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TeXhax Digest    Wednesday, 10 Feb 1993  Volume 93 : Issue 003

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Today's Topics:
                         Double-column plain TeX macros
                      Boldface Lowercase Greek Characters
                                    UnixTeX
             Rotated tables and equations numbered by page numbers
                Re: psfig/epsfig to show eps preview bitmap icon
              substituting PS fonts for CM with dvitps; possible?
                          Gothic or Old English fonts
                                  Simple TeX?
                      LaTeX macros for classified reports
                                 DVIPS-program
            New version of fancyheadings.sty (1.1) on FILESERV/Niord
                            modes.mf 0.12 available
                            New release of greektex
                            New release of greektex
               OS/2 TeX-related packages added to FILESERV/Niord
                         List Of TeX-Related Tutorials
                            New version of footnpag.
                             TeX font naming scheme

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Date:    Tue, 19 Jan 93 12:23:30 -0700
From:    Carlos "A." Felippa <carlos@titan.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Double-column plain TeX macros

(This is a repost of my original request January 1992)
For double column A-size formatting in conjunction with plain.tex I am
presently using these simple-minded macros:

%  file doublecol.tex
%  adapted from TUGBOAT and the TeXbook, 3/1986
\newdimen\colwidth \newdimen\bigcolheight
\newdimen\pagewidth  \pagewidth=\hsize
\newdimen\pageheight  \pageheight=\vsize 
\newdimen\ruleht  \ruleht=.5pt
\colwidth=\hsize \divide\colwidth by2 \advance\colwidth by-13truept
\bigcolheight=\vsize \multiply\bigcolheight by2 
\advance\bigcolheight by 100pt
\def\fullline{\hbox to \pagewidth}
\def\onepageout#1{\shipout\vbox{
 \offinterlineskip
  \vbox to 0pc{ \vskip-22.5pt\fullline{\vbox to8.5pt{}
  \the\headline} \vfill}
  \vbox to \pageheight{
    #1 %
  \ifvoid\footins\else
  \vskip\skip\footins \kern-3pt
  \hrule height\ruleht width\pagewidth \kern-\ruleht \kern3pt
  \unvbox\footins\fi
  \boxmaxdepth=\maxdepth}
  \vskip  14pt plus 2pt minus 2pt\fullline{\the\footline} }
  \advancepageno
  \ifnum\outputpenalty>-20000 \else\dosupereject\fi}
\output{\onepageout{\unvbox255}}
\newbox\partialpage
\newdimen\savesize
\def\begindoublecolumns{\begingroup\vbadness=10000
  \savesize=\vsize
\output={\global\setbox\partialpage=\vbox{\unvbox255}}\eject
\output={\doublecolumnout} \hsize=\colwidth \vsize=\bigcolheight
\advance\vsize by -2\ht\partialpage}
\def\enddoublecolumns{\output={\balancecolumns}\eject
  \global\output={\onepageout{\unvbox255}}
  \global\vsize=\savesize
  \endgroup \pagegoal=\vsize}
\def\doublecolumnout{\dimen0=\pageheight
  \advance\dimen0 by-\ht\partialpage \splittopskip=\topskip
 \setbox0=\vsplit255 to\dimen0
 \setbox2=\vsplit255 to\dimen0
 \onepageout\pagesofar
 \global\vsize=\bigcolheight
 \unvbox255\penalty\outputpenalty}
\def\pagesofar{\unvbox\partialpage
 \wd0=\hsize \wd2=\hsize \hbox to\pagewidth{\box0\hfil\box2}}
\def\balancecolumns{\setbox0=\vbox{\unvbox255} \dimen0=\ht0
  \advance\dimen0 by\topskip \advance\dimen0 by-\baselineskip
  \divide\dimen0 by2 \splittopskip=\topskip
 {\vbadness=10000\loop\global\setbox3=\copy0
  \global\setbox1=\vsplit3 to\dimen0
  \ifdim\ht3>\dimen0 \global\advance\dimen0 by1pt \repeat}
 \setbox0=\vbox to \dimen0{\unvbox1}
 \setbox2=\vbox to\dimen0{\unvbox3}
 \global\output={\balancingerror}
 \pagesofar}
\newhelp\balerrhelp{Please change the page into one that works}
\def\balancingerror{\errhelp=\balerrhelp
    \errmessage{Page can't be balanced}
    \onepageout{\unvbox255}}
% end doublecol.tex

These macros allows changing from one to two-columns back and forth
using \begindoublecolumns ... \enddoublecolumns.
The main problem with this simple approach to column balancing
is that insertions such as topinsert, midinsert, pageinsert,
footnotes, etc. are not handled correctly.  Thus it is of limited utility 
for preparing two-column camera-ready technical papers, which require
substantial manual tweeking.

Question: are there 2-col macros with a similar simplicity and
functionality, compatible with plain.tex, and which handle 
insertions correctly?

When I posed this question on Jan 1992 I got two replies, for which 
I want the again thank the senders.  One set of macros handled 
insertions correctly but unfortunately did not allow 1-2-1 column 
switchback, which is important in camera ready papers for placement 
of wide Figures and Tables. The other reply included multicolumn
macros as part of a complex package and I was unable to work through it 
to extract what I needed in a reasonable time.

