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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.11 b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.11 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..086b4e10a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.11 @@ -0,0 +1,1195 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #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: <2891.803130681.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 12:51:22 +0100 +Message-ID: <2893.803130682@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 14 Jun 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 11 +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + Deskjet 520 vs 500 + Location of texinfo.tex v2.134 or later + Lines after figures and space after \input + Using TeX abd LaTex with Open VMS AXP 6.1 systems + [comp.programming.literate] web-mode, emacs, pull-down menus + ANNOUNCEMENT: The LaTeX Navigator + test release of new PostScript font metrics + A basic SYMBOL encoding for afm2tfm + [comp.text.tex] New TeX distribution from Knuth + EuroTeX'95 + Installation of Knuth's 1995 release + ANNOUNCEMENT: gsftopk version 1.10 + Babel release 3.5 Beta now available + Announcing: TWG-TDS Draft Standard 0.98 + + +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: Mon, 22 May 1995 13:52:58 +0000 +From: John Rostron <J.Rostron@uel.ac.uk> +Subject: Deskjet 520 vs 500 + +I have been using the EmTex dvihplj driver successfully on a Deskjet +500 for some time. I now have a Deskjet 520 and I find that it will +not print on the bottom inch of the page! All my other software seems +to behave exactly as before. + +I have tried the /t option, but this has no effect. The bottom inch +remains blank. The only way I can get a footline is to print the page +up-side-down. This works, but it means that I end up with a rather +lop-sided looking page. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:26:36 +0000 +From: Bill Peel <W.Peel@mmu.ac.uk> +Subject: Location of texinfo.tex v2.134 or later + +Can anyone help me obtain a copy of texinfo.tex v2.134 or later so +that I can process latex2e.texi. I have looked on CTAN and the +latest version I can find is v2.124. I know that it comes with v19 +of EMACS but I don't want to download 8MB for a 100k text file. + +Thanks + + Bill Peel + +Bill Peel | Computing Services +w.peel@mmu.ac.uk | Manchester Metropolitan University + | Chester Street + | Manchester M1 5GD + | England + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 16:50:50 +0100 +From: "K.Lockyear" <K.Lockyear@soton.ac.uk> +Subject: Lines after figures and space after \input + +Dear all, + +I am currently completing my PhD using LaTeX2e (emTeX 386 on a PC) and +have a couple of queries. Firstly, I would quite like to have a thin +rule between my floats and my main text. Is there a package that will +do this? I am using the excellent caption package to put the text in +small and the _Figure 1.1_ in bold. Some of my captions are, however, +quite long and it would be nice to seperate them from the main text. + +Secondly, I have put my footnotes in seperate files which are then +incorporated into the main text using \input. (This is to make counting +words *not* including the footnotes easier). For some reason this +creates a larger than normal space after the footnotemark in the main +text which looks mighty ugly. I have made sure that there is no extra +space or lines after the end of the footnote in the \input file. + +Lastly, I am using the Chicago bibliography package. I have a number of +publications where the the year is a range, ie. year="1988--1989". If +I use this form in the BiBTeX file I get (Bloggs 1989) in the text, but + +Bloggs, F. (1988--1989) + +in the bibliography. If I put year="1988--89" in the bibtex file I get +(Bloggs 8 89) in the text. What I ideally would like is the format in +the text and bibliography to be the same, either 1988--89, 1988--1988 or +whatever. + +Hope someone can help me! Please can you mail me direct at +wom@soton.ac.uk + +Many thanks in advance, Kris Lockyear. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 12:02:26 -0000 +From: DMURDOCK@ailm.may.ie +Subject: Using TeX and LaTex with Open VMS AXP 6.1 systems + + We are replacing our central VMS 5.5-2 node with an OpenVMS +AXP 6.1 central node. + + We are currently using Tex and LaTeX on the VAX VMS system. + + We would sincerely appreciate any details (if available) of the +best way to use the latest version of TeX and LATeX with OpenVMS AXP 6.1 +systems. + + +With many sincere thanks, + +Dominic Murdock, +Systems Support +Computer Centre, +Saint Patrick's College, +Maynooth, +Co. Kildare, +IRELAND + +------------------------------ + +Date: 26 May 1995 01:34:00 +0000 +From: bart@cs.tamu.edu (Bart Childs) +Subject: [comp.programming.literate] web-mode, emacs, pull-down menus + +I have just placed wm-menu.tar.gz on the machine + +ftp.cs.tamu.edu + +in directory pub/tex-web/web/EMACS.web-mode. + +Leslie Stoneham did this extension to web-mode as part of her +M.S. plan of study. It is an extension of web-mode.el that was +originally done by Mark Motl and I now maintain. + +When using emacs-19, it extends the menu bar that shows at the top +to allow most of the web-mode functionality via pull down menus. +It was developed and used on SunOS, AIX, and Solaris. It should +be portable. + +The file contains the web-menu.el and a directory which includes +her report. I warn against executing latex on the file since it +uses a local thesis style file. The dvi file is included and +bunches of bitmaps (in ps form) that are included. A short +modification to web-mode.el is described in the report that is +required for existing versions of web-mode.el. + +In a couple of weeks I should be able to redo that directory +such that one retrieval of web-mode will get all. + +We have primarily used it with FWEB and CWEB. Please let me +know of any problems you have with it. Leslie has a job and +leaves these hallowed halls later this week. + +Bart Childs + + +------------------------------ + +Date: 22 May 1995 19:40:15 +0200 +From: roegel@loria.fr (Denis B. Roegel) +Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: The LaTeX Navigator + + + ***************************************** + ********* THE LATEX NAVIGATOR *********** + ***************************************** + + => http://www.loria.fr/tex <= + + +This is to announce a WWW site completely devoted to TeX and friends. +The site is located at the LORIA research center at Nancy, France, +which is also a CTAN mirror (ftp.loria.fr, cd ctan:). +The main purpose of ``The LaTeX Navigator'' is to provide documentation +about macros, packages, formats, tools, TeX engines, to give pointers, etc. +Currently more than 200 .dvi or .ps files are proposed and this amount +is constantly growing. (therefore any contribution or idea of contribution +will be most welcome) + +The top pages are written in three languages: french, english and german +and you can choose which you like, though the underlying documents +are mostly in english (except our local guide). The german pages +are far from perfect, but we will improve that soon ... + +The top english page shows the following items: + + General documentation about (La)TeX + The (La)TeX local guide of our site (LORIA) (in French) + Bibliography and indexes + Literate programming + Classes + Macros and packages + Fonts and symbols + Graphics + Formats and tools + Engines and distributions + Historical documents + FAQs, ftp, miscellaneous ... + File search on the CTAN archive (ftp.loria.fr) + WWW servers dedicated to (La)TeX + + +Feel free to wander through these pages and don't hesitate to report +problems to latex@loria.fr (for instance unreadable files, +or files using unusual fonts for instance). + +Denis Roegel, Jean-Michel Antoine and Karl Tombre +authors of The LaTeX Navigator +roegel@loria.fr +jmant@loria.fr +tombre@loria.fr + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 01:17:51 +0100 +From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Subject: test release of new PostScript font metrics + +Over the last 9 months, a group of people have been working on a +revamp of TeX font metrics for PostScript fonts. We are now ready +(finally!) to release this, together with a new release of the +PSNFSS package for LaTeX2e, and a new version of the Berry fontnaming +scheme. The maintainers of PSNFSS, fontinst, web2c, and dvips all urge +you to start using this new setup, so that all the bothersome variants +can be abolished by the end of the year. + +The entire distribution is on the CTAN hosts in +fonts/psfonts.beta. Its big - don't pull all the files on spec! +Get what you need. Prepackaged sets for Textures users will be made +available very shortly. + +These files will replace both the LaTeX PSNFSS (currently on CTAN in +fonts/metrics) and the font metrics distributed with dvips. Both of +these packages contained virtual fonts which more or less mimicked the +original TeX text encoding, and (in the case of PSNFSS) the Cork +encoding. However, the two packages used different base fonts, thus +making previewing painful (and wasting disk space). Now, everything +uses a single base font in a new encoding named 8r (see tools/8r.enc or +tools/8r.etx). + +This new base encoding is *not* Adobe Standard Encoding, because that +does not provide access to all of the 228 characters normally supplied +with a Type 1 font. Therefore, you must use a DVI-to-PostScript driver +which can perform reencoding, such as dvips(k), Y&Y's drivers, OzTeX, +Textures etc. + +We are still contemplating whether the base encoding should be the +current one (mostly compatible with Windows), the texnansi encoding +promulgated by Y&Y (see tools/texnansi.vec), or something else. +Comments are welcome. + +Aside from the base