From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #14 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: <15780.812365020.1@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 09:57:01 +0100 Message-ID: <15781.812365021@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Friday, 29 Sep 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 14 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Font proliferation The "Dog Book" and Packages PS Smallcaps Font color, graphics Macro to return directory/path name? VF versions of CM fonts Where can I find a free copy of Latex in internet tugboat 15#4 -- late, but on the way Announcing gsftopk-1.11 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: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:09:14 -0000 From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence) Subject: Font proliferation I am using PasTeX on the Amiga and my font pk files are proliferating. I would like to delete/archive fonts which are not used very often. Is there a way of telling which are the most used fonts ? Dr. Matthew Clemence University College London. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:28:54 +0100 From: Russel Winder Subject: The "Dog Book" and Packages This maybe a stupid collection of questions, no doubt I will get mountains of hate mail if it is but... I am a (relatively happy) LaTeX2e user using a "bog standard" installation. The LaTeX Companion by Goosens, Mittelback and Samarin talks of many packages that are not part of our standard installation but nonetheless look useful. In ferreting around CTAN, I find some of them are in the LaTeX209 tree rather than the LaTeX2e tree and some of them are not there at all. Is it the case that what is in the book is supposed to be on CTAN? Is it the case that the LaTeX2e tree should contain everything for LaTeX2e or what? I will not mention which packages I am after for the moment since my problem is that the code of both the ones I am interested in does not appear work properly. There is also a macro in latex.ltx that appears to be broken. Now under the circumstances (i.e. that one of the macros is in latex.ltx, that the packages are written about in an official LaTeX2e book, and that lots of people must use the facilties of LaTeX2e) I should perhaps doubt me and my understanding but it all behaves in a very broken fashion. I have rewritten the macro and the two packages so that they work perfectly. What is the mechanism for finding out who is wrong? Russel. Dr Russel Winder Reader in Software Engineering Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems Department of Computer Science Phone: +44 (0)171 380 7293 University College London Fax: +44 (0)171 387 1397 Gower Street EMail: R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk London WC1E 6BT UK URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/R.Winder/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 17:46:31 -0500 From: Rieger Subject: PS Smallcaps Font I've recently been trying to use PostScript resident fonts with DVIPS and following the instructions in the manual I ran AFM2TFM and then VPTOVF to generate the required files. Things went smoothly and the printer was indeed using its own fonts. The trouble began when I wanted to build a small caps font. Again following the instructions I ran afm2tfm Times-Roman -V ptmsc rptmsc vptovf ptmsc.vpl ptmsc.vf ptmsc.tfm I also added a line to PSFONTS.MAP like this: rptmsc Times-Roman "/Times-Roman Small Caps" The TeX file was amended to read now: \font\vvzsmc=ptmsc at 10pt {\vvzsmc ... (some text) ... } which went through TeX and DVIPS without a hitch, but the resulting PostScript file wouldn't print. From the front panel of the printer you could see that it received the file and was working on it, but no output was produced. If you have any idea what went wrong, I'd appreciated your help very much. Thanks in advance, Yours, Hans +--------------------+------------------------------+------------------+ | Hans Rieger | Internet: rieger@uni-bonn.de | | | University of Bonn, RHRZ | Bitnet : uzr108@dbnrhrz1 | __o | | Wegeler-Str. 6 | | _`\<,_ | | 53115 Bonn | Phone : +49-228-73-3444 | (_)/ (_) | | Germany | Fax : -2743 | | +------------------------------+--------------------+------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:00:08 +0100 From: David.Simpson@ivl.se Subject: color, graphics I am trying to set up LaTeX2e on a unix station, and wanted to use the new color and graphics packages. However, attempts to use "usepackage" result in messages such as ! Latex error : File 'color.sty' not found. Similarly for 'graphics.sty' I have searched the CTAN archives for such files.All I have come up with is the graphics package directory containing color.dtx,=20 graphics.dtx, but