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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.11 b/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.11 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..24b61d6cfd --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/94/texhax.11 @@ -0,0 +1,643 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #11 +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: <3553.787580673.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 12:24:34 +0000 +Message-ID: <3554.787580674@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +TeXhax Digest Friday, 16 Dec 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 11 + +Today's Topics: + Problems installing TeX on AIX: no MetaFont + Questions about previewers and dvi drivers + MS-DOS DVI driver for Olivetti inkjet printer? + tugboat 15 #2 (june 1994) + TeXsis Version 2.16 Released + Short introduction to LaTeX 2e + lshort2e.tex Uploaded + TeX Users Group -- 1995 election announcement + kpathsea 2.5, dvipsk 5.58e, xdvik 18e, dviljk 2.4 + TeXhax/UKTeX merger opinions + + +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: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 11:44:00 -0000 +From: "Alex Nunes, CCS, Birkbeck" <a.nunes@ccs.bbk.ac.uk> +Subject: Problems installing TeX on AIX: no MetaFont + +This is a probably an FAQ, but anyway: + +I am trying to install TeX/LaTeX on an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.2. + +I retrieved the TEX distribution from ftp.tex.ac.uk in the +systems/aix3.2 directory. I can successfully untar and compile. Once +I've compiled the executables I find a full tex and latex build but no +metafont. This is fairly useless because even though I can run all the +latex programs, when it comes to printing almost all the fonts are +missing and uncreatable without MF. When looking in the README file it +seems to imply that MF is part of this distribution. + +Am I missing something? + +Alex + +Alex Nunes +UNIX Support +Central Computing Services +Birkbeck College +University of London +Malet Street +LONDON WC1E 7HX + +email: alex@ccs.bbk.ac.uk (internet) + alex@uk.ac.bbk.ccs (some JANET sites) +WWW: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/People/Alex.html +Tel: 071 631 6337 (UK) + 004471 631 6337 (rest of the world) + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 12:30:31 +0000 +From: Jeremy Henty <jch@upper.ist.co.uk> +Subject: Questions about previewers and dvi drivers + +Imperial Software Technology is developing a tool which +generates hardcopy using LaTeX and included PostScript. +Naturally we would like this output to work on as many TeX +systems as possible, so I would be grateful for answers to +a few questions. + + * What are the commonly used previewers and dvi drivers we should + aim to support? + * Do any of these programs not support either the "psfile=" or + "header=" specials? + * Is the LaTeX2e "graphics" package going to become the standard graphics + interface? Will other packages support its syntax for compatibility? + * According to the manual page, xdvi does not "as yet" support "header=" + specials. Will it? If so, how soon? + * What (if any) are the significant differences between xdvi and xdvik? + dvips and dvipsk? + +Please email responses. + +Thank you in advance, + +Jeremy C. Henty jch@ist.co.uk + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 11:29:54 +0200 +From: Shlomo Reisner <reisner@mathcs2.haifa.ac.il> +Subject: MS-DOS DVI driver for Olivetti inkjet printer? + +A question: Does anyone know of a MSDOS dvi-driver for ink-injection +printer. I have an Olivetti 250JP - (emulation of HP DeskJet Plus). +Thanks for any information. +Shlomo Reisner +Dept of Mathematics +Univ. of Haifa, Israel. + +------------------------------ + +Date: 09 Dec 1994 13:25:57 -0500 +From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> +Subject: tugboat 15 #2 (june 1994) + +it is with pleasure and a great deal of relief that i announce that +the june issue of tugboat (15 #2) is now being printed, and should +be mailed to tug members in about a week. + +an unfortunate combination of logistical and production problems +have conspired to delay the issue, including internal office moves +by the editor, with storage of all materials related to the issue, +extended absences of the editor attending meetings and for other +reasons, and unexpected difficulties in actual file processing. +i am sincerely apologetic for the delays; steps are being taken +to address these problems to help avoid them in the future. + +serious production difficulties have also hampered preparation of +the proceedings issue (tugboat 15 #3). i received notification +earlier today from the proceedings editors that the bulk of the +camera copy has been shipped to me for final action. a few pages +remain to be processed