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TeXhax Digest    Wednesday,  7 Apr 1993  Volume 93 : Issue 006

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Today's Topics:
                           Re: extension of eqnarray*
                                 Re: HypherTeX
                      Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray
         Re: C to TeX, anyone? (I will write it; suggestions wellcome)
                         heading and footnote in LaTeX
                     Re: "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager"
                                   MakeIndex
                                  BibTeX help!
                         Long filenames for type1 fonts
                          Marginal asterisks in LaTeX
                                Latex for Mac ?
              side margin changes after 1st page in LaTeX letters?
                       Hungarian accents and Hyphenation
                     Font shrinking with negative magsteps
                       fig2MF available on FILESERV/Niord
                             List Of TeX Tutorials
           ANNOUNCEMENT: 'Computer Modern' Blackboard fonts available


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Date:    11 Mar 1993 15:00:00 -0000
From:    Mike Piff <M.Piff@shef.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: extension of eqnarray*

Jon Ahlquist asks for a multi-column extension of eqnarray:


I use the following to align at several points the way eqnarray* does, ie,
suitable for
a     =     b     <     c     <=    d
type alignments.

I never use eqnarray (numbered), but I am sure that it can be done in a
similar way.

\makeatletter
\def\Calc{\m@th\tabskip\@centering\def\\{\nonumber\@seqncr}%
$$\halign to\displaywidth\bgroup%
  $\displaystyle{##}$\hfil&&\hskip 2\arraycolsep\hfil ${##}$\hfil
  &\hskip 2\arraycolsep $\displaystyle{##}$\hfil\cr}
\def\endCalc{\nonumber\\\egroup$$\global\@ignoretrue}
\makeatother

\begin{Calc}
   a &=& b &<& c &\leq d&=&\\
   e &\leq& f &=&g
\end{Calc}


Mike
Dr M J Piff                       e-mail:
Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Sheffield           M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk
Hicks Building                    PM1MJP@derwent.shef.ac.uk
Hounsfield Road
SHEFFIELD S3 7RH                  Telephone: SHEFFIELD (0742) 824431
England

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Date:    Thu, 11 Mar 1993 10:05:58 -0500
From:    bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Subject: Re: HypherTeX

> I am interested in TeX has a tool for writing hypertext.  
> I know there exists GNU texinfo.  
> Has anyone notice of related information.

DVIWindo supports hyper text linkage.  You can define `buttons' and `marks'
using \special. If the user clicks on a button, viewing is transferred
to the corresponding mark.  The right mouse button can be used to return.
Buttons can be highlighted using different fonts (bold), colored text, 
colored rules, TIFF bitmap images, reverse video, whatever...

DISCLAIMER: respondent has connections with Y&Y.

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Date:    Thu, 11 Mar 1993 19:52:51 +0100
From:    Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray

>   2) Does anybody have an extension of \begin{eqnarray}\end{eqnarray}
>   that numbers equations and can line up more than one term in each row?
>   I would like to line up several terms in several equations
>   to show similarity of structure among the equations.

There is equationarray.sty which should be availabel in the usual places.


      ___                                               Wolfgang Ratzka
|    | :-)      -------------------------------------------------------
| /\ |  \       X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de
|/  \|   \      SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de

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Date:    Fri, 12 Mar 1993 20:05:39 +0100
From:    Peer.Stritzinger@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE
Subject: Re: C to TeX, anyone? (I will write it; suggestions wellcome)

I'm going to write a TeX macro package that allows you to
directly include your C source in the document.

The features I want to include are:

* Different styles (font etc.) can be specified for string
  constants and comments.

* Comments can be written in TeX using math and whatever you
  like.  Multi-line comments are formatted with margins
  depending on the context.

* Tabs are expanded.

* I don't think the readability of a C-program improves if
  the keywords of the language are highlighted, but if
  someone tells me he would prefer this, it can be included
  easily.

Unfortunately I can't start writing this until at least the
end of May.  The positive side is that I can consider
suggestions from the net.  So if you have any features you
want included in this package feel free to contact me.

- -- peer

P.S.: The package will be free of course.

