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[STI.1992.09] Supplementary TeX Information -- September, 1992
This is the so-called STI (Supplementary TeX Information) file, a supplement
to the ``Frequently Asked Questions'' maintained by Bobby Bodenheimer
for newsgroup "comp.text.tex". Note that there is some duplication of material.
I am grateful to our comp.text.tex audiences for providing your
up-to-date info. This document cannot be useful without your input and support.
Since the issue of August, 1992, this document is sort of restructured so
that it will be easier for you to locate what you are looking for.
This file is monthly (in early days each month) posted to USENET newsgroup
"comp.text.tex" and cross-posted to "news.answers". It is in several parts.
The entire document is reposited in
CS.NYU.EDU (128.122.140.24) at ~ftp/pub/tex/
and also in many good archivers, e.g.
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) at the /soft/tex/documentation/
as the file FAQ.supplement-mmm.yy (mmm-yy is the month and year).
In that directory is also the comp.text.tex FAQ.
------------------- Contents of Information ------------------------
PART I
[1] Major FTP sites for TeX and its friends
[1a] Major FTP sites
[1b] Some mirror sites
[1c] How to find more sites
[2] Mail servers for selected sites.
[3] Systems for TeX and friends
[3a] TeX for Unix boxes
[3b] TeX for IBM PC
[3c] TeX for Macintosh
[3d] TeX for VMS boxes
[4] LaTeX macros and styles
[4a] Basic sites
[4b] some useful styles and macros
[5] About Metafont, Fonts
[6] TeX-related mailing lists.
[7] Converting whatever <==> TeX
[8] DVI drivers for printers
[9] Other-than-English TeX
PART II
[10] Indexed Product information for TeX and friends
>>> Disclaimer: I can't verify all the information contained herein. <<<
>>> ----------- If you find an error or want to make an addition, <<<
>>> please send email to me at chenguo@spunky.cs.nyu.edu. <<<
>>> <<<
******************************* PART I *******************************
[1] Major FTP sites for TeX and its friends
[1a] Major FTP sites
Please bear in mind the geographical location of the site to which you
intend to ftp. (This can typically be determined by inspecting the
last component in the site name.) Overseas links tend to be slow and
expensive. Choose the closest available site. Most sites discourage
ftp'ing during normal business hours (local time).
Major archive sites (and their administrators):
labrea.stanford.edu [36.8.0.47]
Stanford University, California, USA
Time zone: -0700 GMT
Suggested hours: Weekends and evenings.
The "official" repository for TeX and related toys.
niord.shsu.edu [192.92.115.8]
Contact: George D. Greenwade (bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET)
Contains the usual TeX goodies, a large variety of BibTeX style
files and it's expanding very fast.
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
Computing Centre of the University of Stuttgart (RUS), Germany
Time Zone: +0100 GMT, +0200GMT during summer
Contact: Barbara Burr <infoadm@rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Rainer Schoepf <texinfo1@rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
350MB of TeX files. Works together with uk.ac.tex.
This archive is the primary source for emTeX, publicTeX, publicMF and
all styles by Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Schoepf (multicol, verbatim,
theorem, NFSS, ftnright, array).
ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23]
The Claremont Colleges, California, USA
Time zone: -0700 GMT
Contact: Don Hosek ()
(so-called the second-largest TeX archive? do not know if it
keeps up-to-date info ??? )
Aggresively tracks down packages for downloading.
uk.ac.tex
Time Zone: 0000 GMT
Home of the UKTeX newsletter, and a repository for all sorts
of things. NOTE! This is not an Internet FTP site! (The FTP
site is called "TeX.ac.uk", started service since March, 92.)
Aggresively tracks down packages for downloading.
tex.ac.uk
The ftp accessible site of uk.ac.tex (see above info).
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [192.88.110.20]
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA
Time Zone: -0600 GMT
Contact: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Suggested hours: Weekends and evenings
An archive of MS-DOS and other stuff. TeX-related things
can be found in the directory pd1:<msdos.tex>.
sun.soe.clarkson.edu [128.153.12.3]
Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
Time zone: -0400 GMT
Assorted things, especially LaTeX style files.
Apparently has become ``hopelessly out of date''.
archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
Department of Computer Science, Utrecht Univ., the Netherlands
Time Zone: +0100 GMT
Contact: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Suggested hours: Weekends and evenings (2000 to 0900 UTC)
midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.73]
Time Zone: -0500 GMT
Contact: Walter Carlip (oztex@midway.uchicago.edu)
Home of various Macintosh TeX goodies (in macintosh/tex).
