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diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.09 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.09 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ee1e262c94 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.09 @@ -0,0 +1,573 @@ +From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk +To: UKTeX Distribution: ; +Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #09 +Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 18:19:57 +0000 +Message-ID: <2668.762805197@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +UKTeX Digest Friday, 4 Mar 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 09 + + ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary + service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' + +Today's Topics: + {Questions & Answers}: + Re: TeX for Windows + Re: TeX for Windows + Re: Rotating too wide for a4 portrait table into landscape + Re: TeX memory limitations + Re: PostScript virtual fonts + Re: Postscript versions of LaTeX line and Circle fonts. + when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file? + when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file? + Cork encoding... + Previewers (Was: Postscript fonts) + + {Announcements}: + yet another dvi previewer + Final announcement: UKTUG LaTeX2e Conference, Warwick, March 20--21 + + +Administrivia: + Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and + David Osborne (University of Nottingham) + Contributions: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk + Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: + UKTeX-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: TeX for Windows + +Peter Knaggs writes + > I have been quit happy using EmTeX for some time. Unfortunatly I have + > now been forced into using Windows. As a resault I am no longer able + > to use EmTeX, as the emx system that underpins EmTeX does not understand + > how to use DPMI. Can anybody offer any advice on this problem? + +yes, check out CTAN:systems/msdos/dpmigcc, where you'll find a +replacement for emx which works with dpmi + + > It should be noted that I am using Windows-NT at home, and Win32 in + > the office. + +show off + +sebastian rahtz + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 12:02:10 +0100 +From: Michal Kubecek <KUBECEK@novell.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> +Subject: Re: TeX for Windows + +> I have been quit happy using EmTeX for some time. Unfortunatly I have +> now been forced into using Windows. As a resault I am no longer able +> to use EmTeX, as the emx system that underpins EmTeX does not understand +> how to use DPMI. Can anybody offer any advice on this problem? + + You can use emTeX under MS Windows. The only programs that cannot run + under Windows are TEX386.EXE and MF386.EXE. If you are using a version + for another processor (TEX.EXE, TEX186.EXE, TEX286.EXE or -- if you work + with large texts -- BIGTEX.EXE), you can run emTeX under Windows. + Of course, the compilation would be slower (as everything is under + Windows). + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: Rotating too wide for a4 portrait table into landscape + +John Simmie writes + > Is there a way of rotating just a table(s) into landscape within an + > A4 portrait document --- via LaTeX? + +i'd recommend my `rotating' package which has this functionality + +sebastian rahtz + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: TeX memory limitations + +Bernie Stocks writes + > ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=65501]. + +you need a bigger TeX! no more, no less. if its under your control, +recompile it. if its not ... what TeX are you using? + +sebastian rahtz + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: PostScript virtual fonts + +A.F.Lack@uk.ac.city writes + > holds virtual font files for garamond under fonts/postscript + > (pgm*.vf) +................... + > So my question is which foundary's version of Garamond was used + > as the basis of the virtual font files in the Archive? + +they are Adobe Garamond + + > The archive has the following pgm* files. Is the following interpretation + > of the Karl Berry naming scheme right in this case? + +yes + +sebastian rahtz + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: Postscript versions of LaTeX line and Circle fonts. + +Peter Abbott writes + > I have received a letter asking if copies of Postscript versions of the + > LaTeX Line and Circle fonts are available. + > + > 1. Are they? 2. If so are they Public Domain (I seem to remember + > TeXtures having postscript versions of fonts). + +yes; yes and no. you can buy them from Y&Y or Blue Sky, but there are +also the Paradissa versions in the public domain by Basil Malyshev. +they are good type1 fonts, but expert opinion suggests they are not as +perfect as the Blue Sky ones. for the line and circle fonts you +probably don't mind. on CTAN these fonts are in fonts/cm/ps-type1. + +sebastian rahtz + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 08:44:24 +0000 +From: uclkahg <uclkahg@ucl.ac.uk> +Subject: when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file? + +A while ago you were kind enough to offer to help with my PostScript +problems. $200 for Yannis Haralambous' ScholarTex package bought me the +fonts but no installation instructions ... + +I've made some progress. A recent hint on comp.text.tex alerted me to the +fact that PostScript (unlike DOS) is very fussy about upper-lower case. +Having changed the font name reference in psfonts.map from Ygrepla to +YgrePla (!), the LJ4 will now actually *print* the font it was already +downloading. HOWEVER ... + +It still hasn't got the information it needs to position the Greek accents +and breathings over their vowels; they are just strung out as separate +characters. It clearly needs, as far as I can make out from the dvips +manual (all that ptmr, rptmr stuff isn't exactly easy) a .vf file. + +But --- and I already knew this was a problem --- although I can generate +.tfm and .vpl files perfectly successfully with afm2tfm, for some reason the +program called vptovf whose job it is to make a .vf file simply won't work; +it flashes a continuous string of error messages about `character in line 1 +not in parentheses', and has to be put out of its misery with ^C. + +Yannis (who `knows nothing about DOS') generated his fonts with some kind of +Apple program. Are there different kinds of .pfb program, and have I got +the wrong kind? + +Any advice you can offer will be greatly appreciated. + +Alan + + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + ~ Alan Griffiths `When two men are fighting, and the wife ~ + ~ Department of Greek & Latin of one of them puts out her hand and ~ + ~ University College London catches hold of the other man's genitals, ~ + ~ Gower Street you shall cut off her hand, and show her ~ + ~ London WC1E 6BT no mercy' ~ + ~ ~ + ~ e-mail: uclkahg@ucl.ac.uk Deuteronomy 25:11f ~ + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 11:12:39 +0000 +From: uclkahg <uclkahg@ucl.ac.uk> +Subject: when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file? + +Further to my earlier message (and when I say earlier I *mean* earlier -- I +accidentally got up at 5.50 this morning, which may account for my talking +about .pfb's when I meant .afm's) ... + +I just may be a bit further along. + +In some kind of inspired desperation I actually let vptovf continue with its +frenzied error messages. After a minute and a half (on a 486-33) it +stopped, apparently having done its job. You mean programs are SUPPOSED to +behave like that??? I transferred the .vf and .tfm files as instructed by +Rokicki. This time, I thought, it might really work. + +And indeed the printed output is different. But it's still not right. The +accents and breathings now appear more convincing, but instead of being +situated over their proper letters they sit smugly over an extra vowel of +their own -- a Greek lc upsilon, in each case. And final sigmas still don't +appear as such. + +So the `virtual font' stuff still isn't working properly. Please God, don't +tell me I have to go into Re-Encoding ... + +Alan + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:29:24 +From: F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk +Subject: Cork encoding... + +Dear All, + +I am sure that this must have the status of an FAQ but I have not +really found an answer yet so here goes: + +1. Why do I need Cork encoding? (I am not being rhetorical +here--this is just a naive question about how will it improve the +quality of my life.) + +2. What must I do to install it? For instance, must I replace +zillions of CM fonts, what must I put in psfonts.map so that dvips +handles postscript fonts with this encoding (and must I run afm2tfm +over all the postscript afms again...) + +Any help from the experts or pointers to other sources of info +gratefully received. + +Many thanks--Fran + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 16:52:34 +0000 +From: Dr RM Damerell <uhah208@pluto.ulcc.ac.uk> +Subject: Previewers (Was: Postscript fonts) + +In UKTEX 94#04, Sebastian Rahtz writes: + + > if you find ghostscript too slow, buy a faster computer! its *your* + > time that costs real money; its a false economy scraping by with + > low-end computers running DOS. + +No doubt it is a false economy, but every university in the UK has +been forced to practice false economies for at least the last 10 +years. We currently run the suntools previewer dvipage on a sun 3/60 +with these results: + +startup: 7 secs +goto page N: 1 sec +display: about 5/6 of an A4 page, easily legible down to 5 points. + +I was urged to try ghostscript/view; we dont have it so I tried on +somebody else's machine, a Sparc LX10 which is much faster. (Tex on +that machine went at least 15 times as fast as on the 3/60). +Ghostview on the LX10 was definitely slower than dvipage on the 3/60, +and even 12-point type was difficult to read. I know you can zoom, but +then you can only see a small part of the page. + +dvipage is not perfect: it only works on a Sun and it cannot handle +embedded graphics. Even with these defects, I think that it is much +better than any other previewer I have seen. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 17:07:30 +0000 +From: Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk> +Subject: yet another dvi previewer + +source of a handcrafted C language translation of the pascal +dvitty program for dvi previewing, is avaialble on: +cs.ucl.ac.uk +in +darpa/dviv.tar.Z + +its about 95% ok... + +anyone can take and modify...(i know someone else has done this, +but...i didn't when i did it:-) + +j. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 14:00:31 +0000 +From: Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk> +Subject: Final announcement: UKTUG LaTeX2e Conference, Warwick, March 20--21 + +Book your place NOW for... + + ************************************************************ + The Conference :LaTeX2e: The Conference + ************************************************************ + * STOP PRESS: if you have already booked...GREAT--- * + * ---pass this on to someone else NOW--- * + * * + * if not, this is your LAST CHANCE--- * + * ---no need to pay NOW, but we do need to * + * know that you are comimg! * + ************************************************************ + + ******************************************** + Announcing the New Standard version of LaTeX + ******************************************** + +You've read the hype, you've ordered the book--- + --- haven't you? --- + ---now here's the chance to discover the real thing! + +For authors, publishers, support persons, ..., everyone--- + ---two days to discover what LaTeX2e can do for you + +All the New Features of LaTeX2e--- + The New Standard Version of LaTeX + ---Incorporating SliTeX and AMSLaTeX + ************ + + *** how to install it + + *** how to integrate your local styles + + *** how to use scalable fonts + + *** how to integrate graphics + + *** how to process existing documents + + *** how to use the new features + + *** how to write extension packages + + Presentations by members of the LaTeX3 project team--- + ---featuring Frank Mittelbach, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, + Sebastian Rahtz, Chris Rowley, Alan Jeffrey, Michel Goossens + +*************************************************************** +Booking Form + +I wish to attend the UKTUG's LaTeX2e conference on March 21st--22nd: + +Name: +Organisation: +Address: + + +Telephone: +Email: + +Please specify any special dietary requirements: +Specify any changes to standard 1-night accommodation[2]: +Indicate whether you require a copy of `The \LaTeX\ Companion'[3]: + + Payment enclosed[1,4,9] +or purchase order number[5] + + Signed: + Date: + +Notes +[1] Payment for the conference, all meals (including a conference dinner), + refreshments and accommodation for the night of Monday, March 21st, + will be \pounds89 for members of UKTUG (or other \TeX\ user groups) + and \pounds120 for non-members. +[2] Additional nights' accommodation (bed and breakfast) can + be included at a cost of \pounds20 per night. + Indicate which additional nights you require + (if any). If you do not require accommodation for the night + of Monday, March 21st, deduct \pounds20 and note this. +[3] `The \LaTeX\ Companion', by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, + has recently been published by Addison Wesley. It is the main source of + documentation about \LaTeX2e. We hope to have this book + available to delegates at a discount from its normal price of + \pounds26.95. Please indicate whether you wish to take advantage of + this offer, which is available only to those attending + the conference. +[4] Sterling cheques should be made payable to `Warwick University'. +[5] A Purchase Order, with an order number, is an acceptable alternative + method of payment, but will attract a \pounds15 surcharge on the + amount due. +[6] If your cost is outside the range \pounds69--175, recalculate. +[7] Return the completed form AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and also contact the + local organiser by email, telephone or fax to secure your + place. + For contact details, see below. +[8] If your requirements are not met by the options offered, + contact the local organizer. +[9] Note that VAT is not chargeable. +[10] A proper LaTeX-able version of the booking form is available from + the local organizer. + +Meeting duration +Conference registration will commence at 1000 on Monday 21st; +coffee will be available from 1030; the sessions will start at 1115. +The sessions will end at 1700 on Tuesday 22nd. + +Travel to Warwick University +There is an Inter-City rail service to Coventry, but from some +locations it may be easier to travel to Birmingham initially. + +Journey depart arrive +Euston to Coventry 0810 0920 + 0840 0950 + 0910 1025 +Manchester to Coventry 0718 0929 + 0818 1027 +Bristol (TM) to B'ham 0714 0854 Trains from Birmingham to Coventry + 0830 0954 are frequent and fast (journey time +Newcastle to B'ham 0640 0951 of 20--30 minutes, departing +York to B'ham 0742 0951 every 10 or 15 minutes). + +There will be a shuttle bus service running between 1000 and 1030 for delegates +arriving at Coventry Railway Station. The shuttle bus will also be available +on the 22nd to take delegates back to the station. + +A taxi from the station to the University costs about \pounds4. +Alternatively, buses (notably the X10, X12, 12 and 12A) run from +just outside the station to the University, taking about 15 minutes. +It is a de-regulated service and as such impossible to guess the +fare from day to day. It is usually about 50p. The 12 and 12A services +are `correct fare only', but no-one (except the driver) knows what +the correct fare is. + +The University is easily accessible by car, and +may be reached from the M1, M40, M42, M45, M6 and M69. +There is ample parking for private vehicles on campus. + +Birmingham airport is about 12 minutes from Coventry by +rail and is connected by a frequent and fast service. + +Payment Address +Please return the completed booking form, together +with your payment AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to: + +Malcolm Clark (lxii) +Computing Services Tel: 0203 523365 +University of Warwick Fax: 0203 523267 +Coventry CV4 7AL Email: m.clark@uk.ac.warwick (Janet) +UK m.clark@warwick.ac.uk (Internet) + + Book your place NOW + +------------------------------ + + UK TeX Archive at Aston University + >>> ftp.tex.ac.uk <<< + + Internet: + ftp.tex.ac.uk [134.151.79.32] -- anonymous ftp, gopher, NFS + For anonymous ftp, login: anonymous, password: <your-e-mail-address> + +\section Files of Interest + + tex-archive/00Contents + tex-archive/FILES.bydate + tex-archive/FILES.byname + tex-archive/FILES.byname_diff + tex-archive/FILES.bysize + tex-archive/MAP + tex-archive/README.archive-features + tex-archive/README.site-commands + tex-archive/README.uploads + +\section Digests + + This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory + tex-archive/digests/uktex/94 + This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory + tex-archive/digests/texhax/94 + Latest TeXhax: V94 #01 + +\section Media Distributions + Postal addresses are given below. + +\subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape + Our latest copy of May/June 1991 contains: + TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities + suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V + tar format, 1 file (36Mb) + + Send One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format + (DC600A or DC6150) with envelope AND stamps for return + postage to David Osborne (address below); due to currency + exchange, this service is offered only within the UK. + +\section TeX Implementations for Small Computers + +\subsection PC and Mac disks + + From January 1994 the UK TeX Users' Group is distributing an + emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. The cost + covers copying and postage costs, and the shareware fee for + OzTeX. Each set costs \pounds30, and is available from + Peter Abbott, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB. + Cheques must be payable to `UKTUG'. Please note that this + service **is available to UKTUG members only.** + + Each set comes with an installation guide, and (at least) + full TeX and Metafont, a previewer, a PostScript driver, and + CM fonts. Two update disks a year will be sent out + automatically, with the current version of LaTeXe, and other + goodies. A subscription service will be available for + subsequent years. In addition, subscribers can request up to + 3 disks a year with any material from the CTAN archives, but + this will be supplied `as is', without instructions. + + OzTeX and emTeX are also available on disk from TeX Users Group; + mail TUG for details. + +\subsection TeX for the Atari ST + + Enquiries for TeX for the Atari ST etc. can be directed to: + The Fast Club, 7 Musters Road, Nottingham NG2 7PP. Phone + 0602 455250, fax 0602 455305. They also supply a variety of + TeX-related software in Atari format. + + Enquiries for disks etc. can also be directed to: + The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD + Internet: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk + +\section Postage Rates + + Quarter-inch cartridges: UK: GBP 1.00, Europe: GBP 2.00. + +\section Postal Addresses + + Please include SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS for return postage. + + Peter Abbott + Information Systems, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET + Internet: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk + + David Osborne + Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD + (for Unix cartridges ONLY -- must include stamps for return postage) + Internet: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk + + TeX Users Group + P.O. Box 869, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, USA. + Internet: TUG@TUG.org + +\section UK TeX Users Group + + Details available from + Jonathan Fine, 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3HY, UK + or from + Internet: UKTuG-Enquiries@ftp.tex.ac.uk + or from + World-Wide Web server: http://ftp.tex.ac.uk/UKTUG/home.html + +\bye + +End of UKTeX Digest [Volume 94 Issue 9] +*************************************** |