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+\centerline{\bf\TeX\ typesetting service}\medskip
+\noindent
+One of the problems that \TeX\ users in the UK face is
+the
+lack of typesetting facilities. While laser printers offer
+adequate quality for proofing and short-run publications,
+higher quality is required for well-produced printed
+publications. Typesetting provides this
+higher quality, and, for users who have limited typefaces,
+a wider range of options to improve the appearance
+of their work.
+
+Having encountered the problem of typesetting from
+\TeX, Abbey Information Systems has recently installed
+a Linotronic 100 with PostScript RIP, software and
+interface devices. This means Abbey can typeset
+PostScript files from \TeX\ PostScript drivers, and
+can also accept \dvi\ files for processing through a PostScript driver for
+subsequent typesetting. Abbey is currently using \TeX\ and the Linotronic to
+produce a 2000-page directory created on a database running on
+a VAX 11/750.
+
+Abbey Information Systems is now offering a typesetting service
+for all \TeX\ users whether or not they have a PostScript
+driver. Part of the service of special interest to
+\TeX\ users who are using mainframe and minicomputers
+is that half-inch nine-track magnetic tape
+can be read as well as floppy discs from {\sc IBM} pcs and
+compatibles. Other media will also be accepted.
+A direct dial-up service is also available.
+
+For more information, contact:
+{\obeylines\parindent2em
+Jon Maslin,
+Abbey Information Systems Ltd,
+Cochrane House,
+Church Road,
+Bookham,
+Leatherhead,
+Surrey KT23 3JP
+tel: 0372 59577}
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+\def\mwc{{\sc mwc}}\def\bc{{\sc bc}}
+\centerline{\bf The Pres says\dots}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+One of the advantages of the Exeter `Advanced' course
+was the presence of the current TUG President,
+Bart Childs. Bart is from the Computer Science
+Department at Texas A\&M (Aggies and Mechs) University.
+One of the areas that \TeX\ and TUG are rather
+weak in is that of background. The tiny bits of
+real `people-information' which sneaks into TUGboat,
+or the flyleaf of one of the books is slight. Perhaps
+{\it email} goes closest to revealing what goes on
+beneath the academic fa\c cade. As a very first attempt
+to put a little more flesh on the bones of \TeX, TUG
+and TUG's President, this is the contents of an
+interview with Bart (rather late one evening, and
+after a few beers). It would be great to think it
+is the first of many such interviews, but that all
+depends. This particular interview
+touches briefly on the events which led to
+Bart becoming President, and gives a view
+from the President's desk (or rather, his
+Data General laptop microcomputer --- running
+pc\TeX\ and a preview). One last note: you may
+notice that Bart sounds a bit like me here. I
+haven't been able to transfer the Texan drawl.
+The content is faithful in spirit to what was said, although
+the accent and delivery have been transmuted.
+It is therefore closer to a meta-interview.
+\smallskip
+\noindent \mwc: How did you get into this?
+
+\noindent \bc: We had a simple word processing system, for which
+I had drawn up
+the specification, and since we also had the source code, I had
+modified it to handle some extensions into more mathematical work.
+I thought it was really neat, but Norman Naugle said
+``hold everything ---
+have you seen \TeX?'' So I held everything and saw \TeX.
+This was in
+'78. I was impressed, threw away all the
+stuff I had been doing, and we decided to implement \TeX,
+from the SAIL version which was currently
+available. But before we started we sent a grad student to Stanford
+to the TUG meeting that fall and he came back saying
+``hold everything ---
+wait until the {\tt WEB} release!''
+So we waited a while for the {\tt WEB}
+release. I actually started with version 0.6,
+and had slowly begun to make some
+progress with it, building tangle and the tangle.change when
+version 0.9 arrived. We started with it on a Thursday afternoon,
+and by the Saturday
+night it had all been created. From there we went on to
+develop the QMS Lasergrafix driver.
+At the next TUG meeting Norman
+Naugle volunteered Texas A\&M to be the Prime and DG distributors
+for \TeX. Fairly soon after,
+John Crawford of Ohio State University
+took over the Prime distribution and we concentrated
+on the DG.
+We are still doing \TeX\ implementations:
+currently I'm working on a Cray version, under CTSS.
+
+
+Norman was still busy volunteering of course,
+and at another TUG meeting,
+Norman volunteered me for President.
+
+As President, I feel it is important for \TeX\ and TUG to be as
+public domain as possible, which helps to explain our
+dependence on ``academics'' in the major office bearing jobs.
+But much of the success of TUG (and \TeX) lies in the good
+support it has had from commercial organisations,
+like Addison-Wesley, Personal \TeX, Kellerman \& Smith, and ArborText.
+\smallskip
+\noindent \mwc: What of the future?
+
+\noindent \bc: Systems like NBI, Interleaf and Ventura may well
+adopt \TeX\ and SGML for the layout and structure
+functions of documents.
+ArborText's Publisher is a notable step in this direction,
+incorporating both \TeX\ and \SGML. The advantage of \TeX, as
+Don Knuth noted, is its quality, and, no less important,
+its archival capabilities. It is available on a huge
+range of systems, and in 20 years the same document
+will still produce the same end results.
+\smallskip
+\noindent \mwc: Will \TeX\ be unchanged in 20 years?
+
+\noindent \bc: No, but the changes will be to the front end --- the face
+that \TeX\ presents, and there will be extensions through the
+use of `specials' to colour and graphics.
+\TeX\ itself will remain the same.
+
+As an example of `front-ends', we have a \TeX\ system on
+our local Data General machine, Kinder\TeX. This provides
+a menu-driven front end, which, among other things, provides
+tailored editing functions, so that the function keys
+can be used for standard \TeX\ control sequences. We have
+tried to tie things together so that the interface is
+consistent, and we hope, fairly intuitive.
+
+One of the issues which I am keen for TUG (and all \TeX\ users)
+to debate is that of standards --- notably standards for specials.
+For example, how to handle the arguments. I am currently working with
+an approach through QUIC (the QMS laser printer language)
+and a device neutral
+meta file to a graphics dvi which would allow output to
+QMS, naked Canon, ATI, and later, PostScript.
+\smallskip
+\noindent \mwc: What is TUG's role?
+
+ \noindent \bc: TUG will have a major
+role to play in establishing standards for \TeX\ distribution.
+The public domain releases should include, at the least,
+\TeX, Metafont and the Computer Modern fonts. Standards should be
+created for the smaller versions, like the commercial
+micro releases, where there is obviously
+a constraint on the amount of material you can include.
+Driver standards need to be established (to include
+features like graphics, landscape and portrait mode etc.),
+and to be verified
+by a trip test.
+
+Education is needed to ensure that driver writers are
+incorporating the `position correction' for pixel boundaries,
+to ensure that
+dvi really is device independent. The font scaling problem in
+\LaTeX\ and \SliTeX\ needs
+to be addressed, and the solution made available.
+The distribution of this
+sort of information must not depend on academic networks.
+
+The continued financial strength of TUG will enable us to
+initiate new services, like
+a \TeX
+\break
+\noindent `helpdesk': this requires some
+staff increase at TUG, which should have
+happened by now. There will be greater separation from the AMS,
+another reflection of the strength and autonomy of TUG.
+\smallskip
+\noindent \mwc: Any crystal ball forecasts?
+
+\noindent \bc: \TeX\ already exists in Pascal and C realisations.
+It is likely that other languages will be used, like Ada and Lisp.
+But far more likely, and more useful to individual \TeX\ users
+will be the more general and widespread adoption of
+\TeX\ `environments',
+where \TeX\ can be given a far friendlier face, with menu driven
+options, the use of function keys, icons, \SGML\ tags,
+and exploitation of the underlying operating system, for example to
+allow the user the capability of exiting to command mode level
+(particularly useful if you get the `file not found message'), or
+to have
+the ability to fork off other processes while \TeX\ is running.
+For example, there is no real reason why a preview could not
+be running together with \TeX, so that once a page has been
+through \TeX\ and a dvi produced, the preview driver couldn't
+pick up that first page and display it. In general, proofing
+a preview page takes much longer than producing the dvi, so
+\TeX\ would always be ahead of you, once the first page had
+been produced.
+We may also expect to see \TeX\ in a distributed environment,
+where a `mainframe' handles the \TeX ing, but features
+like editing, preview, etc, are handled locally on
+a workstation. Preview itself should improve, with large high resolution
+(say 300dpi) screens.
+
+The use of colour is inevitable, and also mixed media.
+And looking to another fashionable area,
+we will probably see \TeX\ incorporated into hypertext applications.
+There is no reason why film shouldn't run from within \TeX,
+so that text viewed on a screen could include a diagram
+of an object which rotated, or a manual
+could have `exploded' views which really
+did seem to explode!
+
+Lastly, we should not ignore \MF.
+\MF\ is becoming a more mature piece of software,
+and we should begin to see
+more tools available for it, in particular
+to allow pixel editing in order to tune fonts.
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+% BCS Electronic Publishing specialist group conference, 23 Sep 1987
+%
+% review by David Osborne, Cripps Computing Centre, Univ of Nottingham
+% [ JANET: cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa ] 3-5 Oct, 1987
+%
+\def\quid{{\it\$}} % credit to Malcolm Clark for this!
+\centerline{\bf BCS Electronic Publishing conference}
+\centerline{\bf 23rd September}
+\centerline{\bf Storage Technology in EP}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+This was the first meeting of the BCS EP group I had attended,
+though the advance programme described it as the fourth full day
+meeting of what is now the third year of the group's existence.
+The meeting was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies
+in London, and was well-attended by representatives of both
+commercial and academic organisations.
+
+In the absence of the scheduled speaker from Hatfield Polytechnic,
+Ken~Jamieson of Microrite (chairman of the EP group) gave the first
+presentation on an Overview of Relevant Storage Technology, setting in
+context the theme of the meeting. He reviewed both the familiar and
+unfamiliar media available for storage of text and fonts, leading on to
+the new technologies of CD-ROM and WORM which were to be described more
+fully later in the day. His description of exchangeable 15.6Mb hard
+disks for PCs enlightened many of those present who, like myself, had
+not come across these devices. Leading on from this, he contrasted the
+amount of storage needed for an average A4 page of text, at about 0.5Mb,
+with that of raster images which are increasingly demanded in documents
+including both text and graphics; eight quarter-page graphic images to
+be rendered at 300 dots-per-inch would require about 2Mb of storage.
+
+Andrew~James, Ventura Product Manager at Rank-Xerox, then led a
+discussion on the storage problems experienced by those in the audience.
+Andrew has written a review of the DTP (desk-top publishing) market
+in the September 1987 issue of ``PC~User'' from his involvement with
+Ventura, so his interests naturally centre on the special problems
+of PC users. As he pointed out, most PC publishing users have access
+to greatly restricted resources compared with text-processing users
+on minis or mainframes. Shortage of disc space is a common difficulty,
+particularly with the growing use of packages using bit-mapped font files
+(in the pages of \TeX line, one such immediately springs to mind!)
+On a slightly partisan note, he commented that some DTP packages
+such as {\it PageMaker\/} exacerbate storage problems by using large,
+monolithic document files, whereas others such as {\it Ventura\/}
+minimise these by using smaller files collected together.
+
+Having discussed the problems of storage the meeting then turned to
+techniques for rapid capture of text in a pair of presentations on OCR
+and desktop scanning. Alan Howard of Kurzweil gave a fascinating
+description of the Kurzweil ``Discover'' intelligent scanner. Intended
+for use with a PC, this uses a special processor board designed by
+Kurzweil which embodies expert systems software to perform pattern
+recognition on the scanned material, which may be text or graphics. The
+text-mode of scanning seems particularly sophisticated, being able to
+ignore graphics and ``noise'' (such as handwritten comments, staple
+marks and coffee stains), and to scan an A4 page in about 70 seconds
+with a 95\% assurance level of character recognition. The ``format
+analysis'' performed by the processor even takes account of the page
+layout and indent tabbing. For output, the conversion phase can produce
+a file in formats acceptable to most common word-processing packages as
+a mixture of text and markup commands. In its graphics mode the scanner
+can perform contrast enhancement and can handle continuous-tone
+photographs, with output in formats suitable for {\it Ventura\/}
+and the {\it Xerox Documenter\/}.
+
+It was perhaps unfortunate that a traffic incident delayed the arrival
+of Sandra Woodley from Sintrom, since this led to her having to speak after
+the Kurzweil demonstration --- a difficult `act' to follow.
+She described the Datacopy OCR scanner, which uses a different, less
+sophisticated recognition technique and is therefore restricted to
+coping with a set of 19 fonts, up to 9 different fonts on one page.
+There is a ``learning'' mode in which the user can teach the scanner in
+about 20 minutes to recognise a new font which can then be
+added to the machine's library of pre-defined typefaces
+(such as Courier 12 and Times Roman 10 \dots not a Computer Modern
+to be seen!) At present, the scanner can only cope with text but will
+handle both mono- and proportionally-spaced fonts, though kerning and
+ligatures can cause some problems. Again, the scanner is PC-based and
+can generate output for a variety of word-processing programs. Its
+ability to scan bound volumes without them having to be unbound is
+certain (I nearly said ``bound'') to make it popular with librarians.
+
+In comparison, the decision of which scanner to buy comes down to
+``paying your money and taking your choice'', since the Datacopy costs
+\quid 1658 for the flatbed scanner and \quid 742 for its software, while
+the much more sophisticated Kurzweil is pitched at \quid 8000 for the
+package of scanner, processor board and software.
+
+We then progressed into more high-tech with a presentation on WORM
+(Write Once, Read Many) technology from Geoff Pullen of Microscribe.
+Unlike CD-ROM, there is no current world standard on formats for
+the optical discs used in WORM, and discs are manufactured for
+specific drives. The discs themselves are made of either glass
+or optical polycarbonate and are now guaranteed by the manufacturers
+for 30 years, though there was some discussion as to whether this
+included integrity of the data recorded on them.
+There are many types of drive available, and capacities of 1 gigabyte per
+side have been common since 1983. Three sizes are in use:
+14-inch, with 6.8Gb capacity; 12-inch; and 5\frac1/4-inch, offering
+115Mb--800Mb per disc. ``Juke box'' storage for up to 200 12-inch discs
+is available.
+Image data from WORM discs can be retrieved in standard MS-DOS file formats,
+allowing their exchange between media, once retrieved.
+An entry-level 5\frac1/4-inch system should cost \quid 16-20000,
+while top-level systems are much more expensive at \quid 84000 for
+the Racal REOS, and \quid 100000 for the Philips Megadoc.
+Despite these high prices, the utility of WORM for secure storage
+of large volumes of text is clear.
+
+Contrasted with WORM was the other optical medium, CD-ROM, described in
+a talk by a speaker from Saztec Ltd., in the context of their contract
+with the British Library for the conversion of the BL's General
+Catalogue. This is a huge task, since the catalogue details 4.2 million
+volumes deposited with the library, and occupies 360 volumes which take
+up 42 feet of shelf space. These contain 176,000 pages, representing
+about 1 billion characters. The conversion phase of the contract is
+costing about \quid 2M and will occupy about 70 people for 4
+years. The claim that this is an unparalled task was disputed by Lawrie
+Newton of OUP, who stated that the computerisation of the Oxford English
+Dictionary is of a comparable scale. The opportunity is being taken of
+restructuring the catalogue as part of the conversion to optical disc.
+The CD-ROM discs are similar to the audio discs familiar to
+hi-fi enthusiasts and have an unformatted capacity of 600Mb, giving about
+550Mb of storage when formatted and indexed. This means that the
+British Library catalogue can be held on merely four discs. CD-ROM is a
+suitable publishing medium for unchanging reference data, such as the BL
+catalogue, and can hold both text and graphics, offering the ability for
+rapid searching and the downloading of selected text for later
+processing on a PC, for example. The current high costs of mastering
+and production mitigate against their use for rapidly changing data, or
+where the production run is small, although the hardware to read them is
+relatively cheap, at about \quid 200 per drive. The data preparation for
+CD-ROM costs about \quid 9000, with mastering an additional \quid 2000
+and replication costs of \quid 12--\quid 18 per disc. This puts the
+cost of a production run of one disc at about \quid 12000, but \quid 25000
+for a run of a thousand.
+
+Rounding off the meeting, Mike Daines of Signus discussed
+``Soft Scanning Techniques for fonts'', with particular reference
+to Signus' involvement with the {\it Ikarus\/} system.
+Signus specialise in the production of digital typefaces for
+various manufacturers, both for typesetters and low-resolution devices
+such as laser and dot-matrix printers. Mike noted that ``resolution
+independence'' of typefaces can be achieved by storing the font
+at a higher resolution than that used by any available device;
+this is the method adopted by the {\it Lucida\/} family, by
+Bigelow and Holmes (which they described at {\it EP86} in Nottingham).
+It is also used by {\it Ikarus\/}, which has a resolution of
+15000 dots in {\it x\/} and {\it y\/} for an em-square.
+He then noted the advantages of hand digitisation, claiming
+a that an effective time of 2.6 minutes per letter could be attained,
+once the draft designs had been marked up. Signus digitise to
+an accuracy of \frac1/{100}{\it mm\/} for a letter 10{\it cm\/} high.
+Almost all digital formats can be calculated from this
+hand-digitised base. Soft scanning consists of calculating the
+intersections of the Ikarus `DI' format (which uses circles, arcs and
+straight lines) with the raster pattern of the display device,
+producing scan-lines for output. This method allows later reprocessing
+of the fonts to perform any corrections which may be necessary.
+Summing up, Mike described what he felt were essential
+requirements for digital typesetting:
+fonts should have a square raster resolution
+(equal in {\it x\/} and {\it y\/}),
+a constant database of resolution-independent character definitions
+and a common font format;
+printers should have a minimum resolution of 600 dots-per-inch,
+with fonts downloaded from their host machine rather than printer-resident.
