UKTeX V88 #4 dvitovdu Irish fonts(indirectly) re: message from kp donnelly Latest UNIX distribution tape query Unix_DVI to VMS_DVI conversion Unix_TeX 'undump' #include's and #define's Script for UNIX file transfer new BibTeX Update for Tex on Decnet/Span Re: Unix_DVI to VMS_DVI conversion IPA Fonts etc. notes on TeX fonts VAXstation previewers DVI Drivers crudetype new version --------------------------------- Editor Peter Abbott I am away from the University until Monday Feb 29 so there will be a delay in replying to any queries. We should have the software available by the end of the week beginning Feb 29 to allow transfer of files with type STREAM_LF. I know that this has caused you and me numerous problems so hope that the end is in sight. I am creating a new subgroup [public.score.bibtex] and will be putting in files after dispactching this issue. It will contain the new bibtex from score but since I had problems getting the bibtex.web across perhaps someone could try it and let me know if it is complete. The following files in subgroup latexstyle have been updated/added on February 8 1988. 00DIRECTORY.;1 00INDEX.;1 00README.;1 ALLTT.STY;1 BTXBST.DOC;1 BTXBST.README;1 DAYOFWEEK.TEX;1 DOCSTY.SHAR;1 DVIDOC.SHAR2;1 EPIC.SHAR1;1 ESPO.STY;1 GERMAN.STY;1 LATEX.BUG;1 LGRAPH.SHAR;1 NATSCI.STY;1 NL.STY;1 RSCSENCODE.SHAR;1 SHOWLABELS.STY;1 TEXINDEX.SHAR;1 UUENCODE.SHAR;1 WSLTEX.SHAR;1 The following files in subgroup crudetype have been updated/added on February 11 1988. AREAD.ME;1 CRUDETYPE.CH;1 CRUDETYPE.WEB;1 HP.CH;1 HPGF.CH;1 NOSCHEME.CH;1 PHILIPS.CH;1 The following is the read.me from [public.preview.ibmpc] The essential files in this directory for running Common-TEX on a PC are: TEX.BOO contains VIRTEX.EXE & PLAIN.FMT TFM.BOO contains the CM TFM files The files required for running DVIHERC and TEXVIEW are: HERC.BOO contains DVIHERC.EXE & TEXVIEW.EXE TFM174.BOO contains CM .GF files for magstep 0 TFM190.BOO ditto for magstep 0.5 TFM208.BOO 1.0 TFM250.BOO 2.0 The other files are: TEX.DOC Installation information for Common-TEX and the hercules screen previewer TEXVIEW.DOC General information on DVIHERC and TEXVIEW ARC.EXE The public domain archive utility DEBOO.EXE The public domain hex-encoding utility ARC and DEBOO are included should the user not have these utilities in his PC.The BOO files should be reconstituted by running DEBOO and then ARC against them: ie DEBOO TEX.BOO to create TEX.ARC ARC X TEX to create TEX.EXE, PLAIN.FMT For people whose host machine is not a VAX/VMS system, who cannot transfer binary files into their PC, and who do not have these utilities then the files listed below should be transferred from Lancaster using a username of MICROS, password MICROS : LANCS.VAX1::[.IBMPC.H99]H99BOO.BAS LANCS.VAX1::[.IBMPC.H99]H99BOO.BOO LANCS.VAX1::[.IBMPC.H99]H99ARC.BOO Once these files are in the PC's filestore then use the basic program H99BOO.BAS to process the file H99BOO.BOO to create DEBOO.EXE. Then run DEBOO to convert H99ARC.BOO into ARC.EXE. The recommended directory structure is: (it works for me anyway) (Editor me means Laurie Benfield Of UEA) \TEX virtex.exe dviherc.exe texview.exe plain.fmt . . \TEX\TFM all tfm files \TEX\TFM174 gf files for magstep 0 \TEX\TFM190 gf files for magstep 0.5 \TEX\TFM208 gf files for magstep 1.0 \TEX\TFM250 gf files for magstep 2.0 --------------------------------- Acknowledge-To: Alan Reed Date: Fri, 5 Feb 88 16:46 GMT From: Alan Reed Subject: dvitovdu To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON Message-ID: <880205164639.771886@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM> I have been trying out dvitovdu and I have found that the Tektronix option seems not to be available, but other /vdu options eg regis work OK. Any chance of fixing this? alan --------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 88 17:06:38 GMT From: AYI017 @ UK.AC.SOUTHAMPTON.IBM To: info-tex @ UK.AC.ASTON Subject: Irish fonts(indirectly) re: message from kp donnelly Peter, can we have the mildly offensive remarks about the Irish accent and Paddywhackery in general cut from re-distributed messages? We dont all speak like dat. Yours in anticipation Brendan O'Flaherty Dept of Archaeology The University Southampton, SO9 5NH. +++Editor - My apologies but I read the subject of the message and did not read the content