Article 78 of ucam.mlist.texhax: From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #11 Date: 21 Dec 97 17:08:04 GMT TeXhax Digest Sunday, 21 December 1997 Volume 1997 : Number 011 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Web2c-7.1 ANNOUNCE: xtem version 6 Harvard Refs? Harvard Refs? (A) LaTeX2e version in color.sty ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Olaf Weber Date: 10 Nov 1997 22:21:01 +0100 Subject: Web2c-7.1 (EST)" Precedence: bulk At long last web2c-7.1 is available. This release contains a port of the basic TeX project programs (TeX, Metafont, MetaPost, GFtoPK, etc.) to Unix. It also contains a new version of the kpathsea library. It does not contain any of the dvi drivers (dviljk, dvipsk, xdvik) or other support programs (makeindexk, ps2pkk): these will become available later. The release can be obtained by retrieving ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/web2c.tar.gz ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/web.tar.gz (the latter is only needed if you do not have the web files, otherwise you can just link/copy those in the web2c-7.1/web2c directory). You will also need a a library tree to compile and use these programs. The file ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/texmflib.tar.gz provides a bare-bones tree. These files are also available as ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/web2c.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/web.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/texmflib.tar.gz Soon these files will also be available on CTAN sites and their mirrors. (Germany) ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/web2c (England) ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/web2c (USA) ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/systems/web2c Finger ctan@ftp.dante.de to obtain a list of mirrors. An up-to-date list is also appended to this message. Please note that the all-in-one-file texk.tar.gz release has _not_ been updated, and will not be in the immediate future. Sorry. This release fixes virtually all known bugs in web2c-7.0 and kpathsea-3.0, and adds a few new features, especially to kpathsea. Many thanks to all the people who reported bugs, made suggestions, and provided patches. Instructions for sending bug reports (and joining the mailing list) are in the distribution file kpathsea/BUGS. A summary of the changes follows; read them carefully. Please read the manuals as well. kpathsea changes: 3.1 (10 november 1997) * The support for multiple texmf trees is much improved. * New MakeTeX* scripts, based on teTeX's. These scripts now use heuristics to decide where generated files are placed and which permissions they should have. * The varfonts feature is enabled by default. * Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources. * Change in searching algorithm: if a name doesn't have the default suffix we append it for the first search. Then we search for the bare name. Thus if you have foo.bar and foo.bar.tex, the latter will now be found first. Under the old system, you had to specify boo.bar.tex.tex to get foo.bar.tex instead of foo.bar. * Prepend the value of KPSE_DOT to relative paths from texmf.cnf if it defined in the environment. This means we can use . instead of $KPSE_DOT in paths. * Define brace expansion so that {a,b}{1,2} expands to a1:b1:a2:b2. This is different from how shells do it, and exploited in texmf.in. * Renamed texmf.cnf.in to texmf.in. * New value for debugging: DEBUG_VARS, equal to 64. * If a file format has no suffix, allow its long name as the argument to kpsewhich --format. web2c changes: 7.1 (10 november 1997) * Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources. * VPtoVF: Increased capacity. * TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost: - File foo.bar.tex results in \jobname foo.bar, hence foo.bar.{log,dvi,...}. This as opposed to foo and foo.{log,dvi,...} which it how it used to be in version 6. In 7.0 situation was confusing, as the heuristics used would sometimes result in the extension being stripped, sometimes not. * TeX: - The -extend-jobname option has been removed. - Printing of non-ASCII characters in diagnostics, code by Bernd Raichle. * web2c: - Some support for e-TeX added to convert. . $ finger ctan@ftp.dante.de [sun.dante.de] Login name: ctan Directory: /home/server/ctan Shell: /bin/sync Never logged in. 