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UKTeX V90 #25 Friday 3 August 1990
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Today's topics:
RE: \pmod
RE: OzTeX hash size increase
Right headers
Euler fonts
EUFMxx.TFM
Re: Landscape mode for HP Laserjet driver?
'Idiosyncracies of the Archive' column
Re: bibtex
Proposed new BSI (and ISO) work on SGML
Previewer for HP PC? and problems with PCDOT
The UK TeX Users Group's Newsletter
tfm to afm?
Change bars in Latex
FWEB - Fortran Web
Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 1-AUG-1990 00:31:40.72
multi.ps - `n up' PostScript printing
new release of SeeTeX
Re: Multiline math formulas
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Subject: RE: \pmod
Date: Fri, 27 JUL 90 11:01:45 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
In a message of Fri, 27 Jul 90 10:26:28,
PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA wrote:
>
> On p164 of The TeXBook it states that ``\pmod is to be used when `mod' occurs
> parenthetically at the end of a formula.''
> ... ... ...
> Do any other maths control words in Plain TeX start with \allowbreak?
>
no
Chris Rowley
on behalf of The Aston Archivists
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Subject: RE: OzTeX hash size increase
Date: Fri, 27 JUL 90 11:10:15 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
> From: VDM@UK.AC.LEICESTER
> To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON
>
> Does anyone have a version of OzTeX which has been generated
> with a hash size of > 5,000?
>
My enquiries suggest not:
So here is a plea to any MODULA2 hackers out there---
Please help us rectify this situation, otherwise OzTeX will go the
way of the Dodo (which, apparently, was quite a handsome bird).
Perhaps I can take this opportunity to point out that ALL TeX systems
now need such a large hash size, together with other memory parameters
larger than the previous standard sizes. Deatils of the new standrads
are available from:
Barbara beeton <bnb@com.ams.math>
Chris Rowley
on behalf of The Aston Archivists
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Subject: Right headers
From: Mike Piff <PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA>,
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 13:48:29
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From Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield,
The Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, SHEFFIELD S3 7RH, England.
Tel. SHEFFIELD(0742) 768555 Extension 4431.
JANET MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM
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Peter King asks how to make right headers refer to the last section.
Simply insert
\makeatletter
\def\rightmark{\expandafter\@rightmark\botmark}
\makeatother
in the preamble. There is more explanation in other copies of UKTeX, eg
UKTeX90 #16.
Mike Piff.
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Subject: Euler fonts
From: Mike Piff <PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 14:10:52
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From Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield,
The Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, SHEFFIELD S3 7RH, England.
Tel. SHEFFIELD(0742) 768555 Extension 4431.
JANET MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM
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Mark Manning asks about the possibility of getting EUFMxx.TFM from the Archive.
Message from PM1MJP at SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA on 30/07/90 at 13:48:59
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 14:06:30
From: Mike Piff <PM1MJP @ UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA>
Subject: EUFMxx.TFM
To: mrm1@cam.phx
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From Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield,
The Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, SHEFFIELD S3 7RH, England.
Tel. SHEFFIELD(0742) 768555 Extension 4431.
JANET MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM
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Mark,
I tried unsuccessfully for four months to get the Euler TFM files. I also
waited for six months for the AMS to send the new AMS-TeX to us, and now we
have them at last! Bad news! The AMS changed all its fonts, including their
names in most cases, but not the name EUFMxx. They changed MSXM and MSYM to
MSAM and MSBM, for instance, and changed the definitions of blackboard bold
letters, so even the serifs have holes in them!!
What the solution is I am not sure, other than the Archive installing all the
new font files, and making sure they are accessible!
Mike Piff.
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Subject: Re: Landscape mode for HP Laserjet driver?