+\medskip\noindent
+(The next meeting of the EP group is scheduled for November 26th,
+to discuss DTP in the printing industry, with speakers including
+Pierre Mackay and representatives from OUP and John Wiley).
+\medskip
+\rightline{\it David Osborne, Nottingham University}
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/chemistry.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/chemistry.tex
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+% Definitions and stuff for chemistry, equilibrium symbols :
+% \eqbm -- unlabeled equilibrium (longer than harpoons)
+% \eqbmlab~#1_#2 -- long equilibrium sign with forward (#1) and backward (#2)
+% labels
+% \yields -- long right arrow
+% \yieldslab~#1 -- `` `` `` with a label above (#1)
+% To typeset chemical equations,
+% type \rm just after the $ or $$. Also, when using \eq}align or
+% \eq}aligno, type \cr\rm wherever you would normally type \cr.
+% The labels on \eq}bmlab and \yieldslab come out in italic automatically
+% (use \rm to get roman). Elsewhere, italicize variables like K_W or N_0
+% using \cit.
+%
+\def\cit{\fam=-1} \% Chemistry ITalic
+\def\longrharpup{\relbar\joinrel\rightharpoonup}
+\def\longlharpdn{\leftharpoondown\joinrel\relbar}
+\def\rlPOON#1{\vcenter{\hbox{\ooalign{\raise2.3pt
+ \hbox{$#1\longrharpup$}\crcr $#1\longlharpdn$}}}}
+\def\eqbm{\mathrel{\mathpalette\rlPOON{}}\rm}
+\def\eqbmlab#1_#2{\mathrel{\mathop{\eqbm}\limits~{#1}_{#2}}\rm}
+\def\yields{\longrightarrow\rm}
+\def\yieldslab~#1{\mathrel{\mathop{\longrightarrow}\limits~{#1}} \rm}
+
+
+$$A\eqbm B$$
+$$A\eqbmlab A_B$$
+$$A\yieldslab~x$$
+\bye
+\fontdimen16\twelvesymboltext=3.24pt
+\fontdimen17\twelvesymboltext=3.24pt
+\fontdimen16\twelvesymbolscript=2.65pt
+\fontdimen17\twelvesymbolscript=2.65pt
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+%
+\tolerance=2000
+\input texline
+\input head
+\begindoublecolumns
+\pageno=2
+\input bart\bigskip
+\input mfbook\bigskip
+\input markup87\bigskip
+\input abbey\bigskip
+\input tig.txt\bigskip
+\input seattle.txt\bigskip
+\input bcsep.txt\bigskip
+\enddoublecolumns
+\bye
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+\centerline{\bf Copyright}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+One very recent \hax\ message concerned the
+issue of copyright. This struck a chord with me,
+since I recently obtained Pat Monardo's C-\TeX\
+(referred to here as CommonTeX),
+which contains a rider about copyright.
+The message was from Ozan Yigit (as Sebastian
+Rahtz said, the names are often unusual to
+British ears). Granted that all this is about US copyright law,
+I'm sure it still does have relevance to the future
+of `\TeX-in-C' at the least. I have abbreviated it
+only very slightly.
+ He (or she) writes:
+
+{\narrower
+\noindent
+``I have been following, with great interest, the
+recent
+chatter surrounding the C implementation (Ctex) of
+\TeX. Many institutions may have now discovered that
+the copies of
+CTeX obtained from Texas A\&M are not (somehow) legal, as indicated by
+Tomas Rokiki, who has a copyright notice on Ctex sources.
+
+I would like to suggest that there has possibly been
+an abuse of the US copyright laws, and both Ctex and CommonTeX cannot,
+in fact carry anyone else's copyright except that of Don Knuth,
+and hence, carry the same distribution rights\slash
+restrictions [if any] of the original \TeX.
+
+Why: If I am not mistaken, US copyright laws suggest
+that a translation of an originally copyrighted
+work carries the same copyright as the original ---
+in other words, mechanical and\slash or hand translation
+does not obliterate the original copyright.
+
+One lawyer, Jordan J. Breslow, did address the issue of
+`derivative works' in his most enlightening paper. He indicates
+that the translation of, say a copyrighted COBOL
+program to BASIC would be the infringement of the copyright
+owner's exclusive right to make derivative works.
+
+Is there something missing? Did Don Knuth drop his
+copyright on \TeX?
+
+Now, it is possible that there exists a license arrangement
+between Tomas Rokiki and Don Knuth, which allows
+Tomas to claim copyright on Ctex. If such
+is the case, I would like to know about it, so that I can
+understand a request to flush all binaries and sources
+of Ctex obtained from Texas A\&M. The same issue,
+of course, applies to the `copyleft' notice of
+Pat Monardo, for the CommonTeX implementation.''
+\smallskip}
+
+
+\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}
+\bigskip
+\centerline{\bf News from the other side}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+Not only do we have news from the west coast of the US,
+but there is also a resident UK\TeX ie at Harvard ---
+\DW. Dominik managed to achieve electronic communication
+with |texline@ic.cc.vaxa|, and I have synopsised
+some of his messages to give a Harvard-eye view
+of the \TeX\ world.
+
+I quote:
+{\narrower ``The latest \TeX\ news I have is that there
+is a \MF\ course next month at Radnor, Penn, which costs \$650
+to attend! Run by Doug Henderson, who did the Personal\TeX\
+implementation of \MF. The price is outrageous, and the same
+goes for the Protext conference here in Boston.
+
+Norman Naugle has a new \TeX\ previewer
+valled CDVI (or something) which is
+extremely good (according to him!): it is
+optimised to give very fast screen presentation of a
+|dvi| file, and apparently it can do
+all sorts of tricks with colour (why?) on an EGA.
+He will charge \$175 for it, and is still adding further
+graphics systems support to it, such as the Olivetti
+6300 $640\times400$ board.
+
+Frans Velthuis is bringing his work on
+Devanagari metafonts towards a conclusion.
+He has more or less linished the character set
+for Hindi, and is working on the few extra characters
+needed for Marathi and Sanskrit, and things like the
+numerals.''
+\smallskip}
+
+Dominik also raves about ``a fantastic little utility
+on the PC\TeX\ bulletin board'' which helps
+in the creation of CM fonts from the |.mf| files
+distributed with pc{\mf MF}. He also notes that
+it takes about eight hours to create all 74 CM
+fonts at one magnification on an 8 MHz AT.
+
+And lastly, he reminds me to say something about
+the programs Graham Asher and Clwyd Probert of Informat
+are writing:
+
+{\narrower\noindent``They are astounding. One creates gigantic \TeX\ macro files
+automatically, from choices you make on a large set of
+layered menus. The other, related program reads
+a {\it wysiwyg} table, and writes the \TeX\ code
+to typeset it! The dividing lines and corners, etc., can
+be any characters you choose. Again I was most impressed.''
+\smallskip}
+\noindent
+There will be something on these new \TeX\ add-on
+products at \TeX88. Graham will likely be giving at
+least one
+paper, and a hands-on demonstration must be
+inevitable. It is probably true that Informat is
+the most progressive hive of \TeX\ activity
+in the UK at present, as Graham's article
+in the previous \TeX line, `{\bf\TeX\ and the
+Linotron 101}' and the
+letter overleaf attests. Graham, Clwyd and the
+other programmers at Informat are producing some very powerful
+software which will help in increasing the use of
+\TeX. Although the menu-driven `front-end' bears
+some similarity to systems like {\it Page One},
+it is far more general, without being more
+cumbersome or difficult to use.
+
+\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}
+
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/editorial.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/editorial.tex
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+\centerline{\bf Editorial}
+\centerline{\bf\TeX\ considered as the Zahir}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+This seems to have been a good year for \TeX.
+Communication and distribution has improved enormously.
+The rebirth of \hax, and even more significantly,
+its redistribution within the UK has been a boon
+to those who are now able to receive it easily
+and conveniently over Janet.
+
+Spurred on by this success (and the large amount
+of useful material in \hax), Peter Abbott at Aston
+University started a similar scheme in Britain.
+This is growing steadily, and proving to be a useful
+source of information and communication.
+
+Peter has also collected together much of the
+public domain \TeX\ material, like the \LaTeX\
+style files, and it is possible to pick these
+files up electronically from Aston.
+
+This is fine for the academic community, or at least
+parts of it, but less useful to those who are
+isolated (or insulated) from ivory towers. The
+Unix community, with UUCP can also indulge, so the
+picture is not solely one of lofty academic
+separation. Bulletin boards can be substitutes,
+and as \DW's note demonstrates, those bulletin boards
+could be a long way away.
+
+One of my concerns has always been the isolated \TeX\
+user. I don't feel that he or she is particularly
+well-served by {\sl The \TeX book} and a micro
+version of \TeX. At the very least you need to
+talk to someone else, just to be sure that you
+haven't gone completely crazy. TUG and TUGboat
+go some way to convincing people that they are not alone,
+most particularly through the membership list. But
+too few people join. I was looking for the addresses
+of some well known \TeX nophiles --- look in the
+TUG membership listing I thought: were they there?
+Of course not. It could be that their institution
+has membership, but\dots
+
+I realised too that not everyone really gets to know about
+TUG. Where is it mentioned in the book? Appendix J
+is the only source of information. By the time you
+get that far through the book you should be experiencing
+terminal brain saturation. It's probably too late by then.
+Pick up the \LaTeX\ book: where is {\it any\/}
+mention of TUG? (I have to be careful these days
+saying anything about \LaTeX, ever since
+Phil Taylor and
+I were stigmatised
+by Sebastian Rahtz as `\LaTeX-haters').
+Spivak mentions TUG on page 5 of `Joy of \TeX',
+increasing my admiration for the man. The manuals
+which come with the micro versions are even worse
+at promoting TUG. Why? Most software vendors work
+hard at creating active User Groups. Here there is
+one ready made, and the vendors appear to ignore it.
+It would be no great problem to include a reply-paid
+postcard in each copy of a micro version of \TeX,
+entitling the purchaser to one year's free
+subscription. How about it Addison-Wesley\slash
+Personal \TeX\slash FTL systems\slash $n^2$\slash
+Kettler-EDV\slash etc?
+
+We also need a higher profile in the popular press.
+Is there some good reason why an article on \TeX\
+has not yet appeared in New Scientist? or in
+the computer pages of one of the `quality' daily
+newspapers? Preferably written by someone who knows
+what he or she is talking about (i.e.~not a journalist).
+It appears that \TeX\ is making some slight headway
+in the DTP aware magazines. But to take an example,
+at the Desktop Publishing Show run by Pira
+a few weeks ago in
+Islington, a Yearbook was `given' to each
+registrant. \TeX\ in its various guises turns up
+a few times, but frankly, the descriptions were
+not wholly accurate. If Pira can't get it right,
+I can't really expect the press to. I thought
+the show was pretty dull anyway --- {\it Pagemaker}
+(yawn) and {\it Ventura} (yawn) are not terribly
+exciting. Interleaf was as good as ever, especially
+now it can do equations (but what a price!).
+IBM had their 600 dpi electro-erosion printer
+there, besides their new \ps\ (yawn) Ricoh-engined
+laser
+printer. It could have been worse, IBM might
+have adopted \TeX! Anyway, Apple blew them away
+as usual --- this time with HyperCard: at last the
+potential for electronic publishing is beginning
+to be recognised. But by now you know how I feel
+about Apple (aren't their {\sc tv} ads dreadful ---
+I almost expect to see Mel Smith doing them).
+
+Another positive step has been the arrival of TUG
+courses in Europe. Courses were presented at Exeter
+and at Bergen. Unfortunately the projected Groningen
+course was not run. \MF\ has become sufficiently
+available that TUG is now presenting a course on it,
+in the US.
+
+At last CMR is much more widely available. Personal
+\TeX\ recently upgraded to CMR (Addison-Wesley please
+note), and took the opportunity to change
+to ArborText's |.pk| drivers. While the CMR upgrade
+is free (it only affects the format files and the
+|tfm|'s), a nominal charge will be made for upgrading the
+drivers. Another extra from Personal \TeX\ is
+the availability of the Bitstream fonts. I hope
+we will have more details on this soon. pc\TeX\
+users should contact Ewart North of Uni\TeX.
+
+\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}
+
+
+
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/extract.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/extract.tex
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+
+% BEST OF TEXHAX notes for TeXline
+% by Sebastian Rahtz
+% Malcolm - i am unused to plain TeX, and have quickly hacked together
+% some macros. please feel free to redo at will. wish I was back in
+% LaTeX.....
+%---------------------------------------------------------------------
+% program quoting macros
+%
+\def\UncatcodeSpecials{\def\do##1{\catcode`##1=12 }\dospecials}
+{\begingroup\obeyspaces\catcode`\ =13\endgroup}
+%
+\def\SetupVerbatim{\tt\def\par{\leavevmode\endgraf}\catcode`\`=\active
+\obeylines\UncatcodeSpecials \obeyspaces\catcode`\ =13}
+{\catcode`\`=\active \gdef`{\relax\lq}}
+%
+\def\program{\begingroup\parindent=0em\par
+\SetupVerbatim\xprogram}
+\begingroup
+\catcode`\|=0 \catcode`\\=12
+|obeylines|gdef|xprogram#1\endprogram{#1|endgroup|vskip 10pt|parindent=0em|par}
+|endgroup
+%
+% miscellaneous
+\parindent=1em
+\def\and{\item{$\bullet$}}
+\def\sq{\smallskip\begingroup\leftskip=3em\noindent
+\sf\parindent=0em\parskip=2pt}
+\def\eq{\smallskip\hrule\smallskip
+\parindent=1em\parskip=0pt\leftskip=0em\endgroup}
+\def\bs{$\backslash$}
+%
+% names
+\font\sf=cmss10
+\def\texline{\TeX line}
+%-------------------------------------------
+\centerline{\bf Best of \hax, Summer 87}
+\centerline{\it Sebastian Rahtz, Department of Electronics and
+Computer Science, University of Southampton}
+\medskip\noindent
+Those readers of \texline\ who are not daily users of electronic mail,
+and/or use \TeX\ primarily on micros, may not be aware of the
+existence of the \hax\ mailing list, which exists to share information
+around the international \TeX\ community. It is distributed from the
+University of Stanford under the editorship of Malcolm Brown, and uses
+a digest format; Malcolm stores incoming mail (requests for
+information, news of new products, replies to other questions,
+`official' communications from TUG in advance of TUGboat) until
+it reaches critical mass, then bundles it together with a list of
+contents and sends it to everyone on the \hax\ list. Typically, this
+happens two or three times a week, and each issue contains about a
+dozen contributions, which means that a vast amount of \TeX -related
+material is flitting across the networks all the time. The purpose of
+this article is to describe the range of \TeX ery covered in \hax, and
+to reprint some of the more interesting topics. Readers who wish to
+join in this activity (be prepared for a lot of browsing of mail
+messages!) must have an account on their local mainframe or mini with
+access to network mail (consult your local guru); send mail to
+{\tt texhax-request\%uk.ac.ucl.cs} and ask that
+your name be put on the list to receive \hax\ (don't forget to tell
+them your own mail address). As things stand at the moment, this
+international mail will not cost you anything, as one copy is sent to
+London and forwarded to you from there.
+
+\hax\ is read by a very large number of people, to judge by
+contributions, from America, Canada, Britain, Europe, Japan, Australia
+etc. Leslie Lamport is a regular contributor with answers to \LaTeX\
+problems, Barbara Beeton monitors it for TUG, and even Donald Knuth
+adds the occasional note. It is a good place to send an esoteric
+question, as usually someone with an unpronounceable name from an
+institution you have never heard of will send in an answer. If you
+want a more local answer (`who has got a copy of xxx in Britain?'),
+there is a UK version of \hax, recently set up by Peter Abbott at
+Aston, to bring together specifically UK \TeX xies---mail to {\tt
+abbott@uk.ac.aston.mail} to get on that list.
+
+For the purpose of this article, I have looked at the 36 issues of \hax\
+that reached me between May 22nd and September 6th (an average of
+about two a week). There were approximately 480 contributions dealing
+with every sort of \TeX\ arcana; just searching the subject fields
+(not necessarily a proper reflection of contents), I found 129 pieces
+relating to \LaTeX\ (including 22 sets of {\it \LaTeX\ Notes} from
+Leslie Lamport), 14 pieces on \BibTeX, 11 on \MF, 6 on
+\SliTeX, and just 1 on \AmSTeX. My subjective impression is that
+\LaTeX\ matters are an even higher proportion of \hax\ even than
+appears from these figures. In general, contributions vary from the
+questions about hardware (usually printers), to the private life of
+\TeX\ macros, as evinced in the following two excerpts:
+
+{\narrower\noindent
+ My order for the IBM 4250 font tapes just came back with
+ ``I no longer have a font tape for the 4250 printer. The person
+ who supplied it to me originally has not made another one for version 2
+ of TeX."
+ Where can I get one of these tapes?
+ What's the difference between V1.01(the one she doesn't have) and 2?
+ Will they still work?
+\smallskip
+and
+\noindent
+Subject: TeX eats l's after fil
+\noindent
+If an `l' or and `L' follows a unit of glue such as `fil', even separated
+by spaces, it is aparently parsed as part of the name of the unit. This
+leads to some fairly strange behavior. For example, the following script
+will put a `K' and a `M' in the dvi file, but no `L'!
+
+\program
+ \def\q#1{\hskip 0 pt plus 0 fil #1}
+ \q{K}\q{L}\q{M}
+ \end
+\smallskip
+\%\% Barbara Beeton responds:
+
+the ``l"-gobbling you've encountered is legitimate, and easily explained.