Requests for any TeX-related things for the Mac can be sent
to oztex@midway.uchicago.edu and Walter will see if he
can find it. (How's *that* for dedication!)
uunet.uu.net
Suggested hours: Normal business hours [NB!]
Not a TeX archive site, but rather a general-purpose archive
site. You can find comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.misc
materials here.
>>> Odds are good that if you want something, one of these sites <<<
>>> has it. See also section [1c] and [3]. <<<
[1b] Mirror sites.
yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au [131.170.24.42]
Mirrors labrea (for users Down Under)
/pub/tex/labrea
wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
Mirrors wsmr-simtel20.army.mil.
/mirrors/msdos
[??? any more ???]
[1c] How to find more sites
The `archie' server contains file listings for hundreds of ftp sites.
Telnet to quiche.cs.mcgill.ca [132.206.2.3] and type `archie' when asked
to log in. Then type `help'.
OR, if your system has "archie", a program for querying archie
anonymous ftp databases using Prospero.
===========================================================================
[2] Mail servers for selected sites.
When using mail servers, bear several points in mind.
(a) Follow the instructions carefully. Each mail server
accepts a different dialect of commands. Make sure
you aren't following server X's instructions when sending
requests to server Y.
Mail servers are computer programs and ill-formed requests
tend to give mail server administrators migraine headaches.
(I know, I'm one such administrator.)
(b) Use mail servers only if you cannot obtain the files by
ftp or other means.
(c) Requesting large amounts of material via mail servers
is frowned upon by system administrators. Overuse of
mail servers may result in the shutdown of said server.
niord.shsu.edu:
via automatic FILESERV: include your email mesg to
FILESERV@shsu.edu with
sendme <subject>
Questions go to: George D. Greenwade (bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET)
archive.cs.ruu.nl: mail-server@cs.ruu.nl or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf
Send the message
begin
path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
send HELP
end
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de: mail-server@rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
[last confirmed: 30 Sep 91]
Same instructions as for archive.cs.ruu.nl.
ymir.claremont.edu: mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu
To retrieve files from ymir via the mailserver, send a message to
mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a line saying
send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME
where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and
FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is
a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt
Binary files are not available by this technique.
sun.soe.clarkson.edu: archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
Send the single word "help". You will receive instructions on
how to use the email server.
uk.ac.tex:
FTP access was available only to JANET users. Now it is also avail
to internet users (tex.ac.uk). Login as username "public" and
password "public". Then get the file [tex-archive]00readme.txt
Access via mail server:
Send a message to texserver@uk.ac.tex
[for non-UK people, the address is probably texserver@tex.ac.uk]
The message body must contain at least the following three lines
starting in column 1.
Anonymous ftp is also avail via internet.
atari.archive.umich.edu: atari@atari.archive.umich.edu
Send the message "help" to receive instructions.
hearn.bitnet (Nijmegen, The Netherlands):
Send the message GET TEX-L FILELIST to LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET
DHDURZ1.BITNET: primary source for the VM/CMS implementation and several
drivers for IBM printers. Send a message containing the following three
lines to <LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.BITNET>
HELP
GET README FIRST TEX
GET TEX FILELIST
===========================================================================
[3] Systems for TeX and friends
[3a] TeX for Unix boxes
TeX for Unix is available from the University of Washington. It
is up-to-date (TeX 3.14t3), contains detailed installation
instructions and support is available if you have problems. Money
from the distribution tapes goes towards funding the support
hotline and future Unix TeX development.
For more information, contact
Elizabeth Tachikawa
Northwest Computing Support Center
208 Lewis Hall, DW-10
Seattle, WA 98195
206-543-6259
elisabet@max.acs.washington.edu
^
| N.B.
See also [10] of PART II for other ftp sites for UNIX TeX package.
[3b] Tex for IBM PC
-------------------
The definitive source for public domain PC TeX-related software is Jon
Radel. His catalog which is currently 40 pages long contains several
versions of TeX for the PC, device drivers, fonts, macros, TUG
documents, etc. The physical distribution of the disks has been taken
over by TUG. The catalog should be free for the asking. The final
determination on prices for disks has not yet been determined, but
for the moment, software is distributed on 5.25" 360K and 1.2M floppy
disks. 3.5" disks are available by prior arrangement. There is a
charge of $3.50/floppy in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico; $4.00/floppy
elsewhere.
Major sources of ftp sites are listed in part [1a] and [10].
particularly see
DOSTeX, emTeX, emTeX386, Public TeX, SBTeX and related entries in [10].
