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UKTeX Digest Friday, 27 Aug 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 27
``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}:
Access to CTAN files
Re: Access to CTAN files
Euler Fonts
Re: emTeX remove files
Metafont with bbding10 and callig15
emtex 600dpi HPLJ4
{Announcements}:
xdvik 1.1 & PostScript font bitmaps available
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
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Date: 20 Aug 1993 16:52:01 -0000
From: Jim Darby <jim@uk.ac.edinburgh.castle>
Subject: Access to CTAN files
A quick question. Do you know of any CTAN site where I can read-only
NFS mount the CTAN files and thus not have to ftp them? This will save me
quite an amount of effort.
Jim.
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 18:13:03 +0100
From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.mips>
Subject: Re: Access to CTAN files
> A quick question. Do you know of any CTAN site where I can read-only
> NFS mount the CTAN files and thus not have to ftp them? This will save me
> quite an amount of effort.
As announced in last week's UKTeX Digest, the "daughter" UK TeX
Archive on ftp.tex.ac.uk has the archive exported read-only.
My announcement gave some details for mounting this from a Sun client.
However, I've just attempted this on my workstation (IPC running SunOS
4.1.3 and a modified /usr/lib/libc which uses DNS for hostname
resolution). I expected
mount -o ro,nosuid,bg ftp.tex.ac.uk:/work/ftp/pub/archive /mnt
to work, but that provoked
mount: ftp.tex.ac.uk:/work/ftp/pub/archive: RPC: Unknown host
because the hostname wasn't being resolved. Replacing the domain name
with the IP address (134.151.44.19) succeeds, however:
mount -o ro,nosuid,bg 134.151.44.19:/work/ftp/pub/archive /mnt
I'd recommend that you make use of the automounter to mount the
filesystem on demand and unmount it when it's not being used.
~~David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group)
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Date: 20 Aug 1993 17:27:00
From: P.M.Cray@uk.ac.salford.physics
Subject: Euler Fonts
I would like to use the Euler fonts for setting mathematics.
Unfortunately when I replace the definitions of the cm math
mode fonts with the Euler fonts the output looks horrible
with characters lying on top of one another and subscripts
totally misplaced, etc. I assume this is due to the
machinations of the rest of plain.tex. Is there an easy way
to fix the problem or is there a style file availible
anywhere for using the Euler fonts in straight TeX (not
LaTeX or AMS-TeX)?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Paul M. Cray
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 12:53:05 -0000
From: Manuel Carriba <M.Carriba@uk.ac.sheffield.dcs>
Subject: Re: emTeX remove files
> I have noticed that in the Aston `bonus' disks, the packages come complete wi
th
> emTeX remove files. Is there an easy way of creating these files, or must it
be
> done by hand?
>
> Peter J Knaggs Computing Science, University of Paisley
remove -- Version 1.0b -- Copyright (c) 1990-1991 by Eberhard Mattes
Usage:
remove [-adnq] <remove_file> <directory>
remove [-c] <remove_file> <directory>
remove -w<remove_file> <list-file>
Options:
-a Ask user before deleting
-d Delete files without asking user (DANGER!)
-n Don't delete any file
-q Quiet operation
-c Check file dates and times only
-w Generate remove_file for the files in list-file
Manuel Carriba (M.Carriba@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
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Date: 26 Aug 1993 11:24:48 -0000
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield>
Subject: Metafont with bbding10 and callig15
Both bbding10.mf (dingbats font) and callig15 (calligraphic font) give
error messages when run through metafont. Some of the dingbats are
misformed, though I have not examined the callig font closely enough to
see whether the problems there are serious.
Does anyone have enough knowledge of MF to know what is wrong here?
Mike Piff
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 19:53:00 +0000
From: DODD_NA@uk.co.colloquium
Subject: emtex 600dpi HPLJ4
Emtex dvidrv 1.4s HPLJ4 at 600dpi - please help!
Syptoms:
The correct 600dpi fonts are (generated and) used by dvidrv, but the printer
prints at 300dpi
making all the text appear twice as big (linearly) as it should be. Thus cmr10
comes out as
a 20 point font.
Details:
dvidrv 1.4s 04-Nov-1992. The .CNF file is as follows
% lj6.cnf (600x600 DPI using LJ fonts)
/pd={,$DVIDRVINPUT:}@i
/pl=$DVIDRVFONTS:lj_{0,h,1,2,3,4,5a,5b,sli}
/pf=$DVIDRVFONTS:pixel.lj\@Rrdpi\@f{.pk,.pxl}
/pg={,$DVIDRVGRAPH:}{@Rrdpi\,}@PBf{@Ef,.msp,.pcx,.bmp}
/r=600
/rf=600
/fs=1
/fm=hplaser
/fd=2
/fb
/pl=c:\texfonts
/og=600
It makes no difference to the printer's output whether /og=600 is
not set at all. However, if I send the output to a file and compare two such
files,
one created with /og=600 and the other without, the files differ only in the
eleventh byte which is ASCII 6 for the file created with /og=600 and
ASCII 3 for the file created without /og being set. The surrounding bytes
agree with the Raster Graphics commands for setting raster resolution
in the Printer Command Language (PCL).
The printer is set to its factory default of 600dpi and has 6Mb of memory.
Has anyone succeeded in getting the HPLaserjet 4 to work at 600dpi from
the Emtex drivers? Any help would be much appreciated. Please email
me directly on dodd_na@uk.co.colloquium, or telephone 0242 676462
or write to Nigel Dodd\\15 Celandine Bank\\Woodmancote\\Cheltenham GL52 4HZ
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 18:01:35 -0400
From: karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: xdvik 1.1 & PostScript font bitmaps available
I've released new versions of:
* kpathsea -- my path searching library,
* xdvik -- my modified xdvi that uses it, and
* psfonts -- Ghostscript-generated bitmaps for the standard PostScript fonts.
ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{xdvik,psfonts}.tar.gz
Please notice the `.gz' instead of `.z' or `.Z' -- the default gzip
extension was changed in response to a poll on the GNU newsgroups.
I've stopped making the library available separately, since that was
causing maintenance hassles. The library is part of the xdvik distribution.
I've established a mailing list, tex-k@cs.umb.edu, for bug reports and
discussions for the TeX-related stuff I maintain. I hope this will
provide for sharing of interim fixes, quicker help when I cannot respond
immediately, and so on. To join, email tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu with a
message whose body contains a line
subscribe your-preferred-email-address
I expect to release a new version of dvipsk shortly, perhaps within a week
or two. web2c will follow as soon as possible.
Here's the NEWS:
kpathsea:
* Routines to look up TeX font files, default path specifications, etc.
* Sort-of pattern matching: /foo//bar matches subdirectories
/foo/a/bar, /foo/b/bar, /foo/a1/a2/bar, etc.
* $var and ${var} expansion.
* Support for MakeTeX... scripts.
* Support for fallback resolutions and font.
* Lazy evaluation of path elements.
* Some runtime debugging support.
xdvik:
* Rewrite font finding routines to use the new kpathsea facilities.
* Update for xdvi patchlevel 17.
psfonts:
* In Adobe StandardEncoding, and named with leading `r', for the new xdvik.
* TFM widths in the PK files match those in the TFM files.
* Umlaut character has been corrected (in the GS fonts).
* Encoding of psyr* (the symbol font) matches Adobe's.
karl@cs.umb.edu
Help fight the new programming monopolies -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net.
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