Subject: TeXhax Digest V90 #35 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 25, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 35 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 -> ASCII converter? Japanese font search lookbibtex Book on WEB and thanks Re: What journals accept TeX/LaTeX source? METAFONT Mac TeX/LaTeX I'll trade Re: I'll trade New version of fancyheadings.sty LaTeX, citations, brackets cropmark.sty VAX DVI2LN3 driver DVI program for QMS Lasergrafic 800 on VMS/VAX. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 14:56:28 PST From: pjs@aristotle.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Peter Scott) Subject: TeX -> ASCII converter? Keywords: TeX, Ascii converter I remember from not so long ago discussion within these bytes of programs to produce an ASCII approximation of TeX output. Obviously there will always be things you cannot represent and so it is an unattractive project, but it now turns out that we have such an application and the TeX source in question doesn't do anything that an ASCII converter couldn't represent. Does anyone have such a program? I don't remember seeing any postings of actual announcements, only discussions of the problem. Please reply by e-mail and I'll summarize if appropriate. Peter Scott (pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 21:52:50 -0900 From: "JOSEPH G EIDELBERG" Subject: Japanese font search Keywords: Japanese font Hello netters: Is it possible that someone has developed a metafont that does the Kanji character set. Or maybe some other non-tex :-( proggie/text-processor that outputs postscript???? yes i realize that this ? ranks right up there in the top 10 texhax questions but really i want to know!!! thanks a million Joe Eidelberg ftjge@acad3.fai.alaska.edu -- re-elect bush campaign ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 08:40 PST From: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: lookbibtex Keywords: lookbibtex lookbibtex has been moved to a new directory on ymir.claremont.edu; it can be found in [anonymous.tex.utilities.lookbibtex] I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. -dh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 05:42 CST From: Subject: Book on WEB and thanks Keywords: WEB, book Recently I requested any information on versions of WEB for other languages and on a book dealing with WEB. I recieved quite a few messages asking me to forward the info on the book. Due to a problem with the print que here, I lost most of those adresses (I know I should not have deleted the mail until I got the prinout, but oh well). Anyway, I'm posting one response I got for all those interested. And thanks for all of you who did respond. I think I'm on my way to getting the hang of WEB. I do have a few remarks that I will probably be posting one of these days, but it is 5:31am and I'm going on my half a spring break in 3 1/2 hours. Thanks again for all those who answered. Tom tjt7850@tamvenus.bitnet >Doubtless you have had no end of replies regarding Wayne Sewell, >{\it Weaving a Program: Literate Programming in WEB,} (1989) Van >Nostrand Reinhold, New York. ISBN 0-442-31946-0. > >Still, just in case... > >The appendix mentions no sources for C per se, but that UNIX versions >are available from > >MacKay@June.CS.Washington.edu > > ---Al Wesolowsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 10:50:00 CST From: wri!lisa@uunet.uu.net Subject: Re: What journals accept TeX/LaTeX source? Keywords: Journal, TeX, LaTeX source The Mathematica Journal, published by Addison-Wesley accepts both TeX and LaTeX source. The first issue has not yet been released but you can receive a preview issue and any other information by calling 415/594-4442. Lisa Shipley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 20:33:32 EDT From: Naji Younes Subject: METAFONT Keywords: METAFONT Hi, Where could I find a ready-to-run version of the METAFONT program for MSDOS on an IBM PC? I have been told that the program exists as a large WEB file. Unfortunately, the PASCAL compiler at my disposal chokes on large programs --- an EXE version of METAFONT would be great. Naji Younes Statistics Department George Washington University -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 13:42:57 GMT