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+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
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+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/
+
+------------------------------
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+
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+Please use your nearest server, to keep network load down.
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+list of other sites which maintain full or partial mirrors of the CTAN.
+Alternatively, finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for full details.
+
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+\bye
+
+End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 95 Issue 2]
+****************************************