From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #11 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2891.803130681.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 12:51:22 +0100 Message-ID: <2893.803130682@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 14 Jun 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 11 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Deskjet 520 vs 500 Location of texinfo.tex v2.134 or later Lines after figures and space after \input Using TeX abd LaTex with Open VMS AXP 6.1 systems [comp.programming.literate] web-mode, emacs, pull-down menus ANNOUNCEMENT: The LaTeX Navigator test release of new PostScript font metrics A basic SYMBOL encoding for afm2tfm [comp.text.tex] New TeX distribution from Knuth EuroTeX'95 Installation of Knuth's 1995 release ANNOUNCEMENT: gsftopk version 1.10 Babel release 3.5 Beta now available Announcing: TWG-TDS Draft Standard 0.98 Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe texhax" or "unsubscribe texhax", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 13:52:58 +0000 From: John Rostron Subject: Deskjet 520 vs 500 I have been using the EmTex dvihplj driver successfully on a Deskjet 500 for some time. I now have a Deskjet 520 and I find that it will not print on the bottom inch of the page! All my other software seems to behave exactly as before. I have tried the /t option, but this has no effect. The bottom inch remains blank. The only way I can get a footline is to print the page up-side-down. This works, but it means that I end up with a rather lop-sided looking page. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:26:36 +0000 From: Bill Peel Subject: Location of texinfo.tex v2.134 or later Can anyone help me obtain a copy of texinfo.tex v2.134 or later so that I can process latex2e.texi. I have looked on CTAN and the latest version I can find is v2.124. I know that it comes with v19 of EMACS but I don't want to download 8MB for a 100k text file. Thanks Bill Peel Bill Peel | Computing Services w.peel@mmu.ac.uk | Manchester Metropolitan University | Chester Street | Manchester M1 5GD | England ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 16:50:50 +0100 From: "K.Lockyear" Subject: Lines after figures and space after \input Dear all, I am currently completing my PhD using LaTeX2e (emTeX 386 on a PC) and have a couple of queries. Firstly, I would quite like to have a thin rule between my floats and my main text. Is there a package that will do this? I am using the excellent caption package to put the text in small and the _Figure 1.1_ in bold. Some of my captions are, however, quite long and it would be nice to seperate them from the main text. Secondly, I have put my footnotes in seperate files which are then incorporated into the main text using \input. (This is to make counting words *not* including the footnotes easier). For some reason this creates a larger than normal space after the footnotemark in the main text which looks mighty ugly. I have made sure that there is no extra space or lines after the end of the footnote in the \input file. Lastly, I am using the Chicago bibliography package. I have a number of publications where the the year is a range, ie. year="1988--1989". If I use this form in the BiBTeX file I get (Bloggs 1989) in the text, but Bloggs, F. (1988--1989) in the bibliography. If I put year="1988--89" in the bibtex file I get (Bloggs 8 89) in the text. What I ideally would like is the format in the text and bibliography to be the same, either 1988--89, 1988--1988 or whatever. Hope someone can help me! Please can you mail me direct at wom@soton.ac.uk Many thanks in advance, Kris Lockyear. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 12:02:26 -0000 From: DMURDOCK@ailm.may.ie Subject: Using TeX and LaTex with Open VMS AXP 6.1 systems We are replacing our central VMS 5.5-2 node with an OpenVMS AXP 6.1 central node. We are currently using Tex and LaTeX on the VAX VMS system. We would sincerely appreciate any details (if available) of the best way to use the latest version of TeX and LATeX with OpenVMS AXP 6.1 systems. With many sincere thanks, Dominic Murdock, Systems Support Computer Centre, Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, IRELAND ------------------------------ Date: 26 May 1995 01:34:00 +0000 From: bart@cs.tamu.edu (Bart Childs) Subject: [comp.programming.literate] web-mode, emacs, pull-down menus I have just placed wm-menu.tar.gz on the machine ftp.cs.tamu.edu in directory pub/tex-web/web/EMACS.web-mode. Leslie Stoneham did this extension to web-mode as part of her M.S. plan