From: David Shepherd Subject: Mac TeX/LaTeX Keyowrds: Mac TeX/LaTeX Anyone with experience of Mac TeXs like to handle this one ???? david shepherd INMOS ltd >Date: Tue, 13 Mar 90 18:44:22 EST >From: drc@cs.brown.edu >To: latex-help@sumex-aim.stanford.edu >Subject: I'll trade > >I'm thinking about buying a Mac-based TeX system, but it must run >LaTeX (I'd like to be able for it to do a little more than that, too). >Any recommendations? (cost, speed, previewerP, flexibility all count >in the decision. Postscript/Quickdraw inclusion is also a big big win). > >I can do a reasonable job of answering some LaTeX questions, though >I'm probably not a guru. I set my thesis in LaTeX, and wrote a fairly >nasty macro for drawing twisty arrows in LaTeX. I've also installed >it numerous times with little or no hand-holding from anyone else. >I'm somewhat unemployed right now (you may have heard of the Olivetti >layoff) but I log in to Brown at night often. > >Yours, > >David Chase -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 15:55:18 +0100 From: jourdan@minos.inria.fr (Martin Jourdan) Subject: I'll trade Keywords: Mac, TeX I believe that OzTeX should answer most, if not all, of your requirements. In addition, it is free! You may pick it up by anonymous ftp from watmsg.waterloo.edu (129.97.129.9), directory pub/oztex. Commercial packages include TeXtures (contact Kellerman & Smith, 534 SW Third Avenue, Portland, OR 97204) and MacTeX (FTL Systems, 234 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 205, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 1K5 -- also distributed by Personal TeX, Inc., 12 Madrona Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941) (sorry, I don't have the phone numbers!). I've heard that the latter is somewhat better than the former. Hope this helps. Martin Jourdan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 17:42 PST From: DHOSEK@hmcvax.claremont.edu Subject: Re: I'll trade Keywords: TeX, Macintosh, OzTeX, TeXtures There are currently two options for TeX on the Macintosh: o Textures (no capital 'x' any more): This product is a bit pricey (with LaTeX, it's around $750, I believe). But it's a nice system, fast, and well-featured. The editor leaves a little to be desired, but with the growing availability of good DA editors on the Mac, that's not as big of an issue as it used to be. If you decide to buy it, get it from the TeX Users Group so that they get the vendor royalty. TeX Users Group P.O. Box 9506 Providence, RI 02940-9506 Phone: 401-751-7760 o OzTeX: You can't beat the price on this one. It's free (public domain even). It comes with source, but it's a hand translation of Modula 2, so that might not help all that much. The nice (or not) feature of this program is that it uses PK and TFM files directly (unlike Textures which bundles them into Mac formats). This program can be FTP'd from tank.uchicago.edu in pub/sources/OzTeX. x MacTeX: This *used* to be available. As near as anyone can tell, the manufacturer, FTL, has disappeared from the face of the earth. This version, if you can somehow manage to locate it, was PostScript-specific and used outline versions of the CM and LaTeX fonts which were available for an extra fee (only math fonts were supplied by default). -dh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 20:48:58 -0100 From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Subject: New version of fancyheadings.sty Keywords: LaTeX, fancyheadings.sty I am going to write a new version of fancyheadings.sty. I plan to add a few parameters, defaulting to the current behaviour. E.g. the vertical space next to the rule in the header/footer and the widths of the boxes containing the parts of the headers/footers. I want to keep the thing upwardly compatible and simple to use. I will also write new documentation, in LaTeX, with examples and caveats. If you have suggestions, please MAIL them to me. 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!ruuinf!piet ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 09:18:41 +0100 From: jourdan@minos.inria.fr (Martin Jourdan) Subject: LaTeX, citations, brackets Keywords: LaTeX, citations, brackets Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 15:11:12 AST From: eric%SPR.USask.