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TeXhax Digest    Friday, January 27, 1989  Volume 89 : Issue 10

Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay

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Today's Topics:         
                        
                        Needed: METAFONT source
                      SPIE Proceedings style file
                           Undump for 386i?
         Needed: Information about the Genicom laser printer
       Needed: Information about color printer drivers for TeX.
                    DVI driver for CIE 3000 printer
                  LaserJet II connection to Microvax
                   Needed: Information about VorTeX
                      Grey backgrounds in LaTeX
            Needed: a way to draw digital circuits in TeX
                    Can PiCTeX generate PostScript?
                          SliTeX and PicTeX?
                 Fast but big? Problems with PiCTeX
                            Tabs and LaTeX
                       LaTeX and \footnotetext
                      \subitem problem in LaTeX
     Removing LaTeX commands from .tex files to use spell checker
      Needed: a spell checker that can be used with TeX or LaTeX
                            The em in \tt  
                  A listing of anonymous FTP Sites
                        TUG membership form

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 00:30 EDT
From: <CARSON%MCMASTER.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Needed: METAFONT source
Keywords: METAFONT,

I am very remote nowadays to the academic world and looking to access the
METAFONT source. Dr. Knuth told me to try ftp (I'm not a unix node) or
the AMS for the source on tape. I'll try the AMS but by chance is there
a remote server of the LISTSERV (ie. BITNET) variety that I can use to
transfer these sources? Or could someone send it to me directly?

Any help would be much appreciated,

Richard Werezak
carson@mcmaster.BITNET
Xerox Canada

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Date: Thu 27 Jan 1989 17:24:43 EST
From: PCT@LL.ARPA
Subject: SPIE Proceedings style file
Keywords: SPIE Proceedings

Does anyone know of a LaTeX style file for SPIE
Proceedings? I don't seem to see one in the
Clarkson repository that is documented in TUGboat.
      Pierre Trepagnier

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 17:53:09 -0800
From: daisy!kelem@Sun.COM
Subject: Undump for 386i?
Keywords: undump, SUN 386i

Where can I get undump for a Sun 386i?
Please respond directly, as I may not yet be on the texhax distribution list.

Thanks,
Steve Kelem
pyramid!daisy!kelem@sun.com
daisy!kelem@uunet.uu.net

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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 89 17:26:25 CST
From: Don Hosek <U33297%UICVM.BITNET@uwavm.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Needed: Information about color printer drivers for TeX.
Keywords: TeX, dviware, color

Does anybody know of any drivers for TeX that support multi-color printer
drivers? If so, I would appreciate some information on how these drivers
specify colors.

Thank you,
-dh

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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 14:12:40 PDT
From: Peter Scott <PJS@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Subject: DVI driver for CIE 3000 printer
Keywords: dviware, CIE 3000, printer

We just got a C.Itoh Megaserve CIE 3000 ion deposition printer that
uses a PDL called EXCL.  Does anyone have a PD DVI driver for this
beastie?  Thanks in advance.

Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov, pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 13:20:27 CST
From: Pat Lestrade <LESTRADE%MSSTATE.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Needed: Information about the Genicom laser printer
Keywords: printer

What's the scoop on this \$649 laser printer!!!
It supposedly has only 512k.  It is the Genicom Laser.  Has anyone
written a driver for it for \TeX?  I can afford that.  Heck at
\$649, I could put one out in the doghouse too. (He is advanced
for his age.  Not too good at macros yet.)

Pat Lestrade
Lestrade@MSSTATE
Mississippi.....not just a tourist attraction....

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 18:28:07 CST
From: "W. Scott McCullough" <u2591aa@UNX.UCC.OKSTATE.EDU>
Subject: LaserJet II connection to Microvax
Keywords: Microvax, LaserJet II

It is a little odd to send a note like this to TeXhax, but I thought
someone in TeXland must be printing their TeX documents on an HP LaserJet II
from a Unix machine.

We have TeX up and running on our MicrovaxII under Ultrix 1.2 (this is
plain vanilla 4.2BSD).  We want to print our TeX documents on a LaserJet II.
I can't even get simple ASCII files to print correctly.

