UKTeX Digest Friday, 14 May 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 17 ``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: {Questions & Answers}: Re: emtex betatest extra pk fonts for OzTeX users Re: help sought for \endchapter Figure caption spacing in LaTeX Re: endash and minus Re: endash and minus Re: problems with afm2tfm Including PostScipt or encapsulated PostScript diagram in SliTeX? Re: Including PostScipt or encapsulated PostScript diagram in SliTeX? Problems with PostScript pfbs DVI -> TeX/LaTeX ?? RE: DVI -> TeX/LaTeX ?? Latex inquiry from Hong Kong Re: Latex inquiry from Hong Kong BEEBE Drivers PC Package, HP4 drivers & Fonts Re: BEEBE Drivers PC Package, HP4 drivers & Fonts bibstyles Vancouver style Tex Previewer for PCs Re: Tex Previewer for PCs {Archive News}: Dates in ftp.tex RE: Dates in ftp.tex CMacTeX in UK TeX Archive fonts/futhark in UK TeX Archive {Announcements}: preliminary programme for Tug93 meeting July26--30 1992 TeX and Arabic script Conference Announcement OpenWindows icons by Don Knuth available 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 E D I T O R ' S N O T E Apologies for not distributing an issue of UKTeX last week... Friday was a long day... :-( --Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 08 Apr 1993 12:30:32 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: emtex betatest > I have also just got the dvips from the emtex bonus set. However GHOSTSCRIPT > complains about any ps files created with this version. My old version was > okay though I remember seeing something about this before but cannot > remember what the solution was. can't help with thus unless you tell me what GhostScript actually *says*.... sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1993 11:53:17 -0700 From: rbhumbla%edu.ucsd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay Subject: extra pk fonts for OzTeX users You wrote: # Ravi Bhumbla has built some extra pk fonts for OzTeX. See # ftp.tex.ac.uk:systems/mac/OzTeX. Just to give credit where credit is due, I didn't build these fonts. I only obtained these in reply to a posting I had sent to comp.text.tex asking for these. These fonts were built by Bertil Pettersson (bertil@laban.uu.se). Enjoy, Ravi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 14:06:44 +0000 From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Subject: Re: help sought for \endchapter >>> I've written the following: >>> \def\throwpages{\vfill\eject\null\vfill\eject} >>> \def\endpage{\vfill\eject} >>> \global\outer\def\endchapter{\ifodd\pageno >>> \throwpages >>> \else >>> \endpage >>> \fi} >>> which I had hoped would cause every chapter to start on an odd numbered page if >>> called in a file so: >>> \input cashen1912.chap3 >>> \endchapter >>> Well, it works in all cases bar one (and so does not work at all then): chapter >>> 2 ends on p.20, p.21 is inserted, and the next piece starts on p.22. >>> What am I doing wrong? perhaps failing to synchronise with the updating of \pageno, which takes place in the output routine? An alternative approach would be to hack \chapter instead, something along the lines of the following: \def \chapter {\vfill \eject %%% exercise the page builder \ifodd \pageno \else \line {} \vfill \eject \fi %%% recto = odd } Philip Taylor, RHBNC ------------------------------ Date: 03 May 1993 14:26:26 -0000 From: N Mooljee Subject: Figure caption spacing in LaTeX I have a latex question, I am using latex and using the automatically generated list of figures and list of tables i.e. \listoffigures and \listoftable and the output pages of these(postscript,a4) have the text of all figure or table captions for numbers of 10 and above hard up against the appropriate figure and table nomber. Something like 1-1 Figure Caption . Edit:1 . . 1-10Figure Caption i.e. no space between the 10 and the F Is it possible to do anything about this without getting too involved in latex macros etc.? ------------------------------ Date: 04 May 1993 12:32:17 -0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: Re: endash and minus %>From: Martin Ward %>Date: Tue, 4 May 93 10:09:38 BST %>Subject: Re: endash and minus %> %> %>I use two dots to refer to an inclusive range of integers with this %>definition: %> %>% range dots, like \ldots but with two dots only (for 1..n etc.): %>\def\rdots{\mathinner{\ldotp\ldotp}} %> %>Then $2 \rdots 4$ and $-5 \rdots -3$ both look fine and are consistent. %>(Technically, a..b is the sequence where a >= b-1). Yes, that is how Pascal does ranges, but then what is endash for? ------------------------------ Date: 04 May 1993 12:35:36 -0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: Re: endash and minus %>Date: Mon, 3 May 93 18:57:57 GMT %>From: JL Doumont %>Subject: endash and minus %> %>Splitting hairs, aren't we? Well, I like that! :-) %> %>Now this may sound like a silly answer, but why don't you try something %>simple, like "from $-5$ to $-3$" or "in the range $-5\ldots-3$"? %>(Yeah, I know, finding a consistent system is always so much nicer.) That's the name of the game! ^^ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 1993 14:00:49 +0100 From: A.F.Lack@uk.ac.city Subject: Re: problems with afm2tfm IN the last issue of UKTeX digest I posted a problem I was experiencing when installing a Type 1 clone of Garamond [actually GarDenOpti-Regular from Optifont UK]. I can now relate some more information about my error, but also have to report further diffulties. First the afm2tfm problem. My original problem was afm2tfm gave me the error ! kern char not found KPX infinity a -19 ^ E.J.Vens@icce.rug.nl mailed me this: > The errormessage points to a line KPX... where a "kern char" is "not found". > KPX is the afm command for a horizontal kerning. It has three parameters: > . In your case the > afm file want the typesetter to kern -19 units when it encounters a character > named "infinity" followed by a character named "a". The errormessage point to > a place in that command right after "infinity", meaning that this is the > character that it doesn't know about. > > The reference to Adobe Garamond in the manpage is an entirely different > chapter. PostScript font programs usually define more glyphs than the Adobe > StandardEncoding knows about. In order to let the typesetting program know > that these characters are available one can change the encodingvector. The > file AdobeGaramond.afm that comes with the dvips distribution is an example of > such an encodingvector. It is not related to your problem because afm2tfm is > not a PostScript program, and it is not interested in the encodingvector. > Afm2tfm can however reencode a font, so TeX can also reach those unreachable > characters. > > My suggestion to solve your problem is either remove all references to this > "infinity" character in your afmfile, or find the charactername that is really > ment to be there. "infinity" is not part of StandardEncoding, nor is it part > of IsoLatin1Encoding or ExpertEncoding. There is an "infinity" in the > SymbolEncoding. > > EJee. My interpretation of the answer lead me to edit the AFM file (it's a plain text file) and insert the keyword "Comment" in front of offending lines. This allowed afm2tfm to run to completion. My problem now is that after doing the necessary changes to psfonts.map, and generating a TeX file which uses the Garamond clone, my HP IIIsi hangs when I transmit the resultant PS file to it. On closer inspection of the printer, and using pageview under SunOS, I am getting suspicious of way dvips is including the pfb file or the pfb file itself. The pfb starts with 6 binary values, which appear in other type 1 pfbs I have looked at---so presumably this is OK. Yet the printer and pageview seen to take exception to them claiming an undefined command in that region of code. Has anyone got any answers? AFL ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 1993 15:37:50 +0100 From: black%gb.hmg.dra.signal@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay Subject: Including PostScipt or encapsulated PostScript diagram in SliTeX? Has anyone any idea how to include a PostScipt or encapsulated PostScript diagram in SliTeX using dvitops? I've tried \vspace{2in} \special{dvitops: import filenmae width height} with a diagram in encapsulated PostScipt, but this does not work. Should it work? Thanks in advance, John Black. janet: jvb@uk.mod.hermes internet: black@signal.dra.hmg.gb jvb@hermes.mod.uk@relay.mod.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 16:17:10 +0100 From: black@signal.dra.hmg.gb Subject: Re: Including PostScipt or encapsulated PostScript diagram in SliTeX? I used this macro which someone here had written. it's quite simple \def\psinsert#1#2#3#4#5#6{\vskip #4 \vbox to 0pt{ \kern #6 \hbox{ \kern #5 \special{dvitops: import #1 #2 #3}}\vss}} #1 the PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript filename (I used an epsf file so don't know if it works with PostScript #2 The width of figure display area #3 The depth of figure display area #4 The verticle distance allowed for the figure #5 The horizontal offset of figure #6 The verticle offset of figure I specified