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Article 78 of ucam.mlist.texhax:
From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK
Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #11
Date: 21 Dec 97 17:08:04 GMT

TeXhax Digest             Sunday, 21 December 1997      Volume 1997 : Number 011

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    Web2c-7.1
    ANNOUNCE: xtem version 6
    Harvard Refs?
    Harvard Refs? (A)
    LaTeX2e version in color.sty

----------------------------------------------------------------------

From: Olaf Weber <infovore@xs4all.nl>
Date: 10 Nov 1997 22:21:01 +0100
Subject: Web2c-7.1

(EST)"
Precedence: bulk

At long last web2c-7.1 is available.  This release contains a port of the
basic TeX project programs (TeX, Metafont, MetaPost, GFtoPK, etc.)  to
Unix.  It also contains a new version of the kpathsea library.  It does not
contain any of the dvi drivers (dviljk, dvipsk, xdvik) or other support
programs (makeindexk, ps2pkk): these will become available later.

The release can be obtained by retrieving

	ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/web2c.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/web.tar.gz

(the latter is only needed if you do not have the web files, otherwise
you can just link/copy those in the web2c-7.1/web2c directory).  You
will also need a a library tree to compile and use these programs.
The file

	ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/web2c/texmflib.tar.gz

provides a bare-bones tree.  These files are also available as

	ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/web2c.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/web.tar.gz
	ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/texmflib.tar.gz

Soon these files will also be available on CTAN sites and their
mirrors.

  (Germany) ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/web2c
  (England) ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/web2c
  (USA)     ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/systems/web2c

Finger ctan@ftp.dante.de to obtain a list of mirrors.  An up-to-date list
is also appended to this message.

Please note that the all-in-one-file texk.tar.gz release has _not_
been updated, and will not be in the immediate future.  Sorry.

This release fixes virtually all known bugs in web2c-7.0 and kpathsea-3.0,
and adds a few new features, especially to kpathsea.  Many thanks to all
the people who reported bugs, made suggestions, and provided patches.

Instructions for sending bug reports (and joining the mailing list) are in
the distribution file kpathsea/BUGS.

A summary of the changes follows; read them carefully.  Please read
the manuals as well.

kpathsea changes: 3.1 (10 november 1997)
* The support for multiple texmf trees is much improved.
* New MakeTeX* scripts, based on teTeX's.  These scripts now use
  heuristics to decide where generated files are placed and which
  permissions they should have.
* The varfonts feature is enabled by default.
* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources.
* Change in searching algorithm: if a name doesn't have the default suffix
  we append it for the first search.  Then we search for the bare name.
  Thus if you have foo.bar and foo.bar.tex, the latter will now be found
  first.  Under the old system, you had to specify boo.bar.tex.tex to get
  foo.bar.tex instead of foo.bar.
* Prepend the value of KPSE_DOT to relative paths from texmf.cnf if it
  defined in the environment.  This means we can use . instead of
  $KPSE_DOT in paths.
* Define brace expansion so that {a,b}{1,2} expands to a1:b1:a2:b2.  This
  is different from how shells do it, and exploited in texmf.in.
* Renamed texmf.cnf.in to texmf.in.
* New value for debugging: DEBUG_VARS, equal to 64.
* If a file format has no suffix, allow its long name as the argument to
  kpsewhich --format.

web2c changes: 7.1 (10 november 1997)
* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources.
* VPtoVF: Increased capacity.
* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost:
  - File foo.bar.tex results in \jobname foo.bar, hence foo.bar.{log,dvi,...}.
    This as opposed to foo and foo.{log,dvi,...} which it how it used to be in
    version 6.  In 7.0 situation was confusing, as the heuristics used would
    sometimes result in the extension being stripped, sometimes not.
* TeX:
  - The -extend-jobname option has been removed.
  - Printing of non-ASCII characters in diagnostics, code by Bernd Raichle.
* web2c:
  - Some support for e-TeX added to convert.

