UKTeX Digest Friday, 9 Aug 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 32 Today's Topics: {Q&A}: MusicTeX - a few questions Chapter "references" RE: Chapter ""references"" dvi2hpgl NFSS {Announcements}: New version of supertabular.sty from LISTSERV@HEARN Serious flaw in TUGboat supplement software patents in the United Kingdom {Archive News}: New files: TbeMacros.TeX & TbeSamples.TeX 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: Mon, 05 Aug 91 16:08:16 +0000 From: Julian Smart Subject: MusicTeX - a few questions I'm trying to use MusicTeX to typeset a friend's composition, and would be grateful if anyone could help with the following - 1) I can't see how to get a repeat sign - in the source there's a 'reprise' command but invoking it gives a TeX error. 2) Setting up the page size and footnote is a nightmare; anyone have a recipe for doing this? Hacking existing files has been fairly unsuccessful By default the page size is bigger than A4. 3) How do I get very big crescendo marks (<)? 4) Has anyone come up with a preprocessor so I can avoid using the fiddly commands? 5) Is this package still being developed? Despite the sparse documentation, MusicTeX seems worth using; it gives very good results. But I haven't seen much said about it on the net... Thank you in advance for any information. Julian Smart, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA TEL: 0382 562731 ext 2609 FAX: 0382 562426 EMAIL (UK): jmcn@uk.ac.ed.castle EMAIL (non UK): jmcn@castle.ed.ac.uk EMAIL (INTERNET): jmcn%castle.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Aug 91 17:49:47 +0000 From: NER034@uk.ac.tees-poly.prime-a Subject: Chapter "references" I have been writing a farly large document of late. I would like each chapter of this document to have a list of references at the end. I would also like for the complete document to have a bibliography section at the end of the document. Does anyone know of a way of doing this without having to write the \bibitem's myself. I have a vary large set of .BIB files in use on this document. I woul d like to have a \references command simmuler to the \bibliography command, but worked only on items referenced in the given chapter. It would be nice if I could get BibTeX to do all the nasty work of writing the \bibitem's for me. I am using the emTeX (version 3.0 [3a]) implementation of LaTeX (verion 2.09), with BibTeX (version 0.99c [3c]). Peter Knaggs School of Computing and Mathematics, Teesside Polytechnic NER034 @ UK.AC.TP Middlesbrough, Cleveland. TS1 3BA (0642) 342673 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Aug 91 22:21:54 +0000 From: CA_ROWLEY@uk.ac.open.acs.vax Subject: RE: Chapter ""references"" > I have been writing a farly large document of late. I would like each chapte r > of this document to have a list of references at the end. I would also like > for the complete document to have a bibliography section at the end of the > document. Nico Poppelier has, I believe, developed some files which may be what you need: he can be contacted as: N.POPPELIER@ELSEVIER.NL Chris Rowley (on behalf of The Archivists) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Aug 91 17:32:18 +0000 From: Mark Baker Subject: dvi2hpgl We have a Laser Jet III that does not have a PS cartridge. I am after a dvi2hpgl driver for a Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.1). Does such a driver exist ?? The source code of an hpgl driver of some type would be of use. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Mark Dr. M.A. Baker Parallel Computing Support Group Southampton University Computing Services The University Southampton, S09 5NH tel: +44 703 593226 Hampshire, U.K e-mail: mab@soton.mail & mab@soton.par ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Aug 91 23:03:59 +0000 From: C.N. Canagarajah Subject: NFSS Hi... Could someone enlighten me about the New Font Selection Scheme, please? I would like to find the answers to the following questions. 1. How can it be used with TeX/LaTeX? 2. Where does one get the files necessary to use this method? 3. What is the issue number of TUGboat in which this method is explained? thanks in advance Raj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Aug 91 15:31:00 +0100 From: Johannes L. Braams"Johannes L. Braams" Subject: New version of supertabular.sty from LISTSERV@HEARN Hi, A couple of minutes ago I refreshed the supertabular style option on LISTSERV@HEARN. (the files SUPERTAB DOC and SUPERTAB STY) The version number is now 3.6e, dated august 1st 1991. The difference with the previous version is a bug-fix. Johannes Braams ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Aug 91 16:22:44 +0700 From: Rainer Schoepf Subject: Serious flaw in TUGboat supplement In the TUG resource directory 1991, circulated together with TUGboat issue 12#2, there is a serious error regarding the DANTE ftp server in Stuttgart. The DANTE ftp server is rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] or rusMV1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] BUT NOT rusVM1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.31] The error appears at several places: - Sources for TeX software - entry for emTeX - TeX archives - entry for Stuttgart =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dr. Rainer Schoepf DANTE-Koordinator for Archive Servers Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh Heilbronner Str. 10 am Morgen schon so D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!'' Federal Republic of Germany Email: or =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To access the List Server at Heidelberg send mail to Useful commands for beginners are HELP GET README FIRST TEX To access the DANTE server at Stuttgart, use either FTP to rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] Please do not confuse this with rusvm1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de! An alternate name is rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] or send mail to Useful commands for beginners are HELP INDEX Submissions should either be put into directory soft/tex/incoming on rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de or mailed to LIST-SUB@DHDURZ1.BITNET. