UKTeX V88 #11 Generating fonts. magsteps. Uncompress problems again psfig macros for use with LaTeX picture environment. supertabular Compress problems? Crudetype on Unix --------------------------------- Editor Peter Abbott The files tfm174.boo, tfm190.boo, tfm208.boo and tfm250.boo in [public.preview.ibmpc] have been updated The following files have been updated/added to [public.latexstyle]. This subdirectory reflects that at Rochester as at April 23 1988. 00README. AAAI-INSTRUCTIONS.TEX AAAI-NAMED-0V98.BST AAAI-NAMED-0V99.BST AAAI.STY DOUBLESPACE.STY LATEX.BUG LATEX.DIF MAN10.STY MAN11.STY MAN12.STY MANUAL.README MANUAL.STY SCHEDULE.DOC SCHEDULE.STY --------------------------------- Date: 20 Apr 88 01:01:42 bst From: G.Toal @ uk.ac.edinburgh Subject: Generating fonts. To: CBTS8001@irl.ucc.iruccvax cc: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Message-ID: <20 Apr 88 01:01:42 bst 050632@EMAS-A> To Peter Flynn: well, metafont looks pretty intimidating at first, but if all you want to do is run off a font, and no more, its quite easy to use. $ Metafont This is METAFONT, Version 1.0 (INIMF) **&plain *mag := magstep 2; (or whatever) *mode := imagen; (or whatever ...) *\input cmr10 $ rename mfput.tfm cmr10.tfm $ rename mfput.300gf cmr10.300gf (called mfput unless the source- file name is given in first line) - and thats it. If your printer driver doesn't understand gf files, then you run it through gfto, which isn't very hard really... (although a little tedious). You should expect the whole thing to take about between 5 - 10 minutes. Graham. --------------------------------- Date: 20 Apr 88 01:07:36 bst From: G.Toal @ uk.ac.edinburgh Subject: magsteps. To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Message-ID: <20 Apr 88 01:07:36 bst 050635@EMAS-A> To Peter Flynn (I'm having trouble mailing you directly, & uktex might want to hear this one...) +++Editor - I am also getting error messages from Peter Flynn, he had filled up his diskquota but the problem is noew cleared+++ The reason you can't have magsteps > 5 is that magstep is a shorthand for an explicit magnification, and it is implemented in plain.tex as a case statement with five entries, i.e. \def\magstep#1{\ifcase#1 \@m\or 1200 \or 1440\or 1728\or 2074\or 2488\fi\relax} If you want a bigger one, you'll have to work out the magic number and give it explicitly. Graham. --------------------------------- From: Martin Ward Date: Wed, 20 Apr 88 15:10:08 +0100 Message-Id: <8804201410.AA16279@easby> To: abbottp@uk.ac.aston.mail Dear Peter, Thanks for the info about ftp, I have successfully retreaved some ".Z" files (delatex.lex, detex.c and readme) and now I can't uncompress them. The files were in [PUBLIC.PAVEL.TEXDIST.TEX82.TEXCONTRIB.TRICKEY] and I assume they are utilities for converting LaTeX files to text (?) and therefore potentially useful. Martin. (martin@uk.ac.dur.easby) --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 88 17:02:13 BST From: luke@uk.ac.city.cs (Luke Whitaker) Message-Id: <8804211602.AA04430@cssun1.csd> To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Subject: psfig I have just pulled some postscript files from the PUBLIC.PSFIGTEX.DOC.FIGS directory at aston and some of them were corrupt. In particular, occasional '0' characters at begining of line had turned into '@' characters. I am running UNIX on a Gould (UTX2.0 which is nearly BSD 4.3). I used hhcp with no special flags or anything. Does anyone understand what happened? On a separate (but related) issue, does anyone out there know of a (preferably public domain) program like MacDraw that will work on a Sun, to create PostScript files. Luke Whitaker, Dept of Computer Science, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V OHB. Phone: 01-253-4399 x3719 JANET: l.whitaker@uk.ac.city.cs --------------------------------- +++Editor - The following is from TeXhax Digest V88 #38 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 88 21:22:46 PDT From: kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu (Conrad Kwok) Subject: macros for use with LaTeX picture environment. The macros are for use with LaTeX picture environment. They modify \circle and \line to allows you to draw circle of any size and line with any slope and any length. Commands for drawing \ellipse and \arc are provided also. A new command for setting line width \Thicklines is included. The command affects line width for circle, ellipse and line too. Details can be found in the READ.ME file. --Conrad +++Editor - The file is [public.score.latex]kwok.txh --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 88 11:59 N From: Subject: supertabular To interested LaTeX users, I have written a macro for long tables, cq. tables longer then one page. The macro repeats the tablehead and -tail. Contact me for this .sty file and example file. I also have an example-book for LaTeX, it's written in Dutch. It's available for interested users. Theo Jurriens Kapteyn Astronomical Institute P.O Box 800 9700 AV Groningen The Netherlands 050-634073 BITNET: TAJ@HGRRUG5 +++Editor - The file is [public.score.latex]taj.txh --------------------------------- Date: 23-APR-1988 15:33:29 GMT From: NATILAK@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON I wonder whether it is possible to create newcommands to draw flowchart symbols in my technical report. Tilak Ratnanather --------------------------------- Received: from daisy.warwick.ac.uk by sol.warwick.ac.uk; Sat, 23 Apr 88 20:15:40 GMT From: I M Stroud Message-Id: <22134.8804232015@daisy.warwick.ac.uk> To: abbottp@uk.ac.aston.mail Date: Sat, 23 Apr 88 20:15:28 GMT Subject: Compress problems? X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5] Re: Compress problems in PAVEL's directories. --------------------------------------------- o The original problem (to the best of my knowledge) has not been solved; are there any $0A bytes in the compressed files in PAVEL's directory? (I am just curious) o I think the mail server idea is a good 'un; they are excellent for source code files and who needs binary files anyway. PERHAPS a solution to the PAVEL directory problem would be to get the mailer software to uncompress the files before sending them out. Bye .,. ian (JANET: phrkf@uk.ac.warwick.cu) --------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 88 12:29:23 BST From: Dr R M Damerell (RHBNC) To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Subject: Crudetype on Unix Peter King (Heriot-Watt University) has written a Unix Change file for Crudetype and kindly given me permission to redistribute it. He has also written a M Makefile. Once I can get myself organised I intend to submit copies to Aston and Washington and Stanford with the request that it be considered for inclusion in their distributions. Please note that this software is provided free, "AS IS" with absolutely no guarantee of performance. Anybody who uses it must do so entirely at own risk. Crudetype is a lineprinter device driver for TeX. It runs on VMS and now (thanks to Dr. King) Unix. You can also do things like: examine the output with EDT (needs a 132-col terminal) and send it by mail to friends. I originally intended it for printers such as daisy-wheels or the so-called 'high quality dot-matrix' 24-pin printers, and inserted a lot of code that was intended to drive these, but these printers now seem to be out of fashion. It is described in more length in Tugboat vol. 7 no.3. Mark +++Editor - The files have not yet been received+++ --------------------------------- !! !! Replies/submissions to info-tex@uk.ac.aston please !! distribution changes to info-tex-request@uk.ac.aston please !! !! end of issue