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TeXhax Digest    Wednesday, 21 Apr 1993  Volume 93 : Issue 007

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Today's Topics:
                       Re: heading and footnote in LaTeX
                          Concatenating token strings
                 Support for Kannada (Indian) language in TeX?
                                  GhostScript
                         LaTeX page headers and footers
                            Some problems with \verb
                               LaTeX Tree Drawer?
                                     LaTeX3
                           sauter fonts 2.0 available
                              xdvik 0.29 available
                            dvipsk 5.515b available
                         fontname scheme 1.4 available
                       AdjKerns: announcing a new utility
                   Spidery WEB copyright restrictions lifted


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Date:    Tue, 13 Apr 1993 11:58:27 +0200
From:    Piet van Oostrum <piet@nl.ruu.cs>
Subject: Re: heading and footnote in LaTeX

This can be done with fancyheadings.

How to get fancyheadings.doc and fancyheadings.sty from the archive at
        Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.

    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
      Don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
      compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get pub/TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.doc
    get pub/TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.sty

(or first cd to the directory, and then get the local filename part, to
avoid "permission denied" on your system)

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
    send TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.doc
    send TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.sty
    end

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first issue the request:
    send HELP

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Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31 30 531806   Uucp:   uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet
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Date:    Tue, 13 Apr 1993 22:45:55 -0700
From:    wagman%muse.hepnet@LBL.EARN
Subject: Concatenating token strings

In the draft of Stephan von Bechtolsheim's new books, I found some clever (and
incomprehensible) code that appends tokens to an existing token string, so I
wrote the following:
 
\newtoks\PhoneItems \PhoneItems = {}
\def\CollectInfo#1%
{%
        \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter%
        \PhoneItems\expandafter{\the\PhoneItems#1}%
}
\newcount\Pointer \Pointer = 0
\advance\Pointer by 1
\CollectInfo{\number\Pointer}
\advance\Pointer by 1
\CollectInfo{\number\Pointer}
\advance\Pointer by 1
\CollectInfo{\number\Pointer}
\the\PhoneItems
\end
 
which prints "333" rather than "123"
I know that if I put the \advance\Pointer by 1 into the argument to
\CollectInfo, I will get the correct sequencing, but because of my actual
needs, I want to increment outside of the argument. So my question is how do I
force the expansion of \number\Pointer before \CollectInfo grabs the tokens?
 
Thanks,
 
Gary Wagman
wagman@lbl.gov
(510)486-6610 USA
 
P.S. E-mail to Stephan (svb@cs.purdue.edu) was returned, so I cannot ask him
my question directly. Does anyone know where he is?

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Date:    Thu, 15 Apr 1993 14:52:12 -0500
From:    "T.N.K.Raju, MD 6-4183" <U40200@UICVM.EARN>
Subject: Support for Kannada (Indian) language in TeX?

I want to know if there is TeX program for writing in Kannada, a South Indian
language spoken by some 35 mil people! I understand that someone in U of C has
done this.  Please help! Dr.Raju

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Date:    Fri, 16 Apr 1993 14:47:24 -0600
From:    Brett Perkes <bperkes@cases.cs.usu.edu>
Subject: GhostScript

I pretty new to the TeX world along with the typesetting industry so please
bear with my if I use the wrong terms.

Some news about GhostScript has been floating around my office.
I have never heard of it, but many people say that it is a great tool.
I was wondering if anyone that has some information on Ghost Script
would please send it to me or let me know where I can get some info.

If you would please reply directly to me.

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

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Date:    17 Apr 1993 01:19:51 -0400
From:    Bill Denning <DENNING@DECUS.Org>
Subject: LaTeX page headers and footers

In V93 #006 Wei Zheng writes:

>>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
>>"

I sent him a solution via Internet, and confirmed that he meant "page footer" 
rather than "footnote".  He verified that the solution below solves his needs.

- -------------------------beginning of discussion-----------------------------

It is fairly easy to accomplish what you want for the page header as well as
for the page footer. 

There is a public domain style file, headerfooter.sty, which is available from
the DECUS Library (Digital Equipment Computer Users Society) as part of the
DECUS TeX Collection.  It is probably also available from various archives via
anonymous ftp, but I don't know where it is stored. 

Following this message are the following files:

headerfooter.sty -- I made a modification to include footer overlines, which
                    the original author didn't implement.

hf-example.sty -- A small style file containing a few margin settings,
                  macros, etc.

hf.tex -- A LaTeX source code file that illustrates the use of headers and
          footers, with and without underlines and overlines.


These files should have enough comments to be self explanatory, and there is 
also some discussion in the output text of hf.tex.