font, there are other small changes in the new +fonts. For the Cork-encoded fonts, the stretch and shrink of the +interword spacing has been changed. For the dvips fonts, the positions +of the preaccented characters have been fixed (e.g., Aring is at the +same position in every font). Therefore, the font checksums are +different. The actual character dimensions, however, remain unchanged. + +The new fonts (mostly) have new names! You can get the new fontname +distribution from ftp.cs.umb.edu:private/tex/fontname-*.tar.gz or in the +tools/ subdirectory of this distribution. + +This distribution includes support the standard 35 fonts, various freely +available fonts (with type1's), and many commercial-only fonts (no +type1's). Smallcaps and obliqued versions are available in bold and +normal variants, where applicable. All fonts have ligatures and +kerning (no ``raw'' fonts); therefore, even the *8r base fonts can be +used for real typesetting. An experimental support is provided in +PSNFSS for this. + +We built these fonts using both fontinst and afm2tfm (and other +utilities). Both required changes, which will be merged into the next +releases. See the tools/ directory if you want to reconstruct the +work. The changes to fontinst are extensive, and if you are not +confident you understand them, please wait until the author finds time +to merge them into a complete new release later this year. + +***************************************** +Primary perpetrators: Sebastian Rahtz, Alan Jeffrey, Karl Berry. +Chief Tester and Bugfinder: Constantin Kahn. +Aiders and abettors: Tom Rokicki, Ciar\'an \'O Duibh\'{\i}n, Pierre MacKay, + Rob Hutchings, Berthold Horn, Damian Cugley. + +Please send any questions, comments, or suggestions +to tex-fonts@math.utah.edu. (Email tex-fonts-request@math.utah.edu to +join the list.) + +Sebastian Rahtz +May 1995 + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 15:36:22 -0700 +From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay) +Subject: A basic SYMBOL encoding for afm2tfm + + + +It is rare to need a custom encoding vector for the Symbol +font, but it can happen. I couldn't find one the other day +so I made one up. Here it is. + +% +% This is the SYMBOL encoding. (Red Book, page 269) +% +% Normally, you wouldn't need to bother with this, but if you +% run into software which requires an explicit encoding, or you +% need to rearrange some of the symbols in this set, it is much +% easier to start from the basic Adobe encoding. +% This encoding vector is taken directly from Symbol.pfa, so +% it should be correct. +% +% All sorts of possibilities here. For now just keep the part +% that clears away any unwanted encoding around digits. +% +% LIGKERN space {} * ; * {} space ; zero {} * ; * {} zero ; +% LIGKERN one {} * ; * {} one ; two {} * ; * {} two ; +% LIGKERN three {} * ; * {} three ; four {} * ; * {} four ; +% LIGKERN five {} * ; * {} five ; six {} * ; * {} six ; +% LIGKERN seven {} * ; * {} seven ; eight {} * ; * {} eight ; +% LIGKERN nine {} * ; * {} nine ; +% +/SYMBOLEncoding [ +% 0x00 +/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef +/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef +% 0x10 +/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef +/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef +% 0x20 +/space /exclam /universal /numbersign /existential /percent /ampersand /suchthat +/parenleft /parenright /asteriskmath /plus /comma /minus /period /slash +% 0x30 +/zero /one /two /three /four /five /six /seven +/eight /nine /colon /semicolon /less /equal /greater /question +% 0x40 +/congruent /Alpha /Beta /Chi /Delta /Epsilon /Phi /Gamma +/Eta /Iota /theta1 /Kappa /Lambda /Mu /Nu /Omicron +% 0x50 +/Pi /Theta /Rho /Sigma /Tau /Upsilon /sigma1 /Omega +/Xi /Psi /Zeta /bracketleft /therefore /bracketright /perpendicular /underscore + +% 0x60 +/radicalex /alpha /beta /chi /delta /epsilon /phi /gamma +/eta /iota /phi1 /kappa /lambda /mu /nu /omicron +% 0x70 +/pi /theta /rho /sigma /tau /upsilon /omega1 /omega +/xi /psi /zeta /braceleft /bar /braceright /similar /.notdef +% 0x80 +/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef +/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef +% 0x90 +/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef +/.