TeXhax Digest Monday, April 22, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 021 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: Re: art14 style e-mail address (Doug MacDonald) Hebrew Font TeX 3.1 for sgi IRIS machines TeX/LaTeX help files Converting PK files to PS Outlines Re: dvi2lj Wanted: \ifdisplaymode barcodes from TeX? hebrew font? Looking for BiBTeX for Amiga Re: TeX help systems Style for US Patent Applications. A small bug in oldlfont.sty of New Font ... and Non-English hyphenation and TeX 3.0 A Macintosh 8-bit CMTT font is available LaTeX-help-toughies@cs.stanford.edu Metafont variants for currency symbols fonts, TeX, LaTeX dvi driver for HP DeskJet (PC) and DeskWriter (Macintosh) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 11:50:11 MEZ From: Peter Schmitt Subject: Re: art14 style Keywords: art14 style Why not use art12 and set the page dimensions to the reduced page? Then the document can be easily printed out using mag 1, and then be reduced --- should look better than reducing a true 14pt style! Peter Schmitt --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 91 20:26:17 -0500 From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Subject: e-mail address (Doug MacDonald) Keywords: Doug MacDonald, address I don't know where people get the address mcdonald@aries.cso.uiuc.edu for me. I can see how they get mcdonald@aries.cs.uiuc.edu for me, but it is wrong. The correct address is mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu "scs" stands for "School of Chemical Sciences". The primany distribution site for dvivga and dvimswin is c.scs.uiuc.edu aaries.scs.uiuc.edu is 128.174.90.55 c.scs.uiuc.edu is 128.174.90.3 Doug McDonald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 91 19:40:10 -0400 From: "Rik Faith" Subject: Hebrew Font Keywords: font, Hebrew I'm looking for a Hebrew font for TeX. Metafont source would be ideal, and a commercial source would be acceptable. I am specifically NOT looking for a stick figure Hebrew font (one or two fonts in this style, sometimes called ``textbook'' style, are available, but are NOT acceptable ). I need a ``calligraphic'' style font. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------ | | InterNet: refst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu | | Rik Faith | BITNET: refst4@pittvms | | | UUCP, CCNet: refst4@cisvms | ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 91 02:34:44 EDT From: karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu)) Subject: TeX 3.1 for sgi IRIS machines Keywords: TeX 3.1 What is the current status, and where can I get the required file, for TeX 3.1 and friends for sgi irix machines ? Cheers! dan. | karron@nyu.edu (e-mail alias ) Dan Karron, Research Associate | | Phone: 212 263 5210 Fax: 212 263 7190 New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue Digital Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 <2> 10896 <3> | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 15:38 GMT From: Peter Flynn UCC Subject: TeX/LaTeX help files Keywords: TeX/LaTeX help files I have nearly finished my review of help files. The only substantial one in existence seems to be the VMS LATEX.HLP If anyone has locally-developed help systems whose content they can mail me, I'd be glad to include them. ///Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 12:25 GMT From: Peter Flynn UCC Subject: Converting PK files to PS Outlines Keywords: PK, PS, Bitstream outlines Is there any s/w anywhere which will convert a PK file to something which users of other DTP systems can use, eg a PS outline, a BitStream outline etc? I have a (PD?) prog to convert to a HP PCL downloadable file, maybe something which takes those can go further? ///Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 11:41:54 +0200 From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) Subject: Re: dvi2lj Keywords: dvi2lj In comp.text.tex you write: >I'm looking for a complete C version of a dvi to laserjet program. >I've found a web version and the texdvi-to-laserjet programs. There is a DVI2XX that contains C source for both DVI2LJ and DVI2IBM 3812. I use the latter one since several month, it works very well. DVI2XX seems to be available from simtel since a few weeks. Klaus Hartnegg, Kleist-Str. 7, D-7835 Teningen, Germany Bitnet : HAKL@DFRRUF1 or HARTNEGG@CERNVM Internet : HAKL@ibm.ruf.uni-freiburg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 22:24:15 -0400 From: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: Wanted: \ifdisplaymode Keywords: \ifdisplaymode I want to define / to have \mathcode"8000 and the following behaviour: In D and D' modes, / becomes \over In all other modes, / is the normal / character This will let me type formulas like $${{1/2}/{3/4}}$$ and have the proper output: 1 / 2 ----- 3 / 4 But I can't figure out how to find out which mode I'm in. \mathchoice is not the right answer. Thanks for your help! - Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 10 Apr 91 08:27:57-EST From: Tom Maloney Subject: barcodes from TeX? Keywords: TeX, barcodes Anyone out there producing barcode output from TeX? I'd love to hear about it if you are. Thanks much! Tom Maloney - American Math Society - Providence, RI tjm@math.ams.