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+Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #18
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+TeXhax Digest Sunday, 17 December 1995 Volume 95 : Number 018
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ Re: TeX with an SGML syntax?
+ Re: invisible printing / figure separations (TeXhax Digest V95 #16-17)
+ Chemical TeX/LaTeX
+ Black boxes output by LaTeX
+ Re: TeX with an SGML syntax?
+ December LaTeX Release
+ Re: December LaTeX Release
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+From: Ian Moor <iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk>
+Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 12:46:56 +0000
+Subject: Re: TeX with an SGML syntax?
+
+>if anyone is working on grafting an SGML syntax onto a new
+>version/implementation of TeX.
+To add syntax to latex so the structure of a document is checked
+would require somebody with deep programming understanding of TeX
+macros. A better way is to write documents in SGML and
+check and translate to latex. For the last year I have been
+using the QWERTZ DTD by Tom Gordon, (thomas.gordon@gmd.de)
+with some of the code from the Linuxdoc-SGML system. The
+input looks like LaTeX with SGML marking : so for example
+ <article opts=11pt>
+ <titlepag>
+ <title>Constructing a Compiler
+ ...
+
+The 'format' program parses the input using the sgmls parser and generates
+latex, or html. The advantage is having one source to generate
+both printed and and web documents. It does mean that you
+cannot add your own macros, and maths and pictures have to be
+treated specially.
+
+
+Ian W Moor
+ Internet: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk Department of Computing,
+ JANET: iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc Imperial College.
+ +44 71 589 5111 x 48352 180 Queensgate
+ London SW7 UK.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
+Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:00:54 -0800
+Subject: Re: invisible printing / figure separations (TeXhax Digest V95 #16-17)
+
+Bruce Leban (texhax 95#16) writes:
+
+> I want to be able to print a TeX file with all of the text omitted.
+
+to which Robin Fairbairns gives some interesting answers.
+
+One very effective way, if you use dvips, is the following
+which I used for a three-color map and accompanying page of legend text.
+
+
+\input colordvi
+
+\textWhite
+%\textBlack
+\let\Red=\White
+\let\textRed=\textWhite
+\let\Green=\Black
+\let\textGreen=\textBlack
+\let\Black=\White
+\let\BottomColor=\Green
+
+In this case the Green overlay is being printed, and the Black
+and Red are invisible.
+
+There is, of course a lot more to it than that, but it is pretty
+easy to figure out.
+
+If you want to see the results, look at
+ Lawrence J. Bliquez, {\it Roman Surgical Instruments and Other
+ Minor Objects in the National Museum of Naples}, 1994,
+ Philip von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein. ISBN 3-8053-1677-1.
+ Map at page 98. The map itself is done with TeXdraw.
+
+ Fonts are Monotype Baskerville for the legend and Gill Sans
+ and Castellar for the map.
+- --
+%=======================================================================%
+| 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)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Andre HECK <heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr>
+Date: Tue, 05 Dec 95 17:25:31 +0100
+Subject: Chemical TeX/LaTeX
+
+My daughter heard that specific chemistry-oriented TeX/LaTeX packages
+were available, without more details unfortunately. My search in the
+ctan archives were unsuccessful.
+Anyone knows more about this matter? If so, is there any shareware
+available?
+Thanks in advance for time, attention and assistance.
+ah.
+- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+(Prof.) Andre HECK -+- * Phone (direct) +33-88.15.07.43
+Observatoire Astronomique * Phone (Secretary) +33-88.15.07.10
+11, rue de l'Universite -+- * Fax (direct/private) +33-88.49.12.55
+F-67000 Strasbourg * -+- Fax (Secretary) +33-88.25.01.60
+France -+- * * e-mail: heck@astro.u-strasbg.fr
+- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ WWW: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/~heck
+ StarWorlds: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starworlds.html
+ StarBits: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starbits.html
+ StarHeads: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starheads.html
+- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: dejmer Marcus <dejmek@poly.polytechnique.fr>
+Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 13:03:50 +0100
+Subject: Black boxes output by LaTeX
+
+To whomever can help me immediately!
+PLEASE!
+
+Problem: My document now prints a HUGE BLACK BOX on the bottom half of EACH
+PAGE In my report DUE MONDAY! I have NO IDEA what I have done to INSTIGATE
+this reaction from my (up to this morning) loving LATEX complier!
+
+IF anyone knows how to RECTIFY this SITUATION please help me!~
+
+I am extremely GRATEFUL to anyone who can reply!
+
+
+The success of my document lies in the hands of those knowledgeable few out
+there!
+
+Extremely desperate,
+
+Marcus DEJMEK (dejmek@poly.polytechnique.fr)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: vis!greg@UCSD.EDU
+Date: Tue, 05 Dec 95 17:10:00 -0800
+Subject: Re: TeX with an SGML syntax?
+
+ From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:13:39 -0700 (MST)
+ Subject: Re: TeX with an SGML syntax?
