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TeXhax Digest    Thursday, 28 Jul 1994  Volume 94 : Issue 05

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Today's Topics:
                                 FAQs
                            spell checker
                          Finding an editor
                  proofreader for English Grammar ??
                            Spell checking
                          Re: Spell checking
                      Help with psfig and *.eps?
                    Re: Help with psfig and *.eps?
                     Sauter fonts v2.1 available
                          EuroTeX '94 (2nd)
          [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCE: LaTeX to RTF translator
[comp.text.tex] General Information >> 4allTeX CD-ROM <<, Updated mail
                  ANNOUNCEMENT: Move of UK CTAN node
              [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCING SolarisTeX-0.1
          [comp.text.tex] Announce: First patch to latex2rtf
                         modes 2.0 available


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Date:    Thu, 30 Jun 1994 12:21:04 +0000
From:    virsto@ki.se (Virgil Stokes neuro)
Subject: FAQs

Is there an FAQ file for this group? If yes, how do I get to it?
Thanks --VPS

*  Virgil.Stokes@neuro.ki.se              |                               *
*  BMC, Neuroscience                      |      Things of quality        *
*  Karolinska Institute                   |     have no fear of time.     *

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Date:    Fri, 01 Jul 1994 11:36:38 +0000
From:    virsto@ki.se (Virgil Stokes neuro)
Subject: spell checker
Keywords: spell

Can anyone recommend a spell checker (English) for TeX?
- --Thanks VPS

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Date:    01 Jul 1994 11:40:29 -0400
From:    Bruce Graham <100302.2570@compuserve.com>
Subject: Finding an editor

As a technical translator in France, I have some customers working on LaTex 
but they don't have a WP-type editor (e.g., with spelling check and bridge to 
Macintosh Word). If anyone knows of an editor they can reccomend for the Mac, 
I'd appreciate.

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Date:    Fri, 08 Jul 1994 09:38:01 +0100
From:    sdm@ll.iac.es (Susana Delgado)
Subject: proofreader for English Grammar ??

Do any of you know if there is a proofreader for English Grammar to
run on TeX or LaTeX?

Thanks in advance,

Susana Delgado

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Date:    15 Jul 1994 15:55:16 +0000
From:    bobcatp@solomon.technet.sg (Robert P Batzinger)
Subject: Spell checking

Try using MicroSpell. It has a special TeX mode.

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Date:    16 Jul 1994 05:17:34 +0000
From:    smaddhi@icaen.uiowa.edu (Srinivas Maddhi)
Subject: Re: Spell checking

In article <303im8$i6e@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, phyv030@wrzx12.rz.u
ni-wuerzburg.de (Richard Baumgartner) writes:

>I would like to ask if there are some
>spell checking programs for latex available,


'ispell' available on Unix machines does a pretty good job.
It recognizes LaTex/Tex(?) commands and does not flag them 
as errors.

Option to add words to a personal dictionary is available
along with other standard options.

Good Luck!
                               Srinivas Maddhi
                                (319)335-5725
                           smaddhi@icaen.uiowa.edu

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Date:    15 Jul 1994 18:27:44 +0000
From:    jareed@rodan.syr.edu (Judith Ann Reed)
Subject: Help with psfig and *.eps?

Greetings. I'm in dire need of some quick help with what may be
trivial questions, and thank you in advance for whatever you can
offer.

* We have an encapsulated postscript file that prints on our
postscript printers just fine (DEC lnxx series printers attached to
VAX VMS systems) and is also able to be previewed with ghostview and
DEC's CDA viewer, but that is absolutely impossible to include in a 
TeX document for printing. 
        - Our version of psfig seems to be 1.1 on VMS - undoubtedly
          antiquated - where can I get a newer version?
        - Our TeX is 2.991, LaTeX is 2.09, on a VAX running VMS 5.5-2
        - I also tried it on an Alpha running OSF/1 v2.0, with
          TeX v3.141, LaTex v2.09, psfig v1.8 - same results as VMS.
        - When using psfig to include the .eps file for printing,
             - we get a postscript output file with no complaints from TeX
             - the file prints with no complaints from the printing software
             - *** NOTHING COMES OUT OF THE PRINTER ***
                   - no error pages, no online msgs, nothing.

Here is the TeX file I tried:

\input psfig
\null\vskip 3 true in
\centerline{\psfig{figure=vcbf1.eps}}
\vskip 3 true in
\centerline{Figure 1}
\end

and here is the LaTeX file I tried:

\documentstyle[12pt,doublespace]{article}
\input psfig
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htb]
\vspace{-3.0cm}
\centerline{\psfig{figure=vcbf1.eps,height=8in,bbllx=80bp,bblly=300bp,bburx=550
bp,bbury=700bp,clip=}}
\vspace{-3.0cm}
\caption{\label{Ffds}Predictions for $f_{D_s}$ obtained using
error limits.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
\end

The bounding box info seems correct, based on ghostview's image of the
.eps file. Nothing prints, however.

