[comp.text.tex] TeXhax Digest V90 #31

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TeXhax Digest    Sunday,  March 18, 1990  Volume 90 : Issue 31

Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay

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Today's Topics:         

                  Permuted Index of TeX and LaTeX Commands
                     MF settings for write-white engine
     (wanted) a way to keep citations from extending into the margin
                   Re: PostScript previewer? (Ghostscript)
                        Dataproducts LZR 1260 printer
              Putting Postscript Bitmaps Into LaTeX Documents
                              array environment
                          refer->bibtex conversion
                          refer->bibtex conversion
                               Bold math font
                             Problem with fonts
                                 8bit input
                    PostScript cmr fonts on Aston archive
               Re: mssymb and 11 point LaTeX articles don't mix
              Rotated fonts for y-axis labels in LaTeX graphics.

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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 11:11:29 EST
From: ches@research.att.com
Subject: Permuted Index of TeX and LaTeX Commands
Keywords: Information

The Permuted Index of TeX and LaTeX commands is back from the printer
(finally!)  If you have asked for copies you should be receiving them
in the next week or two.

Copies may be requested without charge.  Ask for CSTR 145 from
	neera@research.att.com

Work has started to make it available through TeXniques.

Bill Cheswick
ches@research.att.com

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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 09:52:02 EST
From: ches@research.att.com
Subject: MF settings for write-white engine
Keywords: MF, write-white

Does anyone have useful metafont settings for the write-white engine in the DEC LPS-20?

Thanks!

Bill Cheswick
ches@research.att.com

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 14:23:52 EST
From: rmt <@unh.edu:rmt@maxfli.unh.edu (Roy M. Turner)>
Subject: (wanted) a way to keep citations from extending into the margin
Keywords: BibTeX

I use BibTeX to put citations in LaTeX files. From time to time the
citation extends out past the right margin; telling it how to hyphenate the
names doesn't seem to help.  Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Thanks
Roy M. Turner
Department of Computer Science and Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory
Kingsbury Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
Internet:   rmt@unh.edu

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 12:47:31 CST
From: hrp@boring.cray.com (Hal Peterson)
Subject: Re: PostScript previewer? (Ghostscript)
Keywords: previewer, Ghosrscript

Be aware that a new release of Ghostscript, version 1.4, is currently
in beta test and should be generally available soon.  The new version
fixes a number of bugs, adds some new device drivers, and includes the
standard fonts.

Hal Peterson			Domain:  hrp@cray.com
Cray Research			Old style:  hrp%cray.com@uc.msc.umn.edu
1440 Northland Dr.		UUCP:  uunet!cray!hrp
Mendota Hts, MN  55120  USA	Telephone:  +1 612 681 3145

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 09:28:09 EST
From: smith%zeus@harvard.harvard.edu (Steven Smith)
Subject: Dataproducts LZR 1260 printer
Keywords: printer

Has anyone experience with the Dataproducts LZR 1260 printer?  We
would appreciate any comments about your experiences with its quality,
maintenance schedule, METAFONT mode_def, etc.

Steven Smith
smith@zeus.harvard.edu

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 17:37:19 EST
From: sdm@cs.brown.edu
Subject: Putting Postscript Bitmaps Into LaTeX Documents
Keywords: PostScript, bitmap, LaTeX

I'm having trouble putting bitmaps into latex documents.  The bitmaps are
X11 window dumps, which I create as follows:   

  xwd | xpr -scale 1 -psfig -compact -device ps > filename.ps

I then include this in my document using the psfig macros as follows:

  \mbox{\psfig{figure=filename.ps}}

Most of the bitmaps I have are oriented "landscape," and when the document
prints the bitmap is rotated 90 degrees with respect to the document, i.e.,
it's printed as if the document were oriented landscape on the paper even
though the document is oriented portrait.  Bitmaps that are oriented
"portrait" are printed correctly in the document.

Interestingly, texx2 displays a rectangle where the bitmap is supposed to
go, and that rectangle is always oriented properly.

