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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.06 b/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.06 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6184da9643 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.06 @@ -0,0 +1,349 @@ +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 +***************************** + +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 +office@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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