UKTeX V89 #28 Friday 4 August 1989 DINA4.STY Announcing SPELL V2.1 for VMS bibtex in C SGML and document interchange Re: Want info on SGML Apr\'es-TUG touring in California Re UK-TeX V89 #27 (PostScript and TeX; was: PSFIG) Spacing in equation and eqnarray environments A question about TeX: the actual program!! font substitution with TeXsun? Bug in Elwell TFMs for Adobe fonts? *** Announcing a new version of Wayne Sullivan's sbTeX *** European TeX conference, final announcement Editor Peter Abbott I must apologise to all those who have received many messages saying #27 will be sent shortly. We have had a number of problems with mail since the introduction of VMS5 on our VAX system. Hopefully we can now see the light at the end of the tunnel even though it is still giving trouble. Issue #29 will be despatched on Friday 11 August, issue #30 on Thursday 17 August and #31 on Friday September 1 1989 (I shall be attending the annual meeting in Stanford from August 18 to August 25). I have just received a `new' tape from Washington, see the trailer. Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #71 (65 is complete) Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N3 --------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 12:31:21 GMT From: A42JR@UK.AC.NE-LONDON-POLY Subject: DINA4.STY The request I sent last week concerning DYNA.STY should have referred to DINA4.STY. I'm sure that anyone familiar with either will recognise the other. Sorry for my typo. --------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 JUL 89 16:15:17 BST From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS Subject: Announcing SPELL V2.1 for VMS Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" Message-Id: <00000315_00100388.00927FC94C8B2FE0$24_1@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS> Originally-to: JANET%UK.AC.ASTON::INFO-TEX Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account" Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989) A revised version (V2.1) of SPELL for VMS is now available; this is a spelling checker which understands (from the file type extension) that the file may contain command sequences peculiar to particular formatting programs (it supports Runoff [DSR], TeX and Scribe) and ignores them Since it is only of interest to VAX users, and because some of the files are much too large to send via any mail server, the distribution kit has been retained in a VMS BACKUP save_set, which is to be found in [TEX-ARCHIVE.UTILS.SPELL.VMS]SPELL.BCK Users should FTP this specifying the /CODE=FAST qualifier to TRANSFER, and then use BACKUP to resolve the resultant save_set into its individual files. The BACKUP save_set contains the following files: AAAREADME.TXT;1 14 4-DEC-1985 14:02 BUILD.COM;1 12 22-JAN-1986 09:48 COMMONWRD.DAT;1 3 17-MAY-1982 12:50 LEXIC08.DAT;1 2535 24-AUG-1982 10:45 LEXIC08.FDL;1 2 21-AUG-1985 16:34 LEXIC16.DAT;1 2430 24-AUG-1982 11:21 LEXIC16.FDL;1 2 21-AUG-1985 16:28 LEXIC32.DAT;1 54 24-AUG-1982 11:44 LEXIC32.FDL;1 2 20-AUG-1985 14:02 MAIN.SPELL_HELP;1 2 9-AUG-1985 12:57 NEWGOOD.TXT;1 0 2-NOV-1988 11:38 PERSONAL.SPELL_HELP;1 1 9-AUG-1985 13:00 QUIT.SPELL_HELP;1 1 9-AUG-1985 13:05 SMGDEFS.PEN;1 58 6-AUG-1985 09:26 SPELL.CLD;2 1 1-FEB-1989 18:59 SPELL.COM;3 2 1-FEB-1989 18:29 SPELL.EXE;1 81 19-JUN-1986 16:07 SPELL.HLB;1 14 21-OCT-1988 17:15 SPELL.HLP;1 7 30-OCT-1984 01:01 SPELL.PAS;1 142 19-JUN-1986 15:59 TOP.SPELL_HELP;1 2 9-AUG-1985 12:53 UPDATE.SPELL_HELP;1 1 19-AUG-1985 16:45 Total of 22 files, 5366 blocks There is very little to indicate in what manner this differs from the previous version (V2.0), the AAAREADME.TXT being unchanged! However, astute users will note that the various lexicon files are considerably larger than they used to be. From its antiquity, I suspect that SMGDEFS.PEN may require revision for newer versions of VMS. Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (one of the Aston Archivists) --------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 18:49:23 BST Message-Id: <25932.8907191749@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.KIRK's message of 19-JUL-1989 15:20:07 GMT <22809.8907191426@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: bibtex in C The question is: Is there a version of bibtex in the archives which is written in C? you need the Web to C translation system, which includes support for BibTeX. new versions of the software are about to be installed at Aston; until I get around to doing this properly, retrieve the following files via FTP from uk.ac.aston.spock, username public, password public: [tex-archive.web2c]web2c_base.tar_Z [tex-archive.web2c]web2c_mf_and_bibtex.tar_Z [tex-archive.web2c]web2c_tex.tar_Z Note that they are all binary files (compressed tar archives) If you undo this lot and follow instructions, it will all be OK.... Sebastian Rahtz --------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 JUL 89 12:21:53 BST From: EFIA4580@UK.AC.QUEENS-BELFAST.CENTRE.VAX1 