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Date:    Wed, 17 Mar 1993 10:40:58 +0700
From:    zheng@maths.uwa.oz.au (Wei Xing Zheng)
Subject: heading and footnote in LaTeX

I am trying to use LaTeX to underline a whole heading 
and to center the running head, e.g. to make a heading 
like

"
                Time series analysis                  3
- -------------------------------------------------------
"

where "Time series analysis" is the running head and 
"3" the page number. I have found that the commands 
\pagestyle{myheadings} and \markright cannot work 
desirably in this case. Is there any other way to make 
a heading as above? Further, is it possible to use 
LaTeX to overline a whole footnote, e.g. like 

"
- -------------------------------------------------------
Time series analysis                                  3
"

Looking forward to a reply. Thanks.

Wei X. Zheng
Dept. of Maths, University of Western Australia
E-mail: zheng@maths.uwa.edu.au

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Date:    Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:21:37 -0600
From:    Craig Stuart Niederberger <craign@mastermind.urol.bcm.tmc.edu>
Subject: Re: "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager"

Kudos to David Rhead for pointing out what to me has seemed to be
a persistent problem--TeX/LaTeX interface with personal bibliographic
systems.  I use RefMan (Reference Manager) because I write medical
articles, and it allows direct importation of references from bibliographic
retrieval systems such as BRS Colleague.  This has caused me some difficulty,
because I prefer to use LaTeX (for obvious reasons) in writing the
articles themselves.  Right now, I am using my own, admittedly suboptimal
hack:

I keep 2 sets of databases, my RefMan databases, and my BibTeX databases.
Article "codes" are consistent in both.  (Ugly, because a numerical code
is assigned by RefMan such as 1423, which has nothing to do with the
content of the article.  I would prefer "readable" codes such as
Goldman:CardDeath93 but I am too lazy to change my well over 1400 RefMan
articles, growing by leaps and bounds every day.)

I have a journal style in RefMan, which I use to print out a transfer file
of articles (ASCII) that I select to port over to BibTeX.  This style divides
the article information with colons (:).

I wrote a simple C program to convert that ASCII file to BibTeX format.

This way, I can still use the database retrieval features of RefMan to find
the article and then cite it in my LaTeX text, which is really handy.  I
can also import articles into RefMan from say, BRS Colleague or Medline,
and then (sort of) directly transfer them to a BibTeX file.

If anyone is interested in the C program, I'll give it to them.  If anyone
has a better way of doing this with RefMan, PLEASE let me know.

Craig

Craig Niederberger M.D.           Internet EMAIL: craign@bcm.tmc.edu
Department of Urology, Room 440E  US Phone: 713-798-7267
Baylor College of Medicine             FAX: 713-798-5577
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, Texas 77030-3498 USA

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Date:    Mon, 22 Mar 1993 11:14:25 -0600
From:    "Jerry Packard, U of Illinois" <JPACKARD@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: MakeIndex

Dear Helpful Persons:
Do you know where I might get a publicly-available version of MakeIndex
for LaTeX?
Thanks, J. Packard


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Date:    Fri, 26 Mar 1993 16:44:07 -0500
From:    "Roberto R. Garcia" <STRG@MARIST.bitnet.washington.edu>
Subject: BibTeX help!

Howdy!!

After many hours of reasearch over the internet I have been
unsuccessful in finding any information on BibTeX.  Maybe I didn't
look hard enough.  Anyway, I would be very happy if someone could
explain what this is and if there exists a ny .EXE files that will
process .BIB files.  Does this make sense?  If not, ple ase set me
straight.

THANKS A-LOT

Roberto R. Garcia

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Date:    Fri, 26 Mar 1993 18:11:29 -0800
From:    mackay@edu.washington.cs (Pierre MacKay)
Subject: Long filenames for type1 fonts

#!/bin/sh
#
# As a service to those who need short file names, font
# files are commonly distributed with names that will fit
# into the Procrustean limits of MS-DOS.  The naming convention,
# particularly for type1 outline fonts has been carefully 
# worked out to give as much information as possible in a little
# space but, on a fully functional Unix system, it is a lot
# clearer to see exactly what the supplier/``foundry'' really
# calls the font. 
#
# This script extracts the name from either a pfa file or an afm
# file, renames the short file with the full name and then
# links the old short name to the full name.  (Have it both ways!)
#
# It is reasonably safe (barring system crashes) to run this
# script as part of a "for" or "foreach" loop, since the globbing
# is already done before the script starts working.
#
shortname=$1
ext=`expr $shortname : '.*\.\(.*\)'`
fullname=`grep "FontName" $shortname | awk '{ print $2 }' | tr -d "/"`
echo "$shortname --> ${fullname}.$ext"
mv $shortname ${fullname}.$ext
ln -s ${fullname}.$ext $shortname
exit 0

