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diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.24 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.24 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e90adae7a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.24 @@ -0,0 +1,392 @@ +From: UKTeX-Request@tex.ac.uk +To: UKTeX Distribution: ; +Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #24 +Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 17:32:30 +0100 +Message-ID: <13080.773080350@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +UKTeX Digest Friday, 1 Jul 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 24 + + ``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: HP Deskjet driver for Unix? + Re: LaTeX2e + PSNFSS2e + Re: How to print side by side pages + Re: How to print side by side pages + Re: Cyrillic fonts + Re: The new LaTeX + Adobe fonts- source, anyone? + tgrind + File handle problems with betatest emTeX and Novell Netware + + +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: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 13:17:17 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: HP Deskjet driver for Unix? + + > I'm looking for a driver for a printer driver for a DeskJet 500 + > in source code which I can compile and install under Linux. The + > only close thing I've come across in the Archive is dvi2pcl, which + > didn't work too well (an understatement). + +look at it from another direction. use dvips, and then GhostSCript to +drive the deskjet. i do all my printing to an HP LJIII with +GhostScript, its excellent and fast. + +sebastian + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 13:17:17 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: LaTeX2e + PSNFSS2e + + > I have been testing my LaTeX2e + PSNFSS2e installation using the + > supplied TEST0.TEX file and I get the LaTeX error message that \dag + > and \ddag cannot be found in the T1 encoding. A simpler file + > illustrating the error with the resulting log file are listed below. + > Am I missing any/some TFM files (I have some but not all of the DC + > fonts TFM files in my TFM search path)? + +\dag and \ddag dont exist in the T1 encoding; i guess i should have +warned you this would happen, but is normal and correct behaviour + +sebastian + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 13:17:17 +0000 +From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) +Subject: Re: How to print side by side pages + + > I'm producing my thesis at the moment and I wish to reduce the + > amount of printing and paper I using. What I would like to do + > is to put two pages of A4(portrait) onto a single sheet of + > A4(landscape) side by side + +get Angus Duggan's psutils package, and look at pstops (I assume you +are using a PostScript printer?) + +sebastian + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 09:42:54 +1030 +From: Tony Roberts <aroberts@zeus.usq.edu.au> +Subject: Re: How to print side by side pages + +> >I'm producing my thesis at the moment and I wish to reduce the +> >amount of printing and paper I using. What I would like to do +> >is to put two pages of A4(portrait) onto a single sheet of +> >A4(landscape) side by side +> >ie. +> > ------- ------ ------- +> >| | | | | A | (Pages A and B should be +> >| A | + | B | -> | | rotated so that they +> >| | | | | B | can be read when the page is +> >| | | | | | is held in landscape.) +> > ------- ------ ------- +> > +> >How can this be achieved, using either dos or unix systems ??? + +see the attached file which I call "a4l.sty" which does a convenient job. +The only thing you have to do is to scale any imported postscript figures +slightly differently (by 5/6 as pspicture does). Used with 10pt it +typesets nearly the same as 12pt A4, just that you get two fat columns. +View and print the document in landscape. + Tony + + Professor A.J. Roberts + Dept of Mathematics & Computing E-mail: aroberts@usq.edu.au + University of Southern Queensland Phone: (076) 312943 + Toowoomba, Queensland 4350 Fax: (076) 312721 + AUSTRALIA WWW: ftp://ftp.usq.edu.au/pub/aroberts +- -------------------- +\typeout{ A4 landscape size 9/9/93} +% my additions +\input{twocolumn.sty} +\topmargin -1cm +\textheight 16.5cm +\textwidth 27cm +\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.5pt} +\hoffset=-2.5cm +\pagestyle{headings} + +% allocates space and does special for a picture, invoked by +% \picture{ps filename}{vsize units} +\newcommand{\pspicture}[2]{{ +\dimen111=#2 \multiply\dimen111 by 5 \divide\dimen111 by 6 +\vspace{\dimen111} +\special{#1 0.816 0.816 scale} +}} + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 18:23:00 +0000 +From: CSG0070@vax2.queens-belfast.ac.uk +Subject: Re: Cyrillic fonts in the TeX archive + +llb@ukc.ac.uk asks: +> It appears that the Cyrillic fonts of the cmcyr family are only archived at +> 10-point size at Aston. Are the other sizes lurking somewhere less obvious o +r +> can you direct me to another ftp archive that has them, please? Thanks + +> Laurence Boyle + +You could fetch tex-archive/fonts/cm/sauter/sauter-2.1.tar.gz from Aston. +This includes - among much else - Metafont source to generate cmcyr fonts +at any pointsize. + +Ciar\'an \'O Duibh\'in. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 19:57:00 -0500 +From: john@gagme.wwa.com (John T. Fontanilla) +Subject: Re: The new LaTeX + +In article <11572.771931459@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> you wrote: + +: >From now on there will be a new distribution of LaTeX twice a year, in +: June and December. + +: The new LaTeX can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from the CTAN archives: + +: ftp.tex.ac.uk /tex-archive/macros/latex/base +: ftp.shsu.edu /tex-archive/macros/latex/base +: ftp.dante.de /tex-archive/macros/latex/base + + +: The files in these directories require a somewhat long unpacking +: process. For those who prefer to skip this step, we provide a second +: distribution in unpacked format in the following CTAN directories: + +: ftp.tex.ac.uk /tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked +: ftp.shsu.edu /tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked +: ftp.dante.de /tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked + +Hi, + Is 'base' the filename or the directory name? +John + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 15:53:16 -0000 +From: dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk (Dean Ayres) +Subject: Adobe fonts- source, anyone? + +Hi, + +I want to get the suplementary font pack for the Adobe Type Manager. +Does anyone know of any UK suppliers? + +Best Wishes, + +Dean Ayres + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 11:22:30 +0100 +From: druid@caercn.dra.hmg.gb +Subject: tgrind + +Is tgrind still the best way to print source code? +I am interested, in particular in C++, Ada and C, +in that order. + +I am particularly interested because I cannot create +a procedure decl rule for tgrind which will reliably +find all procedure decls, and ONLY procedure decls. +My current problem is that, in C++, + +foo () + : bar { + +is seen as two nested procedures, not one. + +If tgrind is still the best thing around, then I will +extend its rule language to handle this construct correctly. +However, I don't want to do this if there is something +better out there. + +Comments? + + Mark. + +p.s., if you wish to reply directly, + please reply to an address below + as my mail headers get corrupt. +- -- +B1013, DRA Malvern, Internet: Mark.Templeton%hermes.dra.hmg.gb@relay.mod.uk +St Andrews Road, Janet : Mark.Templeton@uk.mod.hermes +Malvern, Worcs., Internal: druid@caercn +WR14 3PS, +United Kingdom, Phone: +44-684-892733 x2109 + +------------------------------ + +Date: 29 Jun 1994 16:38:27 +From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk> +Subject: File handle problems with betatest emTeX and Novell Netware + + +Has anyone else experienced file handle problems running the latest betatest +of emTeX on a Novell network? The problems we are experiencing are + +- -- TeX cannot open a TeX file in the current directory, even though it + could on the last run. + +- -- cannot write to xxx.log + +- -- cannot write to xxx.dvi + +- -- cannot open/write to xxx.aux + +Usually the first such error causes TeX to enter its infinite loop, and a +reboot is essential, as any other filename gives the same result. + +Note also that the problem occurs even when working on c: with megabytes +to spare, and neither temp nor tmp pointing at the network drives. + +When the problem occurs in a DOS shell from MS Windows, an attempt at exiting +from windows causes a shutdown, as DOS says it has run out of file handles. +We start with files=48 (+16) on our network. + +Any help would be much appreciated! + +Mike Piff + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% Dr M J Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %% +%% Sheffield, UK. e-mail: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk %% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +------------------------------ + + 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 #04 + +\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 24] +**************************************** |