everything in points but perhaps you could use cm or in instead. John Black ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 09:26:06 +0100 From: A.F.Lack@uk.ac.city Subject: Problems with PostScript pfbs I have found what can only be termed a ``bug'' in dvips version 5.395 (admittedly and old version) in handling the down-loading of PostScript .pfb files. In an earlier mail message to ``UKTeX Digest'' I reported that I was suspicious of my dvips and this indeed proved to be the case. A pfb file contains a textual header followed by (the bulk of the file) in binary. Dvips 5.395 was including the binary portion of the pfb in the final PostScript output as binary and this was obviously upsetting the printer. I have now compiled the latest version, 5.516, and this works by converting the binary values in the pfb into hexadecimal characters. I can now print from down-loaded pfbs! And pageview under OpenWindows 3 still can't preview these files! If any of you are looking for cheap but good PostScript faces in Type 1 format, then take a look at CorelDraw version 3. This comes with a CD containg dozens of usable faces, including versions of Baskerville, Garamond and Caslon. AFL ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 09:38:00 +0000 From: Ian Ellery, CPC"Ian Ellery, CPC" Subject: DVI -> TeX/LaTeX ?? A user has deleted a large LaTeX file (by accident :-), but still has the DVI file. Anyone got any thoughts on the best tool to recover as much of the text as possible, with any formatting as an added bonus? I thought of something like dvitty or similar, but wondered if there was anything better - as dvitty tries to make it look like the formatted text (naturally), whereas here I just need the text, ready to be re-edited. thanks, Ian (Ian Ellery, i.ellery@uea) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 1993 11:59:58 -0000 From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) Subject: RE: DVI -> TeX/LaTeX ?? >>> A user has deleted a large LaTeX file (by accident :-), but still >>> has the DVI file. Anyone got any thoughts on the best tool to >>> recover as much of the text as possible, with any formatting as >>> an added bonus? I thought of something like dvitty or similar, >>> but wondered if there was anything better - as dvitty tries to make it >>> look like the formatted text (naturally), whereas here I just need the >>> text, ready to be re-edited. >>> thanks, DVIspell, from the emTeX suite. Philip Taylor, RHBNC ------------------------------ Date: 06 May 1993 09:47:26 +0800 From: HRECLHW@hk.hku.hkucc Subject: Latex inquiry from Hong Kong FROM: Dr.Joseph Hun-wei Lee Dept.of Civil and Structural Engineering University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG Fax: (+852) 559-5337 Email: hreclhw@hkucc.bitnet I would be most grateful if you could help out with the following questions: 1) I would like to print LATEX documents and graphics (with Latex output generated by e.g. GNUPLOT) on a Hewlett Packard 500 deskjet (inkjet) printer? Can this be done? If so, where could one get or purchase a copy of the HP deskjet printer driver? If needed, I will purchase the complete emTex package together with documentation and utilities from Aston. Please quote the price for air-mail orders from Hong Kong as soon as possible, and I can send you a Eurocheque for the purchase. I have been using Emtex on a HP Laserjet 3 printer in the department office and it works fine. However, I am thinking of buying a deskjet printer for my own personal use. 2) Although Latex is admirably powerful in preparing technical papers, I find it cumbersome to use it to prepare something simple like a Curriculum Vitae - e.g. the usual 'Experience' section where one would like to have something like: 1987-90 Something here that may extend for several lines but would like to have this block on the right typeset and fully left and right justified. This can easily be done on a standard wordprocessor, but it is not clear how one can use Latex efficiently for this. Using a tabular environment is too clumsy for this. Whereas using a description environment may not allow one to adjust the spacing between the left and right blocks. Is there any 'clean' way to do this? Thank you in advance for your assistance. Joseph Hun-wei Lee ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 1993 18:55:49 +0200 From: rahtz%ch.cern.dxcern@uk.ac.earn-relay Subject: Re: Latex inquiry from Hong Kong LIST> 1) I would like to print LATEX documents and graphics (with LIST> Latex output generated by e.g. GNUPLOT) on a Hewlett Packard 500 