I tried to force the landscape bitmaps to rotate by specifying -portrait to
xpr, i.e.:

  xwd | xpr -scale 1 -portrait -psfig -compact -device ps > filename.ps

but then when I tried to print the latex document, I got an error from the
printer:  

  ERROR:  rangecheck
  OFFENDING COMMAND:  putinterval

The area of the bitmaps never exceeds 7 by 5 inches, so they should
definitely fit on the page in portrait orientation.

This is remarkably vexing.  If you know how I can solve this problem,
please mail to me directly, as I don't usually read this digest.

Thanks,

Scott Meyers
sdm@cs.brown.edu

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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 90 11:38:58 MST
From: Frank Whetten <AGFLW%ASUACAD@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: array environment
Keywords: LaTeX array environments

I have noticed that the ARRAY environment is not equivalent to the
EQNARRAY environment when the matrix elements consist of fractions,
integrals, or summation symbols (and probably more that I haven't
tried).  The difference seems to be that the ARRAY environment
assumes a math environment, while the EQNARRAY results in the
equation environment.

My problem is that I require a matrix within a matrix, something
that EQNARRAY will not do, but I dislike the squashed looking equations
that ARRAY produces.  I have tried changing the size of the font,
using mbox's, and everything else that came to mind, to no avail.

If anyone can tell me how to generate a normal looking fraction or
summation in the ARRAY (or matrix) environment I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance


Frank Whetten
Arizona State University     Telecommunications Research Center
Tempe, AZ  85282             (602) 965-1636
AGFLW @ ASUACAD.BITNET       AGFLW @ ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU

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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 11:48:44 EST
From: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Subject:  refer->bibtex conversion
Keywords: refer2bibtex

Carl Staelin:

> Is there a program which converts refer databases to bibtex databases?

I have a Pascal program, ref2bib.p which I wrote to convert myself over.  I
have made it available to everybody by anonymous ftp at ncifcrf.gov in the
pub/delila directory.  The file to pick up is ref2bib.p.Z - since it is
compressed.

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21701-1013
  toms@ncifcrf.gov

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 02:24:05 -0500
From lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU  Mon Mar  5 23:24:18 1990
Subject: refer->bibtex conversion
Keywords: BibTeX, refer2tex

There's a program called "refer2tex" that David Kotz (dfk@duke.cs.duke.edu)
submitted to comp.sources.misc a while back, whcih should take care of your
refer->bibtex conversion.  It's available for public ftp from ns.uu.net; it
was in volume #2, issue 97.
There's also a set of tools for manipulating bibtex files written by Kannan
Varadhan (kannan@osc.edu); they include a program for easily creating &
manipulating bibtex entries, as well as programs to search bibliograhy files
using regular expressions.  This is also on ns.uu.net, under
comp.sources.misc/volume9/bibtools.Z.  These have cut down on my work quite a
bit- hope they can help you similarly!

Lucien Van Elsen
MIT Project Athena
lwvanels@athena.mit.edu   or   mit-eddie!mit-athena!lwvanels

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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 15:45:27 -0800
From: dbailey@ew11.nas.nasa.gov (David Bailey)
Subject: Bold math font
Keywords: fonts, bold math

I am trying to find out how to invoke the bold italic font in LaTeX.
In particular, I want to have a mathematical symbol in an eqnarray
construct appear in bold face.  When I insert the string {\bf x}, all
I get is bold Roman font, not the bold Italic font.

A friend of mine said that this topic was discussed once before in
Texhax.  Could someone respond with the answer?

David H. Bailey
NASA Ames Research Center
dbailey@ew11.nas.nasa.gov
dbailey@orville.nas.nasa.gov

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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 11:25:58 +0100
From: "ir. Jian Luo" <JLuo@ET.TUDELFT.NL>
Subject: Problem with fonts
Keywords: fonts
 
I'm a new user of TeX/LaTeX.  I use DVIALW (PC version from Dr. Beebe)
to create PS files.  The Laser Printer we have is a TI.  I was
informed that this is a White-write engine printer. So when I print
the output produced by DVIALW I get spotty letters, except the ones in
VERBATIM font.  I was also informed that this problem has been
discussed a long time ago (1987, 1988) and the result was that some
new fonts must be re-created.
 
Since I'm a new user, I haven't subscribed TUGboat yet although I'm going to
do so very soon.
 
