial shadows sumex.stanford.edu (Info-Mac), terminator.umich.edu (Atari + others), wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (DOS + others), it's always worth looking there first. - --Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 23:08:06 -0500 From: bbeeton Subject: TUGboat 13 #1, April 1992 We heard today from the printer that they have received the camera copy for TUGboat 13 #1. The expected mailing date is May 12. Attached is the table of contents for this issue. -- bb -------------------- Contents, TUGboat 13, No. 1, April 1992 General Delivery Malcolm Clark Prez says 5 Nelson H. F. Beebe President's introduction 6 Barbara Beeton Editorial comments 10 Samuel B. Whidden, 1930--1991 11 Software Graham Asher Inside Type & Set 13 Philology Claudio Beccari Computer Aided Hyphenation for Italian and Modern Latin 23 Fonts Sebastian Rahtz Invisibility using virtual fonts 34 Toby Thain Packing Metafonts into PostScript 36 C. Mylonas and R. Whitney Modern Greek with adjunct fonts 39 Frank Mittelbach Comments on ``Filenames for Fonts'' (\TUGboat 11 #4) 51 Output Devices TUG DVI Driver Standards Committee DVI driver standard, level 0 54 Resources Victor Eijkhout New books on TeX 57 Nico Poppelier New books on LaTeX 58 Questions Alan Hoenig Just plain Q & A: partitioned matrices and doublespacing 60 Tutorials L. Siebenmann Elementary text processing and parsing in \TeX -- the appreciation of tokens 62 Macros Victor Eijkhout The bag of tricks 74 Victor Eijkhout Erratum: Oral TeX (TUGboat 12 #2, pp. 272-276) 75 Jonathan Fine Some basic control macros for TeX 75 Victor Eijkhout and Ron Sommeling Self-replicating macros 84 Piet Tutelaers A font and a style for typesetting chess using LaTeX or TeX 85 Kees van der Laan Tower of Hanoi, revisited 91 LaTeX Jackie Damrau The LaTeX column 94 Harold Thimbleby Erratum: ``See also'' indexing with Makeindex (TUGboat 12 #2, p. 290) 95 Frank Mittelbach and Chris Rowley LaTeX 2.09 --> LaTeX3 96 Abstracts Cahiers GUTenberg #9 and #10-11 101 News & Announcements Calendar 106 EuroTeX'92, Prague, 14--18 September 1992 107 Late-Breaking News Barbara Beeton Production notes 108 Coming next issue 109 TUG Business Institutional members 110 Forms TUG membership application 112 Advertisements Index of advertisers 126 TeX consulting and production services 127 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 10:59:39 +0700 From: Jiri Zlatuska Subject: EuroTeX 92 call for papers reminder On behalf of the EuroTeX 92 (Prague, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 14--18) organizers, I would like to remind you the 2-page abstract submittion deadline *** May 1, 1992 *** The e-mail address for sending the abstracts is 'zlatuska@cspuni12.bitnet' We would especially like to solicitate papers related to future of TeX, national variants and standardization, non-standard applications, and the use of TeX for small or newly emerging companies. Papers on any other topic related to TeX are welcome, as well. We hope that the first EuroTeX to be held in the former 'Eastern' part of Europe will provide important possibility for meeting new colleagues and enthusiasts working with TeX/LaTeX/AMSTeX/..., and having become addicts to it, as well as people wanting to learn more about it's use both within and outside the academia. The success of the meeting depends on the papers from you, so please if you have anything worth communicating to your coleagues at this kind of meeting, please DO SUBMIT, and contribute to the success of this event. Ask also you colleagues around you in case they missed the announcement. Besides of its TeXnical contents, the organizing committee is making their best for arranging interesting stay in the old city of Prague, on financial terms suitable even for very low budget. You wouldn't be able to come to Prague as turists for the extremely low price prepared by the organizers within the premises of Charles University, the oldest university in Central Europe. Once again, please do consider submitting you contribution (abstracts by May 1, or contact me if you have problems with meeting this deadline). You can contribute both to the success of EuroTeX 92, and to the success of TeX in our part of the world. Jiri Zlatuska Institute of Computer Science, U of Brno, CS ============== The original conference announcement follows below ============= X-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 12:57:59 CET X-From: Jiri Vesely Subject: EuroTeX 92 announcement Dear TeXfriends, EuroTeX 92 is organized by CSTUG in collaboration with Charles University and Czech Technical University under the auspices of both Rectors. It takes place in Prague on 14 September 1992 --- 18 September 1992. (Please, make a note in your diary.) As standard accommodation we offer a relatively modern student hostel Kajetanka. We plan to organize for every morning the transfer by bus to Czech Technical University where the programme will be held (it is within some 25 minutes walk from Kajetanka). Lunch and dinner will be served at the conference site. We intend to arrange an opening party on Monday evening, a concert in a historical hall typical of Prague on 16 September 1992, and some other events. To those who are coming during Monday morning we would like to offer a sightseeing tour on Monday afternoon. To keep things within everybody's budget, we offer the main programme as a package: whole programme from Monday to