    Could someone please advise what to do to get this to work in TeX?
    Psfig works on other *.eps files, just not this particular one.
    I'd rather not upgrade TeX or LaTex if I don't have to, would be
    happy to upgrade psfig if I knew where to find it for VMS and for
    OSF/1. However, given that it fails with 2 versions of psfig, as
    noted above, I don't think that's the problem. 

* Last question - where are some archive sources for TeX FAQs, this
  group, TeX distributions? 


Many thanks, anxiously awaiting help to help an anxious user!!!!

Judith Reed
judith@suhep.phy.syr.edu
Syracuse University

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Date:    16 Jul 1994 06:23:16 +0000
From:    smaddhi@icaen.uiowa.edu (Srinivas Maddhi)
Subject: Re: Help with psfig and *.eps?
Keywords: psfig, epsf, postscript

In article <306kf0$e2m@newstand.syr.edu>, jareed@rodan.syr.edu (Judith Ann Reed
) writes:
> ...
>* We have an encapsulated postscript file that prints on our
>postscript printers just fine (DEC lnxx series printers attached to
>VAX VMS systems) and is also able to be previewed with ghostview and
>DEC's CDA viewer, but that is absolutely impossible to include in a 
>TeX document for printing. 
>...
>
>* Last question - where are some archive sources for TeX FAQs, this
>  group, TeX distributions? 
>...
>

Here are some points which might help suggest a solution:
   Have you tried using epsf.sty ?
   Could it be a dvips problem ?

Latest official versions of Tex, LaTex, dvips, epsf, psfig etc. are
available at:
   labrea.stanford.edu in pub/tex
   ftp.cs.umb.edu

Good Luck!
                               Srinivas Maddhi
                                (319)335-5725
                           smaddhi@icaen.uiowa.edu

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Date:    Wed, 15 Jun 1994 16:21:23 +0100
From:    KNAPPEN%de.uni-mainz.kph.vkpmzd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Sauter fonts v2.1 available

The Sauter package for the generation of Computer Modern fonts at arbitrary 
sizes is now available at version 2.1 from the CTAN archive sites and their 
mirrors.

Updates to release 2.1 include:

* A new formulae for the parameters sup1 and sup2. This fixes a bug, 
  causing superscripts being placed too low at larger sizes. Please
  recompute the cmsy fonts for sizes >=11pt

* Support for the wasy2 fonts by Roland Waldi

* Support for the bbold and cspex fonts by Alan Jeffrey

* Support for LaTeX2e and LaTeX2.09 (both old and new1 font selection)

* Command files for UNIX, VMS and MS-DOS

Send bugs, comments etc. to 
knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de

- --J"org Knappen.

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Date:    Mon, 04 Jul 1994 12:33:32 +0700
From:    Wlodek Bzyl <matwb@halina.univ.gda.pl>
Subject: EuroTeX '94 (2nd)

**************************************************************************
Principles                     EuroTeX '94
Practice              26 September -- 30 September 1994
Progress                   Gda\'nsk-Sobieszewo
Poland!                        -----------
**************************************************************************

Is North America too far / too expensive / too alien a culture?
Then come to EuroTeX, the TeX conference of the year!

EuroTeX will take place at Sobieszewo (near Gda\'nsk, Poland)
from Monday September 26th to Friday September 30th, at a cost of

     DM 440-00 (based on two persons sharing)
     DM 480-00 (single room)

There is also a special _non-residential_ option for

     DM 200-00

That price includes the conference fee, the banquet,
and also lunch / refreshments with other texies 
from Tuesday September 26th to Friday September 30th.

Those arriving early on Monday will be able to take part in a
guided tour of the old town of Gda\'nsk, whilst Tuesday to Friday
will be packed with talks and tutorials on TeX and related
topics. The tour will start at 11 am.

For details of how to register, please see the form
included below.  There will be a parallel Maple European
conference at the same time and place. 

There are four main themes to the conference: Principles,
Practice, Progress, and Poland. A provisional programme [1]
is given below.  Following the programme are details of proposed
tutorials and courses [2], information on the bursary
scheme for assisted places [3], and finally a booking form, [4]


[1] Provisional Programme (subject to minor review)

    Principles:

 -- Michel Goossens,
    Simple colour design, and colour in LaTeX-2e

 -- Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and Marek Ry\'cko,
    Paths to METAFONT: avoiding pathless tracts

 -- Kees van der Laan,
    BLUe's format: back to basics

 -- Klaus Lagally,
    Bi-directional line breaking with TeX macros

 -- Bernd Raichle,
    Sorting in TeX's mouth

 -- Laurent Siebenmann,
    Atomic fonts and elctronic archiving of TeX documents

 -- Laurent Siebenmann,
    Floatnotes permit naked graphics insertion

 -- Petr Sojka and Pavel Sevecek,
    Hyphenation in TeX: Quo vadis?

