UKTeX Digest Wednesday, 3 Jun 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 19 ``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}: LaTeX query Re: LaTeX query Re: Re: Spelling checkers Re: Spelling checkers Re: page number on which an article ends? page number on which an article ends? Re: OzTeX 1.4.2 Current version of PLAIN.TEX in the archive ? Re: KD (K.J. Dryllerakis) Greek LaTeX and fonts Importing Files Re: Importing Graphics Files OzTeX query Re: OzTeX query How does one acquire OzTex? document styles Re: document styles Creating format files on HP Formatting Smalltalk Source Code {Announcements}: Future developments of TeX modes.mf 0.10 available sauter parameter files version 1.3 available web2c 5.851c available {Archive News}: `seminar' package release new version of rotating package in UK TeX Archive dvips5.487 in archive updates in uk tex archive emtex bonus disks in uk tex archive upgrades to Unix Web2c package, eplain, sauter, lucida modes.mf version 1.10 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 E D I T O R ' S N O T E Apologies for the non-appearance of UKTeX during my absence in the USA on my honeymoon during the last three weeks. Now that I'm back (sigh), this is an extra issue to help clear the backlog of articles. --Ed. ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 May 92 16:33:28 +0700 From: rsm@castle.ed.ac.uk Subject: LaTeX query I hear from Dave Ingles at lancs.pdsoft that Aston carries a Latex archive. I have succeeded in installing the basic EMTEX version for the IBM PC on my personal machine but I also need drivers such as DVIPS and any other executable which will allow me to include the various graphics files that I require for my thesis. I would be gratefull if you could inform me of the method of gaining ac cess to the IBM PC LATEX archive and any usefull utilities that I may require for it. Yours STEVE MOWBRAY (rsm@ed.ee or rsm@ed.castle) ------------------------------ Date: 11 May 92 10:19:30 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: LaTeX query > I have succeeded in installing the basic EMTEX version for the IBM > PC on my personal machine but I also need drivers such as DVIPS and > any other executable which will allow me to include the various > graphics files that I require for my thesis. I would be gratefull > if you could inform me of the method of gaining access to the IBM > PC LATEX archive and any usefull utilities that I may require for please use JANET file transfer or Internet-style ftp to, respectively, uk.ac.tex or tex.ac.uk (134.151.40.18), and fetch material from Aston. You can fetch a top level directory by asking for 00directory.list, or you can log in interactively (as user public, password public) and browse around. I recommend you pick up the contents of [TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.DVI2PS.DVIPS] (this is a VMS machine), and proceed from there. If you dont have a C compiler, you will find DOS executables in the [.pc] subdirectory, in a boo-encoded ZIP archive. what you need for graphics files depends on how you generate them. if you can convert them to encapsulated PostScript, that would be best. the documentation for dvips describes how to pull them in. Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 92 11:30:34 +0000 From: Adrian F Clark Subject: Re: Re: Spelling checkers Sebastian writes: > `ispell' does an excellent job under Unix, including integration with > emacs. it has British dictionaries in recent versions Any idea where I can get British dictionaries from? But I was really looking for a `batch' system rather than a word-at-a-time one; or can I run ispell in batch mode? ..Adrian ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 10:44:00 +0000 From: Ian Dunkin Subject: Re: Spelling checkers > Has anyone out there a spelling checker, preferably compatible to the > Unix one, that does what I need? If you're prepared to part with (a small amount of) money there's a very nice spelling checker put out by the UK Atomic Energy Authority. It copes sensibly with US and/or UK spellings, has TeX/LaTeX dictionaries (so you can check and correct spelling in raw TeX source), and much much more. I use it on Prime/Primos, Unix, and Vax/VMS systems and like it a lot. And I have no involvment with the UKAEA. The chap to speak to is.. Mr Timothy Field, Customer Services Manager, CFDS, Building 8, Harwell Laboratory, Oxon OX11 0RA, United Kingdom. Tel (+44) 0235-432956 Fax (+44) 0235-436671 Note, though, that it is *not* compatible with Unix spell.. in the same way that fillet is not compatible with spam. I. - - Ian Dunkin, GGR. = imd1707@uk0x08.ggr.