UKTeX V89 #03 Friday 20 January 1989 re: Raw TeX: staticisation of fonts re: merging MF fonts with PostScript fonts verbatim macros for LaTeX Determining the document style in LaTeX Emacs Functions for LaTeX mode dvi2ps BibTeX sources OzTeX Landmarks in Electronic Publishing Rick Simpson's `Unconventional Uses of Metafont' software Editor Peter Abbott At the request of the LISTSERV management in Germany I have added ! in front of to:. If this upsets any other self distributing system please let me know. Alternatively does anyone have any objection to the to line being deleted. Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #04 Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V2N5 --------------------------------- Received: from yale-eng-venus.arpa by NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK via Satnet with SMTP id aa08486; 13 Jan 89 21:40 GMT Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 16:45 EST From: "Jerry Leichter (LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)" Subject: re: Raw TeX: staticisation of fonts !to: info-tex X-VMS-To: IN%"info-tex%aston.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK" Philip Taylor wants to know which font to expect to be used as \textfont0 after something like: \font\myfont fonta \textfont0=\myfont \font\myfont fontb He is expecting fontb, but getting fonta. The problem is with his expectation. An assignment to \textfont0 assigns the CURRENT MEANING. The current meaning of \myfont is "the font fonta". Changing the meaning of \myfont later has no more effect than changing the value of \b in: \def\b{old b} \let\a=\b \def\b{new b} changes the meaning of a. What makes this seem confusing is that the meaning displayed for \the\textfont0 above would be \b. This is the result of TeX's convention for naming fonts in displays: The name for a font is just the last command given in a \font command for that font. Thus: \tracingonline=1 X \showlists produces ... \tenrm X ... If you now type: \font\newrm cmr10 \showlists you get: ... \newrm X ... This is the same "X" - it's just that TeX has chosen a new external name for the font it was chosen from. -- Jerry --------------------------------- Received: from violet.berkeley.edu by NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK via Satnet with SMTP id aa01157; 14 Jan 89 2:34 GMT Received: from garnet.berkeley.edu by violet.berkeley.edu (5.54 (CFC 4.22.3)/1.16.18) id AA08669; Fri, 13 Jan 89 18:38:58 PST Received: by garnet.berkeley.edu (1.2/Ultrix2.0-CFC.13) id AA04612; Fri, 13 Jan 89 18:37:03 pst Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 18:37:03 pst From: rusty Message-Id: <8901140237.AA04612@garnet.berkeley.edu> Phone-Number: (415) 643-9097 Organization: Computer Center, UC Berkeley !to: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Subject: re: merging MF fonts with PostScript fonts From: Mario Wolczko Message-Id: <3802.8901131206@r7.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: Fri,13 Jan 11:41:48 1989 Cc: REY@com.ams.vax01 !to: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Subject: re: merging MF fonts with PostScript fonts The question is: was Metafont ever in the mainstream? Yes, it does quality character generation, and yes it is PD. But what's the demand for such a tool? How many people in the world are trained to do font design? Very few, I suspect. Unless there's a large number of amateur font designers out there, I would guess that most of them do font design for a living, and paying for a package is unlikely to be a large overhead. Also, they'll want their fonts to reach as wide an audience as possible, and I'm suggesting that PostScript is more likely to be their chosen medium. In your last sentence you're confusing the the issue of the output format produced by metafont as opposed to its user interface. If metafont produced its fonts in postscript would that make you any happier? (Probably not.) What does Metafont give you that other systems don't? Only the "meta" nature distinguishes it from other systems. Therefore, I think it has no advantages for symbol or logo creation ... who designs meta-symbols and meta-logos? Personally, I would find it much more immediate and effective to design a logo or symbol with an interactive WYSIWYG graphic editor. Further, if such an editor generated a PostScript description, I could use that symbol in many more applications than if it were in a GF file. Again, in your last sentence you are confusing the format of font files with a font designing program's user interface. The way I look at metafont is that it's sort of analogous to tex in that tex is a markup language/batch system for text formatting and metafont is a programmatic/batch system for font design. On the other side of the coin are WYSIWYG text editors and WYSIWYG font editors. Just as there are some print jobs that are better done with a WYSIWYG editor and some that are better done with a markup system, there are no doubt some things that are better done with WYSIWYG font systems and some with programmatic/batch font systems. Personally, I should think that logos would be easier to do with metafont, especially the ones that are geometric since metafont is such a geometry toolbox. A lot of dingbats are probably easier to do with metafont; look at Zapf Dingbats, all those stars, arrows, and such. I would also think that modifying an existing font would be easier with metafont. --------------------------------- Via: vulcan. (vulcan.ARPA); Mon, 16 Jan 89 08:34:59 GMT Received: by vulcan. (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA01933; Mon, 16 Jan 89 08:34:06 GMT Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 08:34:06 GMT From: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese.vulcan (Adrian F. Clark) Message-Id: <8901160834.AA01933@vulcan.