UKTeX V88 #10 cmss/i/bx at magsteps 6/7/8/9 en and em dash Re: Compress problems /magsteps allowed Mounting LaTeX TeX Archive etc... atob/btoa source Fonts for SliTeX --------------------------------- Editor Peter Abbott The missing TeXmag V2N2 has been added to the archive. Herc.boo and TeXview.c in [public.preview.ibmpc] have been updated with new versions. I have created a new subgroup [public.score.texhax]. This will contain files mentioned in TeXhax which are too large to include in the digests. There is one item there now in response to a request for it. aston.spock:[public.score.texhax]wujastyk.txh (TeXfont.memo) I have created a new subgroup [public.tar]. This will contain files in tar format and at present only contains one file makeindex.tar_z Does anyone know how to make TeX display the first and last line of a page on the screen. When paging a document on a PC or the VAX it would help if this information could be displayed. It would save printing the document to check the layout. Alternatively the ASCII previewer described in TuGboat Vol 9 No 1 would help (page 34). Does anyone know where it is available from or seen any announcements in the digests. --------------------------------- Via: UK.AC.RL.EARN; Tue, 12 Apr 88 23:08:47 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5612; Tue, 12 Apr 88 23:08:47 BS Received: from IRUCCIBM by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5610; Tue, 12 Apr 88 23:08:45 B Received: from IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE by IRUCCIBM (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 3839; Tue, 12 Apr 88 23:10:29 I Date: Tue, 12 Apr 88 23:09 GMT From: Peter Flynn UCC Subject: cmss/i/bx at magsteps 6/7/8/9 To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON, texhax@EDU.STANFORD.SCORE X-VMS-To: IN%"info-tex@aston.ac.uk",IN%"texhax@score.stanford.edu" Has anyone got/can get/knows how to produce cmss10, cmssbx10 and cmssi10 at magsteps greater than 5? I need them for some simple sign-making. Yes, I know I should have a better design size, but unless someone has got cmss30/48/60 plus bold and italic already designed, the blown-up 10pt will have to do. I have TeX on VAX/VMS (K&S) and PC (Personal TeX) and MetaFont hanging around somewhere. I have never touched MF, just dipped into the MFbook. It looks *dreadful* if all you want to do is gen some odd sizes of existing faces. I hear/see all around that even if you can understand the MF prog, the output still has to glide thru half a dozen standalone progs to massage it into the right kind of pxl/gf/pk/tf or whatever format. All I need is the .pk or .pxl files for 300dpi. Anyone want to volunteer some simple info on how I can get them? Peter Flynn | --------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 88 13:03+0100 From: Tambyraja@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM Subject: en and em dash To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON Message-ID: <880413120346.641612@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM> I had to make -- and --- ligatures in the pl/tfm files for our typesetter fonts to have them come out as en and em dashes. This may be what is needed for the unmapped fonts. Kumar Tambyraja +++Editor - Thanks for the suggestion I have found my problem in another part of the lfonts file+++ --------------------------------- Date: 13 Apr 88 21:53:14 bst From: G.Toal @ uk.ac.edinburgh Subject: Re: Compress problems To: I M Stroud , info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail Message-ID: <13 Apr 88 21:53:14 bst 050884@EMAS-A> In-reply-to: Your message <12 Apr 88 19:23:24 bst 050278@EMAS-A> Dear Ian, I've no objection to atob & btoa, as long as we supply sources in C and Pascal in the archive. The only slight advantage of uucp is that there is an even chance that if you ask around, someone at your site will have a copy. The extra density saving of 8% with atob sounds worth the effort. By the way, Ian, I don't use Unix either - the system I use is even farther from Unix that VMS is! As to the business of X0A in files. This is the ASCII code for , i.e. newline, and may be displayed as on output. It is in some sense the 'correct' character to store in a file which is being accessed from different sites. VMS, however, uses a record structure for lines and doesn't store any newline character of any description. This means that based files are normally converted to RMS record files (by FTP) when being transferred to VMS, but they will be unconverted back to when lifted off again by any non-VMS machine. However, if the file is put on to the VMS machine by a BINARYMODE copy, it will NOT have a RMS record structure and WILL have the characters. The result is that the file is readable by everybody bar other VMS sites! I.e. my suggestion is that it could well be that the copies of the files you are after on the archive are 'corrupt' (from your VMS point of view), but appear perfectly readable by other non-VMS users - which I think describes the symptoms you were having? The solution, if this is the case, is unfortunately a bit tedious: our Editor would have to write a program to read all the files in the archive in raw mode, and then re-write them using RMS. As some of the files may have been fetched in binary-mode for a reason (e.g. Tar files with control data in them), this would have to be done by hand very selectively - a lot of effort! This is just a suggestion: I hope I'm wrong! Graham. P.S. I cry a hearty NO to any non-standard compress program, however useful it may be: the straight PD Lempel-Zif is freely available and many people have it - if we stored files under any other format it would stop