From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #23 Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 10:24:19 +0100 Message-ID: <11572.771931459@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Saturday, 18 Jun 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 23 ``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}: HP Deskjet driver for Unix? RE: Displayed equation with labelled alternatives LaTeX2e + PSNFSS2e How to print side by side pages Re: LaTeX questions Cyrillic fonts in the TeX archive {Announcements}: The new LaTeX Publishing on the Internet 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: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 14:16:05 -0000 From: A.F.Lack@city.ac.uk Subject: HP Deskjet driver for Unix? I'm looking for a driver for a printer driver for a DeskJet 500 in source code which I can compile and install under Linux. The only close thing I've come across in the Archive is dvi2pcl, which didn't work too well (an understatement). Having used EmTeX's dvihplj I've been rather spoilt, but there's no harm in asking! AFL ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 09:59:33 -0800 From: Donald Arseneau Subject: RE: Displayed equation with labelled alternatives David.Handscomb@comlab.oxford.ac.uk wrote >Can anyone suggest an elegant way of setting displayed equations >like the following (in LaTeX or, failing that, in TeX)? > > / () > | > = < > | > \ () There is cases.sty that does this. I think I sent it to CTAN sites. I still have to check it out with LaTex2e also (like most of my styles) Donald Arseneau asnd@reg.triumf.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 10:56:31 +0000 From: ZA9RA01 Subject: LaTeX2e + PSNFSS2e I have been testing my LaTeX2e + PSNFSS2e installation using the supplied TEST0.TEX file and I get the LaTeX error message that \dag and \ddag cannot be found in the T1 encoding. A simpler file illustrating the error with the resulting log file are listed below. Am I missing any/some TFM files (I have some but not all of the DC fonts TFM files in my TFM search path)? DAGS.TEX \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{t1enc} \begin{document} \section*{Where have the daggers gone} \parskip=2pt\parindent 0pt This is a dagger \dag\ and this is a double dagger \ddag. \end{document} DAGS.LOG This is emTeX (tex386), Version 3.1415 [3c-beta11] (preloaded format=latex 94.6.7) 13 JUN 1994 10:43 **&latex2e dags (dags.tex LaTeX2e <1994/06/01> (c:/emtex/ltx2einp/article.cls Document Class: article 1994/06/02 v1.2s Standard LaTeX document class (c:/emtex/ltx2einp/size10.clo File: size10.clo 1994/06/02 v1.2s Standard LaTeX file (size option) ) \c@part=\count82 \c@section=\count83 \c@subsection=\count84 \c@subsubsection=\count85 \c@paragraph=\count86 \c@subparagraph=\count87 \c@figure=\count88 \c@table=\count89 \abovecaptionskip=\skip41 \belowcaptionskip=\skip42 \bibindent=\dimen102 ) (c:/emtex/ltx2einp/t1enc.sty Package: t1enc 1994/06/01 Standard LaTeX package ) (dags.aux) LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 4. LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 4. ! LaTeX Error: command \dag undefined in encoding T1. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ... l.8 This is a dagger \dag \ and this is a double dagger \ddag. ? ! LaTeX Error: command \ddag undefined in encoding T1. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ... l.8 ...\ and this is a double dagger \ddag . ? [1 ] (dags.aux) ) Output written on dags.dvi (1 page, 356 bytes). Thanks Bill Peel | Computing Services w.peel@mmu.ac.uk | Manchester Metropolitan University | Chester Street | Manchester M1 5GD | England ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 11:53:08 +0000 From: Brendan Ruck Subject: How to print side by side pages Hi, I'm producing my thesis at the moment and I wish to reduce the amount of printing and paper I using. What I would like to do is to put two pages of A4(portrait) onto a single sheet of A4(landscape) side by side ie. ------- ------ ------- | | | | | A | (Pages A and B should be | A | + | B | -> | | rotated so that they | | | | | B | can be read when the page is | | | | | | is held in landscape.) ------- ------ ------- How can this be achieved, using either dos or unix systems ??? Thanks Brendan Ruck (b.m.ruck@aston.ac.uk) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 15:58:05 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: LaTeX questions > I need some help with (La)TeX and its TooLs: > > 1. Are there any tools for managing BibTeX files? I would like > to sort, check for duplicate entries etc. etc. Note that I am > not a UNIX expert and suggestions to write things in AWK (is > that short for Awkward?) will be met with a large rasberry!. I > am a dedicated Macintosh/Textures User, but can use UNIX in a there are cures for this nowadays, quite painless > very (very) simple way if I have to. Please note that the check out CTAN:biblio/bibtex/utils. loads of stuff. try Beebe's bibtools > 3. I need to produce a document with \documentstyle[12pt,...]{book}, but > with the mathematics set in 11pt. HELP ...... What do I need to > fix? (yes I know I shouldn't do this, but the alternative is > even worse...). the `correct' answer is a package setting math sizes properly (cf lucbr.sty in PSNFSS); the short answer is use a new envionment which does a \small before each equation... > 4. I need to build some composite mathematical symbols using > overprinting, an whats wrong with \rlap and \llap? > 5. Does anyone know were the LaTeX macros for the Z specification > language are hidden on the archive? well, which ones? there are several. look for `oz' and `zed' in the list of files. sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1994 01:37:00 -0000 From: llb@ukc.ac.uk Subject: Cyrillic fonts in the TeX archive It appears that the Cyrillic fonts of the cmcyr family are only archived at 10-point size at Aston. Are the other sizes lurking somewhere less obvious or can you direct me to another ftp archive that has them, please? Thanks Laurence Boyle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 19:55:20 +0200 From: schoepf@sc.zib-berlin.de Subject: The new LaTeX The new LaTeX Leslie Lamport and the LaTeX3 project team June 1994 The LaTeX3 project team is pleased to announce the release of the new standard version of LaTeX. It is upwardly compatible with existing LaTeX documents, and contains new features including the long-awaited graphics extensions. Over the years many extensions of LaTeX have been developed. This is, of course, a