[3c] TeX for Macintosh
-----------------------
o Textures (lowercase 'x'):
Version 2.0 allegedly has many improvements over 1.2.
A nice system, fast, and well-featured. The editor leaves a
little to be desired, but with a good DA editors, that's not a big issue.
"Textures is a mature product, very stable, well supported. Has a
very good preview feature. At around $400 list, it is way too
expensive. However, many University bookstores have it for $125."
-- John Doner (doner@henri.ucsb.edu) 4 Dec 90
If you buy it from the TeX Users Group, they will get the vendor royalty.
TeX Users Group
P.O. Box 9506
Providence, RI 02940-9506
Phone: 401-751-7760
The publisher is Blue Sky Research,
534 SW Third Avenue, Portland, OR 97204.
o OzTeX: You can't beat the price on this one. It's free (public
domain even). It comes with source, and a web-to-modula2 program.
The nice (or not) feature of this program is that it uses PK and TFM files
directly (unlike Textures which bundles them into Mac formats).
Another nice feature is that OzTeX creates dvi files directly.
Available via anonymous ftp from:
midway.uchicago.edu in pub/sources/OzTeX.
watmsg.waterloo.edu (129.97.129.9) in pub/oztex.
ymir.claremont.edu (goes without saying)
o DirectTeX: runs under MPW (Apple's development system with a
command line interface, making it look a bit UNIX-alike.
It can be found on ftp.uni-stuttgart.de in the directory:
pub/mac/tex/directtex
Note that DirectTeX is ShareWare.
x MacTeX: FTL is officially defunct, and MacTeX is no longer available.
o CTeX: The web2c version ported to the Mac (under MPW).
Available from ymir and midway.
? An ArborText representative posted the following:
Some time ago Textset Inc. changed its name to ArborText Inc.
535 W. William St. / Suite 300 / Ann Arbor, MI 48103 / USA
(313) 996-3566 (voice)
(313) 996-3573 (fax)
help@arbortext.com: email address for product support.
[3d] TeX for VMS boxes
----------------------
TeX ymir.claremont.edu [p] for VMS
TeX Aston Archive [tex-archive.tex.vms]tex.ch.
============================================================================
[4] LaTeX styles and macros
From the issue of March, 1992, we began providing brief information about
main sites that archive LaTeX style files, and some additional info.
This part is not an attempt to list all sites exhaustively, but a
guide for searching your desired style files potentially available in
these resources.
Your contributions and comments to this part are especially welcome.
Notice that dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) has compiled
a "TeX Index" for TeX styles. Contact him for more info if you cannot
find the style you want from following sources.
[4a] basic Sites How to Get It
------------------ ----------------------
labrea.stanford.edu via anon ftp, dir: tex/latex
Basic LaTeX styles
niord.shsu.edu [192.92.115.8] via anon ftp or via automatic FILESERV.
via ftp dir: [FILESERV.STY]
Look at the file [FILESERV.Description] for highlight info.
via automatic FILESERV: include your email mesg to FILESERV@shsu.edu with
sendme <subject>
Questions go to: George D. Greenwade (bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET)
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] via anon ftp
dir: /pub/tex/latex/sty -- Basic styles
dir: /pub/tex/latex-style-supported
/pub/tex/latex-style-unsupported -- others unsupported
sun.soe.clarkson.edu via anon ftp or via archive-server
via ftp dir: pub/tex/latex-style
Download the file "Index" to know what it has, and
Description file for what they are.
Mainly are additional contributions to basic styles
via archive-server: include a mesg in your email like
sendme help
for instructions.
ymir.claremont.edu anonymous ftp,
dir: [anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib]
over 200 style files (as of 03/92) with some documented examples
[4b] some useful styles and macros: (Examples and other relevant information)
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APL style watserv1.waterloo.edu TUGboat V11(4), Nov 1990, pp. 644-651
129.97.129.140 languages/apl/fonts/TeX/docs
See also: APL font in section [10].
bigstart.sty comp.text.tex author: smith@gramian.harvard.edu
(posted March 25, 1992)
bnf.sty ftp.cs.kun.nl at pub/tex-bnf
(131.174.32.1) by (hugh@cs.kun.nl)
BNF.tex (posted to comp.text.tex)
by Erik Quanstrom (quanstro@stolaf.edu)
chomsky.sty For drawing hierarchical tree diagrams. TeXhax issue #54
citesort.sty comp.text.tex macros to sort citation lists
Post Dec.11, 1991 by Ian Green (img@eng.cam.ac.uk)
comment.sty niord.shsu.edu SYS6:[MX.FILESERV.STY]
comment out blocks of text
cprog.sty anon ftp from sun.soe.clarkson.edu
by Eamonn McManus at dir: /pub/tex/latex-style
Lets you typeset C++ directly into LaTeX without needing a preprocessor.
decalign.sty ymir.claremont.edu [anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib]
Adds a new column type to LaTeX: `d' means `decimal alignment'.
