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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.10 b/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.10 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bfc3a20b9e --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.10 @@ -0,0 +1,233 @@ +(Message texhax/v94:10) +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #10 +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" +Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:20:14 +0000 +Message-ID: <11271.784567214@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +TeXhax Digest Friday, 11 Nov 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 10 + +Today's Topics: + TeX for Alpha? + How to obtain new LaTeX? + Proposed merger of UKTeX with TeXhax + kpathsea 2.3/dvipsk 5.58c/xdvik 18d/dviljk 2.3 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, 19 Oct 1994 16:31:59 +0100 +From: Julian Barquin Gil <barquin@iit.upco.es> +Subject: TeX for Alpha? + +I would very much appreciate any information on the way to +get public domain TeX and LaTeX for an alpha workstation. +It would be very useful to get a multilingual version. + + Thank you very much. Sincerely, + +Julian Barquin +Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica +C/ Fernando el Catolico 63-D +28015 Madrid, Spain +Phone: +-34-1-5449088 +e-mai: barquin@iit.upco.es + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 09:55:17 +0800 +From: Hu Zejun <hzj@sentosa.sas.ntu.ac.sg> +Subject: How to obtain new LaTeX? + +Can you tell me how I can get new version for latex? + +Hu Zejun +School of Applied Science +Nanyang Technological University +Singapore + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:03:36 +0000 +From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: Proposed merger of UKTeX with TeXhax + +It's proposed to merge the UKTeX Digest and TeXhax Digest to form +one TeX-oriented digest of e-mail questions, answers and announcements. + +Since the UK TeX Archive (formerly at Aston University, now located at +Cambridge University) has now become part of the Comprehensive TeX +Archive Network (CTAN), there's no longer any real need for a +UK-oriented TeX digest, for which UKTeX was set up in 1987. A single +digest for discussing all TeX matters simplifies the issue of "which +digest do I post to, or should I post to both?". The intention is to +merge the lists of subscribers at the end of this year and that after +that date, articles posted to UKTeX will continue to be accepted, but +will appear in TeXhax with articles posted to that digest. TeXhax +will continue, being the "senior" digest with the larger list of +subscribers. One difference between the digests is that UKTeX appears +weekly, while TeXhax appears much less frequently depending on number +of articles submitted. To begin with, at least, the plan is to post +the new TeXhax weekly. + +Comments are welcomed (directly to me, please) and I'll summarise any +responses to the digests in a few weeks. + +~~David Osborne + Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham + <David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk> + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 03:40:51 -0400 +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Subject: kpathsea 2.3/dvipsk 5.58c/xdvik 18d/dviljk 2.3 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 this message. +Please use the nearest site, to reduce the load on our Sparc 1. + +The patch that John Interrante and others created for web2c 6.1 for the +previous kpathsea release should basically work for this release; you +can get that as the file web2c.kpathsea-2.2.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 record +names in the ChangeLog entries. + +Please report bugs to tex-k@cs.umb.edu. +Email tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu with a line containing + subscribe you@preferred.email.address +in the body of the message to join this mailing list. + +If you only want to see announcements, not bug reports and discussion, +subscribe to tex-archive@math.utah.edu instead. (Email +tex-archive-request@math.utah.edu to join that list.) + +kb@cs.umb.edu +Help fight the new programming monopolies -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net. + + +Here's the NEWS: + +kpathsea 2.3 +* Extra :'s in an envvar value referring to the texmf.cnf value work. +* Names like dpi600/cmr10.pk can be found in ls-R. +* KPATHSEA_DEBUG environment variable checked. +* Directories like pk/ljfour directly under $TEXMF/fonts are found. +* New standalone program, kpsexpand, optionally compiled and installed, + to do variable expansion (not path searching). +* Debugging output written to stderr instead of stdout. +* pxlNNN support removed; I never intended to support `pxl1500'. + +dvipsk 5.58c +* -o and -f once again do not read config.$PRINTER, but a new option + -mode and a compile-time default specify the mode. +* \special{"...} was never supposed to have a closing quote, so don't omit it. + +xdvik 18d +* New --with-ps={no,gs,dps,news} configure options; gs is still the default. +* The file selection can be cancelled. +* No complaints about finding 249 dpi if looking for 250. + + +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. Box 869, Santa Barbara, +CA 93102, USA. + +Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX +Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by +anonymous ftp. + +The hosts comprising CTAN include + ftp.dante.de (129.69.1.12) -- Germany + ftp.shsu.edu (192.92.115.10) -- USA + ftp.tex.ac.uk (128.232.1.87) -- UK +Please use your nearest server, to keep network load down. +The file /tex-archive/CTAN.sites on each of these hosts gives a +list of other sites which maintain full or partial mirrors of the CTAN. + +TeXhax Digest issues are kept in + tex-archive/digests/texhax/YEAR/texhax.ISSUE + (e.g., /pub/archive/digests/texhax/92/texhax.20) + +Keyword-In-Context Indexes are kept in + tex-archive/digests/indexes/texhaxYY.idx + (e.g., /pub/archive/digests/indexes/texhax92.idx) + +\bye + +End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 94 Issue 10] +***************************************** |