From: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #05 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 18:16:49 +0100 Message-ID: <17543.775415809@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Thursday, 28 Jul 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 05 % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: FAQs spell checker Finding an editor proofreader for English Grammar ?? Spell checking Re: Spell checking Help with psfig and *.eps? Re: Help with psfig and *.eps? Sauter fonts v2.1 available EuroTeX '94 (2nd) [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCE: LaTeX to RTF translator [comp.text.tex] General Information >> 4allTeX CD-ROM <<, Updated mail ANNOUNCEMENT: Move of UK CTAN node [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCING SolarisTeX-0.1 [comp.text.tex] Announce: First patch to latex2rtf modes 2.0 available Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 12:21:04 +0000 From: virsto@ki.se (Virgil Stokes neuro) Subject: FAQs Is there an FAQ file for this group? If yes, how do I get to it? Thanks --VPS * Virgil.Stokes@neuro.ki.se | * * BMC, Neuroscience | Things of quality * * Karolinska Institute | have no fear of time. * ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 11:36:38 +0000 From: virsto@ki.se (Virgil Stokes neuro) Subject: spell checker Keywords: spell Can anyone recommend a spell checker (English) for TeX? - --Thanks VPS ------------------------------ Date: 01 Jul 1994 11:40:29 -0400 From: Bruce Graham <100302.2570@compuserve.com> Subject: Finding an editor As a technical translator in France, I have some customers working on LaTex but they don't have a WP-type editor (e.g., with spelling check and bridge to Macintosh Word). If anyone knows of an editor they can reccomend for the Mac, I'd appreciate. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 09:38:01 +0100 From: sdm@ll.iac.es (Susana Delgado) Subject: proofreader for English Grammar ?? Do any of you know if there is a proofreader for English Grammar to run on TeX or LaTeX? Thanks in advance, Susana Delgado ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jul 1994 15:55:16 +0000 From: bobcatp@solomon.technet.sg (Robert P Batzinger) Subject: Spell checking Try using MicroSpell. It has a special TeX mode. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jul 1994 05:17:34 +0000 From: smaddhi@icaen.uiowa.edu (Srinivas Maddhi) Subject: Re: Spell checking In article <303im8$i6e@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, phyv030@wrzx12.rz.u ni-wuerzburg.de (Richard Baumgartner) writes: >I would like to ask if there are some >spell checking programs for latex available, 'ispell' available on Unix machines does a pretty good job. It recognizes LaTex/Tex(?) commands and does not flag them as errors. Option to add words to a personal dictionary is available along with other standard options. Good Luck! Srinivas Maddhi (319)335-5725 smaddhi@icaen.uiowa.edu ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jul 1994 18:27:44 +0000 From: jareed@rodan.syr.edu (Judith Ann Reed) Subject: Help with psfig and *.eps? Greetings. I'm in dire need of some quick help with what may be trivial questions, and thank you in advance for whatever you can offer. * We have an encapsulated postscript file that prints on our postscript printers just fine (DEC lnxx series printers attached to VAX VMS systems) and is also able to be previewed with ghostview and DEC's CDA viewer, but that is absolutely impossible to include in a TeX document for printing. - Our version of psfig seems to be 1.1 on VMS - undoubtedly antiquated - where can I get a newer version? - Our TeX is 2.991, LaTeX is 2.09, on a VAX running VMS 5.5-2 - I also tried it on an Alpha running OSF/1 v2.0, with TeX v3.141, LaTex v2.09, psfig v1.8 - same results as VMS. - When using psfig to include the .eps file for printing, - we get a postscript output file with no complaints from TeX - the file prints with no complaints from the printing software - *** NOTHING COMES OUT OF THE PRINTER *** - no error pages, no online msgs, nothing. Here is the TeX file I tried: \input psfig \null\vskip 3 true in \centerline{\psfig{figure=vcbf1.eps}} \vskip 3 true in \centerline{Figure 1} \end and here is the LaTeX file I tried: \documentstyle[12pt,doublespace]{article} \input psfig \begin{document} \begin{figure}[htb] \vspace{-3.0cm} \centerline{\psfig{figure=vcbf1.eps,height=8in,bbllx=80bp,bblly=300bp,bburx=550 bp,bbury=700bp,clip=}} \vspace{-3.0cm} \caption{\label{Ffds}Predictions for $f_{D_s}$ obtained using error limits.