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+*******************************************************************************
+* *
+* TTTTTTT X X M M GGGGGG A Mostly Unofficial *
+* T X X MM MM G Publication for Users *
+* T EEEEEEE XXX M M M M A G GG Of the TeX Computer *
+* T E X X M M M A A G G Typesetting System. *
+* T EEEE X X M M M AAAAA GGGGGG *
+* E A A Volume 2, Number 2 *
+* EEEEEEE A A Distribution: 793 or so... *
+* *
+*******************************************************************************
+
+February 28, 1988
+
+\footnote.....................................................................1
+News
+ Update for TeX on DECnet/Span...............................................2
+ Device Driver information Available from LISTSERV@TAMVM1....................3
+ New Mathematics Publication to Use AmS-TeX..................................4
+ First Announcement and Call for Papers--TeX users Group Annual Meeting......5
+TeX font files................................................................6
+Indic and other Fonts for TeX.................................................7
+TeX for the Mac...............................................................8
+Second Annual Readers Survey Results..........................................9
+TeX Mysteries and Puzzles....................................................10
+The Toolbox..................................................................11
+TeXMaG Index.................................................................12
+
+
+__1
+\footnote{Justifying my existence}
+
+Among comments in the survey responses I received was the following
+from Dr. Hubert Partl:
+ Since there is so much more (and more frequent) Information
+ being found in TeXhax and TUGboat, I think that TeXMaG is not
+ worth the effort of maintaining, and it will never reach the
+ high level of quality of those other two media. Why spread your
+ (and our) efforts into something like TeXMaG instead of
+ concentrating on TUGboat and TeXhax and helping B. Beeton and
+ M. Brown with their work (to make their media even more
+ complete and up-to-date etc.)?
+First let me just say, that this was not quite sufficient to make me
+decide that my efforts in TeXMaG are completely worthless, and shut
+down the whole operation, but it did leave me thinking, "Gee, why
+*do* I do this?"
+
+ At first I had a hard time justifying TeXMaG. Dr. Partl does have
+a point that TeXMaG probably does detract to some degree my and your
+efforts from contributing to the well-being of TUGboat and TeXhax.
+So with the fact that I really don't know why I do this and Dr.
+Partl's criticism I decided to take a look back at what led me to
+start a crazy project like this anyway.
+
+ I first started using TeX in the spring of 1986 (I should have
+asked how long people have been using TeX in the survey, oh well),
+and immediately realized that there was a severe lack of available
+information on TeX. I looked on every server I knew about to see if
+I could find any information and tried to subscribe to the
+then-defunct TeXhax. Working in virtual isolation (I started using
+TeX at about the same time it was installed, so there was no
+established user base yet), I learned enough TeX to write my papers
+and do the odd macro here and there.
+
+ In the late summer/early fall of that year, Netmonth ran an
+article on what's involved with publishing an electronic magazine and
+at about that same time, Chris Condon suggested that users should
+work to do their part in contributing to the well-being of the
+network. In the back of my mind, a little voice started to whisper
+"electronic magazine, electronic magazine". Finally I decided to take
+the plunge and sent an announcement of TeXMaG out to about 30 people.
+The first people I solicited for contributions were selected from
+names of people who answered questions. Finally, at the end of
+January, with Ken Yap's announcement of the LaTeX-Style collection
+as my only "article", I sent out TeXMaG V1N1 to 53 people.
+
+ A bit over a month later, I actually had an article submission and
+decided that I could put out the second issue. As time went by, I
+encountered many "dry spells" as well as trickles of article
+submissions for what I had envisioned as something that would take
+a place somewhere between TeXhax and Tugboat. At times, I felt like
+I had taken on too big of a load, and was ready to throw in the towel
+once or twice.
+
+ Now, however, I think that TeXMaG has become what it originally
+set out to be. A forum containing short news items of interest to the
+TeX community (now that I get press releases, I figure I should do
+*something* with them), as well as assorted contributed macros and
+articles of interest.
+
+ Perhaps TeXMaG is at times a little pointless, but when it comes
+down to the bottom line, it exists because I enjoy putting it out,
+and I'm just crazy enough to devote a bunch of hours to it every
+week.
+
+Be happy,
+-dh
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__2
+**********************************************************************
+* Update for TeX on DECnet/Span *
+**********************************************************************
+
+by Max Calvani <CALVANI@VAXFPD.INFNET>
+
+The TeX-depository for VAX/VMS available on DECnet/Span in Italy now
+also includes:
+
+
+ [tex.clark] Programs to produce halftone outputs.
+ VAX/VMS change file to increase TeX memory
+ TPU interface
+ (supplied by Adrian Clark)
+ [tex.usa.dvidis] Programs to display DVI files on VAXstations
+ (VMS) (supplied by Jerry Leichter)
+ [tex.usa.textyl] Curve drawing postprocessor
+ (by John Renner, modified by Jerry Leichter
+ for VMS)
+
+
+ For further information send a decnet/span message to:
+ 39003::fisica
+
+
+
+
+
+__3
+**********************************************************************
+* Device Driver Information Available From LISTSERV@TAMVM1 *
+**********************************************************************
+
+The TeX Users Group listings of device drivers are now available from
+Listserv@Tamvm1. The files DRIVERS.* contain lists of known DVI
+drivers compiled by Don Hosek <DHOSEK@YMIR.BITNET>. The file
+DRIVERS.LASER lists Laser printer drivers; DRIVERS.LOWRES lists dot
+matrix and plotter drivers, DRIVERS.TYPESET lists typesetter drivers,
+and DRIVERS.SOURCES lists the addresses and availability of drivers.
+The LASER, LOWRES, and TYPESET files are listed by output device. The
+drivers available for each device are then subdivided into "Big
+Computers" (consisting of Amdahl (MTS), CDC Cyber, Cray, Data General
+MV, DEC-10, DEC-20, HP9000/500, IBM MVS, IBM VM/CMS, IBM VM/UTS,
+Prime, Unix, and VAX/VMS), and "Little Computers" (consisting of
+Apollo, Atari ST, Cadmus 9200, HP1000, HP3000, IBM PC, Integrated
+Solutions, SUN, TI PC, VAXstation/Unix, and VAXstation/VMS). Under
+each individual computer is listed each driver known, and as much
+information about it as is available. The PREVIEW file has a slightly
+different hierarchy: The top level is the computer type (since screen
+previewers tend to be less portable), then each driver is listed with
+the terminals supported listed below it. When a driver is available
+from more than one source, all sources are listed. The program name
+and author are listed for additional identification.
+
+ To obtain a copy of a file from LISTSERV@TAMVM1 send the command
+GET DRIVERS --- in an interactive message (TELL LISTSERV AT TAMVM1
+... on CMS, SEND LISTSERV@TAMVM1 ... on VMS) or as the first line of
+a mail message where --- is one of EXP, LASER, LOWRES, PREVIEW,
+SOURCES, or TYPESET.
+
+ Additions and corrections to the lists are welcome. Send them to
+Don Hosek, Bitnet: <DHOSEK@YMIR.BITNET>, Postal Address: Platt Campus
+Center, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
+
+
+
+
+__4
+**********************************************************************
+* New Mathematics Publication to use AmS-TeX *
+**********************************************************************
+
+Pergammon Press (Oxford) has recently announced a new publication,
+"Applied Mathematics Letters: An International Journal of Rapid
+Communication" (AML), promising rapid publication with papers
+normally published within 90 days.
+
+ AML makes this promise by encouraging authors to submit papers via
+electronic mail or diskette (papers submitted in other, more
+conventional forms are also accepted with the caveat that they will
+take longer to publish). The journal will use a specially designed
+AmS-TeX style file for producing the final "near-typeset quality"
+output. Articles will be typically about four typeset pages with
+topics expected to cover "The brief description of any work involving
+a novel application or utilization of mathematics, or a development
+in the methodology of applied mathematics... All areas of mathematics
+are appropriate: from number theory through Lie algenras to
+differential games. All applications areas are welcome as well, be
+it computer science, physics, anthropology, fluid dynamics or any
+other of the main fields of endeavor, where mathematics is used in
+nontrivial ways."
