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TeXhax Digest Tuesday, December 4, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 073
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
Correct list of LaTeX fonts, anyone?
Correction for DVI2LN03 for August 1990 DECUS TeX Collection
LaTeX style for Crop Marks
Re: TeXhax Digest V90 #071 (verbatim)
Changing page length mid-document (TeXhax Digest V90 #072)
TeX for P/OS
Feynman Diagrams in LaTeX
MakeIndex for MS-DOS, and a new anonymous ftp site for TeX.
Needed: Addresses of vendors
Aesthetics: suggested new error message
\sf and \bf
\topglue
7-bit encodings (TeXhax Digest V90 #071)
index formatting
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Date: Tue, 4 DEC 90 14:12:39 BST
From: UHAC010@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk
Subject: Correct list of LaTeX fonts, anyone?
Keywords: LaTeX, fonts
I'm trying to get together the minimal set of fonts that would be needed by a
LaTeX user assuming the standard styles and no use of \newfont. I have analysed
LFONTS.TEX to produce what I thought was the list, but I'm obviously being
naive, because LaTeX keeps surprising me by asking for fonts at unexpected
magnifications. Has anyone got a complete list of names and sizes?
Dr Adrian Johnstone,
Mail: Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway & Bedford New College,
University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England
Phone: 0784 443425 (+44-784 443425) Fax: 0784 437520 Telex: 935504 RHC
Janet: a.johnstone@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax
Arpa: a.johnstone%vax.rhbnc.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 21:27:23 EST
From: ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland)
Subject: Correction for DVI2LN03 for August 1990 DECUS TeX Collection
Keywords: DECUS, correction
A problem has been found with the STARTUP.COM in the DECUS TeX Collection
of August 1990. This problem affects the DVI2LN03 DVI driver included in
the collection.
The problem is that the driver looks up the TFM files via the logical name
TEX$FONTS instead of using the TEX_FONTS. This results in the DVI driver
reporting the font characters are incorrect.
To correct the problem edit the STARTUP.COM file in [TEX.EXE] to include
a logical name definition for TEX$FONTS that is the same as the one for
TEX_FONTS (or change the code for DVI2LN03 to use the TEX_FONTS logical, which
is what I will be doing to the master collection).
Sorry about the problem, but I was not able to get access to a "clean" machine
(one that did not already have an old TeX installation) to test the collection
and I was caught by the fact the TEX$FONTS was legal and good definition on
the system I was using to create collection. [Anyone have a VAX system they
can give me to continue the development of the collection under conditions I
can control? ;) ]
If anyone finds any other problems with the DECUS TeX Collection, please send
the notices to decus-tex@nieland.dayton.oh.us.
M. Edward (Ted) Nieland
DECUS TeX Collection Editor
Ted@NIELAND.DAYTON.OH.US
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Date: 30 Nov 90 6:33 -0800
From: Darrell Wick <wick@instr.camosun.bc.ca>
Subject: LaTeX style for Crop Marks
Keywords: LaTeX, crop marks
I would like to include crop marks on my LaTeX output. Is there
a style or other routine for accomplishing this?
Thanks,
Darrell Wick <Wick@Camosun.BC.CA>
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 16:15:54 CET
From: mahilata <P86%DHDURZ1@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V90 #071 (verbatim)
Keywords: verbatim, \frenchspacing
re: verbatim
\frenchspacing does the trick
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 14:28:58 -0800
From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Subject: Changing page length mid-document (TeXhax Digest V90 #072)
Keywords: page length
We have used this for years to balance pages in the Near Eastern Publications
Format at the University of Washington. You need a few \new.... declarations
to start with. If there is any stretchable glue anywhere, \longpage will
often act like a no-op, but in several of our formats we don't permit any
stretch at all, because we like to make facing lines match up.
\longpage and \verylongpage must be invoked well before the end of the page.
\shortpage wants to be in the line you want to end the page with.
Page balancing being what it is, I have never spent any time on trying
to make this more sophisticated. It is hand work anyway.
%
\def\longpage{\pagegoal=\longpagedepth}%
\def\verylongpage{\pagegoal=\verylongpagedepth}%
\def\shortpage{\vadjust{\mainstrut}}%
\finalhyphendemerits=15000 % We rather disapprove of these
\linepenalty=-10 % We don't really care how many lines (within reason)
\widowpenalty=10000\clubpenalty=10000 % But oh how we hate widows!