Department of Computer Science The Queen's University of Belfast University Road Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland I would like to thank Andrew Trevorrow and Max Calvani for their replies to my query about PSPRINT. For the benefit of anyone else who downloads PostScript to their Apple LaserWriter using AppleTalk (I use Adobe's SendPS application), Andrew Trevorrow send me these instructions for modifying his PSPRINT software. > ... the error message is caused by the CTRL/D which should only be sent > to the LaserWriter's serial interface (SendPS etc use AppleTalk). The > best solution is to modify lw_print.com so that ctrld.dat is NOT appended > if /output is used. Pretty simple to do if you know some DCL. Stephen Gilmore --------------------------------- Received: from robin.cs.nott.ac.uk by much.Cs.Nott.AC.UK id aa02646; 21 Jul 89 12:36 BST Received: from clan by Robin.Cs.Nott.AC.UK id aa25952; 21 Jul 89 12:33 BST Subject: SGML and document interchange Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 12:32:26 BST Message-ID: <16126.617023946@clan> From: David Osborne readers of TeXline will have seen Malcolm Clark's interesting leader article in the latest issue (July) about ``Standards'', both within the TeX-world and without, which encompasses such topics as SGML and ODA. to follow up that line of thought, this article from the USENET newsgroup `comp.text' discusses the latter two standardisation efforts. dave osborne cripps computing centre, university of nottingham - -- footnote: to subscribe to the excellent TeXline, contact Malcolm on (01) 589 5111 ex 4949 or e-mail to TeXline@uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa (JANET) - ------ Forwarded Message From: hrs1@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (herman.r.silbiger) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Want info on SGML Summary: SGML and document interchange Keywords: SGML, document processing, markup Message-ID: <374@cbnewsi.ATT.COM> Date: 11 Jul 89 12:59:09 GMT References: <8210005@hp-lsd.HP.COM> <3790@orca.WV.TEK.COM> <114143@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20 In article <114143@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, tut%cairo@Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes: > The Holy Grail that everybody's looking for is the ability to > readily interchange documents. So far SGML doesn't help much > in that regard, because common document formatting systems-- > TeX, troff, Frame, Interleaf, MSword, WordPerfect, etc.-- don't > read or write SGML. And that's the bottom line. SGML has found wide application in publishing and related industries for indicating the logical structure of documents. As was pointed out, the language is an international standard, but the meaning of the tags is by mutual agreement. There is a standard which is designed for the open interchange of compound documents, Open/Office Document Architecture (ISO 8613, CCITT T.410). ODA can convey both the logical structure and the layout of documents. ODA uses either ASN.1 or SGML (in the form of ODL) to express these structures. Systems which will accept ODA documents will be available by the end of the year, some of which will be on the UNIX(TM) operating system. Work on the definition of both the ODA and SGML standard takes place in the X3V1 standards committee. For info on this activity, reply to this posting, or send e-mail to hrs@batavier.ATT.COM, or call 201 949 3193. Herman Silbiger - ------ End of Forwarded Message --------------------------------- Received: from robin.cs.nott.ac.uk by much.Cs.Nott.AC.UK id ac00237; 21 Jul 89 18:05 BST Received: from clan by Robin.Cs.Nott.AC.UK id aa29474; 21 Jul 89 18:03 BST Subject: Apr\'es-TUG touring in California Reply-To: d.osborne@uk.ac.nott.clan cc: d.osborne@uk.ac.nott.clan X-Organisation: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, UK X-Postal: University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England X-Phone: +44 (602) 484848 ext 2064 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 18:02:07 BST Message-ID: <18536.617043727@clan> From: David Osborne to those attending the TUG meeting in Stanford: in the week-and-a-bit following the meeting, i'm planning to hire a car to tour the Yosemite and Sequoia Nat Pk area. if anyone has similar plans and would like to share costs and driving, i'd be glad of the company: please mail me to say you're interested and we can make arrangements at the meeting. dave - -- David Osborne | JANET: d.osborne@uk.ac.nott.clan Cripps Computing Centre | BITNET: d.osborne%uk.ac.nott.clan@ukacrl.bitnet University of Nottingham |Internet: d.osborne%uk.ac.nott.clan@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK | (Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064) --------------------------------- Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 6233; Fri, 21 Jul 89 22:31:31 BS Received: from WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 