Subject: TeXhax Digest V89 #86 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 Friday, September 28, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 86 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: Abbreviation files for tib Errata and Files from Wayne Sewell's WEB book now available RE: DVI files to Mac Re: hyphenation TeX and Braille? Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #81 (chapters beginning on new pages) Re: Apparent bug in art11.sty and art12.sty \big delimiters in LaTeX 12pt Environment containing verbatim Extraneous spacing before and after environments 1000dpi laser printer dvips 4.0 DVI to Postscript (again....) PostScript problems "True" APA bib-style ? Scripts other than the roman script Where to find an apl-font ... ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 13:45 N From: Subject: Abbreviation files for tib Keywords: TiB, abbreviation files Tib is a bibliographic preprocessor for (La)TeX, written by J. C. Alexander of the University of Maryland, and looks a lot like "refer". We have been using tib for some time now, and are quite satisfied with it. But, there's always room for improvement. We have heard that there are some files around with abbreviations of names of magazines for tib. This could save us a lot of typing work and frustration (try to type "Artificial Intelligence" 20 times without making a mistake...). I have not been able to find anything on tib on the file-servers I know of. Does anyone know where these files can be obtained? Thanks in advance!! Dick van Soest EARN/BITNET: VANSOEST@HENUT5.bitnet Dept. of Computer Science EUNET: hp4nl!utrcu1!utis03!vansoest University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue 12 Sep 89 16:37:08-MDT From: "Nelson H.F. Beebe" Subject: Errata and Files from Wayne Sewell's WEB book now available Keywords: WEB, errata, files The anonymous-ftp accessible directory aps: on science.utah.edu contains errata and files from Wayne Sewell's new WEB book, @Book{Sewell:web, author = "E. Wayne Sewell", title = "Weaving a Program: Literate Programming in {WEB}", publisher = "Van Nostrand Reinhold", year = "1989", ISBN = "0-442-31946-0", } This directory will be updated periodically from material supplied to me by the author. The current contents are 00tdir.cmd getstart.tex pasforce.ch regpas.tex 00tdir.lst longid.ch paslines.ch smallnoe.tex errata.ltx modsect.tex passlast.tex smallweb.tex forward.ch noeject.tex readme.txt X-Us-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, South Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112" X-Telephone: (801) 581-5254 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 89 13:46:47 PDT From: Phil Farrell Subject: RE: DVI files to Mac Keywords: dviware, Macintosh In TeXhax vol 89, issue 81, Alan Stein wondered how to transfer a DVI file from a Sun to a Mac. He transferred a file but could not get it printed from the Mac. He did not say which TeX program he was using on his Mac, but I encountered this same problem with OzTeX. My problem was that on the Macintosh, there is the concept of a "file type", which is a four character string stored as part of the file header information. Programs (applications) normally will only work with files that contain the proper file type string. Programs such as MacIP ftp create the file on the Mac with file type "TEXT", whereas programs such as OzTeX expect DVI files to have file type "ODVI" (TeXTures, etc., may use a different string). I was able to solve the problem by using the DiskTop desk accessory from CE Software to change the file type for my transferred files to "ODVI", which is what OzTeX expected. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 09:01:05 -0500 From: "J.D. McDonald " Subject: Re: hyphenation Keywords: TeX, hyphenation Chris Torek mentioned that TeX mishyphenates "orthokeratology". There is a whole class of words it gets wrong: chemical names. I tried four and it got two wrong, and left out several correct places in the other two: TeX correct paraflu-o-ro-toluene par-a-fluoro-tol-u-ene or-thoni-tro-toluene or-tho-ni-tro-tol-u-ene paradimethyl-ben-zene par-a-di-meth-yl-benz-ene param-ethy-lanisole par-a-meth-yl-an-is-ole. The "correct" ones are by pronunciation - if you decided to hyphenate only by chemical constituent (which necessarily breaks between syllables, due to the pronunciation rules) it would be para-fluoro-tolu-ene ortho-nitro-tolu-ene para-di-methyl-benz-ene para-methyl-anis-ole "fluoro" is two syllables, but nobody would risk deciding where to break it. It would probably be fluor-o, but could also be fluo-ro. Essentially one has to do this by hand. Doug McDonald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 13:57:52 MET From: Victor Eijkhout Subject: TeX and Braille? Keywords: TeX, Braille Hello, has anyone ever run into the need to convert TeX to braille? The situation is this: some LaTeX files have to be handed out to a number of people, one of whom is blind. I can make some guesses: you need a style which has only one, monospaced, font; probably demolish all tables; and so on. (Maybe the idea of just turning the LaTeX *input* into braille is not so silly.) Any comments appreciated. Victor Eijkhout Department of Mathematics University of Nijmegen Toernooiveld 5 "Far out in the uncharted 6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands backwaters of the unfash- ionable end of the 080-613169 western spiral arm of the galaxy" u641000@HNYKUN11.BITNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 9:02:40 EDT From: "Benjamin J. Woznick" Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #81 (chapters beginning on new pages) Keywords: Typesetting, pages, chapters While it is true that I cited only books in my office, which were all either computer books or paper backs, I did later discuss this