UKTeX Digest Friday, 8 May 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 18 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Q&A}: whereabouts of OzTeX1.42 Re: UKTeX Digest V92 #17 RE: UKTeX Digest V92 #17 Getting files from the UKTeX archive oztex142.sit_hqx oztex142 Re: TIFF image files in TeX Spelling checkers Re: Spelling checkers page number on which an article ends? page number on which an article ends? KD (K.J. Dryllerakis) Greek LaTeX and fonts {Announcements}: TR2LATEX 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord SPFONTWARE updates on FILESERV/Niord SFWARE updates on FILESERV/Niord {Archive News}: ps2pk release in UK TeX Archive 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: Fri, 01 May 92 17:03:00 +0000 From: Stephen Miller Subject: whereabouts of OzTeX1.42 this ain't where UKTeX92.17 says it is: I found it in [.tex.mac.oztex142] stephen miller oucs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 92 18:55:00 +0000 From: KNAPPEN Subject: Re: UKTeX Digest V92 #17 Re: Danish, hyphenation tables TeX only accepts ``letters'' in the \patterns. Therefore you should change the \catcode of the danish special letters. Also set the appropriate upper-and lowercasecodes. After this, the patterns will be loaded without problem, but...they might never apply, because the standard TeX fonts do not follow the pc-encoding. If you are using the cm-fonts, replace in the patterns the special letters by their ^^equivalents (look these up in the appendix of the TeXbook). \AA is not in the cm-fonts, therefore it cannot hyphenate...but it *is* in the dc-fonts (available from all good severs). If you are used to type in the pc-codes (or you have a danish keyboard), maybe the following is convenient: make the specail letters (pc-encoding) active and define them to produce the TeX command sequences. e.g. \catcode`?=\active \def?{\AA}% etc. Yours, J"org Knappen. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 May 92 10:04:00 +0000 From: SYSTEM@uk.ac.cambridge.physics.ra.vax Subject: RE: UKTeX Digest V92 #17 Re announcement of new version of Ghostscript (GS-241.zip) : I cannot get this to 'UNZIP'. Am I correct in assuming that this is a PC version ? Regards, Paul Scott, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 May 92 13:32:17 +0000 From: sw@uk.co.network-analysis-ltd Subject: Getting files from the UKTeX archive Has anyone succeeded in transfering files from the UKTeX archive to a non-VMS system? I tried a couple of times using cpf from a Unix system on which I have a guest login, and this is what I got: > The transfer of file [tex-archive.tex.mac.oztex142]OZTEX142.SIT_HQX > from host uk.ac.tex over janet failed. > The reason given by the remote host was: > > > Invalid value in command: > - filename "[tex-archive.tex.mac.oztex142]OZTEX142.SIT_HQX" record format in com > patible with transfer code. > VAX/VMS FTP (80) Version 5.2-2. I logged on to Aston and a dir/full revealed: > OZTEX142.SIT_HQX;1 File ID: (22250,1,0) > Size: 1968/1968 Owner: AUI$TEX > Created: 1-MAY-1992 09:57:17.01 > Revised: 1-MAY-1992 09:58:18.11 (1) > Expires: > Backup: > File organization: Sequential > File attributes: Allocation: 1968, Extend: 0, Global buffer count: 0 > No version limit > Record format: Fixed length 512 byte records > etc... It's been over 10 years since I used VMS in anger, but I seem to recall that fixed length means a binary file. Now, since HQX is an ASCII encoding of a binary file, that seems kinda pointless: either don't HQX it, and keep it as a binary file or HQX it and keep it as a text file. Or am I missing something? If you know the right magic runes to persuade the archive to give up its secrets, please let me know by email (and I will summarize). Sak Wathanasin Network Analysis Limited 178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry CV3 6BX, UK uucp: ...!uknet!nan!sw Phone: (+44) 203 419996 AppleLink: NAN.LTD Internet: sw@network-analysis-ltd.