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef +% 0xA0 +/.notdef /Upsilon1 /minute /lessequal /fraction /infinity /florin /club +/diamond /heart /spade /arrowboth /arrowleft /arrowup /arrowright /arrowdown +% 0xB0 +/degree /plusminus /second /greaterequal +/multiply /proportional /partialdiff /bullet +/divide /notequal /equivalence /approxequal +/ellipsis /arrowvertex /arrowhorizex /carriagereturn +% 0xC0 +/aleph /Ifraktur /Rfraktur /weierstrass +/circlemultiply /circleplus /emptyset /intersection +/union /propersuperset /reflexsuperset /notsubset +/propersubset /reflexsubset /element /notelement +% 0xD0 +/angle /gradient /registerserif /copyrightserif +/trademarkserif /product /radical /dotmath +/logicalnot /logicaland /logicalor /arrowdblboth +/arrowdblleft /arrowdblup /arrowdblright /arrowdbldown +% 0xE0 +/lozenge /angleleft /registersans /copyrightsans +/trademarksans /summation /parenlefttp /parenleftex +/parenleftbt /bracketlefttp /bracketleftex /bracketleftbt +/bracelefttp /braceleftmid /braceleftbt /braceex +% 0xF0 +/.notdef /angleright /integral /integraltp +/integralex /integralbt /parenrighttp /parenrightex +/parenrightbt /bracketrighttp /bracketrightex /bracketrightbt +/bracerighttp /bracerightmid /bracerightbt /.notdef +] def + + +%=======================================================================% +| N O T I C E | +| Please note the changes in address and telephone number below. | +| There is no Northwest Computing Support Center any longer. | +| Until further notice, I shall be continuing to provide tape | +| distributions and whatever other services I can. | +| | +%=======================================================================% +Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software may be sent +To: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay +Smail: Department of Classics Emeritus Druid for + Denny Hall, Mail Stop DH-10 Unix-flavored TeX + University of Washington + Seattle, WA 98195 + (206) 543-2268 (Message recorder) + +------------------------------ + +Date: 28 May 1995 06:36:54 +0000 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Subject: [comp.text.tex] New TeX distribution from Knuth + +I have just installed here (at ftp.tex.ac.uk) Knuth's 1995 TeX +distribution (tex version 3.14159, mf version 2.718, and any related +programs). + +This covers all of the directory tree from tex-archive/systems/knuth, +with the exception of the new cm distributions. Knuth has made some +changes to cm that necessitate me rebuilding all of the .pk files that +CTAN holds. This may not be complete today (I do have other work to +do ;-) + +The CTAN archives no longer mirror from labrea, since the new version +of TeX is only so far present in the tex alpha directory there (there +is no current schedule for installing the new distribution in its +`proper' place in labrea's directory structure). + +Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team) + +Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk +U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK +<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html">Private page</a> + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 17:55:48 +0200 +From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> +Subject: EuroTeX'95 + +============ + EuroTeX'95 +============ + +September 4-8 +Arnhem, The Netherlands + + +Conference information +======================================================================== + + +The TeX Toolbox + + +The EuroTeX conference 1995, including tutorials, will take place from +September 4th until September 8th in the Netherlands. The conference +will be held at Papendal, near the city of Arnhem. + +Papendal is located in one of the most beautiful areas of the +Netherlands. Right in the middle of the vast woods of the province of +Gelderland. About eight kilometers west of Arnhem. Tucked away under +the lee of the green Veluwe-fringe. + +The conference starts on September 4th in the afternoon and runs until +September 7th noon. Thursday afternoon and Friday September 8th are +reserved for tutorials. + +The theme of the conference is: The TeX Toolbox. + --------------- + + +Preliminary program +- ------------------- + +(Items marked `*' are not confirmed yet) + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Monday a.m. + + +Welcome Reception and registration of conference attendants. + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Monday p.m. (14:00-18:30) + + +Theme: I) Fonts + +VFComb -- a program for design of virtual fonts + S. Turtia, A.Berdikov + +The Conversion of the Euler Metafont sources to PostScript Type1 + E.J. Vens + +EC and DC fonts + J. Knappen + +EC math fonts, fontinst + A. Jeffrey* + + +Theme: II) Multiple languages + +A package for Church Slavonic type-setting + A.F. Slepuhin + +A Russian style for Babel: problems and solutions + O. Lapko, I. Makhovaya + +ScholarTeX + Y. Haralambous + +Status of Babel + J. Braams + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Tuesday a.m. (9:00-12:30) + + +Theme: Graphics and packages + +Graphics in TeX: a new implementation + A.V. Astrelin + +TeX Plotter -- program for creating 2D and 3D pictures + S. Turtia, A. Berdikov + +Packages for typesetting Commutative Diagrams + G. Feruglio + +Package for typesetting chemical diagrams + J. Hagen + +MusixTeX, a package for typesetting music + D. Taupin* + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Tuesday p.m. + + +From 13:30-14:30: NTG meeting. + +Theme: Electronic documents + +Presentation of Acrobat + W. Tierie + +Producing