Subject: TeXhax Digest V90 #28 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, March 4, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 28 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: Missing Fonts LAmSTeX, a New TeX Macro Journals accepting TeX/LaTeX source Re: TeXhax #21, How to find ... TeX88 BiBTeX Switches Blackboard bold Improved font selection in LaTeX (TeXMaG V3N4) Introducing LaTeX-help (TeXMaG V3N4) Announcing TeX-Euro (TeXMaG V3N4) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 19:06 EST From: FCUBBAGE@grad.cis.temple.edu Subject: Missing Fonts Keywords: fonts, DosTeX I am using DosTex out of SIMTEL20 and get an error message that the Fonts CMR12 & CMR17 are missing. Does anyone know where I can get these? Also does anyone know where I can get a later and better addition of DVIEPS. Thanks, Frank Cubbage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 13:59:13 -0600 From: young@emx.utexas.edu (Young U. Ryu) Subject: LAmSTeX, a New TeX Macro Keywords: LAmSTeX Mr. Edgar Goodaire mentioned that Dr. Michael Spivak had written a new TeX macro LAmSTeX, a combination of AmSTeX and LaTeX > ... Spivak has recently written something called LAmS-TeX, > a hybrid of LaTeX and AmSTeX ... Does anybody know how to FTP it? Young Ryu @ Univ. of Texas at Austin Internet: young@emx.utexas.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 90 08:52:03 MST From: pmurphy@killians.tuc.nrao.edu (Pat Murphy) Subject: Journals accepting TeX/LaTeX source Keywords: TeX/LaTeX, source, journals I can add two more journals to the list: Astronomy & Astrophysics The Irish Astronomical Journal | Patrick P. Murphy Internet: PMurphy@nrao.edu | | Scientific Programming Analyst Bitnet: PMurphy@NRAO | | National Radio Astronomy Observatory Span/Hep: 6654::PMurphy | | 949 N. Cherry, Campus Bldg. 65 UUCP: uunet!nrao.edu!pmurphy | | Tucson, AZ 85721-0655 Phone: (602) 882-8250 | | "...but I'm feeling much better now!" --- Night Court, many episodes | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 90 21:01 MET From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: Re: TeXhax #21, How to find ... Keywords: A4.sty Hi, In the article mentioned in the subject Donald Ballance asks about an ``official'' A4 style. WG13 of the NTG (de Nederlandstalige TeX Gebruikersgroep) has produced an A4.sty which will be published in TUGboat 11 #1. It was developped from the files A4.sty and A4wide.sty as available from sun.soe.clarkson.edu. The article describes what changes were made and why. We think we produced a reliable version of A4. It will be available soon from LISTSERV@HEARN (this server contains more products of WG13). I completely agree with the Donald about having as much information within a style-file as possible about its origins etc. but I'm afraid this will be a monks work to do for all the styles currently in existence. Let's encourage people writing style files to include this information in those files and let's try to include it in files which are updated. Johannes Braams PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl E-mail was : EARN/BITnet : BRAAMS@HLSDNL5 UUCP : hp4nl!dnlunx!johannes SURFnet : DNLTS::BRAAMS INTERnet : BRAAMS%HLSDNL5@CUNYVM.cuny.edu PSS (DATAnet1) : +204 1170358::BRAAMS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 11:38 GMT From: MALCOLM Subject: TeX88 Keywords: TeX88, proceedings TeX88: the conference proceedings (at last) Yesterday, March 1st, I despatched the entire edited crc for the proceedings of the TeX88 conference to the publishers. They expect to have the volume printed and bound within about 6 weeks (just in time for easter). Everyone who attended the conference will receive a copy of the proceedings. If you should receive one, and your address has changed substantially in the last 18 months or so, please contact me to ensure that the volume goes to the right place. I have no details of price yet, but I hope to arrange that all members of TeX user groups can obtain the volume at a discount. In this case `TeX user groups' means groups which require a membership fee: thus it includes Dante, GUTenberg, NTG, TUG and ukTeX users group. I cannot extent the privelege to the Nordic group since membership is merely by `a nod of the head'. Any other fee-paying groups should contact me to be added to the list. (membership of more than one group will not mean multiple discounts!) I have placed the abstracts in a bib-like form in the Aston Archive. It is in the directory [tex-archive.digests.tex88], and is called abs.bib. The `public domain' macros mentioned in the proceedings will also be in the archive: obtain the file proc.info in the same directory for further information. malcolm clark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 18:54:04 EST From: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) Subject: BiBTeX Switches Keywords: BibTeX, switches > I read with interest Tom Scheider's article in TeXhax Vol 90, Issue 22 about > having a "flip switch" in BibTeX which you can invoke from the source file > with \nocite{TitlesOn}. I didn't know this was possible. Can Tom or someone > else post a short piece of BibTeX code fragment showing how it's implemented? > Charles Karney > Plasma Physics