UKTeX Digest Friday, 8 Jan 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 01 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Q&A}: spurious inability to find TFM file RE: spurious inability to find TFM file Timing of staticisation of muskips in maths mode. Re: Timing of staticisation of muskips in maths mode. {Archive News}: additions to UK (Internet/Daughter) archive updates on UK TeX Internet archive xdvi for DOS and DV/X version 1.06 of Jones index of tex styles and macros another de-TeX program some new LaTeX minor style files in UK TeX Internet archive 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: 05 Jan 93 15:21:17 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: spurious inability to find TFM file Background: - ---------- I have a large book (550 pages) with many included files, and zillions of cross-references, done with LaTeX, and a Times font. Since its a PS font, I load the same tfm file many times at different sizes. Its been running through for ages using emTeX386 under OS/2. Yesterday - --------- LaTeX starts to tell me it cannot locate TFM files (ones where it has already found the same file `at' a different size already), half way through a second pass on the book. It seems to be random. Sometimes a \input fails too (eg of `null.tex'!). One gets desperate. One finds the odd error. One finds a float which was sticking in the gullet for 100 pages (but eventually appearing). After a few such problems are corrected, LaTeX stops whinging Question - -------- What situations cause TeX to fail to open new files, specifically TFM files? does anyone else ever meet such a situation? is it a bit of jam in my computer's memory? aliens from Mars? Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 15:42:09 +0000 From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Subject: RE: spurious inability to find TFM file >>> What situations cause TeX to fail to open new files, specifically TFM >>> files? does anyone else ever meet such a situation? is it a bit of jam >>> in my computer's memory? aliens from Mars? Doubtless you are using a C implementation, which by now we know is patently incapable of detecting when things have gone seriously wrong. Recommend you revert to the canonical Pascal version, with full error checking enabled, whereupon you will almost certainly find you have exhausted some vital resource. CAR may be able to shed some light: after enormous effort, he tracked down a bug in LaTeX which was causing floats to stick in the old oesophagous. ** P. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 16:12:30 +0000 From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Subject: Timing of staticisation of muskips in maths mode. At what point does TeX staticise the values of things such as \medmuskip? If I write the following: $ \realmedmuskip = \medmuskip \medmuskip = \thickmuskip x \mathchar "213C y \medmuskip = \realmedmuskip x \mathchar "213C y $ I appear to get the same spacing around the two `<'s. So it would seem that TeX staticises the muskips at end-of-maths, which I confess is quite reasonable, but is it defined anywhere? Philip Taylor, RHBNC. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 16:28:42 +0000 From: Malcolm Clark Subject: Re: Timing of staticisation of muskips in maths mode. i think your interpretation of the ?'statistication' is correct, and rather parallels the selction of fonts n'est-ce pas (in maths), see page 153 TB. only a guess. m ------------------------------ Date: 04 Jan 93 09:35:43 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: additions to UK (Internet/Daughter) archive I have made some additions to the Internet archive on ftp.tex.ac.uk: pub/archive/macros/latex/styles/contrib/covington: covingtn.sty Michael Covington's TeX macros for glossed sentences, numbered examples, discourse representation theory, feature structures, etc. pub/archive/support/xetal: another de-TeXifying program (lex/yacc) pub/archive/systems/os2/binaries: VV-encoded binary images for OS/2 of dvips, afm2tfm, lacheck, ps2pk etc pub/archive/fonts/monotype: for all the fonts on the Monotype CD (which is on a good cheap offer to UK academic sites) have been named in accordance with Karl Berry's scheme, to make `short names' for TeX purposes. A complete set of TFM and VF files for your delectation. Yes, you do have to buy the CD to get the fonts themselves, and rename the .pfb files to these names, but after that its trivial to use them in a TeX document. Go wild, buy the CD and set your next paper in Zeitgeist-Bold sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Date: 04 Jan 93 11:36:43 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: updates on UK TeX Internet archive I have updated some dvi drivers in the UK TeX Internet archive on ftp.tex.ac.uk. pub/archive/dviware/neumann - replaced by pub/archive/dviware/dvi2xx (version 050); includes updated source and executables for DOS and OS/2. A test 0.51 version is also there. This, for those unfamiliar with the package, is what you want if you have a LaserJet printer attached to a Unix machine, or don't like dvihplj in emTeX. pub/archive/dviware/dvi2pcl - dvi to PCL converter, ie another dvi to LaserJet driver sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Date: 04 Jan 93 09:47:23 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: xdvi for DOS and DV/X On the UK TeX Internet/Daughter archive, I have put a copy of the popular Unix previewer, xdvi, compiled for DOS, in pub/archive/dviware/xdvi-dos this package needs DV/X, of course sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Date: 05 Jan 93 08:15:55 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: version 1.06 of Jones index of tex styles and macros I have placed version 1.06 (December 22) of David Jones' Index of TeX macros and styles in two places: ftp.tex.ac.uk: pub/archive/help/tex-styles-and-macros.txt uk.ac.tex: [.doc]index.txt sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 06 Jan 93 09:56:14 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: another de-TeX program I have put this untex in the Uk TeX Internet Archive in pub/archive/support/untex sebastian As detex is mentioned, I'd like to add a hint to untex. I wrote it as a replacement for detex. It doesn't check \input or \includ'ed files, but does IMHO a better job stripping TeX commands. It compiles under many C compilers as gcc, cc (AIX and hpux tested), MS cl, Turbo C.... -- Michael (Spirou) Staats, Student of Theoretical Physics, Uni-GH Duisburg email: michael@hal6000.Uni-Duisburg.DE ------------------------------ Date: 06 Jan 93 11:05:32 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: some new LaTeX minor style files in UK TeX Internet archive I have added some missing items to the UK TeX Internet archive on ftp.tex.ac.uk in pub/archive/macros/latex/styles/contrib. brief descriptions follow, but see the real item for details and authors. psboxit.sty This package enables to put a PostScript drawing behind a TeX box. 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