TeXhax@cs.washington.edu (TeXhax Digest) (02/07/89)
TeXhax Digest Thursday, January 19, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 7
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
Does it exist? WEB-like system for FORTRAN?
How to get TeXware via E-mail?
Re: New Tex Offerings
CM-series fonts for the Linotronic-300
Electronic Proposal Submission
LaTeX bug fix (Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #1)
Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #3 (footnote #s starting from 1 on each page)
Determining the document style in LaTeX
What I learned about the LaTeX letter style
Metafont problem
Outline fonts
Refer functionality for BibTeX
Bibtex files on CS wanted
LaTeX style subeqn
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 15:22 GMT
From: Dave Love <FX@NNGA.DARESBURY.AC.UK>
Subject: Does it exist? WEB-like system for FORTRAN?
Keywords: FORTRAN, Literate Programming
A year or so ago there was a query in TeXhax that went unanswered
seeking information on any systems (being) developed for Literate
Programming in FORTRAN, along the lines of WEB. Can I repeat the
question -- anyone know of such a beast or like to offer thoughts on how
difficult it would be to do? (This is not a request for
WEB-to-FORTRAN!)
Dr. D. Love, JANET: love@uk.ac.dl
SERC Daresbury Laboratory, BITNET: love@dl.ac.uk, love%dl@ukacrl
Warrington WA4 4AD, UUCP: ...!ukc!daresbury!love
UK ARPA: love%uk.ac.dl@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Phone: (0)925 603479, Telex: (0)925 629609, FAX: (0)925 603100
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 17:19:37 PST
From: igor!dsb@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Bakin)
Subject: How to get TeXware via E-mail?
Keywords: TeXware, E-mail, query
Can someone tell me how to get Texware via E-mail? E.g., where are archive
servers on Usenet or LISTSERV facilities on BITNET? THANKS! -- Dave
Dave Bakin (408) 496-3600
c/o Rational; 3320 Scott Blvd.; Santa Clara, CA 95054-3197
Internet: dsb@rational.com Uucp: ...!uunet!igor!dsb
...!{elxsi|sun}!aeras!igor!dsb
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Date: 16 Jan 89 11:46 -0800
From: Kent Wada <wada@cc.ubc.ca>
Reply-To: Kent Wada <kent_wada@mtsg.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: New Tex Offerings
Keywords: TeX, information
>I am trying to obtain information about new Tex offerings that were
>announced in the August TUG Meeting.
>
>1. Micro Publishing Systems is offering a new implementation of Tex in
>CWEB.
>2. K-Talk is offering MathEditor, which allows WYSIWYG input of math.
>
>Does anyone have information about how to contact these vendors?
Micro Publishing Systems does not currently have e-mail access. However,
you can contact David Kennedy at:
Micro Publishing Systems
Suite #300-1120 Hamilton
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6B 2S2
(604) 687-0354
My brochure from K-Talk gives the following information:
K-Talk Communications
50 McMillen Avenue, Suite 100
Columbus, Ohio 43201
(614) 294-3535
Kent
kent_wada@mtsg.ubc.ca (Internet) |Computing Centre/The University of
USERWADA@UBCMTSG (BITNET) |British Columbia/6356 Agricultural
Telephone: (604) 228-6496 |Road/Vancouver, British Columbia/
Facsimile: (604) 228-5116 |Canada V6T 1W5
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Date: 13-JAN-1989 17:24:41 GMT
From: CHAA006%vaxa.rhbnc.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
Reply-To: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor%vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: CM-series fonts for the Linotronic-300
Keywords: CM-fonts, Linotronic-300
Ralph Youngman asked if anyone had build the CM-series fonts for the
Linotronic. I have, at 1270 dpi, for all 75 canonical CM fonts and at
all seven canonical \magsteps. They are lodged in the Aston archive
as [public.gffiles.linotron]*.*gf, and may be extracted in the normal
way. I would like to acknowledge the machine time donated by British
Petroleum on their VAX-cluster which allowed these fonts to be built
in one weekend, using 24 cpu hours.
