TeXhax Digest Thursday, January 19, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 9 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: Unix man pages for TeX/LaTeX Plain/raw tex: tolerance \& pretolerance --- how critical are they ? Needed: dvi --> Interpress translator DVITOVDU and PSPRINT 3.0 now in the U.S. Latex copyright BibTeX abstracts TeXhax Digest V89 #3 (The Blackboard Bold font) Needed: PD version of BibTeX for the PC LaTeX: verbatim within itemize Changebars Interval symbols wanted Misprint in the TeXbook? Discussion: Document Generation & Chuck Musciano TFM files for the CIRCLE fonts (query) Re: TFM files for the CIRCLE fonts (answer) Obtaining boldface greek symbols in math mode Planetary symbols for metafont Polish Character Set in METAFONT Info on Aps-5 & Aps-6 drivers wanted Needed: encapsulated ps The new book Concrete Mathematics ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 15:17:06 EST From: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Subject: Unix man pages for TeX/LaTeX Keywords: UNIX man pages, TeX, LaTeX Do Unix man pages for TeX and/or LaTeX exist? MIT's Project Athena has decided to include TeX and LaTeX in the standard user path. (Prior to this, (La)TeX was supported at MIT by the Student Information Processing Board.) Athena would also like to have man pages for them. (We already have man pages for dvi2ps and xdvi.) If the man pages don't exist, we'll be able to write our own, of course, but it would be better to have some sort of standard man pages. Replies to me, thanks.... Andrew Marc ``Rhu'' Greene (amgreene@athena.mit.edu) Project Athena ``Watchmaker'' MIT Student Information Processing Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23-JAN-1989 18:34:01 GMT From: CHAA006%vaxb.rhbnc.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK Subject: Plain/raw tex: tolerance \& pretolerance --- how critical are they ? Reply-To: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Keywords: Plain/raw tex When setting text to a narrow measure, the Plain defaults for tolerance and pre-tolerance are rarely adequate. Occasionally I adjust their values by trial and error until I get the lowest possible values consonant with `correctly' filled lines (no overfull \hbox es); however, I wonder if this effort is justified ? Has anyone written a general \setparagraph macro, which performs a binary search on \tolerance and \pretolerance ? ** Phil. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 11:47:10 mst From: Dave Kumpf Subject: Needed: dvi --> Interpress translator Keywords: dviware We are looking for source code for a dvi --> Interpress translator (preferably C). I have seen rumors that such a translator was in development by people at Berkeley and other places, but can't seem to track it down. If you have any information on such a program, please call, mail, or email. Thanks very much. Dave Kumpf Hewlett-Packard, Logic Systems Division P.O. Box 617 Colorado Springs, CO 80918 davek@hp-lsd.hp.com hplabs!hp-lsd!davek (719) 590-5739 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 15:24 EST From: Ted Nieland - SRL<@WPAFB-AAMRL.ARPA:TNIELAND@FALCON> Subject: DVITOVDU and PSPRINT 3.0 now in the U.S. Keywords: DVITOVDU, PSPRINT DVITOVDU Version 3.0 and PSPRINT Version 3.0 have now made it to the United States (Thanks to Peter Abbott of Aston University for sending the Tape). The updated versions will be on the DECUS TeX Collection 1989 (currently in progress). I expect that tape to be available from the DECUS Library by May of 1989 (in time for the Spring Symposia). I would also like to make the software available via Anonymous FTP. I am willing to FTP the source, exes, etc. to any site willing to make the software available. If you can offer this service, please contact me using the information below. Also, anyone who would like to contribute any TeXware to the DECUS TeX Collection, I am always accepting additional material. Please send me a note about your TeXware and how I can get a copy of it. It must be free for distribution to be included. Ted Nieland | M. Edward (Ted) Nieland - Systems Analyst | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | US Snail: | Arpa Internet: | | Systems Research Laboratories, Inc. | TNIELAND@WPAFB-AAMRL.ARPA | | 2800 Indian Ripple Road WP 196 | TNIELAND%FALCON@WPAFB-AAMRL.ARPA | | Dayton, OH 45440 | | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | A T & T: (513) 255-8846/8760/5165 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 07:34 MST From: Jameson%UNCAMULT.