+the full syntax of \bs hskip is
+\program
+ \hskip<dimen> plus<dimen> minus<dimen>
+\endprogram
+since your example didn't include a ``minus", tex keeps looking.
+since ``fil" is a ``pseudo-dimension" it can continue, up to 3 ``l"s
+(if your data had been ``llama", all you would have gotten in the output
+would have been ``ama"). similarly, if the data had started with the
+word ``minus", not followed by a proper$<$dimen$>$, minus would have been
+gobbled and you probably would have gotten a nasty message to the effect
+that a$<$dimen$>$ was expected, and 0pt will be assumed. the best way to
+avoid this is to put \relax after your skip expression.
+ this is covered explicitly in the texbook; look it up in the
+index (page 469): ``l after fil".
+ -- barbara beeton
+\smallskip}
+
+Sometimes \hax\ gets onto a general issue---there have been
+discussions over the last year on such questions as:
+
+{\narrower
+\and Can University authorities be persuaded to drop their
+`double-spaced Courier' thesis requirements for students who have
+access to a proper typesetting system like \TeX?
+\and What freedom should \LaTeX\ users have to tinker with the layout?
+Leslie Lamport feels strongly that only experienced document designers
+should be able to alter e.g. the font used in a running head.
+
+\and Can a consistent set of standards for dvi drivers be put
+together? What facilities should they have? How do you handle \bs
+specials? This question was
+addressed in detail at the TUG meeting in August, and a committee was
+set up to look into it.
+
+\and What is the relationship of \ps\ to \TeX? Lamport suggested
+\TeX\ be changed to output pure \ps, others defend their LN03s to the
+death.
+}
+
+Usually, of course, \hax\ is question and answer;
+here are some random selections of items that should give a general
+flavour of what happens on a daily basis:
+\program
+ \def \dolist
+ {\afterassignment\dodolist
+ \let\next=}
+ \def \dodolist
+ {\ifx \next \endlist \let \next \relax
+ \else \\ \let\next\dolist
+ \fi \next}
+ \def \endlist
+ {\endlist}
+ \def \\
+ {\next\hfil }
+ \def \spreadem#1#2{\hbox to #1{\dolist #2\endlist\hfilneg}}
+
+ \spreadem{2.0 in}{spread}
+ \spreadem{1.5 in}{the}
+ \spreadem{1.0 in}{word}
+
+ \bye
+\endprogram
+
+These macros were adopted from the macros given as the solution to
+problem 11.5 in the TEXbook. The idea is to stick an \bs hfil after every
+letter (token) in the word (argument). The glue after the final letter
+causes the word to be ``ragged-right" in the box; this is fixed by
+canceling the glue with an \bs hfilneg.
+
+\eq}
+
+{\sq
+Subject: WEB for Ada?
+
+Is there a version of WEB that accepts the Ada language?
+
+ Thanks, Jack Sharer, JWS@PSUARLC
+
+\eq}
+
+{\sq
+Subject: Typesetting chemical papers
+
+Like Th. Kneser, I also needed chemical equilibrium symbols and
+came up with the following, which may be useful. Note that these
+are for plain TeX and for chemical equations that are being typeset
+in Roman.
+
+\program
+% Definitions and stuff for chemistry, equilibrium symbols :
+% \eq}bm -- unlabeled equilibrium (longer than harpoons)
+% \eq}bmlab~#1_#2 -- long equilibrium sign with forward (#1) and backward (#2)
+% labels
+% \yields -- long right arrow
+% \yieldslab~#1 -- `` `` `` with a label above (#1)
+% To typeset chemical equations,
+% type \rm just after the $ or $$. Also, when using \eq}align or
+% \eq}aligno, type \cr\rm wherever you would normally type \cr.
+% The labels on \eq}bmlab and \yieldslab come out in italic automatically
+% (use \rm to get roman). Elsewhere, italicize variables like K_W or N_0
+% using \cit.
+%
+\def\cit{\fam=-1} \% Chemistry ITalic
+\def\longrharpup{\relbar\joinrel\rightharpoonup}
+\def\longlharpdn{\leftharpoondown\joinrel\relbar}
+\def\rlPOON#1{\vcenter{\hbox{\ooalign{\raise2.3pt
+ \hbox{$#1\longrharpup$}\crcr $#1\longlharpdn$}}}}
+\def\eq}bm{\mathrel{\mathpalette\rlPOON{}}\rm}
+\def\eq}bmlab~#1_#2{\mathrel{\mathop{\eqbm}\limits~{#1}_{#2}}\rm}
+\def\yields{\longrightarrow\rm}
+\def\yieldslab~#1{\mathrel{\mathop{\longrightarrow}\limits~{#1}} \rm}
+\endprogram
+
+
+To make subscripts come out aligned I have put (for example)
+\program
+\fontdimen16\twelvesymboltext=3.24pt
+\fontdimen17\twelvesymboltext=3.24pt
+\fontdimen16\twelvesymbolscript=2.65pt
+\fontdimen17\twelvesymbolscript=2.65pt
+\endprogram
+in with my font definitions following the example of the TeXbook p.179.
+These 12 pt numbers were determined by trial and eye...leading to a
+question of my own:
+
+ How can I look at the font parameters for an arbitrary font
+ and determine the proper font dimensions to make chemical
+ subscripts all come out aligned? Or, Has someone determined
+ the numbers already?
+
+ Donald
+ (asnd@triumfcl.bitnet or
+ userasnd@ubcmtsg.bitnet)
+\eq}
+
+One common feature of \hax\ is the swopping of style files for \LaTeX.
+For those who are not aware of it, here is the latest description of
+the Rochester \LaTeX\ style file collection:
+{\sq
+ Subject: Contents of LaTeX style collection, 2nd August 1987
+
+ Date: Sun, 02 Aug 87 14:03:33 -0400
+
+ From: Ken Yap $<$ken@cs.rochester.edu$>$
+
+ The LaTeX style collection now has the files listed below. More
+ submissions are very welcome.
+
+{ \settabs 3 \columns
+ \+ 00directory&format.sty&slem.doc \cr
+ \+ 00index&fullpage.doc&slem.sty \cr
+ \+ 00readme&fullpage.sty&spacecites.doc \cr
+ \+ a4.sty&geophysics.sty&spacecites.sty \cr
+ \+ a4wide.sty&german.sty&suthesis.doc \cr
+ \+ aaai-instructions.tex&ieeetr.bst&suthesis.sty \cr
+ \+ aaai-named.bst&ist21.sty&texindex.doc \cr
+ \+ aaai.sty&latex.bug&texindex.pas \cr
+ \+ acm.bst&layout.readme&texindex.sty \cr
+ \+ agugrl.sample&layout.tex&texnames.doc \cr
+ \+ agugrl.sty&lcustom.tex&texnames.sty \cr
+ \+ agujgr.sample&lfonts\_ams.readme&textyl.readme \cr
+ \+ agujgr.sty&lfonts\_ams.tex&textyl.shar1 \cr
+ \+ amssymbols.sty&lgraph.shar&textyl.shar2 \cr
+ \+ art10.txt&local.suppl&textyl.shar3 \cr
+ \+ art11.txt&memo.sty&textyl.shar4 \cr
+ \+ art12.txt&mfr.sty&textyl.shar5 \cr
+ \+ article.txt&mitthesis.sample&textyl.shar6 \cr
+ \+ biihead.sty&mitthesis.sty&textyl.shar7 \cr
+ \+ ctex.readme&natsci.bst&textyl.shar8 \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar1&newalpha.bst&textyl.shar9 \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar2&nopagenumbers.doc&tgrind.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar3&nopagenumbers.sty&threepart.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar4&remark.sty&titlepage.txt \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar5&resume.sample&trademark.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar6&resume.sty&uct10.doc \cr
+ \+ cyrillic.sty&sc21-wg1.sty&uct11.doc \cr
+ \+ dayofweek.tex&sc21.sty&uct12.doc \cr
+ \+ deproc.sty&sfwmac.sty&ucthesis.doc \cr
+ \+ deprocldc.tex&showlabels.sty&ucthesis.readme \cr
+ \+ docsty.c&siam.bib&uuencode.shar \cr
+ \+ docsty.readme&siam.bst&vdm.doc \cr
+ \+ doublespace.sty&siam.doc&vdm.sty \cr
+ \+ draft.sty&siam.sty&vdm.tex \cr
+ \+ drafthead.sty&siam.tex&ws87.p \cr
+ \+ dvidoc.shar1&siam10.doc&wsltex.c \cr
+ \+ dvidoc.shar2&siam10.sty&wsltex.p \cr
+ \+ epic.shar1&siam11.sty&xxxcustom.tex \cr
+ \+ epic.shar2&siam12.sty&xxxslides.sty \cr
+}
+
+ 1. For Internet users - how to ftp:
+
+ Here is an example session. Disclaimer: ftp syntax varies from host to
+ host. Your syntax may be different. The syntax presented here is that
+ of Unix ftp. Comments in parentheses.
+
+\program
+ % ftp cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (a.k.a. cs.rochester.edu, a.k.a. 192.5.53.209)
+ ... (general blurb)
+ user: anonymous
+ password: <any non-null string>
+ ftp> cd public/latex-style (where the files are)
+ ftp> ls (to see what is there)
+ ... (lots of output)
+ ftp> get 00index
+ ... (more blurb)
+ ftp> quit
+\endprogram
+
+ 2. Non-Internet users - how to retrieve by mail:
+
+ An archive server has been installed. Send a piece of mail to LaTeX-Style
+ (@rochester.arpa, @cs.rochester.edu, via uucp or your favourite gateway) in
+ the following format:
+
+ Subject line should contain the phrase ``@file request". Body of the
+ mail should start with a line containing only an @ (at) sign.
+ The first line following should be a mail address FROM rochester TO
+[B you. Then follow by the names of the files you want, either one to
+ each line, or many to each line, separated by spaces. End with a line
+ containing only an @ sign. Case is not significant.
+
+ For example, if you are user at site.bitnet, this is what you should send:
+
+\program
+
+ To: latex-style@rochester.arpa
+ Subject: @file request
+
+ @
+ user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu (don't forget your address!)
+ 00readme
+ 00index
+ @
+\endprogram
+
+ Caveat: our mailer is pretty ignorant of BITNET, CSNET or UUCP
+ addresses unless they are in registered domains. It is best that you
+ supply explicit gateway routes. Also use the new domainized form of
+ addresses whenever possible because the old .ARPA addresses are fading
+ away.
+
+\program
+ user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu
+ user%site.csnet@relay.cs.net (not csnet-relay.arpa anymore)
+ site!user@seismo.css.gov (not seismo.arpa anymore)
+\endprogram
+
+ Long UUCP paths are discouraged. System administrators get upset and
+ your turnaround is very slow anyway.
+
+ Do not include any messages in the mail. It will not be seen by human
+ eyes. Be patient as the server is actually a batch program run once a
+ day. Files will be sent in batches, each not exceeding 100kbytes in size.
+
+ 3. IBM PC and clone users - how to get a distribution:
+
+ David Hopper of Toronto, Canada is offering copies of the style
+ collection on diskettes. This is not a commercial enterprise. David is
+ doing this in his own time as a favour to the TeX community. The entire
+ set of style files, not including the C-TeX files, as of June 1st, fits
+ on one 1.2 MB diskette or three 360KB diskettes. No subsetting,
+ please. Send David
+
+\item{ 1.} Formatted diskettes,
+ \item{2.} Indication of the format required,
+ \item{3.} A self-addressed mailer, and
+ \item{4.} A \$5.00 donation per set of files, to cover postage and equipment wear
+ \& tear. (If you live outside North America, airmail delivery will probably
+ require more postage. You should probably contact David for details.)
+
+ David's address:
+{\it
+ David W. Hopper,
+
+ 446 Main Street,
+
+
+ Toronto, Ontario,
+
+ Canada M4C 4Y2
+}
+
+ Thanks, David.
+
+ Ken
+
+ LaTeX-Style@Rochester.Arpa
+
+ LaTeX-Style@cs.Rochester.Edu
+
+ ..!rochester!latex-style
+
+\eq}
+
+\bye
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+\line{ \hfill Number 7, \monyr}
+\line{ \hfill the Newsletter of \TeX\ users in UK and Ireland}
+\line{ \hfill printed at Imperial College Computer Centre}
+\line{ \hfill edited and assembled by}
+\line{ \hfill Malcolm W Clark}
+\line{ \hfill Imperial College Computer Centre}
+\line{ \hfill Exhibition Road}
+\line{ \hfill London SW7 2BX}
+\line{ \hfill Tel: 01 589 5111 ex 4949}
+\line{ \hfill Fax: 01 584 7596}
+\line{ \hfill Janet: texline@uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa}}
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+\centerline{\bf \MarkUp}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+\MarkUp\ was again organised by the Graphic Communication
+Association. It is an international conference which
+gives those who are involved in the development of the
+Standard Generalized Markup Language (\SGML) and those who
+are interested in its application an opportunity
+to share the current progress
+and to discuss the future.
+
+The venue for this year's conference was Torremolinos,
+Spain. I can almost hear your reaction now! However, it
+proved very worthwhile for those of us who braved the
+merry quips of our colleagues about the conference being a
+cover for a few days' holiday. Who would have suspected that
+such excellent conference facilities were lurking in these
+surroundings?
+
+As you may be aware the Spanish are well known for their
+siesta time and following the local custom the itinery
+showed quite clearly a morning session, a siesta and
+a late afternoon\slash evening session (how civilised). I think
+it reflects the dedication of all who took part in the conference
+that in fact full use was made of the ``siesta time''
+for meetings\slash practical demonstrations\slash informal discussions, thereby
+packing as much as possible into the days available.
+
+In October last year a milestone in the life of \SGML\
+was reached --- it received approval from the
+International Standards Office and is now formally
+known as {\sc iso 8879} \SGML. The first presentation
+given at the conference was by Charles Goldfarb who,
+together with his team, has spent ten years developing
+this language. The title of his paper was
+{\sl The \SGML\ Finalization Process and Application
+Responsibility}. He outlined the final stages which saw the
+completion of the developmental work on \SGML\ and then proceeded to identify areas in the
+applications field which will need particular attention to
+ensure the language is used effectively.
+
+Craig Smith and Dr Manfred Kr\"uger made their presentations
+next. They both emphasized the importance of accurate
+analysis as part of the design and creation of the document type
+definitions which form the basis of any project using
+\SGML. Manfred also chaired the first two days of the conference
+which ensured that they ran very smoothly.
+
+The next session of the conference dealt with the development
+of \SGML\ Applications. Joan Smith gave us the benefit
+of her experience on the British Library \SGML\ document
+type and also gave details of {\sc docmanusc}, a {\sc CEC} sponsored project
+to promote the use of \SGML\ throughout Europe.
+
+Further \SGML\ applications were
+described during the second day of the conference.
+Christian Guittet explained how the
+Project {\sc fame} (Formex Applied to Multilinguism in Europe)
+used \SGML\ based coding to handle the publication of documents for the Office for
+Official Publications of the European Communities.
+This enables the documentation to be published in all the languages
+required using the same source coding.
+
+John R. McFadden described the applications that the
+company {\it Software Exoterica Corporation} have developed for use
+by the Canadian Government. Pamela Gennusa explained
+how \SGML\ has been used within the Department of Defense in the United
+States to enable the technical documentation to be created
+and updated in a way which meets the very tough criteria under
+which DoD operates.
+
+An \SGML\ based project has been successfully created in England
+which operates under very strict time constraints.
+Tony Rowley described how {\it Pindar Infotek},
+under the guidance of Peter Howgate can handle the data
+relating to the registration of patents which
+is controlled by the Patents Office in Munich.
+
+The last day of the conference looked at the current
+situation from a different viewpoint. Michael Buckingham chaired
+this day of the conference and started the proceedings with
+his thoughts of the potential of \SGML\ as seen by the
+British. Franco Mastroddi explained the European Community
+approach to electronic publishing and imagebanks, and Steven Brown
+explained the principles of integrated database publishing.
+
+During the two days before the conference itself,
+several of the delegates had attended a practical
+tutorial on \SGML. They were given invaluable guidance
+on the approach to using \SGML. Those of us who did
+not attend the tutorial were able to see demonstrations
+of two pieces of commercially available
+software which allow the ``lay user'' to make use of
+\SGML\ in the capture of their documentation. The demonstrators
+also gave presentations during the conference to explain the technical
+advantages of their products. One, Writerstation, operates on
+an {\sc ibm} pc (or clone), and the other, fondly known
+as {\sc fred}, runs on the Apple Mac. No doubt software packages based on \SGML\
+will become more readily available now that it has been accepted by {\sc iso}.
+
+Next year's conference will be held in Ottowa, Canada,
+on 23rd--25th May 1988, and I am sure by then there will be several
+more products being demonstrated.
+
+\rightline{\sl Geeti Granger, John Wiley \& Sons Ltd}
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/mfbook.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/mfbook.tex
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+\centerline{\bf Book Review: The \MFb book}
+\medskip
+\noindent{\sl
+The \MF book, Donald E. Knuth, 1986, 361pp.
+Published by Addison Wesley, price \quid19.95 (paper), \quid29.95 (hard).}
+\medskip\noindent
+\MF\ is a computer program written by Donald Knuth for the purpose
+of designing digital graphic objects, especially fonts of type, in a device
+independent way. {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} is Knuth's manual for the
+software. This is a review of the book, not the program!
