From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #05 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" Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 18:15:53 +0000 Message-ID: <16490.792353753@unicorn> Sender: cczdao@unicorn TeXhax Digest Thursday, 9 Feb 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 05 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: BLUe's Format goes public. Beta-testers asked. RE: DVItoLN03 DOS color dvi previewer Commands for page selection in Ghostscript Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences Fax software EDMAC and line numbering conversion program 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: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 08:52:17 +0100 From: cgl@rc.service.rug.nl (Kees van der Laan) Subject: BLUe's Format goes public. Beta-testers asked. The last time I worked hard on BLUe's Format and it has ripened a lot. I introduced BLUe's Format altready at CyrTUG 94 and EuroTeX 94, but I schedule it to go public at EuroTeX 95 (and CyrTUG 95), because it has ripened and the user's guide Publishing with TeX is in the polishing phase. Spring is scheduled to let friendly TeXies look at it and comment on it, bete-testing so to say. The beta-version will be distributed also on next NTG's CD-ROM. The user's guide is in English, physically and logically thin, and will be translated into Russian. The PWT guide will be offered to the CWI, for their CWI sylllabi series, and also to NTG, to be rleased as a MAPS special. Best wishes, ---Kees--- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 15:40:21 +0000 From: "Brian {Hamilton Kelly} " Subject: RE: DVItoLN03 In private mail to TeX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk of Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:42:43 - -0500 (EST), Alan Mankofsky wrote: > I just brought over your DVItoLN03 package from one of the CTAN archive sites , > and found that unfortunately the .OBJ and .EXE files are not available. Since > I don't have the software (notably a PASCAL compiler!) on this Vax to build > the executable from the WEB source, is there some way I can get .OBJ and > .EXE files from you? I appreciate your help. I can't really help you, Alan. The archive (when it used to be at Aston) had binaries for all sorts of systems; amongst those for VAX/VMS were .OBJ files for nearly everything, including DVItoLN03. These binaries were VVencoded, so that they could be mailed anywhere, as well as being FTPable. Some binaries existed as separate files, but most were in bundles, as BACKUP save_sets. It seems that these files were lost when the archive was moved to a Unix machine at Cambridge (at least, I can't find them there now). I _have_ found some binaries, which _don't_ include DVItoLN03, but those that are there are of VERY LITTLE UTILITY: note for archivists --- it's pointless keeping .EXE images, because they may not be linked with the same version of the shareable libraries as on the target machine. OTOH, .OBJ files, either VVencoded (under VMS) or zipped (also under VMS) _are_ acceptable, and remarkably portable. (I saw that there is at least one zip file of .OBJs, but I'd guess that it doesn't include what Alan wants.) I'm copying this reply to TeXhax; hopefully someone who is more conversant with the present-day layout of the archive than I am can assist Alan. It may be that I'm mistaken, and that the files wanted _are_ still in the archive: if so, I can only say that the layout nowadays is non-intuitive. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + Brian {Hamilton Kelly} TeX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk + + Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military + + College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. + + Phone: Swindon (01793) 785252 (UK), +44-1793-785252 (International) + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 10:33:21 -0500 From: ogam@ALPHALMA.CNRS-MRS.FR Subject: DOS color dvi previewer I am looking for a DOS/Windows dvi previewer that supports the color packages and the virtual fonts. I acquired a commercial version of Tex/Latex from PCTEX, after having read their publicity on the compatibility with Latex2e and packages. It is far from being compatible. So please if you have this information, We will appreciate. Thanks in advance Erick Pgam ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 20:08:49 -0000 From: men5cdr@sun.