From: TeXhax-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #02 Reply-To: TeXhax@ftp.tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 16:21:56 +0000 Message-ID: <3423.763402916@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Friday, 11 Mar 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 02 % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: Re: How to make Glossary during thesis writing Re: TeX support for the Kannada language? LaTeX on Solaris 2.X METAFONT under NextStep special's A simple Latex question (flushing text (right|left)) Re: A simple Latex question (flushing text (right|left)) TeX for the PC? MF fonts and Windows [comp.text.tex] ps2pk version 1.4 available Excalibur 1.5 Available (Spelling Checker) [comp.text.tex] European [Dutch] Ispell 3.1.00 mirror + dictionary web2c 6.1 et al. available Re: web2c 6.1 et al. available LaTeX2e version of artikel?, rapport?, boek TEST version available [comp.text.tex] Graph-TeX 1.0beta available via ftp [comp.text.tex] gTeX 2.0 uploaded to ftp.shsu.edu (US CTAN host) [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCE: The CTAN Software Map LaTeX2e -- Second Test Release Available web2c BIGTeX and METAFONT for DOS and Windows dviljk 1.0, dvipsk 5.528a, and xdvik 1.7 available [comp.text.tex] Eddi4TeX 1.20 is ready EuroTeX '94 Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@ftp.tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 15:11:44 +0000 From: s.j.bishop.topix01@oasis.icl.co.uk Subject: Re: How to make Glossary during thesis writing In response to Ferose Lambay's question about glossary preparation, I can offer a simple wrapper that turns BibTeX into the glossary generation tool "GlossTex" (apologies if anyone has already used this name). For the user, this works in much the same way as BibTeX, reading the auxiliary file (.aux) and using database files (.gly) plus a style file (.gst) to produce a glossary (.gls) that can be incorporated in subsequent LaTeX runs. User commands for the LaTeX source are provided in a style file (.sty) in the normal manner. GlossTeX is implemented as a shell script which uses all the usual UNIX tricks to manipulate the input and output of standard (0.99c) BibTeX. It should run on any sensible UNIX machine although it was developed on System V Release 4. The LaTeX style file is based on 2.09 of 7 Dec 1989 and may need some tinkering for more recent versions - I haven't checked. If this looks useful then please mail me direct for the script plus supporting files, examples and manual page. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 17:58:19 +0000 From: Manuel Carriba Subject: Re: TeX support for the Kannada language? Tonse Raju writes on Wed, 29 Dec 1993 11:30:07 -0600: > Can anyone tell me if there is a program on Tex to write in > Kannada, a South Indian language? What you need is macro style file. Get the babel system in CTAN:./tex-archive/language/babel. Copy the file 'skeleton.doc' and rename it to 'kannada.doc'. Then edit the latter file translating all the language specific bits into the Kannada language. In the original file they are in English. Once done, send a copy to the author of babel for inclusion in the next release. Have fun! Manuel Carriba (M.Carriba@dcs.shef.ac.uk) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Feb 1994 15:39:37 -0800 From: pvt@klab.caltech.edu (Pravin V. Tulachan) Subject: LaTeX on Solaris 2.X Does anyone know of a site that have Tex/LaTeX sources that have been compiled to work under Solaris 2.X on Sparcstations. thanks - --pravin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 01:33:25 +0100 From: Joerg R Gollnick Subject: METAFONT under NextStep > I wounder if anyone knows how to run METAFONT under NextStep. I am having > a difficulty on producing any font. > > Does anyone have any idea of how to start ? > > Abdul Rayhan I don't know NextStep very well, but as far as I know there is a somewhat "normal" UNIX system hidden behind the graphical user interface. I think if your MetaFont package and how it is installed is like all the other UNIX-based systems you should be able to "go down" to the UNIX level and invoke your MetaFont using shell commands. What are the "README" or "INSTALL" files saying which came along with the package ? (I have written some C-Shell script to automate the boring font building process on my UNIX system...) May be there is a GUI shell for invoking TeX and MetaFont on your system as part of the TeX/MetaFont package and you just haven't noticed that. (On my Atari at home I have a nice graphical shell which was part of the package I use.) May be the DVI driver you have to get on-screen previews has the ability to build the missing font files used in your document but not on available (you must have at least the TFM files for this to work). May be you will find on TeX/MetaFont providing internet sites GUI shells and DVI driver capable of automated font building... Regards, Joerg R. Gollnick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 11:29:03 +0700 From: Zdenek Wagner Subject: special's Hello TeX friends, I have just observed strange behaviour. I was trying to fine tune the positioning of my EPSF pictures. They needed a special postscript prolog, so I used: \special{header=gnudict.pro} in the preamble of the LaTeX2e document (it was LaTeX2e as of Dec 1993). In order not to spend much time on texing I put the each picture definition into its own file and fine tuned one picture at a time. The picture started with \begin{figure}[p] and the document looked like: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{epsf} \special{header=gnudict.pro} \begin{document} \input{myfig} \end{document} ... the rest of the document commented out by the previous line The result was that the specials for EPSF inclusion worked but \special{header=gnudict.pro} silently disappeared. Dvitype revealed that it did not get into the dvi file. When I processed the whole text, all \special's were put into the dvi file as expected. I have some explanation for that mystery. Please correct me, if I am wrong. When TeX encounters a \special, it makes a `whatsit' and puts it into MVL (The TeXbook, pp. 228--229). Then LaTeX2e