0942; Fri, 21 Jul 89 22:31:31 B Received: by WATDCS (Mailer R2.04UW) id 4833; Fri, 21 Jul 89 17:27:25 EDT Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 17:22:44 EDT From: GIBSON IL/ESC436 (EARTH SCIENCES) Subject: Re UK-TeX V89 #27 (PostScript and TeX; was: PSFIG) Joe Whittaker asked about (La)TeX and ArborText's DVILASER/PS, although the subject line referred to PSFIG. Joe --- I am not sure what you are trying to do: are you using PSFIG, or ArborText's PrintChart macro, or a home-grown one, or what ? I use MicroTeX and DVILASER/PS most of the time, and have never experienced the problem you describe; can you give more information please ? . Philip Taylor Royal Holloway and Bedford New College --------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 15:20:13 From: Mike Piff Subject: Spacing in equation and eqnarray environments Peter King asks how it is possible to arrange for the spacing in an equation environment and in an eqnarray environment to be equal around the equality sign. The following will work: \arraycolsep 0.14em The equation environment is just a displayed maths environment with automatic numbering, so = gets the spacing awarded to any relational symbol, namely a \thickmuskip, which is 5mu, where there are 18mu to an em. In the eqnarray environment, where the thing between & and & can be anything at all, not necessarily a relational symbol, the = is preceded and followed by a space of 2\arraycolsep, so the above should equalise the spaces, if my calculator is to be believed. Unfortunately, the above will change the spacing in any array environment, unless it is limited to a group, say by defining \newenvironment{Eqnarray}{\arraycolsep 0.14em\begin{eqnarray}}{\end{eqnarray}} Then use \begin{Eqnarray}...\end{Eqnarray}. Otherwise, just include the following `hack' in your preamble. This just changes the spacing for \eqnarray. \def\eqnarray{\stepcounter{equation}\let\@currentlabel=\theequation \global\@eqnswtrue \global\@eqcnt\z@\tabskip\@centering\let\\=\@eqncr $$\halign to \displaywidth\bgroup\@eqnsel\hskip\@centering $\displaystyle\tabskip\z@{##}$&\global\@eqcnt\@ne \hskip 0.28em \hfil${##}$\hfil &\global\@eqcnt\tw@ \hskip 0.28em $\displaystyle\tabskip\z@{##}$\hfil \tabskip\@centering&\llap{##}\tabskip\z@\cr} From +-------------------------------------+ | Dr M. J. Piff, | | Department of Pure Mathematics, | | University of Sheffield, | | The Hicks Building,Hounsfield Road, | | SHEFFIELD S3 7RH,England. | | Tel. SHEFFIELD(0742)768555 Ext 4431 | | JANET address: PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEF.PA | | or PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM| +-------------------------------------+ --------------------------------- Date: 24-JUL-1989 18:42:41 GMT From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX Subject: A question about TeX: the actual program!! Sender: JANET"CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX" I have come across the following problem with TeX (the program itself). I wonder if any of you "Grandmasters" out there can shed any light on it? As it says in the infamously gargantuan paragraph on p. 125 of the TeXbook (near the beginning thereof), if the chosen breakpoint is a penalty then at the very top of the list of "recent contributions" TeX puts a penalty of 10000. My question is "Why?" My reason for asking is that the presence of this infinite penalty can cause heartache to macro packages like LaTeX which are in the habit of using \vadjust in combination with specialised output routines to achieve certain goals. If an output routine wants a penalty put in then it can easily do so---but it cannot remove one, therefore it seems to me to be an unwarranted interference with the natural processes of typesetting to put in an irremovable infinite penalty here. But perhaps I am missing something? chris ***************************************************************************** You have either been reading or just missed--- ---Network Mail from: Chris Rowley, Open University (Maths/R01), UK ***************************************************************************** User Name: ca_rowley Network: janet janet Address: uk.ac.open.acs.vax [+JANET.000041500030.FTP.MAIL] [+PSS.23429080010330.FTP.MAIL] From North America try: vax.acs.open.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr C A Rowley l Bitnet/Netnorth/Earn/Uucp: Open University l ca_rowley@vax.acs.open.ac.uk 527 Finchley Road l Internet/Arpa/Csnet: London NW3 7BG l ca_rowley%vax.acs.open.ac.uk UK l Telephone: (+44) 1 794 0575 l - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************************** Character reference: Upper case letters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Lower case letters: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Digits: 0123456789 Punctuation: ? ! , : ; . Square brackets, curly braces: [] {} Angle brackets, round parentheses: <> () Backslash, slash, vertical bar: \ / | Hyphen, underscore, equals, plus: - _ = + Quotes right, left, double: ' ` " Tilde, at-sign, dollar, percent: ~ @ $ % Hat(up-arrow), ampersand(and), asterisk(star): ^ & * Hash(sharp, number, pounds!!!): # Finis ****************************************************************************** --------------------------------- Received: by vulcan. (4.0/SMI-4.0) id AA00212; Tue, 25 Jul 89 10:31:38 BST Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 10:31:38 BST From: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese.vulcan (Adrian F. Clark) Message-Id: <8907250931.AA00212@vulcan.