TeXhax Digest Friday, 1 May 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 007 Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the UK TeX Users Group % % in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: Moderator's note TeXhax Landscape in LaTeX Re: TeXhax Digest V92 #004 version 1.2 of Sauter files (any point size Computer Modern) INCLUDE Preprocessor available on FILESERV/Niord need MF help! \bigsqcap, how to get TeX installation questions TeX v3.141 now in the Aston Archive 14pt styles for LaTeX Re: Ancient Greek; catcodes; underscores. LaTeX updates, as of March 18, 1992. Looking for Skip Montanaro aFrican Computer fonts available Info about hyphen eplain 2.1 released CWEB for 386/486 systems running DOS ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 15:00:48 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Moderator's note Welcome to the first issue of TeXhax to be sent out from the UK. I'm David Osborne, and I'm currently on the committee of the UK TeX Users Group, as well as a long-serving member of the informal group which maintains the UK TeX Archive at Aston University, on host tex.ac.uk. For the last couple of years, I have been moderating the UKTeX Digest. My co-moderator, Peter Abbott, of Aston University, will need no introduction to many of you, being the `father' of the Aston Archive, and now chairman of the UK TeX Users Group. Peter will be stepping in to put together an issue or two while I'm out of the country for most of May, on my honeymoon. He has a few words to say below on the new distribution arrangements. To start with, we plan to keep to the format for the Digest which Pierre MacKay and Tiina Modisett developed at the University of Washington. My thanks go to them for the sterling work they've done in keeping this forum going as an information exchange for TeX users worldwide, and for their assistance in its move to its new UK home. However, if you have views on what TeXhax should or should not offer to its readers, Peter and I would be pleased to hear them: please mail them to TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk. I have been a regular TeXhax reader for several years, going back to the days when Malcolm Brown of Stanford was moderator, so I'm conscious of the responsibility and honour that goes with assuming the role of moderator. There will no doubt be some distribution problems at first, but I hope you will be patient while I sort these out; a digest with a distribution list in excess of 1100 addresses is no small task. By comparison, UKTeX has a distribution list of around 360 addresses. We plan to keep UKTeX and TeXhax as separate digests: UKTeX is slanted more towards UK issues, as befits the name, and has more news relating to additions to the UK TeX Archive. Some people have asked if their TeXhax subscriptions need to be renewed. That won't be necessary, as Pierre sent me his lists from Washington and I have set those up here. In this issue, I'm catching up on some of the backlogged messages which had accumulated at Washington --- I hope to get nearly up to date with the next issue. Finally, we welcome your contributions, be they questions, answers or announcements relating to TeX and all its related software, such as LaTeX, METAFONT and device drivers. We look forward to hearing from you. - --Dave David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK (Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064) TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk or d.osborne@mips.nott.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 09:28:35 -0100 From: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax TeXhax will be supported by the Aston Archive Group and the UK TeX User Group for a minimum period of 3 years from this issue. TUG has provided 5000 US dollars to cover part purchase of equipment for this service and the remainder has been paid by the UKTeX User group and Aston University. David Osborne and Peter Abbott (Archivists and Moderators of UKTeX) will act as moderators of TeXhax. TeXhax will be posted regularly and it is planned to retain the same format for the time being. The may be teething problems with addresses but we have direct internet and JANET connections. Contibutions should be sent to Internet TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Janet TeXhax@uk.ac.tex Subscription requests and administration to Internet TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Janet TeXhax-Request@uk.ac.tex Peter Tel 44 (0)21 359 5492 direct FAX 44 (0)21 359 6158 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 11:43:30 +0800 From: Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah Subject: Landscape in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, landscape I would like to know how to typeset and print a document in LaTeX. Please respond by email. Thanks in advance. Napi email: napi@jaring.ism.my ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 03:02:00 +0100 From: J%org Knappen Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V92 #004 Keywords: TeX, underscore Re: TeX Q.about underscore I did not test it, but the following should work: \catcode`\_=\active % Change the catcode of the underscore and define it \def_{\ifmmode\sb% The original meaning of _ in math mode is saved in \sb % This does plain for you (--> deficient keyboards) \else\_\fi}% Otherwise, it should be \_ Yours, J"org Knappen. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 13:41:57 -0500 From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: version 1.2 of Sauter files (any point size Computer Modern) Keywords: METAFONT, Sauter, Computer Modern, fonts I've again updated my packaging for Unix of John Sauter's Metafont files to make Computer Modern fonts at any point size. You can get version 1.2 by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/sauter.tar.Z. This version puts in the bold-math.mf file that I somehow left out last time. It also adds two files to make the LaTeX symbol and bold symbol fonts, contributed by Friedrich Haubensak, hsk@infko.uni-koblenz.de. For all of the standard Computer Modern fonts, these files produce the same TFM files as Knuth's sources. So it is ok to call the output from these `cm...'. The distribution includes an lfonts.tex for LaTeX and a MakeTeXPK for dvips which take advantage of these fonts. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 14:44:11 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: INCLUDE Preprocessor available on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, \input, preprocessor There has been some recent discussion about an \include or \input preprocessor for (La)TeX. Charles Franklin forwarded me his package for doing this, which is now available from FILESERV/Niord. Below is the FILESERV description file for the package. Thanks to Charles for contributing this to the TeX community and for allowing us to distribute it. - --George =========================================================================== INCLUDE ------- The INCLUDE package includes a uuencoded .ZIP file including the Pascal source, executable, and documentation for Charles H. Franklin's INCLUDE utility (v1.5). This program replaces LaTeX "\include{myfile}" and "\input{myfile}" statements with the actual contents of the included file. "Inputfile", "outputfile" and "myfile"s are assumed to have extension ".tex" if none is given. If no "outputfile" is given, the output is written on "included.tex". "Inputfile" can be a TeX file or it can be a simple list of \include (or \input) statements. Included files may themselves contain \include or \input statements. This nesting can be up to 14 files deep. No file may include a file in which it is itself already included. To do so would cause an infinite loop. Charles notes in his contribution: > I've been using INCLUDE for about a year and it works fine for me. > However, no one else has tried it, so I expect to get bug reports from > those who try it. To retrieve INCLUDE, please include the command: SENDME INCLUDE in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp retrieval, the file is in the [.INCLUDE] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INCLUDE.UUE 30 INCLUDE.UUE (UUdecodes to INCLUDE.ZIP; ZIP file has INCLUDE.EXE, INCLUDE.PAS, and INCLUDE.DOC Approximate total blocks in full INCLUDE package = 30 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 02:33:15 +0000 From: news@ads.com, chyde@pecos.ads.com (Clinton Hyde) Subject: need MF help! Keywords: METAFONT, base I am trying to run MF. I need help doing something. I get a message saying "Can't find PLAIN base file" [or some such]. I tracked down a file called plain.base, but it appears to be damaged. what I need actually is cmbx10.390pk, I had figured to create this via MF (i've done such things before, but it's been over 2 yrs, at a different employer, with different computers, where I didn't have these problems). anyway, can someone point me at another archive (i've tried labrea.stanford.edu, which is where the damaged plain.base file came from in the first place) where I can find a good plain.base, or email one, or email me the cmbx10.390pk file ?? someone else here needs cmr11.300gf, i think, too. I don't have a great need to do lots of MF work, just this one immediate need. -- clint - -- Clint Hyde "Give me a LispM or give me death!" -- jwz Advanced Decision Systems Internet: chyde@chesapeake.ads.com 2111 Wilson Blvd #800 Arlington, VA 22201 (703) 875-0327 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 11:06:25 -0500 From: skh@lcl.cmu.edu Subject: \bigsqcap, how to get Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, \bigsqcap Folks, I'm posting this here because of the limited time I have to investigate this (due to travel) and my limited experience with TeX and LaTeX. One of my users needs a \bigsqcap, analagous to the \bigsqcup (as \bigcap is to \bigcup); otherwise the book is nearly complete. Does a more recent version of TeX/LaTeX have this symbol? [ We're using TeX 3.0 with LaTeX 2.09 ] Is there another