Does anyone out there have a LaserJet II that they are driving with the
unix lpr spooler?  I could sure use some information regarding your set up.
In particular, I am not sure that the entry in /etc/printcap file is correct,
and I may need some kind of filter (the "of" and "if" entries in the printcap
file).  We would like to do accounting if possible.

If you can help, please reply directly to one of the addresses below -- some
(many) issues of TeXhax don't make it through to us here at "the End of the
Net."

Thanks a whole lot in advance,

Scott McCullough

Dept. of Physics               u2591aa@unx.ucc.okstate.edu         Internet
Oklahoma State University      (unx.ucc.okstate.edu = 192.31.83.1)
Stillwater, OK  74078-0444     U2591AA@uccvms                      Bitnet
(405-744-5801)

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 15:14:44 GMT
From: Robert Dale <rda@EPISTEMI.ED.AC.UK>
Subject: Needed: Information about VorTeX
Keywords: query, VorTeX 

Can anyone tell me anything about this, or point me to where I might
find more information?  I believe it lets you print TeX output on
Xerox laser printers, but more than that I don't know, and even that
may be wrong.  I know about TeXrox, but it seems our Xerox printer
may not be one of the several that that package will deal with.

Any pointers will be gratefully devoured.

R

Robert Dale       Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6470    | University of Edinburgh
UUCP:    ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!epistemi!rda    | Centre for Cognitive Science
ARPA:    rda%epistemi.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk  | 2 Buccleuch Place
JANET:    rda@uk.ac.ed.epistemi            | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 17:26:45 PST
From: Isaac <salzman@rand.org>
Subject: Grey backgrounds in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, PiCTeX

Anyone have any brilliant ideas on how to do this? Someone here is
interested in taking a region of text (or PicTeX graphics) and putting a
grey background behind it (for figures, etc.).  An obvious method would be
to use a \special for some dvi driver, but this needs to be portable to
various printers (HP LJ+, LaserWriter) and dvi previewers (texx, xdvi,
texsun). A grey font of some sort would suffice (in fact, the current method
is to draw a bunch of periods in that region, not exactly adequate). 
LaTeX or PicTeX source would be nice, and/or some PK/GF font files (for
300dpi devices). Thanks!!

* Isaac J. Salzman                                            ----     
* The RAND Corporation - Information Sciences Dept.          /o o/  /  
* 1700 Main St., PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90406-2138    | v |  |  
* AT&T: +1 213-393-0411 x6421 or x7923 (ISL lab)            _|   |_/   
* ARPA: salzman@RAND.ORG or salzman@rand-unix.ARPA         / |   |
* UUCP: ...!{cbosgd,decvax,sdcrdcf}!randvax!salzman        | |   |     

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 12:22:02 -0800
From: Phil Windley <windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Needed: a way to draw digital circuits in TeX
Keywords: TeX, digital circuits

I'm looking for a way to draw digital circuits in TeX.  I have used PicTex
before and have considered developing some PicTeX macros to do the job, but
I'd rather use someone else's if its already been done ;-).

Phil Windley                          |  windley@iris.ucdavis.edu
Division of Computer Science          |  ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!windley
College of Engineering                |  (916) 752-7324 (or 3168)
University of California, Davis       |  Davis, CA 95616

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 17:05:37 GMT
From: alien@VULCAN.ESE.ESSEX.AC.UK (Adrian F. Clark)
Subject: Can PiCTeX generate PostScript?
Keywords: PiCTeX, PostScript

I've seen modifications to PiCTeX which generate tpic specials; are
there similar modifications which allow it to generate PostScript in
some way?  Failing that, just what are the `tpic specials', so I can
persuade texsun/texx and dvialw to support them?  Or has someone done
that already, too?

   Adrian F. Clark
   JANET:  alien@uk.ac.essex.ese
   ARPA:   alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
   BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@ac.uk
   Smail:  Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, Essex University,
           Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ, U. K.
   Phone:  (+44) 206-872432 (direct)

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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 10:02:34 CST
From: Rob Smith <DEG41560%UA1VM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: SliTeX and PicTeX?
Keywords: SliTeX, PiCTeX

 Has anyone figured out how to get SliTeX and PicTeX to work together?