** Phil.
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 12:17:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Jim Morris <jhm+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Electronic Proposal Submission
Keywords: NSF, EXPRES, PostScript
The National Science Foundation is accepting proposals in electronic form
as part of an experimental program called EXPRES. This is being done to
speed and simplify the proposal review process. Specifically, you are
encouraged to send proposals as PostScript files. PostScript (a trademark of
Adobe Systems, Inc.) is a standard language for driving laser printers. There
are several advantages to preparing your proposal in PostScript:
1. It will be less expensive in duplication and mailing costs because
you need send only one paper copy to the NSF.
2. Electronic transmission from you to the NSF and from the NSF to
reviewers takes only minutes.
3. Proposals look better because they are printed freshly on laser
printers rather than being duplicated on copiers multiple times.
4. The NSF can extract data from the electronically-prepared forms,
making it easier to track your proposal.
In order to create a PostScript proposal you must perform all the paper
fiddling operations -- cutting, pasting, collating -- electronically. Assuming
that you are already capable of doing that for the technical part of your
proposal using your favorite document processor, we have created some software
to help you with the rest of the job: creating the forms and combining the
pieces. It can be run on UNIX, VMS, Macintosh, and PC systems. Proposal
templates for some common document processors are available, too.
There are different ways to obtain the software depending upon your computing
circumstances. In any case, you will receive a file guide.ps which you
should print on a PostScript printer, and read for further instructions.
1. Macintosh and PC users can request a disk by sending email to
ps-expres@andrew.cmu.edu or regular mail to.
PS-EXPRES
Information Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Be sure to specify Mac or PC and the disk size.
2. People with NSFNet/DARPANet connections can get the code in source
and executable form via ftp. First, connect with a particular machine at CMU
by typing the following commands.
ftp 128.2.12.15
ftp>Name: anonymous
ftp>Password: anythingyoulike
ftp>prompt
ftp>ascii
ftp>cd common
ftp>mget *
ftp>cd ..
(You will get a lot of back-talk from ftp besides the "ftp>" prompts shown.)
This will retrieve some files everyone needs.
If you simply want to run the software, copy everything from the appropriate
machine-specific binary directory below. For example, to retrieve the pc
executable
programs type
ftp>binary
ftp>cd pc
ftp>mget *
ftp>cd ..
ftp>ascii
The machine-specific directories are:
mac (apply BinHex 4.0 to Hqx files after retrieving)
pc
rt
sun3
vax-unix
We haven't figured out how to distribute VMS binaries yet, so VMS users
will have to rebuild the software themselves.
The following directories contain document processor templates for proposals:
scribe
tex
latex
troff
For example, to retrieve the tex template, type
ftp>cd tex
ftp> mget *
ftp> cd ..
The src directory is of interest if you want to modify or rebuild the
software. It contains
SREADME: instructions for building executables
C-Programs and Header files: *.c and *.h
UNIX-specific files: Makefile
VMS-specific files: compile.com, descrip.mms
Macintosh-specific files:
*.r, NSFForms.make, nsfmenus.c, window.c, nsfwndw.h
PC-specific files: *.MAK
To exit ftp type
ftp>quit
3. If you are a UNIX user and cannot use the ftp connection, request the
software by email. If you send a request to ps-expres@andrew.cmu.edu
we will send you the non-binary software in the form of shar files.
4. If you don't need any of the software and are prepared to send a proposal
electronically, instructions on how to transmit proposals my be obtained from
Gerald B. Stuck
National Science Foundation
1800 G Street NW
Room 401
Washington, DC 20550
(202)357-9767
gstuck@photo.expres.nsf.gov
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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 89 10:49:27 PST
From: lamport@src.dec.com (Leslie Lamport)
Subject: LaTeX bug fix (Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #1)
Keywords: LaTeX, tabular environment, bug
In TeXhax Digest V89 #1, Michael DeCorte reported a problem with the
"p" option in a tabular environment. I have fixed this problem in the
<14 Jan 89> release.