math font library that's basically the same as the standard one with this additional symbol (and perhaps others)? Is there any tricky way to get this symbol (in an equation) with minimal changes to the installation? - -- Steve Handerson System Manager, Laboratory for Computational Linguistics Carnegie-Mellon University ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 16:22:38 +0000 From: Thouverez Fabrice Subject: TeX installation questions Keywords: TeX, installation, X11 Researcher : Thouverez Fabrice Laboratory : Mechanics Lyon, France IP=156.18.20.3 Mister, I have some questions about Tex . On my sytem we have never installed Tex. But now some people of our laboratory are interessted to use Tex Then, I will know what kind of file i have need to use Tex with X11 soft and if it's possible. Sincerely yours ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 18:36:27 +0000 From: TEX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk Subject: TeX v3.141 now in the Aston Archive Keywords: TeX, 3.141, Aston Archive Don Knuth has just announced the release of revised versions of TeX and many of its friends and relations. These will all be installed on the Aston Archive over the next few days/weeks; as a start, the file [tex-archive.tex]tex.web is now the source of this latest revision, at v3.141. The change file for the VMS implementation will be found as [tex-archive.tex.vms]tex.ch. The previous two versions of the TeX source remain (for the time being) as [tex-archive.tex]tex.web-3-1 and [tex-archive.tex]tex.web-3-14; they may be deleted at some time in the future after change files for all other implemenations have been installed in the archive. [Note for fellow archivists (and anyone else that's interested): I have followed a new practice on this occasion --- the timestamp of the tex.web source has been manually edited to match that of the canonical source file at Labrea --- since the latter is timed at 05:10 local (presumably PST) on the 16th March, the Aston copy is timed at 13:10 GMT on the same day. I would strongly advocate that all other archives attempt to follow this practice: it helps both ourselves and our clients --- it would be even better if an FTP directory listing could be obtained with a fixed time datum, such as GMT! ] Brian {Hamilton Kelly} +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs + + BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ac.uk + + INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk + + UUCP: {mcsun,ukc,uunet}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex + + Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military + + College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. + + Phone: Swindon (0793) 785252 (UK), +44-793-785252 (International) + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 18:09:49 -0300 From: Gabriel Valiente Subject: 14pt styles for LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, 14pt style, slides I'm looking for 14pt (or larger) styles for LaTeX, for producing slides out of documents. Thank you in advance for any help in locating them. Please answer directly to valiente@ceab.es because I don't receive TeXhax Digest. Gabriel Valiente ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 17:03:35 +0000 From: CHAA006@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk Subject: Re: Ancient Greek; catcodes; underscores. Keywords: TeX, ancient Greek, catcodes, underscore >>> From: ccross@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Charles Cross) >>> Subject: Seeking character set for ancient Greek >>> Keywords: Ancient Greek, character set, LaTeX >>> I have a colleague who would like to produce ancient Greek text using >>> LaTeX, but the pre-defined set of accents and other marks doesn't include >>> all of the ones he needs. (Also, he tells me that the character set for >>> ancient Greek differs non-trivially from that for modern Greek.) >>> Does any have (or know of) a full character set for ancient Greek? I think you might usefully consider Silvio Levy's Greek font (includes rough and smooth breathing, diaritics and iota subscript), and Yannis Haralambous's `ScholarTeX'. - -------- >>> From: philips@espresso.boeing.com (Ivor Philips 5-3522) >>> Subject: Tex Question about underscore >>> Keywords: TeX, underscore >>> The problem I have is that I am typing a document in which _ >>> (underscore) is used many times outside of math mode. It is proving to >>> be very awkward to continually type \_. I would like to be able to use >>> _ outside of math mode and have it print as _. At the same time, I >>> wish it to keep its usual meaning (of subscript) inside mathmode. I >>> note that verbatim mode is not what I need either because I am using >>> the _'s inside normal English text, not as part of a computer program. To allow underscore to be usable is a `normal' character in text mode, it suffices to change its category code to either 11 (letter) or 12 (other). 