UKTeX Digest Friday, 20 Dec 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 48 Today's Topics: {Q&A}: Re: Make fonts for TeX Re: Make fonts for TeX Re: Cauchy principal value integral operator Anyone tried the `NewGen TurboPS series' laser printers? Foot notes in Latex Tables {Archive News}: Total NIFTP traffic for November 1991 on Uk.Ac.TeX More Uk.Ac.TeX Traffic Statistics dvi file manipulators for DOS 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, 16 Dec 91 09:52:04 +0700 From: E.J.Vens%nl.rug.icce@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay Subject: Re: Make fonts for TeX lahtinen%fi.fmi.gideon@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay dixit: > There exists a program for Atari ST > that converts Calamus fonts to Metafont. Calamus is quite [...] > The program is meta_con and it is shareware from Germany [...] > But of course you need an Atari to run it and I think > it is not legal to convert commercial fonts to metafont, > but there is quite many fonts in PD-libraries. My experiences with meta_con are quite good. It is very easy to convert a font with it. But... converting and making it work are two things. E.g. one has to make decisions about the amount of kerninginfo to extract from the <.cfn> file. Calamus uses a sort of box around a character where at 8 vertical spots the width is determined. The next character has the same sort of box and they are bestfitted to each other. This info has to be translated into MF ligtable info. And if you want to have reasonably good kerning, you need at least some 10,000 ligtable entries. Then you want to patch in the TeX specific entries like '' -> ". And the Spanish upsidedown questionmark. And you have to give them the right place in the fonttable, because --apart from the A-Za-z0-9 places-- Calamus uses a different codingscheme. Another point is that most Calamus fonts are lousy. Good fonts are made up from one stroke, but most Calamus fonts are made from bits and pieces. These bits and pieces tend to loose contact when stretching, rotating, converting etc. I had the best result with PD Type 1 Binary PostScript fonts that I translated to Calamus format with Didot Line Art. (Not a PD program.) But, to come back to my first point: if it works, you have a wealth of new fonts in (portable) MF format. And --although-- people are using PostScript more and more, IMHO MetaFont is *the* partner for TeX. EJee. P.S. One can contact the author Christoph Pagalies as: Christoph_Pagalies%MAUS_HH2@P6.F2.N242.Z2.fidonet.org P.P.S. There is a bug in my version of meta_con: the semicolon is omitted after the smoothing and autorounding setting. This can easily be adjusted with any editor. - -- Erik-Jan Vens. E.J.Vens@icce.rug.nl ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 12:27:04 -0100 From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Re: Make fonts for TeX KL> There exists a program for Atari ST KL> that converts Calamus fonts to Metafont. Calamus is quite KL> popular DTP program from Germany and there exists quite many KL> fonts for it (also in PD), there is also some font editors KL> available (but not in PD). KL> The program is meta_con and it is shareware from Germany KL> (English docs are available). I have placed it to KL> nic.funet.fi: pub/atari/tex/meta_con.zoo My zoo (2.01) crashed on this archive (2 bombs). The zoo -test gave no problems. An old version extracted it without problems. - -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete') ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 13:24:54 From: Mike Piff Subject: Re: Cauchy principal value integral operator David Handscomb asks how to produce an integral sign with a - through it. The following works after a fashion. Mike Piff \documentstyle{article} \def\cint{\relax \ifinner% text style \mathop{\intop\mkern-12.5mu\smash{\hbox{-}}\mkern12.5mu}\nolimits \else % display style \mathop{\intop\mkern-14mu\smash{\hbox{-}}\mkern14mu}\nolimits \fi } \begin{document} $\cint_0^1f$ $$\cint_0^1f$$ \small $\cint_0^1f$ $$\cint_0^1f$$ \large $\cint_0^1f$ $$\cint_0^1f$$ \huge $\cint_0^1f$ $$\cint_0^1f$$ \end{document} From Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, PO Box 597, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, SHEFFIELD S10 2UN, England. Tel. SHEFFIELD (0742) 768555 Extension 4431. JANET MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 91 13:13:09 +0000 From: Adrian F Clark Subject: Anyone tried the `NewGen TurboPS series' laser printers? We're about to upgrade our tired old Apple LaserWriters, and have stumbled across the NewGen TurboPS 840 and 840e printers. Has anyone tried these with TeX -- particularly the 840e, which claims 800 x 400 dpi resolution? Are there other candidates worth looking at? Our primary requirement is parallel and appletalk interfaces and the capability to attach a SCSI disc to it. Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900 BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 15:31:27 +0000 From: dg504@uk.ac.city Subject: Foot notes in Latex Tables I was trying to get footnote in Latex tables. A sample file is given below. \documentstyle{article} \begin{document} \begin{table} \begin{center} \small \begin{tabular}{|c|c|} \hline One & two \\ \hline Good \footnote{Hello} & Bad \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{table} \end{document} Latex puts a serial number but does not write the footnote text at the bottom. Kindly advise me how to get over the problem, directly to me if posible. Thanking you yours sincerly S.R.Ala City University, London. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 11:44:38 +0000 From: SYSTEM@uk.ac.tex Subject: Total NIFTP traffic for November 1991 on Uk.Ac.TeX Uk.Ac.TeX usage analysis for the period: 1-NOV-1991 17:21:57.75 to 3-DEC-1991 01:58:52.68 A total of 28899 files were transferred to/from 254 sites of these, 7,748 transfers, totalling 153,647,880 bytes were initiated locally (including 7,033 outgoing mail messages consisting of 56,938,539 bytes), and 21,151 transfers, totalling 526,770,369 bytes were initiated by remote site s (including 1,158 incoming mail messages containing 5,188,772 bytes). A grand total of 680,418,249 bytes were transferred in approximately 32 days, which isn't bad going for one 9600 bps connection. 15,130 distinct files were requested - the 20 most requested (excluding mail) files were: 34 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.LIST 34 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST30DAYS.FILES 19 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.SIZE 17 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST7DAYS.FILES 16 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]README.ENG 13 transfers of SYS$SYSROOT:[CBS_WELL]MAIL.ERR 13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIPS1.BOO 13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIPS2.BOO 13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]00FILES.TXT 12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]EMTEX.README 11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.METAFONT.CONTRIB]MODES.MF 11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV2.BOO 11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV3.BOO 11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]TEX1.BOO 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV1.BOO 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]HELP.ENG 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]CHANGES.ENG 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_0.BOO 9 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_5A.BOO 9 transfers of DISK$TEX:[PUBLIC]SYNTAX-RECOVER.BCK 498,140,684 bytes, which is 73% of the total, were transferred with the following sites: 226,393,738 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.NERC-WALLINGFORD.VAXB 38,216,004 bytes transferred to/from 000021210010.FTP 26,697,461 bytes transferred to/from 000050200100.FTP 22,379,244 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.FT-RELAY 20,982,866 bytes transferred to/from 000000000040.PSS.27246054000555.FTP 15,378,662 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.IMPERIAL.DOC.GOULD 14,816,487 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY 14,708,861 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.BRADFORD.MAIL 14,616,205 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHYSICS.MRAOS 13,475,112 bytes transferred to/from 000060340002.FTP 13,165,864 bytes transferred to/from 000021310000.FTP 11,210,838 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.HATFIELD.VMS3 10,350,458 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.LEICESTER.VAX 9,313,895 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.UMIST.CENTRAL-SERVICES.PRIME-A 8,600,086 bytes transferred to/from UK.AEA-TECHNOLOGY.HARWELL.CHCC 8,388,001 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.LEEDS.ICF.LEVA 7,783,304 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM.COMPUTER-CENTRE.VAX1 7,487,483 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.GLASGOW.ENG.CONTROL 7,136,325 bytes transferred to/from 000010500601.ISO.38826110000105003901002 0020000 7,039,790 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.VAX2 (Note that numeric site addresses are shown above whenever our local Network Authorization Database is missing a reverse address for the given site. If NRS managers for these sites would care to get in touch, I'll endeavour to determine why our NAD has no relevant record.) Brian {Hamilton Kelly} System Manager for the UK TeX Archive at Aston University ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 16:20:48 +0000 From: SYSTEM@uk.ac.tex Subject: More Uk.Ac.TeX Traffic Statistics Uk.Ac.TeX usage analysis for the period: 1-OCT-1991 15:37:22.01 to 1-NOV-1991 16:57:23.90 A total of 10918 files were transferred to/from 236 sites of these, 5,980 transfers, totalling 142,321,028 bytes were initiated locally (including 5,612 outgoing mail messages consisting of 77,591,706 bytes), and 4,938 transfers, totalling 325,694,438 bytes were initiated remotely (including 1,201 incoming mail messages containing 5,844,910 bytes). A grand total of 468,015,466 bytes were transferred. 