From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #11 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" Content-ID: <3553.787580673.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 12:24:34 +0000 Message-ID: <3554.787580674@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Friday, 16 Dec 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 11 Today's Topics: Problems installing TeX on AIX: no MetaFont Questions about previewers and dvi drivers MS-DOS DVI driver for Olivetti inkjet printer? tugboat 15 #2 (june 1994) TeXsis Version 2.16 Released Short introduction to LaTeX 2e lshort2e.tex Uploaded TeX Users Group -- 1995 election announcement kpathsea 2.5, dvipsk 5.58e, xdvik 18e, dviljk 2.4 TeXhax/UKTeX merger opinions 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, 11 Nov 1994 11:44:00 -0000 From: "Alex Nunes, CCS, Birkbeck" Subject: Problems installing TeX on AIX: no MetaFont This is a probably an FAQ, but anyway: I am trying to install TeX/LaTeX on an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.2. I retrieved the TEX distribution from ftp.tex.ac.uk in the systems/aix3.2 directory. I can successfully untar and compile. Once I've compiled the executables I find a full tex and latex build but no metafont. This is fairly useless because even though I can run all the latex programs, when it comes to printing almost all the fonts are missing and uncreatable without MF. When looking in the README file it seems to imply that MF is part of this distribution. Am I missing something? Alex Alex Nunes UNIX Support Central Computing Services Birkbeck College University of London Malet Street LONDON WC1E 7HX email: alex@ccs.bbk.ac.uk (internet) alex@uk.ac.bbk.ccs (some JANET sites) WWW: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/People/Alex.html Tel: 071 631 6337 (UK) 004471 631 6337 (rest of the world) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 12:30:31 +0000 From: Jeremy Henty Subject: Questions about previewers and dvi drivers Imperial Software Technology is developing a tool which generates hardcopy using LaTeX and included PostScript. Naturally we would like this output to work on as many TeX systems as possible, so I would be grateful for answers to a few questions. * What are the commonly used previewers and dvi drivers we should aim to support? * Do any of these programs not support either the "psfile=" or "header=" specials? * Is the LaTeX2e "graphics" package going to become the standard graphics interface? Will other packages support its syntax for compatibility? * According to the manual page, xdvi does not "as yet" support "header=" specials. Will it? If so, how soon? * What (if any) are the significant differences between xdvi and xdvik? dvips and dvipsk? Please email responses. Thank you in advance, Jeremy C. Henty jch@ist.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 11:29:54 +0200 From: Shlomo Reisner Subject: MS-DOS DVI driver for Olivetti inkjet printer? A question: Does anyone know of a MSDOS dvi-driver for ink-injection printer. I have an Olivetti 250JP - (emulation of HP DeskJet Plus). Thanks for any information. Shlomo Reisner Dept of Mathematics Univ. of Haifa, Israel. ------------------------------ Date: 09 Dec 1994 13:25:57 -0500 From: bbeeton Subject: tugboat 15 #2 (june 1994) it is with pleasure and a great deal of relief that i announce that the june issue of tugboat (15 #2) is now being printed, and should be mailed to tug members in about a week. an unfortunate combination of logistical and production problems have conspired to delay the issue, including internal office moves by the editor, with storage of all materials related to the issue, extended absences of the editor attending meetings and for other reasons, and unexpected difficulties in actual file processing. i am sincerely apologetic for the delays; steps are being taken to address these problems to help avoid them in the future. serious production difficulties have also hampered preparation of the proceedings issue (tugboat 15 #3). i received notification earlier today from the proceedings editors that the bulk of the camera copy has been shipped to me for final action. a few pages remain to be processed into camera copy, and i expect to be able to send that issue to the printer the week after next. (i shall be attending a standards meeting next week, and my office is being moved again next weekend, so nothing can happen during that interval.) work is also proceeding on issue #4, and i intend to complete it as soon as possible, although i cannot give an exact date just yet. however, i believe that it will be possible to get the first 1995 issue out by the end of march, the cover date. the table of contents for 15 #2 follows. -- bb -------------------- TUGboat 15, 2, June 1994 Contents 87 Addresses General Delivery 89 Christina