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The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are: ftp.dante.de (Deutschland) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- gopher on node gopher.dante.de -- email via ftpmail@dante.de -- World Wide Web access on http://www.dante.de/ -- Administrator: ftp.tex.ac.uk (England) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive -- World Wide Web access on http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive -- Administrator: tug2.cs.umb.edu (Massachusetts, USA) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/archive) -- World Wide Web access on http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/ -- Administrator: - -- Olaf Weber ------------------------------ From: wz@iwd.uni-bremen.de (Roland Weibezahn) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:18:58 +0100 Subject: ANNOUNCE: xtem version 6 Dear xtem users, We have finished the new version (xtem_TeXMenu 6.12) of "xtem", an X11-TeX-menu which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl8.0) as well as with the old versions (Tcl7.4, Tcl7.5 and Tcl7.6). In addition to adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk, we have done error corrections and added new features, such as: - - the hyphenations found in the .dvi-file can be displayed after a TeX run (for this we have written a program hyphen_show.c); - - we also realized key bindings, - - and we modified the print menu (page selection is now controlled for the existence of the selected page numbers in the document). As usual you can get all material (including the source code of Tcl/Tk/TclX we used) from our ftp server: ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/*.tar.gz or http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html The final release took a little bit more time than intended by us originally (vacancies, installation, and -- last but not least -- we had hard to work to program around some incompatibilities between Tcl8.0 and Tcl7.6). We have plans for more features, we will discuss them in a few days in our xtem discussion list, for which you can subscribe with an e-mail to majordomo@iwd.uni-bremen.de with "body" subscribe xtem-list end Regards, Roland Weibezahn - -- Dr. Roland Weibezahn weibezahn@iwd.uni-bremen.de phone: +49-421-218-3532 University Bremen, IWD, post-box: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany http://www.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html (the xtem_TeXMenu project) ------------------------------ From: P Taylor Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:26:18 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Harvard Refs? >Hi, I'm hoping that you can offer advice to me. I have been using Bibtex C Version 0.99c to obtain standard numerical referencing in the past in conjunction with LaTeX Version 2.09 (14 Jan 1992). However, I am just starting to write up my PhD thesis in Civil Engineering using LaTeX2e (1995/06/01) patch level 3 because I wish to use the harvard reference system in conjunction with Bibtex C Version 0.99c. From text books I have managed to learn that I will need the harvard.sty file written by P Williams and T Schnier. I have obtained this using ftp however I cannot find out what commands are needed or where they are needed to get anything working. I would be very grateful if you could send me the infomation I require or refer me to a text containing the infomation. Whilst I'm fairly computer literate I'm no whizz kid (my PhD is in Soil Mechanics!) so I'd appreciate it if I only new the basics just to get the thing working. Yours sincerely Paul Taylor. ------------------------------ From: Werenfried Spit Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 15:07:29 +0100 Subject: Harvard Refs? (A) There used to be a user manual with harvard.sty. I remember it lived on CTAN among the bibstyles. Otherwise, its fairly easy: - - use a Harvard-bibstyle - - use normal \cite s good luck - --- Werenfried Spit e-mail W.Spit@witbo.nl Witteveen+Bos Consulting Engineers phone +31-70-3.700.709 Den Haag, The Netherlands fax +31-70-3.600.098 ------------------------------ From: Mark Joy Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:58:28 GMT0BST Subject: LaTeX2e version in color.sty Can anyone help with the following... I have a copy of PCTEX and have copied the installation files for LATEX 2e from the CTAN site at Aston UK. Everything seems to be ok except when I try to set up the graphics capabilities. In my color.sty file I have the command \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01] generating the warning, LaTeX Warning: You have requested release `1995/12/01' of LaTeX, but only release `1994/12/01' is available. whilst typesetting grfguide.tex. I also get the error messages, ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \ds@monochrome. l.50 ...@lor@special\m@ne{define #1 #2}}}} etc, etc. Thanks in advance Mark Joy ------------------------------ About TeXhax... Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: send a one line mail message to TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk containing only the line subscribe texhax or unsubscribe texhax If you have problems with un/subscribing, please mail texhax-owner@nottingham.ac.uk For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to TUG@mail.tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1466 NW Front Avenue, Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820 USA (phone: 1 503 223 9994, fax: 1 503 223 3960). Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by anonymous ftp. 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