Note that you can do decimal alignment in unadorned LaTeX via
\begin{tabular}{r@{.}l} 10&7 \\ 1&3 \\ 0&75 \end{tabular}
doublespace.sty FILESERV@SHSU.edu double-spacing in LaTeX
send the message SENDME STY.DOUBLESPACE
endfloat.sty FILESERV@shsu.edu directory [.STY] as STY.ENDFLOAT
put all figures on pages by themselves at the end of an
article in a section named Figures
fancyheadings.sty by piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
archive.cs.ruu.nl multi-line header/footers and much more
131.211.80.5 TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.{doc,sty}
floatfig.sty usmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
in /serv/soft/tex/latex-style-supported/floatfig
labels.sty comp.text.tex sty file for printing sheets of labels
(posted Jan 2. 1992) spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
longtable.sty SHSU.edu at [STY] dir
lslide.sty comp.text.tex LaTeX/AmSLaTeX style for
(posted March 29,1992) slide typesetting
Author: youngryu@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Young U. Ryu)
ftp site: ftp.cc.utexas.edu [128.83.186.13] pub/young
meaning.sty (posted to comp.text.tex)
by yxoc@fb14vax.cs.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen)
Double square brackets, as used for the semantics of programming languages.
multicol.sty archive.cs.ruu.nl [p] LaTeX multicolumn style
ymir.claremont.edu [p] by Frank Mittelbach
balances columns on partial pages, lets you switch between single
and double column modes on the same page.
nodeedge.sty sun.soe.clarkson.edu
by Hideki Isozaki (isozaki@csli.Stanford.EDU)
at dir: pub/tex/latex-style/nodeedge.shar
For drawing hierarchical tree diagrams.
outline.sty fileserv@shsu.edu
by Peter Halvorson (peter@fission.gatech.edu)
oval.sty rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de for depicting keystrokes
129.69.1.12 soft/tex/latex-style-supported/oval
oz.sty (posted to comp.text.tex by king@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au)
a.k.a. zed.sty LaTeX macros for the "Z" specification language
portland.sty ymir.claremont.edu portrait and landscape in the same
LaTeX document
proof.sty (posted to comp.text.tex)
by tatsuta@sato.riec.tohoku.ac.jp
For proofs in Mathematical Logic. Aka natural deduction derivation
schemes. The things that look like A B
---
C
rcs.sty (posted to comp.text.tex) by wstomv@wsinpa01.win.tue.nl
include RCS (Revision Control System) keyword strings in a LaTeX
document such that the keyword values can be referred to in the document.
relative_sizes.sty posted by gvr@cs.brown.edu (George V. Reilly)
Define \smaller and \larger macros to let you perform relative
font size changes.
rot.tex/rot.sty augean.ua.oz.au for rotated TeX or LaTeX
pub/misc/rotate.tar.Z
People who obtained rot.{tex,sty} before 24 Feb 91 should grab a new
version. (A subtle bug fix appeared then.)
screen.sty sun.soe.clarkson.edu for producing ASCII output from LaTeX
You will also need crudetype to produce the ASCII file from the dvi.
seminar.sty princeton.edu making seminar slides
pub/seminar.tar.Z
supertab.sty ymir.claremont.edu tables that can span pages
[anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib]
tgrind.sty ymir.claremont.edu embed tgrind output into LaTeX
sun.soe.clarkson.edu
tree.sty emr.cs.uiuc.edu by Ed Reingold
/pub/tree.sty
twoup.sty son.sue.clarkson.edu two-up LaTeX style file
tugboat.sty and friends ftp: SHSU.edu at [.TUGBOAT.FTP]
txt.sty by Ralph Droms (droms@bucknell.edu)
For monospace output, suitable for pure ASCII LaTeX output.
vita.sty (posted to comp.text.tex by Kim C. Border (kcb@hss.caltech.edu))
Curriculum vita style based on _A Handbook for Scholars_
by Mary-Claire van Leunen.
xarticle.sty ymir.claremont.edu article style for 7pt 8pt and 9pt
[anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib]
zed.sty archive-server@prg.oxford.ac.uk
zguide.tex (this is not an ftp site)
LaTeX macros for the "Z" specification
language
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[5] About Metafont, fonts
Liam R. E. Quin (lee@sq.sq.com) posted a digest document about
available Metafont Fonts in comp.text.tex, on 3 May 92 03:48:55 GMT.
