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+TeXhax Digest Thursday, 11 Mar 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 005
+
+% The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %
+% and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group %
+
+Today's Topics:
+ RE: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename
+ Re: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename
+ Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray
+ About dvitps
+ TeX / Mathematica
+ Macros for figures in LaTeX
+ LaTeX putting extra space between list items
+ Re: LaTeX putting extra space between list items
+ HypherTeX
+ Wanted - a timer for MS-DOS TeX
+ C to TeX, anyone?
+ "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager"
+ Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction
+ Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction
+ new postings to e-MATH.ams.org
+ Eplain 2.3 available
+ The UK TeX Archive is now available on CD-ROM
+ Announcement: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993
+ UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993
+
+Administrivia:
+ Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott
+ Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+ Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests:
+ TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 15:24:54 +0000
+From: TEX@rmcs.cran.ac.uk
+Subject: RE: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename
+
+In a posting to TeXhax of Tue, 16 Feb 1993 08:37:48 -0800,
+wagman%zephyr.hepnet@LBL.EARN wrote:
+
+> We create a big book with long articles and a little book with portions of the
+> long articles so our TeX file looks something like:
+>
+> \ifnum\BigBookOrLittleBook = 1
+> This stuff is for the long article and goes into great detail.
+> \else
+> See our Big Book for details and formulae on this principle.
+> \fi
+> And this stuff goes in both books.
+>
+>
+> We run TeX twice on the file querying the user for \BigBookOrLittleBook, but
+> this results in two DVI files with the same name. Is there some way to
+> manually open the DVI file specifying a name? For our needs, they would be
+> named:
+> \jobname_Big.DVI and \jobname_Little.DVI
+>
+> Gary S. Wagman
+> Lawrence Berkeley Lab
+> Berkeley, CA
+
+Well, it would depend upon which implementation of TeX you might be
+using. The PD VMS implementation of TeX 3.141 accepts a command-line
+qualifier /OUTPUT= (or maybe it's /DVIFILE=) that would permit this
+control *from outside TeX*.
+
+I believe it's the case that the output DVI file isn't opened until
+something first needs to be shipped out to it (|ensure_dvi_open|) so you
+could also redefine \jobname internally and thus cause the filename to
+change that way. It ought to work OK, but I've never tried it.
+
+Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
+JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs (or System@uk.ac.tex)
+BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ac.uk
+INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
+UUCP: {mcsun,uknet,uunet}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex
+Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military
+ College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K.
+Phone: Swindon (0793) 785252 (UK), +44-793-785252 (International)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 18:16:27 +0100
+From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@de.uni-regensburg.physik.rphs1>
+Subject: Re: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename
+
+ We run TeX twice on the file querying the user for \BigBookOrLittleBook, but
+ this results in two DVI files with the same name. Is there some way to
+ manually open the DVI file specifying a name? For our needs, they would be
+ named:
+ \jobname_Big.DVI and \jobname_Little.DVI
+
+Why don't you simply use two different main files ????
+
+Wolfgang Ratzka
+| | :-) -------------------------------------------------------
+| /\ | \ X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de
+|/ \| \ SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 00:31:34 -0500
+From: Jon Ahlquist <ahlquist@rossby.met.fsu.edu>
+Subject: Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray
+
+1) When using LaTeX's twocolumn mode, \pagestyle{empty} does not
+seem to turn off page numbering. Am I doing something wrong,
+or is this a bug/"feature" of twocolumn mode?
+
+2) Does anybody have an extension of \begin{eqnarray}\end{eqnarray}
+that numbers equations and can line up more than one term in each row?
+I would like to line up several terms in several equations
+to show similarity of structure among the equations.
+
+Thanks.
+
+Jon Ahlquist, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University
+ahlquist@met.fsu.edu
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 04:31:37 -0500
+From: mycroft@edu.mit.ai.gnu
+Subject: About dvitps
+
+(Someone mentioned `dvitps', so I thought I would add a bit or three.)
