UKTeX V88 #13 Friday 13 May 1988 Re: UKTeX V88 #12 UKTeX Help wanted with TeX implementation ASTON Archive now available by mail order!!! More mail developments Greek Fonts --------------------------------- Editor Peter Abbott Starting with this issue I am trying a new system of sending out the digest each week rather than waiting until it grows to a critical size. If the level of submissions justify it I may send out earlier but I intend to send out on Fridays (Midlands Electricity Board permitting). Thanks to Joe Stoy of Oxford the file web2c.shar is now available aston.spock:[public.texvms.tex.web]web2c.shar The file type is shar. We have just taken delivery of a MICROTEK scanner connected to an Apple Mac with Versascan software. The file formats available are TIFF, GTIFF, Postscript and Gpostscript. Can anyone tell me which format to use to store data so that I can include images in TeX/LaTeX documents and also what other software I need to be able to magnify and reduce or generaly manipulate the graphic images. Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #45 --------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 May 88 19:39:38 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz To: ABBOTTP@uk.ac.aston Subject: Re: UKTeX V88 #12 > Subject: UKTeX V88 #12 > I have ways and means of producing boldface upper and lower case Greek in > maths mode (mainly via font cmmib10) but one of my users wants non-italic > boldface lowercase Greek, which presumably requires a whole new font. Any > Cathy Booth what about Silvio Levy's new Metafont Greek (recent TugBoat)? it looks good to my classical Greek eye > with respect to speed, using CM fonts and previewer quality? (I'll just a thought that MacTeX has PostScript outlines for the CM maths fonts, which strikes me as a Good Thing, given that Mac users are bound to use a PostScript printer > I'm trying to do a survey of graphical output facilities using > TeX/LaTeX. I have epic and am in the process of acquiring textyl. > Does anyone have any other packages? I'm thinking particularly of trouble with PicTeX is that the manual has to be paid for! this is not a lot of money but it makes the thing difficult to give away > PicTeX (c.f. UKTeX88 no2) or tpic, but something homebrewed is of tpic is only available if you have a current license for DWB from ATT, as it descends directly from 'pic' itself. This means one cannot copy it around ad lib > Thanks for the BibTeX tape. There is one problem, however: the > BIBTEX.VMS_CHANGES is for the old version of BibTeX (.98i). In fact the > only change file which is up-to-date is the TOP20 changes file. what you want was was listed in the last texhax sebastian --------------------------------- Date: 12-MAY-1988 08:44:34 From: GRAEME@NZ.AC.OTAGO To: abbottp@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: UKTeX Peter, Thanks for your message. I get to see the UKTeX digests via the person you mail to in New Zealand. I then distribute the digest around to about 10 other interested parties in New Zealand (a New Zealand TUG). I also `pull' (or `suck'---I haven't got used to the terminology yet!) the TeXHaX digests down from the PUBLIC.TEXHAX directory and distribute them as well. It is cheaper to get the TeXHaX digests from you rather than from the source (Stanford). I even get the TeXMaG digests! +++Editor - The latest issue number is now listed in my notes. TeXMaG should be available next week (I have received a note apologising for the delay).+++ All the digests are very well received here in New Zealand. We haven't sufficient numbers to start our own digest so most of the traffic I send to the other people in New Zealand consists of the UKTeX, TeXHaX, and TeXMaG digests. So we here in New Zealand are more than happy with what you are doing at Aston and appreciate the service you provide. Regards, Graeme McKinstry, University of Otago PS: Please feel free to put this in your digest. --------------------------------- Date: 12 May 1988 15:49:26-WET From: alien To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail Help! After being a happy VMS TeX user for ages, I find myself at a Unix site who've never heard of TeX. Is there someone out there who can let me have a Unix TeX kit for SUN 3 and/or VAX (4.2bsd) to drive an Apple Laserwriter? My site is at the wrong end of a 1200-baud modem (!), so I guess I need a kit on a physical medium: SUN $1/4$-inch cartridge is preferable, but mag tape quite acceptible (not 800bpi though). Offers to me at the following address or (if my Unix mailer has fallen over *again*) to ALIEN@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG. **adrian Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@cs.ucl.ac.uk BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@ac.uk Smail: Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, Essex University, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ, U. K. Phone: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) --------------------------------- Date: 