LIST> deskjet (inkjet) printer? Can this be done? If so, where could LIST> one get or purchase a copy of the HP deskjet printer driver? If the emTeX package you are about to order has a deskjet driver in it LIST> for air-mail orders from Hong Kong as soon as possible, and I LIST> can send you a Eurocheque for the purchase. please contact Peter Abbott direct about this, or just add 5 pounds for the extra postage LIST> description environment may not allow one to adjust the spacing LIST> between the left and right blocks. Is there any 'clean' way to LIST> do this? of course you can adjust it! check the manual more carefully. you can change *many* parameters of lists; it may not be easy, but this is generic markup, at least you only need do it once. Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 May 1993 11:01:32 +0700 From: d.r.moore@uk.ac.imperial Subject: BEEBE Drivers PC Package, HP4 drivers & Fonts Dear UKTEX. Malcolm Clark recommended I contact you with my questions concerning the support of TeX at IC Maths. 1. I down loaded the BEEBE DVI drivers packages from the ASTON archive, but was unable to produce a working PC version because I could not find the sources for the PC version of MAKE he refers to in his documentation and the attendent library used in make that the driver package also requires. Where could I find the sources for this or a complete IBM PC version of DVICAN or the sources necessary to 'MAKE' this? 2. We now have a number of HP4 Laserjets attached to PCs and UNIX workstations. We would like to have 600dpi fonts. a. Can you suggest where we could find drivers for the HP4 from public domain sources (or Hack an existing BEEBE driver?)? b. We have working METAFONT. What are the recommended mode definitions to use for this device when generating the fonts? Many thanks for your help. DAN ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 1993 10:04:27 +0700 From: d.r.moore@uk.ac.imperial Subject: Re: BEEBE Drivers PC Package, HP4 drivers & Fonts In Message Thu, 6 May 1993 20:44:22 +0200, rahtz@DXCERN.CERN.CH writes: >those dvi drivers are out of date. junk them. what device are you >printing to? the emTeX drivers and dvips between them cover most things I need a PC/DOS based driver for a CANON LBP-8 A2. BEEBE has such a driver and I have used the VAX VMS version quite successfully for 5 years, but our VAX has been killed and I need a PC driver. I have EMTEX and its drivers, but I do not see a CANON driver amongst them. >LIST> you suggest where we could find drivers for the HP4 from public >LIST> domain sources (or Hack an existing BEEBE driver?)? b. We have\ > >dont hack. use emTeX drivers Where or how to I modify the existing dvihplj.exe driver in EMTEX to drive an HP4 at 600 dpi. We are already using it to drive the HP4 at 300 dpi. (We want the enhanced resolution to clean up some fine details like the horizontal bar in the case e in CMR10 at 10 point resolution. Some times the bar is broken or ragged at 300dpi!). >LIST> working METAFONT. What are the recommended mode definitions to >LIST> use for this device when generating the fonts? > >you dont need a new driver, you just need a mode def. the general view >seems to be "your guess is as good as mine" for the HP4 I don't understand why I don't need a new driver. How do I 'kick' the HP4 into 600dpi mode after I have generated a set of 600dpi fonts? Many thanks for the trouble you have taken to reply to my queries. Dan MOORE ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 1993 12:06:25 +0100 From: Richard Kaye Subject: bibstyles I am editing a book, and the publisher is insisting on author-date style for citations and bibliography. Can someone please point me in the direction of the relevant style files for LaTeX/BIBTEX ? This style of citation/bibliog has had some bad press. But I find that for SOME types of technical work (mine is in Pure Mathematics) it isn't so bad. The `Author' and `date' information is useful to recall which paper is being cited, when [n] is often completely unmemorable, and [Blo93] is not much more helpful, and singularly ugly. The sort of case I thinking of is when there are not so many references, and some (or many) of them are cited several times, possibly with no other pointers in the text (such as `see~\cite{bloggs} for more details'). I don't know yet if this applies for the current work, but of course I don't have any choice. While I'm discussing bibstyles, does anyone have any opinions on the old-fashioned way of giving references in footenotes? This would be quite easy to do in LaTeX, and sometimes helpful