UKTeX V89 #25 Friday 7 July 1989 macros for Concrete Mathematics Another implementation of BibTeX v0.99c for MS-DOS Compressed archive files, uncompressing Thanks, James PostScript and LaTeX, font encoding fillin 8th Annual Meeting of German TeX Users Re: texserver return path The future of TeX TeX on IBM 6150 (RT) New address of Rainer Rupprecht Sun 3 binaries upgrade to OzTeX 1.1 TeX stuff at Aston. Editor Peter Abbott Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #62 Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N3 --------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Sat, 1 Jul 89 20:30:24 BST Message-Id: <7808.8907011930@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: macros for Concrete Mathematics The macros used for typesetting Knuth et al's `Concrete Mathematics' are available at Aston as [tex-archive.tex-style]gkpmac.tex People wanting to know how to set things up to use the Euler and Concrete fonts (rather than plain CM) will find this useful. Sebastian Rahtz pp archive working party --------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 JUN 89 16:24:54 BST From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS Subject: Another implementation of BibTeX v0.99c for MS-DOS Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" Message-Id: <000000C8_0019B338.009270DC7EAC68A0$44_1@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS> Originally-to: UKTEX Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account" Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989) Since announcing my implementation of BibTeX v0.99c for MS-DOS, I've been sent another implementation! Thanks to Ken Yap and Goncal Badenes . The 00README.TXT file for the distribution says: > This is a BibTeX implementation for the IBM-PC done by J.Demel > (Technical University Vienna Bitnet:Z3000JD@AWITUW1) and > Dimitri Vulis (CUNY, Bitnet: DLV@CUNYVMS1). For the implementation > the Professional Pascal Compiler from Metaware Version 2.7 was used. > This implementation is based in BibTeX Version 0.99c. There are 2 files in the distribution: 00README.TXT - general information BIBTEX99.BOO - a BOO encoded ARC compatible archive containing a BIBTEX.WEB change file for the Professional Pascal compiler and the executable program BIBTEX.EXE The files are in the archive in the directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.BIBTEX.PC.DEMEL] 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: Fri, 30 Jun 89 16:49:49 From: CS1CWM @ SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA Subject: Compressed archive files, uncompressing Peter: I have seen a note recently about uncompressing the files in the archive with _Z terminator but I haven't been able to find it again? Can you point me at it? Chris Martin --------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 16:50:31 From: CS1CWM @ SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA Subject: Thanks, James I would like to use this newsletter to thank James Clark for his DVITOPS which we have begun to use. It's an excellent program and it is most generous of him to put it into the public domain. Chris Martin --------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 16:51:31 From: CS1CWM @ SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA Subject: PostScript and LaTeX, font encoding Further to our use of DVITOPS, I have also tried Philip Taylor's PS-LATEX with good results except for my confusion over the TFM's and PS font reencoding. I changed PS-LFONTS.TEX to use the PS... forms of the TFM files which was fine except that Courier printed was wider than TeX thought and would overwrite the following character. I thought this might be due to using the wrong encoding which would get the widths for the punctuation marks (say) instead of the letters and changed to the PSM... files. Now I found that ligatures had gone missing. Could somebody give me a reference to an explanation which I can then read and pretend I knew all along? Chris Martin --------------------------------- Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 3728; Fri, 30 Jun 89 19:34:50 BS Received: from UICVM by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 0359; Fri, 30 Jun 89 19:34:49 B Received: by UICVM (Mailer R2.03B) id 7317; Fri, 30 Jun 89 13:10:09 CDT Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 13:02:24 CDT From: Don Hosek Subject: fillin I'm putting together an article on how to develop mode_def's and I'm trying to illustrate the effects of fillin using a simple MF file along the lines of: smode="specmode"; mode_setup; beginchar(0,0,0,0); penpos1(5,45); penpos2(5,45); z1=(0,50); z2=(20,0); penstroke z1e--z2e; endchar; with the file specmode.mf reading: blacker:=0; pixels_per_inch:=300; proofing:=2; fontmaking:=0; tracingtitles:=0; fillin:=-3.0; "fillin -3.0"; o_correction:=1; xerox_pixel; (xerox_pixel