+
+ For more information write to
+ Managing Editor: Ervin Y Rodin
+ Department of Systems Science and Mathematics
+ Box 1040, Washington University
+ St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
+
+
+
+
+__5
+**********************************************************************
+* First Announcement and Call for Papers *
+* TeX Users Group Annual Meeting *
+**********************************************************************
+
+1988 Marks the first time the TeX Users Group Annual Meeting will be
+held outside the United States. The 3-day meeting will be conducted
+as the highlight of a 2-week conference (August 15-26) during which
+courses will be offered in TeX and TeX-related subjects. Details of
+these courses will be announced at a later date.
+
+*Call for Papers*
+Since we plan to provide a printed copy of the proceedings of the
+1988 meeting to each attendee, we are putting out the "call for
+papers" earlier than usual. In order that a preliminary program
+announcement may be published in a timely manner, it is requested
+that you contact the Program Coordinator (name and address below) no
+later than January 14, informing him of the title of the paper you
+would like to present and the amount of time required. (The normal
+time allotted to present a paper is up to 45 minutes.) A short
+abstract of the proposed paper will be due March 18. Papers will be
+selected at that time and authors notified as to whether their papers
+have been accepted. The finished paper wil be due June 20. Here are
+some suggested topics, though papers are not limited to these:
+
+ o Using TeX in production environments
+ o How we address problems caused by our environment and
+ requirements:
+ o large scale of operation;
+ o management of data---very large documents;
+ o deadlines and production pressures;
+ o device dependencies and independencies;
+ o using both cm and non-cm fonts.
+ o What goes where? Separating functions, e.g., driver,
+ preprocessor, etc.
+ o Human factors:
+ o presenting TeX to novices;
+ o interactive front ends, alternate approaches;
+ o document tools---characterizing similarities and differences
+ among documents. (Can it be done? How can you take advantage
+ of these features?)
+ o Unusual situations we overcame: limitations and strengths caused
+ by the characteristics of the problem, e.g., use of multiple
+ languages.
+ o Call for problems:
+ o Why don't you use TeX?
+ o How do you cope with things that TeX does not do, e.g.,
+ graphics?
+ o Inherent limitations of TeX.
+ o Problems that require general discussion.
+
+Program Coordinator: Dean Guenther
+ Washington State University
+ Pullman, WA 99164-1220 USA
+ Phone: 509-335-0411
+ Bitnet: Guenther@Wsuvm1
+
+*Calendar*
+Preliminary notification.................................January 15
+Abstract Due.............................................March 18
+Papers Selected..........................................April 4
+Finished Papers Due......................................June 20
+Annual Meeting...........................................August 22--24
+
+Abstracts and program inquiries should be directed to the Program
+Coordinator.
+Questions concerning any other aspect of the meeting (or the
+conference) should be directed to the TUG Office: (401)272-9500
+ext.232 (Eastern Time)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__6
+**********************************************************************
+* TeX font files *
+**********************************************************************
+
+By Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET>
+
+One topic that often leads to confusion with users of TeX is the
+large variety of font files used by TeX. One system might have TFM,
+GF, PK, PXL, and RST font files and perhaps others. In this article,
+I will attempt to describe the purpose of the various font files used
+by TeX and related programs to reduce some of the confusion.
+
+The TFM file is what TeX reads to get its font information, so this
+is the single most important font file needed for typesetting. If TeX
+cannot locate a TFM for the requested file, then the font is
+effectively unavailable. The TFM file itself contains information on
+the dimensions of all of the characters in a font (width, height,
+depth, italic correction), as well as general information about the
+font (name of the font family, and the font itself, weight of
+characters (roman, light, bold, semi-bold, black, etc.), and for math
+fonts other special information such as rule thickness, "recipes" for
+putting together large characters from smaller pieces, and so forth).
+
+Dimensions for the font are given in terms of the font's "design
+size". The design size is the size any given font is intended to be
+used at. For most of the computer modern fonts, the design size is
+part of the font name: e.g., cmr10 has a design size of 10 points
+while lasyb7 has a design size of 7 points. This use of the design
+size means that TFM files are resolution- and magnification-
+independent. If you load a font in using scaling (by the command
+\font\xxx=cmr10 at 12pt or \font\xxx=lasy5 scaled 1440 for example),
+you are effectively changing the design size as far as TeX is
+concerned.
+
+In theory, TeX can use any font for which a TFM file exists.
+Technically speaking, this is true; however, in practice, the fonts
+available to TeX are dependant also on what is available to the
+Device Driver. This is where the assorted font formats, GF, PK, and
+PXL come in. A font in one of these formats contains the Bitmap for
+the character as it will be typeset on the page in a resolution-,
+magnification-, and device- dependent format.
+
+GF files are the output from MetaFont. The bitmap is stored in a
+run-encoded image with additional information generated by MetaFont
+sometimes included.
+
+PK files are a compact format for the character Bitmap. On the
+average, a font in PK format will take about 30-40% of the disk space
+as the same font in GF format. This is desirable since it not only
+reduces storage requirements, but can increase the speed of a device
+driver since less disk access is necessary.
+
+PXL files are an obsolete, but still common format for encoding the
+character bitmap. The bitmap is not encoded in any way, so a PXL file
+will generally take up about three times as much space as the same
+GF file.
+
+Two schemes are generally used to determine how to find the
+appropriate character bitmap file for a font at some given size and
+resolution. The first is to have the files in a "flat" directory (no
+subdirectories). The size is then indicated by a numerical prefix on
+the file type. For GF and PK files, this prefix is given by
+resolution*magnification where resolution is the resolution of the
+outpu device in dots per inch and magnification is the magnification
+of the font with 1 being the normal size. Thus, the filename for
+cmr10 scaled 1440 at 300 dpi would be CMR10.432PK or CMR10.432GF. For
+PXL files, the convention is similar except the prefix is given by
+resolution*magnification*5. The PXL file for the font above would be
+CMR10.2160PXL. The multiplier of 5 exists for historical reasons:
+back in the early days of TeX, the primary output device had a
+resolution of 200 dpi so the PXL files were named to make the prefix
+match the TeX magnification of the font.
+
+The second scheme for naming the fonts uses subdirectories to arrange
+the fonts. Rather than place the numerical prefix on the file type
+(which is imposible on some operating systems such as MS DOS), it is
+used in a directory name. The directory name will either be simply
+the numerical prefix (for example, TeX$ROOT:[PIXEL.1500] on VMS
+systems), or a combination of the numerical prefix and some other
+string (on IBM PCs, two equivalent naming structures exist: PXLnnnn
+with the nnnn being resolution*magnification*5 or DPInnn where nnn
+is simply resolution*magnification). The font naming structure is
+very system dependent, and sometimes (as is the case with PCs), will
+vary from program to program.
+
+For more information on TFM files, see either TeX: The Program,
+Metafont: The Program, or the TeXware book. For more information on
+GF, PK , or PXL files, see the TeXware book.
+
+TeXware may be ordered from
+ Maria Code
+ Data Processing Services
+ 1371 Sydney Drive
+ Sunnyvale CA 94087
+There is a charge of $10 plus postage and handling for this document.
+
+
+
+
+
+__7
+**********************************************************************
+* Indic and other Fonts for TeX *
+**********************************************************************
+
+By Dominik Wujastyk <dow@harvunxw.BITNET>
+
+I first started compiling this Memorandum late in 1987, as a note to
+myself and my immediate Indological colleagues. But it seemed little
+extra work to include more information in it about other fonts I have
+heard of, and doing this has greatly widened its usefulness to TeX
+users in general.
+
+*Introduction*
+
+Here is a compilation of what I know of Indic fonts and METAfonts for
+use with TeX. By the term "Indic fonts" I mean to include Devanagari,
+with variants for Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit, and fonts for Bengali,
+Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Urdu, Arabic,
+Persian, Kashmiri (Sharada) and Tibetan. Although I am primarily
+interested in fonts designed with Metafont, I would also like to
+include information about any other Indic fonts that have been
+successfully used with TeX, i.e., fonts with font metric files, and a
+mechanism for the creation of the appropriate ligatures, be it within
+the TFM file, or by means of a preprocessor. I have added an appendix
+giving some information about additional TeX fonts known to me.