as Irish fonts are of no personal interest. I will endaevour to `censor' future ones +++ --------------------------------- Date: 8-FEB-1988 11:00:15 From: MARIA@UK.AC.PCL.MOLE To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Has anybody got a very recent copy of the UNIX TeX distribution tape that they would let me have a copy of? I would like to set up a new TeX system on our SUN network, ordered the tape once from Washington and after a bit of bother with re-pricing, and hearing that the SUN User Group planned to give out a public domain tape including TeX, cancelled the order. Two months later I hear that the SUN User Group has changed its mind. I can't bear to wait for three months to get the tape from Washington. Help would be appreciated. In reply to Stuart (@hw.vaxb) asking about LN03 PXL files, have you read Flavio Rose's LN03BIS.MEM file in the LN03 directory explaining about changing file formats? Maria Tuck Polytechnic of Central London --------------------------------- Date: 9-FEB-1988 08:54:56 GMT From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTT.VAXA To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: Unix_DVI to VMS_DVI conversion Sender: David_Osborne@UK.AC.Nottingham.CCC.Vaxa Organization: Systems Group, Cripps Computing Centre, Univ of Nottingham, UK Recently, someone described how to convert DVI files generated on a Unix system so they could be transferred to VAX/VMS and correctly interpreted. It involved padding the end of the file out to a 512-byte boundary with (I thought) the last character in the file. However, I tried that and one of Nelson Beebe's drivers which I run under VMS still said, "Are you sure this is a DVI file?" Could someone enlighten me, please? I remember seeing the article about it, but can't remember where (comp.text? TeXhax? UKTeX?...) It was in the last month or so, anyway. thanks in advance, Dave +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | JANET: cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa Phone: +44 602 506101 x2064 | | BITNET: cczdao%uk.ac.nott.vaxa@ukacrl.bitnet | | ARPA: cczdao%uk.ac.nott.vaxa@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk | | or %ukacrl.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu | | UUCP: {...!mcvax}!ukc!nott-cs!vaxa!cczdao Voice: "Dave!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --------------------------------- Date: 9-FEB-1988 09:12:27 GMT From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTT.VAXA To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: Unix_TeX 'undump' #include's and #define's Sender: David_Osborne@UK.AC.Nottingham.CCC.Vaxa Organization: Systems Group, Cripps Computing Centre, Univ of Nottingham, UK I'm setting up the Unix TeX distribution on a CCI Power 32 (tahoe), sold in the UK by ICL as a Clan7; it runs System V.2 over a (sort-of) Berkeley kernel and filesystem. Apart from the current lack of a Pascal compiler (!), I have problems compiling Lou Salkind's undump, which he adapted for Sys V on an AT&T 3B2. Some #include files weren't present ( , and ) but I think I found their equivalents ( and , respectively ). However, I'm now faced by two undefined constants: USIZE and PAGESIZE, which are obviously defined in one of the 3B2 #include files. Can anyone using a 3B2 tell me what they are, and what the definitions mean, please? I guess that the definition NBPG (number of bytes/page) on the Clan could be equivalent to PAGESIZE, but can't find anything resembling USIZE. Thanks in advance, Dave. --------------------------------- From: Peter King Date: Tue, 9 Feb 88 15:07:19 GMT Message-Id: <21608.8802091507@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> To: abbottp@uk.ac.aston Subject: Script for UNIX file transfer Here is the UNIX script that constructs a file of file transfer commands from a '000index.list' file. It assumes that the command 'cpf file@site file' will organise the retriebval of the remote file. This means that people with different file transfer software will need to modify the script. With 'cpf' it is necessary to give the ID and PASSWORD interactively, unless one has set the UNIX environment variable SAVEFTP, in which case a saved version will be used, if the site has been retrieved from before. Hope this is clear to the UNIX users. Peter King -----------------Cut Here------ #!