I believe such a macro set would be useful to many technical paper
writers; therefore I encourage wizards to post solutions within 
the stated simplicity and functionality constraints.

Thanks,

Carlos A. Felippa
Professor of Aerospace Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder
carlos@titan.colorado.edu

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Date:    Tue, 19 Jan 93 15:36:14 -0700
From:    Brett Perkes <bperkes@cases.cs.usu.edu>
Subject: Boldface Lowercase Greek Characters


I have been trying to figure out how I can print Boldface Greek characters.
I have been able to print some of the upper case characters in bold but none
of the lowercases.  Do I need the AMS fonts to do this?  If so, can I use the
AMS fon in Plain TeX?

If anyone has any help or suggestions please let me know.

Thankyou,
Brett Perkes  bperkes@cases.cs.usu.edu

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Date:    Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:36:44 -0800
From:    mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Subject: UnixTeX

This message may be addressed to a minority of the readers of this
bulletin, but it is a significant and growing minority.

I must regretfully announce that under present revenue projections,
UnixTeX is technically bankrupt, having drifted into default on
at least two occasions in the past six months.  We have a grand
total of two orders for 1993.   We will go on as long as we are
allowed to, but that may not be very long.

UnixTeX is not supported by the University of Washington.  Quite the
reverse.  The University of Washington seizes a substantial percentage
of all UnixTeX income for ``overhead'', and since that ``overhead''
must be paid before all other obligations, we will probably be shut
down absolutely when the next assessment for ``overhead'' comes due.

At that time, all consultation services by email or by telephone will
cease, and all Unix-specific tape distributions will also cease.  An
FTP archive of the UnixTeX distribution will be made available until
University of Washington accountants require its removal, but it will
be frozen in its present state.  There will be no further upgrades or
corrections to this file.  It may be that some site, possibly in
Europe, can take over the work of tape distribution, but that will be
out of our hands.

For four years I have predicted at TUG meetings that free,
unrestricted FTP distribution of UnixTeX would lead to this result.  A
few generous supporters, and an unexpected increase in tape orders
kept it from happening last year, but the crisis has been accelerated
this year by several major hardware failures.

The nine-year old SUN-1 and eight-year old SUN-2 on which the
distribution was resident have become too unstable to be of any
further use.  CPUs, disks, controllers and our last 9-track drive have
all failed.  UnixTeX put together a SUN-3 server out of second-hand
and salvage parts, and this was the source of all tape distributions
for two years.  But the cost of this new hardware eliminated any
balance that UnixTeX had in reserve.  The 600 MB SMD disk on that
machine has now failed, and in the inauguration-day windstorm, a power
surge blew the formatting board on our last tape drive.

The source of our financial problem lies in the fact that
four-fifths of the calls for compilation assistance and similar
support are now from sites which picked up the software by FTP. While
a handful of FTP users have been touchingly generous -- sending in
amounts from their own pockets, and while we acknowledge that many
have helped in other ways -- taking the time to summarize system-specific
problems encountered on varieties of machines we have no access to, the
majority of sites that retrieve UnixTeX via FTP benefit without cost
to themselves, from a service supported in the main by TeX users who
have absolutely no FTP access and who therefore must obtain the
distribution via tape orders.  We strongly support the principles of
the Free Software Foundation; and as long as we are around, we shall
honor our association with those principles by continuing to make all
elements of the distribution available for FTP.  But as the distribution's
survival rests with the ever-diminishing number of sites that order
the distribution on tapes directly from us, and not by FTP, we must warn
that the associated work of organization, documentation and first-level
consultancy is probably about to cease.

We have two proposals for interim support in preparation now, but it
is all too likely that we will not be around even if those proposals
succeed.  Supposing that we do get through the immediate crisis,
however, if UnixTeX is worth keeping alive, it will have to survive on
some sort of subscription system, like National Public Radio.  It is
improper to solicit funds even for a non-profit activity over the
Internet, so we cannot do that here.  It is, however, worth noting
that UnixTeX survived last year in part on some donations that were
made to the University of Washington and specifically earmarked for
the support of UnixTeX.  It is our understanding that such donations
provide a tax exemption.


Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software should be sent primarily
to:     elisabet@max.u.washington.edu           Elizabeth Tachikawa
otherwise to:  mackay@cs.washington.edu         Pierre A. MacKay
Smail:  Northwest Computing Support Center      Resident Druid for
        Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10           Unix-flavored TeX
        University of Washington
        Seattle, WA 98195
        (206) 543-6259

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Date:    Fri, 22 Jan 93 14:00:20 -0700
From:    thomas@von-neumann.MATH.ColoState.EDU (Jim Thomas)
Subject: Rotated tables and equations numbered by page numbers

I would like to be able to include some tables, horizontally on a
page in a latex document.  I would also like to be able to include
the caption horizontally and use a label.  Can anyone tell me how
this can be done?  Thank you.

Also (this is a repeat question that I thought I might try one more
time), I would like to be able to number equations, theorems, figures,
etc as "chapter.page.number on the page".  It's close.  If you use 
the pagenumber in there, most often the first equation on a page will
be numbered with the previous page number (and in the .aux file, it
does know what page it's one).  Does anyone out there know how to 
do this.  Thank you.