Thiele Opening words: Meetings; ISO and de facto standards 89 Barbara Beeton Editorial comments: ``LaTeX2e'' is now just ``LaTeX''; New CTAN features; Northwest Computing Support Center closed; TeX output in audible form 91 Michel Goossens WEPT: A Week on Electronic Publishing and Typography Dreamboat 96 Philip Taylor Report of the 2nd meeting of the NTS group, February 1994 Fonts 97 Alan Hoenig {Meta}Font Forum redux 98 R. Ramasubramanian, R.W.D. Nickalls and M.A. Reed ASCII.sty: A new style-option and encoded font with IBM graphics control characters for use with TeX and LaTeX Book Reviews 103 David M. Jones and David E. Wald Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin, The LaTeX Companion 106 Victor Eijkhout Norman Walsh, Making TeX Work 107 Jacques Andre Christian Rolland, LaTeX guide pratique Typesetting on Personal Computers 108 Alan Hoenig NextTeX: TeX plus the NextStep Operating System Macros 110 Michael Downes Interaction tools: dialog.sty and menus.sty LaTeX 131 Bernard Gaulle LaTeX V3: philology & typography, reports to read, reports to do 131 Claudio Beccari Tough table becomes easy with PiCTeX, but it's even easier with LaTeX Letters 132 Paul Anagnostopolous On the review of TeX in Practice Abstracts 133 Baskerville, Volume 4, Nos. 1--2 136 Cahiers GUTenberg Nos. 16 and 17 138 Die TeXnische Komoedie 1993, Heft 1--4 News & Announcements 143 Calendar 160 TUG'95 -- St. Petersburg, Florida Late-Breaking News 148 Barbara Beeton Production notes 149 Coming next issue 150 Barbara Beeton Change in TUGboak policy TUG Business 145 Meet the Board, Part II Michael Ferguson; Peter Flynn; George Greenwade; Yannis Haralambous; Nico Poppelier; Jon Radel; Sebastian Rahtz 151 Institutional members Forms 155 TUG membership application Advertisements 152 TeX consulting and production services 154 Index of advertisers ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 19:52:54 -0500 From: texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu Subject: TeXsis Version 2.16 Released TeXsis Version 2.16 Released The latest version (2.16) of the TeXsis macro package of TeX macros for physicists is now available (as of 12 November 1994) via anonymous ftp from lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu, in the directory /texsis. The most notable changes or additions are: * All bug fixes from patches to TeXsis 2.15 are included in TeXsis 2.16 (they were all pretty minor). * The manual has been re-organized to make it clearer, and easier to learn how to set up a complete document. * Figures and tables can be put at the _bottom_ of a page or column, using \bottomfigure and \bottomtable, or \heavyfigure and \heavytable. More generally, any sort of insertion may be put at the bottom of a page or column with \bottominsert or \heavyinsert. * The double column macros have been completely re-written. They are much improved, and support insertions at the bottom of columns, including footnotes. The new macros can also be used by themsleves with Plain TeX. * \NFootnote creates numbered footnotes. * The PhysRev.txs style file defines \PhysRevManuscript for papers being submitted to the Physical Review, and \PhysRev and \PhysRevLett to emulate the layouts of those journals. * The IEEE.txs and WorldSci.txs style files have been updated. * \ListFigureCaptions lets you print figure captions at the end of the document. * Many other small additions and improvements. Those of you who have been using the beta version of 2.16 in the past few months will find little changed, except that the manual has been updated to match the changes to the macros. ---------- To make it easier for the casual reader of electronic preprints ("e-prints") to print a TeXsis document we have also put all of the core TeXsis macros into one source file (called mtexsis.tex), with all the comments and blank lines removed. A reader who does not have TeXsis on his/her system can then simply get this file, add "\input mtexsis" to the manuscript file, and print the paper with Plain TeX. You can make your e-print manuscript files automatically load mtexsis.tex if it is needed by adding the following line at the begining of the manuscript file: \ifx\undefined\TeXsis \input mtexsis.tex\fi It is suggested that you try running such a manuscript through Plain TeX with mtexsis.tex first to make sure that it works. ---------- As always, comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcomed, and can be sent to us at texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu. Eric Myers | Departmenty of Physics and Astronomy | "Frankie say '\relax'" Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 11:18:26 +0000 From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Short introduction to LaTeX 2e I have installed Tobias' stuff as announced below - ------- Forwarded Message Subject: lshort2e.tex