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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.09 b/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.09 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..58700038cf --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.09 @@ -0,0 +1,645 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #09 +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: <844.782489419.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 15:10:21 +0100 +Message-ID: <846.782489421@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 18 Oct 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 09 + +Today's Topics: + installing tex + Underlining + changing \hsize at page-break? + List processing TeX macro needed + Page layout in LaTeX? + Help needed to convert fonts + [sci.geo.meteorology] latex style for AMS conference preprints + [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCE CmacTeX2.2 (Macintosh) + New version of greektex available + kpathsea 2.2, dvipsk 5.58b, xdvik 18c, dviljk 2.2 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: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 16:06:06 -0600 +From: mario@drmail.dr.att.com +Subject: installing tex + +I would like to install tex on my machine by +doing an ftp transfer from labrea.stanford.edu + +There lots of files on labrea under the tex directory. +I don't know which files I would need to be able to run +latex on my machine which is a sparc running Unix. + +I would appreaciate any help regarding the installation +of latex on my machine. + +Mario + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:11:21 -0600 +From: nq0i@dablik.radiophysics.com +Subject: Underlining + +Last month, I requested help in locating/finding a macro that would: +1) underline words, but not the intervening spaces; +2) permit line breaks to occur while underlining. + +I received about a dozen responses, every one different. Many of them +were interesting and taught me things I did not know. However, only +one response was completely on point. My vote for TeXnician of the +month therefore goes to Jim Nearing (nearing@phyvax.ir.miami.edu) +for the following clever and concise pair of macros: + +% This underlining macro is implemented by tail recursion. +% If the terminal character is not found, it executes the desired +% process and \let's \next equal itself. It then calls \next. +% If the terminal token is found, it \let's \next equal \relax +% before calling \next. +% The first word is handled separately. +% +% Usage: \ul{whatever you like, it will continue the underlining +% even across line breaks}. +% +\newif\iffirstul + +\def\ullspecial#1 {\ifx\empty#1 \let\next=\relax \else + \iffirstul\firstulfalse\else% + \discretionary{}{}{\hbox{\ }}\fi% + \underbar{#1}\let\next=\ullspecial\fi \next} + +\def\ul#1{\firstultrue\ullspecial#1 \empty } + +The only thing to watch out for is that it does require that the +values of hyphenpenalty and exhyphenpenalty be sufficiently low to +permit line breaks to occur. If you desire to suppress hyphenated +line breaking, then the value should be set to some reasonably high +value, but not an impossibly high one. He suggests 1000 (as opposed +to the 10000 usually used to ban such breaking), and I have found +that that works well. Alternatively, one could simply alter the value +of these variables for the paragraph in which the underlined text +occurs. For most people, who desire the ordinary hyphenated line +breaking rules, the macro works wonderfully as it stands. + +Thank you again, Jim! + +Doc Evans NQ0I / G4AMJ : devans@orion.colorado.edu + al019@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 08:23:54 -0330 +From: MOHAMMAD GHODSI <ghodsi@IREARN.BITNET> +Subject: changing \hsize at page-break? + +Dear Friends, +I would like to typeset a long paragraph that goes into the next +page so that each page has different \hsize. How could I change +\hsize at the page break? + +Thanks. + + +----------------------------------------------------------------+ + | Mohammad Ghodsi, Assistant Prof. (o | + | Computer Engineering Department (o ^ ) | + | Sharif University of Technology ghodsi@irearn.bitnet | + | P.O. Box 11365-9517, Tehran, Iran Fax: +98 21 601-2983 | + +----------------------------------------------------------------+ + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 13:07:40 +0100 +From: Bo Thide' <bt@irfu.se> +Subject: List processing TeX macro needed + +I am looking for a short and efficient soultion for the following +problem: + +>From a list of names, each delimited by a delimiter \mydelim, I want to +produce two "name boxes" to be used as output. In the case of three or +more names I want one long where all \delim's are replaced by a ',' +except for the last one which should be replaced by '{\rm and}', and one +short with the first name followed by '{\it et al}.'