> !to: colin%uk.ac.umist@uk.ac.essex.ese Subject: verbatim macros for LaTeX Cc: info-tex%uk.ac.aston@uk.ac.essex.ese > From: Colin Walls > Message-Id: <21890.8901091019@sun> > Subject: Including whole files in a LaTeX document > To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston > Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 10:19:01 BST > X-Mailer: Elm [version 2.1 PL1] > We are currently producing documentation which will include examples > of working source code. Does anyone have a set of LaTeX macros which > will enable one to include the source code file in \tt font without > having to make amendments to the source code at all. There's a file called `MISC.STY' in the style file collection of the Aston archive (currently [PUBLIC.CLARKSON]) which contains macros called \verbfile (for the verbatim inclusion of a file) and \listing (for verbatim inclusion with line numbers). Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@nss.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) --------------------------------- Via: vulcan. (vulcan.ARPA); Mon, 16 Jan 89 13:20:58 GMT Received: by vulcan. (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA02076; Mon, 16 Jan 89 13:20:06 GMT Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 13:20:06 GMT From: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese.vulcan (Adrian F. Clark) Message-Id: <8901161320.AA02076@vulcan.> !to: info-tex%uk.ac.aston.mail@uk.ac.essex.ese, texhax%june.cs.washington.edu%uk.ac.earn-relay@uk.ac.essex.ese Subject: Determining the document style in LaTeX Is there any way one can determine the document style (article, etc) from within a style file specified as an option to the \documentstyle command, as in \documentstyle[mymacros]{article} and \documentstyle[mymacros]{letter} For example, for the letter style, mymacros.sty could define the return address (etc), but for articles, it could make all table-of-contents entries generate leaders. (If it is possible, I stand some chance of getting the same style options on all my documents!) Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@nss.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) --------------------------------- Received: from a.gec-epl.co.uk by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK via PSS (UKC CAMEL FTP) id aa09062; 16 Jan 89 11:57 GMT Original-Via: SUNFS; Mon, 16 Jan 89 11:56 (V30 at UK.CO.GEC-EPL) From: Dunstan_Vavasour@uk.co.gec-epl Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 11:55:51 GMT !to: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Subject: Emacs Functions for LaTeX mode Sender: Dunstan_Vavasour%uk.co.gec-epl%sunfs@uk.co.gec-epl.a Does anyone out there by any chance have an Emacs function to indent a LaTeX source file (e.g. indent sections, subsections, lists) in a similar way to how Fortran mode indents DO loops, IF blocks, etc. While such indentation is not at all necessary, it makes the source files somewhat more intelligible. Dunstan Vavasour Systems Design Division GEC Electrical Projects "Solving your problems Boughton Road is our business" Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU Tel: (+44) 788 542144 Ext: 3535 Fax: (+44) 788 60767 Email: dv@gec-epl.co.uk dv%uk.co.gec-epl@uk.ac.ukc (JANET) ...mcvax!ukc!uk.co.gec-epl!dv --------------------------------- Received: from csuna by cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk; Mon, 16 Jan 89 14:50:36 GMT From: Philip Taylor Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 14:53:51 GMT Message-Id: <3520.8901161453@csuna.cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk> !to: info-tex@uk.ac.aston Subject: dvi2ps IS it possible to get hold of an up-to-date version of the TeX dvi2ps program; ideally one which uses the resident Adobe fonts in the LaserWriter. Philip Taylor *=============================================================================* * Philip Taylor | Systems Programmer * * COGS, | Tel: (+44)- (0)273 606755 Ext 4284 * * Arts Building E, | * * University Of Sussex, | JANET: philipt@uk.ac.sussex.cogs * * Falmer, | UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!cvaxa!philipt * * Brighton, BN1 9QN | ARPA: * * UNITED KINGDOM. | philipt%uk.ac.sussex.cogs@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk * * | * *=============================================================================* --------------------------------- From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-E at UCL) !to: abbott%UK.AC.ASTON@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID, beebe%SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, dhosek%HMCVAX@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY, dlatex%CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, emma%CSLI.STANFORD.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, gat%WJH12.HARVARD.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, phr00jg%TECHNION@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY, hal-varian%UM.CC.UMICH.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, justin%IRO.UMONTREAL.CA%LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, lakshmi%ATANASOFF.CS.IASTATE.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, levy%PRINCETON.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, mackay%JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, minman%CSLI.STANFORD.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, nu043109%NDSUVM1@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY, osborne%UNB@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY, pgil%SPHINX.UCHICAGO.