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 92 12:10:41 +0000 From: Adrian F Clark Subject: Re: page number on which an article ends? Rainer writes: > What about putting a \label on the last page of an article, and using > \pageref to access the page number? Stupid me! Of course it does; so the problem reduces to automagically generating unique \labels. The attached (plain-in-La)TeX code defines an {article} environment that fits the bill. The first page of the {article} environment is referred to by \pageref{bart:} and the last page of the corresponding article by \pageref{eart:}. There is probably a more elegant way of doing this; I leave it as an exercise for the interested reader. :-} \documentstyle{article} \newcount\beginseccounter \beginseccounter=0 \def\beginsection{\global\advance\beginseccounter by 1\relax \protect\label{bart:\number\beginseccounter}} \newcount\endseccounter \endseccounter=0 \def\endsection{\global\advance\endseccounter by 1\relax \protect\label{eart:\number\endseccounter}} \newenvironment{article}{\beginsection}{\endsection} \begin{document} \section{First section} \begin{article} Words, words, and more words. \end{article} \newpage \section{Second section} \begin{article} This section appears on pages \pageref{bart:2}--\pageref{eart:2}. The first section was on pages \pageref{bart:1}--\pageref{eart:1}. \end{article} \end{document} Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900 BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 92 13:48:31 +0100 From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Subject: page number on which an article ends? Rainer says Adrian writes: The first page of an article is obviously pretty easy: it's the current page number; but what about the LAST page of an article? I presume I'll have to do it by writing something into the AUX file; but is there any machinery already inside LaTeX to make this easier? What about putting a \label on the last page of an article, and using \pageref to access the page number? Now that is fine for a one-shot case, but if you are writing a style that regularly needs this feature, below is a solution that automates this suggestion. \documentstyle{article} \makeatletter \let\lp@enddocument\enddocument \def\enddocument{\label{LastPage}\lp@enddocument} \makeatother \begin{document} Now you can just say ``this document ends on page \pageref{LastPage}''. I used to be frustrated by the apparent lack of hooks in LaTeX. But it is clear that using the above technique you can insert you own in many different places. - - Harald Hanche-Olsen +47-7-593525 Division of Mathematical Sciences The Norwegian Institute of Technology N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 May 92 14:34:58 +0000 From: sw@uk.co.network-analysis-ltd Subject: Re: OzTeX 1.4.2 > > Have any comments been received about this file? I've tried to dehex it > > several times now with fresh copies ftp'ed from the archive and every time > > I get a disk error with the message "Unexpected EOF" -- if I remember this > > was the problm with the 1.4 distribution. Inputs/Formats are okay. The last line appaers to be missing (proper HQX files have a trailing ":"). If you ignore the error when unhexing the file and try to extract files from the archive, you will find that the SigmaEdit folder is corrupt. But that's OK since you kept your copy from 1.4.1, didn't you? The remaining files in the Aston OzTeX directory still have file attributes "fixed length sequential". However, I've discovered that you can transfer them as binary files to a Unix system because they appear to have Unix EOL delimiters in them (ie LFs). Sak Wathanasin Network Analysis Limited 178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry CV3 6BX, UK uucp: ...!uknet!nan!sw Phone: (+44) 203 419996 AppleLink: NAN.LTD Internet: sw@network-analysis-ltd.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 11:54:47 +0700 From: Peter Eckel 11-May-1992 1151 Subject: Current version of PLAIN.TEX in the archive ? Hello, In the announcements of the latest LATEX updates both in TeXhax and UKTeX Rainer Schoepf mentiones that Don Knuth updated PLAIN.TEX recently. Is the version 3.0 of PLAIN.TEX that I found in the Aston archive this updated version, or where can I find it ? I can't tell it looking at the file, because there is only the version number but no revision date. Kind regards, Peter ------------------------------ Date: 11 May 92 09:05:42 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: KD (K.J. Dryllerakis) Greek LaTeX and fonts Goossens Michel writes: > > I recently tried to install the KD Greek system (developed by K.J. > Dryllerakis of Imperial College, UK), but the font directory MFINPUT, > referred to in the READ.ME file and needed to use his system, which > refers to those fonts is not present on the archive, while the other restored today, with many apologies. Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 92 13:24:01 +0000 From: "D." Jenkins Subject: Importing Files Can advise me as to whether it is possible to import graphics files such as Harvard Graphics charts or Statgraphics charts into LaTex? If this is possible can you let me know how. Thanks in advance David Jenkins ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 12:50:58 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: Importing Graphics Files D. Jenkins writes: > > Are you able to advise as to whether or not it is possible to import > graphics files such as Harvard Graphics charts or Statgraphics charts. > it depends on what driver you are using to print TeX files. without knowing that, its not possible to advise you s ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 92 14:12:16 +0000 From: Peter Abbott Subject: OzTeX query - ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: @sys.csd.le.ac.uk,@[143.210.72.199]:vdm@le.ac.uk Return-Path: <@sys.csd.le.ac.uk,@[143.210.72.199]:vdm@le.ac.uk> Received: from sys.csd.le.ac.uk by email.aston.ac.uk via Aston University Mail Relay with NIFTP (PP) id <03514-0@email.aston.ac.uk>; Fri, 8 May 1992 13:21:26 +0100 Message-Id: <726.9205081323@sys.csd.le.ac.uk> Via: [143.210.72.199] (djamac); Fri, 8 May 92 13:23:08 GMT X-Date: Fri, 8 May 1992 12:32:34 +0000 To: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk X-From: vdm@le.ac.uk I have made several attempts to download the OzTeX 1.42 hqx file (OZTEX142.SIT_HQX) and I think your file at ASTON is corrupt! (other things down-load correctly can be unbinhexed and unstuffed - that file produces an error in stuffit and produces a corrupted stuffit directory) regards derek andrews p.s. what chance a MegaOzTeX? - I do a lot of work with TeX and need a very very big Tex? X-From: Derek Andrews Email: JANET : derek@uk.ac.le.csd.sys UUCP : vdm@uk.ac.le.vax Smail: Department of Computing Studies University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH UK Tel: (+44) 533 523401 Fax: (+44) 533 523604 - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 13:13:26 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: OzTeX query > I have made several attempts to download > the OzTeX 1.42 hqx file (OZTEX142.SIT_HQX) > and I think your file at ASTON is corrupt! > (other things down-load correctly can > be unbinhexed and unstuffed - that file produces > an error in stuffit and produces a corrupted > stuffit directory) i hate this cranky Mac sit/hqx stuff and even crankier VMS file formats! I have just tried a new approach, downloading from Chicago direct to Aston. try this one and see if it works... > p.s. what chance a MegaOzTeX? - I do a lot of work > with TeX and need a very very big Tex? one is tempted to say `buy a real computer' but that would be unfair. how big is big? whats the application that needs "very very big"? sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 92 15:40:29 +0000 From: A.J.George Nurser Subject: How does one acquire OzTex? I would like to acquire the Latex implementation for the MacIntosh, OzTex. I am at a UNIX site of networked SUN's, with MAcs used as terminals and for word processing. The SUN network is on JANET, so I am hoping to be able to bring OzTex from the Aston archive across onto the SUNs and then ftp it onto the Mac. 1)Is this possible/sensible? - we can do anonymous ftp's, hhcp's but are not ye t on JIPS. 2)What are the files that we would need to copy from the TEx archive? 3)Which file explains how the Mac implementation works? Sorry to bother you with these rather elementary questions. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 92 15:53:21 +0000 From: HUNT TJ MR Subject: document styles I have to do a write a short document for an experiment and need (i.e. have been asked by the supervisor) to have double line spacing. That's the only difference from the article style that I need. How can I do it? ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 92 07:04:52 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: document styles HUNT TJ MR writes: > I have to do a write a short document for an experiment and need > (i.e. have been asked by the supervisor) to have double line > spacing. That's the only difference from the article style that I > need. How can I do it? style option `doublespace' will do what you want. from uk.ac.tex in [tex-archive.latex.contrib] sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 92 14:57:00 +0000 From: "Ian Ellery " Subject: Creating format files on HP Someone at UEA is trying to compile TeX etc on an HP Un*x machine. Follwing a sucessful 'make', then 'make install' he tried to 'make formats'. This is the part that uses initex to create the .fmt files. However, nothing happens - he ends up seemingly in TeX, with a * prompt, but with no response: - --------------------------------------------- # make formats This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (INITEX) (/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/plain.tex) * - ---------------------------------------------- Trying to dump manually fails as does \bye or anything. Eventually terminate with a ^C. - ------------------------------------------------ *\dump *\bye * ! Emergency stop. <*> \bye No pages of output. Transcript written on plain.log. - -------------------------------------------------- The file /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/plain.tex exists and seems OK. I did the same installation on a SUN and had no problems. On the SUN, after the plain.tex filename, a lot of information messages were displayed, so it seems as if plain.tex is not