Part II section [10] lists some of avail fonts for Metafont in PUBLIC DOMAIN.
See also section [9] for relevant information along with Other-than-English TeX.
CMTTSS package: includes the METAFONT source files for Arthur Ogawa's
<ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov> family of fixed pitch, sans serif, condensed
fonts. These fonts are provided in three weights (light, regular, and
bold) and are based on cmbase and cmtt10. To retrieve the package,
ftp Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.CMTTSS].
===============================================================================
[6] TeX-related mailing lists
There are two basic classes of mailing lists. The UNIX-style one
and the BITNET-style one. For UNIX-style mailing lists, send your
add request to the address provided. A human being will respond.
For BITNET-style mailing lists, send a message to the LISTSERV address
provided containing the line
SUB name-of-mailing-list your-name
For example,
SUB YUNUS Guoying Chen
and a computer program will respond.
You can tell the difference because the UNIX-style ones are just an
address, while the BITNET-style ones have a name plus an address.
cct-Digest: Good for those without net access. (thanks to
bed_gdg@SHSU.edu (George D. Greenwade) )
Ctt-Digest includes posts made to comp.text.tex, excluding
(a) posts which got there from INFO-TeX and (b) the
periodicals which are carried on TeX-Pubs (TeXhax Digest,
UKTeX Digest, the FAQ and FAQ Supplement, TeXMaG, and TUG's "TeX
and TUG News").
The archives of the Digest are retained on Niord. For the most recent
month are retained in [.COMP-TEXT-TEX]COMP-TEXT-TEX.yyyy-mm-dd; prior
archives are in the ZIP files [.COMP-TEXT-TEX.00_COMPRESSED]yy-mm-dd.ZIP;
indices for each month are in [.COMP-TEXT-TEX]COMP-TEXT-TEX.yyyy-mm-INDEX.
To subscribe to ctt-Digest, include the command:
SUBSCRIBE ctt-Digest "Your Real Name in Quotes"
in the body of a mail message to LISTSERV@SHSU.BITNET (LISTSERV@SHSU.edu).
emTeX mailing list: emtex@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de
INFO-TeX: INFO-TeX on LISTSERV@SHSU.edu or INFO-TeX-Request@shsu.edu
Russian TeX: RUSTEX-L on LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
Spanish TeX: Submissions: spanish-tex@uu.es
Subscription and administration: spanish-tex-request@uu.es
TeXhax: Subscription requests and administration to
Internet TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk
Janet TeXhax-Request@uk.ac.tex
Contributions: Internet TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
Janet TeXhax@uk.ac.tex
Turkish TeX: YUNUS on LISTSERV@TRMETU.BITNET
MuTeX/MusicTeX mailing list: mutex-request@stolaf.edu
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[7] Converting whatever <==> TeX
Only the names of programs are presented here. Refer to section [10]
to see where to get them from. This information is based on a summary
by James Mark (mark@nuri.inria.fr) posted on 28 Aug 90.
BibTeX -> refer - refer-to-bibtex
BibTeX -> tib - refer-to-bibtex
ChiWriter -> TeX - Chi2TeX by Horstmann Software, US$75
LaTeX -> Framemaker - la2mml
MS-Word -> La/TeX - wd2latex.zip
PC-Write -> TeX - pcwritex.arc, pcwtex.zoo
refer -> BibTeX - refer-to-bibtex, r2bib
RTF -> troff - rtf-tools
RTF -> TeX - rtf2TeX
RUNOFF -> TeX - RUNOFF-to-TeX
scribe -> LaTeX - scribe2latex, s2latex
TeXinfo -> troff - texinfo2troff, texi2roff
tib -> BibTeX - refer-to-bibtex
troff -> LaTeX - TROFF-TO-LATEX.TAR-Z, tr2latex
troff -> TeX - tr2tex, textr
WordPerfect -> LaTeX - wp2latex.zip, wp2x
WordPerfect -> TeX - wp2x
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[8] DVI drivers for printer X/display Y
You can ftp a substantial listing of whatever-to-dvi
converters from ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.drivers.info].
