UKTeX Digest Friday, 17 Sep 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 30 ``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}: TeX & LaTeX for Solaris 2.0 Re: TeX & LaTeX for Solaris 2.0 Electronic submission to Prentice-Hall Installing BIBTEX on an OpenVMS AXP system RE: Installing BIBTEX on an OpenVMS AXP system Futura look-alike? {Announcements}: UKTUG meeting: Front Ends to TeX: October 20th, Aston 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, 10 Sep 1993 15:00:49 -0000 From: Akira Nakamura Subject: TeX & LaTeX for Solaris 2.0 I would like to install Tex and Latex on SUN-Sparc classic, Solalis2.0, but I am not an expert of latex and TeX, I don't understand how I can install them for our Sun machine. The TeX archive is so huge, is there any guide for installing ? Sincerely, Akira Nakamura Toshiba Cambridge Research Center ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 16:10:03 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.tex.ftp Subject: Re: TeX & LaTeX for Solaris 2.0 akira@tcrc.toshiba.co.uk writes: > > I would like to install Tex and Latex on SUN-Sparc classic, Solalis2.0, > but I am not an expert of latex and TeX, > I don't understand how I can install them for our Sun machine. > The TeX archive is so huge, is there any guide for installing ? > the Internet CTAN archive (UK branch) on ftp.tex.ac.uk has a directory pub/archive/systems/unix/sparctex; if you fetch all of that, it is set up to compile readily. Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 15:24:00 -0000 From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme Subject: Electronic submission to Prentice-Hall Derek Andrews asked about LaTeX style-files for Prentice-Hall books. Ideally, shouldn't these be done by Prentice-Hall? Otherwise potential authors risk producing stuff that they think is OK for Prentice-Hall, but then getting told "Sorry. This isn't our house-style." Might it be worth Derek contacting the division of Prentice-Hall which he hopes will publish his book, and saying that: * he wants to submit his manuscript electronically * the specific electronic form he'd like to use is .tex files for LaTeX * many other publishers (Cambridge, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, AMS, IoP, Royal Society) provide support for authors doing this. What support does Prentice-Hall provide please? If not, why not? The next stage would depend on what answers he gets: * If it is essential that he publish via Prentice-Hall, and Prentice-Hall support some non-LaTeX form of electronic submission, he may pragmatically decide to go along some non-LaTeX route * If Derek has the option of going to some other publisher, he could approach a publisher who is know to support LaTeX-ing authors. * If Prentice-Hall are sufficiently ashamed that they don't support LaTeX-ing authors, they may pragmatically agree to accept camera-ready copy in whatever form Derek can supply, provided that it is a "good book design". Derek would then be faced with the simplified problem of producing something that is a "good book design" on a device whose resolution is suitable for publication. Surely there should be some .sty files in the archives that implement "a good book design"? * It is possible to think of divisions of labour like "X the printer" then "Prentice-Hall the publisher" (where X might be one of Cambridge U P [printing division], IoP, ULCC [yes?], ... ). In such a scenario, "X the printer" could supply Derek with the author-support kit, and "X the printer" could supply Prentice-Hall with camera-ready material for publication. Perhaps the target division of Prentice-Hall could advise about suitable scenarios. (Even if they can't, the fact that someone asks them might be "a good thing", since it might make them start thinking about what they should be doing to help people in Derek's situation.) David Rhead ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 16:33:38 -0000 From: Ivan Fabian Subject: Installing BIBTEX on an OpenVMS AXP system I am trying to install an implementation of TeX and some related software on an OpenVMS AXP system (Alpha). I have successfully installed some parts, but am stuck on BIBTEX. I used ftp to extract the BIBTEX files from "tex.ac.uk" then tried to tangle the WEB and VMS-CHANGE files with the following result: $tangle Web file: {.base}bibtex.web Change file: BIBTEX.VMS-CHANGES Pascal file: bibtex.pas Pool file: bibtex.pool This is TANGLE, Vax/VMS Version 4.1 *1 ! Hmm... 6 of the preceding lines failed to match. (change file l.167) @y ! Hmm... 1 of the preceding lines failed to match. (change file l.216) @y *10*21*36*48*64*80*97*109*146*163*218*290*331*455*467*468 ! Change file entry did not match. (change file l.229) program BibTEX; {all files are opened dynamically} Writing the output file.....500.....1000.....1500.....2000.....2500.. Done. (Pardon me, but I think I spotted something wrong.) $ Am I doing something wrong? Is there a problem with TANGLE? Is the change file wrong? (TANGLE worked fine for creating the TEX.PAS)? Ivan Fabian Rutherford Appleton Lab ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 13:15:23 -0000 From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} Subject: RE: Installing BIBTEX on an OpenVMS AXP system In a message to UKTeX of Tue, 14 Sep 93 16:33:38 BST, Ivan Fabian wrote: > I am trying to install an implementation