to the reader. (Are there any style files?) I also have a more technical question. Is it possible (using LaTeX/BIBTEX) to have several chapters with their own bibliographies `indented' in the following way: text1 indentedtext1 bibliog for indentedtext1 text2 indentedtext2 bibliog for indentedtext2 text3 indentedtext3 bibliog for indentedtext3 text4 bibliog for text1,text2,text3,text4 The idea is that the `indentedtext's are the contributions/research papers by other authors, and the other stuff is editorial introduction and discussion (which may be quite lengthy). Thanks for all help Richard Kaye ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 May 1993 19:22:23 -0000 From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme Subject: Vancouver style In a recent UKTeX, Calum Mackay asked about "Vancouver style". The style is more biomedical than statistical, I think. It is defined in International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. "Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals", British Medical Journal, February 1991, volume 302, pages 338-341. I believe that there is an equivalent definition in the 1991 New England Journal of Medicine. It is accepted for manuscript-submission by over 400 journals. It is named after the place where, in 1978, the relevant editors met and agreed on a common set of "instructions for authors" regarding manuscript preparation. Calum says A user needs a macro/style file ... Vancouver style ... The "Uniform requirements ... " specify: * authors sending manuscripts to a participating journal should not try to prepare them in accordance with the publication style of that journal, but should follow the "Uniform requirements ... " * type the manuscript double-spaced * number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Examples are given of the form in which references should appear in a reference-list. * for table-footnotes use the sequence *, \dag, \ddag, ... So, it would be possible for some public-spirited person to produce LaTeX/BibTeX style-files that satisfied some of the requirements (numbered references, style of reference-list, sequence of table-footnotes), although I don't know of anything suitable that exists already. But then there is a dilemma. The "Uniform requirements" are essentially typewriter-oriented, with no concession to electronic publishing. They envisage a double-spaced, typed manuscript being submitted and that, if the manuscript is accepted, the journal will then re-key for typesetting. They prohibit attempts to imitate the typeset style of the target journal. What should this hypothetical public-spirited person do (and, more immediately, what should Calum recommend to "the user")? Should there be a vancouver.sty that forces LaTeX to imitate a double-spaced typewriter, with the whole text in {\tt ...}? (There are a few other typewriter-oriented requirements that vancouver.sty would have to organize.) This is what would have to be done to conform to the letter/spirit of the "Uniform requirements" --- but it seems pretty pointless to get a typesetting system to imitate a typewriter, so that the text can all be re-keyed back into a (particular journal's) typesetting system (and then presumably sent back as galleys for the author to check the re-keying)! Or should the hypothetical public-spirited person try to do style-files that violate the "Uniform requirements" by trying to imitate the publication style of target journals? You might have scenarios like "public-spirited person does BMJ.sty to imitate British Medical Journal style; end-user uses BMJ.sty to prepare paper; end-user submits paper to British Medical Journal; BMJ admires it but [at best] pragmatically re-keys it anyway [at worst] rejects it because it doesn't keep to the typewriter-oriented Uniform Requirements [which makes things difficult for their human re-keyer or their scanner, as the case may be]". So I can't think of an easy answer for Calum to give "the user". I would urge Calum to URGE THE USER TO WRITE TO THE EDITOR OF THE TARGET JOURNAL, AND TO THE "CORRESPONDENCE TO" ADDRESS given in the "Uniform requirements", to say that: * they would like to submit manuscripts in electronic form * their preferred electronic form is LaTeX (or whatever) * it's about time that the Vancouver group thought up some "uniform requirements" for electronic submission. A few precedents could usefully be quoted in such a letter: the American Mathematical Society, the (Bristol-based) the Institute of Physics and the (Cambridge-based) Cambridge University Press accept/encourage .tex files and supply "author-support kits"; the (Cambridge-based) Royal Society of Chemistry is experimenting with non-TeX electronic submission of wordprocessed files. If there are any public-spirited readers who can spare the time for doing .sty and/or .bst files, I suppose that some style files that kept to the 1991 Uniform Requirements ({\tt ...