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UKTeX Digest    Friday,  4 Mar 1994    Volume 94 : Issue 09

   ``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: TeX for Windows
                         Re: TeX for Windows
      Re: Rotating too wide for a4 portrait table into landscape
                      Re: TeX memory limitations
                     Re: PostScript virtual fonts
       Re: Postscript versions of LaTeX line and Circle fonts.
                 when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file?
                 when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file?
                           Cork encoding...
                  Previewers (Was: Postscript fonts)

 {Announcements}:
                      yet another dvi previewer
 Final announcement: UKTUG LaTeX2e Conference, Warwick, March 20--21


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Date:    Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000
From:    spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Subject: Re: TeX for Windows

Peter Knaggs writes
 > I have been quit happy using EmTeX for some time.  Unfortunatly I have
 > now been forced into using Windows.  As a resault I am no longer able
 > to use EmTeX, as the emx system that underpins EmTeX does not understand
 > how to use DPMI.  Can anybody offer any advice on this problem?

yes, check out CTAN:systems/msdos/dpmigcc, where you'll find a
replacement for emx which works with dpmi

 > It should be noted that I am using Windows-NT at home, and Win32 in
 > the office.

show off

sebastian rahtz

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Date:    Thu, 03 Mar 1994 12:02:10 +0100
From:    Michal Kubecek <KUBECEK@novell.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: TeX for Windows

> I have been quit happy using EmTeX for some time.  Unfortunatly I have
> now been forced into using Windows.  As a resault I am no longer able
> to use EmTeX, as the emx system that underpins EmTeX does not understand
> how to use DPMI.  Can anybody offer any advice on this problem?

  You can use emTeX under MS Windows. The only programs that cannot run
  under Windows are TEX386.EXE and MF386.EXE. If you are using a version
  for another processor (TEX.EXE, TEX186.EXE, TEX286.EXE or -- if you work
  with large texts -- BIGTEX.EXE), you can run emTeX under Windows. 
  Of course, the compilation would be slower (as everything is under 
  Windows).

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Date:    Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000
From:    spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Subject: Re: Rotating too wide for a4 portrait table into landscape

John Simmie writes
 > Is there a way of rotating just a table(s) into landscape within an
 > A4 portrait document --- via LaTeX?

i'd recommend my `rotating' package which has this functionality

sebastian rahtz

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Date:    Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000
From:    spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Subject: Re: TeX memory limitations

Bernie Stocks writes
 > ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=65501].

you need a bigger TeX! no more, no less. if its under your control,
recompile it. if its not ... what TeX are you using?

sebastian rahtz

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Date:    Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000
From:    spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Subject: Re: PostScript virtual fonts

A.F.Lack@uk.ac.city writes
 > holds virtual font files for garamond under fonts/postscript
 > (pgm*.vf)
...................
 > So my question is which foundary's version of Garamond was used
 > as the basis of the virtual font files in the Archive?

they are Adobe Garamond

 > The archive has the following pgm* files.  Is the following interpretation
 > of the Karl Berry naming scheme right in this case?

yes

sebastian rahtz

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Date:    Fri, 25 Feb 1994 19:27:11 +0000
From:    spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Subject: Re: Postscript versions of LaTeX line and Circle fonts. 

Peter Abbott writes
 > I have received a letter asking if copies of Postscript versions of the 
 > LaTeX Line and Circle fonts are available.
 > 
 > 1. Are they?  2. If so are they Public Domain (I seem to remember
 > TeXtures having postscript versions of fonts).

yes; yes and no. you can buy them from Y&Y or Blue Sky, but there are
also the Paradissa versions in the public domain by Basil Malyshev.
they are good type1 fonts, but expert opinion suggests they are not as
perfect as the Blue Sky ones. for the line and circle fonts you
probably don't mind. on CTAN these fonts are in fonts/cm/ps-type1.

sebastian rahtz

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Date:    Sat, 26 Feb 1994 08:44:24 +0000
From:    uclkahg <uclkahg@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file?

A while ago you were kind enough to offer to help with my PostScript
problems.  $200 for Yannis Haralambous' ScholarTex package bought me the
fonts but no installation instructions ...

I've made some progress.  A recent hint on comp.text.tex alerted me to the
fact that PostScript (unlike DOS) is very fussy about upper-lower case.
Having changed the font name reference in psfonts.map from Ygrepla to
YgrePla (!), the LJ4 will now actually *print* the font it was already
downloading.  HOWEVER ...

