UKTeX Digest Friday, 11 Jun 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 20 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Questions & Answers}: \unbox \unbox \unbox and \c in LaTeX VMS TeX Printing on a DeskJet 500 Can't find vvcode RE: Can't find vvcode SCRIPT (IBM/CMS) to TeX/LaTeX conversion Re: SCRIPT (IBM/CMS) to TeX/LaTeX conversion Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 02 Jun 1993 10:35:17 -0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: \unbox Anyone know what \unbox is supposed to be? It stops \c from working. \box perhaps? Mike ------------------------------ Date: 07 Jun 1993 10:11:57 -0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: \unbox The last LaTeX distribution was changed a few days later because the cedilla command \c was not working properly. Fourteen months later someone here spotted the problem the first time any of us had tried to produce a cedilla. The problem was caused by an \unbox command used in the definition of \c. There is, of course, no \unbox command. However, the fact that the change was made is not apparent at the top of lplain.tex, as the date recorded there does not agree with the one at the foot of the file. The mistake has not been completely covered up yet, as \unbox is still indexed at the top of latex.tex. Mike Piff ------------------------------ Date: 02 Jun 1993 12:59:53 -0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: \unbox and \c in LaTeX I fetched the copy of lplain.tex which at the top says that it was last modified on 17/3/92 but at the bottom said it was dated 25/3/92, and sure enough the only change was in the definition of \c, where \unbox was changed to \unhbox. However, the latest latex.tex still indexes \unbox as one of its commands. Perhaps that too needs to be changed surreptitiously... Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 14:28:17 -0000 From: I.Ellery@uk.ac.east-anglia.xgate Subject: VMS TeX This seems like a FAQ, but couldn't find it in the FAQ I have. I want to install TeX/LaTeX etc on a VAX/VMS machine. I anon-ftp'd to ftp.tex and found /tex-archive/system/vms - so far so good. There were a few files here - but only a .web and a .vms-changes: not a full distribution. There was a sub-dir called decus/tex containing lots of tex.bck_* files. Am I correct that this is a backup of a complete TeX/LaTeX distribution? How should I transfer it? (binary ftp?) How do I get the files out of all this when I have got it here? Or should I look at the 'original' tex archive - since that also is a VMS system? Apologies if these are 'stupid' questions - I am not very familiar with VMS - I know where I am with simple .tar.Z files! Thanks, Ian Ellery, UEA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1993 13:03:32 -0000 From: hutchins@uk.ac.oxford.statistics Subject: Printing on a DeskJet 500 I would like to print out latex files on an HP DeskJet 500 printer attached to a Sun ELC. What is the best way to achieve this? Many thanks for any help. Susan Hutchinson Statistics Oxford University ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 14:21:42 +0100 From: Mr Robin J Faichney Subject: Can't find vvcode According to your mail server vvcode should be in tex-archive.archive-utils, but it's not. Where can I find it, please? Robin Faichney rjf1@stir.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 16:17:00 -0000 From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} Subject: RE: Can't find vvcode > According to your mail server vvcode should be in tex-archive.archive-utils, > but it's not. Where can I find it, please? I'm assuming you mean the information returned when you send the HELP VVCODE command to List-Server@uk.ac.tex? This reflects (no, make that reflected:-) the directory heirarchy in force when the help was first written over two years ago. Since then, things have been reorganized once or twice :-) and the vv stuff will be found in [tex-archive.archive-tools.vvcode]. Brian {Hamilton Kelly} ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 15:28:04 -0000 From: Donald Ballance Subject: SCRIPT (IBM/CMS) to TeX/LaTeX conversion Is there a SCRIPT (IBM/CMS) to TeX/LaTeX converter available anywhere? A number of users here are currently using SCRIPT on the IBM mainframe and want to move away from that now that the machine in being phased out. Thanks for any help. Donald ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 16:16:20 +0100 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: SCRIPT (IBM/CMS) to TeX/LaTeX conversion > Is there a SCRIPT (IBM/CMS) to TeX/LaTeX converter available anywhere? > A number of users here are currently using SCRIPT on the IBM mainframe > and want to move away from that now that the machine in being phased out. Yes, you want S2LaTeX, which is on ftp.tex.ac.uk in /pub/archive/support/s2latex and on tex.ac.uk in [tex-archive.support.s2latex] From the README: s2latex is a Scribe to LaTeX converter. It is expected to get about 90% right the first time it is run and then additions of translation rules will help get much more of the way along. See the Makefile for more details. 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