UKTeX V88 #1 Re: Publisher Hyphenation Previewer with PC and mon0 hercules board OCR MF sources PXTOPK.CH for VAX/VMS Pound sign A LaTeX Bug --------------------------------- Editor Peter Abbott I apologise for the delay in this issue but since the Xmas break I have been away from the University on a number of occasions. In addition some sites have been off and I have had a large number of rejected messages. For the record the last issue of V87 was £19. I have `ftp'ed the contents of tex.latex from Score and it is available in the subdirectory aston.kirk::[public.score] I have seen TeXhax digest V88 £2 and have `ftp'ed a later version of latex.tex. The files were fetched on January 4 1988 and latex.tex on January 11 1988. The METAFONT sources for the OCR-A 'alphanumeric character sets for optical recognition' ISO/R 1073-1969 are available in the archive in aston.kirk::[public.mffiles]nnnn where nnnn is as follows OCR-A.MF OCR-AI.MF OCR-AII.MF OCR-AIII.MF OCR-AIV.MF We also had problems with `hackers' over the Xmas break so plans for interactive access to the archive have been help up. Mail access may be available shortly. --------------------------------- Message-Id: <6374.8712181502@maori.soton.ac.uk> Received: from sot-cm by maori.soton.ac.uk; Fri, 18 Dec 87 15:02:07 GMT Date: Fri, 18 Dec 87 14:37:29 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail (uk texxies) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 87 14:37:22 GMT Subject: Re: Publisher X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5] The Publisher is available at an educational price of c. $1500, and a commercial price of c. $2500, but our copy only cost $750 at current discount (I don't know when that offer ends). Those prices are for a license for a single Sun workstation - that doesn't stop you running it over a network, but it would have to be run from a single processor (if I understand aright). Its cheaper than Interleaf. Publisher comes with a copy of TeX and the .tfm and .pk files, so far as I can see; I have not experimented yet. -- 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: 14-DEC-1987 16:26:36 GMT From: RBAILEY@UK.AC.AFRC.RESB To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: Hyphenation Has anyone converted TeX's hyphenation patterns to English? TeX seems to hyphenate by "syllable", however that may be defined, which the O.U.P. says is how the Americans do it. In English (I think) we hyphenate according to meaning and derivation of the word. For example, "Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers (O.U.P.---one of the best pocket-sized books I know) says "Divide according to etymology, where this is obvious: atmo-sphere, bio-graphy, tele-phone, trans-port, un-equal". Yet the November TUGBoat tells us that approved TeX hyphenation exceptions are at-mos-phere, te-leg-ra-pher and sta-tis-tics (statistics were originally collected by statists working for the state, so it should be stat-ist-ics) which not only do violence to etymology but also break another of Hart's rules in giving subwords whose meaning is distracting. Rosemary Bailey --------------------------------- Via: uk.co.npl.psg; 22 Dec 87 0:24 GMT Received: from snow by snow.psg.npl.co.uk; Mon, 21 Dec 87 18:54:47 GMT To: Dimitri Vulis Subject: OCR .mf source Cc: texhax@uk.co.npl.psg, tex-info@uk.co.npl.psg In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 14 Dec 87 12:28:28 EDT. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 87 18:54:45 GMT Message-Id: <7399.567111285@psg.npl.co.uk> From: John Pavel # # From pavel1.txh (TeX v. troff comparison): # >... Many, many mathematical symbols, # >accent marks and other symbols are available. # >Cyrilic and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) # >fonts are also available for TeX. # Hmm. I was not aware of an OCR font for TeX. Can someone pls tell me # whether this is a mistake or if this font is non-PD and costs an arm # and a leg or what is the status? Supposedly, Post Office OCRs (in New # York, at least) only recognize OCR-A and OCR-B; if you print the address # on an envelope in anything else, it has to be processed by hand which # takes a few extra days. So, it would be nice to have. # DV --------------------------------- Date: 6-JAN-1988 16:49:29 GMT From: DLT@UK.AC.RL.STAR To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: For the next issue of UKTeX please... Does anyone have PXTOPK.CH for VAX/VMS? I am all ready to change from PXL to PK format pixel files and I don't want to have to generate all the fonts again if I can help it. Dave Terrett --------------------------------- Received: from psg.npl.co.uk by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK with UUCP id aa08853; 4 Jan 88 19:29 GMT Received: from snow by snow.psg.npl.co.uk; Wed, 23 Dec 87 19:15:23 GMT To: tex-info@uk.co.npl.psg Subject: Pound sign Date: Wed, 23 Dec 87 19:15:21 GMT Message-Id: <20336.567285321@psg.npl.co.uk> From: John Pavel Does anyone have a pound sign for SliTeX? Thanks, John Pavel --------------------------------- Date: 12-JAN-1988 18:31:04 GMT From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: A LaTeX Bug From: Chris Rowley, Open University A LaTeX bug. Version 2.09 of LaTeX contains the following bug, which I have not seen reported elswhere, possibly because it would be discovered by the practising LaTeXnician only when indulging in the aesthetically bizarre practice of using marginal notes and footnotes concurrently. Here it is: If a \marginpar follows a \footnote on the same page, then the vertical positioning of the marginal will probably be incorrect. To fix it, the definition of \@specialoutput needs to be changed, as shown below, by moving part of the conditional statement \ifvoid\footins... so that it is not executed in the case when the output routine is called by \marginpar. (Alternatively, this part of the statement could be deleted completely from this definition and placed at the start of the definition of \@addtocurcol.) \def\@specialoutput{\ifnum\outputpenalty > -\@Mii \@doclearpage \else \ifnum \outputpenalty <-\@Miii \ifnum\outputpenalty<-\@MM \deadcycles\z@\fi \global\setbox\@holdpg\vbox{\unvbox\@cclv} \else \setbox\@tempboxa\box\@cclv \@pagedp\dp\@holdpg \@pageht\ht\@holdpg \unvbox\@holdpg \ifvoid\footins\else % From here: \advance\@pageht\ht\footins % \advance\@pageht\skip\footins \advance\@pagedp\dp\footins \insert\footins{\unvbox\footins}\fi \@next\@currbox\@currlist{\ifnum\count\@currbox >\z@ \ifvoid\footins\else \advance\@pageht\ht\footins :to here. % \advance\@pageht\skip\footins \advance\@pagedp\dp\footins % \fi \@addtocurcol\else\@addmarginpar\fi}\@latexbug \ifnum \outputpenalty <\z@ \penalty \z@ \fi \fi\fi} +++Editor - Perhaps the latest version of latex.tex mentioned earlier from [public.score] also has the same solution+++ --------------------------------- !! !! 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