TeXhax@cs.washington.edu (TeXhax Digest) (03/04/90)
TeXhax Digest Sunday, February 25, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 24
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
Problems with dvi2tty
Old English fonts
different fonts; Feynman diagrams
metafont mode definition wanted for QMS-PS 2200
Bug in LFONTS.TEX, \mathbold
Multicol.sty
Tib in Europe
Big G
foreign flavors of TeX
re: ftp'ing tex from score / listserv
TeX's memory
TeX, hyphenation, umlaut
LaTeX, tabular
Proper spacing of parboxes within tabbing
Laserprep header for mac drawings in latex
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 12:32:36 IST
From: Reuven Weiss <I64%TAUNIVM@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Problems with dvi2tty
Keywords: dvi2tty
I got <UNIX-C.PRINTERS>DVI2TTY.TAR-Z from DTUZDV1. The tarfile included
Patch2. I patched and maked dvi2tty on a Sun4/260 (SunOS 4.0.3). There were
compilation errors and got segmentatation error when run. I would like to hear
from others about their experience with this tarfile and the program, perhaps
from other sources. Do other patches exist? As a terminal I use a PC with
Kermit 3.0 . I also look for a dvi to TEK4014 or PostScript to TEK4014
program. Else I seek Modula -2 compiler for DVItoVDU. Is it difficult to
convert DVIBIT to Tektronix output?
Reuven Weiss
Faculty of Engineering
Tel - Aviv University
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 12:13 GMT
From: "Peter Flynn, UCC Computer Centre" <CBTS8001%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Old English fonts
Keywords: fonts, Old English
There are tolerably good Old English fonts available from The Metafoundry
(Dublin, Ohio) or from Malcolm Clark (fps@vaxa.cc.imperial.ac.uk) for
about GBP 100 I think. I have them and they work OK. One or two of
the sizes are included in PC-TeX's "Medley" font kit (PC-TeX Inc) as
well.
///Peter Flynn
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 12:09:33 MET DST
From: nspit@fys.ruu.nl (Werenfried Spit)
Subject: different fonts; Feynman diagrams
Keywords: fonts, METAFONT
Has anyone tried to design Times Modern and/or
Helvetica fonts with Metafont? If so, I would
be interested in the Metafont sources.
Generally speaking, I think that it would be
a good idea to have a few font-families
available, apart from Computer Modern.
A related question regards the design of
Feynman-diagrams with Metafont. Has anyone
done this?
Werenfried Spit
R.J. v.d. Graafflaboratorium +31-(0)30-53-2330
Postbus 80.000
3508 TA Utrecht nspit@fys.ruu.nl
The Netherlands spit@hutruu51.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 11:33:38 EST
From: Joseph C. Konczal <konczal@mail-gw.ncsl.nist.gov>
Subject: metafont mode definition wanted for QMS-PS 2200
Keywords: METAFONT, fonts
Does anyone know what settings for blacker, fillin, and o_correction
work best to generate the cm fonts for the QMS-PS 2200? I think it
has a Panasonic print engine that writes black at 300 DPI.
Thanks,
Joe Konczal
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Date: 02/15/90 11:25:37 GMT+1
From: UO04%DDAGSI3@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: Bug in LFONTS.TEX, \mathbold
Keywords: Lfonts.tex, bug
Trying to get bf letters in math formulas I ran across a bug in
lfonts.tex (in all versions I have seen). The cmmibXX fonts are
usually not preloaded (commented out in the definition part of
lfonts.tex). The \mathbold command, as defined in this file, works
only for that case. If you think you need these fonts more frequently
and modify it to preload them (so that they are known by LaTeX) the
\mathbold command runs into a recursive loop: the program seems
to freeze and you see what happens if you add \typeout{something}
at the top of the \mathbold definition. (This holds only for the
definitions for larger sizes, such as \xiipt, where \boldmath is
really defined). F.Kammer
H.Friedrich Kammer
0441/798-3467
FB Physik Theorie Universitaet Oldenburg
Postfach 2503
D-2900 Oldenburg FRG
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 18:02:39 -0100
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
Subject: Multicol.sty
Keywords: LaTeX, style file
I have received the multicolumn style file written by Frank Mittelbach
last weekend. The style is described in the Nov 1989 issue of Tugboat.
You can retrieve the files by anonymous FTP:
site sol.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5], directory pub/TEX/latexstyle.
Filenames: multicol.doc multicol.sty multicol.tex doc.sty
You can also get them from our mail-server, ask for latexstyle/<file>,
where <file> should be replaced by any of the above filenames. Send a HELP
message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl to find out how to use the mail-server.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The distribution requirements for the files is that they
MUST BE DISTRIBUTED TOGETHER. So, either get them all, or get none of them.
(actually, retrieving only multicol.doc is also OK, but I recommend to get
the whole package).
NOTE: The file multicol.tex, when run through a LaTeX older than May 1989,
may give a few error messages (\begin{document} ended by \end{macro}).
