UKTeX Digest Friday, 3 Jan 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 01 Today's Topics: {Q&A}: Gothic like style file ? Re: Footnotes in LaTeX tables (UKTeX Digest V91 #48) Re: UK-TeX Digest V91 #48 Re: UK-TeX Digest V91 #48 LaTeX 3 Project {Announcements}: PGFRAME available on FILESERV NFSS meets PostScript (again) label printing on sheets of labels {Archive News}: Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 31-DEC-1991 23:17:38.65 Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 12:59:52 +0000 From: axel kowald Subject: Gothic like style file ? I am interested in a style file (or any other solution) which allows me to create those nice, fancy, gothic like, big characters which can be seen at the start of sections in old books. I'm sure I'm not the first one to look for this kind of thing, but so far I couldn't find an appropriate style file. Any ideas ? Axel Axel Kowald, Laboratory of Mathematical Biology, N.I.M.R., The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, LONDON NW7 1AA, U.K. Tel: (+44) 081-959 3666 ext 2396 JANET: a_kowald@uk.ac.mrc.nimr INTERNET: a_kowald%nimr.mrc.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk EARN/BITNET: a_kowald%nimr.mrc.ac.uk@{cunyvm.cuny.edu|ukacrl} USENET: ...{uunet|mcsun}!ukc!nimr!a_kowald ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 17:03:37 +0000 From: SF_BROOKS@uk.ac.open.acs.vax Subject: Re: Footnotes in LaTeX tables (UKTeX Digest V91 #48) I suggest you refer to the LaTeX Manual, pages 99 and 156, Sue Brooks ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 91 11:54:18 +0000 From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Subject: Re: UK-TeX Digest V91 #48 Surely Sebastian's world-shaking announcements about the MS/DOS DVI- manipulating utilities should have appeared \stress {before} BHK's incredibly boring eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee allegedly boring statistics? I wonder how many of our readers simply gave up before ever reading SPQR's contribution? ** Phil. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 91 12:12:37 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Re: UK-TeX Digest V91 #48 oh phil did the earth shake for you too? but to be serious, if there are any more DOS users out there hankering for Unix-like life, and are TeXxies, then I can from recent experience heartily recommend a copy of the full Gnuemacs for MSDOS, and Kresten Krab Thorup's `auc-tex' emacs package for editing TeX files. Its a joy to type Ctrl-C e and be prompted with a list of available LaTeX environments .... Gnuemacs does require a 386 or more, and doesn't work under Windows, but its so nice having a real editor for a PC.... Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Jan 92 23:35:54 +0700 From: Joachim Lammarsch Subject: LaTeX 3 Project Concerning the discussion about the LaTeX project fund at the end of the last year I'll distribute the paper, which was presented at the TUG board meeting in Boston. The TUG board agreed in the importance of this project and decided as a support to build this fund. The sole purpose of the fund is to raise the money needed for the expenses as described in the paper (see below). By now the project has reached a state where it can and should be discussed in a wider audience. Therefore the project group decided to give public access to its discussion list. This list is intended for discussion of the LaTeX3 project. It's not thought for questions about LaTeX problems. These should be directed to the standard discussion lists like Info-TeX, TeX-Euro, ... To subscribe to the LATEX-L discussion list send the command SUB LATEX-L Firstname Familyname to your nearest LISTSERV. I urge everyone to support this project, because the development of a new LaTeX is very important. Season greetings Joachim Lammarsch (TUG Vice-President for DANTE, IBM VM/CMS Site Coordinator) - -------------------------------cut here------------------------------------- Subject: latex-project-fund.tex \documentstyle[a4]{article} \pagestyle{empty} %\addtolength{\topmargin}{-2cm} %\addtolength{\textheight}{6cm} %\parindent 15pt \setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1} \newcommand\AmSTeX{$\cal A$\lower.4ex\hbox{$\!\cal M\!$}$\cal S$\TeX} \newenvironment{ccii}{\par\sl[\leftskip 1em}{]\par} \newcommand{\phasetitle}[1]{{\bf #1\quad}\ignorespaces} \begin{document} \section{The \LaTeX3 Project Fund} \subsection{Frank Mittelbach\protect\\ Chris Rowley\protect\\[3pt]June 1991} \section{Proposal to TUG BoD} We are asking TUG to set up and administer a \LaTeX3 Project Fund. We are also asking them to publicize the \LaTeX3 Project and the Fund and to help in attracting wide-ranging support for them. More precisely, we are asking them to help us in obtaining contributions to this \LaTeX{}3 Fund from corporations, trusts and other external sources. Also, if they feel this is acceptable, to encourage TUG's individual and institutional members to contribute to the Fund and to seek the involvement and co-operation of other \TeX{} User Groups. \section{Information for TUG BoD} \subsection{Brief history} The decision to produce an improved and expanded version of \LaTeX{} was taken during the 1989 TUG conference at Stanford. It was the result of two meetings between Leslie Lamport and groups of \LaTeX{} users which were followed by detailed discussions between Frank Mittelbach and Leslie Lamport. A further meeting between Frank and Leslie in October 1990 led to a jointly agreed strategy for the rewrite and its relationship to the current version. Wider discussions have taken place about the various requirements for the new version, and a small group has produced prototype implementations of some parts of the system. A request for potential test-sites has produced an encouraging response. \subsection{Aims} The \LaTeX3 project will produce a public-domain document preparation system which combines the power and excellence of \TeX's typesetting capabilities with ease of use for authors, editors and designers. The