> Subject: font substitution with TeXsun? Sender: JANET"alien@uk.ac.essex.ese" (Adrian Clark) I'm usung TeXsun to preview a document, as it lets me view two pages simultaneously. But every time there's a missing font, it barfs and gives up. Has anyone modified it to take the nearest available magnification? Better still, has anyone implemented a font substitution mechanism, so that documents using PostScript fonts can be previewed? 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) --------------------------------- Via: UK.AC.MAN.EE.ELS; Tue, 1 Aug 89 19:42 BST Received: from r7.cs.man.ac.uk by r1.cs.man.ac.uk; Tue, 1 Aug 89 19:44:50 BST From: Mario Wolczko Message-Id: <27845.8908011844@r7.cs.man.ac.uk> Date: Tue,1 Aug 19:25:43 1989 Subject: Bug in Elwell TFMs for Adobe fonts? I have been looking at the Elwell TFM files for the Adobe fonts. Apart from subtly different values of some widths and heights, they seem fairly comparable to mine. However, there does seem to be one glaring bug: In the TeXbook, Knuth states that open question mark and exclamation mark (the upside-down versions of ? and !) can be obtained with the character pairs ?` and !` (p.51). This is achieved by a ligature definition in the TFM file. However, in the Elwell Times-Roman file (I haven't looked at any other text fonts) the character pairs ?? and !! map to these. This could lead to quite a surprise if you happen to use these character pairs. (Interesting idea, though :->). If anyone out there in UKTeX-land is using the Elwell TFMs (I believe they have been distributed on the UNIX TeX tape for quite some time), could you please try TeXing or LaTeXing a small file (something like this one): \documentstyle{article} \begin{document} Is there really a bug?? The suspense is killing me!! \end{document} and let me know what you get. Cheers, Mario Wolczko P.S. If this goes out on 4 Aug, I won't be able to reply until Aug 28. ______ Dept. of Computer Science Internet: mario@ux.cs.man.ac.uk /~ ~\ The University USENET: mcvax!ukc!man.cs.ux!mario ( __ ) Manchester M13 9PL JANET: mario@uk.ac.man.cs.ux `-': :`-' U.K. Tel: +44-61-275 6146 (FAX: 6280) ____; ;_____________the mushroom project____________________________________ --------------------------------- Via: UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS; Thu, 3 Aug 89 17:09 BST Date: Thu, 3 AUG 89 16:49:41 BST From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON Subject: *** Announcing a new version of Wayne Sullivan's sbTeX *** Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" Message-Id: <00000A1D_002A4768.00928B979291B160$12_1@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS> Originally-to: UKTEX Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account" Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989) Wayne Sullivan has kindly sent the latest version of his implementation of TeX for PCs running MS-DOS. The new version, sb24TeX, is more flexible with its memory usage and can process large LaTeX documents that caused sb08TeX to produce the dreaded "TeX capacity exceeded" message. As an added bonus, on my IBM PC-AT, sb24TeX is 30% faster than (the already fast) sb08TeX. What more could you ask for? The file [TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.PC.SBTEX]sb24TeX.boo on the Aston archive is a BOO encoded, self-extracting ZIP archive containing all the files that you need. Niel Kempson (p.p. Aston archive group) .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | 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) | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' --------------------------------- Via: UK.AC.ULCC.NOC; Fri, 4 Aug 89 11:33 BST Received: from Ean.Ean-Relay.AC.UK by Ean-Relay.AC.UK via EAN id aa03614; 4 Aug 89 12:20 BST Date: 04 Aug 89 10:07 +0200 From: anne.brueggemann-klein@de.dbp.uni-freiburg.ruf.sun1 Message-ID: <237:anne.brueggemann-klein@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.dbp.de> Subject: European TeX conference, final announcement ______________________________________________________________________ Final Call for Participation and Registration Form TeX 89 4th Annual Meeting of European TeX Users September 11--13, 1989, Karlsruhe, FRG ______________________________________________________________________ TeX 89, the 4th European TeX Conference, will take place at the University