+
+*Devanagari*
+
+An early Devanagari font was designed with old Metafont (MF-in-SAIL)
+by P. K. Ghosh during a visit to Stanford in 1982--83. Ghosh
+published in 1983 a report on what he had done, as a Stanford
+technical report. One of the valuable aspects of this work was that
+Ghosh worked from Devanagari characters designed and drawn for him by
+the famous Bombay calligrapher R. K. Joshi. Drawings of these, on a
+grid, are published in the abovementioned Report. Unfortunately,
+Ghosh's work was done in a now superseded version of Metafont, and
+was not fully worked out at the keyboard level. It also lacked a
+number of the conjunct consonant clusters necesary for fine Indian
+typography. The report, however, remains of interest for general
+background. The source code is available at University of Washington,
+through Pierre MacKay (net address below), and presumably at Stanford
+(try Emma Pease). Ghosh has said explicitly that he has no objection
+to others doing further {ork on it. MacKay has said that one problem
+with the Ghosh font is that it was arbitrarily developed in a
+framework that bears no relation to the monotype-based character grid
+used for Computer Modern, and that this is unfortunate, since it
+makes it almost unusable in a bilingual environment. If you wish to
+contact Ghosh he can be reached at the following address:
+ Pijush Ghosh,
+ National Centre for Software Technology,
+ Gulmohar Cross Road 9,
+ Juhu, Bombay 400 049,
+ INDIA
+
+ The only fully worked out version of Devanagari presently
+available is that of Frans Velthuis: In November 1987, Frans Velthuis
+completed version 1.0 of a Devanagari METAfont for TeX. He has
+written Metafont code for all the aksharas necessary for Hindi, and
+most of those for Sanskrit too, although in the latter case some
+viramas are used. Frans intends to produce a special Sanskrit version
+of his font in the future. Also included are the Devanagari numerals,
+anusvara, virama, danda, candrabindu, visarga, avagraha, full stop
+and superscript abbreviation circle.
+
+ Usage of this font: You prepare your TeX or LaTeX file normally,
+and mark any Hindi portions, typed with a simple Roman
+transliteration, with the font marker {\dn ... }. At the top of the
+TeX file you \input a file called DNMACS; in LaTeX, a DEV.STY file is
+provided which inputs the necessary macros, and automatically makes
+necessary font size changes. Frans provides a preprocessor, DEVNAG,
+written in Pascal (source not available), which reads your file and
+converts the Hindi transliteration into the appropriate codes for
+Frans's font. The converted file is then processed by TeX or LaTeX in
+the normal way, and the resulting .DVI file can be printed on using a
+standard DVI output program. The portions of Hindi text originally in
+Roman transliteration will be printed in Devanagari, with full use of
+conjunct consonants (sandhyaksharas), etc.
+
+ The quality of the fonts is excellent, with full calligraphic
+moulding of the curves and loops, like some of the best handwriting
+of manuscript scribes using a broad nib.
+
+ Terms of Availability: Frans will sell a set of four or five sizes
+of the Devanagari fonts, at the printer resolution you specify (Epson
+type 9-pin matrix, 24 pin matrix (180*180, 360*360, 180*360),
+write-white laser, or write-black laser), together with the compiled
+code (specify VAX/VMS, SUN, Cyber, IBM/PC, Atari ST) of DEVNAG, his
+text preprocessor, for $119. The Metafont source programs are not at
+present being made generally available.
+
+ Frans J. Velthuis
+ Postal address: Nyensteinheerd 267, 9736 TV Groningen,
+ The Netherlands
+ Bitnet: Velthuis@HGRRUG5.Bitnet
+
+ A note about Velthuis's Devanagari font appeared in TeXhax, 1987,
+issue 93.
+
+
+*Tamil*
+
+ According to Emma Pease (network response on 10 November 1987 to
+my query in TeXhax 1987, issue 93) a basic set of Tamil characters
+for TeX was designed at Stanford by T. S. Arthanari created when he
+was at Stanford (May-July 1985). Emma has the source code but does
+not want to distribute it further without his knowledge. His present
+address is
+ Quality Informatics Labs, Ltd.
+ 312, P. M. G. Complex
+ 57, South Usman Rd.
+ Madras, 600 017
+ INDIA
+
+ (Address gotten by Emma from the Stanford Computer Science Dept.)
+
+ There are approximately 160 characters in several styles written
+in a pre-release version of the current Metafont. Emma has only tried
+producing characters for one style but had little difficulty in doing
+so (a few commands had changed). They are rough but look fairly good.
+
+ I (Dominik) am writing to Mr. Arthanari today to ascertain his
+intentions concerning his work, and especially to learn whether he is
+willing and able to allow the source code of his Tamil font to be
+distributed as public domain software. (February 3, 1988: still no
+answer.)
+
+ Ramanujan, a graduate student who worked at Washington two years
+ago, designed a Tamil font in Metafont84 (I think). According to
+Pierre MacKay, the problem with this, as with Ghosh's Devanagari, is
+that it was arbitrarily developed in a framework that bears no
+relation to the monotype-based character grid used for Computer
+Modern; this is unfortunate, since it makes it almost unusable in a
+bilingual environment. Moreover, it does not make much use of the
+macro capabilities of METAFONT, and although reasonably well
+designed, the programming could perhaps be improved. MacKay says that
+the people at Washington are continuing to work on it.
+ Pierre MacKay,
+ Phone: 206-543-6259; 545-2386.
+ Net: MacKay@june.cs.washington.edu
+
+
+*Marathi*
+
+ No known font, but the addition of a few extra characters, such as
+retroflex la, to Velthuis's Devanagari (which he is considering
+doing) will make his font perfectly adequate for Marathi.
+
+
+*Arabic*
+
+ On Mon, 18 Jan 88 Jacques J. Goldberg wrote to TeXhax (1988, issue
+#07) giving details of a package giving the capability of printing
+Hebrew. He said that an article is currently being written for
+submission to TUGboat (see below under HEBREW). He also included a
+brief note referring to a nearly completed Arabic font.
+
+ Goldberg said, "An Arabic font is three characters away from
+completion, but the MetaFounders are near mid-year exams and unpaid,
+so the Arabic font *might* show up around mid-March [1988]. (to be
+precise, their font is Parsi, and some limited work is needed to
+extend it to full Arabic)."
+
+ Regarding the Hebrew package of fonts and macros Goldberg says, "I
+do not expect any fee from individuals, but I would be happy if
+*institutions* that may use this package would later voluntarily
+contribute $25 to $50 [payable to the Treasurer of the University]
+to help my Department ... pay students employed on font
+development." It is likely that the Arabic may be distributed on
+similar terms.
+ Jacques J. Goldberg, phr00jg@technion.bitnet (the id has two zeroes
+ in it). If you are not on Bitnet, try:
+ <PHR00JG%TECHNION.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>,
+ or write to:
+ Prof. Jacques J. Goldberg,
+ Dept of Physics,
+ Technion-City,
+ 32000 HAIFA, Israel.
+
+ Pierre MacKay and the Washington team have been working on an
+Arabic implementation of TeX for some years. Their plans are
+ambitious, and include building a customised version of TeX, to be
+called XeTTeX, which has a built-in capability of handling
+bidirectional text. Details of this change to TeX were published by
+Don Knuth and Pierre MacKay in TUGboat Vol. 8, #1. This is an active
+project, but MacKay says wistfully that Arabic remains a long-term
+dream.
+
+ MacKay notes that the babel directory in the UnixTeX distribution
+now contains a directory for Semitic languages with TeX-XeT.web and
+other program fragments, which will be added to.
+ Phone: 206-543-6259; 545-2386.
+ Net: MacKay@june.cs.washington.edu
+
+
+
+Further information on several of the items mentioned below can be
+obtained from the following publication:
+
+ _Proceedings of the Eighth TeX Users Group Annual Meeting,
+ University of Washington, Seattle, August 24--26, 1987_, edited by
+ Dean Gunther (Providence: TUG, 1988).
+
+
+*OCR-A*
+
+Information given in TeXhax 1987, issue #106. Coded in Metafont84 by
+Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK (Technical Research Centre of Finland,
+Computing Services). Based on ISO Recommendation R1073, 1st ed., May
+1969 (probably obsolete by now).
+
+ Tor Lillqvist may be contacted at at tml@fingate.BITNET,
+tml@santra.UUCP, or mcvax!santra!tml.
+
+ On 1 Jun 87, Brandon S. Allbery (allbery@ncoast.UUCP) and Michael
+Lichter (cwruecmp!sun!seismo!harvard!csvax.caltech.EDU!netsrc) posted
+the METAFONT sources for the OCR-A on USENET as article 53 of
+comp.sources.misc (Message-ID: <7632@brl-adm.ARPA>)
+
+
+*Classical and Modern Greek*
+
+ Regular, bold, and typewriter versions of the Greek alphabet have
+been coded in Metafont84 by Silvio Levy of Princeton, starting from
+the Greek character set created by Don Knuth as part of the CM
+family, but with all accents, breathings, correct spacing, and macros
+to implement a convenient Roman transliteration for input.
