TeXhax Digest   Friday, January 23, 1987   Volume 87 : Issue 05
                                             <TEX>TEXHAX05.87

Editor: Malcolm Brown

Today's Topics:

                         BibTeX (non)features
                     including PostScript in TeX
                        IBM Printer Utilities
                         ArborText's software
                       Doublespacing in AmSTeX
                       Metafont vs Linotron 100
                   Metafont command line on TOPS-20
          Incorporating program listings in LaTeX documents?
                      Indexing option for LaTeX?
          Rochester LaTeX Style repository available in U.K.
                       how do you get of space?

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Date: 18 Jan 87 12:24:16 EST (Sun)
From: Jean-Francois Lamy <utai!lamy@seismo.CSS.GOV>
To: texhax@score.stanford.edu
Subject: BibTeX (non)features
In-Reply-To: Your message of 18 Jan 87 00:54:41 GMT.

This is a request for a capability to retrieve BibTeX database entries by key
and be able to use their fields when formatting the current entry (i.e. after
all the entries have been hash-coded and sorting has been done)

When I saw that BibTeX had both @PROCEEDINGS and @INPROCEEDINGS entries I
expected that there would be a way to type the information about a conference
only once (in the PROCEEDINGS) entry, and have BibTeX fish out the necessary
details for INPROCEEDINGS entry.  It is frustrating to have to correct entries
for 10 articles because you misspelled the name of the city...

This would require a field in INPROCEEDINGS to contain the key of the
corresponding PROCEEDINGS entry, and BibTeX's toy language would have to be
extended to allow for retrieving it (at present it can only talk about the
entry currently being formatted)

Another use for the ability to retrieve entries in the Database when
constructing the format for the current entry is to handle hard to get
seminal articles that appear elsewhere, e.g.

Bla Bla Bla, Addison-Wesley, 1916. Reprinted in Foo Bar Baz, 1986.

The crucial point here is that Foo Bar Baz has to be formatted according
to its entry type, so another extension to the language may be needed
(since there is no way to call the formatting routine from the unnamed
language)

As a final note, does anyone have a .bst file for the "Harvard" Format, e.g.
   Hayes, P.J. (1984a) The second naive physics manifesto, ...
In this format the cite command would produce the year with the appropriate
suffix.

Jean-Francois Lamy 		       CSNet:  lamy@ai.toronto.edu
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science     ARPA:   lamy%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net
University of Toronto		       EAN:    lamy@ai.toronto.cdn
Toronto, ON, Canada		       UUCP:   lamy@utai.uucp
M5S 1A4				       BITNET: lamy@ai.utoronto

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 87 03:05:43 EST
From: trevor@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Trevor Darrell)
Posted-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 87 03:05:43 EST
To: laser-lovers@ward.cs.washington.edu, texhax@score.stanford.edu
Subject: including PostScript in TeX 

psfig/TeX -- include PostScript (and Macintosh) figures inside a TeX document.


Psfig/TeX is a new macro package for TeX that facilitates the inclusion
of arbitrary PostScript figures into TeX documents. Figures are automatically
scaled and positioned on the page, and the proper amount of space is reserved.
Custom characters may be created and used freely throughout a document. Since
the Macintosh drawing applications produce PostScript, they can be used to
create figures.

\begin{sales pitch}
The most appealing feature of psfig/tex is its clean user interface;
whenever possible assumptions are made about where the figure should go and
what size it should be, so the user need not explicitly specify anything but
the name of the figure. Psfig/tex searces the file for it's bounding box 
comment to find its natural size if the size is not specified, or in order
to scale it evenly (if the user only specifies a height or a width but not
both). The figure is always placed at the current TeX pen position, and 
the PostScript enviornemnt is the "standard" (ie non-dvips) one. Of course,
all default actions may be overridden in a reasonable way. Lots of options.
\end{sales pitch}

System Requirements:
Right now dvips (from TextSet or ArborText or whatever they are calling
themselves this week) is the only supported postprocessor. Porting
to dvi2ps hasn't yet been done, but should not be difficult. 


**> Psfig/TeX is available via anonymous ftp at linc.cis.upenn.edu (10.4.0.96
and 128.91.2.8). <** (see below for uucp)

The main shar file is pub/psfigtex.shar (~100K); a full PostScript copy
of the documentation is in pub/psfigtex.ps (~0.8MB); some expensive figures
used in the documentation but not included in the shar file are in 
pub/figs/fancyimage.ps and pub/figs/psfig.ps.1 (about a half meg combined).

If you don't have the expensive figures and run off a copy of the
documentation, the figures will come out in draft mode (just a filename,
no figure). Since these two figres are roughly 4 times as large as all 
the other figures, source, and text combined, I kept them separate.
The full PostScript copy has the expensive figures.

psfigtex.shar is also being posted to mod.sources. If people in uucp land cant
wait that long I may be able to mail out some copies; send me your mailbox
relative to some arpanet relay.

horror stories, comments, suggestions, sucess stories, and other assorted
trivia can be sent to trevor@grasp.cis.upenn.edu or linc.cis.upenn.edu.

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Date:  Mon, 19 Jan 87 14:19 EST
From:  O'Boyle@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Subject:  IBM Printer Utilities
To:  texhax@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU

Question:  Are current versions of the IBM Printer Utilities as
     distributed on the TeX tapes available for FTP anywhere?

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From: bwb%arbortext@umix.cc.umich.edu
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 87 16:09:53 EST
To: TeXhax@Score.Stanford.EDU
Subject: ArborText's software

    An item was recently posted to TeXhax that contained some incorrect
    information about the TeX software products distributed by ArborText
    (formerly Textset). 