of study. It is an extension of web-mode.el that was originally done by Mark Motl and I now maintain. When using emacs-19, it extends the menu bar that shows at the top to allow most of the web-mode functionality via pull down menus. It was developed and used on SunOS, AIX, and Solaris. It should be portable. The file contains the web-menu.el and a directory which includes her report. I warn against executing latex on the file since it uses a local thesis style file. The dvi file is included and bunches of bitmaps (in ps form) that are included. A short modification to web-mode.el is described in the report that is required for existing versions of web-mode.el. In a couple of weeks I should be able to redo that directory such that one retrieval of web-mode will get all. We have primarily used it with FWEB and CWEB. Please let me know of any problems you have with it. Leslie has a job and leaves these hallowed halls later this week. Bart Childs ------------------------------ Date: 22 May 1995 19:40:15 +0200 From: roegel@loria.fr (Denis B. Roegel) Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: The LaTeX Navigator ***************************************** ********* THE LATEX NAVIGATOR *********** ***************************************** => http://www.loria.fr/tex <= This is to announce a WWW site completely devoted to TeX and friends. The site is located at the LORIA research center at Nancy, France, which is also a CTAN mirror (ftp.loria.fr, cd ctan:). The main purpose of ``The LaTeX Navigator'' is to provide documentation about macros, packages, formats, tools, TeX engines, to give pointers, etc. Currently more than 200 .dvi or .ps files are proposed and this amount is constantly growing. (therefore any contribution or idea of contribution will be most welcome) The top pages are written in three languages: french, english and german and you can choose which you like, though the underlying documents are mostly in english (except our local guide). The german pages are far from perfect, but we will improve that soon ... The top english page shows the following items: General documentation about (La)TeX The (La)TeX local guide of our site (LORIA) (in French) Bibliography and indexes Literate programming Classes Macros and packages Fonts and symbols Graphics Formats and tools Engines and distributions Historical documents FAQs, ftp, miscellaneous ... File search on the CTAN archive (ftp.loria.fr) WWW servers dedicated to (La)TeX Feel free to wander through these pages and don't hesitate to report problems to latex@loria.fr (for instance unreadable files, or files using unusual fonts for instance). Denis Roegel, Jean-Michel Antoine and Karl Tombre authors of The LaTeX Navigator roegel@loria.fr jmant@loria.fr tombre@loria.fr ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 01:17:51 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: test release of new PostScript font metrics Over the last 9 months, a group of people have been working on a revamp of TeX font metrics for PostScript fonts. We are now ready (finally!) to release this, together with a new release of the PSNFSS package for LaTeX2e, and a new version of the Berry fontnaming scheme. The maintainers of PSNFSS, fontinst, web2c, and dvips all urge you to start using this new setup, so that all the bothersome variants can be abolished by the end of the year. The entire distribution is on the CTAN hosts in fonts/psfonts.beta. Its big - don't pull all the files on spec! Get what you need. Prepackaged sets for Textures users will be made available very shortly. These files will replace both the LaTeX PSNFSS (currently on CTAN in fonts/metrics) and the font metrics distributed with dvips. Both of these packages contained virtual fonts which more or less mimicked the original TeX text encoding, and (in the case of PSNFSS) the Cork encoding. However, the two packages used different base fonts, thus making previewing painful (and wasting disk space). Now, everything uses a single base font in a new encoding named 8r (see tools/8r.enc or tools/8r.etx). This new base encoding is *not* Adobe Standard Encoding, because that does not provide access to all of the 228 characters normally supplied with a Type 1 font. Therefore, you must use a DVI-to-PostScript driver which can perform reencoding, such as dvips(k), Y&Y's drivers, OzTeX, Textures etc. We are still contemplating whether the base encoding should be the current one (mostly compatible with Windows), the texnansi encoding promulgated by Y&Y (see tools/texnansi.vec), or something else. Comments are welcome. Aside from the base