} \end{figure} \end{document} \end The bounding box info seems correct, based on ghostview's image of the .eps file. Nothing prints, however. Could someone please advise what to do to get this to work in TeX? Psfig works on other *.eps files, just not this particular one. I'd rather not upgrade TeX or LaTex if I don't have to, would be happy to upgrade psfig if I knew where to find it for VMS and for OSF/1. However, given that it fails with 2 versions of psfig, as noted above, I don't think that's the problem. * Last question - where are some archive sources for TeX FAQs, this group, TeX distributions? Many thanks, anxiously awaiting help to help an anxious user!!!! Judith Reed judith@suhep.phy.syr.edu Syracuse University ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jul 1994 06:23:16 +0000 From: smaddhi@icaen.uiowa.edu (Srinivas Maddhi) Subject: Re: Help with psfig and *.eps? Keywords: psfig, epsf, postscript In article <306kf0$e2m@newstand.syr.edu>, jareed@rodan.syr.edu (Judith Ann Reed ) writes: > ... >* We have an encapsulated postscript file that prints on our >postscript printers just fine (DEC lnxx series printers attached to >VAX VMS systems) and is also able to be previewed with ghostview and >DEC's CDA viewer, but that is absolutely impossible to include in a >TeX document for printing. >... > >* Last question - where are some archive sources for TeX FAQs, this > group, TeX distributions? >... > Here are some points which might help suggest a solution: Have you tried using epsf.sty ? Could it be a dvips problem ? Latest official versions of Tex, LaTex, dvips, epsf, psfig etc. are available at: labrea.stanford.edu in pub/tex ftp.cs.umb.edu Good Luck! Srinivas Maddhi (319)335-5725 smaddhi@icaen.uiowa.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 16:21:23 +0100 From: KNAPPEN%de.uni-mainz.kph.vkpmzd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay Subject: Sauter fonts v2.1 available The Sauter package for the generation of Computer Modern fonts at arbitrary sizes is now available at version 2.1 from the CTAN archive sites and their mirrors. Updates to release 2.1 include: * A new formulae for the parameters sup1 and sup2. This fixes a bug, causing superscripts being placed too low at larger sizes. Please recompute the cmsy fonts for sizes >=11pt * Support for the wasy2 fonts by Roland Waldi * Support for the bbold and cspex fonts by Alan Jeffrey * Support for LaTeX2e and LaTeX2.09 (both old and new1 font selection) * Command files for UNIX, VMS and MS-DOS Send bugs, comments etc. to knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de - --J"org Knappen. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jul 1994 12:33:32 +0700 From: Wlodek Bzyl Subject: EuroTeX '94 (2nd) ************************************************************************** Principles EuroTeX '94 Practice 26 September -- 30 September 1994 Progress Gda\'nsk-Sobieszewo Poland! ----------- ************************************************************************** Is North America too far / too expensive / too alien a culture? Then come to EuroTeX, the TeX conference of the year! EuroTeX will take place at Sobieszewo (near Gda\'nsk, Poland) from Monday September 26th to Friday September 30th, at a cost of DM 440-00 (based on two persons sharing) DM 480-00 (single room) There is also a special _non-residential_ option for DM 200-00 That price includes the conference fee, the banquet, and also lunch / refreshments with other texies from Tuesday September 26th to Friday September 30th. Those arriving early on Monday will be able to take part in a guided tour of the old town of Gda\'nsk, whilst Tuesday to Friday will be packed with talks and tutorials on TeX and related topics. The tour will start at 11 am. For details of how to register, please see the form included below. There will be a parallel Maple