/bin/sh # converts 000index.list into UNIX file transfer requests # the input file is specified as the only argument # the output is in the file inputfile.cpf # this output file can then be fed to sh # # assumes that file transfer can be effected by # cpf filename@site filename # This involves setting the SAVEFTP environment variable in UNIX, # and retrieving one file manually first, so that the user id and password # of PUBLIC at aston.kirk can be set. # # # An input file looking like the following (with the # removed) # ----------------- # Directory $1$DUA14:[PUBLIC.TEXDVI210.DOC] # # 00DIR.CMD;1 2 22-DEC-1987 15:49 # 00DIR.LST;1 3 22-DEC-1987 15:49 # 00TDIR.CMD;1 2 22-DEC-1987 15:49 # 00TDIR.LST;1 3 22-DEC-1987 15:49 #----------------- # becomes #----------------- # mkdir texdvi210/doc # cpf "[public.texdvi210.doc]00dir.cmd@uk.ac.aston.kirk" texdvi210/doc/00dir.cmd # cpf "[public.texdvi210.doc]00dir.lst@uk.ac.aston.kirk" texdvi210/doc/00dir.lst # cpf "[public.texdvi210.doc]00tdir.cmd@uk.ac.aston.kirk" texdvi210/doc/00tdir.cmd # cpf "[public.texdvi210.doc]00tdir.lst@uk.ac.aston.kirk" texdvi210/doc/00tdir.lst #----------------- # # first convert upper to lower case tr A-Z a-z < $1 | sed ' # the lines starting # are sed comments (this is an undocumented feature) # this section of code deals with directory $1$DUA14:[public.score] /^directory /{ # first reduce to 'public.score' s/.*\[// s/].*$// # delete the public. s/public\.// # hold that h # convert . to / for UNIX and append to the hold space s/\./\//g H # and add a mkdir command to the front s/^/mkdir / # add to the output and go for the next line b } # all other lines come here # remove binary files and directories /\.exe;/d /\.obj;/d /\.dvi;/d /\.dir;/d /\.jou;/d # remove the summary line /files.*blocks/d # remove blank lines /^$/d # # Here we are left with the filename.sfx;versno date etc. # strip the version no, size and date information /;.*$/s/// # append the directory information # the line is now filename.sfx\nscore.subdir\nscore/subdir G # now convert that to the file transfer command s/^\(.*\)\n\(.*\)\n\(.*\)$/cpf "[public.\2]\1@uk.ac.aston.kirk" \3\/\1/' > $1.cpf --------------------------------- Message-Id: <29609.8802120946.cheviot@uk.ac.newcastle> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 88 9:32:37 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail Subject: new BibTeX can any of you do FTP from Stanford? I would really love to get the new version of BibTeX advertised in a recent TeXhax, but i have no way of doing it. If anyone gets it, could they let me know? sebastian rahtz, computer science, southampton +++Editor - see my notes earlier in this issue +++ --------------------------------- Message-id: <6263> Date: FRI, 12-FEB-88 13:07 N From: (MAX CALVANI) Reply-To: (alternate reply) Subject: Update for Tex on Decnet/Span To: X-Original-To: info-tex@aston.ac.uk, CALVANI The TeX-depository for vax/vms available on decnet/span in Italy includes now also: [tex.clark] Programs to produce halftone outputs. Vax/vms change file to increase Tex memory Tpu interface (supplied by Adrian Clark) [tex.usa.dvidis] Programs to display dvi files on vaxstations (vms) (supplied by Jerry Leichter) [tex.usa.textyl] Curve drawing postprocessor (by John Renner, modified by Jerry Leichter for vms) For further information send a decnet/span message to: 39003::fisica Max Calvani --------------------------------- Date: 15-FEB-1988 10:45:21 GMT From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTT.VAXA To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: Re: Unix_DVI to VMS_DVI conversion Sender: David_Osborne@UK.AC.Nottingham.CCC.Vaxa Organization: Systems Group, Cripps Computing Centre, Univ of Nottingham, UK Further to my request for help in converting .dvi files written on a Unix system to make readable .DVI files under VMS, I've worked out how to do it. The Unix .dvi file should be padded to a 512-byte boundary with bytes having the value 337 (octal), which is the value used to mark the end of the .dvi file. When the file is created under VMS, it should be created with 512-byte fixed-length records. For the method of transfer, I resorted to Kermit... C-Kermit 4C(057) under Unix, Kermit-32 3.1.066 under VMS. Before setting the VMS Kermit into server mode, give a SET FILE TYPE FIXED command to