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Commands for page selection in Ghostscript I wonder if anyone can shed light on this. In the ftp site at: src.doc.ic.ac.uk/0-Most-packages/uk-tex/support/psview There is what appears to be some utility and batch files for running ghostscript with keystrokes for selection of pages, magnification, translations etc. These have been written by P.Pianowski and B.Jackowski and were presented at the 8th EuroTex Conference 1994. My problem is that I have tried to run ghostscript (MS-DOS) with these command procedures with no success. The "batch files" do not appear to be DOS. Does anyone have any more information on this stuff, or know how/where I can contact the authors of the work? Many thanks Chris Radcliffe, Department of Mechanical Engineering, __o University of Leeds, _ _`\<,_ Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK. -_ (_)/ (_) men5cdr@uk.ac.leeds.sun (0532 - 332152) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 23:12:00 +0000 From: Jonathan Fine Subject: Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tuesday 24 Jan 1995, Paolo Vicario ( pV@CC.Uniud.It ) wrote: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to know if there is a way, in TeX, to test for the existence of a control sequence. [...] I devised this (ugly) piece of code: \def\MYMACRO{anything} \ifx\MYMACRO\UNDEFINED The macro is {\it not\/} defined \else The macro {\it is\/} defined \fi It works, provided that the dummy macro \UNDEFINED is *really* undefined! There must be a more reliable (and elegant!) way to do the same thing. Can you give me any hint? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, Paolo has written pretty much what I would have done in the same situation, except that I would use the lowercase form of the control sequence \undefined, and I would take the constant code out the the conditional, like so The macro \ifx\mymacro\undefined is {\it not\/} \else {\it is\/} \fi defined. The optimisation of placing the italic correction \/ outside the conditional is hardly worth bothering with, and likely to cause errors later. If you look up \undefined in the TeXbook you will be pointed to page 384. It is almost a pukka control sequence of plain. And like any other such control sequence, if you change its meaning you will cause things to mess up. What I find most interesting about this question is the doubt the author expresses about his own answer. It is not ugly. It is just as it should be. (There is one wrinkle. Perhaps he would prefer to have \und@fin@d?) By the way, the LaTeX \@ifundefined construction is a waste of time, by which I mean that \expandafter \ifx \csname #1\endcsname \relax etc \else etc \fi will execute much quicker than \@ifundefined{#1} etc and this is because the former code takes TeX straight to what needs to be done. best regards Jonathan Fine Mailing Address: 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, England ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 06:26:39 -0500 From: "K. Berry" Subject: Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences From the TeXbook via Eplain: % From p.308 of the TeXbook. This cannot be used in places where TeX % might be skipping tokens, e.g., in conditionals. % \def\ifundefined#1{\expandafter\ifx\csname#1\endcsname\relax} ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 09:59:08 -0700 From: bernat@cs.utep.edu (Andrew Bernat) Subject: Fax software Does anyone know of DOS or Windows fax software that will use a DVI file directly? Similarly for UNIX. Thanks, Andrew Bernat abernat@cs.utep.edu Professor and Chair http://cs.utep.edu/bernat/bernat.html Computer Science Department 915/747-6950 The University of Texas at El Paso 915/747-5480 CS office El Paso, Texas 79968-0518 915/747-5030 fax ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 16:55:35 -0600 From: nq0i@dablik.radiophysics.com Subject: EDMAC and line numbering As suggested in TeXhax 95/04, I have looked at the EDMAC package for numbering lines. It looks like will certainly do what I ask, and more, for most people. Unfortunately, however, it contains an undocumented (at least, I _think_ it's undocumented) constraint that renders it not useful for my purposes: one cannot use a redefined \par. So... does anyone know of any other packages that might permit me to have my cake and eat it too, in that I can use my redefined \par and still get line numbers in the margins? If I have to, I suppose I'll try hacking EDMAC to do the job I want, but I'd much rather not, because I'll probably break three things for everything I "fix". - ------------------------------------------------------- Doc Evans NQ0I / G4AMJ : devans@orion.colorado.edu al019@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu - ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 17:15:28 -0600 From: Larry Wos Subject: conversion program Do you know of any program that will take troff source and return the equilanet TeX source? I am als interested in the converse. Indeed, I have some TeX source (paers) and sme in troff, and wish to convert each. Thanks in advance. LW ------------------------------ About TeXhax... 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