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+From owner-texhax-l@IRLEARN.UCD.IE Wed May 29 14:47:00 1996
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+Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+Comments: To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk
+To: Multiple recipients of list TEXHAX-L <TEXHAX-L@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
+
+TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 29 May 1996 Volume 96 : Number 006
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ "Standard" Font sizes
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #5
+ TUGboat 17(1) Contents
+ Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX
+ excalibur
+ PostScript from other programs
+ [ANNOUNCE] TeX Live CDROM
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence)
+Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:52:03 BST
+Subject: "Standard" Font sizes
+
+I am maintaining a TeX system here at ucl, and like many others I suspect
+am allowing the system to generate all the fonts as needed (via MakeTeXpk).
+All of these end up jumbled together in the texmf/fonts/tmp/pk directory
+(under either cx or ljfour). I would quite like to shift the common ones
+into the appropriate sub directory (texmf/fonts/public/cm/ ..) so that
+tmp can be deleted on a regular basis. Can someone tell me the standard/most
+common sizes required ?
+
+Thanks.
+- --
+**************************************************************************
+Dr. Matthew Clemence ___ email mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk
+University College London
+11-20 Shropshire House,
+London, England
++44 171 387 9300 x 8448/8264
++44 181 442 1832 Home
+**************************************************************************
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
+Date: Wed, 17 Apr 96 17:57:14 BST
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #5
+
+Perhaps the following is a clearer example:
+
+\chardef\xxx`\a
+
+\ifcat a\xxx
+\message{yes}
+\else
+\message{no}
+\fi
+
+\let\xxx=a
+
+\ifcat a\xxx
+\message{yes}
+\else
+\message{no}
+\fi
+
+\bye
+
+A \chardef token is not a character token, and so does not have a
+catcode so as far as \ifcat is concerned it will compare true against
+any other control sequence, but false against any character.
+In your case \next is \let to ! ie it has the definition of
+\futurelet \next \dopling
+because
+!%
+!
+is equivalent to
+
+!!
+
+and \return is a chardef control sequence, so
+
+\ifcat\return\noexpand\next
+
+finds two control sequences and so returns true.
+
+As my example above shows you can get an implicit character token
+for use in \ifcat by using \let (the \bgroup you used is another such
+example) but you can not do this for <return> as it is not possible to
+make any token of catcode 5. input characters of that category always
+produce tokens of catcode 10 (and sometimes also \par tokens)
+You can not `see' the end of line by any method at all if you use the
+normal system, if you make ^^M active then of course you can see a
+ctacode 13 character token, but you disable the automatic system that
+TeX uses for converting end of line to white space, so you need
+arrange that the definition of ^^M does this `by hand'.
+
+David
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu>
+Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:16:12 -0500 (EDT)
+Subject: TUGboat 17(1) Contents
+
+ TUGboat
+ Volume 17, Number 1 / March 1996
+ ================================
+
+Addresses 3
+Soliciting Bids for TUG'97 4
+
+General Delivery
+ Michel Goossens
+ From the president 5
+ Barbara Beeton
+ Editorial comments 6
+ DEK on tour; TUB: the year ahead 6
+ TUG'95: Questions and answers with Prof. Donald E. Knuth 7
+
+Software & Tools
+ Frank G. Bennett, Jr.
+ Camel: kicking over the bibliographic traces in BibTeX 22
+ Filip Machi, Jerrold E. Marsden and Wendy G. McKay
+ Corrigendum: Introduction to FasTeX: a system of
+ keyboard shortcuts for the fast keying of TeX
+ (Volume 16(4), pp. 358-363) 28
+
+Fonts
+ Donald E. Knuth
+ Important message regarding CM fonts 29
+ Darko Zubrinic
+ Croatian fonts 29
+
+Book Reviews
+ J. Vesely Two new books on TeX in the Czech Republic: 34
+ Petr Olsak, Typograficky system TeX (TeX typesetting system);
+ Jiri Rybicka, LaTeX pro zacatecniky (LaTeX for beginners)
+ Lynne A. Price:
+ Ronald C. Turner, Timothy A. Douglass, and Audrey J. Turner,
+ README.1ST: SGML for Writers and Editors 35
+
+Letters
+ Rama Porrat
+ There's still something missing... 37
+
+Resources
+ Mimi Burbank and Michel Goossens
+ Electronic news from the family 37
+
+Tutorials
+ Keith Reckdahl
+ Using EPS graphics in LaTeXe documents 43
+
+Macros
+ Don Hosek
+ That ol' devil \expandafter 53
+ J. Hagen and A. F. Otten
+ PPCHTeX: typesetting chemical formulas in TeX 54
+
+LaTeX
+ David Carlisle
+ A LaTeX tour, Part 1: The basic distribution 67
+
+Abstracts
+ Les Cahiers GUTenberg, No. 20 73
+
+News & Announcements
+ Calendar 74
+ TUG'96 Preliminary schedule 76
+
+Late-Breaking News
+ Mimi Burbank
+ Production notes 78
+ Future issues 78
+
+TUG Business
+ TUG Bylaws 79
+ 1996 TUG election cancelled 84
+ TUG Board Members 84
+ Institutional members 85
+
+Forms
+ TUG membership application 86
+
+Advertisements
+ TeX consulting and production services 87
+ Index of advertisers 87
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: "S. Warde" <sw25@leicester.ac.uk>
+Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST)
+Subject: Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX
+
+Looking for help in creating pdf files.
+
+1/
+ We are currently moving from LaTeX 209 to LaTeX2e. We have
+ found the hyper and hyperref packages in the contrib/supported
+ directory.
