TeXhax Digest Monday, November 24, 1986 Volume 86 : Issue 08 texhax08.861124 This weeks Editor: Malcolm Brown Today's Topics: TeXhax notes Alternate alphabets? TeX fonts RE: How to get new LaTeX. Re: Issue #6 phonetic alphabet Endnotes GF files for IMAGEN 12/300? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- % TeXhax notes: % As promised, TeXhax assumes a more standard digest format with this % issue. The majority of those who expressed an opinion concerning the % format of TeXhax favored retaining the current digest format. Many % urged that TeXhax assume this standard format, since they have programs % that dissect such digests. This request seems quite reasonable, and % hence is implemented starting with this issue. % In order to prevent the digests from becoming too bulky, I will try % to keep each issue to about 10K bytes in length. % Thanks to Eric Berg at Stanford for helping me to get the EMACS % routines for the digest format. % Malcolm Brown ------------------------------ Date: 17-NOV-1986 18:53:12 >From: CHAA006%vaxa.rhbnc.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK To: TEXHAX <@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK:TEXHAX@su-score.arpa> Subject: DEC169 pre-processor for TeX In order to make TeX friendlier for our linguists, I wrote the following pre- processor, which converts files in DEC's multi-national character set (DEC169) into TeX-format. It is assumed that there are NO TeX commands embedded in the file, and that they will be added later to the resulting file. The default file- type for input is .TXT, and for output .TEX; it has been tested under VMS 4.4 with TeX 1.3 and the Flavio Rose V9 LN03 driver. The `currency symbol' is part- icularly ugly, and could do with considerable improvement. Any suggestions or improvements gratefully received ! Philip Taylor (Royal Holloway & Bedford New College; University of London; U.K) Bitnet/NetNorth/Earn: chaa006@vaxa.rhbnc.ac.uk (or) chaa006%rhbnc.vaxa@ac.uk (or) : chaa006@vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk (or) chaa006%rhbnc.vaxb@ac.uk Arpa : chaa006%vaxa.rhbnc.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa (or) : chaa006%vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa ================================= PRETEX.PAS ================================== % Phil's lengthy PASCAL source code can be obtained by FTPing the following % file from score.stanford.edu: % PRETEX.PAS % Malcolm ============================= End of information ============================== ------------------------------ Mail-From: CELONI created at 17-Nov-86 12:54:25 Date: Mon 17 Nov 86 12:54:25-PST >From: Jim Celoni S.J. Subject: Alternate alphabets? To: TeXhax@Score.Stanford.EDU Have you included Hebrew, Greek, Akkadian, Ugaritic, and/or Aramaic text in a TeX document? If so, please let me know how. (First priority is finding font files and TeX definitions; then we can fine-tune spacing, punctuation, and hyphenation.) Thanks. +j James R. Celoni, S.J. Celoni@score.stanford.edu, {hplabs,decwrl}!glacier!navajo!celoni ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 86 09:58 CST >From: BRUGGINK%UWM.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA Subject: TeX fonts To: TEXHAX@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU.ARPA The cm fonts are fine, but a tad of variety would sometimes be useful. Do any (text) fonts exist besides the cm variety (i.e. cmr, cmb, cmtex, cmsl etc. etc. etc.)?? Are they widely and/or easily available; are just the .tfm files adequate for font use, or are other files needed? What's the story?? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 86 08:50 MDT >From: Subject: RE: How to get new LaTeX. To: TeXhax@SU-score.arpa X-Original-To: TeXhax@SU-score.arpa I have just read in TeXhax issue #6 the announcement of a new release of LaTeX from Leslie Lamport with great interest. The announcement stated "...the new files are on at Score." How can I get copies of these files ? The coments in earlier issues of TeXhax refer to "FTP", this looks like it might be an ARPAnet command. Since I am only BITnet and SPAN (NASA DECnet network) what can I do to recive the new release of LaTeX or for that matter other files that have or will be mentioned in TeXhax ? Many thanks, Michael E. Van Steenberg BITnet: MVS@JILA.BITNET SPAN: TAURUS::MEV SPAN: CYGNUS::VANSTEENBERG ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 86 09:19:10 pst >From: lamport@decwrl.DEC.COM (Leslie Lamport) To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Issue #6 In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue 18 Nov 86 20:18:40-PST. Nelson Beebe's suggestion for removing unwanted line breaks from LaTeX's `verbatim' environment seems like a good one. I will include it in the next release of LaTeX. Leslie Lamport ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 86 17:47:14 cst >From: Joe Ramey To: texhax@SU-SCORE.ARPA Subject: phonetic alphabet Does anyone have a METAFONT description for a phonetic alphabet (like the characters used in the pronounciation guide in the dictionary, i.e. schwa, etc.)