UKTeX V89 #23 Friday 23 June 1989 is TeX a hack? ...and if you're still bored TreeTeX DOS VSE spirits & hacks revisited music fonts atari TeX, deskjet driver, etc. TeX Users Group TeX89 USERID's in Return Address for Aston Mail Server BibTeX v0.99c for MS-DOS Andrew Trevorrow's DVItoVDU previewer for VAX/VMS TeXhax distribution TeX for the Acorn Workstation & ST-TeX Re: DVItoVDU Euro-TeX Digest Volume 1 number Editor Peter Abbott This weekend we are shutting down for air conditioning routine maintenance so this has been issued much earlier than normal. Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #54 Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N3 --------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 16:28:32 BST Message-Id: <23128.8906161528@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON's message of 16-JUN-1989 15:54:03 GMT <22686.8906161451@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: is TeX a hack? Mike Piff thinks "TeX is one big hack from beginning to end", and cites indexing in the TeXbook as an example; without looking at it in detail, would it not be fairer to say that the TeX book is "one big hack" rather than TeX per se? so much of what we think of as `TeX' is Knuth's plain TeX or Lamport's stuff, rather than the quite small number of commands and concepts in `initex'. To say that TeX encourages hackery and obscure programming may be true, but that does not mean that it enforces it. not just possible that he ENJOYED having TeX the way it is? Otherwise, I am sure he would have written LaTeX instead. I hope not. TeX is a typesetting language, LaTeX is a markup language implemented in TeX - life would be dismal if all we had was the facilities in Lamport's index rather than the last word in structured document preparation. maybe TeX could be used as part of the `last word'? sebastian rahtz --------------------------------- Received: from cs.rochester.edu by NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via NSFnet with SMTP id aa15507; 17 Jun 89 6:32 BST Received: from cursa.cs.rochester.edu by cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (5.59/m) id AA07236; Sat, 17 Jun 89 00:08:22 EDT Received: by cursa.cs.rochester.edu (3.2/m) id AA03150; Sat, 17 Jun 89 00:08:35 EDT Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 00:08:35 EDT From: ken@edu.rochester.cs Message-Id: <8906170408.AA03150@cursa.cs.rochester.edu> Subject: ...and if you're still bored Archive maintainers might be interested in exploring this idea. I thought I was clever to think of it but discovered later BITNET already has it. It's called a TRICKLE server. As you may guess, when you request a file from a distant archive, the request is checked against the local cache, then neighbouring machines and finally the target archive. When the request is filled, each machine along the delivery path caches a copy. Out of date cache entries would have to be invalidated; files would have to be deleted when space runs short; etc. That sort of detail. I don't know if your networking standards already support such ideas. I also don't know if the topology of UK networks makes the reduction in traffic worthwhile. Then there is the problem of implementation on disparate OSes. Hmm... (It doesn't have to be elaborate. A few people can agree on a minimal standard and hack pilot implementations. If it works well you'll have other sites begging for your software. And not just for TeX archives.) Ken --------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 15:14:10 BST Message-Id: <15620.8906191414@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: TreeTeX Cc: archivegroup@uk.ac.aston A set of new TeX macros for drawing trees has been installed in the archive; they are in [tex-archive.tex-style.treetex] and the file names are listed in the README, reproduced below. Sebastian Rahtz pp archive working party -------------------------------------------- TreeTeX is a public domain macro package for drawing trees with TeX. It may be freely distributed, provided that the following files are kept together: README epodd.bbl epodd.tex tree_doc.bbl tree_doc.tex classes.tex l_pic.tex treetex.tex Copyright is with Anne Brueggemann-Klein and Derick Wood. All remarks, bug reports etc. should be directed to Dr. Anne Brueggemann-Klein Institut fuer Informatik Rheinstr. 