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+Article 145307 of comp.text.tex:
+From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk (TeXhax Digest)
+Subject: TeXhax Digest V1999 #6
+Date: 4 Jun 1999 18:49:45 +0100
+Organization: ACS, The University of Nottingham
+X-Trace: oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk 928518586 1364 128.243.241.164 (4 Jun 1999 17:49:46 GMT)
+X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nottingham.ac.uk
+NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Jun 1999 17:49:46 GMT
+Organisation: (University of Nottingham - mail2news gateway)
+
+TeXhax Digest Friday, June 4 1999 Volume 1999 : Number 006
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ Two important new books
+ Re: Two important new books
+ TtH and bibliographic entries
+ `Final' location for the UK TUG FAQ
+ New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:46:15 -0600 (MDT)
+From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
+Subject: Two important new books
+
+Last night, I bought two important new books which have just appeared
+at bookstores in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA:
+
+The preface to the first begins:
+
+ This books brings together more than 30 articles nad notes that I
+ have written about the subject of digital typography, popularly
+ called ``desktop publishing''. ... I guess I must have ink in my
+ veins.
+
+@String{pub-CSLI = "CSLI Publications"}
+@String{pub-CSLI:adr = "Stanford, CA, USA"}
+
+@Book{Knuth:1999:DT,
+ author = "Donald E. Knuth",
+ title = "Digital Typography",
+ publisher = pub-CSLI,
+ address = pub-CSLI:adr,
+ pages = "xvi + 685",
+ year = "1999",
+ ISBN = "1-57586-011-2 (cloth), 1-57586-010-4 (paperback)",
+ LCCN = "Z249.3.K59 1998",
+ bibdate = "Sat May 08 07:52:35 1999",
+ price = "US\$29.95",
+ acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
+}
+
+The second book is the long-awaited definition of PostScript Language
+Level 3. While previous editions of several Adobe PostScript books
+had a distinctive spine, with red at the top, and white at the bottom,
+this new one unfortunately has a black spine, with red and white
+lettering, making it harder to spot on a bookshelf. The cover retains
+the old red/white style.
+
+Although Apple and Xante have been shipping printers with Level 3
+support for more than two years, Hewlett-Packard (visit them at
+http://www.hp.com/go/printers) only in the last few months, with the
+new HP Color LaserJet 8500, offers such support, and the number two
+printer vendor, Lexmark, has yet to do so.
+
+@String{pub-AW = "Ad{\-d}i{\-s}on-Wes{\-l}ey"}
+@String{pub-AW:adr = "Reading, MA, USA"}
+
+@Book{Adobe:1999:PLR,
+ author = "{Adobe Systems Incorporated}",
+ title = "{PostScript} Language Reference",
+ publisher = pub-AW,
+ address = pub-AW:adr,
+ edition = "Third",
+ pages = "xii + 897",
+ year = "1999",
+ ISBN = "0-201-37922-8",
+ LCCN = "QA76.73.P67 P67 1999",
+ bibdate = "Sat May 08 07:43:15 1999",
+ price = "US\$49.95, CDN\$74.95",
+ acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
+}
+
+- --------------------------------
+
+Entries for these books, and related publications, can be found in the
+bibliography archives at
+
+ ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.*
+ ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/postscri.*
+ ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/texbook3.*
+
+ http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-m.html#master
+ http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-p.html#postscri
+ http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-t.html#texbook3
+
+The master Web page for these collections can be found at
+
+ http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table.html
+
+with brief journal tables-of-contents at
+
+ http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/toc/
+
+and extensive cross-referenced journal article indexes at
+
+ http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/idx/index.html
+
+These collections are mirrored regularly to several other Internet
+archives, include the huge Karlsruhe Computer Science archive at
+
+ http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/
+
+That page includes pointers to eight mirror sites around the globe.
+
+The Karlsruhe archive contains about 930,000 entries, of which 232,659
+come from the Utah archive.
+
+- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+- -
+- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254
+- -
+- - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148
+- -
+- - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu
+- -
+- - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org
+- -
+- - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org
+- -
+- - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe
+- -
+- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+- -
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 12:36:03 -0400
+From: Y&Y Support Line <support@YandY.com>
+Subject: Re: Two important new books
+
+At 08:46 AM 99/05/08 -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
+
+>Although Apple and Xante have been shipping printers with Level 3
+>support for more than two years, Hewlett-Packard (visit them at
+>http://www.hp.com/go/printers) only in the last few months, with the
+
+Which is no doubt related to the fact that they just spent an enormous
+amount of effort creating a reliable clone for PS level II.
+
+>new HP Color LaserJet 8500, offers such support, and the number two
+>printer vendor, Lexmark, has yet to do so.
+
+Regards, Berthold.
+
+mailto:support@YandY.com http://www.YandY.com (Y)
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 18:17:30 +0100
+From: "Massimo Pinto" <pinto@graylab.ac.uk>
+Subject: TtH and bibliographic entries
+
+I am trying to use TtH (TeX to HTML) from the MiKTeX 1.20 distribution.