+
+Readers of {\it The \TeX book\/} will feel immediately at home with {\sl The\/
+ \MF book}. Its style of presentation, design, layout and even the
+number of chapters and appendices, are the same as its illustrious
+predecessor. Once again, Knuth is attempting to provide in one book both a
+tutorial and a reference manual for the software, through his careful and
+elaborate system of `dangerous bend' paragraphs, and graded exercises and
+examples. Whether this is a success depends to some degree on one's reading
+habits: I find I simply cannot stop myself reading at the dangerous bend
+signs, with the result that I failed to understand quite a lot of the book on
+the first reading. Subsequent rereadings gradually cleared my mind. The
+examples are all worth attempting, and teach one as much, if not more, than
+mere passive reading.
+
+Broadly speaking, Chapters 1 to 6 (`The name of the game', `Coordinates',
+`Curves', `Pens', `Running \MF', `How \MF\ reads what you
+type') present a gentle introduction to the basic concepts underlying the way
+ \MF works, and a real life example of the design of the uppercase
+letters I and O (an example file `dedicated to Io, the Greek goddess of input
+and output'). Thereafter the waters begin to flow more deeply. The five-page
+chapter on variables leads into two substantial chapters on the mathematical
+underpinning of \MF\ (`Algebraic expressions' and `Equations'), and
+a three page chapter on the difference between assignment and equation
+operations as used in \MF\ (`a person who makes too many assignments
+is still locked into the habits of old-style ``imperative'' programming
+languages \dots\ ; \MF's equation mechanism liberates us
+\dots\ because it lets the computer take over the job of solving
+equations.'). Chapters 11 to 16 (`Magnification and resolution', `Boxes',
+`Drawing, filling and erasing', `Paths', `Transformations', `Calligraphic
+effects') are more closely concerned with graphics and \MF's tools
+for creating and manipulating images. Chapter 24, `Discreteness and
+discretion', which deals with the difficult problems of digitisation, really
+belongs with this group of chapters. As an aside, there is an interesting
+comment at the beginning of chapter 24, where Knuth says that typefaces
+produced solely by graphics programs cannot be expected to be as good as those
+`carefully crafted to look best on a particular output device'. He goes on to
+say that a small amount of hand-tuning (i.e., pixel editing) will always be
+necessary to optimise a font for a particular device, but that a good
+\MF\ program should produce a character in which only half a dozen pixels
+will need changing. This is very unexpected, for while I think it is true, it
+apppears to run counter to the whole `meta' idea of universality and device
+independence which is so central to Knuth's work.
+
+In Chapters 17 to 21 (`Grouping', `Definitions (also called macros)',
+`Conditions and loops', `More about macros', `Random numbers') Knuth turns to
+the control structures of the \MF language itself. Chapters 22 and
+23 (`Strings', and `Online displays') cover \MF's interaction with
+the graphics terminal which it is addressing. The final three chapters
+(`Summary of expressions', `Summary of the language', `Recovering from
+errors') are self explanatory. As with {\it The \TeX book}, much of the meat
+of this book is to be found in the appendices. Again, they are alphabetically
+enumerated A--J, with each letter also forming the first letter of the
+appendix's title (`Answers to all the excercises', `Basic operations',
+`Character codes', `Dirty tricks', `Examples', `Font metric information',
+`Generic font files', `Hardcopy proofs', `Index', `Joining the \TeX\
+community'). One wonders whether Knuth felt obliged to write eight
+substantial appendixes just to get to I for Index! I find it slightly
+annoying that so much of what one needs to know in order to install and run
+ \MF is tucked away in these appendices. For example, the first
+place in which Knuth explains how to invoke \MF\ to create a real
+font at a particular magnification is on page 269, in Section 4 of Appendix B!
+Essential information is not always in the obvious place. The upshot of this
+is that while reading {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} one has constant
+recourse to the index, which fortunately is excellent. But any particular
+installation of \MF\ will need a {\it Local guide\/} (human or
+printed) to explain such mundane, but definitely non-trivial matters as how to
+run the program, and how to print proofs.
+
+Who is {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} written for? The first buyers of the
+book will be the members of the \TeX\ community (\TeX ies prepared to boldly
+go \dots) who are interested in Knuth's work on typesetting and
+programming for its own sake, and as an extension of the \TeX\ system. These
+readers may also buy {\sl \MF: the program}, the |WEB| listing of the
+program itself. Another class of readers are those who use \TeX\ with
+Knuth's Computer Modern (CM) series of fonts, and who wish to use
+\MF\ to generate extra sizes or styles of these fonts, or to create the
+occasional graphic symbol or logo. These readers may also wish to buy the
+{\sl Computer Modern Typefaces\/} ({\sl CMT\/}) volume, in which Knuth sets
+out the \MF\ programs for the 500 or so characters of the CM fonts,
+together with listings of their parameters and related files. These programs
+accompany all distributions of \MF\ itself, so with the two books it
+is relatively easy to generate various extra fonts for any output device
+driver. A third class of reader is that small band of indefatigable optimists
+who contemplate creating a complete new font. Knuth says in the preface of
+{\sl The\/ \MF book\/} that `a person or a team of persons should
+expect to spend a year or more on the project if the type is actually supposed
+to look right.' For those setting out to create a new font, {\sl The\/
+\MF book\/} and {\sl Computer Modern Typefaces\/} are a minimum
+requirement for understanding how to use \MF. But what neither of
+these volumes provide are any guidelines about the process of font design. If
+you already have beautiful, accurate drawings of your character set on fine
+graph paper, then {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} will teach you how to use
+ \MF\ to turn these drawings into digitised fonts for an output
+device, or a range of output devices. But one must look elsewhere for all the
+skills and knowledge needed to produce the initial typeface. In the process
+of designing the CM fonts, Knuth undoubtedly developed a great deal of
+sensitivity to letter forms, and although this knowledge is embodied in his
+ \MF\ programs for the letters, it is difficult in the extreme to
+work backwards from the programs to the general principles underlying his
+design decisions (although this is what Knuth proposes). It is a pity Knuth
+has not shared more of this with his readers explicitly, in particular the
+readers of the companion {\sl CMT\/} book. If you are setting out to design
+a new typeface, then {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} definitely presupposes
+a substantial degree of sophistication in typographical design.
+
+Although {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} does give a complete description of
+the use of the language, if you include the small print and the appendices, it
+is rather short on complex real life examples. The examples given in Chapter
+5 (`IO') and Appendix E (` \MF') are really very simplistic when
+compared with most of the character programs in {\sl CMT}. From reading {\sl
+The\/ \MF book\/} one might think that all that is necessary for the
+creation of a character is to set up a box, choose a pen, and join up the
+coordinates. This may be true for calligraphic letters such as N. N.
+Billawala's CM Calligraphic Capitals ({\sl CMT}, pp.122--139), and it may turn
+out to be an appropriate method for several oriental alphabets, but it is very
+far from adequate for a real Latin typeface, as Knuth's CM programs show.
+Once again, the gap between theory and practice is far from trivial. For
+example, every one of the CM programs in {\sl CMT\/} has an |adjust_fit|
+expression, usually as the fourth program statement. This macro provides a
+ready means of adjusting the amount of white space either side of a
+character's bounding box. One can thus create a character, and later jiggle
+it to the left or right with |adjust_fit| until it looks properly spaced.
+Clearly, |adjust_fit| is ubiquitous and important. But it does not form
+part of \MF's plain base: it is part of the additional CM base that
+Knuth created for the design of the CM typefaces, and so, although it appears
+in every CM program, it is not described in the main text of {\sl The\/
+\MF book}. It is squirreled away on pages 307--309, in Appendix E.
+There are many other examples of how the \MF one grows acquainted
+with from {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} is not quite the same animal as the
+ \MF\ one sees in the CM programs. Perhaps this is inevitable in a
+language which is so very rich in its provision for macro programming.
+
+These criticisms aside, {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} is very well written,
+with a clean, light style that makes the book a pleasure to read, and easy to
+learn from. Given that it is, at present, the only book about \MF,
+it is fortunate indeed that it is so complete and well written. The {\sc jokes} are
+not intrusive, and the anatomical metaphor which was so prominent in {\it The
+\TeX book\/} (\TeX's mouth, stomach, etc.), and which has such disturbing
+implications for the way Knuth's programs output our words or symbols, is
+thankfully less prominent in {\sl The\/ \MF book}. There is still a
+need for other books about \MF, which should have more to say about
+installation, about the design aspects of character creation using the
+program, about the practical aspects of proof production and use (with a major
+chapter called `How to learn from your proofs'), and which should have many
+more worked examples. We need books to teach computer scientists to design
+typefaces, as well as books to teach type designers how to use \MF.
+But {\sl The\/ \MF book\/} is always going to be the definitive text
+for \MF. Any user of the program will get to know it very well: it
+becomes almost a personal friend, and it stands the close exposure that such a
+relationship demands remarkably well.
+
+\rightline{\sl\DW, Wellcome Institute}
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+\nopagenumbers\tolerance=2000\overfullrule0pt
+\newbox\leftside
+\newbox\rightside
+\long\def\mitem#1#2{%
+\global\setbox\leftside\vtop{\everypar{\strut}\hsize144pt\parindent0pt
+\strut#1\strut}
+\global\setbox\rightside\vtop{\everypar{\strut}\hsize250pt\noindent
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+\newbox\boxx
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+\def\leaderfill{\leaders\hbox to 0.5em{.\hss}\hfill}
+\font\big=cmr17
+\font\small=cmr12
+\font\sc=cmcsc10
+\centerline{\sl Advance Notice of Publication}
+\vskip2ex
+\centerline{\big ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING}
+\vskip2ex
+\centerline{\small Origination --- Dissemination --- Design}
+\vskip2ex
+\noindent\hrule
+\vskip2ex
+\centerline{A NEW international journal from John Wiley \& Sons Ltd}
+\vskip2ex
+\centerline{To be published quarterly, commencing Spring 1988}
+\vskip2ex
+$$\vbox{\halign{#&#\cr\mitem{%
+{\bf Editor}
+
+Dr D.F. Brailsford
+
+Dept of Computer Science,
+
+University of Nottingham,
+
+UK
+\vskip1.5ex
+{\bf North American Editor}
+
+Richard J. Beach
+
+Xerox PARC,
+
+3333 Coyote Hill Road,
+
+Palo Alto,
+
+California 94304,
+
+USA
+\vskip1.5ex
+\noindent
+{\bf Editorial Board}
+
+J. Andr\'e, France
+
+D. Barron, UK
+
+C. Bigelow, USA
+
+H. Brown, UK
+
+G. Coray, Switzerland
+
+R.W. Davy, UK
+
+R. Furuta, USA
+
+J. Gosling, USA
+
+P. Hammersley, UK
+
+P. Hibbard, USA
+
+V. Joloboff, France
+
+B. Kernighan, USA
+
+P. King, Canada
+
+D. Lucarella, Italy
+
+P. MacKay, USA
+
+R. Morris, USA
+
+V. Quint, France
+
+B. Reid, USA
+
+H. van Vliet, Netherlands}
+{\leftline{\bf Aims and Scope}
+\noindent
+Electronic Publishing in its widest sense covers the dissemination
+of documents and the production of
+those same documents by electronic means. This process can range
+from ``paperless publishing'' where the documents are merely
+passed between computers and never ever become printed
+on paper or film, through to the concerns of
+traditional publishing, which would previously
+have used metal type, but which now has taken
+on board the full range of modern computer-based
+aids to assist the publication process. Although the term
+`electronic' is widely used in this context, the true common factor
+underlying the journal's aims are:
+{\parindent1em\narrower
+\item{$\star$}that computers should be involved throughout
+the publication process and;
+\item{$\star$}that it is the concept of document origination,
+together with the structure, form and dissemination of those documents
+that is of great concern to us.
+\medskip}
+
+\leftline{\bf Principal Topics}
+\noindent
+$\star$ Document Structures
+$\star$ Integrated Text, Graphics and Images
+$\star$ Markup Languages
+$\star$ Page Description Languages
+$\star$ Digital Font Design
+$\star$ Dynamic Documents
+$\star$ Document Standards
+$\star$ Electronic Transmission of Structured Documents
+$\star$ Database Design for Publishing
+$\star$ Structured Editors
+$\star$ Specialised Languages
+$\star$ Videotex, videodisc, CD-ROM
+$\star$ Advances in Hardware Technologies $\star$
+\medskip
+\noindent
+To keep fully informed on {\sc Electronic Publishing}, please
+complete the form and return it to Alison Thomas,
+John Wiley \& Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex,
+PO19~1UD, UK
+\bigskip}}}$$
+\hrule
+\medskip
+\newbox\reply
+\global\setbox\reply\vtop{\hsize350pt
+\leftline{Please send me the following information on}
+\leftline{{\sc ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING:} Origination --- Dissemination --- Design}
+\leftline{\boxit{\copy\boxx}\quad Call for Papers/Notes for Contributors}
+\leftline{\boxit{\copy\boxx}\quad Subscription details for Volume 1}
+\smallskip
+\leftline{Name\leaderfill}
+\smallskip
+\leftline{Address\leaderfill}
+\smallskip
+\leftline{\leaderfill}
+\smallskip
+\leftline{\leaderfill}
+}
+\centerline{\copy\reply}
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+\centerline{\bf OpenType}
+\medskip\noindent
+The Operations Electronic Publishing
+Group of the Open University has
+recently started to set up an Electronic Publishing
+User Group --- OpenType --- with more widespread and
+general objectives. The OU is one of the UK's
+largest academic publishers, and already uses
+several Linotron 300s. Naturally it is
+deeply concerned in maximising its return
+on this commitment.
+
+OpenType is described as a ``self-help''
+group for those who are using electronic
+techniques for the production of high-reolution
+text and graphics origination.
+
+Specific areas of interest include:
+\item{$\bullet$}\ps: it is worth noting that the OU claims
+to have access to Adobe-trained advanced programmers
+who it is expected will be running \ps\ classes
+from appreciation through to advanced standard:
+\item{$\bullet$}\SGML: OpenType
+plans to ask questions topics ``is motherhood
+and apple pie a good thing?'' and
+``how useful is \SGML?'':
+\item{$\bullet$}Tables: the OU has a research
+project under way on table creation:
+\item{$\bullet$}Maths: OpenType feel that the
+introduction of
+large composition systems which
+work in a structural manner (in English,
+marked-up), like Interleaf (which employs
+|eqn| for its maths), or systems like MS Word may
+reduce the pre-eminence of \TeX:
+\item{$\bullet$}Demand Printing: the ability to
+produce and update very quickly, and to direct
+high quality material at small audiences:
+\item{$\bullet$}Illustration: what is the
+hardware required for effective illustration?
+\item{$\bullet$}Storage: clearly relevant to
+illustration, where large amounts of data must
+be handled; and following on from that, data
+compression, CD ROM, networks\dots
+\smallskip\noindent
+From this list it is clear
+that \TeX\ is known (although perhaps not too well ---
+perhaps it is a good thing that so many OUers were
+at the Seattle TUG meeting).
+The OU (at least, parts of it) already uses \LaTeX\
+extensively, and harbours some very competent
+\TeX ies. From the list of
+interests, there is an apparent overlap with what
+I understood Pira to be doing. But perhaps I don't
+really understand what Pira (or OpenType) are up to.
+
+OpenType plans to publish a journal. Most interestingly,
+they will pay! Five pence per word. They are also
+planning to run meetings and workshops, although
+the one planned at the OU for the early summer
+seems to have faded away. But there is a catch.
+It is going to cost money. Although membership
+is open to individuals and organisations, the
+subscriptions are quoted solely for organisations.
+For companies and organisations employing not more
+than 10 persons, the subscription is \quid100.00;
+for those with 11--50 employees, \quid200.00;
+over 50 employees, the flat rate is \quid300.00.
+Contact:
+{\obeylines\parindent2em
+John Feltham
+Text Processing Manager
+Open University
+Walton Hall
+Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
+}
+\medskip
+\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}
+
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+\font\rmnine=cmr8
+\centerline{\LaTeX\ style files}\medskip
+\noindent
+There are a great many \LaTeX\ style files available.
+Unfortunately, availability really means ``over {\it email\/}''
+but nevertheless, it is worth listing the complete set of files
+which were present (at the last notification). Thanks to the
+efforts of Peter Abbott at Aston University, these files are
+available in the UK, and can be obtained by anyone who
+can plug into their VAX. This certainly covers all those
+with access to {\sc janet}, and probably covers {\sc uucp}
+people too. An access method for VAX users was given in
+Sebastian Rahtz' ``Bits of \hax'' article.
+
+Of course, not all the world is using {\it email}. But for the dispossessed
+among us, it is possible to obtain the style files
+on 5\frac1/4 floppy from
+ David Hopper of Toronto, Canada who is offering copies of the style
+ collection on diskettes. David is
+ doing this in his own time as a favour to the \TeX\ community. The entire
+ set of style files, not including the C-\TeX\ files, as of June 1st, fits
+ on one 1.2 MB diskette or three 360KB diskettes. No subsetting,
+ please. Send David:
+ formatted diskettes;
+ indication of the format required;
+ a self-addressed mailer; and
+a \$5.00 donation per set of files, to cover postage and equipment wear
+ \& tear. (If you live outside North America, airmail delivery will probably
+ require more postage. Contact David for details.)
+ David's address:
+{\obeylines\parindent2em
+ David W. Hopper,
+ 446 Main Street,
+ Toronto, Ontario,
+ Canada M4C 4Y2
+}
+\noindent
+Since this seemed rather roundabout to me, I have copied all the
+files (including C-\TeX) to 5\frac1/4
+{\sc ms-dos} floppy and 3\frac1/2 Macintosh diskette
+for distribution in the UK. I cannot obtain 3 floppies for \$5 Canadian
+(about \quid3.00),
+so my prices are higher. I can distribute the style files
+for \quid10.00 per 5 5\frac1/4 inch
+ or \quid7.50 for 3
+3\frac1/2 inch diskettes. For some reason, my copying
+was less compact than David's. I may investigate
+one of the public domain compression utilities, in
+order to cut the cost.