10--12 7800 Freiburg, West Germany email: abk@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.dbp.de --------------------------------- Date: 19-JUN-1989 15:46:55 GMT From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA subject: DOS VSE I was asked if I had ever seen a version of TeX for DOS VSE. Like you, I wondered what that was. Apparently an operating system on some `smallish' IBMs (?3831 or something). Any rumours, hints etc. malcolm clark --------------------------------- Date: 19-JUN-1989 15:51:50 GMT From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA subject: spirits & hacks revisited mike piff tilts at a few windmills. i'd like to have a go at a response to a few. yes, i have read the TeXbook, and no, i don't think TeX is a `hack from beginning to end'. perhaps i misunderstand the meaning of `hack'. some of Knuth's solutions seem elegant in the extreme (and some just plain arcane). it comes as no real surprise to me that programming text is not quite the same as programming in modula-2 or pascal. yes, Knuth clearly enjoyed himself. i doubt if he does anything he doesn't enjoy, or, put another way, fails to enjoy anything he does. i see that clearly in the Book, and TeX itself. i also agree with sebastian about mohammed ullah's spiritual error. the fact that Knuth changes catcodes does not actually mean that we should all go out an change them will-nilly. after all, Knuth knew what he was doing. And: somewhere, Knuth makes the comment that he saw TeX as a low level language, which he did not expect people to program in: he expected others to write macro packages which sat on top (like leslie lamport and mike spivak, inter alia). nowhere does he make the claim that it is a structured document preparation tool. malcolm clark --------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 18:28:41 BST Message-Id: <17420.8906191728@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: music fonts version 0.92 of Andrea Steinbach and Angelika Schofer's music fonts for TeX have been installed in the Aston archive; the package consists of about 6 fonts in Metafont source, and a set of macros. This is not a set of files for the faint-hearted, as the documentation is in German, and there are no notes to help you install it all. Nor is the interface exactly easy to get on with, but if this is what you want you probably already know all about the difficulties. The files are in [tex-archive.fonts.mtex] which has subdirectories called .mf, .tfm and .pk for the source and `compiled' fonts. I have made sets of pk files at 118, 300 and 1270 dpi, for a Sun previewer, a LaserWriter and a Linotron typesetter; if you want other formats or other devices, you'll have to run Metafont. See makegf.sh for a Unix shell script I wrote to do my devices. I must emphatically ask readers to note (ha, a pun!) that I do NOT understand how these macros are to be used, I just shifted the files around. Best of luck! Sebastian Rahtz pp archive working party --------------------------------- Date: 20-JUN-1989 09:25:40 GMT From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA subject: atari TeX, deskjet driver, etc. Atari TeX: ---------- There are (at least) two implementations of TeX for the Atari ST. Both were shown at last year's TeX88 conference in Exeter. Both are German. Both were reviewed in TeXline (#7, pp19--20; #8, pp10--11). The reviewer thought it a close contest. Both are attractively cheap. 1. From TooLs GmbH, implemented by Edgar Fuss 2. From TeXsys, implemented by Schrod & Guntermann Contact: xitikgun@ddathd21 or: xitijsch@ddathd21 snail: Joachim Schrod/Christine Detig/Klaus Guntermann Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Fachbereich Informatik Alexanderstra\ss e 10 D5100 Darmstadt FRG Drivers for the DeskJet: ------------------------ Apart from Nelson Beebe's generic C implementation, available from all good archives, and also from UniTeX, in source, there is a working msDOS implementation (RuMJet) available on the German listserver. I have seen output from it, and while not quite laserprinter quality, it could pass under poor light conditions. If this is not in the archive, it should be. TeX for the pc: --------------- The archive may also now contain Klaus Thull's pubTeX, as outlined in the last TUGboat. Also available on the German listserver. __________________ malcolm clark --------------------------------- Received: from vax01.ams.com by NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via NSFnet with SMTP id aa03385; 22 Jun 89 12:36 BST Date: Thu 22 Jun 89 07:41:37-EST From: bbeeton Subject: TeX Users Group Message-ID: <614518897.0.BNB@VAX01.AMS.COM> Mail-System-Version: I keep seeing references to TUG that connect it to the American Math Society (AMS). While AMS was instrumental in the founding of TUG, and for many years TUG rented office space in the AMS headquarters building, there has been no official connection between the two organizations for quite a few years now. The AMS still holds the trademark to TeX, because Knuth assigned it to AMS; similarly, Knuth assigned the copyrights to the TeXbook and the Metafontbook to the AMS (the other volumes of Computers & Typesetting are copyright by Addison-Wesley, Knuth's publisher of long standing). TUG is the publisher of record of TUGboat, the TeXniques series (which includes the PiCTeX manual), and various other items. I am an employee of the AMS, not of TUG. However, TUGboat is entirely independent of AMS in terms of editorial control, although some AMS facilities are used for production (a service for which TUG pays standard rates), and my part in the process is done, as much as possible, on my own time. While a number of AMS employees and members are active in TUG, the two organizations remain quite separate, and I would like to see the confusion ended. -- Barbara Beeton - ------- --------------------------------- Date: 22-JUN-1989 16:22:00 GMT From: FPS@UK.AC.IMPERIAL.CC.VAXA subject: TeX89 Rainer Rupprecht RZ32 at DKAUNI2 European TeX Conference 1989 in Karlsruhe 1. Please regard my new address : RZ32 at DKAUNI2 As we had a change of mainframes it may have happened, that email sent in the last 3 weeks has been lost. Sorry. 