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Article 145307 of comp.text.tex:
From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk (TeXhax Digest)
Subject: TeXhax Digest V1999 #6
Date: 4 Jun 1999 18:49:45 +0100
Organization: ACS, The University of Nottingham
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TeXhax Digest          Friday, June 4 1999          Volume 1999 : Number 006

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    Two important new books
    Re: Two important new books
    TtH and bibliographic entries
    `Final' location for the UK TUG FAQ
    New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN

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Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:46:15 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Subject: Two important new books

Last night, I bought two important new books which have just appeared
at bookstores in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA:

The preface to the first begins:

    This books brings together more than 30 articles nad notes that I
    have written about the subject of digital typography, popularly
    called ``desktop publishing''.  ... I guess I must have ink in my
    veins.

@String{pub-CSLI                = "CSLI Publications"}
@String{pub-CSLI:adr            = "Stanford, CA, USA"}

@Book{Knuth:1999:DT,
  author =       "Donald E. Knuth",
  title =        "Digital Typography",
  publisher =    pub-CSLI,
  address =      pub-CSLI:adr,
  pages =        "xvi + 685",
  year =         "1999",
  ISBN =         "1-57586-011-2 (cloth), 1-57586-010-4 (paperback)",
  LCCN =         "Z249.3.K59 1998",
  bibdate =      "Sat May 08 07:52:35 1999",
  price =        "US\$29.95",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}

The second book is the long-awaited definition of PostScript Language
Level 3.  While previous editions of several Adobe PostScript books
had a distinctive spine, with red at the top, and white at the bottom,
this new one unfortunately has a black spine, with red and white
lettering, making it harder to spot on a bookshelf.  The cover retains
the old red/white style.

Although Apple and Xante have been shipping printers with Level 3
support for more than two years, Hewlett-Packard (visit them at
http://www.hp.com/go/printers) only in the last few months, with the
new HP Color LaserJet 8500, offers such support, and the number two
printer vendor, Lexmark, has yet to do so.

@String{pub-AW                  = "Ad{\-d}i{\-s}on-Wes{\-l}ey"}
@String{pub-AW:adr              = "Reading, MA, USA"}

@Book{Adobe:1999:PLR,
  author =       "{Adobe Systems Incorporated}",
  title =        "{PostScript} Language Reference",
  publisher =    pub-AW,
  address =      pub-AW:adr,
  edition =      "Third",
  pages =        "xii + 897",
  year =         "1999",
  ISBN =         "0-201-37922-8",
  LCCN =         "QA76.73.P67 P67 1999",
  bibdate =      "Sat May 08 07:43:15 1999",
  price =        "US\$49.95, CDN\$74.95",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}

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

Entries for these books, and related publications, can be found in the
bibliography archives at

	ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.*
	ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/postscri.*
	ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/texbook3.*

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-m.html#master
	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-p.html#postscri
	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-t.html#texbook3

The master Web page for these collections can be found at

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table.html

with brief journal tables-of-contents at

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/toc/

and extensive cross-referenced journal article indexes at

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/idx/index.html

These collections are mirrored regularly to several other Internet
archives, include the huge Karlsruhe Computer Science archive at

	http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/

That page includes pointers to eight mirror sites around the globe.

The Karlsruhe archive contains about 930,000 entries, of which 232,659
come from the Utah archive.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- -
- - Nelson H. F. Beebe                    Tel: +1 801 581 5254
- -
- - Center for Scientific Computing       FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148
- -
- - University of Utah                    Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu
- -
- - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC                   beebe@acm.org
- -
- - 155 S 1400 E RM 233                                    beebe@ieee.org
- -
- - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA    URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe
- -
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- -

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Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 12:36:03 -0400
From: Y&Y Support Line <support@YandY.com>
Subject: Re: Two important new books

At 08:46 AM 99/05/08 -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

>Although Apple and Xante have been shipping printers with Level 3
>support for more than two years, Hewlett-Packard (visit them at
>http://www.hp.com/go/printers) only in the last few months, with the

Which is no doubt related to the fact that they just spent an enormous
amount of effort creating a reliable clone for PS level II.

>new HP Color LaserJet 8500, offers such support, and the number two
>printer vendor, Lexmark, has yet to do so.

Regards, Berthold.

mailto:support@YandY.com  http://www.YandY.com	 (Y)

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

Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 18:17:30 +0100
From: "Massimo Pinto" <pinto@graylab.ac.uk>
Subject: TtH and bibliographic entries

I am trying to use TtH (TeX to HTML) from the MiKTeX 1.20 distribution.

