(Message inbox:305) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 21:01:38 PDT From: TeXhax Digest Subject: TeXhax Digest V91 #017 Return-Path: root Return-Path: Errors-To: TeXhax-request@edu.washington.cs Apparently-To: Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List: cs.washington.edu@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay PP_warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line Reply-To: TeXhax@edu.washington.cs Sender: texhax-request@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay TeXhax Digest Saturday, April 13, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 017 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: %%Moderator`s note: Please pardon the disruption in TeXhax delivery, %%We have just switched from a VAX 8550 to Dec 5500, and we`ve been %%ironing out the process. Announcing DVItoLN03 V4.0 for VAX/VMS art14 style Astronomical Symbols MF for old English available from ymir.claremont.edu mode_def collection modes.mf 0.4 released Karl Berry's MODES available at FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 MAR 91 17:10:55 GMT From: TEX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk Subject: Announcing DVItoLN03 V4.0 for VAX/VMS Keywords: dvitoln03, VAX/VMS (The following announcement appeared three weeks ago in UKTeX; I have deferred the announcment in TeXhax until assured of the program's availability by anonymous FTP on the Internet. BHK 22-MAR-1991) DVItoLN03 Version 4.0 27th February 1991 This new release of DVItoLN03 provides support for virtual fonts, for mixing portrait and landscape orientation in a document (including on the same page) and for the newer DEClaser printers (LN05 & LN06), as well as managing to effect a 25% increase in speed: it has been placed in the UK TeX Archive as follows: Sources, documentation and other support: in [tex-archive.drivers.ln03.rmcs] -- get 00files.txt for details Binary files (can only be transferred to a VAX, using TRANSFER/CODE=FAST): in [tex-archive.binary.vms.drivers.dvitoln03] DVITOLN03.OBJ -- ought to link under any version of VMS DVITOLN03.EXE -- linked under VMS V5.3-1 DVITOLN03.BCK -- BACKUP save set containing the complete distribution; sites able to effect NIFTP can usefully fetch the whole shebang in one go. ************************************************************************ * * * Please ensure that you fetch and read the 00README.TXT file. * * * ************************************************************************ Internet Access =============== Thanks to the good offices of Sankara Rao and Don Hosek, the new version of DVItoLN03 is now available Stateside as follows (note that the .EXE file needs to be transferred as 512-byte fixed-length blocks; the .OBJ file is, of course, variable-length no-carriage_control. File DVItoLN03.SAVE_SET contains everything except the two .STY files as a backup save set, but is recorded as 32256-byte fixed-length blocks: being based in the UK, I don't know whether it's feasible to transfer such a file by anonymous FTP!) >From power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu [134.129.123.1] by anonymous FTP; files present as follows--- DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]00README.TXT;1 21/21 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]CHANGEBAR.STY;1 46/48 19-MAR-1991 18:1 6 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.HLP;13 25/30 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.LN3_PUBLISH;1 836/837 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.TEX_PUBLISH;12 255/258 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.CH;2 5/9 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.CLD;33 13/18 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.EXE;1 282/285 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.OBJ;1 455/456 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.SAVE_SET;2 3213/3213 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.WEB;16 902/906 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]GRAPHICS.STY;1 3/3 19-MAR-1991 18:1 6 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]LOCAL_GUIDES.BIB;45 16/18 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]OPENCLOSE.SIX;6 14/18 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]OPENCLOSE.SMALL;3 14/18 18-MAR-1991 09:0 7 >From ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23] by anonymous FTP; files present as follows--- LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.DRIVERS.UKLN03] 00FILES.TXT;1 3 13-MAR-1991 15:34 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) 00README.TXT;1 21 25-FEB-1991 18:53 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) CHANGEBAR.STY;1 46 21-MAR-1991 09:38 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.HLP;13 25 26-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.LN3_PUBLISH;1 836 25-FEB-1991 16:26 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.TEX_PUBLISH;12 255 25-FEB-1991 16:29 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.CH;2 5 27-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.CLD;33 13 26-FEB-1991 12:17 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.EXE;1 282 27-FEB-1991 12:16 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.OBJ;1 455 27-FEB-1991 12:15 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.WEB;16 902 27-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) GRAPHICS.STY;1 3 21-MAR-1991 09:38 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) LOCAL_GUIDES.BIB;45 16 21-FEB-1991 19:24 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) OPENCLOSE.SIX;6 14 21-AUG-1989 19:25 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) OPENCLOSE.SMALL;3 14 21-AUG-1989 19:26 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) Total of 2890 blocks in 15 files. Features and functions ====================== This implementation of DVItoLN03 has the following advantages over certain other DVItoLN03 programs (these are not in order of importance; the new features are at the end of the list): i) It IS written in WEB, as