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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.18 b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.18 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4026aab847 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.18 @@ -0,0 +1,380 @@ +Received: from jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.193]) by granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA13134; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 17:59:45 GMT +Message-Id: <199512171759.RAA13134@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + id <01762-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; + Sun, 17 Dec 1995 17:57:08 +0000 +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #18 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 17:57:08 +0000 +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk + + +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 +**************************** + + +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 +If you have problems with un/subscribing, please mail owner-texhax@nott.ac.uk + +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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