My main problem is that I cannot make TtH find my bibliographic entries, it
is issuing error messages as:

no bibcite for "Pinto98"
no bibcite for "Pinto99"

and whatever the "key" is. My .aux and .bbl files are in the same directory
as my .tex file is, and when I run LaTeX od PDFTeX my document comes out
fine. I think it is something that I am missing with TtH.

Also, it does not convert EPS to GIF, when instructed to do so.

Any suggestion?

Massimo
- -----------------------------------------------
Massimo Pinto
Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust
pinto@graylab.ac.uk
- ----------------------------------------------

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

Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:36:29 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: `Final' location for the UK TUG FAQ

Not long after the UK TUG FAQ was first published on paper, in
_Baskerville_, the annals of the UK TeX Users' Group (vol 4 no 6,
December 1994), the group established a `temporary' Web address for
interactive access to the FAQ.  The group is very grateful to the
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences of the University of Sussex
at Brighton, for hosting this `temporary' service for four years!

Now, at last, the group is pleased to announce that a `final' home for
the FAQ has been established, in association with the CTAN node at the
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

The sources, and readily-printable copies, of the FAQ remain on CTAN
in directory usergrps/uktug/faq

At present the interactive FAQ offers exactly the same facilities as it
always has, but there are plans to develop new facilities to further
enhance the FAQ's utility.

The FAQ is under constant development, and in particular a new printed
version is in preparation.  The UK TeX Users' Group would very much
welcome contributions at this time.

Comments, suggestions and error reports concerning the FAQ should be
addressed to the current maintainer, via uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk

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

Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:39:42 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN

The CTAN team have been concerned, for some time, about the copyright
status of the material held on the CTAN archives.  In the course of
preparation of the latest TeX Live disc, Sebastian Rahtz compiled a
list of the licence status of many available packages, and it is the
CTAN team's intention to extend that list to as full coverage of the
archive holdings as is possible.

In parallel with this work, we have instituted a new hierarchy on
CTAN, called nonfree/; it is our intention to move all items, for
which there are significant distribution restrictions, to that
hierarchy.

STRUCTURE

The nonfree hierarchy mimics the structure of the main part of CTAN;
there are (or may in the future be) sub-hierarchies nonfree/biblio,
/fonts, /graphics, /indexing, /language, /support, /systems and /web

For each entry in the non-free hierarchy, there is a corresponding
entry in the main part of CTAN, which is a symbolic link to the
nonfree/ hierarchy.  Since CTAN does not index symbolic links, the
only appearance that a non-free item makes in the FILES.* files is its
instance on the nonfree/ hierarchy.  The `quote site index' command
uses FILES.byname, so that it will always tell you if the item you're
seeking is not free.

CRITERIA

Licensing conditions that CTAN currently recognises are listed in

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html

In the terms defined therein, the nonfree/ tree will hold items whose
licensing is unknown, nocommercial, nosell, shareware, or other.

Notes:

1. CTAN cannot hold matter whose distribution is restricted, anyway:
the archive has no control over what its mirrors might do.  This is
why there is no category `nodistribute'.

2. The `nonfree' licensing category nosource _does_ stay in the main
CTAN tree; there are usable items on CTAN whose source is not publicly
available, but which are nevertheless freely usable and distributable
by all and sundry.

3. We need to treat unknown licenses as nonfree, because of the legal
situation in many countries that one is obliged to assume that an
author would not wish his/her propertty to be treated as if it were in
the public domain.  We have, as yet, moved nothing of category unknown
to the nonfree/ hierarchy; we will be doing that job later in the
year.

THE FUTURE

The CTAN team are slowly moving items to the nonfree/ hierarchy.  This
process may be expected to accelerate during the course of this year;
in particular, one may expect items of category unknown to be moved
starting next month (June 1999).

If *you* are an author who has not responded to an enquiry about the
status of your stuff on CTAN, we urge you to release a new version
which makes its licensing status clear, and to upload that version to
CTAN in the usual way (see README.uploads on any CTAN site).  Don't
forget to mail ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de -- uploads don't get acted
upon without such a message.

If you don't do this, and we don't otherwise deduce the status of your
stuff, it is liable to be moved to the nonfree/ hierarchy, and to
disappear from future CD distirbutions of TeX.

OTHER INFORMATION

While CTAN is _not_ enforcing an open-source policy, we recommend
sites such as

  http://www.opensource.org/osd.html

for discussion of the issues behind software licensing.

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

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