+
+I spent several hours bashing my head against the wall wondering why my
+dvitps output looked horrible. I discovered that the transformation
+matrix it uses to convert default units to (essentially) physical units
+is hard-coded in each output file in *floating point* and rounded to 3
+decimal places. At even 300 dpi, rounding error is noticable, and the
+bitmapped fonts start scaling inconsistently. This generates extremely
+poor output.
+
+Being lazy, I switched to dvips, and haven't had any trouble since.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 25 Feb 1993 12:32:00 +0000
+From: JOHANNES-IDSO@no.sognhs.sfdh
+Subject: TeX / Mathematica
+
+Dear friends;
+I use Mathematica and TeX / Latex.
+One problem with this combination is that MMa gives answers in
+opposite order of what I want.
+If the answer is a polynom MMa gives it for instance like:
+
+1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4
+
+I want the answer in TeXform like
+
+x^4+x^3+x^2+1.
+
+Thus I have to turn it manually before I can use it in a book.
+
+I asked Wolfram Research about this thing and I got this very elegant
+answer from Matthew Markert:
+
+.... On the other hand, one can temporarily disable sorting in Plus
+and therby achieve the TeXForm one wants. The following code does
+this.
+
+unbackwards] :=
+Block[{s},
+ Unprotect];
+ ClearAttributes];
+ s = ToString]]];
+ SetAttributes];
+ Protect[Plus];
+ s
+] /; Head[p] === Plus
+
+Then unbackwards[1+x+x^2+x^3]
+
+produces {x^3} + {x^2} + x + 1
+
+Note that ToString is used in this function to freeze the form.
+If this is not done then once sorting is re-enabled, the terms will
+go back to the old order.
+
+I hope this helps.
+
+- --Matthew Markert
+
+So now it is very easy. One can simply copy the answer from MMa and
+paste it into the tex-document.
+
+I someone have useful tips about MMa and TeX I would be glad to hear.
+
+Johannes Idsoe
+Sogndal, Norway.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1993 14:26:01
+From: anoop@parcom.ernet.in (Anoop Sarkar)
+Subject: Macros for figures in LaTeX
+
+I would like to know if there are any macros available that will
+allow me to draw and format diagrams such as trees and arcs (preferably
+with arrows) within the 'math' or 'figure' environments. If such a
+macro package is available, information as to where it can be found
+will be greatly appreciated.
+
+Thanks,
+
+Anoop Sarkar
+Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
+Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, India
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1993 17:32:27 -0800
+From: Peter "J." Scott <pjs@euclid.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
+Subject: LaTeX putting extra space between list items
+
+I'm doing nested lists that cover several pages in the LaTeX report style
+that look something like:
+
+1 ONE
+ a EH
+ b BEE
+ c SEA
+2 TWO
+ a EH
+ b BEE
+ c SEA
+3 THREE
+ a EH
+ b BEE
+ c SEA
+
+etc. (They cover several pages because the a,b,c's are paragraphs.)
+I want to discourage page breaks after the ONE, TWO, THREE lines, so I'm
+coding this as:
+
+\raggedbottom
+\begin{enumerate}
+{\samepage
+\item ONE
+\begin{enumerate}
+\nopagebreak[4]
+\item EH
+\nopagebreak[3]
+\item BEE
+\nopagebreak[2]
+\item SEA
+\end{enumerate}
+\nopagebreak[1]
+}
+{\samepage
+\item TWO
+...etc...
+\flushbottom
+
+Which is working well, except that LaTeX puts more vertical space after just
+the EH paragraphs than it does after the others, on some pages. I thought
+that the \raggedbottom would handle that. How do I fix this?
+
+Peter
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:57:24 -0800
+From: Peter "J." Scott <pjs@euclid.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
+Subject: Re: LaTeX putting extra space between list items
+
+I wrote:
+> > I'm doing nested lists that cover several pages in the LaTeX report style
+> > that look something like:
+> >
+> > 1 ONE
+> > a EH
+> > b BEE
+> > c SEA
+> > etc. (They cover several pages because the a,b,c's are paragraphs.)
+> > I want to discourage page breaks after the ONE, TWO, THREE lines
+[...]
+> Experimentation has determined that LaTeX puts extra vertical space after
+> items which happen to end at the right margin; but not why, nor how to
+> fix it. Any ideas?
