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+From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk
+To: TeXhax Distribution: ;
+Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #14
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+Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 09:57:01 +0100
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+
+TeXhax Digest Friday, 29 Sep 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 14
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+ Font proliferation
+ The "Dog Book" and Packages
+ PS Smallcaps Font
+ color, graphics
+ Macro to return directory/path name?
+ VF versions of CM fonts
+ Where can I find a free copy of Latex in internet
+ tugboat 15#4 -- late, but on the way
+ Announcing gsftopk-1.11
+
+
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:09:14 -0000
+From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence)
+Subject: Font proliferation
+
+I am using PasTeX on the Amiga and my font pk files are proliferating.
+I would like to delete/archive fonts which are not used very often.
+Is there a way of telling which are the most used fonts ?
+
+Dr. Matthew Clemence
+University College London.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:28:54 +0100
+From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
+Subject: The "Dog Book" and Packages
+
+
+This maybe a stupid collection of questions, no doubt I will get
+mountains of hate mail if it is but...
+
+I am a (relatively happy) LaTeX2e user using a "bog standard"
+installation. The LaTeX Companion by Goosens, Mittelback and Samarin
+talks of many packages that are not part of our standard installation
+but nonetheless look useful. In ferreting around CTAN, I find some of
+them are in the LaTeX209 tree rather than the LaTeX2e tree and some of
+them are not there at all.
+
+Is it the case that what is in the book is supposed to be on CTAN?
+
+Is it the case that the LaTeX2e tree should contain everything for
+LaTeX2e or what?
+
+I will not mention which packages I am after for the moment since my
+problem is that the code of both the ones I am interested in does not
+appear work properly. There is also a macro in latex.ltx that appears
+to be broken.
+
+Now under the circumstances (i.e. that one of the macros is in
+latex.ltx, that the packages are written about in an official LaTeX2e
+book, and that lots of people must use the facilties of LaTeX2e) I
+should perhaps doubt me and my understanding but it all behaves in a
+very broken fashion. I have rewritten the macro and the two packages
+so that they work perfectly.
+
+What is the mechanism for finding out who is wrong?
+
+Russel.
+
+
+Dr Russel Winder
+
+ Reader in Software Engineering
+ Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems
+
+Department of Computer Science Phone: +44 (0)171 380 7293
+University College London Fax: +44 (0)171 387 1397
+Gower Street EMail: R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk
+London WC1E 6BT
+UK URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/R.Winder/
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 17:46:31 -0500
+From: Rieger <UZR108@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
+Subject: PS Smallcaps Font
+
+I've recently been trying to use PostScript resident fonts with DVIPS
+and following the instructions in the manual I ran AFM2TFM and then
+VPTOVF to generate the required files. Things went smoothly and the
+printer was indeed using its own fonts.
+
+The trouble began when I wanted to build a small caps font. Again
+following the instructions I ran
+
+ afm2tfm Times-Roman -V ptmsc rptmsc
+ vptovf ptmsc.vpl ptmsc.vf ptmsc.tfm
+
+I also added a line to PSFONTS.MAP like this:
+
+ rptmsc Times-Roman "/Times-Roman Small Caps"
+
+The TeX file was amended to read now:
+
+ \font\vvzsmc=ptmsc at 10pt
+ {\vvzsmc ... (some text) ... }
+
+which went through TeX and DVIPS without a hitch, but the resulting
+PostScript file wouldn't print. From the front panel of the printer
+you could see that it received the file and was working on it, but no
+output was produced.
+
+If you have any idea what went wrong, I'd appreciated your help very
+much. Thanks in advance,
+
+Yours, Hans
+
++--------------------+------------------------------+------------------+
+| Hans Rieger | Internet: rieger@uni-bonn.de | |
+| University of Bonn, RHRZ | Bitnet : uzr108@dbnrhrz1 | __o |
+| Wegeler-Str. 6 | | _`\<,_ |
+| 53115 Bonn | Phone : +49-228-73-3444 | (_)/ (_) |
+| Germany | Fax : -2743 | |
++------------------------------+--------------------+------------------+
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:00:08 +0100
+From: David.Simpson@ivl.se
+Subject: color, graphics
+
+I am trying to set up LaTeX2e on a unix station, and
+wanted to use the new color and graphics packages.
+However, attempts to use "usepackage" result in
+messages such as
+! Latex error : File 'color.sty' not found.
+Similarly for 'graphics.sty'
+I have searched the CTAN archives for such files.All I have
+come up with is the graphics package directory containing color.dtx,=20
+graphics.dtx, but no .sty files. What is wrong ?
+Dave Simpson
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:43:14 -0000
+From: C D Radcliffe <men5cdr@sun.leeds.ac.uk>
+Subject: Macro to return directory/path name?
