TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 7 Apr 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 006 % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: Re: extension of eqnarray* Re: HypherTeX Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray Re: C to TeX, anyone? (I will write it; suggestions wellcome) heading and footnote in LaTeX Re: "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager" MakeIndex BibTeX help! Long filenames for type1 fonts Marginal asterisks in LaTeX Latex for Mac ? side margin changes after 1st page in LaTeX letters? Hungarian accents and Hyphenation Font shrinking with negative magsteps fig2MF available on FILESERV/Niord List Of TeX Tutorials ANNOUNCEMENT: 'Computer Modern' Blackboard fonts available Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 Mar 1993 15:00:00 -0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: Re: extension of eqnarray* Jon Ahlquist asks for a multi-column extension of eqnarray: I use the following to align at several points the way eqnarray* does, ie, suitable for a = b < c <= d type alignments. I never use eqnarray (numbered), but I am sure that it can be done in a similar way. \makeatletter \def\Calc{\m@th\tabskip\@centering\def\\{\nonumber\@seqncr}% $$\halign to\displaywidth\bgroup% $\displaystyle{##}$\hfil&&\hskip 2\arraycolsep\hfil ${##}$\hfil &\hskip 2\arraycolsep $\displaystyle{##}$\hfil\cr} \def\endCalc{\nonumber\\\egroup$$\global\@ignoretrue} \makeatother \begin{Calc} a &=& b &<& c &\leq d&=&\\ e &\leq& f &=&g \end{Calc} Mike Dr M J Piff e-mail: Department of Pure Mathematics University of Sheffield M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk Hicks Building PM1MJP@derwent.shef.ac.uk Hounsfield Road SHEFFIELD S3 7RH Telephone: SHEFFIELD (0742) 824431 England ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 10:05:58 -0500 From: bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) Subject: Re: HypherTeX > I am interested in TeX has a tool for writing hypertext. > I know there exists GNU texinfo. > Has anyone notice of related information. DVIWindo supports hyper text linkage. You can define `buttons' and `marks' using \special. If the user clicks on a button, viewing is transferred to the corresponding mark. The right mouse button can be used to return. Buttons can be highlighted using different fonts (bold), colored text, colored rules, TIFF bitmap images, reverse video, whatever... DISCLAIMER: respondent has connections with Y&Y. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 19:52:51 +0100 From: Wolfgang Ratzka Subject: Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray > 2) Does anybody have an extension of \begin{eqnarray}\end{eqnarray} > that numbers equations and can line up more than one term in each row? > I would like to line up several terms in several equations > to show similarity of structure among the equations. There is equationarray.sty which should be availabel in the usual places. ___ Wolfgang Ratzka | | :-) ------------------------------------------------------- | /\ | \ X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de |/ \| \ SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 20:05:39 +0100 From: Peer.Stritzinger@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE Subject: Re: C to TeX, anyone? (I will write it; suggestions wellcome) I'm going to write a TeX macro package that allows you to directly include your C source in the document. The features I want to include are: * Different styles (font etc.) can be specified for string constants and comments. * Comments can be written in TeX using math and whatever you like. Multi-line comments are formatted with margins depending on the context. * Tabs are expanded. * I don't think the readability of a C-program improves if the keywords of the language are highlighted, but if someone tells me he would prefer this, it can be included easily. Unfortunately I can't start writing this until at least the end of May. The positive side is that I can consider suggestions from the net. So if you have any features you want included in this package feel free to contact me. - -- peer P.S.: The package will be free of course. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 10:40:58 +0700 From: zheng@maths.uwa.oz.au (Wei Xing Zheng) Subject: heading and footnote in LaTeX I am trying to use LaTeX to underline a whole heading and to center the running head, e.g. to make a heading like " Time series analysis 3 - ------------------------------------------------------- " where "Time series analysis" is the running head and "3" the page number. I have found that the commands \pagestyle{myheadings} and \markright cannot work desirably in this case. Is there any other way to make a heading as above? Further, is it possible to use LaTeX to overline a whole footnote, e.g. like " - ------------------------------------------------------- Time series analysis 3 " Looking forward to a reply. Thanks. Wei X. Zheng Dept. of Maths, University of Western Australia E-mail: zheng@maths.uwa.edu.au ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:21:37 -0600 From: Craig Stuart Niederberger Subject: Re: "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager" Kudos to David Rhead for pointing out what to me has seemed to be a persistent problem--TeX/LaTeX interface with personal bibliographic systems. I use RefMan (Reference Manager) because I write medical articles, and it allows direct importation of references from bibliographic retrieval systems such as BRS Colleague. This has caused me some difficulty, because I prefer to use LaTeX (for obvious reasons) in writing the articles themselves. Right now, I am using my own, admittedly suboptimal hack: I keep 2 sets of databases, my RefMan databases, and my BibTeX databases. Article "codes" are consistent in both. (Ugly, because a numerical code is assigned by RefMan such as 1423, which has nothing to do with the content of the article. I would prefer "readable" codes such as Goldman:CardDeath93 but I am too lazy to change my well over 1400 RefMan articles, growing by leaps and bounds every day.) I have a journal style in RefMan, which I use to print out a transfer file of articles (ASCII) that I select to port over to BibTeX. This style divides the article information with colons (:). I wrote a simple C program to convert that ASCII file to BibTeX format. This way, I can still use the database retrieval features of RefMan to find the article and then cite it in my LaTeX text, which is really handy. I can also import articles into RefMan from say, BRS Colleague or Medline, and then (sort of) directly transfer them to a BibTeX file. If anyone is interested in the C program, I'll give it to them. If anyone has a better way of doing this with RefMan, PLEASE let me know. Craig Craig Niederberger M.D. Internet EMAIL: craign@bcm.tmc.edu Department of Urology, Room 440E US Phone: 713-798-7267 Baylor College of Medicine FAX: 713-798-5577 One Baylor Plaza Houston, Texas 77030-3498 USA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 11:14:25 -0600 From: "Jerry Packard, U of Illinois" Subject: MakeIndex Dear Helpful Persons: Do you know where I might get a publicly-available version of MakeIndex for LaTeX? Thanks, J. Packard ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 16:44:07 -0500 From: "Roberto R. Garcia" Subject: BibTeX help! Howdy!! After many hours of reasearch over the internet I have been unsuccessful in finding any information on BibTeX. Maybe I didn't look hard enough. Anyway, I would be very happy if someone could explain what this is and if there exists a ny .EXE files that will process .BIB files. Does this make sense? If not, ple ase set me straight. THANKS A-LOT Roberto R. Garcia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 18:11:29 -0800 From: mackay@edu.washington.cs (Pierre MacKay) Subject: Long filenames for type1 fonts #!/bin/sh # # As a service to those who need short file names, font # files are commonly distributed with names that will fit # into the Procrustean limits of MS-DOS. The naming convention, # particularly for type1 outline fonts has been carefully # worked out to give as much information as possible in a little # space but, on a fully functional Unix system, it is a lot # clearer to see exactly what the supplier/``foundry'' really # calls the font. # # This script extracts the name from either a pfa file or an afm # file, renames the short file with the full name and then # links the old short name to the full name. (Have it both ways!) # # It is reasonably safe (barring system crashes) to run this # script as part of a "for" or "foreach" loop, since the globbing # is already done before the script starts working. # shortname=$1 ext=`expr $shortname : '.*\.\(.*\)'` fullname=`grep "FontName" $shortname | awk '{ print $2 }' | tr -d "/"` echo "$shortname --> ${fullname}.$ext" mv $shortname ${fullname}.$ext ln -s ${fullname}.