Subject: TeXhax Digest V89 #62 From: TeXhax Digest Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List:; Reply-To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu TeXhax Digest Wednesday, June 28, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 62 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: TeX Users Group Annual Meeting of German TeX Users Page referencing in Plain TeX Boxed example environment Needed: bul style Lowercase script and blackboard fonts TeX printer fonts How to reach the Aston server from BITNET? Re: BibTeX .bst cross reference generator LaTeX Problem with Enumerate within Flushleft Needed: previewer for plain old terminals Needed: CMS Tektronix previewer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu 22 Jun 89 07:41:37-EST From: bbeeton Subject: TeX Users Group Keywords: TeX, general, AMS I keep seeing references to TUG that connect it to the American Math Society (AMS). While AMS was instrumental in the founding of TUG, and for many years TUG rented office space in the AMS headquarters building, there has been no official connection between the two organizations for quite a few years now. The AMS still holds the trademark to TeX, because Knuth assigned it to AMS; similarly, Knuth assigned the copyrights to the TeXbook and the Metafontbook to the AMS (the other volumes of Computers & Typesetting are copyright by Addison-Wesley, Knuth's publisher of long standing). TUG is the publisher of record of TUGboat, the TeXniques series (which includes the PiCTeX manual), and various other items. I am an employee of the AMS, not of TUG. However, TUGboat is entirely independent of AMS in terms of editorial control, although some AMS facilities are used for production (a service for which TUG pays standard rates), and my part in the process is done, as much as possible, on my own time. While a number of AMS employees and members are active in TUG, the two organizations remain quite separate, and I would like to see the confusion ended. -- Barbara Beeton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 19 Jun 89 10:09 GMT From: Slaby Subject: Annual Meeting of German TeX Users Keywords: TeX, meeting, general %============================================================================= First Announcement and Call for Papers 8th Annual Meeting of German TeX Users October 11--13, 1989, Eichstaett, FRG %============================================================================= This year's Annual Meeting of German TeX Users will take place at the Catholic University of Eichstaett from Wednesday, October 11, to Friday, October 13, 1989. The conference will be organized by the Computing Center of the Catholic University of Eichstaett and the recently founded German TeX Users Group DANTE e.V. Starting with the general meeting of DANTE on Wednesday afternoon, several tutorials on TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont will be organized on Thursday; finally, papers and discussion groups on all TeX-related problems will be scheduled on Thursday and Friday. If you are interested in participating in this conference and/or if you plan to present a paper, please send the attached pre-registration form to the address given below. Further questions or suggestions for this meeting should be directed to Joachim Lammarsch (rz92@dhdurz1.bitnet), the 1. Chairman of DANTE, or to Dr. Wolfgang A. Slaby (slaby@urz.ku-eichstaett.dbp.de) Please give copies of this form to your colleagues, as the mailing list is incomplete. %============================================================================= 8. Annual Meeting of German TeX Users Pre-Registration Form %============================================================================= Name _______________________________________________________________________ Affiliation ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Telephone __________________________________________________________________ E-mail _____________________________________________________________________ Please tick where appropriate: _ |_| I plan to participate in the 8. Annual Meeting of German TeX Users _ |_| I should like to present a paper; preliminary title: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ (abstract of ca. 1 page is enclosed) _ |_| I am interested in discussion groups on: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _ |_| I intend to participate in the exhibition with these products: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ (exhibition area required: ..... qm) Send to: Dr. Wolfgang A. Slaby Catholic University Eichstaett Computing Center Ostenstr. 