From owner-texhax-l@IRLEARN.UCD.IE Wed May 29 14:47:00 1996 Received: from listserv.rl.ac.uk (listserv.rl.ac.uk [130.246.132.23]) by granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA09947 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:46:52 +0100 Received: from listserv (listserv.rl.ac.uk [130.246.132.23]) by listserv.rl.ac.uk (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id OAA15022; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:46:50 +0100 (BST) Received: from IRLEARN.UCD.IE by IRLEARN.UCD.IE (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 9757 for TEXHAX-L@IRLEARN.UCD.IE; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:44:20 +0000 Received: from IRLEARN (NJE origin SMTP@IRLEARN) by IRLEARN.UCD.IE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7220; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:44:19 +0000 Received: from jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk by IRLEARN.UCD.IE (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Wed, 29 May 96 13:44:15 GMT Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk id <22537-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Wed, 29 May 1996 13:24:21 +0100 Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:24:21 +0100 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Sender: TeX Information Distribution List From: Majordomo list server Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 Comments: To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk To: Multiple recipients of list TEXHAX-L TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 29 May 1996 Volume 96 : Number 006 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: "Standard" Font sizes Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #5 TUGboat 17(1) Contents Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX excalibur PostScript from other programs [ANNOUNCE] TeX Live CDROM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:52:03 BST Subject: "Standard" Font sizes I am maintaining a TeX system here at ucl, and like many others I suspect am allowing the system to generate all the fonts as needed (via MakeTeXpk). All of these end up jumbled together in the texmf/fonts/tmp/pk directory (under either cx or ljfour). I would quite like to shift the common ones into the appropriate sub directory (texmf/fonts/public/cm/ ..) so that tmp can be deleted on a regular basis. Can someone tell me the standard/most common sizes required ? Thanks. - -- ************************************************************************** Dr. Matthew Clemence ___ email mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk University College London 11-20 Shropshire House, London, England +44 171 387 9300 x 8448/8264 +44 181 442 1832 Home ************************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: David Carlisle Date: Wed, 17 Apr 96 17:57:14 BST Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #5 Perhaps the following is a clearer example: \chardef\xxx`\a \ifcat a\xxx \message{yes} \else \message{no} \fi \let\xxx=a \ifcat a\xxx \message{yes} \else \message{no} \fi \bye A \chardef token is not a character token, and so does not have a catcode so as far as \ifcat is concerned it will compare true against any other control sequence, but false against any character. In your case \next is \let to ! ie it has the definition of \futurelet \next \dopling because !% ! is equivalent to !! and \return is a chardef control sequence, so \ifcat\return\noexpand\next finds two control sequences and so returns true. As my example above shows you can get an implicit character token for use in \ifcat by using \let (the \bgroup you used is another such example) but you can not do this for as it is not possible to make any token of catcode 5. input characters of that category always produce tokens of catcode 10 (and sometimes also \par tokens) You can not `see' the end of line by any method at all if you use the normal system, if you make ^^M active then of course you can see a ctacode 13 character token, but you disable the automatic system that TeX uses for converting end of line to white space, so you need arrange that the definition of ^^M does this `by hand'. David ------------------------------ From: Mimi Burbank Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:16:12 -0500 (EDT) Subject: TUGboat 17(1) Contents TUGboat Volume 17, Number 1 / March 1996 ================================ Addresses 3 Soliciting Bids for TUG'97 4 General Delivery Michel Goossens From the president 5 Barbara Beeton Editorial comments 6 DEK on tour; TUB: the year ahead 6 TUG'95: Questions and answers with Prof. Donald E. Knuth 7 Software & Tools Frank G. Bennett, Jr. Camel: kicking over the bibliographic traces in BibTeX 22 Filip Machi, Jerrold E. Marsden and Wendy G. McKay Corrigendum: Introduction to FasTeX: a system of keyboard shortcuts for the fast keying of TeX (Volume 16(4), pp. 358-363) 28 Fonts Donald E. Knuth Important message regarding CM fonts 29 Darko Zubrinic Croatian fonts 29 Book Reviews J. Vesely Two new books on TeX in the Czech Republic: 34 Petr Olsak, Typograficky system TeX (TeX typesetting system); Jiri Rybicka, LaTeX pro zacatecniky (LaTeX for beginners) Lynne A. Price: Ronald C. Turner, Timothy A. Douglass, and Audrey J. Turner, README.1ST: SGML for Writers and Editors 35 Letters Rama Porrat There's still something missing... 37 Resources Mimi Burbank and Michel Goossens Electronic news from the family 37 Tutorials Keith Reckdahl Using EPS graphics in LaTeXe documents 43 Macros Don Hosek That ol' devil \expandafter 53 J. Hagen and A. F. Otten PPCHTeX: typesetting chemical formulas in TeX 54 LaTeX David Carlisle A LaTeX tour, Part 1: The basic distribution 67 Abstracts Les Cahiers GUTenberg, No. 20 73 News & Announcements Calendar 74 TUG'96 Preliminary schedule 76 Late-Breaking News Mimi Burbank Production notes 78 Future issues 78 TUG Business TUG Bylaws 79 1996 TUG election cancelled 84 TUG Board Members 84 Institutional members 85 Forms TUG membership application 86 Advertisements TeX consulting and production services 87 Index of advertisers 87 ------------------------------ From: "S. Warde" Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST) Subject: Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX Looking for help in creating pdf files. 