- ----------------------------end of discussion--------------------------------

- ------headerfooter.sty---------BEGINNING---------------clip here-------------

% headerfooter.sty 10 Apr 93

\typeout{}
\typeout{Optional document style 'headerfooter' 10 Apr 93>.}
\typeout{}

% Use with LaTeX version 2.09:
% \documentstyle[headerfooter]{article}

% Copyright (c) 1987 by Stephen Gildea
% Permission to copy all or part of this work is granted, provided
% that the copies are not made or distributed for resale, and that
% the copyright notice and this notice are retained.
% 
% THIS WORK IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS.  THE AUTHOR PROVIDES NO
% WARRANTY WHATSOEVER, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE WORK,
% INCLUDING WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
% FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

% If you make any improvements, I'd like to hear about them.

% Stephen Gildea
% MIT Earth Resources Lab
% Cambridge, Mass. 02139
% mit-erl!gildea
% gildea@erl.mit.edu

% Modified 10-April-1993 by

% Bill Denning
% South Coast Consulting Service
% 315 West 34th Street
% Houston, Texas 77018
% denning@decus.org

% \pageheader{LEFT}{CENTER}{RIGHT}
% \pagefooter{LEFT}{CENTER}{RIGHT}

% There is no reason why these commands should not be available
% to the user.  Of course, I did fancy up the interface a bit.
% By mit-erl!gildea 11 October 1986
% minor changes 14 Oct 87 gildea
% added \pageheaderlinetrue feature 9 Dec 88 gildea
% added \pagefooterlinetrue feature 10 Apr 93 denning

% All of these commands take three arguments, which are printed at
% the left, center, and right of each page.  All three args must be
% provided even if some of them are empty.  The odd and even
% variations are only useful if you are using the twoside option.

% Example: \pagefooter{}{\thepage}{}

% Say \pageheaderlinetrue if you want the header underlined.
% Say \pagefooterlinetrue if you want the footer overlined.

\newif\ifpageheaderline \pageheaderlinefalse
\newif\ifpagefooterline \pagefooterlinefalse

\newdimen\pageheaderlineskip  \pageheaderlineskip=1.5pt
\newdimen\pagefooterlineskip  \pagefooterlineskip=1.5pt

\def\@headerline#1#2#3{%
        \ifpageheaderline
          \vbox{\hbox to \textwidth{\rlap{#1}\hss{#2}\hss\llap{#3}}%
          \vskip\pageheaderlineskip \hrule}%
        \else{\rlap{#1}\hss{#2}\hss\llap{#3}}\fi}

\def\@footerline#1#2#3{%
        \ifpagefooterline
          \vbox{\hrule \vskip\pagefooterlineskip%
          \hbox to \textwidth{\rlap{#1}\hss{#2}\hss\llap{#3}}}%
        \else{\rlap{#1}\hss{#2}\hss\llap{#3}}\fi}

\newcommand\oddpageheader[3]{\def\@oddhead{\@headerline{#1}{#2}{#3}}}

\newcommand\evenpageheader[3]{\def\@evenhead{\@headerline{#1}{#2}{#3}}}

%%%\newcommand\oddpagefooter[3]{\def\@oddfoot{\rlap{#1}\hss{#2}\hss\llap{#3}}}
\newcommand\oddpagefooter[3]{\def\@oddfoot{\@footerline{#1}{#2}{#3}}}

%%%\newcommand\evenpagefooter[3]{\def\@evenfoot{\rlap{#1}\hss{#2}\hss\llap{#3}}
}
\newcommand\evenpagefooter[3]{\def\@evenfoot{\@footerline{#1}{#2}{#3}}}

\newcommand\pageheader[3]{%
        \oddpageheader{#1}{#2}{#3}\evenpageheader{#1}{#2}{#3}}

\newcommand\pagefooter[3]{%
        \oddpagefooter{#1}{#2}{#3}\evenpagefooter{#1}{#2}{#3}}

- ------headerfooter.sty------------END------------------clip here-------------

- ------hf-example.sty-----------BEGINNING---------------clip here-------------

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    hf-example.sty modified 10-Apr-93
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
\typeout{}
\typeout{Optional document style `Example for TeXhax' <10 Apr 93>.}
\typeout{}

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Suppress paragraph indentation
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
\parindent=0pt

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Prevent widows & orphans
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
\clubpenalty=10000
\widowpenalty=10000

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Establish Margins
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.525in}    % inner page margin is 1.525 inches
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.225in}   % outer page margin is 1.225 inches
\setlength{\textwidth}{5.75in}
\setlength{\topmargin}{-0.50in}
\setlength{\headsep}{0.30in}
\setlength{\textheight}{8.50in}
\raggedbottom

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Limit diagnostic output
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
\showboxbreadth=0
\showboxdepth=0
\hbadness=10000
\vbadness=10000

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Simple macros
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
\newcommand{\blankpage}{\newpage \ \newpage}
\newcommand{\forceodd}{\ifodd\arabic{page}\else\blankpage\fi}
\def\push{\noindent\hspace{4ex}}

