UKTeX V87 #14 PostScript maths symbols arc.exe CDI TeX previewers for MS DOS Glyphs from rules Help facilities for TeXview TXMAPPER and stream-lf files interesting reading Problems with files in the Archive .exe files in dvitovdu --------------------------------- Editor Well issue 13 turned out a good omen, I had the least number of transmission failures this time. Can anyone recommend a terminal emulator for IBM PCs which supports VT200. I am interested in previewing TeX and LaTeX files and it has been suggested that a VT241 regis emulator will satisfy our needs. Alternatively is there a preview driver for T4010 as we have an Tetronix 4010 emulator. I have just tried dvitovdu with ansi and this will give a rough guide to the page layout but most of the time the text is garbled. I am looking for a readable layout on the screen. I have also recently seen information on software to create ASCII files from TeX and LaTex but cannot find it at present. Our need is to produce files from TeX which can be displayed on the screen. I have tried crudetype and it still requires some work to get it up. It really needs all fonts replacing by a mono spaced one and I do not have the time to sort it out. Now that CTeX appears in two places in the Archive can the CTeX `gurus' tell me which is the most uptodate and which to delete. One is in the PAVEL collection, the other in a separate group. I have received a request for information on VAX/VMS help files for TeXview (from Jersey with no electronic connection). Can anyone supply the help file for the Archive please. I have promised to send a copy to Jersey if one arrives. I have tried to compile the dvidoc from the Archive and it complains that there is no change file. Has anyone the dvidoc.ch file please. Peter --------------------------------- Message-Id: <14938.8711131633@maori.soton.ac.uk> Received: from sot-cm by maori.soton.ac.uk; Fri, 13 Nov 87 16:33:00 GMT Date: Fri, 13 Nov 87 14:47:42 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail (uk texxies) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 87 14:47:35 GMT Subject: PostScript maths symbols X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5] FTL Systems Inc in Toronto (the makers of MacTeX) have gone to the trouble of developing PostScript outlines of the TeX CMR fonts cmex, cmsy, cmmi, lasyb, line, linew, circle, circlew and lasy. This means that their product can dispense with pixel fonts altogether when printing on PostScript machines, and have no problems about point sizes or resolutions. Until Lucida hits the scene, this seems a good solution to the problem of TeX maths on high-resolution PS typesetters. the bad news is that FTL want $CDN 200 for the fonst per machines, or $CDN 1000 for a site license... if you want to buy them, i have the address etc. -- Sebastian Rahtz Computer Science University SOUTHAMPTON S09 5NH UK spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm // ...!ukc!sot-cm!spqr // cmi011@uk.ac.soton.ibm (telephone (0703) 559122 ext 2435) --------------------------------- Date: 16-NOV-1987 09:31:07 From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON arc.exe is a very neat archiving system for msdos. as you suggest, it probably won't work anywhere else (!!). i can supply it on floppy, but i guess others have it too. malcolm clark +++Editor If you kermit arc.exe to a pc it may work (I use file type binary)+++ --------------------------------- Date: 16-NOV-1987 18:00:14 GMT From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTT.VAXA To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: CDVI TeX previewers for MS-DOS Sender: JANET"cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa" (David Osborne) Organization: Systems Group, Cripps Computing Centre, Univ of Nottingham, UK Thanks to Laurie Benfield and Sebastian Rahtz in UKTeX #13 for drawing my attention to Wayne Sullivan's previewers, I fetched them from Lancaster today and had mixed success. At least they ran this time: we had previously attempted to use encoded versions mailed to us over PSS from Peter Flynn at Cork, without any luck. I agree with Laurie's favourable comments on the Hercules driver, CDVIH; perfectly usable resolution -- this was using the Addison-Wesley 'flyer' page for their MicroTeX (tm), which has some nice equations with lots of super- and sub-scripts. The machine was an Akhter with a Philips monitor. However, using the CDVIEGA driver on a Zenith 248 fitted with a Paradise card (autosensing EGA/CGA) produced a blank screen when it should have displayed the TeXt. The CDVICGA driver worked, but due to the lower resolution, some of the text disappeared off the right-hand side of the screen, which rather limited its usefulness