of Karlsruhe, FRG, from Monday, September 11, to Wednesday, September 13, 1989. The conference is preceded and followed by two days of workshops. The conference language is English. Program: The conference program is a mixture of talks and discussion groups. So far, some twenty talks have been announced. They cover a wide range of TeXnical topics, like teaching TeX, getting the TeX community organized, TeX and standards, macro packages, LaTeX, TeX and the production process, DVI drivers, and TeX and foreign languages. A complete list of the speakers and their talks is enclosed. Further announcement of talks, accompanied by a short abstract, will be accepted till August 21. Various discussion groups will give everybody the opportunity to participate actively in the conference. So far, four discussion groups have been arranged. We are still looking for chairpersons who want to initiate discussions on further topics. A discussion chair should prepare a short, controversial statement to get the discussion going, and should be willing to summarize the discussion for the plenum. Discussion groups will probably be small, not more than twenty people per group. If you have a proposal for a discussion group, please indicate so on the registration form. There will be an exhibition of TeX-related products and books during the conference. Anyone interested in exhibiting products should contact Rainer Rupprecht (the address is on the registration form). The conference begins on Monday, September 11, at 10 am (registration starting at 9 am) and closes on Wednesday, September 13, at 4 pm. Workshops: The two days before and after the conference are devoted to workshops. Please find enclosed a list of the workshops with brief course descriptions. We proudly announce that several distinguished TeX specialists have committed themselves as lectures. Applicants should indicate on the registration form their level of expertise and what they want to achieve in the workshop. The classes can then better be tailored to their needs. In general we will limit enrollment to 15 applicants per workshops to keep the groups operational. On the other hand, the workshops have to be self-supporting. Hence, if less than ten people enroll for a workshop, the workshop must be cancelled. Applicants will be notified on August 23 about acceptation or rejection. Charges: The conference fee is DM 280,--. The fee includes registration materials, lunches, coffee breaks, social events (including a surprise excursion on Tuesday afternoon), and a copy of the conference proceedings. Conference registration must be accompanied by payment. The workshops are DM 100,-- per day. This only includes the classes and teaching material the lecturers might provide. Please pay for workshops only *after* your registration has been confirmed. Accomodation: Participants must make their own arrangements for accomodation. Please contact Verkehrsverein Karlsruhe e.V. Bahnhofsplatz 6 7500 Karlsruhe 1, FRG Deadline: The deadline for all registrations is August 21, 1989. - ---- Talks - ---- Malcolm Clark: TeX and/or SGML R. Olejniczak: TeXpic---design and implementation of a picture graphics language in TeX a la pic Bart Childs: The state of TUG, TeX, and a report on teaching TeX Bart Childs and others: TeX environments J. Schrod: Changebars without \special's M. Rycko and B. Jackowski: Polish TeX is ready for use F. Mittelbach and R. Schoepf: With LaTeX into the nineties--- LaTeX limitations and how to get around them P. D. Bacsich: MoreMath---a new PostScript font of mathematical symbols W. Antweiler: A TeX--REDUCE-interface (Poster talk) E. Neuwirth: Combining databases and TeX for producing a textbook for homoeopathic medicine K. Neuwirth: TeX on the AMIGA---hands-on experiences J. Lammarsch: Using LISTSERV at DHDURZ1 J. Lammarsch: Getting organized in Germany K. van der Laan: Getting organized in the Netherlands R. Wonneberger: TeX in an IDP environment A. Brueggemann-Klein: TeX and document design M. Bryan: JLaTeX N. Eiglsperger: A public domain driver for Digiset D. Rogers: Electronic Publishing in the nineties - ---------------- Discussion groups - ---------------- Document structures (LaTeX, SGML ...) TeX and graphics (and fonts) Getting information TUG and national user groups - -------- Workshops - -------- - -> Plain TeX - -> Philip Taylor, RHBNC, University of London - -> September 9th/10th, 10--20 participants Philip Taylor is totally dedicated to Plain Tex, and spends a considerable amount of time developing new macros to work within the Plain environment. His course will cover all aspects of the TeX language with the exception of output routines, but the emphasis of the course is entirely under the control of those wishing to attend. He is equally happy to teach Plain TeX for complete beginners, or intermediate TeX for those wishing to extend their knowledge of the language. As he feels it unlikely that any complete beginners would be attending