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UKTeX Digest    Friday,  5 Nov 1993    Volume 93 : Issue 35

   ``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}:
                              Re: dvips
                    pattern matching and catcodes
                  RE: pattern matching and catcodes
          Hardware/software for running TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX?
        RE: Hardware/software for running TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX?
                        Misinformation corner:
                      RE: Misinformation corner:
                Setting the default encoding in NFSS2
              Re: Setting the default encoding in NFSS2
              Re: Setting the default encoding in NFSS2
                      creating new modes for mf
                          Latex -> anything!
                    Searching for items in UK CTAN
                  Re: Searching for items in UK CTAN
 {Announcements}:
             New version of subeqnarray available shortly


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:    Sat, 23 Oct 1993 14:22:54 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.tex.ftp
Subject: Re: dvips

 > I would like to upgrade my version of Tex to include Postscript
 > graphics using dvips.  I have obtained a list of files from the
 > Texserver relating to dvips using `whereis dvips' but I am
 > uncertain which files I require to transfer.  Under msdos I presume
 > that the following two files would be needed
 > DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.SYSTEMS.MSDOS]DVIPS.EXE_VVE;2
 > DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.SYSTEMS.MSDOS.EMTEX.BONUS]DVIPS.ZIP_VVE;2 I
 > would appreciate some advice.

if you must transfer from tex.ac.uk, get the latter of the two files.
but please, if at all possible, use Internet FTP to ftp.tex.ac.uk
instead. I have the greatest difficulty keeping tex.ac.uk up to date
because of local network problems, and the service will end in a few
months anyway

if you only have JANET, go via uk.ac.ft-relay. ask your local comms
people about this

sebastian


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

Date:    Tue, 26 Oct 1993 14:36:38 +0000
From:    Nigel Chapman <N.Chapman@uk.ac.ucl.cs>
Subject: pattern matching and catcodes

This is a simplified version of a problem I'm having with TeX.
Consider the following:

\def\x agenda#1!{#1}
\def\zilch{agenda99}
\def\y{\expandafter\x\zilch!}

The idea is that \x uses the pattern matching facility to strip off a
prefix of agenda from something, so \x agenda99! would evaluate to 99.
If the something is a macro like \zilch, then it's necessary to use
\expandafter, as in the definmtion of \y, which also gives 99.

So far, so good.  But, the reason I'm doing this is that I want to be
able to run TeX on, say agenda99.tex and get it to write an auxiliary file
actions99.out (or run it on agenda98.tex and get actions98.out, and so on).
So, what I wanted to do was:

\def\thenumbers{\expandafter\x\jobname!}  %  (cf. \y).

Which, as I'm sure you all realize, produces an error message telling me
that use of \x doesn't match its definition.  I think I know why: when
TeX expands \jobname it gives all the tokens category code 12 (other),
whereas in the parameter text of \x, they are all letters of category
code 11.  Hence the pattern match fails, as I suppose it ought to.
I got as far as realizing that it's possible to get tokens of category
code 12 into the parameter text by doing something like
{
\catcode`a=12
\catcode`g=12


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

Date:    Tue, 26 Oct 1993 14:48:20 +0000
From:    Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: RE: pattern matching and catcodes 

As almost all predefined CS's are lower-case only, change the catcode
of the upper case letters corresponding to the lower case letters 
which are in your target pattern; then \lowercase the lot, which will
change the character codes, but not the category codes, of your pattern.

                                        Philip Taylor, RHBNC

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

Subject: Hardware/software for running TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX?

Dear colleague,
   Our department is very interested in installing TEX and using it to
produce papers and technical reports. We would like help to get started
in this process. Can you answer the following questions?
 
(1) What hardware and software would you recommend?
 
(2) What is the easiest and cheapest way of getting TEX, together
    with LATEX and AMS-TEX?
 
(3) Can you recommend a good book on the subject?
  
   Any advice would be very gratefully received.
  
Yours faithfully,
 Allan J. MacLeod (amcl@uk.ac.paisley.cs)

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

Date:    Wed, 27 Oct 1993 11:25:02 +0000
From:    Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: RE: Hardware/software for running TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX?

>>> (1) What hardware and software would you recommend?

h/w: IBM clone, 4-8Mb RAM, 100Mb+ disc, 386+ processor.  Laser printer.
s/w: MS/DOS if needing TCP/IP connection, otherwise OS/2.
 
>>> (2) What is the easiest and cheapest way of getting TEX, together
>>>     with LATEX and AMS-TEX?

The emTeX distribution, free of charge apart from disc costs.
 
>>> (3) Can you recommend a good book on the subject?

``The TeXbook'', by Knuth; ``TeX by Topic'', by Eijkhout.
  
'Phone if you need more advice ('phone number sent under separate cover
 so as not to broadcast on UK-TeX).

                                        Philip Taylor, RHBNC.

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

Date:    Fri, 29 Oct 1993 17:49:13 +0000
From:    C.A.Rowley@uk.ac.open
Subject: Misinformation corner:

Spotted in Springer's blurb for `TeX in Practice'.

"Recently, fairly good TEX(sic) implementations have come out for PCs"

Phew, it's a good job that very good ones came out a long time ago,
isn't it?

chris

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

Date:    Fri, 29 Oct 1993 17:59:50 +0000
From:    Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: RE: Misinformation corner: 

>> Phew, it's a good job that very good ones came out a long time ago,
>> isn't it?

I should think that Stefan wrote the blurb when he first started on the opus!

