Subject: TeXhax Digest V89 #102 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, November 17, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 102 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: ***TUG '90 Call for Papers in Texas*** Further info on Braille and TeX Re: Linotronic output from TeX PHYZZX summary Postscript filters for unix spoolers Underscores should be letters, not rules TeXhax Digest V89 #100 (regarding spell checkers for TEX on IBM PC's) Printing a BibTeX database Another TeX for the Archimedes Solution to Mac Graphics to TeX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Nov 89 21:33:54 EST From: Christina_Thiele%CARLETON.CA@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: ***TUG '90 Call for Papers in Texas*** Keywords: conference, call for papers %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% Use plain.tex to print up this Call for Papers for the Texas %% 1990 Meeting of the TeX Users Group (Ch. Thiele) %% %% -------------------- cut here ----------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%% Fonts, Parameters, and Macros: %% Font naming: \larger = 10pt magstep 5 \large = 10pt mag3 %% \bigger = 10pt mag2 \big = 10pt mag1 %% `normal' size is 10pt \font\largerbld=cmb10 scaled\magstep5 \font\largebld=cmb10 scaled\magstep3 \font\biggerrmn=cmr10 scaled\magstep2 \font\biggerbld=cmb10 scaled\magstep2 \font\bigrm=cmr10 scaled\magstep1 \font\bigbld=cmb10 scaled\magstep1 \font\bld=cmb10 \font\mffont=logo10 \font\smc=cmr8 \overfullrule=0pt \voffset=-24pt \advance\vsize by 36pt \nopagenumbers \def\qq{\item{$\bullet$}} \def\rr{\itemitem{$\triangleright$}} \def\leader{\leaders\hbox to 4pt{\hss.\hss}\hfill}% \def\MF{{\mffont METAFONT}} \def\LaTeX{\leavevmode L\kern-.36em\raise.3ex\hbox{\smc A}% \kern-.15em\TeX} %%%%%%%%%% End of macros 'n' stuff %%%%%%%%%%% \line{\largerbld TUG90 \hfil \biggerrmn \TeX\ Users Group \hfil \bigbld Texas A\&M University} \smallskip \line{\bld First Announcement/ \hfil\biggerrmn 11th Annual Meeting \hbox{\hskip1.5cm} \hfil \bigbld June 18--21 1990} \line{\bld Call for Papers\hfil} \vskip5mm \centerline{\largebld Forward into the 90s} \vskip3mm \noindent{\bld THE CONFERENCE:} \noindent In 1990, there will be {\it two\/} TUG-sponsored \TeX\ meetings: one in Texas in June, the other in Cork, Ireland in September. The Texas meeting will be held at Texas A\&M University June 18--21, 1990 (4 days). The theme for the Texas meeting will be {\bld FORWARD INTO THE 90s}. We celebrated our 10th Anniversary at Stanford University this past August, amidst announcements of revisions and revitalization in both \TeX\ and \LaTeX. As we move into TUG's second decade, \TeX\ will continue to grow and expand in everyday working situations. The challenge of bringing new users into contact with \TeX, of stretching \TeX\ and \MF\ to merge and work with old or new procedures, is exciting. Plan to attend. Better yet: submit a short abstract outlining your own contribution to the new decade. For details, see below. \vskip3mm \noindent{\bld CALL FOR PAPERS:} \noindent Papers should be approximately 20--25 minutes in length --- roughly 6 pages of text, using a 10pt font on a 12pt baselineskip. Abstracts (no longer than one page) should be submitted as quickly as possible, for the {\bld December 1st} deadline, to the Program Coordinator. Preliminary abstracts may be sent via regular mail, electronic mail, or FAX machine. See address information below. \vskip3mm \noindent {\bld TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION:} \noindent The following list of potential topics is neither inclusive nor exclusive; however, papers addressing \TeX\ and \MF\ issues for the 1990s would be particularly welcomed. Theoretical analyses and actual experiences dealing with various aspects of \TeX\ and \LaTeX, and \MF\ will be considered. Papers will be selected on the basis of clarity, usefulness to either the experienced or the neophyte user, and general interest to the \TeX\ community. \medskip \qq How does \TeX\ do it? --- overview of the \TeX\ process; how \TeX\ uses all those font files \qq \TeX\ for non-\TeX\ users: --- teaching/training personnel (support staff, students, colleagues); front-end/interface programs; from beginner to expert; documentation -- what's available, how to write it; source of information: user groups, courses, bulletin boards, books, etc. \qq Integrating \TeX\ with non-\TeX\ programs: --- graphics; other software \qq Fonts: --- font design: how to put/pull it together; font compatibility: how to use non-\TeX\ fonts; font experiences: samples, design histories \qq Document design: --- theoretical aspects of document design; styles: from technical reports to poetry \qq Using \TeX\ as part of a larger system: --- extensions to \TeX; subsets of \TeX\ \qq \TeX nical nuts and bolts: --- what are drivers: how do they work, how do they differ, standards; what's portability: how to make things portable; fonts and printers and drivers: making them work together; electronic sources of information: how to find them, use them; suggestions and comments \vskip3mm \line{\bld IMPORTANT DATES: \hfil PROGRAM COORDINATOR:} \vskip-12pt $$\vbox{\halign{\noindent\hbox to 3in{#\leader}\quad&#\hss\qquad&#\hss\cr Abstract & \bld December 1st, 1989 & Christina Thiele \cr Notification & January 15th, 1990 & JPC\quad DT1711 \cr Preliminary Paper & \bld March 15th, 1990 & Carleton University \cr Presentation at Texas Meeting & June 18--21, 1990 & Ottawa, Canada