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Define new commands containing text
%    to be inserted later in the document.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
\newcommand{\lefttext}[1]{\def\theleft{#1}}
\newcommand{\righttext}[1]{\def\theright{#1}}

- ------hf-example.sty--------------END------------------clip here-------------

- ------hf.tex-------------------BEGINNING---------------clip here-------------

\documentstyle[twoside,headerfooter,hf-example]{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{large}

\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{page}{1}

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Establish initial page footers.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   
\evenpagefooter{}{\thepage}{}
\oddpagefooter{}{\thepage}{}

This is a dummy first page that illustrates the use of centered roman page
numbers in the footer, and no page header.  You might use this technique for 
a table of contents, preface, etc.

\newpage

This is a dummy second page that illustrates the use of centered roman page
numbers in the footer, and no page header.

\newpage

\pagenumbering{arabic}
\setcounter{page}{1}

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Establish page headers and footers for text of document.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   
\evenpageheader{\thepage}{Time Series Analysis}{}
\oddpageheader{}{Time Series Analysis}{\thepage}
\evenpagefooter{\thepage}{Time Series Analysis}{}
\oddpagefooter{}{Time Series Analysis}{\thepage}

\pageheaderlinetrue  % page header is underlined
\pagefooterlinefalse % page footer is plain

This is a sample first text page that illustrates the use of arabic page
numbers and centered underlined normalsize Roman `Time Series Analysis' text in
the page header, and centered normalsize Roman `Time Series Analysis' text as
well as arabic page numbers in the page footer.  Page numbers appear on the
right side of odd numbered pages. \\ 

You can specify different fonts within the headers and footers by including
standard \LaTeX{} type style directives such as \verb+\+sl or \verb+\+sc, as 
well as different type sizes.  Note that the type style and size directives
that are in effect for the document as a whole do not apply to the header and
footer.  You can also adjust the horizontal spacing of text using commands such
as \verb+\+hspace. 

\newpage

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Change page headers to \large, and page footers to Small Caps.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   
\evenpageheader{\large\thepage}{\large Time Series Analysis}{}
\oddpageheader{}{\large Time Series Analysis}{\large\thepage}
\evenpagefooter{\thepage}{\sc Time Series Analysis}{}
\oddpagefooter{}{\sc Time Series Analysis}{\thepage}

\pagefooterlinetrue % page footer is overlined

This is a sample second text page that illustrates the use of arabic page
numbers and centered underlined large Roman `Time Series Analysis' text in
the page header, and centered overlined normalsize Small Caps `Time Series
Analysis' text as well as arabic page numbers in the page footer.  Page numbers
appear on the left side of even numbered pages. \\ 

\newpage

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Change page headers to Bold Faced Roman, and page footers to Slanted.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   
\evenpageheader{}{\bf\large Time Series Analysis}{}
\oddpageheader{}{\bf\large Time Series Analysis}{}
\evenpagefooter{\thepage}{\sl Time Series Analysis}{}
\oddpagefooter{}{\sl Time Series Analysis}{\thepage}

\pageheaderlinefalse  % page header is plain

This is a sample third text page that illustrates the use of centered large
Bold Faced Roman `Time Series Analysis' text in the page header without page
numbers, and centered overlined normalsize Slanted `Time Series Analysis' text
as well as arabic page numbers in the page footer. \\ 

\newpage

%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%    Change page headers to \Large Bold Faced Roman.  Change page
%    footers to Slanted text contained in \theleft and \theright
%    with page numbers justified to the outer page margin.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%   
\evenpageheader{}{\Large\bf Time Series Analysis}{}
\oddpageheader{}{\Large\bf Time Series Analysis}{}
\evenpagefooter{\sl \thepage\push\theleft}{}{}
\oddpagefooter{}{}{\sl \theright\push\thepage}

\pageheaderlinetrue  % page header is underlined
\pagefooterlinefalse % page footer is plain

\lefttext{Sample verso (left, even numbered page)}
\righttext{Sample recto (right, odd numbered page)}

This is a sample fourth text page that illustrates the use of centered
underlined Large Bold Faced Roman `Time Series Analysis' text without page
numbers in the page header, and left justified arabic page numbers and 
normalsize Slanted text represented by \verb+\+theleft in the page footer.  The
\verb+\+push macro is used to adjust the horizontal spacing between the page
number and the text of the footer. 

\newpage

This is a sample fifth text page that illustrates the use of centered
underlined Large Bold Faced Roman `Time Series Analysis' text without page
numbers in the page header, and right justified arabic page numbers and 
normalsize Slanted text represented by \verb+\+theright in the page footer. 
The \verb+\+push macro is used to adjust the horizontal spacing between the
text of the footer and the page number. 