.
$ finger ctan@ftp.dante.de
[sun.dante.de]
Login name: ctan
Directory: /home/server/ctan        	Shell: /bin/sync
Never logged in.
No unread mail
Plan:
In order to reduce network load, it is recommended that you use the
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) host which is located in the
closest network proximity to your site.  Alternatively, you may wish to
obtain a copy of the CTAN via CD-ROM (see help/CTAN.cdrom for details).

Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
  cis.utovrm.it (Italia)                  /TeX
  ctan.math.mun.ca (Newfoundland, Canada) /tex-archive
  ctan.unsw.edu.au (NSW, Australia)       /tex-archive
  dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan)         /tex-archive
  ftp.belnet.be (Belgium)                 /packages/TeX
  ftp.ccu.edu.tw (Taiwan)                 /pub/tex
  ftp.cdrom.com (West coast, USA)         /pub/tex/ctan
  ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk (Hong Kong)        /pub/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au  (Australia)         /tex-archive
  ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands)         /pub/tex-archive
  ftp.cstug.cz (The Czech Republic)       /pub/tex/CTAN
  ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA)      /tex-archive
  ftp.funet.fi (Finland)                  /pub/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.gwdg.de (Deutschland)               /pub/dante
  ftp.hea.ie (Ireland)                    /pub/ctan/tex
  ftp.jussieu.fr (France)                 /pub4/TeX/CTAN
  ftp.kreonet.re.kr (Korea)               /pub/CTAN
  ftp.loria.fr (France)                   /pub/unix/tex/ctan
  ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de (Deutschland)         /pub/tex/mirror/ftp.dante.de
  ftp.nada.kth.se (Sweden)                /pub/tex/ctan-mirror
  ftp.oleane.net (France)                 /pub/mirrors/CTAN/
  ftp.rediris.es (Espa\~na)               /mirror/tex-archive
  ftp.rge.com (New York, USA)             /pub/tex
  ftp.riken.go.jp (Japan)                 /pub/tex-archive
  ftp.tu-chemnitz.de (Deutschland)        /pub/tex
  ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp (Japan)		  /pub/tex/CTAN
  ftp.uni-augsburg.de (Deutschland)       /tex-archive
  ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Deutschland)      /pub/tex
  ftp.unina.it (Italia)                   /pub/TeX
  ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Deutschland)      /tex-archive (/pub/tex)
  ftp.univie.ac.at (\"Osterreich)         /packages/tex
  ftp.ut.ee (Estonia)                     /tex-archive
  ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore)            /pub/zi/TeX
  joshua.smcvt.edu (Vermont, USA)         /pub/tex
  src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England)              /packages/tex/uk-tex
  sunsite.auc.dk (Denmark)                /pub/tex/ctan
  sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch (Switzerland)   /mirror/tex
  sunsite.icm.edu.pl (Poland)             /pub/CTAN
  sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA)	  /pub/packages/TeX
  wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA)     /packages/TeX

Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
  ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia)              /pub/tex/ctan
  ftp.fcu.edu.tw (Taiwan)                 /pub2/tex
  ftp.germany.eu.net (Deutschland)        /pub/packages/TeX
  ftp.gust.org.pl (Poland)                /pub/TeX
  ftp.jaist.ac.jp (Japan)                 /pub/TeX/tex-archive
  ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA)              /pub/text-processing/TeX
  sunsite.dsi.unimi.it (Italia)           /pub/TeX
  sunsite.snu.ac.kr (Korea)               /shortcut/CTAN

Please send updates to this list to <ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>.

The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are:
  ftp.dante.de  (Deutschland)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- gopher on node gopher.dante.de
       -- email via ftpmail@dante.de
       -- World Wide Web access on http://www.dante.de/
       -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@dante.de>

  ftp.tex.ac.uk (England)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
       -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk
       -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive
       -- World Wide Web access on http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive
       -- Administrator: <ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk>

  tug2.cs.umb.edu (Massachusetts, USA)
       -- anonymous ftp                 /tex-archive (/pub/archive)
       -- World Wide Web access on http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/
       -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@mail.tug.org>

- --
Olaf Weber

------------------------------

From: wz@iwd.uni-bremen.de (Roland Weibezahn)
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 10:18:58 +0100
Subject: ANNOUNCE: xtem version 6

Dear xtem users,

We have finished the new version (xtem_TeXMenu 6.12) of

        "xtem",   an  X11-TeX-menu

which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl8.0)
as well as with the old versions (Tcl7.4, Tcl7.5 and Tcl7.6).