Here are some supplementary:
Printer/Display Recent queries from
--------------- -------------------
HP DeskJet Martin v.d. Boogaard reports:
The version of Beebe's driver I tried to use was
adapted by Paul Kirkaas (kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu) and
Peter Lamb (prl@iis.uucp).
HP DeskJet on PC emTeX on PC supports it (see also emTeX)
HP LaserJet II, IIP,III, on Sun and PC
darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu reports:
Gustaf Neumann's dvi2xx5? is said to compile on Unix
for source: look at pd1:<msdos.tex> on simtel20.army.mil
Xerox 8700 mdeck@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mary Deck) suggests
TeXrox, by Thomas J. Reid of Texas A & M University
support Xerox 9700/9790, 8700/8790, 4050
Contact: x066tr@tamvm1.bitnet
===============================================================================
[9] Other-than-English TeX and friends
From time to time, people ask about the avalaibility of TeX processing
languages other than English. From this issue (June 1992), we summarize
all info we have here:
In standard Unix TeX distribution, it includes the babel package, a
collection of various language fonts:
Classical Greek, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Modern Icelandic, Cyrillic,
Modern Turkish, German (Gothic/Fraktur).
For other languages, you might want to look at these:
Arabic: pylos.nmsu.edu see pub dir.
see ArabTeX
Chinese:
see pmC -- poorman's Chinese
cc2tex --
ChTeX --
the best sites to find interesting Chinese text processing stuff
are crl.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.14), pylos.nmsu.edu and ahkcus.org
Dutch:
see dutchsort.bib -- sorts non-English (esp. Dutch) names properly.
hyphenation (Danish, Dutch, English)
French:
see epelle -- French spelling checker, incl. accents
hyphenation (French)
German:
see Babel
German dictionary
ascii2german.sh -- converts "ae" "oe" "ue" and "ss" to
the appropriate German characters
Greek:
The latest GreekTeX Package can be found in
sappho.doc.ic.ac.uk (/pub/tex/kdgreekNEW.tar.Z)
(146.169.21.14)
The package allows the usage of LaTeX and includes all the features of
the Haralambous Package. Note that this fonts are NOT 128 character sets.
See also Babel
Hebrew:
see Babel
Italian:
see hyphenation (Italian)
Japanese:
see Nihongo TeX (ASCII Nihongo TeX)
ASCII Nihongo TeX is developed by the ASCII Corp. The current
version is 1.7 based on the original TeX 2.99. Its package
also includes pTeX (publishing TeX) which experimentally
supports vertical typesetting.
see JTeX (NTT JTeX)
NTT JTeX was originally developed by Mr.Saito of NTT Corp.,
is now maintained by Mr.Sakurai (sakurai@math.metro-u.ac.jp).
The current version is 1.12 based on the original TeX 2.95.
see JEMTEX
see pmJ -- poorman's Japanese
Korean: (Hangul)
What "hlatex" does is to translate KS-Codes to control sequences
that may be recognized by standard TeX executable.
leesch@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr (lee.sok_chan) reports:
you need Korean Editors, Hangul Emulators to using Hangul TeX.
All Wanted Sources are available from anonymous ftp service supported by
CAIR.KAIST.AC.KR[143.248.11.170] with *.TAR.Z files.
cair.kaist.ac.kr:/pub/hangul/*
Recommend Emulator: Hanterm, which is a patched Xterm version
see also hlatex
Polish:
see hyphenation (Polish)
Portuguese:
see hyphenation (Portuguese)
Russian: Peter Lanius (planius@ips102.desy.de) reports that
Alexander Samarin from IHEP, Protvino (Russia) is the
person to ask. Email: SAMARIN@VXCERN.CERN.CH
Turkish:
see Babel
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Claudio Fleiner (fleinerc@cfruni52.bitnet) reports his experience in
using hyphenation-pattersn for different laguages (including accented
char's) in LaTeX. The needed files are:
NFSS: at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
in soft/tex/latex-styles-supported/nfss
DC-Fonts: at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
in soft/tex/fonts/metafont/dc
DC-Style: at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
in soft/tex/latex-styles-supported/nfss-dc
Hyphenation-Patterns:
german: included in dc-font
french: use the INRS-Patterns and convert them for the
dc-fonts (you may get them from me
(fleinerc@cfruni52.bitnet)
italian, spanish:
look in the directory soft/tex/hyphenation
at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
also Julio Sanchez (jsanchez@gmv.es)'s pattern
family generation script can be found on goya.uu.es
on dir src/TeX/spanish.
Suggestions: better check babel first!
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