being read - but why not? Any help gratefully received, Ian Ellery, i.ellery@uea ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 92 23:04:23 +0000 From: Barry Prescott Subject: Formatting Smalltalk Source Code I want to format smalltalk protocol that I have hacked out of a smalltalk file-out (by removing the actual code). E.g.: - ---- addSubGrid "ADDS A SUBGRID OF CLASS 'Grid' -- SEE addSubGrid:" addSubGrid: gridClass "PUTS A SUBGRID INTO THIS COMPARTMENT. INQUIRES TO 4 BOUNDARY LINES OF THIS COMPARTMENT AND SUBTRACTS SO THAT TOP LEFT IS (0,0). FOUR NEW LINES ARE C REATED AND A NEW COMPARTMENT TO OCCUPY THE SPACE BETWEEN. RETURN THE NEW SUBGRI D." boundary: movingLine pushed: amount "TELL RECEIVER THAT ONE OF ITS BOUNDARIES *HAS* PUSHED BY amount. CONTI NUE THE MOTION " - ---- Please forgive the fact that some of the lines are > 80 chars long. That's what smalltalk gives and I am not going to try to fight it by manual editing. I'd rather TeX break the lines for me. I wish to do the minimum of manual editing as possible because the code is rather long. I'd like a LaTeX environment that will take one (or all?) of these smalltalk method `headers' and format it. The form of the source is a sequence of message headers, separated by blank lines, where each message header is: a) a unary message selector e.g. "addSubGrid", with no argument. OR b) a keyword selector which has `n' selector sub parts and `n' arguments in the form of "selectorSubPart1: argument1: ... selectorSubPartn: argumentn:" FOLLOWED BY a comment which may contain characters that are special to TeX (and which by a lucky quirk of my Smalltalk won't contain an exclamation mark (bang) (so I can use that for \verb! !). I wish the environment/macro will intelligently mark-up the code for me in the form: {\tt boundary:} {\em movingLine\/} {\tt pushed:} {\em amount\/} \\ \verb(ButWithLineBreaking)! "TELL RECEIVER THAT ONE OF ITS BOUNDARIES *HAS* PUSHED BY amount. CONTINUE THE MOTION "! Would some kind soul help me please? Thanks Barry - -- Barry Prescott, Hypermedia Systems Group, Dept. of Computer Science, INTERNET: bp@cs.hull.ac.uk, ehgabp2@uts.mcc.ac.uk, | The University, bprescot@nyx.cs.du.edu Phone: +44 482 465016 | Hull, HU6 7RX, UUCP: ..!ukc!hu-cs!bp Fax: +44 482 466666 | United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 92 11:08:09 +0100 From: Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.uknet-relay Subject: Future developments of TeX What is to come after TeX? -------------------------- For quite a while people have been discussing the question of what is to come after TeX---if there can be something at all. To collect ideas and to guide these ideas into one effort the german speaking TeX user's group DANTE e.V. decided to start a project for future developments of TeX. To avoid misunderstandings right from the beginning: This is not meant to be a private enterprise or even something to be led by the germans or even europeans. It is meant as a cooperation of all those who are interested in such a project. Every one is invited to contribute ideas and demands and to work in this direction. It is planned, but not fixed, to have three stages: 1. stage: What should be changed? 2. stage: How can this be realised? 3. stage: Realisation. At the annual meeting of DANTE e.V. at Hamburg some weeks ago the project was discussed and officially started by Joachim Lammarsch, the president of DANTE e.V. He asked me to serve as the technical co-ordinator of the project, to which I agreed. The name of the project is NTS, for New Typesetting System. (You might find it funny to look at the last three words of the very first line in the TeXbook by Donald E. Knuth. Thanks to Kresten Krab Thorup for pointing this out to me.) As a first action, and to open the discussion, we set up a mailing list at Heidelberg. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@VM.URZ.Uni-Heidelberg.De containing SUBSCRIBE NTS-L To sign off the list, send a message to LISTSERV@VM.URZ.Uni-Heidelberg.De containing UNSUBSCRIBE NTS-L Messages to go via the list have to be addressed to NTS-L@VM.URZ.Uni-Heidelberg.De In a short time, I will send around a somewhat longer message that contains some ideas, to serve as a starting point in the discussion. Rainer Sch\"opf Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 92 13:59:45 -0500 From: karl Subject: modes.mf 0.10 available I have released version 0.10 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/modes.mf You can also get it (soon) by email from George Greenwade's (thanks, George!) file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of `sendme modes'. It is about 46K. This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common definitions for write-white printers and `special' information. This version has only minor fixes: * `=' is used in special output instead of ` := ', to conserve space * new modes for the CG 9600 and Varityper 4300 If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the existing ones, please send them to me. karl@cs.umb.edu mode_def