UKTeX Digest Friday, 19 Apr 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: Tib Re: Primary device-independent representation for graphs emTeX Font librarys AMS Blackboard font. Re: AMS Blackboard font. Font arrangements in directory trees reflectedabout and EmTeX Metafont RE: PK -> HP PCL MSBM10 RE: MSBM10 Problem with Levy's Greek under MF V2.7 (VMS) Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 11:45:51 +0000 From: RHORNE%UK.CO.COMPULINK.CIX@UK.AC.UKC Subject: Tib At a UKTeX meeting some time ago Sebastian Rahtz talked about the bibliographic program 'Tib'. It seemed ideal for my sort of work since it would enable me for example to put the title of a legal case in the text of my written work and its reference as a footnote. Dave Osborne kindly sent me the sources from the Archive on disc. In his original Article (TUGboat Volume 7 (1986) No 3 p. 138.) J.C. Alexander wrote--- "The source langauge of Tib is standard C...some attention has been paid to portability. A day was spent with Nelson Beebe ... going over changes necessary to bring it up on a non-Unix system." Hmm. It is certainly not written in ANSI-C and even in pcc mode my compiler failed to understand a lot of the code. However with a lot of help from others I have managed to get Tib working on an Acorn Archimedes and it does exactly what I want it to do. Other people here have expressed some interest in it after seeing what it can do but they use MS-DOS machines. Is there a version that works under MS-DOS? Or on the Mac or Amiga? Roger Horne 7 New Square Lincoln's Inn London WC2A 3QS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 20:16:25 -0500 From: AAS%AU.OZ.UQ.CC@UK.AC.EAN-RELAY Subject: Re: Primary device-independent representation for graphs > (a) in theory, could someone write a dvi-to-printer > command that allowed a \special which specified a file of CGM code > [with the dvi-to-printer command doing any conversion e.g. to EPS] > (b) if so, is there any prospect that anyone will actually write such > software? It has already been done, by the Pittsburg Supercomputer Center as a part of their GPLOT CGM processor project. An additional irony is that GPLOT can output Postscript renditions of CGM files, so you have a bet either way. I've been impressed with the results under VAX/Ultrix with DECWindows and with a tektronics 4207 (in color!) The documentation for adding new device drivers is quite good, Hershey-derived stroke fonts and TeX pk fonts are supported within the graphics, and the author is currently investigating support for Adobe type 1 fonts. I append excerpts from the PSC documentation describing GPLOT/GTEX together with ftp availability. Warning: the source tar files are huge (2 Mb or so compressed). - --------- --------- GPLOT is a CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) processor. CGM files come in 3 flavours, Binary (dominant form), Clear Text (human readable), and Character (more compact than Clear Text, but only 7 bits used per byte) encodings. GPLOT will interpret and create Binary and Clear Text files, I have not yet had requests for character encoding. GTEX is a companion TeX DVI interpreter, it uses the same device drivers as GPLOT but is much smaller and simpler. GPLOT and GTEX are entirely in C, and will compile and run under UNIX (BSD, ULTRIX, UNICOS) or VMS, there is a heavy use of #ifdefs. Where to get files (note new addresses !): There is an anonymous FTP available on CALPE.PSC.EDU (128.182.66.148), a vaxstation running ULTRIX, with both a tar file and a src directory. For VMS users there is an anonymous FTP on B.PSC.EDU (128.182.66.102) and A.PSC.EDU (128.182.66.105), our VAX 8810 front ends. The source files are in TEX$ROOT:[GPLOT] with a backup file GPLOT.BAK, block size 2048 and a full set of .pk fonts (if you want them) are in TEX$ROOT:[PK...]. - --------- --------- Alex A Sergejew University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 15:39:57 +0000 From: NER034@UK.AC.TEES-POLY.PRIME-A Subject: emTeX Font librarys I have reciently recieved a copy of emTeX from the Aston arcive. Complete with the lj_*.fil font library files. However I require my system to print on both an IBM Proprinter (requiring p6_* font librarys) and an Epson LQ-850 (requirining the fx_* font librarys). My problem is this --- where can I obtain the relevent font librarys. Or can I make them using the MetaFont files provided. If so, how ? P.s., I am also *Vary* new to TeX/MF so no big words please ! Peter Knaggs +-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ ! School of Comp. & Maths., ! Janet: NER034 @ uk.ac.tees-poly ! ! Teesside Polytechnic, ! Bitnet: NER034 % tp.ac.uk @ UKACRL ! ! Middlesbrough, ! Internet: NER034 % tp.ac.uk @ cunyvm.cuny.edu ! ! Cleveland, England. TS1 3BA ! Uucp: NER034 % tpoly.ac.uk @ ukc.uucp ! !-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------! ! It is not enough to do the right thing; one must also do it the right way. ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 17:34:39 +0000 From: R.A.REESE@UK.AC.HULL Subject: AMS Blackboard font. I have been asked several times for the R and I with double uprights and not found them. I've now been advised they are in a font MSBB10 from AMS, but this isn't in the archive (correction - I can't find it in the 00directory.list file). Does anyone know about this font, or the required characters? How does MSBB10 relate to MSBM10, and why is MSAM10 missing (given 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)? Allan Reese. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 09:17:41 +0000 From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTTINGHAM.CCC.MIPS Subject: Re: AMS Blackboard font. In message 00000342 of 17 Apr 91 17:55:13 GMT, R.A.REESE@UK.AC.HULL said: > I have been asked several times for the R and I with double > uprights and not found them. I've now been advised they are in a > font MSBB10 from AMS, but this isn't in the archive No, the Blackboard Bold uppercase alphabet (and lowercase `k') is in font msbm10, [tex-archive.amstex2.amsfonts.sources.symbols]msbm10.mf > Does anyone know about > this font, or the required characters? > How does MSBB10 relate to > MSBM10, and why is MSAM10 missing (given 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)? It's not; you'll find msam10.mf in the same directory, along with the 5-, 6-, 7-, 8- and 9-point versions you mention. - --dave David Osborne (pp Aston TeX Archive group) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 08:33:41 +0000 From: ZLSIIAL@UK.AC.MANCHESTER-COMPUTING-CENTRE.CMS Subject: Font arrangements in directory trees I am sorry to have had to miss the recent UK-TUG meeting in Nottingham (on TeX in the Unix environment). One subject which I hoped to discuss with other TeX administrators is the potential directory structure for font bitmaps. When we first got a TeX for a Unix system, it was a free but 'shrink-wrapped' distribution from our manufacturer. The directory structure for font bitmaps was something like this: /usr/lib/tex/fontbits/laser/300/cmr5.pk cmr6.pk 360/cmr5.pk cmr6.pk where the fonts are arranged by their available sizes. I have always been puzzled by this arrangement, and when I recompiled the whole system myself, I changed all the dvi utilities to use instead this arrangement: /usr/lib/tex/fontbits/laser/cmr5/300pk 360pk cmr6/300pk 360pk which is in fact easier to integrate into the search algorithms in which one also looks for cmr5.300pk, for example. We have now been using this system quite happily for about two years. It is easier for users to find what fonts are available. Is there any argument for having the old arrangement (other than the fact that at the moment the existing versions of most dvi tools are written that way)? A. V. Le Blanc ZLSIIAL@uk.ac.mcc.cms ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 15:19:39 +0700 From: CHA001@UK.AC.LANCASTER.CENTRAL1 Subject: reflectedabout and EmTeX Metafont I have been trying to use the Metafont in EmTeX to create the MUSIC16 font using the MUSIC16.MF file and its appendices in [TEX-ARCHIVE.FONTS.MTEX]. Presumably this has worked correctly with other Metafont versions because some created fonts exist. The problem lies with those characters that use the reflectedabout instruction e.g. the alto clef and downward quavers, semiquavers etc. The reflectedabout portions are apparently not drawn although further investigations reveal that the required shapes are actually erased, i.e. the pen writes white instead of black. This happens with both MF.EXE and MF286.EXE. Is it a bug in this particular version of Metafont; a change in the language definition since the music font was designed or ... ? Can anyone suggest a workaround other than the forcing technique of rewriting the code to avoid the need for reflectedabout. A search of other .MF files suggests that reflectedabout is rarely used; the standard fonts certainly do not use it so it is possible noone has come across this problem before. While reasonably coherent in TeX and LaTeX I am a complete novice in Metafont. Help required. Alan Thomson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 13:14:00 +0000 From: CBTS8001%IE.UCC.IRUCCVAX@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY Subject: RE: PK -> HP PCL BooBoo time, I'm afraid. I mentioned a .PK to HP's PCL converter. No such thing, I'm afraid...finger trouble on my part. What I have is the HP softfont to .PK converter (ie the other way round) from Arbortext (came with my DVIHP) and a PD one from Simtel-20. Sorry for the foul-up. Hope I didn't raise too many people's expectations! ///Peter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 14:52:00 +0000 From: R.A.REESE@UK.AC.HULL Subject: MSBM10 I've printed a table of MSBM10. It contains capital letters made up partly of double lines. However, the usual printed character for the Real field is, I think, a fairly bold R with a thin vertical line left of the main vertical. Similarly, I for the Imaginary field is a bold I with a parallel thin line. The characters in MSBM10 look more like outline capitals for display use. Is this an American convention? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 15:43:29 +0000 From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX Subject: RE: MSBM10 > The characters in MSBM10 look more like outline capitals for > display use. Is this an American convention? No,its just a particular designers interpretation of the idea: I have yet to meet a mathematician, etc who likes them. chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 15:46:43 +0000 From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS Subject: Problem with Levy's Greek under MF V2.7 (VMS) Yesterday I wanted to create one of Levy's Greek fonts at a magnification that we hadn't got, so ran my original DCL command procedure to do the job. MF then burped on any of the characters containing the iota subscript; the problem was that the variable iota_dp was undefined. Now in GRBASE.MF is a definition along the following lines (I'm typing this from memory): > let old_font_setup = font_setup; > def font_setup = > define_whole_vertical_pixels(acc_ht,circ_ht,Circ_ht,iota_dp); > old_font_setup; > enddef; The individual parameter files, such as GRREG10.MF define the values of the `sharped' units, such as iota_dp#. The generator file GREEK.MF starts off with: > mode_setup; > font_setup; By adding suitable message commands, and showtoken font_setup, I have determined that font_setup truly does get redefined, and that mode_setup and font_setup are called as above; however, the action of mode_setup appears to have the side-effect of redefining font_setup back to its original setting, which accounts for iota_dp (and acc_ht, etc., for that matter) being undefined. Has anyone any idea _why_ this is happening: I'm pretty sure it didn't work that way under V2.0 of MF (although I might be thinking back to pre-V2). Incidentally, the effect is the same whether I run it with a plain base, or with cmbase preloaded. Could it be that CMBASE.MF is being reread in some way, or by some other mechanism redefining font_setup. Any clues would be gratefully received!! Also confirmation (or otherwise) that it also happens with other implementations of MF. 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