\newpage

\lefttext{Illustration for \TeX{}hax}
\righttext{Illustration for \TeX{}hax}

As can be seen below, when the definitions of \verb+\+theleft and 
\verb+\+theright are changed, the new text automatically appears in the footer 
without having to change the values of \verb+\+evenpagefooter and 
\verb+\+oddpagefooter.  This can be very useful when you want to include text 
such as chapter or subject titles in page headers or footers. \\

For example, you might want to implement a scheme such as the one shown below. 
 
The section title is initially defined to be the null string so that if a page
break occurs before a section no error will occur because of a non--existent
definition. \\ 

\begin{verbatim}
\evenpagefooter{\sl \thepage\push\uppercase{\chaptertitle}}{}{}
\oddpagefooter{}{}{\sl \sectiontitle\push\thepage}
% [...]
\def\chaptertitle{Title of Chapter}
\def\sectiontitle{}
\chapter{\chaptertitle}
% [...]
\def\sectiontitle{Title of Section}
\section{\sectiontitle}
% [...]
\end{verbatim}

Note that the page headers and footers will not appear correctly on the last 
page of the document unless  you include a ``dummy" blank page at the end.  To 
do this, I use a simple macro \verb+\+blankpage, which is included in the file 
{\em hf--example.sty}.  Otherwise the last page returns to the default page 
numbering scheme, which in this instance is \verb+\+pagestyle\{plain\}. \\

A \verb+\+newpage command at the end of the document will also ensure that the
headers and footers appear correctly.  I also use \verb+\+blankpage for other
purposes, such as forcing a portion of a document to begin on a recto (odd
numbered page) using the \verb+\+forceodd macro.\\ 

The margin settings used in the style file mentioned above assume that you are
printing on U.S. standard 8$\frac{1}{2}${\tt "} x 11{\tt "} paper.  If you
are using the European standard A--4 or some other size paper, you will likely
want to change these settings. 

\blankpage

\end{large}

\end{document}

- ------hf.tex----------------------END------------------clip here-------------

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Date:    Sat, 17 Apr 1993 14:41:58 +0100
From:    lhol@gmdzi.gmd.de (Leszek Holenderski)
Subject: Some problems with \verb

Dear TeXperts,

Can anybody explain me why the following input:

\documentstyle{article}
\catcode`\"=\active \def"{\verb"}
\begin{document}
Just a test of "verb".
\end{document}

gives the following error:

This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3
(test.tex format file: LaTeX with English hyphenation
(/vol/tex/lib/inputs/article.sty
Document Style `article' <5 Feb 88> - GMD.
(/vol/tex/lib/inputs/art10.sty)) (test.aux))
Runaway argument?
verb". \end{document}
! File ended while scanning use of \@tempa.

???

Leszek (lhol@gmdzi.gmd.de)

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Date:    Tue, 20 Apr 1993 20:28:52
From:    anoop@parcom.ernet.in (Anoop Sarkar)
Subject: LaTeX Tree Drawer?

Can anyone help me find where the implementation of the following 
work is available. Information on any other ways to draw trees 
in LaTeX directly (without using 'xfig', etc.) is also welcome.

@Article{Swonk:TB12-2-286-289,
  author =       "Glenn L. Swonk",
  title =        "{{\LaTeX tree drawer}}",
  journal =      j-TUGboat,
  year =         "1991",
  volume =       "12",
  number =       "2",
  pages =        "286--289",
  month =        Jun,
}

Access to the above via a mail-server is preferred to a connection
via ftp.

Anoop Sarkar
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, 
India

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Date:    Wed, 21 Apr 1993 13:39:38 +0000
From:    Jeremy Henty <jch@upper.ist.co.uk>
Subject: LaTeX3

I keep seeing vague references to LaTeX3, but I have no idea what it's about. 
Does anyone have answers (however brief) to these questions? 

        * When is it coming?

        * How can I get it when it does?

        * (Most importantly) What are the authors of LaTeX3 trying to do? 
          (in other words, what will be the significant changes?)

Thanks in advance, 

Jeremy

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Date:    Mon, 12 Apr 1993 11:27:16 -0400
From:    karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: sauter fonts 2.0 available

I've updated my distribution of John Sauter's Metafont files
to make Computer Modern fonts at any point size.

You can get version 2.0 by ftp from

  ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/sauter.tar.z

Please notice the `.z' instead `.Z' -- I am now using gzip instead of
compress.  See below for a blurb about gzip.

This release makes the sauter fonts match the AMS ``extracm'' fonts
(cmbsy5-9, cmcsc8-9, cmex7-9, cmmib5-9).  Thus, the TFM files do not
match those of previous release, hence the incremented major version number.

For all of the standard Computer Modern fonts, these files produce the
same TFM files as Knuth's sources.  So it is ok to call the output from
these `cm...'.

