diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.02')
-rw-r--r-- | info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.02 | 364 |
1 files changed, 364 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.02 b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c1e6323ab4 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.02 @@ -0,0 +1,364 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #02 +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: <18953.790261408.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 13:03:31 +0000 +Message-ID: <18954.790261411@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +TeXhax Digest Monday, 16 Jan 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 02 +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + xdvi window sizing problem + lamstex and amstex 2.1 + John Rutter: Latex2e + Latex2e + kpathsea 2.6/xdvik 18f/dvipsk 5.58f/dviljk 2.5 available + xtem X11-TeX-menu, new release + HyperTeXhax on the World Wide Web + + +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, 11 Jan 1995 12:29:23 +0000 +From: David Lindsey <d.c.lindsey@abdn.ac.uk> +Subject: xdvi window sizing problem + +When using xdvi (patchlevel 15) on a PC with a small (14") monitor +acting as an X-terminal, the panel of control buttons on the right hand +side of the window becomes truncated rather than rescaled. This results +in the loss of access to the 'Next' button and those that normally occur +below it in a fully sized window. The display area is also truncated, +but access to the 'missing' part is available using the slider bars in +the usual way. + +The effect is the same as resizing the xdvi window when running with a +larger (17") monitor using either the mouse or the -geometry option at +startup to resize the window. + +Is this something we have to live with (by using the keyboard +alternatives to the missing buttons); do later versions deal with the +problem or am I missing some obvious solution to it? + +David Lindsey (d.c.lindsey@abdn.ac.uk) +Aberdeen University Computing Centre + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:01:20 -0600 +From: Cliff Bergman <cbergman@iastate.edu> +Subject: lamstex and amstex 2.1 + +LamsTeX uses a special version of AMSTeX called amstexl.tex. All of +the distribution sites I've checked (including CTAN) contain amstex-l +derived from amstex version 2.0. Has anyone created an updated version +of amstexl for the newest (version 2.1) of amstex? + +cliff bergman +cbergman@iastate.edu + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 11:13:51 +0000 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Subject: John Rutter: Latex2e + +uktug-enquiries is not an appropriate address for submitting technical +questions; I am forwarding you question to TeXhax for consideration. + +(The address you mailed to is for enquiries about membership, etc., of +UK TUG.) + +Robin Fairbairns + +- ------- Forwarded Message + +Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 10:51:54 GMT +From: John Rutter <jwrutter@liv.ac.uk> +Subject: Latex2e +To: uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk + +Dear TUG, I am composing a document in Latex 2e, but have difficulty +in finding a system which has installed amscd. The file may not have +been included in the Latex distribution: it has not for example been +included with a recently supplied copy of Latex 2e for Textures nor +has it been installed on our unix machine. I have obtained it by ftp +from Stanford, but am not sure, in view of its non-supply whether the +version there is compatible with the current version of Latex 2e. Can +you please advise me? Similar remarks apply to the package \changebar. +Another problem I have had with running Latex 2e is the apparent +non-availability on our systems of the font which corresponds to +commands such as \rightsquigarrow. Has this font not been include in +the amssymb package? Many thanks in advance. + John Rutter. + +- ------- End of Forwarded Message + +An answer: + +amscd is part of AMSLaTeX, and as such is available with AMSLaTeX. + +The source is available in the canonical place for all TeX-related +matter, your neighbourhood CTAN (ftp.tex.ac.uk); it appears in more +than one location in the archive, but the master is tex-archive/ +fonts/ams/amslatex; you are expected to pull the whole directory, and +to install it by means of the various .ins files -- see READ.ME for +details. + +As a general rule you should not try Stanford for anything nowadays. +While stuff is often available from there, it's not maintained with +the same assiduity that is applied to the CTAN machines. + +Robin Fairbairns + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 19:15:13 -0500 +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Subject: kpathsea 2.6/xdvik 18f/dvipsk 5.58f/dviljk 2.5 available + +New versions of dvipsk/xdvik/dviljk are in the usual place: + ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{xdvik,dvipsk,dviljk}.tar.gz + ... mirrored at ftp.cdrom.com:/.14/tex/tex-k + ... 