My question: How can I solve the above problem?  Is there somewhere a FTP site
from which I can get these fonts?
 
Many thanks for your help if you could give me some instructions.
 
Greetings.
 
Jian.
 
Jian@Hdetud11.BITNET  / Luo@Dutepp1.Tudelft.NL

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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 90 09:18:54 +1000
From: Christopher JS Vance <cjsv@cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: 8bit input
Keywords TeX, fonts

Does the advent of Tex 3.0 and the ability to do 8bit input mean that
we can expect to have a flurry of related new fonts?

What I mean is: if I am in a country in the ISO Latin-1 (IS 8859-1)
area, should I expect to be able to use something called, say, l1r10
where I used to use cmr10.  What about if I also want to use Greek,
should I be able to use lgr10 (or l7r10), and get Latin-Greek
(IS 8859-7)?

If my source character set has all sorts of accented characters, I would
expect to be able to use them for input and have all the hyphenation
work properly (once someone has built the right tables). 

Or, the other alternative: should I expect instead to be able to use the
character set IS 6937/2 where the accents are (almost) all separate
non-spacing characters, but where the collection of combinations possible
far exceeds 256?

Please enlighten me.

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Date:  06 Mar 90  20:07:10 gmt
From: G.Toal%EDINBURGH.AC.UK@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: PostScript cmr fonts on Aston archive
Keywords: PostScript, fonts

For those of you who haven't spotted them yet, there are a set
of 76 cm fonts on the Aston archive in PostScript outline format.
I put them there (well, Phil Taylor did the schlepping...) some
time ago but didn't announce them as I was worried they might
not be good enough to use.  I've since had a couple of people
test them successfully, so now a wider testing might be worthwhile.

The fonts were converted from a 3000dpi bitmap by tracing the outlines
with a program written by Neil Raine at Acorn Computers Plc.  My thanks
to Neil for his personal effort in helping the TeX community.  Neil isn't
able to distribute his program however, so please don't try to contact
him about it -- send any comments to me first please.

There are two known problems with these fonts: the first is an actual
bug, the second is scope for improvements.

Firstly, a *few* characters have a *thin* horizontal line sticking
out in places.  This happens to approximately 1 character in every
three fonts or so.  I've corrected the ones I've spotted by hand,
but I would appreciate reports of any others you might spot.  This
was caused by an obscure bug in the raster to spline conversion code
which Neil doesn't have the time to track down.  So I'll be content
just to fix these outlines by hand if I know what needs fixing.

Secondly, Nelson Beebe pointed out that the postscript style is
a bit verbose; there are all sorts of tricks which could be used
to compress the size of a font description and thus get more of
them into any one laser printer/typesetter.  Unfortunately we also
don't have time *at the moment* to work on that either; although
perhaps it will be done later.

These fonts should be treated as NOT cm fonts, ie they shouldn't
be used in circumstances where people could look at them and say
'I didn't realised TeX was so crummy' :-)  Use them for experimenting
with, or as stand-in fonts when you don't have a particular magstep
available as a pixel font.  By all means modify your drivers to
use such fonts.  A 'verified' release will be available some day...

Peter - would you put this mail into a readme file and put it in
the archive please?  Also add an editors note here to say where
in the Archive the files are stored?

US archive maintainers - could one of you fetch the set to the
current major US tex archive, whereever it is :-)  (Is it clarkson now?)

Graham Toal  <gtoal@uk.ac.ed>
PS. because of postscripts rounding problems, they have the same
weight visually on a 300dpi laser as say TimesRoman would; however
on a high-resolution typesetter they are (to my eye) indistinguishable
from bitmapped fonts.  The only problems with typesetters so far have
been that Linotron PS setters (at least the one I've used) don't
have enough spare memory to hold more than a couple of fonts at once...