. + +======================================================================== + +Example 1: + +The list + +First A. Familyx \delim First B. Familyy \delim First C. Familyz + +shall be translated into + +First A. Familyx, First B. Familyy {\rm and} First C. Familyz + +and to + +First A. Familyx {\it et al}. + +======================================================================== + +Example 2: + +The list + +First A. Familyx \delim First B. Familyy + +shall be translated into + +First A. Familyx {\rm and} First B. Familyy + +both for the long and short output. + +======================================================================== + +In a way this is similar to what 'bibtex' handles so elegantly for +author lists. I thought this would be rather trivial in TeX, but +several days of studies of Knuth and von Bechtolsheim has not lead me +anywhere. + +I need to solve this problem quickly and would appreciate any help +or hints that you might have. + +Bo + + ^ ---Bo Thidi-----------------------------------Scientific Director--- + |I| Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden + |R| Office Phone: (+46) 18-30 36 71 Office Fax: (+46) 18-40 31 00 + /|F|\ Home Phone: (+46) 18-52 79 11 Home Fax: (+46) 18-55 41 84 + ~~U~~ ---bt@hybrid.irfu.se---------------------------------------SM5DFW--- + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 21:13:42 +0700 +From: Napajit Singkorapoom <b92346@th.ac.ait.cs> +Subject: Page layout in LaTeX? + +I am a LaTeX beginner. I am using LaTeX for my report and I have some +questions would like to have your suggestions as follows; + +1) Using Letter size pape(8.5"X11"), one-sided output, how to set the +page layout as + + - 3 cm left margin + - 2 cm right margin + - 3 cm top margin + - 2.5 cm bottom margin + +2) the page number should be in the "top margin" at center position as + + -1- , -2- ,,,,,, + +3) equation numbers are according to the section numbers i.e., + + in section 2 , eq. no. should be 2.1, 2.2, .. + +Your promptly actions are highly appreciable. + +Thanking you, +Napajit. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 15:17:25 +0100 +From: Maes@elec.ucl.ac.be +Subject: Help needed to convert fonts + +I'm using Textures 1.6.2 on a Macintosh +and I'm also using TeX, Version 3.1415 on a Unix machine. + +I have bought the package Lucida from Blue Sky Research. +With this package, I got + - the Outline fonts + - the Screen fonts + - the AFM files + - the metrics files +for the macintosh. + +I would like to use these package on my Unix machine. + +So I have (for all the fonts) + +- - create the VPL files from the macintosh metrics document (with EdMetrics) +- - create the TFM and VF files from these VPL files (with vptovf) +- - create the PFA files from the outline fonts (with macfont) + +I have modified the file psfonts.map in such a manner that dvips +(dvipsk 5.58a) could deal with these files (tfm,vf and pfa) + +BUT after all these manipulations, I don't get the same results with +the macintosh and with the Unix machine. + +What's wrong ? + +Pascal Maes +UCL/FSA/ELEC +Place du Levant,3 +B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve +BELGIUM +email: Maes@elec.ucl.ac.be + +------------------------------ + +Date: 31 Aug 1994 17:03:08 +0200 +From: phil@coot.geog.ubc.ca (Phil Austin) +Subject: [sci.geo.meteorology] latex style for AMS conference preprints + +Steve Krueger has modified the AGU preprint style to produce +a two-column format suitable for AMS conference proceedings. + +The style file (amspp.sty) and example (rad-pp.tex) along with +a bib file are available from: + +ftp://leghorn.geog.ubc.ca/pub/jas.latex.dir + +Phil Austin INTERNET: phil@geog.ubc.ca +(604) 822-2175 FAX: (604) 822-6150 + +Atmospheric Sciences Programme +Geography #217 +University of British Columbia +1984 W Mall +Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 +CANADA + +------------------------------ + +Date: 02 Sep 1994 13:51:48 +0200 +From: tkiffe@math.tamu.edu (Tom Kiffe) +Subject: [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCE CmacTeX2.2 (Macintosh) + +Version 2.2 of CMacTeX is now available on CTAN in the directory +tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex. It consists of TeX3.1415, Metafont2.71, +dvips, a previewer, a Postscript printing utility, and the usual font +utilities like gftopk, etc. + +The principal feature of the new version is use of Apple Events to +launch and execute the various subprograms. As a result, Version 2.2 +requires System 7. The popular editors, Alpha and BBEdit, can be +configured to completely control CMacTeX, i.e., it is possible to +launch TeX from your editor, have