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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 6 *
+* EEEEEEE A A Distribution: 1296 or so... *
+* *
+*******************************************************************************
+
+December 30, 1988
+
+\footnote............................................................1
+News
+ LaTeX style collection moves to Clarkson...........................2
+ A new and improved LaTeX manual?...................................3
+ TeXhax moves to Washington.........................................4
+ "You say Lah-TeX I say Lay-TeX": A report on the 1988 TeX Users
+ Group Meeting....................................................5
+How to change the LaTeX layout.......................................6
+The Toolbox..........................................................7
+TeX Mysteries and Puzzles............................................8
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__1
+\footnote{Forgotten, but not dead}
+
+Well, a mere three and a half months later, I've finally gotten the
+time to sit down and put together the latest issue of TeXMaG.
+Hopefully, I shall be able to get TeXMaG back on a more regular
+schedule for Volume 3.
+
+If any of you have submitted articles and not seen them in print,
+please let me know. I have a dread feeling that I've lost a few
+submisions along the lines.
+
+Also, of interest, is the news that TeX and Metafont have reached
+versions 2.95 and 1.7 respectively. More on this will appear in a
+future issue.
+
+G'day
+
+-dh
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__2
+**********************************************************************
+* LaTeX style collection moves to Clarkson *
+**********************************************************************
+
+The LaTeX style collection has been moved. It now resides at
+sun.soe.clarkson.edu. The collection will now be maintained by
+Michael DeCorte, a Clarkson University computer science student. As
+always, submissions are encouraged. Mail should be sent to
+ mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
+or
+ archive-management@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
+
+A few changes have been made in the collection that should be noted.
+First, the names of the files that users should access are:
+
+Index A list of all the files in reverse chronological
+ ordering
+Description A list of all the files in alphabetical ordering
+ with a brief description of each
+Readme Documentation on how to get files
+
+Also, all .doc files have been renamed to .sty and the original .sty
+will be removed. This change does not affect the style file's use.
+If you must squeeze the last bit of performance out of your machine,
+get docsty.shar. [[Note: on smaller computers, e.g. PC's, using the
+.sty files as supplied may cause memory problems. -ed.]
+
+Internet users can use anonymous ftp to retrieve files. The files
+are stored in pub/latex-style.
+
+Other users can use the mail archive to retrieve files. Send mail to
+archiver-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu with the body of the mail
+message containing the command help or index or send. The send
+command must be followed by latex-style and then the files you want.
+Users who are not in the uucp maps database are strongly encourage to
+include a path command followed by a path from clarkson to you. If
+you don't include a path command, your mail may not get to you and
+will definitely be delayed as Michael will have to mail it by hand.
+You should realize that Clarkson does not have a uucp connection;
+therefore you must send it to an Internet or Bitnet host that does
+have a uucp connection. For example, host!user@uunet.uu.net should
+send:
+
+To: archive-server@clarkson.edu
+Subject:
+
+path host!user@uunet.uu.net
+send latex-style Readme Index
+send latex-style resume.sty
+
+Note that this syntax is different from that used by the server at
+University of Rochester.
+
+Clarkson Archiver Server
+archiver-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
+archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet
+dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__3
+**********************************************************************
+* A new and improved LaTeX manual? *
+**********************************************************************
+By Leslie Lamport <lamport@src.dec.com>
+
+You all may be interested to know that the LaTeX manual has sold
+almost 60,000 copies. Addison-Wesley would like to publish a revised
+edition, and I'm considering whether it's worth doing. There are
+three possibilities: expanding the book with new material, writing a
+second book, or doing nothing. I would like to find out how LaTeX
+users feel about this. What additional material would people find
+useful? Should it be a new book to supplement the manual or an new
+version of the current manual? I'm particularly interested in hearing
+from users who do not have a technical background.