$ext $shortname exit 0 END-of-SCRIPT Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software should be sent primarily to: elisabet@u.washington.edu Elizabeth Tachikawa otherwise to: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay Smail: Northwest Computing Support Center Resident Druid for Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10 Unix-flavored TeX University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-6259 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 13:53:52 -0500 From: sobota@nscvax.princeton.edu Subject: Marginal asterisks in LaTeX I am a novice LaTex user and I need some help. I need marignal asterisks for la tex documents. I want to be able to turn asterisks on and off with a command an d I want a specified footnote on each page that contains one or more asterisks in the margin. For instance after a command like: \asteriskson{the footnote goes here} Each line in the text that appears after this command would contain a marginal asterisk in the right hand margin. Asterisks in the margin adjacent to figures, table, equations, etc. are also required. Then a command like: \asterisksoff would turn them of (no more asterisks would appear in the marginal column). The footnote would say something like: "Disclosure of information on lines specifically identified by an asterisk (*) is not permitted" Does some macro to do this already exist? Is what I need properly called a "macro"? How hard would it be to write one? Can anybody help me? Tom Sobota sobota@nscvax.princeton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1993 17:11:05 -0800 From: anz@vas.COM (Alex Zamfirescu) Subject: Latex for Mac ? I would like to know if anyone out there has used any Latex version on the Mac PowerBooks. What is feasible on the PowerBook and where can I get the software. Alex Zamfirescu Please reply to a.zamfirescu@ieee.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1993 15:33:59 -0400 From: John Kohl Subject: side margin changes after 1st page in LaTeX letters? I'm trying to do some tweaking of the latex letter.sty margins to shift the text for a letter to print on letterhead. The letterhead has stuff at the top and along the left side. The first page should have the altered top and side margins; the subsequent pages should have "normal" margins (to be printed on blank paper). Any suggestions/pointers on how to do this? John Kohl jtkohl@kolvir.blrc.ma.us ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:44:01 -0800 From: Piter Verhas Subject: Hungarian accents and Hyphenation [This message is converted from WPS-PLUS to ASCII] Using TeX for the Hungarian Language Accented letters and hyphenation Peter Verhas 1. Introduction =============== All accented letters we use in Hungarian are handled by TeX without modification thoguh it is inconvinient to type \' , \" or \H{} each time for an accented letter. There are many conversion tools to ease the use of the accented letters. These tools convert the extended character set to the usual TeX notation. There is another approach to use accented letter. This changes the fonts to have those accented letters in the font file, and modifies plain.tex or latex.tex to have these characters (code is larger than 127) catcode letter. The Hungarian hyphenation can also be handled by TeX without modification since it has the \discretionary macro. Such hyphenations are common and frequent in Hungarian. If consonants like sz (which sound like s in English) or cs (which is something like tsch in the name Tschebishev) are doubled have the form ssz or ccs, except when the hyphenation breaks them. In such case they are sz-sz or cs-cs. Such hyphenation can NOT automatic handled by hyphenation tables, and those tables that are in use usually prevent hyphenation at such places. Typing the discretionary macro for each such hyphenation is also very time and effort consuming. The solution that some of us use since few years, and which might be interesting for Hungarian writing people from practical, and for others from the intellectual point of view is a preprocessor that inserts these discretionary hyphenations and does the conversion for the accented letters. The program I would like to introduce does more in fact. 2. HiOn, the Hungarian TeX preprocessor ======================================= HiOn is a TeX preprocessor that makes two major tasks: 1.) It transforms Hungarian accented letters to their TeX notation. 2.) It inserts the standard soft hyphenation string according to the Hungarian grammar rules at all possible places. The first task ease the generation of the source files allowing user to use the extended character set of his system (which can be IBM PC character set, ISO Latin II or any user defined code table). The second prevents bad hyphenations or overfull, underfull hboxes depending on the actual TeX setting. To do this HiOn implements a fast, rule based hyphenation algorithm. This base algorithm is extended with an exception dictionary since version 1.7, which is the current version. HiOn reads the source file (default extension is HUN) and generates a TeX file (default extension is TEX). This way the TeX files act as temporary files just like DVI files. The generated TeX does not contain 8 bit characters (unless user requests special accented character handling) which is transparent to all mailing systems and need not depend on particular TeX macro set. This way HiOn can benefit