TeXhax@CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (TeXhax Digest) (04/14/91)
TeXhax Digest Saturday, April 13, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 017
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
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Announcing DVItoLN03 V4.0 for VAX/VMS
art14 style
Astronomical Symbols
MF for old English available from ymir.claremont.edu
mode_def collection modes.mf 0.4 released
Karl Berry's MODES available at FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET
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Date: Fri, 22 MAR 91 17:10:55 GMT
From: TEX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk
Subject: Announcing DVItoLN03 V4.0 for VAX/VMS
Keywords: dvitoln03, VAX/VMS
(The following announcement appeared three weeks ago in UKTeX; I have deferred
the announcment in TeXhax until assured of the program's availability by
anonymous FTP on the Internet. BHK 22-MAR-1991)
DVItoLN03 Version 4.0 27th February 1991
This new release of DVItoLN03 provides support for virtual fonts, for
mixing portrait and landscape orientation in a document (including on
the same page) and for the newer DEClaser printers (LN05 & LN06), as
well as managing to effect a 25% increase in speed: it has been placed
in the UK TeX Archive as follows:
Sources, documentation and other support:
in [tex-archive.drivers.ln03.rmcs] -- get 00files.txt for details
Binary files (can only be transferred to a VAX, using TRANSFER/CODE=FAST):
in [tex-archive.binary.vms.drivers.dvitoln03]
DVITOLN03.OBJ -- ought to link under any version of VMS
DVITOLN03.EXE -- linked under VMS V5.3-1
DVITOLN03.BCK -- BACKUP save set containing the complete
distribution; sites able to effect NIFTP can
usefully fetch the whole shebang in one go.
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* *
* Please ensure that you fetch and read the 00README.TXT file. *
* *
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Internet Access
===============
Thanks to the good offices of Sankara Rao and Don Hosek, the new version
of DVItoLN03 is now available Stateside as follows (note that the .EXE
file needs to be transferred as 512-byte fixed-length blocks; the .OBJ
file is, of course, variable-length no-carriage_control. File
DVItoLN03.SAVE_SET contains everything except the two .STY files as a
backup save set, but is recorded as 32256-byte fixed-length blocks:
being based in the UK, I don't know whether it's feasible to transfer
such a file by anonymous FTP!)
From power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu [134.129.123.1] by anonymous FTP; files
present as follows---
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]00README.TXT;1 21/21 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]CHANGEBAR.STY;1 46/48 19-MAR-1991 18:16
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.HLP;13 25/30 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.LN3_PUBLISH;1 836/837 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.TEX_PUBLISH;12 255/258 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.CH;2 5/9 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.CLD;33 13/18 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.EXE;1 282/285 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.OBJ;1 455/456 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.SAVE_SET;2 3213/3213 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.WEB;16 902/906 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]GRAPHICS.STY;1 3/3 19-MAR-1991 18:16
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]LOCAL_GUIDES.BIB;45 16/18 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]OPENCLOSE.SIX;6 14/18 18-MAR-1991 09:07
DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]OPENCLOSE.SMALL;3 14/18 18-MAR-1991 09:07
From ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23] by anonymous FTP; files present
as follows---
LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.DRIVERS.UKLN03]
00FILES.TXT;1 3 13-MAR-1991 15:34 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE)
00README.TXT;1 21 25-FEB-1991 18:53 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
CHANGEBAR.STY;1 46 21-MAR-1991 09:38 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE)
DVILN03.HLP;13 25 26-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
DVILN03.LN3_PUBLISH;1 836 25-FEB-1991 16:26 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
DVILN03.TEX_PUBLISH;12 255 25-FEB-1991 16:29 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
DVITOLN03.CH;2 5 27-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
DVITOLN03.CLD;33 13 26-FEB-1991 12:17 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE)
DVITOLN03.EXE;1 282 27-FEB-1991 12:16 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
DVITOLN03.OBJ;1 455 27-FEB-1991 12:15 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
DVITOLN03.WEB;16 902 27-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
GRAPHICS.STY;1 3 21-MAR-1991 09:38 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE)
LOCAL_GUIDES.BIB;45 16 21-FEB-1991 19:24 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE)
OPENCLOSE.SIX;6 14 21-AUG-1989 19:25 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
OPENCLOSE.SMALL;3 14 21-AUG-1989 19:26 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)
Total of 2890 blocks in 15 files.
