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UKTeX Digest    Friday, 28 May 1993    Volume 93 : Issue 19

   ``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:
 {Questions & Answers}:
                             dvi to rtf?
                            LaTeX to RTF?
                   Re: Latex inquiry from Hong Kong
                            Re: bibstyles
                       TeX etc. for OpenVMS AXP
 {Archive News}:
              `rotating' package for LaTeX, new release
             postscript font .pk files in emTeX .fli form
 {Announcements}:
   UK TeX Users Group - AGM - Call for Papers - Front-Ends for TeX
                              OzTeX 1.5


Administrivia:
    Moderators:     Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
                    David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
    Contributions:  UKTeX@uk.ac.tex
    Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests:
                    UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex

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

Date:    Tue, 11 May 1993 10:00:17 -0500
From:    Don Ward <careful!don>,
         don@careful.co.uk
Subject: dvi to rtf?

Does anybody know of a DVI to RTF (Rich Text Format) convertor program?
>From a quick look at the Microsoft application note which defines RTF
version 1.0, it looks as though it should be possible.

Don Ward

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

Date:    Wed, 19 May 1993 16:16:57 -0500
From:    Don Ward <careful!don>,
         don@careful.co.uk
Subject: LaTeX to RTF?

Can anybody suggest an easy(ish) way of converting a LaTeX document to
Microsoft Word Rich Text Format file?

(Don't ask *why* I want to do this, I don't: Somebody else wants me to
convert a very large document from LaTeX to Word.  IMHO they should get
LaTeX on the PC.)

Any hints gratefully received.

Don Ward

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

Date:    Tue, 25 May 1993 19:00:09 -0100
From:    Peter J Knaggs <vac9u045@uk.ac.paisley.computer-science>
Subject: Re: Latex inquiry from Hong Kong 

Dr. Joseph Hun-wei Lee writes:

> 2) Although Latex  is  admirably  powerful  in  preparing  technical 
> papers, I find it cumbersome to use it  to  prepare  something  simple 
> like a Curriculum Vitae - e.g. the usual 'Experience' section  where 
> one would like to have something like:
> 
> 1987-90      Something here that may extend for several lines but 
>              would like to have this block on the right typeset  
>              and fully left and right justified.
> 
> This can easily be done on a standard wordprocessor, but it  is  not 
> clear how one can use Latex efficiently for this.  Using  a  tabular 
> environment is too clumsy for this.   Whereas  using  a  description 
> environment may not allow one to adjust the spacing between the left 
> and right blocks.  Is there any 'clean' way to do this?   

Try:
: \documentstlye{artile}
:
: \begin{document}
:
: \begin{tabular}{r@{--}lp{3.75in}}
:   1987 & 90 & Something here that may extend for several lines but would
:         like to have this block on the right typeset and fully left and
:         right justified. \\
: \end{tabular}
:
: \end{document}

According to the LaTeX Book (I dont have a copy in the office, so I
cant refer you to the page) the tabular environment will take the
argument  p{width}  and produce a paragraph of width in the column.
Using EmTeX the above file comes out as:

        1987--90  Something here that may extend for several lines but
                  would like to have  this block on the  right typeset
                  and fully left and right justified. 

Peter J Knaggs                  Computing Science, University of Paisley,
pjk @ cs.paisley.ac.uk          High Street, Paisley, Scotland.  041 848 3545

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

Date:    Tue, 25 May 1993 19:00:52 -0100
From:    Peter J Knaggs <vac9u045@uk.ac.paisley.computer-science>
Subject: Re: bibstyles 

Richard Kaye writes:

> I am editing a book, and the publisher is insisting on author-date
> style for citations and bibliography.  Can someone please point me in
> the direction of the relevant style files for LaTeX/BIBTEX ?

Try Glenn Paulley's Chicago BibTeX style, this is a full implementation
of `B' reference style outlined in the 13th edition of the Chicago Manual
of Style.

[TEX-ARCHIVE.BIBLIOGRAPHY.BIBTEX.STYLES.CONTRIB]
                                                CHICAGO.BST
                                                CHICAGOA.BST
                                                CHICAGO.STY

Alternativly you could try the AuthorDate style option:

[TEX-ARCHIVE.BIBLIOGRAPHY.BIBTEX.STYLES.CONTRIB]
                                                AUTHORDATE.README
                                                AUTHORDATE1-4.STY
                                                AUTHORDATE1.BST
                                                AUTHORDATE2.BST
                                                AUTHORDATE3.BST
                                                AUTHORDATE4.BST
                                                AUTHORDATE1.LTX
                                                AUTHORDATE2.LTX
                                                AUTHORDATE3.LTX
                                                AUTHORDATE4.LTX