reads in the myfig.tex file which contains only the definition of a figure. \end{document} then somehow invokes the output routine. Now LaTeX2e finds a non-processed float which takes the whole page. It sends the float to the dvi file but the `whatsit' remains in the MVL. Then it should process the last unfinished page but there is no `ink' on it, nothing to print, there is only the `whatsit'. Thence TeX or LaTeX2e forgets about it and the `whatsit' is not written to the dvi file. I must admit that it took me a long time reading the documentation of DVIPS and looking at \special's in epsf.sty and everything looked like unexplainable mystery until I found the following sentence on p. 228 of The TeXbook: ``Therefore it (=whatsit) is implicitely associated with a particular position on the page, namely the reference point that would have been present if a box of height, depth, and width zero hade appeared in place of the whatsit.'' Can someone explain whether this is caused by LaTeX2e or by TeX itself and whether it is a bug or a feature? Oh! As I was writing this mail, it got into my mind to try the simple file \special{header=gnudict.pro} \bye and run it through plain TeX. The dvi file contained the empty page but the \special was there too! Regards ,%%%/ /` / /| /%%% / / |_/ /__/ ' | / / /%%/ /%%/ /%%/ /%%/ /\ | /| / /%%/ /%%/ /%%/ /%%/ /%%% / , / / /%%% / / /%%% / \ |/ |/ / /_/ / / / /%%% / %%%% %%% %%% ' ' %%% ' ` ' ' %%% %%/ ' ' %%% ' Zdenek Wagner______/ Some gateway between me and you may garble backslash. It will appear on your screen as % due to problems with EBCDIC <--> ASCII conversion. It has already been corrected on SOME gateways. The domain `.cs' does no longer exist and was replaced by `.cz'. Valid addresses are: ~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 15:17:44 -0500 From: vanni@allegro.mit.edu (Giovanni Aliberti) Subject: A simple Latex question (flushing text (right|left)) I want LaTex to produce this (On the same line !!): XXX.... ....YYY ^------------- Left margin Right margin -------------^ I tried using the following: XXX... \flushright{....YYY}\\ But it split the text across 2 lines. Any LaTeX buffs out there, that can suggest how to do it in a simple way. thanks in advance !! - -vanni ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 16:12:00 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: A simple Latex question (flushing text (right|left)) You write [2 Mar 1994 15:17:44 EST]: > I want LaTex to produce this (On the same line !!): > > XXX.... ....YYY > ^------------- Left margin Right margin -------------^ > > I tried using the following: > > XXX... \flushright{....YYY}\\ > > But it split the text across 2 lines. What about XXX\hfill YYY ? (See the example in Lamport's LaTeX book, page 96). ~~David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham mail: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nott.ac.uk/people/dao/David.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 14:26:31 -0600 From: williamst@zeus.ncsc.navy.mil (Tom Williams) Subject: TeX for the PC? Is there a version of TeX for the PC? Can I get it via anonymous ftp? Thanks for any info you can provide. Tom Williams williamst@atcf.ncsc.navy.mil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 08:27:33 +0000 From: DEVANS@lynx.colorado.edu Subject: MF fonts and Windows >Internal radiophysics.com LAN RFC 822 headers >From evans Thu Mar 10 15:07:57 1994 >Return-Path: >Received: from saturn.RPI by jupiter.RPI (4.1/SMI-4.1) > id AA21141; Thu, 10 Mar 94 15:07:56 MST >Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 15:07:56 MST >From: evans >Message-Id: <9403102207.AA21141@jupiter.RPI> >To: "in%""texhax@tex.ac.uk""" >Subject: MF fonts and Windows The facts: 1. I am a writer; 2. I _really_ like TeX and MF, and in fact do all my serious writing on a PC using TeX. When necessary, I design my own fonts in MF. I especially like the cmtt fonts which, with good TeX macros, produce copy almost identical to typewritten without my having to worry about the formatting details. This makes life easy for both me and the for the editors who have to read my stuff. 3. On the other hand, for short notes and letters, it's hard to beat a nice Windows Word Processor. So this leads me directly to want MF fonts usable in Windows (both on the screen and on 300 dpi laser output). I don't care if they are scalable (i.e. I'd be quite happy to choose from a small fixed set of sizes produced by some sort of pk2fon program); if they are scalable, I don't care if they are TT or PS as I run the current release of ATM. (In principal, since both PS and MF use bezier curves, I suppose it ought to be possible to take MF source and produce PS fonts, although I wouldn't like the job of making such a program actually work.) I don't care about the number of intervening stages and programs necessary to get from PK to PS/TT/FON/whatever. What I would like to know is HOW to get there from here. It's got to be possible, and I'm almost certain that the necessary programs have to be available somewhere; it's just that I'haven't come across them. I will post a summary of any helpful replies I receive. Thanks. Doc Evans devans@lynx.colorado.edu ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1994 15:46:04 +0100 From: rcpt@urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) Subject: [comp.text.tex] ps2pk version 1.4 available Ps2pk 1.4 release ----------------- (Jan. 1994) Some time ago Norman Walsh sent me some patches so that ps2pk can handle larger and more complicated fonts. Most of these patches had to do with memory limitations in version 1.3. These limitations and some other bugs are now removed. Here is a short summary: 1) Memory allocation made dynamically 1.1 in computing runlengths (needed to build PK fonts) 1.2 in scanning type1 fonts (to overcome `fixed' virtual memory) 2) Problem with handling Lucida font (negative widths) solved 3) Improved error handling in scanning AFM files 4) Provided hooks to handle non 32-bit platforms 5) Some cleanups 6) Improved Makefiles. - -- Piet internet: rcpt@urc.tue.nl __o Piet Tutelaers bitnet: rcpt@heitue5.BITNET _`\<,_ Computer Center Room RC 1.90 phone: +31 (0)40 474541 (_)/ (_) Eindhoven University of Technology fax: +31 (0)40 434438 Save nature P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, NL Version 1.4 of ps2pk is now available on: ftp.urc.tue.nl (address: 131.155.2.79) directory: /pub/tex files: ps2pk14.readme ( 9k) ps2pk14.tar.gz (237k) Sources For MSDOS people having difficulties in handling UNIX `.tar.gz' format I have made some UNIX tools (only executables) available in directories: /pub/unixtools/dos See the system specific TARGZ file for some help. Ftp.urc.tue.nl can not handle E-mail requests. But sites are free to put the ps2pk14 stuff on any server that can. I have made read-to-go 1.4 executables for MSDOS available in: pub/tex/ps2pk14x/msdos/djgpp (created with DJGPP/gcc) msdos/emx (created with EMX/gcc) The package is also available on any CTAN archive in: fonts/utilities/ps2pk14.readme fonts/utilities/ps2pk14.tar.gz fonts/utilities/ps2pk14x ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 11:15:22 -0500 From: zaccone@sol.cs.bucknell.edu (Rick Zaccone) Subject: Excalibur 1.5 Available (Spelling Checker) Version 1.5 of Excalibur is now available from sol.cs.bucknell.edu in pub/mac. I've also sent it to CTAN. Here's a copy of the README file that comes with it. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is release 1.5 of Excalibur. 1/14/94 Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker for LaTeX documents. You can optionally turn off LaTeX parsing, so Excalibur is a good plain text spelling checker too. Features include: - - Excalibur will offer suggestions for how to correct a word. - - Excalibur can spell check the clipboard. This makes it a good spelling checker for any text based application such as Alpha, BBEdit, or Eudora. - - You can teach it about new LaTeX commands and environments that you define. - - Optionally spell checks text in the typewriter (\tt) font. - - You can create your own dictionaries. - - Works with Textures and OzTeX documents. It should work on any TEXT file. - - You will need System 6.0.4 or higher to run Excalibur. - - If you are running System 7 or greater, there is balloon help. - - Excalibur is free. - - British, Dutch, French, Germain, and Italian dictionaries are also available. Version 1.5 changes: - - Added options that let the user choose how Excalibur should behave when you launch it. You may choose to present an "open file" dialog, open the clipboard if it has text, or do nothing. When the clipboard option is checked, Excalibur will also open the clipboard when it receives a resume event (if it contains text). - - Adjusted a few of the dialogs so that they all appear and behave consistently. Hitting Return or Enter is the same as clicking the default button. Command period is the same as cancel. - - Made some changes so that Excalibur's interactions with Alpha are smoother. - - Fixed the Edit Commands dialog so that it is a bit more intuitive. - - Fixed the Edit Environments dialog so that you no longer enter the number of arguments. Excalibur never used these values anyway. - - You can now drag Excalibur's windows to another monitor. - - Fixed a few minor bugs. Rick Zaccone zaccone@bucknell.edu ------------------------------ Date: 01 Feb 1994 16:13:28 +0100 From: jv@inter.NL.net (Johan Vromans) Subject: [comp.text.tex] European [Dutch] Ispell 3.1.00 mirror + dictionary Keywords: ispell spelling checker Ispell 3.1.00 is being mirrored to ftp.NL.net, directory pub/textproc/ispell. Also available is a dutch word list, based on the "Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal" a.k.a. "Het Groene Boekje" that uses ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) encoding, suitable for ispell. It is in pub/textproc/dictionaries/dutch8.words.gz. ----------------- New address as of November 1, 1993 ------------------------- Johan Vromans jv@nl.net Johan.Vromans@NL.net Stichting NLnet Phone: +31 20 5924245 Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fax: +31 20 6655311 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 13:42:59 -0500 From: "K. Berry" Subject: web2c 6.1 et al. available I've released version 6.1 of web2c, a port of the basic TeX project web programs (TeX, Metafont, GFtoPK, etc.) to Unix, and my modified drivers (dvipsk and xdvik). You can get everything by ftp from: (Boston) ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{lib,web,web2c,dvipsk,xdvik}.tar.gz Soon they will be available from the CTAN sites (please try them first): (Texas) ftp.shsu.edu (England) ftp.tex.ac.uk (Germany) ftp.uni-stuttgart.de See the ftp retrieval instructions below for precise details. A summary of the changes is below. Send bug reports to me (I'm sure there will be plenty). If you want support, or if you cannot ftp, I suggest contacting unixtex@u.washington.edu. There are no changes to the web files (that will be version 7.0); web-6.1.tar.gz is only different in the name of its top-level directory. kb@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net. lib is a collection of the basic tfm, tex, mf, and bibtex files (in my opinion). Only change from 6.0 is to add the raw tfm's for Utopia. web2c: * foo.bar found before foo.tex (found before foo). * configure links sun.c to sun-sunview.c if SUNWIN is defined. * -DLONG_64_BITS is supplied automatically (if appropriate). * Various changes for configure --srcdir. * Sample MakeTeX* scripts included. dvipsk: * Don't complain if scaled fonts are close enough. * Document -pp. There are no particular xdvik changes; just keeping up with the kpathsea fixes. [FTP.nwc: 02 FEB 1994 The most up-to-date copy of this file is available on ftp.cs.umb.edu (158.121.104.33) in pub/tex/FTP.nwc. If the info below does not match up with what you find on the archives, please let us know. Thanks! -- unixtex@u.washington.edu.] ========================================================================= TeX programs are user-supported: join the TeX Users Group (TUG) and support the development of these programs. For membership information, send mail to tug@tug.org. ========================================================================= FTP INSTRUCTIONS Most people who get in touch with the Unix TeX distribution at