2. There have been a lot of questions, concerning opening and end of the conference : Opening :Monday 11.09.89 10.00 am (registration from 8.00) End :Wednesday 13.09.89 16.00 pm 3. Up to now, following presentations are to be made : (some might be added) Malcolm Clark: TeX and/or SGML PAPER A bottle of Scotch ... R. Olejniczak texpic / design and implementation of a picture graphics language in TeX a la pic PAPER Bart Childs The State of TUG, TeX, and PAPER A Report on teaching TeX PAPER Bart Childs and others TeX environments PAPER J. Schrod Advanced Macro Writing / Developping LaTeX Styles PAPER Changebars without \specials PAPER M. Rycko & B. Jackowski Polish TeX is ready for use PAPER F. Mittelbach & R. Schoepf With LaTeX into the Nineties PAPER LaTeX Limitations and how to get around them PAPER P. D Bacsich MoreMath - a new PostScript Font of mathematical Symbols PAPER W. Antweiler A TeX-REDUCE-Interface POSTER E. Neuwirth Combining databases and TeX for producing a textbook for homeo- pathic medicine. PAPER Neuwirth jr. TeX on the AMIGA, hands on experiences. PAPER J. Lammarsch Using LISTSERV at DHDURZ1 PAPER R. Wonneberger TeX in an IDP Environement PAPER If anybody else wants to make a presentation, please send an abstract as fast as possible. 4. Following Discussion Groups are sure to be offered : 1. Document Structures (LaTeX, SGML ...) 2. TeX and Graphics (and Fonts) 3. Getting Information 4. TUG and National User Groups In most cases a presentation will be the base for discussion. Which topics should be added ? Who wants to be the chairman of a Discussion Group ? (the chairman has the task to give short abstracts of the main topics for a statement and the proceedings at the end of the conference) 5. Workshops I have to admit I nearly forgot them up to now. BUT : There is room and time enough. There is demand of : Teaching TeX, Intensive LaTeX (Advanced), Metafont, Document design. Who wants to offer workshops? What would be the price? (nothing would be the best.) 6. Conference-Fee : We often get the question of reduced prices. Just a short statement The way the fee is calculated, there will be no profit left at the end of the conference. The prize is the result of three main components, that probably everybody wants to take part : Lunches, Social Event and Proceedings. There are no speakers or chairmen invited to the conference, so that there will be no extra costs to be paid by the TeX-Community. If there should be a surplus at the beginning of the conference, there will be free beer for everybody. We were given about 3000 DM by TeX88 (surplus Exeter) If there should be a surplus in Karlsruhe -in spite of the beer- we would give it to Cork, of course. Rainer Rupprecht --------------------------------- Received: from qmcms.maths.qmc.ac.uk by csvax.qmc-cs.uucp id aa26579; 22 Jun 89 15:20 GMT From: Steve Schwartz Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 16:35:56 BST Message-Id: <2403.8906221535@qmcms.maths.qmc.ac.uk> Subject: USERID's in Return Address for Aston Mail Server Peter, I have finally succeeded, by accident, in using the tex-archive mail server at Aston to fetch files and send them to me. The solution was to accidently hit the ``caps lock'' key on my keyboard. Continued but not exhaustive experimentation reveals that, while the SITE of the return address can be in either upper or lower case, the USERNAME needs to be in CAPITALS. Thus --- SJS@uk.ac.qmc.maths HELP works as the message to ``texserver'', --- sjs@uk.ac.qmc.maths HELP does not. Fortunately, my local machine is happy to pass along messages addressed SJS to sjs, but this may not be the case with other non-VMS sites. Did you know about this ``feature''? Perhaps other users have had similarly frustrating experiences. Or is there something more subtle going on? Schizophrenically yours, StEvE ScHwArTz Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary College sjs@uk.ac.qmc.maths or SJS@uk.ac.qmc.maths or SJS@UK.AC.QMC.MATHS or ... --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 JUN 89 18:03:43 BST From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS Subject: BibTeX v0.99c for MS-DOS Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" Message-Id: <00000E23_00111388.00926AA0F978A220$168_1@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS> Originally-to: UKTEX Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account" Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989) After several unanswered requests