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. + +I will not be reading email until next Tuesday (January 17), so I've +left the previous versions in place, just in case there are big problems +with this release, despite the efforts of the pretesters. + +This version primarily fixes problems with the last release. The most +notable other change is that I've replaced the kpsexpand program +with something more general program, kpsewhich. + +John Interrante will update the patch for web2c 6.1 soon. (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@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 2.6 +* MakeTeXPK installed from kpathsea, instead of each driver. +* MakeTeXPK.site looked for in texmf/web2c, instead of texmf/dvips. +* texmf.cnf installed and looked for in texmf/web2c, instead of texmf. +* If a mode is not explicitly specified, search all subdirectories (this + was actually in a previous release). +* install-sh only looked for in the top-level directory. +* kpsewhich replaces and generalizes kpsexpand. + +xdvik 18f +* --with-ps=dps works again, and multiple --with-ps options are allowed. +* Don't warn about overstrike characters if copy mode was explicitly requested. +* Class name for the `mfmode' resource changed to `MFmode'. +* SIGIO configure test may work with compilers besides gcc. + +dvipsk 5.58f +* EMTeX specials supported by default. + +dviljk 2.5 +* Redefining MFMODE[36]00 actually works, and is documented. + + +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: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:34:13 +0100 +From: l44@blue.lrw.uni-bremen.de (Roland Weibezahn) +Subject: xtem X11-TeX-menu, new release + +We announce the new version (3.12.1) of + + "xtem", an X11-TeX-menu + +xtem provides for a simple and comfortable graphical user interface to control +the following facilities: + - editor (vi, emacs, ...) including additional windows for the + LaTeX-syntax (using hypertext) and examples + - TeX, LaTeX, ... + - previewer (ghostview, xdvi, TkDvi, ...) + - printing (including comfortable printer selection, ...) + - syntax and spelling check + - makeindex + - bibtex + - additional programs as required + . + . + . + +Online help is available for all the buttons and windows by simple mouse click. +xtem is written for Unix platforms and has been tested on many systems. +It requires Tcl (version 7.3), the appropriate Tk (including patch P1) +and TclX. The configuration has to be done by the local TeX-Administrator +by adapting configuration files ("open lists"). + +xtem is available by anonymous ftp from the CTAN-servers + (in directory /pub/tex/support/xtem_texmenu) + +It is also available directly from + ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de /pub/tex/xtem_version3.12 + +(English and German descriptions, README's and the program itself) + +Here you can also obtain Tcl (7.3), Tk (3.6+p1), TclX (in /pub/tcl) + +Happy and comfortable TeXing, + +the authors: G. Lamprecht, W. Lotz, R. Weibezahn + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------ +Dr. Roland Weibezahn Phone : +49-421-218-3532 +LRW Bremen Telefax: +49-421-218-4112 +c/o University Bremen +Bibliothekstr. 1 Postbox: 330440 +28359 Bremen 28334 Bremen +Germany email: weibezahn@lrw.uni-bremen.de + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 12:18:32 +0000 +From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: HyperTeXhax on the World Wide Web + +TeXhax is now available in a hypertext form over the World Wide Web +(WWW). I've extracted all the articles from the 1994 and 1995 issues +of the digest and run them through Hypermail to create a set of Web +pages which can be accessed sequentially, or by means of indexes of +subject, thread, date or author. I've also done the same for last +year's UKTeX Digest. I hope to keep this year's hypertext version of +TeXhax up to date as each issue of the digest is produced. The URLs +for this year's and last year's TeXhax, and for last year's UKTeX are + +UK/Europe: + http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/digests/hyper/texhax/95/ + http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/digests/hyper/texhax/94/ + http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/digests/hyper/uktex/94/ + +USA: + http://www.shsu.edu/tex-archive/digests/hyper/texhax/95/ + http://www.shsu.edu/tex-archive/digests/hyper/texhax/94/ + http://www.shsu.edu/tex-archive/digests/hyper/uktex/94/ + +Alternative access may be available via HTTP or ftp to some of the +various mirrors of the CTAN archive, for example + http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/tex/uk-tex/digests/hyper/texhax/95/ +Read the file http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/CTAN.sites for details +of the mirror sites which may be closer to you. + +~~David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) + Web: http://www.nott.ac.uk/~cczdao/ + +------------------------------ +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. +Alternatively, finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for full details. + +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 95 Issue 2] +**************************************** |