this conference, the initial refinement of the syllabus includes material up to the level of (say), \halign (which is remarkably easy to use if you design your own \halign's, rather than trying to understand the examples in the book), but you are asked to give brief details of your TeX experience and interests when signing up for this course, so that the syllabus can be adjusted to be of maximum interest and use to those attending. Please bring your own copies of the TeXbook. - -> LaTeX for beginners - -> Jost Krieger, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum - -> September 14th/15th, 10--15 participants Jost Krieger comes from a very active TeX community in Bochum, which is particularly concerned with TeX in a German environment. The German hyphenation patterns generated at Bochum are in widespread use. Jost himself is an experienced TeX and LaTeX teacher. His course addresses LaTeX novices, either starting from scratch or switching from plain TeX. Prerequisites: No previous knowledge of TeX or LaTeX is assumed, but it is necessary to be familiar with the basic notions behind using a text editor on a mainframe or PC, since practical work plays an important part in the course. Bring your own LaTeX manual. - -> Advanced macro writing and developing LaTeX styles - -> Joachim Schrod, Detig Schrod TeXsys and TH Darmstadt - -> September 14th/15th, 10--15 participants Joachim Schrod is both an experienced programmer and TeX macro specialist, working on TeX portations, new members of the WEB language family and macro development since 1981. He is contributing frequently to TeXhax and tugboat. He is the author of a highly portable driver family, YADD (Yet Another DVI Driver family) and participant of the DVI driver standards committee. His course addresses people having some experience with TeX and in writing simple macros, probably often struggling with the unexpected side effects caused by the non-modular structure of LaTeX. As LaTeX style development is always (Plain) TeX macro development, the course will first introduce you to the principles of the programming language Plain TeX, namely dynamic/static binding, expansion, and interrupt handling (output routines). Then the LaTeX programming interface is presented, not formally specified, but as an informal description of the most important macros for style development. The workshop is a mixture of lectures and hands-on practical sessions. Prerequisites: A good working knowledge of TeX and LaTeX is assumed. Bring your own \TeX{}book. - -> Teaching TeX and LaTeX - -> Cathy Booth and Malcolm Clark, Exeter University and Imperial College - -> September 9th, 10--20 participants Cathy Booth and Malcolm Clark need no introduction in this forum. They did a superb job of organizing last year's conference in Exeter and are well known for their zeal to give TeX the place in the world it deserves. Cathy and Malcolm have both taught courses on behalf of the TeX Users Group, TUG, as well as to others. Their longstanding involvement with TeX and LaTeX makes them an experienced team to teach the teachers. This one-day workshop consists of classroom lectures and discussions. Prerequisites: Some basic knowledge of TeX or LaTeX is assumed. - -> Introduction to METAFONT - -> Don Hosek, Pitzer College - -> September 9th/10th, 10--15 participants Don Hosek of TeXmag fame is an active member of the TeX Users Group, TUG, participating in the TUGboat editorial committee and the DVI driver standards committee. In addition, he has been teaching courses for TUG for some time now. The workshop will cover the basic concepts of METAFONT, beginning with what it does and what good it is. Participants will become familiar with using METAFONT to generate characters from existing METAFONT programs and to develop characters and logos on their own. Topics will include an explanation of METAFONT's mode_def's, drawing shapes using METAFONT's capabilities, an introduction to METAFONT's mathematical abilities, and macros and variables in METAFONT. Prerequisites: No METAFONT knowledge is assumed. Experience with TeX is recommended. Bring your own METAFONTbook. - -> Typefaces: History and Use - -> Anne Brueggemann-Klein, Universitaet Freiburg - -> September 14th/15th, 10--15 participants Anne Brueggemann-Klein is working on an interface between the document designer and TeX. While studying document designers at work, she got hooked on the beauty of typefaces. Topics covered by this workshop include terminology, the historical development of type forms and their parallels in architecture, classification schemes, tools for typeface recognition, readability, effective use of typefaces, and typeface combinations. In the age of PostScript, there is more to fonts than Computer Modern! Participants are provided with an annotated bibliography on type and document design. Prerequisites: No TeX-related knowledge is assumed. 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