European conference at the same time and place. There are four main themes to the conference: Principles, Practice, Progress, and Poland. A provisional programme [1] is given below. Following the programme are details of proposed tutorials and courses [2], information on the bursary scheme for assisted places [3], and finally a booking form, [4] [1] Provisional Programme (subject to minor review) Principles: -- Michel Goossens, Simple colour design, and colour in LaTeX-2e -- Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and Marek Ry\'cko, Paths to METAFONT: avoiding pathless tracts -- Kees van der Laan, BLUe's format: back to basics -- Klaus Lagally, Bi-directional line breaking with TeX macros -- Bernd Raichle, Sorting in TeX's mouth -- Laurent Siebenmann, Atomic fonts and elctronic archiving of TeX documents -- Laurent Siebenmann, Floatnotes permit naked graphics insertion -- Petr Sojka and Pavel Sevecek, Hyphenation in TeX: Quo vadis? -- Philip Taylor, Defensive programing in TeX: Towards a better class of macro Practice: -- Andrey V. Astrelin, Graphics in TeX -- Vladimir Batagelj, Combining TeX and PostScript -- Janusz Bie\'n, Polish texts in multilingual environments -- Lutz Birkhahn, Tdb: An X11 TeX Debugger -- Michel Goossens, Real life book production: lessons learned from "The LaTeX Companion" -- Karel Horak, Printing big MetaFont pictures in an MS-DOS environment -- Olga Lapko, MAKEFONT as part of CyrTug/emTeX package. -- Marion Neubauer, WORD/WordPerfect to LaTeX conversion -- Eric Picheral, Building and maintaining the Gutenberg archive -- Serguei A. Strelkov, Development and standardisation of the Russian TeX version CyrTUG/emTeX Progress: -- Johannes Braams, Document classes and packages for LaTeX-2e -- Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4-TeX: A workbench for MS-DOS PCs -- Dag Langmuhr, Creating document styles for LaTeX-2e -- J'"org Knappen: Towards a 256-character IPA font -- Piotr Pianowski, From PostScript to MetaFont and back -- Friedhelm Sowa, Printing colour pictures -- Andrey F. Slepukhin, A package for Church Slavonic typesetting -- Philip Taylor, e-TeX & NTS: a progress report -- Jiri Zlatuska, Surviving in a multilingual world with multiple font encodings [2] Tutorials and Courses: The first of these will start on Friday September 30th, but all courses/tutorials are provisional at this stage, and will take place only if there is sufficient demand. (Please note that tutorials basically provide an overview of the subject, whilst courses goes into some detail). Tutorials: (all one day in duration) -- Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4TeX: main features -- Kees van der Laan, Manmac BLUe's -- Marek Ry\'cko and Philip Taylor, Book Design & Typography Courses: -- Johannes Braams, LaTeX-2e (2 days) -- Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4TeX: advanced features (1 day) -- Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, MetaFont Basics (3 days) -- Marek Ry\'cko and Philip Taylor, Advanced TeX and TeX Macros (3 days) All tutorials are free: courses are charged `at cost': that is, the fee is intended to no more than cover the cost of room hire, equipment hire (where appropriate), and tutor's expenses. At the moment we believe that courses will cost of the order of DM 100 per day including accommodation; this will be reduced to about DM 65 per day for those not needing accommodation. [3] Bursaries As with the TUG meeting at Aston last year, and EuroTeX meeting at Prague two years ago, it is hoped to be able to offer financial assistance to delegates who would otherwise be unable to attend. Delegates who will need assistance in order to be able to attend should indicate in the space provided the minimum bursary which would allow them to be able to attend, and should give clear reasons why they are applying. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. Delegates who are in no need of a bursary and who are able to assist others less fortunate are urged to pledge a donation in the space provided. [4] Booking form -- please return to: EuroTeX E-mail: eurotex@halina.univ.gda.pl W\l{}odek Bzyl, Fax: +48 58 41-49-14 Instytut Matematyki, Uniwersytet Gda\'nski Wita Stwosza 57, 80-952 Gda\'nsk, Poland Name: Address: E-mail: Phone: Fax: The conference fee covers the period from Monday morning (26 September) to Friday morning (30 September) and a banquet on Tuesday evening. The guided tour of the old town of Gda\'nsk is free, but is possible only for those arriving on Monday before 11 am. Instructions on how to pay is attached below (based on information from our bank, which advises SWIFT to speed up the transfer). - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please pay to : POMORSKI BANK KREDYTOWY SA. I oddzial GDYNIA SWIFT code : POMK PL PS GDY Correspondent : (choose one bank from the list below or from a bank of your choice which can guarantee to be able to make SWIFT transfers to Poland) In favour of : GUST Polska Grupa Uzytkownikow Systemu TeX ACC. No. : 361811-102528-136 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The list of correspondents: ------- Barclays Bank (London), ING Bank (Amsterdam), ABN-AMRO Bank (Amsterdam), Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (Stockholm), Gotabank (Stockholm), Den Norske Bank (Oslo), Swiss Bank Corp. (Zurich), Union Bank of Switzerland (Zurich), Dresdener Bank (Frankfurt), Deutche Bank (Berlin), DG Bank (Frankfurt), Berliner Bank AG (Berlin), Bank PKO SA Succursale de Paris, Banque National DE Paris S.A. (Paris), Ljubljanska banka d.d. (Ljubljana). - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Please either complete (where appropriate) or strike through / delete each of the following sections] [A: Special needs] I have no special dietary needs / am a vegetarian / am a vegan / have other dietary needs: __________________________________________________ I am fully mobile / need assistance with ______________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ I would like to share a room with _____________________________________ (or) I would prefer a single room _____________________________________ [B: Tutorials/courses] (Please note that tutorials basically provide an overview of the subject, whilst courses goes into some detail). Tutorials: (all one day in duration) ____ Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4TeX: main features ____ Kees van der Laan, Manmac BLUe's ____ Marek Ry\'cko and Philip Taylor, Book Design & Typography ____ other, please make suggestions Courses: ____ Johannes Braams, LaTeX-2e (2 days) ____ Erik Frambach and Wietse Dol, 4TeX: advanced features (1 day) ____ Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, MetaFont Basics (3 days) ____ Marek Ry\'cko and Philip Taylor, Advanced TeX and TeX Macros (3 days) ____ other, please make suggestions [C: Guided tour of the old town of Gda\'nsk] I would like / would not like to be shewn around the old town of Gda\'nsk [D: Bursary scheme] I would like to apply for not less than _____________ from Bursary Fund, for the following reasons: ____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ (or) I would like to donate _______________________to the Bursary fund. Please note the following deadlines: Confirmed registration: 1 September 1994 (cancellation charged at 50\%); Late registration: 15th September 1994 (no cancellation possible); Yours, --W\l{}odek Bzyl --Tomek Przechlewski Conference Organisers ------------------------------ Date: 05 Jul 1994 09:39:29 +0200 From: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Ralf Schlatterbeck) Subject: [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCE: LaTeX to RTF translator Keywords: RTF, LaTeX, Translation, Microsoft Word, Word for Windows Archive-Name: auto/comp.text.tex/ANNOUNCE-LaTeX-to-RTF-translator latex2rtf is a translator program that translates LaTeX text into the RTF format used by several textprocessors, including Microsoft Word and Word for Windows. It was written by Fernando Dorner and Andreas Granzer in a one-semester course in our department. This is new software and as such not very well tested. It works for us, however. If you find any Bugs, or make any improvements to the code, please report them to the address below. This program should answer one of the frequently asked questions in this group, namely how to translate from LaTeX to Microsoft Word. The sources