Actually, the errors are from multicol.doc
You can ignore these errormessages, and continue (or better: get a recent
version of latex).
I understand that the files will appear on other servers soon.
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, 14 Feb 90 10:32:24 EST
From: "James C. Alexander" <jca@anna.umd.edu>
Subject: Tib in Europe
Keywords: TiB
Tib 2.2 is available in Europe. It has been sent to the Aston
archives. I also pass on the following message:
Tib 2.2 is now available by anonymous FTP in Europe from host
minos.inria.fr (128.93.39.5) in directory pub/tib. There are five
tarmail files (tib.tarmail.[1-5]) that you can transfer in ASCII mode,
together with the complete tib directory in a single tar'ed and
compressed file (tib.tar.Z) to be transfered in binary mode.
NOTE: this is only a service to the european community. No user of
minos.inria.fr can provide any support for installing and/or using
tib. For any problem please contact tib developer James C. Alexander
<jca@anna.umd.edu>.
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:09:32 GMT
From: Jeremy.Gibbons%prg.oxford.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK
Subject: Big G
Keywords: METAFONT
I don't know whether this is common knowledge, but it intrigued me.
I was perusing the Metafont file cmman.mf (containing various special
symbols for the Computers and Typesetting books) recently, and noticed
a large `G' in the font. This is for the preface of the TeXbook, which
starts
Gentle reader, this is a handbook about TeX...
with a large dropped initial `G'. Funny, I thought, why only a `G' and
no other letters? What about the rest of the books in the series?
A quick flick through the library revealed that, in fact, the prefaces
of *all five* volumes start with the letter `G':
Genuine examples of large software programs are rarely found in books...
(Volume B, TeX: The Program)
Generation of letterforms by mathematical means was first tried in the
fifteenth century... (Volume C, The Metafontbook)
Graphic algorithms add zest to the more conventional techniques of
ordinary compilers... (Volume D, Metafont: The Program)
Greek and Roman letterforms [...] are the subject of this book...
(Volume E, Computer Modern Typefaces)
I knew that Knuth advocates rewriting a document to improve the layout,
but I didn't know he went this far...
| Jeremy Gibbons (jg%prg.ox@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk) |
| Programming Research Group, Oxford University, England |
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 20:20:53 EST
From: Karl Berry <karl@claude.umb.edu>
Subject: foreign flavors of TeX
Keywords: TeX, foreign versions
Is there a master list somewhere of what foreign versions
of TeX are (a) running and (b) being worked on?
If not, I volunteer to collect the information.
The number of non-North Americans using TeX seems to
be very substantial -- my recent note about
my eplain macros has garnered as many responses
from Europeans as not! I wonder what the
ratio is for other typesetting programs.
karl@cs.umb.edu
..!harvard!umb!karl
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Date: Mon 19 Feb 90 16:58:50-EST
From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.COM>
Subject: re: ftp'ing tex from score / listserv
Keywords: FTP, Score, Listserv
score was decommissioned in september '89, and the new tex repository
at stanford is a small unix machine, labrea.stanford.edu . the
only new material being installed there is (of course) tex system
software updated by knuth, occasional changes to latex by leslie
lamport (but with latex being rebuilt under the direction of frank
mittelbach in germany, it is not clear where the essential latex
installation will be), bibtex by oren patashnik, and files originating
with tugboat. these are all centered at stanford for historical
reasons.
the archives in other locations are much more extensive, and in
general also include the material from labrea with only a short time
lag. (there is, for example, an automatic routine at clarkson that
checks every sunday for new material at labrea, and transfers it to
the clarkson collection.)
although there has been some discussion between nelson beebe, the
president of tug, and the system managers at labrea regarding a
mail server facility such as the one described by mr. kerkhoff, it
really is the case that better service is more likely from one of the
other archives.
the french and german tex communities are managing a joint archive
with a listserv at dhdurz1 . there is also an archive at aston
university in the u.k., which i believe has a facility for sending
files in reply to mail requests. and there is one in the netherlands,
but i believe that it is dedicated to local data. there are probably
others as well (and if so, i would appreciate it if the manager would
send me details for publication in tugboat). one of those should be
much more efficient for fulfilling requests in europe, than for
such requests to be sent halfway around the world.
a "resources" column is now a regular feature in tugboat. ideally,
this will itself be a resource, telling readers what is the closest
and most easily accessible source of tex programs and files, both
for those with electronic access and for those who must resort to
other electronic media such as floppy disks or magnetic tape.
-- barbara beeton
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 16:15:45 GMT
From: Ivan Fabian <IGBF%IB.RL.AC.UK@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: TeX's memory
Keywords: TeX, memory
I have installed TeX 2.93 on a VM/CMS system.
On several occasions people have been given the message:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=65535]
when they have successfully run TeX on another system on the same
file. My question is: What must I do to increase the main memory?
I had better add: I haven't got the hang of WEB yet, so please bear
that in mind when you reply.