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 92 11:25:00 +0000 From: Stephen Miller Subject: oztex142.sit_hqx Have any comments been received about this file? I've tried to dehex it several times now with fresh copies ftp'ed from the archive and every time I get a disk error with the message "Unexpected EOF" -- if I remember this was the problm with the 1.4 distribution. Inputs/Formats are okay. stephen miller oucs ------------------------------ Date: 05 May 92 08:06:58 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: oztex142 > > Have any comments been received about this file? I've tried to dehex it > several times now with fresh copies ftp'ed from the archive and every time > I get a disk error with the message "Unexpected EOF" -- if I remember this > was the problm with the 1.4 distribution. Inputs/Formats are okay. what is it about OzTeX that causes this? its very frustrating. i got the .hqx file from midway and uncoded it myself, but the version put onto Aston seems to have barnacles. I have tried encoding it myself from my .sit file, and have put it back again Sebastian PS if you persist, ignoring the warnings, I think you'll find its actually OK anyway ------------------------------ Date: 06 May 92 09:46:09 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: TIFF image files in TeX From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Date: 4 May 92 00:35:51 GMT There have been several question recently on UK-TeX regarding insertion of figures in TIFF format. I tried to reply via email to these question, but appear to be confused about how to get email to the UK. Mail to To: ha@st-andrews.ac.uk To: alien@essex.ac.uk always bounced, even when I inverted the order of subdomains. Anyway, yes, you can insert TIFF images file in TeX. DVIWindo supports \special's for insertion of TIFF images. These can be bi-level (monochrome), gray-level, or colour. They can be uncompressed or compressed - since DVIWindo uses Black Ice Software's TIFFREAD.DLL. Printer drivers that support halftoning (such as PSCRIPT.DRV and the HP printer driver) will convert grey-level images to halftones. The images will be shown as gray-level images on screen. In the case of bi-level images, there is also a \special that allows you to select the colour of foreground (what would normally be black) and the colour of the background (what would normally be white). A nice use of TIFF images is for `buttons' in hyper-text linkages in the DVI file. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Disclaimer: respondent has connections with Y&Y (:-) *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** Berthold K.P. Horn Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 92 10:47:02 +0000 From: Adrian F Clark Subject: Spelling checkers I need to produce a large document that has words such as "visualize" consistently spelled with "ize". Alas, the spelling checker on Unix systems rejects "ize" but accepts "ise" in its so-called British English mode. And, of course, if I run it in US English mode, I have problems with words like "colour". Has anyone out there a spelling checker, preferably compatible to the Unix one, that does what I need? Either on Unix or DOS. Preferably one that I can have the source of. Many thanks in advance. 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: 08 May 92 09:36:41 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: Spelling checkers Adrian F Clark writes: > I need to produce a large document that has words such as "visualize" > consistently spelled with "ize". Alas, the spelling checker on Unix > systems rejects "ize" but accepts "ise" in its so-called British > English mode. And, of course, if I run it in US English mode, I have > problems with words like "colour". > > Has anyone out there a spelling checker, preferably compatible to the > Unix one, that does what I need? Either on Unix or DOS. Preferably > one that I can have the source of. > `ispell' does an excellent job under Unix, including integration with emacs. it has British dictionaries in recent versions sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 92 10:53:21 +0000 From: Adrian F Clark Subject: page number on which an article ends? I'm developing a LaTeX style file for preparing documents built up of multiple articles (think of it as papers in a journal, if that makes it easier). The first page of each article needs to include a complete reference to itself, including its first and last pages. The first page of an article is obviously pretty easy: it's the current page number; but what about the LAST page of an article? I presume I'll have to do it by writing something into the AUX file; but is there any machinery already inside LaTeX to make this easier? Dr Adrian F. Clark ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 92 10:14:12 +0100 From: Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.uknet-relay Subject: page number on which an article ends? Adrian writes: The first page of an article is obviously pretty easy: it's the current page number; but what about the LAST page of an article? I presume I'll have to do it by writing something into the AUX file; but is there any machinery already inside LaTeX to make this easier? What about putting a \label on the last page of an article, and using \pageref to access the page