Besides the Computer Modern and the Glonti/Samarin Cyrillic, the
distribution also includes Sauter parameter files for the LaTeX symbol
fonts, contributed by Friedrich Haubensak.

The distribution includes an lfonts.tex for LaTeX and a MakeTeXPK for
dvips which take advantage of these fonts, as well as an NFSS fontdef.sau.

Let me know if you have questions or suggestions.

karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net.


Distribution information: You can get LaTeX from
rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de and dvips from
labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*.  (Alternatively, you can get
ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/dvipsk.tar.z, which is a version of dvips I have
modified to use the same font searching code as TeX, the GNU font
utilities, and my modified xdvi.)

Information about gzip:

gzip is faster and compresses better than compress.  In addition to its
technical virtues, it is not subject (so far) to any (alleged) software
patents.  Here is an extract from the README file:

> gzip is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
> the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy of which is
> provided under the name COPYING. The latest version of the gzip
> sources can always be found in prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/gzip-*.tar*
> or any of the prep mirror sites. An MSDOS lha self-extracting exe is in
> hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/tmp/gzip*.exe.

Instead of prep, I suggest you get gzip from one of the following less
heavily loaded servers:
        Asia: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:/ftpsync/prep,
          cair.kaist.ac.kr:/pub/gnu
        Australia: archie.oz.au:/gnu (archie.oz or archie.oz.au for ACSnet)
        Europe: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/gnu, ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de,
          ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/gnu, nic.funet.fi:/pub/gnu,
          ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se, ftp.stacken.kth.se, ftp.win.tue.nl,
          ftp.denet.dk, ftp.eunet.ch, nic.switch.ch:/mirror/gnu, 
          archive.eu.net, irisa.irisa.fr:/pub/gnu
        United States: wuarchive.wustl.edu, ftp.cs.widener.edu,
          uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com:/mirrors/gnu,
          gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/GNU, ftp.uu.net:/systems/gnu

For more information about software patents,
please email me or lpf@uunet.uu.net.

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Date:    Mon, 12 Apr 1993 11:26:28 -0400
From:    karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: xdvik 0.29 available

I have released version 0.29 of xdvik, my modified version of Paul
Vojta's xdvi, a DVI previewer for the X window system.

It is available by ftp from

  ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/xdvik.tar.z

Please notice the `.z' instead `.Z' -- I am now using gzip instead of
compress.

My major modification is to use the same path searching algorithms as
Unix TeX (i.e., web2c), the GNU font utilities, and my modified dvips.

In addition, the configuration process is (more or less) automatic, in
the GNU style.  The Makefile uses the standard variable names and
targets in GNU makefiles.

xdvik is based on patchlevel 11 of xdvi, i.e., the virtual support and
MakeTeXPK support is not present.  I haven't updated it because I
personally don't need those features (I just generated bitmaps for the
PostScript fonts in the dvips encoding in the first place), and haven't
had time to update the distribution.

This particular version has no major changes (see NEWS and ChangeLog in
the distribution for the minor ones); I am sending out this announcement
because of my switch from compress to gzip.

karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net.

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Date:    Mon, 12 Apr 1993 11:26:51 -0400
From:    karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: dvipsk 5.515b available

I have released version 5.515b of dvipsk, my modified version of Tom
Rokicki's dvips, a DVI-to-PostScript translator.

It is available by ftp from

  ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/dvipsk.tar.z

Please notice the `.z' instead `.Z' -- I am now using gzip instead of
compress.

My major modification is to use the same path searching algorithms as
Unix TeX (i.e., web2c), the GNU font utilities, and my modified xdvi.

In addition, the configuration process is (more or less) automatic, in
the GNU style.  The Makefile uses the standard variable names and
targets in GNU makefiles.

The documentation is included in the GNU texinfo format (thanks
to zoo@cygnus.com for doing the initial conversion).

This particular version has no major changes (see NEWS and ChangeLog in
the distribution for the minor ones); I am sending out this announcement
because of my switch from compress to gzip.

karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net.

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Date:    Mon, 12 Apr 1993 11:27:51 -0400
From:    karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: fontname scheme 1.4 available

I have released version 1.4 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.

Please notice the `.z' instead `.Z' -- I am now using gzip instead of
compress.

The fontname document 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 on the above machine
has a texinfo.tex, as well as a number of other files with name lists.

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

The changes since version 1.3 are minimal: a couple of additional
typefaces, variants, and sources.

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

karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net.

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Date:    Thu, 15 Apr 1993 03:06:56 +0200
From:    yannis@gat.citilille.fr (Yannis Haralambous)
Subject: AdjKerns: announcing a new utility


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\documentstyle{article}
\title{The Birth of a Virtual Font\\ The {\tt AdjKerns} Utility}
\author{Yannis Haralambous}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}

Making a baby can be a difficult process: you need at least two
people (with the adequate tools) you need some favorable
circumstances, and you need motivation.

