From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.33 | 433 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 433 insertions(+) create mode 100644 info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.33 (limited to 'info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.33') diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.33 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.33 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..063399660b --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.33 @@ -0,0 +1,433 @@ +From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk +To: UKTeX Distribution: ; +Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #33 +Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Content-ID: <786.778524946.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 17:55:47 +0100 +Message-ID: <787.778524947@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +UKTeX Digest Friday, 2 Sep 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 33 + +Today's Topics: + RE: psboxit macros + Postscript macros + Re: Postscript macros + Re: Postscript macros + Re: Postscript macros + Re: Postscript macros + temporary immortality offered + + +Administrivia: + Moderators: Peter Abbott (UK TeX Users Group) and + David Osborne (University of Nottingham) + Contributions: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk + Subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@tex.ac.uk + (message body = "subscribe uktex" or "unsubscribe uktex", [no quotes]) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 12:47:15 -0500 +From: "George D. Greenwade" +Subject: RE: psboxit macros + +In UKTeX Digest V94 #32 (Fri, 26 Aug 1994 15:45:44 +0100), +joop@entropic.demon.co.uk (Joop Jansen) asked: +> I read in the LaTeX companion that there should exist a macro package +> psboxit which allows you to print text on a grey background. I have not +> been able to find it however. Could anyone tell where it is? + +The file I believe being referred to is in + /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/psboxit.sty +on the CTAN hosts (ftp.TeX.ac.uk, ftp.DANTE.de, ftp.SHSU.edu, and their +mirrors). Definitely the same author and same filename identified in TLC. +I'll admit that I haven't used this with 2e (yet), but it worked marvelously +under 2.09. Also, unless there's something I've inadvertantly overlooked, +the file doesn't appear to need any retrofitting to be compatible with 2e. + +For reference, you can always use the command + quote site index psboxit +in an interactive ftp session on the CTAN hosts to get a listing of where +all files with the (case insensitive) string "psboxit" reside. This +command will NOT work if you use a hyphen as the first character of your +password -- messages from the ftp server must be left turned on. Also, +some ftp clients may not require the "quote" part of the example above; +your mileage may vary. Obviously, replace "psboxit" with whatever it is +you are looking for. + +Finally, to get a listing of the mirrors of the CTAN (now at 20 full or +partial mirrors in 11 countries on 4 continents -- sorry for the plug; you +don't know how good that feels to those of us involved with this monster!) +you can "finger" the address + ctan_us@ftp.SHSU.edu +and get a listing or you can retrieve the file tex-archive/CTAN.sites from +one of the CTAN hosts. + +Regards, George + +George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu +Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG +College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 +Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 +Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA + +------------------------------ + +Date: 01 Sep 1994 14:34:59 +0000 +From: kgb@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Karl Glazebrook) +Subject: Postscript macros + +Hi, + +I was wondering if any reader of this group can recommend +a powerful macro package for including postscript figures? + +I am aware there are sveral packages around and have played +with a few in the past, none of them being particularly +satisfactory. + +What I am really after is a package which can cope with +all kinds of perverse postscript files, not just encapsulated +well structured one. You see I use various software packages, with +all kinds of postscript drivers to produce figures. So +I want something robust enough to allow me to flexibly handle +anything called "postscript" which is thrown at me. + +Ideally it would also allow me to scale and rotate figures +easily. + +I use the dvips (5.518) that comes with TeX C version 3.141 +though I would be prepared to switch. + +Karl, who is sick of scissors and sellotape. + + email: kgb@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk WWW: http://cast0.ast.cam.ac.uk/~kgb/ +finger: kgb@jhereg.ast.cam.ac.uk body: Institute of Astronomy,Cambridge,UK + "UNIX, it's not just for breakfast anymore." --- Jeff Weisberg + +------------------------------ + +Date: 01 Sep 1994 16:27:06 +0000 +From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) +Subject: Re: Postscript macros + +In article <344oqj$ve@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, +Karl Glazebrook wrote: +>I was wondering if any reader of this group can recommend +>a powerful macro package for including postscript figures? +> +>I am aware there are sveral packages around and have played +>with a few in the past, none of them being particularly +>satisfactory. +> +>What I am really after is a package which can cope with +>all kinds of perverse postscript files, not just encapsulated +>well structured one. You see I use various software packages, with +>all kinds of postscript drivers to produce figures. So +>I want something robust enough to allow me to flexibly handle +>anything called "postscript" which is thrown at me. +> +>Ideally it would also allow me to scale and rotate figures +>easily. + +You don't say what macros you want it to work with: I know about plain +TeX (though I hardly ever use it), LaTeX2.09 (which I've pretty much +given up) and LaTeX2e. + +You're probably asking more than the world can supply (since I +occasionally receive `PostScript' which no _printer_ here can deal +with, expecting that of a macro package is probably rather much), but +the LaTeX2e graphics package seems pretty robust as these things go, +and it does what you want. Of course, if the input isn't encapsulated +PostScript, you have to tell the macros vital things like the actual +size of the picture. + +>I use the dvips (5.518) that comes with TeX C version 3.141 +>though I would be prepared to switch. + +It's not the most