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 13:46:15 bst
From: SPQR@UK.AC.SOUTHAMPTON.ECS
NDN@UK.CO.NATIONAL-PHYSICAL-LAB.SEG writes:
> Is there available a driver for the HP Laserjet which supports
> landscape mode? There is some correspondence in the Beebe collection
> which suggests that one exists but there is no code for it. Any help
> gratefully received,
One would have thought it was easy; the emTeX drivers for MSDOS
support landscape mode (and lots of other things), but not for the HP
LJ! Curious, isn't it. Thats how I read it, anyway. Here is the
relevant extract from the documentation:
/tr# Output transformation
/tr0 normal output
/tr1 rotate 90 degrees anticlockwise
/tr2 rotate 180 degrees
/tr3 rotate 270 degrees anticlockwise
/tr4 reflect in the \ diagonal
/tr5 reflect vertically
/tr6 reflect in the / diagonal
/tr7 reflect horizontally
In practice only /tr0 and /tr1 are most often used.
The transformations when applied to the pattern
A B
C D
E F
are
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
A B B D F F E E C A A C E E F F D B B A
C D A C E D C F D B B D F C D E C A D C
E F B A A B F E
Important: set the page height and width correctly with /h# and /w#
(for coordinate transformations)
Note: the same page dimensions can be used for all transformations,
that is, /h# and /w# need not be changed. The margins set
with /t# and /l# are `above' or (to the) `left' (of) the text
and will be transformed. The same goes for /cx# and /cy#.
However, the borders set by /la# and /ta# are `printer
borders' and will not be transformed.
Note: if /rx# and /ry# differ then different fonts will be needed
when rotating by 90 or 270 degrees or reflecting in a diagonal
-- this applies to dvifx, dvip6m, dviitoh and dviaiw!
Note: for key assignments for dviscr/dvivik see <K> and <T>.
Current limitations for the transformations 1 to 7:
-- dvihplj: the printer remains in portrait mode
-- large characters don't work
-- \special{em:graph} doesn't work
**********************
I append some info from the manual page for Neumann's dvi2xx program
(includes HP LaserJet) - see [.drivers.neumann] at Aston. it does NOT
do what you want either.
Sebastian
\special commands
Two TeX '\special' commands are implemented:
\special{file=<filename>}
copy specified file to the printer; either vector- or
bitmap-graphics PMP commands (for laserjet and 3812)
\special{orientation=<value>}
set page orientation to 0, 1, 2, 3; rotate following output
to landscape mode etc. (3812 only).
others:
There are a few other special commands implented for the LJ-
series, which should only be used in connection with the
distributed style files (eg graybox.sty). They are likely to be
changed in forthcoming versions.
Double Page Printing
The command line option -D causes the printer to print in
doublepage mode, that is - roughly speaking - printing first the
even pagen and then the odd pages of a document. After the first
half of the pages are printed the following happens:
3812: the printer beeps, shows message U1. An operator has to
refill the printed pages into the paper tray and to push
the continue button on the printer.
LJ: the printer stops, shows message "FEED" and switches on
manual feed led. The printer continues when either the
printed pages are fed into the manual page feeder, or the
operator pushes the continue button (after placing first
the printed pages into the paper tray).
The driver allows the -D option for both print-directions
(front-to-back or back-to-front printing). It tries to be clever
in certain cases: when a document has an odd number of pages it
inserts in the right place an empty page when a document starts
with page 0 the driver inserts an empty page after the 0-page
when a piece of a document is printed that starts with an even
page-number it prints this page at the backside of the first page
to ensure that the odd sides are always on the frontside. The 0-
page is treated like an odd page.
The doubleside option works for all LJs, not only for the new D
model with does doubleside-printing (actually, i don't know
wether it makes much sense on the new LJ II D at all).
Caveat on the doubleside-option: When it is used frequently or on
very large files, it might become necessary to clean the printer
much more frequently.
The command line option -pX can be used to abort printing after
the output of X pages (can lead to strange results together with
-D). I personally dislike this option. The secure way of printing
a part of a document is using -f (from) and -t (to).
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Subject: 'Idiosyncracies of the Archive' column
From: Mike Piff <PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 15:56:20
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From Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield,
The Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, SHEFFIELD S3 7RH, England.