+
+dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) has provided me with a
+working answer:
+
+> Try moving the \nopagebreak commands further back into the text.
+> I.e., instead of typing
+>
+> foo foo foo.\nopagebreak[4]
+>
+> \item ....
+>
+> type
+>
+> foo foo \nopagebreak[4]foo.
+>
+> \item ....
+>
+> The problem is that the \nopagebreak command isn't quite transparent.
+> It leaves an invisible something or the other (I forget what), which
+> is ending up at the beginning of the next line of the paragraph, hence
+> the extra vertical space when your paragraph completely fills a line.
+>
+> You can also have the same problem with commands like \index, \label,
+> and the such.
+
+Peter J. Scott, Member of Technical Staff | pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov
+Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech | SPAN: GROUCH::PJS
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 12:19:46 -0600
+From: mr370673@rs970.mor.itesm.mx
+Subject: HypherTeX
+
+I am interested in TeX has a tool for writing hypertext. I know there exists
+GNU texinfo. Has anyone notice of related information.
+
+Thank you.
+
+Rafael Morales Gamboa
+ITESM Campus Morelos
+Cuernavaca, Mor.
+MEXICO
+
+INTERNET: mr370673@rs970.mor.itesm.mx
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1993 14:18:26 +0000
+From: "Jonathan Fine" <J.Fine@pmms.cam.ac.uk>
+Subject: Wanted - a timer for MS-DOS TeX
+
+I am co-ordinator for timing tests, for the LaTeX 3 project.
+Although a certain amount can be done using only theoretical analysis
+and a stopwatch, it would be nice to have a timer available. The
+results I obtain will be of interest to *all* TeX programmers for
+whom performance is an issue, and will be made freely available.
+
+The syntax I am looking for is that
+ \gettime \mymacro
+will define \mymacro to be a fixed length sequence of digits, which
+represents the time at the instant the macro \gettime is called.
+More exactly, each computer has a clock that ticks, and \mymacro
+should contain the number of ticks - modulo some large number - since
+the tick count was last at zero.
+
+The implementation I am looking for is
+ % initialise
+ \newread \@timer
+ \openin \@timer special.dev \relax
+
+ % read "special.dev" to get the time
+ \def\gettime #1
+ {
+ \read\@timer to #1
+ }
+where "special.dev" is a logical device for MS-DOS. The idea is to
+write a logical device such that when TeX \read's the 'file'
+"special.dvs" it gets a line containing the timer count.
+
+I don't know if such a device can be constructed. The answer will
+depend on the degree and nature of buffering used when TeX reads a
+file. A cruder and easier alternative might be to create a file like
+device which when opened writes the timer count to a file, which TeX
+can then read in the usual manner.
+
+I would very much appreciate any help anyone can provide, to satisfy
+this need.
+
+ Jonathan Fine
+ 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, CB1 3HY
+ Tel: 0223 215389
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1993 15:04:40
+From: anoop@parcom.ernet.in (Anoop Sarkar)
+Subject: C to TeX, anyone?
+
+Is there a program available which will allow me to convert C source
+code into a TeX file. There are C beautifiers which format C source
+for troff; but is a C to TeX formatter available in the public domain?
+
+Thank you
+
+Anoop Sarkar
+Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
+Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, India
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1993 16:41:44 +0000
+From: David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk
+Subject: "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager"
+
+Outside the TeX community, personal bibliographic systems tend to be
+proprietary things like ProCite, Library Master, EndNote, Papyrus and
+Reference Manager (rather than the public-domain BibTeX and Tib).
+
+For a variety of reasons, I anticipate that inter-working with the
+proprietary things will start to be more of a requirement for TeXies. Your
+colleagues may have 10000 references in an EndNote database that you'd like
+to access, your library may put you onto ProCite because that's what suits
+them for downloading information, etc., etc.
+
+I've come across TeXies who use ProCite, Library Master and EndNote.