+C-\TeX\ has been separated out from the style files,
+and is available on 4 5\frac1/4 inch floppies, in
+{\sc backup/restore} format. I have stored them in this way
+to retain the directory structure so that the extra
+files which come with C-\TeX\ make sense. I have not yet
+put the C-\TeX\ files onto Macintosh format, but if there is a requirement
+I can do this too.
+
+The list given below is slightly out of date, and there have been
+some additions. The most noticeable change is with the
+TeXtyl files, which have been slightly reorganised, and
+include {\sc unix} and VMS versions.
+John Renner, a former student of John Gourlay's, now at Adobe, wrote
+TeXtyl to allow \TeX\ users to draw lines and curves in
+their documents. It is actually a postprocessor: \TeX\ is run on an
+input file containing |\special|s which define a drawing, and then
+TeXtyl is run on the |dvi| file to obtain a new |dvi|
+ file in which the |\special|s
+are replaced with |dvi| commands to print the lines and curves by
+piecing together small characters from special fonts.
+
+However, if you want any
+these files, you have to take the lot. Like David Hopper, I
+do not intend to subdivide. I will try to keep the files
+``current'', and emulating Maria Code, to obtain an update, you
+have to take the entire set again.
+\goodbreak{\rmnine\baselineskip=9pt
+ \settabs
+ \+ aaai-instructions.tex\quad&nopagenumbers.doc\quad&ucthesi \cr
+ \+ 00directory&format.sty&slem.doc \cr
+ \+ 00index&fullpage.doc&slem.sty \cr
+ \+ 00readme&fullpage.sty&spacecites.doc \cr
+ \+ a4.sty&geophysics.sty&spacecites.sty \cr
+ \+ a4wide.sty&german.sty&suthesis.doc \cr
+ \+ aaai-instructions.tex&ieeetr.bst&suthesis.sty \cr
+ \+ aaai-named.bst&ist21.sty&texindex.doc \cr
+ \+ aaai.sty&latex.bug&texindex.pas \cr
+ \+ acm.bst&layout.readme&texindex.sty \cr
+ \+ agugrl.sample&layout.tex&texnames.doc \cr
+ \+ agugrl.sty&lcustom.tex&texnames.sty \cr
+ \+ agujgr.sample&lfonts\_ams.readme&textyl.readme \cr
+ \+ agujgr.sty&lfonts\_ams.tex&textyl.shar1 \cr
+ \+ amssymbols.sty&lgraph.shar&textyl.shar2 \cr
+ \+ art10.txt&local.suppl&textyl.shar3 \cr
+ \+ art11.txt&memo.sty&textyl.shar4 \cr
+ \+ art12.txt&mfr.sty&textyl.shar5 \cr
+ \+ article.txt&mitthesis.sample&textyl.shar6 \cr
+ \+ biihead.sty&mitthesis.sty&textyl.shar7 \cr
+ \+ ctex.readme&natsci.bst&textyl.shar8 \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar1&newalpha.bst&textyl.shar9 \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar2&nopagenumbers.doc&tgrind.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar3&nopagenumbers.sty&threepart.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar4&remark.sty&titlepage.txt \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar5&resume.sample&trademark.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar6&resume.sty&uct10.doc \cr
+ \+ cyrillic.sty&sc21-wg1.sty&uct11.doc \cr
+ \+ dayofweek.tex&sc21.sty&uct12.doc \cr
+ \+ deproc.sty&sfwmac.sty&ucthesis.doc \cr
+ \+ deprocldc.tex&showlabels.sty&ucthesis.readme \cr
+ \+ docsty.c&siam.bib&uuencode.shar \cr
+ \+ docsty.readme&siam.bst&vdm.doc \cr
+ \+ doublespace.sty&siam.doc&vdm.sty \cr
+ \+ draft.sty&siam.sty&vdm.tex \cr
+ \+ drafthead.sty&siam.tex&ws87.p \cr
+ \+ dvidoc.shar1&siam10.doc&wsltex.c \cr
+ \+ dvidoc.shar2&siam10.sty&wsltex.p \cr
+ \+ epic.shar1&siam11.sty&xxxcustom.tex \cr
+ \+ epic.shar2&siam12.sty&xxxslides.sty \cr}
+
+
+\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}
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+
+% Report plus info re distributors of certain products which I hope
+% is accurate: no prices as I am sure they would not be correct for UK.
+%
+% Please feel free to edit it however you like.
+%
+\def\linesep{\vskip\baselineskip}
+\let\sf\relax
+\let\extraspace\quad
+\centerline{\bf \TeX\ Users Group 1987 Meeting }
+\centerline{\bf 2. Is there \TeX \ after Knuth?} % Possible title.
+\medskip\noindent
+The answer from the Seattle meeting was
+loud and clear: Yes! it is not only very alive and well but busy evolving into
+Japanese and Turkish speaking species. It is also becoming slowly accepted by
+the commercial world: both by publishers and typesetters. The majority of the
+grumbles and ``Why on earth did Knuth do\dots '' comments came from the computing
+professionals; i.e.\ those
+whose interests involve using \TeX \ as a programming language or who are
+attempting to unravel and adapt
+macros written by other \TeX nicians. Their consensus was
+roughly as follows: \TeX \ is hard to program in and to debug, and nigh on
+impossible to produce good (according to the fashionable standards) code; to
+this those with wider aesthetic standards often add that \TeX \ enables bad
+typesetting as easily as it does good.
+
+But enough of the gripes, with Seattle putting on its very best in clear, sunny
+weather for us it was impossible to be anything but optimistic: and those who
+could discipline themselves to stay
+in the lecture theatre for long enough heard about the use of
+TeX in publications ranging from the ivory towers of Linguistics
+journals---where
+the publishers had discovered (with some surprise?) that {\tt \$} signs have
+lots of nonmathematical uses, to the mass-media world of {\sf TV--Guide} (the US
+equivalent of TV\kern-2pt /Radio Times) --- where allowing \TeX \ to ``float''
+an advert onto
+the wrong page in just
+one of the 108 editions could result in badness \$150,000!
+(and probably some trade for the legal profession who, in Maryland at least,
+have ``endorsed \TeX\ as their standard for Text Formatting'').
+
+The relationship between \TeX\ and the PostScript
+world was subjected to very close
+scrutiny from many different angles but I shall not attempt to summarize what
+was said as I am still trying to piece together into some semblance of coherence
+the enormous amount of advice and information which I accumulated on the
+subject. It is certainly one on which everyone in the \TeX\ world has a lot
+to say; I wonder if PUG members spend so much time wondering about this
+relationship.
+
+The marketing slots were, on the whole, fairly low-key. Many software
+goodies were
+promised to be ``ready for shipping this fall'' but my experience leads me to
+advise waiting until you know someone else who already
+has been sent the {\it final\/} release version
+before parting with your money. The reasonably-priced products which seemed to
+me to be most likely to warrant further investigation were:
+
+\item{$\bullet$} Publishing Companion from K-Talk Communications:\extraspace claims to
+take documents
+``from WordPerfect to typesetting, completely untouched by human hands'' (other
+wordprocessors, e.g. WORD are to be included ``soon''). K-Talk's flyer, which
+ had been produced using this package, suggests that this software
+exemplifies the criticism I mentioned above: that
+\TeX \ is as good at sloppy typesetting as it is at excellent typesetting;
+however, it may be that the true
+culprit in this case is WordPerfect, which lays no
+claim to aesthetic judgement.
+
+\item{$\bullet$} \TeX WRITE from Docusoft Publishing Technologies:\extraspace this is an
+environment for \TeX\ on an IBM-type PC. I have a pre-release
+version of this and, with the bugs
+removed and the promised features implemented, it could provide
+a very friendly one:
+it is, briefly, a multiple-buffer,
+full-screen editor, with optional menus, which allows files to be \TeX ed,
+Previewed, etc.\
+without leaving it. My major criticism of it is that, as an editor, it is not
+fully adapted to editing \TeX \ files.
+
+\item{$\bullet$} Macro\TeX\ from \TeX nology Inc:\extraspace this is Amy Hendrickson's macro
+package which is in fact a toolkit of independent suites of macros, all of
+which work with Plain \TeX. They cover such areas as Tables, Indexing and
+Glossaries; and the author says that she hopes that the macro
+constructions in
+the package will be accessible by and useful to those who want to write
+their own macros
+to do either similar things or even ``something completely different''.
+
+Those with the odd couple of thousand dollars to spare and a Sun Workstation
+will of course be eagerly awaiting delivery of the software
+no Yuppie typesetter could possibly be without --- The Publisher from Arbortext;
+the pre-release version was happily singing and dancing its way through a
+somewhat limited routine but the (real)-timing of its
+``WYSIWYWouldGetIf\dots\
+show'' was most impressive. Nevertheless, when my boat comes in or I write The
+Program (you know, the one which is able to accurately forcast all
+the financial markets in the
+world and act appropriately before anyone else's does), after the red BMW it
+will have to be a Monotype Lasercomp, together with whatever secret software the
+long-established German typesetting company St\"urtz have developed to give \TeX \
+access to the Aladdin's cave of Monotype fonts, especially those for
+between the \$-signs! Who knows, then I may be able to keep my linguistics
+colleagues supplied with all the diacritics and phonetic symbols they lust
+after, {\it and\/}
+get an empty set symbol which is more to my editor's (the human
+one, that is) taste.
+
+I do not wish to give the impression that the meeting offered none of what has
+been in the past its staple diet: implementations of \TeX; and
+this years fashions in device drivers. There was indeed plenty of information
+from site-coordinators, companies and consultants to satisfy such appetites.
+Also, a movement was started to set standards for printer drivers which led to
+considerable controversy over what such standards should cover. However, the
+meeting gave me the clear message that TUG is becoming more and more a true
+{\it Users\/} Group rather than merely an {\it implementor's\/} group.
+Even clearer though, and I suspect longer lasting, than any such impressions (or
+what I learnt about accents and breathing signs in Modern Greek, and what it
+takes to change a hash table size) will be my memories of the never-ending
+display of sea, lakes, forests and snow-capped mountains which Seattle provided
+for us that week in August.
+% Appendix:
+\linesep\noindent
+Names and addresses of suppliers mentioned above:
+\linesep
+{\obeylines\parindent2em
+\vbox{Arbortext Inc
+416 Fourth Street
+PO Box 7993
+Ann Arbor
+Michigan 48107
+USA
+$+1$ 313 996 3356}
+\linesep\goodbreak
+\vbox{Docusoft Publishing Technologies Inc
+1150 Homer Street
+Vancouver
+British Columbia V6B 2X8
+Canada
+$+1$ 604 687 0354}
+\linesep\goodbreak
+\vbox{K--Talk Communications
+3920 Olentangy River Road
+Columbus
+Ohio 43214
+USA
+$+1$ 614 459 9711}
+\linesep\goodbreak
+\vbox{Seattle Tourist Authority
+City Hall
+Seattle
+Washington
+USA}
+\linesep\goodbreak
+\vbox{\TeX nology Inc
+57 Longwood Avenue \#8
+Brookline
+Massachussets 02146 % spelling??
+USA
+$+1$ 617 738 8029}
+\linesep\goodbreak
+\vbox{Universit\"ats-druckerei H. St\"urtz AG
+Beethovenstra\ss e 5
+D-8700 W\"urzburg I
+DFR
+$+49$ 9 31 385 323} }
+\medskip
+\rightline{\sl Chris Rowley, Open University}
+
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/stuff.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/stuff.tex
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+\centerline{\bf Stuff to read}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Arabic Word Processing, Joseph D. Becker,
+{\it Communications of the ACM}, July 1987, 30(7),
+pp. 600--610.
+
+Using the Xerox {\it Viewpoint Documentor}, which
+is capable of handling text in any intermixture
+of the world's scripts, this article describes
+and discusses many of the problems associated with
+the various forms of Arabic.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Word Division in Spanish, Jos\'e A. Ma\~nas,
+{\it Communications of the ACM}, July 1987, 30(7),
+pp. 612--616.
+
+Strangely, this only references the 1979 \TeX\ \&
+\MF\ book, and does not mention Liang's algorithm.
+But the good news is that Spanish has a rigid
+lexical structure which allows a rule-based
+hyphenation to be wholly successful.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Typesetting with {\sc \TeX tures}: a Review,
+Sak Wath\-an\-asin, {\it Apple 2000}, October 1987,
+2(5), 68--72.
+
+A provoking and interesting review which seeks to put {\sc \TeX tures}
+in its place in the Macintosh world. Many of his
+comments are applicable to \TeX.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star${\sc daphne} (Document Application Processing in
+a Heterogeneous Network Environment) --- an Implementation
+Based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language
+\SGML, Craig Smith, {\it \SGML\ Users' Group
+Bulletin}, 1986, 1(2), 75--82.
+
+Besides competing for the longest article title,
+it describes the implementation of {\sc daphne},
+which just happens to use \TeX\ as its formatter.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Formatting \SGML\ Documents: Essence and Solution,
+Craig Smith, {\it \SGML\ Users' Group
+Bulletin}, 1987, 2(1), 4--8.
+
+Although \TeX\ (and {\sc daphne}) take something
+of a back seat, they are still there in spirit.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Typesetting in Context, Max Whitby,
+{\it DTP Desktop Publishing}, October 1987,
+18--22.
+
+Decribes and compares
+{\sc \TeX tures}, Mac\TeX\ and
+Just\kern-1ptText. ``The \TeX book (which) has good
+cartoons but is about as readable as a car repair
+manual''. Max ends up sitting on the fence between
+Just\kern-1ptText and \TeX, and also between
+{\sc \TeX tures} and Mac\TeX. But some of his
+examples are nice.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$The Power Behind The Page, Karl Dallas,
+{\it DTP Desktop Publishing}, October 1987,
+37--43.
+
+Quite a useful review of some page description languages.
+Karl includes \ps, Interpress, ImPress, Prescribe, \TeX\ and
+Cora as pdls. Obviously {\it sensu lato}.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star${\it win} and {\it sin\/}: Predicate Transformers for
+Concurrency, Leslie Lamport, {\it Report \#17,
+DEC System Research Center}.
+
+Just for all those who wondered what it is that
+Leslie does when he isn't doing \LaTeX.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Exploiting the LN03: \TeX, Phil Taylor,
+{\it Dec User}, May 1987, 47.
+
+An attempt to brighten the dull lives of LN03
+laser printer users, and to emphasise DEC's
+reluctant support of proper laser printing.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star${\sl Page One\/} A New Breed of Page-Making Software,
+Gord Graham, {\it Small Press}, June 1987, 53--55.
+
+As you might guess, really a description of
+McCutcheon Graphics' \TeX\ front end. One
+fascinating quote (out of context, of course) is
+``\TeX\ exhibits the telltale horns and feet of
+a goat''. {\it Page One\/} seems even more
+restrictive than \LaTeX, but equally well, appears
+to have a very real potential in the more
+traditional publishing marketplace.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Book Publishers can turn over a new leaf with
+desktop system, Renate Lerch, {\it The Financial
+Post}, March 16, 1987, C3.
+
+Does not mention \TeX\ (or {\it Page One\/}), but
+it is about McCutcheon Graphics and their ``desktop
+publishing system''.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Type-X: Drawing a Bead on Book Publishers,
+Jerome P. Frank, {\it Publishers Weekly}, May 1, 1987,
+30--35.
+
+Includes a description of {\it Page One\/}, and
+even mentions Mac\TeX\ (``batch pagination software''
+--- how the mighty are fallen!).
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Book publishers turn to Page One to save money
+and time, Anon, {\it Printaction}, July 1987, 19.
+
+Yet more about {\it Page One\/}. Covers much the
+same ground as the other articles, but lays more stress on
+its ability to import Microsoft Word. Credits
+the success of {\it Page One\/} to Mac\TeX.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Rectangular Convolution for Fast Filtering of
+Characters, Avi Naiman \& Alain Fournier,
+{\it Computer Graphics}, July 1987, 21(4), 233--241.
+
+Centres around the exploitation of greyscale fonts.
+This should help to increase the effective
+resolution of characters by using grey pixels, on
+devices which support that facility.
+
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+$\star$Character Generation Under Grid Constraints,
+Roger D. Hersch, {\it Computer Graphics}, July 1987,
+21(4), 243--251.
+
+Addresses the problem of producing attractive and
+regular characters on middle resolution devices,
+describing an algorithm
+which allows
+{\it subpixel phasing} to be applied to critical parts of the character.
+
+\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/texhax.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/texhax.tex
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+\def\nl{\hfill\break}
+% BEST OF TEXHAX notes for TeXline
+% by Sebastian Rahtz
+% Malcolm - i am unused to plain TeX, and have quickly hacked together
+% some macros. please feel free to redo at will. wish I was back in
+% LaTeX.....