+
+Is there a command or macro which can return the current directory which
+a .tex file is in? I have used \jobname to give the name of the tex file
+but I also require the directory.
+
+Thanks in advance,
+
+Chris Radcliffe,
+
+Department of Mechanical Engineering,
+University of Leeds, __o
+Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. _ _`\<,_
+men5cdr@sun.leeds.ac.uk (0113 - 2332152) -_ (_)/ (_)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 12:44:11 +0100
+From: Kieran Parsons <kieran@ccr.bris.ac.uk>
+Subject: VF versions of CM fonts
+
+ I'd like to use the postscript versions of the Computer Modern fonts
+available on CTAN (either BaKoma or Paradissa) in my LaTeX documents. In order
+to use XDVI or DVIPS I need the VF versions of the CM fonts, which do not appea
+r
+to be on CTAN. Has anyone got copies of these?, or could tell me how to generat
+e
+them (I understand that fontinst could be used, but I have no experience using
+this package).
+
+ Thanks for any help you can give me,
+
+ Kieran
+
+ ##########################################################################
+ # #
+ # Sender: Kieran Parsons #
+ # #
+ # E-mail: k.parsons@bris.ac.uk #
+ # Tel: (0117) 928 7740 (Room 1.5) #
+ # Fax: (0117) 925 5265 #
+ # #
+ ##########################################################################
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:23:50 -0500
+From: cwu <cwu@yoda.unl.edu>
+Subject: Where can I find a free copy of Latex in internet
+
+Hello,
+
+Is there any free copy of Latex in internet with printing driver
+available? If so, please let me know at following e-mail address.
+
+cwu@yoda.unl.edu
+
+Thanks!
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: 31 Aug 1995 08:42:19 -0400
+From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
+Subject: tugboat 15#4 -- late, but on the way
+
+TUGboat 15#4 has been sent to the printer today by overnight courier.
+The printing schedule calls for the finished issue to be mailed out
+three weeks from receipt of the camera copy by the printer. In other
+words, mailing should occur by September 22.
+
+
+TUGboat 15, 4, December 1994
+Contents
+
+ 423 Addresses
+
+General Delivery
+ 425 Christina Thiele Opening words
+ 426 Barbara Beeton Editorial comments:
+ TeX meetings in 1994; A new, expanded TeX FAQ;
+ UKTeX Digest ceases to exist; Miscellaneous gossip
+ 427 Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz and Barbara Beeton
+ The TUG94 Proceedings -- Apologia
+ 429 Julita Bolland, Toni Walter and Wlodek Bzyl
+ EuroTeX'94
+
+Dreamboat
+ 434 Philip Taylor Minutes of the NTS meeting held at Lindau
+ on October 11/12th 1994
+
+Tools
+ 438 Maurice Laugier and Yannis Haralambous
+ TeX innovations at the Louis-Jean printing house
+
+Fonts
+ 444 Pierre A. MacKay Recycled Metafont
+ 447 Yannis Haralambous Indica, an Indic preprocessor for TeX:
+ A Sinhalese TeX system
+
+Graphics
+ 459 Petr Olsak The EAN barcodes by TeX
+
+Letters
+ 464 Philip Taylor An open letter to the TUG Board
+
+Survey
+ 466 Gabriel Valiente Feruglio
+ Typesetting commutative diagrams
+
+Macros
+ 485 Victor Eijkhout The bag of tricks
+ 486 Jacques Richer A TeX autostereogram generator
+ 492 Reinhard Foessmeier
+ Stereographic pictures using TeX
+
+LaTeX
+ 496 Johannes Braams To reset or not to reset
+
+Abstracts
+ 498 Cahiers GUTenberg Nos. 18 and 19
+ 500 Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Eighth European TeX Conference,
+ Gdansk, September 1994
+
+News & Announcements
+ 504 Calendar
+ 505 Barbara Beeton Production notes
+
+TUG Business
+ 506 Institutional members
+
+Forms
+ 507 TUG membership application
+
+Advertisements
+ 508 TeX consulting and production services
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:10:05 -0700
+From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
+Subject: Announcing gsftopk-1.11
+
+This is to announce that version 1.11 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.
+
+In addition to various bug fixes, this version:
+
+ 1. optionally incorporates Karl Berry's kpathsea library for recursive
+ path searching,
+ 2. works better with gs 3.33: it doesn't choke if you defined SAFER
+ following the recent CERT advisory, and it does not suffer from
+ segmentation faults caused by a bug in the garbage collection
+ routines.
+
+To upgrade, you can either:
+
+ 1. get the whole package again:
+
+ CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.11.tar.gz
+
+ or
+
+ 2. apply the following patch to version 1.10:
+
+ CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.10-1.11.diff.gz
+
+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
+
+
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+End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 95 Issue 14]
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