What about virtual fonts? well, we have motivation enough:
several languages are not covered by DC fonts, in particular Welsh,
Esperanto, Maltese, many African languages (the glyphs for the
latter are included in Joerg Knappens FC fonts) etc. These
languages need virtual fonts to be typeset. The circumstances are
favorable enough. Up to now, though, we were missing one tool.

Here is the problem: you want to substitute a character in the
DC font by some special character you need in your target language.
OK. How to construct the virtual representation for this character?
well, for that we have Eberhard Mattes' {\tt QDTeXVPL}. It will give us
the description of all characters we need. Now suppose you replace
an `A' with some accent, by an `E' with some other accent. What
about all the kerning pairs involving that `A' you took away?
And what all those new kerning pairs you need for the `E'?

Do you want to replace the old kerning pairs by new ones, by
hand?? well, you can try; but if you ever attempt to take a
coffee break, then you will never be able to recognize again what
you have changed, and what remains to be changed. Not to mention
the nasty habit of PL files of having kerning pairs applying to
more than one characters. This optimizes parsing speed, but surely
makes it more difficult to make manual changes.

The utility I'm presenting does all this automatically. It will
read a {\tt [V]PL} file and will
\begin{itemize}
\item remove all kerning pairs involving removed characters;
\item introduce kernng pairs for new characters;
\item add or remove ligatures.
\end{itemize}

To illustrate the use of this program, I provide a real-world
example, namely a virtual font for Esperanto. You will follow the
whole process of giving birth to this font, starting by its
mother: the common {\tt dcr10} font.

\section{How it works}

{\tt AdjKerns} has been written in ANSI~C\footnote{Be aware!
its author is a lousy C programmer, so {\em don't} trust the
program as you trust \TeX. Keep a critical eye for possible
bugs, and report them!}. It should run everywhere; it has been
tested on a Macintosh (MPW~3.2 and Think C~5.0).

The command line should look like this:

\begin{verbatim}
AdjKerns [-c foo.kcf] [-o <something>] <input file>
\end{verbatim}

The input file is a {\tt PL} or a {\tt VPL} file\footnote{If
you look closer you'll see that there is no big difference;
the latter has a few more possibilities, otherwise the
syntax is the same.}. Out of this file {\tt AdjKerns} will
read only the {\tt LIGTABLE}, the rest will remain untouched.

The rules on how to modify the {\tt LIGTABLE} are read
from the configuration file {\tt foo.kcf}. This file is
optional; if you don't include any rules, then {\tt AdjKerns}
will just rewrite your {\tt [V]PL} file, by ignoring any
optimization attempts of the {\tt LIGTABLE}. The file will be
bigger, but the result will be the same; it will be easier to
modify, though.

The {\tt-o} option specifies the output file. If no such is
specified, then the input file is overwritten (you don't need
that file anyway\ldots).

Let's see now the syntax of the {\tt KCF} file. The following
lines are allowed:

\verb=KERN <char> LIKE <char>=

\verb=KERN <char> LEFT LIKE <char>=

\verb=KERN <char> RIGHT LIKE <char>=

\verb=KERN <char> LEFT LIKE <char> RIGHT LIKE <char>=

\verb=UNKERN <char>=

\verb=ADD <lig> <char> <char> -> <char>=

\verb=ADD <lig> BOUNDARYCHAR <char> -> <char>=

\verb=REMOVE <lig> <char> <char> -> <char>=

\verb=REMOVE <lig> BOUNDARYCHAR <char> -> <char>=

\verb=% comments, like in TeX=

where {\tt <char>} means (like in a {\tt[V]PL} file, either
\verb=C= followed by a character, or \verb=D= followed by a
decimal number, or \verb=O= followed by an octal number, or
\verb=H= followed by a hexadecimal number. {\tt<lig>} means
one of the following: \verb=LIG=, \verb=/LIG=, \verb=LIG/=,
\verb=/LIG/=, \verb=/LIG>=, \verb=LIG/>=, \verb=/LIG/>=,
\verb=/LIG/>>=.

Everytime you kern some letter, all previous kerning pairs
and ligatures are erased. By the {\tt UNKERN} command
you can erase these, without inserting a new character.
Commands are executed sequentially, and there is no
consistence test; so you can ask something and then
the opposite: nobody will complain.

\section{An Example: Esperanto}

Esperanto needs the following characters which are not
provided in the DC font: \^c, \^s, \^\j, \^g, \^h, \u u
(and the corresponding uppercase letters). Dirk Everdeen
which is an Esperanto guru (and has prepared a $\beta$
version of Esperanto hyphenation patterns) asked me to use
the following input mechanism: these letters should be
accessed by ligatures {\tt cx}, {\tt sx}, {\tt jx},
{\tt gx}, {\tt hx}, {\tt ux}, because the letter `x' is
not used in Esperanto.