+
+ The initial release of the Metafont source at the end of December
+87 proved to contain difficulties, at least when attempts were made
+to compile the fonts using the PC implementation of Metafont version
+1.3. These difficulties seem to center on the levels of nested files
+that a particular Metafont implementation allows. Levy says the
+following:
+ If possible, you should create a version of Metafont with
+ max_in_open >= 8. The default value of this variable [5, I
+ think] is really unreasonably small, and barely enough for
+ making the CM fonts. In my case it would be possible but much
+ less orderly to use fewer levels of nesting.
+
+ Don't worry about a bad path in drawing the lowercase omega,
+ it comes out all right. I'll fix it when I have the time. I
+ think there's also a bad pen_pos somewhere.
+Doug Henderson is working on a version of these Greek fonts for the
+American Mathematical Society's APS typesetter, to be published in
+TUGboat, and in the process he is revising the code. Levy is aware of
+the difficulties and will be producing a revised release of the
+fonts.
+
+ Silvio Levy: levy@Princeton.EDU
+
+
+*Japanese*
+
+ An article on JTeX and the fonts appeared in TUGboat Volume 8, #2,
+103--116.
+
+ Japanese fonts are available, together with a customised version
+of TeX, called JTeX (by Yasuki Saito), and Japanese versions of LaTeX
+(JLaTeX) and SliTeX (JSliTeX).
+
+ Hideki ISOZAKI, NTT Software Laboratories, Japan.
+ JUNET isozaki@ntt-20.ntt.junet
+ CSNET isozaki@ntt-20.ntt.jp
+ ARPA isozaki%ntt-20@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
+or
+ Yasuki Saito, NTT Electrical Communications Laboratories, NTT
+ Corp., 3-9-11 Midori-cho Musashina-shi, Tokyo 180, Japan.
+ Phone: +81 (422) 59-2537
+ Net: yaski%ntt-20@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
+
+
+*Chinese*
+
+ Work done on a Chinese METAfont by John Hobby is available by
+anonymous FTP from june.cs.washington.edu, in the directory pub, as
+the (large) file chinese.tar.Z. This was written up in one of the
+issues of TUGboat between #5 and #7 (I think).
+
+
+*Turkish*
+
+ Work on properly accented roman-letter Turkish fonts in Metafont
+has been undertaken at the University of Washington by Pierre A.
+MacKay and Walter Andrews. See the note in TUGboat Volume 8, #3,
+p.260b. Pierre MacKay reports that the fonts lack only a reworking of
+the italics for a first working release.
+
+ MacKay notes that the next Tugboat (the first 1988 issue) will
+describe a Turkish hyphenation file.
+ Phone: 206-543-6259; 545-2386.
+ Net: MacKay@june.cs.washington.edu
+ Address:
+ Prof. Pierre A. MacKay,
+ Northwest Computer Support Group,
+ Univ. of Washington,
+ Mail Stop DW-10, Seattle, WA 98195.
+
+*International Phonetic Alphabet*
+
+ Pierre MacKay reports (mail, Thu 21 Jan 88) that the University of
+Washington team is working on a large set of phonetic characters.
+ Phone: 206-543-6259; 545-2386.
+ Net: MacKay@june.cs.washington.edu
+
+*SPRITE.STY*
+
+ If you use LaTeX, and you only need one or two extra characters,
+an ingenious and very easy way to generate them has been devised by
+Martin Costabel <XBR1DA29@DDATHD21.BITNET>. It is a LaTeX style
+called SPRITE, and the code and documentation were published on 14
+November 1987 in issue V1N8 of TeXMaG, an online TeX magazine put out
+by Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET>. Here is an extract from Martin's
+documentation:
+ SPRITE.STY is a LaTeX macro that allows you to define in a
+ quick and dirty way your own symbols. You just have to define
+ the character as a dot pattern on your screen and enclose it by
+ \sprite and \endsprite commands. Of course, I know, TeX is
+ awfully professional and this primitive technique will not
+ provide results as good as a Metafont-designed character or
+ even one drawn using device-dependent \special commands, but if
+ you just need one special character or some cute little symbol
+ and you don't have the time/brains/MacIntosh/
+ superuser-privilege/money-for-AmS-fonts/orwhatever-is-necessary
+ for a professional solution, this might produce acceptable
+ results. Using SPRITE one "draws" the character to be defined
+ as a pattern of characters on a grid. The following example
+ shows how schwa is done:
+%%%-------------------------------------------------------------------
+\def\schwa{\FormOfSchwa\kern 1 pt} % Only necessary if \kern... is wanted
+\sprite{\FormOfSchwa}(16,24)[0.4 em, 1 ex] % Resolution ca. 200x340 dpi.
+:.......BBBBBBBBBB....... |
+:....BBBB........BBBB.... |
+:..BBB.............BBBB.. |
+:.BB.................BBB. |
+:.B...................BBB |
+:.....................BBB |
+:.....................BBB |
+:.....................BBB |
+:BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB |
+:BBB..................BBB |
+:BBB..................BBB |
+:BBB.................BBB. |
+:.BBB...............BBB.. |
+:..BBBB...........BBBB... |
+:....BBBBB.....BBBBB..... |
+:.......BBBBBBBB......... |
+\endsprite
+%%%-------------------------------------------------------------------
+ To use this character in your LaTeX document, all you have to
+ do is use the command \schwa. This method uses a lot of
+ TeX's memory, and is only suitable for characters which are
+ used rarely, say a few times on a page.
+
+[[Editor's note: See the end of the magazine for TeXMaG back issue
+information]]
+
+*Elvish*
+
+ On 4 Dec 1986 (sic) Mike Urban (urban@spp2.UUCP) released the
+Metafont code for Tolkien's Tengwar through USENET (article 66 of
+comp.text, Message-ID: <1191@spp2.UUCP>)
+
+ Mike said the following:
+ This shell archive contains METAFONT sources for a digitized
+ version of the Tengwar (Elvish script) created by J.R.R.
+ Tolkien. They have only been tested on a 300dpi laser printer.
+ No guarantee of the quality of either the code or the output is
+ offered. I'm not particularly satisfied with the quality of the
+ code (my first non-trivial attempt to use Metafont), but the
+ results look OK to me.
+
+ Michael Urban,
+ TRW Inc.,
+ R2/2009
+ One Space Park,
+ Redondo Beach, CA 90278
+
+
+*Hebrew*
+
+ On Mon, 18 Jan 88 Jacques J. Goldberg wrote to TeXhax (1988, issue
+#07) giving details of a package giving the capability of printing
+Hebrew. He said that an article is currently being written for
+submission to TUGboat.
+
+ Goldberg says that the package comprises:
+ o A set of fonts at 8, 9, 10, 12, 17 points in regular type, 10
+ points slanted and bold, and any magnification on request
+ (1000 off the shelf).
+ o A 100% portable preprocessor written in C (MS-DOS users who do
+ not have a compiler can get the .COM file)
+ o A small set of TeX macros.
+ o A sample file.
+
+ Hebrew words in English transliteration are inserted either by
+typing first-typed-last-read with the font invoked, which is a pain
+but "displays" in natural reading order, or by typing first typed
+first read as argument of the \reflect macro given by D. Knuth and P.
+MacKay, TugBoat Vol.8, #1, p.14. Long Hebrew sequences are typed, in
+first-typed-first-read order, within delimiters. The preprocessor
+copies non-Hebrew sequences to an auxiliary file. Hebrew sequences
+are parsed into words, written to the auxiliary file one word at a
+time after each word has been reflected. TeX is then invoked,
+inputting the file which has the extra macro package, never the
+user's input. This macro reads the auxiliary files, feeding TeX with
+either English TeX as is or \line{}s adjusted by the macro to the
+optimal number of Hebrew words.
+
+ Goldberg is--I suspect unnecessarily--diffident about the quality
+of the fonts. He calls them "ugly fonts not good for anything else
+than Office documents (drafts,reports,...)".