+
+Is there any reader who has practical experience of using Papyrus or
+Reference Manager with LaTeX? If so, I'd be interested to hear about
+"what you tell Papyrus [Reference Manager]" and "what you tell LaTeX" so as
+to get them to work together sensibly. Specifically:
+* Do you (a) assume that LaTeX is always dealing with a Papyrus
+ [Reference Manager] output file, or do you (b) try to arrange that the
+ Papyrus [Reference Manager] input file is acceptable as LaTeX input
+ (so that you can get equations etc. sorted out in your definitive
+ .tex file without involving Papyrus [Reference Manager], before using
+ Papyrus [Reference Manager] to give a derived .tex file in which
+ citations have been sorted out)?
+* If (b), to what do you change Papyrus' usual %% delimiter [Reference
+ Manager's usual {} delimiters].
+* Have you managed to use Papyrus [Reference Manager] with the LaTeX
+ \cite{...} system rather than the Papyrus %%...%% system [Reference
+ Manager {} system]? I suppose this would mean having software of some
+ sort (I know not what: please tell me!) that inspects the .aux file,
+ finds what is cited, and then gets Papyrus [Reference Manager] to
+ produce the required reference-list. Overall, the question is "Have
+ you persuaded Papyrus [Reference Manager] (plus something else --- a
+ shell-script?) to take a .aux file as input (like BibTeX would) and
+ then to produce an output file that is similar to a BibTeX .bbl fle?"
+* Have you had any success in the "root file + \include-d file"
+ situation?
+I'd also be interested in any other details that you think any LaTeX-er who
+is contemplating using Papyrus [Reference Manager] should know.
+
+If the "tricks of the trade" are too lengthy to go out as an item in a
+future TeXhax, would anyone contemplate submitting an article to TUGboat
+about them, or offering some notes as candidates for inclusion in archives
+such as that at Aston?
+
+David Rhead
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1993 19:11:25 -0800
+From: vis!greg@UCSD.EDU
+Subject: Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction
+
+In my earlier message I said:
+
+ The FSF has recently made available a popular CDROM (which,
+ ironically, contains TeX).
+
+but I was mistaken: TeX is not on the Free Software Foundation's
+CDROM. Thus, the opportunity for UnixTeX to offer a CDROM is even
+greater, notwithstanding competition from semi-commercial vendors like
+Prime Time Freeware. I suspect that if you gathered together all of
+the free TeX-related tools, packages and documents you could put
+together a very full CDROM. I doubt that I am even familiar with half
+of the free TeX-related things that are available. Anyone planning on
+putting together such a CDROM should publish a list of the intended
+contents to TeXhax early in the game to allow us to make sure that it
+is truly comprehensive.
+
+_Greg
+
+
+J. Greg Davidson Institute for Software Research and Development
++1 (619) 452-8059 6231 Branting Street San Diego, CA 92122 USA
+
+vis!greg@nosc.mil ucsd----+--vis
+vis!greg@ucsd.edu nosc----|
+
+ *****************************************************
+ * Member of the League for Programming Freedom. *
+ * For more info, write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu *
+ *****************************************************
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 10 Mar 1993 21:28:20 +0000
+From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
+Subject: Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction
+
+ > Prime Time Freeware. I suspect that if you gathered together all of
+ > the free TeX-related tools, packages and documents you could put
+ > together a very full CDROM. I doubt that I am even familiar with half
+ > of the free TeX-related things that are available. Anyone planning on
+ > putting together such a CDROM should publish a list of the intended
+ > contents to TeXhax early in the game to allow us to make sure that it
+ > is truly comprehensive.
+
+the Prime Time Freeware CD is a direct copy of the UK TeX Archive
+taken in December 1992. Although there have been minor additions since
+then, the archive contains all the packages known to mankind (ie
+me....), based on looking at listings of SHSU, Ymir, Stuttgart, old
+Aston, Jones' Index, as well as the obvious specialized archives like
+the AMS, Utah etc. At a late stage, I added odds and ends PTF had
+tracked down (various language support things). Since then, I have
+been trying with George Greenwade to get this archive (duplicated at
+Aston and SHSU) even better catalogued and up to date. To that aim, I
+have generated a skeleton database listing the `packages' which
+we stock. Most lack a description, author or date (not thats its
+unknown, I just have not had a week to spare reading READMEs!). There
+are 600 odd entries there now (and this excludes things like macro
+files or style files for plain and LaTeX - the latter is covered by
+Jones).