LaTeX has reached the point where there is a good chance that any fix
will make something else break, and I don't have the time to test
changes thoroughly. The user community can provide an invaluable
service by testing fixes on their existing files and reporting any
problems. I would therefore appreciate it if LaTeX users would test
this fix on any input files they may have that use the "p" option in
the array or tabular environment. The fix can be installed by adding
the following to the preamble of the input file.
\makeatletter
\def\@endpbox{\unskip\strut\par\egroup\hfil}
\let\@@endpbox=\@endpbox
\makeatother
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On a related matter... I have failed to keep the "diff" file,
latex.dif, current. It appears that I can't do it manually, and I
don't have time to automate the process. I would appreciate it if
someone would volunteer to write a Unix shell script that would allow
me to maintain a file of "diff"s of all changed files, starting from
some base version. There should be a corresponding script to allow
users to update their current version. If you'd like to write such a
script, please contact me and we can work out exactly what it should
do.
Thanks.
Leslie Lamport
lamport@src.dec.com
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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 89 09:53:19 PST
From: lamport@src.dec.com (Leslie Lamport)
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #3 (footnote #s starting from 1 on each page)
Keywords: LaTeX, footnotes
Mr Joni Makivirta writes
I need footnote numbers starting from 1 on each page.
This is a difficult problem because TeX must typeset the footnote
number before it decides where to break the page. A correct solution
requires two passes, with information written on the .aux file. Each
footnote would generate a \label command and a \pageref of that label,
and the macro to produce the footnote would reset the footnote counter
when the \pageref obtained a new page. This solution requires
considerable TeX hacking, and may not be worth it.
An approximate solution is obtained by resetting the footnote counter
every time a page is output. Since the page counter is incremented
when this happens, all that one needs to do is to get the footnote
counter to be reset when the page counter is incremented. LaTeX has
commands for doing this. (They're needed, for example, to reset the
subsection counter when the section counter is incremented.) Browsing
through latex.tex reveals that the appropriate command is
\@addtoreset{footnote}{page}
(Of course, because of the "@", this goes into a .sty file or after
a \makeatletter command.)
The problem with this solution is that there will be page breaks that
occur after the first footnote on the page has been typeset, so you
can get something like.
---------
7. First footnote on page.
1. Second footnote on page.
These will have to be corrected manually, by putting
\setcounter{footnote}{0} before the first footnote and
\setcounter{footnote}{1} before the second.
If this kind of correction is needed often enough, it might be easiest
just to put a \setcounter{footnote}{0} command before the first
footnote of each page.
Leslie Lamport
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 13:20:06 GMT
From: alien@VULCAN.ESE.ESSEX.AC.UK (Adrian F. Clark)
Subject: Determining the document style in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, document style, style file
Is there any way one can determine the document style (article, etc)
from within a style file specified as an option to the \documentstyle
command, as in
\documentstyle[mymacros]$article
and
\documentstyle[mymacros]$letter
For example, for the letter style, mymacros.sty could define the
return address (etc), but for articles, it could make all
table-of-contents entries generate leaders.
(If it is possible, I stand some chance of getting the same style
options on all my documents!)
Adrian F. Clark
JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese
ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@ac.uk
Smail: Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, Essex University,
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ, U. K.
Phone: (+44) 206-872432 (direct)
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 09:13:02 EST
From: quf@l.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Samuels)
Subject: What I learned about the LaTeX letter style
Keywords: LaTeX, headings, letter style
For a long time I naively assumed that the LaTeX letter style
could not provide headings for multiple page letters---
because the LaTeX manual doesn't say so.
But one day last week I decided to insert the line
\pagestyle{headings}
Imagine my pleasure when a perfect heading came out,
just like the one on page 406 of Knuth's
The TeXbook!
The next day I ftp'ed the merge.sty option for doing
form letters. It worked fine, except that the headings
didn't come out right. (Oh no, I thought, one step
forward, one step back.) So I e-mailed my distress
to Graeme McKinstry, author of `merge.sty', in
New Zealand. It turned out he was well aware of the
problem, and sent me a fix within 24 hours.
I expect that he will be making it available very soon
for general use.