In addition to adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk, we have done
error corrections and added new features, such as:

- - the hyphenations found in the .dvi-file can be displayed after a
  TeX run (for this we have written a program hyphen_show.c);

- - we also realized key bindings,

- - and we modified the print menu (page selection is now controlled
  for the existence of the selected page numbers in the document).

As usual you can get all material (including the source code of
Tcl/Tk/TclX we used) from our ftp server:

   ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/*.tar.gz
or
   http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html

The final release took a little bit more time than intended by
us originally (vacancies, installation, and -- last but not least --
we had hard to work to program around some incompatibilities between
Tcl8.0 and Tcl7.6).

We have plans for more features, we will discuss them in a few days
in our xtem discussion list, for which you can subscribe with an
e-mail to
                majordomo@iwd.uni-bremen.de
with "body"
                subscribe xtem-list
                end

Regards, Roland Weibezahn
- --
Dr. Roland Weibezahn
weibezahn@iwd.uni-bremen.de    phone: +49-421-218-3532
University Bremen, IWD, post-box: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany
http://www.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html (the xtem_TeXMenu project)

------------------------------

From: P Taylor <esrni@eng.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:26:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Harvard Refs?

>Hi,
I'm hoping that you can offer advice to me.   I have been using Bibtex
C Version 0.99c to obtain standard numerical referencing in the past in
conjunction with LaTeX Version 2.09 (14 Jan 1992).
However, I am just starting to write up my PhD thesis in Civil
Engineering using LaTeX2e (1995/06/01) patch level 3 because
I wish to use the harvard reference system in conjunction with Bibtex
C Version 0.99c. From text books I have managed to learn that I will need the
harvard.sty file written by P Williams and T Schnier.   I have obtained
this using ftp however I cannot find out what commands are needed or
where they are needed to get anything working.
I would be very grateful if you could send me the infomation I require or
refer me to a text containing the infomation.   Whilst I'm fairly
computer literate I'm no whizz kid (my PhD is in Soil Mechanics!) so I'd
appreciate it if I only new the basics just to get the thing working.
Yours sincerely
Paul Taylor.

------------------------------

From: Werenfried Spit <w.spit@witbo.nl>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 15:07:29 +0100
Subject: Harvard Refs? (A)

There used to be a user manual with harvard.sty. I remember it lived
on CTAN among the bibstyles.
Otherwise, its fairly easy:
- - use a Harvard-bibstyle
- - use normal \cite s
good luck
- ---
Werenfried Spit                            e-mail  W.Spit@witbo.nl
Witteveen+Bos Consulting Engineers         phone   +31-70-3.700.709
Den Haag, The Netherlands                  fax     +31-70-3.600.098

------------------------------

From: Mark Joy <ma_s443@crystal.kingston.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:58:28 GMT0BST
Subject: LaTeX2e version in color.sty

Can anyone help with the following...

I have a copy of PCTEX and have copied the installation files for
LATEX 2e from the CTAN site at Aston UK. Everything seems to be ok
except when I try to set up the graphics capabilities. In my
color.sty file I have the command

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01]

generating the warning,

LaTeX Warning: You have requested release `1995/12/01' of LaTeX,
               but only release `1994/12/01' is available.

whilst typesetting  grfguide.tex. I also get the error messages,

! Illegal parameter number in definition of \ds@monochrome.
<to be read again>
         l.50 ...@lor@special\m@ne{define #1 #2}}}}

etc, etc.

Thanks in advance
Mark Joy

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