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, SO405000%BROWNVM@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY, sob%WJH12.HARVARD.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, stampe%UHCCUX.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, texhax%JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU@UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS, texies%UK.AC.OX.CONVEX@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID, texline@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA, th%OCLCRSUN@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY, velthuis%HGRRUG5@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 13:19 Message-Id: <17 JAN 1989 13:19:40 UCGADKW@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID> % % % \documentstyle{article} \title{Font News} \author{Dominik Wujastyk} \date{January 16, 1989} \begin{document} \maketitle \section{Concrete Roman and Italic} The new book {\em Concrete Mathematics\/} by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik\footnote{Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989.} is naturally typeset using \TeX, and also uses new typefaces. The maths in set in AMS Euler, a typeface designed by Hermann Zapf for the AMS. The text is set in special versions of Knuth's CM family roman and italic, with weights designed to blend with AMS Euler. This has been named Concrete Roman and Italic. Zapf's design for AMS Euler is intended to suggest the look of mathematics as written on blackboards. This is how maths has chiefly been written by generations of maths teachers and researchers and is the medium in which most mathematics has always been seen by most mathematicians. The face is distinctly calligraphic, as opposed to italic, and in my view achieves the effect it seeks. But it faces the same difficulty as any striking and original new type design: it initially distracts the reader from the underlying text. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who reads {\em Concrete Mathematics\/} right through how the typefaces fare after protracted reading. The Concrete roman face appears to have features in common with the CM typewriter font, although at the time of writing I have not seen the parameter files. It is a face somewhat in the genre of Bigelow's Lucida or Carter's Bitstream Charter, though different from these, of course. \section{Lucida} In December 1988 Chuck Bigelow informed me that: \begin{quotation} Atari is soon (January 1989) bundling Lucida text fonts with its PostScript clone upgrade for its laser printer, the SLM 804. The Lucida fonts include the \TeX\ text character set. The Lucida math fonts will also be available for Atari systems, but from the Imagen Corp., later in 1989. Also, QMS-Imagen are bundling Lucida fonts in the same character set with a software PostScript clone "UltraScript PC" for IBM PC's and various printers. The Lucida \TeX\ math fonts will also be available from Imagen for that system. \end{quotation} \end{document} - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dominik Wujastyk, | Janet: wujastyk@uk.ac.ucl.euclid Wellcome Institute for | Bitnet/Earn/Ean/Uucp: wujastyk@euclid.ucl.ac.uk the History of Medicine, | Internet/Arpa/Csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu 183 Euston Road, | London NW1 2BP, England. | Phone: London 387-4477 ext.3013 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Character code reference: Upper case letters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Lower case letters: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Digits: 0123456789 Square, curly, angle braces, parentheses: [] {} <> () Backslash, slash, vertical bar: \ / | Punctuation: . ? ! , : ; Underscore, hyphen, equals sign: _ - = Quotes--right left double: ' ` " "at", "number" "dollar", "percent", "and": @ # $ % & "hat", "star", "plus", "tilde": ^ * + ~ --------------------------------- Received: from kate.eng.cam.ac.uk by xrly.eng.cam.ac.uk; Wed, 18 Jan 89 07:44:56 GMT From: Steve Montgomery Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 07:44:06 GMT Message-Id: <23949.8901180744@kate.eng.cam.ac.uk> !to: abbottp@uk.ac.aston Subject: BibTeX sources Do you know where I can obtain the sources for BibTeX 0.99 or higher? I am on a VAXStation II/GPX running Ultrix 2.2. We currently have 0.98i+0.1 and have been given some .bst files for later versions of BibTeX in which the order of arguments to the := function are reversed. Rather than alter all the .bst files, I would rather try and bring up a later version of BibTeX. Thanks in advance. Steve Montgomery --------------------------------- Received: from munnari by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK with UUCP id aa13856; 18 Jan 89 6:47 GMT Received: from g.ua.oz (via mimir) by munnari.oz with SunIII (5.5) id AA14660; Wed, 18 Jan 89 16:54:42 EST (from ATREVORROW@g.ua.oz for @ukc.uucp:abbottp@aston.ac.uk) From: ATREVORROW@au.oz.ua.g Received: from g.ua.oz by sirius.ua.oz (4.0/UCS(3.0MX)) id AA15957; Wed, 18 Jan 89 15:28:11 CST Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 15:27 CST Subject: OzTeX !to: abbottp@uk.ac.aston X-Vms-To: GATEWAY::"abbottp@aston.ac.uk" Sender: ATREVORROW%au.oz.ua.g@oz.munnari Subject: OzTeX, public domain TeX for the Mac I'm nearing completion of OzTeX, a public domain version of TeX for the Mac. I don't want to spend the rest of my life copying disks, so I'd like to hear from people willing to act as regional distributors. Any volunteers? I'd also like to hear from altruistic