+
+Please reply directly to me at `lamport@src.dec.com'. If this address
+doesn't work, tell your mail wizard that he's probably using obsolete
+network software and try resending to `lamport@decwrl.dec.com'.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__4
+**********************************************************************
+* TeXhax moves to Washington *
+**********************************************************************
+
+Malcolm Brown has retired from his position as TeXhax moderator and
+has been succeded by the efforts of Pierre Mackay and Tiina Modiset
+(as everybody is fond of saying, yes, *2* I's). Numerous enhancements
+have been made to the format of the journal (for example, the inclusion
+of keywords in article headers) and Pierre and Tiina have been doing
+an admirable job of filling Malcolm's footsteps.
+
+In addition, the TeX Users Group has lent its support to the effort
+and hopefully, TeXhax will become more coordinated in the future.
+
+TeXhax submissions should now be sent to TeXhax@Cs.Washington.Edu
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__5
+**********************************************************************
+* "You say Lah-TeX I say Lay-TeX": *
+* A report on the 1988 TeX Users Group Meeting *
+**********************************************************************
+
+For those of you unaware of this, the 1988 TeX Users Group meeting
+was held from August 21-24 at McGill University in Montr\'eal,
+Canada. Perhaps the most striking fact about Montr\'eal is that they
+don't speak English there (well a bit, but not as much as one would
+like). I remember wandering about the city thinking, "Gee, this is
+just like being in a foreign country." The fact that I was in a
+foreign country only reinforced the impression.
+
+My experience with the conference began on the morning of the 22nd
+when I arrived just in time to miss most of the introduction of
+officers, site coordinators, staff, and others. Fortunately I had
+many opportunities later to meet all of the assorted people from TUG
+as well as many of the participators. It was especially nice to be
+able to finally attach faces to the many names that I know and love
+from TeXhax, TUGboat, TeXMaG, et al.; of course nobody looked
+anything like I expected them to (except, for some strange reason,
+Shawn Farrell).
+
+The theme of the conference was TeX in Production with a number of
+interesting applications of TeX running from TV Guide to NASA
+technical reports to kennel club year books (!). Interestingly
+enough, nearly all of the presentations on the topic dealt with the
+same sort of applications.
+
+The primary idea presented regarding TeX was interfacing TeX with
+some sort of database system. In some cases, such as TV Guide, the
+database was generated from TeX code. This sort of system was used
+for requisitions: by typing certain essential information into macro
+definitions at the beginning of the TeX file containing the
+requisition, indexing information could easily be extracted from the
+file. Since TV Guide's primary computing resource is a large number
+of independent PC's, this approach allows them to generate a
+centralized database.
+
+Another approach to interfacing TeX and databases was presented by
+Robert Harris, who described his experiences using TeX to produce
+kennel club yearbooks. In this case, the information for the
+yearbooks was stored in a database accessed by a program written by
+Mr. Harris who runs an independent computer company in New York. He
+selected TeX as his output program because it seemed to him that it
+would be easier to drive it from his database than any other text
+processor available.
+
+Both of these approaches to interfacing TeX and database programs
+seem rather intriguing. In the past months, I've done some work in
+generating simple TeX code from dbase III (actually a friend did the
+work: I just told him what to do). Many article ideas are lurking
+behind this concept he hinted insidiously.
+
+Not all of the talk on the first day concerned interfacing TeX and
+databases; there were also talks on specific production applications
+of TeX given by Laurie Mann of Stratus Computer, Eric Jul of OCLC,
+James Mooney of West Virginia University and Elizabeth Barnhart of TV
+Guide. Unfortunately, at this late date I remember few details of
+their talks although I have a few notes written down on some of the
+more important points made, in particular, some of the concerns of
+the speakers included the difficulty of using non-CM fonts with TeX,
+the need to make TeX a fully integrated part of the user environment,
+and the need to shield the user from the complexities of TeX, usually
+through the use of a pre-processor. One rather interesting item was a
+program developed at TV Guide for producing text of varying column
+widths.
+
+The talks for the day were wrapped up with a presentation by Alex
+Warman on the decision to use TeX made by a trade typesetter
+(TeXworks Pty. Ltd.). Much of his presentation dealt with the
+barriers in making such a change due to conservativeness on the part
+of typesetter manufacturers and a lack of information interchange
+between typesetters in Australia.
