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TeXhax Digest            Thursday, 19 December 1996     Volume 96 : Number 015

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    New version of AMS-LaTeX released
    Latex
    e-TeX is released
    Plain TeX query about \font
    correct way to write Makefile?

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From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 08:24:45 -0500 (EST)
Subject: New version of AMS-LaTeX released

An interim release of the AMS-LaTeX version 1.2 macro collection has
been posted.

This release fixes a number of bugs, and documents others that have
not yet been fixed, but are known and are on the list for attention
when time becomes available.  The documentation has been extensively
revised and users are requested to pay careful attention to the
READ.ME file.  In particular, AMS-LaTeX 1.2 now requires a version
of LaTeX2e no earlier than December 1994.

The canonical home site for this collection is e-math.ams.org for ftp,
or at http://www.ams.org/tex for those who prefer a Web connection.
The collection has also been mirrored onto CTAN (locations shown are
relative to the root of the tex archive at the particular site):

  location on e-math:       location on CTAN:

  /pub/tex/amslatex  under  macros/latex/packages/amslatex

The other AMS collections are available from the same AMS servers
and have now been installed on CTAN in these new locations:

  location on e-math:       location on CTAN:

  /pub/tex/amsfonts  under  fonts/amsfonts
  /pub/tex/amsltx11  under  macros/latex209/contrib/amslatex
  /pub/tex/amstex    under  macros/amstex

At CTAN, the changes have been made at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de;
they will propagate to the mirrors in due course.

Only the AMS-LaTeX collection has been updated; some minor changes
are under construction in the AMSFonts and AMS-TeX collections, and
a separate announcement will be made when these are posted.


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From: zadokh@rafael.co.il (Zadok Hougui)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:23:22 +0200
Subject: Latex

Hi
Do you know where I could download a copy of Latex for use on an IBM PC
compatible? (for a windows 3.1 or windows 95 environment)
Thanks
Zadok
==========================================================================
Sadok Hougui
32 Lehi St.
Kiryat Bialik, 27000
Israel

Home phone: (972)-4-8740167
e-mail: zadokh@rafael.co.il


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From: Philip Taylor <CHAA006@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:55:17 GMT
Subject: e-TeX is released

Dear Colleagues --

I am delighted to be able to tell you that after a protracted period of
design and development, e-TeX is now formally released.  In summary, e-TeX
is an evolutionary (rather that revolutionary) development of TeX, and is
100%-compatible, including compatibility at the level of the TRIP test.
However, it is also capable of operating in "extended" mode, in which case
it adds approximately 30 new primitives to the TeX language whilst remaining
completely compatible with TeX if none of the new primitives are used, and in
"enhanced" mode, in which case it adds functionality (for the first release,
TeX--XeT) at the expense of compatibility.  

Reference implementations are available for VMS (both VAX & AXP) and MS/DOS,
the former implementation being primarily the work of Christian Spieler whilst
the latter is the work of Peter Breitenlohner.  As this message is being
sent to TeX-Implementors as well as to the NTS and TeX lists, we hope that new
implementations will become available in the near future.

For further information on e-TeX, and for access to the sources and reference
implementations, please see:

	http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/e-TeX/

Philip Taylor,
for and on behalf of the e-TeX team / NTS group.

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From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason)
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:45:13 GMT
Subject: Plain TeX query about \font

If you do:

  \font\titlefont=cmssdc10
  \ifx\titlefont\nullfont
    \wlog{Using \string\nullfont}%
  \fi
  \bye

You get the following message in the log file:

  Using \nullfont

But if there is a blank line between the \font... and the \ifx... this does not
happen. I would not expect to get the message anyway so why does it happen and
why does inserting a blank line cure it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Colin Mason.

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From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 09:30:11 -0800
Subject: correct way to write Makefile?

What's the correct way to create a Makefile for LaTeX?
I'm not sure how to capture the business about having to run:
    latex	(Extract citations.)
    bibtex	(Create the bibliography.)
    latex	(Incorporate bibliography.)
    latex	(Resolve references.)

Thanks,
/7\'7  Steve Kelem	(408)879-5347		Steve.Kelem@xilinx.com
\\ `   Xilinx					FAX: (408)377-3259
//     2100 Logic Drive
\\/.\  San Jose, California 95124

So far, I have the following, but it doesn't capture the above requirements.

.SUFFIXES : $(LATEX_SUFFIXES) $(SUFFIXES)

LATEX_SUFFIXES = .aux .bbl .blg .dvi .ilg .idx .ind .lof .log .lot .toc

all : pop.ps

%.ps : %.dvi
	dvips OPTIONS $*.dvi


%.ind : %.idx
	makeindex $*

%.bbl : %.aux 
	bibtex $*

%.dvi %.aux : %.tex
	latex $*.tex

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