can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.vmars.tuwien.ac.at in the directory /pub/misc in the file latex2rtf.1.0.tar.gz you need the GNU gunzip program to uncompress the file. Sources can be obtained from one of the GNU archives. Alternatively you can specify the file name rtf2LaTeX.tar when downloading via ftp and the tar-file will get decompressed before transmission. - -- Ralf Schlatterbeck Treitlstr.3/182/1 email: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien Phone: +43/222/58801/8176 Austria FAX: +43/222/569149 - -- Ralf Schlatterbeck Treitlstr.3/182/1 email: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien Phone: +43/1/58801/8176 Austria FAX: +43/1/569149 ------------------------------ Date: 07 Jul 1994 09:48:55 +0200 From: vannes@ecnsun.ecn.nl (Gerard van Nes) Subject: [comp.text.tex] General Information >> 4allTeX CD-ROM << ========================================= General information >> 4allTeX CD-ROM << ========================================= July 3th, 1994 Updated mail | (Changebar in the left margin indicates an update comparing with | earlier mail) Below you will find the most important items concerning the >>4allTeX CD-ROM<<. 1. Availability -- ------------ The 4allTeX CD-ROM was introduced on June 9th 1994 at the 13th local NTG (Dutch TeX Users Group) meeting in the Netherlands (and exactly on time!). 2. Contents -- -------- 4TeX is based on the famous, fast and well-known emTeX distribution. Besides that, the 4allTeX (yes for all!!) contains all related software as available as of April 1994. So: 1. It contains the latest 4TeX version (3.20; networkdrive independent). 4TeX gives us a userfriendly interface with a large set of utilities. 2. 4TeX contains the software in direct executable form. 3. 4TeX supports 31 formats including big versions, TeX, LaTeX, Cyrillic, Polish, Greek, texinfo, lollipop, latex2e (beta release) etc. 4. 4TeX supports 59 printer drivers (including linotronics, matrix printers, 300/600 dpi laserprinters, laserjets, fax etc), 5. 4TeX supports graphics: both for previewing and printing. All functionality of e.g. BM2FONT, GhostScript, HP2XX, TeXCAD, QFIG are included, ready to use! 6. 4TeX includes amSpell spell-checker for languages English (UK), English (USA), Dutch, German, Franch, Spanish and Italian. 7. 4TeX contains conversion utilities: WP to LaTeX/TeX, MS-Word/Chiwriter/PC-Write/troff to LaTeX, detex, untex, etc. 8. 4allTeX contains a huge set of fonts: Why waste your time generating fonts (fax, 300dpi, 600dpi, etc)? They are available also for non-DOS systems! 9. 4allTeX contains a huge set of .sty .mf .pk .fli .tfm .bst .etc files. 10. 4TeX includes Metafont with automatic font generation. | 11. 4TeX fully supports PostScript fonts, also with automatic font | generation using PS2PK! 12. With 4TeX you can view and print directly in e.g. Times. 13. 4TeX contains dbase utilities, supports makeindex, etc. 14. 4TeX uses default (you can change that in the 4TeX configuration file: use your favourite editor) the integrated QEDIT editor (you can even do block compilation: mark a small part of your (large) document, and ONLY that part will be compiled and viewed! 15. 4allTeX contains a huge set of documentation (> 150Mbyte), including TeX/LaTeX/Metafont documentation and tutorials both for novices and gurus, including: . ALL MAPS issues (dutch and english articles; starting in 1988; about 1600 pages with high density information, in a large set of PostScript files) . ALL TEXHAX issues (1986-1994) . ALL TEX-NL issues (1989-1994) . ALL TEX-MAG issues . ALL UKTEX issues (1988-1994) . A lot of tutorials in TeX/LaTeX source (also .dvi and .ps files available) . The `TeXbook' and the `Metafontbook' in TeX source. . FAQ about TeX, PostScript, etc . 