 -- Philip Taylor,
    Defensive programing in TeX: Towards a better class of macro


Practice:

 -- Andrey V. Astrelin,
    Graphics in TeX

 -- Vladimir Batagelj,
    Combining TeX and PostScript

 -- Janusz Bie\'n,
    Polish texts in multilingual environments

 -- Lutz Birkhahn,
    Tdb: An X11 TeX Debugger

 -- Michel Goossens,
    Real life book production: lessons learned from "The LaTeX Companion"

 -- Karel Horak,
    Printing big MetaFont pictures in an MS-DOS environment

 -- Olga Lapko,
    MAKEFONT as part of CyrTug/emTeX package.

 -- Marion Neubauer,
    WORD/WordPerfect to LaTeX conversion

 -- Eric Picheral,
    Building and maintaining the Gutenberg archive

 -- Serguei A. Strelkov,
    Development and standardisation of the Russian TeX
    version CyrTUG/emTeX


Progress:

 -- Johannes Braams,                               
    Document classes and packages for LaTeX-2e     

 -- Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol,
    4-TeX: A workbench for MS-DOS PCs

 -- Dag Langmuhr,
    Creating document styles for LaTeX-2e

 -- J'"org Knappen:                                
    Towards a 256-character IPA font

 -- Piotr Pianowski,
    From PostScript to MetaFont and back

 -- Friedhelm Sowa,
    Printing colour pictures

 -- Andrey F. Slepukhin,
    A package for Church Slavonic typesetting

 -- Philip Taylor,
    e-TeX & NTS: a progress report

 -- Jiri Zlatuska,
    Surviving in a multilingual world with multiple font encodings


[2] Tutorials and Courses:

The first of these will start on Friday September 30th,
but all courses/tutorials are provisional at this stage, and will take place
only if there is sufficient demand.
(Please note that tutorials basically provide an overview of the subject, 
 whilst courses goes into some detail).


Tutorials: (all one day in duration)

 -- Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4TeX: main features 

 -- Kees van der Laan, Manmac BLUe's

 -- Marek Ry\'cko and Philip Taylor, Book Design & Typography


Courses:

 -- Johannes Braams, LaTeX-2e (2 days)

 -- Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4TeX: advanced features (1 day)

 -- Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, MetaFont Basics (3 days)

 -- Marek Ry\'cko and Philip Taylor, Advanced TeX and TeX Macros (3 days)


All tutorials are free: courses are charged `at cost': that is,
the fee is intended to no more than cover the cost of room hire,
equipment hire (where appropriate), and tutor's expenses.  
At the moment we believe that courses will cost of the order
of DM 100 per day including accommodation; this will be reduced
to about DM 65 per day for those not needing accommodation.


[3] Bursaries

As with the TUG meeting at Aston last year, and EuroTeX meeting at
Prague two years ago, it is hoped to be able to offer financial
assistance to delegates who would otherwise be unable to attend.
Delegates who will need assistance in order to be able to
attend should indicate in the space provided the minimum bursary
which would allow them to be able to attend, and should give clear
reasons why they are applying.  All applications will be treated in the
strictest confidence.  Delegates who are in no need of a bursary and
who are able to assist others less fortunate are urged to pledge a
donation in the space provided. 


[4] Booking form -- please return to:

    EuroTeX                   E-mail: eurotex@halina.univ.gda.pl

    W\l{}odek Bzyl,           Fax:    +48 58 41-49-14
    Instytut Matematyki,
    Uniwersytet Gda\'nski
    Wita Stwosza 57,
    80-952 Gda\'nsk, Poland

      Name:
   Address:


    E-mail:
     Phone:
       Fax:

The conference fee covers the period from Monday morning (26 September)
to Friday morning (30 September) and a banquet on Tuesday evening.
The guided tour of the old town of Gda\'nsk is free, but is possible
only for those arriving on Monday before 11 am.

Instructions on how to pay is attached below
(based on information from our bank, which advises SWIFT
to speed up the transfer).