Peter J Knaggs                  Computing Science, University of Paisley,
pjk @ cs.paisley.ac.uk          High Street, Paisley, Scotland.  041 848 3545

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

Date:    Fri, 28 May 1993 09:50:32 +0100
From:    dave.webb@uk.orgn.aea
Subject: TeX etc. for OpenVMS AXP

Are any plans a-foot to port TeX etc. to the DEC Alpha OpenVMS AXP
platform? If not, I shall be attempting a port using DECmigrate to
translate the executables. The proper way would be to re-compile the
TANGLE output using Pascal for AXP (re-TANGLing should not be necessary).
The assembly language part of METAFONT would probably succumb to MACRO-32
AXP. However as no-one here uses Pascal we are not going to buy it.

Dave Webb. (Internet: dave.webb@aea.orgn.uk)

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

Date:    24 May 1993 15:01:05 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: `rotating' package for LaTeX, new release

David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk> has taken the trouble to
investigate and correct some problems with my `rotating' package, and
a new version (1.7) is therefore available in the CTAN archives (eg
ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating). Many thanks
to David for his thorough look!

Visible changes:

1) rotate and turn and sideways all now use \ignorespaces and \unskip to
   remove white space after the environment start
2) rotate and turn no longer have an extra space if the argument is a
   count register 
    \newcount\xxx
    \xxx=45
    \rotate{\xxx}
3) the \rotatedirection command is added:
   \rotatedirection{anticlockwise}
   makes rotate and turn rotate things in the positive direction if
   given a positive argument (actually
   any argument does this except \rotatedirection{clockwise}.

Sebastian Rahtz

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

Date:    26 May 1993 14:04:26 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: postscript font .pk files in emTeX .fli form

Ganesh Thiagarajan and Anthony Venson (gany@rtpc01.eng.lsu.edu and
andy@rtpc01.eng.lsu.edu) have taken the time and trouble to repackage
for emTeX the .pk versions of common PostScript fonts which Karl Berry
put together using GNU font ultilities. These let you preview
documents which use PS fonts. Ganesh and Anthony have documented this,
and provided a revised lj.cnf file etc. The files are stored on
ftp.tex.ac.uk in pub/archive/systems/msdos/emtex/psfonts, and will
propagate thence to other CTAN hosts.

sebastian rahtz

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

Date:    20 May 1993 12:10:47 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: UK TeX Users Group - AGM - Call for Papers - Front-Ends for TeX

At the annual general meeting of the UK TeX Users Group on October
20th at Aston, the main part of the day will be spent discussing
"Front-Ends to TeX". We already have some interesting topics lined up,
but I would like to invite others to contribute. I'm interested in
short or long contributions on topics such as:

 - shells for TeX
 - WYSIWYG programs which use TeX as their underlying engine
 - conversion tools between TeX and word-processing programs
 - equation and picture editors which use TeX
 - hypertext systems which use TeX or dvi formats

Please contact me direct if you have something to say in this area,
and we can discuss details. Papers may be published in Baskerville.

Sebastian Rahtz
Programme Organiser, UKTUG 1993 AGM

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

Date:    Mon, 24 May 1993 16:34:14 -0500
From:    akt150%au.edu.anu.cscgpo@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: OzTeX 1.5

OzTeX 1.5 is now available at the following ftp sites:

  rsphysse.anu.edu.au  in pub/oztex/newoztex
  ftp.tex.ac.uk        in pub/archive/systems/mac/oztex

(It should also be at midway.uchicago.edu in about a week.)
There's a lot of changes in version 1.5; here are the most significant ones:

- - OzTeX now has a "big" TeX (32 bit halfwords).  The values of
  mem_max, mem_top, pool_size and font_mem_size can all exceed 64K.  
  Other TeX parameter limits have also been increased.

- - Multiple folders for TeX input files and TFM files are allowed.

- - OzTeX supports all types of printers (not just PostScript printers).

- - Non-resident PostScript font files can be downloaded on demand.

- - OzTeX supports background printing and typesetting.

- - New keyboard short cuts make it easier to proofread a DVI file.
  (E.g., you can hit the space bar to scroll forwards through a document.)

- - The "OzTeX User Guide" has been updated and expanded.

- - OzTeX is now shareware.
  The shareware fee is AUS$30 for an individual and AUS$150 for a group
  (US$30 and US$150 for people or groups outside Australia.)
  Both fees are one-time-only payments, covering this release and all
  future versions.  The group fee covers all members of a user group,
  university, company, etc.  All earlier versions remain freeware.
  More info about the shareware fee is in OzTeX's Help menu.

Andrew Trevorrow
akt150@huxley.anu.edu.au

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