END-of-SCRIPT

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Date:    Mon, 29 Mar 1993 13:53:52 -0500
From:    sobota@nscvax.princeton.edu
Subject: Marginal asterisks in LaTeX


I am a novice LaTex user and I need some help. I need marignal
asterisks for la tex documents. I want to be able to turn asterisks on
and off with a command an d I want a specified footnote on each page
that contains one or more asterisks in the margin. For
instance after a command like:

\asteriskson{the footnote goes here} 

Each line in the text that appears after this command would contain a
marginal asterisk in the right hand margin. Asterisks in the margin
adjacent to figures, table, equations, etc. are also required. Then a
command like:

\asterisksoff

would turn them of (no more asterisks would appear in the marginal column).

The footnote would say something like:

"Disclosure of information on lines specifically identified by an 
asterisk (*) is not permitted"

Does some macro to do this already exist? Is what I need properly
called a "macro"?  How hard would it be to write one? Can anybody
help me?

Tom Sobota
sobota@nscvax.princeton.edu

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Date:    Thu, 01 Apr 1993 17:11:05 -0800
From:    anz@vas.COM (Alex Zamfirescu)
Subject: Latex for Mac ?

I would like to know if anyone out there has used
any Latex version on the Mac PowerBooks.  
What is feasible on the PowerBook and where can 
I get the software. 

Alex Zamfirescu

Please reply to 

a.zamfirescu@ieee.org

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Date:    Tue, 06 Apr 1993 15:33:59 -0400
From:    John Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
Subject: side margin changes after 1st page in LaTeX letters?

I'm trying to do some tweaking of the latex letter.sty margins to shift
the text for a letter to print on letterhead.  The letterhead has stuff
at the top and along the left side.

The first page should have the altered top and side margins; the
subsequent pages should have "normal" margins (to be printed on blank
paper).

Any suggestions/pointers on how to do this?

John Kohl
jtkohl@kolvir.blrc.ma.us

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Date:    Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:44:01 -0800
From:    Piter Verhas <verhas@a1.bpsof.bps.MTS.dec.com>
Subject: Hungarian accents and Hyphenation

[This message is converted from WPS-PLUS to ASCII]


                   Using TeX for the Hungarian Language
                     Accented letters and hyphenation
                              Peter Verhas
1. Introduction
===============

All accented letters we use in Hungarian are handled by TeX without 
modification thoguh it is inconvinient to type \' , \" or \H{} each time 
for an accented letter. There are many conversion tools to ease the use 
of the accented letters. These tools convert the extended character set 
to the usual TeX notation. There is another approach to use accented 
letter. This changes the fonts to have those accented letters in the font 
file, and modifies plain.tex or latex.tex to have these characters (code 
is larger than 127) catcode letter.

The Hungarian hyphenation can also be handled by TeX without modification 
since it has the \discretionary macro. Such hyphenations are common and 
frequent in Hungarian. If consonants like sz (which sound like s in 
English) or cs (which is something like tsch in the name Tschebishev) are 
doubled have the form ssz or ccs, except when the hyphenation breaks 
them. In such case they are sz-sz or cs-cs. Such hyphenation can NOT 
automatic handled by hyphenation tables, and those tables that are in use 
usually prevent hyphenation at such places. Typing the discretionary 
macro for each such hyphenation is also very time and effort consuming. 

The solution that some of us use since few years, and which might be 
interesting for Hungarian writing people from practical, and for others 
from the intellectual point of view is a preprocessor that inserts these 
discretionary hyphenations and does the conversion for the accented 
letters. The program I would like to introduce does more in fact.

2. HiOn, the Hungarian TeX preprocessor
=======================================

HiOn is a TeX preprocessor that makes two major tasks:

1.) It transforms Hungarian accented letters to their TeX notation.

2.) It inserts the standard soft hyphenation string according to the 
Hungarian grammar rules at all possible places.