+
+The day closed with a wine and cheese in the student pub sponsored by
+PC TeX. Not only were the wine and cheese excellant, but I was also
+presented with a number of opportunities to talk to various TeX
+people from everywhere.
+
+The second day began with presentations from various TeX-related
+exhibitors. This was opened by Barry Smith who has left Kellerman and
+Smith to form Blue Sky Research to market Textures, his implementation
+of TeX for the Macintosh (Kellerman and Smith is now just Kellerman
+and is called Northlake Software). Smith gave participants a preview
+of two major enhancements that are coming to Textures (as well as the
+proper pronunciation: teks-tyers). The first is an interface to Adobe
+Illustrator allowing many interesting manipulations of the PostScript
+output from Textures. Aside from separating the tasks of typesetting
+and "paste-up", in this manner, this allows other tasks such as use of
+color. Additionally, the PostScript files manipulated in this manner
+may be brought back into Textures for further manipulation.
+
+The second enhancement that he announced was the future availability
+of Computer Modern fonts in PostScript format developed by Projective
+Solutions. The outlines are created from high resolution GF files. The
+program for conversions should become available at some point in the
+future.
+
+Dean Guenther of the Washington State University Computing Service
+Center then described his university's TeXT1 text processing macro
+package: among the more notable features of this package are
+generalized markup, tables of contents, boxes, marginnotes, multiple
+columns, and a one pass sorted index for CMS. On IBM PCs, the package
+can be accessed from menus. Plus, all of the features are easily
+customizable and many samples are included with the package including
+a model for creating form letters from DBase III output.
+
+In addition to TeXT1, WSU also has available an IPA phonetics font as
+well as a driver for the Compugraphics 8600 typesetter for CMS.
+
+Amy Hendrickson of TeXnology Inc. then introduced her macro package,
+MacroTeX, which is now in its fully completed version. [At this point,
+I was getting tired of keeping detailed reports of the speakers, so my
+records have thinned out somewhat.] MacroTeX seems to offer many of
+the same features as TeXT1, but in a somewhat different format.
+There's really no way to tell which is the "better" product from the
+presentations.
+
+The people of Personal TeX Inc. have introduced numerous new products,
+including a new previewer of their very own, PTIview, and a new
+TeX typesetting service.
+
+Micro Publishing Systems of Vancouver, Canada announced the
+availability of their PC implementation of TeX, called CTeX, which is
+an implementation of TeX in CWEB. The product currently runs under DOS
+2.1, but plans are in the works to implement TeX on other PC operating
+systems such as SCO XENIX and OS/2. In addition to CTeX, MPS also has
+TeXwrite, a text editor designed for use with TeX on the PC, printer
+drivers for PostScript and HP LaserJet compatible printers, and
+additional products from Arbortext and the Metafoundry.
+
+Robert Kinch, of Kinch Computer Co. then introduced his TeX
+implementation, TurboTeX, which is a mechanical translation of the WEB
+source of TeX into C. At this time, the program will compile under MS
+DOS, System V Unix and Berkeley Unix. Although somewhat slower than
+PCTeX, the package is much cheaper. As an added incentive to get
+people to try his program, Mr. Kinch gave away 100 copies of the
+program, plus numerous rain checks for those who couldn't make it into
+the first 100 places in line.
+
+The next product introduced was K-Talk's MathEditor which allows
+WYSIWYG input of mathematics for TeX and Word Perfect on PC's. This
+was followed by Computer Composition Corporation announcing the
+availabilty of their typesetting service. They have CM fonts available
+for their typesetter and promise a 2-day turnaround time.
+
+Stephan von Bechtolsheim talked about his book, _Another Look at TeX_,
+which promises to be the definitive guide to plain TeX. At the present
+time, it's two volumes and nearly a thousand pages, with many
+examples. I've seen early editions of the book and it's pretty good.
+
+Finally, we heard from Arbortext, who, as you may already know, have
+taken over the marketing of MicroTeX. The mackage is now called
+$\mu$-TeX (pardon my math mode) which should allow integrated TeX,
+edit, and preview; simplified keyboarding; and automated installation.
