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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.11 b/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.11 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bf014fdd74 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.11 @@ -0,0 +1,366 @@ +Article 78 of ucam.mlist.texhax: +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK +Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #11 +Date: 21 Dec 97 17:08:04 GMT + +TeXhax Digest Sunday, 21 December 1997 Volume 1997 : Number 011 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Web2c-7.1 + ANNOUNCE: xtem version 6 + Harvard Refs? + Harvard Refs? (A) + LaTeX2e version in color.sty + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Olaf Weber <infovore@xs4all.nl> +Date: 10 Nov 1997 22:21:01 +0100 +Subject: Web2c-7.1 + +(EST)" +Precedence: bulk + +At long last web2c-7.1 is available. This release contains a port of the +basic TeX project programs (TeX, Metafont, MetaPost, GFtoPK, etc.) to +Unix. It also contains a new version of the kpathsea library. It does not +contain any of the dvi drivers (dviljk, dvipsk, xdvik) or other support +programs (makeindexk, ps2pkk): these will become available later. + +The release can be obtained by retrieving + + ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/web2c.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/web.tar.gz + +(the latter is only needed if you do not have the web files, otherwise +you can just link/copy those in the web2c-7.1/web2c directory). You +will also need a a library tree to compile and use these programs. +The file + + ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/texmflib.tar.gz + +provides a bare-bones tree. These files are also available as + + ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/web2c.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/web.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/texmflib.tar.gz + +Soon these files will also be available on CTAN sites and their +mirrors. + + (Germany) ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/web2c + (England) ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/web2c + (USA) ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/systems/web2c + +Finger ctan@ftp.dante.de to obtain a list of mirrors. An up-to-date list +is also appended to this message. + +Please note that the all-in-one-file texk.tar.gz release has _not_ +been updated, and will not be in the immediate future. Sorry. + +This release fixes virtually all known bugs in web2c-7.0 and kpathsea-3.0, +and adds a few new features, especially to kpathsea. Many thanks to all +the people who reported bugs, made suggestions, and provided patches. + +Instructions for sending bug reports (and joining the mailing list) are in +the distribution file kpathsea/BUGS. + +A summary of the changes follows; read them carefully. Please read +the manuals as well. + +kpathsea changes: 3.1 (10 november 1997) +* The support for multiple texmf trees is much improved. +* New MakeTeX* scripts, based on teTeX's. These scripts now use + heuristics to decide where generated files are placed and which + permissions they should have. +* The varfonts feature is enabled by default. +* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources. +* Change in searching algorithm: if a name doesn't have the default suffix + we append it for the first search. Then we search for the bare name. + Thus if you have foo.bar and foo.bar.tex, the latter will now be found + first. Under the old system, you had to specify boo.bar.tex.tex to get + foo.bar.tex instead of foo.bar. +* Prepend the value of KPSE_DOT to relative paths from texmf.cnf if it + defined in the environment. This means we can use . instead of + $KPSE_DOT in paths. +* Define brace expansion so that {a,b}{1,2} expands to a1:b1:a2:b2. This + is different from how shells do it, and exploited in texmf.in. +* Renamed texmf.cnf.in to texmf.in. +* New value for debugging: DEBUG_VARS, equal to 64. +* If a file format has no suffix, allow its long name as the argument to + kpsewhich --format. + +web2c changes: 7.1 (10 november 1997) +* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources. +* VPtoVF: Increased capacity. +* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost: + - File foo.bar.tex results in \jobname foo.bar, hence foo.bar.{log,dvi,...}. + This as opposed to foo and foo.{log,dvi,...