} and all) would be useful until the time when (if ever) the Vancouver group have been persuaded to publish a new edition of the Uniform Requirements that supports "electronic submission". But going to a lot of effort to get LaTeX to imitate a typewriter doesn't seem like a very fulfilling task! David Rhead ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 11:23:18 +0000 From: David Warnock Subject: Tex Previewer for PCs Could you tell me if there is a suitable screen previewer for use with TEX386 on PCs? Where can we find it in the Aston archive? David Warnock Internet: davidw@eumersc.demon.co.uk Regional Computer Consultant CIS: 100016,2120 United Bible Societies Europe Middle East Regional Service Centre ------------------------------ Date: 11 May 1993 10:38:51 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: Tex Previewer for PCs > Could you tell me if there is a suitable screen previewer for use with > TEX386 on PCs? Where can we find it in the Aston archive? its part of the emTeX suite under [tex-archive.systems.dos.emtex] you need the dvidrv package sebastian ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 1993 10:38:18 -0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: Dates in ftp.tex Why does a directory listing on ftp.tex via ls -C or dir give dates where one file says nov 30 16:54 and the next says Jun 4 1992? Is there a way of finding out how old a file is? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 11:06:13 -0000 From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} Subject: RE: Dates in ftp.tex In message 1654 of 13 May 93 10:38:18 BST, Mike Piff wrote: > Why does a directory listing on ftp.tex via ls -C or dir give dates > where one file says nov 30 16:54 and the next says Jun 4 1992? Is there > a way of finding out how old a file is? This is an artefact of Unix, I'm afraid. Seems like the designers thought that folks would be too lazy to read a full date and time for every file, so the way things work is that a file ate that's less than a few months old (I think it may be 12, but couldn't swear to it) { It's 6 months --Ed. } will be shown with the month and day of creation, along with the time (hh:mm only) whereas one older than that will show the month, day amd year of creation --- looks like they perceive that the actual time is of little relevance after all that elapsed time. One useful (?) other artefact is that, if (usually by some mirroring operation, that preserves files' original timestamps, from some other timezone) one ends up with files with creation dates in the future vis a vis the machine's current tiem-of-day, they're displayed in the month/day/year format --- really useful that :-( Brian {Hamilton Kelly} ------------------------------ Date: 01 May 1993 20:42:04 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: CMacTeX in UK TeX Archive Package=systems/mac/cmactex Name=cmactex Author=Tom Kiffe Date=4.93 History=uploaded by Dominik Wujastyk 30.4.93 Description= This version of \TeX\ and its related programs for the Macintosh is based on \TeX\ 3.14 and {\logo METAFONT} 2.7. The Macintosh version is very much like its Unix parent. Command line arguments have been changed to menu selections. It was ported to the Macintosh with THINKC 5.0. All of the programs in this package will run on any Macintosh with 4 megabytes of RAM and System 6.0.x, System 7, or AUX. Includes Rokicki's dvips, previewer etc. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 May 1993 18:40:29 +0000 From: archive%uk.ac.tex.ftp@uk.ac.nottingham.directory Subject: fonts/futhark in UK TeX Archive Package=fonts/futhark Name=futhark Date=3.5.93 Author=Micaela "Stayka" Pantke + Sigrid "Shavana" Juckel Description= Metafont source for the Older Futhark alphabet with corrected spacing between the letters. They are as good as Shavana and I managed to design them. I include the parameter files and the files to compile 10pt, 20pt, 30pt, 40pt and 50pt runes, which should cover almost every case. ------------------------------ Date: 02 May 1993 22:08:22 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: preliminary programme for Tug93 meeting July26--30 1992 ********************************** TeX Users Group July 26th-30th 1993 