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Aug 91 20:43:21 -0500 From: karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay Subject: software patents in the United Kingdom The idiocy in the United States is spreading. Write to me or league@prep.ai.mit.edu for more details about why software patents are bad (unless you're a patent lawyer). You can retrieve the League for Programming Freedom's position paper against software patents (and the one against interface copyright) from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] in pub/lpf/patent.texinfo. Or I will send it to you by email if you can't ftp. karl@cs.umb.edu X-From: CRJ10@uk.ac.cam.phx (Clive Jones) Subject: Software patents in the UK X-Date: 1 Aug 91 12:07:40 GMT The article below appeared in a feature on the British Technology Group (BTG) in "Software Echo", the journal of the Scottish Software Community, issue 2. The BTG is an organisation concerned with the "exploitation" (their words) of new technology, including developments that result from SERC-funded research in the UK academic community. (SERC is the British Science and Engineering Research Council - the main funding body for UK scientific academic research.) Thus its opinions on software patenting are of not inconsiderable importance, which makes their current stance all the more worrying to those who have observed the impact of software patents in other parts of the world. There is an agreement between SERC and the BTG over expoloitation of any interesting and potentially profitable innovations, in some cases to the point of automatic notification of all patentable results. Researchers may be interested in establishing whether their own departments have any policy regarding the patenting of new algorithms. The BTG representative who edited the section is: Dr. Eugene Sweeney, Electronics & Information Technology Division, The British Technology Group, 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BU. Tel: 071 403 6666 Fax: 071 403 0320 My thanks go to Steve Tweedie for pointing this article out to me. - --Clive. - ----included-article-follows---- PATENTING SOFTWARE This is an area in which BTG believes academic and research organisations can make the most signficant contributions in the long term. Research groups in the UK are well known for producing ideas that are important in computing science. In the past, it was believed that these innovations could not be protected by patenting because algorithms were not patentable. However, recent case law, particularly in the USA, suggests that this is no longer true. Many major US computer and software manufacturers now regularly file patent applications on software concepts. Areas in which BTG believe valuable, and patentable, software innovations could arise are: i) Parallel processing, eg new algorithms that exploit the parallel architecture. ii) Language design, eg functional programming languages that enable algorithms to be specified in a computer-independent manner. iii) Knowledge-based systems, eg natural-language recognition. iv) Logic programming, with particular reference to safety-critical systems and the corresponding design of integrated circuits. v) Data compression, eg image or speech compression. Software is, of course, automatically protected by copyright. This normally belongs to the author (or his/her employer, depending on conditions of employment). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Aug 91 14:28:47 +0000 From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Subject: New files: TbeMacros.TeX & TbeSamples.TeX [In the text that follows, `I'/`my' refers to Arvind Borde, not Philip Taylor] -------- Some macros from my forthcoming book `TeX by Example' (Academic Press, 1992) are available on disk or from various TeX archives. At the UK TeX Archive they rest at [TeX-Archive.Contributions.TbeFiles] The macros are contained in the file `tbemacros.tex'; a second file `tbesamples.tex' contains samples of their use. `00ReadMe.Txt' contains a brief introduction. The macros are of varying degrees of usefulness: some are faintly frivolous, others meet commonly expressed needs. (A multiline comment macro, for example, or one that provides symbols like `less than or approximately equal to' that automatically shrink if used in super- and subscripts.) Since the subject of `good' macros comes in occasionally for fierce debate on TeX bulletin boards, I should state right away that I make no great claims for my macros. Most have been kept deliberately simple, to encourage users to modify and experiment. 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