Thanks in advance.
Ivan Fabian
User Support
Rutherford Appleton Lab.
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Date: 02/15/90 11:01:29 GMT+1
From: UO04%DDAGSI3@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: TeX, hyphenation, umlaut
Keywords: TeX, hyphenation, umlaut
Is it possible to define the hyphenation of words containing
umlaut letters in a way equivalent to the usual \hyphenation ?
The answer of the local experts here is that \hyphenation will
not work with such letters (TeX says the same), but for nearly
all languages except english such a tool would be useful. In a
scientific text usually a lot of words show up which are not
covered by the respective patterns and it is either boring to
write the hyphenation \- very often or difficult to replace any
of these words by a macro and remember all of them while writing
the text.
My TeX-knowledge is poor, but I suspect that a temporary
manipulation of the catcodes, lccodes etc. might enable a
one-time definition of hyphenation with umlaut letters. The
question is now: what sort of TeX-command is hyphenation and
what does it do (how does it store information, how is this
information used) ?
Maybe the problem is already solved, or is that impossible ?
F.Kammer
H.Friedrich Kammer
0441/798-3467
FB Physik Theorie Universitaet Oldenburg
Postfach 2503
D-2900 Oldenburg FRG
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Date: Mon, 19 FEB 90 09:56:26 GMT
From: MARK%VAX.RA.PHYSICS.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: LaTeX, tabular
Keywords: LaTeX, tabular
In Volume 89, Issue 114 of TeXhax I contributed a query about multipage
{tabular}s, the gist of which was:
> Has anyone written anything or can anyone suggest any way to
> have LaTeX automatically continue a table on a new page when
> there's no more room, to achieve multipage $tabulars?
I've had a surprisingly large number of replies to this plea, most of
them essentially saying `Yes! I want to do that too; If you find a way,
let me know'. Perhaps a further note to Texhax summarising what I found
would be the best way to answer everyone. I apologise for the delay in
sending it.
Several people directed me to a style file in the Clarkson archive
called supertab.sty, written by Theo Jurriens. Rick Zaccone sent me
what turned out to be a later and better version of this than the
version at Clarkson. However, good though it is at what it sets out to
achieve, supertab does have some limitations: It works simply by
counting lines and decrementing the amount of space remaining on the
page. This fails if any lines in the table have non-standard height or
depth, e.g. if the table has filled {p} elements. For me this limited
its usefulness. Also, it does not preserve column widths over pages.
Another solution is provided by an excellent style file called
`longtab.sty', written by David Carlisle (his JANET address is
carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs). He has not contributed this to any archive yet,
but is planning to do so. longtab *does* cope with varying heights and
depths, and preserves column widths too. It has only a couple of
limitations, one of which is that it uses a lot of memory. However,
only one of my tables so far has exceeded TeX's memory limit.
Mark Charter, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, U.K.
JANET : MARK@UK.AC.CAM.PHY-RAVX
Internet: MARK%PHY-RAVX.CAM.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 19:58 EST
From: Henning Schulzrinne <HGSCHULZ@cs.umass.EDU>
Subject: Proper spacing of parboxes within tabbing
Keywords: LaTeX, parbox, tabbing
If parboxes are used within the tabbing environment and the last line of
the parbox has no descenders, the first line of the next tabbing item
will be closer to that last line than the line spacing within a
paragraph. Inserting a \vphantom{g} at the end of the parbox solves the
problem. Example:
\begin{Large}
\begin{tabbing}
\parbox[t]{2in}{First long line with descenders, but the rest has
no descenders.}\\
\parbox[t]{2in}{Second long line, but a vphantom
at the end should make room.\vphantom{g}}\\
\parbox[t]{2in}{Third line for comparison.}
\end{tabbing}
\end{Large}
Other solutions are solicited.
Henning Schulzrinne (HGSCHULZ@CS.UMASS.EDU)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003 - USA === phone: +1 (413) 545-3179 (EST); FAX: (413) 545-1249
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 12:59:24 EST
From: chase@ee.Princeton.EDU
Subject: Laserprep header for mac drawings in latex
Keywords: LateX, Mac drawings, laserprep header
I was pointed to this address as a potential source for
answering a particular question. (What exactly is TeXHaX?)
This is my situation:
We have been including postscript for figures produced on a
Macintosh in Latex documents using psfig. The Mac postscript
requires a header that contains an appropiately modified laserprep
file. We have been able to produce Mac figures using AppleDict version
#68 fine (this corresponds to LaserPrep5.8). However, the Macs here
now use LaserPrep 6.0 which contains AppleDict version #70. Now our
Mac drawings will not print using psfig on our Unix machines. Can
anyone point me to a source for an appropiately modified LaserPrep6.0?
Or perhaps a source that would explain how to modify such a beast? (I
don't know postscript myself).
thanks in advance,
chris chase (ee dept)
chase@olympus.princeton.edu
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