It still hasn't got the information it needs to position the Greek accents
and breathings over their vowels; they are just strung out as separate
characters.  It clearly needs, as far as I can make out from the dvips
manual (all that ptmr, rptmr stuff isn't exactly easy) a .vf file.

But --- and I already knew this was a problem --- although I can generate
.tfm and .vpl files perfectly successfully with afm2tfm, for some reason the
program called vptovf whose job it is to make a .vf file simply won't work;
it flashes a continuous string of error messages about `character in line 1
not in parentheses', and has to be put out of its misery with ^C.

Yannis (who `knows nothing about DOS') generated his fonts with some kind of
Apple program.  Are there different kinds of .pfb program, and have I got
the wrong kind?  

Any advice you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Alan

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 ~ Gower Street                    you shall cut off her hand, and show her  ~
 ~ London WC1E 6BT                 no mercy'                                 ~
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Date:    Sat, 26 Feb 1994 11:12:39 +0000
From:    uclkahg <uclkahg@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file?

Further to my earlier message (and when I say earlier I *mean* earlier -- I
accidentally got up at 5.50 this morning, which may account for my talking
about .pfb's when I meant .afm's) ...

I just may be a bit further along.  

In some kind of inspired desperation I actually let vptovf continue with its
frenzied error messages.  After a minute and a half (on a 486-33) it
stopped, apparently having done its job.  You mean programs are SUPPOSED to
behave like that???  I transferred the .vf and .tfm files as instructed by
Rokicki.  This time, I thought, it might really work.

And indeed the printed output is different.  But it's still not right.  The
accents and breathings now appear more convincing, but instead of being
situated over their proper letters they sit smugly over an extra vowel of
their own -- a Greek lc upsilon, in each case.  And final sigmas still don't
appear as such.

So the `virtual font' stuff still isn't working properly.  Please God, don't
tell me I have to go into Re-Encoding ...

Alan

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Date:    Mon, 28 Feb 1994 10:29:24
From:    F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Cork encoding...

Dear All,

I am sure that this must have the status of an FAQ but I have not
really found an answer yet so here goes:

1. Why do I need Cork encoding?  (I am not being rhetorical
here--this is just a naive question about how will it improve the
quality of my life.)

2. What must I do to install it?  For instance, must I replace
zillions of CM fonts, what must I put in psfonts.map so that dvips
handles postscript fonts with this encoding (and must I run afm2tfm
over all the postscript afms again...)

Any help from the experts or pointers to other sources of info
gratefully received.

Many thanks--Fran

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Date:    Tue, 01 Mar 1994 16:52:34 +0000
From:    Dr RM Damerell <uhah208@pluto.ulcc.ac.uk>
Subject: Previewers (Was: Postscript fonts)

In UKTEX 94#04, Sebastian Rahtz writes:

 > if you find ghostscript too slow, buy a faster computer! its *your*
 > time that costs real money; its a false economy scraping by with
 > low-end computers running DOS.

No doubt it is a false economy, but every university in the UK has
been forced to practice false economies for at least the last 10
years. We currently run the suntools previewer dvipage on a sun 3/60
with these results:

startup: 7 secs
goto page N: 1 sec
display: about 5/6 of an A4 page, easily legible down to 5 points.

I was urged to try ghostscript/view; we dont have it so I tried on
somebody else's machine, a Sparc LX10 which is much faster. (Tex on
that machine went at least 15 times as fast as on the 3/60).
Ghostview on the LX10 was definitely slower than dvipage on the 3/60,
and even 12-point type was difficult to read. I know you can zoom, but
then you can only see a small part of the page.

dvipage is not perfect: it only works on a Sun and it cannot handle
embedded graphics. Even with these defects, I think that it is much 
better than any other previewer I have seen.

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Date:    Thu, 03 Mar 1994 17:07:30 +0000
From:    Jon Crowcroft <J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: yet another dvi previewer

source of a handcrafted C language translation of the pascal
dvitty program for dvi previewing, is avaialble on:
cs.ucl.ac.uk
in
darpa/dviv.tar.Z

its about 95% ok...

anyone can take and modify...(i know someone else has done this,
but...i didn't when i did it:-)

j.

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Date:    Tue, 01 Mar 1994 14:00:31 +0000
From:    Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk>
Subject: Final announcement: UKTUG LaTeX2e Conference, Warwick, March 20--21

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