TeXhax Digest Thursday, March 5, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 16 TEXHAX16.87 Editor: Malcolm Brown Today's Topics: Bug in something (LaTeX) More mathematical symbols resume style Contents of LaTeX style collection, 27th February 1987 PostScript in TeX METAFONT mode definition for QMS 1200 laser printer.\ What is the situation with "newer" LaTeX releases? DVI to Postscript converter METAFONT TANGLE for the Macintosh ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 87 22:59:26 CST From: David Chase Subject: Bug in something To: texhax@score.stanford.edu I am using LaTeX version 2.09, TeX version 2.0. I am using picture mode to draw pictures with boxes, circles, arrows, and letters in the circles. I produced the same picture first with \unitlength=.1in and then with \unitlength=.11in. The boxes all got larger, as expected, but the circles (with diameter 2) got smaller. I observed this behavior using lord knows what dvi to imagen converter, but I also observed it using xdvi. I am mystified; my solution is to say \unitlength=8pt and be happy with a nice-looking picture. Any clues? David ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 87 12:26:12 MET To: TeXhax@score.stanford.edu From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: More mathematical symbols For the mathematical set symbols (R, N, C, I, etc. ) we use the symbols from the MSSYMB font produced by the Amer. Math. Soc., which come closest to the real thing. They were provided on the Unix distribution as pixel files with special control code definitions in a .tex file. I don't know how else to get them but somebody out there should know. Now another interesting thing: I changed the .tex file to make the macros adapt themselves automatically to the current point size, especially in LaTex document, so e.g \documentstyle[11pt]{....} {\msy R} .... {\large \msy C} ... will work correctly. This will even work in math mode if you put them in a box. The macros make use of the fact that \textfont0 is always something like cmr10... Here follows the first (changed) part of the file. The lines starting with % are from the original file. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- % ***** MSSYMB.TeX ***** 4 Nov 85 % % This file contains the definitions for the symbols in the two % "extra symbols" fonts created at the American Math. Society. \catcode`\@=11 \def\msy@@ #1#2#3#4\cr#5{ms#5m#4} \def\msy@@@#1#2#3{\font\@msy\expandafter\msy@@\fontname\expandafter\the#20\cr#1#2#3=\@msy} \def\msy{\expandafter\ifx\the\textfont0\msy@font\else\msy@init\fi \the\textfont\msyfam\fam\msyfam} %\font\tenmsx=msxm10 %\font\sevenmsx=msxm7 %\font\fivemsx=msxm5 %\font\tenmsy=msym10 %\font\sevenmsy=msym7 %\font\fivemsy=msym5 \newfam\msxfam \newfam\msyfam \def\msy@init{\expandafter\let\expandafter\msy@font\the\textfont0 \msy@@@ x\textfont\msxfam \msy@@@ x\scriptfont\msxfam \msy@@@ x\scriptscriptfont\msxfam \msy@@@ y\textfont\msyfam \msy@@@ y\scriptfont\msyfam \msy@@@ y\scriptscriptfont\msyfam} %\textfont\msxfam=\tenmsx \scriptfont\msxfam=\sevenmsx % \scriptscriptfont\msxfam=\fivemsx %\textfont\msyfam=\tenmsy \scriptfont\msyfam=\sevenmsy % \scriptscriptfont\msyfam=\fivemsy \msy@init ------------------------------ To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: resume style Date: Fri, 27 Feb 87 11:21:12 -0500 From: SKY Is there a resume style for LaTeX? A couple of users here have asked about this. Ken ------------------------------ To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: Contents of LaTeX style collection, 27th February 1987 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 87 11:20:26 -0500 From: SKY The LaTeX style collection now has the files listed below. More submissions are very welcome. 00directory fullpage.sty slem.sty 00index geophysics.sty spacecites.doc 00readme ieeetr.bst spacecites.sty a4.sty layout.readme suthesis.doc acm.bst layout.tex suthesis.sty agugrl.sty lfonts_ams.readme texindex.doc agujgr.sty lfonts_ams.tex texindex.pas amssymbols.sty lgraph.shar texindex.sty biihead.sty natsci.bst texnames.doc cyrillic.sty newalpha.bst texnames.sty deproc.sty nopagenumbers.doc threepart.sty deprocldc.tex nopagenumbers.sty uct10.doc docsty.c siam.bib uct11.doc docsty.readme siam.bst uct12.doc doublespace.sty siam.doc ucthesis.doc drafthead.sty siam.sty ucthesis.readme dvidoc.shar1 siam.tex vdm.doc dvidoc.shar2 siam10.doc vdm.sty epic.shar1 siam10.sty vdm.tex epic.shar2 siam11.sty ws87.p format.sty siam12.sty wsltex.c fullpage.doc slem.doc wsltex.p Note that vdm.