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+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
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+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]
+***************************************