since it's not possible to scroll the text laterally. Moving to a Tandon fitted with a real IBM EGA card showed that the EGA driver worked ok and again was perfectly usable, so it looks like a compatibility problem with the Paradise card. Note Sebastian's comments on the fonts handled: only the 'basic' 16 fonts. If your DVI file uses anything other than these, as a couple of mine did, then *none* of the file can be displayed. It's a pity that characters from a similar font can't be used, or even spaces left for the missing characters. On the whole, though, I think the previewers are going to be very useful. Dave. --------------------------------- Date: 16-NOV-1987 11:54:27 GMT From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: Glyphs from rules Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V2.8(b) Sender: Janet"Chaa006@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vaxb" Reply-to: Philip Taylor (RHBNC, Univ of London) If there is anyone out there who has already taken Martin Costabel's \SPRITE implementation and converted it from LaTeX to Plain TeX, would he/she please, Please, PLEASE let me have a copy, to save me re-doing the work !? ** Phil. --------------------------------- Acknowledge-To: Alan Reed Date: Tue, 17 Nov 87 12:00 GMT From: Alan Reed Subject: TeX To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Message-ID: <871117120056.832933@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM> We have TeX on our VAX8700 and I am about to release it to users. We have a dvi2ps which will produce postscript which we can print on our Apple laserwriter. We also can display TeX on Textronix compatible terminals using TXMAPPER which comes on the TeX tape as a binary image. One problem is that DVI2PS and TXMAPPER both use PXl files in different formats. DVI2PS requires STREAM-LF format files and TXMAPPER uses FIXED 512 files. WE have thus to use valuable storeage space keeping to versions of essentially the same thing. It occurred to me that you must have come accross this problem on your vax. My first idea was to change TXMAPPER to read STREAM-LF files but I find that TXMAPPER uses the PLOT10 library to write to the tektronics display and we do not have the plot10 library so I cannot link it. Do you have a specification of the PLOT10 routines that I could read and thus convert TXMAPPER to say GKS or GINO? I am very pleased with the mailshots that I get from time-to-time and I file away them on the Multics system. I am keeping my eye open for a dvi2ps that uses the GF files only since that would cut down storeage space. Alan Reed ReedA -at Bham --------------------------------- Date: 17-NOV-1987 12:22:41 From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL interesting reading: profiles in computing `Donald E Knuth' ditto `Brian K Reid' current comm ACM (v30 no10, october 87) malcolm clark --------------------------------- Date: 17-NOV-1987 13:28:21 From: SF_BROOKS@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: PUBLIC files Dear Peter, I am pulling a lot of files out of the [PUBLIC] directory at the moment in a concerted effort to sort out all our miscellaneous TeX facilities at the OU. I am mailing you on a couple of points, one for information to benefit non VMS sites and the other to benefit me (and maybe other non-Unix hackers). 1. Common TeX The files in [PUBLIC.CTEX_2_1.COMMON_TEX] can only be transfer using /CODE=FAST i.e. on a VMS-to-VMS basis. Yet these files would appear to be ordinary text files which any site could take advantage of. Has this caused any problems for anyone else? 2. SliTeX This morning I tracked down the SliTeX fonts in one of the [PUBLIC.PAVEL...] subdirectories. All these directories clearly contain files from a Unix system but undaunted I transferred [PUBLIC.PAVEL.TEX.SLIFONTS]*.MF_Z What does the _Z signify? These are quite definitely not text files but I can find no explanation (in the form of a friendly README or any other file). Our local Unix hacker cannot help, so I turn to you. I realise you are not responsible for these particular files but do you have any ideas?? Sue Brooks sf_brooks@uk.ac.ou.acsvax --------------------------------- Date: 18-NOV-1987 16:18:27 From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Peter I was unable to pull the .exe files in the .dvitovdu directory (incompatible file type?), but everything else flew down ok. any suggestions? Malcolm Clark +++Editor - The .exe files are probably vms specific and need code=fast. For UNIX systems probably useless - I might be wrong+++ --------------------------------- !! !! Replies/submissions to info-tex@uk.ac.aston please !! distribution changes to info-tex-request@uk.ac.aston please !! !! end of issue