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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 21:54
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[STI.1992.08] 	Supplementary TeX Information -- August, 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.

In this issue, I have some sort re-organized the document 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)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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

===============================================================================
[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:  ???

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

===============================================================================
[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

===============================================================================
[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.

  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

  -------
  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

     Suggestions: better check babel first!

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