                                        ** Phil.

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

Date:    Mon, 01 Nov 1993 10:13:14 +0000
From:    dean.ayres@uk.orgn.aea
Subject: Setting the default encoding in NFSS2

I'm trying to set-up NFSS2 to use the T1 encoding. The basic setup uses the OT1
encoding by default (with the cm fonts) but to use PostScript fonts I want to
switch to T1 by default (including the dc computer modern fonts).

What changes should I make to the files used to make the format?


Thanks,
Dean

        Dean Ayres <dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk>
        AEA Technology
        Winfrith
        Dorchester
        Dorset DT2 8DH
        United Kingdom

        Tel + 44 305 251888
        Fax + 44 305 202044

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

Date:    Mon, 01 Nov 1993 11:23:46 +0100
From:    Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Re: Setting the default encoding in NFSS2

Dean Ayres <dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk> writes:

 > I'm trying to set-up NFSS2 to use the T1 encoding. The basic setup uses the 
OT1
 > encoding by default (with the cm fonts) but to use PostScript fonts I want t
o
 > switch to T1 by default (including the dc computer modern fonts).
 > 
 > What changes should I make to the files used to make the format?

None. Enter

\renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{T1}

immediately before

\dump

   Rainer Schoepf
   Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum
    fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
   Heilbronner Strasse 10
   D-10711 Berlin
   Federal Republic of Germany
   <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.d400.de>

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

Date:    Mon, 01 Nov 1993 10:23:56 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.tex.ftp
Subject: Re: Setting the default encoding in NFSS2

 > I'm trying to set-up NFSS2 to use the T1 encoding. The basic setup
 > uses the OT1 encoding by default (with the cm fonts) but to use
 > PostScript fonts I want to switch to T1 by default (including the
 > dc computer modern fonts).

one way is to do
 \def\encodingdefault{T1}
before you type \dump when making the format.  maybe also a
\fontencoding{T1} for good measure. thats what i do, anyway, and it
works.

sebastian

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

Date:    Wed, 03 Nov 1993 14:37:43 +0000
From:    A.F.Lack@uk.ac.city
Subject: creating new modes for mf

I have been trying to create my own mode_def for use with
EmTeX's metafont.  It looks like I need to create my own
version of "cm.base" which I think is made as follows:

C:\EMTEX> mf286
This is Metafont ....
* input plain
* input local
...(can't remember exactly...)

When I do the first "input plain" I get the following error:

Preloading the plain base, version 2.0: preliminaries,
 basic constants and mathematical macros,
! Missing `)' has been inserted.
<to be read again> 
                   (future pen)
l.82 capsule_def(pensquare
                          ) makepen(unitsquare shifted -(.5,.5));
? 

(I have also tried this with my Unix version and got the same result.)

Clearly I am doing something wrong.  Any ideas?

AFL

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

Date:    Wed, 03 Nov 1993 17:48:55 +0000
From:    d.a.davies@uk.ac.bham (David Davies)
Subject: Latex -> anything!

Does anyone know of a filter for something like ClarisWorks, BBEdit or
whatever that will convert a heavily formatted Latex document into RTF or
some other WP-friendly format. I've got a copy of Oztex and it's unwieldly
to say the least (not to mention 7Mb).

All I want to be able to get at is the words, I don't actually mind about
the formatting though it would be nice to retain it. The Latex formatting
codes look simple enough for someone to have written a BBEdit extension to
handle them. Any clues anyone?


David Davies

Department of Physiology, The Medical School,
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT. UK.
Tel No   - +44-(0)-21-414-6898        Fax      - +44-(0)-21-414-6924
Janet    - D.A.Davies@uk.ac.bham      Internet - D.A.Davies@bham.ac.uk
WWW      - http://med152.bham.ac.uk/http/signatures/davies.html

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

Date:    Thu, 04 Nov 1993 23:54:59 +0000
From:    M.Carriba@uk.ac.sheffield.dcs
Subject: Searching for items in UK CTAN

I guess the UK node of the CTAN provides the facility to search for
the location of some specific files, directories or both if you don't
know exactly wehre they're placed in directory tree.

Can someone tell me the commands or give a short explanation how
I can do this? It should work similar to archie's query.

Cheers,

Manuel Carriba (M.Carriba@dcs.shef.ac.uk)

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

Date:    Fri, 05 Nov 1993 10:55:32 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.tex.ftp
Subject: Re: Searching for items in UK CTAN

 > I guess the UK node of the CTAN provides the facility to search for
 > the location of some specific files, directories or both if you don't
 > know exactly wehre they're placed in directory tree.

if you use ftp, the command
 quote site index foo
searches the file list for the word "foo". is that what you mean

 > I can do this? It should work similar to archie's query.

"should" is a strong word.

sebastian

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

Date:    Tue, 02 Nov 1993 15:40:51 +0100
From:    "Johannes L. Braams" <J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl>
Subject: New version of subeqnarray available shortly

     Hi,

        Today I have put a new version of the subeqnarray option in
        the incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. I am sure it will
        find its way to the proper place in CTAN shortly.

        The difference between this version, 2.0 and the previous one,
        1.1, is that it now checks if the user specified either one
        (or both) of the options leqno and fleqn.

    Regards,

        Johannes Braams

PTT Research,                           P.O. box 421,
2260 AK Leidschendam,                   The Netherlands.
Phone    : +31 70 3325051               E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl
Fax      : +31 70 3326477

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