Uploaded Announcement: ======================================================================== Now available for CTAN:/pub/tex/info/lshort (i.e., A not very Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e (58 Pages) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ by Tobias Oetiker 16/11/1994 If you want to learn how to write your documents with LaTeX, this introduction is for you. It is not about setting up a LaTeX system. While it is not as comprehensive as Lamport's book, it should be sufficient in most cases. The document is provided in PS DVI and source form ... Enjoy! All the best Tobi - ------- End of Forwarded Message English-speaking LaTeX users of the world have good reason to be grateful to Tobias for the work he's done (as should users whose German speech is as dubious as mine ;-) Thanks, Tobi ------------------------------ Date: 12 Dec 1994 18:45:42 -0500 From: bbeeton Subject: TeX Users Group -- 1995 election announcement ----------------------------- 1995 TeX Users Group Election ----------------------------- The terms of the TUG President and of 5 members of the Board of Directors will expire as of the 1995 Annual Business Meeting, which will take place in conjunction with the 16th Annual Meeting in July 1995. The directors whose terms expire in 1995 are Barbara Beeton, Michael Doob, Michel Goossens, and Tom Rokicki; a shortfall in the number of nominees in the last election left one position unfilled. The election to choose the new President and Board members will be held next Spring, and nominations are invited. The Bylaws provide that ``Any member may be nominated for election to the office of TUG President/to the Board by submitting a nomination petition in accordance with the TUG Election Procedures. Election ... shall be by written mail ballot of the entire membership, carried out in accordance with those same Procedures.'' The term of office of the President is two (2) years, and of a director, three (3) years. Incumbent officers may be nominated for successive terms. The name of any member may be placed in nomination for election to one of these offices by submission of a petition, signed by two other current (1994 or 1995) members, to the TUG office at least 30 days prior to the mailing of ballots. (A candidate's membership dues for 1995 will be expected to be paid by the nomination deadline.) A petition form follows this announcement; forms may also be obtained from the TUG office, and electronically from the usergrps/tug area of CTAN. Along with a petition form, each candidate is asked to supply a passport-size photograph, a short biography, and a statement of intent to be included with the ballot; the biography and statement of intent together may not exceed 400 words. The deadline for receipt at the TUG office of petitions and ballot information is February 1, 1995. Ballots will be mailed to all members early in March. Marked ballots must be postmarked no later than May 9, and received no later than May 23. These deadlines will be noted on the ballots. Ballots will be counted by a disinterested party not part of the TUG organization. The results of the election should be available by the end of May, and will be announced in a future issue of this publication as well as through various TeX-related electronic lists. Barbara Beeton for the Elections Committee -------------------------------- Nomination for 1995 TUG Election -------------------------------- Only current (1994 or 1995) TUG members are eligible to participate. The signatures of two (2) members are required in addition to that of the nominee. Type or print names clearly, exactly as they appear in the most recent TUG membership list or on a TUG mailing label; new members should enter the name which they used on their membership application form. Names that do not exactly match the TUG records will not be accepted as valid. --------------- The undersigned TUG members propose the nomination of: - ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- Name of nominee (signature) (date) for the position of (check one): [ ] TUG President [ ] Member of the TUG Board of Directors for a term beginning at the 1995 Annual Meeting, July 1995. Members supporting this nomination Nominated by Signature Date (please print) - ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- - ------------------------- ------------------------- --------------- Return this petition to the TUG office (FAXed petition forms will be accepted). Petitions and all required supplementary material (photograph, biography and personal statement for inclusion on the ballot) must be received in the TUG office no later than the deadline: February 1, 1995 It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure that this deadline is met. Under no circumstances will incomplete applications be accepted. A candidate's membership dues for 1995 must also be paid by this deadline. TeX Users Group Nominations for 1995 Election P.O.