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Please pay to :   POMORSKI BANK KREDYTOWY SA. I oddzial GDYNIA
    SWIFT code    :   POMK PL PS GDY
    Correspondent :   (choose one bank from the list below or from
                      a bank of your choice which can guarantee
                      to be able to make SWIFT transfers to Poland)
    In favour of  :   GUST Polska Grupa Uzytkownikow Systemu TeX
    ACC. No.      :   361811-102528-136
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      The list of correspondents:
                               -------
           Barclays Bank (London), ING Bank (Amsterdam),
  ABN-AMRO Bank (Amsterdam), Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (Stockholm),
Gotabank (Stockholm), Den Norske Bank (Oslo), Swiss Bank Corp. (Zurich),
     Union Bank of Switzerland (Zurich), Dresdener Bank (Frankfurt),
 Deutche Bank (Berlin), DG Bank (Frankfurt), Berliner Bank AG (Berlin),
Bank PKO SA Succursale de Paris, Banque National DE Paris S.A. (Paris),
                   Ljubljanska banka d.d. (Ljubljana).
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Please either complete (where appropriate) or strike through / delete
 each of the following sections] 


[A: Special needs]

I have no special dietary needs / am a vegetarian / am a vegan / have

other dietary needs: __________________________________________________


I am fully mobile / need assistance with ______________________________


_______________________________________________________________________


I would like to share a room with _____________________________________


(or) I would prefer a single room _____________________________________



[B: Tutorials/courses]

(Please note that tutorials basically provide an overview of the subject, 
 whilst courses goes into some detail).

Tutorials: (all one day in duration)

____   Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4TeX: main features 

____   Kees van der Laan, Manmac BLUe's

____   Marek Ry\'cko and Philip Taylor, Book Design & Typography

____   other, please make suggestions


Courses:

____   Johannes Braams, LaTeX-2e (2 days)

____   Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4TeX: advanced features (1 day)

____   Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, MetaFont Basics (3 days)

____   Marek Ry\'cko and Philip Taylor, Advanced TeX and TeX Macros (3 days)

____   other, please make suggestions



[C: Guided tour of the old town of Gda\'nsk]

I would like / would not like to be shewn around the old town of Gda\'nsk



[D: Bursary scheme]

I would like to apply for not less than _____________ from Bursary Fund,


for the following reasons: ____________________________________________


_______________________________________________________________________

(or) I would like to donate _______________________to the Bursary fund.



Please note the following deadlines:

Confirmed registration: 1 September 1994 (cancellation charged at 50\%);
Late registration: 15th September 1994 (no cancellation possible);


                                       Yours,

                                       --W\l{}odek Bzyl
                                       --Tomek Przechlewski

                                       Conference Organisers

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Date:    05 Jul 1994 09:39:29 +0200
From:    ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Ralf Schlatterbeck)
Subject: [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCE: LaTeX to RTF translator
Keywords: RTF, LaTeX, Translation, Microsoft Word, Word for Windows

Archive-Name: auto/comp.text.tex/ANNOUNCE-LaTeX-to-RTF-translator

latex2rtf is a translator program that translates LaTeX text into the
RTF format used by several textprocessors, including Microsoft Word and
Word for Windows. It was written by Fernando Dorner and Andreas Granzer
in a one-semester course in our department. This is new software and as
such not very well tested. It works for us, however. If you find any
Bugs, or make any improvements to the code, please report them to the
address below.
This program should answer one of the frequently asked questions in this
group, namely how to translate from LaTeX to Microsoft Word.

The sources can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
ftp.vmars.tuwien.ac.at
in the directory /pub/misc
in the file latex2rtf.1.0.tar.gz
you need the GNU gunzip program to uncompress the file. Sources can be
obtained from one of the GNU archives.
Alternatively you can specify the file name rtf2LaTeX.tar when
downloading via ftp and the tar-file will get decompressed before
transmission.

- --
Ralf Schlatterbeck
Treitlstr.3/182/1                            email: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
A-1040 Wien                                  Phone: +43/222/58801/8176
Austria                                      FAX:   +43/222/569149
- -- 
Ralf Schlatterbeck
Treitlstr.3/182/1                            email: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
A-1040 Wien                                  Phone: +43/1/58801/8176
Austria                                      FAX:   +43/1/569149

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Date:    07 Jul 1994 09:48:55 +0200
From:    vannes@ecnsun.ecn.nl (Gerard van Nes)
Subject: [comp.text.tex] General Information >> 4allTeX CD-ROM <<


               =========================================
               General information  >> 4allTeX CD-ROM <<
               =========================================

                                                                 July 3th, 1994
                                                                   Updated mail
 

|  (Changebar in the left margin indicates an update comparing with
|  earlier mail)

   Below you will find the most important items concerning the
   >>4allTeX CD-ROM<<.

   1. Availability
   -- ------------
   The 4allTeX CD-ROM was introduced on June 9th 1994 at the 13th local
   NTG (Dutch TeX Users Group) meeting in the Netherlands (and exactly on
   time!).