1/ We are currently moving from LaTeX 209 to LaTeX2e. We have found the hyper and hyperref packages in the contrib/supported directory. Though both authors acknowledge each other and say it would be a good idea to merge they don't say when. Until they do I would be grateful for peoples experiences with this packages. 2/ We have obtained the dvihps source from ftp.tex.ac.uk this seems to be quiet old. Before installing it I was wondering if a - there was a more recent version b - anyone had 'ported' it to work with the kpathsea distribution c - knew of any limitations d - knew of other dvips variants for creating pdf files We run LaTeX etc. on SGI's and HP's 3/ We have come across a reference to an archive and mailing list on hypertex hosted at snorri.chem.washington.edu . This machine does not seem to exist. Anyone know if the archive and maillist are hosted elsewhere? Thank you Hugo Korwaser Femsys Limited Tel: +44 (0) 116 2541475 sw25@leiceter.ac.uk ------------------------------ From: sens@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Pierre Sens) Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 11:00:31 +0100 Subject: excalibur Hi Tex users, I would like to use the spell checker Excalibur for documents in French on my Macintosh. I heard about a french dictionnary for Excalibur. Does anybody know where I could download it. Thanks, Pierre Sens Department of Physics UCSB Santa Barbara, Ca 93106 U.S.A Voice 1 (805) 893-8986 Fax 1 (805) 893-2902 email sens@physics.ucsb.edu ------------------------------ From: Russel Winder Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100 Subject: PostScript from other programs I regularly need to include PostScript figures in documents. I find idraw on Unix produces excellent relocatable PostScript descriptions but it is a little simplistic. There are excellent command language mechanisms for creating PostScript tricks using LaTeX but I really want to make use of (essentially) WYSIWYG programs like idraw, FrameMaker and Word to create images for inclusion in LaTeX2e documents. Furthermore I often have the requirement to use other people's PostScript in my LaTeX documents and have no control over the programs used to create the PostScript. In the past I have been able to use PostScript produced by various Macintosh programs (though judicious editing out of font information is usually required) and also PostScript produced by the PostScript driver under Windows3.1. At the pther extreme, FrameMaker has always been a pain in the !@#$. The PostScript produced by this program is totally un-relocatable. It assumes total control of the page and I have yet to discover the necessary edits to remove it's dictatorial efforts and hence make the PostScript relocatable. Moreover Microsoft appear to have gone down this same road and this is my real problem. Word7 with the Apple LaaserWriter plus driver (under Windows95) now produces code that it not relocatable. Indeed it has this penchant for trying to enquire of the amount of virtual memory on a regular basis which makes the PostScript file of a document un-previewable with ghostscript. I have found the trick for removing this VM quesry problem but have not found the trick for removing the manipulations that bind the coordinate system to the page in it's dictatorial manner. Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7 and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form? Thanks for any guidance and/or pointers. Russel. ======================================================================= Dr Russel Winder Reader in Software Engineering Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems Information Systems Research Group Department of Computer Science Phone: +44 (0)171 380 7293 University College London Fax: +44 (0)171 387 1397 Gower Street EMail: R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk London WC1E 6BT UK URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/R.Winder/ ======================================================================= ------------------------------ From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:19:48 +0100 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] TeX Live CDROM I am very glad to announce the launch today in Paris of TeX Live, a new CD published by the TeX Users Group, the UK TeX Users Group and GUIenberg (French TeX Users), with help from NTG (Dutch TeX Users) and many individuals from other groups. TeX Live's 649 megabytes contains: - a ready to run Unix TeX setup, Thomas Esser's teTeX (based on Karl Berry's Web2c). It has binaries for: Linux on Intel and m68k platforms; Irix 5.2, 5.3 on MIPS (SGI Indy/Indigo) SunOS 4.1.3 on Sun Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 on SPARC HPUX 9.01, 10.01 for HP workstations Digital Unix (OSF/1) 2.0 and 3.2 for DEC Alpha machines FreeBSD and NetBSD on Intel platforms Ultrix 4.3, for DEC Decstation machines AIX 3.2, 4.1.1, for IBM RS6000 machines NeXTStep on Intel platforms - a very large support tree of macros, fonts and documentation arranged according to the TeX Directory Structure layout - the GUTenberg Mac, DOS and Windows distributions (archived) You can use the TeX system by running directly from the CD, installing on your hard disk, or by adding packages to your existing system. This is not a dump of CTAN full of compressed archives. This is a *working* system. To make it useable under Unix, it uses the Rock Ridge extensions to the ISO9660 file system. Ordinary systems can still read it, but will not see the long file names or symbolic links. If you are on any flavour of Unix, BUY this CD! There is no complicated compilation or moving of installed files around, it will just *WORK*. More details, and ordering information, can be found at http://www.tug.org/texlive.html. If you dont have WWW access, mail me or tug@tug.org for details. Cost is around $20 for members of any TeX users group, or $40 for others (the prices vary, depending on postage). All profits from sales go back to fund new versions of the CD, and to TeX-related development projects. Sebastian Rahtz Secretary, TeX Users Group ------------------------------ End of TeXhax Digest V96 #6 *************************** About TeXhax... 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