[comp.text] TeXhax Digest V90 #7

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TeXhax Digest    Friday,  January 12, 1990  Volume 90 : Issue 7

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Today's Topics:         

                     where is vms decwindows previewer
                         Articles available on ftp
                        Font Naming, Planning, JOKEs
           Re: patch to dvi2tty to make output more readable
                      Question about mathmode underbar
              List of ISO Country Codes (somewhat outdate)

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 14:17 PST
From: SHECTMAN@seti.llnl.gov
Subject: where is vms decwindows previewer
Keywords: previewer

I am trying to track down an ftp'able copy of the previewer
for VMS under DecWindows.  A pointer to such a beastie was
in some message from 1989, a brief exerpt of which follows.
Score is now Labrea (more or less).  Can anyone point to
which files (if any) at Labrea are the previewer for VMS
and DecWindows, or point to any other site which has it?

Thank you
Robert M. Shectman
shectman@icdc.llnl.gov


>
>                    DECUS  TeX  Collection
>                             Abstract
>
>   The DECUS TeX Collection is based on the TeX Files stored at SCORE.-
>STANFORD.EDU and are available via ANONYMOUS FTP, plus additional
>material collected from sources across the world. Recipients of the DECUS
>VAX/VMS TeX distribution need not have the compilers, since executable
>versions of most programs are included on the tape.
>                              .
>                              .
>                              .
> [.TeX_SOURCE1]        Contains the source code for everything in saveset
> [.TeX_SOURCE2]        2, plus additional material such as: UNIX Mate-
>                       rial, TeX and Screen Previewers for PCs, TeX and
>                       Previewer for MACINTOSH, GloTeX, previewers
>                       for VAXStations (Both VWS and DECWindows),
>                       LSE Templates for TeX/LaTeX and BibTeX, Trip
>                       and Trap Tests for TeX and METAFONT, and ad-
>                       ditional DVI Driver material including Postscript
>                       LaTeX material for VMS.

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 00:41:05 EST
From: Allan Adler <ara@lom1.math.yale.edu>
Subject: Articles available on ftp
Keywords: TeX

I have typeset two of my articles with TeX and made them available in tar file
format for anonymous ftp in the directory pub/tex at the site 
ceres.math.yale.edu . The articles are:

(1) Invariants of PSL_2(F_p) Acting on C^n$ for p=2n+/-1 
(2) Cubic Invariants for SL_2(F_q)

I would be grateful for criticisms of the content or exposition of the
articles and also for suggestions as to how to improve the typesetting.
There are many things I would like to have typeset differently but didn't
know how. I would also be interested in knowing who might be interested in
my work, so please send me a note if you take a copy. I can receive email
at the following address:
ara@lom1.math.yale.edu

I plan to make more articles available as soon as they are typeset.

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Date:    Wed, 3 Jan 90 08:15:18 PST
From: wagman%praxis.hepnet@Csa2.LBL.Gov (Gary S. Wagman (415)486-6610)
Subject: Font Naming, Planning, JOKEs
Keywords: fonts

Greetings:

John Gourlay's suggested new name for the Modern fonts is well-timed and his
observation of "E" as the apparent next initial letter is astute. However,
"extended" is already a typographical term with other meanings. We would have
font EMBX10 or Extended Modern Bold Extended 10 point which is seemingly
redundant. Now, as far-sighted analysts, we should plan for future
developments and, knowing how DEK (if not everyone else) appreciates a JOKE,
I propose the following names adhering to the Gourlay Leap-frog Scheme which
should take us well into the next century.  By then, the lion and lioness
will be in a rest home, computers will be obsolete, and most of us will be
relegated to that Great Volatile Memory in the sky.

The List:

Everlastingly Modern (or if there is dissension, Ever-so Modern)

Gloriously Modern (or Good-Enough Modern)

Invincibly Modern

Knuthian Modern (if not OK, Don, then Knowably Modern)

Managably Modern

Obviously Modern

Quaintly Modern

Simply Modern

Unbelievably Modern

Will-It-Ever-Be-Modern

Yet-Another Modern


Messages of Gratitude will be graciously accepted.


