nawyn@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Ken Nawyn) (05/22/85)
Hello fellow net people. As I am new to this group I would
appreciate some help. I would like to obtain a copy of the
text formatter "TeX" written by Donald Knuth at Stanford
University. I am interested in both commercial and public
domain versions. Many Thanks to all who answer.
Please send responces by mail. Just follow the Yellow Brick
Road!
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research sii supai tmmnet twg uf-cgrl wxlvax yale}!ittvax!nawyntoni@erix.UUCP (Toni Roth) (01/20/86)
I have a problem with TeX that probably is easy to a TeXpert:
I get tex output from a filter that looks like this:
\srcvr {line 1 in column 1
line 2 in column 1
line 3 in column 1}
\rcvr {line 1 in column 2
line 2 in column 2}
\ctw {line 1 in column 3}
\receivers
some text after the tricky part
My problem is to design the macros \srcvr, \rcvr, \ctw and
\recivers to yield this:
line 1 in column 1 line 1 in column 2 line 1 in column 3
line 2 in column 1 line 2 in column 2
line 3 in column 1
some text after the tricky part
I've tried many different ways, but none seems to work.
If someone knows how to do this, please respond by mail.
...!mcvax!enea!erix!tonitoni@erix.UUCP (Toni Roth) (02/09/86)
I have a problem with fast loading of macros: I've written a macro package that uses many features from the plain format. Now I want to create a .fmt-file for fast loading of these macros. The TeX-book says you should do "initex" and then type "&plain super" in response to the "**" prompt (super is your extensions of plain). If I do this, the command "virtex &super" takes more time to load the macros than the command "tex" followed by "super". The fastest way to load these macros must be to give the command "tex" and then type "&super" in response to the "**" prompt. Is there a way to create this "super.fmt" that doesn't include the plain format but still uses it? Thanks in advance: ...!mcvax!enea!erix!toni
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (02/12/86)
In article <1058@erix.UUCP> toni@erix.UUCP writes: >I've written a macro package that uses many features from the plain >format. Now I want to create a .fmt-file for fast loading of these >macros. Since `super' builds on `plain', you can do this: >The TeX-book says you should do "initex" and then type "&plain super" >in response to the "**" prompt (super is your extensions of plain). In fact you really should use `virtex &plain super', since you need initex only to build hypenation tries and the like (I think---but I am going to recommend something different). But: >If I do this, the command "virtex &super" takes more time to load the >macros than the command "tex" followed by "super". This is because `tex' has plain.fmt `preloaded'---in core (or more precisely, in virtual space). `virtex &plain' and `virtex &super' would both take about the same amount of time. What you really want to do is create a preloaded `supertex'. The way this is done is operating-system-dependent (and in some cases compiler-dependent as well). The distributed Unix TeX machinery for doing this is as follows: % initex **\input plain \input super \dump [lots of output] [TeX writes `plain.fmt'] % mv plain.fmt super.fmt % virtex **&super \read 0 to \blort \blort= [here you type your `quit' command key, normally ^\] Illegal instruction (core dumped) % undump supertex /usr/local/bin/virtex [or whatever] Data segment size was 6144 now is 640000 % The `blort' hackery was required with the 4.1 TeX; I do not know whether this was fixed in the 4.2 version. The hack is not required with Pastel TeX, and may even fail (I was told that it does not work for LaTeX): % virtex **&super *^\ Note that undumped exectuables are quite large, and should thus be used sparingly. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 1415) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu