From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (Majordomo list server) Newsgroups: ucam.mlist.texhax Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #12 Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 96 09:44:45 GMT Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Lines: 341 TeXhax Digest Thursday, 22 August 1996 Volume 96 : Number 012 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? Migration of CTAN-related mailing lists Matrices T.V. Raman in the news ANNOUCEMENT: Sauter-2.4 single quotes using the times postscript fonts??? How do you get equal variable-sized delimiters? Coversion of DVI file to ASCII File DEK in the news ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tom Bryan Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 15:50:23 PDT Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? Amal: Thank you for your advice on running METAFONT on the Macintosh. I downloaded OzTeX and it is working very well for me. I had been beating myself over the head with the Blue Sky version for weeks trying to get it to work properly. You saved me a great deal of time. Cheers, Tom - -- Dr Thomas A Bryan E-Systems, Goleta Division One South Los Carneros, Goleta, California, USA 93117-3197, USA Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 FAX: (805) 964-0470 Home: 275 Savona Avenue, Goleta, California, 93117, USA (805) 968-1264 ------------------------------ From: Rainer Schoepf Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:01:13 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Migration of CTAN-related mailing lists The CTAN-related mailing lists CTAN@shsu.edu CTAN-ANN@shsu.edu have now been migrated to a new mailing list server, located at Heidelberg, Germany. These lists can now be reached as CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de CTAN-ANN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de Requests for subscription/deletion must be sent to LISTSERV@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de For the CTAN team - -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy ------------------------------ From: Barry Tesman Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:37:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Matrices I am trying to produce the following "labelled" matrix with latex: B1 B2 B3 / \ a1 | 8 10 4 | A = a2 | 11 5 18 | a3 | 27 6 18 | \ / I tried to use array/tabbing/tabular but am having trouble placing the left and right large parentheses around the matrix but not the labels. Any ideas would be most helpful. Thanks, Barry Tesman < tesman@dickinson.edu > Dickinson College Carlisle, PA, USA ------------------------------ From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:53:20 -0600 (MDT) Subject: T.V. Raman in the news You might care to look at this just-appeared profile of TUGboat author and TUG conference participant T. V. Raman: @String{j-SCI-AMER = "Scientific American"} @Article{Gibbs:1996:PVR, author = "W. Wayt Gibbs", title = "Profile: T. V. Raman: Envisioning Speech", journal = j-SCI-AMER, volume = "275", number = "3", pages = "52, 54", month = nov, year = "1996", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, bibdate = "Mon Aug 19 08:48:09 1996", . Curiously, this article shows a single equation, which seems to violate the Scientific American practice of eschewing equations. ======================================================================== Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu University of Utah URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA ======================================================================== ------------------------------ From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 16:31:56 +0100 Subject: ANNOUCEMENT: Sauter-2.4 I have uploaded a new Sauter release to the CTAN archives in directory tex-archive/fonts/cm/sauter24/ and it will propagate to the mirrors soon. Attached is the release file. J"org Knappen. %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%* The release 2.4 of the Sauter tools to generate true sized fonts contains the following news: * Support for LaTeX2e 1996/06/01 * Fixes to cmcsc fonts * Fix to the capital S in cmmi fonts * Sauterised versions of AMS symbol fonts, bbm fonts and rsfs fonts contributed by Hubert Holin If you already have version 2.3 of the Sauter fonts, please regenerate the cmcsc fonts for sizes => 10pt, there was a bug affecting the depth of the letter `q'. Please recalculate the cmmi fonts for sizes >12pt, the capital S will look much better afterwards. Send any questions, comments and suggestions to J"org Knappen knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de ------------------------------ From: coleman@natasha.phil.uregina.ca (Robert Coleman) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:09:17 -0600 (CST) Subject: single quotes using the times postscript fonts??? I have installed the times.sty package that uses the psfonts courier, helvetica and times in LaTeX2e. In the times font ptmr8r, the usual positions for the left single quote "60 and for the right single quote "27 contain instead of the symbols found in the font cmr a symbol that looks like a grave accent and a symbol that looks like a vertical prime, respectively. How is one to get matched single quotes? There is an older font rptmr that has the usual single quotes in those positions. Is there some way to use the font ptmr8r and still get the usual single quotes, for example, by means of some trick using virtual fonts and rptmr? Thanks, Robert - -- Robert Alan Coleman Department of Physics University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan Canada S4S 0A2 Tel: (306) 585-4260 Fax: (306) 585-4894 email: coleman@cas.uregina.ca ********end message*********************** ------------------------------ From: holliegp@eee.bham.ac.uk (Garry Hollier) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:21:42 +0100 Subject: How do you get equal variable-sized delimiters? In a LaTeX (I'm using LaTeX2e <1994/06/01> patch level 2) expression like \begin{eqnarray} \left %some stuff \right.\\ \left. %some more stuff \right \end{eqnarray} how do you ensure that the resulting 's are the same size? ------------------------------ From: "ABDOL S. SOOFI, ECONOMICS, UW-PLATTEVILLE; HTTP://VMS.WWW.UWPLATT.EDU/~SOOFI" Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:00:59 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Coversion of DVI file to ASCII File Greetings to all, Is there a way to convert a filename.dvi to its LaTeX source file (ASCII file)? I am in a peculiar situation. I have the dvi version of a revised file, but its revised LaTeX source file is missing? Also, what is the meaning of ``dvi file is corrupt''? What are the possible sources of this problem? Thanks in advance for any insights. - --Abdol ------------------------------ From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:54:23 -0600 (MDT) Subject: DEK in the news The September 1996 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal has an editorial on p. 6 which begins: It was a pleasant surprise to open the mail and read that Donald Knuth, the author of the three-volume {\em The Art of Computer Programming}, is the recipient of the Inamori Foundation's 1996 Kyoto Prize in the category of Advanced Technology. Considering that a check for $460,000 accompanies his wall plaque, Dr. Knuth is probably more pleased than I. According to Kazuo Inamori, president of the Inamori Foundation and chairman of Kyocera, Knuth was given Japan's highest private award for his contributions to the betterment of humankind. In addition to {\em The Art of Computer Programming}, Knuth (who was featured in an April 1996 DDJ interview) is the creator of the TeX document-preparation system, Metafont font-design system, and LR parser and attribute grammar. TeX has been described as the most important achievement in publishing since Gutenberg's moveable type. Previous Kyoto Advanced Technology laureates include John McCarthy of artificial-intelligence fame, and George Gray, developer of the liquid-crystal display. Please join me in hearty congratulations to Dr. Knuth. ... Jonathan Erickson Editor-in-chief ======================================================================== Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu University of Utah URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA ======================================================================== ------------------------------ End of TeXhax Digest V96 #12 **************************** About TeXhax... 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