UKTeX Digest Friday, 20 Dec 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 48
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Re: Make fonts for TeX
Re: Make fonts for TeX
Re: Cauchy principal value integral operator
Anyone tried the `NewGen TurboPS series' laser printers?
Foot notes in Latex Tables
{Archive News}:
Total NIFTP traffic for November 1991 on Uk.Ac.TeX
More Uk.Ac.TeX Traffic Statistics
dvi file manipulators for DOS
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 09:52:04 +0700
From: E.J.Vens%nl.rug.icce@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Re: Make fonts for TeX
lahtinen%fi.fmi.gideon@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay dixit:
> There exists a program for Atari ST
> that converts Calamus fonts to Metafont. Calamus is quite
[...]
> The program is meta_con and it is shareware from Germany
[...]
> But of course you need an Atari to run it and I think
> it is not legal to convert commercial fonts to metafont,
> but there is quite many fonts in PD-libraries.
My experiences with meta_con are quite good. It is very easy to convert a font
with it. But... converting and making it work are two things. E.g. one has to
make decisions about the amount of kerninginfo to extract from the <.cfn>
file. Calamus uses a sort of box around a character where at 8 vertical spots
the width is determined. The next character has the same sort of box and they
are bestfitted to each other. This info has to be translated into MF ligtable
info. And if you want to have reasonably good kerning, you need at least some
10,000 ligtable entries.
Then you want to patch in the TeX specific entries like '' -> ". And the
Spanish upsidedown questionmark. And you have to give them the right place in
the fonttable, because --apart from the A-Za-z0-9 places-- Calamus uses a
different codingscheme.
Another point is that most Calamus fonts are lousy. Good fonts are made up
from one stroke, but most Calamus fonts are made from bits and pieces. These
bits and pieces tend to loose contact when stretching, rotating, converting
etc. I had the best result with PD Type 1 Binary PostScript fonts that I
translated to Calamus format with Didot Line Art. (Not a PD program.)
But, to come back to my first point: if it works, you have a wealth of new
fonts in (portable) MF format. And --although-- people are using PostScript
more and more, IMHO MetaFont is *the* partner for TeX.
EJee.
P.S. One can contact the author Christoph Pagalies as:
Christoph_Pagalies%MAUS_HH2@P6.F2.N242.Z2.fidonet.org
P.P.S. There is a bug in my version of meta_con: the semicolon is omitted
after the smoothing and autorounding setting. This can easily be adjusted with
any editor.
- --
Erik-Jan Vens. E.J.Vens@icce.rug.nl
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 12:27:04 -0100
From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@nl.ruu.cs>
Subject: Re: Make fonts for TeX
KL> There exists a program for Atari ST
KL> that converts Calamus fonts to Metafont. Calamus is quite
KL> popular DTP program from Germany and there exists quite many
KL> fonts for it (also in PD), there is also some font editors
KL> available (but not in PD).
KL> The program is meta_con and it is shareware from Germany
KL> (English docs are available). I have placed it to
KL> nic.funet.fi: pub/atari/tex/meta_con.zoo
My zoo (2.01) crashed on this archive (2 bombs). The zoo -test gave no
problems. An old version extracted it without problems.
- --
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet
Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 13:24:54
From: Mike Piff <PM1MJP@uk.ac.sheffield.primea>
Subject: Re: Cauchy principal value integral operator
David Handscomb asks how to produce an integral sign with a - through it.
The following works after a fashion.
Mike Piff
\documentstyle{article}
\def\cint{\relax
\ifinner% text style
\mathop{\intop\mkern-12.5mu\smash{\hbox{-}}\mkern12.5mu}\nolimits
\else % display style
\mathop{\intop\mkern-14mu\smash{\hbox{-}}\mkern14mu}\nolimits
\fi
}
\begin{document}
$\cint_0^1f$ $$\cint_0^1f$$
\small
$\cint_0^1f$ $$\cint_0^1f$$
\large
$\cint_0^1f$ $$\cint_0^1f$$
\huge
$\cint_0^1f$ $$\cint_0^1f$$
\end{document}
From Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, PO Box 597,
Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road,
SHEFFIELD S10 2UN, England.
Tel. SHEFFIELD (0742) 768555 Extension 4431.
JANET MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 91 13:13:09 +0000
From: Adrian F Clark <alien@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Anyone tried the `NewGen TurboPS series' laser printers?