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Subject: Latex copyright Keywords: LaTeX, query A local system administrator will not allow public access to the latex.tex file on our system because he has seen the copyright line at the beginning of this file. Do the terms of the copyright prevent public access? Should I be able to use latex.tex on my pc to generate an lplain.fmt file using a public domain version of tex off simtel20? Any knowledgeable answers or comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Kevin -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 18:14:10 EST From: "Robert S. French" Subject: BibTeX abstracts Keywords: BibTeX, LaTeX The LaTeX manual, on p. 144, says that fields which are unknown to BibTeX are ignored, but can later be extracted by a properly designed .bst file. I have a collection of .bib files with the "abstract" field set, and would like to hear from anyone who has written a .bst file to print abstracts of cited papers. Thanks, Rob French rfrench@athena.mit.edu ...mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!rfrench -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 11:35:28 EST From: weltyc@fs3.cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty) Subject: TeXhax Digest V89 #3 (The Blackboard Bold font) Keywords: AmSTeX, fonts Does anyone have a free version of the `Blackboard Bold' font referred to in The TeX book as being an AMSTeX font? It is used to print the special chars representing the set of real, integers, etc. Christopher Welty --- Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs weltyc@cs.rpi.edu ...!njin!nyser!weltyc --------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 11:48 GMT From: "Goncal Badenes. C.N.M. Barcelona" Subject: Needed: PD version of BibTeX for the PC Keywords: BibTeX, PC, Hello, I would like to know if there is a public domain version of BibTeX, and if so where can I get it. Thanks, Goncal Goncal Badenes Centre Nacional de Microelectronica Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 08193 BELLATERRA, Barcelona SPAIN Bitnet/EARN: ICNM2@EBCCUAB1.BITNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 23-JAN-1989 19:07:08 GMT From: CCZDGR@VAX.NOTT.AC.UK Subject: LaTeX: verbatim within itemize Keywords: TEX, verbatim within itemize If I apply LaTeX to the following file, the first lot of verbatim comes out unindented (as I would expect), whereas the second lot comes out indented by about 9mm. I could understand newlines affecting the newlines around verbatim, but I don't see why presence/absence of newlines should affect indentation. I can't find any reference to such a bug/feature in Lamport's book or in LATEX.BUG. Am I missing something? David Rhead \documentstyle[11pt]{report} \begin{document} \chapter{Chapter title} \section{Verbatim within itemize} Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text. Text text text text text text text text text text. \begin{itemize} \item list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text. With newlines in input. \begin{verbatim} verbatim text \end{verbatim} list-text list-text list-text. \item list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text. Without newlines in input. \begin{verbatim}verbatim text\end{verbatim} list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text \item list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text list-text. \end{itemize} Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text. Text text text text text text text text text text. \end{document} -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 16:01:33 EST From: toms@ncifcrf.gov Subject: Changebars Keywords: query, changebars What's a changebar? Perhaps a little more documentation for the uninitiated would help ;-) Tom ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 14:35 CET From: WITWAA%HLERUL2.BITNET@uwavm.acs.washington.edu Subject: Interval symbols wanted Keywords: macros, TeX, rounding interval symbols Hello TeXnicians, Did anyone ever made macroes in Plain-TeX for the rounding INTERVAL-symbols used in intervalarithmetic (see e.g. the book "A New Approach to Scientific Computation" by U.W.Kulisch and W.L.Miranker, pp. 18 and 85). I just started in working with Plain TeX and tried without much success to make macros for those symbols. I would be very glad if someone could send me suitable macros. J.A. van de Griend Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Leiden University Niels Bohrweg 1 Postbox 9512 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands WITWAA@HLERUL2.BITNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 12:45:19 GMT From: J M Hicks Subject: Misprint in the TeXbook? Keywords: TeX, misprint On page 379 of my copy of the "Seventh printing, June 1986" of the TeXbook by Donald E. Knuth, in Appendix D: "Dirty Tricks", I find the following example:- \def\deleterightmost#1{\edef#1{\expandafter\xyzzy#1\xyzzy} \long\def\xyzzy\\#1#2{\ifx#2\xyzzy\yzzyx \else\noexpand\\{#1}\fi\xyzzy#2} \long\def\yzzyx#1\xyzzy\xyzzy$\fi} It seems plain that there is a misprint here, as the left and right curly brackets do not match. I think there should be an extra right curly bracket at the end of the first line. I wasn't sure where to report this, but I thought I'd better report it somewhere. It may be an old chestnut. Anyone wanting to give me a reply to this item should send me some electronic mail, as distribution of TeXhax is a trifle unreliable here. J. M. Hicks (a.k.a. Hilary), Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL On JANET: cudat@UK.AC.WARWICK.CU (in the U.K.) >From BITNET: cudat@CU.WARWICK.AC.UK >From Internet: try cudat%cu.warwick.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu (untested) On Usenet: cudat%cu.warwick.ac.uk@ukc.uucp or ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudat It helps if you spell "cudat" in lower case. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 04:53 EDT From: Paul Davis Subject: Discussion: Document Generation & Chuck Musciano Keywords: WYSIWYG, TeX (this article refers to postings on the Sun-Spots list, but is also being forwarded to TeXHax) Chuck seems to be missing out on one key aspect of the document generation process. Whilst I agree with most of his musings on WYSIWYG systems and the way they encourage a more creative attitude in more people than post-processors like TeX, he doesn't seem to care that much about the quality. I would express my position as follows: I hate TeX as a program (it's arcane), I hate its user-interface, I hate its stupid error messages, I hate the difficulty it creates when one wants to do creative graphics BUT it does the BEST typesetting of any system I have seen. What we want is a WYSIWYG system that uses TeX's algorithms for line-breaking, alignment and mathematics, offers us `batch' mode processing (its not always necessary to be WYSIWYG, and anyway, whilst *writing* a textual document I would rather use Emacs), and still retains the bitmap-manipulation features of systems like FrameMaker and Quark Express. Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16:31:38 29 Nov 88 From: CET1 Subject: TFM files for the CIRCLE fonts (query) Keywords: TFM files, CIRCLE fonts I am having some difficulty generating the TFM files for the LaTeX fonts circle10 and circlew10. The heights and depths of those characters that have non-zero ones (i.e. all the quartercircles) come out slightly different depending on the mode and magnification being used in METAFONT. (On the other hand, the widths, and therefore the checksum, don't behave like this.) This seems to be because circle.mf contains the following code thickness:=ceiling(thickness#*hppp); thickness#:=thickness/hppp; so that thickness# is not actually independant of the resolution. Subsequently, the heights and depths of the quartercircles are defined in term of it, via the macro def qbeginchar (expr c, diam_sharp) = numeric hh, dd; hh:=.5*(diam_sharp+thickness#); dd:=.5*(diam_sharp-thickness#); beginchar(c,diam_sharp,hh,dd); enddef; Even if LaTeX doesn't use the heights and depths of these characters (and from look of the implementation of \oval, it *does*, though I may be wrong), surely this is a bug? I hope I have an up-to-date circle.mf. It agrees with the one I in the Aston archives (in all the respects that matter). Chris Thompson JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx ARPA: cet1%phx.cam.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 09:29:23 29 Nov 88 From: lamport%com.dec.src@com.dec.decwrl Subject: Re: TFM files for the CIRCLE fonts (answer) Keywords: TFM files, CIRCLE fonts Someone, I think it was either Arthur Keller or Howard Trickey, rewrote the circle fonts in the new Metafont and rewrote LaTeX's circle- and oval-drawing macros. Don Knuth fixed the fonts and rewrote some of the LaTeX macros for his own use, but the corrected fonts have not, to my knowledge, ever made it outside Stanford, and I have not done anything about fixing the LaTeX macros. I would be happy to give Knuth's macros to a volunteer who will fix up the LaTeX code. Leslie Lamport --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 17:17:26 PST From: mackay (Pierre MacKay) Subject: Obtaining boldface greek symbols in math mode Keywords: fonts, greek symbols, math mode Almost everything you need in boldface is potentially available in LaTeX. Cmmib? and cmbsy? are declared, but commented out in lfonts.tex. If you need them, look through lfonts.tex to see how they are called for in normal LaTeX usage, uncomment all the relevant lines (not just the ones that mention the fonts initially) and remake lplain.fmt. Then you will have to run METAFONT to provide the fonts to your printer cmmf '\mode=localfont; \mag=magstep(?.?);' input cmmib10 for example. At least in environments where it is possible to run BIG versions of TeX, it is possible that more should be done to open up the use of all the fonts that have been commented out of lfonts.tex. But if they become accessible, they will undoubtedly be used, and that means a larger library of rastered font files. Email: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay Smail: Northwest Computer Support Center TUG Site Coordinator for Lewis Hall, Mail Stop DW10 Unix-flavored TeX University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-6259 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 13:50 N From: PAUL BARTHOLDI Subject: Planetary symbols for metafont Keywords: metafont, planetary symbols. i need to print the planetary symbols with latex (like a circle with a '+' underneath for venus, or a '+' above for the earth etc). some could be done by superposing the elentary symbols, but not for jupiter or saturn. did any body else already designed these symbols with metafont and could pass it to me, or, if not, is any body interested to get the fonts when available ? | paul bartholdi bartho@cgeuge54.bitnet | observatoire de geneve bartho@obs.unige.ch | ch-1290 sauverny - switzerland ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 18:14:10 EST From: Peter Jones Subject: Polish Character Set in METAFONT Keywords: METAFONT, Polish characters Someone at McGill has asked me if there is such a thing as a Polish character set in METAFONT. If you know of one, please send a reply to MAINT@UQAM. My mailing address is: Peter Jones