up to date, but then your TeX isn't either. dvips +is one of many that the graphics package supports, and it's the one +with the fullest feature set. You'll probably not have to change. +- -- +Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk +U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK +Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html + +------------------------------ + +Date: 01 Sep 1994 16:37:33 +0000 +From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson) +Subject: Re: Postscript macros + +In article <344oqj$ve@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, kgb@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Karl Glazebr +ook) writes: +... +> I was wondering if any reader of this group can recommend +> a powerful macro package for including postscript figures? +... +> What I am really after is a package which can cope with +> all kinds of perverse postscript files, not just encapsulated +> well structured one. You see I use various software packages, with +> all kinds of postscript drivers to produce figures. + +No powerful macro package can help you. At the end of the day +all of them just emit a \special command which tells dvips to +insert the PostScript file. The PostScript fundamentally has +to be "clean" enough to run in the environment that the PostScript +generated by dvips presents it with. + +I think your only hope is something that can take your PostScript +and do a partial interpretation of it, and producing as output +a "clean" PostScript program which generates the equivalent graphics +primitives. I have a vague feeling that somebody once told me of +such a beast, but I can't place the details at the moment. Can +ghostscript be made to do anything of the sort, I wonder? + +- -- +Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk +University of Cambridge Computer Lab +Cambridge UK + +------------------------------ + +Date: 02 Sep 1994 10:41:35 +0100 +From: "M.P.Ward" +Subject: Re: Postscript macros + +In article <34500d$4vp@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, +Martyn Johnson wrote: +>gb@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Karl Glazebrook) writes: +>... +>> What I am really after is a package which can cope with +>> all kinds of perverse postscript files, not just encapsulated +>> well structured one. You see I use various software packages, with +>> all kinds of postscript drivers to produce figures. +> +>I think your only hope is something that can take your PostScript +>and do a partial interpretation of it, and producing as output +>a "clean" PostScript program which generates the equivalent graphics +>primitives. I have a vague feeling that somebody once told me of +>such a beast, but I can't place the details at the moment. Can +>ghostscript be made to do anything of the sort, I wonder? + +Yes, ghostscript can! I have used it to interpret "perverse postscript +files" which were too perverse for my printer. I used Ghostscript to +interpret the file and generate a 300dpi pbm file (portable bitmap). +The pbmplus package includes a program which turns a pbm file back into +postscript. Of course, it generates nice encapsulated postscript +(but resolution dependent, and HUGE!). + +Here's a perl script I call pstops (convert PostScript to PostScript!) +which uses gohstscript and pbmtops: + + Martin. + +JANET: Martin.Ward@uk.ac.durham Internet (eg US): Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk +or if that fails: Martin.Ward%uk.ac.durham@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk +or even: Martin.Ward%DURHAM.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU +BITNET: Martin.Ward%durham.ac.uk@UKACRL UUCP:...!uknet!durham!Martin.Ward + +#!/usr/local/bin/perl +# pstops file +# Use GhostScript to convert a ps file to one or more pbm files. +# Then use pnmtops to convert the result(s) back to PostScript. +# Why? Because some stupid printers may not be able to handle +# the original PostScript, but may be able to handle a huge bitmap. +# + +($myname = $0) =~ s|(.*/)*||; # strip path component from name +$Usage = "Usage: $myname input [output] \n"; +# Check one or two arguments: +die $Usage if (($#ARGV < 0) || ($#ARGV > 1)); + +$HOME = $ENV{'HOME'} || $ENV{'LOGDIR'} || + (getpwuid($<))[7] || die "You're homeless!\n"; +$USER = $ENV{'USER'} || getlogin || + (getpwuid($<))[0] || die "You're nameless!\n"; + +$input = $ARGV[0]; +$input =~ s/\.ps$//; +if ($#ARGV == 1) { + $output = $ARGV[1]; +} else { + $output .= "$input.psbit"; +} +die "File `$input.ps' not found!\n" unless (-f "$input.ps"); + +# Run ghostscript: +open (GS, "|gs -dNODISPLAY"); +print GS <; +foreach $file (@files) { + print "Processing $file...\n"; + ($num = $file) =~ s/^$input\.(.*)ppm$/$1/; + # add leading zeros to $num: + $num = sprintf("%03d", $num); + system "pnmtops -rle -scale .25 -width 9 -height 12 $file > $output$num"; + unlink ($file); +} + +# End of pstops + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 08:56:34 +0100 +From: Malcolm Clark +Subject: temporary immortality offered + +i received the following from leslie lamport regarding +typos in the 2e of the latex manual: + +> Thanks for the typo report. Yours is the first. I've been informed +> that A-W is producing a second printing. To get typos corrected, I +> need to provide them with the corrected pages by early September. +> +> As an incentive, assuming A-W has no objections, I intend to add to +> the preface an acknowledgement of everyone who reports previously +> unreported typos. So, please tell your colleagues, friends, +> relatives, pen pals, and creditors that this is their chance for +> immortality (of fairly short duration). +> +> From lamport@src.dec.com Tue Aug 9 15:38:01 1994 + +malcolm clark + +------------------------------ + + UK TeX Archive + >>> tex.ac.uk <<< + Part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) + + tex.ac.uk -- mail + [user@tex.ac.uk] + + ftp.tex.ac.uk -- anonymous ftp + [username: anonymous, password: ] + + gopher.tex.ac.uk -- Gopher access + + www.tex.ac.uk -- World-Wide Web access + [URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive] + + nfs.tex.ac.uk -- NFS access + [nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive] + +\section Files of Interest + + tex-archive/00Contents + tex-archive/CTAN.sites + tex-archive/FILES.bydate + tex-archive/FILES.byname + 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 #07 + +\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); regret that due to currency + exchange difficulties, 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. 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