the Univ. of Washington are aiming to install plain TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, plain Metafont, a previewer that will work under the X windowing system, and a PostScript device driver. While the ftp sites listed below have just about everything useful for users of TeX on a variety of operating systems, our retrieval instructions -- intended solely for users with machines running Unix -- are limited to the programs mentioned above. The three ftp sites mentioned below are part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). CTAN is the result of cooperative work among members of TUG, DANTE [German-speaking TeX Users Group], and UKTUG [U.K. TeX Users Group], under the leadership of George Greenwade, Chair for TUG's Technical Working Group on TeX Archive Guidelines. Special thanks to George Greenwade for establishing the CTAN site at Sam Houston State University (US); to Rainer Schoepf, Barbara Burr, and members of DANTE for the CTAN site at the University of Stuttgart (FRG); and to Sebastian Rahtz for the CTAN site at Aston University (UK). These archives mirror each other meticulously. Please use the host nearest you: Host Internet address TeX root dir ---- ---------------- ------------ ftp.shsu.edu 192.92.115.10 tex-archive ftp.tex.ac.uk 134.151.44.19 tex-archive ftp.dante.de 128.69.1.12 tex-archive Users of ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de will be able to retrieve the same tex-archive files, but site-specific files (i.e., the two mentioned in the next paragraph) may be named differently. Upon logging on (to ftp.shsu.edu), retrieve and read README.archive-features and README.site-commands to learn how to use the archive efficiently. We assume that you will have read these documents and will be able to use the information in them to make retrieval more convenient for yourself. For example, by reading these files, you will learn that you will be able to retrieve foo.tar.gz even if the file does not exist, because the ftpd allows archiving and compressing files on the fly. In our instructions, the mode of compression used during retrieval is gzip. All files ending in .gz are gzipped. We encourage you to retrieve and install GNU's gunzip utility, part of the gzip package. Set "binary" by typing "bi" at your ftp prompt, and retrieve the file ~/tex-archive/archive-tools/info-zip/gzip-.tar It does a better job of compression than standard Unix compress; and it is (as far as is known) patent-free. It is illegal to use Unix compress for software on the net, because it infringes on a software patent. To inform yourself about the new software monopolies in the U.S., send mail to the League for Programming Freedom: lpf@uunet.uu.net For a basic set of input files and fonts: - ---------------------------------------- ftp> cd tex-archive/systems/web2c ftp> bi [for binary retrieval] ftp> get lib.tar.gz This file contains a small collection of fonts (TFM files only), (La)TeX macros, MF macros, and BibTeX files, enough to get started. The AMS fonts and macros are included. It unpacks into a directory named `texmf', which you will want in your equivalent of /usr/local/lib -- whatever you defined as your $(datadir) in the Makefiles. The organization of the archive was debated at great length. We hope it will be useful. If you don't like our organization, you should move the files around as you see fit, not forgetting to redefine the search paths and installation directories. The Makefiles, kpathsea/HIER, kpathsea/paths.h.in, and web2c/README (``Directory hierarchies'') have more tidbits of information. We advise unpacking this and deciding on your directory structure *before* doing the compilations. For web2c: - --------- Special thanks here to Karl Berry, Unix System Coordinator for TUG. He improves/develops/maintains web2c, modes.mf, dvipsk, and xdvik (and other things not mentioned in this file). He also maintains pub/tex on ftp.cs.umb.edu, which is the originating location for all the files above and below. [still in tex-archive/systems/web2c] ftp> get web.tar.gz [Knuth's WEB sources for TeX, MF, & family: unpacks into ./web2c-] ftp> get web2c.tar.gz [WEB-to-C source: unpacks into ./web2c-] It is important to retrieve and unpack both web.tar.gz and web2c.tar.gz. They unbundle into a single directory called ./web2c-. The web2c software converts the WEB source files (in which TeX, Metafont, & family are written) to C source. The input and font files are needed to dump the format and base files required to run plain TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont. For an X window system previewer (xdvik) - ------------------------------- and PostScript device driver (dvipsk): ------------------------------------- ftp> cd ../../dviware/xdvik ftp> get xdvik.tar.gz [unpacks into ./xdvik-] ftp> cd ../dvipsk ftp> get dvipsk.tar.gz [unpacks into dvipsk-] ftp> cd ../../fonts/cm/pk ftp> get pk300.zip [Basic set of bitmapped fonts generated by Metafont using the CanonCX mode_def for write-black 300dpi devices. If using the web2c default search paths, place this set of Computer Modern bitmapped fonts in $(fontdir)/public/cm/pk/cx. These pk fonts are not strictly necessary; dvips and xdvi can be used with a script called `MakeTeXPK' to generate needed bitmapped fonts. Use $(fontdir)/tmp/pk/cx as the temporary destination directory for newly-generated 300dpi write-black fonts. The zip/unzip package is in ~/tex-archive/archive-tools/info-zip.] ftp> get pk300w.zip [Bitmapped fonts generated using the RicohFourZeroEightZero mode_def; pk300w (write-white) fonts are better with xdvi at lower magnifications. If using the web2c default search paths, place these in $(fontdir)/public/cm/pk/ricoh. If using MakeTeXPK to generate 300dpi write-white fonts, use $(fontdir)/tmp/pk/ricoh as the temporary destination directory for newly-generated 300dpi write-white fonts.] ftp> quit [end ftp session] We believe this covers the retrieval of the essential files. Each of the three packages -- web2c, xdvik, dvipsk -- contains its own installation instructions. If you have never set up these programs before, compile web2c first (that is to say, the material in both web.tar.gz and