   2. Contents
   -- --------
   4TeX is based on the famous, fast and well-known emTeX distribution.
   Besides that, the 4allTeX (yes for all!!) contains all related
   software as available as of April 1994.
   So:
    1. It contains the latest 4TeX version (3.20; networkdrive independent).
       4TeX gives us a userfriendly interface with a large set of utilities.
    2. 4TeX contains the software in direct executable form.
    3. 4TeX supports 31 formats including big versions, TeX, LaTeX, Cyrillic,
       Polish, Greek, texinfo, lollipop, latex2e (beta release) etc.
    4. 4TeX supports 59 printer drivers (including linotronics, matrix
       printers, 300/600 dpi laserprinters, laserjets, fax etc),
    5. 4TeX supports graphics: both for previewing and printing. All
       functionality of e.g. BM2FONT, GhostScript, HP2XX, TeXCAD, QFIG
       are included, ready to use!
    6. 4TeX includes amSpell spell-checker for languages English (UK),
       English (USA), Dutch, German, Franch, Spanish and Italian.
    7. 4TeX contains conversion utilities: WP to LaTeX/TeX,
       MS-Word/Chiwriter/PC-Write/troff to LaTeX, detex, untex, etc.
    8. 4allTeX contains a huge set of fonts: Why waste your time generating
       fonts (fax, 300dpi, 600dpi, etc)? They are available also for non-DOS
       systems!
    9. 4allTeX contains a huge set of .sty .mf .pk .fli .tfm .bst .etc
       files.
   10. 4TeX includes Metafont with automatic font generation.
|  11. 4TeX fully supports PostScript fonts, also with automatic font
|      generation using PS2PK!
   12. With 4TeX you can view and print directly in e.g. Times.
   13. 4TeX contains dbase utilities, supports makeindex, etc.
   14. 4TeX uses default (you can change that in the 4TeX configuration file:
       use your favourite editor) the integrated QEDIT editor (you can
       even do block compilation: mark a small part of your (large)
       document, and ONLY that part will be compiled and viewed!
   15. 4allTeX contains a huge set of documentation (> 150Mbyte), including
       TeX/LaTeX/Metafont documentation and tutorials both for novices and
       gurus, including:
       . ALL MAPS issues (dutch and english articles; starting in 1988; about
         1600 pages with high density information, in a large set of PostScript
         files)
       . ALL TEXHAX issues (1986-1994)
       . ALL TEX-NL issues (1989-1994)
       . ALL TEX-MAG issues
       . ALL UKTEX issues (1988-1994)
       . A lot of tutorials in TeX/LaTeX source (also .dvi and .ps files
         available)
       . The `TeXbook' and the `Metafontbook' in TeX source.
       . FAQ about TeX, PostScript, etc
       . WEB/literate program related contributions
   16. 4allTeX contains `FUN' : chess (including chinese), bridge, music,
       crossword, go, and more.
       >>including<< ALL fonts)
|  17. 4allTeX contains French, Cyrillic and Polish packages.
   18. With 4TeX, it is very easy to generate completely new formats.
   19. 4allTeX contains a lot of .dvi and PostScript utilities
   20. 4allTeX contains GNUPLOT
   21. 4allTeX contains extensive bibliographies on TeX-related topics

   ====>  It contains even more than that!!!

   Hard disk requirement for running 4TeX (processing all your documents):
   less than 50k!

   The 4allTeX CD-ROM is the FIRST and (at least in the near future) the ONLY
   CD-ROM with a:
             >>>> ready-to-use MS-DOS TeX implementation <<<<
   including a HUGE set of documentation.

   The 4allTeX CD-ROM contains a UNIQUE SET of TeX/LaTeX/etc software for
   both MS-DOS and non MS-DOS users!

   Unbelievable but TRUE!

   3. Computer systems
   -- -------- -------
   The ready-to-use 4TeX system is available for PC
   MS-DOS 8086/80286/80386/80486/pentium systems. However, the MAJOR part of
   the software on the 4allTeX CD-ROM is system INdependent.

   4. How to install
   -- --- -- -------
   The 4TeX system on the 4allTeX CD-ROM can be installed within 20-30
   seconds (!!) and the first example can be previewed and printed
   within the next 10-20 seconds.
   For installation, only the following commands are needed!
       > cd f:   (e.g. the local CD-ROM drive)
       > inst4tex
           C(ontinue)
           C:   (name local drive)
           Y or N    (Yes or No generate ACD tree)
   For starting 4TeX:
       > 4tex sample

   5. Price
   -- -----
   - The price of the CD-ROM including a 110+ pages manual is: $35.
   - Add $5 for sending by air (only for outside Europe).
   - Local price only in Holland/Belgium : f. 60,-
|  - Add $12 if you pay to NTG with a bank cheque.