Gary Wagman
Lawrence Berkeley Lab

WAGMAN at LBL
WAGMAN@LBL.GOV
LBL::WAGMAN

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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 10:11:28 -0500
From: Peter Marshall <peter@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: patch to dvi2tty to make output more readable
Keywords: general

> From ken@cs.rochester.edu Tue Jan  2 18:30:41 1990
> From: Ken Yap <ken@cs.rochester.edu>

> Uh, your patch makes "affluent" come out as "a- uent". I don't know
> which is the lesser evil. There really is no way around this unless
> dvi2tty is taught about symbol fonts.
> 
> Your other patch was already in. I think you have an older version.
> 

Woops.  I guess that I don't write ffl things very often.  Just not affluent
enough.  But I'm sure to use piffle or muffler or baffle or one of the other
134 odd words that webster returns as having "ffl" in them.  Thanks for
pointing out this obvious mistake.  I thought that since I had been using
the program for 3 or 4 months that I would have noticed any obvious bugs like
this.  I should have taken a better approach to debugging.  Back to the
drawing board.

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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 12:31:18 GMT
From: "D.Ballance" <gnma76%sun1.eng.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: Question about mathmode underbar
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX

In TeX and LaTeX there are normal mode accents for overbars (\=) and
for underbars (\b)i, however in mathmode there is a mathaccent for an
overbar (\bar) but no corresponding underbar (\ubar would be the obvious
name).

I have tried looking at the definitions of the different characters but
I'm not a TeXpert at TeXspeak so can't figure out how to define it.

Any help greatly appreciated

Thanks

Donald

 Donald Ballance,       JANET:    gnma76@uk.ac.gla.eng.sun1                   |
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Date: Tue,  2 JAN 90 15:15:32 GMT
From: TEX%rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK
Subject: List of ISO Country Codes (somewhat outdated)
Keywords: TeX, country codes

Recent correspondence in the digests has addressed the standardization of 
country codes to be used in conjunction with the nex TeX's \language command.

Quite rightly, the use of the international telephone dialling codes is a non-
starter because of the numerical range spanned, and another suggestion was to 
use the ISO standard country codes, but correspondents have admitted to not 
knowing these.  

The following table was laboriously typed in by myself back in early
1982; I suspect that things may have changed since then, with the
addition/deletion of some countries, and the renaming of others.  Some
of you will hate me for this, but the table contains hardware tab
characters!

However, it looks as though this coding scheme is also a non-starter; whilst 
restricted to three digits, many values certainly exceed 255, so an eight-bit
coding is not achievable directly.  There are, on the other hand, many unused 
values, and there also appears to be no use of odd values: I no longer have 
the standard to hand, so cannot say whether it mentions anything about the 
raisons d,\^etre behind the choices of numbers.  Perhaps some suitable hashing 
algorithm can reduce the codes to eight-bits.

(One thing I have noticed is that the three LETTER codes in the standard seem 
to have been ignored by the organizers of many international sporting events 
such as the Olympics, who use, e.g. FRG for West Germany and URS for the USSR, 
whilst the standard specifies DEU and SUN respectively.  Anybody who happens 
to be on the organizing committees please note!)

                               Brian {Hamilton Kelly}

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The following 'Codes for the representation of names of countries' are
specified in BS5374:1981 which is identical with ISO3166 - 1981