into camera copy, and i expect to be able +to send that issue to the printer the week after next. (i shall +be attending a standards meeting next week, and my office is +being moved again next weekend, so nothing can happen during that +interval.) + +work is also proceeding on issue #4, and i intend to complete it +as soon as possible, although i cannot give an exact date just yet. +however, i believe that it will be possible to get the first 1995 +issue out by the end of march, the cover date. + +the table of contents for 15 #2 follows. + -- bb + -------------------- + +TUGboat 15, 2, June 1994 +Contents + + 87 Addresses + +General Delivery + 89 Christina Thiele + Opening words: + Meetings; ISO and de facto standards + 89 Barbara Beeton Editorial comments: + ``LaTeX2e'' is now just ``LaTeX''; New CTAN features; + Northwest Computing Support Center closed; + TeX output in audible form + 91 Michel Goossens WEPT: A Week on Electronic Publishing and Typography + +Dreamboat + 96 Philip Taylor Report of the 2nd meeting of the NTS group, + February 1994 + +Fonts + 97 Alan Hoenig {Meta}Font Forum redux + 98 R. Ramasubramanian, R.W.D. Nickalls and M.A. Reed + ASCII.sty: A new style-option and encoded font with + IBM graphics control characters for use with TeX + and LaTeX + +Book Reviews + 103 David M. Jones and David E. Wald + Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander + Samarin, The LaTeX Companion + 106 Victor Eijkhout + Norman Walsh, Making TeX Work + 107 Jacques Andre + Christian Rolland, LaTeX guide pratique + +Typesetting on Personal Computers + 108 Alan Hoenig NextTeX: TeX plus the NextStep Operating System + +Macros + 110 Michael Downes Interaction tools: dialog.sty and menus.sty + +LaTeX + 131 Bernard Gaulle LaTeX V3: philology & typography, + reports to read, reports to do + 131 Claudio Beccari Tough table becomes easy with PiCTeX, + but it's even easier with LaTeX + +Letters + 132 Paul Anagnostopolous + On the review of TeX in Practice + +Abstracts + 133 Baskerville, Volume 4, Nos. 1--2 + 136 Cahiers GUTenberg Nos. 16 and 17 + 138 Die TeXnische Komoedie 1993, Heft 1--4 + +News & Announcements + 143 Calendar + 160 TUG'95 -- St. Petersburg, Florida + +Late-Breaking News + 148 Barbara Beeton Production notes + 149 Coming next issue + 150 Barbara Beeton Change in TUGboak policy + +TUG Business + 145 Meet the Board, Part II + Michael Ferguson; Peter Flynn; George Greenwade; + Yannis Haralambous; Nico Poppelier; Jon Radel; + Sebastian Rahtz + 151 Institutional members + +Forms + 155 TUG membership application + +Advertisements + 152 TeX consulting and production services + 154 Index of advertisers + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 19:52:54 -0500 +From: texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu +Subject: TeXsis Version 2.16 Released + + TeXsis Version 2.16 Released + + The latest version (2.16) of the TeXsis macro package of TeX macros +for physicists is now available (as of 12 November 1994) via anonymous +ftp from lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu, in the directory /texsis. + +The most notable changes or additions are: + + * All bug fixes from patches to TeXsis 2.15 are included in TeXsis 2.16 + (they were all pretty minor). + + * The manual has been re-organized to make it clearer, and easier to + learn how to set up a complete document. + + * Figures and tables can be put at the _bottom_ of a page or column, + using \bottomfigure and \bottomtable, or \heavyfigure and \heavytable. + More generally, any sort of insertion may be put at the bottom of a + page or column with \bottominsert or \heavyinsert. + + * The double column macros have been completely re-written. They are + much improved, and support insertions at the bottom of columns, + including footnotes. The new macros can also be used by themsleves + with Plain TeX. + + * \NFootnote creates numbered footnotes. + + * The PhysRev.txs style file defines \PhysRevManuscript for papers + being submitted to the Physical Review, and \PhysRev and \PhysRevLett + to emulate the layouts of those journals. + + * The IEEE.txs and WorldSci.txs style files have been updated. + + * \ListFigureCaptions lets you print figure captions at the end of + the document. + + * Many other small additions and improvements. + +Those of you who have been using the beta version of 2.16 in the past +few months will find little changed, except that the manual has been +updated to match the changes to the macros. + + ---------- + + To make it easier for the casual reader of electronic preprints +("e-prints") to print a TeXsis document we have also put all of the core +TeXsis macros into one source file (called mtexsis.tex), with all the +comments and blank lines removed. A reader who does not have TeXsis on +his/her system can then simply get this file, add "\input mtexsis" to +the manuscript file, and print the paper with Plain TeX. You can make +your e-print manuscript files automatically load mtexsis.tex if it is +needed by adding the following line at the begining of the manuscript +file: + + \ifx\undefined\TeXsis \input mtexsis.tex\fi + +It is suggested that you try running such a manuscript through Plain TeX +with mtexsis.tex first to make sure that it works. + + ---------- + + As always, comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcomed, and +can be sent to us at texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu. + + +Eric Myers <myers@vassar.edu> | +Departmenty of Physics and Astronomy | "Frankie say '\relax'" +Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York | + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 11:18:26 +0000 +From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk +Subject: Short introduction to LaTeX 2e + +I have installed Tobias' stuff as announced below + +- ------- Forwarded Message + +Subject: lshort2e.tex Uploaded + +Announcement: + +======================================================================== + Now available for CTAN:/pub/tex/info/lshort (i.e., + + A not very Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e (58 Pages) +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ + by Tobias Oetiker 16/11/1994 <oetiker@dmu.ac.uk> + + If you want to learn how to write your documents with LaTeX, + this introduction is for you. It is not about setting up a + LaTeX system. While it is not as comprehensive as Lamport's book, + it should be sufficient in most cases. + + The document is provided in PS DVI and source form ... + + Enjoy! + + All the best + Tobi + +- ------- End of Forwarded Message + +English-speaking LaTeX users of the world have good reason to be +grateful to Tobias for the work he's done (as should users whose +German speech is as dubious as mine ;-) + +Thanks, Tobi + +------------------------------ + +Date: 12 Dec 1994 18:45:42 -0500 +From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> +Subject: TeX Users Group -- 1995 election announcement + + + + + ----------------------------- + 1995 TeX Users Group Election + ----------------------------- + +The terms of the TUG President and of 5 members of the Board of Directors +will expire as of the 1995 Annual Business Meeting, which will take +place in conjunction with the 16th Annual Meeting in July 1995. The +directors whose terms expire in 1995 are Barbara Beeton, Michael Doob, +Michel Goossens, and Tom Rokicki; a shortfall in the number of nominees +in the last election left one position unfilled. The election to choose +the new President and Board members will be held next Spring, and +nominations are invited. + +The Bylaws provide that ``Any member may be nominated for election to the +office of TUG President/to the Board by submitting a nomination petition +in accordance with the TUG Election Procedures. Election ... shall be +by written mail ballot of the entire membership, carried out in accordance +with those same Procedures.'' The term of office of the President is +two (2) years, and of a director, three (3) years. Incumbent officers +may be nominated for successive terms. + +The name of any member may be placed in nomination for election to one +of these offices by submission of a petition, signed by two other current +(1994 or 1995) members, to the TUG office at least 30 days prior to the +mailing of ballots. (A candidate's membership dues for 1995 will be +expected to be paid by the nomination deadline.) A petition form follows +this announcement; forms may also be obtained from the TUG office, and +electronically from the usergrps/tug area of CTAN. + +Along with a petition form, each candidate is asked to supply a +passport-size photograph, a short biography, and a statement of intent +to be included with the ballot; the biography and statement of intent +together may not exceed 400 words. + +The deadline for receipt at the TUG office of petitions and ballot +information is February 1, 1995. + +Ballots will be mailed to all members early in March. Marked ballots +must be postmarked no later than May 9, and received no later than +May 23. These deadlines will be noted on the ballots. + +Ballots will be counted by a disinterested party not part of the TUG +organization. The results of the election should be available by the +end of May, and will be announced in a future issue of this publication +as well as through various TeX-related electronic lists. + + Barbara Beeton + for the Elections Committee + + + -------------------------------- + Nomination for 1995 TUG Election + -------------------------------- + +Only current (1994 or 1995) TUG members are eligible to participate. +The signatures of two (2) members are required in addition to that of +the nominee. Type or print names clearly, exactly