+
+ Goldberg is looking for a convenient table representing the 22
+Hebrew letters by Latin letters. Then the preprocessor could
+translate to standard ASCII the character codes used in Israel with
+their special Hebrew terminals, so that anybody with an English-only
+terminal could write in Hebrew.
+
+ Goldberg says, "I do not expect any fee from individuals, but I
+would be happy if *institutions* that may use this package would
+later voluntarily contribute $25 to $50 [payable to the Treasurer of
+the University] to help my Department ... pay students employed on
+font development."
+ Jacques J. Goldberg, phr00jg@technion.bitnet (the id has two zeroes
+ in it). If you are not on Bitnet, try:
+ <PHR00JG%TECHNION.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>, or write to:
+ Prof. Jacques J. Goldberg,
+ Dept of Physics,
+ Technion-City,
+ 32000 HAIFA, Israel.
+
+
+*Cyrillic*
+
+ The American Mathematical Society has developed a post revolution
+Cyrillic font, in old Metafont78, and a set of macros to implement it
+comfortably. Details of the font, with examples of its use, and grids
+of the character set were published in TUGboat (somewhere about
+issues #5--#7). [[Editor's note: the information mentioned above is
+included with the fonts.]]
+ Barbara Beeton,
+ The American Mathematical Society,
+ P. O. Box 6248,
+ Providence, RI, 02940.
+ Tel: (401) 272-9500
+ Arpanet: bnb@xx.lcx.MIT.edu
+
+
+ Pierre MacKay reports that the Washington team is working on Old
+Russian (more or less Old Church Slavonic, but specifically designed
+for the Slovo).
+ Phone: 206-543-6259; 545-2386.
+ Net: MacKay@june.cs.washington.edu
+ Address:
+ Prof. Pierre A. MacKay,
+ Northwest Computer Support Group,
+ Univ. of Washington,
+ Mail Stop DW-10, Seattle, WA 98195.
+
+ The Metafoundry offers "a Slavic package of Cyrillic and Slavic
+characters in Roman and sans serif styles compatible with our English
+fonts." The fonts are supported for 300dpi positive imaging machines
+(i.e., Canon, HP, Apple and certain other laser printers.)
+
+ These fonts are available on a commercial basis, but I don't
+remember the prices. In the order of $100, I think.
+ The Metafoundry,
+ 6565 Frantz Road,
+ Dublin,
+ Ohio 43017.
+
+
+*Old English*
+
+Pierre MacKay reports that the Washington team is working on an Old
+English font.
+ Phone: 206-543-6259; 545-2386.
+ Net: MacKay@june.cs.washington.edu
+ Address:
+ Prof. Pierre A. MacKay,
+ Northwest Computer Support Group,
+ Univ. of Washington,
+ Mail Stop DW-10, Seattle, WA 98195.
+
+
+*Miscellaneous Font Collections*
+
+The Austin Code Works has a large collection of bitmap fonts that
+work with TeX, and which were originally created at SAIL (Stanford
+Artificial Intelligence Lab) in the late 60s or early 70s (I think).
+Because these fonts are not coded in up-to-date Metafont, what you
+get is what you get, i.e., you cannot change the size or resolution
+of the fonts. I believe they are all (or most) 200dpi fonts. Bear in
+mind that although you might get, say, a Hebrew font, there are no
+accompanying macros to implement it at the keyboard level.
+
+ The "KST Fonts by Les Earnest" are described thus in the ACW
+handout:
+ Originally developed for the Xerox XGP printer, the 137 KST
+ fonts include Hebrew, Greek, Old English, Old German, Cyrillic,
+ hand[sign alphabet], and Tengwar alphabets in addition to the
+ Roman alphabet in a large number of eclectic styles. Specify
+ TeX or bitmap format. Both come with an extraction and display
+ program.
+
+ The fonts include such essentials as single character fonts for
+the Stanford and MIT logos (separate fonts for each, naturally), two
+views of Snoopy, two views of Starship Enterprise, three fonts of
+chess pieces, several sans serif fonts, and what looks as if it might
+be a very tiny Arabic font. The fonts cost $30.
+ The Austin Code Works,
+ 11100 Leafwood Lane,
+ Austin Texas 78750-3409 USA.
+ Tel.: (512) 258-0785
+ BBS: (512) 258-8831
+ FidoNet: 1:382/12
+ Net: acw!info@uunet.uu.net
+
+
+ The Metafoundry offers several complete families of TeX fonts. The
+main one on offer is a sans serif which is "lighter and more compact"
+than the Computer Modern sans serif (CMSS) designed by Richard
+Southwell and included in all TeX distributions. It also includes
+math symbols, math italic and extensible characters.
+
+ Also offered are a decorative package, outline fonts, black letter
+fonts and a copperplate script font. The fonts are supported for
+300dpi positive imaging machines (i.e., Canon, HP, Apple and certain
+other laser printers.)
+
+ The fonts are distributed as bitmaps (not Metafont code) on a
+commercial basis.
+
+ For product catalogues send a check for $6 ($15 outside USA or
+Canada) to:
+ The Metafoundry,
+ 6565 Frantz Road,
+ Dublin, Ohio 43017.
+
+*Custom Fonts*
+
+If you are desparate for a TeX font which does not yet exist, why not
+commission a Metafont programmer to create it?
+
+ Neenie Billawala advertises her services as a Metafont consultant
+in TUGboat. She is responsible for creating the fine calligraphic
+capitals that are part of the Computer Modern typeface family (in the
+cmsy fonts).
+ Neenie Billawala,
+ 2014 Colony #8,
+ Mt. View, CA 94043
+ Tel: (415) 965-0643
+
+
+*List of Interested Parties*
+
+The following people would be glad to be kept informed of any news
+concerning the development of Indic METAfonts or any other Indic
+fonts usable with TeX. Indic fonts include Devanagari, with variants
+for Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit, and fonts for Bengali, Tamil,
+Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Urdu, Arabic, Persian,
+Kashmiri (Sharada) and Tibetan:
+
+Dominik Wujastyk DOW@Harvunxw.Bitnet or DOW@WJH12.Harvard.Edu
+Emma Pease Emma@CSLI.Stanford.Edu
+Ajit Ranade SO405000@BROWNVM.Bitnet
+Frans Velthuis Velthuis@HGRRUG5.Bitnet
+Pierre MacKay MacKay@june.cs.Washington.Edu
+Michael Inman minman@csli.stanford.edu
+Steven Osborne osborne@unb.bitnet
+
+ These individuals are already in touch with each other through
+TeXhax, and person-to-person. If you wish to add your name to this
+list, which is maintained by Dominik Wujastyk, please send him your
+network (or other) address. Once the list exceeds critical mass (to
+be decided by me) I shall stop distributing the memo myself, and hand
+it over to be a file in the TeXhax collection, or some other such
+source, where it can be picked up by FTP as required.
+
+Dominik Wujastyk
+Until July 1988:
+ Quincy House #101,
+ Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA,
+
+Thereafter:
+ Wellcome Institute,
+ 183 Euston Road,
+ London NW1 2BP, England.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__8
+**********************************************************************
+* TeX for the Mac *
+**********************************************************************
+
+by Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET>
+additional experimentation by Eric Zager <EZAGER@HMCVAX.BITNET>
+
+*Disclaimer*: Don Hosek and Eric Zager have no connections to
+Addison-Wesley or Kellerman & Smith. The opinions expressed in this
+review are primarily those of Mr. Hosek with some input from Mr.
+Zager.
+
+TeXtures v1.0. Requirements: Apple Macintosh 512, Macintosh Plus,
+Macintosh SE, Macintosh II, or Macintosh XL with two floppy drives or
+hard disk. Prints on either an Apple Imagewriter, Apple Laserwriter,
+or PostScript typesetter. Cost: $495; multi-use licenses available.
+Order from Addison-Wesley: TeXtures, EMSD Marketing, Addison-Wesley
+Publishing Company, 12 Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867. Phone:
+(617) 944-6795
+
+ TeXtures is Addison-Wesley's implementation of TeX for the
+Macintosh. In general, the implementation is faithful to Knuth's
+original and the documentation is adequate, although not as well
+organized as it could be.
+
+ The editor provided by TeXtures includes a few nice features not
+offered by some others, such as go to a specified line (of course,
+those of us who have been using large computers for any length of
+time are seldom impressed), and seems to do the job fairly well.
+Cursor movement using the Mac's cursor keys is a bit on the slow side
+and I found myself using the mouse a bit more than I prefer to
+perform cursor movements.