electronic books? -- all you need is TeX! + J. Hagen + +SGML, a practical introduction + M. Goossens + +From LaTeX to HTML, and back + M. Goossens + +Style sheets (DSSSL,... ) + J. Andre + +SGML, Acrobat, LATEX, HyperTeX + S. Rahtz* + +Panel discussion. + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Wednesday a.m. + + +Theme: Tools I + +DaTeX, TeX macros for storing and retrieving data + R. Koning, S. Kliffen, A. Lenstra + +TeX: an unsuitable language for document markup? + P. Taylor + +Blue's Data Bases + K. van der Laan + +Occam's razor and macro management + L. Siebenmann + +Formating Pascal using TeX + P. Palao, M. Nunez + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Wednesday p.m. + + +Theme: General developments in TEX and LATEX + +LaTeX3 + C. Rowley* + +eTEX: A 100%-compatible successor to TeX. + P. Taylor + +NTS* + P. Taylor* + +Omega + Y. Haralambous + +tds + * + +Panel discussion. + +From 16:00-???: the social event, still a secret... + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Thursday a.m. + + +Theme: Tools II + +\csname undefined \endcsname = relax: feature or flaw + P. Taylor + +Atomic fonts and electronic archiving of scientific documents + L. Siebenmann + +Duplex: a LaTeX based Cooperative Editing Environment + F. Pacull + +The W96 Environment + A. Strejc + +Indexing with `Any'TeX + K. van der Laan + +Metafont as generator of EPS graphics + B. Jackowski + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Thursday p.m. and Friday + + +Theme: Tutorials + +Parallel sessions. + +Sweet-TeX tutorial + L. Siebenmann + +Page layout in LaTeX + P. van Oostrum + +TeXing Paradigms + K. van der Laan + +BLU TeX + K. van der Laan + +Metafont/Metapost + B. Jackowski + +eTEX tutorial + P. Taylor + +Workshop on Acrobat and electronic document delivery + M. Goossens & S. Rahtz + + + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Meeting costs + + +The resistration fee includes the Welcome Reception on Monday, all lunches +from Monday to Thursday, all dinners from Monday to Wednesday and one copy +of the proceedings. One tutorial (1/2 day) is included in the conference +fee. Extra tutorials cost Hfl 70 each. Lunch on Friday is Hfl 15. + +The conference fee also includes the `social event' on Wednesday +afternoon and evening. + +Conference rates: +- - members of TUG or Local TEX User Groups (please specify): Hfl 350 +- - others: Hfl 425 + +Reservations of hotel rooms at the conference site can only be done by +the EuroTeX organisation committee. Papendal offers the following +accomodation: + +- - single rooms Hfl 90 per day per person +- - double rooms Hfl 75 per day per person +- - quadruple rooms Hfl 50 per day per person +(breakfast included). + +Accomodation is limited, so register as soon as possible. + + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +How to get there + + +Papendal is located just outside the city of Arnhem. From Arnhem it can +be reached by bus or taxi in approximately 15 minutes. There is a train +going from Amsterdam airport (Schiphol) to Arnhem every 30 minutes. + +The address is: + +Papendal Nationaal Sport Centrum +fax +31 8308 21853 +tel +31 8308 37911 +P.O. Box 484 +6800 AL Arnhem +The Netherlands + + +People coming from Russia, Poland or ... may be interested in the +EuroTeX Bus Project. On September 2nd a TeX bus will drive from Brest, +through Warsaw, through ... to Arnhem, where it will arrive on Sunday +in the afternoon. Taking the bus will be extremely cheap. However, +seats are limited so register as soon as possible. + + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Bursary fund + + +There is a Bursary Fund available for those who require financial +support to attend the meeting. While we cannot guarantee all requests +will be fulfilled, we will do our best to support as many as we can. + +We encourage all conference attendants to contribute a small amount of +money to the Bursary Fund along with their registration fee. + +More information about contributing to or applying to the Bursary Fund +can be obtained from the Dutch TeX Users Group, by e-mail +ntg@nic.surfnet.nl, or by post: P.O. Box 394, 1740 AJ Schagen, The +Netherlands. + + +- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Further information + + +Updates of this information will be sent to all known electronic TeX +related mailing lists and to all Local TeX User Groups. If you have +access to a WWW browser you can go to +http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet/eurotex. There you can find the latest news, +a registration form and other useful information. +- -- +Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> +http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 17:30:43 +0100 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Subject: Installation of Knuth's 1995 release + +I have now completed the installation of Knuth's 1995 release on CTAN +(I announced the interim installation