AF	AFG	004	Afghanistan		,Democratic Republic of
AL	ALB	008	Albania			,People's Socialist Republic of
DZ	DZA	012	Algeria			,People's Democratic Republic of
AS	ASM	016	American Samoa
AD	AND	020	Andorra
AO	AGO	024	Angola			,People's Republic of
AQ	ATA	010	Antarctica		{The territory South of 60deg S}
AG	ATG	028	Antigua
AR	ARG	032	Argentina		Argentine Republic
AU	AUS	036	Australia		,Commonwealth of
AT	AUT	040	Austria			,Republic of
BS	BHS	044	Bahamas			,Commonwealth of the
BH	BHR	048	Bahrain			,State of
BD	BGD	050	Bangladesh		,People's Republic of
BB	BRB	052	Barbados
BE	BEL	056	Belgium			,Kingdom of
BZ	BLZ	084	Belize
BJ	BEN	204	Benin	(was Dahomey)	,People's Republic of
BM	BMU	060	Bermuda
BT	BTN	064	Bhutan			,Kingdom of
BO	BOL	068	Bolivia			,Republic of
BW	BWA	072	Botswana		,Republic of
BV	BVT	074	Bouvet Island		[Bouvetoya]
BR	BRA	076	Brazil			,Federative Republic of
IO	IOT	086	British Indian Ocean Territory	[Chagos Archipelago]
<?	?	090	British Solomon Islands	-see Solomon Islands>
VG	VGB	092	British Virgin Islands
BN	BRN	096	Brunei
BG	BGR	100	Bulgaria		,People's Republic of
BU	BUR	104	Burma			,Socialist Rep'c of the Union of
BI	BDI	108	Burundi			,Republic of
BY	BYS	112	Byelorussian SSR	Soviet Socialist Republic
<?	?	116	Cambodia		-see Kampuchea,Democratic>
CM	CMR	120	Cameroon		,United Republic of
CA	CAN	124	Canada
CT	CTE	128	Canton & Enderbury Islands
CV	CPV	132	Cape Verde		,Republic of
KY	CYM	136	Cayman Islands
CF	CAF	140	Central African Republic
<?	?	144	Ceylon			-see Sri Lanka>
TD	TCD	148	Chad			,Republic of
CL	CHL	152	Chile			,Republic of
CN	CHN	156	China			,People's Republic of
<?	?	158	China, Republic of	-see Taiwan>
CX	CXR	162	Christmas Island
CC	CCK	166	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CO	COL	170	Colombia		,Republic of
KM	COM	174	Comoros			,Federal and Islamic Republic of
CG	COG	178	Congo			,People's Republic of
<?	?	180	Congo			-see Zaire>
CK	COK	184	Cook Islands
CR	CRI	188	Costa Rica		,Republic of
CU	CUB	192	Cuba			,Republic of
CY	CYP	196	Cyprus			,Republic of
CS	CSK	200	Czechoslovakia		Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
<DY	DHY	204	Dahomey			-see Benin>
DK	DNK	208	Denmark			,Kingdom of
DJ	DJI	262	Djibouti		,Republic of
				(was French Afars and Issas)
DM	DMA	212	Dominica		,Commonwealth of
DO	DOM	214	Dominican Republic
NQ	ATN	216	Dronning Maud Land	[par of Antarctica]
TP	TMP	626	East Timor	(was Portuguese Timor)
EC	ECU	218	Ecuador			,Republic of
EG	EGY	818	Egypt			,Arab Republic of
SV	SLV	222	El Salvador		,Republic of
GQ	GNQ	226	Equatorial Guinea	,Republic of
ET	ETH	230	Ethiopia
FO	FRO	234	Faeroe Islands
FK	FLK	238	Falkland Islands	[Malvinas]
FJ	FJI	242	Fiji
FI	FIN	246	Finland			,Republic of
FR	FRA	250	France			French Republic
GF	GUF	254	French Guiana
PF	PYF	258	French Polynesia
<AI	AFI	262	French Afars and Issas	-see Djibouti>
GA	GAB	266	Gabon			Gabonese Republic
GM	GMB	270	Gambia			,Republic of the
DD	DDR	278	German Democratic Republic
DE	DEU	280	Germany			,Federal Republic of
GH	GHA	288	Ghana			,Republic of
GI	GIB	292	Gibraltar
<GE	GEL	296	Gilbert & Ellice Islands-see Kiribati or Tuvalu>