+%---------------------------------------------------------------------
+% program quoting macros
+%
+\def\UncatcodeSpecials{\def\do##1{\catcode`##1=12 }\dospecials}
+{\begingroup\obeyspaces\catcode`\ =13\endgroup}
+%
+\def\SetupVerbatim{\tt\def\par{\leavevmode\endgraf}\catcode`\`=\active
+\obeylines\UncatcodeSpecials \obeyspaces\catcode`\ =13}
+{\catcode`\`=\active \gdef`{\relax\lq}}
+%
+\def\program{\begingroup\parindent=0em\par
+\SetupVerbatim\xprogram}
+\begingroup
+\catcode`\|=0 \catcode`\\=12
+|obeylines|gdef|xprogram#1\endprogram{#1|endgroup|vskip 10pt|parindent=0em|par}
+|endgroup
+%
+% miscellaneous
+\def\and{\item{$\bullet$}}
+\def\sq{\smallskip\begingroup\leftskip=3em\noindent
+\sf\parindent=0em\parskip=2pt}
+\def\eq{\smallskip\hrule\smallskip
+\parindent=1em\parskip=0pt\leftskip=0em\endgroup}
+\def\bs{$\backslash$}
+%
+% names
+\font\sf=cmss10
+%-------------------------------------------
+\centerline{\bf Bits of \hax, Summer 87}
+\medskip\noindent
+Those readers of \TeX line who are not daily users of electronic mail,
+and/or use \TeX\ primarily on micros, may not be aware of the
+existence of the \hax\ mailing list, which exists to share information
+around the international \TeX\ community. It is distributed from the
+University of Stanford under the editorship of Malcolm Brown, and uses
+a digest format; Malcolm stores incoming mail (requests for
+information, news of new products, replies to other questions,
+`official' communications from TUG in advance of TUGboat) until
+it reaches critical mass, then bundles it together with a list of
+contents and sends it to everyone on the \hax\ list. Typically, this
+happens two or three times a week, and each issue contains about a
+dozen contributions, which means that a vast amount of \TeX -related
+material is flitting across the networks all the time. The purpose of
+this article is to describe the range of \TeX ery covered in \hax, and
+to highlight some of the more interesting topics. Readers who wish to
+join in this activity (be prepared for a lot of browsing of mail
+messages!) must have an account on their local mainframe or mini with
+access to network mail (consult your local guru); send mail to
+|texhax-request%uk.ac.ucl.cs| and ask that
+your name be put on the list to receive \hax\ (don't forget to tell
+them your own mail address). As things stand at the moment, this
+international mail will not cost you anything, as one copy is sent to
+London and forwarded to you from there.
+
+\hax\ is read by a very large number of people, to judge by
+contributions, from America, Canada, Britain, Europe, Japan, Australia
+etc. Leslie Lamport is a regular contributor with answers to \LaTeX\
+problems, Barbara Beeton monitors it for TUG, and even Donald Knuth
+adds the occasional note. It is a good place to send an esoteric
+question, as usually someone with an unpronounceable name from an
+institution you have never heard of will send in an answer. If you
+want a more local answer (`who has got a copy of xxx in Britain?'),
+there is a UK version of \hax, recently set up by Peter Abbott at
+Aston, to bring together specifically UK \TeX ies --- mail to {\tt
+tex-info@uk.ac.aston.mail} to get on that list.
+
+For the purpose of this article, I have looked at the 36 issues of \hax\
+that reached me between May 22nd and September 6th (an average of
+about two a week). There were approximately 480 contributions dealing
+with every sort of \TeX\ arcana; just searching the subject fields
+(not necessarily a proper reflection of contents), I found 129 pieces
+relating to \LaTeX\ (including 22 sets of \LaTeX\ Notes from
+Leslie Lamport), 14 pieces on \BibTeX, 11 on \MF, 6 on
+\SliTeX, and just 1 on \AmSTeX. My subjective impression is that
+\LaTeX\ matters are an even higher proportion of \hax\ even than
+appears from these figures. In general, contributions vary from the
+questions about hardware (usually printers), to the private life of
+\TeX\ macros, as evinced in the following two excerpts:
+
+{\narrower\noindent
+ My order for the IBM 4250 font tapes just came back with
+ ``I no longer have a font tape for the 4250 printer. The person
+ who supplied it to me originally has not made another one for version 2
+ of TeX."
+ Where can I get one of these tapes?
+ What's the difference between V1.01 and 2?
+ Will they still work?
+\smallskip}
+\noindent and
+
+{\narrower\noindent
+Subject: TeX eats l's after fil
+
+\noindent
+If an `l' or and `L' follows a unit of glue such as `fil', even separated
+by spaces, it is aparently parsed as part of the name of the unit. This
+leads to some fairly strange behavior. For example, the following script
+will put a `K' and a `M' in the dvi file, but no `L'!\nl
+|\def\q#1{\hskip 0 pt plus 0 fil #1}|\nl
+|\q{K}\q{L}\q{M}|\nl
+\%\% barbara beeton responds:\nl
+the ``l"-gobbling you've encountered is legitimate, and easily explained.
+the full syntax of \bs hskip is\nl
+|\hskip<dimen> plus<dimen> minus<dimen>|\nl
+since your example didn't include a ``minus'', tex keeps looking.
+since ``fil'' is a ``pseudo-dimension'' it can continue, up to 3 ``l"s
+(if your data had been ``llama'', all you would have gotten in the output
+would have been ``ama''). similarly, if the data had started with the
+word ``minus'', not followed by a proper $<$dimen$>$, minus would have been
+gobbled and you probably would have gotten a nasty message to the effect
+that a $<$dimen$>$ was expected, and 0pt will be assumed. the best way to
+avoid this is to put |\relax| after your skip expression.
+ this is covered explicitly in the texbook; look it up in the
+index (page 469): ``l after fil''.
+\smallskip}
+
+Sometimes \hax\ gets onto a general issue---there have been
+discussions over the last year on such questions as:
+
+{\narrower
+\and Can University authorities be persuaded to drop their
+`double-spaced Courier' thesis requirements for students who have
+access to a proper typesetting system like \TeX?
+\and What freedom should \LaTeX\ users have to tinker with the layout?
+Leslie Lamport feels strongly that only experienced document designers
+should be able to alter even the font used in a running head.
+
+\and Can a consistent set of standards for dvi drivers be put
+together? What facilities should they have? How do you handle \bs
+specials? This question was
+addressed in detail at the TUG meeting in August, and a committee was
+set up to look into it.
+
+\and What is the relationship of \PS\ to \TeX? Lamport suggested
+\TeX\ be changed to output pure \PS, others defend their LN03s to the
+death.
+\smallskip
+}
+
+One common feature of \hax\ is the swapping of style files for \LaTeX.
+For those who are not aware of it,
+there is a large collection of these style files
+held at Rochester. The `latest' list is given
+elsewhere in \TeX line. All of these files are obtainable
+over {\it email}. Rather than have to tangle with
+the absurdities of {\it email\/} addressing,
+is possible to obtain them over the |uk-tex|
+distribution as well.
+
+To obtain these style files from Aston, you could
+try the following, VAX VMS command (assuming you
+have a VAX, or a friend with a VAX, and that it is
+connected over Janet):\nl
+|transfer -|\nl
+\hbox{|aston.kirk::[public.latexstyle]000index.list-|}
+|latex_index.txt|\nl
+|/user=public,public|\nl
+This will put the index file in your own
+directory as |latex_index.txt|. It should look
+something like the list given in the next article.
+If you cannot gain access to Janet, you can also
+obtain the files on floppy. See the next
+article.
+
+\hax\ is quite a fascinating compilation of the
+fascinating, obvious, apparent, useless, arcane,
+obscure, informative and (sometimes) rude!
+
+\rightline{\sl Sebastian Rahtz, Southampton University}
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/texhax.txt b/info/digests/texline/no6/texhax.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c5b46481a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/info/digests/texline/no6/texhax.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,551 @@
+
+% BEST OF TEXHAX notes for TeXline
+% by Sebastian Rahtz
+% Malcolm - i am unused to plain TeX, and have quickly hacked together
+% some macros. please feel free to redo at will. wish I was back in
+% LaTeX.....
+%---------------------------------------------------------------------
+% program quoting macros
+%
+\def\UncatcodeSpecials{\def\do##1{\catcode`##1=12 }\dospecials}
+{\begingroup\obeyspaces\catcode`\ =13\endgroup}
+%
+\def\SetupVerbatim{\tt\def\par{\leavevmode\endgraf}\catcode`\`=\active
+\obeylines\UncatcodeSpecials \obeyspaces\catcode`\ =13}
+{\catcode`\`=\active \gdef`{\relax\lq}}
+%
+\def\program{\begingroup\parindent=0em\par
+\SetupVerbatim\xprogram}
+\begingroup
+\catcode`\|=0 \catcode`\\=12
+|obeylines|gdef|xprogram#1\endprogram{#1|endgroup|vskip 10pt|parindent=0em|par}
+|endgroup
+%
+% miscellaneous
+\parindent=1em
+\def\and{\item{$\bullet$}}
+\def\sq{\smallskip\begingroup\leftskip=3em\noindent
+\sf\parindent=0em\parskip=2pt}
+\def\eq{\smallskip\hrule\smallskip
+\parindent=1em\parskip=0pt\leftskip=0em\endgroup}
+\def\bs{$\backslash$}
+%
+% names
+\def\ps{{\sc PostScript}}
+\font\mf=logo10
+\hyphenchar\mf=-1
+\def\LaTeX{{\rm L\kern-.36em\raise.3ex\hbox{\sc a}\kern-.15em
+ T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}}
+\font\sc=cmcsc10
+\font\sf=cmss10
+\def\texline{\TeX line}
+\def\hax{\TeX{\sc hax}}
+\def\metafont{{\mf METAFONT}}
+\def\amstex{$\cal A$\kern-.1667em\lower.5ex\hbox{$\cal M$}\kern-.125em
+ $\cal S$-\TeX}
+\def\bibtex{{\sc Bib}\TeX}
+\def\slitex{{\sc Sli}\TeX}
+%-------------------------------------------
+\centerline{\bf Best of \hax, Summer 87}
+\centerline{\it Sebastian Rahtz, Department of Electronics and
+Computer Science, University of Southampton}
+\medskip
+Those readers of \texline\ who are not daily users of electronic mail,
+and/or use \TeX\ primarily on micros, may not be aware of the
+existence of the \hax\ mailing list, which exists to share information
+around the international \TeX\ community. It is distributed from the
+University of Stanford under the editorship of Malcolm Brown, and uses
+a digest format; Malcolm stores incoming mail (requests for
+information, news of new products, replies to other questions,
+`official' communications from TUG in advance of TUGboat) until
+it reaches critical mass, then bundles it together with a list of
+contents and sends it to everyone on the \hax\ list. Typically, this
+happens two or three times a week, and each issue contains about a
+dozen contributions, which means that a vast amount of \TeX -related
+material is flitting across the networks all the time. The purpose of
+this article is to describe the range of \TeX ery covered in \hax, and
+to reprint some of the more interesting topics. Readers who wish to
+join in this activity (be prepared for a lot of browsing of mail
+messages!) must have an account on their local mainframe or mini with
+access to network mail (consult your local guru); send mail to
+{\tt texhax-request\%uk.ac.ucl.cs} and ask that
+your name be put on the list to receive \hax\ (don't forget to tell
+them your own mail address). As things stand at the moment, this
+international mail will not cost you anything, as one copy is sent to
+London and forwarded to you from there.
+
+\hax\ is read by a very large number of people, to judge by
+contributions, from America, Canada, Britain, Europe, Japan, Australia
+etc. Leslie Lamport is a regular contributor with answers to \LaTeX\
+problems, Barbara Beeton monitors it for TUG, and even Donald Knuth
+adds the occasional note. It is a good place to send an esoteric
+question, as usually someone with an unpronounceable name from an
+institution you have never heard of will send in an answer. If you
+want a more local answer (`who has got a copy of xxx in Britain?'),
+there is a UK version of \hax, recently set up by Peter Abbott at
+Aston, to bring together specifically UK \TeX xies---mail to {\tt
+abbott@uk.ac.aston.mail} to get on that list.
+
+For the purpose of this article, I have looked at the 36 issues of \hax\
+that reached me between May 22nd and September 6th (an average of
+about two a week). There were approximately 480 contributions dealing
+with every sort of \TeX\ arcana; just searching the subject fields
+(not necessarily a proper reflection of contents), I found 129 pieces
+relating to \LaTeX\ (including 22 sets of {\it \LaTeX\ Notes} from
+Leslie Lamport), 14 pieces on \bibtex, 11 on \metafont, 6 on
+\slitex, and just 1 on \amstex. My subjective impression is that
+\LaTeX\ matters are an even higher proportion of \hax\ even than
+appears from these figures. In general, contributions vary from the
+questions about hardware (usually printers), to the private life of
+\TeX\ macros, as evinced in the following two excerpts:
+
+{\sq
+
+Date: 09 Jun 87 15:11:35 ADT
+
+Subject: Font tapes for IBM 4250
+
+>From: MIKEMAC\%UNBMVS1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
+
+ My order for the IBM 4250 font tapes just came back with
+ ``I no longer have a font tape for the 4250 printer. The person
+ who supplied it to me originally has not made another one for version 2
+ of TeX."
+ Where can I get one of these tapes?
+ What's the difference between V1.01(the one she doesn't have) and 2?
+ Will they still work?
+\eq}
+
+and
+
+{\sq
+
+Date: Wed, 5 Aug 87 20:27:30 CDT
+
+>From: ``Douglas N. Arnold"$<$arnold\%s1.ima.umn.edu@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu$>$
+
+Subject: TeX eats l's after fil
+
+If an `l' or and `L' follows a unit of glue such as `fil', even separated
+by spaces, it is aparently parsed as part of the name of the unit. This
+leads to some fairly strange behavior. For example, the following script
+will put a `K' and a `M' in the dvi file, but no `L'!
+
+\program
+ \def\q#1{\hskip 0 pt plus 0 fil #1}
+ \q{K}\q{L}\q{M}
+ \end
+\endprogram
+
+I know that TeX has no bugs ... but is it really supposed to do this?
+
+ -- Doug Arnold
+ na.arnold@score.stanford.edu = arnold\%s1.ima.umn.edu@umn-cs.arpa
+
+\%\% Barbara Beeton responds:
+
+
+Date: Wed 5 Aug 87 20:25:06-PDT
+
+>From: Barbara Beeton$<$BEETON@Score.Stanford.EDU$>$
+
+Subject: Re: TeX eats l's after fil
+
+the ``l"-gobbling you've encountered is legitimate, and easily explained.
+the full syntax of \bs hskip is
+\program
+ \hskip<dimen> plus<dimen> minus<dimen>
+\endprogram
+since your example didn't include a ``minus", tex keeps looking.
+since ``fil" is a ``pseudo-dimension" it can continue, up to 3 ``l"s
+(if your data had been ``llama", all you would have gotten in the output
+would have been ``ama"). similarly, if the data had started with the
+word ``minus", not followed by a proper$<$dimen$>$, minus would have been
+gobbled and you probably would have gotten a nasty message to the effect
+that a$<$dimen$>$ was expected, and 0pt will be assumed. the best way to
+avoid this is to put \relax after your skip expression.
+ this is covered explicitly in the texbook; look it up in the
+index (page 469): ``l after fil".
+ -- barbara beeton
+
+\eq}
+
+Sometimes \hax\ gets onto a general issue---there have been
+discussions over the last year on such questions as:
+
+{
+\and Can University authorities be persuaded to drop their
+`double-spaced Courier' thesis requirements for students who have
+access to a proper typesetting system like \TeX?
+\and What freedom should \LaTeX\ users have to tinker with the layout?
+Leslie Lamport feels strongly that only experienced document designers
+should be able to alter e.g. the font used in a running head.
+
+\and Can a consistent set of standards for dvi drivers be put
+together? What facilities should they have? How do you handle \bs
+specials? This question was
+addressed in detail at the TUG meeting in August, and a committee was
+set up to look into it.
+
+\and What is the relationship of \ps\ to \TeX? Lamport suggested
+\TeX\ be changed to output pure \ps, others defend their LN03s to the
+death.
+}
+
+Usually, of course, \hax\ is question and answer;
+here are some random selections of items that should give a general
+flavour of what happens on a daily basis:
+{\sq
+ Date: Wed, 13 May 87 08:33 EDT
+
+ Subject: have you had problems with Metafont?
+
+
+ From: Chris Lindblad $<$CJL@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU$>$
+
+ I'm having problems with some broken screen-resolution fonts.
+ Metafont as standardly configured produces garbage font files for
+ some fonts that are smaller than 10pt at 80 dpi, and I don't know
+ how to hack Metafont parameters to fix it. The GF files that
+ metafont produces causes GFtoPXL to blow up, resulting with PXL
+ files that are totally unreadable. So I'm trying to frob with
+ Metafont a little each day in some of my free time to try to get it
+ to do something reasonable. The problem is that I don't understand
+ anything about it, so I'm not getting anywhere.
+
+The fonts that I have generated at 118 dots per inch that we use with
+the dvitool SUN TeX previewer program that Jeff McCarrel wrote get
+pretty bad at small point sizes. 80 dots per inch must look really
+awful.
+
+I tried generating something at 80 dots per inch and like Chris I had
+problems, but different ones; metafont stopped 2 times with a ``strange
+path (turning number is zero)" error in the file romanp.mf when I
+tried to run it on cmr8.mf with the following mode:
+
+\program
+% previewlow mode: for Textset previewer at lowest resolution
+mode_def previewlow = % for Textset previewer at lowest resolution
+ proofing := 0; % no, we're not making proofs
+ fontmaking := 1; % yes, we are making a font
+ tracingtitles := 0; % no, don't show titles
+ pixels_per_inch := 80; % really REALLY lowres
+ blacker := 0.65; % make the pens a bit blacker
+ fillin := 0.2; % compensate for diagonal fillin
+ o_correction := 0.4; % don't overshoot as much
+enddef;
+\endprogram
+
+I just hit return twice and then it finished up with no more
+complaints and gftopxl and gftopk didn't have any problems with the gf
+resulting file.
