TeXhax Digest Friday, January 27, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 10 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: Needed: METAFONT source SPIE Proceedings style file Undump for 386i? Needed: Information about the Genicom laser printer Needed: Information about color printer drivers for TeX. DVI driver for CIE 3000 printer LaserJet II connection to Microvax Needed: Information about VorTeX Grey backgrounds in LaTeX Needed: a way to draw digital circuits in TeX Can PiCTeX generate PostScript? SliTeX and PicTeX? Fast but big? Problems with PiCTeX Tabs and LaTeX LaTeX and \footnotetext \subitem problem in LaTeX Removing LaTeX commands from .tex files to use spell checker Needed: a spell checker that can be used with TeX or LaTeX The em in \tt A listing of anonymous FTP Sites TUG membership form --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 00:30 EDT From: Subject: Needed: METAFONT source Keywords: METAFONT, I am very remote nowadays to the academic world and looking to access the METAFONT source. Dr. Knuth told me to try ftp (I'm not a unix node) or the AMS for the source on tape. I'll try the AMS but by chance is there a remote server of the LISTSERV (ie. BITNET) variety that I can use to transfer these sources? Or could someone send it to me directly? Any help would be much appreciated, Richard Werezak carson@mcmaster.BITNET Xerox Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu 27 Jan 1989 17:24:43 EST From: PCT@LL.ARPA Subject: SPIE Proceedings style file Keywords: SPIE Proceedings Does anyone know of a LaTeX style file for SPIE Proceedings? I don't seem to see one in the Clarkson repository that is documented in TUGboat. Pierre Trepagnier --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 17:53:09 -0800 From: daisy!kelem@Sun.COM Subject: Undump for 386i? Keywords: undump, SUN 386i Where can I get undump for a Sun 386i? Please respond directly, as I may not yet be on the texhax distribution list. Thanks, Steve Kelem pyramid!daisy!kelem@sun.com daisy!kelem@uunet.uu.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 89 17:26:25 CST From: Don Hosek Subject: Needed: Information about color printer drivers for TeX. Keywords: TeX, dviware, color Does anybody know of any drivers for TeX that support multi-color printer drivers? If so, I would appreciate some information on how these drivers specify colors. Thank you, -dh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 14:12:40 PDT From: Peter Scott Subject: DVI driver for CIE 3000 printer Keywords: dviware, CIE 3000, printer We just got a C.Itoh Megaserve CIE 3000 ion deposition printer that uses a PDL called EXCL. Does anyone have a PD DVI driver for this beastie? Thanks in advance. Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov, pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 13:20:27 CST From: Pat Lestrade Subject: Needed: Information about the Genicom laser printer Keywords: printer What's the scoop on this \$649 laser printer!!! It supposedly has only 512k. It is the Genicom Laser. Has anyone written a driver for it for \TeX? I can afford that. Heck at \$649, I could put one out in the doghouse too. (He is advanced for his age. Not too good at macros yet.) Pat Lestrade Lestrade@MSSTATE Mississippi.....not just a tourist attraction.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 18:28:07 CST From: "W. Scott McCullough" Subject: LaserJet II connection to Microvax Keywords: Microvax, LaserJet II It is a little odd to send a note like this to TeXhax, but I thought someone in TeXland must be printing their TeX documents on an HP LaserJet II from a Unix machine. We have TeX up and running on our MicrovaxII under Ultrix 1.2 (this is plain vanilla 4.2BSD). We want to print our TeX documents on a LaserJet II. I can't even get simple ASCII files to print correctly. Does anyone out there have a LaserJet II that they are driving with the unix lpr spooler? I could sure use some information regarding your set up. In particular, I am not sure that the entry in /etc/printcap file is correct, and I may need some kind of filter (the "of" and "if" entries in the printcap file). We would like to do accounting if possible. If you can help, please reply directly to one of the addresses below -- some (many) issues of TeXhax don't make it through to us here at "the End of the Net." Thanks a whole lot in advance, Scott McCullough Dept. of Physics u2591aa@unx.ucc.okstate.edu Internet Oklahoma State University (unx.ucc.okstate.edu = 192.31.83.1) Stillwater, OK 74078-0444 U2591AA@uccvms Bitnet (405-744-5801) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 15:14:44 GMT From: Robert Dale Subject: Needed: Information about VorTeX Keywords: query, VorTeX Can anyone tell me anything about this, or point me to where I might find more information? I believe it lets you print TeX output on Xerox laser printers, but more than that I don't know, and even that may be wrong. I know about TeXrox, but it seems our Xerox printer may not be one of the several that that package will deal with. Any pointers will be gratefully devoured. R Robert Dale Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6470 | University of Edinburgh UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!epistemi!rda | Centre for Cognitive Science ARPA: rda%epistemi.