as they appear in +the most recent TUG membership list or on a TUG mailing label; new +members should enter the name which they used on their membership +application form. Names that do not exactly match the TUG records will +not be accepted as valid. + + --------------- + +The undersigned TUG members propose the nomination of: + + + +- ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- + Name of nominee (signature) (date) + +for the position of (check one): + +[ ] TUG President +[ ] Member of the TUG Board of Directors + +for a term beginning at the 1995 Annual Meeting, July 1995. + + + Members supporting this nomination + + Nominated by Signature Date + (please print) + + +- ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- + + +- ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- + + +Return this petition to the TUG office (FAXed petition forms will be +accepted). Petitions and all required supplementary material (photograph, +biography and personal statement for inclusion on the ballot) must be +received in the TUG office no later than the deadline: + February 1, 1995 +It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure that this deadline +is met. Under no circumstances will incomplete applications be accepted. +A candidate's membership dues for 1995 must also be paid by this deadline. + + +TeX Users Group +Nominations for 1995 Election +P.O.~Box 869 +Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0869 +U.S.A. + +FAX: 805-963-8358 + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 19:07:09 -0500 +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Subject: kpathsea 2.5, dvipsk 5.58e, xdvik 18e, dviljk 2.4 + +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 old Sparc 1. + +The biggest change is using Autoconf 2.1 to prepare the configure +scripts -- who knows what that's broken. Aside from that, it's just +minor bug fixes. + +The patch that John Interrante and others created for web2c 6.1 for the +previous kpathsea release should basically work for this release, except +for the configure scripts; you can get that as the file +web2c.kpathsea-2.4.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.) I hope John (or someone) +can update the patch soon. + +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@your.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 2.5 +* Go back to calling db_insert after a successful MakeTeXPK, and check + for lack of an ls-R. +* Handle case of magstep -.5 for MakeTeXPK properly. + +xdvik 18e +* The SelFile widget masks all but .dvi files by default (thanks to + Dinh-Tuan.Pham@imag.fr for implementing this). +* `G' can change the gamma value dynamically, as well whether grey is used. +* Crash when starting without a filename fixed (hopefully). +* `Can't find 300dpi using 300dpi' warning fixed (hopefully). +* Compile-time default mode removed; back to letting MakeTeXPK guess. +* Usage message improved for SELFILE case. + +dvipsk 5.58e +* MakeTeXPK once again does umask 0. +* M[ode] lines in config.$PRINTER override config.ps again (as intended). +* Compile-time default mode removed; back to letting MakeTeXPK guess. +* -o option overrides o in config files. + +dviljk 2.4 +* Character 32 not downloaded on old printers, to work around an + apparent bug in the emulation on a Kyocera. + + +Here are the CTAN sites and their mirrors: + +prompt$ 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> + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 12:18:27 +0000 +From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax/UKTeX merger opinions + +Following my note about merging the TeXhax and UKTeX Digests +(TeXhax V94 #xx, UKTeX V94 #xx), I received 12 responses, all +in favour of the merger. There were two reservations expressed: + +- - frequency of the new TeXhax... weekly was felt by a couple of + people to be too often +- - one person requested that the digest be given a new name + +One of the advantages of increased frequency is that questions +can be answered and announcements made in a more timely fashion. +This has always been one of the "advantages" of the UKTeX Digest +which I'd like to carry over into the new, merged digest. +However, after we've had a few issues, if lots of people feel +strongly that a weekly digest is hitting their mailbox too often, +please let me know and we could move to, perhaps, two-weekly issues. + +As for names, well, I felt it would be less confusing to keep the +name of the "elder" publication, which is mentioned in many online +locations and Internet list-of-lists (e.g., Meckler's "On Internet 94"). + +If you have any views on any of this, please let me know. + +~~David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) + +------------------------------ +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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