+
+Anyone interested in checking and expanding this list will find it as
+ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/help/ctan/ctan.dat. It is NOT for really
+general public consumption yet, but anyone is welcome to say what
+they think, or offer me money to scan README files :-}
+
+
+Sebastian Rahtz
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 26 Feb 1993 17:48:27 -0500
+From: AMS Technical Support <tech-support@MATH.AMS.ORG>
+Subject: new postings to e-MATH.ams.org
+
+We have just updated all non-binary files in the AMS TeX archive
+at e-math.ams.org . The motive for this update was to change our
+address in the documentation on these files from
+ *math.ams.com
+to *math.ams.org
+(both the "math" and "e-math" nodes are involved.)
+
+Two files do contain "significant" updates:
+ ams/amstex/amsppt.sty
+ ams/amslatex/inputs/amssymb.sty
+
+This change also masks some important earlier postings;
+ ams/amsfonts/doc/userdoc.cyr (12 Nov 92)
+ ams/amsfonts/doc/userdoc.tex (12 Nov 92)
+ ams/amstex/amstex.bug (12 Nov 92)
+ ams/amstex/doc/amsppt.doc (12 Nov 92)
+
+If your copies of these files are earlier than these updates, it
+is recommended that you replace them with the current versions.
+
+For other files, the present change makes no difference for most
+purposes of actually using the files, so although uniformity among
+distributed versions is a good thing, actually installing the new
+versions is a matter of personal preference.
+
+The updated files will be installed shortly through routine updating
+procedures at these major archive sites:
+ Aston (uk.ac.tex (JANET), and ftp.tex.ac.uk (Internet))
+ SHSU (niord.shsu.edu)
+ Stuttgart (ftp.uni-stuttgart)
+
+
+Technical Support
+American Mathematical Society
+Internet: TECH-SUPPORT@MATH.AMS.ORG
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1993 11:48:02 -0500
+From: Karl Berry <karl@claude.cs.umb.edu>
+Subject: Eplain 2.3 available
+
+I have released Eplain version 2.3. It is available by ftp from
+
+ ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z}
+ ics.uci.edu:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.3.tar.Z
+
+You might also be able to get it by email from George Greenwade's file
+server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of
+something like `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'.
+
+I haven't yet implemented all the good ideas people have sent me
+(generalizing toc files to other kinds of auxiliary files, indexing
+commands, etc., etc.), but I did implement general cross-references, so
+I figured a release would be worthwhile.
+
+Please send bug reports directly to me.
+
+Here is a summary of the most significant changes (from the file NEWS in
+the distribution):
+
+For those who haven't previously heard of Eplain: it is a collection of
+macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless
+of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic
+cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also
+has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of
+plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified
+math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'.
+
+karl@cs.umb.edu
+Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net.
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 09 Mar 1993 09:06:28 +0000
+From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
+Subject: The UK TeX Archive is now available on CD-ROM
+
+ From: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin)
+ Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
+ Date: 23 Feb 93 21:02:59 GMT
+ Reply-To: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin)
+ Organization: Canta Forda Computer Lab, Pacifica, CA
+
+
+ The UK TeX Archive is now available on CD-ROM
+
+ Issue 2-1 of Prime Time Freeware (PTF) contains a snapshot of the UK TeX
+ Archive. The collection is stored in compressed tar format, and occupies
+ ~300 MB (~1 GB, uncompressed). As far as we know, this is the only CD-ROM
+ distribution of the archive; we hope the TeX community will find it useful.
+
+ PTF is a semi-annual CD-ROM distribution of UNIX-related freeware source
+ code and documentation. Each issue consists of two ISO-9660 CD-ROMs and
+ an explanatory booklet. PTF 2-1 contains 1200 MB of compressed archives,
+ expanding to well over 3 GB of freeware.
+
+ List price is $60 US, $50 for SUG and USENIX members.