   6. How to order the 4allTeX CD-ROM
   -- --- -- ----- --- ------- ------
   UK      : Sebastian Rahtz (spqr@tex.ac.uk)
             For orders, please send him an e-mail first.

   others  : Erik Frambach (e.h.m.frambach@eco.rug.nl)
             For orders: please send money by ****registered**** post to the
             Dutch TeX Users Group:
                NTG
                P.O. Box 394
                1740 AJ Schagen
                The Netherlands

|  USA     : You can also pay by MasterCard/VISA >> directly to the TUG
|            office <<.
|            Send (e-mail) your MasterCard/VISA card number / expiration
|            date to:
|                TeX Users Group
|                Financial department
|                att. John Radel
|                P.O. Box 869
|                Santa Barbara, CA 93102
|                U.S.A.
|                Fax: (805) 963-8358
|                e-mail: john@tug.org
|            ====> And a copy of the order to the NTG; address above; email
|                  e.h.m.frambach@eco.rug.nl (or ntg@nic.surfnet.nl).
|            If you pay to TUG, the 4allTeX CD-ROM will be sent from
|            the NTG office in Holland.

|  The 4allTeX CD-ROM is also available from the computersoftware/magazine
|  shop (pricing could be different!):
     Computercollectief            Het Computerwinkeltje Mechelen bvba
     Amstel 312                    M. Sabbestraat 39
     1017 AP Amsterdam             B-2800 Mechelen
     The Netherlands               Belgium
     phone +31 20 6223573          phone +32 15 206645
     fax   +31 20 6226668          fax  +32 15 207332
   ==> Price of the CD is $35-$37 and shipping charge depends on country.
   ==> Please send a FAX before ordering.
   Computercollectief >>welcomes<< Credit Card!!

   7. Participants of TUG'94 or EuroTeX'94
   -- ------------ -- ------ -- ----------
   Don't forget to visit these two most important TeX meetings!!
   - >> TUG'94 <<
     Almost a must for the averaged LaTeX/TeX user in the USA (and
     outside!). The NTG president Johannes Braams will also visit this
     meeting. Of course he will take some 4allTeX CD-ROM sets with him.
     ====> Please contact him directly (j.l.braams@research.ptt.nl) for your
           4allTeX CD-ROM reservations!
   - >> EuroTeX'94 <<
     The 4allTeX CD-ROM plus manual is free for the participants!
|    ====> For participants who will need additional copies: please contact
|          Erik Frambach (e.h.m.frambach@eco.rug.nl).
     So take a few days break in Poland. There are a lot of very interested
     lectures. And the conference fee including accomodation is very low!!
     Presentation with tutorial and invited lectures will take place at
     EuroTeX'94 by the authors Wietse Dol and Erik Frambach.
     Meet the authors!!

   8. 4TeX discussion list
   -- ---- ---------- ----
   Yes there is already a lot of 4TeX support using the world-wide 4TeX
   discussion list.
   - How to subscribe:
     send the one line message:
         subscribe 4tex your_personal_name
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   - How to use:
     send your questions/bugs/remarks/suggestions to:
         4tex@nic.surfnet.nl

|  - How to retrieve old e-mails
|    All discussions will be archived.
|    In order to receive a list of all archived files, send the one-line
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|        INDEX 4TEX
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   The 4TeX authors Wietse Dol (w.dol@lei.agro.nl) and Erik Frambach
   (e.h.m.frambach@eco.rug.nl) are monitoring this fast growing 4TeX
   list!
|  For very special requests/questions use:
|         4tex-support@eco.rug.nl

|  9. The 4TeX manual
|  -- --- ---- ------
|  The price of the 4TeX manual only (without the 4allTeX CD-ROM) is:
|  In Holland/Belgium:  f. 20,- (including shipping)
|  Other countries   :  $  15   (including shipping)

|  10. 4allTeX FTP availability
|  --- ------- --- ------------
|  On anonymous ftp-site:
|       archive.cs.ruu.nl
|  in directory:
|       pub/TEX/MSDOS/4alltex
|  you will find:
|  - the 4alltex distribution version (an earlier version of 4TeX) in
|    30 files of 1.44 Mbyte.
|  - updates of the 4allTeX CD-ROM.
|
|  You will also find these files at the CTAN sites, directory;
|    .../systems/msdos/4alltex

|  11. Future improvements
|  --- ------ ------------
|  Of course 4TeX is continuously under development. In a next release
|  you can expect e,g.:
|  - latest version of LaTeX2e
|  - latest version of other (TeX-related) products
|  - update dvi drivers (1.5b)
|  - including new (your own) PS fonts into 4TeX with a simple menu (for
|    compiling/viewing/printing)
|  - and more
|  If some esential packages / files are missing on the 4allTeX CD-ROM,
|  please contact the authors on: 4tex-support@eco.rug.nl
|  Some of the above extensions and further improvements will be
|  available as additional installation files from the internet archives
|  and from the Dutch FGBBS bulletin board service of NTG.