+
+After everybody came back from the exhibitors' room with their free
+copies of TurboTeX, we then heard the site coordinators' status
+reports which I have no record of whatsoever.
+
+The afternoon was begun with three talks on TeX training: TeX tips for
+getting started by Berkeley Parks; The art of teaching TeX for
+production by Alan Wittbecker; and Choosing between TeX and LaTeX by
+Shawn Farrell (incidentally, he suggests LaTeX). This was followed by
+Robert McGaffey reporting on the status of the DVI driver standards
+committee and a break.
+
+Afterwards, we heard several talks regarding non-English TeX: Nobuo
+Saito and Kazuhiro Kitagawa discussed Mathematics textbook publishing
+with Japanese TeX (by using TeX, they reduced the cost per book by a
+rather remarkable amount); Jacques Goldberg described his system for
+using TeX to typeset Hebrew and other right-to-left languages as well
+as explaining his choice of the name "SemiTeX" (he also gave a preview
+of an Arabic font and a new Hebrew font which his students have been
+working on); Michael Ferguson explained the principles and problems
+underlying his T\^eX package which allows multiple hyphenation patterns
+and accenting of words containing diacriticals; and this was finished
+with Kauko Saarinen describing his experiences with Finnish TeX.
+
+The day was concluded with "Topical" Birds-of-a-Feather sessions where
+I found myself leading one on "servers". However, for various reasons
+(e.g. we all knew pretty much the same stuff and we all used CMS
+systems), this session became a discussion of CMS TeX. Meanwhile other
+people discussed such things as Metafont, LaTeX, and all sorts of
+other stuff.
+
+The next day began with Stephan von Bechtolsheim discussing a system
+for editing LaTeX using EMACS which should prevent mismatched braces
+and \begin..\end constructions. This was followed by Lynne Price
+describing HP's in-house SGML system which sadly may never be
+introduced commercially (from what she's said of it, it's REALLY
+nice). Ken Yap described the DVI previewers available in the Unix
+world, particularly for workstations such as the Sun.
+
+The remainder of the morning was consumed by the TUG business meeting
+with lots of interesting things (electing Rick Furuta as the new
+vice-president and the move of TUG into its very own office space),
+and a few un-interesting things which are necessary anyway.
+
+After lunch we heard talks from Robert Kruse, Mike Schmidt, and Paul
+Muller detailing various systems for textbook production, and then
+finally, the meeting concluded with a TeX problems help session (one
+of the answers appears in this issue's Toolbox and one of the
+questions in Mysteries & Puzzles) and a report from the training
+standards committee who are developing standard outlines for the TUG
+courses.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__6
+**********************************************************************
+* How to change the LaTeX layout *
+**********************************************************************
+By Hubert Partl <z3000pa@awituw01.bitnet>
+
+[[The layout of this article has been left intact by the author's
+request to demonstrate the appearance of the LaTeX style given in
+the example. -ed.]]
+
+How to Change the LaTeX Layout
+------------------------------
+
+ by Hubert Partl, Technical University of Vienna,
+ z3000pa@awituw01.bitnet
+
+Once Upon a Time ...
+
+ If you ask someone ``Why do you love LaTeX so much?''
+ you will most probably get an answer like ``Oh, it's
+ so easy to use by an author'' or ``Everything is so
+ much logic''. This is most certainly true.
+
+ If you ask someone ``Why do you hate LaTeX?'' then
+ I bet you will hear the answer ``Because I don't like
+ its layout and it's so hard to change that.'' Well,
+ this is a fairy tale that just isn't true.
+
+ ! --> I just found out that IT IS SO VERY EASY TO CHANGE
+ THE LaTeX LAYOUT. Once you know what the layout should
+ look like, all you have to do is to look at
+ 1. the LaTeX Manual
+ 2. the files ARTICLE.DOC, ART10.DOC, etc.
+ 3. the file LATEX.TEX
+ 4. the TeXbook
+ and perhaps some Style Files other people have already
+ written, and then write a STY-File with re-definitions
+ of the commands you want to be modified.