to TeXhax and UKTeX for a public domain implementation of BibTeX v0.99 that would run on an IBM PC, I decided to produce my own version. After several months of Beta testing at several sites, the time for general release has come. FEATURES ~~~~~~~~ This implementation is a (hand) translation of the original WEB into C suitable for the Borland Turbo C v2.0 compiler, emulating the behaviour of the original WEB as closely as is practicable. The MS-DOS environment variables TEXINPUTS and TEXBIB are used when searching for style (.BST) files and database (.BIB) files respectively. At startup, the amount of memory available is determined and the internal arrays are sized accordingly. A usable BibTeX is now possible with as little as 300kB of free memory. The source code is available. FILES DISTRIBUTED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Four files are distributed with this implementation, namely: 00README.TXT - A quick guide telling you how to get started. BTXGUIDE.TEX - The LaTeX source for a user guide detailing this implementation of BibTeX and how to install it. BTX-ARC.BOO - A BOO encoded, self-extracting archive containing all you need to get BibTeX up and running, including the BibTeX program, style files and documentation. SRC-ARC.BOO - A BOO encoded, self-extracting archive containing the source code for this implementation of BibTeX. The files are in the archive in the directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.BIBTEX.PC] Niel Kempson .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs | | BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ukacrl | | INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | | Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military | | College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. | | Phone: Swindon (0793) 785687 (UK), +44-793-785687 (International) | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 JUN 89 20:21:07 BST From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS Subject: Andrew Trevorrow's DVItoVDU previewer for VAX/VMS Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" Message-Id: <00000ED0_00100388.00926AB42B4D4EA0$16_1@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS> Originally-to: UKTEX Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account" Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989) At RMCS, we have made several changes to Andrew Trevorrow's excellent DVItoVDU previewer for VAX/VMS systems. The changes made to DVItoVDU (known at RMCS as version 3.2) are outlined below: 1. FONT FILES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DVITOVDU will now attempt to load the font in PK format first, and if that is unsuccessful try the PXL format. Reversion to the dummy font and handling of Postscript fonts is unaffected. The two different font formats may be located in different areas, defined by the (new) command qualifiers /PK_FONT_DIRECTORY=directory_specification /PXL_FONT_DIRECTORY=directory_specification The search strategy of the original DVITOVDU V3.0 is retained, i.e. the following are all accepted: /PK_FONT_DIRECTORY=DISK$USER3:[TEX.PK] (CMR10.300PK etc) /PK_FONT_DIRECTORY=DISK$USER3:[TEX.PK.] ([300]CMR10.PK etc) /PXL_FONT_DIRECTORY=DISK$USER3:[TEX.PXL] (CMR10.1500PXL etc) /PXL_FONT_DIRECTORY=DISK$USER3:[TEX.PXL.] ([1500]CMR10.PXL etc) 2. DUMMY_FONT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To fit in with the above, the /DUMMY_FONT qualifier specifies only the TeX font name (\magstep 0 assumed). This font must be present at \magstep 0 in either PK or PXL format. At RMCS, we use /DUMMY_FONT=cmr10 3. VDU Support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Support for the following VDUs has been added: /VDU=BBC - BBC model B microcomputer running Termulator /VDU=SG480 - VT100 with Selanar retro-graphics /VDU=Tektronix - Tektronix 40xx /VDU=VTTEK - VT200/300 series in tektronix mode --- much faster than ReGIS (what isn't ?) NOTE: the modules providing support for /VDU=BBC and /VDU=Tektronix were supplied by Phil Taylor . 4. ORIGIN Specification ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Stanford TeX project decreed that the reference origin of a TeX document should be 1 inch below and to the right of the top left hand corner of the page. This is not universally popular (especially in Egham), so 2 new qualifiers have been introduced: /XORIGIN=dimension_value (default: 1in) /YORIGIN=dimension_value (default: 1in) NOTE: these qualifiers were added at the suggestion of Phil Taylor ******************** The files necessary to upgrade an existing implementation of DVItoVDU v3.0 are in the archive under directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.DVITOVDU.V30-V32_UPGRADE] The files provided are: 00README.TXT - brief guide to installation 00CHANGES.TXT - details of the changes made between v3.0 and v3.2 DVITOVDU.CLD - the command verb definition file for DVItoVDU DVITOVDU_V3-2.EXE - the DVItoVDU v3.2 executable image DVITOVDU_V3-2_ONLINE.HLP - the file used by DVItoVDU to provide online help DVITOVDU_DCL.HLP - a help file suitable for inclusion in a DCL help library RMCS_USERGUIDE.TEX - the DVItoVDU user guide prepared at RMCS SRC.DIR - a subdirectory containing the new / changed .DEF & .MOD source modules. For users of DEC's module management system (MMS), there is a DESCRIP.MMS file for building DVItoVDU. Niel Kempson .