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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 00:36:39 -0100
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: Re: mssymb and 11 point LaTeX articles don't mix
Keywords: LaTeX, point size

In <TeXhax Digest V90 #25> you write:
 `
 `I have the following in the beginning of a LaTeX file:
 `
 `\documentstyle[11pt,twocolumn,proc,equation]{article}
 `\input mssymb
 `\def\reals{\Bbb R}
 `
 `Although the entire article is in 11pt style, any $\reals$ will be
 `from the 10pt font!!  
 `
 `
 `Anybody out there have any better solutions?
 `
I changed mssymb.tex such that it automatically adapts itself to the LaTeX
point size. It is a bit of hackery in that it depends on the Latex font
names being 'cmrxx' (or any other 3 letter name followed by the point
size). So it might not work with changed or future versions of Latex
Here is the beginning of the file: (the rest is the same as the original)


%		*****	  MSSYMB.TeX	*****		       4 Nov 85
% Changed by Piet van Oostrum (piet@cs.ruu.nl)
%
%	This file contains the definitions for the symbols in the two
%	"extra symbols" fonts created at the American Math. Society.

\catcode`\@=11
\def\msy@@ #1#2#3#4#5\cr#6{ms#6m#5}
\def\msy@@@#1#2#3{\font\@msy\expandafter\msy@@\fontname\expandafter\the#22\cr#1#2#3=\@msy}
\def\msy{\expandafter\ifx\the\textfont2\msy@font\else\msy@init\fi
\the\textfont\msyfam\fam\msyfam}

%\font\tenmsx=msxm10
%\font\sevenmsx=msxm7
%\font\fivemsx=msxm5
%\font\tenmsy=msym10
%\font\sevenmsy=msym7
%\font\fivemsy=msym5
\newfam\msxfam
\newfam\msyfam
\def\msy@init{\expandafter\let\expandafter\msy@font\the\textfont2
\msy@@@ x\textfont\msxfam
\msy@@@ x\scriptfont\msxfam
\msy@@@ x\scriptscriptfont\msxfam
\msy@@@ y\textfont\msyfam
\msy@@@ y\scriptfont\msyfam
\msy@@@ y\scriptscriptfont\msyfam}
%\textfont\msxfam=\tenmsx  \scriptfont\msxfam=\sevenmsx
%  \scriptscriptfont\msxfam=\fivemsx
%\textfont\msyfam=\tenmsy  \scriptfont\msyfam=\sevenmsy
%  \scriptscriptfont\msyfam=\fivemsy
\msy@init

\def\hexnumber@#1{\ifnum#1<10 \number#1\else
 \ifnum#1=10 A\else\ifnum#1=11 B\else\ifnum#1=12 C\else
 \ifnum#1=13 D\else\ifnum#1=14 E\else\ifnum#1=15 F\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi}


Note: there is also an amssymbols.sty file in the archives.

Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31-30-531806   Uucp:   uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet
Telefax:   +31-30-513791   Internet:  piet@cs.ruu.nl   (*`Pete')

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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 90 12:29:01 EST
From: rdkeys@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Bob Keys)
Subject: Rotated fonts for y-axis labels in LaTeX graphics.
Keywords: LaTeX, fonts

Sir: I have been wondering if you might know of any 90 degree
counterclockwise rotated cmr fonts.  I have great need to use such a
font in trying to get reasonable y-axis labelling in graphics embedded
in LaTeX documents.  I have heard that this has been thrashed about a
bit before, but was never fully resolved.

I am of the opinion that TeX/LaTeX should not really care about what the actual
orientation of a font is, as long as it knows that a box of size x,y is being
put a coordinates x1,y1.   If this is indeed so, then surely there must be a
way of rotating fonts (not as a postscript exercise) by doing some sort of
raster xy swap conversion of the image of the font.  Then when a rotated font
is required, as in a vertically labelled y-axis (really about the only time
it would commonly be used, except for some offbeat tables) the font only needs
to be called by perhaps a \yr declaration (for y-axis-rotated roman, etc).

If you could shed some light on this, it would be most appreciated.

Unfortunately, I am unable to change my peers in the botany field into 
accepting non-standard labelling in y-axes.  LaTeX is too much a golden
opportunity for us non-computer jocks who need to do reasonable typesetting,
to give up on this one.  There has got to be some fix (not postscript),
somewhere.

Most appreciatively, and hoping you havent chuckled too much at my ramblings,
I remain, Most Sincerely

Robert D. Keys, Assoc. Prof.
Department of Crop Science
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC  27695-7620.
(919)737-3267
rdkeys@ccvr1.ncsu.edu

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