TeXhax Digest Monday, April 10, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 36 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: Needed: VorTeX (no ftp) Re: 1200 dpi PostScript Linotype Re: Hebrew fonts How do you overwrite the main roman font in LaTeX Needed: driver for Xerox 3700 Needed: driver for IBM 4090 0r 9790 (VM/CMS) Printing DVI's using DVI3820 on VM/CMS Update on the TeX archive server Where do I find Crudetype version 2 Mail problems; cannot reach fifth-level node on edu net Showing labels in the margin using LaTeX Decimal alignment in LaTeX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 Apr 89 14:04 +0200 From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Subject: Needed: VorTeX (no ftp) Keywords: VorTeX Do anybody know where (how) to obtain VorTeX (no ftp)? Could somebody comment on how good it is, especially if it is suitable for people used to Macintosh style editing (WYSIWYG). Thanks in advance! Tarjei T. Jensen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11-APR-1989 17:13:36.44 From: "Tony Scandora 312-972-7541" Subject: Re: 1200 dpi PostScript Linotype Keywords: dviware, fonts, METAFONT Our group of TeX/LaTeX users has been using 300 dpi laser printers for a long time. Now we want to see important stuff printed on our 1200 dpi Linotype typesetter than speaks only PostScript, as far as we know. I can think of four ways to do it: Compute the PK fonts for that magnification and use DVIALW. I suspect that computing the fonts may take a while and that PostScript files that contain 1200 dpi fonts may be pretty hefty. Has anyone done it? How bad is it? Convert the METAFONT descriptions of the TeX/LaTeX fonts to scalable PostScript fonts and download them. Is that possible? Has anyone done it? Come up with the font metrics for the standard PostScript fonts and use them. This would probably require a PostScript plain.tex and lplain.tex that would make DVI files that can only be printed on PostScript printers and would not look like documents that use the TeX fonts. I've heard rumors that this has been done. Would anyone care to substantiate same? Convince Adobe to add the TeX/LaTeX fonts to the standard PostScript fonts. I won't hold my breath for that one. Any comments or suggestions? Kindly reply to TeXHaX or direct to me, Tony Scandora, Argonne National Laboratory, 312-972-7541 B35048@ANLCMT.BITnet ANLHEP::ANLCMT::B35048 (HEPnet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1989 08:50:30 GVA From: Jacques Goldberg Subject: Re: Hebrew fonts Keywords: fonts, Hebrew Two persons asked for Hebrew fonts in issue 89-21. As both display Arpanet address, they need nothing else than sending a piece of mail to LISTSERV@TAUNIVM on BITNET. The SUBJECT field is ignored and the contents of the message ought to be GET IVRITEX PACKAGE As far as I know Arpanet users should send their mail as follows: listserv%taunivm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu BUT it MAY be that not all Arpanet sites can reach Bitnet thru the C.U.N.Y. gateway. You might want to ask your local PostMaster about the right syntax. IVRITEX PACKAGE is a collection of SOURCE files only (MF for the fonts, TEX for macros, C for a preprocessor). Jacques ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Apr 89 14:22 EST From: MANIERE@dsn.sdr.slb.com Subject: How do you overwrite the main roman font in LaTeX Keywords: fonts, LaTeX What is the way to overwrite the main roman font that is used in laTeX? I would like to use sans serifs as the main font and keep the size and bold function of latex. ( the command \Large \bf should give me a bold Large sans serif and not a roman bold Large) Jerome Maniere. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 09:57:44 EDT From: John Atkinson Subject: Needed: driver for Xerox 3700 Keywords: Dviware, Xerox 3700 We will probably be acquiring a Xerox 3700 printer very soon, and I would like to support TeX on our VM machine that will be using it. Is there a driver available somewhere (anonymous ftp perhaps) for this? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1989 13:45 EDT From: Brian Holmes Subject: Needed: driver for IBM 4090 0r 9790 (VM/CMS) Keywords: dviware, IBM 4090, 9790 I'm trying to locate a device driver for an IBM 4090 or 9790 with graphics hardware option that will run under VM/CMS. I'm also looking for a DVI -> Postscript running under VM/CMS. Does anyone know if any of the above exists, and where I can order it from? ******************************************************************* * Brian Holmes \ / ___ * * Wayne State University \/\/su | | * * Detroit Michigan ____| |____ * * | | | | * * BITNET : BHOLMES@WAYNEST1 | | | | * * INTERNET : Brian_Holmes@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU | | | | * * UUCP : {UMIX|ITIVAX}!WAYNE-MTS!BRIAN_HOLMES ============= * ******************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1989 22:32 EDT From: Brian Holmes Subject: Printing DVI's using DVI3820 on VM/CMS Keywords: dviware, VM/CMS I've been trying to print some DVI's which were uploaded to VM/CMS using KERMIT in BINARY mode, using DVI3820. I've been able to d/l DVI's and view them on a PC, but DVI3820 complains that the DVI file is not of the correct format. Is there some secret to this? Has anyone else had success in doing this? Brian! ******************************************************************* * Brian Holmes \ / ___ * * Wayne State University \/\/su | | * * Detroit Michigan ____| |____ * * | | | | * * BITNET : BHOLMES@WAYNEST1 | | | | * * INTERNET : Brian_Holmes@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU | | | | * * UUCP : {UMIX|ITIVAX}!WAYNE-MTS!BRIAN_HOLMES ============= * ******************************************************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 09 Apr 89 00:38:55 -0400 From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Subject: Update on the TeX archive server Keywords: TeX, archives The archive server here at Clarkson has undergone a lot of changes in the past few months. It is finally stable but still changing. Briefly, most of the files that are stored at Score are now at Clarkson and updated very often. Also everything that was in the latex-style depository has been classified into more appropriate groups. Below is a list of all of the groups and a brief description of each. amstex The AMSTeX macros that are at score amstex-style contributed style files for AMSTeX bibtex The .web, documentation and styles from Leslie Lamport that are at score bibtex-style contributed style files for BibTeX version 0.99 bibtex-style-0.98 contributed style files for BibTeX version 0.98 cm-fonts The .mf sources for the cm fonts that are at score lamport style files and .mf files by Leslie Lamport that are at score latex-style contributed style files for LaTeX tex-doc manuals and documentation on TeX and MF that are at score tex-fonts contributed mf fonts tex-inputs the .tex files needed to build TeX that are at score tex-programs contributed useful program for TeX tex-sources The .web files for TeX that are at score tex-style contributed style files for TeX tex-test .web files to test TeX that are at score texhax Collection of TeXhax's by Pierre MacKay (Malcolm Brown) texmag Collection of TeXMaG's by Don Hosek tugboat files from TugBoat that are at score uktex Collection of UKTeX's by Peter Abbott Instead of listing all of the files that are being stored I encourage you to get an Index as it changes frequently and the Index of Indexes itself changes often enough. There are 2 ways to get files electronically: 1) BY ANONYMOUS FTP An example ftp session is shown below. Users should realize that ftp syntax varies from host to host. Your syntax may be different. The syntax presented here is that of Unix ftp. Comments are in parentheses. To retrieve something from something other than latex-style simply substitute the appropriate group. % ftp sun.soe.clarkson.edu (a.k.a. 128.153.12.2) ... (general blurb) user: anonymous password: ftp> cd pub/latex-style (where the files are) ftp> ls (to see what is there) ... (lots of output) ftp> get Index ... (more blurb) ftp> quit 2) BY MAIL To retrieve files or help documentation send mail to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu with the body of the mail message containing the command help or index or send. The send command must be followed by latex-style (or the appropriate group) and then the files you want. Users who are not in the uucp maps database are strongly encourage to include a path command followed by a path from clarkson to you. If you don't include a path command, your mail may not get to you and will definitely be delayed as I will have to mail it by hand. You should realize that Clarkson does not have a uucp connection, therefore you must send it to an internet or bitnet host that does have a uucp connection. Therefor something like uunet!foo!bar is guaranteed to bounce but foo!bar@uunet.uu.net should work. Basically if your address is not in the domain format you must find a way to turn it into one. There is one limitation that you must be aware of, the archive-server will not send files more than 100k. That means that you can not request large files such as tex.web and that if you request a large number of files in one message it may be rejected because the sum is greater than 100k. For example, user@host.UUCP should send: To: archive-server@clarkson.edu Subject: path user@host.UUCP send latex-style Readme Index send latex-style resume.sty --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 09:42 EDT From: "Thomas N. Beecher" Subject: Where do I find Crudetype version 2 Keywords: crudetype In TeXhax V89i18 of 1 Mar 89, Mark Damerell () announced the availability of Crudetype version 2 and said that it might be available at Washington (cs.washington.edu, I assume). I've not been able to find it there or elsewhere on the net. I would appreciate any pointers as to where I can get a copy of the program and the Unix change files (anonymous ftp). Thanks, --Tom Beecher %%% Moderators' note: Crudetype uses pascal compilation, and has %%% run into an imcompatibility between the Berkeley BSD pascal %%% used on all systems available to us here and the one used %%% by RMD. Since it has other compilations as well it will %%% be put on the ftp/tex directory with no promises of any sort. %%% If someone wishes to undertake a web2c change file for the %%% non-pascal among us, it would be very much appreciated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 89 15:37:04 EDT From: gpg@arbortext.com Subject: Replies to \fontdimen question Keywords: \fontdimen, TeX Thanks for enlightenment to Don Hosek, whose reply was also sent to TeXhax, and to Don Knuth, who sent me the following note: From DEK@SAIL.Stanford.EDU Mon Apr 3 23:10:04 1989 Date: 03 Apr 89 2003 PDT From: Don Knuth Subject: \fontdimens (see the symbolic code in Volume E, which is a bit more meaningful than the numeric data) The spacing in these fonts is designed under the assumption that 7pt type is used for subscripts of 10pt, 6pt for subscripts of 9pt, and 5pt for subscripts of 7, 6, and 5 pt. The amounts were based on measurements of industrial practice from Monotype days. Other \fontdimen values would be appropriate for other font family groupings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 APR 89 11:18:49 BST From: TEX%rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK Subject: Mail problems; cannot reach fifth-level node on edu net Kewyords: mail problems TeXhax V89 #21 included a query from a Sankara Rao, whose e-mail address appeared as: SYSTEM@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu I attempted to reply to this address directly (at the same time sending a copy of my reply to TeXhax, which presumably will be published in due course). I specified the addressee as: SYSTEM%power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu@uk.ac.ucl.cc.nss for access to Satnet from the UK, but the mail was bounced at the UK gateway; presumably it didn't like the look of five-level domain nesting. After the mail was bounced, I attempted to send my reply to: SYSTEM%power%eee.ndsu.nodak.edu@uk.ac.ucl.cc.nss This time the mail has been bounced at sri-????.arpa, with the reason ``node power not known''. Before I try the next possible combination (SYSTEM%power.eee%ndsu.nodak.edu), can anybody tell me what I SHOULD have written, and could all contributors PLEASE ensure that their e-mail addresses are published CORRECTLY. Brian HAMILTON KELLY | JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs | | BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ac.uk | | INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk | | Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military | | College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. | | Phone: Swindon (0793) 785252 (UK), +44-793-785252 (International) | P.S. BITNET Users: Please note that our site has had difficulty in receiving mail directly from the UK BITNET gateway. If you suspect that your messages aren't getting through, you could try: tex%rmcs%uk.ac.cranfield.cdvc@ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 12 Apr 1989 12:43:24 EST From: carreras@LEES.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Ricardo.Carreras@LEES.MIT.EDU Subject: Showing labels in the margin using LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, margin, label I've been trying unsuccesfully to change the following macros so that labels used for cross-referenecs are printed in the margin. As the macro works now the label is printed under a caption or next to an equation depending on where the \label{} command is called. The part of the macro that needs to be changed is "\mbox{\tt[#1]}" at the end of the \def\label#1. I would appreciate it if anyone came up with a solution to this....Thanx Ric Carreras carreras@lees.mit.edu % showlabels.sty % gil@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Gil Neiger) % % Change \label, \ref, and \pageref to show labels in line % \def\ref#1{\@ifundefined{r@#1}{\mbox{\tt#1?}\@warning {Reference `#1' on page \thepage \space undefined}}{\edef\@tempa{\@nameuse{r@#1}}\expandafter \@car\@tempa \@nil\null}} \def\pageref#1{\@ifundefined{r@#1}{\mbox{\tt#1?}\@warning {Reference `#1' on page \thepage \space undefined}}{\edef\@tempa{\@nameuse{r@#1}}\expandafter \@cdr\@tempa\@nil\null}} \def\label#1{\@bsphack\if@filesw {\let\thepage\relax \xdef\@gtempa{\write\@auxout{\string \newlabel{#1}{{\@currentlabel}{\thepage}}}}}\@gtempa \if@nobreak \ifvmode\nobreak\fi\fi\fi\@esphack \mbox{\tt[#1]}} %change needed here, I suspect... \def\@citex[#1]#2{\if@filesw\immediate\write\@auxout{\string\citation{#2}}\fi \def\@citea{}\@cite{\@for\@citeb:=#2\do {\@citea\def\@citea{,}\@ifundefined {b@\@citeb}{\mbox{\tt\@citeb?}\@warning {Citation `\@citeb' on page \thepage \space undefined}}% \hbox{\csname b@\@citeb\endcsname}}}{#1}} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 14:32 From: Wujastyk Subject: Decimal alignment in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, decimals sdoyle@fed.frb.gov asked recently about LaTeX tables with columns of figures aligned on the decimal point. It can easily be done using the @{} command as one of the column formatting arguments in a tabular environment. In plain English, you put the number up to the decimal point in one column, and the number after the decimal point in the next column; then you typeset the two columns with zero space between them. It is a bit clumsy putting all the ampersands in, but a good editor can help. Here is an example of a table that I did for a book recently: it looks ghastly because I have stripped out the spaces and broken lines to get it within the 80 column requirement of the mailers. Actually, it was quite easy to type; I laid it all out visually. If