+
+\eq}
+
+{\sq
+Date: Fri 12 Jun 87 14:33:02-EDT
+
+>From: John Gourlay $<$GOURLAY-J\%OSU-20@ohio-state.ARPA$>$
+
+Subject: Pic-like software for TeX
+
+ John Renner, a former student of mine now at Adobe, has written
+a program called TeXtyl to allow TeX users to draw lines and curves in
+their documents. It's actually a postprocessor: one runs TeX on an
+input file containing \bs specials that define a drawing, and then runs
+TeXtyl on the dvi file to obtain a new dvi file in which the \bs specials
+are replaced with dvi commands to print the lines and curves by
+piecing together small characters from special fonts. It's in the
+public domain, but contact John (adobe!renner@decwrl.dec.com) for
+details.
+\eq}
+
+{\sq
+
+Date: Wed, 17 Jun 87 14:59:51 EDT
+
+>From: phr@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Paul Rubin)
+
+Subject: tex macro for reference cards
+
+The GNU Emacs reference card is typeset using some TeX macros designed
+specifically for setting reference cards. It is distributed as the file
+"etc/refcard.tex" with GNU Emacs, which you can ftp from the usual places.
+
+\eq}
+
+{\sq
+
+Date: Fri, 19 Jun 87 12:34:01 edt
+
+>From: clayton@lavalamp (R. Clayton)
+
+Subject: Spreading the word
+
+Anita Cochran recently asked for a macro that evenly spaces letters in
+an hbox with the end letters flush against the sides. The following
+macros should do:
+
+\program
+ \def \dolist
+ {\afterassignment\dodolist
+ \let\next=}
+ \def \dodolist
+ {\ifx \next \endlist \let \next \relax
+ \else \\ \let\next\dolist
+ \fi \next}
+ \def \endlist
+ {\endlist}
+ \def \\
+ {\next\hfil }
+ \def \spreadem#1#2{\hbox to #1{\dolist #2\endlist\hfilneg}}
+
+ \spreadem{2.0 in}{spread}
+ \spreadem{1.5 in}{the}
+ \spreadem{1.0 in}{word}
+
+ \bye
+\endprogram
+
+These macros were adopted from the macros given as the solution to
+problem 11.5 in the TEXbook. The idea is to stick an \bs hfil after every
+letter (token) in the word (argument). The glue after the final letter
+causes the word to be ``ragged-right" in the box; this is fixed by
+canceling the glue with an \bs hfilneg.
+
+\eq}
+
+{\sq
+
+Date: Fri, 19 Jun 87 13:27 EST
+
+>From: $<$JWS\%PSUARLC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu$>$
+
+Subject: WEB for Ada?
+
+Is there a version of WEB that accepts the Ada language?
+
+ Thanks, Jack Sharer, JWS@PSUARLC
+
+\eq}
+
+{\sq
+Date: Fri, 24 Jul 87 18:07 PDT
+
+>From: $<$ASND\%TRIUMFCL.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu$>$
+
+Subject: Typesetting chemical papers
+
+Like Th. Kneser, I also needed chemical equilibrium symbols and
+came up with the following, which may be useful. Note that these
+are for plain TeX and for chemical equations that are being typeset
+in Roman.
+
+\program
+% Definitions and stuff for chemistry, equilibrium symbols :
+% \eq}bm -- unlabeled equilibrium (longer than harpoons)
+% \eq}bmlab~#1_#2 -- long equilibrium sign with forward (#1) and backward (#2)
+% labels
+% \yields -- long right arrow
+% \yieldslab~#1 -- `` `` `` with a label above (#1)
+% To typeset chemical equations,
+% type \rm just after the $ or $$. Also, when using \eq}align or
+% \eq}aligno, type \cr\rm wherever you would normally type \cr.
+% The labels on \eq}bmlab and \yieldslab come out in italic automatically
+% (use \rm to get roman). Elsewhere, italicize variables like K_W or N_0
+% using \cit.
+%
+\def\cit{\fam=-1} \% Chemistry ITalic
+\def\longrharpup{\relbar\joinrel\rightharpoonup}
+\def\longlharpdn{\leftharpoondown\joinrel\relbar}
+\def\rlPOON#1{\vcenter{\hbox{\ooalign{\raise2.3pt
+ \hbox{$#1\longrharpup$}\crcr $#1\longlharpdn$}}}}
+\def\eq}bm{\mathrel{\mathpalette\rlPOON{}}\rm}
+\def\eq}bmlab~#1_#2{\mathrel{\mathop{\eqbm}\limits~{#1}_{#2}}\rm}
+\def\yields{\longrightarrow\rm}
+\def\yieldslab~#1{\mathrel{\mathop{\longrightarrow}\limits~{#1}} \rm}
+\endprogram
+
+
+To make subscripts come out aligned I have put (for example)
+\program
+\fontdimen16\twelvesymboltext=3.24pt
+\fontdimen17\twelvesymboltext=3.24pt
+\fontdimen16\twelvesymbolscript=2.65pt
+\fontdimen17\twelvesymbolscript=2.65pt
+\endprogram
+in with my font definitions following the example of the TeXbook p.179.
+These 12 pt numbers were determined by trial and eye...leading to a
+question of my own:
+
+ How can I look at the font parameters for an arbitrary font
+ and determine the proper font dimensions to make chemical
+ subscripts all come out aligned? Or, Has someone determined
+ the numbers already?
+
+ Donald
+ (asnd@triumfcl.bitnet or
+ userasnd@ubcmtsg.bitnet)
+\eq}
+
+One common feature of \hax\ is the swopping of style files for \LaTeX.
+For those who are not aware of it, here is the latest description of
+the Rochester \LaTeX\ style file collection:
+{\sq
+ Subject: Contents of LaTeX style collection, 2nd August 1987
+
+ Date: Sun, 02 Aug 87 14:03:33 -0400
+
+ From: Ken Yap $<$ken@cs.rochester.edu$>$
+
+ The LaTeX style collection now has the files listed below. More
+ submissions are very welcome.
+
+{ \settabs 3 \columns
+ \+ 00directory&format.sty&slem.doc \cr
+ \+ 00index&fullpage.doc&slem.sty \cr
+ \+ 00readme&fullpage.sty&spacecites.doc \cr
+ \+ a4.sty&geophysics.sty&spacecites.sty \cr
+ \+ a4wide.sty&german.sty&suthesis.doc \cr
+ \+ aaai-instructions.tex&ieeetr.bst&suthesis.sty \cr
+ \+ aaai-named.bst&ist21.sty&texindex.doc \cr
+ \+ aaai.sty&latex.bug&texindex.pas \cr
+ \+ acm.bst&layout.readme&texindex.sty \cr
+ \+ agugrl.sample&layout.tex&texnames.doc \cr
+ \+ agugrl.sty&lcustom.tex&texnames.sty \cr
+ \+ agujgr.sample&lfonts\_ams.readme&textyl.readme \cr
+ \+ agujgr.sty&lfonts\_ams.tex&textyl.shar1 \cr
+ \+ amssymbols.sty&lgraph.shar&textyl.shar2 \cr
+ \+ art10.txt&local.suppl&textyl.shar3 \cr
+ \+ art11.txt&memo.sty&textyl.shar4 \cr
+ \+ art12.txt&mfr.sty&textyl.shar5 \cr
+ \+ article.txt&mitthesis.sample&textyl.shar6 \cr
+ \+ biihead.sty&mitthesis.sty&textyl.shar7 \cr
+ \+ ctex.readme&natsci.bst&textyl.shar8 \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar1&newalpha.bst&textyl.shar9 \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar2&nopagenumbers.doc&tgrind.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar3&nopagenumbers.sty&threepart.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar4&remark.sty&titlepage.txt \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar5&resume.sample&trademark.sty \cr
+ \+ ctex.shar6&resume.sty&uct10.doc \cr
+ \+ cyrillic.sty&sc21-wg1.sty&uct11.doc \cr
+ \+ dayofweek.tex&sc21.sty&uct12.doc \cr
+ \+ deproc.sty&sfwmac.sty&ucthesis.doc \cr
+ \+ deprocldc.tex&showlabels.sty&ucthesis.readme \cr
+ \+ docsty.c&siam.bib&uuencode.shar \cr
+ \+ docsty.readme&siam.bst&vdm.doc \cr
+ \+ doublespace.sty&siam.doc&vdm.sty \cr
+ \+ draft.sty&siam.sty&vdm.tex \cr
+ \+ drafthead.sty&siam.tex&ws87.p \cr
+ \+ dvidoc.shar1&siam10.doc&wsltex.c \cr
+ \+ dvidoc.shar2&siam10.sty&wsltex.p \cr
+ \+ epic.shar1&siam11.sty&xxxcustom.tex \cr
+ \+ epic.shar2&siam12.sty&xxxslides.sty \cr
+}
+
+ 1. For Internet users - how to ftp:
+
+ Here is an example session. Disclaimer: ftp syntax varies from host to
+ host. Your syntax may be different. The syntax presented here is that
+ of Unix ftp. Comments in parentheses.
+
+\program
+ % ftp cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (a.k.a. cs.rochester.edu, a.k.a. 192.5.53.209)
+ ... (general blurb)
+ user: anonymous
+ password: <any non-null string>
+ ftp> cd public/latex-style (where the files are)
+ ftp> ls (to see what is there)
+ ... (lots of output)
+ ftp> get 00index
+ ... (more blurb)
+ ftp> quit
+\endprogram
+
+ 2. Non-Internet users - how to retrieve by mail:
+
+ An archive server has been installed. Send a piece of mail to LaTeX-Style
+ (@rochester.arpa, @cs.rochester.edu, via uucp or your favourite gateway) in
+ the following format:
+
+ Subject line should contain the phrase ``@file request". Body of the
+ mail should start with a line containing only an @ (at) sign.
+ The first line following should be a mail address FROM rochester TO
+[B you. Then follow by the names of the files you want, either one to
+ each line, or many to each line, separated by spaces. End with a line
+ containing only an @ sign. Case is not significant.
+
+ For example, if you are user at site.bitnet, this is what you should send:
+
+\program
+
+ To: latex-style@rochester.arpa
+ Subject: @file request
+
+ @
+ user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu (don't forget your address!)
+ 00readme
+ 00index
+ @
+\endprogram
+
+ Caveat: our mailer is pretty ignorant of BITNET, CSNET or UUCP
+ addresses unless they are in registered domains. It is best that you
+ supply explicit gateway routes. Also use the new domainized form of
+ addresses whenever possible because the old .ARPA addresses are fading
+ away.
+
+\program
+ user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu
+ user%site.csnet@relay.cs.net (not csnet-relay.arpa anymore)
+ site!user@seismo.css.gov (not seismo.arpa anymore)
+\endprogram
+
+ Long UUCP paths are discouraged. System administrators get upset and
+ your turnaround is very slow anyway.
+
+ Do not include any messages in the mail. It will not be seen by human
+ eyes. Be patient as the server is actually a batch program run once a
+ day. Files will be sent in batches, each not exceeding 100kbytes in size.
+
+ 3. IBM PC and clone users - how to get a distribution:
+
+ David Hopper of Toronto, Canada is offering copies of the style
+ collection on diskettes. This is not a commercial enterprise. David is
+ doing this in his own time as a favour to the TeX community. The entire
+ set of style files, not including the C-TeX files, as of June 1st, fits
+ on one 1.2 MB diskette or three 360KB diskettes. No subsetting,
+ please. Send David
+
+\item{ 1.} Formatted diskettes,
+ \item{2.} Indication of the format required,
+ \item{3.} A self-addressed mailer, and
+ \item{4.} A \$5.00 donation per set of files, to cover postage and equipment wear
+ \& tear. (If you live outside North America, airmail delivery will probably
+ require more postage. You should probably contact David for details.)
+
+ David's address:
+{\it
+ David W. Hopper,
+
+ 446 Main Street,
+
+
+ Toronto, Ontario,
+
+ Canada M4C 4Y2
+}
+
+ Thanks, David.
+
+ Ken
+
+ LaTeX-Style@Rochester.Arpa
+
+ LaTeX-Style@cs.Rochester.Edu
+
+ ..!rochester!latex-style
+
+\eq}
+
+\bye
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/texline.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/texline.tex
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..13367614d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/info/digests/texline/no6/texline.tex
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+\vsize720pt
+\input dble.tex\input verbatim.tex
+\font\sc=cmcsc10
+\font\mf=logo10
+\font\mfb=logobf10
+\def\MF{{\rm{\mf META}\-{\mf FONT}}}
+\def\MFb{{\rm{\mfb META}\-{\mfb FONT}}}
+\def\MarkUp{MarkUp '8\kern-0.2em\lower0.45ex\hbox{7}}
+\def\LaTeX{{\rm L\kern-.36em\raise.3ex\hbox{\sc a}\kern-.15em
+ T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}}
+
+\def\frac#1/#2{\leavevmode\kern0.1em
+ \raise0.5ex\hbox{\the\scriptfont0 #1}\kern-0.1em
+ /\kern-0.15em\lower0.25ex\hbox{\the\scriptfont0 #2}}
+\baselineskip12pt
+\parskip0pt
+\parindent1em
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+
+\headline{\sl \TeX line 6 \hss \folio}
+\nopagenumbers
+
+\def\SGML{{\sc sgml}}
+\def\PS{{\sc Post\-Script}}
+\let\ps=\PS
+\def\TS{Type \&~Set}
+\def\dvi{{\tt dvi}}
+\def\tfm{{\tt tfm}}
+\def\quid{{\it\$}}
+\def\DW{Dominik Wujastyk}
+\def\AmSTeX{$\cal A$\kern-.1667em\lower.5ex\hbox{$\cal M$}\kern-.125em
+ $\cal S$-\TeX}
+\def\BibTeX{{\sc Bib}\TeX}
+\def\SliTeX{{\sc Sli}\TeX}
+\def\hax{\TeX{\sc hax}}
+\abovedisplayskip0pt
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+\def\nl{\hfill\break}
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+\tolerance=2000
+\input texline
+\pageno=2
+\begindoublecolumns
+\input bart\bigskip
+\input mfbook\bigskip
+\input markup87\bigskip
+\input abbey\bigskip
+\input tig.txt\bigskip
+\input seattle.txt\bigskip
+\input bcsep.txt\bigskip
+\enddoublecolumns
+\bye
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+\def\and{\item{$\bullet$}}
+%----------------------------------------------
+\centerline{\bf\TeX\ Users Group 1987 Meeting }
+\centerline{\bf 1. View towards Mt.~Olympus (WA)}
+\medskip\noindent
+Among the (many) virtues of \TeX\ are the facts that it is from the hand of a
+single man, that it is not going to change and that it has a single, effective
+User Group. The 1987 annual meeting of TUG took place this year from August
+24th--27th at the University of Washington in Seattle (home of TUG past-%
+president Pierre Mackay), and where, it seemed, better to garner the latest
+from the horse's mouth? Heart in mouth, your intrepid correspondent
+accordingly entrusted himself and his copy of {\sl The \MF book} to TWA's
+shoddy care and flew (the movie was {\it Hoosiers},
+starring Gene Hackman, and the
+food was a curious mess based on peanuts, which I came to learn was all TWA
+{\it ever} offer vegetarians)
+off to the rainy State of Washington. To the surprise
+of most people in sight, Seattle was bathed in sunshine and remained so
+throughout our stay. Accommodation in a student `dorm' was in a bunk-equipped
+bedroom reminiscent of a Townsend Thoresen cabin, and the nautical theme
+continued as the c.\ 160 assembled
+TUGgers gathered for a cruise on Lake Washington; beer and
+wine flowed, though the culinary delights of Cajun Shishkebab and barbecued
+salmon proved a little frustrating for the non-carnivore. Initial impression
+of the participants was later proved correct---mostly from north American
+universities, but a healthy presence of commercial implementors and users,
+and a sprinkling from countries all over the world. The British presence was,
+to put it mildly, dominated by the Open University---my final headcount showed
+4 OU, 1 Soton, 1 Oxford and 1 Wellcome Institute; lets hope the accounts
+department of the OU don't ever find out.
+
+Day 1 started as it meant to go on, early and hard. 7.15 breakfast showered
+the bleary-eyed punter with eggs, bacon, pancakes, potatoes, fruit salad,
+donuts, toast, coffee {\it ad nauseam}. Formal registration (and more donuts and
+coffee, which appeared to come from a specially developed {\it cornucopia\/}
+throughout the conference) produced the longed-for TUG 87 memorial coffee mug
+and a program generously filled with \TeX\ vendors' adverts. The first proper
+session opened with Christina Thiele
+(Carleton), who described her experiences
+of small journal production with \TeX\ and electronic submission of MSS
+without markup from authors; the field of linguistics brought nasty problems
+of layout and fonts (there was subsequent discussion of where to find an IPA
+font), but the interest of the session was the evidence of \TeX\ in heavy use
+by non-experts and in a humanities setting, which was one of the themes of the
+conference.
+
+Moving onto more detailed matters
+Silvio Levy (Princeton) followed with a description of his work on
+\MF ing a Greek alphabet for a new Dictionary of Modern Greek. Greek has
+special problems, such as the large number of 2, 3 and 4 letter ligatures used
+in classical Greek (e.g.~for prepositions), and the multiple accents on some
+characters, and Levy uses a 256 character font to accommodate lots of
+possibilities, including special combinations of sigma and all other letters,
+to cope with the idiosyncracy of Greek's changing form of sigma if it comes
+last in a word.
+
+After a more traditional digression on how to port \TeX\ to an
+IBM 6150 (using PL8 and AIX `mapped files')
+by Richard Simpson of IBM (with an
+interesting aside on the use of Metafont to draw graphs by creating a special
+purpose, very large, character representing the graph), Walter Andrews and
+ Pierre Mackay continued the alphabet theme with Turkish.