web2c.tar.gz, unpacked); begin by reading ./web2c-/web2c/README and ./web2c-/web2c/INSTALL. Remember to set up your texmf directory hierarchy before embarking on your compilation (see "For a basic set of input files and fonts" above). All installation processes require careful attention to detail, and knowledge of your system. "Make haste slowly", and you improve your chances of success. How to make web2c, dvipsk, and xdvik in a single make: - ----------------------------------------------------- [Thanks to Martyn Johnson, Pierre MacKay, Jon Peatfield, and Andreas Schott for their notes.] These three programs are not packaged together, because the latter two are updated fairly frequently. But (thanks to Karl's work), the programs can be made in a single make: Extract the three archives so that the following directories are parallel to each other: ./dvipsk- ./web2c- ./xdvik- Next: mv dvipsk-/dvipsk web2c- mv xdvik-/xdvik web2c- ./web2c- should now contain four subdirectories: dvipsk, kpathsea, web2c, and xdvik. The files remaining in ./dvipsk- and ./xdvik- are identical in all three archives. If you wish, you can now remove ./dvipsk- and ./xdvik-. If you wish to retain the names and versions of the programs, you can create the following symbolic links: ln -s web2c- dvipsk- ln -s web2c- xdvik- Be sure to read web2c-/README, web2c-/web2c/INSTALL, web2c-/dvipsk/INSTALL, and web2c-/xdvik/INSTALL. Make sure that you have completed the instructions in the section above called "For a basic set of input files and fonts". You are now ready to begin configuring and building the programs. Network users interested in TeX software will find much that is useful in the following FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) documents on rtfm.mit.edu (18.70.0.209) in ~pub/usenet/comp.text.tex: T,_L,_e.:_F_A_Q_w_A_[M] (i.e., TeX, LaTeX, etc.: FAQ with Answers [Monthly]) There is also a supplement to the FAQ containing FTP locations; it's in the same place on rtfm.mit.edu. A beautifully done index of macros for TeX and LaTeX is available on theory.lcs.mit.edu (18.52.0.92) in ~/pub/tex/TeX-index. These files are all included in ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/src.tar.gz. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are concerned about connect-time, search or retrieval problems, or require help in building and installing the basic TeX/LaTeX and Metafont programs on your machines, you may wish to consider ordering a distribution tape from us (address below). A distribution fee in the area of $210 for domestic U.S. sites covers the expenses of putting together and maintaining the tape distribution, equipment, and of providing information and installation-support services. The University of Washington does not subsidize the Unix TeX distribution and requires it to be self-sustaining. E-mail queries concerning the distribution tape should be sent to: unixtex@u.washington.edu otherwise to: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Dr. Pierre A. MacKay). ******************************************************************** ALL services of the Unix TeX distribution are funded by tape orders. Please do not be shy about asking us for information. Northwest Computing Support Center Email: unixtex@u.washington.edu University of Washington, DR-10 Phone: 206 543-6259 M-F 8a-12n Seattle WA 98195 USA ******************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Feb 1994 14:37:15 +0100 From: Gerhard Wilhelms Subject: Re: web2c 6.1 et al. available Karl Berry writes: > I've released version 6.1 of web2c, a port of the basic TeX > project web programs (TeX, Metafont, GFtoPK, etc.) to Unix, > and my modified drivers (dvipsk and xdvik). > > You can get everything by ftp from: > > (Boston) ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{lib,web,web2c,dvipsk,xdvik}.tar.gz > > Soon they will be available from the CTAN sites (please try them first): > > (Texas) ftp.shsu.edu > (England) ftp.tex.ac.uk > (Germany) ftp.uni-stuttgart.de The German CTAN site is now ftp.dante.de which is dedicated to TeX and Metafont only. You could get everything from Stuttgart but you have to share this FTP site with other users. [stuff deleted] Regards, Gerhard Wilhelms _____________________________________________________________________ University of Augsburg (Germany) Department of Mathematics - Computer Science Universitaetsstrasse 2 D-86159 Augsburg Phone : +49 +821/598-2116 Internet: Wilhelms@Uni-Augsburg.DE Fax : 598-2200 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 11:23:30 +0100 From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: LaTeX2e version of artikel?, rapport?, boek TEST version available Hi, The NTG document styles artikel?, rapport? and boek have been upgraded to document classes for LaTeX2e. A test version is available from LISTSERV@nic.surfnet.nl and from CTAN in the directory tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/ntgclass (Note: today only on ftp.dante.de, within 24 hours also on the other CTAN hosts) The distribution currently contains 3 files, ntgclass.dtx (the source), ntgclass.ins (docstrip program to unpack) and ntgclass.tex (some documentation). When you find any bugs, please reporet them to me. Johannes Braams PTT Research, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3326477 ------------------------------ Date: 09 Feb 1994 13:09:43 +0100 From: pliam@s2.ima.umn.edu (John Pliam) Subject: [comp.text.tex] Graph-TeX 1.0beta available via ftp Keywords: figures, graphs, directed graphs, texdraw Announcing Beta Release of Graph-TeX ------------------------------------ Graph-TeX is a Perl script and library for typesetting directed and undirected graphs. It takes as input a .gt file which resembles an array environment (it even more closely resembles the commutative diagram environment of XY-pic). Then it produces TeXdraw commands for inclusion into an .tex file. Complicated graphs can be quickly typeset producing high quality results. Features include: - TeX labels well placed with respect to the labeled object. - Spade-like arrowheads which reduce the effect of postscript inconsistencies (edge effects). - Bezier-curved edges and loops on which