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu I want to change LaTeX so it prints citations with round "(" instead of square "[" brackets.... The LaTeX code which actually produces the citations in the text is \def\@cite#1#2{[{#1\if@tempswa , #2\fi}]} That which produces the labels for the references in the bibliography (i.e., for a \bibitem) is \def\@biblabel#1{[#1]\hfill} So your problem can be solved simply by replacing the square brackets by parentheses, as follows: \def\@cite#1#2{({#1\if@tempswa , #2\fi})} \def\@biblabel#1{(#1)\hfill} Note that, because of the use of @ inside command names, you HAVE to put that code into a style file, say "citeparens.sty", and invoke it in the \documentstyle line \documentstyle[...,citeparens,...]{...} Note that it is possible that some style files redefine these macros, but I couldn't find any "standard" one that does, so this should prove compatible with almost anything. Best regards, Martin Jourdan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 10:28 From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-D at UCL) To: texhax <@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK:texhax@june.cs.washington.edu> Subject: cropmark.sty Keywords: LaTeX, style file, cropmarks Here is a LaTeX style which adds cropmarks at the four corners of a page, in order to indicate the dimensions of the page of paper on which the text is printed. It makes some modifications to the LaTeX output routine, so it will not co-exist with other styles which make their own mods to the output routine. Happily, such styles are rare, so cropmark.sty should be pretty generally useable. You set the size of your paper in cropmark.sty itself, as indicated, and include it as an optional style, thus: \documentstyle[cropmark]{book} (or article, or whatever) Enjoy. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % cropmark.sty, for use with LaTeX 2.09 % ver. 1 % January 11, 1990 % Dominik Wujastyk % Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine % 183 Euston Road % London NW1 2BP % England % JANET: wujastyk@uk.ac.ucl.euclid % Internet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu % % % | | % | | % --- --- % This is a LaTeX style that % prints crop marks (or corner % rules) at the four corners of % the page, to help with % cutting and pasting. % Loosely based on Knuth's % \setcornerrules (TeXbook, % pp.416f.). % --- --- % | | % | | % % % % Usage: set the two parameters \@@@paperheight and \@@@paperwidth below % to the size you wish: these are the distances between the rules. % % Then include this style as a LaTeX style option: % \documentstyle[cropmarks]{book (or whatever)} % % That's it. Enjoy. Bug reports and improvements, please. % % \newdimen\@@@paperwidth \newdimen\@@@paperhmargin \newdimen\@@@paperheight \newdimen\@@@papervmargin % % Set the desired paper size here: % \@@@paperheight=8.5in \@@@paperwidth=3.89in % \def\@@@line{\hbox to \textwidth} % % Definition of \topticks and \botticks % \def\topticks{\vbox to 0pc{% \vskip-36.2pt % = the depth of the following vertical list \vskip-\@@@papervmargin \@@@line{\llap{\vrule width.2pt height2pc depth0pt\kern\@@@paperhmargin}\hfil \rlap{\kern\@@@paperhmargin\vrule width.2pt height2pc depth0pt}}\nointerlineskip \kern1pc \@@@line{\llap{\vrule width2pc height.2pt depth0pt\kern1pc\kern\@@@paperhmargin}\hfil \rlap{\kern\@@@paperhmargin\kern1pc\vrule width2pc height.2pt depth0pt}}% \kern\@@@papervmargin}} \def\botticks{\vbox to 0pt{% \vskip\@@@papervmargin \@@@line{\llap{\vrule width2pc height.0pt depth.2pt\kern1pc\kern\@@@paperhmargin}\hfil \rlap{\kern\@@@paperhmargin\kern1pc\vrule width2pc height0pt depth.2pt}}\nointerlineskip \kern1pc \@@@line{\llap{\vrule width.2pt height0pt depth2pc\kern\@@@paperhmargin}\hfil \rlap{\kern\@@@paperhmargin\vrule width.2pt height0pt depth2pc}}% \vskip-\@@@papervmargin \vskip-36.2pt}} % = the depth of the preceding vertical list % % Modified LaTeX output routine: % \def\@outputpage{\begingroup\catcode`\ =10 % Do the following calculations inside \@ouputpage so that the % most current values of the page dimensions are used. \advance\@@@paperwidth by -\textwidth \divide\@@@paperwidth by 2 \@@@paperhmargin=\@@@paperwidth % \advance\@@@paperheight by -\headheight \advance\@@@paperheight by -\headsep \advance\@@@paperheight