\let\textpoint=\elevenpoint
\textpoint
%
% Now that we have a baselineskip value and a strut, we can set the following
%
\global\setbox\mainstrutbox=\hbox{\strut}\def\mainstrut{\unhcopy\mainstrutbox}
\longpagedepth=\nettdepth \advance \longpagedepth by \baselineskip
\verylongpagedepth=\longpagedepth \advance \verylongpagedepth by \baselineskip
It also helps to have a dvi-display system that opens two pages in a
proper verso-recto pair. Unfortunately, there aren't enough of those.
Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software should be sent primarily
to: elisabet@max.u.washington.edu Elizabeth Tachikawa
otherwise to: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay
Smail: Northwest Computing Support Center TUG Site Coordinator for
Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10 Unix-flavored TeX
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-6259
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 13:36 EDT
From: BURT@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: TeX for P/OS
Keywords: TeX, P/OS
Are there versions of TeX that run under P/OS, the operating system
of the DEC Professional? P/OS is related to RSX-11M-Plus, and I may be
able to run such an application as well. Thanks for your help
John Burt
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 10:37 EST
From: "Stephen A. Wood, (804)249-7367" <SAW@CEBAF2.CEBAF.GOV>
Subject: Feynman Diagrams in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, Feynman diagrams
A paper entitled "A LaTeX Graphics Routine for Drawing Feynman Diagrams"
by Michael J.S. Levine recently appeared in Computer Physics Communications
(V 58, p 181-198 (1990)). Does anyone know where this LaTeX macro package
FEYNMAN is available electronically?
Stephen A. Wood (saw@cebaf2.cebaf.gov)
CEBAF
Newport News, Virginia
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 15:10:16 EST
From: AHLQUIST@METSAT.MET.FSU.EDU
Subject: MakeIndex for MS-DOS, and a new anonymous ftp site for TeX.
Keywords: Makeindex, MS-DOS
Regarding Masoud Salehi's question in TeXhax no. 72,
MakeIndex for MS-DOS is available from science.utah.edu.
Nelson Beebe made the adaptation. Note: science.utah.edu is
now a UNIX machine.
MakeIndex is probably also available from a number of other
sites, including metsat.met.fsu.edu. The latter address
is a new anonymous ftp site which I am helping to manage.
For MS-DOS machines, we offer SBTeX with a choice of
several screen previewers and a few Beebe printer drivers.
All of the software was written elsewhere, but I have assembled it into
a form that is fairly straightforward to install, and I have
written unifying documentation. Among the utilities are MakeIndex
and BibTeX. For the Mac, we offer OzTeX.
We are very much in the learning curve of operating this site
and we hope to improve our documentation, etc. If you download
something now, a better version may be available in a few weeks
or a month, but give us a try, and let us know what is good and
what isn't. I have added more Internet information to Peter Flynn's
servers.tex document, and it is available from our site.
- Jon
Dr. Jon Ahlquist, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL 32306-3034, USA
Telephone: (904) 644-1558
Internet: ahlquist@metsat.met.fsu.edu
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 09:18:45 GMT
From: Vincenzo <DEFLORIO%IBACSATA@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Needed: Addresses of vendors
Keywords: Tex, vendors, addresses, general
Daer friends,
I would like to find the addresses of some vendors of the TeX package
for the HP-9000 running HP-UX. Anybody can help me? The vendors of the
fonts and the device drivers (dviXX) are also apreciated.
Thanks a lot|
Vincenzo (DeFlorio at IBaCsata.BITNET)
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 16:31 GMT
From: "Peter Flynn, UCC" <CBTS8001%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Aesthetics: suggested new error message
Keywords: TeX, error messages
A colleague here was reading a book on DTP and came across a much-wished-for
error message (the book was lamenting that no system had it)...
+------------------------------+
| Page aesthetically offensive |
| Refusing to print |
+------------------------------+
I don't suppose there's any way we can get this into TeX...:-)
///Peter
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 90 12:59:14 GMT
From: Donald Peterson <PetersonDM@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk>
Subject: \sf and \bf
Keywords: fonts, Sans Serif, LaTeX
I find the Sans Serif typeface very attractive, anfd often want to use
it as the main typeface in a LaTeX document. However, I then find
thsat whenever \bf is used (e.g. by the \chapter{}, \section{}
commands, in the toc, etc), the typeface reverts to Roman.
Is there any way of setting it to \sf so that it stays that way,
becoming bold when necessary, unless there is an explicit request to
change to Roman?
I worked out how to load a specific size of bold-sans-serif, but this
is very clumsy.