Since the ``phantom'' letter `x' comes {\em after} the
real letter, there is no problem with kerning (like in the
case of the input ligature {\tt ts} of the {\tt wncyr} fonts).
So this method could eventually be adopted as a standard
transliteration of Esperanto. But this is another
issue\footnote{To be solved by the Esperanto subgroup of
the Technical Working Group on Multiple Language
Coordination.}.

Our problem now is to create a virtual font with these
letters, the right kerning pairs and the right ligatures.
I have chosen positions which would harm the least amount
of languages: only Turkish and Slovakian are excluded
when using this virtual font.

How to call it? well, of course {\tt eocr10} since {\tt eo}
is the two-letter code for Esperanto.

\subsection{First step: character description}

How do we describe the accented characters? Let's use
Eberhard Mattes' {\tt QDTeXVPL}. For this we need a
configuration file, which will specify the positions
of new characters, and their descriptions in the form of
\TeX\ macros. Here is this file (let's call it
{\tt esperanto-wannabe.tex}):

\begin{verbatim}
\font\f=dcr10
\input qdtexvpl
\texvpl{^^ad}{\f\^s}
\texvpl{^^8d}{\f\^S}
\texvpl{^^a0}{\f\^c}
\texvpl{^^80}{\f\^C}
\texvpl{^^a8}{\f\^h}
\texvpl{^^88}{\f\^H}
\texvpl{^^a9}{\f\^\j}
\texvpl{^^89}{\f\^J}
\texvpl{^^a7}{\f\^g}
\texvpl{^^87}{\f\^G}
\texvpl{^^b8}{\f\u u}
\texvpl{^^98}{\f\u U}
\bye
\end{verbatim}

The good thing is that we can quickly describe the characters
using \TeX\ macros, like \verb=\^=, \verb=\u=, \verb=\j=.
The bad thing is that this is all we can do. Fine tuning must
be done by hand.

You run this file through \TeX\ and get file
{\tt espernato-wannabe.dvi}. Then you run {\tt QDTeXVPL} with
the followint command line:

\begin{verbatim}
QDTeXVPL -d10.0 esperanto-wannabe.dvi esperanto-wannabe.vpl
\end{verbatim}

Here is an extract of what we get:

\begin{verbatim}
(MAPFONT D 16
    (FONTNAME dcr10)
    (FONTCHECKSUM O 30523766474)
    (FONTDSIZE R 10.000000))
(CHARACTER O 255
    (CHARWD R 0.394347)
    (CHARHT R 0.694275)
    (CHARDP R 0.000000)
    (MAP
        (MOVERIGHT R -0.052765)
        (SELECTFONT D 16)
        (SETCHAR O 2)
        (MOVERIGHT R -0.447113)
        (SETCHAR C s)))
(CHARACTER O 215
    (CHARWD R 0.555420)
    (CHARHT R 0.939255)
    (CHARDP R 0.000000)
    (MAP
        (PUSH)
        (MOVERIGHT R 0.027771)
        (MOVEDOWN R -0.244980)
        (SELECTFONT D 16)
        (SETCHAR O 2)
        (POP)
        (SETCHAR C S)))
...
\end{verbatim}

Now we have to replace these characters inside {\tt dcr10.pl}
and name the new file {\tt eocr10.vpl} (hopefully someday
somebody will find the time to write some utility to do this
automatically).

\subsection{Second step: adjusting kerning pairs and ligatures}

As you saw, we have modified character descriptions, but neither
kerning pairs, nor ligatures. This will be done by {\tt AdjKerns}.
Here is the necessary configuration file {\tt eo.kcf}:

\begin{verbatim}
% Kerning and ligature configuration for
% Esperanto virtual fonts, based on DC
% Semi-official (not yet aproved by TWGMLC)
KERN H AD LIKE C s
KERN H 8D LIKE C S
KERN H A0 LIKE C c
KERN H 80 LIKE C C
KERN H A8 LIKE C h
KERN H 88 LIKE C H
KERN H A9 LIKE C j
KERN H 89 LIKE C J
KERN H A7 LIKE C g
KERN H 87 LIKE C G
KERN H B8 LIKE C u
KERN H 98 LIKE C U
ADD LIG C s C x -> H AD
ADD LIG C S C x -> H 8D
ADD LIG C S C X -> H 8D
ADD LIG C c C x -> H A0
ADD LIG C C C x -> H 80
ADD LIG C C C X -> H 80
ADD LIG C h C x -> H A8
ADD LIG C H C x -> H 88
ADD LIG C H C X -> H 88
ADD LIG C j C x -> H A9
ADD LIG C J C x -> H 89
ADD LIG C J C X -> H 89
ADD LIG C g C x -> H A7
ADD LIG C G C x -> H 87
ADD LIG C G C X -> H 87
ADD LIG C u C x -> H B8
ADD LIG C U C x -> H 98
ADD LIG C U C X -> H 98
\end{verbatim}