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 12:54:41 +0200 From: Stefan Eckart Subject: hebrew font? Keywords: fonts, Hebrew A friend of mine is looking for a hebrew (iwrit) TeX font to include hebrew text into his theology thesis. Do you have any idea where I could get such a font via anonymous ftp? Any hint would be appreciated. Please e-mail to my Internet address given below. Many thanks in advance. Stefan Eckart, S_Eckart@lis.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 17:55 PDT From: John Fieber Subject: Looking for BiBTeX for Amiga Keywords: BiBTeX, Amiga Does anybody know of a *working* bibtex for the Amiga other than the one contained in the Radical Eye AmigaTeX package? I have one that came from the Decus collection but it has a bug that causes a sever crash. :( It is suppose to work according to the documentation. ##= john fieber =========================================================##=## = Have Another Day // = = fieberjr@whitman : BITNET <--> INTERNET : fieberjr@whitman.bitnet \\/ = ============================================================================## ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 12:34:56 PDT From: siemsen%sol.usc.edu@usc.edu (Pete Siemsen) Subject: Re: TeX help systems Keywords: TeX, help systems In comp.text.tex you write: >I'm just finishing the development stage of a help system for TeX >which I will be presenting in Boston. >It is PC-specific, and I have used portions of several existing other >systems. Are there any pointers to current developments elsewhere, eg >the VMS LSE files, help under ?Atari, ?Amiga, ?unix man pages etc, so >i can check consistency? I wrote most of the VMS HELP files distributed with the DECUS TeX Collection. I spent many hours converting man pages and TeX documentation to VMS HELP format (actually RUNOFF format for HELP files). You are welcome to these files. Let me know and I'll stick them in a place where you can get them with anonymous ftp. I am currently working on a project here at USC called USCguide, which will be a campus-wide general help system. It uses Texinfo, the Free Software Foundation's system for supporting high-quality printed documents and on-line help using the same source files. I have converted the dvips manual from TeX format to Texinfo format. Eventually, help for TeX, Metafont and other related things will also be converted to Texinfo. I'll joyfully steal from existing free documentation, and perhaps add a little myself. For browsing this information on-line, we have a stand-alone program that functions much like Emacs info mode. This is sufficient for character-cell terminals, but is rather ugly. We are much more excited about xinfo, an X-wiindows-based browser of the same information. It is very intuitive, and after some changes are made, we feel it'll fulfill our need for a help system that anyone can use and understand immediately. Both the USCguide project and the VMS HELP files address on-line help external to programs, not from within them. Please let me know about your help system. I may want to steal pieces and fit them into some of the stuff I've built. Pete Siemsen Pete Siemsen siemsen@usc.edu University of Southern California 645 Ohio Ave. #302 (213) 740-7391 (w) 1020 West Jefferson Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90814 (213) 433-3059 (h) Los Angeles, CA 90089-0251 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 11:49:08 PDT From: Ian_Cumming@mtsg.ubc.ca Subject: Style for US Patent Applications. Keywords: LaTeX, U.S. patent application, style file Are you aware of the existence of a LaTeX style file suitable for writing U.S. Patent Applications ? It uses 2 columns, and the columns are ;?^f{numbered, rather than the pages. Also, the lines in each column are numbered, using a small number e?MBvery 5th line, between the columns. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 11:16:29 +0200 From: schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Rainer Schoepf) Subject: A small bug in oldlfont.sty of New Font ... and Keywords: New Font, oldfont.sty On Mar 28 Mustafa Akgul wrote: I found a small bug in oldlfont.sty of AMS distribution of the New Font Selection Scheme of FMi & RS. If you try to load oldlfont.sty at dump time you will get an error message stating that `\@undefined' is really UNDEFINED at that point. It is defined in LaTeX.tex which is read later. To remedy one should change the line \@ifundefined{ds@oldlfont}{\let\ds@oldlfont\@empty}{\endinput} with \expandafter\ifx\csname ds@oldlfont\endcsname\relax \let\ds@oldlfont\@empty \else \endinput \fi and everything works fine. This bug was fixed with version 1.2l in September last year. Unfortunately, the AMS has not been able to update their distribution accordingly. The up-to-date versions of all files are available (at least) from listserv@dhdurz1 (mail only), rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (ftp only), TEXSERVER@TEX.AC.UK (mail only), and ymir.claremont.edu (in directory [.TEX.INPUTS.LATEX-MAINZ]). Rainer Sch\"opf PS: Since the files were not changed, the mail addresses listed their were not updated. Frank's address is now PZF5HZ@RUIPC1E.bitnet. Dr. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh Heilbronner Strasse 10 am Morgen schon so D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!'' Federal Republic of Germany or ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 9:17:04 EDT From: AHLQUIST@METSAT.MET.FSU.EDU Subject: Non-English hyphenation and TeX 3.0 To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"TeXhax@cs.washington.edu" I am getting ready to send TeX to a user in Brazil. Does a Portuguese hyphenation table exist? If so, where can I get it? Could someone submit a brief review to TeXhax regarding hyphenation tables for non-English languages, where they can be obtained, and the status of support software for ASCII characters 128-255 which are available to TeX 3.0? Jon Ahlquist, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State Univ. ahlquist@met.fsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Ve, 5 Avr 91 15:52:55 +0200 From: yannis%frcitl81.bitnet@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: A Macintosh 8-bit CMTT font is available Keywords: font, Macintosh, 8-bit Problem: ******* Have you ever tried to write 8-bit Macintosh code in verbatim mode? (for example MPW Shell commands, or simply french or german comments to your code) TeX supports very well 8-bit input, but CMTT needs the \accent primitive to construct accented characters, or you may need an "escape- from-verbatim" feature to reach characters from the CMTEX (extended 7-bit) font. And some characters will still be missing... Solution: ******** An extension of the CMTT font, with *all* Macintosh 8-bit characters. Since the upper part is (99%) unchanged, you can use this font instead of CMTT for usual 7-bit TeX. Its name is MACTT, the MF sources are shareware (20$) and you can get them at yannis@frcitl81 (bitnet). I hope you'll enjoy it, and that other people will do the same for PC... Friendly Greetings Yannis Haralambous ******************************************************************************* The ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 10:37 CDT From: U2591AA@VMS.UCC.OKSTATE.EDU Subject: LaTeX-help-toughies@cs.stanford.edu Keywords: help, address I am a participator in the LaTeX help service started by Max Halperin a year or two ago. I cannot get mail to the help service, in particular the LaTeX-help-toughies@cs.stanford.edu address. A mailer with address Sunburn.pescadero.stanford.edu sends a reply that the user is unknown. Can some help a helper? Scott McCullough u2591aa@vms.ucc.okstate.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 18:37 EDT From: HEFFERON%SMCVAX.BITNET@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: Metafont Keywords: Metafont I'm having a problem getting my first output from Metafont. I follow the directions from the Metafont book, I get GF output---here is my .LIS file for IO (I'm running stuff under the latest DECUS collection for the VAX): This is METAFONT, Version 2.0 [PD VMS 2.1a/DECUS] (preloaded base=plain 90.8.25) 3 APR 1991 19:13 **io ($1$DIA2:[FACULTY.HEFFERON]IO.MF;2 The letter O [79]) *test_I("I",5/6,1/3); The letter I [73] *end Output written on $1$DIA2:[FACULTY.HEFFERON]IO.2602GF;1 (2 characters, 2568 byt es). ---but GFTODVI gives me an error: "Bad TFM file for titles!" I'm puzzled because GFTYPE runs fine. Can someone help me out? Thanks. Jim Hefferon hefferon@smcvax.bitnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 12:42 GMT From: Peter Flynn UCC Subject: variants for currency symbols Keywords: currency symbols, LaTeX I noticed today (en passant) that J\"org Knappen (Mainz) claims that some of the commercial symbols, eg currency signs, are not needed in roman *and* italic *and* slanted *and etc etc but only in one font. This is hopelessly untrue, I'm afraid: a pounds sterling sign is DIFFERENT in all variants and must be avaiable as such. I repeat (for the nth time: Leslie--WAKE UP) that the italic \pounds used in LaTeX is WRONG and should come from CMU10 not from CMTI10, unless you are actually setting in italics. I can't think of many things siller than setting in, say, small caps, and being forced to use a fullsize bold currency symbol: they must be in each font. What I think is a VERY bad idea is that some symbols should claim permanent residency unless they are a part of the ASCII code set (eg dollar$). I know this will be a pain, but in general, I use \pounds a LOT and \yen hardly at all, whereas my Japanese colleagues will use \yen most of the time and rarely need \pounds. The location needs to be defined, but it should default on a national basis. ///Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 91 15:11:48 HOE From: antoni bosch Subject: fonts, TeX, LaTeX Keywords: I am new at TeX and LaTeX. My question is very naive. I am already bored with CM fonts and I want to use a variety of fonts. How can I add new fonts (postcript preferably) so that my papers,once printed, look like pages of a typeset book. I use a Mac, but I could use a PC. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 91 17:09:39 PST From: GLENNOX%CALSTATE.BITNET@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: dvi driver for HP DeskJet (PC) and DeskWriter (Macintosh) Keywords: dviware, DeskJet, DeskWriter Would one of you dvi wizards be so kind as to tell me where to get a driver for the HP DeskJet (for a PC) and/or the HP DeskWriter (for a Macintosh) Thanx. Bill Lennox Humboldt State Univ. 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