welcome development, since it shows that the LaTeX system is in a healthy state. It has, however, had one unfortunate consequence: there were several incompatible systems all claiming to be LaTeX. The new LaTeX puts an end to this unsatisfactory situation -- it gives access to all extensions such as SLiTeX, AmSLaTeX, and PSLaTeX, based on a single format. This will end the proliferation of mutually incompatible dialects of LaTeX. We have also introduced a small number of often-requested features (such as more control over float placement) and an improved interface for writers of document classes and packages. The new LaTeX is described in a new edition of `LaTeX: A Document Preparation System' by Leslie Lamport (to appear during 1994) and `The LaTeX Companion' by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, both published by Addison-Wesley. >From now on there will be a new distribution of LaTeX twice a year, in June and December. The new LaTeX can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from the CTAN archives: ftp.tex.ac.uk /tex-archive/macros/latex/base ftp.shsu.edu /tex-archive/macros/latex/base ftp.dante.de /tex-archive/macros/latex/base The files in these directories require a somewhat long unpacking process. For those who prefer to skip this step, we provide a second distribution in unpacked format in the following CTAN directories: ftp.tex.ac.uk /tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked ftp.shsu.edu /tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked ftp.dante.de /tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked Apologies and Thanks - -------------------- For obvious reasons, we have not been able to incorporate everyone's suggestions for improvements or fixes to LaTeX. We are nevertheless very grateful to everyone who has made suggestions and/or reported bugs and other problems with old versions and with the beta-test versions. We hope that all of your reports have been answered by one of us: if not, please let us know. We have given them all serious consideration and, in many cases where we have not been able to act on them now, we have added them to the list of things that need further attention in the future. Also, of course, many of them could be developed into useful LaTeX packages, by you! For the LaTeX3 Project - ---------------------- Johannes Braams David Carlisle Michael Downes Alan Jeffrey Frank Mittelbach Chris Rowley Rainer Sch\"opf ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 17:23:15 +0100 From: Roger Gawley Subject: Publishing on the Internet PUBLISHING on the INTERNET a one-day meeting of the British Computer Society Electronic Publishing Specialist Group to be held at The Open University Milton Keynes on Wednesday 6 July 1994 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. There is a rush to publish on the Internet. But can the Internet really be used for publishing? And exactly what is the Internet anyway? These questions will be answered at a one-day meeting of the EPSG to be held in the main lecture theatre of the Open University in Milton Keynes. Speakers will be: Ed Krol, University of Illinois "Just what is the Internet?" Krol wrote the book. (The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog) He will tell us what the Internet is and what it is not. Frances Blomeley, University of London "The UK perspective" Frances' book is due out shortly. She will describe the Internet as seen by a user in the UK. Jeff Pache, Institution of Electrical Engineeers "Electronics Letters Online" Jeff is Electronic Products Manager for the IEE. He will describe the work done the make Electronics Letters available online via the Internet and dialup access. Charles Ashley, Learned Information "Learned Information on the Web" Charles will describe the servers that make his information available by Gopher and World Wide Web. David Pullinger, Institute of Physics Publishing "Network Publishing: The Publisher's View" David will describe various electronic publishing projects undertaken at IOPP. He promises to explain why Mosaic is not ideal for this job. Panel Session All Speakers "But is this Publishing?" The meeting will end with a panel session in which all the speakers will take questions from the floor. Registration and Rates # = pounds sterling BCS EPSG members #45 + 7.88 VAT non-members #75 + 13.13 VAT BCS EPSG Student members #25 + 4.38 VAT Additional charge for invoicing #5 + 0.88 VAT Membership fees (to April 1995) BCS members #20, others #30, students (supply confirmation of student status) #5. [You can join and pay the meeting cost at member rate. Note that membership is not subject to VAT.] Please send details of name, address, organization, telephone and email address: to: BCS EPSG Office, 30 Edgerton Road, Huddersfield HD3 3AD Tel. 0484 519462; Fax 0484 451396; Email bcsepsg@eps-edge.demon.co.uk Email registration is acceptable, but please indicate whether hard-copy confirmation is following (with a cheque) or if you wish to be invoiced (note extra #5 + VAT charge). Please also indicate if you have special dietary requirements. Rates include morning coffee, lunch and tea. ------------------------------ UK TeX Archive at Aston University >>> ftp.tex.ac.uk <<< Internet: ftp.tex.ac.uk [134.151.79.32] -- anonymous ftp, gopher, NFS For anonymous ftp, login: anonymous, password: \section Files of Interest tex-archive/00Contents tex-archive/FILES.bydate tex-archive/FILES.byname tex-archive/FILES.byname_diff tex-archive/FILES.bysize tex-archive/MAP tex-archive/README.archive-features tex-archive/README.site-commands tex-archive/README.uploads \section Digests This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory tex-archive/digests/uktex/94 This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory tex-archive/digests/texhax/94 Latest TeXhax: V94 #03 \section Media Distributions Postal addresses are given below. \subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape Our latest copy of May/June 1991 contains: TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V tar format, 1 file (36Mb) Send One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format (DC600A or DC6150) with envelope AND stamps for return postage to David Osborne (address below); due to currency exchange, this service is offered only within the UK. \section TeX Implementations for Small Computers \subsection PC and Mac disks From January 1994 the UK TeX Users' Group is distributing an emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. 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