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UKTeX Digest Friday, 8 Jan 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 01
``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary
service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.''
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
spurious inability to find TFM file
RE: spurious inability to find TFM file
Timing of staticisation of muskips in maths mode.
Re: Timing of staticisation of muskips in maths mode.
{Archive News}:
additions to UK (Internet/Daughter) archive
updates on UK TeX Internet archive
xdvi for DOS and DV/X
version 1.06 of Jones index of tex styles and macros
another de-TeX program
some new LaTeX minor style files in UK TeX Internet archive
Administrivia:
Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex
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Date: 05 Jan 93 15:21:17 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: spurious inability to find TFM file
Background:
- ----------
I have a large book (550 pages) with many included files, and zillions
of cross-references, done with LaTeX, and a Times font. Since its a
PS font, I load the same tfm file many times at different sizes. Its
been running through for ages using emTeX386 under OS/2.
Yesterday
- ---------
LaTeX starts to tell me it cannot locate TFM files (ones where it has
already found the same file `at' a different size already), half way
through a second pass on the book. It seems to be random. Sometimes a
\input fails too (eg of `null.tex'!). One gets desperate. One finds
the odd error. One finds a float which was sticking in the gullet for
100 pages (but eventually appearing). After a few such problems are
corrected, LaTeX stops whinging
Question
- --------
What situations cause TeX to fail to open new files, specifically TFM
files? does anyone else ever meet such a situation? is it a bit of jam
in my computer's memory? aliens from Mars?
Sebastian Rahtz
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 15:42:09 +0000
From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: RE: spurious inability to find TFM file
>>> What situations cause TeX to fail to open new files, specifically TFM
>>> files? does anyone else ever meet such a situation? is it a bit of jam
>>> in my computer's memory? aliens from Mars?
Doubtless you are using a C implementation, which by now we know is patently
incapable of detecting when things have gone seriously wrong. Recommend
you revert to the canonical Pascal version, with full error checking
enabled, whereupon you will almost certainly find you have exhausted some
vital resource. CAR may be able to shed some light: after enormous effort,
he tracked down a bug in LaTeX which was causing floats to stick in the
old oesophagous.
** P.
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 16:12:30 +0000
From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: Timing of staticisation of muskips in maths mode.
At what point does TeX staticise the values of things such as \medmuskip?
If I write the following:
$ \realmedmuskip = \medmuskip
\medmuskip = \thickmuskip
x \mathchar "213C y
\medmuskip = \realmedmuskip
x \mathchar "213C y
$
I appear to get the same spacing around the two `<'s. So it would seem
that TeX staticises the muskips at end-of-maths, which I confess is
quite reasonable, but is it defined anywhere?
Philip Taylor, RHBNC.
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 16:28:42 +0000
From: Malcolm Clark <malcolmc@uk.ac.westminster>
Subject: Re: Timing of staticisation of muskips in maths mode.
i think your interpretation of the ?'statistication'
is correct, and rather parallels the selction of fonts
n'est-ce pas (in maths), see page 153 TB. only a
guess.
m
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Date: 04 Jan 93 09:35:43 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: additions to UK (Internet/Daughter) archive
I have made some additions to the Internet archive on ftp.tex.ac.uk:
pub/archive/macros/latex/styles/contrib/covington:
covingtn.sty Michael Covington's TeX macros for glossed sentences,
numbered examples, discourse representation theory,
feature structures, etc.
pub/archive/support/xetal:
another de-TeXifying program (lex/yacc)
pub/archive/systems/os2/binaries:
VV-encoded binary images for OS/2 of
dvips, afm2tfm, lacheck, ps2pk etc
pub/archive/fonts/monotype:
for all the fonts on the Monotype CD (which is on a good cheap offer to UK
academic sites) have been named in accordance with Karl Berry's
scheme, to make `short names' for TeX purposes. A complete set of
TFM and VF files for your delectation. Yes, you do have to buy the
CD to get the fonts themselves, and rename the .pfb files to these
names, but after that its trivial to use them in a TeX document. Go
wild, buy the CD and set your next paper in Zeitgeist-Bold
sebastian rahtz
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Date: 04 Jan 93 11:36:43 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: updates on UK TeX Internet archive
I have updated some dvi drivers in the UK TeX Internet archive on
ftp.tex.ac.uk.
pub/archive/dviware/neumann - replaced by pub/archive/dviware/dvi2xx
(version 050); includes updated source and executables for DOS and
OS/2. A test 0.51 version is also there. This, for those unfamiliar
with the package, is what you want if you have a LaserJet printer
attached to a Unix machine, or don't like dvihplj in emTeX.
pub/archive/dviware/dvi2pcl - dvi to PCL converter, ie another dvi to
LaserJet driver
sebastian rahtz
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Date: 04 Jan 93 09:47:23 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: xdvi for DOS and DV/X
On the UK TeX Internet/Daughter archive, I have put a copy of the
popular Unix previewer, xdvi, compiled for DOS, in
pub/archive/dviware/xdvi-dos
this package needs DV/X, of course
sebastian rahtz
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Date: 05 Jan 93 08:15:55 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: version 1.06 of Jones index of tex styles and macros
I have placed version 1.06 (December 22) of David Jones' Index of TeX
macros and styles in two places:
ftp.tex.ac.uk: pub/archive/help/tex-styles-and-macros.txt
uk.ac.tex: [.doc]index.txt
sebastian
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Date: 06 Jan 93 09:56:14 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: another de-TeX program
I have put this untex in the Uk TeX Internet Archive in
pub/archive/support/untex
sebastian
As detex is mentioned, I'd like to add a hint to untex.
I wrote it as a replacement for detex. It doesn't check \input or
\includ'ed files, but does IMHO a better job stripping TeX commands.
It compiles under many C compilers as gcc, cc (AIX and hpux tested),
MS cl, Turbo C....
--
Michael (Spirou) Staats, Student of Theoretical Physics, Uni-GH Duisburg
email: michael@hal6000.Uni-Duisburg.DE
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Date: 06 Jan 93 11:05:32 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: some new LaTeX minor style files in UK TeX Internet archive
I have added some missing items to the UK TeX Internet archive on
ftp.tex.ac.uk in pub/archive/macros/latex/styles/contrib. brief
descriptions follow, but see the real item for details and authors.
psboxit.sty
This package enables to put a PostScript drawing behind a TeX box.
The drawing is parametrized by the position and the size of the
TeX box.
diamondpar.sty
do diamond-shaped TeX paragraphs
moreverb.sty
adds various verbatim environments using Rainer Sch\"opf's new verbatim
environment.
letterspace.sty
space out a TeX box with extra letter spacing (by Phil Taylor)
layout2.sty
visualize your LaTeX page layout parameters
ifthen-addi.sty
extensions to standard "ifthen.sty"
draftcopy.sty
Prints a large "DRAFT" diagonally across each page; this REQUIRES the
dvips driver
Sebastian Rahtz
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