Tel. SHEFFIELD(0742) 768555 Extension 4431.
JANET MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM
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[tex-archive.latex.contrib]cup.dir-list
does not appear to lead anywhere!
Mike Piff
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Subject: Re: bibtex
From: Don Hosek <DHOSEK%EDU.CLAREMONT.HMCVAX@UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 12:05 PDT
There is a somewhat sparse set of macros for base-level use of BibTeX
for use with plain TeX in TeXMaG V2N1. This is available from the Aston
archive (people outside the UK may want to grab it from the ymir archive
in [anonymous.tex.periodicals.texmag]; (users without FTP access may
obtain that back issue by sending the message
SEND [TEX.PERIODICALS.TEXMAG]TEXMAG.V2N1
to mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu
-dh
{in the Aston archive, TeXMaG issues are in [TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TEXMAG]
---Ed.}
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Subject: Proposed new BSI (and ISO) work on SGML
From: Robin Fairbairns on LSL cluster
<ROBIN%UK.CO.LASER-SCAN@000000000040.PSS.234222300203.FTP.MAIL>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 9:25 BST
The following arrived in my mailbox today from Chris Cartledge, who is chair of
BSI committee IST/31, computer graphics. While it's not *strictly*
TeX-relevant, I thought there were some of you out there who could be
interested.
>Dear Colleagues
>
>The following IST/18 NWI proposals msy be of interest to some of you.
>
>90/65152 - SGML-B Abstract Defn of SGML binary encoding
>90/65153 - SMDL Standard Music Description Language,
> HyTime - hypermedia/Time-based subset
>
> Chris
The numbers refer to BSI distribution; contact me (in the first instance) if
you're interested.
Robin
Robin Fairbairns, Senior Consultant, postmaster and general dogsbody
Laser-Scan Ltd., Science Park, Milton Rd., Cambridge CB4 4FY, UK
Tel (+44) 223 420414; Fax (+44) 223 420044; Telex 817346 LSLCAM G
Email: robin@lsl.co.uk --or-- rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
Disclaimer: If you're not quick, I'll be on holiday for a bit!
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Subject: Previewer for HP PC? and problems with PCDOT
Date: Tue, 31 JUL 90 10:36:54 BST
From: Stephen Phippen
Forwarded-by: Peter Abbott (Aston University) <p.abbott@uk.ac.aston>
Dear Mr Abbott,
I phoned you earlier today and you kindly said that you could supply me
with Preview for TEX. My computer is a Hewlett Packard PC with a VGA mono
screen. (I would welcome any accompanying documentation if available.) I
will, of course, send you any costs for this.
The printer problem I mentioned is that when using PCDOT with single A4
sheets in the printer (Star LC10), if the document is several pages long
the printer goes off-line after the first page (paper out) and gives an
error message on the screen asking whether to Abort, Retry or Ignore. I
can continue with Retry or Ignore, but the break shows up as misalignment
or spurious characters on the second page. This problem doesn't happen with
continuous paper, although I haven't mastered how to keep the paper aligned
with the print pages: the paper is A4 but setting the PCDOT H size to /H=11
.7in doesn't seem to work.
Thank you for your help with this.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Phippen
Editorial Department
Royal National Institute for the Blind
Bakewell Road
Orton Southgate
Peterborough,
Cambridgeshire
PE2 0XU
Telephone 0733 370777
Fax 0733 371555
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Subject: The UK TeX Users Group's Newsletter
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 10:40:24 BST
From: ALIEN@UK.AC.ESSEX
The TeX Users Group is starting to produce a newsletter, which is
intended to report on UK TeX Users Group activities, to provide a
mechanism for disseminating information on the use of TeX, and to give
a focal point for TeX-related discussion. I have been appointed as
interim editor by the UK TeX Users Group by the Committee; a `proper'
post will probably be available for election at the AGM next October.