James Thomas, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University

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Date:    Tue, 26 Jan 93 09:34:59 -0500
From:    bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Subject: Re: psfig/epsfig to show eps preview bitmap icon

> Date:    07 Jan 93 00:18:10 -0500
> From:    karron@karron.med.nyu.edu( (Dan Karron \(karron@nyu.edu\))
> Subject: psfig/epsfig to show eps preview bitmap icon

> Anyone have a way to put up a bitmap icon instead of the full figure
> for a draft preview mode for the various tex ps figure macros ?

> Is there a nice way to make a \system{"shell command here"} for TeX ?

DVIWindo shows the preview (in either TIFF or EPSI) format when an inserted
EPS figure comes with a preview (for printing to PS printers it passes
through the actual EPS data, of course).

To use EPSF.TEX and PSFIG.TEX, though, you need to get them to step
over the binary header when looking for the %%BoundingBox in the
case of TIFF format previews.  Contact me for modifications that do this.

Berthold.

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Date:    Mon, 01 Feb 93 16:52:47 -0700
From:    jerry@math.ep.utexas.edu (Jerry)
Subject: substituting PS fonts for CM with dvitps; possible?

Having generated a dvi file after including the following in the
preamble of a latex file:

\font\hlv=psmhlv at 12pt
\font\hlvb=psmhlvb at 12pt
\font\hlvo=psmhlvo at 12pt
\font\hlvbo=psmhlvbo at 12pt

I get incorrect font substitution by dvitps when trying to print it.
I believe the problem is missing .pk files, but I'm not sure what to
do since PS is Adobe proprietary.  Has anyone had luck with
ghostscript from the FSF or should I use some other dvi to ps
software.  I often see posted info about dvips, a PD or copylefted
program which sounds really good, but when I downloaded TeX from
washington.edu, all I saw was dvitps, which has been great, except I
couldn't get the full manual as several tex include/input files were
missing and the author does not respond to email.  I would like to
install a more robust version if possible.  I'm open to suggestions as
well as info on how difficult it would be to build dvips from scratch.
Note: I have the latest version of TeX and LaTeX, which were something
of pain to build, but it was worth it.

There is often a delay when posting responses to this mailing list as
I only receive a digest every once in a while, so please email me
directly and I will post a summary.  Muchas gracias (thank you in
Spanish).

Thanks.  -Jerry

                             Jerry Graves
                          UTEP Math Sysadmin
                       jerry@math.ep.utexas.edu
                    PHONE/FAX  (915) 747-6757/6502

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Date:    Tue, 02 Feb 93 17:09:31 -0500
From:    jsv@edu.duke.cs (Jeff Vitter)
Subject: Gothic or Old English fonts

I'm trying to get access to Gothic or Old English fonts in TeX or postscript
(preferably TeX) in order to try to imitate Duke letterhead.
For example, the capital D in such a font should look something like this:

               *                  ***
                ****     ****************
                 *************************
                   **************     ****
                      **               ***
                     * *               ***
                    ** **            *****
                    ** * ************  ***
                   *** *               ***
                 ***** *               ***
                ****** *               ***
                *  *** *               ***
                    ** *               ***
                    ** * ************* ***
                    ** **             ****
                    ** *               ***
                    *  *               ***
                   *   *               ***
                   **  **              ****
                ************************   *
             *****    ***************  
           *                  *****  
           *     
             ***

The Macintosh font called "London" is an example of this kind of font.
Any info you have would be appreciated.  Please send replies to
jsv@cs.duke.edu.  I'll be happy to post a summary of replies.
  -- Jeff

Prof. Jeff Vitter                           email: jsv@cs.duke.edu
Chair,  Dept. of C.S., Duke University      phone: (919) 660-6548
Durham, N.C.. 27708-0129                    FAX:   (919) 660-6502

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Date:    Thu, 04 Feb 93 08:48:56 -0800
From:    Diane McIntyre <mcintyre@math.washington.edu>
Subject: Simple TeX?

I have a request for information regarding the multiple forms of TeX
(LaTeX, Lams.TeX, and AMS.TeX) that would be beneficial for learning
disabled (dyslexia) TeX users?  Or a suggestion for a manual or text that
would be "less complicated" to read?  I've worked with TeX for 4 years now
and still find that many of my "problems" evolve around the complex nature
of the "beast".  I have learned to keep my documents as simple as possible
and have developed a sample file for my own benefit, but would like to know
if there is additional information available.  Any suggestions would be
beneficial.   

Thanks, Diane McIntyre
(mcintyre@math.washington.edu)

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Date:    Mon, 08 Feb 93 14:02:46 -0500
From:    Jim Van Zandt <jrv@mbunix.mitre.org>
Subject: LaTeX macros for classified reports

I'd like to be able to generate classified documents using LaTeX.  In
the archives I have found only one relevant macro, secret.sty.  It
addresses paragraph marking, notably for the continuation of a
paragraph onto the next page.  I don't think its solution (putting the
paragraph marking in the left margin) is very attractive, and
fortunately we've been relieved of that requirement.

