From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #01 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <469.789649189.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 10:59:50 +0000 Message-ID: <470.789649190@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Monday, 9 Jan 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 01 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Re: Questions about previewers and dvi drivers Re: MS-DOS DVI driver for Olivetti inkjet printer? DVI driver for EPSON STYLUS 800 Distinguishing between LaTeX 2.09 and 2e Grammar Checker for LaTeX? CTAN management problems (uploads) new release of NTG document classes Announcement of the 1995 Donald E. Knuth Scholarship competition Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe texhax" or "unsubscribe texhax", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 08:07:46 -0500 From: bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) Subject: Re: Questions about previewers and dvi drivers > Imperial Software Technology is developing a tool which > generates hardcopy using LaTeX and included PostScript. > Naturally we would like this output to work on as many TeX > systems as possible, so I would be grateful for answers to > a few questions. * What are the commonly used previewers and dvi drivers we should aim to support? What platform? On Mac the best is Textures from Blue Sky Research. There is also Oz TeX from Andrew Trevorrow. And maybe a couple of others. On IBM PC/Windows the best is the Y&Y TeX system. There is also PC-TeX for Windows and Kinch's TrueTeX. And several public domain versions including emTeX. * Do any of these programs not support either the "psfile=" or "header=" specials? All drivers use their own syntax for garphics inclusion etc. The exception is Y&Y TeX which instead supports 12 of the most popular syntax used by other drivers. This includes psfile= and header= (and lots of others). * Is the LaTeX2e "graphics" package going to become the standard graphics interface? Will other packages support its syntax for compatibility? Customization files for the LaTeX 2e graphics package are now available for many drivers. But many people do not use LaTeX (its too restrictive and too hard to use non-CM fonts). * According to the manual page, xdvi does not "as yet" support "header=" specials. Will it? If so, how soon? Oh, You are Unix specific? * What (if any) are the significant differences between xdvi and xdvik? dvips and dvipsk? Oh, You are Unix specific? Regards, Berthold. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 10:36:21 -0500 From: leew@pilot.njin.net (Lee Wittenberg) Subject: Re: MS-DOS DVI driver for Olivetti inkjet printer? > A question: Does anyone know of a MSDOS dvi-driver for ink-injection > printer. I have an Olivetti 250JP - (emulation of HP DeskJet Plus). > Thanks for any information. The emTeX documention claims HP DeskJet+ support (and I believe that it probably does). According to the docs, the command prthplj /od does the job. -- Lee Lee Wittenberg | Committees know their own business best, Computer Science Department | and there is no reason why a senior Kean College of New Jersey | minister should not be an ill-informed Union, NJ 07083 | idiot; such things have been known. USA | | -- George MacDonald Fraser leew@pilot.njin.net | "Flashman & the Angel of the Lord" (1994) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 14:32:04 -0100 From: Jacek Uryga Subject: DVI driver for EPSON STYLUS 800 Does somebody know if there exists a public domain dvi driver and pk-fonts for inkjet printer EPSON STYLUS 800? The standard dvi drivers for 24-pin printers work with 240DPI bitmap fonts, but STYLUS can print with resolution of 300DPI... Jacek Uryga, Silesian University in Katowice ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 09:16:35 +0100 From: alien@essex.ac.uk (Adrian Clark) Subject: Distinguishing between LaTeX 2.09 and 2e [[ Dave, Happy new year. The attached message is really intended for the new TeXhax/UKTeX; but replying to a digest sends a message to `uktex@tex.ac.uk' which of course no longer exists -- and the digest does not appear to advertize the email address for contributions! ]] I'm putting together a LaTeX style file that needs to work with both \documentstyle and \documentclass, only using the nice new 2e style-file contruction commands when the author started his or her document with \documentclass. Is there an accepted way of doing this? Things like \ifx\documentclass obviously won't work 'cos it is defined when running in compatibility mode. Many thanks in advance. ..Adrian - --- Dr Adrian F Clark PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) FAX: (+44) 206-872900 Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 10:55:59 +0000 From: "Helen Clinch, Cranfield Computer Centre" Subject: Grammar Checker for LaTeX? Does anyone know whether there is a grammar checker available which can be used with LaTeX on unix? Thanks in advance, Helen Clinch Computer Centre Cranfield University (Email h.clinch@cranfield.ac.uk) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 16:38:38 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: CTAN management problems (uploads) In the recent past, it has become apparent that the canonical address for notifying uploads (ctan-mgr@shsu.edu) is not working. For the time being, therefore, the CTAN management request that you notify ctan@shsu.edu of any uploads. If you have made an upload in the recent past and it hasn't appeared on the archives, please re-send notification of your upload to ctan@shsu.edu I have changed the README.uploads file on ftp.tex.ac.uk to reflect this change, and have agreed with Rainer Shoepf that he will do the same for ftp.dante.de and ftp.shsu.edu. We hope that the problem will not persist, and we will change the READMEs back again and will announce again in these forums when service is restored to its usual state. R 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: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 16:46:07 +0100 From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: new release of NTG document classes A new release of the NTG document classes (artikell{1,2,3}, rapport{1,3}, boek, boek3 and brief} has been made available on CTAN (and listserv@nic.surfnet.nl). This release is compatible with LaTeX [1994/12/01]. Johannes Braams PTT Telecom, P.O. box 30150, 2500 GD 's Gravenhage The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3432037 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3432395 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 09:34:27 +0100 From: "Nico A. F. M. Poppelier" Subject: Announcement of the 1995 Donald E. Knuth Scholarship competition =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Announcement of the 1995 Donald E. Knuth Scholarship competition TUG, the TeX Users Group, makes available one Knuth Scholarship for award in 1995. The competition will be open to all TeX users holding support positions that are secretarial, clerical or editorial in nature. It is therefore not intended for those with a substantial training in technical, scientific or mathematical subjects and, in particular, it is not open to anyone holding, or studying for, a degree with a major or concentration in these areas. The award will consist of an expense-paid trip to the 1995 TUG Annual Meeting at St. Petersburg, Florida, and to the Scholar's choice from the short courses offered in conjunction with that meeting; and TUG membership for 1995, if the Scholar is not a TUG member, or for 1996, if the Scholar is already a TUG member. A cap of $2000 has been set for the award; however, this does not include the meeting or course registration fee, which will be waived. To enter the competition, applicants should submit to the Scholarship Committee, by the deadline specified below, the input file and final TeX output of a project that displays originality, knowledge of TeX, and good TeXnique. The full announcement will be printed in TUGboat 15 #3; it will also be posted to CTAN, in tex-archive/usergrps/tug/scholar.*. A brochure with additional information is available from the TUG office. To obtain a copy, or to request instructions on e-mail submission, write to the address at the end of this announcement, or send a message by e-mail to tug@tug.org with the subject ``Knuth Scholarship request''. Schedule The following schedule will apply (all dates are in 1995): 7 April Deadline for receipt of submissions 21 April--2 June Judging period 9 June Notification of winner 24--28 July 1995 Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, Florida Where to write All applications should be submitted to the Committee in care of the TUG office: TeX Users Group Attn: Knuth Scholarship Competition P.O. Box 869 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 USA e-mail: tug@tug.org Nico Poppelier Liaison to the Donald E. Knuth Scholarship Committee - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Nico A.F.M. Poppelier Elsevier Science Publishers, APD, Information Technology Development Molenwerf 1, 1014 AG Amsterdam, The Netherlands Phone: +31-20-4853482. Fax: +31-20-4853706. Email: n.poppelier@elsevier.nl ------------------------------ About TeXhax... 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