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Participants of TUG'94 or EuroTeX'94 -- ------------ -- ------ -- ---------- Don't forget to visit these two most important TeX meetings!! - >> TUG'94 << Almost a must for the averaged LaTeX/TeX user in the USA (and outside!). The NTG president Johannes Braams will also visit this meeting. Of course he will take some 4allTeX CD-ROM sets with him. ====> Please contact him directly (j.l.braams@research.ptt.nl) for your 4allTeX CD-ROM reservations! - >> EuroTeX'94 << The 4allTeX CD-ROM plus manual is free for the participants! | ====> For participants who will need additional copies: please contact | Erik Frambach (e.h.m.frambach@eco.rug.nl). So take a few days break in Poland. There are a lot of very interested lectures. And the conference fee including accomodation is very low!! Presentation with tutorial and invited lectures will take place at EuroTeX'94 by the authors Wietse Dol and Erik Frambach. Meet the authors!! 8. 4TeX discussion list -- ---- ---------- ---- Yes there is already a lot of 4TeX support using the world-wide 4TeX discussion list. - How to subscribe: send the one line message: subscribe 4tex your_personal_name to the listserv manager: listserv@nic.surfnet.nl - How to use: send your questions/bugs/remarks/suggestions to: 4tex@nic.surfnet.nl | - How to retrieve old e-mails | All discussions will be archived. | In order to receive a list of all archived files, send the one-line | message: | INDEX 4TEX | to the listserv manager: | listserv@nic.surfnet.nl | In order to retrieve one of the monthly archieved e-mail file, send the | one-line message (for month 05 in year 94): | GET 4TEX LOG9405 | to the listserv manager: | listserv@nic.surfnet.nl The 4TeX authors Wietse Dol (w.dol@lei.agro.nl) and Erik Frambach (e.h.m.frambach@eco.rug.nl) are monitoring this fast growing 4TeX list! | For very special requests/questions use: | 4tex-support@eco.rug.nl | 9. The 4TeX manual | -- --- ---- ------ | The price of the 4TeX manual only (without the 4allTeX CD-ROM) is: | In Holland/Belgium: f. 20,- (including shipping) | Other countries : $ 15 (including shipping) | 10. 4allTeX FTP availability | --- ------- --- ------------ | On anonymous ftp-site: | archive.cs.ruu.nl | in directory: | pub/TEX/MSDOS/4alltex | you will find: | - the 4alltex distribution version (an earlier version of 4TeX) in | 30 files of 1.44 Mbyte. | - updates of the 4allTeX CD-ROM. | | You will also find these files at the CTAN sites, directory; | .../systems/msdos/4alltex | 11. Future improvements | --- ------ ------------ | Of course 4TeX is continuously under development. In a next release | you can expect e,g.: | - latest version of LaTeX2e | - latest version of other (TeX-related) products | - update dvi drivers (1.5b) | - including new (your own) PS fonts into 4TeX with a simple menu (for | compiling/viewing/printing) | - and more | If some esential packages / files are missing on the 4allTeX CD-ROM, | please contact the authors on: 4tex-support@eco.rug.nl | Some of the above extensions and further improvements will be | available as additional installation files from the internet archives | and from the Dutch FGBBS bulletin board service of NTG. Gerard van Nes secretary Dutch TeX Users Group NTG e-mail: vannes@ecn.nl (e-mail NTG board: ntg@nic.surfnet.nl) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 10:25:07 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Move of UK CTAN node The UK node of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network changed its home this morning (Friday 8 July, 1994), UK time -- it now resides on machines at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. In parallel with the move, a number of new network names have been generated, which distinguish the archive's different services. To access the new archive, please use: tex.ac.uk for email www.tex.ac.uk for www ftp.tex.ac.uk for FTP [128.232.1.87] nfs.tex.ac.uk for NFS gopher.tex.ac.uk for gopher The archive no longer provides: - a WAIS server, - an NIFTP (UK JANET coloured-book file transfer) service (coloured-book only sites within the UK should use the JANET NIFTP/ftp gateway), - public terminal access; browsing facilities are now only available via WWW, ftp or gopher. The gopher service isn't quite what it was, but we'll be working on that. The file system to mount on the new NFS service is nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive ftp users should notice no change. Any shortcomings in any of the services should be reported by email to ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk - -- 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: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jul 