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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.05 b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.05 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e3f0dad7c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.05 @@ -0,0 +1,326 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #05 +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: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 18:15:53 +0000 +Message-ID: <16490.792353753@unicorn> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn + +TeXhax Digest Thursday, 9 Feb 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 05 +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + BLUe's Format goes public. Beta-testers asked. + RE: DVItoLN03 + DOS color dvi previewer + Commands for page selection in Ghostscript + Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences + Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences + Fax software + EDMAC and line numbering + conversion program + + +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, 27 Jan 1995 08:52:17 +0100 +From: cgl@rc.service.rug.nl (Kees van der Laan) +Subject: BLUe's Format goes public. Beta-testers asked. + +The last time I worked hard on BLUe's Format and it has ripened a lot. +I introduced BLUe's Format altready at CyrTUG 94 and EuroTeX 94, but +I schedule it to go public at EuroTeX 95 (and CyrTUG 95), because it has +ripened and the user's guide Publishing with TeX is in the polishing +phase. + +Spring is scheduled to let friendly TeXies look at it and comment on it, +bete-testing so to say. + +The beta-version will be distributed also on next NTG's CD-ROM. + +The user's guide is in English, physically and logically thin, +and will be translated into Russian. + +The PWT guide will be offered to the CWI, for their CWI sylllabi series, +and also to NTG, to be rleased as a MAPS special. + +Best wishes, ---Kees--- + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 15:40:21 +0000 +From: "Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <TEX@rmcs.cran.ac.uk>" <TEX@rmcs.cran.ac.uk> +Subject: RE: DVItoLN03 + +In private mail to TeX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk of Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:42:43 +- -0500 (EST), Alan Mankofsky <ALAN@COM.SAIC.MCLAPO> wrote: + +> I just brought over your DVItoLN03 package from one of the CTAN archive sites +, +> and found that unfortunately the .OBJ and .EXE files are not available. Since +> I don't have the software (notably a PASCAL compiler!) on this Vax to build +> the executable from the WEB source, is there some way I can get .OBJ and +> .EXE files from you? I appreciate your help. + +I can't really help you, Alan. The archive (when it used to be at +Aston) had binaries for all sorts of systems; amongst those for VAX/VMS +were .OBJ files for nearly everything, including DVItoLN03. These +binaries were VVencoded, so that they could be mailed anywhere, as well +as being FTPable. Some binaries existed as separate files, but most +were in bundles, as BACKUP save_sets. + +It seems that these files were lost when the archive was moved to a Unix +machine at Cambridge (at least, I can't find them there now). I _have_ +found some binaries, which _don't_ include DVItoLN03, but those that are +there are of VERY LITTLE UTILITY: note for archivists --- it's pointless +keeping .EXE images, because they may not be linked with the same +version of the shareable libraries as on the target machine. OTOH, .OBJ +files, either VVencoded (under VMS) or zipped (also under VMS) _are_ +acceptable, and remarkably portable. (I saw that there is at least one +zip file of .OBJs, but I'd guess that it doesn't include what Alan +wants.) + +I'm copying this reply to TeXhax; hopefully someone who is more +conversant with the present-day layout of the archive than I am can +assist Alan. It may be that I'm mistaken, and that the files wanted +_are_ still in the archive: if so, I can only say that the layout +nowadays is non-intuitive. + ++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ++ Brian {Hamilton Kelly} TeX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk + ++ Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military + ++ College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. + ++ Phone: Swindon (01793) 785252 (UK), +44-1793-785252 (International) + ++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 10:33:21 -0500 +From: ogam@ALPHALMA.CNRS-MRS.FR +Subject: DOS color dvi previewer + +I am looking for a DOS/Windows dvi previewer that supports the +color packages and the virtual fonts. I acquired a commercial version +of Tex/Latex from PCTEX, after having read their publicity on the +compatibility with Latex2e and packages. It is far from being compatible. +So please if you have this information, We will appreciate. +Thanks in advance + Erick Pgam + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 20:08:49 -0000 +From: men5cdr@sun.leeds.ac.uk +Subject: Commands for page selection in Ghostscript + +I wonder if anyone can shed light on this. In the ftp site at: + +src.doc.ic.ac.uk/0-Most-packages/uk-tex/support/psview + +There is what appears to be some