GR	GRC	300	Greece			Hellenic Republic
GL	GRL	304	Greenland
GD	GRD	308	Grenada
GP	GLP	312	Guadaloupe
GU	GUM	316	Guam
GT	GTM	320	Guatemala		,Republic of
GN	GIN	324	Guinea			,Revolutionary People's Rep'c of
GW	GNB	624	Guinea-Bissau		,Republic of
				(was Portuguese Guinea)
GY	GUY	328	Guyana			,Republic of
HT	HTI	332	Haiti			,Republic of
HM	HMD	334	Heard and McDonald Islands
<?	?	336	Holy See		-see Vatican City State>
HN	HND	340	Honduras		,Republic of
HK	HKG	344	Hong Kong
HU	HUN	348	Hungary			Hungarian People's Republic
IS	ISL	352	Iceland			,Republic of
IN	IND	356	India			,Republic of
ID	IDN	360	Indonesia		,Republic of
IR	IRN	364	Iran			,Islamic Republic of
IQ	IRQ	368	Iraq			,Republic of
IE	IRL	372	Ireland
IL	ISR	376	Israel			,State of
IT	ITA	380	Italy			Italian Republic
CI	CIV	384	Ivory Coast		,Republic of the
JM	JAM	388	Jamaica
JP	JPN	392	Japan
JT	JTN	396	Johnston Island
JO	JOR	400	Jordan			,Hashemite Kingdom of
KH	KHM	116	Kampuchea,Democratic 	(was Khmer Republic/Cambodia)
KE	KEN	404	Kenya			,Republic of
KI	KIR	296	Kiribati	(was Gilbert Islands)
KP	PRK	408	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
KR	KOR	410	Korea, Republic of
KW	KWT	414	Kuwait			,State of
LA	LAO	418	Lao People's Democratic Republic
LB	LBN	422	Lebanon			Lebanese Republic
LS	LSO	426	Lesotho			,Kingdom of
LR	LBR	430	Liberia			,Republic of
LY	LBY	434	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	S'list P. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
LI	LIE	438	Liechtenstein		,Principality of
LU	LUX	442	Luxembourg		,Grand Duchy of
MO	MAC	446	Macau
MG	MDG	450	Madagascar		,Democratic Republic of
MW	MWI	454	Malawi			,Republic of
MY	MYS	458	Malaysia
MV	MDV	462	Maldives		,Republic of
ML	MLI	466	Mali			,Republic of
MT	MLT	470	Malta			,Republic of
MQ	MTQ	474	Martinique
MR	MRT	478	Mauritania		,Islamic Republic of
MU	MUS	480	Mauritius
MX	MEX	484	Mexico			United Mexican States
MI	MID	488	Midway Islands
MC	MCO	492	Monaco			,Principality of
MN	MNG	496	Mongolia		Mongolian People's Republic
MS	MSR	500	Montserrat
MA	MAR	504	Morocco			,Kingdom of
MZ	MOZ	508	Mozambique		,People's Republic of
<?	?	512	Muscat and Oman		-see Oman>
NA	NAM	516	Namibia
NR	NRU	520	Nauru			,Republic of
NP	NPL	524	Nepal			,Kingdom of
NL	NLD	528	Netherlands		,Kingdom of the
AN	ANT	532	Netherlands Antilles
NT	NTZ	536	Neutral Zone		{between Saudi Arabia & Iraq}
NC	NCL	540	New Caledonia
<NH	NHB	548	New Hebrides		-see Vanuatu>
NZ	NZL	554	New Zealand
NI	NIC	558	Nicaragua		,Republic of
NE	NER	562	Niger			,Republic of the
NG	NGA	566	Nigeria			,Federal Republic of
NU	NIU	570	Niue
NF	NFK	574	Norfolk Island
NO	NOR	578	Norway			,Kingdom of
OM	OMN	512	Oman			,Sultanate of
PC	PCI	582	Pacific Islands (trust territory)
PK	PAK	586	Pakistan		,Islamic Republic of
PA	PAN	590	Panama			,Republic of
PG	PNG	598	Papua New Guinea
PY	PRY	600	Paraguay		,Republic of
PE	PER	604	Peru			,Republic of
PH	PHL	608	Philippines		,Republic of the
PN	PCN	612	Pitcairn Island
PL	POL	616	Poland			Polish People's Republic
PT	PRT	620	Portugal		Portuguese Republic