Friday morning (accommodation in double rooms, full pension from Tuesday to Thursday, opening party on Monday evening, concert, breakfast on Friday, conference fee and proceedings) for about 300 DM. Those who would prefer a single room should pay extra 60 DM. (Payment details, account numbers, etc., will be sent to you later.) For accompanying persons, a special programme will be organized including visits to galleries, places of interest, etc. For *additional* 50 DM a day, a limited number of participants may stay on till Sunday (one or two days more) either for tutorials or just to enjoy meeting friends and good beer in some of the pubs Good Soldier Svejk would visit. Currency exchange rates: 1 DM is about 18 CSK (Czechoslovak krown), USD 1 is about 28 CSK You can exchange within Czechoslovakia without any problem/obligation, no visa is required for most countries (all of Europe and Nothern America) Why come to EuroTeX 92 ? Except for invited talks of leading specialists you will have a chance to listen lectures on different TeX applications and meet TeX friends from many countries. The meeting is the first offering really extensive contacts with people from former East European countries ("from behind the iron curtain" -- can you still remember that?). It takes place in the Golden Heart of Europe -- Prague, one of the nicest capitals in Europe. You can visit it for a surprisingly low price: since we would like to make EuroTeX 92 in Prague accessible to the majority of TeXfans from all over Europe, we arrange it on a modest but good level. We would like to encourage people to submit papers for EuroTeX 92. Suggested topics of special interest include the following themes: - -- Quo vadis, TeX? - -- National versions and standardization - -- Non-standard applications - -- The use of TeX for small/newly emerging enterprises The above list is by no means complete, and interesting contributions relevant to TeX are sought. Important dates for submitting paper proposals: - -- 1 May 1992: two-page (max.) abstract to be sent to the address of the Programme Committee chairman: Jiri Zlatuska Masaryk University Buresova 20 601 77 Brno Czechoslovakia e-mail: zlatuska@cspuni12.bitnet - -- 1 June 1992: acceptance/rejection announcement to the author - -- 10 July camera-ready papers due to arrive to the Programme Committee chairman EuroTeX 92 Programme Committee: Peter Abbott Jacques Andre Jana Chlebikova Bernard Gaulle Karel Horak Joachim Lammarsche Erich Neuwirth Petr Novak Stefan Porubsky Phillip Taylor Jiri Vesely Jiri Zlatuska Those who are interested in taking part are kindly asked to fill in the following form and send it via e-mail to the address: eurotex at cspguk11.bitnet - ------------------------ cut here -------------------------- I intend to take part in EuroTeX 92, Prague (14.-18.9.1992) name: userid: node: Please send a more detailed information on EuroTeX to the following e-mail address (please, fill in): - ------------------------------------------------------------ (or: print the following form, fill in using block letters, and send to the address: CS TeX --- EUROTEX 92 Mathematical Institute Sokolovska 83 186 00 PRAHA 8 - Karlin Czechoslovakia ************************************************* * * * Name: ..................................... * * Institution: .............................. * * Position: ................................. * * Address (business or home - circle one): * * ........................................... * * ........................................... * * ........................................... * * ........................................... * * * * I intend to visit EuroTeX 92 in Prague * * (September 14. -- 18.(20.),1992) * * * * ........................................... * * (Signature) * * * ************************************************* On behalf of organizers: Karel Horak Jiri Vesely Jiri Zlatuska ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 92 10:42:16 +0000 From: ucgadkw@uk.ac.ucl (Dominik Wujastyk) Subject: ukhyphen.tex for first public distribution % File: ukhyphen.tex % TeX hyphenation patterns for UK English [NOT TO BE CHANGED IN ANY WAY!] % Version 1.0. Released 17 April 1992. % % Created by Dominik Wujastyk and Graham Toal using Frank Liang's PATGEN 1.0. % Like the US patterns, these UK patterns correctly hyphenate about 90% of % the words in the input list, and produce no hyphens not in the list % (see TeXbook pp. 451--2). % % These patterns are based on a file of 114925 British-hyphenated words % generously made available to Dominik Wujastyk by Oxford University Press. % This list of words is copyright to the OUP and may not be redistributed. % The hyphenation break points in the words in the abovementioned file is % also copyright to the OUP. % % We are very grateful to Oxford University Press for allowing us to use % their list of hyphenated words to produce the following TeX hyphenation % patterns. This file of hyphenation patterns may be freely distributed. % % These patterns require a value of about 14000 for TeX's pattern memory size. % { The UK English hyphenation patterns are stored in the UK TeX Archive in [tex-archive.langs.english]ukhyphen.tex --Ed.} ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 16:27:34 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord In (comp.text.tex, 27 Apr 92 15:40:57 GMT), krischan@veilchen.