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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.06 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.06 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6c0d93aed6 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.06 @@ -0,0 +1,432 @@ +From owner-texhax-l@IRLEARN.UCD.IE Wed May 29 14:47:00 1996 +Received: from listserv.rl.ac.uk (listserv.rl.ac.uk [130.246.132.23]) by granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA09947 for <cczdao@UNICORN.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK>; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:46:52 +0100 +Received: from listserv (listserv.rl.ac.uk [130.246.132.23]) by listserv.rl.ac.uk (8.7.1/8.7.1) + with SMTP id OAA15022; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:46:50 +0100 (BST) +Received: from IRLEARN.UCD.IE by IRLEARN.UCD.IE (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with + NJE id 9757 for TEXHAX-L@IRLEARN.UCD.IE; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:44:20 + +0000 +Received: from IRLEARN (NJE origin SMTP@IRLEARN) by IRLEARN.UCD.IE (LMail + V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7220; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:44:19 +0000 +Received: from jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk by IRLEARN.UCD.IE (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) + with TCP; Wed, 29 May 96 13:44:15 GMT +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk id + <22537-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:24:21 +0100 +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Message-ID: <TEXHAX-L%96052913442000@IRLEARN.UCD.IE> +Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:24:21 +0100 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Sender: TeX Information Distribution List <TEXHAX-L@IRLEARN.UCD.IE> +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +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). 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