12 would be better unless you also want it to appear in control sequences: \catcode `\_ = 12 To allow it to retain its original semantics in maths mode, you could either use \everymath and \everydisplay: \everymath = {\catcode `\_ = 8 } \everydisplay = {\catcode `\_ = 8 } or you could make it active in maths-mode only, with an expansion of a \catcode 8 underscore: \def \subscript {_} \catcode `\_ = 13 \edef _{\subscript} \catcode `\_ = 12 \mathcode `\_ = "8000 Philip Taylor ``The University of London at Windsor'' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 19:13:15 +0100 From: schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Rainer Schoepf) Subject: LaTeX updates, as of March 18, 1992. Keywords: LaTeX, updates plain.tex has been updated recently by Donald Knuth. I take the opportunity to update the corresponding LaTeX files as well. At the same time, a number of minor problems and oversights have been corrected. For a detailed list consult the file latex.bug. The following files have been changed: latex.bug latex.tex local.tex lplain.tex slitex.tex splain.tex lcircle10.mf lcirclew10.mf line.mf line10.mf linew10.mf proc.doc bezier.sty letter.sty proc.sty Note: the changes to the Metafont files do not affect the fonts themselves, they provide better error checking when Metafont is used with the wrong base file. Therefore it is NOT necessary to recompile the fonts. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh Heilbronner Strasse 10 am Morgen schon so D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!'' Federal Republic of Germany or ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 20:33:07 +0100 From: Thomas Hoerkens Subject: Looking for Skip Montanaro Keywords: Skip Montanaro, index Hello, I'm looking for the author of the indexing program that can be found on the clarkson TeX-server in the directory /pub/tex/tex-programs/texindex. This is not the GNU-TeXindex program. The author's name is Skip Montanaro and we worked at least up to 1986 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Does somebody know him? Thanks in advance, Thomas Hoerkens - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - | Thomas Hoerkens | e-mail: hoerkens@math1.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de | | Marienstr. 15 | Inst : IGPM, RWTH Aachen, 5100 Aachen | | W-5180 Eschweiler | 0241/80-3951 | | Tel.: 02403/26682 | | - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 20:58:00 +0100 From: J%org Knappen Subject: aFrican Computer fonts available Keywords: METAFONT, African fonts Fonts for African Languages now available I'm glad to announce the first release of the fc-fonts for african languages with latin writing. The METAFONT sources are available via anonymous ftp from rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de in the directory soft/tex/fonts/metafont/fc They will probably spread to other TeX archives soon. Read the file fc.rme for more information. Yours, J"org Knappen. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 19:53:40 -0500 From: Pierre Cottin Subject: Info about hyphen Keywords: LaTeX, hyphenation, French I am looking for a french version of the hyphenation system of latex. Where could I find it ?? Thanks. Pierre COTTIN pcottin@phy.ulaval.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 12:21:53 -0500 From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: eplain 2.1 released Keywords: TeX, macros, eplain I have released Eplain version 2.1. It is available by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z} ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.1.tar.Z You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'. btxmac.tex no longer unconditionally defines \\ (to nothing useful), in case some previous macro package has already defined it. I inadvertently left arrow.tex out of the original 2.0. It's in 2.1, so you can hack commutative diagrams to your heart's content. I've included a section in the documentation on software patents and user interface copyrights. For those of you who haven't heard of Eplain: it is a collection of macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 15:20:00 -0800 From: Don Hosek Subject: CWEB for 386/486 systems running DOS Keywords: CWEB, PC, DOS, 386/486 A version of CWEB which runs on 386 and 486 PCs running DOS is now available from ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.web]cweb386.zip The package is VCPI and DPMI compliant (although only VCPI compliance has been tested) and includes executables and Zortech C++ source. Please note that since this is a binary archive, it cannot be retrieved via mailserv. - -dh Don Hosek | To retrieve files from ymir via the mailserver, dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu | send a message to mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography | with a line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME 714-621-1291 | where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans - ---------------------------+ "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt. 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