of TeX and some related > software on an OpenVMS AXP system (Alpha). I have successfully installed > some parts, but am stuck on BIBTEX. > > I used ftp to extract the BIBTEX files from "tex.ac.uk" > then tried to tangle the WEB and VMS-CHANGE files with the following > result: > > $tangle > Web file: {.base}bibtex.web > Change file: BIBTEX.VMS-CHANGES > Pascal file: bibtex.pas > Pool file: bibtex.pool > This is TANGLE, Vax/VMS Version 4.1 > *1 > ! Hmm... 6 of the preceding lines failed to match. (change file l.167) > @y What's happened here is that the file bibtex.vms-changes was provided (end of April, 1991, so far as I can tell from old directory listings) by Don Hosek, of Harvey Mudd College. It's potentially an extremely useful advance on the older change files, because it incorporates interfaces to the standard CLI routines, so that the VMS version can be used with command line qualifiers with a VMS ``feel''. However, Don had obviously based this change file upon a local copy of bibtex.web in which he'd replaced horizontal tab (HT) characters with single spaces. Therefore, it cannot be used with Tangle (or Weave) on the standard distributed WEB source. (Quite why the latter should include *any* HT characters I wouldn't know: I recall Don and myself having a correspondence about how some users of non-VMS operating systems have considerable difficulties with HT characters, and that they really ought to be eliminated from all archived sources. I guess Don thought that the HT characters had crept in to the WEB source at some VMS site, but apparently not.) So that Ivan can continue with building BibTeX on his AXP, I have uploaded my original change file, as used here at RMCS to the parent archive, as [TEX-ARCHIVE.BIBLIOGRAPHY.BIBTEX.VMS]BIBTEX.CH. I'd obviously collected Don's change file myself here locally back in 1991, but must have given up on building it upon encountering the same problem as Ivan. I've left Don's BIBTEX.VMS-CHANGES file in place in that directory: if any kind soul would like to correct it so that it will work with the original WEB source, archives throughout the world would be pleased to receive it. I've also put a 00README.TXT file into that [.VMS] subdirectory in the archive; this reads as follows: |This sub-directory contains TWO change files for BibTeX under VMS. | |That named BIBTEX.CH was provided by B. Hamilton Kelly and Niel Kempson, of the |Royal Military College of Science, and was based upon earlier change files |distributed with VMS versions of TeX, etc. | |The other is called BIBTEX.VMS-CHANGES, and was provided by Don Hosek of Harvey |Mudd College. It's a good concept, incorporating as it does support for |accessing BibTeX through the DCL command interpreter (since the change file |includes the relevant BIBTEX.CLD in the limbo material). | |However, and it's a BIG however --- this latter change file won't work with the |standard distributed bibtex.web file, because the latter includes some |horizontal tab (HT) characters, which prevent Tangle from matching the source |lines correctly. | |BHK recalls discussing the problem of HT characters with Don Hosek back in the |late 1980s. He has obviously ``detabbed'' his copy of BIBTEX.WEB (and |presumably this can be found on his ftp site). But when all other archive |sites appear to include the original bibtex.web, albeit that this contains so me |HT characters, which are known to cause problems with some non-VMS operating |systems, it is surely important that the change file be based upon that source, |and not upon some local version thereof. | |If anyone would care to modify the BIBTEX.VMS-CHANGES file to match the |canonical WEB source file, the archivists would be delighted to receive a copy: |ftp it to TeX.ac.uk, using username CONTRIBUTIONS, password CONTRIBUTIONS, and |then send e-mail to Archive-Contributions@TeX.ac.uk. If Don is still reading UKTeX, and has himself got a version of his change file that works with the *standard* distributed WEB source, we'd be pleased to hear from him, because it obviously would be better to use the CLI under DCL. Brian {Hamilton Kelly} ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 15:19:46 -0000 From: Peter Abbott Subject: Futura look-alike? Anyone able to answer this query for the punter. I can generate the sample pages but do not know the look a like answer. Peter To: chest-monotype@mailbase.ac.uk From: R.J.Forsyth@ncl.ac.uk Subject: Futura look-alike? List: chest-monotype@uk.ac.mailbase Reply-To: R.J.Forsyth@ncl.ac.uk Sender: chest-monotype-request@mailbase.ac.uk Precedence: list Hi. I'm looking for Mac type 1 fonts for the Futura family (as many as possible). We're signed up for the Monotype deal, but looking down the list there's no Futura. Is there a Monotype "Futura look-alike" there? I haven't the patience to open every suitcase and check! I looked at a couple of "sound-alikes" like Perpetua, but that's something else. BTW, has someone, anyone, had the patience to create a sampler file of the Monotype range? I imagine it would be pretty huge, depending on how it was tackled? Thanks in advance Rob Forsyth Department of Child Health, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, United Kingdom. Email: r.j.forsyth @ newcastle.ac.uk Telephone: +44 91 222 6000 ext 6936 Fax: +44 91 222 6222 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 15:32:09 