~Box 869 Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0869 U.S.A. FAX: 805-963-8358 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 19:07:09 -0500 From: "K. Berry" Subject: kpathsea 2.5, dvipsk 5.58e, xdvik 18e, dviljk 2.4 New versions of dvipsk/xdvik/dviljk are in the usual place: ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{xdvik,dvipsk,dviljk}.tar.gz ... and CTAN and its mirrors; see the end of this message. Please use the nearest site, to reduce the load on our old Sparc 1. The biggest change is using Autoconf 2.1 to prepare the configure scripts -- who knows what that's broken. Aside from that, it's just minor bug fixes. The patch that John Interrante and others created for web2c 6.1 for the previous kpathsea release should basically work for this release, except for the configure scripts; you can get that as the file web2c.kpathsea-2.4.help from the above sites. (Naturally, I am working on the next release of web2c. It will be ready no sooner than a month or two from now (and perhaps significantly longer); it's no use to ask me precisely when, as I simply do not know.) I hope John (or someone) can update the patch soon. As always, thanks to the many people who contributed. I tried to record names in the ChangeLog entries. Please report bugs to tex-k@cs.umb.edu. Email tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu with a line containing subscribe you@your.email.address in the body of the message to join this mailing list. If you only want to see announcements, not bug reports and discussion, subscribe to tex-archive@math.utah.edu instead. (Email tex-archive-request@math.utah.edu to join that list.) kb@cs.umb.edu Help fight the new programming monopolies -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net. Here's the NEWS: kpathsea 2.5 * Go back to calling db_insert after a successful MakeTeXPK, and check for lack of an ls-R. * Handle case of magstep -.5 for MakeTeXPK properly. xdvik 18e * The SelFile widget masks all but .dvi files by default (thanks to Dinh-Tuan.Pham@imag.fr for implementing this). * `G' can change the gamma value dynamically, as well whether grey is used. * Crash when starting without a filename fixed (hopefully). * `Can't find 300dpi using 300dpi' warning fixed (hopefully). * Compile-time default mode removed; back to letting MakeTeXPK guess. * Usage message improved for SELFILE case. dvipsk 5.58e * MakeTeXPK once again does umask 0. * M[ode] lines in config.$PRINTER override config.ps again (as intended). * Compile-time default mode removed; back to letting MakeTeXPK guess. * -o option overrides o in config files. dviljk 2.4 * Character 32 not downloaded on old printers, to work around an apparent bug in the emulation on a Kyocera. 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The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are: ftp.dante.de (Germany) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- e-mail via ftpmail@dante.de -- Administrator: ftp.shsu.edu (Texas, USA) -- anonymous ftp and gopher /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- NFS mountable from ftp.SHSU.edu:/pub/ftp/tex-archive -- e-mail via ftpmail@ftp.SHSU.edu -- World Wide Web access on www.SHSU.edu -- Administrator: ftp.tex.ac.uk (England) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive -- World Wide Web access on www.tex.ac.uk -- Administrator: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 12:18:27 +0000 From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax/UKTeX merger opinions Following my note about merging the TeXhax and UKTeX Digests (TeXhax V94 #xx, UKTeX V94 #xx), I received 12 responses, all in favour of the merger. There were two reservations expressed: - - frequency of the new TeXhax... weekly was felt by a couple of people to be too often - - one person requested that the digest be given a new name One of the advantages of increased frequency is that questions can be answered and announcements made in a more timely fashion. This has always been one of the "advantages" of the UKTeX Digest which I'd like to carry over into the new, merged digest. However, after we've had a few issues, if lots of people feel strongly that a weekly digest is hitting their mailbox too often, please let me know and we could move to, perhaps, two-weekly issues. As for names, well, I felt it would be less confusing to keep the name of the "elder" publication, which is mentioned in many online locations and Internet list-of-lists (e.g., Meckler's "On Internet 94"). If you have any views on any of this, please let me know. ~~David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) ------------------------------ About TeXhax... 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