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diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.10 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.10 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1674220eb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.10 @@ -0,0 +1,259 @@ +From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk +To: UKTeX Distribution: ; +Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #10 +Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 15:58:12 +0000 +Message-ID: <3298.763401492@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +UKTeX Digest Friday, 11 Mar 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 10 + + ``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: when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file? + Macintosh format PostScript Fonts + Re: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts + Float minor style + Query via FAX from Poland + +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, 04 Mar 1994 20:02:44 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file? + +> $200 for Yannis Haralambous' ScholarTex package bought me the +> fonts but no installation instructions ... + +put pressure on him + + > 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. + +you are doing something seriously wrong. what does the .vpl file you +are trying to convert look like? sounds as if you are working on +a binary file + + > 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 ... + +its impossible to say, withoit seeing your fonts , what happening. you +*must* press Yannis, if you paid him money, otherwise you'll end up +paying someone else to fix his problems. + +are you simply after Greek? there are plenty of other good Greek +fonts. i can help with Monotype Porson Greek if you need. + +sebastian + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1994 14:34:40 +0000 +From: dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk (Dean Ayres) +Subject: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts + +I've just purchased a copy of Apple Adobe Type Manager for the Mac, +with the aim of using the fonts with PSNFSS/ghostscript on a Sun. + +Unfortunately, they are in a Binary format. Is it possible to convert +them to the standard ASCII PFA format? + +Regards, + +Dean Ayres + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 13:14:54 +0000 +From: dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk (Dean Ayres) +Subject: Re: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts + +I asked how to convert Macintosh format PostScript fonts (as supplied with +Adobe Type Manager) to pfa or pfb format for use in a TeX system. + +Sebastian Rahtz replied; +> ghostscript and dvips read binary pfb files ok; you just need to convert out +of +> Mac rubbish. check out t1tools somewhere on CTAN for various +> conversion tools. + +I looked in t1tools and also t1utils (both on CTAN). They convert between +pfa, pfb and ascii font formats, but don't 'convert out the Mac rubbish.' +Has anyone else had any luck with this? + +Dean Ayres + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 11:11:14 +0000 +From: David Lindsey <d.c.lindsey@aberdeen.ac.uk> +Subject: Float minor style + +The LaTeX Companion, section: 6.2, describes a minor style: 'float' by Anselm +Lingnau which provides facilities helping one cope with the rather wayward +behaviour of LaTeX floats. + +Can anyone tell me how to get hold of a copy of this? I've searched the +/pub/archive/macros hierarchy, not exhaustively but exhaustedly nonetheless. + + +David Lindsey (d.c.lindsey@abdn.ac.uk) +Aberdeen University Computing Centre + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 15:25:23 +0000 +From: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk +Subject: Query via FAX from Poland + + +Dear Colleague + +While brousing through Acorn Education Directory I found information which +indicates that you can name TeX on Archimedes. Because the main part of my +scientific output is written in TeX, LaTeX or AMSTeX I am familiar with +these programmes, but it would be nice if can copy with TeX on Archimedes +5000 computer I bought and and which stands at my home. If you see any +possibility to help me I will be delighted. If yes please write at address +above. + +Sincerely yours + +Rafal Kolodziej +Uniwersytet Warszawski +Email RAFALO@mimuw.edu.pl + +------------------------------ + + 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 10] +**************************************** |