Donald Peterson.
Please send replies direct to PetersonDM@uk.ac.bham.cs
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 90 12:38:05 +0000
From: Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: \topglue
Keywords: TeX, \topglue
Just learned that my 17th paperback printing of the TeXbook is out of date.
Grrr.
The culprit is \topglue, which seems to be addressed to solving the
complexities about \topskip and what happens at the top of a page.
Could some kind soul produce a diff file of 17th to 18th printing of
the TeXbook, or even just the text relating to \topglue?
Dominik
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 90 16:36:25 -0800
From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Subject: 7-bit encodings (TeXhax Digest V90 #071)
Keywords: encoding
Although I have long been partial to the atob<--->btoa pair of programs,
which are also well known and have been around for many years, I will
echo Dominik Wujastyk's appeal, and consent to switch to any version
of a well-known free software encoding which
1. Guarantees that the leftmost character in each line is a safe
Alpha character.
2. Excludes the ASCII space character. (This is the weak spot in
the traditional uuencode. Space was permitted in early btoa
encodings, but the authors learned better soon.)
3. Provides at least 2 validation checks at the end of the file
Such as line or character count and some sort of checksum.
I do not know XXencode, but I fervently hope, since it is being pushed
at present, that it meets these minimum criteria, especially number 2.
Is there a convenient North American source?
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 10:02:09 EST
From: jrv@sdimax2.mitre.org
Subject: index formatting
Keywords: TeX, index, formatting
Gentlemen:
I am trying to create an index in two column form with plain TeX. I
have implemented the two column macros on page 257 of the TeXBook, and
they format text into two columns fine. I'd now like to add the
continuation notes where a main entry spills over into the next column.
These macros from page 262 to create the appropriate marks run OK:
\def\beginindex{\begingroup
\parindent=1em \maxdepth=\maxdimen
\def\par{\endgraf \futurelet\next\inxentry}
\obeylines \everypar={\hangindent 2\parindent}
\exhyphenpenalty=10000 \raggedright}
\def\inxentry{\ifx\next\sub \let\next=\subentry
\else\ifx\next\endindex \let\next=\vfill
\else\let\next=\mainentry \fi\fi \next}
\def\endindex{\mark{}\break\endgroup}
\let\sub=\indent \newtoks\maintoks \newtoks\subtoks
\def\mainentry#1,{\mark{}\noindent
\maintoks={#1}\mark{\the\maintoks}#1,}
\def\subentry\sub#1,{\mark{\the\maintoks}\indent
\subtoks={#1}\mark{\the\maintoks\sub\the\subtoks}#1,}
With just these macros, the index looks good - correct line breaks,
indentation, etc. I then added the following code from page 263 to
produce the continuation lines:
\newtoks\normaloutput
\normaloutput={\if L\lr
\global\setbox\leftcolumn=\columnbox\global\let\lr=R
\else \doubleformat \global\let\lr=L\fi}
\output={\dimen0=\dp255 \normaloutput
\ifodd\pageno\else\if L\lr
\expandafter\inxcheck\botmark\sub\end\fi\fi}
\def\inxcheck#1\sub#2\end{\def\next{#1}%
\ifx\next\empty % do nothing if \botmark is null
\else\noindent #1\continued % 'main entry (continued):'
\def\next{#2}%
\ifx\next\empty % nothing more if \botmark has no \sub
\else\let\sub=\continued \indent #2\fi
\advance\dimen0 by-\prevdepth \kern\dimen0 \fi}
\def\continued{ ({\it continued}\thinspace):\endgraf}
However, they generate the following error messages in the log file:
This is TeX, Version 3.0(c)sb30 (preloaded format=plain 90.4.30) 26 NOV
1990 10:19
...
! Missing { inserted.
<to be read again>
}
<everypar>
\hangindent 2\parindent
\next ...the \maintoks }\indent
\subtoks ={#1}\mark {\the \ma...
l.58 \sub programming,
integer, 26
?
! Missing } inserted.
<inserted text>
}
<to be read again>
\endgroup
l.113 \endindex
?
! Unbalanced output routine.
<inserted text> }
<to be read again>
\endgroup
l.113 \endindex
Am I doing something wrong, or was there an error in the TeXBook at
this point? I've tried inserting braces various places, without luck. The
code is much too subtle for me to follow.
While I'm at it, I note that the above code assumes that each main
entry ends in a comma. How should it be modified to allow a main entry
without a comma (i.e. no page numbers)?
Thanks in advance.
- Jim Van Zandt
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