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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.08 b/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.08 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..342833adb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.08 @@ -0,0 +1,579 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #08 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Content-ID: <6826.778956263.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 17:44:24 +0100 +Message-ID: <6827.778956264@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 7 Sep 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 08 + +Today's Topics: + Translating TFM and GF or PK files into Metafont source? + Re: Announcement: Sauter tools Version 2.2 + PCTeX? + underlining + Graphics in LaTeX + Latex viewer for IBMPC +[comp.text.tex] mcite: Combining several BibTeX entries into one \bibitem + [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCING: Seminar Package for LaTeX2e + EuroTeX '94: bookings close on September 12th + modes 2.1 available + + +Administrivia: + Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott + Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + Subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk + (message body = "subscribe texhax" or "unsubscribe texhax", [no quotes]) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 13:35:19 +0200 +From: Andrzej Icha <icha@ocean.iopan.gda.pl> +Subject: Translating TFM and GF or PK files into Metafont source? + +Is there any possibility which can translate TFM and suitable +GF (or PK) files into METAFONT sourcefiles? +Thank you very much for any information. + +Andrzej Icha +Institute of Oceanology, PAS, Sopot, Poland +<icha@ocean.iopan.gda.pl> + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 16:30:24 -0000 +From: DEVANS@lynx.colorado.edu +Subject: Re: Announcement: Sauter tools Version 2.2 + +>The Sauter tools allow you to generate any font out of the cm family at an +>arbitrary design size by interpolating between the Knuthian parameters or +>extrapolating them. The Sauter fonts can be used to replace any scaled +>fonts used by LaTeX and plain TeX. + +Can someone please explain to me in what way this is different/better from +simply letting MF build fonts. + +Thank you. + Doc Evans + +Doc Evans NQ0I/G4AMJ : devans@orion.colorado.edu + al019@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 16:56:10 -0400 +From: Wang Wei <wei@math.unc.edu> +Subject: PCTeX? + +Can anybody tell me if there is a software called PCTeX. I think +it might be a version of TeX or LaTeX for PC. + +Thanks, + +- --Wei + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 03 Sep 1994 17:30:30 -0000 +From: DEVANS@lynx.colorado.edu +Subject: underlining + +I know that the TeXbook says that the best way to do underlining is to +build a new font, but for my purposes that seems like overkill. On the +other hand, all my simple macros to produce underlined text fail to +produce the correct results. What I want is something like: + \underline{This text should be underlined, but the space characters +contained in the text should be left without underlines} + +This seems like it ought to be simple, and it probably is, but I can't +get a macro to do what I want. Anyone out there who can give me some +help? + +Thanks + Doc Evans + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sun, 04 Sep 1994 16:50:12 +0800 +From: chin1312@cs.cuhk.hk +Subject: Graphics in LaTeX + +Hello, + + I'm working on a project of LaTeX. I heard that LaTeX's graphics +command can't describe all graphics generated by xfig. Is that true? +Thanks. + + +Rgds +James + +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +` James Ching CSC 4/4 ` ` +` Department of Computer Science ` ~{HK2;D\C;SPCN~} ` +` Email : chin1312@cs.cuhk.hk ` ~{5+R22;D\V;;nTZCNVP~} ` +` jamesching@cuhk.hk ` ` +` ` ` +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1994 12:18:00 -0500 +From: brener@shadow.csc.lsu.edu (Dr. Nathan Brener) +Subject: Latex viewer for IBMPC + +Hi, would you tell me where can I find a shareware to display Latex file +on IBMPC. Thank you. + +Weian Deng + +------------------------------ + +Date: 19 Aug 1994 11:53:58 +0200 +From: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (Thorsten Ohl) +Subject: [comp.text.tex] mcite: Combining several BibTeX entries into one \bibitem + +Last week I asked and only got `me too' responses. Thus I sat down +yesterday evening and wrote it myself (that's The True Trouble with +TeX: it's too much fun wasting your time by hacking up cutee little +macros :-). Anyway, you can get it from + + crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de:pub/ohl/mcite + +and (hopefully) soon from a CTAN site near you. + +This LaTeX2e package provides support for collapsing multiple +citations