+
+ The typesetting process is relatively painless. The on-screen
+dialogue and journal file familiar to users of TeX on other systems
+have been placed into a "TeX log" window which gives the traditional
+TeX output as well as keeping a commentary on the side of how far
+into the current file TeX has gotten. On our VAX, I seldom use the
+interactive error handling capabilities of TeX since I tend to forget
+to fix the TeX souce file when I do. With TeXture's TeX log window,
+it's possible to make changes to the TeX source file without stopping
+TeX itself.
+
+ After TeX has finished with its work, TeXture's previewer is
+automatically invoked. The previewer is reasonably fast and allows
+the user to magnify (or shrink) the document by several factors. The
+implementation's use of windows is again useful since it allows the
+user to edit his TeX source while remaining in the previewer.
+Graphics included are also shown in the previewer.
+
+ INITeX has been included into TeXtures invisibly. If TeXtures
+encounters a \dump statement, it automatically switches into INITeX
+mode and dumps a format file.
+
+ Graphics inclusion is simple and fairly easy to use. The manual
+includes several examples of including illustrations into documents.
+All that is lacking, in my opinion, is the presence of simple
+graphics primitive \special commands (for example arcs lines and so
+forth), but these should hopefully appear when the \special standard
+is finished.
+
+ This implementation of TeX is certainly a step above a
+minimum-level version of TeX. However, in some ways it was a bit
+disappointing. For example, it would have been nice to have more of
+a WYSIWYG implementation of TeX (Arbortext has done something along
+these lines with their program, The Publisher, which apparently
+allows WYSIWYG TeX as well as an escape to the familiar command-style
+environment. I haven't seen the program myself, so I cannot make any
+bold comments). Also, the copy that I received seemed to be missing
+many fonts that I would think might be commonly used (such as cmr10
+at 14.4pt). For the mainframe user of TeX, TeXtures is certainly a
+fine program (albeit a bit expensive). For the user familiar with
+Macintosh software, however, TeXtures may seem a bit too esoteric for
+the few benefits that are apparent at the surface (easy math, ability
+to do generalized design of a document and so forth), and with Mac
+word-processing programs becoming more sophisticated, the lack of a
+more friendly interface may make TeXtures unpalatable to the new TeX
+user.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__9
+**********************************************************************
+* Second Annual Readers Survey Results *
+**********************************************************************
+
+The response to the second annual readers survey are in. The response
+rate is down to 57 out of 623 (9.1%) from last year's 23 out of 51
+(45.1%). My friend Kyle, who took psychology last semester, says that
+this means that the results probably aren't very useful (something
+about only people with really strong opinions responding).
+Nevertheless, I'm going to go ahead with printing the results (such
+as they are).
+
+ The national breakdown of respondants was USA: 64.9% (the big
+states were California, New York, and Massachusetts), West Germany:
+12.3%, Canada: 7.0%, Netherlands: 5.3%, and Austria, Denmark,
+Finland, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom with 1.8% each.
+Listserv lists the following additional countries: Belgium, Chile,
+France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.
+
+ Two thirds of the respondants spoke English as their native
+language. Behind this were German (14%), Dutch (7%), and Chinese,
+Danish, Italian, Marathi (Indian), Russian, and Swedish (1.8% each).
+The median age was 32, and 94.6% of those responding are male.
+
+ The vast majority of those responding were from educational
+institutions, although there were also individuals working in
+government, commercial, and non-profit positions as well. The most
+common position held was computing staff, followed by research.
+Students out-numbered academic faculty by a 5 to 4 ratio.
+
+ The most common field was computer science/computer engineering
+(42.1%) followed by mathematics (28.7%) and physics (10.5%).
+
+ Most of the respondants heard about TeXMaG either from Netmonth
+or TeXhax (or both) while the PCTeX bulletin board, local
+publications and so forth were responsible for many others learning
+about the magazine. For the curious, the percent who said that I
+publicize TeXMaG shamelessly was 15.8%.
+
+ This year, the IBM PC has jockeyed into the first place position.
+77.2% of the respondants said that they used TeX on their PC. Second
+place is held by VAX/VMS (59.7%). IBM VM/CMS holds third place
+(26.3%), fourth place is BSD Unix (22.8%), and fifth by the Apple
+Macintosh (19.3%). Also-rans are: Amdahl MTS (1.8%), CDC Cyber
+(1.8%), Data General MV (3.5%), HP 9000/500 (1.8%), IBM MVS (7.0%),
+IBM VM/UTS (3.5%), Modcomp Classic (1.8%), Prime (1.8%), Siemens
+BS2000 (1.8%), Sperry 1100 (1.8%), Symbolics Lisp (3.5%), System V
+Unix (3.5%), Apollo Workstation (3.5%), Atari ST (8.8%), AT&T System
+V (3.5%), DEC Rainbow (1.8%), Siemens PC MX2 (1.8%), Sun Workstation
+(12.3%), VAXstation/Unix (3.5%), VAXstation/VMS (3.5%).
+
+ The most common output device was the Epson Dot Matrix printer,
+followed closely by PostScript printers, the HP Laserjet Plus and the
+DEC LN03. Device dependant articles on these devices might be in
+order in the near future.
+
+ A greater percentage of respondants are using version 2.0 or later
+with 2 having already made the upgrade to version 2.9. One respondant
+is using Common TeX, a C translation of TeX.
+
+ Most of the respondants read TeXhax and over half read TUGboat.
+One TeX mailing list not mentioned in the survey, was brought to my
+attention. TeX_D-L, a German language TeX discussion list.
+Information on this list is included at the end of TeXMaG.
+
+ What you want most, according to the survey, is information on TeX
+services and discussion groups on the networks. In the coming issues,
+I will try to hilight some of the assorted services available (by the
+way, this is where YOU, the reader can be helpful. I don't have
+access to the internet for FTP, and I don't have a personal computer
+or modem, so much of what's out there is inaccessible to me. For
+example, who knows whats available from Score.Stanford.Edu? How can
+it be obtained and by whom?). Next on the wish list is reviews of TeX
+products (Look! there's one already in this issue!), followed by
+Metafont examples and plain TeX macro writing. General priorities
+were in order of decreasing desire, Metafont, Plain TeX, LaTeX, WEB,
+and AmS-TeX. Tutorials are least important. Some of the additional
+topics suggested were: DVI driver theory, Graphics merging, TeXtures
+fonts (just what are those little suitcase things and how can I make
+them), information on fonts available, TeX vs. other text formatters,
+new LaTeX stuff, what exactly are all those files?, AMS document
+styles, driver standards, CMS TeX, indexing, BibTeX, SliTeX, \output,
+Driver Availability, SGML, and graphics standards.
+
+ To close, a few comments from the surveys:
+
+ "More, bigger, better. For the moment I vote for beating on
+people for anything and taking all the good stuff, no matter what
+aspect of TeX is covered. Of course, since I don't have to do the
+beating, this is easy for me to say." -Jon Radel
+<6033138@Pucc.Bitnet>
+
+ "Since there is so much more (and more frequent) Information being
+found in TeXhax and TUGboat, I think that TeXMaG is not worth the
+effort of maintaining, and it will never reach the high level of
+quality of those other two media. Why spread your (and our) efforts
+into something like TeXMaG instead of concentrating on TUGboat and
+TeXhax and helping B. Beeton and M. Brown with their work (to make
+their media even more complete and up-to-date etc.)?" -Dr. Hubert
+Partl <Z3000pa@Awituw01>
+
+ "Maybe I'm not reading my magazines well enough, but I'd like to
+have a regular survey on what fonts are (freely) available. Sometimes
+you hear of people looking for a certain font, and sometimes they
+find someone who knows where to find it. You also do hear about
+font-collections everywhere, but I have the impression it isn't very
+centralized yet. Or am I wrong and just paying no attention?" -Redmer
+Alma <Redmer@Hgrrug5>
+
+ "Can you include some sort of index with your next TeXMaG (since
+they appear to be semi-irregular) so we can tell if we're missing
+some? Keep up the good work! TeXMaG is a nice, relaxed alternative to
+the often frenetic TeXhax." -Charles Antonelli
+<Cja@Crim.Eecs.Umich.Edu>
+
+ "Many people are unsure how to get TeX up and running on a given
+machine. There are apparently several places to get ahold of TeX,
+e.g. Washington, Stanford, K&S, etc. This leads to confusion."
