UKTeX V89 #27 Wednesday 19 July 1989 DYNA.STY postscript printing from TeX with Oostrum sun binaries essential.tex & PC METAFONT OzTeX distribution in the US and elsewhere... label printing ugh Re: Suggested modification regarding WEAVE's philisophy TeX previewing under NeWS psfig C version of Bibtex? Editor Peter Abbott TeX Archive SHUTDOWN The VAX system is being upgraded to VMS 5 and consequently access to the archive will be closed at 0700 BST on Thursday 20 July 1989 and should be restarted at 0800 BST on Tuesday 25 July 1989. The VAX system used for info-tex will be upgraded commencing at 1800 BST on Tuesday 25 July 1989 and will be restarted by 0800 BST on Monday 31 July 1989. Issue 28 will be posted during the week beginning 31 July 1989. Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #64 (65 is incomplete) Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N3 --------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 13:16:58 GMT From: A42JR@UK.AC.NE-LONDON-POLY Subject: DYNA.STY A user here has received a document from Germany in LaTeX format. It uses the BOOK.STY, but also looks for DYNA.STY. I can find no trace of this either from our distribution tape, or in the Aston archive. Has anyone ever heard of this? --------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 15:18:54 BST Message-Id: <18258.8907141418@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.KIRK's message of 14-JUL-1989 14:43:28 GMT <17941.8907141349@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: postscript printing from TeX with Oostrum 1. In the table of contents, I get messages about overfull hboxes and the chapter number of the main chapter headings are overwritten. Does it happen when you use CMR fonts? It sounds to me as if your chapter numbers are (for some reason) simply too wide. the tableofcontents macros force them into quite a narrow box. 2. A number of the accents and diacriticals supplied by TeX, such as a cedilla are ommitted when the file is printed. Any solution known? a glorious chestnut resurfaces. it depends on the way you have acquired TFM files for the PostScript fonts - the Adobe default encoding is different to TeX's, so the accents are not in the same place. You can either leave TeX alone and get dvi2ps to do the moving around of characters, or leave the PostScript alone and redefine things in TeX. There are examples of both ways of doing it, if you look at the offerings in [.fonts.adobe.pslatex] and [.drivers.dvi2ps.dvitops]. If I may declare an allegiance, I use Adobe encoding and use James Clark's macros for redefining things in TeX. I should also say that I see very little reason to prefer Oostrum's dvi2ps - Clark's dvitops is, to my mind, cleaner & faster and has more facilities. Sebastian Rahtz --------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 15:23:57 BST Message-Id: <18274.8907141423@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.KIRK's message of 14-JUL-1989 14:43:28 GMT <17941.8907141349@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: sun binaries Sebastian Rahtz has generously donated a fair weight of Sun 3 binaries to the archive. I have some reservations about this. They must take up I think the background to this addition to the archive is that a request for VMS binaries is quite common, and I felt we might as well add Sun binaries while doing the job. I know people can recompile it all in a few hours, but why should they if Peter can spare the disk space for a while? I would agree that if/when there is pressure on space, these should be the first things to go SunOs 3.x. There are also the hard coded paths. Is there some way around this initial hard-wired path? They can of course all be changed with environment variables Sorry to sound ungrateful, but everyone with a Sun has a C compiler no actually true, I think. it isn't an obligatory purchase, is it? there may be people who buy a Sun to run FORTRAN (aargh), and don't need a compiler Sebastian Rahtz --------------------------------- Date: 14 Jul 1989 17:00:20-BST Subject: essential.tex & PC METAFONT X-Mailer: Elm [version 2.1 PL1] From: D.H.Sheryn Editor, essential.tex seems to have dissapeared from the archive. Is there a reason for this? Also, does anyone know of a public domain version of METAFONT for the PC? Thanks, Dave Sheryn --------------------------------- Received: from Ean.Ean-Relay.AC.UK by Ean-Relay.AC.UK via EAN id aa01189; 15 Jul 89 7:35 BST Date: 15 Jul 89 05:00 HDT From: ATREVORROW@au.oz.ua.g Message-ID: <8907150400.8256@munnari.oz.au> Subject: OzTeX distribution in the US and elsewhere... Here's an up-to-date list of all