    All ArborText products support the most current release of TeX including
    support for the CMR fonts in GF, PK, or PXL formats. 

    Many of our customers have obtained our products after careful evaluation
    of public domain and commercial software. Others use some of our
    products in conjunction with public domain software. Our customers value
    the support that we offer, and we believe a fairer evaluation of our
    support services could be made by our customers rather than by individuals
    who have no direct experience with our organization.

    Our products are not intended to "compete" with the public domain. In fact,
    we believe interest in commercial TeX products has grown as a result of the 
    unusually large and active community using public domain implementations
    of TeX and other related software. We are thus indebted to the fine efforts
    of many of the active contributors to this mailing list.
  
    Bruce Baker, ArborText

    Disclaimer: I work for ArborText.

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Date:         Tue, 20 Jan 87 14:13:25 EST
From:           Steve Buyske  <ST401266%BROWNVM.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU>
To:  TEXHAX%SCORE.STANFORD.EDU@WISCVM.ARPA
Subject:      Doublespacing in AmSTeX

    Is there a good way to alter the amsppt style (for AmSTeX) to
allow double-spacing for copy-editing?
    While I'm at it, is there a repository of AmSTeX style sheets out there
somewhere?

    Thanks,
    Steve Buyske
    ST401266 at BROWNVM.BITNET

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Date: 20 Jan 87 21:40:22 EST (Tue)
From: Jean-Francois Lamy <utai!lamy@seismo.CSS.GOV>
To: texhax@score.stanford.edu
Subject: Metafont vs Linotron 100

Does anybody have a suitable set of Metafont parameters for
a Linotron 100 typesetter?
I would also be interested to communicate with anyone producing TeX output
on very high resolution PostScript devices.

Jean-Francois Lamy 		       CSNet:  lamy@ai.toronto.edu
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science     ARPA:   lamy%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net
University of Toronto		       EAN:    lamy@ai.toronto.cdn
Toronto, ON, Canada		       UUCP:   lamy@utai.uucp
M5S 1A4				       BITNET: lamy@ai.utoronto

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Date: Wed 21 Jan 87 08:34:37-CST
From: Donald Blais <CC.BLAIS@R20.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject: Metafont command line on TOPS-20
To: texhax@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU

METAFONT, Tops-20 Version 1.0 (preloaded base=plain 86.2.4), gives
the following results to MF commands depending on whether or not a
leading semicolon is included.  Is this the expected behavior?

@mf \nonstopmode;mode=imagen;mag=1.0;input cmcsc10
CMCSC10.300GF
@mf; \nonstopmode;mode=imagen;mag=1.0;input cmcsc10
CMCSC10.300GF

@mf ;\nonstopmode;mode=imagen;mag=1.0;input cmcsc10
CMCSC10.2602GF
@mf; ;\nonstopmode;mode=imagen;mag=1.0;input cmcsc10
CMCSC10.2602GF

@mf\nonstopmode;mode=imagen;mag=1.0;input cmcsc10
?Unrecognized command - Invalid character in filename - "mf"
@mf;\nonstopmode;mode=imagen;mag=1.0;input cmcsc10
?Unrecognized command - Invalid character in filename - "mf;"

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Date:    Thu, 22 Jan 87 11:19:31 GMT
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%sevax.prg.oxford.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
To: TeXHax <@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK:TeXHax@score.stanford.edu>
Subject: Incorporating program listings in LaTeX documents?

(I asked this ages ago on Unix-TeX with little result, but perhaps
someone has found a solution now...)

I need to include a lengthy group of program listings as an appendix in
a LaTeX document. Has anyone rebuilt the vgrind/tgrind programs so they
can be used to format listings which can be incorporated inside a LaTeX
environment? The idea would be to retain page styles, numbering and
other document style characteristics, but to produce emboldened keywords
etc in the listing. Ye Olde \tt font gets a bit wearing after a few
dozen pages...
                                                - Stephen Page

Programming Research Group    JANET       sdpage@uk.ac.ox.prg                
University of Oxford          ARPA (old)  sdpage%prg.oxford@ucl-cs.arpa      
11 Keble Road                 ARPA (new)  sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Oxford  OX1 3QD               UUCP        ...!ukc!ox-prg!sdpage
U.K.                          BITNET      sdpage%uk.ac.oxford.prg@AC.UK
                                
Tel. (0865) 273856 (direct line)
    +44-865-273856

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Date:    Thu, 22 Jan 87 11:52:48 GMT
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%sevax.prg.oxford.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
To: TeXHax <@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK:TeXHax@score.stanford.edu>
Subject: Indexing option for LaTeX?

In TeXHax volume 1, issue 6, Leslie Lamport released the excellent news that

    There should soon be an index-making facility for LaTeX. There's a
    preliminary version written as a Unix shell script, and Peehong Chen at
    Berkeley has volunteered to code it in C.

Is there any more recent news about this facility? Is the shell script
short enough to post to unix-tex? (Note: some of us in other corners of
the world cannot really FTP things from Arpa sites.)

Thanks          - S.

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Date:    Thu, 22 Jan 87 14:43:34 GMT
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%sevax.prg.oxford.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
To: Unix-TeX@ward.cs.washington.edu, TeXhax@score.stanford.edu
Subject: Rochester LaTeX Style repository available in U.K.

A complete set of the Rochester LaTeX style repository is held on one of
our machines at Oxford, to save transatlantic communications costs and
hassles for users of JANET. For the moment, people in the UK requiring
files from this archive should mail a note to me. We do not have any
automatic mechanism to reply to requests, so please be nice. If another
site has a better system they are welcome to volunteer!

                                                - Stephen Page

Programmi