+-Kevin McCurley <MccurLey@Uscvm.Bitnet>
+
+ "One valuable thing that TeXMaG provides is a more elementary
+introduction to TeX fancy features for neophytes. Neophytes find
+TeXhax a bit intimidating, and full of stuff they don't care about
+(like how to get the device driver for a printer they've never heard
+of running on a system they've never heard of). I am currently the
+resident TeX expert at UIC... and now that we have a viable TeX
+running on our mainframe, we are getting a lot more neophytes using
+TeX, and TeXMaG will (I hope) provide a more useful resource for them
+than TeXhax. I'm running a TeX Show 'n' Tell Seminar on campus (the
+idea is that people come in with problems, and we talk about them),
+and I'll be encouraging people to look at TeXMaG." -Richard Larson
+<U09254@Uicvm>
+
+ "Very happy to recieve my issue of TeXmag each month but I wonder
+if there is enough cooperation with TugBoat... I see TeXMag as
+complementing TugBoat... in TeXMag short, timely articles and macros
+of all descriptions including those published in TugBoat... In
+TugBoat longer, illustrated, less time-sensitive articles." -Chris
+Carruthers <Cjc@Uottawa.Bitnet>
+
+ "BITNET/EARN is a better and safer distribution medium than
+others. For instance we have difficulties getting files from the
+Rochester style file collection. It would be nice to get some style
+file or other as part of the magazine." -Georg Bayer
+<C0030001@Dbstu1>
+
+ "It would be helpful if there was a central source on availability
+of style files, drivers, etc. Also, there are often references to
+items which are probably familiar to 'older' readers of TeXhax and
+TeXMaG, but newer readers could benefit from 'central source' idea
+above. For example, the words 'Rochester Collection' doesn't mean
+much to me, and 'just FTP the files' isn't much help to us bitnet
+users. I realize that some of this may be beyond the scope of
+TeXMag." -Darrel Hankerson <HANK@AUDUCVAX>
+
+
+
+
+
+__10
+**********************************************************************
+* TeX Mysteries and Puzzles *
+**********************************************************************
+
+In TeXhax V88 #14, I put forth the following puzzle:
+
+ In _Tom Jones_, (Penguin Classics, Middlesex England. 1987.), each
+ chapter has a long title (up to six lines) that is typeset with
+ all but the last line being set flush right and flush left, and
+ the last line centered. Viz,
+
+ A Dialogue between the Landlady, and Susan the Chambermaid,
+ proper to be read by all Innkeepers, and their Servants;
+ with the Arrival, and affable Behaviour of a beautiful
+ young Lady; which may teach Persons of Condition how they
+ may acquire the Love of the whole World.
+
+ Can these chapter headings be typeset using TeX's line breaking
+ algorithm, and if so how?
+
+I received several (five) solutions to my query (to give credit where
+credit is due, the respondants were David G. Cantor
+<dgc@math.ucla.edu>, Frank Holzwarth <A64@Dhdurz1.Bitnet>, Jerry
+Leichter <Leichter@YaLevms.Bitnet>, Jim Walker
+<N410109@Univscvm.BITNET> and an unnamed person from Arbortext
+<Gpg@Arbortext.Com>.
+
+ The general solution was to box the paragraph and split off the
+last line, unbox that and center it. Frank Holzwarth recognized that
+the problem was similar to one that he encountered when he attempted
+to get lengthy table of contents lines. He was getting something
+like:
+
+ %values between ">" and "<" give the columnwidth
+ >myindent<> hsize - myindent - 3 true cm <> 3cm <
+ 1.1 NORMAL HEADING ....................... 77
+ 1.2 ABNORMAL HEADING, BECAUSE IT WRAPS
+ AROUND SOME LINES; SO THE LEADERS
+ COME MISPLACED .... 88
+ I wanted to get *leaders above here* impossible.
+
+His solution was: "the text of the heading goes inside a scratch-box,
+which can be deleted line by line with \lastbox and be measured to
+overlay at last a leaderfilled box with the right dimension. And it
+works fine. I didn't test it at page breaks, so it may work wrong in
+that case."
+The original macro looked like:
+%%%------------- tear neatly -------------------------------------%%%%
+\def\leaderfill{\kern0.5em\leaders\hbox to 0.5em{\hss.\hss}\hfill\kern
+0.5em}% right out of the 'bible'
+\newcount\nmbroflines \newbox\scratch \newbox\rule \newdimen\myindent
+%caution! \myindent needs to be set first, say e.g.
+\myindent=1.5true cm
+\def\hugeheader#1#2#3{\bgroup\parskip=0pt
+\setbox\scratch=\vbox{{\advance\hsize by-\myindent
+\advance\hsize by-3true cm\noindent#2\par}% to prevent blanks
+\global\nmbroflines=\prevgraf}% 'you never know'
+\unvbox\scratch \setbox\rule=\lastbox
+\loop\ifnum\nmbroflines>1
+\unskip\unpenalty\setbox\scratch=\lastbox
+\advance\nmbroflines by-1\repeat
+\setbox\scratch=\hbox{\unhbox\rule\unskip\unskip\unpenalty}%
+{\par\advance\hsize by-3true cm\hangindent\myindent
+\noindent\hbox to\myindent{#1\hss}#2\par}%
+\vskip-\baselineskip
+\line{\kern\myindent\kern\wd\scratch\leaderfill#3}\egroup}
+% usage:
+\line{\hbox to\myindent{1.0\hfil}Normal Heading\leaderfill 66}
+\hugeheader{1.1}{Abnormal heading of a chapter about giant holes all
+over Australia caused by elephants interbreeded with local kangaroos}%
+{77}
+%%%------------- cut along this line ----------------------------%%%%%
+
+He continued, "To solve your puzzle now one only has to do a
+\centerline with the last line thus the first that is removed by
+\lastbox as follows"
+
+%%%--- cut it, tex it and wonder ---------------------------------%%%%
+\newbox\all \newbox\part
+\def\puzzletitle#1{\bigskip\bgroup\parskip=0pt
+\setbox\all=\vbox{\noindent #1\par}% prevent blanks 'you never know'
+\setbox\all=\vbox{\unvbox\all \global\setbox\part=\lastbox
+\unskip\unpenalty\unskip}% 'yes I do!'
+\setbox\part=\hbox{\unhbox\part\unskip\unskip\unpenalty}% again
+\box\all\par\centerline{\box\part}\egroup\medskip\noindent}% and again...
+last words of the previous paragraph.
+\puzzletitle{A Dialogue between the Landlady, and Susan the
+Chambermaid, proper to be read by all Innkeepers, and their
+Servants; with the Arrival, and affable Behaviour of a beautiful
+young Lady; which may teach Persons of Condition how they may
+acquire the Love of the whole World.}
+Normal beginning of this thrilling paragraph.
+\bye
+%%%------------- finished ----------------------------------------%%%%
+
+David Cantor's solution was a bit simpler.
+
+%%%------------- Cut with care ---------------------------------------
+% Here is the desired macro. It is called with one argument,
+% the text that is to be the heading. It assumes Plain TeX.
+% The argument of \hsize can be whatever is desired, of course.
+
+\newbox\jx\newbox\jy
+\def\jones#1{\hsize3.75in\par\setbox\jx\vbox{\noindent\strut
+ \ignorespaces#1\par\global\setbox\jy\lastbox}%
+ \vbox{\unvbox\jx\par \line{\hfill\unhbox\jy\hfill}}}
+% Here is an example of its use.
