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TeXhax Digest    Thursday, 10 Jun 1993  Volume 93 : Issue 010

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Today's Topics:
               DVI to "conforming" PostScript Comments
                     Re: Why do my macros work???
                          Metafont DOS/Unix
                               METAPOST
                             Re: METAPOST
              Latest complete TeX for VAX and Alpha VMS?
                         Barcode font and OCR
           fontname 1.5/utopia 1.0/modes 0.13/urwfonts 1.0
                          HyperBibTeX 0.9.7


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Date:    Thu, 27 May 1993 16:33:46 -0700
From:    cchavez.ES_AE@xerox.com
Subject: DVI to "conforming" PostScript Comments

Ken,

Conformance refers mostly to the  *document comments*  (as defined in the
PostScript Document Structuring Conventions).  Conformance or non-conformance
will not preclude a file from being printed.  It is very likely that there are
other problems with the file.

      Caesar Chavez
        Xerox Corp.
        El Segundo   (CA, USA)

>-------
>
>Date:    Wed, 05 May 1993 08:33:16 -0500
>From:    kwc@wubcl.wustl.edu (Ken Clark)
>Subject: DVI to "conforming" PostScript
>
>I've got a 30+ page latex document I can convert
>to dvi to postscript and print on my printer.  However,
>others need access to this document; and not all are able to
>print it.  The second line of the postscript file reads:
>
>% This file is a NONconforming PostScript file.
>
>Is there a way to convert this to a conforming postscript file?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Ken Clark
>
>Biomedical Computer Laboratory          ph:  314-362-2135
>Washington University                   fx:  314-362-0234
>700 S. Euclid Ave.
>St. Louis MO 63110  USA                 em:  kwc@wubcl.wustl.edu

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Date:    Fri, 28 May 1993 15:18:41 -0000
From:    Ian.Collier@prg.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Why do my macros work???

On Fri, 14 May 1993 09:05:10 -0600, Zdenek Wagner <WAGNER@CSEARN.EARN> said:

>some time ago I needed in a style file a great many macros of the form:

>\def\macro#1{\def\@macro#1{#1}}

There is confusion with hash symbols here; from the rest of your article it
seems that the middle "#1" is extra, so that you meant:

\def\macro#1{\def\@macro{#1}}

However, this definition can be shortened to:

\def\macro{\def\@macro}

because when you type "\macro{some definition}", both the above macros will
expand to the same text, namely "\def\@macro{some definition}".  In the
first example, the text between the braces is slurped up by \macro and put
right back in there, whereas in the second example this text is unaffected
by the definition, but remains in there until after "\macro" has been
changed to "\def\@macro".  There is just one difference: "\macro x" will in
the first instance define \@macro to expand to "x", whereas it will generate
an error in the second instance.

>By trial and error I designed:

>\def\obj@def#1{\expandafter\def\csname#1\endcsname{\@@def{@#1}}}
>\def\@@def#1#2{\expandafter\def\csname#1\endcsname{#2}}

>This does exactly what I wanted but I do not understand why. Apparently the
>second parameter of \@@def is not supplied when I call \obj@macros.

The above should now explain why.  You have done a similar trick as in the
second definition above, and defined "\obj@def{foo}" to expand to 
"\def\foo{\@@def{@foo}}".  This makes "\foo{bar}" expand first to
"\@@def{@foo}{bar}" and then to "\def\@foo{bar}".  You could shorten your
\@@def further in a similar manner by omitting the #2 on the left and {#2}
on the right.

Ian Collier

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Date:    Sun, 30 May 1993 11:23:29 +0200
From:    Andre HECK <heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr>
Subject: Metafont DOS/Unix

Could anyone tell me whether fonts generated by Metafont under DOS (for
instance with pcMF) would work under Unix? If not, could I be pointed
to a source for a Unix metafont?

Many thanks in advance.
A. Heck.

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Please note that the use (whenever possible) of the "direct" (private)
fax above might be more efficient than e-mail.

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Date:    Thu, 03 Jun 1993 11:30:21 -0000
From:    "Dr. Mark Edwin Hall" <fscimeh@chulkn.chula.ac.th>
Subject: METAPOST

In his documentation on DVIPS, Tomas Rokicki mentions that it has
support for METAPOST. Could someone please explain briefly what
METAPOST is, and how I might be able to get a copy? Thanx.

Mark Hall

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Date:    Thu, 10 Jun 1993 14:49:45 +0100
From:    David Osborne <cczdao@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: METAPOST

"Dr. Mark Edwin Hall" writes [3 Jun 1993 11:30:21 -0000]:

 > In his documentation on DVIPS, Tomas Rokicki mentions that it has
 > support for METAPOST. Could someone please explain briefly what
 > METAPOST is, and how I might be able to get a copy? Thanx.

METAPOST is a version of METAFONT developed by John Hobby to generate
PostScript output instead of the traditional bitmapped Generic Font
format, described in J.D.Hobby (1989), "A METAFONT-like System with
PostScript Output", TUGboat 10(4), 505--512.  I have a vague
recollection that METAPOST has subsequently become available, but
can't find the announcement in my mail folders; you might like to mail
John <hobby@research.att.com> for more details.

Some other references covering METAFONT and PostScript are 

Toby Thain (1992), "Packing METAFONTs into PostScript", TUGboat 13(1),
36--38.

Shimon Yanai and Daniel Berry (1990), "Environment for Translating
METAFONT to PostScript", TUGboat 11(4), 525--541.

~~David Osborne
  Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham

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Date:    Fri, 04 Jun 1993 16:06:01 +0100
From:    macallstr@v1.ph.ox.ac.uk (John Macallister)
Subject: Latest complete TeX for VAX and Alpha VMS?

