From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #45 Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <475.786380287.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 1994 14:58:08 +0000 Message-ID: <476.786380288@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 2 Dec 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 45 Today's Topics: problem: tex omits every other word in wrapped lines LaTeX Installation Re: LaTeX Installation Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (UK TeX Users Group) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe uktex" or "unsubscribe uktex", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 Nov 1994 21:13:06 +0000 From: jerger@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Jerger) Subject: problem: tex omits every other word in wrapped lines We have just installed TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1). We are running SunOS 4.1.3u1. Everything is fine, except that in paragraphs in which words are wrapped, the wrapped lines have every other word omitted. The space is there for the word, but the text itself is missing. For example: How it should look: This is a test paragraph. This sentence will wrap and will be missing words. This sentence will be ok. How is really looks: This a paragraph. sentence wrap will missing words. This sentence will be ok. Using dvitype, we have determined that an overflow is occuring (it says so)....we had no problems compiling, so we have no clue where to start looking for the problem. Here's how dvitype should look after the first word of the paragraph: 166: push level 1:(h=0,v=1441792,w=0,x=0,y=786432,z=0,hh=0,vv=91) 167: right3 1310720 h:=0+1310720=1310720, hh:=83 171: setchar84 h:=1310720+473316=1784036, hh:=113 172: setchar104 h:=1784036+364090=2148126, hh:=136 173: setchar105 h:=2148126+182045=2330171, hh:=148 174: setchar115 h:=2330171+258503=2588674, hh:=164 175: w3 197495 h:=2588674+197495=2786169, hh:=176 179: setchar115 h:=2786169+258503=3044672, hh:=192 180: setchar104 h:=3044672+364090=3408762, hh:=215 181: setchar111 h:=3408762+327681=3736443, hh:=236 182: setchar117 h:=3736443+364090=4100533, hh:=259 183: setchar108 h:=4100533+182045=4282578, hh:=271 184: setchar100 h:=4282578+364090=4646668, hh:=294 185: w0 197495 h:=4646668+197495=4844163, hh:=307 186: setchar98 h:=4844163+364090=5208253, hh:=330 187: right2 18205 h:=5208253+18205=5226458, hh:=331 How it really looks (using the old version of dvitype): 166: push level 1:(h=0,v=1441792,w=0,x=0,y=786432,z=0,hh=0,vv=91) 167: right3 1310720 h:=0+1310720=1310720, hh:=83 171: setchar84 h:=1310720+473316=1784036, hh:=113 172: setchar104 h:=1784036+364090=2148126, hh:=136 173: setchar105 h:=2148126+182045=2330171, hh:=148 174: setchar115 h:=2330171+258503=2588674, hh:=164 175: w4 -2147265195 h:=2588674-2147265195=-2144676521, hh:=-135845 warning: |h|>30785863! 180: setchar115 h:=-2144676521+258503=-2144418018, hh:=-135829 181: setchar104 h:=-2144418018+364090=-2144053928, hh:=-135806 182: setchar111 h:=-2144053928+327681=-2143726247, hh:=-135785 183: setchar117 h:=-2143726247+364090=-2143362157, hh:=-135762 184: setchar108 h:=-2143362157+182045=-2143180112, hh:=-135750 185: setchar100 h:=-2143180112+364090=-2142816022, hh:=-135727 186: w0 -2147265195 arithmetic overflow! parameter changed from - -2147265195 to -4667625 h:=-2142816022-4667625=-2147483647, hh:=-136021 warning: |h|>2144676521! 187: setchar98 h:=-2147483647+364090=-2147119557, hh:=-135998 I don't really know what these numbers mean, but the h: things continue to be negative, yet words still keep appearing. They return to normal for the second sentence of the paragraph (which didn't wrap). Also, using the new dvitype, the hh: numbers alternate between 0 and -2147483648 throughout the entire file, and once the numbers get screwed up, they remain so, even for the text that shows up correctly. Any help at all is greatly appreciated. Thanks! - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Jerger, mjerger@uiuc.edu System Administrator for the Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute CCSO Site Consultant ------------------------------ Date: 02 Dec 1994 09:55:41 +0000 From: ajw29@cus.cam.ac.uk (A.J. Williamson) Subject: LaTeX Installation I would like to create a completely new installation of Tex, Latex, dvips etc on a DEC ALPHA. Can somebody advise me where I can find the latest versions of these products so I can download them. Any suggestions gratefully recieved. ajw29@phy.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: 02 Dec 1994 11:32:52 +0000 From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) Subject: Re: LaTeX Installation In article <3bmqut$bt7@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, A.J. Williamson wrote: >I would like to create a completely new installation of Tex, Latex, >dvips etc on a DEC ALPHA. Can somebody advise me where I can find >the latest versions of these products so I can download them. You don't say which OS you're running. If it's OSF/1, try the web2c distribution; I know it's buildable from that (though I've never done it, I just use it). That'll get you the basic Knuthian system and the utilities that go with it. (If it's VMS, the distribution is *old*, and I know nothing about TeX for NT.) I would also recommend using dvipsk and xdvik to go with it, since they use the same path-searching library. For LaTeX, I would recommend going straight to 2e for a new installation. If you want to stick with the 2.09, you'll have to go somewhere other than the archive (cus, which you posted from, stolidly maintains several variously out-of-date versions, so you could try there). The minimum installation (imo) is the LaTeX base and the tools. A new release was due out yesterday, so perhaps by the time you've got your executables built it'll be on the archive. 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