of all but the fonts a while +back). The installation has been done at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should +propagate to the other CTANs in fairly short order (though I have +little evidence that propagation to ftp.shsu.edu is reliable just +now). + +Barbara Beeton has supplied the following announcement text: + +=========================================================================== + Date: 08 Mar 1995 18:22:30 -0800 + + --------- ANNOUNCING THE 1995 UPDATE TO TeX, METAFONT, and FRIENDS -------- + I've just gone through all accumulated correspondence and made appropriate + changes to the master TeX sources on my home computer. (I plan to do this + again in February of 1998, 2002, 2007, etc.!) My files are grouped in two + main subdirectories, "dist" and "local"; the former consists of the master + WEB, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, TeXware, and MFware sources, while + the latter consists of my own change files and supplementary macros + and fonts that other people might like to look at. These files fit into + similarly named parts of the big TeX archive tree; they should replace + their former counterparts. I don't know how to do this myself, not even + at labrea, so I am hoping that all current maintainers of TeXnicalities + will be alerted to the existence of this new material. I've checked + everything pretty carefully, so I don't think there's any need to wait + until independent vetting has been done. + + TeX Version 3.14159 has four bug fixes, two of which are significant: + 1) fontmemsize can vary between formats dumped by INITEX and loaded by + VIRTEX --- this problem had already been fixed by all the major + implementations + 2) math kerns disappear again at line breaks, as they should --- this + problem arose by mistake in version 3.1415. + 3) overflow won't occur when converting huge stretch/shrink amounts from + real to integer --- again, implementors had fixed this + 4) you can have more than 32K font parameters without crashing TeX + (nobody ever wanted so many, but a crash is a crash) + + METAFONT Version 2.718 has only one bug fix, but it corrects a problem + in the linear-equation-solving engine that lost significant figures and + caused spurious overflows; the bug had been present since version 0.1. + I've written a letter to Barbara Beeton about this, and she can send you + a copy if you need more information. The bug had only microscopic effect on + Computer Modern fonts. + + Ten changes were made to the Computer Modern fonts, affecting nine of the + master source files, but the changes are rather minor and nearly invisible + to the eye. (Again they help reduce the chance of overflow.) I have been + unhappy to see so many people still using the pre-1992 CM fonts, because + I made MAJOR important improvements in that year, and I hate to run across + the obsolete symbols in preprints that people send me! Anybody who hasn't + installed CM fonts since 1991 should surely change now; and please help + stamp out all copies of the old fonts that you see installed anywhere. + (The lowercase delta is the main giveaway --- the new shape is vastly + better than the old. Also arrows are now darker, and several calligraphic + caps are improved, etc etc; the TFM files did not change, but the images + got lots better.) On the other hand, if you do have the 1993-or-later + version of the fonts, there's no need to replace old bitmaps. Just replace + the old source files, and regenerate fonts from them at your leisure. + + There are new versions of DVItype (3.5), PLtoTF (3.5), and VPtoVF (1.4). + DVItype now checks the DVI file more carefully in material that is + skipped over (e.g., between pages). + + Plain TeX format, version 3.14159, has eight changes, but only the + change to \bmod has a substantial probability of affecting existing + .tex files. Accents \b and \d have gotten better in four ways. + + Barbara Beeton will be distributing reward checks to 20 people who were + first to report significant errors in Volumes A--E. The big "sweepstakes" + winners this year were Chris Thompson (Cambridge) and Bogus{\l}aw + Jackowski (Gdansk), who received the maximum $327.68 reward for + pointing out longstanding bugs in TeX and METAFONT, respectively. + + All sources are frozen and no future changes will be made unless a new, + serious and easily fixable error is reported. The threshold for calling + something a feature rather than a bug is rising exponentially and may + be almost infinitely high when I do this exercise again in 1998! However, + I do still promise to maintain these programs as long as I am able. + + Where can you find the new sources? At labrea.stanford.edu, in file + ~ftp/alpha/tex95.tar.gz (slightly less than 3MB). + + Thanks to all of you for continued high quality support. -- Don Knuth 3/8/95 +============================================================================= + +The