Laboratory E-mail: Karney@ccc.nmfecc.gov The basic idea is that, before doing anything else, BiBTeX can run through the references to find ones with special key strings like "TitlesOn". This is used to determine the state of a boolean variable, "givetitles". Then the printing of the titles becomes dependent on the state of this variable. Finally, one must avoid printing the article that has the citation key "TitlesOn"! I have cut out the relevant parts of the code and put them together below. (This is only to show how the method works.) *********************************************************** % Define the boolean variable, "givetitles" (along with others) INTEGERS { output.state before.all mid.sentence after.sentence after.block docomma givetitles } % Set the value of "givetitles" FUNCTION {init.toggle.switches} {% set switches for controlling the output! #0 'givetitles := % if it is 0 then don't give titles, otherwise do them. } *********************************************************** FUNCTION {check.for.titlecommand} % go through an entry and see if it has the key % 'TitlesOn'. If this is found, then do titles! { % "|" label "|" * * write$ newline$ % gives: |Arrhenius {\em et~al.}, 1986| % "|" cite$ "|" * * write$ newline$ % gives: |Arrhenius1986| % so cite$ is the thing I want to detect, not label$... cite$ "TitlesOn" = { % got it! "Titles Will Be Printed" warning$ #1 'givetitles := % give titles! } 'skip$ if$ } EXECUTE {init.toggle.switches} % initialize the toggle ITERATE {check.for.titlecommand} % see if it should be flipped *********************************************************** % In the actual title printing function, if givetitles is 1, % the title will be printed, otherwise not FUNCTION {format.title} { title empty$ { "" } { % decide whether to give the title or not givetitles #1 = { title "t" change.case$ } % produce the title { title pop$ "" } % don't produce the title if$ } if$ } *********************************************************** % When printing articles, avoid printing the TitlesOn article! FUNCTION {article} { cite$ "TitlesOn" = 'skip$ % Don't write out an article of this kind, it's a toggle switch! { % remainder of the article function continues here! } } *********************************************************** In the bibliography (.bib file) one has: @article{TitlesOn, author = "TitlesOn", title = "TitlesOn", journal = "TitlesOn", volume = "TitlesOn", year = "1900", comment = "If this is nocited, then titles will be turned on in JMB style"} *********************************************************** In the LaTeX file (.tex) one simply does: text text text \cite{TitlesOn}. *********************************************************** Notice that any citation of TitlesOn anywhere in the LaTeX file will turn titles on for all references. Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21701-1013 toms@ncifcrf.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 90 23:11 CST From: Subject: Blackboard bold Keywords: fonts, blackboard bold As a former physics student now teaching mathematics, I think I can explain the popularity of the blackboard bold font. (See messages of Victor Miller, Vol. 90 No. 16, and Michael Barr, Vol. 90 No. 22.) It stems from the failure of mathematics teachers to explain what they are doing. In physics and engineering texts, boldface letters are almost always vectors, which are marked on the blackboard with an arrow, not a double stem. But generations of students have seen their professors write a double-stemmed R to denote the real numbers, without ever being told that this is a convention for hand-writing boldface. Consequently, the professions that apply mathematics (and, I suspect, many young mathematicians) are under the impression that there is a special font whose sole purpose is to provide symbols for the real and complex numbers and other algebraic systems. As such it exists in journals such as the Journal of Mathematical Physics, where the editors call it "open", not "blackboard bold". I did not learn that "R" and "C" are merely boldface until I read the TeXbook at the age of 40. S. A. Fulling Mathematics Dept. Texas A&M University ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%Moderator's note: The following three selections appeared in %%TeXMaG V3N4. Date: Sat, 3 Mar 1990 17:13:29.43 CST From: Subject: Improved font selection in LaTeX (TeXMaG V3N4) Keywords: TeXMaG By Rainer M. Schoepf In recent TeXhax several people have asked how to change the font selection mechanism of LaTeX to be more flexible, e.g., to typeset the whole document in a sans serif typeface, with \bf switching to sans serif bold, \it or \em to sans serif italic, using the Euler fonts or DEK's concrete roman family, etc. We have implemented such a scheme which will be published in the forthcoming issue of TUGboat. This scheme is not limited to LaTeX, although we do not provide an interface to other macro packages yet. Characteristics: - Space requirements of about the same size as the original lfonts.tex - Takes about the same time to switch fonts as standard LaTeX - Preloaded and load-on-demand fonts are treated exactly the same way, even in math mode We are planning to make the relevant files available at the usual