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diff --git a/info/digests/nts-l/9405 b/info/digests/nts-l/9405 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..490e376bcc --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/nts-l/9405 @@ -0,0 +1,200 @@ +======================================================================== +Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 13:54:20 GMT +Reply-To: NTS-L Distribution list <NTS-L%DHDURZ1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de> +From: "Miguel SANTOS, DCC/USD (Tel (33-1) 45 24 19 40 )" <Miguel.M.D.SANTOS@DCC-USD.OECD.FR> +Subject: SUBSCRIPTION + +I would like to know who to join MICROSOFT NT discussion list. + +Thanks + +Dos Santos Miguel @ OECD.fr +2 rue Andre Pascal +75775 PARIS CEDEX FRANCE + +======================================================================== +Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 13:54:44 GMT +Reply-To: NTS-L Distribution list <NTS-L%DHDURZ1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de> +From: "Adolfo ALADRO, DCC/COD (Tel (33-1) 45 24 18 88 )" <Adolfo.A.A.ALADRO@DCC-COD.OECD.FR> +Subject: Subscription + +I would like to know how to join Microsoft NT discussion list. +Thanks. + +Aladro Adolfo@OECD.Fr +2, Rue Andre Pascal +75016 Paris + +Tel (33-1) 45 24 18 88 +Fax (33-1) 45 24 19 51 + +======================================================================== +Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 18:55:12 MEZ +Reply-To: NTS-L Distribution list <NTS-L%DHDURZ1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de> +From: Werner Lemberg <A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UNIVIE.AC.AT> +Subject: Re: SUBSCRIPTION +In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, + 2 May 1994 13:54:20 GMT from <Miguel.M.D.SANTOS@DCC-USD.OECD.FR> + +On Mon, 2 May 1994 13:54:20 GMT Miguel SANTOS, DCC/USD (Tel (33-1) 45 24 19 40 ) +>I would like to know who to join MICROSOFT NT discussion list. +> +>Thanks +> + +This is the joke of the month ! + + Werner + +======================================================================== +Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 01:15:05 +0200 +Reply-To: Krzysztof_Leszczynski@camk.edu.pl +From: Chris Leszczynski <Krzysztof_Leszczynski@CAMK.EDU.PL> +Subject: Re: SUBSCRIPTION +In-Reply-To: <9405021657.AA05866@alfa.camk.edu.pl> from "Werner Lemberg" at + May 2, 94 06:55:12 pm + +> +> On Mon, 2 May 1994 13:54:20 GMT Miguel SANTOS, DCC/USD (Tel (33-1) 45 24 19 40 + ) +> >I would like to know who to join MICROSOFT NT discussion list. +> > +> >Thanks +> > +> +> This is the joke of the month ! +> +> Werner +> +Maybe we should change the subject of out list, after all S in NTS +stands for ``System'' and N for ``New''. All we need is a small change +of T abbreviation to ``Technology'' ;-) + + Chris (chris@camk.edu.pl) + +PS. I'm really happy to get ANY letter from NTS-l, even that one :-) + +======================================================================== +Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 21:34:30 +0100 +Reply-To: NTS-L Distribution list <NTS-L%DHDURZ1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de> +From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE> +Subject: Survey: Existing extensions to TeX + +What extensions to TeX does already exist ? I am aware of TeX-XeT, +TeX--XeT, MLTeX and Sisisi, but there may be more. Specially I have heard +that some commercial implementations provide additional primitives or +extensions. + +Do extended MF's exist (I'm aware of none) ? + +What additions to the standard TeX kit exist (Roughly the following +programmes: weave, tangle, TeX, MF, gftopk, gftype, pktype, tftopl, pltotf, +dvitype, mft, vptovf, vftovp ... did I miss any? ) ? + +Yours, J"org Knappen. + +======================================================================== +Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 21:10:00 LCL +Reply-To: NTS-L Distribution list <NTS-L%DHDURZ1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de> +From: Timothy Murphy <tim@MATHS.TCD.IE> +Subject: Re: Survey: Existing extensions to TeX +In-Reply-To: <01HCAVUSIIPQ00CPDO@mailgate.ucd.ie> from "J%org Knappen, + Mainz" at May 