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk | 2 Buccleuch Place JANET: rda@uk.ac.ed.epistemi | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 17:26:45 PST From: Isaac Subject: Grey backgrounds in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, PiCTeX Anyone have any brilliant ideas on how to do this? Someone here is interested in taking a region of text (or PicTeX graphics) and putting a grey background behind it (for figures, etc.). An obvious method would be to use a \special for some dvi driver, but this needs to be portable to various printers (HP LJ+, LaserWriter) and dvi previewers (texx, xdvi, texsun). A grey font of some sort would suffice (in fact, the current method is to draw a bunch of periods in that region, not exactly adequate). LaTeX or PicTeX source would be nice, and/or some PK/GF font files (for 300dpi devices). Thanks!! * Isaac J. Salzman ---- * The RAND Corporation - Information Sciences Dept. /o o/ / * 1700 Main St., PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90406-2138 | v | | * AT&T: +1 213-393-0411 x6421 or x7923 (ISL lab) _| |_/ * ARPA: salzman@RAND.ORG or salzman@rand-unix.ARPA / | | * UUCP: ...!{cbosgd,decvax,sdcrdcf}!randvax!salzman | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 12:22:02 -0800 From: Phil Windley Subject: Needed: a way to draw digital circuits in TeX Keywords: TeX, digital circuits I'm looking for a way to draw digital circuits in TeX. I have used PicTex before and have considered developing some PicTeX macros to do the job, but I'd rather use someone else's if its already been done ;-). Phil Windley | windley@iris.ucdavis.edu Division of Computer Science | ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley College of Engineering | (916) 752-7324 (or 3168) University of California, Davis | Davis, CA 95616 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 17:05:37 GMT From: alien@VULCAN.ESE.ESSEX.AC.UK (Adrian F. Clark) Subject: Can PiCTeX generate PostScript? Keywords: PiCTeX, PostScript I've seen modifications to PiCTeX which generate tpic specials; are there similar modifications which allow it to generate PostScript in some way? Failing that, just what are the `tpic specials', so I can persuade texsun/texx and dvialw to support them? Or has someone done that already, too? Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@ac.uk Smail: Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, Essex University, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ, U. K. Phone: (+44) 206-872432 (direct) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 10:02:34 CST From: Rob Smith Subject: SliTeX and PicTeX? Keywords: SliTeX, PiCTeX Has anyone figured out how to get SliTeX and PicTeX to work together? Also, I've been using a fig-to-PicTeX convertor for some things. Does anyone know if the inverse transformation exists? Please respond directly, I am not a TeXHaX subscriber. Thanks, Rob. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 12:25:03 AST From: Jim Diamond Subject: Fast but big? Problems with PiCTeX Keywords: PiCTeX As I've been using PiCTeX a fair bit and as it takes a fair bit of time to \input it, I decided to create a format incorporating both plain and pictex: % initex '&plain' \input pictex \dump I then removed the \input pictex from a source file and ran it. Although things worked well before, now I run out of memory. Why should this be? Any suggestions for doing what I want another way? (TeX is C Version 2.9 running on an SGI 3130 Workstation) Thanks. Jim Diamond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 16:02:53 GMT From: CET1%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK Subject: Tabs and LaTeX Keywords: tabs, LaTeX In digest #3, Leslie Lamport execrates the use of tabs > ... One hopes that whoever is responsible for > including "tab" in the ASCII character set is now roasting in hell for > his efforts. It has been suggested that building a system that allows > the insertion of tabs into a text file should be a capital offense. > I'm not that extreme; I think that ten years of writing COBOL code in > Novosibirsk would be adequate punishment. ... Fine words. Why is it, then, that on the (Stanford) distribution tapes the LaTeX source files contain tabs while the Plain TeX ones don't? Chris Thompson JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx ARPA: cet1%phx.cam.