   Gerard van Nes
   secretary Dutch TeX Users Group NTG
   e-mail: vannes@ecn.nl
   (e-mail NTG board: ntg@nic.surfnet.nl)

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Date:    Fri, 08 Jul 1994 10:25:07 +0100
From:    Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk>
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Move of UK CTAN node

The UK node of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network changed its home
this morning (Friday 8 July, 1994), UK time -- it now resides on
machines at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

In parallel with the move, a number of new network names have been
generated, which distinguish the archive's different services.

To access the new archive, please use:

                    tex.ac.uk   for email
                www.tex.ac.uk   for www
                ftp.tex.ac.uk   for FTP [128.232.1.87]
                nfs.tex.ac.uk   for NFS
             gopher.tex.ac.uk   for gopher

The archive no longer provides:

 - a WAIS server,
 - an NIFTP (UK JANET coloured-book file transfer) service
   (coloured-book only sites within the UK should use the JANET
    NIFTP/ftp gateway),
 - public terminal access; browsing facilities are now only available
   via WWW, ftp or gopher.  The gopher service isn't quite what it
   was, but we'll be working on that.

The file system to mount on the new NFS service is
            nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive

ftp users should notice no change.  Any shortcomings in any of the
services should be reported by email to ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk
- --
Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns       rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html

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Date:    13 Jul 1994 16:13:31 +0200
From:    grif@tempest.ucr.edu (Michael Griffith)
Subject: [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCING SolarisTeX-0.1

In article <16FEBD662S85.SALZMAN@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu>,
Amy Parker <SALZMAN@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu> wrote:
>Is there a version of TeX that runs under Solaris 2.3?  Where & how do
>I get it?

ANNOUNCING SolarisTeX-0.1:

This is my second version of Solaris binaries for TeX and friends.
It has been updated to include the newest version of LaTeX2e.  Most
other things are unchanged from version 0.0. The binaries and instructions
are available on:

        ftp://cs.ucr.edu/pub/solaris/tex-binaries

Please be sure to get the README file, as it provides some useful
information and answers some of the easier questions.  If you don't
have X11R5, you will have to get a copy of my libraries from the same
location.

Thanks to those who provided feedback on the first release.  I am 
using this information to make a better TeX system for my University
and the world.

Michael A. Griffith (grif@cs.ucr.edu)
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Riverside

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Date:    15 Jul 1994 16:32:28 +0200
From:    ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Ralf Schlatterbeck)
Subject: [comp.text.tex] Announce: First patch to latex2rtf
Keywords: LaTeX, RTF, Microsoft Word, latex2rtf, patch

This is the announcement of the first patch to latex2rtf. A Bug with
SunOS 4.1.3 missing the declaration of fpos_t and fgetpos fsetpos was
corrected. Some bugs in the manpage were corrected, too.

latex2rtf is a translator program that translates LaTeX text into the
RTF format used by several textprocessors, including Microsoft Word and
Word for Windows. It was written by Fernando Dorner and Andreas Granzer
in a one-semester course in our department. This is new software and as
such not very well tested. It works for us, however. If you find any
Bugs, or make any improvements to the code, please report them to the
address below.
This program should answer one of the frequently asked questions in this
group, namely how to translate from LaTeX to Microsoft Word.

The sources can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
ftp.vmars.tuwien.ac.at
in the directory /pub/misc
in the file latex2rtf.1.1.tar.gz
you need the GNU gunzip program to uncompress the file. Sources can be
obtained from one of the GNU archives.
Alternatively you can specify the file name latex2rtf.1.1.tar when
downloading via ftp and the tar-file will get decompressed before
transmission.
The patch from version 1.0 can be found in the file latex2rtf.patch.1.0-1.1.gz

Ralf Schlatterbeck
Treitlstr.3/182/1                            email: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
A-1040 Wien                                  Phone: +43/222/58801/8176
Austria                                      FAX:   +43/222/569149

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Date:    Fri, 22 Jul 1994 06:39:15 -0400
From:    "K. Berry" <kb@edu.umb.cs>
Subject: modes 2.0 available

I have released version 2.0 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: email 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, `special' information, and
landscape mode.

No new modes, but I've renamed all the modes so the primary names are <=
eight characters and all lowercase, and hence portable directory names.
This also saves a bit of memory, though not enough ... if you have the
table sizes from mf.web, modes.mf will eat up too much string space to
do any actual font generation. You can work around this by either
increasing the table sizes (as in web2c's mf.ch), or by removing
unneeded modes from modes.mf and renaming the file. I can't decipher the
Metafont source well enough to understand how to make the modes use less
memory; if some Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd very much like to hear it.

