From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #20 Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 18:22:31 +0100 Message-ID: <29744.770059351@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 27 May 1994 Volume 94 : 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}: Re: bitmap files Re: UKTUG OzTeX distribution Re: PDP11 TEX Re: Location of shortvrb.sty Migrating from MS Word and MathType to TeX? {Announcements}: UK TUG meeting on LaTeX fonts and graphics Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 15:29:46 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: bitmap files > I have a client who wants to import bitmap graphics files > into a LaTeX document on a PC and print it on an HP Laser Jet > III or IV. a) what format graphics files? b) driving the LaserJet in native mode or with a PostScript cartridge? The normal emTeX HPLJ driver is very good, and supports inclusion of .pcx and .bmp graphics formats. will that do? sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 15:29:46 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: UKTUG OzTeX distribution > Would it be possible for this to be extended to include the AMS fonts? > It's a royal pain trying to build these for OzTeX (I still haven't worked > out how to do it for my environment) and they must be one of the first > extras most users would want. one could argue about the last statement, but point taken. the AMs fonts in Mac format are in the archive (fonts/ams/macintosh), and we will try and get them on the OzTeX disks. sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 15:29:46 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: PDP11 TEX > Is there available a distribution of Tex for the PDP11 runing under > RSX11M-PLUS. Also a DVI driver for same for HP Laserjet Plus. I > would be grateful for your help. goodness gracious. I don't know of one. if you have a C compiler, try starting to compile the web2c setup, but I dont suppose it would be easy. how about giving the machine to the Ashmolean museum instead? sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 15:29:46 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: Location of shortvrb.sty > Can anyone tell me where to find shortvrb.sty so that I can run the > file TEST.TEX through my test installation of LaTeX2e and the > LaTeX2e Colour and Graphics Packages. its part of the `doc' package in LaTeX2e. When you install things, it should have been created sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 11:22:06 +0000 From: PPENDER@VAX1.MAY.IE Subject: Migrating from MS Word and MathType to TeX? I have a user using MS Word and MathType but he now finds he must send his submissions in TeX. Anybody got any ideas?? Thanks ........ Paddy Computer Centre User Support | If `It can't be done' St. Patrick's College | had dismayed the world's Maynooth | leaders, we would still Co. Kildare | be living in the Stone IRELAND | Age. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 11:27:39 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: UK TUG meeting on LaTeX fonts and graphics (This document is also available by WWW as http://pelican.cl.cam.ac.uk/people/rf/july.html) LaTeX fonts and graphics: a hands-on tutorial Two of the most important new features of LaTeX 2e are its support for fonts and graphics: no longer does LaTeX have to mean Computer Modern with picture mode. In this intensive one-day course, two of the authors of LaTeX 2e will provide a tutorial in LaTeX 2e's fonts and graphics. Topics will include: Processing LaTeX 2e documents. Selecting new fonts. Installing new fonts. Including graphics. Using colour. The tutorial will be aimed at: Authors who wish to learn the new LaTeX document commands. Designers who wish to write document classes or packages using fonts, graphics and colour. System administrators who wish to install and maintain the new LaTeX features. The tutorial will include sessions hands-on at a keyboard, and each attendee will have access to a Unix workstation. The cost includes handouts, lunch and refreshments. The time, the place The time: July 11, 1994 The place: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory The tutors: David Carlisle and Alan Jeffrey of the LaTeX 3 project. The cost: (to UK TUG members), 50 pounds, or 40 pounds if you book by June 11. (60 and 50 pounds to non-members; 10 pounds surcharge for generating a proforma invoice against an official order.) Booking arrangements For further details, please contact: By snail mail: Jonathan Fine, 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3HY, UK Electronically: Robin Fairbairns Booking forms can also be acquired electronically via ftp at ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk:/users/rf/july-book.ps.gz (this file was generated for a 300dpi printer). ------------------------------ UK TeX Archive at Aston University >>> ftp.tex.ac.uk <<< Internet: ftp.tex.ac.uk [134.151.79.32] -- anonymous ftp, gopher, NFS For anonymous ftp, login: anonymous, password: \section Files of Interest tex-archive/00Contents tex-archive/FILES.bydate tex-archive/FILES.byname tex-archive/FILES.byname_diff tex-archive/FILES.bysize tex-archive/MAP tex-archive/README.archive-features tex-archive/README.site-commands tex-archive/README.uploads \section Digests This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory tex-archive/digests/uktex/94 This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory tex-archive/digests/texhax/94 Latest TeXhax: V94 #03 \section Media Distributions Postal addresses are given below. \subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape Our latest copy of May/June 1991 contains: TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V tar format, 1 file (36Mb) Send One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format (DC600A or DC6150) with envelope AND stamps for return postage to David Osborne (address below); due to currency exchange, this service is offered only within the UK. \section TeX Implementations for Small Computers \subsection PC and Mac disks From January 1994 the UK TeX Users' Group is distributing an emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. The cost covers copying and postage costs, and the shareware fee for OzTeX. Each set costs \pounds30, and is available from Peter Abbott, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB. Cheques must be payable to `UKTUG'. Please note that this service **is available to UKTUG members only.** Each set comes with an installation guide, and (at least) full TeX and Metafont, a previewer, a PostScript driver, and CM fonts. Two update disks a year will be sent out automatically, with the current version of LaTeXe, and other goodies. A subscription service will be available for subsequent years. In addition, subscribers can request up to 3 disks a year with any material from the CTAN archives, but this will be supplied `as is', without instructions. OzTeX and emTeX are also available on disk from TeX Users Group; mail TUG for details. \subsection TeX for the Atari ST Enquiries for TeX for the Atari ST etc. can be directed to: The Fast Club, 7 Musters Road, Nottingham NG2 7PP. Phone 0602 455250, fax 0602 455305. They also supply a variety of TeX-related software in Atari format. Enquiries for disks etc. can also be directed to: The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD Internet: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk \section Postage Rates Quarter-inch cartridges: UK: GBP 1.00, Europe: GBP 2.00. \section Postal Addresses Please include SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS for return postage. Peter Abbott Information Systems, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET Internet: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD (for Unix cartridges ONLY -- must include stamps for return postage) Internet: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk TeX Users Group P.O. Box 869, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, USA. Internet: TUG@TUG.org \section UK TeX Users Group Details available from Jonathan Fine, 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3HY, UK or from Internet: UKTuG-Enquiries@ftp.tex.ac.uk or from World-Wide Web server: http://ftp.tex.ac.uk/UKTUG/home.html \bye End of UKTeX Digest [Volume 94 Issue 20] ****************************************