+
+A Practical Example (REFMAN.STY)
+
+ I dreamed of a LaTeX Style that sets technical texts with
+ a layout like that of the famous PostScript Reference Manual,
+ i.e. with a rather wide left margin, which is used for section
+ headings and marginal notes, and with only narrow empty margins
+ above, below, and to the right of the text area.
+
+ This seemed a very complicated task, but within a day or two
+ I finished a ``good enough'' solution for the article-like
+ stuff I usually write. I called the file REFMAN.STY, and here
+ it is:
+
+1. The Page Layout
+
+ From the hints in the LaTeX Manual and those pretty sketches in
+ TUGboat Vol.9/No.1, it was easy to define the general page
+ layout with the following commands:
+
+ \newdimen\leftmarginwidth
+ \newdimen\fullwidth % = \textwidth + \leftmarginwidth
+ % \textwidth, \columnwidth, \linewidth remain unchanged.
+ \fullwidth=6.5in
+ \leftmarginwidth=\fullwidth
+ \advance\leftmarginwidth by -\textwidth
+ \oddsidemargin=\leftmarginwidth
+ \evensidemargin=\leftmarginwidth
+ \marginparwidth=\leftmarginwidth
+ \advance\marginparwidth by -\marginparsep
+ \advance\topmargin by -5\baselineskip
+ \advance\textheight by 10\baselineskip
+
+2. The Section Headings
+
+ Re-defining the \section commands to use the full page width
+ and smaller skips and fonts proved to be very easy, indeed.
+ Looking into ART10.DOC reveiled that I just had to copy out
+ some lines and to change them to the following:
+
+ \def\secshape{\leftskip=-\leftmarginwidth % use \fullwidth
+ \rightskip=\@flushglue % raggedright
+ \hyphenpenalty=2000} % no hyphenation
+ \def\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}{-2ex plus -1ex
+ minus -.2ex}{0.5ex plus .2ex}{\secshape\large\bf}}
+ \def\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}{-1.5ex plus
+ -.5ex minus -.2ex}{0.5ex plus .2ex}{\secshape
+ \normalsize\bf}}
+ \def\subsubsection{\@startsection{subsubsection}{3}{\z@}{-1.5ex
+ plus -.5ex minus -.2ex}{0.5ex plus .2ex}{\secshape
+ \normalsize\rm}}
+
+ In my papers I don't use \part or \maketitle, so I didn't bother
+ to change these, but I guess it's just as easy.
+
+3. The Positioning of Marginal Notes
+
+ Since the main margin is now the left one for all pages, I had
+ to change \marginpar to use always the left margin. This too
+ was much easier than I had thought: In LATEX.TEX, I discoverd
+ the command \@addmarginpar, and there I found out, that it
+ sets a count \@tempcnta to \@ne or \m@ne, depending on whether
+ the marginal note should appear to the right or to the left
+ of the text. So, I just modified this portion of the command
+ to set \@tempcnta always to \m@ne, and it worked.