number? Rainer ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 92 17:43:13 +0700 From: Goossens Michel Subject: KD (K.J. Dryllerakis) Greek LaTeX and fonts Dear Colleagues, I recently tried to install the KD Greek system (developed by K.J. Dryllerakis of Imperial College, UK), but the font directory MFINPUT, referred to in the READ.ME file and needed to use his system, which refers to those fonts is not present on the archive, while the other directories (DOC, INSTALL, LATEX and TEX) all are. Can you please tell me where I can get the kd*.mf font files from. Sincere greetings, Michel Goossens ________________________________________________________________________ | Dr. Michel GOOSSENS | Phone : (+41 22) 767-3363 | | Documentation & Text Processing | Fax : (+41 22) 767-7155 | | AS Group - CN Division | Telex : 419 000 CER CH | | CERN European Laboratory | Email : GOOSSENS@CERNVM.CERN.CH *| | for Particle Physics | goossens@cernapo.cern.ch | | CH-1211 Geneva 23 | goossens@cernvax.cern.ch | | Switzerland | (*) Preferred mail address | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 14:26:21 -0600 From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade" Subject: TR2LATEX 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord In (comp.text.tex, 22 Apr 92 14:57:18 GMT), krischan@veilchen.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) posted the UUENCODEd tar archive of version 2.0 of the troff to LaTeX converter tr2latex. I caught it in the incoming box for ctt-Digest (to ctt-Digest subscribers: yes, the 1,300 or so lines have been cut out for tomorrow's edition) and went ahead and processed it. Below is the description file from our site for this new version. - --George =========================================================================== TR2LATEX -------- The TR2LATEX package includes the files of the April 22, 1992, release of Christian Engel's modifications and enhancements of Kamal Al-Yahya's tr2latex, Troff-to-LaTeX conversion program. Significantly, the source code can now be compiled and run under VMS and DOS, as well as the original U*ix. See the README file for instructions on how to handle these new systems. Since all of the files in this package are required for for a complete distribution, include the command: SENDME TR2LATEX in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If for some reason, you should need a specific file, say, TR2LATEX.README, include the command: SENDME TR2LATEX.README in your mail message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp access, there is a compressed U*ix tar file, a VMS backup saveset, and a ZIP file of the package available in the directory [.TR2LATEX.FTP] on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) under the filenames TR2LATEX-2_0.TAR_Z, TR2LATEX-2_0.BCK, and TR2LATEX-2_0.ZIP, respectively. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR2LATEX.DIFFS_TEX 8 DIFFS.TEX TR2LATEX.FLIP_H 2 FLIP.H TR2LATEX.FORBID_H 4 FORBID.H TR2LATEX.GREEK_H 2 GREEK.H TR2LATEX.HISTORY 7 HISTORY TR2LATEX.MACROS_H 6 MACROS.H TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_MMS 3 MAKEFILE.MMS TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_MSC 5 MAKEFILE.MSC TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_TC 5 MAKEFILE.TC TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_UNIX 6 MAKEFILE.UNIX TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_VMS 2 MAKEFILE.VMS TR2LATEX.MAKE_TR2LATEX_COM 2 MAKE_TR2LATEX.COM TR2LATEX.MATHS_H 3 MATHS.H TR2LATEX.PROTOS_H 5 PROTOS.H TR2LATEX.README 11 README TR2LATEX.SETUPS_H 7 SETUPS.H TR2LATEX.SIMIL_H 3 SIMIL.H TR2LATEX.SUBS_C 43 SUBS.C TR2LATEX.TESTFILE 6 TESTFILE TR2LATEX.TESTFILE_TEX-ORIG 8 TESTFILE.TEX-ORIG TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_C 15 TR2LATEX.C TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_HLP 3 TR2LATEX.HLP TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_MAN 9 TR2LATEX.MAN TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_MAN_TEX-ORIG 10 TR2LATEX_MAN.TEX-ORIG (or TR2LATEX.MAN.TEX-ORIG) TR2LATEX.TROFFMAN_STY 11 TROFFMAN.STY TR2LATEX.TROFFMS_STY 11 TROFFMS.STY TR2LATEX.TR_C 56 TR.C TR2LATEX.VAXCRTL_OPT 1 VAXCRTL.OPT TR2LATEX.VERSION_C 1 VERSION.C Approximate total blocks in full TROFFtoTeX package = 255 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 16:27:34 -0600 From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade" Subject: TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord In (comp.text.tex, 27 Apr 92 15:40:57 GMT), krischan@veilchen.