* is a new version. 1. For Internet users - how to ftp: Here is an example session. Disclaimer: ftp syntax varies from host to host. Your syntax may be different. The syntax presented here is that of Unix ftp. Comments in parentheses. % ftp cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (a.k.a. rochester.arpa, a.k.a. 192.5.53.209) ... (general blurb) user: anonymous password: ftp> cd public/latex-style (where the files are) ftp> ls (to see what is there) ... (lots of output) ftp> get 00index ... (more blurb) ftp> quit 2. Non-Internet users - how to retrieve by mail: An archive server has been installed. Send a piece of mail to LaTeX-Style (@rochester.arpa, @cs.rochester.edu, via uucp or your favourite gateway) in the following format: Subject line should contain the phrase "@file request". Body of the mail should start with a line containing only an @ (at) sign. (Important!) The first line following should be a mail address FROM rochester TO you. Then follow by the names of the files you want, either one to each line, or many to each line, separated by spaces. End with a line containing only an @ sign. Case is not significant. For example, if you are user at site.bitnet, this is what you should send: To: latex-style@rochester.arpa Subject: @file request @ user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu 00readme 00index @ A word to the wise: it is best to fully qualify your mail address. Our mailer knows about some gateways but not all. Examples: user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu user%site.csnet@relay.cs.net Do not include any messages in the mail. It will not be seen by human eyes. Be patient as the server is actually a batch program run once a day. Files will be sent in batches, each not exceeding 100kbytes in size. Ken LaTeX-Style@Rochester.Arpa LaTeX-Style@cs.rochester.edu ..!rochester!latex-style ------------------------------ From: jay%mcs02.uucp@eecs.umich.edu Date: Monday, 26 Jan 87 08:36:33 EST To: texhax%umich.uucp@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Subject: PostScript in TeX It is our intent to provide a TeX based document preparation system for the Physics Department that includes the inclusion of PostScript figures and diagrams from various sources. One of these sources is microcomputer generated drawing programs such as the Mac's MacDraw. A more recent poaaibility is the Adobe Illustrator. I have two questions: 1) Does anyone have experience with the Adobe Illustrator? 2) Has anyone experienced difficulty with the Mac PostScript files from MacDraw? I find that the Prolog does not operate consistently with the figure output with regard to the fonts. Fonts are apparently being redefined when font substitution in in effect as |______Times (and similarly for others) so that the spacing can be established on pixel boundaries of the Mac. Unfortunately, the process is going astray somewhere and the |______fontname is not being found. The LaserWriter thus does not find the font and defaults to Courier. The spacing is off as a result. I haven't begun the process of getting the figures into TeX yet since I cannot print them out correctly. Is there documentation anywhere that explains the entire process, Mac to TeX? Thanks..J. Chapman umich!mcs02!jay CHAPMAN@UMIPHYS UMJWC@SLACVM ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 87 14:07:28 PST From: ADK%FSU.MFENET@nmfecc.arpa To: TEXHAX@SU-SCORE.ARPA Subject: METAFONT mode definition for QMS 1200 laser printer.