24 D-8078 Eichstaett, F.R. Germany Telephone: (08421) 20-214 e-mail: slaby@urz.ku-eichstaett.dbp.de (DFN X.400) %============================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 11:59:02 EDT From: caia@EAGLE.MIT.EDU Subject: Page referencing in Plain TeX Keywords: TeX I'm a novice TeX user... Is there a way to automatically reference a page in Plain TeX. For example I'd like to say "see page x for more info." and have x be filled in automatically. Caia Grisar MIT Information Services ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 21:15:05 -0500 From: Scott W. Fischer Subject: Boxed example environment Keywords: TeX, environment, examplebox Hello- I'm trying to define an EXAMPLEBOX environment. I would like to use it in either one of the following two ways. \examplebox{box caption}{contents of box, pictures, lists, unlimited possibilities} or \begin{examplebox}[box caption] contents of box pictures lists etc \end{examplebox} The output I would like would be an outlined box with arbitrary contents with either the caption left justified on the first line of the box, or centered below (and outside) the box. Eventually I would like to have the examples automatically numbered, but that is a separate problem. Using example 21.3 of The TeXbook, I can get what I want if I assign the contents of the box to a box register and then use the first style of calling. If, however, I just place the contents of the box, rather than the register name, in the second pair of {} I get errors for having too many "}"s. I haven't been able to even come close with defining a boxed in environment. Any help, suggestions, similar style fragments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. /\ /\ || Scott Fischer (612) 625-0876 || ADA, C, Pascal, Fortran //\\ .. //\\ || 4-192 EE/CS, 200 Union St. SE || phones, cabling, network ///\(( ))/\\\ || Minneapolis, MN 55455 || diag, documentation -- / < `' > \ || EM: fischer@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu || Slave labor does it all. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 13:06:25 EDT From: jdavies@bayou.mc.duke.edu (NBSR Systems Manager) Subject: Needed: bul style Keywords: AMS Howdy, I've been searching for the "bul" style for AMStex. This style is mentioned on page 20 of "Joy of Tex", but I have not been able to locate it in any of the usual archives. It's suppose to be the "accepted" style for the "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society". Does anyone there know anything about it? Where I might get a copy of it? Does AMS have an e-mail address? etc... ANY information on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, John Davies --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 13:17:04 EDT From: Alan Rosselet Subject: Lowercase script and blackboard fonts Keywords: fonts I am looking for lowercase versions of the AMS script and blackboard bold fonts; do they exist? A. Rosselet Univ. of Toronto rosselet@lake.scar.utoronto.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Jun 89 14:43 GMT From: GROTHMANN Subject: TeX printer fonts Keywords: fonts, TeX dear tug, i'm looking for a reference on tex's printer fonts. where do i get information on the internal structure of the font files? I would like to write a program which could generate characters, without making use of METAFONT. thanks a lot for your help, yours R. Grothmann, Ostenstr. 18, D-8087 Eichstaett, W-Germany. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 19-Jun-89 at 18:09 MEZ From: Eckart Meyer Subject: How to reach the Aston server from BITNET? Keywords: BITNET, Aston server >..... >The modified macro files, and documentation, can be found on the >Clarkson server, or the Aston server. You'll need TFMs for the Adobe >fonts (a set is on Aston, there are others around), and a >DVI->PostScript converter that can deal with Adobe fonts (again, one >..... I know about the clarkson server, but what is the Aston server and how can I reach it from BITNET? Eckart Eckart Meyer Address: Schleinitzstr. 23 Inst. f. Nachrichtentechnik 3300 Braunschweig Technical University of Braunschweig West Germany Phone: +49 531 391 2454 BITNET: I7100501@DBSTU1 Internet: I7100501%DBSTU1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 17:23:24 EDT From: ras@needle1.bellcore.com (Raymond A. Schnitzler) Reply-To: schnitz@bellcore.bellcore.com Subject: Re: BibTeX .bst cross reference generator Keywords: BibTeX I have modified Rick Zaccone's handy create.xref nawk script to work with old-style awk. It is now a full shell script which calls tr, sort, and awk (twice), though I am sure that there are cleaner ways to do this. It seems to work, but has not been extensively tested. Ray Schnitzler Bellcore (Bell Communications Research) Internet: schnitz@bellcore.bellcore.com Telephone (work) (201) 758-2320 %-----------remove anything before this line---------- #!