cause it to write 512-byte fixed length records, then, back on C-Kermit, "set file type binary" before sending the file. Snazzier file-transfer methods could possibly create an empty, 512/fixed file on the VMS system and transfer to that file with the Append attribute from the Unix machine. Tony Arnold mailed me to say he has successfully used a utility called VMSWRITE under Unix to create VMS-readable tapes which can be read in using the COPY command. Hope this info is useful to someone. Dave --------------------------------- Date: 17 Feb 88 00:15:58 gmt From: G.Toal @ uk.ac.edinburgh Subject: IPA Fonts etc. To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON Comments: Peter; I think this got lost when last I sent it... Its a long overdue reply to someone who's name & address I've lost! Could you post it on UKTEX for me please? Message-ID: <17 Feb 88 00:15:58 gmt 050047@EMAS-A> --- Forwarded message: Subject: IPA Fonts etc. From: G.Toal Date: 31 Jan 88 02:48:20 gmt To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail Msg ID: <31 Jan 88 02:48:20 gmt 050745@EMAS-A> I recently had a request from someone at RSRE about IPA fonts and TeX :- if the person who mailed me is reading, sorry I didn't reply directly, but I lost your original mail. After a month of hectic home-moving I've at last founmd time to reply... I'll post this through UKTEX as it may be of interest to others. The info was sent to TeXhax in early December, but I think it went down a transatlantic black hole! Back in early December, Helmut Feldweg wrote to TeXhax noting that there was no longer an IPA font. At that time, I had just been looking into IPA, so here is some of what I found to tell him: Christina Thiele of Carleton is a phoneticist, and in mail to me once offered to keep track of any IPA activity. If she is still doing so, her address is wsscat@bitnet.carleton [Actually, I have a feeling there is a typo on the piece of paper I'm copying this from - it might be "wscat@bitnet.carleton ???] Christina & Carleton have an IPA font similar in style to CMBX10. Dean Guenther has an IPA font for sale; his address is GUENTHER@EARN.WSUVM1 Tibor Tscheke's company, Sturtze AG, also has an IPA font for sale; the address is: Tibor Tscheke / Head, Computer Science Department / Universitaetsdruckerei / H. Sturtze AG / Beethovenstr. 5 / D-8700 Wurzburg / West Germany. (Sorry, I don't know the e-mail address) +----------------------+ The people above all use TeX \control \sequences to enter the IPA characters - e.g. \schwa. My interest was in finding a byte-coding for single-character representation of the IPA glyphs. It turns out that computer-phoneticists don't really have such a thing. I was thinking of something akin to the ISO latin1 through latin4 8-bit alphabets. There is an excellent paper on computer representations for phonetics by J C Wells of the Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, published in June 1987, which contrasts several machine-representations. The concensus of opinion is that transcription systems using 7-bit simple ASCII are preferred. Only IBM uses an 8-bit code and it is apparently not popular. This is not a significant problem for TeX as it does not accept 8-bit input anyway, but I cannot help feeling that ALL the transcription systems listed in the publication above are quite inappropriate for machine manipulation. The publication is internal to an Alvey-funded Speech group, so I don't think I would be allowed to copy it for distribution, so I suggest that anyone who wants a copy writes directly to Dr Wells at UCL. The title is "COMPUTER-CODED PHONETIC REPRESENTATIONS" and I doubt it will be available by electronic mail, as it is liberally scattered with phonetic symbols produced (I think) on a down-loadable Epson. Graham Toal. --- End of forwarded message --------------------------------- Date: 17-FEB-1988 08:53:57 GMT From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL anyone wanting a bit more information about the goals of VoRTeX (?) might have a look at `Multiple Representation Document Development' by Pehong Chen and Michael Harrison in Computer, Jan 1988. malcolm clark --------------------------------- Message-Id: <1936.8802161302.cheviot@uk.ac.newcastle> Received: Date: Tue, 16 Feb 88 12:33:21 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz To: lou@uk.ac.ox.vax, booth.cm@uk.ac.exeter, abbottp@uk.ac.aston.mail, charles@uk.ac.ox.vax2 Subject: notes on TeX fonts Note: I got this from Toronto where Dominic had stored it; it is so useful I thought I would send it on to you for reference. sebastian ====================================================== Date: Fri, 5 Feb 88 10:18:19 EST From: dow@husc6.BITNET (Dominik Wujastyk) To: maccarty@utorepas.bitnet Subject: Memorandum on TeX fonts TEXFONT.MEMO Revision notes I first started compiling this Memorandum late in 1987, as a note to myself and my immediate Indological colleagues. But it seemed little extra work to include more information in it about other fonts I have heard of, and doing this has greatly widened its usefulness to TeX users in general. As this memo has grown beyond its original purpose, and more people are requesting it, I think it is now worth adding notes to this header giving a date for the current revision: February 3, 1988: added information on Austin Code Works, Hebrew, OCR, Elvish, Ramanujan Tamil. --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Here is a compilation of what I know of Indic fonts and METAfonts for use with TeX. By the term "Indic fonts" I mean to include Devanagari, with variants for Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit, and fonts for Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Kashmiri (Sharada) and Tibetan. Although I am primarily interested in fonts designed with METAFONT, I would also like to include information about any other Indic fonts that have been successfully used with TeX, i.e., fonts with Font Metric files, and a mechanism for the creation of the appropriate ligatures, be it within the .TFM file, or by means of a preprocessor. I have added an appendix giving some information about additional TeX fonts known to me. 1. DEVANAGARI 1a An early Devanagari font was designed with old METAFONT (MF-in- SAIL) by P. K. Ghosh during a visit to Stanford in 1982--83. Ghosh published in 1983 a report on what he had done, as a Stanford technical report. One of the valuable aspects of this work was that Ghosh worked from Devanagari characters designed and drawn for him by the famous Bombay calligrapher R. K. Joshi. Drawings of these, on a grid, are published in the abovementioned Report. +++ Editor -- The remainder has been cut please get the file [public.reports]tex_fonts.notes +++ --------------------------------- Date: 18-FEB-1988 13:26:51 GMT From: SYSMGR@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: VAXstation previewers Sender: JANET"SYSMGR@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG" (Nigel Arnot) Does anybody in the UK have a previewer to run on a VAXStation? According to TeXHaX there are two already: DVIDIS written by Jerry Leichter at Yale PREVIEW written by Randy Buckland at RTI Thanks, Nigel Arnot. --------------------------------- From: Peter King Date: Thu, 18 Feb 88 13:59:38 GMT Message-Id: <21826.8802181359@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> To: tex-info@uk.ac.aston.mail Subject: DVI Drivers I have added support for two printers to Nelson Beebe's family. Anadex DP9625B printers and Philips GP Series printers. I have sent him the updates, but if anybody in the UK wants them, I can easily mail the source, and/or give it to Peter Abbott for the archive. Peter King, Computer Science Department JANET: pjbk@uk.ac.hw.cs Heriot-Watt University ARPA: pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk 79 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HJ or pjbk%cs.hw.ac.uk@ucl-cs Phone: (+44) 31 225 6465 Ext. 555 UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!pjbk --------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 88 10:25:57 GMT From: Dr R M Damerell (RHBNC) To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Subject: crudetype new version This fixes all bugs notified to me before Jan 1. All existing Change files are obsolete, I have made a new lot. The Lineprinter version now tries to print something reasonable for the Math Extension characters. I understand that P. Abbott has put a copy into the Aston archive (for which, my thanks) Mark. --------------------------------- !! !! Replies/submissions to info-tex@uk.ac.aston please !! distribution changes to info-tex-request@uk.ac.aston please !! !! end of issue