TeX's discretionary capabilities for hyphenating words which contain compound consonants. HiOn hyphenates words like ``processzor'' correct to the form ``pro-ce\discretionary{ssz}{sz-}{sz}or'' which tells TeX to break the word as o pro-cesszor or o procesz-szor. Such hyphenation rule can be found in German as well (ck hyphenated as k-k). Using the expanded hyphenation rules introduced in version 1.1 HiOn can hyphenate those verbs that have alternation prefix like ``megenni'' which hyphenates as ``meg-enni''. HiOn checks the whole word not only the prefix as the prefixes themselves do not guarantee being verb-alternation-prefix. Therefore it knows ``el-ad\'o'' and also knows ``e-le-f\'ant''. HiOn also know by rules such weird hyphenations like o malac-s\'ag o meg-gy\'urni o megy-gyes. As introduced in version 1.7 HiOn uses an exception dictionary and correctly hyphenates all compound words that appear in the Hungarian dictionary: ``Magyar \'Ertelmez\H{}o K\'ezisz\'ot\'ar''. The exception dictionary has an ASCII and a compressed binary form. Using the ASCII form users can extend the exception dictionary with words which are not common but need hyphenation. A typical example is a long chemical name. The binary form was designed and optimized for size and speed. On special request HiOn converts the ASCII form to binary and this way the extended dictionary can get into effect. HiOn is highly configurable, has approximately 30 options to tailor to the actual needs. As version 1.7 HiOn should HYPHENATE ALL HUNGARIAN WORDS CORRECT. Even if it failed in some cases users can include words in the exception dictionary. HiOn was written and continuously developed during the last three years in computer language C in a structured manner and compiles and has the same behavior under MS-DOS, VMS and UNIX. HiOn as a shareware product is available in Hungary in source code and in MS-DOS executable format with full documentation in Hungarian and exception dictionary in ASCII and in binary format. NONPROFIT and EDUCATION usage of HiOn only requires registration. (Some more minor requirements are included in the User's Guide.) PROFIT-ORIENTED usage of HiOn requires special agreement with the author. A book was already published prepared using HiOn V1.2 and some other books are under publishing. There is one registered, profit-oriented user of HiOn in Hungary. 3. Conclusion With HiOn the usage of TeX (and LaTeX or any other macro package) was tailored to the special needs of the Hungarian language and it has the same felxibility and capability as in English. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 18:15:02 -0800 From: mackay@edu.washington.cs (Pierre MacKay) Subject: Font shrinking with negative magsteps \documentstyle{article} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{centering} {\Large A table of negative magsteps}\\ \end{centering} \vspace {.25in} \noindent The increasing availability of outline fonts, especially those licensed for general use through the X Consortium (Charter, Courier, Utopia), and the growing number of \TeX-related utilities for printing and screen preview of documents using these fonts, requires the use of some rather interesting magstep values. There is usually only one design size for an outline font, and the \TeX{} user must depend on scaling for all point sizes, in the hope that font hinting will supply some of the non-linear effects which ought to distinguish a 5-point from a 10-point font. A PostScript or Ghostscript engine will deal with the scaling implicitly, but {\tt xdvi} and other display programs which depend on rasterized font images need to have them supplied by some sort of conversion program. The {\tt ps2pk} utility, available through a number of servers on the internet, is a good tool for creating PK fonts from type1 outlines. It comes with several associated programs, including {\tt mag} which calculates appropriate dpi values at various screen and printer resolutions. As long as your concern is only with large fonts, this utility is very straightforward, but when you need to create 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9-point images from a 10-point design master, the values are a bit less obvious. To shrink fonts you have to use negative magstep values and fortunately the {\tt mag} program is designed to permit this. Here is a table of negative magsteps, for the full range of sizes from 9-point down to 5-point. Values are given for the true magstep series and also for integer pointsizes. Arguments can be made for choosing either series. $$ \begin{tabular}{|c|c||c|c||c|} \hline \multicolumn{2}{|c||}{Magstep Series}&\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{Pointsize Series}\\ \hline magstep&300 dpi&magstep&300 dpi&pointsize \\ value&value&value&value&reduction \\ \hline - -0.50&274&-0.58&270&$9/10$ \\ \hline - -1.00&250&-1.22&240&$8/10$ \\ \hline - -2.00&208&-1.95&210&$7/10$ \\ \hline - -3.00&174&-2.80&180&$6/10$ \\ \hline - -4.00&144&-3.80&150&$5/10$ \\ \hline \end{tabular} $$ \noindent The next magstep, $-5.00$ would bring the values into complete agreement, at a dpi value of 120, but 4-point fonts are not much use for anything. Two additional values which have sometimes come in useful are $-0.6 (-0.63)$ for an $8/9$ reduction, and $-0.8333 (-0.85)$ for a $6/7$ reduction. The first value, incidentally, is half a magstep, and the second is the reciprocal. \vspace{0.25in} \begin{flushright} Pierre Mackay \\ mackay@cs.washington.edu \\ \end{flushright} \end{document} Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software should be sent primarily to: elisabet@max.u.washington.edu Elizabeth Tachikawa otherwise to: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay Smail: Northwest Computing Support Center Resident Druid for Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10 Unix-flavored TeX University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-6259 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 17:15:43 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: fig2MF available on FILESERV/Niord Anthony Starks kindly forwarded along his new version of fig2MF (version 0.04; 16 March 1993). Attached is the description file for your reference. Regards and thanks to Anthony for his submission, George FIG2MF ------ The FIG2MF package contains a UUENCODEd ZIP archive of Anthony Starks' fig2MF (version 0.04, 16 March 1993). This package translates the graphics language Fig to METAFONT using the mfpic macros. With this tool, any program that creates Fig code, such as xfig, can be used as font creation tool. Included in the distribution are preliminary documentation, source code, manual page (in TeX), required MF macros, and a testing script, along with a variety of sample figures. To retrieve the one-part distribution via e-mail, include: SENDME FIG2MF in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). The UUENCODEd file is 66 512-byte blocks in size. The ZIP archive is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in [FILESERV.FIG2MF] as FIG2MF-0_04.ZIP. Files in FIG2MF.ZIP/FIG2MF-0_04.ZIP: Anthony Starks' fig2MF (version 0.04; 16 March 1993) tool for convert Fig code to mfpic METAFONT code. Length Method Size Ratio Date Time Name ("^" ==> case ------ ------ ---- ----- ---- ---- ---- conversion) 0 Stored 0 0% 03-16-93 16:40 fig2mf/ 2117 Deflate 919 57% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/README 9870 Deflate 3142 68% 03-16-93 16:42 fig2mf/fig2MF.c 4122 Deflate 1712 58% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/fig2MFman.tex 24650 Deflate 8238 67% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/graphbase.mf 114 Deflate 99 13% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/tf 3411 Deflate 1213 64% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/alltypes.fig 3448 Deflate 577 83% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/balls.fig 1297 Deflate 411 68% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/bean.fig 1321 Deflate 257 81% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/book.fig 362 Deflate 123 66% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/chase.fig 2443 Deflate 955 61% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/face.fig 9376 Deflate 1183 87% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/house.fig 1316 Deflate 520 60% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/many.fig 253 Deflate 103 59% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/mitsu.fig 374 Deflate 131 65% 03-16-93 16:39 fig2mf/parc-place.fig 254 Deflate 101 60% 03-16-93 16:40 fig2mf/plane.fig 1918 Deflate 543 72% 03-16-93 16:40 fig2mf/powells.fig 478 Deflate 146 69% 03-16-93 16:40 fig2mf/qd.fig 1215 Deflate 229 81% 03-16-93 16:40 fig2mf/shade.fig 734 Deflate 221 70% 03-16-93 16:40 fig2mf/thick.fig 7273 Deflate 1064 85% 03-16-93 16:40 fig2mf/type.fig ------ ------ --- ------- 76346 21887 71% 22 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 12:40:38 -0600 From: Tundra Tim Daneliuk Subject: List Of TeX Tutorials List Of TeX-Related Tutorials As Of 03.26.93 ============================================ Herein is a list of tutorials on TeX-related subjects. If you are the author of such a document and that document is freely available (public domain, GNU Copyleft, etc.) please feel free to email me the information in the format defined below and I'll include it in the next revision of this list. Also, if any of the information is incorrect, misleading, or otherwise needs amending, please let me know. Thanks to all who have contributed. - ---------------------------- Submission Format ------------------------------ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: Latest Version: <Version Number And/Or Date> Author Name: <Last Name, First Name> Author Email Address: <Optional, If You Don't Want To Be Pestered> Size (Bytes): <Or Pages> Brief Description: <One Line Please> Intended Audience: <Novice, Advanced, Specialist In Some Discipline, etc.