update I have performed started from the file Knuth mentions, +labrea.stanford.edu:ftp/alpha/tex95.tar.gz; I have only re-installed +things that have changed (as far as possible). + +Of particular import is what I have done with the CM font changes. We +have on the archive two directories which purport to hold CM sources +- -- systems/knuth/cm and fonts/cm/mf + +systems/knuth/cm has almost nothing in it here, and what it does hold +is identical to the sources in fonts/cm/mf + +I have therefore updated fonts/cm/mf, and not touched systems/knuth/lib + +All other directories in Knuth's tar file are mapped to those on CTAN +by the transformations ./dist/* -> systems/knuth/*, ./local/* -> +systems/knuth/local/* + +I have also rebuilt all of the files in fonts/cm/pk; I've included a +small README in that directory (not least to ensure that the next +person who has to do this job doesn't have to run around in such small +circles ;-). I haven't regenerated the contents of fonts/cm/gf, and +have deleted the files that were there; that directory contained a +README saying that the files weren't there, and this seemed an +appropriate moment to align that statement with reality. + +The README in fonts/cm/pk says: + +======================================================================== + I have included in this directory what I believe to be the right sort + of thing to match what was there already. This is not to say that I'm + terribly proud of it, but it seems about right. + + The pk300 fonts were generated using CanonCX mode from Karl Berry's + modes.mf + + The pk300w fonts were generated using RicohFortyEighty mode from Karl + Berry's modes.mf + + The pk240 fonts were generated using CanonLBPTen mode from Karl + Berry's modes.mf (this differs from the "CanonLBP" used in the + previous version in name only). + + The pk120 fonts were generated with the same parameters as were used + in the previous version, though nothing with those parameters exists + in Karl Berry's modes.mf; by analogy with the previous version, I've + called this mode OneTwoZero. I was not terribly surprised that + several files gave me metafont errors with this mode; the most + (apparently) serious were cmss12 and cmssi12, though several of the + smaller-sized fonts had strange paths of one sort or another. + + I've included a slightly hacked copy of a Makefile which used to be in + the directory ../gf300; I had to hack it because the original neither + reflected the current `best' thinking about the way TeX systems should + be organised, nor the way they're organised on our discs (which is + different for hysterical raisins). +======================================================================== + +I believe that I've completed the job I undertook, but if anyone spots +problems with my work, they are welcome to get in touch with me by +mail (there's little point in taxing the newsgroups with it unless +there are problems with my work that are serious enough to constitute +major pitfalls that might bother other people). + +Robin Fairbairns +(For the CTAN team) + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 12:05:50 -0700 +From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) +Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: gsftopk version 1.10 + +This is to announce that version 1.10 of gsftopk is available. gsftopk is +a utility that calls Ghostscript to render PostScript fonts, and then converts +them into pk format. This allows you to view PostScript fonts in xdvi. + +This version fixes bugs with the ReEncodeFont directive in the psfonts.map +file. This is needed in order to use fonts with the `8r' encoding (as in +the recently-released psfonts.beta package). + +To upgrade, you can either: + + 1. get the whole package again: + + CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.10.tar.gz + + or + + 2. apply the following patch to version 1.9: + + CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.9-1.10.diff.gz + +(Unfortunately, ftp.dante.de is not mirroring this properly, though.) + +These files are also available in Unix compress format from math.berkeley.edu +in the directory pub/Software/TeX. + +- --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 23:05:58 +0200 +From: "Johannes L. Braams" <J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl> +Subject: Babel release 3.5 Beta now available + + + Hi, + + I am releived to finally be able to tell you that I have + finalized Babel release 3.5 far enough to start a beta testing + period. I have to warn you though that not all documentation + is up to what it should be yet. + + What's new in release 3.5? + - Because of some of the major changes I made I have decided + to give the (formerly called) language-specific files a new + name: "language definition file". They also no longer have + the extension.sty but ".ldf". The consequence is that + \usepackage{english} no longer works, only the documented + syntax \usepackage[english]{babel} works. + - Completely changed the way babel deals with active + characters. They are now activated once and stay active for + the rest of the document, only their expansion + changes. There is still one problem with the approach: + active characters that take an argument (such as " in a lot + of languages) give errors what TeX finds the sequence "}. + - Active characters (or two letter combinations starting with + an active character) are now called shorthands. One can have + three levels of shorthands: user defined, language defined + and system defined. Active characters may be defined to take + an argument. + - Active characters are now written to auxiliary files + *verbatim* + - A language change now also writes information in the .aux + file as the change might also affect typesetting the table + of contents. The consequence is that an .aux file generated + by a LaTeX format with babel preloaded gives errors when + read with a LaTeX format without babel, but I think this + problaly doesn't occur. + - Babel can now be used together with both the inputenc and + fontenc packages. So far Babel only knows about T1 and OT1 + encodings, if it needs to know other encodings I would like + to hear it. + - A lot of code has been moved from language definition files + (note the new name for them I used to call them + language-specific files). This is caused by the rewrite of + the active character handling and by the implementation of + T1 support, + - A number of languages have been added to the distribution + (breton, estonian, irish, lower sorbian, scottish and + upper sorbian) + - More laguage definition files make characters active; + currently we have the following active characters: + ~ system, catalan, galician, spanish + : breton, francais, turkish + ; breton, francais + ! breton, francais, turkish + ? breton, francais + " catalan, danish, dutch, galician, german, polish, + portuguese, slovene, spanish, upper sorbian + ' catalan, galician, spanish + ^ esperanto + = turkish + - This beta release is not yet compatible with plain TeX; I + have *only* tested it with LaTeX2e. I would like to get + compatibility with plain back before the final + release. Compatibility with LaTeX 2.09 I do not regard as + important as LaTeX 2.09 is obsolete by now. But making babel + 3.5 run with plain TeX probably also makes it run with + LaTeX2.09. + + When I hear nothing from you (or others who get the beta test + from CTAN) I will hopefully make the final release 3.5 + available somewhere in July. (When I do hear from you I will + strive to reacht the same date, but that depends on the + complexity of the problems that need to be solved.) + + The last remark: where can you get babel 3.5 beta? + It is available in babel-3.5beta.zip in the directory + /tex-archive/macros/latex/packags/babel on CTAN. + + Happy testing! + + Johannes Braams + +PTT Telecom, P.O. box 30150, +2500 GD 's Gravenhage The Netherlands. +Phone : +31 70 3432037 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl +Fax : +31 70 3432395 + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:22:01 -0400 +From: Norman Walsh <norm@ora.com> +Subject: Announcing: TWG-TDS Draft Standard 0.98 + +The TUG Technical Working Group on a TeX Directory Structure is +pleased to announce that a draft of the proposed TeX Directory +Structure standard is available for public review. You can get it by +FTP from: + + <CTAN host>:/tex-archive/tds/draft-standard/ + +(The `/tex-archive' may vary; see the end of this message for a list of +possible hosts.) + +The draft standard is available in LaTeX, PostScript, TeXinfo, HTML, +and SGML formats. + +Comments and suggestions are welcome. Please communicate them by email to + + twg-tds@shsu.edu + +or by paper mail to + + Norman Walsh + O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. + 90 Sherman Street + Cambridge, MA 02140 USA + +The primary purpose of this document is to describe a standard TeX +Directory Structure (TDS) for macros, fonts, and other such +implementation-independent TeX files. As a matter of practicality, it +also suggests ways to incorporate the rest of the TeX files into a +single structure. In the not-so-long run a consistent directory +structure will make it much easier to install and maintain TeX. We +hope that administrators and developers of both free and commercial +implementations of TeX will adopt this standard. It has been designed +to work on all modern systems. In particular, this Technical Working +Group (TWG) believes it is usable under Unix, MS-DOS, OS/2, MacOS, and +VMS. + +We hope to publish another draft, or make the final release (depending +on the volume of comments and concerns) shortly after TUG 95. + +- -- the TUG TWG on a TeX Directory Structure + +------------------------------ + +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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