into one, as custumoary in physics journals. For example +\cite{foo1,*foo2,bar} will combine the BibTeX entries foo1 and foo2 +into a single \bibitem. Obviously, the non-trivial point is that it +works with BibTeX. See mcite.dtx for more detailed documentation. + +Enjoy, +- -Thorsten +- -- +/// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany +//////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu +/// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 + + +------------------------------ + +Date: 29 Aug 1994 18:25:46 +0200 +From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) +Subject: [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCING: Seminar Package for LaTeX2e + +Hey netters, don't be fooled by LaTeX2e's slides class. +It is still lame, compared to the amazing Seminar package. + +V1.0 of seminar.sty works with LaTeX2e in compatibility +mode, but I have finally added a seminar.cls that works +in LaTeX2e's native mode. This is a minimal modification +of seminar.sty, not a new version. The new distribution +is called V1.0e. If you already have v1.0, the only +new files you need are + + seminar.cls semhelv.sty semlcmss.sty + +from + + Princeton.EDU:/pub/tvz/seminar/inputs + +You can also get the entire package (which still includes +seminar.sty and still works with LaTeX 2.09). + +Let me know about any problems. + +Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz for making the necessary changes. + +Tim +- --- +Timothy Van Zandt (609)258-4050 tvz@Princeton.EDU (NeXTMail) +Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 + +THIS IS A SUPPLEMENTARY READ-ME FOR V1.0e OF THE SEMINAR PACKAGE + +*********************************************************************** +**** "readme" file for the Seminar package, v1.0e, 94/08/24 **** +*********************************************************************** + +COPYRIGHT 1993, 1994 by Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@Princeton.EDU + +ABOUT V1.0e: + + V1.0e is identical to v1.0 of 93/04/01, except for a few changes + so that Seminar can work with NFSS2 and LaTeX2e: + + - semhelv.sty and semlcmss.sty have been modified to work + with NFSS2 and LaTeX2e (but they still work with NFSS). + + - seminar.cls has been added. This is a LaTeX2e document class, + derived from seminar.sty v1.0 by Sebastian Rahtz. + + If you already have have seminar.sty v1.0e, then all you need + are this read-me file plus these files from the inputs + directory: + + seminar.cls semhelv.sty semlcmss.sty + +USING SEMINAR WITH LATEX2E: + + !!! YOU MUST BE USING A LATEX2E RELEASED AFTER 19 FEBRUARY 1994 + + You can either use seminar.sty in compatibility mode: + \documentstyle{seminar} + Or use the seminar.cls document class: + \documentclass{seminar} + + Unless you are using other macros that only work in + compatibility mode, you might as well use the document class. + + You can use the following options with \documentclass{seminar}: + + article slidesonly notes notesonly notesonly* + noxcomment portrait a4 semhelv semlcmss semlayer + semrot semcolor slidesec + + NOTE: Use `a4', not `sem-a4'. + + `seminar.cls' is a minimal modification of seminar.sty. The + next release will take advantage of more of LaTeX2e's special + capabilities. + +Tim Van Zandt +tvz@princeton.edu +August 24, 1994 +- -- +Timothy Van Zandt (609)258-4050 tvz@Princeton.EDU (NeXTMail) +Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 18:22:10 -0000 +From: CHAA006@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk +Subject: EuroTeX '94: bookings close on September 12th + +[Sent with apologies to those lists that prefer submissions + in their native language, such as GUTenberg and TeX-D-L.] + +====================================================== +EuroTeX '94 * EuroTeX '94 * EuroTeX '94 * EuroTeX '94 +======================================================= + +If you would like to participate in the most exciting +TeX users' meeting of 1994---Eurotex '94 in Gda\'nsk--- +then please don't forget that there are only two weeks +left in which to enroll. The final possible date for +applications is September 12th. + +The conference programme includes: + + -- Michel Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz + Simple colour design, and colour in LaTeX-2e + + -- Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and Marek Ry\'cko, + Labyrinth of METAFONT paths in outline + + -- Kees van der Laan, + BLUe's format---the best of both worlds + + -- Klaus Lagally, + Bidirectional line breaking with TeX macros + + -- Bernd Raichle, + Sorting in TeX's mouth + + -- Laurent Siebenmann, + Atomic fonts and electronic archiving of TeX documents + + -- Laurent Siebenmann, + Occam's razor and macro management + + -- Petr Sojka and Pavel \v Seve\v cek, + Hyphenation in TeX---Quo vadis? + + -- Philip Taylor, + Defensive programing in TeX: Towards a better class of macro + + -- Andrey V. Astrelin, + Graphics in TeX + + -- Vladimir Batagelj, + Combining TeX and PostScript + + -- Janusz Bie\'n, + Polish texts in multilingual environments (a case study) + + -- Lutz Birkhahn, + Tdb: An X11 TeX Debugger + + -- Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach + Real life book production---lessons learned from "The LaTeX Companion" + + -- Karel Horak, + Fighting with big MetaFont pictures when printing them + reversely or landscape + + -- Olga Lapko, + MAKEFONT as part of CyrTug/emTeX package. + + -- Marion Neubauer, + Conversion from WORD/WordPerfect to LaTeX + + -- Eric Picheral, + Building and supporting the GUTenberg archive + + -- Johannes Braams, + Document classes and packages for LaTeX-2e + + -- Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, + 4TeX: A workbench for MS-DOS PCs + + -- Dag F. Langmyhr, + How to make your own document style in LaTeX-2e + + -- J\"org Knappen: + Towards a 256-character IPA font + + -- Friedhelm Sowa, + Printing colour pictures + + -- Andrey F. Slepukhin, + A package for Church Slavonic typesetting + + -- Philip Taylor, + e-TeX & NTS: a progress report + + -- Ji\v r\'\i{} Zlatu\v ska, + Surviving in a multi-lingual world with multiple font encodings + + -- Yannis Halarambous, + Typesetting the Hebrew Bible with TeX + + -- Yannis Halarambous, + \Omega, a TeX extension including unicode and + featuring Lex-like filtering processes + + For further details please contact: eurotex@halina.univ.gda.pl, or get + via ftp from halina.univ.gda.pl:/gust/eurotex Programme and + tutorial information will be found in prog.txt, courses/tutorial + abstracts in tutor.txt, booking form in bform.txt and finally + some advice on how to get to Gda\'nsk in howtoget.txt + +Conference organizers + +W{\l}odek Bzyl, +Tomasz Przechlewski + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 06:43:59 -0400 +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Subject: modes 2.1 available + +I have released version 2.1 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from + + ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/modes.mf + +and shortly from the ctan sites in /tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes-2.1.mf. +finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for a list of all the CTAN sites and mirrors. + +You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's (thanks, George!) +file server if you cannot ftp: email fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of +`sendme modes'. + +News: +No new modes, but I've added landscape definitions for all the devices +with meaningfully nonsquare aspect ratios, named as the primary device +with an `l' appended. Some primary names were changed to be shorter as +a result, but the old names are still there as synonyms. + +I've also been told that `ljfour' is suitable for the Apple Select 360, +and that the Xerox 4050 mode works for the Xerox 4700, so that +information is included. + + +It's generally of no use to mail me about devices not in modes.mf; +everything I know about is described therein. It also includes lots of +text about how to create a new mode_def, etc. + + +General information: +modes.mf is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common +definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and +landscape mode. It uses up too much memory for the table sizes in the +original mf.web, so you either have to increase the sizes (as in Web2c) +or rename the file and remove unneeded modes. I can't decipher mf.web +well enough to understand how to make the modes use less memory; if some +Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd very much like to hear it. + +If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the +existing ones, please send them to me. Improvements to the exposition, +particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome. + +kb@cs.umb.edu + +mode_def agfafzz = % AGFA 400PS +mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga +mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 +mode_def apssixhi = % Autologic APS-Micro6 +mode_def atariezf = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer +mode_def atarinf = % Atari 95dpi previewer +mode_def atarins = % Atari 96x96 previewer +mode_def atariotf = % Atari ST SM 124 screen +mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi +mode_def bjtenex = % Canon BubbleJet 10ex +mode_def boise = % HP 2680A +mode_def canonex = % CanonEX in LaserWriter Pro 630 +mode_def canonlbp = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10 +mode_def cg = % Compugraphic 8600 +mode_def cgl = % Compugraphic 8600 landscape +mode_def cgnszz = % Compugraphic 9600 +mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS +mode_def cx = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX +mode_def