\ % These are the values we converged upon for the METAFONT mode definitions % for our QMS 1200 printer after staring at many many proof sheets. Hope it % is of some help to someone somewhere... mode_def qms = % qms mode: for the QMS (Xerox engine) proofing:=0; % no, we're not making proofs fontmaking:=1; % yes, we are making a font tracingtitles:=0; % no, don't show titles in the log pixels_per_inch:=300; blacker:=.7; % thin lines are too light fillin:=-3; % thin diagonal lines are far too light o_correction:=.6; % make "round" letters compatible with others enddef; ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 87 21:51:15 GMT From: Stephen Page To: texhax@score.stanford.edu, unix-tex@ward.cs.washington.edu Subject: What is the situation with "newer" LaTeX releases? There have been various rumours that there are "newer", i.e., patched versions of LaTeX, which correct minor bugs in version 2.09 of 18 December 1985 (supplied on the Unix TeX distribution tape from April 1986). It seems that the newer versions are also (helpfully) called 2.09. I have been trying for more than a month to get a copy of the diffs between the 1985 release of latex.tex and the current version. I have encountered flakey network connections from almost every possible device or node along the path. The file is too big to FTP across the Atlantic, so I've been trying to get a copy to MIT. When their machine is up, the link to the UK is down, or the link between MIT and Stanford fails. And so on. I have, however, been able to confirm the rumours by FTPing some of the smaller files (e.g. report.doc) which do indeed contain minor changes. I have also found various other items, mainly Metafont sources, which were not on our TeX distribution. I have not been able to get a response from the Unix TeX distributors, and no traffic from unix-tex has reached us since 11 Dec 1986. I have a lot of sympathy for these people, as they are bombarded with mail from all over the world -- but surely someone must have a note of what is in the latest release and whether there will be a new release tape...? What is happening? - 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 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 87 06:02:35 PST From: KARNEY%PPC.MFENET@nmfecc.arpa To: TEXHAX@SU-SCORE.ARPA Subject: DVI to Postscript converter In answer to the request by Peter Abbott (ABBOTTP%UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL%UK.AC.RL.GB@ac.uk) for a DVI to postscript converter, I can recommend the DVIALW program written by Nelson Beebe (Beebe@UTAH-SCIENCE.ARPA). This is a public domain program uses PK or PXL fonts. It's written in C with various conditional compilation flags to make it run under different OSs. I got it working under VMS without difficulty. Charles Karney Karney%PPC.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 87 09:04:23 PST From: Reply-To: ECF_EEJK%JHUVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: METAFONT Date: Sat, 28 Feb 87 11:30 EST From: Subject: METAFONT To: texhax@score.stanford.edu X-Original-To: texhax@score.stanford.edu, ECF_EEJK I was just wondering whether there is any information (either published or non-published) that explains SIMPLY how to use METAFONT to create new fonts, symbols, etc. I've read through the `METAFONTbook' by Dr. Knuth, but it is not really easy to follow and it doesn't explain the commands very well (at least for beginners). If anyone has written anything that could simplify learning METAFONT, I would appreciate knowing about it. Thanks in advance. Erik Kilgore User Support--The Johns Hopkins University BITNET: ecf_eejk@jhuvms ARPA: ecf_eejk%jhuvms.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA or ecf_eejk%jhuvms.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 87 03:52:17 PST From: Reply-To: BOYD%TAMLSR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu To: TEXHAX@score.stanford.edu Subject: TANGLE for the Macintosh Date: Sun, 1 Mar 87 05:26 CDT From: (Scott T. Boyd) Subject: TANGLE for the Macintosh To: TEXHAX@score.stanford.edu X-Original-To: TEXHAX@score.stanford.edu, BOYD The MacHax(tm) group is pleased to announce the availability of TANGLE for the Macintosh. TANGLE runs an an MPW tool on a Mac+ and larger. It tangles itself in 4:10 (real time). It tangles itself with a VMS change file in 4:37 (real time). For further information, contact BOYD@TAMLSR.bitnet, or call (409)846-4102, or send mail to: The MacHax Group 3420 D Sandra Bryan, TX 77801 ------------------------------ % %\bye % End of TeXhax Digest ************************** -------