Note that this newsletter will not supercede Malcolm Clark's maverick
`TeXline.'
The purpose of this message is to draw your attention to the
newsletter and to solicit the submission of articles, from both
members of the UK TeX Users Group and non-members. These can take the
form of either full articles prepared in either plain TeX (with fairly
generic mark-up, please) or LaTeX (article style) or letters to the
editor. We would like to produce an issue of the newsletter before
the AGM, to be held in mid-October; hence the tentative deadline for
submissions for this first issue is 15th September 1990.
Adrian F. Clark
JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct)
Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK.
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Subject: tfm to afm?
Date: Tue Jul 31 11:41:04 GMT 1990
From: GTOAL@UK.AC.EDINBURGH.COMPUTER-SCIENCE.TARDIS
Hello; does anyone have a tfm to afm converter handy? (Note the
direction... yes, I *do* want to do it that way round!) - I've trawled
the archives with grep & all the keywords I can think of... no luck.
Thanks if you can point me at one,
Graham.
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Subject: Change bars in Latex
Date: Tue, 31 JUL 90 15:55:15 BST
From: SHW_X@UK.AC.LEICESTER
A year ago in TexHax a macro for providing change bars
in Latex documents was described. Unfortunately
it was based around a LN03 laser printer.
Has anyone got a general purpose change bar macro or
one that would work with a Postscript printer.
Thanks in advance
Hugo Korwaser
SHW_X@UK.AC.LEICESTER
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Subject: FWEB - Fortran Web
Date: Tue, 31 JUL 90 16:12:56 BST
From: SHW_X@UK.AC.LEICESTER
A development of Web to deal with Fortran has
been developed by John Krommes at Princeton.
Unfortunately the only way of getting the code
is by anonymous ftp. I don't have the
facilities to perform this.
If anyone who has anonymous ftp facilities to
an American Unix machine would be willing to
obtain the files I would be most grateful.
Thanks
Hugo Korwaser
SHW_X@UK.AC.LEICESTER
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Subject: multi.ps - `n up' PostScript printing
From: spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 90 22:02:47 BST
the files
[tex-archive.utils.multi]multi.ps
[tex-archive.utils.multi]read.me
in the UK TeX archive at Aston provide you with Ross Cartlidge's
PostScript code to permit arbitrary `n up' printing of multiple
logical pages on physical page. This duplicates the effect of `mpage',
also in the archive, but has the advantage that it works with output
from Rokicki's dvips.
I append the introduction. Please note that this is not a `packaged'
command; using requires some understanding of how your printing
command works. For instance, I run dvips under Unix with a shell
script, and I have added an option flag `-2' which inserts the
multi.ps code in the right place. You will have to do something
similar.
Until you have seen 64 weeny pages on one sheet of paper, you haven't
lived!
sebastian rahtz
*******
This package is a PostScript prolog which when used with almost
any valid PostScript will output it with multiple logical pages
on each physical page. Each logical page will be identical (but smaller)
to the original result of each showpage.
Written By:
Ross Cartlidge
University Computing Service
Building H08, Sydney University
NSW, 2006, Australia
rossc@extro.ucc.su.oz.au Email
+61 2 692 3495 Phone
+61 2 660 6557 Fax
It works by overlaying each PostScript Operator which is affected by
or affects the absolute graphics state with a procedure which first goes back
to normal full page graphics state, does the operator, and
then restores the multiple page graphics state. Thus when "initgraphics", eg,
is executed its transformation of CTM, path and clippath is mapped
onto the multiple page representation. Also when a "save" is done the
full page version is saved, thus when "restore" is done - possibly many
logical pages into the future - the graphics state saved is transformed
into the new multi page.
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Subject: new release of SeeTeX
From: spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 90 22:08:29 BST
The current release of Dirk Grunwald's SeeTeX package has been put in
the UK TeX Archive, under [tex-archive.drivers.seetex]. This provides
(under Unix), the following:
dviselect - select part of a dvi file
texx - X previewer
texsun - sunview previewer
xtex - new X previewer, more sophisticated than texx
Due to the mismatching behaviour of VMS in not storing mixed case
filenames, you may have to do some work resurrecting this package. The
author is very fond of mixed case names. sigh.