/bin/sh # This shell script will generate a cross reference listing of all of # the functions in a BibTeX style file (.bst file). I derived it from # Rick Zaccone's new awk (nawk) script. It's real handy if you intend # to do any BibTeX style hacking. It uses tr, sort, and old awk. # Please send me any comments or bug fixes, as well as any blame, or # style complaints. # # Ray Schnitzler # schnitz@bellcore.bellcore.com # # Credit for the idea and any other nice things go to: # # Rick Zaccone # zaccone@bknlvms.bitnet # zaccone@rigel.bucknell.edu # This awk script will create a list of functions and the line numbers # on which they are used (for bibtex .bst files). # If this file is named create.xref and is executable then # to run: create.xref file.bst > xref # Note that the first number for each entry is where the function is # defined. This script creates and destroys a temporary file called # "create.xref.tmp". # This is version 3.0.1, 6/20/89. R.A. Schnitzler, # schnitz@bellcore.bellcore.com # based on version 3.0, 5/5/89. Rick Zaccone # zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu # zaccone@bknlvms.bitnet tr "'{}" " " < $1 | awk ' BEGIN { # braces, spaces and tabs are field separators. # FS = "[\{\} \t]+" } { # print $1; if ( $1 == "FUNCTION" ) { idx[$2] = $2 ": " NR; # print $1 "*" $2 "+" idx[$2] "(" NR ")" > "cre"; } else { for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) { if (index($i,"%")) break # ignore comments else if (idx[$i] != "") { idx[$i] = idx[$i] " " NR ; # print $i "+" idx[$i] "(" NR ")" > "cre" ; } ; } } } END { # Print results. Wrap lines longer than 80 bytes. for (name in idx) if (idx[name] != "") { print idx[name] > "create.xref.tmp" ; } } ' #echo "pass 1 complete" sort create.xref.tmp | awk ' { if (length($0) < 80) print else{ temp = "" ; line = "" ; for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++){ temp = temp $i " " ; if (length(temp) >= 80){ print line ; temp = " " $i " " ; } line = temp ; } print line ; } }' rm create.xref.tmp exit 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 16:25:09 CST From: "Charles H. Franklin" Subject: LaTeX Problem with Enumerate within Flushleft Keywords: LaTeX, environment, flushleft I've encountered a strange problem using enumerate within a flushleft environment. The letter (TeX source below) comes out formated as Dear Miss. Heavyhand, There are some important changes to note which I would like to point out for special attention. These are all marked on the galleys. 1. The title should be ... 2. There are several errors in the tables ... If you think we are wrong ... With deepest appreciation, {\etc} Why are the numbers for the enumerated list printed in the left margin instead of at the left edge of the text area? The real letter, with the labels sticking out in the margin, is not likely to impress my editor and convince her to restore my perfect prose! The input TeX file, should you wish to check it is: %=========================Begin Example================================= \documentstyle[11pt]{letter} \address{} \signature{Charles H. Franklin} \begin{document} \begin{letter}{Miss. Edwina Heavyhand, Assistant Editor \\ {\em American Review of Everything} \\ Moo State University Press \\ East Lansing, MI 48210} \opening{Dear Miss. Heavyhand,} \begin{flushleft} There are some important changes to note, which I would like to point out for special attention. These are all marked on the galleys. \begin{enumerate} \item The title should be {\sf A Review of Everything, with Notes on Anything}. Your revised title, {\sf Much Ado about Nothing} seems to us to miss the substance of the article. \item There are several errors in the tables, some of them consequential. We've fixed the ones which fail to support our thesis. \end{enumerate} If you think we are wrong on some of these points, please give us a call. Frankly, we can't imagine that, but then we couldn't imagine that you would butcher our article in the first place. With deepest appreciation, \end{flushleft} \closing{Best wishes,} \end{letter} \end{document} \bye %=========================End Example=================================== Thanks, Charles Franklin Washington University Bitnet: C38871CF@WUVMD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 09:35:44 -0400 From: lang@PRC.Unisys.COM Subject: Needed: previewer for plain old terminals Keywords: previewer Does anyone know of a TeX/LaTeX "previewer" for plain old dumb terminals that would work like nroff? (I realize this wouldn't really be a previewer, but I assume the intent of the request is clear.) I know of detex, but that doesn't really do what I'm after. Many thanks. Francois-Michel Lang Paoli Research Center, Unisys Corporation lang@prc.unisys.com (215) 648-7256 Dept of Comp & Info Science, U of PA lang@cis.upenn.edu (215) 898-9511 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 09:24:16 BST From: ZLSIIAL%cms.manchester-computing-centre.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK Subject: Needed: CMS Tektronix previewer Keywords: previewer, CMS, Tektronix We are using TeX 2.94 on a CMS system. Our graphics terminals are mostly PC's running Tektronix 4010 emulators and connected to the CMS system through a 7171. Does anyone have a TeX previewer which works in such a setup? Please respond to YMUMAL%UMIST.CN.PA@UKACRL or YMUMAL@PA.CN.UMIST.AC.UK A. V. 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