1994 16:13:31 +0200 From: grif@tempest.ucr.edu (Michael Griffith) Subject: [comp.text.tex] ANNOUNCING SolarisTeX-0.1 In article <16FEBD662S85.SALZMAN@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu>, Amy Parker wrote: >Is there a version of TeX that runs under Solaris 2.3? Where & how do >I get it? ANNOUNCING SolarisTeX-0.1: This is my second version of Solaris binaries for TeX and friends. It has been updated to include the newest version of LaTeX2e. Most other things are unchanged from version 0.0. The binaries and instructions are available on: ftp://cs.ucr.edu/pub/solaris/tex-binaries Please be sure to get the README file, as it provides some useful information and answers some of the easier questions. If you don't have X11R5, you will have to get a copy of my libraries from the same location. Thanks to those who provided feedback on the first release. I am using this information to make a better TeX system for my University and the world. Michael A. Griffith (grif@cs.ucr.edu) Department of Computer Science University of California, Riverside ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jul 1994 16:32:28 +0200 From: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Ralf Schlatterbeck) Subject: [comp.text.tex] Announce: First patch to latex2rtf Keywords: LaTeX, RTF, Microsoft Word, latex2rtf, patch This is the announcement of the first patch to latex2rtf. A Bug with SunOS 4.1.3 missing the declaration of fpos_t and fgetpos fsetpos was corrected. Some bugs in the manpage were corrected, too. latex2rtf is a translator program that translates LaTeX text into the RTF format used by several textprocessors, including Microsoft Word and Word for Windows. It was written by Fernando Dorner and Andreas Granzer in a one-semester course in our department. This is new software and as such not very well tested. It works for us, however. If you find any Bugs, or make any improvements to the code, please report them to the address below. This program should answer one of the frequently asked questions in this group, namely how to translate from LaTeX to Microsoft Word. The sources can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.vmars.tuwien.ac.at in the directory /pub/misc in the file latex2rtf.1.1.tar.gz you need the GNU gunzip program to uncompress the file. Sources can be obtained from one of the GNU archives. Alternatively you can specify the file name latex2rtf.1.1.tar when downloading via ftp and the tar-file will get decompressed before transmission. The patch from version 1.0 can be found in the file latex2rtf.patch.1.0-1.1.gz Ralf Schlatterbeck Treitlstr.3/182/1 email: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien Phone: +43/222/58801/8176 Austria FAX: +43/222/569149 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 06:39:15 -0400 From: "K. Berry" Subject: modes 2.0 available I have released version 2.0 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/modes.mf You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's (thanks, George!) file server if you cannot ftp: email fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of `sendme modes'. This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and landscape mode. No new modes, but I've renamed all the modes so the primary names are <= eight characters and all lowercase, and hence portable directory names. This also saves a bit of memory, though not enough ... if you have the table sizes from mf.web, modes.mf will eat up too much string space to do any actual font generation. You can work around this by either increasing the table sizes (as in web2c's mf.ch), or by removing unneeded modes from modes.mf and renaming the file. I can't decipher the Metafont source well enough to understand how to make the modes use less memory; if some Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd very much like to hear it. If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the existing ones, please send them to me. Improvements to the exposition, particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome. kb@cs.umb.edu mode_def agfafzz = % AGFA 400PS mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 mode_def