by -\textheight \advance\@@@paperheight by -\footskip \divide\@@@paperheight by 2 \@@@papervmargin=\@@@paperheight % \let\-\@dischyph \let\'\@acci \let\`\@accii \let\=\@acciii \if@specialpage \global\@specialpagefalse\@nameuse{ps@\@specialstyle}\fi \if@twoside \ifodd\count\z@ \let\@thehead\@oddhead \let\@thefoot\@oddfoot \let\@themargin\oddsidemargin \else \let\@thehead\@evenhead \let\@thefoot\@evenfoot \let\@themargin\evensidemargin \fi\fi \shipout \vbox{\normalsize \baselineskip\z@ \lineskip\z@ \let\par\@@par %% 15 Sep 87 \vskip \topmargin \moveright\@themargin \vbox{\topticks \setbox\@tempboxa \vbox to\headheight{\vfil \hbox to\textwidth {\let\label\@gobble \let\index\@gobble \@thehead}} %% 22 Feb 87 \dp\@tempboxa\z@ \box\@tempboxa \vskip \headsep \box\@outputbox \baselineskip\footskip \hbox to\textwidth{\let\label\@gobble \let\index\@gobble %% 22 Feb 87 \@thefoot}% \nointerlineskip\botticks}}% \global\@colht\textheight \endgroup\stepcounter{page}\let\firstmark\botmark} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 90 10:24 EST From: DELECKI%NRCCIT.NRC.CA@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: VAX DVI2LN3 driver Keywords: VAX DVIdrivers To VAX-TeXhaxers, At the National Research Council Canada in Winnipeg, we are using a TeX package acquired from Maria Code. We have a problem with commiting the output to LN03 plus laser-writer. Below are settings we use (matched to settings of another installation where the driver works). Our VAX8530 is running VMS 5.2 and we have DVI2LN3 V.7. The LN03 laser-writer also has one RAM cartridge installed. The effect of the print is always the same: a blank page (rulers are printed). Can anybody give us advise, what is wrong with our settings? Andrew Delecki TeX user group at NRC Winnipeg %___________________________attachment----------------------------------- Terminal settings are: Terminal queue CIIT85_LASER, on CIIT85::TXA7:, mounted form DEFAULT /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /BLOCK_LIMIT=200 /DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=DEFAULT) Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROTECTION=(S:E,O:D,G:R,W:W) /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE) Baud rate is 19200. Terminal: _TXA7: Device_Type: LN03 Owner: SYMBIONT_0003 Username: SYSTEM Terminal Characteristics: Interactive Echo Type_ahead No Escape No Hostsync TTsync Lowercase Tab Wrap Hardcopy No Remote Eightbit No Broadcast No Readsync Form Fulldup No Modem No Local_echo No Autobaud No Hangup No Brdcstmbx No DMA No Altypeahd Set_speed No Line Editing Overstrike editing No Fallback No Dialup No Secure server No Disconnect No Pasthru No Syspassword SIXEL Graphics No Soft Characters No Printer Port Numeric Keypad No ANSI_CRT No Regis No Block_mode No Advanced_video No Edit_mode No DEC_CRT No DEC_CRT2 No DEC_CRT3 Device spooled to _HSC000$DUA0: %______________________________________________________________________________ Format of a file produced by DVI2LN03: %______________________________________________________________________________ POST.LN3;4 File ID: (5152,10,0) Size: 56/57 Owner: [DELECKI] Created: 8-MAR-1990 16:27:06.99 Revised: 8-MAR-1990 16:27:10.65 (1) Expires: Backup: File organization: Sequential File attributes: Allocation: 57, Extend: 0, Global buffer count: 0 Version limit: 2 Record format: Variable length, maximum 128 bytes Record attributes: Carriage return carriage control RMS attributes: None Journaling enabled: None File protection: System:RWED, Owner:RWED, Group:, World: Access Cntrl List: None --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 13:01:12 PST From: GLENNOX%CALSTATE.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: DVI program for QMS Lasergrafic 800 on VMS/VAX. Keywords: dviware, QMSLlasergrafic Could someone point me in the direction of a DVI program for a QMS 800 Lasergrafic, ours is hung on a VAX under VMS. We are running TeX 2.93a. If you respond with an INTERNET address could you please give the numbers and the name. =---> Bill Lennox Humboldt State University (Behind the redwood curtain) GLENNOX@CALSTATE.BITNET (707) - 826 - 4440 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 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 ************************** -------