arrows and labels follow the tangent. - Flexibility in redefining default attributes. Graph-TeX was designed to support graphs possessing symmetries such as the Peterson graph or the Cayley graph of D_3. In these, the vertex positions are not so easily described within an array environment. See the manual for more details. -------------- To get the manual and source, ftp anonymously to ima.umn.edu, cd to /pub/graphtex, and get graphtex1.0beta.tar.Z (in binary mode). While I am seeking beta testers to find bugs, I am also interested in people's opinions about the aesthetic quality of the results. John O. Pliam e-mail: pliam@ima.umn.edu Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota Phone: (612) 624-4353 ------------------------------ Date: 09 Feb 1994 13:10:07 +0100 From: ryoung@utdallas.edu (Young U Ryu) Subject: [comp.text.tex] gTeX 2.0 uploaded to ftp.shsu.edu (US CTAN host) I uploaded gTeX 2.0 to US CTAN host, e.g. ftp.shsu.edu. Currently, it is available from: /incoming/gtex/... but, later it will be moved to: /tex-archive/system/msdos/gtex2 Young ============================================= The following is from 00readme gTeX 2.0 by Young U. Ryu +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | All included in this distribution are distributed as they are. | | I and all people involved in programs in this distribution | | are not responsible any possible damages or losses, directly or | | indirectly caused by any prorgram in this distribution. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ gTeX 2.0 has the following: TeX 3.1415 (C version 6.0) Metafont 2.71 (C version 6.0) TeX Font Utils TeX Dvi Utils Makeindex 2.12 BibTeX 0.99c (C version 6.0) DVIWIN 2.81 DVIPS 5.526 MicroEmacs for Windows 3.12 AMSPELL Included macros are: plain TeX LaTeX 2.09 NFSS2 with AmSLaTeX LaTeX2e AmSTeX eplain (aka eTeX) Installation of executables (and required files) and macros is simplified so that all you should do is to run a bunch of batch files. TeX, Metafont, BibTeX, and Utility executables are created from Karl Berry's Web & Web2c 6.0. Executables for DOS and Windows DOS Box are generated by DJGPP/GCC 1.10. Executables for Windows/RSX are generated by EMX/GCC 0.8g. Enjoy ... Young U. Ryu ------------------------------ Date: 10 Feb 1994 15:17:02 +0100 From: norm@ora.com (Norman Walsh) Subject: [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCE: The CTAN Software Map Announcing the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network Software Map The CTAN map is a WWW interface to CTAN (i.e. clients like XMosaic can traverse the map interactively). It is served from http://jasper.ora.com/ The map integrates a complete directory listing with David Jones' TeX index and utility descriptions from my forthcoming book ``Making TeX Work''. Keyword and date searches are also supported. This is an experimental project but I plan to update it on a regular basis and I have plans for extending the software descriptions. Please remember, however, that I have a real job too. Your comments and suggestions would be most appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 19:33:53 +0100 From: schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Rainer Schoepf) Subject: LaTeX2e -- Second Test Release Available LaTeX2e -- Second Test Release Available Leslie Lamport and the LaTeX3 project team 14 February 1994 The second test release of LaTeX is now available. Notes about this release are at the end of this announcement. The first release revealed a few serious bugs and several other areas which need attention. Many people reported that documents and style files had been processed by the new system without serious problems; this includes one very important test -- the original text of `The LaTeX Manual'! We can also report that this release has been tested with all the files in the LaTeX 2.09 test suite and produces only predictable differences in the output. First, here is the original announcement - ---------------------------------------- LaTeX2e is the new standard version of LaTeX -- prepared and supported by the LaTeX3 project team. It is upwardly compatible with LaTeX 2.09 documents, but contains new features. Over the years many extensions of LaTeX have been developed. This is, of course, a welcome development, since it shows that the LaTeX system is in a healthy state. It has, however, had one unfortunate consequence: there are now several incompatible systems, in the sense of format (.fmt) files, all claiming to be LaTeX. Therefore, in order to process documents coming from various places, a site maintainer needs to provide several format files: LaTeX (with and without NFSS), SLiTeX, AmSLaTeX, and so on. In addition, when looking at a source file it is not always clear for which format the document was written. LaTeX2e puts an end to this unsatisfactory situation -- it will give access to all such extensions based on a single format and thus end the proliferation of mutually incompatible dialects of LaTeX 2.09. It uses an enhanced version (NFSS2) of the New Font Selection Scheme. Files such as amstex.sty (formerly the AmSLaTeX format) or slides.sty (formerly the SLiTeX format) will become extension packages, all working with this single format. The introduction of this new version will also make it possible to add a small number of often-requested features (such as extended versions of \newcommand). To summarize: * Standardisation: a single format incorporating NFSS2, to replace the present multiplicity of incompatible formats -- NFSS, lfonts, pslfonts, etc. * Maintenance: a standardised system supported by a reliable maintenance policy. LaTeX2e adheres, as far as possible, to the following principles: * Unmodified version 2.09 document files can be processed with LaTeX2e. * All new features of LaTeX2e conform to the conventions of version 2.09, making it as easy as possible for current users to learn to use them. LaTeX2e is described in a new edition of `LaTeX: A Document Preparation System' by Leslie Lamport (to appear during 1994) and `The LaTeX Companion' by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, both published by Addison-Wesley. LaTeX2e will be distributed