you want to *see* what is happening, you will have to replace "&" with " & ", and " ." with ".", then go in and align some of the ampersands by eye. The table is wide: I printed it landscape on A4. Dominik 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, | or: wujastyk%euclid@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk London NW1 2BP, England. | Phone: London 387-4477 ext.3013 The table: % \documentstyle{article} \addtolength{\topmargin}{-50pt} \addtolength{\textwidth}{10cm} \addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-50pt} \newcommand{\twoc}[1]{\multicolumn{2}{l}{\small #1}} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{table}[htbp] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}lr@{}l} \hline &&&&&\twoc{OLIVE}&&&&&&&\twoc{ORAN-}&\twoc{COLO-}&&&\twoc{WINES\&}&&\\ &\twoc{WHEAT}&\twoc{MAIZE}&\twoc{OIL}&\twoc{SESAME}&\twoc{SOAP}&\twoc{WOOL}& \twoc{GES}&\twoc{CYNTH}&\twoc{HIDES}&\twoc{SPIRITS}&\twoc{HANDI-}\\ &\twoc{Quarters}&\twoc{Quarters}&\twoc{Lbs.}&\twoc{Tons}&\twoc{Tons}& \twoc{Lbs.}&\twoc{Boxes}&\twoc{Lbs.}&\twoc{Lbs.}&\twoc{Kilos}&\twoc{CRAFTS}\\ \hline &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&\\ 1885&2&.25&7&.05&2021&.25&2&.40&0&.43&165&.--&106&.--&27&.50&44&.--&--&&--&\\ 1886&1&.90&9&.--&--&&3&.10&0&.28&209&.--&98&.--&60&.50&36&.--&--&&--&\\ 1887&12&.50&24&.--&605&.--&2&.12&1&.20&247&.50&180&.--&27&.50&24&.--&--&&--&\\ 1888&6&.25&21&.20&1512&.50&1&.87&1&.50&160&.--&221&.--&60&.--&18&.--&--&&--&\\ 1889&14&.13&22&.75&2052&.60&4&.32&1&.05&264&.--&20&.50&48&.40&--&&--&&--&\\ 1890&20&.80&17&.47&5817&.25&7&.26&1&.41&221&.75&200&.--&49&.50&564&.50&--&&--&\\ 1891&2&.70&18&.32&1529&.--&1&.89&4&.25&422&.40&270&.--&93&.40&462&.--&--&&--&\\ 1892&--&&0&.69&11&.--&5&.--&1&.80&380&.--&248&.--&88&.70&372&.--&--&&--&\\ 1893&--&&3&.24&1159&.20&4&.--&3&.90&239&.20&278&.--&42&.--&248&.--&--&&--&\\ 1894&--&&2&.35&643&.05&4&.12&4&.--&33&.--&280&.--&16&.50&90&.--&--&&--&\\ 1895&4&.97&4&.72&286&.--&3&.69&4&.44&240&.77&260&.--&18&.66&280&.--&--&&--&\\ 1896&1&.09&20&.85&414&.44&4&.60&4&.91&324&.--&242&.--&33&.33&488&.89&--&&--&\\ 1897&--&&8&.75&250&.--&3&.12&3&.15&275&.--&290&.--&44&.--&308&.--&--&&--&\\ 1898&10&.--&3&.--&330&.--&2&.--&2&.75&264&.--&330&.--&42&.50&254&.--&--&&--&\\ 1899&--&&3&.--&81&.25&1&.50&5&.25&68&.75&310&.--&38&.55&555&.50&366&.--&--&\\ 1900&--&&3&.75&598&.--&2&.30&1&.63&83&.--&251&.07&45&.50&120&.--&1365&.--&--&\\ 1901&--&&0&.12&96&.--&1&.71&2&.21&188&.--&361&.45&34&.70&279&.--&2443&.--&--&\\ 1902&--&&1&.30&--&&6&.40&0&.74&130&.--&304&.09&24&.40&125&.58&1202&.79&2&.20\\ 1903&--&&--&&414&.50&2&.16&2&.81&320&.50&447&.67&71&.16&128&.60&2805&.79&0&.58\\ 1904&--&&--&&80&.90&1&.67&2&.64&349&.--&467&.50&57&.--&267&.50&3512&.58&0&.65\\ 1905&7&.66&--&&--&&0&.98&2&.27&275&.75&456&.15&52&.50&506&.60&3708&.40&0&.98\\ \hline &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&\\ Total&84&.25&171&.56&17901&.94&66&.21&52&.62&4860&.62&5621&.43&976&.30&5172&.17 &15403&.56&4&.41\\ \hline \end{tabular} \vspace*{0.50cm} {\small TABLE I} \vspace{0.25cm} Principal Exports of Jaffa, 1885--1905\\ {\em Source\/}: Foreign Office Annual Series for the respective years\\ (quantities expressed in thousands) \end{center} \end{table} \end{document} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 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@xxx %%% where xxx is the nearest geographical site in the %%% tree shown below %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% Here is the BITNET re-distribution tree as shown in a recent %%% REVIEW (The geography is guessed at from the subscription list) %%% %%% CLVM TAMVM1 FINHUTC %%% | | (Finland, UK, Scand, CERN) %%% | | | %%% TeXhax ----> UWAVM ----- MARIST ----- EB0UB011 ----- BNANDP11 %%% | (France,Italy,Spain) (Belgium) %%% | | %%% UBVM HEARN --- DEARN %%% (Netherlands) (Germany) %%% %%% Internet: 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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