Also, I've been using a fig-to-PicTeX convertor for some things.  Does
anyone know if the inverse transformation exists?

                         Please respond directly,
                      I am not a TeXHaX subscriber.

                                 Thanks,

                                  Rob.

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 12:25:03 AST
From: Jim Diamond <zsd@PIG.DREA.DND.CA>
Subject: Fast but big? Problems with PiCTeX
Keywords: PiCTeX

As I've been using PiCTeX a fair bit and as it takes a fair
bit of time to \input it, I decided to create a format
incorporating both plain and pictex:
	% initex '&plain'
	\input pictex
	\dump
I then removed the \input pictex from a source file and ran it.
Although things worked well before, now I run out of memory.

Why should this be?  Any suggestions for doing what I want another way?
(TeX is C Version 2.9 running on an SGI 3130 Workstation)

Thanks.

		Jim Diamond

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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 16:02:53 GMT
From: CET1%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
Subject: Tabs and LaTeX
Keywords: tabs, LaTeX

In digest #3, Leslie Lamport execrates the use of tabs

>                   ...  One hopes that whoever is responsible for
> including "tab" in the ASCII character set is now roasting in hell for
> his efforts.  It has been suggested that building a system that allows
> the insertion of tabs into a text file should be a capital offense.
> I'm not that extreme; I think that ten years of writing COBOL code in
> Novosibirsk would be adequate punishment. ...

Fine words. Why is it, then, that on the (Stanford) distribution tapes
the LaTeX source files contain tabs while the Plain TeX ones don't?

Chris Thompson
JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx
ARPA:  cet1%phx.cam.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 16:44
From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-B at UCL) <UCGADKW%euclid.ucl.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: LaTeX and \footnotetext
Keywords: LaTeX, \footnotetext
 
Am I going mad, or has the behaviour of \footnotetext changed in the 
last year or so?  I have some old stuff where I used \footnotetext
to put a piece of text at the foot of a page, in footnote type format,
but without any superscript number.  Now I find that the same command
labels the footnote with a small superscript zero (I am using it at 
the start of a document, before any other footnotes).  After poring
over the LaTeX book for a while, I have decided that the latter 
behaviour is what the LaTeX book is describing.  Which leaves me
wondering why I *used* to get footnotes with no number at all.
Was there a time when \@thefnmark was left out of the definition 
of \footnotetext?
 
Dominik

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 12:42:17 EST
From: Anne Brueggemann-Klein <abrueggemann@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Subject: \subitem problem in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, \subitem

Today I encoutered a minor problem with LaTeX, when I included the
command "\subindex Minuskel" into an index file.

I got the following error message:

    ! Missing number, treated as zero.
    <to be read again> 
                       k
    l.7 \subitem Minusk
                       el
    ? 
    ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
    <to be read again> 
                       k
    l.7 \subitem Minusk
                       el
    ? 

Apparently the \subitem as well as the \subsubitem command feature
\hskip <explicit dimension without shink term> as their last
command, such that the first part of my "Minuskel" is interpreted
as a shrink term for the \hskip-command.

The remedy seems to be easy. Leslie Lamport should append \relax 
to the definition of \subitem and \subsubitem in order to
shield the \hskip from following user input.


Anne Brueggemann-Klein
abrueggemann@watdragon.waterloo.edu

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Date: 27 Jan 89 14:45 -0600
From: Jim Walker <walkerj%wnre.aecl.cdn@relay.ubc.ca>
Subject: Removing LaTeX commands from .tex files to use spell checker
Keywords: LaTeX, .tex files

Can anybody (please) send me a VAXable program to strip LaTeX commands out 
of .tex files, so I can then use my favourite spelling checker?

Jim Walker,
Whiteshell Research,
Pinawa, Manitoba R0E 1L0,
CANADA.