If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the
existing ones, please send them to me.  Improvements to the exposition,
particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome.

kb@cs.umb.edu

mode_def agfafzz =                      % AGFA 400PS
mode_def amiga =                        % Commodore Amiga
mode_def aps =                          % Autologic APS-Micro5
mode_def apssixhi =                     % Autologic APS-Micro6
mode_def atariezf =                     % Atari ST SLM 804 printer
mode_def atarinf =                      % Atari 95dpi previewer
mode_def atarins =                      % Atari 96x96 previewer
mode_def atariotf =                     % Atari ST SM 124 screen
mode_def bitgraph =                     % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi
mode_def bjtenex =                      % Canon BubbleJet 10ex
mode_def boise =                        % HP 2680A
mode_def canonex =                      % CanonEX in LaserWriter Pro 630
mode_def canonlbp =                     % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10
mode_def cg =                           % Compugraphic 8600
mode_def cgnszz =                       % Compugraphic 9600
mode_def itoh =                         % CItoh 8510A
mode_def citohtoz =                     % CItoh 310
mode_def crs =                          % Alphatype CRS
mode_def cx =                           % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX
mode_def datadisc =                     % DataDisc
mode_def newdd =                        % DataDisc with special aspect ratio
mode_def declarge =                     % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024
mode_def decsmall =                     % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768
mode_def deskjet =                      % HP DeskJet 500
mode_def docutech =                     % Xerox 8790 or 4045
mode_def dover =                        % Xerox Dover
mode_def epsdraft =                     % Epson at 120x72dpi
mode_def epsfast =                      % Epson at 60x72dpi
mode_def epson =                        % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family
mode_def epsonact =                     % Epson Action Laser 1500
mode_def epsonlo =                      % Epson at 120x216dpi
mode_def gtfax =                        % 204 x 196dpi G3fax
mode_def gtfaxlo =                      % 204 x 98dpi G3fax
mode_def hprugged =                     % HP RuggedWriter 480
mode_def ibm_a =                        % IBM 38xx (\#1)
mode_def ibmd =                         % IBM 38xx (\#2)
mode_def ibmega =                       % IBM EGA monitor
mode_def ibmfzon =                      % IBM 4019
mode_def ibmfztn =                      % IBM 4029-30, 4250
mode_def ibmpp =                        % IBM ProPrinter
mode_def ibmsoff =                      % IBM 6154 display
mode_def sherpa =                       % IBM 6670 (Sherpa)
mode_def ibmteot =                      % IBM 3812
mode_def ibmtetz =                      % IBM 3820
mode_def ibmtont =                      % IBM 3193 screen
mode_def ibmtosn =                      % IBM 3179 screen
mode_def ibmvga =                       % IBM VGA monitor
mode_def ibx =                          % Chelgraph IBX
mode_def iw =                           % Apple ImageWriter
mode_def jetiiisi =                     % HP Laser Jet IIISi
mode_def lasf =                         % DEC LA75
mode_def linolo =                       % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi
mode_def linoone =                      % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi
mode_def linotzzh =                     % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi
mode_def ljfour =                       % 600dpi HP LaserJet 4
mode_def ljlo =                         % HP LaserJet at 150dpi
mode_def lmaster =                      % 1000dpi LaserMaster
mode_def lnzo =                         % DEC LN01
mode_def lps =                          % DEC LPS40
mode_def lpstz =                        % DEC lps20
mode_def lqlores =                      % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi
mode_def lqmedres =                     % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi
mode_def lview =                        % Sigma L-View monitor
mode_def macmag =                       % Mac screens at magstep 1
mode_def mactrue =                      % Mac screens at 72dpi
mode_def ncd =                          % NCD 19-inch
mode_def nec =                          % NEC
mode_def nechi =                        % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi
mode_def nexthi =                       % NeXT 400dpi, Newgen
mode_def nextscrn =                     % 100dpi NeXT monitor
mode_def nullmode =                     % TFM files only
mode_def ocessfz =                      % OCE 6750-PS
mode_def okidata =                      % Okidata
mode_def pcscreen =                     % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns
mode_def phaser =                       % Tektronix Phaser PXi
mode_def prntware =                     % Printware 720IQ
mode_def qms =                          % QMS (Xerox engine)
mode_def qmsostf =                      % QMS 1725
mode_def qmsoszz =                      % QMS 1700
mode_def ricoh =                        % e.g., TI Omnilaser
mode_def ricoha =                       % e.g., IBM 4216
mode_def ricohlp =                      % e.g., DEC LN03
mode_def sparcptr =                     % Sun SPARCprinter
mode_def starnloz =                     % 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 vs =                           % VAXstation monitor
mode_def vtftzz =                       % Varityper 4200 B-P
mode_def vtftzzhi =                     % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi
mode_def vtftzzlo =                     % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi
mode_def vtfzszw =                      % Varitype 5060W, APS 6
mode_def vtszz =                        % Varityper Laser 600
mode_def xrxesnz =                      % Xerox 8790 or 4045
mode_def xrxfzfz =                      % Xerox 4050/4075/4090
mode_def xrxnszz =                      % Xerox 9700
mode_def xrxtszz =                      % Xerox 3700

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