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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.12 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.12 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0a7ab8617b --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.12 @@ -0,0 +1,352 @@ +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (Majordomo list server) +Newsgroups: ucam.mlist.texhax +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #12 +Message-ID: <E0utVVW-0006lb-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.ukD> +Date: 22 Aug 96 09:44:45 GMT +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Lines: 341 + + +TeXhax Digest Thursday, 22 August 1996 Volume 96 : Number 012 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? + Migration of CTAN-related mailing lists + Matrices + T.V. Raman in the news + ANNOUCEMENT: Sauter-2.4 + single quotes using the times postscript fonts??? + How do you get equal variable-sized delimiters? + Coversion of DVI file to ASCII File + DEK in the news + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 15:50:23 PDT +Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? + +Amal: + +Thank you for your advice on running METAFONT on the Macintosh. +I downloaded OzTeX and it is working very well for me. I had +been beating myself over the head with the Blue Sky version for +weeks trying to get it to work properly. You saved me a great +deal of time. + +Cheers, +Tom + +- -- +Dr Thomas A Bryan +E-Systems, Goleta Division +One South Los Carneros, Goleta, California, USA 93117-3197, USA +Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +FAX: (805) 964-0470 + +Home: 275 Savona Avenue, Goleta, California, 93117, USA (805) 968-1264 + +------------------------------ + +From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de> +Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:01:13 +0200 (MET DST) +Subject: Migration of CTAN-related mailing lists + +The CTAN-related mailing lists + + CTAN@shsu.edu + CTAN-ANN@shsu.edu + +have now been migrated to a new mailing list server, located at +Heidelberg, Germany. These lists can now be reached as + + CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de + CTAN-ANN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de + +Requests for subscription/deletion must be sent to + + LISTSERV@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de + + + +For the CTAN team + +- -- + Rainer Schvpf + Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous + der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight + Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. + D-55099 Mainz + Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: + <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE> The Gutenberg Galaxy + +------------------------------ + +From: Barry Tesman <tesman@dickinson.edu> +Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:37:43 -0400 (EDT) +Subject: Matrices + +I am trying to produce the following "labelled" matrix with latex: + + B1 B2 B3 + / \ + a1 | 8 10 4 | +A = a2 | 11 5 18 | + a3 | 27 6 18 | + \ / + +I tried to use array/tabbing/tabular but am having trouble placing +the left and right large parentheses around the matrix but not the labels. +Any ideas would be most helpful. + +Thanks, + +Barry Tesman < tesman@dickinson.edu > +Dickinson College +Carlisle, PA, USA + + + +------------------------------ + +From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> +Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:53:20 -0600 (MDT) +Subject: T.V. Raman in the news + +You might care to look at this just-appeared profile of TUGboat +author and TUG conference participant T. V. Raman: + +@String{j-SCI-AMER = "Scientific American"} + + +@Article{Gibbs:1996:PVR, + author = "W. Wayt Gibbs", + title = "Profile: T. V. Raman: Envisioning Speech", + journal = j-SCI-AMER, + volume = "275", + number = "3", + pages = "52, 54", + month = nov, + year = "1996", + acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, + bibdate = "Mon Aug 19 08:48:09 1996", +. + +Curiously, this article shows a single equation, which seems +to violate the Scientific American practice of eschewing +equations. + +======================================================================== +Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 +Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 +Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu +University of Utah URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe +Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA +======================================================================== + +------------------------------ + +From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE +Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 16:31:56 +0100 +Subject: ANNOUCEMENT: Sauter-2.4 + +I have uploaded a new Sauter release to the CTAN archives in directory +tex-archive/fonts/cm/sauter24/ +and it will propagate to the mirrors soon. + +Attached is the release file. + +J"org Knappen. + +%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%* + +The release 2.4 of the Sauter tools to generate true sized fonts contains +the following news: + +* Support for LaTeX2e 1996/06/01 +* Fixes to cmcsc fonts +* Fix to the capital S in cmmi fonts +* Sauterised versions of AMS symbol fonts, bbm fonts and rsfs fonts + contributed by Hubert Holin + +If you already have version 2.3 of the Sauter fonts, please regenerate +the cmcsc fonts for sizes => 10pt, there was a bug affecting the depth of +the letter `q'. + +Please recalculate the cmmi fonts for sizes >12pt, the capital S will look +much better afterwards. + +Send any questions, comments and suggestions to + +J"org Knappen knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de + +------------------------------ + +From: coleman@natasha.phil.uregina.ca (Robert Coleman) +Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:09:17 -0600 (CST) +Subject: single quotes using the times postscript fonts??? + +I have installed the times.sty package that uses +the psfonts courier, helvetica and times in LaTeX2e. +In the times font ptmr8r, the usual positions for +the left single quote "60 and for the right single +quote "27 contain instead of the symbols found in +the font cmr a symbol that looks like a grave accent +and a symbol that looks like a vertical prime, +respectively. How is one to get matched single quotes? + +There is an older font rptmr that has the usual +single quotes in those positions. Is there +some way to use the font ptmr8r and still get the +usual single quotes, for example, by means of some +trick using virtual fonts and rptmr? + +Thanks, +Robert +- -- +Robert Alan Coleman +Department of Physics +University of Regina +Regina, Saskatchewan +Canada S4S 0A2 + +Tel: (306) 585-4260 +Fax: (306) 585-4894 +email: coleman@cas.uregina.ca + +********end message*********************** + +------------------------------ + +From: holliegp@eee.bham.ac.uk (Garry Hollier) +Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:21:42 +0100 +Subject: How do you get equal variable-sized delimiters? + +In a LaTeX (I'm using LaTeX2e <1994/06/01> patch level 2) expression like + +\begin{eqnarray} + \left<delimiter> + %some stuff + \right.\\ + \left. + %some more stuff + \right<delimiter> +\end{eqnarray} + +how do you ensure that the resulting <delimiter>'s are the same size? + + +------------------------------ + +From: "ABDOL S. SOOFI, ECONOMICS, UW-PLATTEVILLE; HTTP://VMS.WWW.UWPLATT.EDU/~SOOFI" <SOOFI@uwplatt.edu> +Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:00:59 -0500 (CDT) +Subject: Coversion of DVI file to ASCII File + +Greetings to all, + +Is there a way to convert a filename.dvi to its LaTeX source file (ASCII +file)? I am in a peculiar situation. I have the dvi version of a revised +file, but its revised LaTeX source file is missing? + +Also, what is the meaning of ``dvi file is corrupt''? What are the +possible sources of this problem? + +Thanks in advance for any insights. + +- --Abdol + +------------------------------ + +From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> +Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:54:23 -0600 (MDT) +Subject: DEK in the news + +The September 1996 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal has an editorial on p. 6 +which begins: + + It was a pleasant surprise to open the mail and read that Donald + Knuth, the author of the three-volume {\em The Art of Computer + Programming}, is the recipient of the Inamori Foundation's + 1996 Kyoto Prize in the category of Advanced Technology. + Considering that a check for $460,000 accompanies his wall + plaque, Dr. Knuth is probably more pleased than I. + + According to Kazuo Inamori, president of the Inamori Foundation + and chairman of Kyocera, Knuth was given Japan's highest + private award for his contributions to the betterment of + humankind. In addition to {\em The Art of Computer Programming}, + Knuth (who was featured in an April 1996 DDJ interview) is + the creator of the TeX document-preparation system, Metafont + font-design system, and LR parser and attribute grammar. + TeX has been described as the most important achievement + in publishing since Gutenberg's moveable type. + + Previous Kyoto Advanced Technology laureates include John + McCarthy of artificial-intelligence fame, and George Gray, + developer of the liquid-crystal display. Please join me + in hearty congratulations to Dr. Knuth. + + ... + + Jonathan Erickson + Editor-in-chief + +======================================================================== +Nelson H. F. 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