+ Though both authors acknowledge each other and say it would be
+ a good idea to merge they don't say when. Until they do I would
+ be grateful for peoples experiences with this packages.
+
+2/
+ We have obtained the dvihps source from ftp.tex.ac.uk this seems
+ to be quiet old. Before installing it I was wondering if
+ a - there was a more recent version
+ b - anyone had 'ported' it to work with the kpathsea distribution
+ c - knew of any limitations
+ d - knew of other dvips variants for creating pdf files
+ We run LaTeX etc. on SGI's and HP's
+
+3/
+ We have come across a reference to an archive and mailing list
+ on hypertex hosted at snorri.chem.washington.edu . This machine
+ does not seem to exist. Anyone know if the archive and maillist
+ are hosted elsewhere?
+
+ Thank you
+
+ Hugo Korwaser
+ Femsys Limited
+ Tel: +44 (0) 116 2541475
+ sw25@leiceter.ac.uk
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: sens@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Pierre Sens)
+Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 11:00:31 +0100
+Subject: excalibur
+
+Hi Tex users,
+
+I would like to use the spell checker Excalibur for documents in French on
+my Macintosh. I heard about a french dictionnary for Excalibur. Does
+anybody know where I could download it.
+
+Thanks,
+
+
+ Pierre Sens
+
+Department of Physics
+UCSB
+Santa Barbara, Ca 93106
+U.S.A
+Voice 1 (805) 893-8986
+Fax 1 (805) 893-2902
+email sens@physics.ucsb.edu
+
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
+Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100
+Subject: PostScript from other programs
+
+I regularly need to include PostScript figures in documents. I find
+idraw on Unix produces excellent relocatable PostScript descriptions
+but it is a little simplistic. There are excellent command language
+mechanisms for creating PostScript tricks using LaTeX but I really
+want to make use of (essentially) WYSIWYG programs like idraw,
+FrameMaker and Word to create images for inclusion in LaTeX2e
+documents. Furthermore I often have the requirement to use other
+people's PostScript in my LaTeX documents and have no control over the
+programs used to create the PostScript.
+
+In the past I have been able to use PostScript produced by various
+Macintosh programs (though judicious editing out of font information
+is usually required) and also PostScript produced by the PostScript
+driver under Windows3.1.
+
+At the pther extreme, FrameMaker has always been a pain in the !@#$.
+The PostScript produced by this program is totally un-relocatable. It
+assumes total control of the page and I have yet to discover the
+necessary edits to remove it's dictatorial efforts and hence make the
+PostScript relocatable.
+
+Moreover Microsoft appear to have gone down this same road and this is
+my real problem. Word7 with the Apple LaaserWriter plus driver (under
+Windows95) now produces code that it not relocatable. Indeed it has
+this penchant for trying to enquire of the amount of virtual memory on
+a regular basis which makes the PostScript file of a document
+un-previewable with ghostscript. I have found the trick for removing
+this VM quesry problem but have not found the trick for removing the
+manipulations that bind the coordinate system to the page in it's
+dictatorial manner.
+
+Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7
+and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form?
+
+Thanks for any guidance and/or pointers.
+
+Russel.
+
+=======================================================================
+
+Dr Russel Winder
+
+ Reader in Software Engineering
+ Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems
+
+Information Systems Research Group
+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/
+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
+Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:19:48 +0100
+Subject: [ANNOUNCE] TeX Live CDROM
+
+I am very glad to announce the launch today in Paris of TeX Live, a
+new CD published by the TeX Users Group, the UK TeX Users Group and
+GUIenberg (French TeX Users), with help from NTG (Dutch TeX Users) and
+many individuals from other groups.
+
+TeX Live's 649 megabytes contains:
+
+ - a ready to run Unix TeX setup, Thomas Esser's teTeX (based on Karl
+ Berry's Web2c). It has binaries for:
+ Linux on Intel and m68k platforms;
+ Irix 5.2, 5.3 on MIPS (SGI Indy/Indigo)
+ SunOS 4.1.3 on Sun
+ Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 on SPARC
+ HPUX 9.01, 10.01 for HP workstations
+ Digital Unix (OSF/1) 2.0 and 3.2 for DEC Alpha machines
+ FreeBSD and NetBSD on Intel platforms
+ Ultrix 4.3, for DEC Decstation machines
+ AIX 3.2, 4.1.1, for IBM RS6000 machines
+ NeXTStep on Intel platforms
+ - a very large support tree of macros, fonts and documentation
+ arranged according to the TeX Directory Structure layout
+ - the GUTenberg Mac, DOS and Windows distributions (archived)
+
+You can use the TeX system by running directly from the CD, installing
+on your hard disk, or by adding packages to your existing system.
+
+This is not a dump of CTAN full of compressed archives. This is a
+*working* system. To make it useable under Unix, it uses the Rock
+Ridge extensions to the ISO9660 file system. Ordinary systems can
+still read it, but will not see the long file names or symbolic links.
+
+If you are on any flavour of Unix, BUY this CD! There is no
+complicated compilation or moving of installed files around, it will
+just *WORK*.
+
+More details, and ordering information, can be found at
+http://www.tug.org/texlive.html. If you dont have WWW access, mail me
+or tug@tug.org for details. Cost is around $20 for members of any TeX
+users group, or $40 for others (the prices vary, depending on
+postage). All profits from sales go back to fund new versions of the
+CD, and to TeX-related development projects.
+
+Sebastian Rahtz
+Secretary, TeX Users Group
+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V96 #6
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