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.tex.ftp Subject: UKTUG meeting: Front Ends to TeX: October 20th, Aston This meeting will present a range of the different approaches to making \TeX\ more useable in the modern world, for people who do not think in terms of control sequences and macros, or want to make wider use of their hard-won documents; the speakers and topics will include: Christopher Mabb: A presentation of Scientific Word. A genuine front end to \TeX, offering a Windows interface to document preparation, especially scientific and mathematical writing, with true Knuthian typeset quality. Jonathan Fine: New Perspectives on Macro. A fresh look at what \TeX\ itself can do with appropriate sophisticated macros, to make itself more friendly. Adrian Clark: Hypermedia extensions to a dvi previewer. Describes `hdvi', a new Unix previewer which includes facilities for hypermedia links and multimedia objects. Nikos Drakos: \LaTeX\ to HTML. HTML is the hypertext mark-up language of World Wide Web, and this presentation shows how \LaTeX\ source can be used in a truly international networked hypertext system. Sebastian Rahtz: A survey of \TeX\ shell programs. A review of the environments available on PC, Macintosh and Unix systems which try to simplify the complex interaction between editors, \TeX, previewers, printers and post-processors. Some speakers will demonstrate software, and there there of course will be time for discussion. All the speakers will be asked to summarize their talks for publication in {\em Baskerville}. If you are a member of UKTUG, you will receive the booking form soon; if not, process the following with LaTeX, print, fill in and post off to Aston Sebastian Rahtz % Flyer and booking form for 1993 AGM and FrontEnds UKTUG meeting % % Should produce same paper output with either New Font Selection Scheme % or old LaTeX. % \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \topmargin=-2cm\textheight=24.5cm \textwidth=12.7cm \newlength\WKdim\WKdim=21cm\advance\WKdim -\textwidth% Ensure left and right \oddsidemargin=0.5\WKdim\advance\oddsidemargin -2.54cm% side margins are equal \nofiles \newcommand{\UKTUG}{UK \TeX\ Users' Group} \newcommand{\osuff}[2]{#1\raisebox{0.8ex}{\scriptsize #2}} \newcommand{\bsuff}[2]{#1\raisebox{0.8ex}{\normalsize #2}} \newcommand{\NL}{\\[\baselineskip]} \newcommand{\FullLine}[1]{% \makebox[\textwidth][l]{#1\hrulefill}\NL} \newcommand{\HalfLine}[1]{% \makebox[0.5\textwidth][l]{#1\hrulefill}} \leftmargini=\parindent \begin{document} \begin{center}\Large\bf The \UKTUG\vspace{3ex} {\Huge Front Ends to \TeX}\vspace{2ex} Making \TeX\ Accessible to Humans\\ Aston University \\ 20 October 1993 \end{center} \section*{Meeting Outline} This meeting will present a range of the different approaches to making \TeX\ more useable in the modern world, for people who do not think in terms of control sequences and macros, or want to make wider use of their hard-won documents; the speakers and topics will include: \begin{description} \item[Christopher Mabb]: {\em A presentation of Scientific Word}. A genuine front end to \TeX, offering a Windows interface to document preparation, especially scientific and mathematical writing, with true Knuthian typeset quality. \item[Jonathan Fine]: {\em New Perspectives on Macros}. A fresh look at what \TeX\ itself can do with appropriate sophisticated macros, to make itself more friendly. \item[Adrian Clark]: {\em Hypermedia extensions to a dvi previewer}. Describes `hdvi', a new Unix previewer which includes facilities for hypermedia links and multimedia objects. \item[Nikos Drakos]: {\em \LaTeX\ to HTML}. HTML is the hypertext mark-up language of World Wide Web, and this presentation shows how \LaTeX\ source can be used in a truly international networked hypertext system. \item[Sebastian Rahtz]: {\em A survey of \TeX\ shell programs}. A review of the environments available on PC, Macintosh and Unix systems which try to simplify the complex interaction between editors, \TeX, previewers, printers and post-processors. \end{description} Some speakers will demonstrate software, and there there of course will be time for discussion. All the speakers will be asked to summarize their talks for publication in {\em Baskerville}. \section*{Meeting details} The meeting will take place after the Annual General Meeting of the \UKTUG\ at Aston University, which all members are warmly invited to attend. The venue is the Senior Common Room, Room 708, Main Building, Aston University, Birmingham. The AGM will be at 11.40am, with registration and coffee from 1000, and the {\em Front Ends} meeting will begin at 2pm. Lunch will be served at 1pm, tea at 4pm, and the meeting will end at 5--5.30pm. Please return the enclosed booking form, with payment, so as to arrive no later than 15 October 1993. The meeting fee is \pounds 20 for members of the \UKTUG, and \pounds 30 for non-members. \newpage % -------------------------- booking form ---------------------------- \begin{center}\LARGE\bf The \UKTUG\\ {\em Front Ends to \TeX}\\ 20 October 1993\bigskip {\Huge Booking Form\bigskip} \end{center} \subsection*{Booking arrangements} Please return your completed form to arrive no later than 15 October 1993. The charge for members of the \UKTUG\ will be \pounds 20, and for non-members, \pounds 30. 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