However, secret.sty doesn't address {\em page} marking at all.  Has
anyone developed macros to generate appropriate markings at beginning
of each paragraph, and also at the top and bottom of the page (but
perhaps not for the continuation of a paragraph)?  Of course, the page
classification should be the highest of any of the classifications of
the paragraphs on the page, {\em including} any continuation from a
previous page, and any float (figure or table).

Thanks.

                           - Jim Van Zandt <jrv@mitre.org>

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Date:    09 Feb 93 15:25:18 +0000
From:    JOHANNES-IDSO@sfdh.sognhs.no
Subject: DVIPS-program

Dear friends;
I know there is an excellent DVIPS-program made by a firm called
Radical Eye Software.
Can someone tell me where I can buy this program?

- -- Johannes Idsoe --
Sogn og Fjordane College
Norway

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Date:    Tue, 19 Jan 93 09:02:23 -0600
From:    "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: New version of fancyheadings.sty (1.1) on FILESERV/Niord

In <00966A30.E83D3BE0.31388@SHSU.edu> (comp.text.tex, Mon, 18 Jan 1993
11:39:08 GMT), Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> posted his newest version
(1.1; 23 September 1992) of fancyheadings.sty and its documentation.  This
is the style I am constantly preaching about on the network to allow users
to customize page headers and page footers (with excellent examples!;
again, if you don't have this style, GET IT).  As this version is not (more
correctly, does not appear to be) readily available on the standard
archives, I am attempting to post this to as wide an audience as possible.

I have taken the liberty of placing the documentation file
(fancyheadings.doc, as posted to comp.text.tex) after the style file macros
with an \endinput (the idea is to keep the documentation within the style
itself for reference purposes).  This combined file is now available at
SHSU and may be retrieved via e-mail by including:
 SENDME STY.FANCYHEADINGS
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
The file is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu
(192.92.115.8) in [FILESERV.STY].  Prior versions of the separated style
file and documentation file (both 1.0; March 1989) have been removed.

Regards,   George

George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                            Bitnet:  BED_GDG@SHSU
Department of Economics and Business Analysis         THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                    Voice: (409) 294-1266
P. O. Box 2118                                        FAX:   (409) 294-3612
Sam Houston State University              Internet:        bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Huntsville, TX 77341                      bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net

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Date:    Thu, 21 Jan 93 16:22:39 -0500
From:    karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: modes.mf 0.12 available

I have released version 0.12 of modes.mf.  You can get it by anonymous ftp from

        ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/modes.mf

You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's (thanks, George!)
file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of
`sendme modes'.

This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's.  It also makes common
definitions for write-white printers and `special' information.

This version has several changes:
* New modes for the HP LaserJet IV, LaserMaster, Tektronix Phaser, DEC
  monitors, and various Epson modes of operation.
* More documentation on the SparcPrinter.
* mode_write_white_setup_ removed from high-resolution mode_def's, as it
  has no effect.

Thanks to those who contributed to this version.  As always, if you have
mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the existing
ones, please send them to me.