> Distribution Site: <Primary ftp Site> Comments: <Whatever Makes Sense Here - Try To Keep It Under 50 Lines Or So> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% - ------------------------- Beginning Of Tutorial List ------------------------ Document Name: Application Of NFSS In The Context Of Latex Latest Version: January 1993 Author Name: {\.Z}bikowski, Rafa{\l} Author Email Address: Not Available Size (Bytes): ~40K Brief Description: A FAQ containing two embedded LaTeX documents Intended Audience: Newcomers to the New Font Selection Scheme and amsfontsS no (La)TeX expertise assumed. Distribution Site niord.shsu.edu: [FILESERV.FAQ]FAQ.NFSS-LATEX Comments: The purpose of this document is to describe briefly AmSFonts and the New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS) in the context of LaTeX. The issues addressed are as follows. AmSFonts: What are AmSFonts? Where to get AmSFonts from? How to install AmSFonts for LaTeX? New Font Selection Scheme: What is the New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS)? Why to use NFSS? Where to get NFSS from? How to install NFSS? How to use NFSS to install AmSFonts for LaTeX? Also: How can NFSS and AmSFonts be used in practice? (Examples.) The questions are attempted to be answered from user's point of view as opposed to (La)TeXpert's/designer's. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: A Catalogue of TeX Macros Latest Version: Author Name: Jones, David Author Email Address: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu Size (Bytes): 367136 Brief Description: A Catalogue of TeX Macros. Intended Audience: Anyone who uses TeX. Distribution Site: theory.lcs.mit.edu: pub/tex/TeX-index Comments: The goal of this document is to provide a catalogue of all publicly-available TeX macros and macro packages, such as AMS-TeX, plain TeX, eplain, FoilTeX, LaTeX, AMS-LaTex, LAMS-TeX, Lollipop, etc. Although it is far from complete, it already contains nearly 1000 entries. (It also includes a section on BibTeX style files.) The author actively solicits contributions and greatly appreciates it when authors of macro packages send him updates or new entries. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: The Components of TeX Author Name: Joachim Schrod Author Email Address: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Size (Bytes): ca 30 KB Brief Description: It describes the components and files users of TeX get in contact with. Intended Audience: Not a document for beginners. For those who have used TeX for a while and wonder what all those files are good for. Distribution Site (ftp or uucp): ftp.th-darmstadt.de: pub/tex/documentation/components-of-TeX.tar.Z Comments: Also available from all larger TeX archives. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: elm.tex (Essential LaTeX Mathematics) Latest Version: (no version number - only one version) Author Name: Carlisle, David Author Email Address: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Size (Bytes): 18362 Brief Description: An addition to Essential LaTeX, describing mathematics. Intended Audience: Those with an interest in typesetting mathematics. Distribution Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk Comments: Does not describe mathematics under the NFSS. Uses the obsolete ms[xy]m fonts. Requires amssymbols.sty. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: A Gentle Introduction to TeX Latest Version: Author Name: Doob, Michael Author Email Address: mdoob@ccu.umanitoba.ca Size (Bytes): 198589 Brief Description: Introduction to plain tex. Intended Audience: Rank beginners. Distribution Site: Many (try gentle.tex on Archie) Comments: Hard copy also available from the TeX Users Group at a nominal cost. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: Getting Up And Running With AMS-LaTeX Latest Version: December 16,1992 Author Name: Hirschhorn, Phil Author Email Address: psh@math.mit.edu Size (Pytes): 25 Brief Description: Overview of the American Mathematical Society version of LaTeX. Intended Audience: Intended for someone with at least some experience with either plain TeX, AMS-TeX, or LaTeX. Distribution Site: Contact author via email. Comments: Attempts to give enough information for someone to get started with AMS-LaTeX without having to read the manual. Contains a template file. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: An Introduction To TeX And Friends Latest Version: Author Name: Maltby, Gavin Author Email Address: gmaltby@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za maltby@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za Size (Bytes): 150405 Brief Description: An introduction to the TeX world through LaTeX. Covers text processing and mathematical typesetting. Far from a reference work, for there are many commands not even mentioned. Around 80 pages. Intended Audience: LaTeX beginners, especially those who want to typeset mathematics and proceed to AmSLaTeX Distribution Site: To Be Determined Comments: Prepared for short course given at University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Prepared in great haste, so not ultimately polished. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: Metafont For Beginners Latest Version: draft 2, Fri 23 Oct 1992. Author Name: Tobin, Geoffrey Author Email Address: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au Size (Bytes): 15252 Brief Description: A brief overview of what Metafont is and does. Intended Audience: Moderately experienced TeX users Distribution Site: niord.shsu.edu Comments: Short and sweet, a great way to get started with Metafont. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: symbols.tex Latest Version: 2.00 Author Name: Carlisle, David Author Email Address: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Size (Bytes): 17594 Brief Description: A listing of all the standard LaTeX math symbols and the AMS symbols. Intended Audience: Those with an interest in typesetting mathematics. Distribution Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk, SHSU, stuttgart Comments: If used with the NFSS, requires AMSFONTS2.1, and amssymb.sty. If used without the NFSS, does not show the AMS Fonts. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Document Name: TeXsis -- TeX Macros for Physicists Latest Version: Author Name: Myers, Eric and Paige, Frank Author Email Address: texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu Size (Bytes): 835584 (tar file) Brief Description: TeX macros extending Plain TeX Intended Audience: Physicists and others who write technical documents. Distribution Site: anonymous@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu Comments: See the files README and INSTALL in the ftp directory. The manual is written in TeXsis, so you need the macros to print it. Partially a tutorial along with the macros necessary to help physicists make use of TeX effectively. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Regards, "Tundra" Tim Daneliuk PREFERRED: tundra@eskimo.chi.il.us OR (Yuk!): eskimo!tundra@clout.chi.il.us ALSO: ...uunet!gargoyle.uchicago.edu!clout!eskimo!tundra US SNAIL: 4927 N. Rockwell, Chicago, IL 60625 MA BELL: (312) 989-1052 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 12:10:42 +0400 From: gfrobert@fourier.grenet.fr (Gilles F. ROBERT) Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: 'Computer Modern' Blackboard fonts available Hi all, There has been one or two weeks ago a discussion on this list about 'bold blackboard' fonts: which are available and what are they like. The answer has been (as far as I understood) - the AMS fonts msbm (older version msym) are intended for use with Times and aren't truly what a mathematician expects (the stress is on both stems instead of being on only the left one). - Alan Jeffrey's bbold fonts are sans-serif ones, with (almost) no possibility of design variations for, say, a bold variant. That was all, and in particular nothing for use with Computer Modern. I was already working at that time on the project of changing the codes of romanu.mf, romanl.mf and other files to add a 'Blackboard' variant to Computer Modern. IT IS NOW READY !!! The whole package contains five 'main' files: - blbbase.mf (the 'base') contains the supplementary definitions needed for double stems etc.. - blbord.mf (the 'driver') is fairly simpleand only makes the necessary calls. - blbordu.mf (based on romanu.mf): programs for uppercase letters. - blbordl.mf (based on romanl.mf): programs for lowercase letters. - blbordsp.mf (based on romand.mf and punct.mf): programs for the digits~1 and~2 and for parentheses and brackets. There is also a whole lot of parameter files that are (almost) the same as those provided by DEK. For most of them, the only differences are - - change 'cmbase' for 'blbbase' on line~2 - - change 'generate roman' for 'generate blbord' on last line - - add two extra parameters (interspace# and cap_interspace#). Since I do not have (yet) any anon. ftp server here to put these files, I can e-mail the files, but I would be very honoured if someone gave me an address where to put all these things. _ _ | Gilles F. 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