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) posted: > This is the new version 2.2 of the troff to LaTeX converter tr2latex. It > is a compressed tar archive. Follow steps 1 through 6 to unpack it. Christian's obviously been busy! I caught this while going through the ctt-Digest receipts and it has been removed from that distribution (and so noted). The changes between version 2.2 and 2.1 (announced and installed last week) are listed as follows: # Revision 2.2 1992/04/27 15:13:51 Christian_Engel # - Fixed a bug in flip_twice I have brought in with revision 1.02 but didn't # notice earlier. It lead to wrong translation of nested flipping math # commands like ``a under hat''. # Bug reported by Richard Walker . # - Some modifications to calm down some strange warnings on strange # compilers reported from the net # - Fixed bug in getopts: now input of stdin by pure command line argument `-' # works properly. # - Fixed bug in main: multiple command line arguments work properly now. To retrieve the new version, include the command: SENDME TR2LATEX in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp users of Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), a compressed U*ix tar file, a VMS backup saveset, and a DOS-compatible ZIP file reside in the directory [.TR2LATEX.FTP] as TR2LATEX-2_2.TAR_Z, *.BCK, and *.ZIP, respectively. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: 29 Apr 92 14:08:52 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: tr2latex in UK TeX Archive I have put the latest (April 27th, 2.2) version of tr2latex (troff to LaTeX converter) into [tex-archive.utils.tr2latex] in the UK TeX Archive. Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 01 May 92 07:59:10 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: PStricks package in UK TeX Archive I have put a copy of Timothy van Zandt's `pstricks' package in the UK TeX Archive (Internet tex.ac.uk [134.151.40.18], JANET uk.ac.tex) in [tex-archive.pstricks] I append the readme file Sebastian Rahtz *********************************************************************** **** "readme" file for pstricks package, v0.9, 92/04/28 **** *********************************************************************** COPYRIGHT 1992, by Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@Princeton.EDU DESCRIPTION: pstricks.tex is a collection of PostScript macros that is compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX , LaTeX and AmS-LaTeX. Included are macros for color, graphics, rotation and overlays. It has several special features: * There is a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with a flexible interface and with color support. All lines and outlines can be solid, dotted or dashed. Lines and curves can have arrowheads, t-bars, brackets or circles on the ends. Closed regions can be filled with solid colors, lines or crosshatch. * With nested rotations, you can specify rotations with respect to the coordinate system before the previous rotations. For example, this lets you put a piece of text right side up even though it is inside a rotated structure. * There is "\dbox" which lets you use things analogous to \hfill and \hrulefill, but in any direction. * There is a powerful loop macro that is useful for making pictures. * There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables. * There are rotation macros that create a box with the appropriate dimensions, for any angle of rotation. FILES: Inputs: pstricks.tex : The main macro file. pstricks.sty : The same as pstricks.tex, but the .sty extension. pstricks.con : The configuration file for pstricks.tex. Documentation: pst-user.ps : User's Guide. pst-code.dvi : Documented Code. Sources: pstricks.doc : Documentation and code for pstricks.tex. pst-code.tex : For typesetting pstricks.doc. pst-user.tex : User's Guide. tvz-hax.sty : Macros for printing documentation. Other: pstricks.pro : A PostScript prologue (optional). pst-read.me : This file. GETTING STARTED: 1. Put the first three files in a directory where your TeX looks for inputs. 2. Put the file pstricks.pro where you dvi-to-ps driver looks for header files, if it supports such inclusion. E.g., dvips might look in /usr/lib/tex/ps. You can also use pstricks.tex without the header file. However, using the header file is more efficient. 3. Print pst-user.ps, which is the User's Guide for pstricks.tex. (Printing pst-code.dvi, which is the documented code and which is very long, is optional.) 4. Follow the instructions in the configuration file, pstricks.con. You probably do not have to change anything if you are using Rokicki's dvips, although you still have to decide whether or not to use the header file. PROBLEMS PRINTING THE DOCUMENTATION pst-user.ps and pst-code.dvi are in 2-up format, with a rule dividing the pages. This rule is reported to cause problems when using dvips and an HP LaserJet III, with HP's PostScript cartridge (???). If this affects you, rerun the documentation sources (pst-user.tex and/or pst-code.tex) without the \twoup command or with \twoupHPIIIPS. See the source files for details. PATCH FOR SUN'S PAGEVIEW: Sun's Pageview, with OpenWindows 2.0, does integer arithmetic. To accomodate this, put the line \def\sunpatch{} at the beginning of the configuration file pstricks.con or before inputting pstricks.tex. LaTeX users can put this line before the \documentstyle command. This is marginally detrimental for other PostScript interpreters. SOURCES: The file