We're about to upgrade our tired old Apple LaserWriters, and have
stumbled across the NewGen TurboPS 840 and 840e printers. Has anyone
tried these with TeX -- particularly the 840e, which claims 800 x 400
dpi resolution? Are there other candidates worth looking at? Our
primary requirement is parallel and appletalk interfaces and the
capability to attach a SCSI disc to it.
Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex
INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900
BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct)
Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK.
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 15:31:27 +0000
From: dg504@uk.ac.city
Subject: Foot notes in Latex Tables
I was trying to get footnote in Latex tables.
A sample file is given below.
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\small
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
One & two \\
\hline
Good \footnote{Hello} & Bad \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Latex puts a serial number but does not write the footnote text at the bottom.
Kindly advise me how to get over the problem, directly to me if
posible.
Thanking you
yours sincerly
S.R.Ala
City University, London.
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 11:44:38 +0000
From: SYSTEM@uk.ac.tex
Subject: Total NIFTP traffic for November 1991 on Uk.Ac.TeX
Uk.Ac.TeX usage analysis for the period:
1-NOV-1991 17:21:57.75 to 3-DEC-1991 01:58:52.68
A total of 28899 files were transferred to/from 254 sites
of these, 7,748 transfers, totalling 153,647,880 bytes were initiated locally
(including 7,033 outgoing mail messages consisting of 56,938,539 bytes),
and 21,151 transfers, totalling 526,770,369 bytes were initiated by remote site
s
(including 1,158 incoming mail messages containing 5,188,772 bytes).
A grand total of 680,418,249 bytes were transferred in approximately 32 days,
which isn't bad going for one 9600 bps connection.
15,130 distinct files were requested
- the 20 most requested (excluding mail) files were:
34 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.LIST
34 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST30DAYS.FILES
19 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.SIZE
17 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST7DAYS.FILES
16 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]README.ENG
13 transfers of SYS$SYSROOT:[CBS_WELL]MAIL.ERR
13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIPS1.BOO
13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIPS2.BOO
13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]00FILES.TXT
12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]EMTEX.README
11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.METAFONT.CONTRIB]MODES.MF
11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV2.BOO
11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV3.BOO
11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]TEX1.BOO
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV1.BOO
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]HELP.ENG
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]CHANGES.ENG
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_0.BOO
9 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_5A.BOO
9 transfers of DISK$TEX:[PUBLIC]SYNTAX-RECOVER.BCK
498,140,684 bytes, which is 73% of the total, were transferred with the
following sites:
226,393,738 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.NERC-WALLINGFORD.VAXB
38,216,004 bytes transferred to/from 000021210010.FTP
26,697,461 bytes transferred to/from 000050200100.FTP
22,379,244 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.FT-RELAY
20,982,866 bytes transferred to/from 000000000040.PSS.27246054000555.FTP
15,378,662 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.IMPERIAL.DOC.GOULD
14,816,487 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY
14,708,861 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.BRADFORD.MAIL
14,616,205 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHYSICS.MRAOS
13,475,112 bytes transferred to/from 000060340002.FTP
13,165,864 bytes transferred to/from 000021310000.FTP
11,210,838 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.HATFIELD.VMS3
10,350,458 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.LEICESTER.VAX
9,313,895 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.UMIST.CENTRAL-SERVICES.PRIME-A
8,600,086 bytes transferred to/from UK.AEA-TECHNOLOGY.HARWELL.CHCC
8,388,001 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.LEEDS.ICF.LEVA
7,783,304 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM.COMPUTER-CENTRE.VAX1
7,487,483 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.GLASGOW.ENG.CONTROL
7,136,325 bytes transferred to/from 000010500601.ISO.38826110000105003901002
0020000
7,039,790 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.VAX2
(Note that numeric site addresses are shown above whenever our local Network
Authorization Database is missing a reverse address for the given site. If NRS
managers for these sites would care to get in touch, I'll endeavour to
determine why our NAD has no relevant record.)
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
System Manager for the UK TeX Archive at Aston University
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 16:20:48 +0000
From: SYSTEM@uk.ac.tex
Subject: More Uk.Ac.TeX Traffic Statistics
Uk.Ac.TeX usage analysis for the period:
1-OCT-1991 15:37:22.01 to 1-NOV-1991 16:57:23.90
A total of 10918 files were transferred to/from 236 sites
of these, 5,980 transfers, totalling 142,321,028 bytes were initiated locally
(including 5,612 outgoing mail messages consisting of 77,591,706 bytes),
and 4,938 transfers, totalling 325,694,438 bytes were initiated remotely
(including 1,201 incoming mail messages containing 5,844,910 bytes).