<?	?	624	Portuguese Guinea	-see Guinea-Bissau>
<?	?	626	Portuguese Timor	-see East Timor>
PR	PRI	630	Puerto Rico
QA	QAT	634	Qatar			,State of
RE	REU	638	Reunion
RO	ROM	642	Romania			,Socialist Republic of
RW	RWA	646	Rwanda			Rwandese Republic
SH	SHN	654	St. Helena
KN	KNA	658	St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla
LC	LCA	662	Saint Lucia
PM	SPM	666	St. Pierre and Miquelon
VC	VCT	670	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
WS	WSM	882	Samoa			,Independent State of Western
SM	SMR	674	San Marino		,Republic of
ST	STP	678	Sao Tome and Principe	,Democratic Republic of
SA	SAU	682	Saudi Arabia		,Kingdom of
SN	SEN	686	Senegal			,Republic of
SC	SYC	690	Seychelles		,Republic of
SL	SLE	694	Sierra Leone		,Republic of
SG	SGP	702	Singapore		,Republic of
<VD	VDR	704	South Vietnam		-see Vietnam>
SB	SLB	090	Solomon Islands	(was British Solomon Islands)
SO	SOM	706	Somalia			Somali Democratic Republic
ZA	ZAF	710	South Africa		,Republic of
<RH	RHO	716	Southern Rhodesia	-see Zimbabwe>
<?	?	720	South Yemen		-see Yemen, Democratic>
ES	ESP	724	Spain			Spanish State
LK	LKA	144	Sri Lanka		,Democratic Socialist Rep'c of
<EH	ESH	732	Spanish Sahara		-see Western Sahara>
SD	SDN	736	Sudan			,Democratic Republic of the
SR	SUR	740	Suriname		,Republic of
SJ	SJM	744	Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands
SZ	SWZ	748	Swaziland		,Kingdom of
SE	SWE	752	Sweden			,Kingdom of
CH	CHE	756	Switzerland		Swiss Confederation
SY	SYR	760	Syrian Arab Republic
TW	TWN	158	Taiwan, Province of China
TZ	TZA	834	Tanzania, United Republic of
TH	THA	764	Thailand		,Kingdom of
TG	TGO	768	Togo			Togolese Republic
TK	TKL	722	Tokelau			[Tokelau Islands]
TO	TON	776	Tonga			,Kingdom of
TT	TTO	780	Trinidad and Tobago	,Republic of
<?	?	784	Trucial States		-see United Arab Emirates>
TN	TUN	788	Tunisia			,Republic of
TR	TUR	792	Turkey			,Republic of
TC	TCA	796	Turks and Caicos Islands
TV	TUV	798	Tuvalu	(was part of Gilbert & Ellice Islands)
UG	UGA	800	Uganda			,Republic of
UA	UKR	804	Ukrainian SSR		Soviet Socialist Republic
AE	ARE	784	United Arab Emirates
<?	?	818	United Arab Republic	-see Egypt>
GB	GBR	826	United Kingdom		of Great Britain & N. Ireland
US	USA	840	United States		of America
PU	PUS	849	US Miscellaneous Pacific Islands
VI	VIR	850	US Virgin Islands
HV	HVO	854	Upper Volta		,Republic of
UY	URY	858	Uruguay			,Eastern Republic of
SU	SUN	810	USSR			Union of Soviet Socialist Rep'cs
VU	VUT	548	Vanuatu	(was New Hebrides)
VA	VAT	336	Vatican City State (Holy See)
VE	VEN	862	Venezuela		,Republic of
VN	VNM	704	Viet Nam		,Socialist Republic of
				(was Democratic Republic of & Republic of)
WK	WAK	872	Wake Island
WF	WLF	876	Wallis and Futuna Islands
EH	ESH	732	Western Sahara	(was Spanish Sahara)
<WS	WSM	882	Western Samoa		-see Samoa>
YE	YEM	886	Yemen			Yemen Arab Republic
YD	YMD	720	Yemen, Democratic	,People's Democratic Republic of
YU	YUG	890	Yugoslavia		,Socialist Federal Republic of
ZR	ZAR	180	Zaire			,Republic of
ZM	ZMB	894	Zambia			,Republic of
ZW	ZWE	716	Zimbabwe	(was Southern Rhodesia)

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