no .sty files. What is wrong ? Dave Simpson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:43:14 -0000 From: C D Radcliffe Subject: Macro to return directory/path name? Is there a command or macro which can return the current directory which a .tex file is in? I have used \jobname to give the name of the tex file but I also require the directory. Thanks in advance, Chris Radcliffe, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, __o Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. _ _`\<,_ men5cdr@sun.leeds.ac.uk (0113 - 2332152) -_ (_)/ (_) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 12:44:11 +0100 From: Kieran Parsons Subject: VF versions of CM fonts I'd like to use the postscript versions of the Computer Modern fonts available on CTAN (either BaKoma or Paradissa) in my LaTeX documents. In order to use XDVI or DVIPS I need the VF versions of the CM fonts, which do not appea r to be on CTAN. Has anyone got copies of these?, or could tell me how to generat e them (I understand that fontinst could be used, but I have no experience using this package). Thanks for any help you can give me, Kieran ########################################################################## # # # Sender: Kieran Parsons # # # # E-mail: k.parsons@bris.ac.uk # # Tel: (0117) 928 7740 (Room 1.5) # # Fax: (0117) 925 5265 # # # ########################################################################## ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:23:50 -0500 From: cwu Subject: Where can I find a free copy of Latex in internet Hello, Is there any free copy of Latex in internet with printing driver available? If so, please let me know at following e-mail address. cwu@yoda.unl.edu Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: 31 Aug 1995 08:42:19 -0400 From: bbeeton Subject: tugboat 15#4 -- late, but on the way TUGboat 15#4 has been sent to the printer today by overnight courier. The printing schedule calls for the finished issue to be mailed out three weeks from receipt of the camera copy by the printer. In other words, mailing should occur by September 22. TUGboat 15, 4, December 1994 Contents 423 Addresses General Delivery 425 Christina Thiele Opening words 426 Barbara Beeton Editorial comments: TeX meetings in 1994; A new, expanded TeX FAQ; UKTeX Digest ceases to exist; Miscellaneous gossip 427 Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz and Barbara Beeton The TUG94 Proceedings -- Apologia 429 Julita Bolland, Toni Walter and Wlodek Bzyl EuroTeX'94 Dreamboat 434 Philip Taylor Minutes of the NTS meeting held at Lindau on October 11/12th 1994 Tools 438 Maurice Laugier and Yannis Haralambous TeX innovations at the Louis-Jean printing house Fonts 444 Pierre A. MacKay Recycled Metafont 447 Yannis Haralambous Indica, an Indic preprocessor for TeX: A Sinhalese TeX system Graphics 459 Petr Olsak The EAN barcodes by TeX Letters 464 Philip Taylor An open letter to the TUG Board Survey 466 Gabriel Valiente Feruglio Typesetting commutative diagrams Macros 485 Victor Eijkhout The bag of tricks 486 Jacques Richer A TeX autostereogram generator 492 Reinhard Foessmeier Stereographic pictures using TeX LaTeX 496 Johannes Braams To reset or not to reset Abstracts 498 Cahiers GUTenberg Nos. 18 and 19 500 Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Eighth European TeX Conference, Gdansk, September 1994 News & Announcements 504 Calendar 505 Barbara Beeton Production notes TUG Business 506 Institutional members Forms 507 TUG membership application Advertisements 508 TeX consulting and production services ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:10:05 -0700 From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) Subject: Announcing gsftopk-1.11 This is to announce that version 1.11 of gsftopk is available. gsftopk is a utility that calls Ghostscript to render PostScript fonts, and then converts them into pk format. This allows you to view PostScript fonts in xdvi. In addition to various bug fixes, this version: 1. optionally incorporates Karl Berry's kpathsea library for recursive path searching, 2. works better with gs 3.33: it doesn't choke if you defined SAFER following the recent CERT advisory, and it does not suffer from segmentation faults caused by a bug in the garbage collection routines. To upgrade, you can either: 1. get the whole package again: CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.11.tar.gz or 2. apply the following patch to version 1.10: CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.10-1.11.diff.gz These files are also available in Unix compress format from math.berkeley.edu in the directory pub/Software/TeX. - --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ About TeXhax... 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