} which it how it used to be in + version 6. In 7.0 situation was confusing, as the heuristics used would + sometimes result in the extension being stripped, sometimes not. +* TeX: + - The -extend-jobname option has been removed. + - Printing of non-ASCII characters in diagnostics, code by Bernd Raichle. +* web2c: + - Some support for e-TeX added to convert. + +. +$ finger ctan@ftp.dante.de +[sun.dante.de] +Login name: ctan +Directory: /home/server/ctan Shell: /bin/sync +Never logged in. +No unread mail +Plan: +In order to reduce network load, it is recommended that you use the +Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) host which is located in the +closest network proximity to your site. Alternatively, you may wish to +obtain a copy of the CTAN via CD-ROM (see help/CTAN.cdrom for details). + +Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically): + cis.utovrm.it (Italia) /TeX + ctan.math.mun.ca (Newfoundland, Canada) /tex-archive + ctan.unsw.edu.au (NSW, Australia) /tex-archive + dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /tex-archive + ftp.belnet.be (Belgium) /packages/TeX + ftp.ccu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /pub/tex + ftp.cdrom.com (West coast, USA) /pub/tex/ctan + ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk (Hong Kong) /pub/TeX/CTAN + ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au (Australia) /tex-archive + ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands) /pub/tex-archive + ftp.cstug.cz (The Czech Republic) /pub/tex/CTAN + ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA) /tex-archive + ftp.funet.fi (Finland) /pub/TeX/CTAN + ftp.gwdg.de (Deutschland) /pub/dante + ftp.hea.ie (Ireland) /pub/ctan/tex + ftp.jussieu.fr (France) /pub4/TeX/CTAN + ftp.kreonet.re.kr (Korea) /pub/CTAN + ftp.loria.fr (France) /pub/unix/tex/ctan + ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de (Deutschland) /pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de + ftp.nada.kth.se (Sweden) /pub/tex/ctan-mirror + ftp.oleane.net (France) /pub/mirrors/CTAN/ + ftp.rediris.es (Espa\~na) /mirror/tex-archive + ftp.rge.com (New York, USA) /pub/tex + ftp.riken.go.jp (Japan) /pub/tex-archive + ftp.tu-chemnitz.de (Deutschland) /pub/tex + ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp (Japan) /pub/tex/CTAN + ftp.uni-augsburg.de (Deutschland) /tex-archive + ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Deutschland) /pub/tex + ftp.unina.it (Italia) /pub/TeX + ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Deutschland) /tex-archive (/pub/tex) + ftp.univie.ac.at (\"Osterreich) /packages/tex + ftp.ut.ee (Estonia) /tex-archive + ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore) /pub/zi/TeX + joshua.smcvt.edu (Vermont, USA) /pub/tex + src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England) /packages/tex/uk-tex + sunsite.auc.dk (Denmark) /pub/tex/ctan + sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (Switzerland) /mirror/tex + sunsite.icm.edu.pl (Poland) /pub/CTAN + sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX + wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA) /packages/TeX + +Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically): + ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia) /pub/tex/ctan + ftp.fcu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /pub2/tex + ftp.germany.eu.net (Deutschland) /pub/packages/TeX + ftp.gust.org.pl (Poland) /pub/TeX + ftp.jaist.ac.jp (Japan) /pub/TeX/tex-archive + ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA) /pub/text-processing/TeX + sunsite.dsi.unimi.it (Italia) /pub/TeX + sunsite.snu.ac.kr (Korea) /shortcut/CTAN + +Please send updates to this list to <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>. + +The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are: + ftp.dante.de (Deutschland) + -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) + -- gopher on node gopher.dante.de + -- email via ftpmail@dante.de + -- World Wide Web access on http://www.dante.de/ + -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@dante.de> + + ftp.tex.ac.uk (England) + -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) + -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk + -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive + -- World Wide Web access on http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive + -- Administrator: <ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk> + + tug2.cs.umb.edu (Massachusetts, USA) + -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/archive) + -- World Wide Web access on http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/ + -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@mail.tug.org> + +- -- +Olaf Weber + +------------------------------ + +From: wz@iwd.uni-bremen.de (Roland Weibezahn) +Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:18:58 +0100 +Subject: ANNOUNCE: xtem version 6 + +Dear xtem users, + +We have finished the new version (xtem_TeXMenu 6.12) of + + "xtem", an X11-TeX-menu + +which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl8.0) +as well as with the old versions (Tcl7.4, Tcl7.5 and Tcl7.6). + +In addition to adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk, we have done +error corrections and added new features, such as: + +- - the hyphenations found in the .dvi-file can be displayed after a + TeX run (for this we have written a program hyphen_show.c); + +- - we also realized key bindings, + +- - and we modified the print menu (page selection is now controlled + for the existence of the selected page numbers in the document). + +As usual you can get all material (including the source code of +Tcl/Tk/TclX we used) from our ftp server: + + ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/*.tar.gz +or + http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html + +The final release took a little bit more time than intended by +us originally (vacancies, installation, and -- last but not least -- +we had hard to work to program around some incompatibilities between +Tcl8.0 and Tcl7.6). + +We have plans for more features, we will discuss them in a few days +in our xtem discussion list, for which you can subscribe with an +e-mail to + majordomo@iwd.uni-bremen.de +with "body" + subscribe xtem-list + end + +Regards, Roland Weibezahn +- -- +Dr. Roland Weibezahn +weibezahn@iwd.uni-bremen.de phone: +49-421-218-3532 +University Bremen, IWD, post-box: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany +http://www.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html (the xtem_TeXMenu project) + +------------------------------ + +From: P Taylor <esrni@eng.warwick.ac.uk> +Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:26:18 +0000 (GMT) +Subject: Harvard Refs? + +>Hi, +I'm hoping that you can offer advice to me. I have been using Bibtex +C Version 0.99c to obtain standard numerical referencing in the past in +conjunction with LaTeX Version 2.09 (14 Jan 1992). +However, I am just starting to write up my PhD thesis in Civil +Engineering using LaTeX2e (1995/06/01) patch level 3 because +I wish to use the harvard reference system in conjunction with Bibtex +C Version 0.99c. From text books I have managed to learn that I will need the +harvard.sty file written by P Williams and T Schnier. I have obtained +this using ftp however I cannot find out what commands are needed or +where they are needed to get anything working. +I would be very grateful if you could send me the infomation I require or +refer me to a text containing the infomation. Whilst I'm fairly +computer literate I'm no whizz kid (my PhD is in Soil Mechanics!) so I'd +appreciate it if I only new the basics just to get the thing working. +Yours sincerely +Paul Taylor. + +------------------------------ + +From: Werenfried Spit <w.spit@witbo.nl> +Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 15:07:29 +0100 +Subject: Harvard Refs? (A) + +There used to be a user manual with harvard.sty. I remember it lived +on CTAN among the bibstyles. +Otherwise, its fairly easy: +- - use a Harvard-bibstyle +- - use normal \cite s +good luck +- --- +Werenfried Spit e-mail W.Spit@witbo.nl +Witteveen+Bos Consulting Engineers phone +31-70-3.700.709 +Den Haag, The Netherlands fax +31-70-3.600.098 + +------------------------------ + +From: Mark Joy <ma_s443@crystal.kingston.ac.uk> +Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:58:28 GMT0BST +Subject: LaTeX2e version in color.sty + +Can anyone help with the following... + +I have a copy of PCTEX and have copied the installation files for +LATEX 2e from the CTAN site at Aston UK. Everything seems to be ok +except when I try to set up the graphics capabilities. In my +color.sty file I have the command + +\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01] + +generating the warning, + +LaTeX Warning: You have requested release `1995/12/01' of LaTeX, + but only release `1994/12/01' is available. + +whilst typesetting grfguide.tex. I also get the error messages, + +! Illegal parameter number in definition of \ds@monochrome. +<to be read again> + l.50 ...@lor@special\m@ne{define #1 #2}}}} + +etc, etc. + +Thanks in advance +Mark Joy + +------------------------------ + +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 only the line + subscribe texhax + or + unsubscribe texhax +If you have problems with un/subscribing, +please mail texhax-owner@nottingham.ac.uk + +For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to +TUG@mail.tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1466 NW Front Avenue, +Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820 USA (phone: 1 503 223 9994, +fax: 1 503 223 3960). + +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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