it process the file displayed in +your editor's front window, automatically switch to the previewer, and +if you are satisfied, have the editor launch dvips to convert the +dvi file into Postscript. CMacTeX can also talk with the editor. If +TeX encounters an error and you type an 'e' at the ? prompt, CMacTeX +will ask the editor to open the tex file and highlight the offending +line. + +As in earlier releases, most of CMacTeX is free. For further information +see the Readme files available on CTAN. + +Tom Kiffe + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 17:57:04 +0200 +From: georges@zeus.di.uoa.ariadne-t.gr (Giorgos Spiliotis) +Subject: New version of greektex available + +A new version of greektex has been posted in the following sites: + + CTAN sites eg. ftp.dante.de + in the directory pub/tex/language/greek/greektex + + zeus.di.uoa.ariadne-t.gr (143.233.122.1) + in the directory pub/greek/greektex/dos + + math.ucla.edu (128.97.4.254) + in the directory pub/moschovakis/greektex + +greektex is a package of public domain programs which make it easy to +use the well known Greek text fonts of Silvio Levy in Plain TeX, LaTeX +or AMS-LaTeX with the full functionality of these sets of macros, +exactly as we use them to process English files. In fact greektex +understands files with mixed Greek and English text, so that it is +particularly useful for the typesetting of Greek scientific class notes, +articles and books: these typically contain many English words---names, +references, scientific terms traditionally given in both Greek and +English when first introduced, etc. It is very easy to install +greektex in any platform with a full TeX implementation. The system +is especially simple to use on a PC equipped with a VGA screen, for +which it provides a full bilingual keyboard system for entering (and +seeing on the screen) mixed English and modern (monotoniko) or classical +(polytoniko) Greek text. + +The heart of greektex is a set of "Greek-English" 256 character fonts +which extend the Computer Modern fonts of Knuth by a selection of the +Levy characters: For example, the first 128 characters of CLR10 are +exactly the characters of CMR10, while characters 128-255 are the Greek +"apla" (traditional) characters, as programmed by Levy. Each font is +named by replacing the CM prefix of the Knuth font it extends by CL, +e.g. CLTI10 is the extension of the English text italic font CMTI10, +etc. Using these fonts, it is easy to get Greek-English versions of +macro packages, basically by replacing each CM font by its CL extension +in the font definitions, and adding Greek hyphenation and a brief set of +macros to handle classical, polytoniko input. The package includes such +extensions for plain TeX, LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX, so that their format +files can be produced immediately by running initex on them. It also +provides 300 DPI compilations of the CL extensions for all preloaded +fonts of (classical) LaTeX, as well as a complete set of all the +metafont files and adaptations of the Sauter scaling programs needed to +compile the fonts in any resolution and point size. + +Those familiar with the first two versions of greektex (posted by +Moschovakis in 1991 and 1993) will be interested in the following new +features of this more complete system, prepared jointly by +Moschovakis and Spiliotis. + +(1) The fonts have been slightly improved and the internal coding of +some characters changed, to make the system compatible with more Greek +extended keyboard drivers and provide fuller coverage of classical +Greek. In addition, the fonts have been renamed, so that it is not +possible to print dvi files produced by earlier versions of greektex +using the new fonts, BUT: __monotoniko__ greektex files produced for +earlier versions can be reTeXed with the new version and they will print +exactly as before. + +(2) The polytoniko (classical) system is implemented by a new set of +macros, based on a very simple architecture which makes it very robust, +so that, in particular, it enjoys essentially full LaTeX functionality. +(Files with polytoniko input prepared for the second greektex version +cannot be handled by this version.) + +(3) This distribution includes an extended dual keyboard system, which +makes it possible to enter from the keyboard and see on the screen the +diairesis on cap Iota and cap Ypsilon and the anw teleia in monotoniko, +as well as all the accents, aspiration marks and the iota subscript in +polytoniko. The classical accent+stress "decoration" of each vowel +(excluding the modern oxeia) is easy to enter by escape sequences and it +shows on the screen clearly, immediately preceding the vowel. +Internally, each decoration is coded by a single