The first task ease the generation of the source files allowing user to 
use the extended character set of his system (which can be IBM PC 
character set, ISO Latin II or any user defined code table).

The second prevents bad hyphenations or overfull, underfull hboxes 
depending on the actual TeX setting. To do this HiOn implements a fast, 
rule based hyphenation algorithm. This base algorithm is extended with an 
exception dictionary since version 1.7, which is the current version.

HiOn reads the source file (default extension is HUN) and generates a TeX 
file (default extension is TEX). This way the TeX files act as temporary 
files just like DVI files. The generated TeX does not contain 8 bit 
characters (unless user requests special accented character handling) 
which is transparent to all mailing systems and need not depend on 
particular TeX macro set.

This way HiOn can benefit TeX's discretionary capabilities for 
hyphenating words which contain compound consonants. HiOn hyphenates 
words like ``processzor'' correct to the form 
``pro-ce\discretionary{ssz}{sz-}{sz}or'' which tells TeX to break the 
word as

o pro-cesszor
      or
o procesz-szor.

Such hyphenation rule can be found in German as well (ck hyphenated as 
k-k).

Using the expanded hyphenation rules introduced in version 1.1 HiOn can 
hyphenate those verbs that have alternation prefix like ``megenni'' which 
hyphenates as ``meg-enni''. HiOn checks the whole word not only the 
prefix as the prefixes themselves do not guarantee being 
verb-alternation-prefix. Therefore it knows ``el-ad\'o'' and also knows 
``e-le-f\'ant''. HiOn also know by rules such weird hyphenations like

o malac-s\'ag
o meg-gy\'urni
o megy-gyes.

As introduced in version 1.7 HiOn uses an exception dictionary and 
correctly hyphenates all compound words that appear in the Hungarian 
dictionary: ``Magyar \'Ertelmez\H{}o K\'ezisz\'ot\'ar''.

The exception dictionary has an ASCII and a compressed binary form. Using 
the ASCII form users can extend the exception dictionary with words which 
are not common but need hyphenation. A typical example is a long chemical 
name. The binary form was designed and optimized for size and speed. On 
special request HiOn converts the ASCII form to binary and this way the 
extended dictionary can get into effect.

HiOn is highly configurable, has approximately 30 options to tailor to 
the actual needs. As version 1.7 HiOn should HYPHENATE ALL HUNGARIAN 
WORDS CORRECT. Even if it failed in some cases users can include words in 
the exception dictionary.

HiOn was written and continuously developed during the last three years 
in computer language C in a structured manner and compiles and has the 
same behavior under MS-DOS, VMS and UNIX.

HiOn as a shareware product is available in Hungary in source code and in 
MS-DOS executable format with full documentation in Hungarian and 
exception dictionary in ASCII and in binary format.

NONPROFIT and EDUCATION usage of HiOn only requires registration. (Some 
more minor requirements are included in the User's Guide.)

PROFIT-ORIENTED usage of HiOn requires special agreement with the author.

A book was already published prepared using HiOn V1.2 and some other 
books are under publishing. There is one registered, profit-oriented user 
of HiOn in Hungary.

3. Conclusion

 With HiOn the usage of TeX (and LaTeX or any other macro package) was 
tailored to the special needs of the Hungarian language and it has the 
same felxibility and capability as in English.

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Date:    Fri, 26 Mar 1993 18:15:02 -0800
From:    mackay@edu.washington.cs (Pierre MacKay)
Subject: Font shrinking with negative magsteps


\documentstyle{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{centering}
{\Large A table of negative magsteps}\\
\end{centering}
\vspace {.25in}
\noindent The increasing availability of outline fonts, especially
those licensed for general use  through the X Consortium 
(Charter, Courier, Utopia), and the growing number of \TeX-related
utilities for printing and screen preview of documents using
these fonts, requires the use of some rather interesting magstep values.  