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs | | BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ukacrl | | INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | | Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military | | College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. | | Phone: Swindon (0793) 785687 (UK), +44-793-785687 (International) | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' --------------------------------- Received: from jenny.cl.cam.ac.uk by scaup.Cl.Cam.AC.UK id aa07543; 23 Jun 89 8:48 BST Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 8:47:18 BST From: R Fairbairns Subject: TeXhax distribution Message-ID: <8906230848.aa07543@scaup.Cl.Cam.AC.UK> Is anyone in the UK getting TeXhax earlier than about 4 weeks after its `publication date'? If noone is, does anyone know where the delay is happening? Robin Fairbairns Laser-Scan Ltd., Science Park, Milton Rd., Cambridge CB4 4FY Tel: 0223 420414 --------------------------------- Date: 23-JUN-1989 09:14:42 GMT From: EETFD@UK.AC.STAFPOL.CR83 Subject: TeX for the Acorn Workstation & ST-TeX Sender: JANET"EETFD@UK.AC.STAFPOL.CR83" Message-Id: <00005E71_000931DC.00926B203CCDC6C0$6_1@UK.AC.STAFPOL.CR83> Originally-to: JANET%"info-tex@uk.ac.aston" Originally-from:EETFD "Fraser Dickin" Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.3a (02-Feb-1989) I have just resurrected an Acorn Workstation found gathering dust in one of our labs. I immediately thought of using the machine as dedicated TeX station. Before porting TeX over to it I thought I should check with the UK-TeX community to make sure that I am not reinventing the wheel. A friend informs me that several people from Acorn are on the TUG list and I wondered if they have TeX on their ACW's ? I read the message from Mike Black of the Text Formatting Co. re: ST-TeX. I used the package to TeX my PhD thesis so if anyone wants to know a bit more about it from an endusers viewpoint then drop me a line. Finally, I would like to congratulate Andrew Trevorrow on his implementation of TeX for the Apple Mac called OzTeX. I have been using it for a couple of weeks and it works well. Even though I'm not a Yorkshireman I think its dammed good for nowt ! Fraser Dickin. [Janet: eetfd@uk.ac.stafpol.cr83] --------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 JUN 89 10:14:53 BST From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB Subject: Re: DVItoVDU Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB" Reply-to: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Originally-to: JANET%"archive-group,uk-tex@aston" Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989) Niel Kempson notes that "the modules providing support for /VDU=BBC and /VDU=Tektronix were supplied by Phil Taylor ." Whilst this is factually correct (I did supply them to Niel), all credit for the BBC implementation should be given to Brian Williams and his late colleagues at Sussex University, who produced the implementation for the BBC. My contribution is limited to the Tektronix implementation and the original implementation of the ORIGIN switch. Philip Taylor Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. --------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 JUN 89 10:34:16 BST From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB Subject: Euro-TeX Digest Volume 1 number 1 Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB" Reply-to: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Originally-to: JANET%"Uk-TeX@Aston" Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989) News flash: UK-TeX joins Euro-TeX. The following is a summary of the Euro-TeX correspondence received since we joined. =[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]= Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 11:09:32 CET From: JACOBS@EARN.DKAUNI0P Subject: Previewer for Tektronix-4014/4115 Hello TeXnicans We are searching for a previewer for Tektronix-capable terminals and PC's (4014 and 4115) on our PRIME-Computer. Does there exists any (PD-)solution? We only found DVItoVDU, but we don't have MODULA-2. Thanks ----- Hallo TeXniker Als Preview-M"oglichkeit haben wir z.Zt. PC's mit TeXView. Allerdings arbeiten die meisten unserer TeX-Nutzer auf unserem Minirechner PRIME, weil an diesem die Laserdrucker und die meisten Terminals h"angen. Anstatt die DVI-Files hin und her zu schaufeln, w"are ein Previewer auf der PRIME g"unstiger, der unsere Tektronix-4014-f"ahigen Terminals oder vor allem unseren PC mit Tektronix-4115-Emulation ansprechen kann. Au"ser dem DVItoVDU, der in Modula-2 geschrieben ist (haben wir nicht), habe