sets the grey font so that it is a font with each pixel represented by a bitmap resembling: ..... .XXX. .XXX. .XXX. ..... in this way, each pixel can be clearly distinguished on the proof sheet). I've tried changing the value of fillin to values in the set {-3, -1.1, -.7, -.4, -.2, -.1, 0, .1, .2, .4, .7, 1.1, 3) and printed proofsheets of the whole thing and cannot find any difference in the bitmaps produced. I presume I am correct that the effect of fillin is to cause pixels near something like XXXYY XXXYY XXXXX XXXXX to change from X to Y. So why do I not see any differences in the proof sheets? How can I get some printed sheets to demonstrate the effect of fillin? Thanks in advance, -dh -------------------+----------------------------------------------- Don Hosek | Internet: U33297@UICVM.UIC.EDU 3916 Elmwood | Bitnet: U33297@UICVM.BITNET Stickney, IL 60402 | DHOSEK@YMIR.BITNET Work: 312-996-2981 | UUNet: dhosek@jarthur.claremont.edu ERASE * SCRIPT * | JANET: U33297%UICVM.UIC.EDU@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY -------------------+----------------------------------------------- Never give a gun to ducks --------------------------------- %============================================================================= First Announcement and Call for Papers 8th Annual Meeting of German TeX Users October 11--13, 1989, Eichstaett, FRG %============================================================================= This year's Annual Meeting of German TeX Users will take place at the Catholic University of Eichstaett from Wednesday, October 11, to Friday, October 13, 1989. The conference will be organized by the Computing Center of the Catholic University of Eichstaett and the recently founded German TeX Users Group DANTE e.V. Starting with the general meeting of DANTE on Wednesday afternoon, several tutorials on TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont will be organized on Thursday; finally, papers and discussion groups on all TeX-related problems will be scheduled on Thursday and Friday. If you are interested in participating in this conference and/or if you plan to present a paper, please send the attached pre-registration form to the address given below. Further questions or suggestions for this meeting should be directed to Joachim Lammarsch (rz92@dhdurz1.bitnet), the Chairman of DANTE, or to Dr. Wolfgang A. Slaby (slaby@urz.ku-eichstaett.dbp.de) Please give copies of this form to your colleagues, as the mailing list is incomplete. %============================================================================= 8. 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Annual Meeting of German TeX Users _ %_% I should like to present a paper; preliminary title: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ (abstract of ca. 1 page is enclosed) _ %_% I am interested in discussion groups on: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _ %_% I intend to participate in the exhibition with these products: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ (exhibition area required: ..... qm) Send to: Dr. Wolfgang A. Slaby Catholic University Eichstaett Computing Center Ostenstr. 24 D-8078 Eichstaett, F.R. Germany Telephone: (08421) 20-214 e-mail: slaby@urz.ku-eichstaett.dbp.de (DFN X.400) Acknowledge-To: --------------------------------- Received: by vulcan. (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA10344; Mon, 3 Jul 89 10:41:41 BST Date: Mon, 3 Jul 89 10:41:41 BST From: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese.vulcan (Adrian F. Clark) Message-Id: <8907030941.AA10344@vulcan.> Subject: Re: texserver return path Sender: JANET"alien@uk.ac.essex.ese" (Adrian Clark) In UKTeX V89 #24, David Shepherd writes: > I can confirm that putting your user name in capitals in a texserver request > gets a reply !!! I'm the author of the much-maligned mail-server, and this phenomenon comes as a bit of a surprise to me. The mail-server works by generating DCL commands to prepare the files and mail them out. Out-going mail is sent by the POST command, written by UWIST, I believe. The username and return address generated *is* the same as that specified in the user's request, but DCL will normally fold the command line to upper case before passing it to the POST program. Hence, if you are experiencing the effects of case-sensitivity in return addresses, POST is somehow managing to circumvent the mechanisms and restrictions imposed by DCL. Are there any VMS gurus reading this message who can explain this to me? (An aside: I originally *did* preserve the case of usernames and return addresses, but this caused problems when requests from VMS VAXen had their usernames specified in lower case, since the software which receives incoming JANET mail does not fold the username to upper case and rejects it.) In the same issue, Peter Ilieve reports that he has no problems (on a Unix host, I believe) with usernames in lower case. Nor do I, also on a Unix host connected to JANET. He makes the interesting point about RFC822 requiring that case be preserved. Now, who can advise me? Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@ac.uk Smail: Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ, U. K. Phone: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) --------------------------------- Received: from nsipo.arc.nasa.gov by NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK via NSFnet with SMTP id aa09212; 4 Jul 89 2:41 BST Received: Mon, 3 Jul 89 18:44:30 -0700 from [130.217.64.32] by nsipo.arc.nasa.gov (5.61/1.5) Message-Id: <8907040144.AA06162@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 12:29:21 NZT From: Russell Fulton Subject: The future of TeX Reply-To: ccc032u@nz.ac.aukuni.aucc1 Sender: ccc032u%nz.ac.aukuni.aucc1@gov.nasa.arc.nsipo Received: From AUCC1(MAILER) by AUCCVAXB with Jnet id 4372 for INFO-TEX@INTERNET; Tue, 4 Jul 89 13:39 Y Received: by AUCC1 (Mailer X1.21) id 4371; Tue, 04 Jul 89 13:39:15 NZT Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 12:29:21 NZT From: Russell Fulton Acknowledge-To: CCC032U@AUCC1 Message-ID: Subject: The future of TeX I wish to comment on two items that appeared in issue #24, namely those from Mike Piff and Ken Yapp. I believe that these two items touch on fundamental issues that effect TeX's future. Firstly I aggree with Mike's comments about the structure (or lack of it) in TeX. There is evidence that Knuth likes to work at a `low' level. ( The example s in "The Art of Computer Programming" are all in assembler.) There is nothing wrong with this per se. It certainly does not make Knuth's contribution to computer science or typesetting any less valid. It does however place time limits the usefulness of some of the products. In particular the TeX82 program and the 3 volumes of "The Art..". ( How many non specialist, or even under grad comp sci students, are familiar enough with assembler to appreciate the example s?) If they are to remain useful as a general reference I believe that they will have to be updated. I believe the same applies to TeX. What was acceptabl e and appropriate 10 years ago may not survive the next 10. This brings me to my main point. That TeX must be updated if it is to survive as a popular tool. I believe that the following areas must be addressed 1/ More support for macro writers. At the moment it requires a great investment in time to become a competent macro writer. Every organisation of any size using LaTeX needs at least one such person to develop custom style. 2/ (Re Ken Yapp's item) Must address the inclusion and generation of graphics. I believe that the only satistfactory way of dealing with this is by building it in to TeX. TeX needs a set of basic graphic operators.( The GKS set is more than adequate.) The graphics output should go out to a separate file ( dgi ?) Since a 'picture' must be on a single page they don't have to be stored in memory, they can be dumped straight to disk. The div driver then recombines them. 3/ There are issues related to non English languages and non Roman alphabe that need addressing. This is not an area in which I have have any expertise so I won't comment further. 4/ Ken Yapp's final point "incorperate TeX typesetting into a more encompassing model of document layout. Russell Fulton, Computer Centre, Univeristy of Auckland. --------------------------------- Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 4947; Tue, 04 Jul 89 17:37:20 BS Received: from RUIPC1E(QZDMGN) by UKACRL (Mailer X1.25) id 0624; Tue, 04 Jul 89 17:37:19 BS Date: 07/03/89 15:27:56 GMT+1 From: QZDMGN@EARN.RUIPC1E Subject: TeX on IBM 6150 (RT) Dr. Reinhard Wonneberger qzdmgn @ drueds2 . BITNET Neulich hatte sich jemand beklagt, dass die von Rick Simpson in Exeter gezeigte TeX-Portierung in Deutschland nicht erhaeltlich sei. Ich habe diesen Wunsch an IBM weitergegeben und er ist inzwischen erfuellt worden; hier die Daten: RPQDATA P91019IBM RT PC TEX and METAFONT Mach-MOD 5799-PFG Mit diesen Daten sollte Ihr IBM-VB in der Lage sein, Ihnen das Produkt zu besorgen. Schoene Gruesse Reinhard Wonneberger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 8th Summer School Announcement and Call for Papers 8th Summer School on Computing Techniques in Physics ``Man-Machine Interface in Scientific Environment'' 19-28 September 1988 Skalsky dvur, Czechoslovakia The conference will put some stress on Document Processing. Program and other information can be obtained from: Dr. J. Nadrchal Summer Schools on Computational Physics Institute of Physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences Na Slovance 2 CS 180 40 Praha 8 Czechoslovakia Regards Reinhard Wonneberger --------------------------------- Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 4394; Wed, 05 Jul 89 10:40:01 BS Received: from DHDURZ1 by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 8848; Wed, 05 Jul 89 10:40:01 B Received: by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.03B) id 5074; Wed, 05 Jul 89 11:27:27 CET Date: Wed, 05 Jul 89 11:14:55 CET From: Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX Subject: New address of Rainer Rupprecht UK.AC.ASTON>, TEX-EURO@EARN.DHDURZ1 Rainer Rupprecht from Karlsruhe/Germany has asked me to send this mail to all: Because of a change in mainframe at Karlsruhe the nodes DKAUNI46 and DKAUNI48 doesn't exist any longer! Mail, which will be send to this nodes, will not be accept. Please send your mail to RZ32 at DKAUNI2 And please change the entry in your names file. Kind regards Joachim Lammarsch Acknowledge-To: --------------------------------- Received: from caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk by hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk; Thu, 6 Jul 89 10:57:26 BST From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 10:50:57 BST Message-Id: <1656.8907060950@caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: Sun 3 binaries anyone building TeX on a Sun 3 may care to pick up a set of precompiled binaries (remember to use binary FTP!) from [tex-archive.binary.sun3] at Aston, comprising aftopl virtex298 bibtex virtex298.small dvitops initex298 dvidvi tex.pool makeindex texx2 texsun textool weave tangle Note: 1) the virtex2.98 is a `gargantuan' version with support for multi-language hyphenation. virtex298.small is a normal version 2) the following paths are compiled in: fonts .:/u/tex/mftfm:/u/tex/pstfm formats .:/u/tex/formats inputs .:/u/tex/inputs If there is any interest, all the utilities and the Metafont family could join this little band. Sebastian Rahtz PS don't worry, these files were all (I think) compiled with Gnu CC, so they are biologically degradable --------------------------------- Received: from caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk by hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk; Thu, 6 Jul 89 10:38:46 BST From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 10:32:08 BST Message-Id: <1648.8907060932@caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: upgrade to OzTeX 1.1 The two files [tex-archive.tex.pc.oztex]patch1.hqx [tex-archive.tex.pc.oztex]patch2.hqx are BinHeXed Stuffit archives of the two upgrade disks for Andrew Trevorrow's OzTeX, to bring it up to 1.1. The improvements are important (see announcement in UKTeX recently), so anyone who has downloaded OzTeX will probably want to get these files. Please note that the other files at Aston are still the old version, so *new* OzTeX users need first to get everything but the patches and install it, then install the patches. The entire distribution will be upgraded as soon as possible but it does mean quite a lot of assorted processing. The font files will not, of course, need to be changed. Sebastian Rahtz pp archive working party --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 89 15:46:22 +0100 From: John.Aspden @ uk.ac.newcastle Subject: TeX stuff at Aston. Message-id: I saw the stuff in UKTeX #24 about OzTeX version 1.1, and tried to get it from aston.kirk, but the stuff there is still the older version 1.0. Are you in the process of putting up version 1.1? ------------ At the same time I noticed that the sources were also available, which weren't there when I grabbed the rest of OzTeX, so I got those too. sources1.hqx is ok, but sources2.hqx gives an EOF error when I try to de-BinHex it. ---------- Incidentally, network connectivity is now so good that I can have a program *executing* on my Mac within about 10-15 minutes of *requesting* the BinHex version from the Aston archives! --------------------------------- !! !! 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 !! !! I have the facility to copy this tape for anyone who sends the following !! 1 2400 tape with return labels AND RETURN postage. (2.50 pounds sterling !! for UK users, payable to `Aston University') Outside UK please ask me. !! UK users send 4.25 for two tapes or 6.60 for three tapes. !! 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. !! Remaining details as above. !! !! Exabyte tape drive with Video 8 cassettes. !! !! Same formats available as 1/2in tapes. We use the following tapes !! SONY Video 8 cassette P5 90MP, MAXCELL Video 8 cassette P5-90 !! TDK Video 8 cassette P5-90MPB !! Postage 35p UK (stamp please), 1 pound sterling Europe, other areas 2 pounds !! !! OzTeX - Send 10 UNFORMATTED disks with return postage. !! !! Replies/submissions to info-tex@uk.ac.aston please !! distribution changes to info-tex-request@uk.ac.aston please !! !! end of issue