+
+My main problem is that I cannot make TtH find my bibliographic entries, it
+is issuing error messages as:
+
+no bibcite for "Pinto98"
+no bibcite for "Pinto99"
+
+and whatever the "key" is. My .aux and .bbl files are in the same directory
+as my .tex file is, and when I run LaTeX od PDFTeX my document comes out
+fine. I think it is something that I am missing with TtH.
+
+Also, it does not convert EPS to GIF, when instructed to do so.
+
+Any suggestion?
+
+Massimo
+- -----------------------------------------------
+Massimo Pinto
+Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust
+pinto@graylab.ac.uk
+- ----------------------------------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:36:29 +0100
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+Subject: `Final' location for the UK TUG FAQ
+
+Not long after the UK TUG FAQ was first published on paper, in
+_Baskerville_, the annals of the UK TeX Users' Group (vol 4 no 6,
+December 1994), the group established a `temporary' Web address for
+interactive access to the FAQ. The group is very grateful to the
+School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences of the University of Sussex
+at Brighton, for hosting this `temporary' service for four years!
+
+Now, at last, the group is pleased to announce that a `final' home for
+the FAQ has been established, in association with the CTAN node at the
+University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory:
+
+ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
+
+The sources, and readily-printable copies, of the FAQ remain on CTAN
+in directory usergrps/uktug/faq
+
+At present the interactive FAQ offers exactly the same facilities as it
+always has, but there are plans to develop new facilities to further
+enhance the FAQ's utility.
+
+The FAQ is under constant development, and in particular a new printed
+version is in preparation. The UK TeX Users' Group would very much
+welcome contributions at this time.
+
+Comments, suggestions and error reports concerning the FAQ should be
+addressed to the current maintainer, via uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:39:42 +0100
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+Subject: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN
+
+The CTAN team have been concerned, for some time, about the copyright
+status of the material held on the CTAN archives. In the course of
+preparation of the latest TeX Live disc, Sebastian Rahtz compiled a
+list of the licence status of many available packages, and it is the
+CTAN team's intention to extend that list to as full coverage of the
+archive holdings as is possible.
+
+In parallel with this work, we have instituted a new hierarchy on
+CTAN, called nonfree/; it is our intention to move all items, for
+which there are significant distribution restrictions, to that
+hierarchy.
+
+STRUCTURE
+
+The nonfree hierarchy mimics the structure of the main part of CTAN;
+there are (or may in the future be) sub-hierarchies nonfree/biblio,
+/fonts, /graphics, /indexing, /language, /support, /systems and /web
+
+For each entry in the non-free hierarchy, there is a corresponding
+entry in the main part of CTAN, which is a symbolic link to the
+nonfree/ hierarchy. Since CTAN does not index symbolic links, the
+only appearance that a non-free item makes in the FILES.* files is its
+instance on the nonfree/ hierarchy. The `quote site index' command
+uses FILES.byname, so that it will always tell you if the item you're
+seeking is not free.
+
+CRITERIA
+
+Licensing conditions that CTAN currently recognises are listed in
+
+ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html
+
+In the terms defined therein, the nonfree/ tree will hold items whose
+licensing is unknown, nocommercial, nosell, shareware, or other.
+
+Notes:
+
+1. CTAN cannot hold matter whose distribution is restricted, anyway:
+the archive has no control over what its mirrors might do. This is
+why there is no category `nodistribute'.
+
+2. The `nonfree' licensing category nosource _does_ stay in the main
+CTAN tree; there are usable items on CTAN whose source is not publicly
+available, but which are nevertheless freely usable and distributable
+by all and sundry.
+
+3. We need to treat unknown licenses as nonfree, because of the legal
+situation in many countries that one is obliged to assume that an
+author would not wish his/her propertty to be treated as if it were in
+the public domain. We have, as yet, moved nothing of category unknown
+to the nonfree/ hierarchy; we will be doing that job later in the
+year.
+
+THE FUTURE
+
+The CTAN team are slowly moving items to the nonfree/ hierarchy. This
+process may be expected to accelerate during the course of this year;
+in particular, one may expect items of category unknown to be moved
+starting next month (June 1999).
+
+If *you* are an author who has not responded to an enquiry about the
+status of your stuff on CTAN, we urge you to release a new version
+which makes its licensing status clear, and to upload that version to
+CTAN in the usual way (see README.uploads on any CTAN site). Don't
+forget to mail ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de -- uploads don't get acted
+upon without such a message.
+
+If you don't do this, and we don't otherwise deduce the status of your
+stuff, it is liable to be moved to the nonfree/ hierarchy, and to
+disappear from future CD distirbutions of TeX.
+
+OTHER INFORMATION
+
+While CTAN is _not_ enforcing an open-source policy, we recommend
+sites such as
+
+ http://www.opensource.org/osd.html
+
+for discussion of the issues behind software licensing.
+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V1999 #6
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