ich in den einschl"agigen TeX-Listen nichts passendes gefunden. Gibt es vielleicht doch irgendwo und irgendwie eine (PD-)L"osung ??? Vielen Dank in voraus, Heiko Jacobs Institut f"ur Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung, Uni Karlsruhe, jacobs@dkauni0p.bitnet =[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]= Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 11:28:12 CET From: UCIR001@EARN.FRORS31 Subject: Tektronix 4014 As i remember, Dario LUCARELLA had developped, few years ago, a driver for Tektronix 4014 : Instituto di Cibernetica Universita Studi Milano Via votti 3/5 20133 Milan, Italy In counterpart, i'm interested to know his email address. Good luck, Bernard GAULLE (GUTenberg) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 13:06:44 MEZ From: Gabriele Kruljac Subject: Driver for 4014 At our VM/CMS system with ASCII terminals connected via a 7171 control unit we run a driver of Don Hosek written in WEB producing PASCAL code. In more detail: Our HIREZ Selanar Terminals run as VT100; VT330 terminals are supported, too, and IBM PC which use KERMIT to run as terminal. The previewing is done in switching to Tektronix 4014 mode. Originally it was written only for GDDM and IBM PC running PCPLOT or YTERM, whatever this may be. I made a change file for above listed terminals. It is public domain. But I suppose that it could be a problem to transfer it to another system, because there is special code for handling the 7171 control unit. Gabriele Kruljac Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart =[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]= Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 22:06:53 CET From: NICOLE@EARN.FRINRA72 Subject: PicTeX Hello happy TeX users, Does any of you know where I can find here on the network : - PicTeX manual - aPicTeX release newer than 1.1 (25 sept 87) Second question, do you know how I can force a \noindent after a LaTeX theorem-like environment ? Thank's in advance. Olivier NICOLE@FRINRA72.BITNET =[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]= Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 09:12:35 CET From: UCIR001@EARN.FRORS31 Subject: PicTeX manual Olivier, PicTeX manual is not in public domain. It is published by AMS and can be ordered via TUG. Bernard GAULLE =[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]==[Q]= Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 12:03:29 CET From: Fritz Zaucker Subject: MODULA-2 compiler for PC-UNIX Hi, does anybody know if there exists a MODULA-2 compiler for a 80386 PC based UNIX system? Bye Fritz =[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]==[A]= Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 12:38:06 CET From: "Dr. Konrad Blum" <013352@EARN.DOLUNI1> Subject: Re: MODULA-2 compiler for PC-UNIX Have look into "elektronipraxis 11" p 120 ff. (I have lost my copy, unfortunately) KB =[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]==[!]= Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 18:55:50 CET From: Joachim Lammarsch Subject: Forwarded mail from Barbara Beeton I redistribute a mail from Barbara Beeton. Kind regards Joachim Lammarsch >Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 18:47:57 CET >From: bbeeton >Subject: TeX Users Group >To: TEX-EURO@DHDURZ1 I keep seeing references to TUG that connect it to the American Math Society (AMS). While AMS was instrumental in the founding of TUG, and for many years TUG rented office space in the AMS headquarters building, there has been no official connection between the two organizations for quite a few years now. The AMS still holds the trademark to TeX, because Knuth assigned it to AMS; similarly, Knuth assigned the copyrights to the TeXbook and the Metafontbook to the AMS (the other volumes of Computers & Typesetting are copyright by Addison-Wesley, Knuth's publisher of long standing). TUG is the publisher of record of TUGboat, the TeXniques series (which includes the PiCTeX manual), and various other items. I am an employee of the AMS, not of TUG. However, TUGboat is entirely independent of AMS in terms of editorial control, although some AMS facilities are used for production (a service for which TUG pays standard rates), and my part in the process is done, as much as possible, on my own time. While a number of AMS employees and members are active in TUG, the two organizations remain quite separate, and I would like to see the confusion ended. -- Barbara Beeton --------------------------------- !! !! Files of interest !! [tex-archive]000aston.readme [tex-archive]000directory.list !! [tex-archive]000directory_dates.list [tex-archive]000directory.size !! [tex-archive]000last30days.files !! !! Editor - I have a tape labelled TeX 2.95 LaTeX 2.09 Metafont 1.7 !! Unix 4.2/3BSD & System V. Tar 1600 bpi blocked 20 1 file dated !! 30 January 1989 (from washington.edu). !! !! FTP access site uk.ac.aston.tex !! username public !! password public !! !! 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