OzTeX distributors: Australasia - --------- addie@rhea.trl.oz Ron Addie, TRL, Melbourne ben@tasis.utas.oz Ben Lian, Uni of Tasmania, Hobart rks105@phys6.anu.oz Russell Standish, ANU, Canberra les@madvax.uwa.oz Les Jennings, Uni of WA, Perth tim@cs.su.oz Tim Nicholson, Sydney Uni ccc032u@aucc4341.aukuni.ac.nz Russell Fulton, Auckland Uni, NZ math0096@waikato.ac.nz Grant Keady, Uni of Waikato, NZ Europe - ---- abbottp@aston.ac.uk Peter Abbott, Aston Uni, UK texline@vaxa.cc.ic.ac.uk Malcolm Clark, UK nikunen@cc.helsinki.fi Martti Nikunen, Helsinki, Finland North America - ----------- c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu Walter Carlip, Chicago spencer@cis.ohio-state.edu Stephen Spencer, Ohio tnieland@aamrl.af.mil Ted Nieland, Ohio gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca Glen Ditchfield, Canada Walter Carlip recently sent me the following info about OzTeX's availability in the US: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A public domain version of TeX for the Macintosh is now available by anonymous ftp. The program is called OzTeX (Version 1.1) and includes Modula-2 source and all necessary fonts and input files. The ftp addresss is Name: tank.uchicago.edu Address: 128.135.4.27 In the near future (thanks to Craig Ruff), OzTeX might also be available from Name: handies.ucar.edu Address: 128.117.64.4 As usual, use the login name "anonymous" and use your own login id for a password. Once logged in, you will find the parts of OzTeX in subdirectories of pub/sources/OzTeX. Everything has been preprocessed with Stuffit-1.5.1 and binhex. You will need at least version 1.5.1 of Stuffit, since the archives contain folders. The subdirectory /pub/sources/OzTeX/binaries contain copies of the stuffit archives before stuffing. Other subdirectories contain the OzTeX program, OzTeX sources, OzTeX inputs (e.g., AMSTeX, LaTeX, etc.), and Font binaries of various sizes in binhex'd stuffit archives. Of course, Stuffit-1.5.1 and binhex4 are available by anonymous ftp from the info-mac archive, at sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6). - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew --------------------------------- Received: from caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk by hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk; Sat, 15 Jul 89 18:03:55 BST From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Sat, 15 Jul 89 17:57:36 BST Message-Id: <4300.8907151657@caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: label printing a couple of months ago, I sent in macros to UKTeX for printing labels in LaTeX, which were pretty boring; they are still boring, but I have copied version 2 to the Aston Archive as [tex-archive.latex.contrib]labels.sty because I have extended the macros to be able to read free-format labels, ie with no special markup except a blank line between addresses: you now have have a choice of methods for supplying the information to be printed on the labels: a) like this: \addresslabel{me\\ here and there england } for each label b) or you can just type in the addresses as you want, with blank lines between them, all in a `labels' environment: \begin{labels} Joe Bloggs 10 Acacia Ave Newtown Sam Beckett Bastille Paris \end{labels} c) if you already have labels in the latter format in a file, just have a .tex file like this: \documentstyle{labels} \begin{document} \labelfile{filename} \end{document} and all will be done for you. d) if you want to *duplicate* the label, there is a counter called \numberoflabels which you can set, so \numberoflabels=4 \addresslabel{Me \\my street \\ mytown \\ England} will print the address label 4 times My thanks to Phil Taylor for supplying the basis of these macros, ie the ones which redefine `endofline' to be an active character. I almost think I understand \futurelet now.... Sebastian Rahtz --------------------------------- Received: from caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk by hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk; Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:31:18 BST From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:25:02 BST Message-Id: <5458.8907171025@caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: ugh TeXline stimulated me to this feeble LaTeX file: \documentstyle{article} \textheight 6.5in\textwidth 10in % \evensidemargin=-.5in\oddsidemargin=-.5in \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} % put your own command in \special{dvitops: landscape} % Optima \font\massive=o:rom at 100pt % PostScript symbol font \font\symbol=x:sym at 100pt \rule{0pt}{1in} \massive PS {\symbol\char'251} \char'173\ honk \char'175\ if \end{document} --------------------------------- Received: by vulcan. (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA02505; Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:45:28 BST Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:45:28 BST From: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese.vulcan (Adrian F. Clark) Message-Id: <8907171045.AA02505@vulcan.