AgfaFourZeroZero = % AGFA 400PS mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga mode_def AtariNineFive = % Atari 95dpi previewer mode_def AtariNineSix = % Atari 96x96 previewer mode_def AtariSLMEightZeroFour = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer mode_def AtariSMOneTwoFour = % Atari ST SM 124 screen mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 mode_def ApsSixHi = % Autologic APS-Micro6 mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi mode_def boise = % HP 2680A mode_def CanonCX = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX mode_def CanonLBPTen = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10 mode_def ChelgraphIBX = % Chelgraph IBX mode_def CItohThreeOneZero = % CItoh 310 mode_def CItohEightFiveOneZero = % CItoh 8510A mode_def CompugraphicEightSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 8600 mode_def CompugraphicNineSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 9600 mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS mode_def DataDisc = % DataDisc mode_def DataDiscNew = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120dpi mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroMed = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroLo = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi mode_def EpsonMXFX = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family mode_def GThreefax = % 200 x 100dpi G3fax mode_def HPDeskJet = % HP DeskJet 500 mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (\#1) mode_def IBMD = % IBM 38xx (\#2) mode_def IBMFourZeroTwoNine = % IBM 4029-30, 4250 mode_def IBMFourTwoOneSix = % IBM 4216 mode_def IBMProPrinter = % IBM ProPrinter mode_def IBMSixOneFiveFour = % IBM 6154 display mode_def IBMSixSixSevenZero = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) mode_def IBMThreeOneSevenNine = % IBM 3179 screen mode_def IBMThreeOneNineThree = % IBM 3193 screen mode_def IBMThreeEightOneTwo = % IBM 3812 mode_def IBMThreeEightTwoZero = % IBM 3820 mode_def IBMEGA = % IBM EGA monitor mode_def IBMVGA = % IBM VGA monitor mode_def imagewriter = % Apple ImageWriter mode_def laserjetlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi mode_def LASevenFive = % DEC LA75 mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZeroLo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZero = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi mode_def LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi mode_def LNZeroOne = % DEC LN01 mode_def LPSFourZero = % DEC LPS40 mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor mode_def MacMagnified = % Mac screens at magstep 1 mode_def MacTrueSize = % Mac screens at 72dpi mode_def NEC = % NEC mode_def NEChi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi mode_def Newgen = % Newgen 400dpi mode_def NeXTprinter = % NeXT 400dpi mode_def NeXTscreen = % 100dpi NeXT monitor mode_def OCESixSevenFiveZeroPS = % OCE 6750-PS mode_def okidata = % Okidata mode_def OneTwoZero = % e.g., high-resolution Suns mode_def PrintwareSevenTwoZeroIQ = % Printware 720IQ mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine) mode_def RicohFourZeroEightZero = % e.g., the TI Omnilaser mode_def RicohLP = % e.g., the DEC LN03 mode_def SparcPrinterBlack = % Sun SPARCprinter -- write/black mode_def SparcPrinterWhite = % Sun SPARCprinter -- write/white mode_def StarNLOneZero = % Star NL-10 mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi mode_def VarityperFiveZeroSixZeroW = % Varitype 5060W mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroLo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroHi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi mode_def VarityperFourTwoZeroZero = % Varityper 4200 B-P mode_def VarityperSixZeroZero = % Varityper Laser 600 mode_def VAXstation = % VAXstation monitor mode_def XeroxEightSevenNineZero = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 mode_def XeroxFourZeroFiveZero = % Xerox 4050 mode_def XeroxNineSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 9700 mode_def XeroxThreeSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 3700 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 92 14:23:08 -0500 From: karl Subject: sauter parameter files version 1.3 available I've updated my packaging for Unix of John Sauter's Metafont files to make Computer Modern fonts at any point size. You can get version 1.3 by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/sauter.tar.Z. This release adds parameter files for the Glonti/Samarin Cyrillic, contributed by Glenn Thorbe and Wayne Sullivan (wsulivan@irlearn.ucd.ie). 