12 May 1988 15:39:59-WET From: alien To: abbottp@aston.mail Peter, Thanks for the info-VAX mail-server, which arrived just as I was sending the following off to you. I think the DCL procedure is complementary to the program I've written; I'l base the controlling DCL around it. I've had a couple of stabs at a mail-server. Reading through Ken Yap's shell script prompted me to write one in the most compatible way under VMS ... i.e. as a TECO macro. This worked fine, but is probably a little too slow under VMS 4 systems (Heaven knows what DEC did to it in the VMS 3->4 upgrade; I guess it was to make it slower than TPU). Anyway, you might want to serve files from a $\mu$VAX someday. So I've re-written it in Fortran and it seems to be OK, although it's not yet very robust. I'll tweak it up a little and then send you the sources. At the moment it can: o return a help message o serve files (no wildcards, no filename defaulting). Each file is a separate MAIL message. o generate directory listings (with the intention that they are edited and returned as file requests) o execute an arbitrary sequence of DCL commands (so you can do a SHOW SYS and MAIL it to you. This is probably a hazard to system security!) There's been a lot of discussion recently about (de-)compression of files from the archive. I have VMS programs which do this, but not Unix versions --- and there don't seem to be Unix versions in the Archive (based on a directory listing of about two weeks ago). Can you help, or suggest who can? ++Editor - Anyone have the relevant UNIX versions please +++ **Adrian Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@cs.ucl.ac.uk BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@ac.uk Smail: Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, Essex University, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ, U. K. Phone: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) --------------------------------- Date: 12 May 88 22:48:10 bst From: G.Toal @ uk.ac.edinburgh Subject: ASTON Archive now available by mail order!!! To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail Message-ID: <12 May 88 22:48:10 bst 050341@EMAS-A> ********************************************************************* The ASTON TeX archive is now available to sites who do not have FTP. I have built a system at Edinburgh which will accept mail requests for files from aston.kirk and which will fetch the files and mail them back to you. *** This system is now open for FIELD TRIAL *** I am going to run the server for a few weeks until I get a feel for how much it is going to cost - it is running on a machine for which I pay real-money bills. If the cost of the server is too high, I shall have to withdraw the service. In the meantime, you are welcome to try it out. *** Please report any problems to gtoal@uk.ac.ed *** ********************************************************************** HOW TO USE THE SERVER Send mail to "tex-server@uk.ac.ed". Set the Subject: to the name of the file you want - if you don't set a subject field you will get the current "read me" file from aston. Example: % mail tex-server@uk.ac.ed Subject: 000directory.list Enter your text, terminate with ^D Any mail is completely ignored - never seen by human eyes... ^D % *********************************************************************** Known bugs: you have little or no chance of fetching binaries or compressed files. It only fetches from kirk, not spock. I don't know which is preferred - you can't have both. There MAY be a limit on the number of outstanding FTP requests I can issue - so don't go mad - extract files selectively. Some mailers have a 50/kb limit on files - I cannot split your mail up for you. Sorry. Given these limitations, I think it will provide a useful service and I look forward to hearing your comments, good or bad. Graham Toal. +++editor - Spock is to be preferred as some files cannot be ftp'ed from kirk but will ftp from Spock. Adrian Clark is working on a mailer which may overcome some of the limitations described above. If I remember correctly when everyting is OK we can move the software to Aston to cut out the extra hop.+++ --------------------------------- Date: 13-MAY-1988 13:07:39 GMT +01:00 From: PPENDER@VAX1.MAY.IE To: ABBOTTP%UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL@UK.AC.DARESBURY.DLGM I wrote some time ago looking for classical Greek fonts with breathings and accents. I heard recently that Silvio Levy has written procedures for TeX which will help me out but I get no reply from the EMAIL address that I was given. Does anybody of any way to get in touch with S. Levy? or better stil, does anyone have a copy of the fies I need? We are currently running TeX on VAX and PC. Many thanks .......................... Paddy Pender Maynooth College IRELAND --------------------------------- !! !! Replies/submissions to info-tex@uk.ac.aston please !! distribution changes to info-tex-request@uk.ac.aston please !! !! end of issue