Note that we have included ligatures both for `Cx' and `CX' etc.:
the former will be used in text, the latter in titles.
Now we run {\tt AdjKerns}, with the following command line:

\begin{verbatim}
AdjKerns -c eo.kcf eocr10.vpl
\end{verbatim}

After some lines:

\begin{verbatim}
**************************************************************

     This is program AdjKerns (= Adjust Kerning Pairs)

                      Version beta-1
         written for you by a lousy C programmer
               (Yannis Haralambous, 1993)

      It shall help you make efficient virtual fonts
        This software belongs to the public domain

**************************************************************
Loading input file preamble...
Reading kern and ligature data...
Reading lines from configuration file and executing them...
..............................
Finished reading the configuration file
Writing down new lig/kern data...
Writing input file remaining data...
\end{verbatim}

we get the expected result (our file {\tt eocr10.vpl} is
overwritten.

\subsection{Final step: using the font}

Once we have the {\tt VPL} file, we are done. Run {\tt VFtoVP}
and use the font. Here is a small text file to test the font
(file {\tt eotest.tex}):

\begin{verbatim}
\magnification=1200
\font\myfont=eocr10
\myfont
Berto staras antaux la vendejo. Sxi estas rigardanta la
montran fenestregon. Si vidas multajn obiektojn. En la
montra fenestrego trovigxas skatoloj kai faruno. Sub
klosxo kusxas fromagxo, kiu havas multajn truojn. Ankaux
botelojn sxi estas vidanta. La boteloj, kiujn sxi estas
rigardanta, estas egale grandaj. En la mezo de la
fenestrego pendas afisxo, sur kiu estas skribita la
frazo: ,,Cxi tie oni parolas Esperanton``. La pordo
de la vendejo estas malfermita. En la vendejo en angulo
oni vidas barelon kun haringoj. Haringoj estas fisxoj.
La fromagxa klosxo estas farita el vitro. La posedanto
de la vendejo nun estas vendanta fumajxojn kaj cindrujon
al sinjoro. Berto demandas la vendistinon, cxu cxokolado
kaj dolcxajxoj estas haveblaj. La vendistino neas tion.
Ankaux teo, kafo kaj rizo ne plu estas haveblaj. Vino
estas trinkajxo. Berto volas acxeti unue fromagxon kaj
due haringojn. La acxetita fromagxo kostas unu marko. Nun
sxi estas portanta la acxetitan hejmen.
\end
\end{verbatim}

taken from a Esperanto reader my mother had at school
(nice brown and thin ,,Nachkriegspapier``).

\section{Go forth, etc. etc.}

I am tempted to say ``Go forth and make masterpieces
of virtual fonts'', but I have a small request: if you
wish to make fonts for languages (Welsh, Maltese, etc.)
please contact the Technical Working Group on Multiple
Language Coordination first; it might very well be that
somebody is already preparing this language; and if not,
you may be that person. But in any case, we can share
our experiences to make {\em consistent} and
{\em compatible} \TeX\ Language Packages.

\section{Availability}

You will find all the mentionned files, as well as the
sources (and Macintosh-executables) of {\tt AdjKerns}
on {\tt spi.ens.fr}, directories
{\tt/pub/tex/yannis/adjkerns} and
{\tt/pub/tex/yannis/adjkerns/examples}. {\tt QDTeXVPL} can be
found in Stuttgart, directory
{\tt/soft/tex/fonts/utilities/qdtexvpl}.

A \TeX\ Language Package for Esperanto is prepared
by the TWGMLC (Technical Working Group on Multiple
Language Coordination).

\end{document}

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Date:    Mon, 19 Apr 1993 16:07:37 -0400
From:    norman@bellcore.com (Norman Ramsey)
Subject: Spidery WEB copyright restrictions lifted

I am pleased to announce that at long last the restrictive copyright
on Spidery WEB has been eased.  Spidery WEB may now be used freely for
any purpose, including writing software for profit.  I am also pleased
to announce that I am no longer supporting Spidery WEB.  (True de
facto for some time, but now true de jure.)  Bug fixes and bug reports
should be sent to the copyright holders, ORA Corporation, E-mail
address spider-bugs@oracorp.com.  The location at which Spidery WEB is
stored has also changed.  Spidery WEB is available by anonymous ftp
from pip.shsu.edu:tex-archive/web/spiderweb.  This location is
mirrored at other sites as part of the Comprehensive Tex Archive
Network. 

Norman Ramsey

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