+The problem there was
+accentuation so heavy that the |\accent|
+primitive cannot cope, and the only
+solution was an accented font; discussion of the problem of sensible input
+with Turkish characters on-screen provided the curiously useful idea of using
+the printer driver family of a conventional word-processor to generate \TeX\
+from wp formatting commands by `printing' to a file---subsequent experiments
+with PC-Write show that this is a very workable system for font changes.
+
+Our
+European problems were as nothing, however, compared to the horrors of
+Japanese, which came next; Nobuo Saito
+described the general problems, and the
+existing transliteration and printing schemes,
+while Yasuki Saito talked about
+one of four actual \TeX\ implementations---J\TeX. The large number of
+characters in a font was dealt with by fooling \TeX\ into thinking it was
+dealing with a family of fonts, which together made up one single Japanese
+font; the actual fonts are generated from existing raster files to |.gf| format.
+Input uses the JIS code (2 bytes per character), and a small change to \TeX\
+forces it to take characters in pairs. While Saito listed problems and areas
+for improvement, it was clear that this was a viable system of practical use.
+
+After more donuts, we moved on to device drivers; the chief stars here were
+ Nelson Beebe, whose driver family had frequent mention,
+ Stephan v.\ Bechtolsheim (currently working, incidentally,
+on a book described as an `exegesis of \TeX'),
+who has nearly completed his new DVI to \PS\ driver, and Robert
+ McGaffey, who led a panel discussion
+on standards for \dvi\ drivers (it struck
+me during this that discussion of \dvi\ driver standards was by men, and
+discussion of standards for macros, prompted by Christina Thiele, was by
+women). The panel was formed into a committee to take serious action, with the
+likely outcome being a set of standards which \dvi\ drivers should follow, at
+different levels; those with serious thoughts on this were invited to send
+them to McGaffey.
+
+The evening of the first day was occupied by a barbecue hosted by
+Addison-Wesley, with extraordinary entertainment from the Seattle Banjo Club,
+whose average age seemed to be greater then three score and ten, yet who kept a
+frightening vitality. As A-W's corporate image stopped them serving alcohol,
+and since yet again the carnivore was in the ascendant, I can only relate
+that the walk to and from the event across a research ecological preserve,
+including a small secluded duck pool,
+provided the best moments of my trip over the Atlantic.
+
+Day 2 started with the commercial section, where exhibitors were given ten
+minutes each to expound on their wares, which we were later able to inspect.
+Thus I noted: \nl
+\and {\bf Arbortext} with {\it Publisher}, their {\it wysiwyg}-cum-generic markup
+front-end to \TeX, which offers a great many features (a good
+interactive equation editor, and table builder) without {\it quite\/} working
+yet as we would expect (for instance, cross-referencing is not supported, nor
+is import of external \TeX). In any case, it costs real money on Sun
+workstations! Arbortext also noted their new Sun font editor, an unsupported
+Sun/Vax `dvicrt' for crude display on {\sc ASCII} terminals, and the fact that their
+previewers now use Adobe screen fonts for those who want \PS\ fonts.
+\and {\bf Digital Composition Corp.}
+were newer entrants to \TeX ery, who had made
+their own PC port (complete with |WEB|, no less!), were working on text wrap
+around figures and had a `dvi2ps' with merge of HPGL, and even referred to an
+\SGML\ preprocessor.
+\and {\bf FTL systems} produce Mac\TeX, which seems to be a more stable and
+advanced product than \TeX{\sc tures}, concentrating on support for \PS\ fonts
+(they have traced the CM maths fonts with Fontographer to generate \PS\
+downloadable outline fonts), online \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ help and translation out
+of MacWrite and Word; they also use `Page One', a system of simple generic
+codes for authors which are converted to \TeX.
+\and {\bf Docusoft Publishing Technologies} were offering \TeX write,
+a special PC
+editor for \TeX, with a WordPerfect-like interface; they gave away evaluation
+copies of a version which did not yet have many special \TeX\ features in it;
+Emacs users can imagine the sort of thing.
+\and {\bf K-Talk Communications} had a full-feature WordPerfect to \TeX\
+converter; it was hard to get excited, but this sort of thing is very useful
+and should become more popular.
+\and {\bf Kellerman and Smith} wheeled on the said Smith, who was excessively
+laid back with a Mac, but did mention that they could start shipping Lucida
+for \TeX tures soon (with a {\it complete\/} set of maths fonts).
+\and {\bf Personal \TeX}, with the charismatic
+ Lance Carnes, talked about their
+licensing of Bitstream fonts (a large library of raster fonts), the imminent
+marketing of Montreal's multilingual \TeX\ (with European hyphenation
+patterns, a
+matter of great importance to many \TeX\ users in the humanities), new,
+simpler, table macros and new device drivers. It has to be said that PC \TeX\
+came over as having the edge on Micro\TeX, in terms of development and service
+to the users.
+\and {\bf St\"urtz AG} offered \TeX\ printing on a Monotype Lasercomp, and
+promised to implement Knuth and Mackay's concept of a left-to-right Hebrew
+\TeX.
+\and {\bf \TeX nology} had Macro\TeX,
+a new, almost-finished, macro package at the
+level of \LaTeX\ or \AmSTeX, with some interesting features such as
+multi-page tables.
+\smallskip
+After a set of Site Coordinators reports (pretty dull, to be honest), Nelson
+Beebe talked about his driver family, which featured a uniform interface for
+all devices and much sharing of modular elements of the code. I think it was
+also Beebe who mentioned in passing that \TeX\ and \MF\ are almost
+exactly the same number of lines of code, a cause for thought! More
+entertaining fare was to follow, however,
+from TV Guide's David Ness, whose
+talk was in some ways a high point of the conference; TV Guide is the weekly
+listing of all the TV programs in the US, and its production is basically
+database driven. Ness's eventual aim is to use \TeX\ for this highly complex
+piece of typesetting, but the importance of his talk was its viewpoint from a
+`real' organisation choosing \TeX\ on performance rather than availability or
+price considerations. I cannot resist quoting TV Guide statistics---20 million
+copies per issue, listing in 108 editions the
+output of 2000 stations; {\it Radio
+ Times\/} eat your heart out. Silvio Levy returned to complete the day with an
+outline of his new CWEB system for literate programming in
+C --- not the combination of C and |nroff| that has
+circulated in Britain, but C and \TeX. Maybe it will even catch on!
+
+Before the wine and cheese provided by PC \TeX\ (some very nice local wines
+and good cheese --- now you see why their product is better than Micro\TeX),
+`birds of a feather' did the requisite flocking. I joined a flock of people
+interested in special editors and markup,
+with \TeX\ {\it per se} being put in its
+place as a formatting engine. One interesting fact I elucidated in this
+happily-familiar discussion was that the American Association of Publishers
+has defined its own \SGML\ tag set and is promoting it heavily.
+
+In the evening, a small group made a pilgrimage to see the Seattle Mariners
+play the Toronto Blue Jays in the Kingdome; the Mariners' fielding was
+excellent, but their batting couldn't catch fire and the Blue Jays (as
+was expected) won with no real strain. Did you know the Kingdome is the
+largest concrete dome in the world? Thanks to David Parmenter (DEC) for
+explaining the rules.
+
+Day 3 started with a problem session run by Barbara Beeton, who deftly fielded
+some incredibly obscure hackings.
+The `humanities' theme was pursued by Allen
+ Dyer (a Maryland Lawyer), who described how his state Bar Association was
+standardising on \TeX\ for the good of all. Last, but not least, your
+correspondent presented a paper by Les Carr on the generation of \PS\ outline
+fonts from \MF. The {\it cul de sac} reached by the actual project did not
+stop a good number of people wanting to know more, and confirmed my suspicion
+that for many \TeX\ people \PS\ is the way forward, possibly creating an
+unfortunate divide between the pragmatic \PS ers and those who stand by CMR
+and \MF.
+
+Closing sessions gave a chance for more jokes from \TeX an TUG President Bart
+Childs, presentation of \TeX\ `oscars' for deserving people, a framed Duane
+Bibby drawing for Barbara Beeton, and the election of David Ness as Treasurer.
+TUG seemed to be flourishing and happy, so we went away.
+
+What were my overall impressions from the meeting?
+\smallskip
+{\narrower
+\item{a.}An increasing number of people are
+simply {\it users} of \TeX, and are not
+interested in how \dvi\ drivers work; in the USA at least I got the feeling
+that the main thrust of usage was on PCs and Macs, using the prepacked systems
+from conscientious vendors. Many of them are finding the underlying algorithms
+of \TeX\ can be used for an extraordinary variety of tasks.
+\item{b.}People who {\it are}
+interested in \dvi\ drivers are on the verge of getting
+their act together to ensure that these programs do their job. One can only
+applaud!
+\item{c.}The commercial world is less interested in \TeX\ as a visible
+product than as a reliable engine. It was interesting to hear FTL say that
+they did their best to {\it conceal\/} \TeX\ in Mac\TeX, which meant almost
+discouraging the use of CMR (they are an extra in Mac\TeX).
+\item{d.}Americans drink too much fizzy stuff and coffee,
+and eat too many donuts.
+\smallskip
+}
+
+\medskip
+Readers who want to follow up any of the matters discussed above should first
+of all look at the latest TUGboat, which covers a number of them, but are
+welcome to get copies from me of brochures, addresses etc.\ I picked up --- write
+to:
+{\obeylines\parindent2em
+Sebastian Rahtz,
+Department of Electronics
+\qquad and Computer Science,
+University,
+Southampton SO9 5NH
+{\it email} {\tt spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm}}
+
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/tonerbbs.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/tonerbbs.tex
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+\centerline{\bf Recharging Toner Cartridges}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+It is possible to have your old laser printer
+toner cartridges refilled. PPI will recharge
+a carrtridge for the Canon LBP-CX engine for
+\quid45.00. This is substantially cheaper than
+buying a new one. And they put more toner
+in than you had the first time. It appears that
+cartridges can be refilled many times, but of course
+they insist that the cartridge must be in good
+condition. If you want to be more colourful, that
+costs more --- they charge \quid55.00 for a colour
+refill (you can put a colour refill in a cartridge
+which had black toner). They will refill single
+cartridges, and also offer
+discounts for bulk, offereing a discount of 20\%
+on quantities of 50.
+The Canon engine is the heart of many
+a laser printer, including the HP LaserJet,
+the LaserWriter, QMS800 and Imagen, to
+name but a few. For further information:
+{\obeylines\parindent2em
+PPI
+228 Anerley Road
+London SE20 8JT
+Tel: 01 676 0055
+}
+\bigskip
+\centerline{\bf Bulletin Board}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+Personal \TeX, suppliers of pc\TeX\ and an
+increasing number of other quality \TeX\ add-ons
+have a bulletin board for their users. Its contents
+read a bit like \hax, but there is quite clearly
+a fair amount of self-help going on. There are
+a number of files available for downloading,
+including some utilities. Among the files
+are the sources of the Boston Computer Society
+\TeX\ benchmarks.
+
+I have had a look through some synopses which
+\DW\ provided, and include a taste of
+the material present.
+
+There was an account
+of the meeting of German \TeX\ users in Heidelberg
+in October 1986. Norbert Schwarz has developed another set
+of German hyphenation patterns which are said
+to be better (linguistically), and to take up
+less room than those of Bernd Schulze.
+The Schulze hyphenation patterns are available
+through Personal \TeX. Personal \TeX\ will
+also be releasing Michael Ferguson's multi-lingual
+\TeX, which allows simultaneous multi-lingual
+hyphenation. They give June\slash July 1987 as a release date,
+but I don't believe them.
+
+Those who read TUG will also know of the Portugese
+hyphenation patterns from Pedro de Rezende, which
+may by now be part of some \TeX\ distribution
+tapes.
+
+This is quite a lively bulletin board, and it seems
+to go some way to providing an alternative to
+\hax\ for those without academic networks to back
+them up. The only real problem I see is
+the expense of transatlantic telephone calls.
+If this sort of service is a feature of Personal \TeX s
+commitment to \TeX, then it bodes well for them and us.
+
+\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}
diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no6/tugboat.tex b/info/digests/texline/no6/tugboat.tex
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+\magnification\magstep1
+\def\Afour{\hsize=6.25truein\vsize=9.5truein}%A4 page dimensions
+\Afour
+\def\quid{{\it\$}}
+\def\PS{PostScript}
+\def\dvi{{\tt dvi}}
+\def\tfm{{\tt tfm}}
+\def\vfilll{\vskip0pt plus 1filll}
+
+\def\boxit#1{\vbox{\hrule\hbox{\vrule\kern3pt
+ \vbox{\kern3pt#1\kern3pt}\kern3pt\vrule}\hrule}}
+
+\newbox\boxx\newbox\me
+
+\nopagenumbers
+
+\input verbatim.tex
+
+\font\mf=logo10
+\font\mfb=logobf10
+\def\MF{{\mf META}\-{\mf FONT}}
+\def\MFb{{\mfb META}\-{\mfb FONT}}
+\def\LaTeX{L\kern-.3em\raise.5ex
+ \hbox{$\scriptstyle\rm A$}\kern-.1em\TeX}
+
+\baselineskip12pt
+\parskip0pt
+\parindent2em
+\hfuzz1.5pt
+\tolerance3000
+\raggedbottom
+\overfullrule0pt
+
+\def\istar{\item{$\star$}}
+\def\iistar{\itemitem{$\star$}}
+\headline={\sl First Circular \hss Autumn 1987}
+
+\centerline{\bf \TeX eter}
+\bigskip\noindent
+\TeX88, the Third European \TeX\ Conference
+will take place at Exeter University, UK, from Monday, July 18th to
+Wednesday, July 20th,
+1988. This conference seeks to maintain the high standard
+set by the previous European \TeX\ conferences.
+In view of the rate at which \TeX\ is expanding its areas
+of application, and the developments which will
+have taken place by next summer,
+papers are welcome from all areas of \TeX, \MF\
+and related subjects.
+Likely themes might include:
+\medskip
+\istar desktop and traditional publishing with \TeX
+\istar document structure --- \LaTeX, SGML, ODA, etc.
+\istar non-technical \TeX\ and \MF\ applications
+ \hfill\break\indent (humanities, music, exotic languages)
+\istar other technical areas (chemistry, physics,
+ biology)
+\istar parochial peculiarities (European considerations!)
+\istar ai and expert system approaches
+\istar \TeX\ and {\it wysiwyg}
+\istar \MF\ and fonts
+\istar page description languages and \dvi
+\istar micro inputs
+\istar macro inputs
+\istar standards:
+\iistar for |\special|
+\iistar for printer drivers
+\iistar for \TeX\ macros
+\istar \TeX\ environments
+\bigskip\noindent
+\medskip
+\noindent
+The programme will be structured to include both long and short
+contributions. The proceedings will be published after
+the conference.
+\bigskip
+\centerline{\bf Added Value}\smallskip\noindent
+We hope to run various workshops and
+participatory seminars before, during and after the conference.
+Specifically, we plan to organise
+workshops on `the design of documents', \LaTeX\
+style files (and how to modify them), and on
+the use of \MF.
+Seminar rooms will be available during the conference for
+`birds of a feather' and other {\it ad hoc} group meetings.
+ There will be facilities for exhibitions by
+the vendors of \TeX-related software, hardware and paperware.
+A number of micros will be available to allow the interchange
+of micro software, as well as demonstrations of particular
+packages etc.
+\bigskip
+\centerline{\bf What does it cost?}
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+The total cost of the conference, including accommodation (from
+the evening of Sunday 17th July, through to Wednesday 20th) at
+Lopes Hall of Residence, meals, social activities,
+and the conference proceedings will be around \quid150.
+For non-residents, the charge will be about \quid100. The
+workshops and seminars before or after the conference
+will cost about \quid50 per day,
+which also includes accommodation and meals. Cheap rail fares
+within the UK are being arranged.
+\vfill \eject
+\centerline{\bf Where is Exeter University?}
+\smallskip
+\noindent
+Exeter is located in the sunny south west of England, close
+to Dartmoor, and only 10 miles from the sea.
+The University is approximately one mile north of Exeter
+city centre. There is an excellent train service to London
+and the North from St Davids Station. The M5 and M4 motorways
+provide quick and relatively painless access to London, the Midlands
+and the North. There is ample car parking space on campus.
+The local airport has daily connections to the continent, as well
+as UK internal destinations.
+\vfilll
+\hbox to\hsize{\hrulefill}\bigskip
+\centerline{\bf Fill This in Now!}
+\smallskip
+{\obeylines\parindent0em\bf
+Name:
+Affiliation:
+Address:
+~
+~
+~
+~
+Telephone:
+email:
+}
+\setbox\boxx=\vtop{\noindent\hsize0pt\vrule width0pt\hrule height 0pt}
+\bigskip\noindent
+Please tick where appropriate:\smallskip\noindent
+\leavevmode\boxit{\copy\boxx}\ Please add my name to the \TeX88 mailing list\smallskip
+\noindent
+\leavevmode\boxit{\copy\boxx}\ I would like to present a paper\par
+The title will be: \par
+\vfilll
+\hbox to\hsize{\hrulefill}\bigskip
+\noindent Send to:\smallskip
+\newbox\me
+\setbox\me=\vtop{\halign{#\hfill\cr
+Malcolm Clark, \TeX88\cr
+Imperial College Computer Centre\cr
+Exhibition Road\cr
+London SW7 2BP\cr
+Janet:{\tt texline@uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa}\cr}
+}
+\hbox to\hsize{\qquad\box\me \hss}%
+\vfilll
+\hbox to\hsize{\hrulefill}
+\noindent
+\TeX88 is pleased to acknowledge the support of ArborText,
+Addison-Wesley Publishers Ltd, Ellis Horwood Ltd (Publishers),
+Personal \TeX,
+{\sl\TeX\kern-0.1667em pert systems} and Uni\TeX\ Systems.
+\end