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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.14 b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.14 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2dc564bc13 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.14 @@ -0,0 +1,379 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #14 +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: <15780.812365020.1@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 09:57:01 +0100 +Message-ID: <15781.812365021@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +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 + + +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, 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 + + +------------------------------ +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, 1850 Union Street, #1637 +San Francisco CA 94123 (phone: 1 415 982 8449, fax: 1 415 982 8559) + +Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX +Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by +anonymous ftp. 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