+\jones{
+A Dialogue between the Landlady, and Susan the Chambermaid, proper to be
+read by all Innkeepers, and their Servants; with the Arrival, and
+affable Behaviour of a beautiful young Lady; which may teach Persons of
+Condition how they may acquire the Love of the whole World.}
+%%%-------------------------------------------Guess what to do here---
+
+However, the most elegant solution was courtesy of Jim Walker who
+came up with the following:
+
+%%%----------Remove and admire----------------------------------------
+ \def\weirdtitle#1{%
+ \setbox0=\vbox{\noindent #1}%
+ \setbox1=\vbox{%
+ \unvbox0
+ \setbox2=\lastbox
+ \line{\hfill\unhbox2 \hfill}%
+ }%
+ \unvbox1
+ }%
+%%%---------Neat, isn't it?-------------------------------------------
+
+I had so much fun with this, I've decided to make it a regular
+feature in TeXMaG. Readers are welcome to send me their
+puzzles/curiosities for this column. By the way here's the next
+puzzle:
+
+ The Singapore tourism board (or some such entity) has ads in the
+Los Angeles Times in which two or three paragraphs are typeset with
+the typeface alternating between roman and italics with every
+character (spaces don't count). To illustrate, let's pretend that an
+uppercase letter represents italic type and lowercase represents
+roman. Then the phrase "come to Singapore" would be typeset as: "cOmE
+tO sInGaPoRe". All punctuation is typeset in roman. The text typeset
+in this manner may span several paragraphs and could conceivably
+include TeX control sequences. The goal is to find an elegant way to
+typeset text in the style of this ad. [[Disclaimer: The editor has no
+association with the Singapore tourism board. In fact, he's never
+been further west than Santa Monica]]
+
+
+
+
+
+__11
+**********************************************************************
+* The Toolbox *
+**********************************************************************
+
+Lately, there has been a plethora of requests in TeXhax for a macro
+to typeset dropped initial letters in paragraphs. The following LaTeX
+style file was adapted from a macro written by David G. Cantor
+<dgc@math.ucla.edu> by Dominik Wujastyk <dow@harvunxw.bitnet>. The
+style file is pretty much self-explanatory, so here it is:
+
+%%%%%%%%------Cut Here------------------------------------------------
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% DROP.DOC <February 17, 1988>
+% Macro for dropping and enlarging the first letter(s) of a paragraph.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% Macro written by David G. Cantor, and published Fri, 12 Feb 88, in
+% TeXhax, 1988 #16.
+% Internet: dgc@math.ucla.edu
+% UUCP: ...!{ihnp4, randvax, sdcrdcf, ucbvax}!ucla-cs!dgc
+%
+% Modified for use with LaTeX by Dominik Wujastyk, February 17, 1988
+% Internet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu
+% Bitnet: dow@harvunxw.bitnet
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% This LaTeX macro is for dropping and enlarging the first letter(s) of a
+% paragraph. The argument may be one or more letters.
+%
+% Here is an example of its usage:
+%
+% \documentstyle[drop]{article}
+% \begin{document}
+% \drop{IN} THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now the
+% earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the
+% deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
+% \end{document}
+%
+% Which will produce something along these lines:
+%
+% I I\ I THE beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
+% I I \ I Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was
+% I I \I upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hov-
+% ered over the face of the waters.
+%
+% In the first instance the macro will pause during LaTeX processing and
+% ask you for the font you wish to use for you drop capital. When you
+% have something that looks good, then comment out box one in DROP.STY,
+% and comment in box two, replacing "cmr10 scaled \magstep5" with the font
+% of your choice.
+%
+% In my opinion (DW) there are no fonts available in the standard
+% TeX/LaTeX set that are ideal for this use, unless you go down to 9pt or % 8p
+t for your text face, and this is too small. If you have Metafont you
+% should consider generating a cmr17 font at a magstep of two (about 25pt)
+% or three (about 30pt), or even more, depending on the point size of your
+% main text. Why not go the whole hog and design some really fancy
+% capitals from scratch!
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% BOX ONE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\typein[\dropinitialfont]{Font for Dropped initial:} %
+\font\largefont \dropinitialfont %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% BOX TWO %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%\font\largefont= cmr10 scaled \magstep5 %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\def\drop#1#2{{\noindent
+ \setbox0\hbox{\largefont #1}\setbox1\hbox{#2}\setbox2\hbox{(}%
+ \count0=\ht0\advance\count0 by\dp0\count1\baselineskip
+ \advance\count0 by-\ht1\advance\count0by\ht2
+ \dimen1=.5ex\advance\count0by\dimen1\divide\count0 by\count1
+ \advance\count0 by1\dimen0\wd0
+ \advance\dimen0 by.25em\dimen1=\ht0\advance\dimen1 by-\ht1
+ \global\hangindent\dimen0\global\hangafter-\count0
+ \hskip-\dimen0\setbox0\hbox to\dimen0{\raise-\dimen1\box0\hss}%
+ \dp0=0in\ht0=0in\box0}#2}
+%%%-------Terminate cutting-------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+
+__12
+**********************************************************************
+* TeXMaG Index *
+**********************************************************************
+
+Below is a cumulative index for issues V1N1 to V2N2 inclusive. An
+article is referred to by VxNy.z where x is the volume number, y the
+issue number and z the article number (designated by __z preceeding
+the article).
+
+
+advertising V2N2.10 weird paragraphs V2N2.10
+AmS-TeX V2N2.4 MFware V1N6.5
+\anti V2N1.9 network services
+Applied Mathematics DECnet V2N1.2
+ Letters V2N2.4 V2N2.2
+article ideas V1N2.2 LaTeX-Style V1N1.4
+ V1N5.3 listserv@tamvm1 V2N1.3
+ V2N2.9 V2N2.3
+BibTeX V2N1.8 TeX-L V2N1.3
+\bra V1N8.6 TeXhax V2N1.3
+\bracket V1N8.6 \noalign V1N8.3
+\citer V2N1.8 outline.sty V1N7.3
+\dlap V1N3.4 outlines V1N7.3
+ V1N6.6 PC-OUTLINE V1N7.3
+ V1N7.5 PCTeX BBS V1N8.1
+\dowcomp V1N5.5 V2N1.7
+drop.doc V2N2.11 plain TeX
+dropped initial V2N2.11 and BibTeX V2N1.8
+DVI drivers intricacies of pars V2N2.10
+ announcements readers' survey V1N1.2
+ DVIview V1N7.4 V2N1.6
+ driver lists V2N2.3 results V1N2.2
+ standards V1N5.4 V2N2.9
+eqnarray V1N8.3 resumemac.tex V1N3.2
+European TeX conference V2N1.4 V1N6.2
+\EV V1N8.6 resumes V1N3.2
+\fakebold V1N1.3 V1N6.2
+fill in the blanks V1N7.2 reviews
+\fnote V1N1.3 TeXtures V2N2.8
+fonts Singapore V2N2.10
+ faking them V1N1.3 \slasha V1N8.6
+ V1N8.4 \slashb V1N8.6
+ V2N2.7 \special standards V1N5.4
+ files V2N2.6 \split V1N4.5
+ fonts available V2N2.7 V1N5.2
+fortran.tex V1N2.4 \sprite V1N8.4
+grovelling V1N5.3 sprite.sty V1N8.4
+headlines V2N2.7
+ plain TeX V1N2.4 subeqn.sty V1N4.5
+ V1N5.5 subequations V1N4.5
+ V1N6.6 TeX implementations
+index V2N2.12 Macintosh V1N5.2
+\ket V1N8.6 V2N2.8
+laps.tex V1N3.4 TeX Users Group
+LaTeX conference V1N4.2
+ dropped initial V2N2.11 V2N2.5
+ eqnarray environment V1N8.3 courses V1N4.2
+ introduction V1N3.3 V1N6.3
+ style collection V1N1.4 V2N1.5
+ useful internal macros V1N7.5 TeXtures V1N5.2
+ V1N8.2 V2N2.8
+macros TeXware V1N6.5
+ LaTeX V2N2.6
+ sprite characters V1N8.4 timeline.sty V1N7.5
+ subequations V1N4.5 V1N8.2
+ timelines V1N7.5 timelines V1N7.5
+ V1N8.2 V1N8.2
+ plain TeX toc.tex V1N2.3
+ anti-particles V2N1.9 TUGboat V1N4.3
+ bibliographies V2N1.8 V1N6.4
+ day of week V1N5.5 V1N8.5
+ fill in the blanks V1N7.2 \ulap V1N3.4
+ footnotes V1N1.3 V1N6.6
+ headlines V1N2.4 \undertilde V1N8.6
+ V1N5.5 \unot V1N7.6
+ V1N6.6 WEB
+ outlines V1N7.3 formatting
+ program listings V1N4.2 ss for identifiers V1N7.6
+ resumes V1N3.2 standard programs V1N6.5
+ V1N6.2 webmacss.tex V1N7.6
+ side by side pars V1N4.5 \xlap V1N3.4
+ V1N5.2 \xsplit V1N4.5
+ table of contents V1N2.3 V1N5.2
+ V2N2.10 \ylap V1N3.4
+ timelines V1N7.5 \zlap V1N3.4
+
+
+
+
+
+__13
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