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. You can get LaTeX from archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]:TEX/TEX3/latex, and dvips from labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 92 20:42:56 -0500 From: karl Subject: web2c 5.851c available I have released a new version of web2c, the port of the basic TeX project web programs (TeX, Metafont, GFtoPK, etc.) to Unix. You can get it by ftp from (at least): (Boston) ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{web,web2c}.tar.Z (California) ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/{web,web2c}.tar.Z. Send bug reports to me. There are no new features in this release, just bug fixes. I've updated my modified xdvi and dvips which use the same path searching code. They are on ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex also. Some people have asked me about the relationship between my releases and the Unix TeX tape available from the Northwest Computing Support Center at the University of Washington. The answer is that my directory `src-5.851/' which the tar files unpack into becomes the directory `TeX3.141/' on the tape; there are not two diverging ports. The UW tape also includes all the fonts, macros, DVI drivers, and other good stuff that you need to have a working TeX system. The Northwest Computing Support Center is supported only by the revenues from the preparation and distribution of tapes, and is required to be fully self-supporting. It receives no support from the University of Washington. I urge you to order a tape if you can afford it, so that NWCSC can continue to afford to organize and distribute UnixTeX. Send email to elizabeth@u.washington.edu for the details. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: 11 May 92 14:59:54 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: `seminar' package release I have placed Timonthy van Zandt's seminar package in the UK TeX Archive in [tex-archive.latex.styles.contrib.seminar] The readme file follows. Please treat this as experimental still for the present (ie dont get it unless you are prepared to spend some time getting into it.). Timothy will no doubt announce any release he considers *completely* reliable! From now on, I will attempt to keep the UK TeX Archive copy up to date. Sebastian Rahtz *********************************************************************** **** "readme" file for seminar.sty package, v0.92, 92/05/08 **** *********************************************************************** COPYRIGHT 1992, by Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@Princeton.EDU DESCRIPTION: seminar.sty is a LaTeX document style for typesetting slides or transparencies, and accompanying notes. It has many advantages over SliTeX. Here are some of the style's special features: * You can use any fonts that work with LaTeX, including PostScript fonts and AmSFonts. * Slides can be landscape and portrait within the same file. * Color is supported through PostScript. * It is a LaTeX style, rather than another format. * It is compatible with AmS-LaTeX. * The slides can have a frame and a colored background. * The magnification can be changed with a single command. * Overlays can be produced from a single slide environment. * Accompanying notes, such as the text of a presentation, can be put outside the slide environments. The slides, notes or both together can then be typeset in a variety of formats. Some of these features require a PostScript output device. FILES: Inputs: seminar.sty : The main style file. xcomment.sty : The macros for omitting notes. portrait.sty : The portrait style option. semhelv.sty : The semhelv style option. semlcmss.sty : The semlcmss style option. semcolor.sty : The semcolor style option. semrot.sty : THe semrot style option. sem-a4.sty : The sem-a4 style option. slidesec.sty : The slidesec style option. 2up.tex : Macros for printing documents two-up. 2up.sty : The same as 2up.tex, but with .sty extension. npsfont.sty : Macros for defining new PostScript fonts with the NFSS. Documentation: sem-user.dvi : User's guide for seminar.sty. sem-code.dvi : Documented code for seminar.sty. xcomment.dvi : Documentation for xcomment.sty semsampl.tex : A sample document for seminar.sty sem-read.me : This file. Sources: seminar.doc : Documentation and code for seminar.sty sem-code.tex : For typesetting seminar.doc sem-user.tex : User's guide for seminar.sty xcomment.doc : Documentation and code for xcomment.sty xcomment.tex : For typesetting xcomment.doc tvz-hax.sty : Hacks for printing the documentation. GETTING STARTED: 1. Put the input files in a directory where your TeX looks for inputs. 2. Print sem-user.dvi, which is the User's Guide for seminar.sty. (This should be printed in landscape mode; happens automatically with dvips.) (Printing sem-code.dvi, the documented code, is optional.) 3. Read the preface "Getting Started". Follow the instructions carefully. 