13, 94 09:34:30 pm + +> +> What additions to the standard TeX kit exist (Roughly the following +> programmes: weave, tangle, TeX, MF, gftopk, gftype, pktype, tftopl, pltotf, +> dvitype, mft, vptovf, vftovp ... did I miss any? ) ? +> +dvicopy seems to be "in" now. + +======================================================================== +Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 14:50:13 +0100 +Reply-To: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de +Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was phfrom@[134.34.3.4] +From: Hartmut Frommert <phfrom@NYX.UNI-KONSTANZ.DE> +Subject: Re: Survey: Existing extensions to TeX + +In message Fri, 13 May 1994 21:34:30 +0100, + "J%org Knappen, Mainz" <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE> writes: + +> What extensions to TeX does already exist ? I am aware of TeX-XeT, +> TeX--XeT, MLTeX and Sisisi, but there may be more [..] + +J%org: Please post (or mail me) a summary of eventual e-mail replies. + +Btw, I think you are also aware of the macro packages and utilities +LaTeX, BibTeX, Ams-Stuff[Fonts, TeX, LaTeX] and more, but what you consider +seems to be slightly different .. + + Hartmut Frommert | Russia HAS a space station ! + <phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> | Mars Observer 2 would have survived. + +======================================================================== +Date: Sat, 14 May 1994 19:12:58 -0400 +Reply-To: NTS-L Distribution list <NTS-L%DHDURZ1.BITNET@vm.gmd.de> +From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> +Subject: Re: Survey: Existing extensions to TeX +In-Reply-To: <01HCANIAFOS29GW2XX@MATH.AMS.ORG> + +j"org knappen asks: + What extensions to TeX does already exist ? I am aware of TeX-XeT, + TeX--XeT, MLTeX and Sisisi, but there may be more. Specially I have heard + that some commercial implementations provide additional primitives or + extensions. + +vtex, by micropress, inc., forest hills, ny, has added a number of +primitives. it reportedly has a "compatibility" switch that enables +it to pass the trip test, but i've never had the opportunity to +examine the evidence. the author, michael vulis, has said that +vtex is *not* tex -- files using the extensions are not backward +compatible. (see reference below.) + +among the new primitives are the following: + \aliasfont -- for substituting a scalable font for standard cm + \exec -- for adding new "commands" (primitives?) to vtex + additional keywords on the \font command: + slant, aspect, smallcaps, outline, shadow, gray, fillpattern +probably more are described in the book by michael vulis, but i can't +find my copy at the moment. the information given here appears in +the tugboat article by vulis, "vtex enhancements of the tex language", +11 #3 (sept. 1990), pp.429-434. + + Do extended MF's exist (I'm aware of none) ? + +the vtex people have also created an implementation of mf that is +advertised as being able to create "either bitmapped or scalable +fonts". + + What additions to the standard TeX kit exist (Roughly the following + programmes: weave, tangle, TeX, MF, gftopk, gftype, pktype, tftopl, pltotf, + dvitype, mft, vptovf, vftovp ... did I miss any? ) ? + +gftodvi is part of metafontware; a printed woven output of the four +mfware programs (gftype, gftopk, gftodvi and mft) can be obtained +from the tex users group as the publication texniques #13. + +along with the adaptation of type-1 (postscript) fonts to be used +with tex, the pfa/pfb manipulation programs might be considered to +be part of the font kit. + -- bb + +======================================================================== +Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 08:52:33 +0200 +Reply-To: NTS-L Distribution list <NTS-L@DHDURZ1.BITNET> +From: Reino de Boer <sysrb@cs.few.eur.nl> +Subject: Re: Survey: Existing extensions to TeX + +Hallo J"org, + +I think that patgen could be considered an addition to the standard TeX kit. + +Perhaps MetaPost can be considered an `extension' to MF. + +Regards -- Reino +-- +Reino R. A. de Boer +CS Dept, Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam +email: sysrb@cs.few.eur.nl +There exists a way to compile TeX (Knuth 1985). + |