Features and functions
======================
This implementation of DVItoLN03 has the following advantages over
certain other DVItoLN03 programs (these are not in order of
importance; the new features are at the end of the list):
i) It IS written in WEB, as opposed to C and other such kludgy languages.
ii) It downloads to the LN03's font memory the rasters for only those
characters actually used in the document. As such, it does not run out
of font memory just because you've used a few characters from each of a
large number of different fonts.
iii) It has a capacity for SIMPLE graphics inclusions. These have to be in a
format the LN03 understands (DEC sixels), and are copied verbatim into
the output file generated. (Can also manage Tektronix insertions
on the LN03-plus.)
iv) It works in landscape and portrait orientations.
v) It makes use of the ``proper'' VAX/VMS DCL interface for commands.
vi) It CAN print glyphs whose rasters are too large to be downloaded to the
LN03 as a font file (by performing a sixel graphics dump of the bitmap);
obviously this slows things down considerably!
vii) It CAN handle the invisible fonts used by SliTeX; each such character is
actually downloaded as a null character locator, ans is imaged by the
appropriate amount of whitespace.
viii) Either packed or unpacked font files (or both) may be provided in either
flat or rooted directory structures; if logical names are used to specify
these locations (as in the .CLD file provided), the files may be spread
over a number of different directories or volumes.
ix) The error messages are improved over earlier versions of the program, and
are now all indexed in the woven (WEAVEd?) WEB. They are also all listed
in the users' manual.
x) The program can now handle fonts with more then 128 characters, up to
TeX's limit of 256. Therefore, it can now process documents which use
Silvio Levy's Greek fonts.
xi) Retention of the log (.TYP) file may now be forced, suppressed, or allowed
to be determined by the success of the processing.
xii) Minor revisions and corrections have been made, in particular, it now
correctly understands the physical limitations to the imaging area.
xiii) Correct some log reports; report files read (except font files); provide
the /OUTPUT qualifier, to permit utilization of a scratch directory or
direct spooling to the output device.
xiv) Support for Flavio Rose \special commands, for drawing changebars, was
added by Robin Fairbairns at Laser Scan of Cambridge, UK.
xv) TeX Font Metrics (TFM files) are no longer sought in the hard-wired
directory TEX$FONTS:, but are instead controlled through the
/TFM_DIRECTORY qualifier.
xvi) Support for Virtual Fonts; the .VF files are sought in whatever is
specified as the value of the /VIRTUAL_DIRECTORY qualifier; users can
speed processing fractionally by specifying /NOVIRTUAL_DIRECTORY if it is
known that no virtual fonts are used in the document. If virtual fonts
are never used at your site, make this the default.
xvii) Fonts for which the program cannot find any rasters no longer cause the
processing to be abandoned; solid rules of appropriate dimensions are
substituted for each missing glyph.
xviii)Landscape and portrait mode material may be mixed within a document, and
even on a single page, through \special{landscape} and \special{portrait}.
However, some suitable style option still needs to be written to make this
feature useful rather than a curiosity!
xix) Qualifiers /LEFT_MARGIN and /TOP_MARGIN now take a dimension (eg 1in)
rather than being required to be entered in pixels; the additional
<physical unit> called PX (pixel) has been added to TeX's normal set.
xx) Support for the new DEClaser 2100 and 2200 printers has been provided by
Karsten Nyblad of the Danish Telecomms Research Lab. Users can select the
paper source tray, separately for the first and subsequent sheets, and
also the printing mode (simplex or duplex). There is even a duplex mode
for the ordinary LN03 (no, it doesn't really print two-sided!) which, by
interspersing blank sheets at appropriate points, produces a single-sided
master suitable for photocopying directly to a double-sided document.
xxi) Last, but definitely not least, the program has been speeded up, in both
the font mapping and the imaging phases, so that overall it runs
approximately 25% faster than V3.1-4.
Author:
B Hamilton Kelly
Royal Military College of Science
Shrivenham
SWINDON
UK SN6 8LA
Swindon (++44 793) 785252 [Direct line]
or via JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs
INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Bitnet: tex@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk
UUCP: {mcsun,uunet,ukc}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex
Good Luck!
Brian HAMILTON KELLY
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 16:50:24 GMT+1
From: tex@ait.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: art14 style
Keywords: LaTeX, book style
A colleague of mine has to write his Ph.D. thesis very soon. This thesis
must be printed out in DIN A size (approx. 8x12 inch) and will be
reduced into 70% of its original size (appprox. 6x8 inch) in the press.
He found out that reducing a 12pt document down to 70% is difficult
to read, and therefore he is searching for a 14pt. book style.
Does anybody out there know where I can get the appropriate style file
(via anonymous FTP, if possible)? If "bk14" does not exist, an "art14" or
"rep14" would also be very helpful.
Thank you in advance,
Volkmar Kuhnle
TeX Manager
tex@aitxu2.ait.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 13:21:02 CET
From: Rainer Schoepf <JL2%DHDURZ1@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Astronomical Symbols
Keywords: Astronomical Symbols
In TeXhax 91/12 you asked how to print astronomical symbols. There is
a Metafont source available from LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.bitnet (and from
other servers as well). You should order PLANETS ZOOUUE from the
MFSOURCE FILELIST by sending a message with the command
GET PLANETS ZOOUUE MFSOURCE
Dr. Rainer Schoepf
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn
fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh
Heilbronner Str. 10 am Morgen schon so
D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!''
Federal Republic of Germany
Email: <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de>
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 19:10 PST
From: Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Subject: MF for old English available from ymir.claremont.edu
Keywords: Metafont, old English
Julian Bradfield's old English files are now available from
ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.mf.cm.oe]. The readme file
follows:
This directory contains programs for Old English letters.