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+
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+
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+
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+ ptf@cfcl.com Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA Fax: +1 408-738-2050
+
+ Yours, Rich Morin
+ Proprietor, PTF
+
+ P.S. Please do *NOT* respond to this message via netnews. I do not read
+ this group on a regular basis, and will miss your response.
+ --
+ Rich Morin, Canta Forda Computer Laboratory | Prime Time Freeware - quality
+ UNIX consulting, training, and writing | freeware at affordable prices
+ P.O. Box 1488, Pacifica, CA, 94044, USA | ptf@cfcl.com
+ rdm@cfcl.com +1 415-873-7841 (Voice/Fax) | +1 408-738-4832 (V), -2050 (F)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 18:09:13 +0000
+From: CHAA006@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK
+Subject: Announcement: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993
+
+The UK TeX Users' Group (UK-TuG) are pleased to announce a multi-day
+conference, to be held at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of
+London) between April 6th--8th, 1993. The themes of the conference are ``TeX
+for non-American languages'' and ``MetaFont in Theory and Practice''; the
+speakers include Bernard Gaulle, Yannis Haralambous and Dominik Wujastyk.
+
+For \pounds 80-00, conference delegates will be entitled to participate in the
+conference itself (including a full-day tutorial on one or other aspects of
+MetaFont), the conference banquet, and lunch, coffee and tea on each day;
+dinners and en-suite accommodation are also available. If you would like to
+participate in this conference, please complete and return the application form
+which appears elsewhere in this digest. Any questions should be addressed to
+Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vax>, but it should be noted that
+he will be unable to answer e-mail during the period 7th--14th March.
+
+Philip Taylor, RHBNC.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 17:52:24 +0000
+From: CHAA006@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK
+Subject: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993
+
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+\font \xxvlogobf = logobf10 scaled \magstep 4
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+\def \pagefill {\vskip 0 pt plus 1 filll}
+\catcode `\< = \active
+\catcode `\> = \active
+\def \pounds {{\CMU \$}}
+\def <#1>{\expandafter
+ \ifx \csname #1\endcsname \relax
+ {\it #1\/}%
+ \else \csname #1\endcsname
+ \fi
+ }
+\expandafter
+\def \csname UK-TuG\endcsname
+ {\begingroup
+ \lccode `\T = `\T
+ \lccode `\E = `\U
+ \lccode `\X = `\G
+ \def \kern {\dimen 0 = }%
+ {\smallcaps uk-\expandafter \lowercase \expandafter {\TeX}}%
+ \endgroup
+ }
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+\begingroup
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+\parindent = 0 pt
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+\obeylines
+\xviibf U.K. <TeX> Users' Group Conference: April 6th--8th
+\centerline {\vrule height 0.5 pt depth 0.5 pt width 0.3 \hsize}
+\xxvbf <TeX> for non-American Languages
+\xxvbf <MetaFont> in Theory and Practice
+\endgroup
+
+\pagefill
+\leavevmode \centerline {\xxvcmsy \char '175}
+\pagefill
+
+The~U.K. <TeX> Users' Group (<UK-TuG>) are pleased to announce their first-ever
+multi-day conference, which~will take place at Royal Holloway and Bedford New
+College (University of~London) in~Egham, Surrey, between April~6th and~8th
+1993. The Conference, which has two themes --- <TeX>~for non-English
+languages, and~<MetaFont> in~Theory and Practice --- is timed to co-incide with
+the start of Spring, when the campus is at its best.
+
+The~first day (April~6th) is reserved for registration and the conference
+banquet; April~7th is devoted to <TeX>, and will include papers from
+an~international panel of invited speakers, including Bernard Gaulle, Yannis
+Haralambous and Dominik Wujastyk. Bernard~is past-president of GUTenberg
+(the~French-speaking <TeX> Users' Group), and an~authority on good French
+typographic practice; Yannis~is a~renowned authority on <MetaFont> and exotic
+fonts, and~is the author of the ``Scholar<TeX>'' package; and~Dominik is
+co-author (with Graham Toal) of the definitive U.K. hyphenation patterns,
+as~well as being a Sanskrit scholar and linguist. There~will be ample time for
+questions in addition to the formal papers. April~8th is <MetaFont> day:
+there~will be two concurrent tutorials, one~entitled `<MetaFont> in Theory',
+led~by Yannis, in~which the theme will be the design and implementation of
+fonts through the medium of <MetaFont>, and~the second entitled `<MetaFont> in
+Practice', in~which the more practical (but equally important) aspects of the
+use of <MetaFont> (such~as how to build a~complete set of Computer Modern fonts
+for a new laser printer) will be addressed.
