From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #02 Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 16:30:15 +0000 Message-ID: <1029.758565015@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 14 Jan 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 02 ``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}: ENDNOTE problems with mfjob and dviscr in emTeX LaTeX to RTF file conversion utility Canon BJ200 dvi driver dc fonts DC TFM files Re: DC TFM files TeX output on high-resolution devices {Announcements}: Q&A panel session at UKTUG psfonts meeting Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 12:55:47 +0000 From: M.Knott@lse.ac.uk Subject: ENDNOTE Does any body have software to convert a bibtex *.bib file to ENDNOTE database format, and vice-versa? ------------------------------ Date: 10 Jan 1994 14:33:03 From: Mike Piff Subject: problems with mfjob and dviscr in emTeX Can anyone get mfjob to work generating cmtt8 at 5pt? For me, it seems undecided whether to work out 300*0.625=187.5 as 187 or 188. Consequently, it correctly generates the font, but calls it cmtt8.188; then, dviscr refuses to find the font as it is looking for cmtt8.187 presumably. When I put 188 in the +font-sizes list, dviscr finds the font OK, but that is clearly no solution in general, as +font-sizes would have to list all possible numbers! I find the font sizes used by LaTeX a pain. The ones I usually generate are 150,180,210,240,270,300,329,360,432,etc, but then LaTeX throws in odd ones like cmtt8 at 5pt, which fits no particular pattern. Even worse, occasionally we have to do magnification on a document, and this generates even odder sizes, even when the font only exists in mf source at 10pt. Try xxx10 at 7pt at magstep1. (Yes, I know LaTeX and magnification are incompatible, but that is the point.) Mike Piff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Dr M J Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %% %% Sheffield, UK. e-mail: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 15:42:49 +0000 From: thdc68%teach@uk.ac.sheffield.dcs Subject: LaTeX to RTF file conversion utility My name is Matthew Shaw and I am working on a program that you may be interested in! The program converts a LaTeX (not TeX) source file and converts it to a Rich Text Format (RTF) File that can be read by Word for Windows, Lotus 123, Framework, Word Perfect etc. The program is not yet complete but would you be interested in a copy when it is ? Matthew Shaw Department of Computer Science The University of Sheffield, UK. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 18:31:31 +0000 From: Archibald Neil W BSc 4 Mod Comp 93-94 Subject: Canon BJ200 dvi driver Does anyone have or know of source for the above. It is essential that I have the source and not an executable since it is for a linux (unix) system. Many thanx in advance Neil. ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 1994 13:53:31 From: Mike Piff Subject: dc fonts I am not sure whether this is a latex3 problem or a CTAN one, so I am sending to both (probably the same people). Has anyone questioned the logic in having dc fonts in latex, but their tfm files not available on the archives (this right?) I was looking from the point of view of using emTeX and mfjob to generate missing fonts. The natural way to do this is to hook up mfjob to the dvi drivers so that they write a batch job for mfjob to generate missing fonts. However, to do that they need a dvi file, and to get a dvi file TeX needs the tfm file to be there. But to get the tfm file you need to generate the font... Could some kind soul donate the tfm files for dc fonts to CTAN? (Assuming anyone uses dc fonts.) Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 16:00:56 +0000 From: dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk (Dean Ayres) Subject: DC TFM files I've just placed a tar'd, gzip'd file dctfm.tar.gz in the /incoming directory of CTAN host ftp.tex.ac.uk. I hope it's of use. Dean Ayres AEA Technology ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 1994 10:38:05 From: Mike Piff Subject: Re: DC TFM files %>I've just placed a tar'd, gzip'd file dctfm.tar.gz in the %>/incoming directory of CTAN host ftp.tex.ac.uk. %> %>I hope it's of use. It certainly is! I have just retrieved it and tested it with mfjob, and I can now generate the fonts on demand. Thanks. I agree with your point in another e-mail that this *should* be on the archive. In fact, the tfm files for cmr are there, even though they could be generated, and indeed emTeX even includes lots of .pk files in its distribution, but not the tfm and pk files for dc fonts. Perhaps these should be suggested as a "contribution" to emTeX (although they are of wider use, but then it would be better to make them available this way than not at all:-) Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 15:19:31 +0000 From: David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk Subject: TeX output on high-resolution devices Could anyone supply a list of UK typesetting bureaux that will take a .dvi file (which may involve Computer Modern) and produce a decent-quality bromide that can be sent to a printer? Is it between ULCC and the the National Typesetting service at Oxford, or are there other places that are set up to do this sort of thing? David Rhead ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 20:53:36 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Q&A panel session at UKTUG psfonts meeting UKTUG POSTSCRIPT FONTS MEETING On 19 January 1994, there will be a UK TeX Users Group meeting on PostScript fonts and TeX, held at Oxford University Press. As part of this meeting, there will be a question and answer panel on any subject related to PostScript fonts and TeX. If you would like to have a question answered, please send it (by Monday 17 January) to me at: alanje@cogs.susx.ac.uk If you would like to attend the meeting, please email me for further details. 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