datadisc = % DataDisc +mode_def newdd = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio +mode_def declarge = % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024 +mode_def decsmall = % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768 +mode_def deskjet = % HP DeskJet 500 +mode_def docutech = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 +mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover +mode_def epsdrft = % Epson at 120x72dpi +mode_def epsdrftl = % Epson at 120x72dpi landscape +mode_def epsfast = % Epson at 60x72dpi +mode_def epsfastl = % Epson at 60x72dpi landscape +mode_def epson = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family +mode_def epsonl = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family landscape +mode_def epsonact = % Epson Action Laser 1500 +mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120x216dpi +mode_def epsonlol = % Epson at 120x216dpi landscape +mode_def gtfax = % 204 x 196dpi G3fax +mode_def gtfaxl = % 204 x 196dpi G3fax landscape +mode_def gtfaxlo = % 204 x 98dpi G3fax +mode_def gtfaxlol = % 204 x 98dpi G3fax landscape +mode_def hprugged = % HP RuggedWriter 480 +mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (\#1) +mode_def ibmd = % IBM 38xx (\#2) +mode_def ibmega = % IBM EGA monitor +mode_def ibmegal = % IBM EGA monitor landscape +mode_def ibmfzon = % IBM 4019 +mode_def ibmfztn = % IBM 4029-30, 4250 +mode_def ibmpp = % IBM ProPrinter +mode_def ibmppl = % IBM ProPrinter landscape +mode_def ibmsoff = % IBM 6154 display +mode_def sherpa = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) +mode_def ibmteot = % IBM 3812 +mode_def ibmtetz = % IBM 3820 +mode_def ibmtont = % IBM 3193 screen +mode_def ibmtosn = % IBM 3179 screen +mode_def ibmtosnl = % IBM 3179 screen landscape +mode_def ibmvga = % IBM VGA monitor +mode_def ibx = % Chelgraph IBX +mode_def itoh = % CItoh 8510A +mode_def itohl = % CItoh 8510A landscape +mode_def itohtoz = % CItoh 310 +mode_def itohtozl = % CItoh 310 landscape +mode_def iw = % Apple ImageWriter +mode_def jetiiisi = % HP Laser Jet IIISi +mode_def lasf = % DEC LA75 +mode_def linolo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi +mode_def linoone = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi +mode_def linotzzh = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi +mode_def ljfour = % 600dpi HP LaserJet 4 +mode_def ljlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi +mode_def lmaster = % 1000dpi LaserMaster +mode_def lnzo = % DEC LN01 +mode_def lps = % DEC LPS40 +mode_def lpstz = % DEC lps20 +mode_def lqlores = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi +mode_def lqmed = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi +mode_def lqmedl = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi landscape +mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor +mode_def macmag = % Mac screens at magstep 1 +mode_def mactrue = % Mac screens at 72dpi +mode_def ncd = % NCD 19-inch +mode_def nec = % NEC +mode_def nechi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi +mode_def nexthi = % NeXT 400dpi, Newgen +mode_def nextscrn = % 100dpi NeXT monitor +mode_def nullmode = % TFM files only +mode_def ocessfz = % OCE 6750-PS +mode_def okidata = % Okidata +mode_def okidatal = % Okidata landscape +mode_def pcscreen = % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns +mode_def phaser = % Tektronix Phaser PXi +mode_def prntware = % Printware 720IQ +mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine) +mode_def qmsostf = % QMS 1725 +mode_def qmsoszz = % QMS 1700 +mode_def ricoh = % e.g., TI Omnilaser +mode_def ricoha = % e.g., IBM 4216 +mode_def ricohlp = % e.g., DEC LN03 +mode_def sparcptr = % Sun SPARCprinter +mode_def starnlt = % Star NL-10 +mode_def starnltl = % Star NL-10 landscape +mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi +mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi +mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ +mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi +mode_def vs = % VAXstation monitor +mode_def vtftzz = % Varityper 4200 B-P +mode_def vtftzzhi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi +mode_def vtftzzlo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi +mode_def vtfzszw = % Varitype 5060W, APS 6 +mode_def vtszz = % Varityper Laser 600 +mode_def xrxesnz = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 +mode_def xrxfzfz = % Xerox 4050/4075/4090/4700 +mode_def xrxnszz = % Xerox 9700 +mode_def xrxtszz = % Xerox 3700 + +------------------------------ + +About TeXhax... + +Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + +Subscription and unsubscription requests: + send a one line mail message to TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk + containing either subscribe 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