matter with Bernie Cosell, who pointed out that the Chicago Style Manual (13th Edition, although it is in a similar place in the 12th), section 1.52 says: In the printed book, each chapter normally starts on a new page, verso or recto... and there is a footnote, which says: When offprints are individual chapters are planned, each chapter in a book should begin on a recto page so that the printer need not reimpose pages for offprints but can simply gather them together. The other books in my office are mostly military history of sorts, and include: The Battle for the Falklands, Hastings and Jenkins, Norton (uses verso and recto); The Red and The Blue, Sinclair, Little Brown (uses verso and recto); Overlord, Hastings, Simon and Shuster (uses verso and recto), and two books published by Viking: Six Armies in Normandy, Keegan (uses recto only), and Spycatcher, Wright (uses verso and recto). This last comparison emphasizes Lamport's point: the editor/book designer team in a publishing house often has a good deal to say about how an individual book comes out. I still think that it is not the case that ``all real books'' start their chapters on the recto page. In addition, the standard LaTeX book style does not do a \cleardoublepage at the beginning of a chapter, but simply goes to the top of the next page, whether it is an even or an odd one. Ben Woznick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 08:31:02 EDT From: hobby@research.att.com Subject: Re: Apparent bug in art11.sty and art12.sty Keywords: LaTeX, art11.sty, art12.sty In reply to Martin Ward's message about \big not working in LaTeX at sizes other than 10 point, I would like to put in another plug for fixup.sty which should be available from the Clarkson archive server. The main features this style option are the following: 1) It makes LaTeX size changes effect plain's \big, \Big, \bigl, \bigr, etc. 2) It tries to eliminate extra vertical spaces that I think are extraneous 3) It makes operator spacing for eqnarray similar to plain's \eqalign Item (1) is a slightly more general solution than Martin Ward suggested. A really good solution would also use magnified versions of cmex10. The main motivation for (2) is that I was getting more vertical space in my figures than the parameters in the style file seemed to imply I should have. The change effects spacing at the top of some figures and spacing around the \write that \caption puts into the vertical list. - John Hobby hobby@research.att.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 11:08:34 EDT From: jsv@cs.brown.edu Subject: \big delimiters in LaTeX 12pt Keywords: LaTeX, \big I noticed that I can't get the slightly-larger-than-usual delimiters by using \big (such as \bigl(, \bigl\{, etc.) when using LaTeX at 12pt. Apparently the \big delimiters aren't magnified like the rest of the text, and the result is that they're the same size as the usual delimiters. This seems like a bug that should be fixed. Any chance of that happening soon? Prof. Jeffrey S. Vitter Dept. of Computer Science Brown University Providence, R. I. 02912-1910 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 00:25:16 MEZ From: Erich Neuwirth Subject: Environment containing verbatim Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, environment, verbatim Is there a way to define an environment that functions like begin{newenv}{% begin{center} begin{minipage}{examplewidth} begin{verbatim}% }{% end{verbatim} end{minipage} end{center} } verbatim is the offender, it does not function when integrated this way into a new environment. Erich Neuwirt -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 89 11:13:19 EDT From: jsv@cs.brown.edu Subject: Extraneous spacing before and after environments Keywords: LaTeX, spacing, environments I posted this in early Summer, but was away for the responses and missed them. I regard this as a serious problem for LaTeX to be used as a typesetting system for people that want top-quality layout. Any info would be greatly appreciated. I'm a long-time pure TeX user, now using LaTeX often. I'm trying to get LaTeX to handle the spacing above and below list environments like it is supposed to (but doesn't). If several list environments (including theorems, etc.) come one after another, with no blank lines in the source code between the end of one and the start of the next, then the spacing between the last line of one and the beginning line of the next should be \topsep + \parskip. But I'm getting extra spacing sometimes (though not always), which might be coming from LaTeX thinking that there is a blank line before the new environment or perhaps from some extra stretch coming from somewhere. In either case that's a bug. If there is a figure defined, then sometimes there's a lot of extra spacing before one of the following environments, even though there are no blank lines in the source code between environments. I've tried putting comment characters immediately after the \end statment of the environments, hoping that that would suppress an extraneous CR, but that doesn't work. LaTeX is supposed to use the \addvspace mechanism for its list environments, which is supposed to make spacing uniform and not add up because of redundant spacing commands. Obviously there's a problem. There's no reason why LaTeX shouldn't work right and take advantage of TeX's power to produce precisely correct spacing. Any ideas/fixes? Prof. Jeff Vitter email: jsv@cs.brown.edu Dept. of Computer Science phone: (401) 863-7646 Brown University FAX: (401) 863-7657 Providence, R.I. 02912-1910 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 13 Sep 89 13:17:43-MDT From: "Nelson H.F. Beebe" Subject: 1000dpi laser printer Keywords: Laser printer, 1000dpi Page 7 of the September 4, 1989, issue of InfoWorld magazine carries an advertisement for a 1000 