font, there are other small changes in the new fonts. For the Cork-encoded fonts, the stretch and shrink of the interword spacing has been changed. For the dvips fonts, the positions of the preaccented characters have been fixed (e.g., Aring is at the same position in every font). Therefore, the font checksums are different. The actual character dimensions, however, remain unchanged. The new fonts (mostly) have new names! You can get the new fontname distribution from ftp.cs.umb.edu:private/tex/fontname-*.tar.gz or in the tools/ subdirectory of this distribution. This distribution includes support the standard 35 fonts, various freely available fonts (with type1's), and many commercial-only fonts (no type1's). Smallcaps and obliqued versions are available in bold and normal variants, where applicable. All fonts have ligatures and kerning (no ``raw'' fonts); therefore, even the *8r base fonts can be used for real typesetting. An experimental support is provided in PSNFSS for this. We built these fonts using both fontinst and afm2tfm (and other utilities). Both required changes, which will be merged into the next releases. See the tools/ directory if you want to reconstruct the work. The changes to fontinst are extensive, and if you are not confident you understand them, please wait until the author finds time to merge them into a complete new release later this year. ***************************************** Primary perpetrators: Sebastian Rahtz, Alan Jeffrey, Karl Berry. Chief Tester and Bugfinder: Constantin Kahn. Aiders and abettors: Tom Rokicki, Ciar\'an \'O Duibh\'{\i}n, Pierre MacKay, Rob Hutchings, Berthold Horn, Damian Cugley. Please send any questions, comments, or suggestions to tex-fonts@math.utah.edu. (Email tex-fonts-request@math.utah.edu to join the list.) Sebastian Rahtz May 1995 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 15:36:22 -0700 From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay) Subject: A basic SYMBOL encoding for afm2tfm It is rare to need a custom encoding vector for the Symbol font, but it can happen. I couldn't find one the other day so I made one up. Here it is. % % This is the SYMBOL encoding. (Red Book, page 269) % % Normally, you wouldn't need to bother with this, but if you % run into software which requires an explicit encoding, or you % need to rearrange some of the symbols in this set, it is much % easier to start from the basic Adobe encoding. % This encoding vector is taken directly from Symbol.pfa, so % it should be correct. % % All sorts of possibilities here. For now just keep the part % that clears away any unwanted encoding around digits. % % LIGKERN space {} * ; * {} space ; zero {} * ; * {} zero ; % LIGKERN one {} * ; * {} one ; two {} * ; * {} two ; % LIGKERN three {} * ; * {} three ; four {} * ; * {} four ; % LIGKERN five {} * ; * {} five ; six {} * ; * {} six ; % LIGKERN seven {} * ; * {} seven ; eight {} * ; * {} eight ; % LIGKERN nine {} * ; * {} nine ; % /SYMBOLEncoding [ % 0x00 /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef % 0x10 /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef % 0x20 /space /exclam /universal /numbersign /existential /percent /ampersand /suchthat /parenleft /parenright /asteriskmath /plus /comma /minus /period /slash % 0x30 /zero /one /two /three /four /five /six /seven /eight /nine /colon /semicolon /less /equal /greater /question % 0x40 /congruent /Alpha /Beta /Chi /Delta /Epsilon /Phi /Gamma /Eta /Iota /theta1 /Kappa /Lambda /Mu /Nu /Omicron % 0x50 /Pi /Theta /Rho /Sigma /Tau /Upsilon /sigma1 /Omega /Xi /Psi /Zeta /bracketleft /therefore /bracketright /perpendicular /underscore % 0x60 /radicalex /alpha /beta /chi /delta /epsilon /phi /gamma /eta /iota /phi1 /kappa /lambda /mu /nu /omicron % 0x70 /pi /theta /rho /sigma /tau /upsilon /omega1 /omega /xi /psi /zeta /braceleft /bar /braceright /similar /.notdef % 0x80 /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef % 0x90 /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef % 0xA0 /.notdef /Upsilon1 /minute /lessequal /fraction /infinity /florin /club /diamond /heart /spade /arrowboth /arrowleft /arrowup /arrowright /arrowdown % 0xB0 /degree /plusminus /second /greaterequal /multiply /proportional /partialdiff /bullet /divide /notequal /equivalence /approxequal /ellipsis /arrowvertex /arrowhorizex /carriagereturn % 0xC0 /aleph /Ifraktur /Rfraktur /weierstrass /circlemultiply /circleplus /emptyset /intersection /union /propersuperset /reflexsuperset /notsubset /propersubset /reflexsubset /element /notelement % 0xD0 /angle /gradient /registerserif /copyrightserif /trademarkserif /product /radical /dotmath /logicalnot /logicaland /logicalor /arrowdblboth /arrowdblleft /arrowdblup /arrowdblright /arrowdbldown % 0xE0 /lozenge /angleleft /registersans /copyrightsans /trademarksans /summation /parenlefttp /parenleftex /parenleftbt /bracketlefttp /bracketleftex /bracketleftbt /bracelefttp /braceleftmid /braceleftbt /braceex % 0xF0 /.notdef /angleright /integral /integraltp /integralex /integralbt /parenrighttp /parenrightex /parenrightbt /bracketrighttp /bracketrightex /bracketrightbt /bracerighttp /bracerightmid /bracerightbt /.notdef ] def %=======================================================================% | N O T I C E | | Please note the changes in address and telephone number below. | | There is no Northwest Computing Support Center any longer. | | Until further notice, I shall be continuing to provide tape | | distributions and whatever other services I can. | | | %=======================================================================% Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software may be sent To: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay Smail: Department of Classics Emeritus Druid for Denny Hall, Mail Stop DH-10 Unix-flavored TeX University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-2268 (Message recorder) ------------------------------ Date: 28 May 1995 06:36:54 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: [comp.text.tex] New TeX distribution from Knuth I have just installed here (at ftp.tex.ac.uk) Knuth's 1995 TeX distribution (tex version 3.14159, mf version 2.718, and any related programs). This covers all of the directory tree from tex-archive/systems/knuth, with the exception of the new cm distributions. Knuth has made some changes to cm that necessitate me rebuilding all of the .pk files that CTAN holds. This may not be complete today (I do have other work to do ;-) The CTAN archives no longer mirror from labrea, since the new version of TeX is only so far present in the tex alpha directory there (there is no current schedule for installing the new distribution in its `proper' place in labrea's directory structure). Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team) Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 17:55:48 +0200 From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: EuroTeX'95 ============ EuroTeX'95 ============ September 4-8 Arnhem, The Netherlands Conference information ======================================================================== The TeX Toolbox The EuroTeX conference 1995, including tutorials, will take place from September 4th until September 8th in the Netherlands. The conference will be held at Papendal, near the city of Arnhem. Papendal is located in one of the most beautiful areas of the Netherlands. Right in the middle of the vast woods of the province of Gelderland. About eight kilometers west of Arnhem. Tucked away under the lee of the green Veluwe-fringe. The conference starts on September 4th in the afternoon and runs until September 7th noon. Thursday afternoon and Friday September 8th are reserved for tutorials. The theme of the conference is: The TeX Toolbox. --------------- Preliminary program - ------------------- (Items marked `*' are not confirmed yet) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday a.m. Welcome Reception and registration of conference attendants. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday p.m. (14:00-18:30) Theme: I) Fonts VFComb -- a program for design of virtual fonts S. Turtia, A.Berdikov The Conversion of the Euler Metafont sources to PostScript Type1 E.J. Vens EC and DC fonts J. Knappen EC math fonts, fontinst A. Jeffrey* Theme: II) Multiple languages A package for Church Slavonic type-setting A.F. Slepuhin A Russian style for Babel: problems and solutions O. Lapko, I. Makhovaya ScholarTeX Y. Haralambous Status of Babel J. Braams - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday a.m. (9:00-12:30) Theme: Graphics and packages Graphics in TeX: a new implementation A.V. Astrelin TeX Plotter -- program for creating 2D and 3D pictures S. Turtia, A. Berdikov Packages for typesetting Commutative Diagrams G. Feruglio Package for typesetting chemical diagrams J. Hagen MusixTeX, a package for typesetting music D. Taupin* - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday p.m. From 13:30-14:30: NTG meeting. Theme: Electronic documents Presentation of Acrobat W. Tierie Producing electronic books? -- all you need is TeX! J. Hagen SGML, a practical introduction M. Goossens From LaTeX to HTML, and back M. Goossens Style sheets (DSSSL,... ) J. Andre SGML, Acrobat, LATEX, HyperTeX S. Rahtz* Panel discussion. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday a.m. Theme: Tools I DaTeX, TeX macros for storing and retrieving data R. Koning, S. Kliffen, A. Lenstra TeX: an unsuitable language for document markup? P. Taylor Blue's Data Bases K. van der Laan Occam's razor and macro management L. Siebenmann Formating Pascal using TeX P. Palao, M. Nunez - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday p.m. Theme: General developments in TEX and LATEX LaTeX3 C. Rowley* eTEX: A 100%-compatible successor to TeX. P. Taylor NTS* P. Taylor* Omega Y. Haralambous tds * Panel discussion. From 16:00-???: the social event, still a secret... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday a.m. Theme: Tools II \csname undefined \endcsname = relax: feature or flaw P. Taylor Atomic fonts and electronic archiving of scientific documents L. Siebenmann Duplex: a LaTeX based Cooperative Editing Environment F. Pacull The W96 Environment A. Strejc Indexing with `Any'TeX K. van der Laan Metafont as generator of EPS graphics B. Jackowski - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday p.m. and Friday Theme: Tutorials Parallel sessions. Sweet-TeX tutorial L. Siebenmann Page layout in LaTeX P. van Oostrum TeXing Paradigms K. van der Laan BLU TeX K. van der Laan Metafont/Metapost B. Jackowski eTEX tutorial P. Taylor Workshop on Acrobat and electronic document delivery M. Goossens & S. Rahtz - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meeting costs The resistration fee includes the Welcome Reception on Monday, all lunches from Monday to Thursday, all dinners from Monday to Wednesday and one copy of the proceedings. One tutorial (1/2 day) is included in the conference fee. Extra tutorials cost Hfl 70 each. Lunch on Friday is Hfl 15. The conference fee also includes the `social event' on Wednesday afternoon and evening. Conference rates: - - members of TUG or Local TEX User Groups (please specify): Hfl 350 - - others: Hfl 425 Reservations of hotel rooms at the conference site can only be done by the EuroTeX organisation committee. Papendal offers the following accomodation: - - single rooms Hfl 90 per day per person - - double rooms Hfl 75 per day per person - - quadruple rooms Hfl 50 per day per person (breakfast included). Accomodation is limited, so register as soon as possible. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How to get there Papendal is located just outside the city of Arnhem. From Arnhem it can be reached by bus or taxi in approximately 15 minutes. There is a train going from Amsterdam airport (Schiphol) to Arnhem every 30 minutes. The address is: Papendal Nationaal Sport Centrum fax +31 8308 21853 tel +31 8308 37911 P.O. Box 484 6800 AL Arnhem The Netherlands People coming from Russia, Poland or ... may be interested in the EuroTeX Bus Project. On September 2nd a TeX bus will drive from Brest, through Warsaw, through ... to Arnhem, where it will arrive on Sunday in the afternoon. Taking the bus will be extremely cheap. However, seats are limited so register as soon as possible. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bursary fund There is a Bursary Fund available for those who require financial support to attend the meeting. While we cannot guarantee all requests will be fulfilled, we will do our best to support as many as we can. We encourage all conference attendants to contribute a small amount of money to the Bursary Fund along with their registration fee. More information about contributing to or applying to the Bursary Fund can be obtained from the Dutch TeX Users Group, by e-mail ntg@nic.surfnet.nl, or by post: P.O. Box 394, 1740 AJ Schagen, The Netherlands. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Further information Updates of this information will be sent to all known electronic TeX related mailing lists and to all Local TeX User Groups. If you have access to a WWW browser you can go to http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet/eurotex. There you can find the latest news, a registration form and other useful information. - -- Piet van Oostrum http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 17:30:43 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: Installation of Knuth's 1995 release I have now completed the installation of Knuth's 1995 release on CTAN (I announced the interim installation of all but the fonts a while back). The installation has been done at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTANs in fairly short order (though I have little evidence that propagation to