UQAM Computing Center Box 88888, Montreal Quebec Canada H3C 3P8 (514)-282-3542 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 9:32:43 GMT From: mcvax!lexis.hi.is!jorgen@uunet.UU.NET Subject: Info on Aps-5 & Aps-6 drivers wanted Keywords: dviware, Aps-5, Aps-6 Could somone knowledgeable please inform me of the availability of drivers for Autologic Aps-5 & Aps-6. Is there any chance that such a driver is available in the public domain? Jorgen Pind Tel. 354-1-694435 Institute of Lexicography Internet: jorgen@lexis.hi.is University of Iceland UUCP: ..!mcvax!hafro!rhi!lexis!jorgen Reykjavik 101 Iceland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 13:59 N From: PAUL BARTHOLDI Subject: Needed: encapsulated ps Keyword: dvi2ps, encapsulated postscript. i need encapsulated postscript files produced from tex (latex), that is postscript files that can be used (relocated) inside another ps file. is there any dvi driver that could be used or easily modified for that ? | paul bartholdi bartho@cgeuge54.bitnet | observatoire de geneve bartho@obs.unige.ch | ch-1290 sauverny - switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 13:19 From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-E at UCL) Subject: The new book Concrete Mathematics Keywords: fonts, TeX \documentstyle{article} \title{Font News} \author{Dominik Wujastyk} \date{January 16, 1989} \begin{document} \maketitle \section{Concrete Roman and Italic} The new book {\em Concrete Mathematics\/} by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik\footnote{Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1989.} is naturally typeset using \TeX, and also uses new typefaces. The maths in set in AMS Euler, a typeface designed by Hermann Zapf for the AMS. The text is set in special versions of Knuth's CM family roman and italic, with weights designed to blend with AMS Euler. This has been named Concrete Roman and Italic. Zapf's design for AMS Euler is intended to suggest the look of mathematics as written on blackboards. This is how maths has chiefly been written by generations of maths teachers and researchers and is the medium in which most mathematics has always been seen by most mathematicians. The face is distinctly calligraphic, as opposed to italic, and in my view achieves the effect it seeks. But it faces the same difficulty as any striking and original new type design: it initially distracts the reader from the underlying text. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who reads {\em Concrete Mathematics\/} right through how the typefaces fare after protracted reading. The Concrete roman face appears to have features in common with the CM typewriter font, although at the time of writing I have not seen the parameter files. It is a face somewhat in the genre of Bigelow's Lucida or Carter's Bitstream Charter, though different from these, of course. \section{Lucida} In December 1988 Chuck Bigelow informed me that: \begin{quotation} Atari is soon (January 1989) bundling Lucida text fonts with its PostScript clone upgrade for its laser printer, the SLM 804. The Lucida fonts include the \TeX\ text character set. The Lucida math fonts will also be available for Atari systems, but from the Imagen Corp., later in 1989. Also, QMS-Imagen are bundling Lucida fonts in the same character set with a software PostScript clone "UltraScript PC" for IBM PC's and various printers. The Lucida \TeX\ math fonts will also be available from Imagen for that system. \end{quotation} \end{document} Dominik Wujastyk, | Janet: wujastyk@uk.ac.ucl.euclid Wellcome Institute for | Bitnet/Earn/Ean/Uucp: wujastyk@euclid.ucl.ac.uk the History of Medicine, | Internet/Arpa/Csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu 183 Euston Road, | London NW1 2BP, England. | Phone: London 387-4477 ext.3013 Character code reference: Upper case letters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Lower case letters: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Digits: 0123456789 Square, curly, angle braces, parentheses: [] {} <> () Backslash, slash, vertical bar: \ / | Punctuation: . ? ! , : ; Underscore, hyphen, equals sign: _ - = Quotes--right left double: ' ` " "at", "number" "dollar", "percent", "and": @ # $ % & "hat", "star", "plus", "tilde": ^ * + ~ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% University of Washington %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU %%% SUBSCRIBE TEXHAX % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEXHAX %%% %%% All others: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu %%% Please be sure you send a valid internet address!! %%% in the form name@domain or name%routing@domain %%% and use the style of the Bitnet one-line message, so that %%% we can find your subscription request easily. %%% %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu %%% %%% Back issues available for FTPing as: %%% machine: directory: filename: %%% JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU TeXhax/TeXhaxyy.nn %%% yy = last two digits of current year %%% nn = issue number %%% %%% For further information about TeX Users Group services and publications %%% contact Karen at KLB@SEED.AMS.COM or write to TUG at %%% TeX Users Group %%% P.O. 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