karl@cs.umb.edu


mode_def AgfaFourZeroZero =             % AGFA 400PS
mode_def amiga =                        % Commodore Amiga
mode_def AtariNineFive =                % Atari 95dpi previewer
mode_def AtariNineSix =                 % Atari 96x96 previewer
mode_def AtariSLMEightZeroFour =        % Atari ST SLM 804 printer
mode_def AtariSMOneTwoFour =            % Atari ST SM 124 screen
mode_def aps =                          % Autologic APS-Micro5
mode_def ApsSixHi =                     % Autologic APS-Micro6
mode_def bitgraph =                     % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi
mode_def boise =                        % HP 2680A
mode_def CanonCX =                      % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX
mode_def CanonLBPTen =                  % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10
mode_def ChelgraphIBX =                 % Chelgraph IBX
mode_def CItohThreeOneZero =            % CItoh 310
mode_def CItohEightFiveOneZero =        % CItoh 8510A
mode_def CompugraphicEightSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 8600
mode_def CompugraphicNineSixZeroZero =  % Compugraphic 9600
mode_def crs =                          % Alphatype CRS
mode_def DataDisc =                     % DataDisc
mode_def DataDiscNew =                  % DataDisc with special aspect ratio
mode_def DECsmall =                     % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768
mode_def DEClarge =                     % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024
mode_def dover =                        % Xerox Dover
mode_def epsdraft =                     % Epson at 120x72dpi
mode_def epsfast =                      % Epson at 60x72dpi
mode_def epsonlo =                      % Epson at 120x216dpi
mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroMed =       % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi
mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroLo =        % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi
mode_def EpsonMXFX =                    % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family
mode_def GThreefax =                    % 200 x 100dpi G3fax
mode_def HPDeskJet =                    % HP DeskJet 500
mode_def ibm_a =                        % IBM 38xx (\#1)
mode_def IBMD =                         % IBM 38xx (\#2)
mode_def IBMFourZeroTwoNine =           % IBM 4029-30, 4250
mode_def IBMFourTwoOneSix =             % IBM 4216
mode_def IBMProPrinter =                % IBM ProPrinter
mode_def IBMSixOneFiveFour =            % IBM 6154 display
mode_def IBMSixSixSevenZero =           % IBM 6670 (Sherpa)
mode_def IBMThreeOneSevenNine =         % IBM 3179 screen
mode_def IBMThreeOneNineThree =         % IBM 3193 screen
mode_def IBMThreeEightOneTwo =          % IBM 3812
mode_def IBMThreeEightTwoZero =         % IBM 3820
mode_def IBMEGA =                       % IBM EGA monitor
mode_def IBMVGA =                       % IBM VGA monitor
mode_def imagewriter =                  % Apple ImageWriter
mode_def laserjetIV =                   % 600dpi HP LaserJet IV
mode_def laserjetlo =                   % HP LaserJet at 150dpi
mode_def lasermaster =                 % 1000dpi LaserMaster
mode_def LASevenFive =                  % DEC LA75
mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZeroLo =        % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi
mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZero =          % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi
mode_def LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi =      % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi
mode_def LNZeroOne =                    % DEC LN01
mode_def LPSFourZero =                  % DEC LPS40
mode_def lview =                        % Sigma L-View monitor
mode_def MacMagnified =                 % Mac screens at magstep 1
mode_def MacTrueSize =                  % Mac screens at 72dpi
mode_def NCD =                         % NCD 19-inch
mode_def NEC =                          % NEC
mode_def NEChi =                        % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi
mode_def Newgen =                       % Newgen 400dpi
mode_def NeXTprinter =                  % NeXT 400dpi
mode_def NeXTscreen =                   % 100dpi NeXT monitor
mode_def OCESixSevenFiveZeroPS =        % OCE 6750-PS
mode_def okidata =                      % Okidata
mode_def OneTwoZero =                   % e.g., high-resolution Suns
mode_def phaser =                       % Tektronix Phaser PXi
mode_def PrintwareSevenTwoZeroIQ =      % Printware 720IQ
mode_def qms =                          % QMS (Xerox engine)
mode_def RicohFourZeroEightZero =       % e.g., the TI Omnilaser
mode_def RicohLP =                      % e.g., the DEC LN03
mode_def SparcPrinter =                 % Sun SPARCprinter
mode_def StarNLOneZero =                % Star NL-10
mode_def sun =                          % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi
mode_def supre =                        % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi
mode_def toshiba =                      % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ
mode_def ultre =                        % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi
mode_def VarityperFiveZeroSixZeroW =    % Varitype 5060W
mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroLo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi
mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroHi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi
mode_def VarityperFourTwoZeroZero =     % Varityper 4200 B-P
mode_def VarityperSixZeroZero =         % Varityper Laser 600
mode_def VAXstation =                   % VAXstation monitor
mode_def XeroxEightSevenNineZero =      % Xerox 8790 or 4045
mode_def XeroxFourZeroFiveZero =        % Xerox 4050
mode_def XeroxNineSevenZeroZero =       % Xerox 9700
mode_def XeroxThreeSevenZeroZero =      % Xerox 3700

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Date:    Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:59:58 -0800
From:    Yiannis Moschovakis <ynm@math.ucla.edu>
Subject: New release of greektex

A new version of greektex has been posted in the following two sites:

  math.ucla.edu    128.97.4.254 
                   in the directory pub/moschovakis/greektex

  University of Stuttgart russoft server  129.69.1.12
                   in the directory tex/languages/greek/moschovakis

greektex is a package of public domain programs which make it easy to
use the  well known Greek text fonts of Silvio Levy in Plain TeX or
LaTeX with the full functionality of these sets of macros, exactly as
we use them to process English files. In fact greektex understands
files with mixed Greek and English text, so that it is particularly
useful for the typesetting of Greek scientific class notes, articles
and books: these typically contain many English words---names,
references, scientific terms traditionally given in both Greek and
English when first introduced, etc. Greektex can be installed in any
system with a full TeX implemnetation and it contains all the necessary
programs for creating mixed Greek-English files (pleasantly) on a PC
with a VGA screen and  (barely tolerably) on other machines. 

The most notable improvement over the first distribution of greektex
two years ago is that the new system has a classical (polytoniko) mode
in which classical Greek can be typeset with its full set of aspiration
marks, accents, etc. The modern (monotoniko) mode has also been
improved substantially, primarily by allowing friendlier typesetting of
accented capitals, the diairesis and the Greek quotation marks (which
have been added). The package includes a complete set of all preloaded
and loaded-on-demand LaTeX fonts at 300 DPI, including the "Greek
italic" font which now looks reasonably good. It also includes the
complete set of metafont files and scaling programs used to produce
these fonts, so that someone with a running version of METAFONT can
compile them at any pointsize and resolution. 

