From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #11 Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 16:48:34 +0000 Message-ID: <14507.764009314@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 18 Mar 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 11 ``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: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts Re: Float minor style Re: Query via FAX from Poland BibTeX Problems MusicTeX and OzTeX 1.6 Re: Mac Type1 font to .pfb/.pfa format FAX query on filters {Announcements}: EuroTeX '94 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: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 16:36:32 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts Dean Ayres writes: > I asked how to convert Macintosh format PostScript fonts (as supplied with > Adobe Type Manager) to pfa or pfb format for use in a TeX system. > > Sebastian Rahtz replied; > > ghostscript and dvips read binary pfb files ok; you just need to convert o ut > of > > Mac rubbish. check out t1tools somewhere on CTAN for various > > conversion tools. > > I looked in t1tools and also t1utils (both on CTAN). They convert between > pfa, pfb and ascii font formats, but don't 'convert out the Mac rubbish.' t1utils/unpost is what i was thinking of. sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 16:36:32 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: Float minor style David Lindsey writes: > The LaTeX Companion, section: 6.2, describes a minor style: 'float' > by Anselm Lingnau which provides facilities helping one cope with > the rather wayward behaviour of LaTeX floats. > > Can anyone tell me how to get hold of a copy of this? I've searched the > /pub/archive/macros hierarchy, not exhaustively but exhaustedly nonetheless. try harder. macros/latex/contrib/misc/float.doc sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 16:36:32 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: Query via FAX from Poland Peter Abbott says: > scientific output is written in TeX, LaTeX or AMSTeX I am familiar with > these programmes, but it would be nice if can copy with TeX on Archimedes > 5000 computer I bought and and which stands at my home. If you see any > possibility to help me I will be delighted. If yes please write at address there is an Archiedes TeX in the CTAN archives. how you transmit it to Poland I am not sure sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 14:50:42 -0500 From: nandu@cs.clemson.edu Subject: BibTeX Problems Help!! I have two problems with bibtex. (1) I have built up a bibliographic database in BibTeX format. Recently, BibTeX has started complaining that "exceeded string quota 4000". I have no clue what that means and would greatly appreciate if someone could explain the cause and suggest a cure. (2) I would like to sort the references (using the plain style) and in addition, would like to cluster references by year. For Example, I would like something of this sort.... [???] Author1,.... \ - all references of a particular year, [????] Author 2,..... / references in alphabetical order [???] Author1,.... \ - all references of a higher year, [????] Author 2,..... / references in alphabetical order and so on. Is there a style file that I could use and is available publicly? I would greatly appreciate answers to the above questions. Nandakumar Sankaran (nandu@cs.clemson.edu) (nsankar@hubcap.clemson.edu) 311-8 Old Greenville Hwy. Clemson SC 29631-1651 (803)653-7749 G34 Jordan Hall Comp. Sci. Dept. Clemson Univ. SC 29634 (803)656-6979 There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in vaccum ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 21:20:52 +0000 From: bayliss@tdc.dircon.co.uk (Euan Bayliss) Subject: MusicTeX and OzTeX 1.6 Hi all - I am baffled!!!! I've got the files that make up MusicTeX and have uncompressed the file which I received as a .tar.Z file - so I have all the files - but no directory structure!!! So - has anyone out there set up and used this configuration and can they offer me any tips. Yours bewildered but hopeful, Euan bayliss@tdc.dircon.co.uk aka Euan Bayliss......... 1 Northstead Road, Tulse Hill, LONDON, England SW2 3JN ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 16:59:47 +0100 From: Petr Sojka Subject: Re: Mac Type1 font to .pfb/.pfa format : Subject: Re: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts : : I asked how to convert Macintosh format PostScript fonts (as supplied with : Adobe Type Manager) to pfa or pfb format for use in a TeX system. : : Sebastian Rahtz replied; : > ghostscript and dvips read binary pfb files ok; you just need to convert ou t : of : > Mac rubbish. check out t1tools somewhere on CTAN for various : > conversion tools. : : I looked in t1tools and also t1utils (both on CTAN). They convert between : pfa, pfb and ascii font formats, but don't 'convert out the Mac rubbish.' : Has anyone else had any luck with this? I went succesfully from Mac type1 font to PC/Un*x format following instructions in : Subject: comp.fonts FAQ.3.MSDOS-information Archive-name: fonts-faq/part4 Subject: Chapter 3.5 Subject: 3.5. Converting Macintosh Type1 fonts to MS-DOS format Converting Macintosh Type1 fonts into PC Type1 fonts can be done using purely free/shareware tools. I've outlined the procedure below. Make sure you read the ``readme'' files that accompany many fonts. Some font authors specifically deny permission to do cross-platform conversions. In short, you have to StuffIt on Mac, use unsiti on PC and then apply 2-3 public domain/shareware utilities by norm walsh. Hope helps Petr ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 08:47:34 +0000 From: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk Subject: FAX query on filters Following on our telephone conversation, I would be interested in obtaining a filter for latex to Framemaker 4. The latter is usually in the format call MIF format, or Maker Interchange Format. The filter exists for Unix based systems, and presumably it is somehow and somewhere available for DOS PC based systems and software. Any indications you could give would be appreciated. The primary direction of tranlslation would be from latex to MIF (or Frame) format. The reverse direction could be useful on occasion.) Yours sincerely Richard B Brinton Woods End Research Laboratory UK Office P O Box 79 Stroud Gloucestershire GL5 3PU tel: 0453 763299 fax: 0453 751473 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 19:40:00 +0000 From: EuroTeX%Halina.Univ.Gda.Pl@tex.ac.uk Subject: EuroTeX '94 ============================================================================ EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX '94 EuroTeX ============================================================================ Is North America too far / too expensive / too alien a culture? Then come to EuroTeX '94, _the_ TeX conference of the year. 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