Where can I obtain the latest (complete) version of TeX for
 VAX and Alpha (if available) VMS?
Also does anyone know of an E-mail address for Maria Code?
John

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Date:    Tue, 08 Jun 1993 17:59:03 +0700
From:    "Jacques J. Goldberg" <PHR00JG@TECHNION.TECHNION.AC.IL>
Subject: Barcode font and OCR

The barcode font by Dimitri Vulis is missing the header/trailer character
without which my TPS barcode optical character reader does not work.
Characters < and > were added so that for example <0123456789> is correctly
read. Note that < and > are the same barcode glyph.
Vulis's font with this small extension will be sent on request.

                             Jacques Goldberg   phr00jg@technion.technion.ac.il

PS: the header/trailer character is
black_naro white_wide black_naro white_naro black_wide
white_naro black_wide white_naro black_naro white_naro
in Vulis's language, if you prefer to upgrade the font yourself.

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Date:    Fri, 28 May 1993 14:47:08 -0400
From:    Karl Berry <karl@edu.umb.cs>
Subject: fontname 1.5/utopia 1.0/modes 0.13/urwfonts 1.0

I've updated some of font-related TeX distributions.

The font naming scheme (to version 1.5),
the Adobe Utopia and Bitstream Charter fonts (version 1.0),
modes.mf (version 0.13),
and a new distribution, the fonts URW donated to Ghostscript.

  ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{fontname,utopia,urwfonts.tar.z,modes.mf}

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

Adobe/Charter changes: match the latest dvips[k].


Fontname changes:

The changes since version 1.4 are minimal: a couple of additional
typefaces, variants, and sources.

I also made two incompatible changes: 1) source `u' is now for URW instead
of `user'.  The latter seemed of dubious utility, and URW has
contributed four fonts to the world (ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/urwfonts.tar.z).

2) Plantin is now pn instead of pi.  Apparently most people were using
pn anyway, and since it was free ...


modes.mf changes:

New modes for the Canon EX, QMS 1700, LPS 20, and Xerox Docutech
devices, and a `null' mode to make only a TFM file.


As always, thanks to the contributors.


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.


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Date:    Fri, 28 May 1993 15:51:39 -0500
From:    "Evan L. Antworth 214/709-3346" <evan.antworth@sil.org>
Subject: HyperBibTeX 0.9.7

HyperBibTeX

HyperBibTeX  is a Macintosh HyperCard application for managing
bibliography databases in a format compatible with BibTeX (as
defined in Lamport's LaTeX book and Patashnik's document
"BibTeXing"). A HyperBibTeX bibliography stack can be created
either by manually making new cards or by importing an existing
.BIB file. When you want to make a bibliography for a document, you
simply export selected cards from the stack to a .BIB file and
process it with BibTeX. 

HyperBibTeX's features include:

* All fields of BibTeX's thirteen entry types (Book, Article,
Proceedings, etc.) are supported. In addition, there are built-in
fields for Annote, Keywords, Location, and ISBN.

* Authority lists are kept for fields with repetitive
information (Author, Journal, Publisher, etc.). New data typed into
these fields are checked against the authority lists; or you can
fill in a field by simply clicking on an item from the appropriate
authority list.

* Abbreviations are supported: they can be used in fields, are
verified by the authority lists, and are imported and exported.
Note however that concatenated abbreviations (introduced in version
0.99b of BibTeX) are not supported.

* There are commands for systematically checking the validity
and integrity of the stack, including Check Keys, Find Duplicates,
and Verify Field.

* A stack can be sorted on any of the major fields (Key, Entry
Type, Author, Journal, Year, etc.).

* A stack can be searched using HyperCard s Find function. The
search can be limited to a selected field. 

* Cards can be marked (or unmarked) individually or by using
the Find function. You can then navigate just the marked cards in a
stack or export just the marked cards.

* There are two special pop-up windoids: one for entering an
annotation (Annote field) and another for user-defined fields
(entered directly in BibTeX syntax).

* There is an Index windoid that lists the Keys of the cards in
the stack (either all cards or just selected ones); clicking on a
card's Key in the windoid takes you to that card.

HyperBibTeX requires HyperCard version 2; version 2.1 is recommended
because of its superior error handling. It should run fine under
system 6, but the Balloon Help facility requires system 7. It also
runs under HyperCard Player.

HyperBibTeX version 0.9.7, released on 3-May-93, is an upgrade that
fixes various bugs (including a serious bug in version 0.9.5) and
adds a number of new improvements and features. If you are
presently using an  older version of HyperBibTeX, I strongly
recommend that you upgrade to version 0.9.7.

HyperBibTeX is freeware and is available by anonymous FTP from:

mac.archive.umich.edu: 
/mac/hypercard/organization/hyperbibtex0.97.sit.hqx 

sumex-aim.stanford.edu: 
/info-mac/card/hyper-bib-tex-097.hqx 

midway.uchicago.edu 
/pub/OzTeX/bibtex/hyperbibtex097.hqx

Or you can order HyperBibTeX on diskette ($5 to addresses in the U.S., 
$7 elsewhere) from:

International Academic Bookstore 
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road  
Dallas, TX  75236  
U.S.A. 
Internet e-mail: academic.books@sil.org  
phone: 214/709-2404 
fax:    214/709-2433

Send all correspondence about HyperBibTeX to: 

Evan Antworth  
Academic Computing Department  
Summer Institute of Linguistics  
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road  
Dallas, TX  75236  
U.S.A. 
 
Internet e-mail: evan.antworth@sil.org  
phone: 214/709-3346, -2418  
fax:    214/709-2433

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