twice a year. This distribution is a preliminary test release, and doesn't contain all of the files that will be part of the full release. In particular, it does not contain the planned extensions in the area of graphics inclusion. The first full release will be available in Spring 1994. This is a test release, so please get it and test it on as many different systems as possible! Getting the second test release - ------------------------------- LaTeX2e can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from the CTAN archives: ftp.tex.ac.uk /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/core ftp.shsu.edu /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/core ftp.dante.de /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/core Bug reports - ----------- Please report any problems with LaTeX2e by using the report-generating program latexbug.tex, included in the LaTeX2e distribution. Error reports should be sent to the following e-mail address: latex-bugs@rus.uni-stuttgart.de Help for style/package/class file maintainers - --------------------------------------------- We shall be producing a short document summarising the changes that may be needed in order to turn a style file for old LaTeX into a class or package file. To get the latest information on this subject or to report problems, please send a message to the following address: bugs@minnie.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.de Please ensure that it starts with the following line *exactly*: >Category: latex-class-writing If you want a prompt and useful reply, please make your message as short and precise as possible. Notes on the second test release - -------------------------------- - -- Only the straightforward bugs and the serious bugs found in the first release have been fixed; other problems are still being worked on. Some of the reports uncovered features of the original LaTeX which some consider to be bugs; whether these should be `fixed' is not always clear. - -- There are thus several areas, including things arising from bug reports, on which we are still working. - -- The details of the distribution, unpacking etc are still under development. - -- The details of the typography in the standard classes is not finalised. - -- The precise functionality of the compatibility mode is not fixed. - -- Still no graphics package! Warning - ------- If you have installed the first release then you must remove it completely and start again. This is because there are many small differences, including new file names, and because the installation procedure now behaves differently. For the LaTeX3 Project - ---------------------- Johannes Braams David Carlisle Alan Jeffrey Frank Mittelbach Chris Rowley Rainer Sch\"opf ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 11:30:07 +0000 From: "Wayne G. Sullivan" Subject: web2c BIGTeX and METAFONT for DOS and Windows DJ Delorie's port of GNU C (djgpp available from oak.oakland.edu in pub/msdos/djgpp : be sure to get the dj111m1, m2 ,m3; and from simtel20 mirrors) make is straightforward to compile the web2c-6.1 on 386+ PC's under DOS. Delorie's DOS extender will run under Windows 3.1, so the EXEs can be used in a DOS Window. To save repeated effort in setting the parameters, I have prepared "web2pc02.zip" which is available in the web2c directory of CTAN. You need web2c-6.1 and web-6.1 as well. CTAN directory: tex-archive/systems/unix/web2c If your system uses the sbTeX direstory structure, you can avail of the compiled versions of TeX and METAFONT contained in systems/msdos/sbtex/ sb39tm01.zip. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 15:52:10 -0500 From: "K. Berry" Subject: dviljk 1.0, dvipsk 5.528a, and xdvik 1.7 available I've released version 1.0 of dviljk, a modified version of Gustaf Neumann's dvi2xx driver (version 0.51a9) for HP LaserJet printers, and also new versions of dvipsk (my modified version of Tom Rokicki's dvips) and xdvik (ditto ditto Paul Vojta's xdvi). You can get them by ftp: ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{xdvik,dvipsk,dviljk}.tar.gz Soon they should be on the ctan hosts as well, in tex-archive/dvi. Aside from kpathsea-ification and Autoconf-ization, dviljk also supports the LaserJet 4 builtin fonts (thanks to Norm Walsh, who built the actual TeX TFM's from HP TFM's). (The alpha9 version of the original dvi2xx also does so, and Eberhard Mattes' dvi-to-lj driver will probably do so also in the near future, so you aren't stuck with my idiosyncratic software just to use the builtin fonts.) The external ls-R database below isn't optimal yet -- the list of font directories still winds up being built, because of searches for nonexistent vf files. I'll address this next time out. Here's the NEWS for the other releases: kpathsea 1.7 * Searches can use an externally-built ls-R ``database'', for speed. * `VPATH = .' lines removed from generated Makefile, for broken Sun make. * A path foo//tfm finds foo/tfm as well as foo/*/tfm. xdvik 1.7 (1 March 1994) * Use DEFAULT_FIG_PATH, instead of DEFAULT_TEX_PATH (they are the same by default, anyway). * EPS displays take the magnification into account (thanks to Jon Peatfield). * EPS displays support the angle option from psfig 1.10 (thanks to Uwe Bon). * The Metafont mode for MakeTeXPK can be set via the command line, an X resource, an environment variable, or at compile-time. * Support for the SelFile widget (thanks to Jon Peatfield). * XDVIFONTS only overrides font-related paths, not all paths. dvipsk 5.528a * DVIPSFONTS only overrides font-related paths. * By default, append mode to MakeTeXPK installation directory. * Update for dvips 5.528. Happy TeXing, kb@cs.umb.edu ------------------------------ Date: 09 Mar 1994 14:57:49 +0100 From: a.wevers@laguna.han.de Subject: [comp.text.tex] Eddi4TeX 1.20 is ready Programpublication 'Eddi4TeX Version 1.2 dating 15.02.1994' Eddi4TeX - Editor and Shell for DOS and OS/2 (I am sorry for my poor english) During german TeX-meeting DANTE '94 in Muenster I presented the new version of my program. In the following the features are listed briefly: - - the name is Eddi4TeX (say: Eddi-For-TeX) says a lot: an editor for working with TeX with an