+
+Booking~is now taking place for this event, which~will be limited to
+a~maximum of fifty persons; the~Conference fee (<pounds>80-00) includes the
+Conference banquet, which~takes place after Registration on April~6th,
+lunch~for April~7th \& 8th, and~attendance at all lectures plus the tutorial of
+choice; optional~items include {\it en-suite\/} accommodation at <pounds>28-50
+per night (available for up to three nights), and~evening dinner for the second
+and third days of the Conference. Early~booking is advised, as~this is
+expected to be a~very popular event. To~reserve a~place for the Conference,
+please~complete the form below and return it together with cheque (made payable
+to {\it The U.K. <TeX> Users' Group\/}) or company order, to:
+
+\begingroup
+\parindent = 2 em
+\leavevmode
+\parskip = 0 pt
+\obeylines %
+Philip Taylor,
+The Computer Centre,
+Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
+University of London,
+Egham Hill,
+Egham,
+Surrey TW20 0EX,
+England.
+\endgroup
+
+\noindent
+Please~reserve me a~place for the <UK-TuG> Conference at RHBNC on
+April~6th--8th, 1993. I~have completed the booking form below
+to indicate my exact requirements in terms of accommodation and
+meals. I~understand that if I~need to cancel my reservation,
+I~can be guaranteed at most a~50\% refund up to fourteen days
+before the Conference, and~no refund thereafter, unless the
+Conference organisers are able to re-allocate my place, in which
+case I~agree to a~10\% cancellation charge being deducted.
+
+\pagefill
+
+\begingroup
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+&&\cr
+&Signed: \span \hrulefill \cr
+Name:& \span \hrulefill \cr
+Address:& \span \hrulefill \cr
+ & \span \hrulefill \cr
+ & \span \hrulefill \cr
+ & \span \hrulefill \cr
+E-mail address:& \span \hrulefill \cr
+Facsimile number:& \span \hrulefill \cr
+Telephone number:& \span \hrulefill \cr
+Special dietary requirements:& \span \hrulefill \cr
+\egroup
+\endgroup
+
+\pagefill
+
+If <TeX>ing your own reservation form, please edit the alignment below to
+remove any lines which you do not require, and amend the entries for sub-total,
+V.A.T. and total to indicate the amounts applicable; if completing a
+ready-printed form, simply score through any items not required and add
+appropriate amounts to the sub-total, V.A.T. and total lines.
+
+$$\hbox to \hsize \bgroup \hss \vrule \hss \vbox \bgroup
+\def \toprule {\noalign {\hrule \vskip \dp \strutbox}}
+\def \midrule {\noalign {\vskip \dp \strutbox \hrule \vskip \dp \strutbox}}
+\def \botrule {\noalign {\vskip \dp \strutbox \hrule}}
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+\def \\{\hfil \break}
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+\obeylines %
+\halign to \hsize %
+\bgroup %
+\vtop {\hsize = 0.8 \hsize \raggedright \strut#\strut}&<pounds>$\,$\hfil #
+\toprule
+Conference fee (inc.~all lectures and choice of tutorial,
+ \phantom {Conference fee (}conference dinner %
+ (April~6th), $2 \times \rm lunches$:& 80-00
+\blank
+Accommodation April 6th:& 28-50
+Accommodation April 7th:& 28-50
+Accommodation April 8th:& 28-50
+\blank
+Dinner April 7th:& 8-00
+Dinner April 8th:& 8-00
+\blank
+Handling charge (only if payment does not accompany order):&5-00
+\midrule
+Sub-total:&
+V.A.T (@$\,$17.5\%):&
+Total:&
+\botrule
+\egroup %
+\egroup \hss \vrule \hss \egroup $$
+\end
+
+
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