There is usually only one design size for an outline font, and the
\TeX{} user must depend on scaling for all point sizes, in the
hope that font hinting will supply some of the non-linear effects
which ought to distinguish a 5-point from a 10-point font.
A PostScript or Ghostscript engine will deal with the scaling
implicitly, but {\tt xdvi} and other display programs which depend on
rasterized font images need to have them supplied by some sort of
conversion program.  The {\tt ps2pk} utility, available through a number
of servers on the internet, is a good tool for creating PK fonts
from type1 outlines.  It comes with several associated programs,
including {\tt mag} which calculates appropriate dpi values at various 
screen and printer resolutions.  As long as your concern is
only with large fonts, this utility is very straightforward, but
when you need to create 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9-point images from
a 10-point design master, the values are a bit less obvious.
To shrink fonts you have to use negative magstep values and
fortunately the {\tt mag} program is designed to permit this.

Here is a table of negative magsteps, for the full range
of sizes from 9-point down to 5-point.  Values are given for the
true magstep series and also for integer pointsizes.  
Arguments can be made for choosing either series.


$$
\begin{tabular}{|c|c||c|c||c|}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c||}{Magstep Series}&\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{Pointsize Series}\\
\hline
magstep&300 dpi&magstep&300 dpi&pointsize \\
value&value&value&value&reduction \\
\hline
- -0.50&274&-0.58&270&$9/10$ \\
\hline
- -1.00&250&-1.22&240&$8/10$ \\
\hline
- -2.00&208&-1.95&210&$7/10$ \\
\hline
- -3.00&174&-2.80&180&$6/10$ \\
\hline
- -4.00&144&-3.80&150&$5/10$ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
$$

\noindent The next magstep, $-5.00$ would bring the values into complete
agreement, at a dpi value of 120, but 4-point fonts are not much use
for anything.  Two additional values which have sometimes come in
useful are $-0.6 (-0.63)$ for an $8/9$ reduction, and $-0.8333
(-0.85)$ for a $6/7$ reduction.  The first value, incidentally, is
half a magstep, and the second is the reciprocal.

\vspace{0.25in}
\begin{flushright}
Pierre Mackay \\
mackay@cs.washington.edu \\
\end{flushright}
\end{document}

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        Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10           Unix-flavored TeX
        University of Washington
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        (206) 543-6259

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Date:    Tue, 16 Mar 1993 17:15:43 -0600
From:    "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: fig2MF available on FILESERV/Niord

Anthony Starks <ajs@merck.com> kindly forwarded along his new version of
fig2MF (version 0.04; 16 March 1993).  Attached is the description file for
your reference.

Regards and thanks to Anthony for his submission,   George

                                  FIG2MF
                                  ------

The FIG2MF package contains a UUENCODEd ZIP archive of Anthony Starks'
fig2MF (version 0.04, 16 March 1993).  This package translates the graphics
language Fig to METAFONT using the mfpic macros.  With this tool, any
program that creates Fig code, such as xfig, can be used as font creation
tool.  Included in the distribution are preliminary documentation, source
code, manual page (in TeX), required MF macros, and a testing script, along
with a variety of sample figures.

To retrieve the one-part distribution via e-mail, include:
 SENDME FIG2MF
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
The UUENCODEd file is 66 512-byte blocks in size.  The ZIP archive is
available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in
[FILESERV.FIG2MF] as FIG2MF-0_04.ZIP.

Files in FIG2MF.ZIP/FIG2MF-0_04.ZIP:

Anthony Starks' fig2MF (version 0.04; 16 March 1993) tool for
convert Fig code to mfpic METAFONT code.

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   9870  Deflate   3142  68%  03-16-93  16:42   fig2mf/fig2MF.c
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Date:    Fri, 26 Mar 1993 12:40:38 -0600
From:    Tundra Tim Daneliuk <tundra@eskimo.chi.il.us>
Subject: List Of TeX Tutorials

List Of TeX-Related Tutorials As Of 03.26.93
============================================

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>
Latest Version: <Version Number And/Or Date>
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
Latest Version: January 1993
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
                   amsfontsS 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: A Catalogue of TeX Macros
Latest Version:
Author Name: Jones, David
Author Email Address: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu
Size (Bytes): 367136
Brief Description: A Catalogue of TeX Macros.
Intended Audience: Anyone who uses TeX.
Distribution Site: theory.lcs.mit.edu:
                   pub/tex/TeX-index
Comments: The goal of this document is to provide a catalogue of all
          publicly-available TeX macros and macro packages, such as AMS-TeX,
          plain TeX, eplain, FoilTeX, LaTeX, AMS-LaTex, LAMS-TeX, Lollipop,
          etc.  Although it is far from complete, it already contains nearly
          1000 entries.  (It also includes a section on BibTeX style files.)
          The author actively solicits contributions and greatly appreciates
          it when authors of macro packages send him updates or new entries.