The fonts created have:
D capital eth
d eth
T capital thorn
t thorn
G capital yogh
g yogh
n Polish ogonek accent
The thorn is the style that looks like p and b combined. The roman derived
fonts (i.e. not cmoeti10) also have
u lower-case thorn with side bowl pointing top right (the traditional shape;
I happen to think that the other shape blends better with CM); this code
is Knuth's, from the cmman font.
To make the fonts, just run Metafont on cmoer10 etc; other sizes and styles
can be make by adapting the CM parameter and driver files in the obvious way.
Julian Bradfield
jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk
dh
Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu
mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting
mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147
line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME
where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and
FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is
a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt
Binary files are not available by this technique.
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 16:21:31 EST
From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
Subject: mode_def collection modes.mf 0.4 released
Keywords: mode_def
I have released version 0.4 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/modes.mf
I will also send it to you by email if you cannot ftp. It is about 30K.
This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's (probably close to all
of them). It also makes common definitions for write-white printers and
`special' information.
If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, please send them to
me. I would also appreciate getting definitive information on the
NEC and/or Epson printers. (Notes in the file reflect the
current state of confusion.)
karl@cs.umb.edu
mode_def AgfaFourZeroZero = % AGFA 400PS
mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga.
mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5
mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi
mode_def boise = % HP 2680A
mode_def CanonCX = % e.g., Apple LaserWriter
mode_def CanonLBPTen = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10
mode_def CanonSX = % Canon SX
mode_def ChelgraphIBX = % Chelgraph IBX
mode_def CItohThreeOneZero = % CItoh 310
mode_def CompugraphicEightSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 8600
mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS
mode_def DataDisc = % DataDisc
mode_def DataDiscNew = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio
mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover
mode_def EpsonMXFX = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family
mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120dpi
mode_def HPDeskJet = % HP DeskJet 500
mode_def IBMFourTwoFiveZero = % IBM 4250
mode_def IBMFourTwoOneSix = % IBM 4216
mode_def IBMThreeEightOneTwo = % IBM 3812
mode_def IBMThreeEightTwoZero = % IBM 3820
mode_def IBMVGA = % IBM VGA monitor
mode_def imagewriter = % Apple ImageWriter
mode_def laserjetlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi
mode_def LASevenFive = % DEC LA75
mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZeroLo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi
mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZero = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi
mode_def LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi
mode_def LNZeroOne = % DEC LN01
mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor
mode_def MacMagnified = % Mac screens at magstep 1
mode_def MacTrueSize = % Mac screens at 72dpi
mode_def NECTwo = % NEC 2 at 120dpi
mode_def NECPSixLo = % NEC P6/P7 at 180dpi
mode_def NECPSixMed = % NEC P6/P7 at 360x180dpi
mode_def NECPSixHi = % NEC P6/P7 at 360dpi
mode_def NeXTprinter = % NeXT 400dpi
mode_def NeXTscreen = % 100dpi NeXT monitor
mode_def OCESixSevenFiveZeroPS = % OCE 6750PS
mode_def okidata = % Okidata
mode_def OneTwoZero = % e.g., high-resolution Suns
mode_def PrintwareSevenTwoZeroIQ = % Printware 720IQ
mode_def QMSOneTwoZeroZERO = % QMS 1200
mode_def RicohFourZeroEightZero = % e.g., the TI Omnilaser
mode_def RicohLP = % e.g., the DEC LN03
mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at true size
mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi
mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX
mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi
mode_def VarityperSixZeroZero = % Varityper Laser 600
mode_def VAXstation = % VAXstation monitor
mode_def XeroxThreeSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 3700
mode_def help = % What modes are defined?
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 07:12:07 CST
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET>
Subject: Karl Berry's MODES available at FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET
Keywords: modes, fileserv, Karl Berry
I needed to retrieve Karl Berry's modes.mf for local use anyway, so I
thought I would make it available on FILESERV as well so that people without
ftp access could easily retrieve it via MAIL. Below is the description file
which a LIST MODES would yield at FILESERV.
As a reminder, if you want a full listing of all packages we have available,
please include the command LIST (or DIRECTORY) in the body of a MAIL message
to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET. If you have a package which can be supported via
mail, please contact me directly and we can discuss putting it up for
access.
Regards, George
MODES
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MODES includes Karl Berry, et al.'s mode_def collection modes.mf 0.4.
This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's (probably close to all
of them). It also makes common definitions for write-white printers and
`special' information.
It is split into a two-part set for immediate transmittal on FILESERV. You
will need to concatenate the two parts in order to recreate the MODES.MF
file on your system.
To receive both of the MODES.MF files required to rebuild this release,
please send the command:
SENDME MODES
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET. If, for some reason,
you only need one part of this package, say, MODES.MF_1OF2, please MAIL the
command SENDME MODES.MF_1OF2 to FILESERV.
Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File Blocks Save concatenated file as: MODES.MF
MODES.MF_1OF2 32
MODES.MF_2OF2 29
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