ftp.shsu.edu is reliable just now). Barbara Beeton has supplied the following announcement text: =========================================================================== Date: 08 Mar 1995 18:22:30 -0800 --------- ANNOUNCING THE 1995 UPDATE TO TeX, METAFONT, and FRIENDS -------- I've just gone through all accumulated correspondence and made appropriate changes to the master TeX sources on my home computer. (I plan to do this again in February of 1998, 2002, 2007, etc.!) My files are grouped in two main subdirectories, "dist" and "local"; the former consists of the master WEB, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, TeXware, and MFware sources, while the latter consists of my own change files and supplementary macros and fonts that other people might like to look at. These files fit into similarly named parts of the big TeX archive tree; they should replace their former counterparts. I don't know how to do this myself, not even at labrea, so I am hoping that all current maintainers of TeXnicalities will be alerted to the existence of this new material. I've checked everything pretty carefully, so I don't think there's any need to wait until independent vetting has been done. TeX Version 3.14159 has four bug fixes, two of which are significant: 1) fontmemsize can vary between formats dumped by INITEX and loaded by VIRTEX --- this problem had already been fixed by all the major implementations 2) math kerns disappear again at line breaks, as they should --- this problem arose by mistake in version 3.1415. 3) overflow won't occur when converting huge stretch/shrink amounts from real to integer --- again, implementors had fixed this 4) you can have more than 32K font parameters without crashing TeX (nobody ever wanted so many, but a crash is a crash) METAFONT Version 2.718 has only one bug fix, but it corrects a problem in the linear-equation-solving engine that lost significant figures and caused spurious overflows; the bug had been present since version 0.1. I've written a letter to Barbara Beeton about this, and she can send you a copy if you need more information. The bug had only microscopic effect on Computer Modern fonts. Ten changes were made to the Computer Modern fonts, affecting nine of the master source files, but the changes are rather minor and nearly invisible to the eye. (Again they help reduce the chance of overflow.) I have been unhappy to see so many people still using the pre-1992 CM fonts, because I made MAJOR important improvements in that year, and I hate to run across the obsolete symbols in preprints that people send me! Anybody who hasn't installed CM fonts since 1991 should surely change now; and please help stamp out all copies of the old fonts that you see installed anywhere. (The lowercase delta is the main giveaway --- the new shape is vastly better than the old. Also arrows are now darker, and several calligraphic caps are improved, etc etc; the TFM files did not change, but the images got lots better.) On the other hand, if you do have the 1993-or-later version of the fonts, there's no need to replace old bitmaps. Just replace the old source files, and regenerate fonts from them at your leisure. There are new versions of DVItype (3.5), PLtoTF (3.5), and VPtoVF (1.4). DVItype now checks the DVI file more carefully in material that is skipped over (e.g., between pages). Plain TeX format, version 3.14159, has eight changes, but only the change to \bmod has a substantial probability of affecting existing .tex files. Accents \b and \d have gotten better in four ways. Barbara Beeton will be distributing reward checks to 20 people who were first to report significant errors in Volumes A--E. The big "sweepstakes" winners this year were Chris Thompson (Cambridge) and Bogus{\l}aw Jackowski (Gdansk), who received the maximum $327.68 reward for pointing out longstanding bugs in TeX and METAFONT, respectively. All sources are frozen and no future changes will be made unless a new, serious and easily fixable error is reported. The threshold for calling something a feature rather than a bug is rising exponentially and may be almost infinitely high when I do this exercise again in 1998! However, I do still promise to maintain these programs as long as I am able. Where can you find the new sources? At labrea.stanford.edu, in file ~ftp/alpha/tex95.tar.gz (slightly less than 3MB). Thanks to all of you for continued high quality support. -- Don Knuth 3/8/95 ============================================================================= The update I have performed started from the file Knuth