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 16:44 From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-B at UCL) Subject: LaTeX and \footnotetext Keywords: LaTeX, \footnotetext Am I going mad, or has the behaviour of \footnotetext changed in the last year or so? I have some old stuff where I used \footnotetext to put a piece of text at the foot of a page, in footnote type format, but without any superscript number. Now I find that the same command labels the footnote with a small superscript zero (I am using it at the start of a document, before any other footnotes). After poring over the LaTeX book for a while, I have decided that the latter behaviour is what the LaTeX book is describing. Which leaves me wondering why I *used* to get footnotes with no number at all. Was there a time when \@thefnmark was left out of the definition of \footnotetext? Dominik ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 12:42:17 EST From: Anne Brueggemann-Klein Subject: \subitem problem in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, \subitem Today I encoutered a minor problem with LaTeX, when I included the command "\subindex Minuskel" into an index file. I got the following error message: ! Missing number, treated as zero. k l.7 \subitem Minusk el ? ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). k l.7 \subitem Minusk el ? Apparently the \subitem as well as the \subsubitem command feature \hskip as their last command, such that the first part of my "Minuskel" is interpreted as a shrink term for the \hskip-command. The remedy seems to be easy. Leslie Lamport should append \relax to the definition of \subitem and \subsubitem in order to shield the \hskip from following user input. Anne Brueggemann-Klein abrueggemann@watdragon.waterloo.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 27 Jan 89 14:45 -0600 From: Jim Walker Subject: Removing LaTeX commands from .tex files to use spell checker Keywords: LaTeX, .tex files Can anybody (please) send me a VAXable program to strip LaTeX commands out of .tex files, so I can then use my favourite spelling checker? Jim Walker, Whiteshell Research, Pinawa, Manitoba R0E 1L0, CANADA. Fax1 : (204) 753-2455 [Verification : (204) 753-2311 ext. 2300] Fax2 : (204) 753-8404 [Verification : (204) 753-2311 ext. 3162] email : walkerj@wnre.aecl.cdn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 16:54:22 EST From: Joachim Schambach Subject: Needed: a spell checker that can be used with TeX or LaTeX Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, spell checker Dear Texhackers Is there something like a spell checker that can be used with TeX or LaTeX? Or maybe a modification of an existing spell checker from a wordprocessor? ...Jo Schambach Bitnet: JSCHAMBA @ KENTVM Acknowledge-To: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Jan 89 1304 PST From: Don Knuth Subject: The em in \tt Keywords: TeX as in all cm fonts is twice the width of a digit; thus, \enspace always corresponds to a blank the size of `0' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 15:35 EST From: Ted Nieland - SRL <@WPAFB-AAMRL.ARPA:TNIELAND@FALCON> Subject: A listing of anonymous FTP Sites Keywords: ftp sites The following is the current information that I have for locations for TeXware available for ANONYMOUS FTP. If you know of any missing items, please send the information (or corrections for information) to TNIELAND@WPAFB-AAMRL.ARPA. Also, does anyone know the host number for sipb.mit.edu? I do not have MX routing capabilities and that host is not in the host tables. Ted Nieland TeXWare Item Current Version Author FTP Location ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common-TeX v2.9 Pat Monardo berkeley.edu MakeIndex v2.4 Pehong Chen ucbarpa.berkeley.edu Utah DVI Driver Nelson H.F. Beebe science.utah.edu Family V10.1 ctrsci.utah.edu PS1:[TEX.DVI] AFtoPL v2.0 Clayton M. Elwell tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Greek Fonts Silvio Levy princeton.edu TeX 2.93 Donald Knuth score.stanford.edu PS: Actual WEB sources in METAFONT 1.5 Donald Knuth score.stanford.edu PS: LaTeX 2.09 Leslie Lamport score.stanford.edu PS: CM Font Sources score.stanford.edu PS: AMS Fonts score.stanford.edu PS: WEB score.stanford.edu PS: AMSTeX score.stanford.edu PS: BibTeX v.99c score.stanford.edu PS: Manuals, bug and errata lists score.stanford.edu PS: DOSTEX wsmr-simtel20.army.mil SBTEX wsmr-simtel20.army.mil IMAGENDVI Driver- DVIIMP score.stanford.edu PS: Fig 1.4FS svax.cs.cornell.edu ~ftp/pub/fig/fig-fs.tar.Z TransFig 1.4-3 svax.cs.cornell.edu ~ftp/pub/fig/transfig.tar.Z xfig cayuga.cs.rochester.edu expo.lcs.mit.edu TGRIND Jerry Leichter venus.ycc.yale.edu (Leichter-jerry@cs.yale.edu) VMS BACKUP Saveset TGRIND.A also get FIXREC.EXE,FIXREC.C TEXTYL John Renner venus.ycc.yale.edu adobe!renner@decwrl.dec.com VMS BACKUP Saveset TEXTYL.A also get FIXREC.EXE,FIXREC.C PicTeX svax.cs.cornell.edu a.cs.uiuc.edu june.cs.washington.edu VAXStation Previewers Preview Randy Buckland argon.rti.org DVIDIS v3.4 Jerry Leichter cs.yale.edu VMS BACKUP Saveset DVIDIS.A also get FIXREC.EXE LaTeX Style Collection sun.soe.clarkson.edu pub/latex-style DVI Previewers UNIX & X11 xdvi sipb.mit.edu ftp/pub/x11r3.dvi IBM PC Previewers DVIVGA Doug McDonald b.scs.uiuc.edu DVIEW wmsr-simtel20.army.mil CDVI wmsr-simtel20.army.mil Unix Flavored Tex june.cs.washington.edu web2c 2.20 TeX 2.93 METAFONT 1.5 bibtex .99c PicTeX --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: February 8, 1989 From: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Subject: TeX Users Group Membership Information request form. 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