Macintosh programmers interested in helping with future development. Some info about OzTeX. The good news first: - Source code will be supplied. Everything is written in TML Modula-2 (which requires MPW). There is about 35,000 lines of code. - The application includes a DVI previewer, a PostScript driver, and of course TeX (actually IniTeX so users can create their own formats, although Plain and LaTeX will be supplied). The TeX module passes Knuth's trip test (for version 2.0 at least). - OzTeX is designed to be an open and expandable TeX system. It reads font information from standard TFM and PK files, and creates standard DVI files. If you have access to a Unix or VMS mainframe then you'll be able to Kermit such files to and fro without any extra processing. A basic set of TFM files and 300dpi PK files will be supplied. PostScript printer fonts are also supported. - I've seen TeXtures 1.0 and MacTeX 1.1 and I'd currently rate OzTeX below both in terms of features, somewhere between them in speed of typesetting/previewing/printing, but way ahead in terms of cost! Now the bad news: - There is currently NO integrated text editor (and I'm not sure that one is really necessary, what with MultiFinder and good DA editors available). - Support for inclusion of graphics is currently minimal. The previewer ignores \special commands and the PostScript driver only allows inclusion of a file, along with optional PostScript code. - The documentation (which I haven't even started yet) will assume some familiarity with TeX. OzTeX is NOT aimed at beginners, but at people who have used TeX, probably on a mainframe, and would like to use it on a Macintosh without paying $$$. Please do NOT send me requests for OzTeX. At this stage I only want to hear from people willing to act as distributors or interested in helping with the programming. Andrew Trevorrow ACSnet: atrevorrow@g.ua.oz Phone: (08) 267 1060 PS. I'll be out of contact from about 25th Jan to 10th Feb. +++Editor - Since we shall be using it I can distribute in the UK. We shall also try to make it available from the archive by FTP (and mail if it can be coerced to work).+++ --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 16:24:39 GMT From: Roger.Gawley @ uk.ac.durham Subject: Landmarks in Electronic Publishing !to: info-tex @ uk.ac.aston Message-id: UK TeXies may like to be reminded about the two-day meeting at the University of Durham on April 13 and 14, organised by the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group. The title is ``Landmarks in Electronic Publishing'' and the meeting will examine how we got into this mess and possible ways forwards. Speakers include many major names in Electronic Publishing-- Glenn Reid of Adobe Systems will discuss the issues that shaped the PostScript language. Richard Patterson of Hyphen Editorial Systems will describe the realities of producing a PostScript clone. James Gosling of Sun Microsystems will describe the evolution of NeWS and its relationship to PostScript. William Newman of both Xerox PARCs will examine present and future integration in publishing software. Chris Hugh-Jones of the Independent will describe the use of electronic production methods in a daily newspaper. Dick Mathews of Aldus Corporation will reveal how PageMaker reached its present state and where it is going. All this for only \quid 80 provided you are a member of the BCS or the specialist group and you book by the end of January. Failure to meet either of those conditions will cost you a little more but not much. Members already have booking forms and one went out with issue number 8 of Malcolm Clark's TeXline. Anyone who did not get that (are there such people?) can write to Landmarks in Electronic Publishing Computer Centre University of Durham Science Laboratories South Road Durham DH1 3LE or request a booking form by sending an electronic message to E.P.Landmarks@UK.AC.Durham please end your message with your full postal address in a format suitable for copying to an address label. --------------------------------- Via: vulcan. (vulcan.ARPA); Fri, 20 Jan 89 09:21:39 GMT Received: by vulcan. (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA00526; Fri, 20 Jan 89 09:20:43 GMT Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 09:20:43 GMT From: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese.vulcan (Adrian F. Clark) Message-Id: <8901200920.AA00526@vulcan.> !to: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail Subject: Rick Simpson's `Unconventional Uses of Metafont' software Rick Simpson described some software for generating Metafont descriptions of assorted graphics at Exeter last year. Does anyone know if he gave his software away? If so, does anyone have a copy of it? Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@nss.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) --------------------------------- !! !! Files of interest [public]000aston.readme !! [public]000directory.list !! [public]000directory_dates.list !! [public]000directory.size !! [public]000last30days.files !! !! Editor - I have a tape labelled TeX 2.9 LaTeX 2.09 Metafont 1.3 !! Unix 4.2/3BSD VAX SUN 2/3 Pyramid Sequent SYS V: 3B2 Tar 1600 bpi blocked !! 20 1 file dated 30 November 1988 (from washington.edu). !! !! I have the facility to copy this tape for anyone who sends the following !! 1 2400 tape with return labels AND RETURN postage. !! !! Send to !! !! P Abbott !! Computing Service !! Aston University !! Aston Triangle !! Birmingham B4 7ET !! !! A VMS backup of the archive requires 2 (two ) 2400' tapes at 6250bpi. !! 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