mentions, labrea.stanford.edu:ftp/alpha/tex95.tar.gz; I have only re-installed things that have changed (as far as possible). Of particular import is what I have done with the CM font changes. We have on the archive two directories which purport to hold CM sources - -- systems/knuth/cm and fonts/cm/mf systems/knuth/cm has almost nothing in it here, and what it does hold is identical to the sources in fonts/cm/mf I have therefore updated fonts/cm/mf, and not touched systems/knuth/lib All other directories in Knuth's tar file are mapped to those on CTAN by the transformations ./dist/* -> systems/knuth/*, ./local/* -> systems/knuth/local/* I have also rebuilt all of the files in fonts/cm/pk; I've included a small README in that directory (not least to ensure that the next person who has to do this job doesn't have to run around in such small circles ;-). I haven't regenerated the contents of fonts/cm/gf, and have deleted the files that were there; that directory contained a README saying that the files weren't there, and this seemed an appropriate moment to align that statement with reality. The README in fonts/cm/pk says: ======================================================================== I have included in this directory what I believe to be the right sort of thing to match what was there already. This is not to say that I'm terribly proud of it, but it seems about right. The pk300 fonts were generated using CanonCX mode from Karl Berry's modes.mf The pk300w fonts were generated using RicohFortyEighty mode from Karl Berry's modes.mf The pk240 fonts were generated using CanonLBPTen mode from Karl Berry's modes.mf (this differs from the "CanonLBP" used in the previous version in name only). The pk120 fonts were generated with the same parameters as were used in the previous version, though nothing with those parameters exists in Karl Berry's modes.mf; by analogy with the previous version, I've called this mode OneTwoZero. I was not terribly surprised that several files gave me metafont errors with this mode; the most (apparently) serious were cmss12 and cmssi12, though several of the smaller-sized fonts had strange paths of one sort or another. I've included a slightly hacked copy of a Makefile which used to be in the directory ../gf300; I had to hack it because the original neither reflected the current `best' thinking about the way TeX systems should be organised, nor the way they're organised on our discs (which is different for hysterical raisins). ======================================================================== I believe that I've completed the job I undertook, but if anyone spots problems with my work, they are welcome to get in touch with me by mail (there's little point in taxing the newsgroups with it unless there are problems with my work that are serious enough to constitute major pitfalls that might bother other people). Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 12:05:50 -0700 From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: gsftopk version 1.10 This is to announce that version 1.10 of gsftopk is available. gsftopk is a utility that calls Ghostscript to render PostScript fonts, and then converts them into pk format. This allows you to view PostScript fonts in xdvi. This version fixes bugs with the ReEncodeFont directive in the psfonts.map file. This is needed in order to use fonts with the `8r' encoding (as in the recently-released psfonts.beta package). To upgrade, you can either: 1. get the whole package again: CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.10.tar.gz or 2. apply the following patch to version 1.9: CTAN:tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.9-1.10.diff.gz (Unfortunately, ftp.dante.de is not mirroring this properly, though.) These files are also available in Unix compress format from math.berkeley.edu in the directory pub/Software/TeX. - --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 23:05:58 +0200 From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: Babel release 3.5 Beta now available Hi, I am releived to finally be able to tell you that I have finalized Babel release 3.5 far enough to start a beta testing period. I have to warn you though that not all documentation is up to what it should be yet. What's new in release 3.5? - Because of some of the major changes I made I have decided to give the (formerly called) language-specific files a new name: "language definition file". They also no longer have the extension.sty but ".ldf". The consequence is that \usepackage{english} no longer works, only the documented syntax \usepackage[english]{babel} works. - Completely