Subject: TeXhax Digest V90 #24 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 Sunday, February 25, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 24 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: Problems with dvi2tty Old English fonts different fonts; Feynman diagrams metafont mode definition wanted for QMS-PS 2200 Bug in LFONTS.TEX, \mathbold Multicol.sty Tib in Europe Big G foreign flavors of TeX re: ftp'ing tex from score / listserv TeX's memory TeX, hyphenation, umlaut LaTeX, tabular Proper spacing of parboxes within tabbing Laserprep header for mac drawings in latex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 90 12:32:36 IST From: Reuven Weiss Subject: Problems with dvi2tty Keywords: dvi2tty I got DVI2TTY.TAR-Z from DTUZDV1. The tarfile included Patch2. I patched and maked dvi2tty on a Sun4/260 (SunOS 4.0.3). There were compilation errors and got segmentatation error when run. I would like to hear from others about their experience with this tarfile and the program, perhaps from other sources. Do other patches exist? As a terminal I use a PC with Kermit 3.0 . I also look for a dvi to TEK4014 or PostScript to TEK4014 program. Else I seek Modula -2 compiler for DVItoVDU. Is it difficult to convert DVIBIT to Tektronix output? Reuven Weiss Faculty of Engineering Tel - Aviv University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 12:13 GMT From: "Peter Flynn, UCC Computer Centre" Subject: Old English fonts Keywords: fonts, Old English There are tolerably good Old English fonts available from The Metafoundry (Dublin, Ohio) or from Malcolm Clark (fps@vaxa.cc.imperial.ac.uk) for about GBP 100 I think. I have them and they work OK. One or two of the sizes are included in PC-TeX's "Medley" font kit (PC-TeX Inc) as well. ///Peter Flynn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 12:09:33 MET DST From: nspit@fys.ruu.nl (Werenfried Spit) Subject: different fonts; Feynman diagrams Keywords: fonts, METAFONT Has anyone tried to design Times Modern and/or Helvetica fonts with Metafont? If so, I would be interested in the Metafont sources. Generally speaking, I think that it would be a good idea to have a few font-families available, apart from Computer Modern. A related question regards the design of Feynman-diagrams with Metafont. Has anyone done this? Werenfried Spit R.J. v.d. Graafflaboratorium +31-(0)30-53-2330 Postbus 80.000 3508 TA Utrecht nspit@fys.ruu.nl The Netherlands spit@hutruu51.bitnet ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 11:33:38 EST From: Joseph C. Konczal Subject: metafont mode definition wanted for QMS-PS 2200 Keywords: METAFONT, fonts Does anyone know what settings for blacker, fillin, and o_correction work best to generate the cm fonts for the QMS-PS 2200? I think it has a Panasonic print engine that writes black at 300 DPI. Thanks, Joe Konczal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 02/15/90 11:25:37 GMT+1 From: UO04%DDAGSI3@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: Bug in LFONTS.TEX, \mathbold Keywords: Lfonts.tex, bug Trying to get bf letters in math formulas I ran across a bug in lfonts.tex (in all versions I have seen). The cmmibXX fonts are usually not preloaded (commented out in the definition part of lfonts.tex). The \mathbold command, as defined in this file, works only for that case. If you think you need these fonts more frequently and modify it to preload them (so that they are known by LaTeX) the \mathbold command runs into a recursive loop: the program seems to freeze and you see what happens if you add \typeout{something} at the top of the \mathbold definition. (This holds only for the definitions for larger sizes, such as \xiipt, where \boldmath is really defined). F.Kammer H.Friedrich Kammer 0441/798-3467 FB Physik Theorie Universitaet Oldenburg Postfach 2503 D-2900 Oldenburg FRG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 18:02:39 -0100 From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Multicol.sty Keywords: LaTeX, style file I have received the multicolumn style file written by Frank Mittelbach last weekend. The style is described in the Nov 1989 issue of Tugboat. You can retrieve the files by anonymous FTP: site sol.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5], directory pub/TEX/latexstyle. Filenames: multicol.doc multicol.sty multicol.tex doc.sty You can also get them from our mail-server, ask for latexstyle/, where should be replaced by any of the above filenames. Send a HELP message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl to find out how to use the mail-server. IMPORTANT NOTE: The distribution requirements for the files is that they MUST BE DISTRIBUTED TOGETHER. So, either get them all, or get none of them. (actually, retrieving only multicol.doc is also OK, but I recommend to get the whole package). NOTE: The file multicol.tex, when run through a LaTeX older than May 1989, may give a few error messages (\begin{document} ended by \end{macro}). Actually, the errors are from multicol.doc You can ignore these errormessages, and continue (or better: get a recent version of latex). I understand that the files will appear on other servers soon. Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31-30-531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31-30-513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete') ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 10:32:24 EST From: "James C. Alexander" Subject: Tib in Europe Keywords: TiB Tib 2.2 is available in Europe. It has been sent to the Aston archives. I also pass on the following message: Tib 2.2 is now available by anonymous FTP in Europe from host minos.inria.fr (128.93.39.5) in directory pub/tib. There are five tarmail files (tib.tarmail.