Fax1  : (204) 753-2455 [Verification : (204) 753-2311 ext. 2300]
Fax2  : (204) 753-8404 [Verification : (204) 753-2311 ext. 3162]
email : walkerj@wnre.aecl.cdn

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 16:54:22 EST
From: Joachim Schambach <JSCHAMBA%KENTVM.BITNET@uwavm.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Needed: a spell checker that can be used with TeX or LaTeX
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, spell checker

Dear Texhackers
Is there something like a spell checker that can be used with TeX or
LaTeX? Or maybe a modification of an existing spell checker from
a wordprocessor?                       ...Jo Schambach

Bitnet:   JSCHAMBA @ KENTVM
Acknowledge-To: <JSCHAMBA@KENTVM>

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Date: 23 Jan 89  1304 PST
From: Don Knuth <DEK@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: The em in \tt  
Keywords: TeX

as in all cm fonts is twice the width of a digit; thus, \enspace always
corresponds to a blank the size of `0'

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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 15:35 EST
From: Ted Nieland - SRL <@WPAFB-AAMRL.ARPA:TNIELAND@FALCON>
Subject: A listing of anonymous FTP Sites
Keywords: ftp sites

The following is the current information that I have for locations for TeXware 
available for ANONYMOUS FTP.

If you know of any missing items, please send the information (or
corrections for information) to TNIELAND@WPAFB-AAMRL.ARPA.

Also, does anyone know the host number for sipb.mit.edu?  I do not have MX 
routing capabilities and that host is not in the host tables.

Ted Nieland

TeXWare Item  Current Version     Author                 FTP Location

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Common-TeX	v2.9		Pat Monardo		berkeley.edu

MakeIndex	v2.4		Pehong Chen		ucbarpa.berkeley.edu

Utah DVI Driver			Nelson H.F. Beebe	science.utah.edu
Family		V10.1					<TEX.DVI>
							ctrsci.utah.edu
							PS1:[TEX.DVI]


AFtoPL 		v2.0		Clayton M. Elwell	tut.cis.ohio-state.edu

Greek Fonts			Silvio Levy		princeton.edu

TeX		2.93		Donald Knuth		score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX>
	Actual WEB sources in <TEX.WEB>

METAFONT	1.5		Donald Knuth		score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.MF>

LaTeX		2.09		Leslie Lamport		score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.LATEX>

CM Font Sources						score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.CM>

AMS Fonts 						score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.AMSFONTS>

WEB							score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.WEB>

AMSTeX							score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.AMSTEX>

BibTeX		v.99c					score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.BIBTEX>

Manuals, bug and errata lists				score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.DOC>

DOSTEX							wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
							<MSDOS.TEX>

SBTEX   						wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
							<MSDOS.TEX>



IMAGENDVI Driver- DVIIMP				score.stanford.edu
							PS:<TEX.IMAGEN>


Fig		1.4FS					svax.cs.cornell.edu
						~ftp/pub/fig/fig-fs.tar.Z

TransFig	1.4-3					svax.cs.cornell.edu
						~ftp/pub/fig/transfig.tar.Z

xfig							cayuga.cs.rochester.edu
							expo.lcs.mit.edu


TGRIND				Jerry Leichter		venus.ycc.yale.edu
				(Leichter-jerry@cs.yale.edu)
   VMS BACKUP Saveset TGRIND.A     also get FIXREC.EXE,FIXREC.C

TEXTYL				John Renner		venus.ycc.yale.edu
				adobe!renner@decwrl.dec.com
   VMS BACKUP Saveset TEXTYL.A     also get FIXREC.EXE,FIXREC.C

PicTeX							svax.cs.cornell.edu
							a.cs.uiuc.edu
							june.cs.washington.edu


VAXStation Previewers

   Preview			Randy Buckland		argon.rti.org

   DVIDIS	v3.4		Jerry Leichter		cs.yale.edu
     VMS BACKUP Saveset DVIDIS.A  also get FIXREC.EXE


LaTeX Style Collection					sun.soe.clarkson.edu
                                                        pub/latex-style

DVI Previewers UNIX & X11

   xdvi							sipb.mit.edu
							ftp/pub/x11r3.dvi


IBM PC Previewers

   DVIVGA			Doug McDonald		b.scs.uiuc.edu

   DVIEW						wmsr-simtel20.army.mil
							<MSDOS.TEX>

   CDVI							wmsr-simtel20.army.mil
							<MSDOS.TEX>

Unix Flavored Tex					june.cs.washington.edu
web2c		2.20
TeX		2.93
METAFONT	1.5
bibtex		.99c
PicTeX

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