> In-Reply-To: ABBOTTP@KIRK.ASTON.AC.UK's message of 14-JUL-1989 14:44:04 GMT <8907141348.AA02045@vulcan.> Subject: Re: Suggested modification regarding WEAVE's philisophy Sender: JANET"alien@uk.ac.essex.ese" (Adrian Clark) Speaking as one who has spent a little time playing around with change files (but not having written anything in WEB), I'd like to make a brief comment on Brian Hamilton Kelly's suggestion regarding the numbering of changed sections. Generally, when one is producing a change file, one has a WEAVE listing of the original WEB program to hand. The numbers one enters in any comments then relate to the original listing. Very rarely, if ever, does one then produce other WEAVE listings until the implementation works. (I *never* processed my VMS change file for TeX with WEAVE until last week!) The reason for this is, for most people, simply making the program run is enough; spending more time making what is effectively a program listing is not perceived as time well-spent. However, I would like to concur, in principle, with Brian's suggestion, simply on the grounds that it would help maintainability (if there is such a word). And, if he should produce improved versions of TANGLE and WEAVE, I for one would be very happy to use them. 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 caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk by hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk; Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:50:06 BST From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:43:47 BST Message-Id: <5528.8907171043@caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: TeX previewing under NeWS There are punters out there who use a Sun workstation and are neither still stuck with suntools nor wedded to X Windows, ie they are into the Good Life of screen PostScript with NeWS (and of course you can now combine X and NeWS); the subset of this merry band who use TeX will want to check out the Turing Institute's GoodNeWS improvements to, and extensions to, NeWS. Inter alia, the GoodNeWS distribution includes a good TeX previewer, and a NeWS drawing package for including graphics in TeX. GoodNeWS1.2 is freely available, and has been announced in various places; I mention it in UkTeX for the sake of completeness in any discussion of Sun TeX previewers. Also because Southampton is one of the sites distributing GoodNeWS; collect it via binary FTP from GoodNeWS1.2.tar.Z@uk.ac.soton.ecs username guest, password yourname@yoursite Its about 4Mb, so find the space first.. Sebastian Rahtz, Computer Science, Southampton --------------------------------- From: Dr.J.C.Whittaker Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 16:20:07 -0100 Message-Id: <21776.8907171520@uk.ac.lancaster.central1> Subject: psfig Dear Peter Abbott, Fanny Leech thought that you might be able to help. We have the PCtex version of Latex, and DVIPS from Arbortext, and wish to integrate postscript source files in the output which we send to our Apple LaserwriterII. Though I can get the postscript into the Tex, I cannot get the program to revert to processing Tex properly. Any advice would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Joe Whittaker, Maths, U of Lancaster. --------------------------------- Received: from lucrece. (lucrece-gate) by uk.ac.ox.prg (4.12/prgv.37) id AA27160; Mon, 17 Jul 89 17:26:33 bst Received: by uk.ac.oxford.robots (4.1/Robots 1.1 (17-Jan-89)) id AA15618; Mon, 17 Jul 89 17:28:01 BST Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 17:28:01 BST From: pcl@uk.ac.oxford.robots (Paul Leyland) Message-Id: <8907171628.AA15618@uk.ac.oxford.robots> Subject: C version of Bibtex? Sorry to bother you personally, but I don't know how to drive an archive server you may have set up. The question is: Is there a version of bibtex in the archives which is written in C? We do not have Pascal on our Sun-4 machines and do not want to fork out hundreds of pounds just for bibtex. Alternatively, do you know anyone with a Sun-4 and working binary which ccould be sent to me? Cheers, Paul Leyland --------------------------------- !! !! 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