I don't use this, so please don't ask me for detailed advice. I do my
X previewing with xdvi. But many people swear by at it.
sebastian rahtz
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Subject: Re: Multiline math formulas
From: Rainer Schoepf <BK4%EARN.DHDURZ1@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 12:40:07 CET
On July 14, Laurent Siebenmann <SIEBENMANN@LALCLS.DECNET.CERN.CH> wrote:
This problem occurs naturally with mathematical
displays that accidentally exceed line length. The typist
casually throws in \\ when the overrun occurs, and
disaster ensues if the elastic (self-sizing) \left( and
\right) are separated by the \\. To avoid a TeX error,
you would have to balance the "\left(" with an invisible
"\right." on the same line and similarly for "\right)".
But that may lead to parentheses of different sizes, a
minor tyographic disaster rather than a TeX error.
A nasty problem that typist repeatedly lose time
on. Indeed many math typists completely abandon use of the
self-sizing mechanism to avoid this one hitch.
I use AmSTeX rather than LaTeX and the macro
chiefly involved there is \multline ... \endmultline.
Over the past couple of years I have mentioned
this problem to Mike Spivak, author of AmSTeX.
His answer has always been: FORGET IT,
THERE IS NO WAY OUT!
What he really means, I believe, is that
it is a hard problem to solve inasmuch as it would require
careful rewriting of the hefty macros involved. And Spivak
is very busy with LamSTeX...
I'm the person who rewrote the AmSTeX macros for use as LaTeX
environments, so I feel sufficiently prepared to comment on this:
My first reaction was to say that Michael Spivak is absolutely right:
this is one of the deficiencies of TeX itself rather than the macros.
In a alignment (and \begin{multline}...\end{multline} is an alignment
as well as most of the complicated AmSTeX macros) every entry is
implicitly enclosed in a group. Since \left(...\right) form themselves
a special sort of group they must match in every entry.
Now, after thinking a bit on the problem, I can see one or two
possibilities to circumvent (NOT SOLVE!) the problem; e.g., one could
measure the height and depth of all rows and automatically generate
struts to get the right size for the large delimiters. However, this
shows already that it is not general enough to be given to the ordinary
user/typist. Besides, the code would be very complicated. And the
multline environment is not the only case: what about \begin{split}...
\end{split}?
In short, I cannot see a satisfactory solution to this problem without
rewriting parts of TeX itself.
Here is another feature I would like to
see in a rewritten \multline... \endmultline. In typing a
long formula the typist usually vaguely foresees the
possibility of a break, and would be able to indicate the
best breakpoint. What one needs is a **discretionary
equation break**, say \notch. It should behave like the
well known discretionary hyphen.
I don't understand this suggestion. Do you propose to break the
formula automatically, i.e. no more \\ in the multline environment?
Rainer Sch\"opf
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David Osborneralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (08/13/90)
Does anyone know what patches are necessary for that UKTeX postings to comp.text.tex can be read as digests. Neither gnus nor rmail seem to be able handle this format. Or maybe the UKTeX Digest could change their format? I do not know what the differences are. -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Reliable software should kill people reliably! -Andy Mickel, Pascal News #13,78
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (08/16/90)
In article <RALPH.90Aug13161937@orion.laas.fr> ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
Does anyone know what patches are necessary for that UKTeX postings to
comp.text.tex can be read as digests. Neither gnus nor rmail seem to
be able handle this format. Or maybe the UKTeX Digest could change
apologies on behalf of the UK TeX Archive team. We will discuss this
and see what we can do to make our output compatible with `bursters'.
no guarentees though. I should point out that all the maintenance etc
is done on a Vax under VMS, so don't offer to send us clever Unix
software...
sebastian
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