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) posted: > This is the new version 2.2 of the troff to LaTeX converter tr2latex. It > is a compressed tar archive. Follow steps 1 through 6 to unpack it. Christian's obviously been busy! I caught this while going through the ctt-Digest receipts and it has been removed from that distribution (and so noted). The changes between version 2.2 and 2.1 (announced and installed last week) are listed as follows: # Revision 2.2 1992/04/27 15:13:51 Christian_Engel # - Fixed a bug in flip_twice I have brought in with revision 1.02 but didn't # notice earlier. It lead to wrong translation of nested flipping math # commands like ``a under hat''. # Bug reported by Richard Walker . # - Some modifications to calm down some strange warnings on strange # compilers reported from the net # - Fixed bug in getopts: now input of stdin by pure command line argument `-' # works properly. # - Fixed bug in main: multiple command line arguments work properly now. To retrieve the new version, include the command: SENDME TR2LATEX in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp users of Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), a compressed U*ix tar file, a VMS backup saveset, and a DOS-compatible ZIP file reside in the directory [.TR2LATEX.FTP] as TR2LATEX-2_2.TAR_Z, *.BCK, and *.ZIP, respectively. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 92 13:03:40 -0600 From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade" Subject: SPFONTWARE updates on FILESERV/Niord Norman Walsh forwarded me the updates to his SPFONTWARE collection of utilities for conversion of Hewlett-Packard softfonts to and from TeX PK/TFM format (for MS/DOS platforms). Below is his announcement, as well as a portion of FILESERV's description file. I truly extend my thanks to Norm for working on this, as well as working with me in getting these archived. - --George - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I'm pleased to announce the release of new versions of PktoSFPto, SFPtoPK, and MergeSFP. PKtoSFP and SFPtoPK have been in beta-testing for a while now and appear stable enough for a general release. If you do experience any problems, don't hesitate to let me know. The major new feature in SFPtoPK and PKtoSFP is support for HP AutoFont Support files. AutoFont Support files are a "standard" that HP is promoting for font metric information. They serve much the same purpose as the AFM files that Adobe provides with their PostScript fonts. I believe that many of the commercial font vendors now supply AutoFont Support files with their fonts and I know that many of the font-rendering programs (like MoreFonts and HP Type Director) can create AutoFont Support files. In SFPtoPK, AutoFont Support files provide better metrics to use when constructing the TeX TFM file. All of SFPtoPK's options for doing things like kerning and spacing are imperfect (good, I claim, but imperfect). If you have an AutoFont Support file, you can get good metrics without all of the approximation. In PKtoSFP, the advantage is that, by creating AutoFont Support files, the fonts created can be used in a wider range of applications. For example, WordPerfect cannot use softfonts unless you purchase a special third-party installation program. However, if you have AutoFont Support files for your softfonts, you can install fonts into WP with nothing more than PTR (if anyone is particularly interested, I also have a program that creates AutoFont support files directly from softfonts). MergeSFP, I admit, is basically a recompilation with some incremental improvements in the font-reading code. The documentation is also a bit improved. I haven't had any enhancement requests, so I haven't done much with MergeSFP. In summary, the new releases are: PK2SF210.ZIP (PKtoSFP vers 2.10) SF2PK200.ZIP (SFPtoPK vers 2.00) MRGSF130.ZIP (MergeSFP vers 1.30) Notice that I've renamed the archive files in order to place version numbers in the name. These versions supercede all other versions of these programs. As I said before, please feel free to send me your comments about these programs. I'll do everything I can to help out if you have a problem and I'm always willing to entertain enhancment requests. norm 5/1/92 P.S. If there is sufficient interest, I can provide a program that creates TeX TFM's directly from AutoFont Support files (without the intervening softfont). This could be used to create good metrics for builtin laserjet fonts, for example. Since I can't use the builtin fonts with my DVI driver, I haven't actually done this (yet). - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To retrieve the entire set of three files, please include the command SENDME SPFONTWARE in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve a specific file from this distribution, say SPFONTWARE.MRGSF130_UUE_1OF3, include the command: SENDME SPFONTWARE.MRGSF_UUE_1OF3 For all files in a single file, such as SPFONTWARE.SF2PK200_UUE, include the command: SENDME SPFONTWARE.SF2PK200* in the body of the mail message to FILESERV. The ZIP themselves are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [.SPFONTWARE]. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: UUDECODEs to: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SPFONTWARE.MRGSF130_UUE_1OF3 79 MRGSF130.UUE MRGSF130.ZIP SPFONTWARE.MRGSF130_UUE_2OF3 79 part 2 SPFONTWARE.MRGSF130_UUE_3OF3 44 part 3 SPFONTWARE.PK2SF210_UUE_1OF4 79 PK2SF210.UUE PK2SF210.ZIP SPFONTWARE.PK2SF210_UUE_2OF4 79 part 2 SPFONTWARE.PK2SF210_UUE_3OF4 79 part 3 SPFONTWARE.PK2SF210_UUE_3OF4 59 part 4 SPFONTWARE.SF2PK200_UUE_1OF6 79 SF2PK200.UUE SF2PK200.ZIP SPFONTWARE.SF2PK200_UUE_2OF6 79 part 2 SPFONTWARE.SF2PK200_UUE_3OF6 79 part 3 SPFONTWARE.SF2PK200_UUE_4OF6 79 part 4 SPFONTWARE.SF2PK200_UUE_5OF6 79 part 5 SPFONTWARE.SF2PK200_UUE_6OF6 21 part 6 Approximate total blocks in full SPFONTWARE package = 914 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 92 15:29:48 -0600 From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade" Subject: SFWARE updates on FILESERV/Niord Norman Walsh also passed along an updated public version (v.1.1A) of his SFWARE files (these are shareware). This version fixes a number of small bugs that were discovered after the release of v1.00 and adds one new special effect (tilt--which rotates characters to any angle). A complete list of the fixes/improvements made since v1.00 is attached below. It's worth pointing out that Shareware Magazine can make favorable reviews -- this package is one they actually liked. Attached are Norm's list and FILESERV's description file for this package. Again, my sincerest thanks are extended to Norm for working with me in getting this archived. - --George - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Here is a (nearly) exhaustive list of the fixes/improvements since v1.00: SfFx: compression flag was random, resize sometimes truncated the right-most and/or bottom-most rows of pixels, fill sometimes updated the font descriptor cell-size incorrectly, mirror wasn't adjusting the font descriptor baseline correctly, improved inter-character spacing in the slant effect, resize (at integral magnifications) looks better (no rounding errors can occur). SfRotate: the font header wasn't being updated correctly. SfView: now starts at first character in font rather than at ASCII 0 when run SfInfo: was failing to close each font file, could cause the "too many open files" error to occur. SfGraph: graphics background color of 0 (black) no longer fails General: improved scalable font detection. Boy, that list sure looks long! My appologies if anyone got bitten by any of these. No one reported any problems which, I figure, means one of three things: 1) no one is using Sfware (I hope that's not true), 2) no one found any of these problems (except me, and I hope that _IS_ true), 3) everyone is too shy to tell me when they find a problem. All I can say about #3 is, please send me _any_ comments you have (good or bad). I'll do everything I can to help you out, and I don't bite (I promise ;-). norm 5/1/92 P.S: obTeX: I use Sfware in combination with PKtoSFP and SFPtoPK to use these neat effects with TeX all the time... - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SFWARE ------ The SFWARE package includes four UUENCODEd ZIP files (in 46 mailable parts) for Norm Walsh's (walsh@cs.umass.edu) Sfware utilities (version 1.1A) which allow you to download, rotate, compress, expand, view, and perform special effects on softfonts. The effects provided include bold, fill, convert to fixed spacing, halftone, hollow, invert, mirror, outline, convert to proportional spacing, resize, reverse, shade, shadow, slant, stripe, three-d, hollow-three-d, and filled-three-d effects. The effects can be tailored and customized for any font with various parameters and shading patterns. One new special effect has been added in 1.1A -- tilt --which rotates characters to any angle. Sfware is distributed in five archive files: SFW11AP1, SFW11AP2, SFW11AD1, SFW11AD2, and SFW11AEX. The 'P' archives contain the programs and the 'D' archives contain documentation. It is absolutely vital that you have BOTH program archives before you try to use Sfware. The EX archive is (relatively) small and contains a "sample sheet" that will give you a feel for Sfware before you download the whole thing. These programs