Steve Samuels
Dept. of Statistics
Purdue University
W. Lafayette, IN 47907
ssamuels@l.cc.purdue.edu
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Date: Fri, 13 JAN 89 11:02:18 GMT
From: DML%VMS.BRIGHTON.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Metafont problem
Keywords: Metafont, query
I've been trying to create the BRIGHTON POLYTECHNIC logo with Metafont, but
cannot get the individual characters to space properly. All I end up with
is all the characters overlaying each other.
Here's a section of the .MF file
mode_setup;
em#:=5pt#; cap#:=7pt#;
thin#:=1/3pt#; thick#:=3/4pt#;
theta:=angle(1,4); o#:=1/5pt#;
define_pixels(em,cap);
define_blacker_pixels(thin,thick);
beginchar("B",em#,cap#,0); "The letter B";
penpos1(thick,theta);
penpos2(thick,90);
penpos3(thick,0);
penpos4(thin,-90);
penpos5(thick,90);
penpos6(thick,0);
penpos7(thick,-90);
penpos8(thick,-180+theta);
penpos9(thick,0);
penpos10(thick,0);
penpos11(thick,theta);
y1r=y2r=h; x1l=w/4.5;
x2=4w/4.5; x3l=4.7w/4.5; y3=4.4h/5.5;
x4=x5=3.6w/4.5; y4r=y5=y11=.5h;
x6r=5w/4.5;
x7=2.5w/4.5; y8r=y7r=0; x8r=0;
x9l=x11l=2w/4.5; x10l=.8w/4.5;
y9=y1l; y10=y8l; y6=2h/5.5;
penstroke z1e..z2e,right-..z3e,down-..z4e;
penstroke z8e..z7e,right-..z6e,up-..z5e;
penstroke z9e..z10e;
penstroke z5e..z11e;
penlabels(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11); endchar;
Has anyone come across this problem before and/or can anyone send me a
short example.
Thanks in advance,
Dave Lewney,
Senior Programmer,
Brighton Polytechnic,
Brighton,
East Sussex,
ENGLAND dml@uk.ac.brighton.vms
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 21:44:57 EST
From: "David F. Rogers" <dfr@USNA.MIL>
Subject: Outline fonts
Keywords: PostScript, fonts
G'day,
Pierre MacKay (texhax89.2) has done a excellent job of summarizing
the discussion on linear scaling of PostScript fonts. He has also
provided good guidance on the direction for development of outline
fonts. I have three further comments.
1. Let's stop calling them PostScript fonts. As described by Pierre they
really would not be PostScript fonts. They would be better than PostScript
fonts. Other people than those at Adobe have worked on the problem of
`outline fonts'. Two appropriate names might be the generic name `outline
fonts' or if generated from Metafont, Metafont outline fonts.
2. When and if someone does this job, let's be sure to do it `right' and use
rational B-spline curves either uniform or non-uniform. Using rational
B-spline curves provides great flexibility, e.g. by using non-uniform
rational B-spline curves circles or arcs of circles, ellipses, corners and
cusps, etc. can be imbedded directly into a single curve representing the
outline. The resulting curve description is quite compact and easy to store.
3. Let's not totally discard the idea of investigating non-linear scaling
algorithms. If done correctly, this would further reduce the number
of fonts required.
I believe that MacKay has adequately addressed the remark by Peter
Vollenweider (texhax89.2) with respect to the acceptance of PostScript fonts
by the printing industry (MacKay, texhax89.2 paragraph 3). However, let me
reiterate: The printing industry has accepted linear scaling of PostScript
outline fonts at all point sizes because of economics and practicality. It
is cheaper, requires less storage space both on the disk and in the office
and allows a printer to provide any size font without maintaining a large
library of individual fonts. The does NOT make PostScript fonts aesthetically
pleasing at ALL point sizes when linearly scaled. PostScript fonts are UGLY
at CERTAIN sizes when LINEARLY scaled.
As an author (assuming I was allowed a say by the publisher), I would
NEVER accept LINEARLY scaled PostScript fonts.