? Or, are these characters available in the fonts that come with the Unix distribution from the University of Washington? Joe Ramey TI Computer Science Center ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 86 22:56:38 EST >From: Kari_Gluski@um.cc.umich.edu To: texhax@score.stanford.edu, emma@clsi.stanford.edu Subject: Endnotes I just created some endnote macros using insertions that seem to handle quite long notes without trouble. We haven't tested them exhaustively, though. The code and some example use of them follows: % We make @ signs act like letters, temporarily, to avoid conflict % between user names and internal control sequences of plain format. \catcode`@=11 \newcount\interendnotelinepenalty \interendnotelinepenalty=0 \newinsert\endnoteins \def\setendnotefont#1{\gdef\endnotefont{#1}} \setendnotefont{\tenpoint} \def\endnote#1{\let\@sf\empty \ifhmode\edef\@sf{\spacefactor\the\spacefactor}\/\fi #1\@sf\vendnote{#1}} \def\vendnote#1{\insert\endnoteins\bgroup \endnotefont \interlinepenalty\interendnotelinepenalty \splittopskip\ht\strutbox % top baseline for broken endnotes \splitmaxdepth\dp\strutbox \floatingpenalty\z@ \leftskip\z@skip \rightskip\z@skip \spaceskip\z@skip \xspaceskip\z@skip \textindent{#1}\endnotestrut\futurelet\next\no@te} \def\no@te{\ifcat\bgroup\noexpand\next \let\next\n@@te \else\let\next\n@t\fi \next} \def\n@@te{\bgroup\aftergroup\@endnote\let\next} \def\n@t#1{#1\@endnote} \def\@endnote{\strut\egroup} \def\endnotestrut{\vbox to\splittopskip{}} \skip\endnoteins=0pt % space added when endnote is present \count\endnoteins=0 % endnote magnification factor (0) \dimen\endnoteins=\maxdimen % maximum endnotes per page % \newcount\enotecounter % \def\resetenotecount{\global\enotecounter=0 } \resetenotecount \def\setenotecount#1{\global\enotecounter=#1 } % \def\setendnoteflagfont#1{\gdef\endnoteflagfont{#1}} \setendnoteflagfont{\sevenrm} \def\enote{\unskip \global\advance \enotecounter by 1 % First bump the counter. % Now convert the current value of the counter into a superscripted numeral \endnote{$^{\hbox{\endnoteflagfont\the\enotecounter}}$}% } % \def\producenotes{% \ifvoid\endnoteins\else\medskip\unvbox\endnoteins\fi} \catcode`@=12 % at signs are no longer letters \par The ``endnote'' macro is analogous to the ``footnote'' macro in plain \TeX; it takes the note flag as a parameter, followed by the note text in braces.\endnote{[1]}{This is the first plain end note. It has as a flag a 1 in square brackets} This is the second note, with an asterisk.\endnote*{second note.} One could do a third note with a null flag.\endnote{}{This is a note with no flag.} \par Hi, this is a paragraph. The ``enote'' macro works like the ``fnote'' macro in the TEX:MACROS.TEX file.\enote{Counted note number one} It automatically\enote{Counted note two} counts\enote{counted note three} the endnotes. It has macros to reset the counters if needed. \vfill\eject \producenotes \bye Enjoy--Kari ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Nov 86 10:26:47 pst >From: ucdavis!clover!hildum@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Hildum) To: ucdavis!TEXHAX@su-score Subject: GF files for IMAGEN 12/300? Gentlemen: We are currently running TeX on a VAX/VMS system (version 2.0.1, June 28, 1986). Our printer is an IMAGEN 12/300 white writing printer. The installation tape contains only the GF files for magstep 0 in the directory [tex.qms_fonts], which is apparently for white writing machines. We have installed the fonts for the black writing machines, but the results are less than satisfactory. Is there anyone who has information on GF files suitable for the IMAGEN 12/300? We would like to install a full set of fonts. Thank you, Eric Hildum Preferred: dehildum@ucdavis (BITNET) hildum%clover%ucdavis.uucp@ucbvax.arpa hildum%clover%ucdavis.uucp@ucbvax.berkeley.edu ucdavis!clover!hildum@ucbvax.arpa ucdavis!clover!hildum@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Otherwise: hildum@ucd.csnet hildum%ucd@csnet-relay.arpa hildum%ucd@relay.cs.net ------------------------------ End of TeXhax Digest ************************** ------- -------