The starting point for greektex is the fact that English and Greek are
disjoint languages (no common letters in the internal coding), so their
union can be considered as a single language: there is no confusion in
hyphenation, for example, since no word is both Greek and English. The
system simply replaces the Computer  Modern fonts CMR, CMBX, etc. used
by TeX by extended fonts  GECMR, GECMBX, etc. which have exactly the
same letters coded in the first 128 ASCII characters but incorporate
the Greek letters in the high-bit ASCII characters >127. In doing this
you do not change at all the guts of format files, so that e.g. it is
easy to predict how greektex output of Greek LaTeX files will
look---exactly like LaTeX output, with Greek letters. There is a
conceptual simplicity to this, but also (and more to the point) it
makes it possible to use existing systems of macros (like LaTeX and its
many styles) on documents which contain mixed Greek and English with no
conflicts. The greektex version of LaTeX has complete LaTeX
functionality in the monononiko mode.

The polytoniko mode requires the use of a set of macros which make some
characters active and allow the "friendly" entering of aspiration
marks, accents, etc. It also appears to enjoy complete LaTeX
functionality (as far as I have been able to test it), it can jandle
e.g. footnotes, tabbing, etc. It is clear, however, that  reasonable
care must be exercised: one cannot enter math mode while the
\polytoniko command is in effect, for example, since the characters >,
<, = and " are active---and do not have their usual, math meaning. The
document greektex.doc explains in some detail the precautions needed to
insure (essentially) full LaTeX functionality in the polytoniko mode. 

It has been argued that one cannot build a fully hyphenating system with
both English and classical Greek using 256 character fonts, because the
128 high-bit characters left free after English is coded do not suffice
to code as ligatures all the combinations of letter+accent+aspiration
mark needed by classical Greek. greektex solves this problem by coding
the most commonly occuring combinations as ligatures and depending on the
TeX  \accent primitive for the rest. This works much better than one
might think: 

      greektex applies the hyphenation algorithm to 
      all words which do not have either 
             (1) an aspirated peripvmenh or 
             (2) an accented letter with an iota subscript.  

The words in category (1) have at most two syllables and rarely need to
be hyphenated, and there are just two few of those in category (2) to
cause any problem. Since Greek hyphenation is governed by flexible and
easy to code rules, it turns out that with this scheme, classical Greek
is hyphenated by greektex at least as successfully as TeX hyphenates
English.

A complete description of the system is given in the README file 
and the manual "greektex.doc" included in the package. What follows is
the INDEX of the package.

INDEX of greektex-----------------------------------------------------

(1) README          General information and instructions for installing
                    the system.

(2) greektex.doc    The document describing how to use the system. 
                    It also gives the credits for the public domain 
                    programs used and distributed.

(3) pkunzip.exe     The program needed to uncompress zip files.

(4) extkb.com       Extended keyboard program for the PC.

(5) vga_ligh.com    Greek character set loaders for the PC with 
    vga_bold.com    a VGA screen.

(6) geinputs.zip    The TeX input files needed by the system.

(7) getfm.zip       The tfm files for the English-Greek fonts.

(8) gepk.zip        The pk files for the English-Greek fonts.

(9) gemf.zip        The metafont files used to create the fonts, 
                    with a brief instruction document gemf.doc and 
                    and some batch files for compiling fonts in 
                    additional pointsizes and resolutions.

(10) filters.zip    Two simple Greek-to-English and English-to-Greek 
                    filters (written in C) which make it (just barely) 
                    possible to create, read and convert files with 
                    mixed Greek and English text in a monolingual 
                    (English) environment. See l2g.c for explanation.

(11) grsample.ps    Postcript file of a 15 page excerpt from
                    a Set Theory book which illustrates 
                    mathematical, monotoniko output (and 
                    plugs the book).
                     
(12) polyton.gr     Greek input file and Postcript file of a one
     polyton.ps     page sample which illustrates the method for 
                    entering polytoniko and the output produced.

IMPORTANT. If you are getting these files by ftp, make sure that  (3) -
(10) are transmitted in binary mode. Files (3) - (5) and (9) - (12) are
not needed for installing and running greektex.

Yiannis N. Moschovakis
Department of Mathematics
UCLA, L.A. CA 90024
ynm@math.ucla.edu                                      January 1993

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Date:    Sat, 23 Jan 93 14:37:19 +0000
From:    TEX@rmcs.cran.ac.uk
Subject: New release of greektex

In a message dated Fri, 22 Jan 93 09:49:39 -0800 addressed to the 
ELLHNIKA Distribution List for ???????? TeX Users <ELLHNIKA@EARN.DHDURZ1>,
Yiannis Moschovakis <ynm@EDU.UCLA.MATH> announced a new version of
greektex.
 
In the UK TeX Archive at Aston University, Moschovakis' original INDEX
and README files have been renamed to 00CONTENTS.TXT and 00README.TXT
repsectively.  The file pkunzip.exe has NOT been put into the archive, because
it was felt that anyone using the archive who was PC-based would already have a
suitable program for unzipping the files.  Implementations of unzip for other
architectures also exist.

All binary files are stored, as is necessary in this archive, as
variable-length records, without carriage control, and with a record length of
512 bytes.  Access through NIFTP over Janet can transfer these files in binaary
mode to Vax and non-Vax alike; transfers to a Vax using /CODE=FAST wil result
in a file of the same format, which will need to be changed to fixed-length
records by means of the VMS CONVERT utility.  Access by anonymous ftp over the
Internet, by non-Vaxen, will succeed; users of intelligent VMS-based
implementations of ftp, such as MultiNet's, will also have to apply the CONVERT
utility.
 