many people from decoding them - the watchwords are portability and standardisation... P.P.S. (Funny how you always remember things after you say goodbye...) I don't think there are any problems with different versions of uucp not being able to decode files. The problems lie with trying to pass extra information around, such as file permissions, or destination file-names etc. - a problem we would have with any encoding which just concerns itself with the data format. --------------------------------- Via: UK.AC.RL.EARN; Wed, 13 Apr 88 23:27:04 BST Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 6878; Wed, 13 Apr 88 23:27:04 BS Received: from IRUCCIBM by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 6877; Wed, 13 Apr 88 23:27:03 B Received: from IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE by IRUCCIBM (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 5321; Wed, 13 Apr 88 23:28:50 I Date: Wed, 13 Apr 88 23:28 GMT From: Peter Flynn UCC Subject: /magsteps allowed To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON, texhax@EDU.STANFORD.SCORE X-VMS-To: IN%"info-tex@aston.ac.uk",IN%"texhax@score.stanford.edu" Why does TeX complain when I try to use \magnification=\magstep6 or larger? The Sauter fonts for LN03 seem to go up to \magstep6, ideally I would like \magstep7. What is going on? ...Peter Flynn, University of Cork, Ireland --------------------------------- From: RICHARDSON-P (Systems Manager) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 88 16:36:47 GMT Message-Id: <190.8804151636@daphne.cs.hull.ac.uk> To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Please can you help ? I would like to mount LaTeX on the followin systems: MicroVAX II, under MicroVMS V4.6 VAX 8200, under Ultrix 1.2 Var. Sun Workstations, under Unix (BSD 4.2'ish) Please could you advise on availability + difficulty factors involved. Many thanks, Phil Richardson. Dept Computer Science, The University HULL --------------------------------- Date: 16-APR-1988 16:50:45 GMT From: SQKEITH@UK.AC.LIV.CSVAX To: abbottp@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: TeX Archive etc... Thankyou for responding to my request for information and for adding me to the mailing list. For most of Friday and Saturday I transferred the odd index file, aaaread.me file etc.. in order to find my way around the archive. My experience of TeX is almost nonexistent - I've looked through TeXbook and Metafont. My experience of text processing comes from using TROFF/MS and postscript drivers -> Apple laserwriter on our Orion Unix system. I've wanted TeX on our VMS system for some time but I'm absolutely bewildered by the number of directories (VMS alone). If I stated my requirements here, could you possibly either point me in the right direction (with regard to TEXVMS in the archive) or give me a contact address of someone in the UK that has used/is using TEX under VMS...? Basically, I require a TeX system capable of performing the same kind of job as Unix's: tbl - table formatting system eqn - math equation formatting ms - the ms macro package for troff with the added flexibility of metafont. Above all, I need LaserWriter postscript output that can be spooled wherever I like. Hoping you can help in any way, Keith +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Keith Halewood, Janet: sqkeith@csvax.liv.ac.uk | | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!sqkeith | | Internet: sqkeith%csvax.liv.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +++Editor - We have TeX under VMS and I could send you the Public Domain parts. I have purchased the dvips software so cannot help there. Some one else on the distribution list may be able to answer your questions for you so watch this space+++ --------------------------------- Received: from memex by brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk; Wed, 13 Apr 88 09:05:21 BST Received: by doc.memex.co.uk (5.52/memex_10) id AA04647; Wed, 13 Apr 88 08:58:21 BST Date: Wed, 13 Apr 88 08:58:21 BST From: peter@uk.co.memex (Peter Ilieve) Message-Id: <8804130858.AA04647@doc.memex.co.uk> To: abbottp@uk.ac.aston Subject: atob/btoa source coming Peter, I will send, in separate mail messages, the source for atob (file atob.c), the source for btoa (btoa.c) and the unix manual page (btoa.1). The man page will have an X prepended to each line as many lines it has start with a . which confuses some mailers. +++Editor - I have the sources, all I need now is the time to set them up.+++ This roundabout method is only because you haven't ``seen the light'' and converted to unix :-), and so I assume you don't have things like unshar. Peter Ilieve peter@memex.co.uk PS. Has any progress been made on providing a mail server for folk like me who can't do ftp to you (and probably wouldn't want to anyway judging by the problems it seems to cause)? +++Editor - We now have a system running UNIX and hope to agquire NFS for the VMS service as well. If so I have mail server software available waiting for implementation+++ --------------------------------- Date: 19-APR-1988 16:32:24 GMT From: AFC@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: Fonts for SliTeX I had the same problem as an earlier correspondent when setting up SliTeX. I got around it by using 10-pt fonts (which are part of the standard TeX kit) instead of the 8-pt ones in SFONTS.TEX. The result is acceptible, but not triffic. I'll supply the hacked SFONTS file to anyone who'd like it. It would, of course, be better to use the genuine fonts. Does anyone have METAFONT definitions of the missing fonts?? ** Adrian --------------------------------- !! !! 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