[1-5]) that you can transfer in ASCII mode, together with the complete tib directory in a single tar'ed and compressed file (tib.tar.Z) to be transfered in binary mode. NOTE: this is only a service to the european community. No user of minos.inria.fr can provide any support for installing and/or using tib. For any problem please contact tib developer James C. Alexander . --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:09:32 GMT From: Jeremy.Gibbons%prg.oxford.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK Subject: Big G Keywords: METAFONT I don't know whether this is common knowledge, but it intrigued me. I was perusing the Metafont file cmman.mf (containing various special symbols for the Computers and Typesetting books) recently, and noticed a large `G' in the font. This is for the preface of the TeXbook, which starts Gentle reader, this is a handbook about TeX... with a large dropped initial `G'. Funny, I thought, why only a `G' and no other letters? What about the rest of the books in the series? A quick flick through the library revealed that, in fact, the prefaces of *all five* volumes start with the letter `G': Genuine examples of large software programs are rarely found in books... (Volume B, TeX: The Program) Generation of letterforms by mathematical means was first tried in the fifteenth century... (Volume C, The Metafontbook) Graphic algorithms add zest to the more conventional techniques of ordinary compilers... (Volume D, Metafont: The Program) Greek and Roman letterforms [...] are the subject of this book... (Volume E, Computer Modern Typefaces) I knew that Knuth advocates rewriting a document to improve the layout, but I didn't know he went this far... | Jeremy Gibbons (jg%prg.ox@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk) | | Programming Research Group, Oxford University, England | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 20:20:53 EST From: Karl Berry Subject: foreign flavors of TeX Keywords: TeX, foreign versions Is there a master list somewhere of what foreign versions of TeX are (a) running and (b) being worked on? If not, I volunteer to collect the information. The number of non-North Americans using TeX seems to be very substantial -- my recent note about my eplain macros has garnered as many responses from Europeans as not! I wonder what the ratio is for other typesetting programs. karl@cs.umb.edu ..!harvard!umb!karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon 19 Feb 90 16:58:50-EST From: bbeeton Subject: re: ftp'ing tex from score / listserv Keywords: FTP, Score, Listserv score was decommissioned in september '89, and the new tex repository at stanford is a small unix machine, labrea.stanford.edu . the only new material being installed there is (of course) tex system software updated by knuth, occasional changes to latex by leslie lamport (but with latex being rebuilt under the direction of frank mittelbach in germany, it is not clear where the essential latex installation will be), bibtex by oren patashnik, and files originating with tugboat. these are all centered at stanford for historical reasons. the archives in other locations are much more extensive, and in general also include the material from labrea with only a short time lag. (there is, for example, an automatic routine at clarkson that checks every sunday for new material at labrea, and transfers it to the clarkson collection.) although there has been some discussion between nelson beebe, the president of tug, and the system managers at labrea regarding a mail server facility such as the one described by mr. kerkhoff, it really is the case that better service is more likely from one of the other archives. the french and german tex communities are managing a joint archive with a listserv at dhdurz1 . there is also an archive at aston university in the u.k., which i believe has a facility for sending files in reply to mail requests. and there is one in the netherlands, but i believe that it is dedicated to local data. there are probably others as well (and if so, i would appreciate it if the manager would send me details for publication in tugboat). one of those should be much more efficient for fulfilling requests in europe, than for such requests to be sent halfway around the world. a "resources" column is now a regular feature in tugboat. ideally, this will itself be a resource, telling readers what is the closest and most easily accessible source of tex programs and files, both for those with electronic access and for those who must resort to other electronic media such as floppy disks or magnetic tape. -- barbara beeton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 16:15:45 GMT From: Ivan Fabian Subject: TeX's memory Keywords: TeX, memory I have installed TeX 2.93 on a VM/CMS system. On several occasions people have been given the message: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=65535] when they have successfully run TeX on another system on the same file. My question is: What must I do to increase the main memory? I had better add: I haven't got the hang of WEB yet, so please bear that in mind when you reply. Thanks in advance. Ivan Fabian User Support Rutherford Appleton Lab. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 02/15/90 11:01:29 GMT+1 From: UO04%DDAGSI3@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: TeX, hyphenation, umlaut Keywords: TeX, hyphenation, umlaut Is it possible to define the hyphenation of words containing umlaut letters in a way equivalent to the usual \hyphenation ? The answer of the local experts here is that \hyphenation will not work with such letters (TeX says the same), but for nearly all languages except english such a tool would be useful. In a scientific text usually a lot of words show up which are not covered by the respective patterns and it is either boring to write the hyphenation \- very often or difficult to replace any of these words by a macro and remember all of them while writing the text. My TeX-knowledge is poor, but I suspect that a temporary manipulation of the catcodes, lccodes etc. might enable a one-time definition of hyphenation with umlaut letters. The question is now: what sort of TeX-command is hyphenation and what does it do (how does it store information, how is this information used) ? Maybe the problem is already solved, or is that impossible ? F.Kammer H.Friedrich Kammer 0441/798-3467 FB Physik Theorie Universitaet Oldenburg Postfach 2503 D-2900 Oldenburg FRG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 FEB 90 09:56:26 GMT From: MARK%VAX.RA.PHYSICS.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: LaTeX, tabular Keywords: LaTeX, tabular In Volume 89, Issue 114 of TeXhax I contributed a query about multipage {tabular}s, the gist of which was: > Has anyone written anything or can anyone suggest any way to > have LaTeX automatically continue a table on a new page when > there's no more room, to achieve multipage $tabulars? I've had a surprisingly large number of replies to this plea, most of them essentially saying `Yes! I want to do that too; If you find a way, let me know'. Perhaps a further note to Texhax summarising what I found would be the best way to answer everyone. I apologise for the delay in sending it. Several people directed me to a style file in the Clarkson archive called supertab.sty, written by Theo Jurriens. Rick Zaccone sent me what turned out to be a later and better version of this than the version at Clarkson. However, good though it is at what it sets out to achieve, supertab does have some limitations: It works simply by counting lines and decrementing the amount of space remaining on the page. This fails if any lines in the table have non-standard height or depth, e.g. if the table has filled {p} elements. For me this limited its usefulness. Also, it does not preserve column widths over pages. Another solution is provided by an excellent style file called `longtab.sty', written by David Carlisle (his JANET address is carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs). He has not contributed this to any archive yet, but is planning to do so. longtab *does* cope with varying heights and depths, and preserves column widths too. It has only a couple of limitations, one of which is that it uses a lot of memory. However, only one of my tables so far has exceeded TeX's memory limit. Mark Charter, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, U.K. JANET : MARK@UK.AC.CAM.PHY-RAVX Internet: MARK%PHY-RAVX.CAM.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 19:58 EST From: Henning Schulzrinne Subject: Proper spacing of parboxes within tabbing Keywords: LaTeX, parbox, tabbing If parboxes are used within the tabbing environment and the last line of the parbox has no descenders, the first line of the next tabbing item will be closer to that last line than the line spacing within a paragraph. Inserting a \vphantom{g} at the end of the parbox solves the problem. Example: \begin{Large} \begin{tabbing} \parbox[t]{2in}{First long line with descenders, but the rest has no descenders.}\\ \parbox[t]{2in}{Second long line, but a vphantom at the end should make room.\vphantom{g}}\\ \parbox[t]{2in}{Third line for comparison.} \end{tabbing} \end{Large} Other solutions are solicited. Henning Schulzrinne (HGSCHULZ@CS.UMASS.EDU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts at Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 - USA === phone: +1 (413) 545-3179 (EST); FAX: (413) 545-1249 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 90 12:59:24 EST From: chase@ee.Princeton.EDU Subject: Laserprep header for mac drawings in latex Keywords: LateX, Mac drawings, laserprep header I was pointed to this address as a potential source for answering a particular question. (What exactly is TeXHaX?) This is my situation: We have been including postscript for figures produced on a Macintosh in Latex documents using psfig. The Mac postscript requires a header that contains an appropiately modified laserprep file. We have been able to produce Mac figures using AppleDict version #68 fine (this corresponds to LaserPrep5.8). However, the Macs here now use LaserPrep 6.0 which contains AppleDict version #70. Now our Mac drawings will not print using psfig on our Unix machines. Can anyone point me to a source for an appropiately modified LaserPrep6.0? Or perhaps a source that would explain how to modify such a beast? (I don't know postscript myself). thanks in advance, chris chase (ee dept) chase@olympus.princeton.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 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 ************************** -------