+
+ J. Greg Davidson <jgd@well.sf.ca.us> asks about using SGML as a markup
+ language in place of TeX's macro language.
+
+No, I didn't. I hate being misquoted :-(. I said:
+
+ Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 14:15:28 -0700
+ From: vis!greg@UCSD.EDU
+ Subject: TeX with an SGML syntax?
+
+ I ... wonder if anyone is working on grafting an SGML syntax onto a new
+ version/implementation of TeX. ^^^^^^
+
+(elision and emphasis added) and I also said:
+
+ A new syntax would present a good opportunity to revamp the macro
+ system, either replacing it with a more robust macro system (no
+ fragile macros) or replacing it with a tcl-like functional language;
+ the point being to make writing TeX extensions less of a black art.
+
+I find that most people I show TeX to dislike it on sight and decline
+my offer to help them learn to use it. At the same time, they're
+interested in SGML and planning to convert existing documents to and
+write new documents in that form. This is the source of our big opportunity.
+
+My biggest gripe about TeX is that I find writing and understanding
+TeX macros to be difficult. It's especially difficult to parse TeX
+source mechanically. I would like a programming interface with
+delimiters and programming symbols clearly distinguished from literal
+text without reference to the definitions of the macros or functions
+used. I would like no such thing as fragile macros. A well designed
+SGML-TeX would describe the syntax of its programming language in an
+SGML DTD, along with an initial set of formatting markups. This would
+go a long way towards eliminating these problems.
+
+Of course, the existing TeX is not going to go away, even if something
+much nicer comes along, so older documents would not need to be
+converted to the new syntax.
+
+As people move towards keeping documents in SGML form, they will be
+looking for a good text formatter to use in conjunction with their SGML
+documents. Although they can process SGML into TeX source, that
+transformation is a mysterious and fragile process. Someone trained
+only in SGML will be put off when they try to debug any problems that
+arise and they will never learn to write new macros. Thus, the power
+and advantages of TeX will be lost to them. As soon as they can, they
+will get rid of TeX.
+
+I do not expect anyone in the TeX community to make such a radical new
+version of TeX, and I am not offering to do it. Because of this I
+think that systems with much less power will continue to dominate, and
+TeX will fade away. But it doesn't have to be that way.
+
+_Greg
+
+
+J. Greg Davidson Institute for Software Research and Development
++1 (619) 452-8059 6231 Branting Street San Diego, CA 92122 USA
+
+vis!greg@ucsd.edu (or greg%vis.uucp@ucsd.edu)
+jgd@well.sf.ca.us
+
+ *****************************************************
+ * Member of the League for Programming Freedom. *
+ * *
+ * lpf@uunet.uu.net http://www.lpf.org *
+ * E-Mail World Wide Web *
+ *****************************************************
+
+
+- ------- End of Forwarded Message
+
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: David Carlisle <carlisle@CS.MAN.AC.UK>
+Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 20:00:38 GMT
+Subject: December LaTeX Release
+
+December 1995 LaTeX Release
+============================
+
+The LaTeX3 Project is pleased to announce that the December Release is
+now available from the ctan hosts and will reach mirrors in due course.
+
+The following ctan directories are updated
+
+tex-archive/macros/latex/base % The core LaTeX sources
+tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked % The core LaTeX sources,
+`unpacked'
+
+tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools % The `tools' `graphics' and
+tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics% `mfnfss' collections of
+tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/mfnfss % Standard LaTeX packages.
+
+As usual the main features of the new release are documented in the
+newsletter ltnews04.tex.
+
+Two points deserve special mention here:
+
+* Unpacking this release should take significantly less time than has
+ been the case for previous LaTeX releases.
+ This is due to a new implementation of the docstrip utility that has
+ been contributed by Marcin Woli\'nski.
+
+* When using Computer Modern Fonts in the `T1' (`Cork') encoding,
+ LaTeX will now assume the font names of release 1.2 of the dc fonts
+ which occurred earlier this year.
+
+ If you still have the old dc fonts then you must unpack the file
+ olddc.ins
+ to produce suitable fd files using the old font names.
+ This is documented in the installation guide, install.txt, but is
+ mentioned here as it differs from previous releases.
+ The test document ltxcheck.tex will report any problems with dc
+ fonts if the LaTeX format does not appear to match the fonts you
+ have installed at your site.
+
+
+David Carlisle
+For the LaTeX3 Project
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: David Carlisle <carlisle@CS.MAN.AC.UK>
+Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 18:54:54 GMT
+Subject: Re: December LaTeX Release
+
+I said
+
+> As usual the main features of the new release are documented in the
+> newsletter ltnews04.tex.
+
+If you were very quick to pick up the release then unfortunately the
+file ltnews04.tex was missing.
+
+It was added `this morning' to all the main ctan hosts.
+
+(That is `this morning' here: The first two people to report this file
+ missing were in Australia....)
+
+Sorry for any confusion that this caused.
+
+David
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V95 #18
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