places (Clarkson, etc.) in the near future. Interested parties (i.e. server managers) should contact us and specify which format they prefer (BITNET file transfer, UNIX or VMS shell archives). The code is documented with the `doc' option developed at Mainz, (cf. TUGboat) which will be distributed via the same channels. Frank Mittelbach Rainer Sch\"opf Reply to: (Internet) or: (Bitnet/EARN) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 1990 17:13:29.43 CST From: Subject: Introducing LaTeX-help (TeXMaG V3N4) Keywords: TeXMaG By Max Hailpern All sites with LaTeX should have one or more LaTeX experts to help users. Those experts communicate with each other about difficult problems through various forums, including the TeXhax mailing list. Lately, many sites have installed LaTeX without having, acquiring, or developing a LaTeX expert. Many simple LaTeX questions from those sites have been posted directly to TeXhax, clogging it and prompting redundant replies. Therefore, a number of TeXhax subscribers have formed a volunteer LaTeX question answering corps. LaTeX users with questions should take the following steps: 1) Read the manual very carefully, including a careful check of the index. Most questions are answered there. 2) Check whether anyone locally can answer your question. Consider not only paid systems staff but also more experienced users. Similarly, if you paid a commercial company good money for LaTeX, you should demand customer support from them--after all LaTeX is available for free. 3) See if you can work it out yourself, and in the process build LaTeX expertise, by use of careful test cases, tracing mode, examining the LaTeX source files, etc. Don't go crazy if you're a non-programmer, but give it a shot. 4) If all of the above fail, *don't* send mail to TeXhax. Instead, send mail to LaTeX-help@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU. Your mail will automatically be forwarded to a member of the volunteer corps, in a round-robin rotation. You should hear back shortly, either with a solution to your problem, a request for additional information, or the remark that it exceeded the volunteer's abilities and has been forwarded to other experts, including further volunteers and the TeXhax mailing list. If you don't hear anything after waiting a reasonable period, write to LaTeX-help-coordinator@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU with as much information about your original mailing as you have, and I'll try to track down how it got lost. Please do not abuse this service. We volunteers have lots of work of our own to do, and will not continue volunteering if the burden is excessive. Make sure you try steps 1-3 before step 4, and always be eager to help others locally who are a step behind you. Also, join TUG (the TeX Users' Group) if you haven't and avail yourself of their classes and publications to develop in-house LaTeX expertise. If you have any questions or comments on this, please write to LaTeX-help-coordinator@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU -- not directly to the current person holding that position, as it may change. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 1990 17:13:29.43 CST From: Subject: Announcing TeX-Euro (TeXMaG V3N4) Keywords: TeXMaG By Joachim Lammarsch Dear TeX friends, to communicate with other TeX users there are a lot of possibilities: - TUGboat - TeXhax - UKTeX - TeXmag These are all digests and the UKTeX is the only one which appears weekly (TUGboat three or four times a year, TeXhax in uncertain periods and TeXmag sporadicly). Three further lists are used in Europe (EARN): - GUT - TEX_D-L - TEX_D-PC These are lists, which distribute each note (mail) separately. The languages which are used, are French and German. That's all I know. In my opinion no real European list exists distributing each note (mail) separately and at once. Therefore I am trying to start a list for use in whole Europe. The language should be different (not only English, French or German). To my mind onyone should use the language which is necessary to solve his problem. For example a Spanish TeX user having a question concerning only Spanish affairs means it's only about interest for Spanish people. Then he can (should) use his own language. On the other side he can use the English language hoping for more help. I suppose that most TeX users in Europe understand this language. So we'll be able to use English as the only language, but considering that Europe is a multilingual continent, we should also use the other ones if it will be useful. I have named the list TEX-EURO and it is installed at the LISTSERV at DHDURZ1 To subscribing you should send the command SUB TEX-EURO your_name to your nearest listserver or to LISTSERV@DHDURZ1. The list is thought for use in Europe, but all TeX users outside are invited to join to it, if they are interested in it. I hope that TEX-EURO is a possibility for all the TeX people in Europe, all the European national groups to get in touch for better cooperation. With kind regards Joachim Lammarsch (Chairman DANTE) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 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 ************************** -------