4. Typeset semsampl.tex. SOURCES: The .doc files contain the documentation and code, and use Frank Mittelbach's doc system. For example, the documentation for seminar.sty can be typeset by running LaTeX on seminar.man, which inputs seminar.doc. seminar.sty can be obtained by running LaTeX on Mittelbach's docstrip.tex, and giving the name seminar 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 seminar.sty package. MORE ABOUT XCOMMENT.STY: xcomment.sty, for use with LaTeX v.2.9, permits one to typeset only selected environments, omitting input outside these environments. The selected environments become "inverse" comment environments, since a comment environment such as the one defined in verbatim.sty omits the material inside the environment and leaves the material outside the environment. The selected environments also retain their original meaning with xcomment.sty. The typeset documentation, xcomment.dvi, is included, but everything you need to know about xcomment.sty in order to use the seminar document style is including in seminar.dvi. SEMINAR.STY AND PSTRICKS.TEX: pstricks.tex is a collection of PostScript macros that is compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX and LaTeX. Included are macros for color, graphics, rotation and overlays. seminar.sty, combined with the semcolor option, the PSTricks package, and your favorite macros for including EPS files, make a complete TeX presentation software package. You can probably obtain the PSTricks package from wherever you got the Seminar package. You must install the PSTricks package before using the semcolor option. seminar.sty v0.92 will work with pstricks.tex v0.9, and maybe later versions. MORE ABOUT NPSFONT.STY: npsfont.sty contains macros that make it even easier to define new PostScript fonts with the New Font Selection Scheme. npsfont.sty is input by the semhelv style option, but it can be used on its own. The documentation is contained in npsfont.sty. MORE ABOUT 2UP.TEX: 2up.tex contains macros for printing documents two-up. dvidvi is generally more sensible tool for this purpose, but 2up.tex is implemented with TeX macros and allow more flexible hacking, and it is easy to use. 2up.tex is input by seminar.sty's \twoup command, but it can be used on its own, with most TeX macro packages. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: xcomment.sty borrows much inspiration and some code from Rainer Sch\"opf's verbatim.doc. The author is thankful to Frank Mittelbach for his documentation system. Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz for bits of advice. COPYING: Copying of part or all of any file in the seminar.sty 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 neck 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: Pre v0.91: Entirely rewritten. Too many changes to list. Note especially that system of formats and selections has changed. v0.92: Mostly bug fixes, plus some extra options. The PSTricks package is no longer distributed with seminar.sty. - ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 08:27:09 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: new version of rotating package in UK TeX Archive Rotation package v1.6 - --------------------- I have updated the code of my LaTeX `rotating' style (in response to, most recently, Thomas Liew) to make the rotation of entire floats work better. This version: - rotates floats so that they always take a full page (centred horizontally) and asssume that they are working on an internal width of \textwidth (for the placement of captions etc) - contributes normally to the list of tables and list of figures when floats are rotated - offers a separate \rotcaption command for when you want to rotate float contents and caption by themselves If you want to read my article on the subject, acquire first the PostScript file `rotating.ps' and print it out. These rotation macros only work on PostScript devices using dvips or Textures. The distribution is stored in [tex-archive.latex.contrib.rotating] on tex.ac.uk (151.143.40.18). All the usual copyleft conditions apply. Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 09:11:53 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: dvips5.487 in archive I have placed a copy of the latest dvips in the UK TeX Archive as [tex-archive.src.unix-archives]dvips5487.tarz_uue I will not update the `exploded' directory until 5.5 is released. soon, hopefully sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 11:05:35 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: updates in uk tex archive with apologies to those who have left stuff for the archive in its CONTRIBUTIONS area and been waiting for it to move, I have just updated or created the contents of [tex-archive.drivers.dvipage] [tex-archive.web.latexspider] [tex-archive.drivers.xdvi] [tex-archive.utils.texinfo] from recent contributions. Dont get excited about dvipage or xdvi, I think these are not radical new versions. I have also added [tex-archive.src.unix-archives]xfig2-1-3.tarz_uue [tex-archive.src.unix-archives]transfig.tarz_uue and deleted the corresponding exploded directories (since they are useful only for Unix people) Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 07:40:54 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: emtex bonus disks in uk tex archive The contents of the `emTeX bonus disks' prepared for the UK TeX Archive have been placed online in: [tex-archive.tex.ms-dos.emtex.bonus] There are 9 packages which provide some of the commonly-requested facilities. These are not as well-tested or documented as emTeX itself, but are packaged in exactly the same