[comp.archives] Three topics: Cyrillic, Machine readable Help, 2 column article

JMS@arizona.edu (jms, at home, with vax and mac) (04/22/91)

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Original-posting-by: JMS@arizona.edu (jms, at home, with vax and mac)
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In a recent TeXhax, Peter Flynn asks three questions:

1. Two column article, with single column title/abstract.

This is what DeProc (DECUS Proceedings) style was designed for.  Barbara Beeton
wrote this style sheet and contributed it to DECUS.  For an example, look
at any recent DECUS Proceedings (US chapter).  

DeProc is available by anonymous ftp to Arizona.Edu.  Once on, cd to
[.software.deproc.tex] or [.software.deproc.latex].  Complete instructions
are included.

2. Help (machine readable) for TeX/LaTeX

Off of a non-recent DECUS tape, someone put a full LaTeX help in VAX/VMS
help format.  I don't know which one (it's been years), but it is highly
likely that it is available on the DECUS TeX package tape.  

3. Cyrillic fonts/macros

As far as I know, there is only one set of inexpensive/free Cyrillic fonts for
TeX/LaTeX, and that's the ones from AMS.  The old ones were free and were
in Metafont 84 (or some such that no one can compile); the new ones are 
(I think) $45, and come on a PC disk.  We got them, loaded them onto the
VAX, and have been going great guns.  

However, we're strictly amateurs at Russian TeX---really interested readers
will want to subscribe to RUSTEX-L (via LISTSERV@UBVM, I think), which has
had intense discussions on this for quite some time.  A perusal of their
archives is highly recommended to get up to speed on the topic.

jms

Joel M Snyder, The Mosaic Group, 627 E Speedway, 85705  Phone: 602.626.8680
(University of Arizona, Dep't of MIS, Eller Graduate School of Management)
BITNET: jms@arizmis  Internet: jms@mis.arizona.edu  SPAN: 47541::uamis::jms   

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