TeXhax Digest Tuesday, July 21, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 57 [SCORE.STANFORD.EDU]TEXHAX57.87 Editor: Malcolm Brown Today's Topics: Availability of Common TeX 2.1 Problem addresses. dvidoc MIT thesis and resume styles CTeX PostScript drivers A4 size paper ytex -> plain tex TeX programs for the Macintosh Add me, please UNIX dvi2hplaserjet crude previewer MAIL TEX and RSX (?) Is that possible? dvi2ps with pk fonts (Re: TeXHaX Digest V87 #54) TeX and Chicago Guide to Preparing Electronic Manuscripts Re: info wanted on TeX on a Toshiba laptop putting hrules in headers/footers Latex diagrams Three queries VMS TeX source? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 87 16:43:03 PST From: darrell@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (Darrell Long) To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: Availability of Common TeX 2.1 Pat Monardo's Common TeX 2.1 is now available to internet sites from SDCSVAX.UCSD.EDU via anonymous ftp. I have made several changes in the sizes of things, constructed Makefile(s) and RCS'd the whole thing. It compiles without problem on our VAX, Pyramid, Alliant, Celerity and SUN. The System V compiler is sufficiently stupid that it will not compile on our 3B2/15/20 -- something about running out of internal table space. Anyhow, the best of luck with this to you. And I'm sure we're all very grateful to Pat for providing us with this program. If you have any difficulties, bug fixes or questions about the changes that I have made, please send me a note. Darrell Long Department of Computer Science and Engineering, C-014 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093 ARPA: Darrell@Beowulf.UCSD.EDU UUCP: sdcsvax!beowulf!darrell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Jul 87 09:26:09 CDT From: Don Hosek Subject: Problem addresses. To: TEXHAX@score.stanford.edu Notice to the following people on the TeXMaG mailing list. I am unable to send mail to you and am removing you from the list. If you wish to remain on the TeXMaG list, please send me a list of possible addresses so I can try to send you mail. GFOSTER@topaz.berkeley.edu TeXMaG@cs.uiowa.edu avrunin@cs.umass.edu texmag@engvax.scg.hac.com larry%endor.harvard.edu%wjh12@harvard.harvard.edu I would have mailed to these people directly, but if I could have, I wouldn't have needed to. -DH ------------------------------ To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: dvidoc Date: Mon, 06 Jul 87 11:05:13 -0400 From: Ken Yap A new version of dvidoc is available from the LaTeX style archives by the usual retrieval methods. This version uses command line arguments instead of dialogue; outputs to stdout; uses a new doc pseudofont that is closer in size to the actual fonts and is improved in several other ways. Dvidoc is written in WEB but depends heavily on Berkeley Pascal at the moment. Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 87 17:48:05 EDT From: Stephen Gildea To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: MIT thesis and resume styles I have just submitted two new style files to the LaTeX style collection at Rochester. The first is mitthesis.sty, which does the formatting for a thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The second is resume.sty and provides one format for a resume. It's not very general yet, so think of it as a base to work from. I bet you can guess what I'm doing these days :-) For people who submit articles to AGU publications, the files agujgr.sty and agugrl.sty have been completely rewritten. If you already have them, you should get the new versions. < Stephen gildea@erl.mit.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri 3 Jul 87 16:04:14-PDT From: Tomas G. Rokicki Subject: CTeX To: texhax-request@Score.Stanford.EDU I've had many many inquiries for TeX in C. To get it, write to Norman Naugle at Box 2736, College Station, TX 77841. I believe his number is in one of the TUGboats. You will need the standard distribution tape in addition; only TeX sources are provided. -tom ------------------------------ Date: Fri 3 Jul 87 16:06:31-PDT From: Tomas G. Rokicki Subject: PostScript drivers To: texhax-request@Score.Stanford.EDU I have mostly completed a postscript driver for TeX. It generates output files that are 2/3 to 1/2 the size of ones created by dvi2ps. If you would like to try it out, it can be ftp'ed from rocky.stanford.edu; it exists in ~rokicki/dvips.shar.Z. It does not currently support any specials, graphics inclusion, etc., but I'm working on it. -tom ------------------------------ Date: Sun 5 Jul 87 21:57:20-PDT From: Tomas G. Rokicki Subject: A4 size paper To: texhax-request@Score.Stanford.EDU What is the driver offset convention with respect to A4 paper? For American paper, TeX's (0,0) point is one inch down and one inch to the left of the upper-left hand corner of the page. If this is the same for A4 paper, then should the output come out not centered by default (using a 6 1/2 x 9 page)? Or, if the (0,0) point is such that (6 1/2 x 9) is centered, then do Europeans use funny \hoffset and \voffset pairs to get (for them) standard 3cm margins, for instance? Thanks for any comments. -tom ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jul 87 08:25:42 EDT From: Ray Hirschfeld Subject: ytex -> plain tex To: DAVIS%EMBL.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Date: Mon, 22 Jun 87 18:41:46 n From: To: TEXHAX at SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Re: ytex -> plain tex As one path to follow in getting some documentation printed for Scheme, does anyone have a conversion program to run a YTeX source file on the standard Plain TeX processor ? Immediate aid would be appreciated... paul davis bitnet: davis@embl arpa: davis%embl.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu uucp: ...!psuvax!embl.bitnet!davis ps: OR EVEN - something to simply process a YTeX source file directly ? The yTeX macros are in on xx.lcs.mit.edu. You'll also need plain-cm.tex (which inputs plain.tex and then defines some additional macros). You can get all this stuff via anonymous ftp. Then just build a yTeX as you would a plain TeX or a LaTeX, i.e.: initex ytex-cm \dump virtex &ytex-cm (system-dependent stuff to save ytex, or don't bother if you're only going to use it a couple of times) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jul 87 15:39:17 PDT From: pjs%grouch.span@Jpl-VLSI.ARPA Subject: TeX programs for the Macintosh To: texhax-request@score.stanford.edu X-ST-Vmsmail-To: JPLLSI::"texhax-request@score.stanford.edu" Would someone who has this information collected together be kind enough to send me a list of the TeX packages available for the Macintosh, and the names and preferably also telephone numbers of their manufacturers? We are looking into possibly large purchases of Macintoshes here, and the ease of running TeX may play a part in the decision. Peter Scott pjs%grouch.span@jpl-vlsi.arpa or pjs@naif.jpl.nasa.gov.arpa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jul 87 16:31:39 CDT From: hrp@hall (Hal Peterson) To: texhax-request@score.stanford.edu@uc.msc.umn.edu Reply-To: hrp%hall.CRAY.COM@umn-rei-uc.arpa Subject: Add me, please Please add me to the TeXhax mailing list. Note that my correct address is ``hrp%hall.cray.com@umn-rei-uc.arpa''. %% Done! -Malcolm And to get me started properly, please answer me a question: has there been any discussion on the list of Brian Reid's statement quoted in the July 1987 UNIX Review (page 55): ``Essentially all current manufacturers of high-quality phototypesetting equipment use optical scaling on their fonts. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any typesetter manufacturer in the United States that offers more than two versions of a font in a given size and style. Most, in fact, use just one. Although it's true that some little, old, gray-haired men with tweezers---if left to their own devices--would set half a dozen different styles in hot type depending on the magnitude and image they were trying to create, the fact is that technology has simply swept away that sort of thing. The people in the t ypesetting industry right now, independently of the laser printer market, have stopped using typeface variations across different sizes.'' This sounds like a direct attack on some of the assumptions underlying METAFONT. -- Hal Peterson / Cray Research / 1345 Northland Dr. / Mendota Hts, MN 55120 hrp%hall.CRAY.COM@umn-rei-uc.ARPA ihnp4!cray!hrp (612) 681-5884 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 87 20:19:04 PDT From: lim@isl.STANFORD.EDU (Kelvin O. Lim) To: texhax@score Subject: UNIX dvi2hplaserjet Does anybody have a working UNIX 4.2 dvi2hplaserjet filter? I have heard that there are such filters for other operating systems but haven't heard of one under UNIX. Kelvin Lim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 87 20:22:19 PDT From: lim@isl.STANFORD.EDU (Kelvin O. Lim) To: texhax@score Subject: crude previewer Has anybody seen a crude dvi previewer that would allow one to preview a file before printing it out? I am thinking of something like the feature found on UNIX's troff that allows a file to be previewed on a terminal. I also need such a filter to run under UNIX 4.2. Kelvin Lim ------------------------------ Date: 07 JUL 87 14:11:26 CET To: texhax@score.stanford.edu From: Subject: MAIL Th. Kneser GWD Goettingen / F.R. of Germany Networkadr: GWD82J@DGOGWD01.BITNET Ref.: Typesetting chemical papers We are seeking macros for double arrow and double half-harpoon of variable length for chemical equilibria, e.g. like k 12 \ ---------------------- ---------------------- \ k 21 Th. Kneser ------------------------------ Date: 5 Jul 87 7:35 -0800 From: "c.c.z." To: texhax@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Subject: TEX and RSX (?) Is that possible? ***************************** N O T I C E ****************************** A friend of mine (in Audiology dept) is interested in porting TEX onto an RSX PDP-11 system. Has anubody heard of such a special implementation? Or does anyone know of any fellow Texhax who has already done it? If you do, I would very much appreciate your help by directing us to the proper person or to the proper software. We are an educational institution (University). Thanx, Christos Pulp and Paper Centre U. of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, V6T-1W5 ChristosZ@ppc.ubc.CDN ...!ubc-vision!ppc.ubc.cdn!christosz ChristosZ%ppc.ubc.cdn@csnet-relay.ARPA Christos%UBC.Mailnet@MIT-Multics.ARPA ------------------------------ To: bh0r@clutx.clarkson.edu Subject: dvi2ps with pk fonts (Re: TeXHaX Digest V87 #54) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 87 14:54:57 -0500 From: Douglas M. Bates There is a version of dvi2ps using the pk fonts available for ftp on oddjob.uchicago.edu in the file pub/dvi2ps.pk.tar.Z . It was announced on comp.text, I believe. I tried for several days to get a successful ftp connection there and it finally worked yesterday. This version of dvi2ps seems to be working fine. The big bonus for us is that it contains tfm files for the PostScript native fonts (watch out, though, ag-book.tfm is not in the correct format --- something was botched) so you can use all the PostScript fonts. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 87 16:46 CDT From: "David S. Cargo" Subject: TeX and Chicago Guide to Preparing Electronic Manuscripts To: texhax@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU The following paragraph comes from the Chicago Guide to Preparing Electronic Manuscripts For Authors and Publishers, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1987, ISBN 0-226-10392-7, page 89, paragraph 3.19. Some authors doing heavily mathematical text have access to equipment with very spohisticated math formatting and printing capabilities. In such cases publishers might consider using the author's printout as camera-ready copy, a very low cost option compared with either conventional or electronic processing. Nowhere in this guide did I find any mention of TeX, Script, TROFF, or other text formatting packages. The guide does mention WordStar and WordPerfect, but not in the index. It appears that the writers of the guide might know about TeX, but feel somehow restricted in mentioning it by name. The book is skinny (143 pages), but does have some things of interest. The generic coding scheme for coding manuscripts suffers from difficulty of mechanical processing. (Some codes have direct substitutions; some apply only to the next character; some apply until a terminating delimiter that is unique to the code; some apply until a terminating delimiter that is used for many codes.) Still it does give an idea what one publisher sees as a complete set of codings for manuscripts. David S. Cargo (Cargo at HI-Multics.ARPA) ------------------------------ To: Matthew Ginsberg Subject: Re: info wanted on TeX on a Toshiba laptop Date: Tue, 07 Jul 87 17:49:10 -0700 From: Jerry Sweet The PC-TeX people report that they do demos of their TeX software on a Toshiba T-3100, which is the laptop system that you describe. The documentation for the MaxView previewer says that it'll run on that Toshiba. Using this laptop may no longer be politically correct :-) :-) but it is a nice machine. I believe that it comes with a 10MB hard disk. -jns ------------------------------ To: texhax@score.stanford.EDU Reply-to: jsweet%icse.UCI.EDU@ICSE.UCI.EDU Subject: putting hrules in headers/footers Date: Tue, 07 Jul 87 18:06:52 -0700 From: Jerry Sweet Can anyone suggest a way to put horizontal rules below the header information, or above the footer information, with LaTeX? The LaTeX book is an example of the kind of effect I'm interested in. I've done some experimenting, and I can get the rule in there, but I haven't figured out how to put vertical space between the rule and the text of the header. -jns ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 87 20:03:49 MDT From: Raul Machuca Subject: Latex diagrams To: texhax@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU In trying to use Latex to do flow charts a problem with circles arises. Namely after careful measurements lines to circles sometimes miss by quite a bit. I know that this is because Latex only uses a finite set of circles and will substitute for sizes ~rthat it doesn't have. I can't find the sizes in the documentation and would likee to know what the Latex circle sizes are? One fast solution is to use ovals instead of circles. This has the advantage that ovals scale nicely while circles don't. Another problem is that lines at some slopes have the jaggies while others don't. Is this implementation dependent or is it a property of Latex lines? ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jul 1987 11:17:39-EDT (Wednesday) From: "Victor S. Miller" To: TeXhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: Three queries 1) Are there LaTeX .sty files for producing patent applications according to U.S. patent office rules? 2) Are there any programs around to help convert SCRIBE (tm) files to TeX or LaTeX? I realize that this might not be 100% automatic, but might get 98%, with rest flagged. 3) Is there anything written about how to get TeX to run with other fonts -- Say those distributed with a printer, e.g. times-roman in place of the cm fonts What are the requirements that TeX or LaTeX has on these fonts? Victor S. Miller -- IBM Research victor@ibm.com or victor@yktvmx.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Jul 87 11:38:56 pdt From: ucdavis!iris!hildum@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Hildum) To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: VMS TeX source? Having gotten absolutely no response to my previous request, I think now is the time to repost: Does anyone know where the VMS version of TeX (and LaTeX) can be obtained? I can (and would prefer to) FTP the source. If you did not reply because you thought somebody else would, I would like to hear from you because they didn't. Eric Hildum U.C. Davis dehildum@ucdavis.edu (Internet) dehildum@ucdavis.bitnet (BITNET) ucbvax!ucdavis!dehildum (uucp) ------------------------------ %%% %%% subscriptions, address changes to: texhax-request@score.stanford.edu %%% %%% submissions to: texhax@score.stanford.edu %%% %%% BITNET redistribution: TEX-L@TAMVM1.BITNET (list server) %%% %%%\bye %%% ------------------------------ End of TeXhax Digest ************************** -------