2,526 distinct files were requested - the 20 most requested (excluding mail) files were: 46 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.LIST 40 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST30DAYS.FILES 19 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.SIZE 19 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]README.ENG 16 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]00FILES.TXT 14 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST7DAYS.FILES 13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]CHANGES.ENG 13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]TEX1.BOO 12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]EMTEX.README 12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_4.BOO 12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV1.BOO 12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV2.BOO 11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_2.BOO 11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_5A.BOO 11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]TEX2.BOO 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]MF3.BOO 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]CHANGES.PRE 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV3.BOO 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_5B.BOO 10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIPS1.BOO 332,398,017 bytes, which is 71% of the total, were transferred with the following sites: 41,492,752 bytes transferred to/from 000050100020.ISO.50345343143335145036391 45145515136374817 26,177,668 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.HERIOT-WATT.CS 24,360,548 bytes transferred to/from 000050100020.ISO.000 23,121,363 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.BRADFORD.MAIL 22,700,759 bytes transferred to/from 000048002001.FTP 20,379,328 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG 20,179,648 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.IMPERIAL.DOC.GOULD 19,794,600 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY 16,382,779 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.EARN-RELAY 14,888,609 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.YORK.VAXA 13,801,446 bytes transferred to/from UK.CO.NUM-ALG-GRP.VAX 13,561,720 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS 13,250,287 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.MHS-RELAY 12,571,845 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.SURREY 12,070,488 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.LIVERPOOL.IBM 9,335,478 bytes transferred to/from 000000000040.PSS.27246054000555.FTP 7,484,553 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.CRANFIELD.CITI 7,479,667 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.GLASGOW.ENG.CONTROL 6,795,461 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.UMIST.CENTRAL-SERVICES.PRIME-A 6,569,018 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.KCL.CC.OAK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 16:54:06 From: S_RAHTZ@uk.ac.tex Subject: dvi file manipulators for DOS Following up a previous announcement, I can now offer you a complete set of MSDOS utilities to manipulate dvi files or PostScript files: [.drivers.seetex.dviselect]dviselec.boo dviselect [.drivers.seetex.dviconcat]dvicon.boo dviconcat [.drivers.dvibook]dvibook.boo dvibook [.drivers.dvidvi]dvidvi.boo dvidvi [.psbook]psbook.boo psbook, pstops, psselect All these are ZIP files coded as BOO containing MSDSO executables and a brief description of the programs by (respectively) Chris Torek (x2), Angus Duggan, Tom Rokicki and Angus Duggan. They let you perform, between them, all the pagination and subset selections you are likely to want to do. The above filenames refer to the UK TeX Archive. I dont guarantee these MSDOS ports much. Its the first time I have had to deal with the horrors of far pointers and 64k segments, so they may fall over on tests which differ from mine. Use Unix if you have it, is my advice... 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