apssixhi = % Autologic APS-Micro6 mode_def atariezf = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer mode_def atarinf = % Atari 95dpi previewer mode_def atarins = % Atari 96x96 previewer mode_def atariotf = % Atari ST SM 124 screen mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi mode_def bjtenex = % Canon BubbleJet 10ex mode_def boise = % HP 2680A mode_def canonex = % CanonEX in LaserWriter Pro 630 mode_def canonlbp = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10 mode_def cg = % Compugraphic 8600 mode_def cgnszz = % Compugraphic 9600 mode_def itoh = % CItoh 8510A mode_def citohtoz = % CItoh 310 mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS mode_def cx = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX mode_def datadisc = % DataDisc mode_def newdd = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio mode_def declarge = % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024 mode_def decsmall = % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768 mode_def deskjet = % HP DeskJet 500 mode_def docutech = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover mode_def epsdraft = % Epson at 120x72dpi mode_def epsfast = % Epson at 60x72dpi mode_def epson = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family mode_def epsonact = % Epson Action Laser 1500 mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120x216dpi mode_def gtfax = % 204 x 196dpi G3fax mode_def gtfaxlo = % 204 x 98dpi G3fax mode_def hprugged = % HP RuggedWriter 480 mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (\#1) mode_def ibmd = % IBM 38xx (\#2) mode_def ibmega = % IBM EGA monitor mode_def ibmfzon = % IBM 4019 mode_def ibmfztn = % IBM 4029-30, 4250 mode_def ibmpp = % IBM ProPrinter mode_def ibmsoff = % IBM 6154 display mode_def sherpa = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) mode_def ibmteot = % IBM 3812 mode_def ibmtetz = % IBM 3820 mode_def ibmtont = % IBM 3193 screen mode_def ibmtosn = % IBM 3179 screen mode_def ibmvga = % IBM VGA monitor mode_def ibx = % Chelgraph IBX mode_def iw = % Apple ImageWriter mode_def jetiiisi = % HP Laser Jet IIISi mode_def lasf = % DEC LA75 mode_def linolo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi mode_def linoone = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi mode_def linotzzh = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi mode_def ljfour = % 600dpi HP LaserJet 4 mode_def ljlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi mode_def lmaster = % 1000dpi LaserMaster mode_def lnzo = % DEC LN01 mode_def lps = % DEC LPS40 mode_def lpstz = % DEC lps20 mode_def lqlores = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi mode_def lqmedres = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor mode_def macmag = % Mac screens at magstep 1 mode_def mactrue = % Mac screens at 72dpi mode_def ncd = % NCD 19-inch mode_def nec = % NEC mode_def nechi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi mode_def nexthi = % NeXT 400dpi, Newgen mode_def nextscrn = % 100dpi NeXT monitor mode_def nullmode = % TFM files only mode_def ocessfz = % OCE 6750-PS mode_def okidata = % Okidata mode_def pcscreen = % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns mode_def phaser = % Tektronix Phaser PXi mode_def prntware = % Printware 720IQ mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine) mode_def qmsostf = % QMS 1725 mode_def qmsoszz = % QMS 1700 mode_def ricoh = % e.g., TI Omnilaser mode_def ricoha = % e.g., IBM 4216 mode_def ricohlp = % e.g., DEC LN03 mode_def sparcptr = % Sun SPARCprinter mode_def starnloz = % Star NL-10 mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi mode_def vs = % VAXstation monitor mode_def vtftzz = % Varityper 4200 B-P mode_def vtftzzhi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi mode_def vtftzzlo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi mode_def vtfzszw = % Varitype 5060W, APS 6 mode_def vtszz = % Varityper Laser 600 mode_def xrxesnz = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 mode_def xrxfzfz = % Xerox 4050/4075/4090 mode_def xrxnszz = % Xerox 9700 mode_def xrxtszz = % Xerox 3700 ------------------------------ About TeXhax... 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