Aston University, Birmingham, UK Provisional Programme (May 1st 1993) - ---------------------------------------------------------- contact tug93-enquiries@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk for a booking form if you have not already received one, or ftp it from ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/tug93 - ---------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE THEMES * Multilingual TeX: in addition to many reports on the spreading use of TeX to typeset an ever-increasing variety of languages and scripts, there will be important announcements from TUG's technical working group. * TeX Integration: where does TeX sit in the world of ever-increasing integration of software? windowing systems, document-oriented systems, document interchange and processing standards, active documents, multi-media. . . *TeX Futures: whither TeX? # TeX--XeT-TeX, VTeX, the NTS project. . . , what next? *TeX Archives: the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) # what it is and what can it do for you? CONFERENCE PAPERS (provisional titles) Graham Asher Tension Nelson Beebe Bibliography Prettyprinting and Syntax Checking Martin Bryan Beginner's Guide to DSSSL Michael Doob & Craig Platt Virtual fonts in a production environment Gabriel Valiente Feruglio Typesetting Catalan Texts with TeX Jonathon Fine Fundamental TeX macros for processing structured documents Peter Flynn Mixing TeX and SGML: a recipe for disaster? George Greenwade The comprehensive TeX archive network -- CTAN Yannis Haralambous The Khmer Script tamed by the Lion (of TeX) Berthold & Blenda Horn Scalable outline fonts Alan Jeffrey A PostScript font installer written in TeX Minato Kawaguti A versatile TeX device driver Kees van der Laan Syntactic Sugar Kees van der Laan Sorting in BLUe Michel Lavaud Future TeX again Irina A Makhovaya Russian TeX issues: Looking about and outlook David Murphy Readability of mathematical typesetting John Plaice Language-dependent ligatures David Rhead Some suggestions on how LaTeX3 might approach biblographic references Larry Siebenmann A format compiLaTion framework for European languages Larry Siebenmann The spacing around mathematics: a quick trip to the limits of TeX Daniel Taupin Maps in Metafont Philip Taylor A future to TeX Christina Thiele The future of TeX and TUG Michael Vulis Building a future for TeX Xinxin Wang & Derick Wood An Abstract Model for Tables Eddy Zedlewski A beginner's guide to the Internet EVENTS Panel discussions: many of these subjects will be covered by `question times' with a galaxy of distinguished panelists; contact the organisers if you want to make short contributions: # Futures (chair: Philip Taylor) # LaTeX3 (chair: Rainer Shoepf) # Multilingualism (chair: Yannis Haralambous) # Archives (chair: George Greenwade). Tutorials (in parallel on the morning of Monday 26th, each approximately 1 hour long): # Introduction to LaTeX: what it is and what it is not, Flavours # of TeX: a brief tour of Plain TeX, eplain, LaTeX, AMSTeX, AMS-LaTeX, LAMS-TeX, etc. # Getting TeX: how to set up and maintain a TeX system for yourself and for your friends # Fonts for TeX: how fonts are accessed by TeX itself and the many possibilities for getting `typeset output'. Workshops: informal tutorials and discussions of a range of subjects, including: # Virtual fonts (Michael Doob), # TeX and multilingualism (Yannis Haralambous), # Future of BIBTeX and Makeindex (David Rhead, Joachim Schrod), # LaTeX3 (Frank Mittelbach), # Problem-solving (Philip Taylor). Special interest groups (re-named bofs). There will also be opportunities for other special interest groups to meet. #Welcome party: evening of Monday 26th. #Orientation: a short introduction to England's `Second city'. #Conference Banquet: evening of Thursday 29th #Either Bowling (10-pin), or visit to `The Chocolate Experience': evening of Tuesday 27th. #TUG general meeting: scheduled for the start of the afternoon session #on Thursday 29th. We also hope to attract exhibits and presentations covering many activities in the area of Electronic Publishing, such as: Bibliographic software, SGML-reLaTed software, Structured- document editors, TeX User Groups from around the world. . . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 May 1993 15:59:02 +0200 From: yannis Subject: TeX and Arabic script Conference Announcement +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | x x | | xx xx xxx xxx | | xx xxx x x | | xx xx x | | xx xx xxx xxx | | x xxxxx xx xx xx x xx xx | | xx x x xx xx xx xx xx x | | xx xx x xx xx xx xx xx | | x xx xxxxxxxx xx xxxx x xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx | | x xx xx xx xxx | | xx x x xx xx xxx | | xxxxxx xxx xx x xx xx | | x x xx xx xxx | | x x xx | | xx x | | xx xx | | xx xxx | | xxxx | | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | tK walRat alK"t al`rby t_h wal.gat al_h.t al`rby | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ CONFERENCE ON ``TeX AND THE ARABIC SCRIPT'' JOURNEE THEMATIQUE SUR << TeX ET L'ECRITURE ARABE >> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | L'Association Francophone des | The Frenchspeaking TeX Users Group Utilisateurs de TeX (GUTenberg) et | (GUTenberg) and the National Institute l'Institut National des Langues et | of Oriental Languages and Civilisations Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) | of Paris (INALCO) are organizing a organisent une journee thematique | one-day conference on the theme sur | | << TeX et l'ecriture arabe >> | ``TeX and the Arabic script'' | qui aura lieu le | which will be held on | mardi 11 mai 1993 de 9h a 17h | Tuesday May 11, 1993, 9:00 -- 17:00 | aux Grands Salons de l'INALCO, 2 | at the ``Grands Salons'' of the rue de Lille, Paris 7e, metro | INALCO, 2 rue de Lille, Paris 7e, St Germain-des-Pres. | near to subway station St Germain- | des-Pres. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Voici le programme preliminaire de | Follows a preliminary program of the la conference : | conference: | 9h00 -- 12h30 | 9:00 -- 12:30 | Ahmad Lakhdar-Ghazal : Le systeme ASV et introduction a l'informatique arabe ==================== ===================================================== (The Arabic simplified vowelized system and introduction to Arabic informatics) Michel Fanton : Codification et normalisation de l'arabe ============= ======================================== (Codification and standardization of Arabic script) Salem Chaker & Abdellah ElMountassir : Graphie arabe de la langue berbere ==================================== ================================== (Arabic script of the Berber language) Yannis Haralambous : Systemes TeX arabe et berbere dans le domaine public ================== ==================================================== (Public domain Arabic and Berber TeX systems). | 12h30 -- 14h30 | 12:30 -- 14:30 | Pause de midi | Lunch break | 14h30 -- 17h00 | 14:30 -- 17:00 | Klaus Lagally: ArabTeX, latest developments ============= ============================ (ArabTeX, derniers developpements) Alaaddin Al-Dhahir: Calligraphic Techniques in Arabic Font Design ================== ============================================= (Techniques calligraphiques pour le dessin de polices arabes) (sous reserve :) Ahmed Banaye Yazdipour: ParsiTeX, a TeX implementation developped in Tehran ====================== =================================================== (ParsiTeX, une implementation arabisee de TeX developpee a Teheran) Maurice Laugier : La composition arabe a l'Imprimerie Louis-Jean =============== ============================================== (Arabic typesetting at the Louis-Jean printing house) Yannis Haralambous : Al Amal, un systeme de composition du Coran, base sur TeX ================== ========================================================= (Al Amal, a TeX system for typesetting the Holy Quran) | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | La participation a la conference est | Participation to the Conference is libre. Veuillez ---pour des raisons | free. For organisatory reasons, you organisatoires--- vous inscrire en | are kindly requested to subscribe envoyant un message a | yourself by sending a message to yannis@gat.citilille.fr Les comptes-rendus seront publies | The proceedings will be published as sous forme de volume special des | a special volume of the ``Cahiers << Cahiers GUTenberg >>. | GUTenberg''. | Venez nombreux ! | Join us! | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 May 1993 13:12:44 -0400 From: karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay Subject: OpenWindows icons by Don Knuth available Don Knuth designed a bunch of icons for TeX system files for the OpenWindows FileManager application. You can get them by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/tex-icons.tar.z. (A gzipped tar file.) He and TUG are registering them with Sun. He plans to write an article for TUGboat describing them. Since I don't use OpenWindows or FileManager myself, I haven't done anything with them beyond a casual glance. But if you have questions or suggestions, feel free to ask. 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