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Date:    Wed, 27 Jan 93 11:48:22 -0600
From:    "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: OS/2 TeX-related packages added to FILESERV/Niord

My thanks to Stefan A. Muehlenweg <muehlenw@samhh.hanse.de> for pointing
out the PM-TeX and EPMTeX packages for OS/2, which have been added to our
archives.  These are imported from the OS/2 ftp archives at
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Attached are the description files.

- --George

                                  PMTEX
                                  -----
The PMTEX package includes the files for Guillaume Schiltz's PM-TeX (v.
2.0; 5 December 1992).  PM-TeX is A TeX-Shell for OS/2 Presentation-Manager
to control programs used everyday for the TeX typesetting system such as
editors, TeX-interpreters, previewer and printerdrivers.  PM-TeX is
conceived to maintain the emTeX-programs but can easily be configured for
other TeX-systems.  The configuration of TeX can be performed by using the
setting-windows of PM-TeX.  PM-TeX opens for each program a new session to
which can be switched from the main menu.  So concurrency and easy support
of full-screen sessions is given.  DOS and OS/2 programs are supported.
DOS-Programs are executed in a DOS-window.

The files are distributed in a 2-part UUENCODEd ZIP archive.  To retrieve
these
files, include:
 SENDME PMTEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
The ZIP file, PMTEX-2_0.ZIP is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from
Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in [FILESERV.PMTEX].

Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
Files                     Blocks 

PMTEX.UUE_1OF2                79  Concatenate and UUDECODE to PMTEX.ZIP
PMTEX.UUE_2OF2                58


                                  EPMTEX
                                  ------
The EMPTEX package includes the files for Jon Hacker's EPMTeX (v 1.1; 23
January 1993).  EPMTeX is a TeX Macro Enhancements for EPM 5.51 under OS/2. 
The E macro file tex.e when compiled with the IBM enhanced Editor
translator ETPM.EXE will add a TeX pull down menu to the EPM menu bar. 
Menu items in the TeX pull down menu allow the user to TeX, preview
(portrait and landscape), and print (portrait and landscape) the TeX file
currently active in EPM.

The files are distributed in a UUENCODEd ZIP archive.  To retrieve this
file, include:
 SENDME EPMTEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
The ZIP file, EPMTEX-1_1.ZIP is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from
Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in [FILESERV.EPMTEX].

File                     Blocks (1 Block = 512 bytes)

EPMTEX.UUE                   63  UUDECODEs to EPMTEX.ZIP

------------------------------

Date:    02 Feb 93 13:13:55
From:    Tundra Tim Daneliuk <tundra@eskimo.chi.il.us>
Subject: List Of TeX-Related Tutorials

Herein is a list of tutorials on TeX-related subjects.  If you are the
author of such a document and that document is freely available
(public domain, GNU Copyleft, etc.) please feel free to email me the
information in the format defined below and I'll include it in the
next revision of this list.

Also, if any of the information is incorrect, misleading, or otherwise
needs amending, please let me know.

Thanks to all who have contributed.

- ---------------------------- Submission Format ------------------------------

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

DOCUMENT NAME: <Title Of Document>
AUTHOR NAME: <Last Name, First Name>
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: <Optional, If You Don't Want To Be Pestered>
SIZE (BYTES): <Or Pages>
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: <One Line Please>
INTENDED AUDIENCE: <Novice, Advanced, Specialist In Some Discipline, etc.>
DISTRIBUTION SITE: <Primary ftp Site>
COMMENTS: <Whatever Makes Sense Here - Try To Keep It Under 50 Lines Or So>

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

- ------------------------ Beginning Of Tutorial List -------------------------

DOCUMENT NAME: Application Of NFSS In The Context Of Latex
AUTHOR NAME:  {\.Z}bikowski, Rafa{\l}
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: Not Available
SIZE (BYTES): ~40K
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: A FAQ containing two embedded LaTeX documents
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Newcomers to the New Font Selection Scheme and
                   AmSFonts; no (La)TeX expertise assumed.
DISTRIBUTION SITE: niord.shsu.edu:
                   [FILESERV.FAQ]FAQ.NFSS-LATEX
COMMENTS: The purpose of this document is to describe briefly
          AmSFonts and the New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS) in the
          context of LaTeX. The issues addressed are as follows.

          AmSFonts: What are AmSFonts? Where to get AmSFonts from?
          How to install AmSFonts for LaTeX?

          New Font Selection Scheme: What is the New Font Selection
          Scheme (NFSS)?  Why to use NFSS? Where to get NFSS from?
          How to install NFSS?  How to use NFSS to install AmSFonts
          for LaTeX?

          Also: How can NFSS and AmSFonts be used in practice?
          (Examples.)