x 400 dpi laser printer from LaserMaster, 7156 Shady Oak Road, Eden Prairie, MN 55344, Tel: (612) 872-8973. Duty cycle is 10,000 pages/month. Has anyone seen this device and perhaps can report experience with it? Pricing, speed, and printer command language are all of interest. X-Us-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, South Physics, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112" X-Telephone: (801) 581-5254 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 20:54:34 -0700 From: Tomas G. Rokicki Subject: dvips 4.0 Keywords: dviware ANNOUNCING RELEASE of dvips version 4.0, with the following features: - `Correct' memory budgeting; no longer have to break up long documents by hand - Bitmap font compression on output greatly reduces output file size, especially at typesetter resolution - Fast and compact page code reduces size of output file - Encapsulated PostScript graphics support - Non-encapsulated PostScript graphics support - PostScript font support, with correct use of ligatures and kerns and TeX character positions. - Brand new afm2tfm source provided - Automatic generation of missing fonts through METAFONT (or can be modified to convert gf->pk as needed) - Conformant PostScript output - Automatic spooling through lpr or other process - Support for multiple printers with different characteristics - Literal PostScript specials and macros - Generation of collated as well as uncollated copies - Reversal of pages on demand - Compact, modular source code for easy modifications - Freely redistributable - Easy installation - psfig and tpic support The most important new feature is the bitmap compression feature; you can now generate files for high-resolution typesetters using standard TeX bitmapped fonts without generating impossibly large output files. This code is available from labrea.stanford.edu in ~pub/dvips40.tar.Z. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 13:14:46 -0700 From: Louis M. McDonald Subject: DVI to Postscript (again....) Keywords: DVI2PS In trying to track down a good dvi2ps program, I keep running into road blocks. The following is a list of requirements for a dvi2ps that I am looking for 1. Must read in PK files 2. Can include Macinstosh postscript files and print successfully on an Apple LaserWriter. Some versions I have tried cause a page eject before the pictures prints, EVEN THOUGH the dvi file does not show a page eject. 3. Must be able to do landscape as an option 4. Must be able to also generate Postscript font usage. I have TFM files for postscript fonts. 5. Must work on both VMS and UNIX. I know that this may be a difficult list to satisfy, but anyone who has ideas about a dvi2ps program that can satisfy this (or most of them), I would be interested in hearing from. Louis McDonald -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 20:46:34 -0700 From: Tomas G. Rokicki Subject: PostScript problems Keywords: PostScript, problems, printer, dviware Time for another suggestion . . . If those of you with PostScript printers and PostScript drivers have noticed that long right arrows don't mesh properly, or that large square roots don't line up, or that the word `pop' in cmr10 or the word `type' in cmtt10 look uneven, you've been bit by a bug in your PostScript interpreter. The bug is that the imagemask operator, when used with integer translation components, may round incorrectly. This is an empirical fix. If you are using a moderately standard prolog file, you will find lines similar to: /ch-xoff {ch-data 3 get} bdf /ch-yoff {ch-data 4 get} bdf We fudge these a little by subtracting .1 from each: /ch-xoff {ch-data 3 get .1 sub} bdf /ch-yoff {ch-data 4 get .1 sub} bdf This usually solves the problem, but it should be verified experimentally with your printer. Maybe Adobe will fix this bug someday. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 09:12:56 CET From: Josef Lukas Subject: "True" APA bib-style ? Keywords: APA, bibtex Does anybody have a bibtexstyle for APA Journals? apalike.bst does a pretty good job, but leaves important requirements unsolved. The major problems are: 1) \cite produces something like (Miller, 1988) in any case. APA however requires context-dependent citing. For example: As shown by Miller(1988) and Presnick(1985,1986a), there are ... The field is far from beeing closed (Blank,1987; Stone & Bush, 1989). That means: there are two formats: AUTHOR(YEAR) and (AUTHOR,YEAR), depending on the grammatical context, for one and the same bib-entry. 2) For more than two authors, the abbreviation "et al" is used. That is correct for the second and all subsequent citations. According to APA, in the very FIRST citation in the text, ALL the authors have to be named. Are there any solutions or workarounds? Thanks for any help. -josef. JOSEF LUKAS, PSYCHOLOG. INSTITUT UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG HAUPTSTR. 47-51, D-6900 HEIDELBERG, FED. REP. GERMANY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 11:54 EET From: ABULSARI@finabo.abo.fi Subject: Scripts other than the roman script Keywords: fonts, scripts, Hindi, Gujarati, TeX I need to use Hindi and Gujarati scripts. Can you advise me how to do it on TeX ? We would like to have these fonts here. Thanks. Abhay Bulsari Chemical Engineering Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 14:47:09 +0200 From: Peter Verbeke Subject: Where to find an apl-font ... ? Keywords: font, apl Could anyone point me to a source (commercial or public) where I could find an apl-font ? thanks, peter Organization: K.U.Leuven (Belgium) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu %%% JANET users may choose to use %%% texhax-request@uk.ac.nsf %%% 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 %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest ************************** -------