+
+ \def\@addmarginpar{\@next\@marbox\@currlist{\@cons\@freelist\@marbox
+ \@cons\@freelist\@currbox}\@latexbug\@tempcnta\@ne
+ %- \if@twocolumn
+ %- \if@firstcolumn \@tempcnta\m@ne \fi
+ %- \else
+ %- \if@mparswitch
+ %- \ifodd\c@page \else\@tempcnta\m@ne \fi
+ %- \fi
+ %- \if@reversemargin \@tempcnta -\@tempcnta \fi
+ %- \fi
+ \@tempcnta\m@ne % always to left margin <---
+ \ifnum\@tempcnta <\z@ \global\setbox\@marbox\box\@currbox \fi
+ \@tempdima\@mparbottom \advance\@tempdima -\@pageht
+ \advance\@tempdima\ht\@marbox \ifdim\@tempdima >\z@
+ \@warning{Marginpar on page \thepage\space moved}\else
+ \@tempdima\z@ \fi
+ \global\@mparbottom\@pageht \global\advance\@mparbottom\@tempdima
+ \global\advance\@mparbottom\dp\@marbox
+ \global\advance\@mparbottom\marginparpush
+ \advance\@tempdima -\ht\@marbox
+ \global\ht\@marbox\z@ \global\dp\@marbox\z@
+ \vskip -\@pagedp \vskip\@tempdima\nointerlineskip
+ \hbox to\columnwidth
+ {\ifnum \@tempcnta >\z@
+ \hskip\columnwidth \hskip\marginparsep
+ \else \hskip -\marginparsep \hskip -\marginparwidth \fi
+ \box\@marbox \hss}
+ \vskip -\@tempdima
+ \nointerlineskip
+ \hbox{\vrule \@height\z@ \@width\z@ \@depth\@pagedp}}
+
+4. Some More Commands
+
+ I also defined some additional commands. One of them is
+
+ \def\attention{\mbox{}\marginpar{\raggedleft
+ \large\bf ! $\rightarrow$}}
+
+ ! --> The gentle reader may guess what this command does and
+ what it is intended for.
+
+Conclusions
+
+ Of course, one might always go on with fine tunig and additional
+ goodies. And certainly you should not change Dr.L's fine design
+ without a good reason. But if you really have to change the
+ layout, then you CAN do so quite easily, and it's certainly
+ better to make these changes within the framework of the LaTeX
+ style concept rather than to abandon LaTeX at all and go back
+ to the ancient days of Plain TeX's visual design!
+
+
+P.S. I am still working on this topic, so I would like to get YOUR
+ comments and suggestions. Why not make this a regular column
+ in TeXMaG, e.g. a ``layout box'' in addition to the ``tool box''?
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__7
+**********************************************************************
+* The Toolbox *
+**********************************************************************
+
+This month's macro is one that was decribed at the TeX Users Group
+meeting this past August. The problem itself is a simple one: given
+a short piece of text, either print it centered if its length is
+under a certain critical size, or if it is longer than that size,
+print it as a displayed paragraph. For example, this macro (we'll call
+it \epigram) should produce
+ "Twit Twit Twit"
+should we call it with \epigram{``Twit Twit Twit''}, but if we should
+enter the command \epigram{The glory and power of Printing is not all
+in the past. Its influence in the present makes it a powerful
+conservator of human progress.} we would want the output to be:
+ The glory and power of Printing is not all in the past. Its
+ influence in the present makes it a powerful conservator of
+ human progress.
+so, here is how we can define this macro:
+%-----------severe here-----------------------------------------------
+\long\def\epigram#1{% We use \long\def to allow the argument
+ % to span several paragraphs.
+ \bigskip % extra space above.
+ \setbox0=\hbox{#1} % put the text into a box
+ \ifdim\wd0>\critwidth %check the length
+ \centerline{\vtop{\hsize=\episize\noindent#1}}
+ % If the length is greater than
+ % the critical length, make a
+ % displayed paragraph
+ \else % otherwise, we just center the text.
+ \centerline{\box0}
+ \fi
+ \smallskip % extra space for the end.
+}
+
+\newdimen\critwidth \critwidth=.75\hsize
+\newdimen\episize \episize=.6\hsize
+%-------------Cut again----------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__8
+**********************************************************************
+* TeX Mysteries & Puzzles *
+**********************************************************************
+
+This month's puzzle is a remnant of the TeX Users Group meeting. In a
+nutshell, the problem is to make the paragraph indentation of a
+paragraph the length of the last line in the preceding paragraph. This
+could appear something like this.
+ Where the indentation is as shown. I'd
+imagine that the solution might be to use \lastbox to get the length of
+the final line in the paragraph in a manner similar to that used in
+the strange title problem which appeared earlier this year, but this may
+cause problems when restoring that line to the vertical list.
+ Anyway, I
+haven't had time to play with the problem, so I'm tossing it out to
+you, the teeming masses.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+__9
+TeXMaG is an independantly published electronic magazine available
+free of charge to all interested parties reachable by electronic
+mail. It is published sporadicly, and the editor likes to think that
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