changed the way babel deals with active characters. They are now activated once and stay active for the rest of the document, only their expansion changes. There is still one problem with the approach: active characters that take an argument (such as " in a lot of languages) give errors what TeX finds the sequence "}. - Active characters (or two letter combinations starting with an active character) are now called shorthands. One can have three levels of shorthands: user defined, language defined and system defined. Active characters may be defined to take an argument. - Active characters are now written to auxiliary files *verbatim* - A language change now also writes information in the .aux file as the change might also affect typesetting the table of contents. The consequence is that an .aux file generated by a LaTeX format with babel preloaded gives errors when read with a LaTeX format without babel, but I think this problaly doesn't occur. - Babel can now be used together with both the inputenc and fontenc packages. So far Babel only knows about T1 and OT1 encodings, if it needs to know other encodings I would like to hear it. - A lot of code has been moved from language definition files (note the new name for them I used to call them language-specific files). This is caused by the rewrite of the active character handling and by the implementation of T1 support, - A number of languages have been added to the distribution (breton, estonian, irish, lower sorbian, scottish and upper sorbian) - More laguage definition files make characters active; currently we have the following active characters: ~ system, catalan, galician, spanish : breton, francais, turkish ; breton, francais ! breton, francais, turkish ? breton, francais " catalan, danish, dutch, galician, german, polish, portuguese, slovene, spanish, upper sorbian ' catalan, galician, spanish ^ esperanto = turkish - This beta release is not yet compatible with plain TeX; I have *only* tested it with LaTeX2e. I would like to get compatibility with plain back before the final release. Compatibility with LaTeX 2.09 I do not regard as important as LaTeX 2.09 is obsolete by now. But making babel 3.5 run with plain TeX probably also makes it run with LaTeX2.09. When I hear nothing from you (or others who get the beta test from CTAN) I will hopefully make the final release 3.5 available somewhere in July. (When I do hear from you I will strive to reacht the same date, but that depends on the complexity of the problems that need to be solved.) The last remark: where can you get babel 3.5 beta? It is available in babel-3.5beta.zip in the directory /tex-archive/macros/latex/packags/babel on CTAN. Happy testing! Johannes Braams PTT Telecom, P.O. box 30150, 2500 GD 's Gravenhage The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3432037 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3432395 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:22:01 -0400 From: Norman Walsh Subject: Announcing: TWG-TDS Draft Standard 0.98 The TUG Technical Working Group on a TeX Directory Structure is pleased to announce that a draft of the proposed TeX Directory Structure standard is available for public review. You can get it by FTP from: :/tex-archive/tds/draft-standard/ (The `/tex-archive' may vary; see the end of this message for a list of possible hosts.) The draft standard is available in LaTeX, PostScript, TeXinfo, HTML, and SGML formats. Comments and suggestions are welcome. Please communicate them by email to twg-tds@shsu.edu or by paper mail to Norman Walsh O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 90 Sherman Street Cambridge, MA 02140 USA The primary purpose of this document is to describe a standard TeX Directory Structure (TDS) for macros, fonts, and other such implementation-independent TeX files. As a matter of practicality, it also suggests ways to incorporate the rest of the TeX files into a single structure. In the not-so-long run a consistent directory structure will make it much easier to install and maintain TeX. We hope that administrators and developers of both free and commercial implementations of TeX will adopt this standard. It has been designed to work on all modern systems. In particular, this Technical Working Group (TWG) believes it is usable under Unix, MS-DOS, OS/2, MacOS, and VMS. We hope to publish another draft, or make the final release (depending on the volume of comments and concerns) shortly after TUG 95. - -- the TUG TWG on a TeX Directory Structure ------------------------------ About TeXhax... 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