utility and batch files for running +ghostscript with keystrokes for selection of pages, magnification, +translations etc. + +These have been written by P.Pianowski and B.Jackowski and were +presented at the 8th EuroTex Conference 1994. + +My problem is that I have tried to run ghostscript (MS-DOS) with these command +procedures with no success. The "batch files" do not appear to be DOS. +Does anyone have any more information on this stuff, or know how/where I +can contact the authors of the work? + +Many thanks + +Chris Radcliffe, + +Department of Mechanical Engineering, __o +University of Leeds, _ _`\<,_ +Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. -_ (_)/ (_) +men5cdr@uk.ac.leeds.sun (0532 - 332152) + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 23:12:00 +0000 +From: Jonathan Fine <J.Fine@pmms.cam.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences + +- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +On Tuesday 24 Jan 1995, Paolo Vicario ( pV@CC.Uniud.It ) wrote: +- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +I would like to know if there is a way, in TeX, to test for +the existence of a control sequence. [...] + +I devised this (ugly) piece of code: + + \def\MYMACRO{anything} + \ifx\MYMACRO\UNDEFINED + The macro is {\it not\/} defined + \else + The macro {\it is\/} defined + \fi + +It works, provided that the dummy macro \UNDEFINED is +*really* undefined! + +There must be a more reliable (and elegant!) way to do the +same thing. Can you give me any hint? +- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Well, Paolo has written pretty much what I would have done in the +same situation, except that I would use the lowercase form of the +control sequence \undefined, and I would take the constant code out +the the conditional, like so + The macro + \ifx\mymacro\undefined + is {\it not\/} + \else + {\it is\/} + \fi + defined. + +The optimisation of placing the italic correction \/ outside the +conditional is hardly worth bothering with, and likely to cause +errors later. + +If you look up \undefined in the TeXbook you will be pointed to +page 384. It is almost a pukka control sequence of plain. And like +any other such control sequence, if you change its meaning you will +cause things to mess up. + +What I find most interesting about this question is the doubt the +author expresses about his own answer. It is not ugly. It is just +as it should be. (There is one wrinkle. Perhaps he would prefer to +have \und@fin@d?) + +By the way, the LaTeX \@ifundefined construction is a waste of time, +by which I mean that + \expandafter \ifx \csname #1\endcsname \relax + etc \else etc + \fi +will execute much quicker than + \@ifundefined{#1} etc +and this is because the former code takes TeX straight to what needs +to be done. + +best regards +Jonathan Fine +Mailing Address: 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, England + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 06:26:39 -0500 +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Subject: Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences + +From the TeXbook via Eplain: + +% From p.308 of the TeXbook. This cannot be used in places where TeX +% might be skipping tokens, e.g., in conditionals. +% +\def\ifundefined#1{\expandafter\ifx\csname#1\endcsname\relax} + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 09:59:08 -0700 +From: bernat@cs.utep.edu (Andrew Bernat) +Subject: Fax software + +Does anyone know of DOS or Windows fax software that will use a DVI +file directly? Similarly for UNIX. + +Thanks, + +Andrew Bernat abernat@cs.utep.edu +Professor and Chair http://cs.utep.edu/bernat/bernat.html +Computer Science Department 915/747-6950 +The University of Texas at El Paso 915/747-5480 CS office +El Paso, Texas 79968-0518 915/747-5030 fax + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 16:55:35 -0600 +From: nq0i@dablik.radiophysics.com +Subject: EDMAC and line numbering + +As suggested in TeXhax 95/04, I have looked at the EDMAC package for +numbering lines. It looks like will certainly do what I ask, and +more, for most people. Unfortunately, however, it contains an +undocumented (at least, I _think_ it's undocumented) constraint that +renders it not useful for my purposes: one cannot use a redefined +\par. + +So... does anyone know of any other packages that might permit me to +have my cake and eat it too, in that I can use my redefined \par and +still get line numbers in the margins? + +If I have to, I suppose I'll try hacking EDMAC to do the job I want, +but I'd much rather not, because I'll probably break three things for +everything I "fix". + +- ------------------------------------------------------- +Doc Evans NQ0I / G4AMJ : devans@orion.colorado.edu + al019@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu +- ------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 17:15:28 -0600 +From: Larry Wos <wos@mcs.anl.gov> +Subject: conversion program + +Do you know of any program that will take troff source and +return the equilanet TeX source? +I am als interested in the converse. +Indeed, I have some TeX source (paers) and sme in troff, +and wish to convert each. 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