          The questions are attempted to be answered from user's
          point of view as opposed to (La)TeXpert's/designer's.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

DOCUMENT NAME: The Components Of TeX
AUTHOR NAME: Schrod, Joachim
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: xitijsch@ddathd21.bitnet
SIZE (BYTES): ~40K (In several files)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Overview of the files and components of the TeX system.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Newcomers.
DISTRIBUTION SITE: ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:
                   /soft/tex/documentation/components-of-TeX/*
COMMENTS: Only 9 pages, but a great place to start.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

DOCUMENT NAME: Essential LaTeX Mathematics
AUTHOR NAME: Carlisle, David
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk
SIZE (BYTES): 18362
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: An addition to Essential LaTeX, describing mathematics.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Those with an interest in typesetting mathematics.
DISTRIBUTION SITE: tex.ac.uk
COMMENTS: Does not describe mathematics under the NFSS. Uses the obsolete
          ms[xy]m fonts.  Requires amssymbols.sty.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

DOCUMENT NAME: A Gentle Introduction to TeX
AUTHOR NAME:  Doob, Michael
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: mdoob@ccu.umanitoba.ca
SIZE (BYTES): 198589
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Introduction to plain tex.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Rank beginners.
DISTRIBUTION SITE: Many (try gentle.tex on Archie)
COMMENTS: Hard copy also available from the TeX Users Group at a nominal cost.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

DOCUMENT NAME: Getting Up And Running With AMS-LaTeX
AUTHOR NAME: Hirschhorn, Phil
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: psh@math.mit.edu
SIZE (PAGES): 25
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Overview of the American Mathematical Society version of
                   LaTeX.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Intended for someone with at least some experience with
                   either plain TeX, AMS-TeX, or LaTeX.
DISTRIBUTION SITE: Contact author via email.
COMMENTS: Attempts to give enough information for someone to get started with
          AMS-LaTeX without having to read the manual.


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

DOCUMENT NAME: An Introduction To TeX And Friends
AUTHOR NAME: Maltby, Gavin
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: gmaltby@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za
                      maltby@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za
SIZE (BYTES): 150405
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: An introduction to the TeX world through LaTeX.  Covers
                   text processing and mathematical typesetting.  Far from a
                   reference work, for there are many commands not even
                   mentioned.  Around 80 pages.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  LaTeX beginners, especially those who want to typeset
                    mathematics and proceed to AmSLaTeX
DISTRIBUTION SITE: To Be Determined
COMMENTS: Prepared for short course given at University of Natal,
          Pietermaritzburg.  Prepared in great haste, so not ultimately
          polished.

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DOCUMENT NAME: Metafont For Beginners
AUTHOR NAME: Tobin, Geoffrey
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au
SIZE (BYTES): 15252
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: A brief overview of what Metafont is and does.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Moderately experienced TeX users
DISTRIBUTION SITE: niord.shsu.edu
COMMENTS: Short and sweet, a great way to get started with Metafont.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

DOCUMENT NAME: TeXsis -- TeX Macros for Physicists
AUTHOR NAME: Myers, Eric and Paige, Frank
AUTHOR EMAIL ADDRESS: texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu
SIZE (BYTES): 835584 (tar file)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: TeX macros extending Plain TeX
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Physicists and others who write technical documents.
DISTRIBUTION SITE: anonymous@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu
COMMENTS: See the files README and INSTALL in the ftp directory.
          The manual is written in TeXsis, so you need the macros to print it.
          Partially a tutorial along with the macros necessary to help
          physicists make use of TeX effectively.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Regards,

"Tundra" Tim Daneliuk
PREFERRED: tundra@eskimo.chi.il.us
OR (Yuk!): eskimo!tundra@clout.chi.il.us
ALSO:      ...uunet!gargoyle.uchicago.edu!clout!eskimo!tundra
US SNAIL:  4927 N. Rockwell, Chicago, IL  60625
MA BELL:   (312) 989-1052

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Date:    Thu, 04 Feb 93 21:18:11 +0100
From:    Joachim Schrod 
         <schrod%de.th-darmstadt.informatik.iti@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: New version of footnpag.

FYI:

I uploaded a new version (2.2) of footnpag.sty to
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (and to ftp.th-darmstadt.de, which happens to be
the reference site).

footnpag is a LaTeX style option which enables the enumeration of
footnotes per page. With two small (documented) changes it runs under
Plain TeX as well. (It was first released in August 1987, this is the
fourth followup release.) It's supported by myself.

Joachim

Joachim Schrod                  Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

        ``How do we persuade new users that spreading fonts across the page
        like peanut butter across hot toast is not necessarily the route to
        typographic excellence?                         -- Peter Flynn

------------------------------

Date:    Mon, 08 Feb 93 10:14:20 -0500
From:    Karl Berry <karl@claude.cs.umb.edu>
Subject: TeX font naming scheme

I have released version 1.3 of ``my'' font naming scheme for TeX fonts.
You can get it by anonymous ftp from

        ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/fontname.tar.Z.

I will also send it to you by email if you cannot ftp.

It is in Texinfo format, so you will need the TeX macros in
the file texinfo.tex (available with most GNU programs) to be able to
print it; the directory pub/tex/fontname has a texinfo.tex, as well as
all the individual files.

The rest of that directory contains files showing the naming scheme
applied to Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, Computer Modern, and AMS fonts.

The changes since version 1.2 are primarily just additional fonts, and a
few additional variants.

I am happy to receive additions, criticisms, or other comments.

karl@cs.umb.edu

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