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Document Name: The Components of TeX
Author Name: Joachim Schrod
Author Email Address: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Size (Bytes): ca 30 KB
Brief Description: It describes the components and files users of TeX
                   get in contact with.
Intended Audience: Not a document for beginners. For those who have used TeX
                   for a while and wonder what all those files are good for.
Distribution Site (ftp or uucp): ftp.th-darmstadt.de:
                                 pub/tex/documentation/components-of-TeX.tar.Z
Comments: Also available from all larger TeX archives.

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Document Name: elm.tex (Essential LaTeX Mathematics)
Latest Version: (no version number - only one version)
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: ftp.tex.ac.uk
Comments: Does not describe mathematics under the NFSS. Uses the obsolete
          ms[xy]m fonts.  Requires amssymbols.sty.

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Document Name: A Gentle Introduction to TeX
Latest Version:
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.

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Document Name: Getting Up And Running With AMS-LaTeX
Latest Version: December 16,1992
Author Name: Hirschhorn, Phil
Author Email Address: psh@math.mit.edu
Size (Pytes): 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. Contains a template
          file.

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Document Name: An Introduction To TeX And Friends
Latest Version:
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
Latest Version: draft 2, Fri 23 Oct 1992.
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.

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Document Name: symbols.tex
Latest Version: 2.00
Author Name: Carlisle, David
Author Email Address: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk
Size (Bytes): 17594
Brief Description: A listing of all the standard LaTeX math symbols and the
    AMS symbols.
Intended Audience: Those with an interest in typesetting mathematics.
Distribution Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk, SHSU, stuttgart
Comments: If used with the NFSS, requires AMSFONTS2.1, and amssymb.sty.  If
    used without the NFSS, does not show the AMS Fonts.

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Document Name: TeXsis -- TeX Macros for Physicists
Latest Version:
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.

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Date:    Tue, 30 Mar 1993 12:10:42 +0400
From:    gfrobert@fourier.grenet.fr (Gilles F. ROBERT)
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: 'Computer Modern' Blackboard fonts available

Hi all,

There has been one or two weeks ago a discussion on this list about 'bold
blackboard' fonts: which are available and what are they like.

The answer has been (as far as I understood)
 - the AMS fonts msbm (older version msym) are intended for use with Times
and aren't truly what a mathematician expects (the stress is on both stems
instead of being on only the left one).
 - Alan Jeffrey's bbold fonts are sans-serif ones, with (almost) no
possibility of design variations for, say, a bold variant.
That was all, and in particular nothing for use with Computer Modern.

I was already working at that time on the project of changing the codes of
romanu.mf, romanl.mf and other files to add a 'Blackboard' variant to
Computer Modern.

                IT IS NOW READY !!!

The whole package contains five 'main' files:
 - blbbase.mf (the 'base') contains the supplementary definitions needed
for double stems etc..
 - blbord.mf (the 'driver') is fairly simpleand only makes the necessary calls.
 - blbordu.mf (based on romanu.mf): programs for uppercase letters.
 - blbordl.mf (based on romanl.mf): programs for lowercase letters.
 - blbordsp.mf (based on romand.mf and punct.mf): programs for the digits~1
and~2 and for parentheses and brackets.

There is also a whole lot of parameter files that are (almost) the same as
those provided by DEK.

For most of them, the only differences are
- - change 'cmbase' for 'blbbase' on line~2
- - change 'generate roman' for 'generate blbord' on last line
- - add two extra parameters (interspace# and cap_interspace#).

Since I do not have (yet) any anon. ftp server here to put these files, I
can e-mail the files, but I would be very honoured if someone gave me an
address where to put all these things.

 _ _
|          Gilles F. ROBERT
|  _ _ _   Institut Fourier, Mathematiques Pures
|   |   |  B.P.74
|_ _|_ _|  38402 St Martin d'Heres Cedex (FRANCE)
    |  \
    |   \  e-mail : gfrobert@fourier.grenet.fr


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