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diff --git a/info/digests/tex-mag/v2.n6 b/info/digests/tex-mag/v2.n6 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9110f99562 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/tex-mag/v2.n6 @@ -0,0 +1,726 @@ +******************************************************************************* +* * +* 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 +its monthly so the readers humor him. 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