David F. Rogers
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 12:58:42 EST
From: nr@Princeton.EDU (Norman Ramsey)
Subject: Refer functionality for BibTeX
Keywords: BiBTeX, refer, troff
UNIX has a bibliographic utility, refer, that works with troff.
One notable feature is that documents can be cited by a series of key
words. These key words are drawn from authors, title, and so on, so
a citation of the form %[knuth searching sorting%] would retrieve volume
3 of the Art of Computer Programming, and so on.
Has anyone implemented a similar utility for bibtex? I would like to
be able to retrieve bibtex keys by specifying a list of key words.
Norman Ramsey
nr@princeton.edu
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 19:29:01 EST
From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Bibtex files on CS wanted
Keywords: BibTeX, VLSI routing, systolic arrays, graph theory
I would like to hear from anyone who has compiled Bibtex files citing
computer science books or papers. I'm specifically interested in VLSI
routing, systolic arrays, and graph theory. If you have any Bibtex
collections, or know of repositories for them, please send me mail. I
will combine the files and redistribute as appropriate to interested
people.
Thanks,
Rob French
rfrench@athena.mit.edu
...mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!rfrench
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 13:41 N
From: <BRAAMS%HLSDNL5.BITNET@uwavm.acs.washington.edu> (Johannes)
Subject: LaTeX style subeqn
Keywords: LaTeX, subeqn.sty
Hi,
We found a bug in the LaTeX style fyle subeqn.sty. When used
it generated extra space (which looked like \parindent but was
just a little bit less) at the beginning of the first line
after the \end{subequations} command. After an hour of wondering
what happend we finally put a \global\@ignoretrue in the definition
of \endsubequations. This remedied the bug.
Below I include the revised version of subeqn.doc
Happy TeXing,
Johannes Braams
PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, EARN/BITnet : BRAAMS@HLSDNL50
P.O. box 421, SURFnet : DNLTS::BRAAMS
2260 AK Leidschendam, UUCP : mcvax!dnlunx!johannes
The Netherlands. INTERnet : BRAAMS%HLSDNL5@CUNVM.cuny.edu
Phone : +31 70 435051 PSS (DATAnet1) : +204 1170358::BRAAMS
% This LaTeX environment is for
%printing subequations. To use this environment, include in the
%\documentstyle header a command to load in the .sty file containing this
%macro. For example:
% \documentstyle[subeqn]{article}
%if you have the macro in a file subeqn.sty. The environment seems pretty
%well documented in the comments.
%
% Modified : 16 - january - 1989 by Johannes Braams ( BRAAMS@HLSDNL5)
% Added \global\@ignoretrue in the definition of
% \endsubequations in order to prevent a spurious space
% at the beginning of the next text-line. Also added %'s
% at the end of each command-line for the same reasons.
%
%%%----------------------------------------------------------------
%%% File: subeqn.sty
%%% The subequations environment %%%
%
% Within the subequations environment, the only change is that
% equations are labeled differently. The number stays the same,
% and lower case letters are appended. For example, if after doing
% three equations, numbered 1, 2, and 3, you start a subequations
% environmment and do three more equations, they will be numbered
% 4a, 4b, and 4c. After you end the subequations environment, the
% next equation will be numbered 5.
%
% Both text and equations can be put inside the subequations environment.
%
% If you make any improvements, I'd like to hear about them.
%
% Stephen Gildea
% MIT Earth Resources Lab
% Cambridge, Mass. 02139
% mit-erl!gildea
% gildea@erl.mit.edu
%
\newtoks\@stequation
\def\subequations{\stepcounter{equation}%
\edef\@savedequation{\the\c@equation}%
\@stequation=\expandafter{\theequation}% %only want \theequation
\edef\@savedtheequation{\the\@stequation}% %expanded once
\edef\oldtheequation{\theequation}%
\setcounter{equation}{0}%
\def\theequation{\oldtheequation\alph{equation}}}%
\def\endsubequations{%
\setcounter{equation}{\@savedequation}%
\@stequation=\expandafter{\@savedtheequation}%
\edef\theequation{\the\@stequation}\global\@ignoretrue}
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