only work under MS-DOS. The menu-shell requires a hard disk and 400+kb of memory. The special effects cannot be applied to scalable fonts. These programs are shareware. In summary, what you need: SFW11AP1.ZIP SFW11AP2.ZIP These archives contain the programs for Sfware. You must get both of these archives or Sfware will not work! SFW11AD1.ZIP SFW11AD2.ZIP These archives contain the documentation. The "D1" archive documents the full-screen shell. The "D2" archive documents the command line utilities. It is recommended that you start with the full-screen shell and move on to the command-line interface if you find a need. SFW11AEX.ZIP This is an examples archive. It is considerably smaller than the others and contains an over-view as well as an examples page (to print on your laser printer) that will give you a feel for the kinds of things Sfware can do. If you know you want Sfware, you don't need SFW11AEX.ZIP. These files are available for retrieval via mail by including the command: SENDME SFWARE in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If, for some reason, you should only require a specific file, say, SFWARE.SFW11AD2_UUE_5OF9, include the command: SENDME SFWARE.SFW11AD2_UUE_5OF9 in your mail message to FILESERV. If you only wish to retrieve a certain file set, say, SFWARE.SFW11AEX_UUE*, include the command: SENDME SFWARE.SFW11AEX_UUE* in your mail message to FILESERV. The SFW11AP1.ZIP, SFW11AP2.ZIP, SFW11AEX.ZIP, SFW11AD1.ZIP, and SFW11AD2.ZIP files are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu [192.92.115.8] in the directory [.SFWARE]. Files added to this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: UUDECODEs to: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SFWARE.SFW11AD1_UUE_01OF11 79 SFW11AD1.UUE SFW11AD1.ZIP through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 10) SFWARE.SFW11AD1_UUE_10OF11 SFWARE.SFW11AD1_UUE_11OF11 12 part 11 SFWARE.SFW11AD2_UUE_1OF9 79 SFW11AD2.UUE SFW11AD2.ZIP through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 8) SFWARE.SFW11AD2_UUE_8OF9 SFWARE.SFW11AD2_UUE_9OF9 34 part 9 SFWARE.SFW11AEX_UUE_1OF2 79 SFW11AEX.UUE SFW11AEX.ZIP SFWARE.SFW11AEX_UUE_2OF2 77 (UUENCODED parts 1 and 2) SFWARE.SFW11AP1_UUE_01OF13 79 SFW11AP1.UUE SFW11AP1.ZIP through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 12) SFWARE.SFW11AP1_UUE_12OF13 SFWARE.SFW11AP1_UUE_13OF13 13 part 13 SFWARE.SFW11AP2_UUE_01OF11 79 SFW11AP2.UUE SFW11AP2.ZIP through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 11) SFWARE.SFW11AP2_UUE_11OF11 Approximate total blocks in SFWARE package = 3,454 ------------------------------ Date: 06 May 92 11:08:57 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: ps2pk release in UK TeX Archive I have placed a copy of Piet Tutelaers 'ps2pk' package in the UK TeX Archive, in [tex-archive.utils.ps2pk]. The README is appended. Please treat this package with care, and ensure that you send feedback to Piet if you port it to other systems. A Unixified copy of the main package is also in [tex-archive.src.unix-archives]ps2pk-1-1.tarZ_uue The package at present works for Unix boxes and Amiga. I will put DOS binaries in the archive as and when they are got to work. VMS, anyone? Sebastian #----------------------------------------------------- PS2PK-1.1 release ----------------- (May 1992) Ps2pk is a program that converts a type1 font into a TeX PK font. The type1 font can be supplied in binary MSDOS format (.pfb) or in UNIX ASCII format (.pfa). To use ps2pk you will need TeX3.0 or higher (virtual fonts), dvips (and its accompanying afm2tfm) and a previewer that supports virtual fonts (latest xdvi on UNIX). This package does only provide the Utopia-Regular font that Adobe donated to the X-consortium as an example font. The complete Utopia family and the IBM Courier family (an IBM donation) can be retrieved from: ftp.urc.tue.nl /pub/tex/courier.tar.Z /pub/tex/utopia.tar.Z You will have only full benefit of this program if you buy the Adobe fonts that are resident in your PostScript printer. They can be ordered from Adobe together with the ATM (Adobe Type Manager) package that Adobe sells for MS windows. Ps2pk uses the rendering software that IBM has donated to the X-consortium. This software is copy protected. The programs I wrote are are free in the spirit of TeX. I hope you will enjoy ps2pk, - --Piet (See the file INSTALLATION for further information.) internet: rcpt@urc.tue.nl | Piet Tutelaers bitnet: rcpt@heitue5.BITNET | Computer Center Room RC 1.90 phone: +31 (0)40 474541 | Eindhoven University of Technology fax: +31 (0)40 434438 | P.O. 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