way, and should be useful to many PC-based TeX users. All these packages are supplied as .zip archives (BOO-encoded) which are unpacked following the same procedure as the emTeX ones. A .REM file is supplied for use with the `remove' utility for each package. The packages are: dvips Tom Rokicki's dvips program, to translate .dvi files to PostScript. morefont If you have installed DVIPS, you will want access to all the PostScript fonts in your printer from within \TeX\ and \LaTeX. This package provides the necessary font files. moremf In March 1992, there was a new release of all the Computer Modern Roman fonts. This package contains the \METAFONT\ sources. morebin A selection of useful ancillary programs. wp2latex WordPerfect 5.0 to \LaTeX\ translator bm2font Bitmap to Font. Convert eg .PCX files to \TeX\ .pk fonts for inclusion in \TeX\ documents. dvi2tty ASCII viewer for dvi files dviselec Write a subset of a dvi file to a new dvi file dvidvi Rearrange pages of a dvi file dviconca Join dvi files together dvibook Rearrange pages of a dvi file lacheck Syntax checker for \LaTeX\ documents moresty A large selection of extra style files for \LaTeX, including some which can be used with plain \TeX\ as well. newlatex The current version of em\TeX\ is slightly out of date with respect to \LaTeX. This package provides new copies of all the \LaTeX\ files for those who wish to be totally up to date. nfss As part of the development of a new \LaTeX\ for the 1990s, this is the New Font Selection Scheme, by Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Sch\"opf. psnfss This package builds on the NFSS package by providing a complete drop-in system for using PostScript fonts with the NFSS. drivers The source in C of all the dvi driver programs supplied in MOREBIN. Only for those who need to alter the programs. A fuller description of the packages can be found in the LaTeX file *emtex.tex*, which is an expanded and LaTeX-ed copy of the basic installation guide for emTeX. A prepared PostScript version is in emtex.ps. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ All these packages are supplied with no warranty or support. The UK TeX Archive will endeavour to assist with problems, but the user is advised to treat them in the same spirit as the betatest versions of the emTeX package proper. Suggestions for additions, changes, etc are welcome. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: 15 May 92 09:12:29 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: upgrades to Unix Web2c package, eplain, sauter, lucida I have just upgraded the following compressed tar archives stored in [tex-archive.src.unix-archives] in the UK Tex Archive eplain.tarz_uue Karl Berry`s eplain package 2.1 lucida.tarz_uue Lucida font metrics 1.0 sauter.tarz_uue `Sauter' package for creating new cm fonts 1.3 web2c-5851c.tarz_uue web2c package for Unix compilation of TeX 5.851c web-5851c.tarz_uue web sources for TeX, MF, to go with previous I have also updated the exploded directories for Sauter and Eplain sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Date: 15 May 92 09:21:39 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: modes.mf version 1.10 I have installed the latest release of Karl Berry's set of Metafont mode definitions in [TEX-ARCHIVE.METAFONT.CONTRIB] as modes.mf Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ UK TeX ARCHIVE at ASTON UNIVERSITY >>> UK.AC.TEX <<< *** Interactive and file transfer access *** JANET: Host: uk.ac.tex, Username: public, Password: public DTE 000020120091 Internet: host tex.ac.uk [134.151.40.18] For telnet access, login: public, password: public For anonymous ftp, login: anonymous, password: *** Mail server *** Send mail to TeXserver@uk.ac.tex (JANET) or TeXserver@tex.ac.uk (rest of the world) with message body containing the word HELP \section FILES OF INTEREST [tex-archive]00readme.txt [tex-archive]00directory.list [tex-archive]00directory.size [tex-archive]00directory_dates.list [tex-archive]00last30days.files \section DIGESTS This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory [tex-archive.digests.uktex.92] This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory [tex-archive.digests.texhax.92] Latest TeXhax: V92 #08 TeXMaG back issues are stored in the archive in directory [tex-archive.digests.tex-mag] Latest TeXMaG: V5N3 \section MEDIA DISTRIBUTIONS Postal addresses are given below. \subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape Latest copy of May/June 1991 contains: TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V tar format, 1600bpi, blockfactor 20, 1 file (36Mb) Copies available on: One 2400ft 0.5" tape sent to Aston with return labels AND return postage OR One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format (DC600A or DC6150) sent with envelope AND stamps for return postage to Nottingham (Due to currency exchange, this service is offered only within the UK) \subsection VMS tapes VMS backup of the archive requires three 2400ft tapes at 6250bpi. 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