K1S 5B6 \cr Final Paper & July 15th, 1990 & Phone: 613-788-2340 \cr \hskip3in & & Bitnet: {\tt wsscat@carleton.ca} \cr \hskip3in & & FAX: 613-788-3544 \cr }}$$ \vskip-15pt \noindent{\bld PROGRAM COMMITTEE:} \halign{\indent#\hss\qquad&#\hss\qquad&#\hss\cr Shawn Farrell & Regina Girouard & Tom Reid \cr McGill University & American Mathematical Society & Texas A\&M University \cr } \smallskip \noindent{\bld \TeX\ USERS GROUP:} \noindent Questions concerning any other aspect of the meeting (or conference) should be directed to the TUG Office: 401-751-7760 (Eastern Time) or electronic mail: {\tt tug@math.ams.com}. \bye Christina Thiele ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 89 08:29:48 EST From: Christina_Thiele%CARLETON.CA@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: Further info on Braille and TeX Keywords: TeX, Braille In a recent issue of TeXhax there was mention made of a research group at the University of Western Ontario. One of the people named does indeed have an e-mail address -- I just went fishing in the TUG Membership Directory for 1989... Prof. Jurgenson (Dept. of Computer Science) is on Bitnet at: helmut@uwovax.bitnet. That should help getting in touch with him. Christina Thiele ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 13:00:45 EST From: jsg@arbortext.com Subject: Re: Linotronic output from TeX Keywords: Linotronic output, TeX ArborText does offer both high-resolution Computer Modern pk files for typesetter users, as well as PostScript outline versions of Computer Modern. With the pk fonts, our driver DVILASER/PS is able to incrementally download characters as they are needed, and to reuse the font storage in the printer when it becomes necessary. For these reasons, the use of high-resolution pk fonts is practical (albeit slow) for those users who need the highest quality Computer Modern. The outline fonts are also very good and they're very fast. (They're the ones from Blue Sky Research.) The only problem is that only 20 of the fonts are currently available in this form. John Gourlay ArborText, Inc. (313) 996-3566 jsg@arbortext.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 89 17:19 PST From: Subject: PHYZZX summary Keywords: PHYZZX Hi all, Thanks to all who responded to my question about PHYZZX.TEX. Here's the summary I promised: From Leo Eskin : >Is PHYZZX related to PHYSE, the macro package put together by SLAC and >the Max Planck Institute in Germany? Quite possible, since PHYZZX also started at Stanford, as far as I know. Thank you, Leo, for the copy of the *entire* PHYSE package you sent me. I believe that this package is also available from the listserver at DHDURZ1. From Roberto Gomez : >>The documentation is M. Weinstein, "Everything you wanted to >>know about PHYZZX but didn't know to ask," SLAC-TN-84-7 (October, 1984). I later received this file from two sources: , and another source that I don't know - I extracted the file before finding out. Thanks to both of you! Others who told me of the document: Dan Dill , Mike Tuts , Brad Keister Patrick Nolan From Dan Dill : >I have...TeXsis developed by >Eric Myers/BUPhysics...and Frank Paige/BNLPhysics... >Presumably TeXsis is avilable to you for the asking. True. I have seen it on some of the listservers. However, I was trying to stay with something I was familiar with. Thanks a lot anyway! Finally, I received the complete PHYZZX package from Brad Keister , which consists of four files. I have not yet had the opportunity to test it out, but it looks close enough to the version that I had that I'm not too worried about getting it to work. I would like to be able to distribute these files to anyone who wants them, but I really don't have the facilities to do so, unless the demand is *very* light. So, are there any LISTSERVs or anon FTP sites out there who would like either the PHYZZX or PHYSE packages? I have both packages *and* their documentation. /----------------------------\ /---------------------------------------\ | John Price | BITNET: price@uclaph | | 5-145 Knudsen Hall | Internet: price@uclaph.physics.ucla.edu | | UCLA Dept. of Physics | DECnet: uclapp::jprice | | Los Angeles, CA 90024-1547 | YellNet: 213-825-2259 | \----------------------------/ \---------------------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 15:51:33 NZT From: Russell Fulton Subject: Postscript filters for unix spoolers Keywords: PostScript, filters, UNIX, spoolers We are replacing our IBM VM system with a unix system, on which we will be running TeX (of course). What I want to know is: What is the best way of connecting PostScript printers to a unix system? ( I mean software connection rather than hardware connection.) One salesman spoke of a filter called 'transcript' but he did not know much mor e than the name. Does anybody out there know any more about it? I have access to several ascii to PS filters. What I need is something to go on the other end of the spooler (the printer end) that knows about PS and will do sensible things with PS errors etc. We actually have two unix systems one System V.3 based and one BSD based. Please reply direct to me. The digest takes a while to get to us. I will post a summary. Russell Fulton, University of Auckland. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 89 17:46:34 PST From: lisch@pdx.mentor.com (Ray Lischner) Subject: Underscores should be letters, not rules Keywords:TeX, underscore One thing that has always bothered me about TeX is the way underscores are implemented---as rules, rather than as real letters in fonts. The result is that a font cannot define kerning for the underscore, so certain combinations of letters and underscores look ugly. The definition of \_ usually works well for text italics, but does not work so well for unslanted fonts. For example, _r, _i, etc., look horrible in boldface, so I need to put in a \thinspace by hand. (For another example, see Appendix G of the TeXbook, where DEK added \kern1pt in several places to keep the underscores from butting against letters.) The amount of space to put between an underscore and a letter depends on the font and on the letter, so it obviously should be part of the kerning information for the font. This only works if the underscore is actually a character in the font. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 06:49:25 EST From bkph@ai.mit.edu Subject: TeXhax Digest V89 #100 (regarding spell checkers for TEX on IBM PC's) Keywords: spell checkers, IBM PC`S, TeX In connection with Dwaine L. VanBibber's question and Jim Van Zandt's reply, regarding spell checkers for TEX on IBM PC's: Trigram Systems' (Pittsburgh, PA) MicroSpell custom TEX version (you have to ask for it, it is not an advertized product) is the best spell checker for TEX files on IBM PC's and compatibles. It knows enough to ignore TEX commands, comments, in-text math and display math. It also understand hidden hyphens. Right now about its only flaw is that it gets confused when it sees a second "%" on a line, which makes it forget that it is reading inside a comment. Now, more seriously, does any one know of a grammer checker that can handle TEX files? Grammatik III sure doesn't qualify... BKPH ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 12:48:46 EST From: guy@phy.duke.edu (Guy Metcalfe) Subject: Printing a BibTeX database Keywords: BibTeX, database A colleague of mine would like to format and print a entire bibtex database to give to someone who has no access to tex and who besides doesn't know and doesn't want to know about tex. We've looked and can't decide the best way to do this. Besides generating a document that cites every entry what's the best way to format and print an entire bibtex database? Thanks for any hints and help. Guy Metcalfe Duke University Dept. of Physics guy@phy.duke.edu & Center for Nonlinear Studies guy@physics.phy.duke.edu Durham, N.C. 27706 guy%phy.duke.edu@cs.duke.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 07 Nov 89 11:55:22 gmt From: G.Toal%EDINBURGH.AC.UK@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: Another TeX for the Archimedes Keywords: TeX, Archimedes Great news for Archimedes TeXers - I received this in mail today from a friend at Acorn who gets the Acorn User magazine a week or two before the rest of us... > On page 84 of the December Acorn User, a german company is advertising TeX, > LaTeX, BIBTeX, METAFONT, drivers for a lot of printers and the screen (NOT > PostScript) for 99 (TeX) 39 (LaTeX and BIBTeX) and 99 (METAFONT). The TeX > reportedly runs on a 1Mb machine. METAFONT and the DVItoSCREEN thing run > in the desktop. I suspect the company in question is Tools Gmbh, as I met Edgar Fu\ss at the TeX88 conference who rushed out and bought an Archie immediately after seeing it :-) [plug, plug] If this is correct, I am quite happy to hand over the torch to them, as I have found supporting TeX (public domain) to be very time-consuming and very hard work. I shall, however, continue to supply my free version of TeX which I am in the process of distributing to various archive sites but I doubt I shall be putting much effort into it in future - the suppliers above, whoever they may be, will have more resources to maintain TeX and will certainly provide a better service than I have been able to working in occasional weekends. If the company in question is listening, how about an announcement for the net? Graham. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 89 11:27:33 PDT From: TRENFROW@jpl-pds.JPL.NASA.GOV Subject: Solution to Mac Graphics to TeX Keywords: PostScript, Macintosh, Graphics In response to Phil Windley's question (TeXhax #99): >>Is there a way of taking pictures generated on a Macintosh and including >>them in TeX documents? Note that I'm interested in doing this in general, >>not in TeX running on the Mac. I have heard apocryphal stories of people >>using \special (with help from some other things) to do this, but have >>never met anyone who has. I have developed a set of procedures centered around some AWK programs which help you extract graphical material from a Macintosh and prepare them for printing using Arbortext's DVIPS processor. (It most likely will work with other DVI to PostScript processors but you have to be careful.) I discussed this at this year's TUG Meeting at Stanford. The talk will be in TUGBOAT, Issue 4, for this year. I will have a complete set of these routines (for Adobe Illustrator, Cricket Draw, and the standard Mac packages like MacDraw, MacDraft, Canvas, etc.) available at the end of November. If anyone would like a copy of these, please send me an electronic message or a regular mail message. An unsponsored comment - Do consider Textures on the MAC for this kind of work! It is so easy and so powerful - really a gem. Tom Renfrow Mail Stop 301-275 JPL Pasadena, CA 91109 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 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 ************************** -------