integrated development environment - - windows, several texts at a time - - float-text: the text is wrapped automatically and the resulting paragraph structure is saved in a TeX-fitting format, when loading a text, this information still exists, the fraying out of texts belongs to history * within the text commands, comments, braces and environment-borders are stained to improve the readability of the text enormously * Macros: macro-recorder, commandsequences, textblocks, interactivity, decision, jumps * using OS/2 macros can pause until erxternal programs are terminated, the positioning of PM-Windows can be controlled, in the OS/2-version the 640K-limit has fallen * environmentvariable E4TOPT * switching the menus and messages to english, an english version of the helpfiles will follow if YOU show your interest in the program - - search, search&replace, go to line, sorting, color-adjustment, backupfiles temporaryfiles, screenprotector, ... - - blockoperations for areas of text and columns of tables - - online-helpsystem on the program (german only) - - online-helpsystem including syntaxinformation on LaTeX (german only) - - creating own helpfiles can be done comfortably using the included program - - registrating any programs you want - - analyse of the LOG-file, showing the errormessages, jumping to errorpositions, works also in files via \input, several errors - - related braces are blinking - - analysing braces without parnters - - 30-pages manual as DVI-file (german only) * shareware-fullversion Changes on the installation description: - - please check [Options/Register/Help/Change/LaTeX & TeX] when using DEMO.RES - - trying to print the manual using publicTeX you have to copy some fonts to different names (lcirclew10) Problems: - - if you should have any problems installing or using the program please do NOT write public mails in any newsgroups, but try to contact me via e-mail personally Availability: - - in a few days the program should be available from ftp.dante.de in /pub/tex/systems/msdos/e4t under the name of E4T120.EXE - - BBS SkateBox telefon : +49-5175-31324 limit : no limit on this login online : 20.00-14.00 filearea : 0501 (directory /TeX/TeX-Soft) emulation: ANSI file : !E4T120.EXE, selfextracting username : TeXsauger size : 0.6 megabyte password : TeX - - send a formatted disk including an international postal return coupon address : Ulrich Jahnz Alte Landwehr 2b 38114 BRAUNSCHWEIG GERMANY e-mail : Ulrich_Jahnz@PE.MAUS.DE ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 18:40:52 +0700 From: Wlodek Bzyl Subject: EuroTeX '94 Below I include an announcement about EuroTeX conference. Would you be so kind as include it in the following TeXhax issue. - --Wlodek. Internet e-mail: matwb@halina.univ.gda.pl ============================================================================ EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX ============================================================================ Is North America too far / too expensive / too alien a culture? Then come to EuroTeX '94, _the_ TeX conference of the year. EuroTeX will take place at Sobieszewo on an idyllic island off the coast of Gdansk in Poland. The conference will run from Monday September 26th to Friday September 30th, and the _maximum_ cost (based on two persons sharing) will not exceed $260-00 / sterling 175-00 / DM 450-00. Those arriving early on Monday will be able to take part in a guided tour of the old town of Gdansk, whilst Tuesday to Thursday will be jam-packed with talks and tutorials on TeX and related topics. All delegates will be accommodated in a single building, and for the whole week will be cut off from civilisation: no distractions, no need to leave the island: everything will be provided. For those unable to sustain the pace, quiet meditative walks along the shore searching for amber will provide the ideal opportunity for therapeutic meditation. Papers are solicited _now_, and early registration for the conference is advised: with its Central European location and idyllic setting, the conference is expected to attract many delegates. If you are even _thinking_ of coming, then you are urged to return the form below: we will then add you to the mailing list and keep you posted about any changes in the schedule. Please note the following deadlines: Abstracts for papers: no later than 1 May 1994; Final papers: 15th August 1994; Provisional registration: 1 June 1994 (no charge for cancellation); Confirmed registration: 1 September 199 (cancellation charged at 50%); Late registration: 15th September 1994 (no cancellation possible); Bursaries: as with the combined EuroTeX/TUG meeting at Aston last year, it is hoped to be able to offer financial assistance to delegates who would otherwise be unable to attend; of course, we cannot be sure at this stage that sponsors will be as generous as they were last year, but intending delegates who will need assistance in order to be able to attend should indicate in the space provided the _minimum_ bursary which would allow them to be able to attend, and should give clear reasons why they are applying. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. Delegates who are in no need of a bursary and who are able to assist others less fortunate are urged to pledge a donation in the space provided. Tutorials and Courses: It is intended to offer both tutorials (which will take place during the week of the conference proper), and courses (which will take place during the week following the conference); proposed topics include book design and LaTeX-2e, but no firm decisions have yet been taken on topics, durations or costs. Further details concerning this area will be circulated as soon as they are known, and space has been provided on the provisional registration form (below) in which both to indicate an interest in tutorials/courses and to suggest possible topics. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To the Conference Organisers, EuroTeX '94: C/o W{\l}odek Bzyl, Department of Mathematics, University of Gdansk, Poland E-mail: Wlodek Bzyl (Mathematics) Yes, I hope to attend EuroTeX '94! 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