pstricks.doc files contains the documentation and code, using Frank Mittelbach's doc system. The documentation for pstricks.tex can be typeset by running LaTeX on pst-user.tex and pst-code.tex. pstricks.tex can be obtained by running LaTeX on Mittelbach's docstrip.tex, and giving the name pstricks when prompted for the input file. However, there is no need to do either of these things since the typeset documentation and stripped style files are distributed with the pstricks package. PSTricks is a large package. This should not be a problem on most systems, but if you need to divide the package, see the first section of the Documented Code. If you make changes to pstricks.tex, you may need to generate a new PostScript header file. See the configuration file for instructions. PSTRICKS.TEX AND SEMINAR.STY The PSTricks package grew out of macros originally written for the Seminar package. seminar.sty is a LaTeX style for slides and notes. seminar.sty, combined with pstricks.tex and your favorite macros for inclusion of EPS files make a complete TeX presentation software package. PSTricks v0.9 works with seminar.sty version 0.93, and maybe later versions as well. You can probably get the Seminar package from wherever you got PSTricks (but not before May 5, 1992). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: pstricks.tex borrows some algorithms from PiCTeX, by Michael Wichura. The author is thankful to Frank Mittelbach for his documentation system. COPYING: Copying of part or all of any file in the pstricks package is allowed under the following conditions only: (1) You may freely distribute unchanged copies of the files. Please include the documentation when you do so. (2) You may modify a renamed copy of any file, but only for personal use or use within an organization. (3) You may copy fragments from the files, for personal use or for use in a macro package for distribution, as long as credit is given where credit is due. You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of these files or modified versions or fragments thereof, except for a nominal charge for copying etc. BUGS: Too many to list, and who knows what they are anyway. These files are all preliminary and unstable. Not responsible for head injuries. Please report bugs, enhancements and other comments, especially positive or negative experiences with DVI-to-PS converters and previewers, to Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@Princeton.edu. Thanks. CHANGES: Policy: These macros are preliminary, but it is unlikely that there will be future incompatible changes to the user interface. v.9: Much internal code was changed, and additional features were added. The syntax of \dline has changed several times. With \multido, the backslash should now be included with variable names in the variable declarations. See the User's Guide for details. ------------------------------ Date: 01 May 92 08:44:10 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: OzTeX 1.42 in uk tex archive I have placed a copy of OzTeX 1.42 in [tex-archive.mac.oztex142] note that this is for people who already have .PK files (available from earlier releases of OzTeX) I'm sorry, I have no idea what the changes from 1.141 to 1.42 are! { See Peter's message below --Ed.} Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 01 May 92 09:10:57 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: harvard styles updated in UK TeX Archive I have updated the copies of the LaTeX style files and BibTeX styles in [tex-archive.latex.contrib.harvard] to current versions from the author (corrections to harvard.sty to cope with NFSS were noted, for instance). Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 92 10:24:51 From: CHAA006@uk.ac.tex Subject: GhostScript V2.4.1 now available GhostScript V2.4.1 is now available in the TeX archive: Philip Taylor, RHBNC. - -------- Directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.G-SCRIPT.GS-241] GS-241.ZIP;1 7031/7032 1-MAY-1992 10:17:30.33 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 92 12:20:48 -0100 From: p.abbott@uk.ac.aston Subject: OzTeX V1.42 changes Here are the changes Changes to OzTeX 1.41 ===================== A few problems have been fixed. \special images will now be previewed at the correct size on monitors with resolutions other than 72dpi (a scaling bug caused the bitmaps to appear too small). The printed images will also be the correct size. The total size of the application stack is guaranteed to be >= 16,000 bytes. This should avoid any possibility of a stack overflow bomb on older Macs. The minimum application memory has been bumped up from 870K to 880K. The "About Box" now displays the following statistics: - the available amount of stack space (the initial value should never change). - the available amount of heap memory. - the largest contiguous amount of heap memory. All numbers are in bytes. The latest versions of BoxedEPS.* have been included. If the BoundingBox comment in an EPSF file is followed by real numbers then OzTeX silently truncates them. OzTeX tolerates small differences in the size of an EPSF file's BoundingBox and its corresponding PICT. A small change has been made to try and avoid a problem finding OzTeX's PDEF resource. A few minor changes have been made to the OzTeX User Guide; if you already have version 1.41 then it isn't worth printing off a new copy. 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