TeXhax@cs.washington.edu (TeXhax Digest) (03/19/90)
TeXhax Digest Sunday, March 18, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 30
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Today's Topics:
dvitovdu woes
Beebe's DVIJEP, HPIIP
BOLD computer modern typewriter needed, BOLD math symbols needed
Numeric Constants and \if Conditionals
TeXhax Digest V90 #24
A summary of TeX-related information of note (TeXMaG V3N4)
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 90 14:01:23 CST
From: "Lee Schneider" <MATHPG2%UMCVMB@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: dvitovdu woes
Keywords: dviware, SUN 4
I would like to have the ability to preview TeX files on a Tektronix 4010
terminal attached to a Sun 4. The file dvitovdu.shar.Z on
june.cs.washington.edu looks like what I want, but this archive contains
sources in Modula-2 and Vax binaries, and I have no access to a Modula-2
compiler for the Sun. Therefore, does anyone know where I can obtain any of
the following:
1) public domain (or very low-cost) Modula-2 compiler for the Sun 4.
2) public domain Modula-2 to (Pascal or C) translator
3) dvitovdu sources in Pascal or C (preferably C).
4) an executable copy of dvitovdu for Sun-4.
5) some other Tektronix-compatible previewer satisfying item 3 or 4.
Thanks for any help you may be able to provide,
Lee Schneider
Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia
MATHPG2@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU or MATHPG2@UMCVMB.BITNET
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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 90 19:10:57 EST
From: Jim Walker <N410109%UNIVSCVM@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Beebe's DVIJEP, HPIIP
Keywords: dviware
Thanks to those who replied to my query about whether people use
DVIJEP successfully for HPIIP and HPIID printers. A couple of people
reported success with DVIJEP on DOS and Sun machines. Unfortunately
I forgot to specify that I am using VAX/VMS, and no one mentioned that.
So maybe my problem is machine-dependent.
Nelson Beebe did send me a somewhat more recent version of DVIJEP, and
Don Reid recommended a certain one-line change. Neither had any
visible effect on the output.
Maybe I should say something about what my HPIID output looks like.
In a sample text using only CMR10.PK font, it almost looks OK, but
gets messed up by dashes. For instance, what should be printed as
"consecrate---we cannot hallow---this ground."
is printed more or less like
"consecrate --e- cannot hallow --- -s ground."
Mathematical text involving lots of fonts had more serious problems
which would be difficult to describe.
--- James W. Walker, Department of Mathematics,
University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208
BITnet: N410109@univscvm
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 11:20:35 EST
From: ARTG@IBM.COM (Arthur P. Goldberg)
Subject: BOLD computer modern typewriter needed, BOLD math symbols needed
Keywords: fonts, bold computer modern typewriter, math symbols
We're typesetting a book with computer program examples in
comnpyuter modern typewriter and want to EMBOLDEN the keywords.
The environment is a Sun Sparc station printing to an Apple LaserWriter.
We use the \tt command in LaTex.
We're also printing the syntax in a roman typeface, and want BOLD
math symbols (/, <=, etc.) in the output.
Please reply by email, as I never read this group.
artg@ibm.com
Thanks
ARthur GOldberg
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 10:54 EST
From: <SAIEVA%QCVAX.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Numeric Constants and \if Conditionals
Keywords: TeX, \if, numeric constants
A professor in our Chemistry department recently sent me a
TeX (test) file which contained some very curious TeX code.
Here is a sample:
\newcount\tempcount \newcount\ref \tempcount=1 \ref=2
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\advance\tempcount by 2\ifnum\tempcount<\ref
\message{\noexpand\tempcount Tests Less than \number\ref. Its actual value
is \number\tempcount.}\fi
\end
This code totally boggles TeX. As a matter of fact, after processing by
TeX the screen shows ``\tempcount Tests Less than 2. Its actual value is 3.''
A number of other test files using \if constructs in similar ways have also
managed to produce weird results.
We did find that putting a blank space after the incrementing constant
of \advance caused the code to work fine. And we have also read the
double dangerous section preceding Exercise 20.10 in the TeXbook.
However, why would a blank space be needed here? \ifnum is a primitive
and should not have any adverse effects on the usage of the constant 2.
(Or maybe it is the constant 2 which is having an adverse effect on \ifnum?)
Can a kind TeX Wizard explain what is happening here?
Salvatore Saieva
Queens College
Academic Computer Center
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 11:47:22 +0100
From: Rolf Marvin B|e Lindgren <rolfl@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: TeXhax Digest V90 #24
Keywords: TeX, character
The problem is that only active characters that point to a distinct letter can
be recognized by TeX as a character proper. If your laser printer has those
special German characters, then a TeXpert can give them some active character
value.
Rolf Lindgren | "The opinions expressed above are
612 Bjerke Studentheim | not necessarily those of anyone"
N-0589 OSLO 5 | email: rolfl@ifi.uio.no rolfl@humanist.uio.no
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Subject: A summary of TeX-related information of note (TeXMaG V3N4)
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