byte, and this is the +key to the new, very robust implementation of polytoniko. + +(4) The files needed to compile a Greek-English format file for +AMS-LaTeX have been added. (To do this, you need, in addition, all the +AMS macro files and fonts required for AMS-LaTeX.) + +(5) A Greek bibtex and makeindex system has been added. They can +handle Greek bibliographies and indexes as well as special Greek +lexicographical ordering. + +A complete description of the system is given in the manual +"greektex.doc" and in the README file of the package, from which we copy +the INDEX. + + INDEX of the greektex distribution, July 1994. + +========== Files which are necessary to install and run greektex ======== + +Note: Some files come in two versions with different extensions, + .gr and .tex, e.g. geabbr.gr and geabbr.tex. Only those + with the extension .tex are used by greektex, but + they are hard to read; the .gr files are easy to read in + a DOS-bilingual keyboard, and they are TeX-equivalent to the + others, in most (but not all) platforms. + +(1) README This file. + +(2) pkunzip.exe The program needed to uncompress on the PC + the zip files of this distribution. + (This is a recent version of pkunzip; + older versions may not work with these + zip files.) + +(3) install.dos Installation instructions under DOS. + install.win Installation instructions under WINDOWS. + cpwin.tcp Code page file, needed for WINDOWS installation. + +(4) gedocs.zip greektex.doc The document describing how to use + the system. It also gives the credits for the + public domain programs used and distributed. + + greekdrv.doc The document explaining how to use the + the extended keyboard programs in (5). + + fsample.tex A small texfile which facilitates + printing (with latex) a coding table of a font. + +(5) gedos.zip DOS programs for creating Greek-English files. + gr.com, grx.com, vgagr.com, vgagrx.com, instgr.com. + +(6) geinputs.zip The TeX input files needed by the system. + geplain.tex, + gehyphen.tex, geletcat.tex, geabbr.tex, + gehyphen.gr, geletcat.gr, geabbr.gr + gelplain.tex, gelfonts.tex, + geamsla.tex, gelfonts.new, gefontdf.ori, + gegreek.sty, gegreek.gr + +(7) cltfm.zip The tfm files for the Greek-English fonts. + +(8) clpk.zip 300 DPI pk files for the Greek-English fonts. + Files are named in DOS convention, e.g. clr10.pk + +======================= Auxilliary programs ============================== + + +(9) clmf.zip The metafont files used to create the fonts, + with a brief instruction document clmf.doc + and some batch files for compiling fonts in + additional pointsizes and any resolution. + +(10) gkbibtex.zip Greek-English version of bibtex and accompanying + gkmkindx.zip makeindex program, for DOS. + +(11) gkconv.zip Programs for converting between different, common + coding systems for Greek with technical instructions + on the use of code pages. + +(12) greek202.zip A complete dual keyboard system, includes grx-vgagrx + and more. + +(13) filters.zip Two simple Greek-to-English and English-to-Greek + filters (written in C) which make it (just barely) + possible to create, read and convert files with + mixed Greek and English text in a monolingual + environment. See l2g.c for explanation. + Also C-code for a filter g2h.c which converts .gr + files, with Greek to teX-equivalent .tex files + with hexadecimal coding of 8-bit characters. + +(14) palamas.gr Greek input file and Postscript file of a one + palamas.ps page document which illustrates the method for + preprint.ps entering polytoniko using grx.com and the output; + and a preprint of a publication which describes + greektex in some detail. + +==================================================================== + +IMPORTANT. If you are getting these files by ftp, make sure that (3) - +(10) are transmitted in binary mode. Files (3) - (5) and (9) - (12) are +not needed for installing and running greektex. + +As far as we know, all the programs in this package are in the public +domain and they are offered without any obligation or guarantee, with +the usual proviso that if you change any files you should also change +their names. + +For questions and comments, please send email to the author closest to +your site. + +Yiannis N. Moschovakis George Spiliotis +Department of Mathematics M.Sc. in Data Engineering +UCLA, L.A. CA 90024 Digeni 26-28 + Voula 16673 + Athens, Greece + +ynm@math.ucla.edu georges@di.uoa.ariadne-t.gr + +July 1994 + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 14:20:42 -0400 +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Subject: kpathsea 2.2, dvipsk 5.58b, xdvik 18c, dviljk 2.2 available + +New versions of dvipsk/xdvik/dviljk are in the usual place: + ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{xdvik,dvipsk,dviljk}.tar.gz + ... and CTAN and its mirrors; see the end of the message. +Please use the nearest site, to reduce the load on our Sparc 1. + +I think the same patch that John Interrante and others created for web2c +6.1 will work for this release (but I didn't actually try it); you can +get that as the file web2c.kpathsea-2.1.help from the above sites. +Naturally, I am working on the next release of web2c. It will be ready +no sooner than a month or two from now (and perhaps significantly +longer); it's no use to ask me precisely when, as I simply do not know. + +As always, thanks to the many people who contributed. I tried to note +names in the ChangeLog entries. + +Also as usual, I've tested these with gcc 2.5.8, using GNU make 3.71, on +several architectures: Linux 1.0.4, SunOS 4, Solaris 2.3, HP-UX 9, Alpha +OSF/1 1.3, RS/6000 AIX 3.2.4, Aviion DG/UX 5.4.2, SGI IRIX 4.0.5F, and +MIPS Ultrix 4.3. I used stock MIT X11R5 on all the machines for xdvik. +You can get GNU software from prep.ai.mit.edu and its mirrors, and you +can get MIT X from ftp.x.org and *its* mirrors. + +Here's the NEWS: + +dvipsk 5.58b +* config.$PRINTER is read even if -o or -f is specified, i.e., always. +* Paths in dvips config.$PRINTER files are not ignored (this was accidental!). +* Closing quote in \special{"..."} omitted from the output. +* --help and --version options supported. + +kpathsea 2.2 +* MakeTeXPK invoked for the any_glyph type; this is for xdvik. +* MakeTeXPK sources $(psheaderdir)/MakeTeXPK.site if it exists. +* pxlNNN/cmr10.pk searched for (as well as dpiNNN/cmr10.pk and cmr10.NNNpk) + +xdvik 18c +* Include SELFILE support by default. +* Support the `ps: <literal PostScript>' special. +* Support --help (and -help and +help). +* Convert both 330 and 328 dpi to 329 (magstephalf). +* Checksum warnings omitted if either the font or DVI checksum is zero. + +dviljk 2.2 +* Use perror for nonexistent input files. + +kb@cs.umb.edu +Help fight the new programming monopolies -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net. + + + Here are the CTAN sites and their mirrors: +prompt$ finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu +[...] +Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically): + dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /tex-archive + ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia) /pub/tex/ctan + ftp.muni.cz (The Czech Republic) /pub/tex/CTAN + nic.switch.ch (Switzerland) /mirror/tex + ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands) /pub/tex-archive + +Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically): + ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp (Japan) /CTAN + ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au (Australia) /tex-archive + ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA) /tex-archive + ftp.loria.fr (France) /pub/unix/tex/ctan + ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Germany) /pub/tex + ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Germany) /tex-archive (/pub/tex) + ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA) /pub/text-processing/TeX + ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore) /pub/zi/TeX + src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England) /packages/tex/uk-tex + sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX + wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA) /packages/TeX +Please send updates to this list to <CTAN-Mgr@SHSU.edu>. + +The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are: + ftp.dante.de (Germany) + -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) + -- e-mail via ftpmail@dante.de + -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@dante.de> + ftp.shsu.edu (Texas, USA) + -- anonymous ftp and gopher /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) + -- NFS mountable from ftp.SHSU.edu:/pub/ftp/tex-archive + -- e-mail via ftpmail@ftp.SHSU.edu + -- World Wide Web access on www.SHSU.edu + -- Administrator: <CTAN-Mgr@SHSU.edu> + ftp.tex.ac.uk (England) + -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) + -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk + -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive + -- World Wide Web access on www.tex.ac.uk + -- Administrator: <ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk> + +------------------------------ +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 texhax + or unsubscribe texhax + +To obtain the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) lists for TeX, send a +message with no subject to fileserv@shsu.edu, consisting of +SENDME FAQ + +For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to +TUG@TUG.org, or write TeX Users Group, P.O. 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