A grand total of 468,015,466 bytes were transferred.
2,526 distinct files were requested
- the 20 most requested (excluding mail) files were:
46 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.LIST
40 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST30DAYS.FILES
19 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.SIZE
19 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]README.ENG
16 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]00FILES.TXT
14 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST7DAYS.FILES
13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]CHANGES.ENG
13 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]TEX1.BOO
12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]EMTEX.README
12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_4.BOO
12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV1.BOO
12 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV2.BOO
11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_2.BOO
11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_5A.BOO
11 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]TEX2.BOO
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]MF3.BOO
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]CHANGES.PRE
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIDRV3.BOO
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]LJ_5B.BOO
10 transfers of DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX]DVIPS1.BOO
332,398,017 bytes, which is 71% of the total, were transferred with
the following sites:
41,492,752 bytes transferred to/from 000050100020.ISO.50345343143335145036391
45145515136374817
26,177,668 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.HERIOT-WATT.CS
24,360,548 bytes transferred to/from 000050100020.ISO.000
23,121,363 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.BRADFORD.MAIL
22,700,759 bytes transferred to/from 000048002001.FTP
20,379,328 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG
20,179,648 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.IMPERIAL.DOC.GOULD
19,794,600 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY
16,382,779 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.EARN-RELAY
14,888,609 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.YORK.VAXA
13,801,446 bytes transferred to/from UK.CO.NUM-ALG-GRP.VAX
13,561,720 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
13,250,287 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.MHS-RELAY
12,571,845 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.SURREY
12,070,488 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.LIVERPOOL.IBM
9,335,478 bytes transferred to/from 000000000040.PSS.27246054000555.FTP
7,484,553 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.CRANFIELD.CITI
7,479,667 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.GLASGOW.ENG.CONTROL
6,795,461 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.UMIST.CENTRAL-SERVICES.PRIME-A
6,569,018 bytes transferred to/from UK.AC.KCL.CC.OAK
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 16:54:06
From: S_RAHTZ@uk.ac.tex
Subject: dvi file manipulators for DOS
Following up a previous announcement, I can now offer you a complete
set of MSDOS utilities to manipulate dvi files or PostScript files:
[.drivers.seetex.dviselect]dviselec.boo dviselect
[.drivers.seetex.dviconcat]dvicon.boo dviconcat
[.drivers.dvibook]dvibook.boo dvibook
[.drivers.dvidvi]dvidvi.boo dvidvi
[.psbook]psbook.boo psbook, pstops, psselect
All these are ZIP files coded as BOO containing MSDSO executables
and a brief description of the programs by (respectively) Chris Torek (x2),
Angus Duggan, Tom Rokicki and Angus Duggan. They let you perform, between
them, all the pagination and subset selections you are likely to want to do.
The above filenames refer to the UK TeX Archive.
I dont guarantee these MSDOS ports much. Its the first time I have had
to deal with the horrors of far pointers and 64k segments, so they may fall
over on tests which differ from mine. Use Unix if you have it, is my advice...
Sebastian Rahtz
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\section DIGESTS
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\section MEDIA DISTRIBUTIONS
\subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape
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, 1600bpi, blockfactor 20, 1 file (36Mb)
Copies available on:
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OR One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format (DC600A or DC6150)
sent with envelope AND stamps for return postage to Nottingham
(addresses below).
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VMS backup of the archive requires two 2400ft tapes at 6250bpi.
VMS backup of TeX 2.991 plus PSprint requires one 2400ft tape.
\subsection Exabyte 8mm tapes
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Following tape types available: SONY Video 8 cassette P5 90MP,
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\section TeX IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR SMALL COMPUTERS
\subsection OzTeX (for Macintosh)
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The complete package (3.5" High density disk format ONLY)
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All other enquiries and disk formats should be directed to:
Eigen PD Software, P.O. Box 722, Swindon SN2 6YB (tel: 0793-611270)
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\subsection TeX for the Atari ST
All enquiries for disks etc. should be directed to:
The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD
(JANET e-mail address: mdryden@uk.co.compulink.cix)
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\section UK TeX USERS GROUP
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\bye
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