opposed to C and other such kludgy languages. ii) It downloads to the LN03's font memory the rasters for only those characters actually used in the document. As such, it does not run out of font memory just because you've used a few characters from each of a large number of different fonts. iii) It has a capacity for SIMPLE graphics inclusions. These have to be in a format the LN03 understands (DEC sixels), and are copied verbatim into the output file generated. (Can also manage Tektronix insertions on the LN03-plus.) iv) It works in landscape and portrait orientations. v) It makes use of the ``proper'' VAX/VMS DCL interface for commands. vi) It CAN print glyphs whose rasters are too large to be downloaded to the LN03 as a font file (by performing a sixel graphics dump of the bitmap); obviously this slows things down considerably! vii) It CAN handle the invisible fonts used by SliTeX; each such character is actually downloaded as a null character locator, ans is imaged by the appropriate amount of whitespace. viii) Either packed or unpacked font files (or both) may be provided in either flat or rooted directory structures; if logical names are used to specify these locations (as in the .CLD file provided), the files may be spread over a number of different directories or volumes. ix) The error messages are improved over earlier versions of the program, and are now all indexed in the woven (WEAVEd?) WEB. They are also all listed in the users' manual. x) The program can now handle fonts with more then 128 characters, up to TeX's limit of 256. Therefore, it can now process documents which use Silvio Levy's Greek fonts. xi) Retention of the log (.TYP) file may now be forced, suppressed, or allowe d to be determined by the success of the processing. xii) Minor revisions and corrections have been made, in particular, it now correctly understands the physical limitations to the imaging area. xiii) Correct some log reports; report files read (except font files); provide the /OUTPUT qualifier, to permit utilization of a scratch directory or direct spooling to the output device. xiv) Support for Flavio Rose \special commands, for drawing changebars, was added by Robin Fairbairns at Laser Scan of Cambridge, UK. xv) TeX Font Metrics (TFM files) are no longer sought in the hard-wired directory TEX$FONTS:, but are instead controlled through the /TFM_DIRECTORY qualifier. xvi) Support for Virtual Fonts; the .VF files are sought in whatever is specified as the value of the /VIRTUAL_DIRECTORY qualifier; users can speed processing fractionally by specifying /NOVIRTUAL_DIRECTORY if it is known that no virtual fonts are used in the document. If virtual fonts are never used at your site, make this the default. xvii) Fonts for which the program cannot find any rasters no longer cause the processing to be abandoned; solid rules of appropriate dimensions are substituted for each missing glyph. xviii)Landscape and portrait mode material may be mixed within a document, and even on a single page, through \special{landscape} and \special{portrait} . However, some suitable style option still needs to be written to make thi s feature useful rather than a curiosity! xix) Qualifiers /LEFT_MARGIN and /TOP_MARGIN now take a dimension (eg 1in) rather than being required to be entered in pixels; the additional called PX (pixel) has been added to TeX's normal set. xx) Support for the new DEClaser 2100 and 2200 printers has been provided by Karsten Nyblad of the Danish Telecomms Research Lab. Users can select th e paper source tray, separately for the first and subsequent sheets, and also the printing mode (simplex or duplex). There is even a duplex mode for the ordinary LN03 (no, it doesn't really print two-sided!) which, by interspersing blank sheets at appropriate points, produces a single-sided master suitable for photocopying directly to a double-sided document. xxi) Last, but definitely not least, the program has been speeded up, in both the font mapping and the imaging phases, so that overall it runs approximately 25% faster than V3.1-4. Author: B Hamilton Kelly Royal Military College of Science Shrivenham SWINDON UK SN6 8LA Swindon (++44 793) 785252 [Direct line] or via JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Bitnet: tex@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk UUCP: {mcsun,uunet,ukc}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex Good Luck! Brian HAMILTON KELLY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 16:50:24 GMT+1 From: tex@ait.physik.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: art14 style Keywords: LaTeX, book style A colleague of mine has to write his Ph.D. thesis very soon. This thesis must be printed out in DIN A size (approx. 8x12 inch) and will be reduced into 70% of its original size (appprox. 6x8 inch) in the press. He found out that reducing a 12pt document down to 70% is difficult to read, and therefore he is searching for a 14pt. book style. Does anybody out there know where I can get the appropriate style file (via anonymous FTP, if possible)? If "bk14" does not exist, an "art14" or "rep14" would also be very helpful. Thank you in advance, Volkmar Kuhnle TeX Manager tex@aitxu2.ait.physik.uni-tuebingen.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 13:21:02 CET From: Rainer Schoepf Subject: Astronomical Symbols Keywords: Astronomical Symbols In TeXhax 91/12 you asked how to print astronomical symbols. There is a Metafont source available from LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.bitnet (and from other servers as well). You should order PLANETS ZOOUUE from the MFSOURCE FILELIST by sending a message with the command GET PLANETS ZOOUUE MFSOURCE Dr. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh Heilbronner Str. 10 am Morgen schon so D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!'' Federal Republic of Germany Email: or ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 19:10 PST From: Don Hosek Subject: MF for old English available from ymir.claremont.edu Keywords: Metafont, old English Julian Bradfield's old English files are now available from ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.mf.cm.oe]. The readme file follows: This directory contains programs for Old English letters. The fonts created have: D capital eth d eth T capital thorn t thorn G capital yogh g yogh n Polish ogonek accent The thorn is the style that looks like p and b combined. The roman derived fonts (i.e. not cmoeti10) also have u lower-case thorn with side bowl pointing top right (the traditional shape; I happen to think that the other shape blends better with CM); this code is Knuth's, from the cmman font. To make the fonts, just run Metafont on cmoer10 etc; other sizes and styles can be make by adapting the CM parameter and driver files in the obvious way. Julian Bradfield jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk dh Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 16:21:31 EST From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: mode_def collection modes.mf 0.4 released Keywords: mode_def I have released version 0.4 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/modes.mf I will also send it to you by email if you cannot ftp. It is about 30K. This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's (probably close to all of them). It also makes common definitions for write-white printers and `special' information. If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, please send them to me. I would also appreciate getting definitive information on the NEC and/or Epson printers. (Notes in the file reflect the current state of confusion.) karl@cs.umb.edu mode_def AgfaFourZeroZero = % AGFA 400PS mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga. mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi mode_def boise = % HP 2680A mode_def CanonCX = % e.g., Apple LaserWriter mode_def CanonLBPTen = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10 mode_def CanonSX = % Canon SX mode_def ChelgraphIBX = % Chelgraph IBX mode_def CItohThreeOneZero = % CItoh 310 mode_def CompugraphicEightSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 8600 mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS mode_def DataDisc = % DataDisc mode_def DataDiscNew = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover mode_def EpsonMXFX = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120dpi mode_def HPDeskJet = % HP DeskJet 500 mode_def IBMFourTwoFiveZero = % IBM 4250 mode_def IBMFourTwoOneSix = % IBM 4216 mode_def IBMThreeEightOneTwo = % IBM 3812 mode_def IBMThreeEightTwoZero = % IBM 3820 mode_def IBMVGA = % IBM VGA monitor mode_def imagewriter = % Apple ImageWriter mode_def laserjetlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi mode_def LASevenFive = % DEC LA75 mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZeroLo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZero = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi mode_def LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi mode_def LNZeroOne = % DEC LN01 mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor mode_def MacMagnified = % Mac screens at magstep 1 mode_def MacTrueSize = % Mac screens at 72dpi mode_def NECTwo = % NEC 2 at 120dpi mode_def NECPSixLo = % NEC P6/P7 at 180dpi mode_def NECPSixMed = % NEC P6/P7 at 360x180dpi mode_def NECPSixHi = % NEC P6/P7 at 360dpi mode_def NeXTprinter = % NeXT 400dpi mode_def NeXTscreen = % 100dpi NeXT monitor mode_def OCESixSevenFiveZeroPS = % OCE 6750PS mode_def okidata = % Okidata mode_def OneTwoZero = % e.g., high-resolution Suns mode_def PrintwareSevenTwoZeroIQ = % Printware 720IQ mode_def QMSOneTwoZeroZERO = % QMS 1200 mode_def RicohFourZeroEightZero = % e.g., the TI Omnilaser mode_def RicohLP = % e.g., the DEC LN03 mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at true size mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi mode_def VarityperSixZeroZero = % Varityper Laser 600 mode_def VAXstation = % VAXstation monitor mode_def XeroxThreeSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 3700 mode_def help = % What modes are defined? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 07:12:07 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: Karl Berry's MODES available at FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET Keywords: modes, fileserv, Karl Berry I needed to retrieve Karl Berry's modes.mf for local use anyway, so I thought I would make it available on FILESERV as well so that people without ftp access could easily retrieve it via MAIL. Below is the description file which a LIST MODES would yield at FILESERV. As a reminder, if you want a full listing of all packages we have available, please include the command LIST (or DIRECTORY) in the body of a MAIL message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET. If you have a package which can be supported via mail, please contact me directly and we can discuss putting it up for access. Regards, George MODES ----- MODES includes Karl Berry, et al.'s mode_def collection modes.mf 0.4. This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's (probably close to all of them). It also makes common definitions for write-white printers and `special' information. It is split into a two-part set for immediate transmittal on FILESERV. You will need to concatenate the two parts in order to recreate the MODES.MF file on your system. To receive both of the MODES.MF files required to rebuild this release, please send the command: SENDME MODES in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET. If, for some reason, you only need one part of this package, say, MODES.MF_1OF2, please MAIL the command SENDME MODES.MF_1OF2 to FILESERV. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save concatenated file as: MODES.MF MODES.MF_1OF2 32 MODES.MF_2OF2 29 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 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.nnn %%% yy = last two digits of current year %%% nnn = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest ************************** -------