most important principle, which is followed by the present \LaTeX{} and will guide the new project, is the separation of generic mark-up from visual formatting. The major difference in the new version will be the addition of a good interface through which designers can specify how classes of documents should be formatted and hence set up the style files which enable \TeX{} to typeset documents according to these specifications. It will also contain many detailed enhancements and extensions to cover wider classes of documents. The code will be designed and documented in a way that makes future maintenance and extensions straightforward. Full documentation of all parts of the system will be produced as part of the project and we intend to ensure easy and rapid conversion to the new version by producing and disseminating the required information and utilities for up-grading. We shall keep the TUG community, and especially providers of software (both public domain and commercial), fully informed about the progress of the project and its implications. We shall also provide training materials and set up full training programmes for all classes of users. \subsection{Schedule and finance} The technical director of the project is Frank Mittelbach and it will be managed by him and Chris Rowley. Work on the project has already started and it is scheduled to be completed by mid-1993. Since no-one is working full-time on this project, maintenance of this schedule is to some extent dependent on other future demands on their time. Progress so far has been good but it is becoming clear that maintenance of this record will depend on adequate financial support being available for the following: \begin{itemize} \item Timely enhancement of computer equipment and software for the core development team; \item Essential expenses (travel, accommodation, etc) for various meetings: of the project's core development team; with the testers; with publishers; with designers; with suppliers of related software. \end{itemize} Frank Mittelbach has already received sponsorship under DEC's European External Research Program (EERP) in the form of a hardware grant that will provide a suitable computer. Other members have received support from their employers in the form of time to work on the project and/or help with expenses to attend meetings. The following organizations are amongst the many who have already provided support of various types: \begin{quote} Addison-Wesley, AMS, Aston University, DEC, EDS Electronic Data Systems, Elsevier Science Publishers, Open University, Royal Military College of Science, Southampton University, TUG, UK \TeX{} Users Group, Universit\"atsrechenzentrum Heidelberg. \end{quote} \end{document} ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 16:15:50 -0600 From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade" Subject: PGFRAME available on FILESERV Cameron Smith agreed to allow us to include his pageframe documentstyle option and related documentation in our archives for your retrieval. Below is the FILESERV description file for the package (retained as PGFRAME) which also includes information about ftp retrieval from Niord. - --George =========================================================================== PGFRAME ------- The PGFRAME package includes the files associated with the pageframe documentstyle option by Cameron Smith as posted to comp.text.tex on December 3, 1991. THE COMPLETE SET OF FILES IN THIS PACKAGE SHOULD BE RETRIEVED TO ASSURE PROPER DOCUMENTATION. The pageframe document style option was written as an aid for people who are using LaTeX to make books. It assumes that the pages generated by LaTeX are printed on paper larger than the ultimate trimmed and bound size of the leaves of the book (for example, pages of a 7"x9" book printed on 8.5"x11" paper). The pageframe style option provides the following services: o Corner marks to serve as guides in trimming the page to final size o An identifying line of text (commonly called a tag line) across the top of each printed page, outside the final trim area, containing: - the name of the job that produced the page (this is the name of the main input file), - the time and date when the job was run, - the folio (the number of the page in the document's own numbering system---this number may be a roman numeral, and it may not be unique within the document), and - the absolute sequence number of the sheet within the document (this starts at number 1 and increases throughout the document) o A frame around the trim area of the page o Frames around the running head, text body, and footline o A grid (of user-specified dimensions) within the text body The tag line and corner marks are always printed; the other features may be turned on (separately) for draft or proof runs but would be turned off when the final form of the document is being generated. PGFRAMEDOC.TEX illustrates and explains the features that the pageframe style provides. The pages of the document are printed with different combinations of the pageframe option settings; you may want to look at the LaTeX source for the document to see how these are specified. You will find a summary of the pageframe commands near the end of this document. To retrieve the entire set of 3 files, include the command: SENDME PGFRAME in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For ftp users, the files are available on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [.PGFRAME]. A compressed tar file containing the set of three files is available for users on U*ix systems; a PKZIP'ped file containing the set of three files is available for users on DOS systems. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: DOS name in ZIP file: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGFRAME.PAGEFRAME_STY 20 PAGEFRAME.STY PAGEFRAM.STY PGFRAME.PGFRAMEDOC_TEX 62 PGFRAMEDOC.TEX PGFRMDOC.TEX PGFRAME.PGFRAMETEST_TEX 3 PGFRAMETEST.TEX PGFRMTST.TEX Approximate total blocks in full PGFRAME package = 85 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 10:29:29 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: NFSS meets PostScript (again) In the directory [tex-archive.latex.styles.fontsel.soton] in the UK TeX Archive, interested parties will find a new set of files containing my refined additions to the NFSS distribution for PostScript fonts. Refined as in sugar, not as in Noel Coward. These files should work with just a `make' and a copy of the current NFSS, and provide you with new LaTeX and SLiTeX format files, plus appropriate style files, to live the good life. The concept of scaling the PS fonts by some amount is also supported (stolen from Timothy Van Zandt), so if you want Helvetica at 90% of its normal size, then feel free to do so. This lot is just a suggestion. Van Zandt's style file recently posted to comp.text.tex will do a similar job if you have already installed the NFSS and dont want to start over again. Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Jan 92 12:08:53 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: label printing on sheets of labels For some years I have had the pleasure of trying to print sets of address labels using LaTeX, using the sheets of labels you can put through a laser printer. Trying to use my macros today, I discovered some problems, so I set about a) correcting them, and b) documenting them to bare-bones `doc' standard. I thought I would distribute the result, in case anyone else wants to do a similar job -- how else to print nice labels for your disks containing your amazing program? Macros are included to allow easy input of addresses without markup. If you have a file containing simple lines of names and addresses, with blank line separating each entry, then you need do no more markup. Usage of this style is explained in the `doc' file. Use this file as a `sty' file if you don't want to bother using `docstrip' to remove the documentation. I have spent hours fighting with these silly macros, so I'd appreciate hearing of problems. Jobs sometimes end with an underfull hbox, but I can't see why.... see [tex-archive.latex.contrib]labels.doc on the UK TeX Archive Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 91 23:17:46 +0000 From: UK TeX Archive Server Subject: Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 31-DEC-1991 23:17:38.65 TeXserver usage analysis for the period: 1-DEC-1991 00:36:32.69 to 31-DEC-1991 22:40:24.77 A total of 479 requests were received from 122 callers Of these, 26 requests were rejected, 1,177 FILE transfers were requested (transferring a total of 42,387,441 bytes), 74 HELP requests were made, 119 DIRECTORY requests were made, 4 SEARCH requests were made, 46 WHEREIS requests were made, A total of 1,177 file transfers were requested (totalling 42,387,441 bytes). 751 distinct files were requested - the 10 most requested files were: 18 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST30DAYS.FILES 14 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.LIST 13 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST7DAYS.FILES 9 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.DVIDVI]DVIDVI.BOO 6 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.UTILS.CPP-LATEX]MAKEFILE. 5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.UTILS.RTF2TEX]MAKEFILE. 5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.UTILS.RTF2TEX]READER.C 5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.UTILS.RTF2TEX]README. 5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.ILATEX]00FILES.TXT 5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.PSBOOK]PSBOOK.BOO The following users transferred 32,745,791 bytes, which is 77% of the total 7,622,474 bytes requested by AMG0199@UK.AC.QUEENS-BELFAST.VAX2 6,253,418 bytes requested by CURRY%AT.AC.IIASA.IIASA@UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY 6,006,990 bytes requested by 48GANELIN%EDU.CUA.DNET.CUAVAX@UK.AC.NSFNET-RELA Y 3,123,404 bytes requested by AMG0168@UK.AC.QUEENS-BELFAST.VAX2 2,393,301 bytes requested by JPOLAND%MONROE%EARN.SED@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY 1,981,886 bytes requested by MAT1GARDNDJ@UK.AC.TRENT-POLY 1,928,156 bytes requested by NELKEN%EARN.ISRAEARN@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY 1,173,534 bytes requested by UBAESQ01%EARN.EBCESCA1@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY 1,168,354 bytes requested by KEFEI.CHEN%EARN.DGIHRZ01@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY 1,094,274 bytes requested by MK2@UK.AC.UKC ------------------------------ UK TeX ARCHIVE at ASTON UNIVERSITY >>> UK.AC.TEX <<< JANET Interactive and NIFTP access Host: uk.ac.tex (JANET DTE 000020120091) Username: public Password: public [Internet ftp access should be available soon!] *** Mail server *** Send mail to TeXserver@uk.ac.tex (JANET) or TeXserver@tex.ac.uk (rest of the world) with message body containing the word HELP \section FILES OF INTEREST [tex-archive]00readme.txt [tex-archive]00directory.list [tex-archive]00directory.size [tex-archive]00directory_dates.list [tex-archive]00last30days.files \section DIGESTS This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory [tex-archive.digests.uktex.92] This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory [tex-archive.digests.texhax.92] Latest TeXhax: V91 #51 TeXMaG back issues are stored in the archive in directory [tex-archive.digests.tex-mag] Latest TeXMaG: V5N3 \section MEDIA DISTRIBUTIONS \subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape Latest copy of May/June 1991 contains: TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V tar format, 1600bpi, blockfactor 20, 1 file (36Mb) Copies available on: One 2400ft 0.5" tape sent with return labels AND return postage to Aston OR One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format (DC600A or DC6150) sent with envelope AND stamps for return postage to Nottingham (addresses below). \subsection VMS tapes VMS backup of the archive requires two 2400ft tapes at 6250bpi. 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