TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 26 Jan 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 002 % 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: Latex to Mac MS-Word? psfig/epsfig to show eps preview bitmap icon TEX DRAWING PACKAGES FOR DOS ftp site for SliTeX Re: Magic lines for TeX/Mf files TeX for UNIX Expanding user-defined macros for REVTeX compuscripts Revised date/location: TeX for non-American languages; MF in theory an ANNOUNCEMENT: TeX Users Group meeting, Aston, July 1993 MS Windows LaTeX tools available on FILESERV/Niord MeX 1.03 TUGboat 13 #4 -- contents Pandora LaTeX style file New version of UCTHESIS (2.0) on FILESERV/Niord Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Jan 92 20:22:15 -0500 From: "Maria Siebes, BME" Subject: Latex to Mac MS-Word? I am pretty new to the translation business, but one of my colleagues needs help. He has a document (with many equations) in Latex and needs to convert it to MS Word (running on a Macintosh) to be able to edit it. Does anyone out there know of such a translator? In general, is there a list of available translators and how to obtain them? Thank you! ------------------------------ Date: 07 Jan 93 00:18:10 -0500 From: karron@karron.med.nyu.edu( (Dan Karron \(karron@nyu.edu\)) Subject: psfig/epsfig to show eps preview bitmap icon Anyone have a way to put up a bitmap icon instead of the full figure for a draft preview mode for the various tex ps figure macros ? Is there a nice way to make a \system{"shell command here"} for TeX ? Cheers! Dan. | karron@nyu.edu (e-mail alias ) Dan Karron, Ph.D.,Research Associate| | Phone: 212 263 5210 Fax: 212 263 7190 New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue Digital Pager <1> 212 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 <2> 10896 <3> | ``ALMOST Done writing, back to doing it again!.'' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 10:49:00 +0000 From: ROUGH@manadon.ac.uk Subject: TEX DRAWING PACKAGES FOR DOS Do versions of TeX drawing packages like TEXCAD or TEXDRAW which perform bezier curve drawing exist for MSDOS? If so where can I find them? Thanks Alastair Rough ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 08:10:51 From: JESUS RIVERO Subject: ftp site for SliTeX Could anybody tell at which ftp sites I can find SliTeX programs and fonts? An e-mail answer will enough. Tahnks in advance ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 09:21:39 -0700 From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Subject: Re: Magic lines for TeX/Mf files Dan Karron asks about magic byte values for TeXware files. We have had the following in our UNIX systems' /etc/magic file for some time now: #======================================================================= # Local additions to the /etc/magic file 0 short 0x1b0c Tektronix graphics file 0 short 0xf702 TeX DVI (device-independent) file 0 short 0xf759 TeX PK packed font file 0 short 0xf783 TeX GF (generic font) file We no longer have .pxl files, so I didn't bother to make a magic entry for them. The first 32-bit word of a .pxl file contains the decimal value 1001, so a /etc/magic entry like 0 long 0x000003e9 TeX PXL (pixel font) file should suffice. TeX source files are not easily identifiable because they can start with anything at all. Only if users adopt a common convention like %% This is a -*-TeX-*- file could we have a /etc/magic entry like 0 string %% TeX source file This still leaves open the problem of distinguishing plain TeX from AmSTeX, LaTeX, SliTeX, AmSLaTeX, and LAmSTeX. I prefer to do that by file extensions instead, and use .tex, .ltx, .stx, .alx, .lax respectively. Regrettably, TeX/METAFONT .tfm files have no magic signature that can be used to identify them (see TeX: The Program, Section 539ff, p. 216). I've always viewed this as a serious design flaw in TeX, because it is hard for a DVI driver to be distinguish a TFM file from random garbage. While a .tfm file does contain a checksum, it is a Metafont-generated checksum of the font parameters, not the .tfm file contents. The DVI driver can compare this against the font checksum recorded in the .dvi file, and issue a warning if they do not match. The only other sanity check a DVI driver can make is that the first word of a .tfm file contains a file length measured in 32-bit words that should match the actual size of the file as returned by an operating-system call. Even that is not reliable however, because some operating systems pad binary files with NULs to disk block boundaries. Worse, 8 parameters in the 12-word .tfm file header are lengths of tables that are stored later on in the file, and file corruption can lead to crashes of a driver when it gets an unreasonable value for one of these lengths, and clobbers internal arrays. Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 07:20:03 +0000 From: Julian Barquin Subject: TeX for UNIX Hello, We, at the Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica, Madrid, Spain, have bought a SUN workstation. We need TeX ( and LaTeX ) able to run in UNIX. Could, please, someone inform us about the cheapest way to get it ? My e-mail is . Thank you very much. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 09:29:57 -0500 From: krommes@theory.pppl.gov (John Krommes) Subject: Expanding user-defined macros for REVTeX compuscripts The widespread adoption of electronic submission of TeX files (more precisely, LaTeX with \documentstyle{revtex}) to journals of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) poses an interesting problem for the handling of user-defined macros. The present rules for the ``REVTeX'' compuscript program state either that NO user-defined macros (they call them ``type 1'') are allowed (APS), or that only a very small number are allowed (AIP). It turns out that ``very small number'' means 1 or 2 (according to Peggy Sutherland of the AIP), not the possibly hundreds of macros that a reasonably-sized manuscript could naturally entail. Furthermore, NO recursive math definitions are allowed. After detailed discussions with Christopher Hamlin of the APS and Peggy Sutherland, I conclude that there appear to be two principal reasons for these stringent restrictions: (1) personnel aren't trained yet to alter TeX macros if necessary; (2) much more importantly, users may not be consistent in their use of macros. For example, consider the fragment \def\lD{\lambda_{\rm D}} . . . The definition of~$\lD$ is ... For $\lambda_{\rm D} small... You are to imagine that the text fragments are buried deep inside the manuscript. Now suppose that the journal editor decides to remove the \rm from the definition of \lD to enforce a style rule of the journal. Simply changing the one-line \def does NOT have the desired effect, since the author sometimes typed out his original definition by hand. Thus, either the editorial staff would have to proofread the entire paper (very costly), or changes may have to be made at the proof stage. Neither possibility is desirable. Although I think one can still argue that the proper solution is to encourage REVTeX authors to use ``macro discipline,'' so that simple changes can be made to the macro definitions rather than having someone edit the entire file, the journals won't back down in the short term. (Furthermore, at the AIP it's even worse: They don't even run TeX on the REVTeX source that is submitted; they first translate it into their in-house Xyvision language, then edit that as necessary. Am I alone in thinking that this is ridiculous?) The journals, therefore, want a source file that has all user macros expanded. They suggest doing this with an editor, but this is tedious and error-prone for long, complicated documents. My alternative solution is to expand the macros automatically. I have written a utility, with the working name of XMACRO, that does so. XMACRO is an emulation of the higher-level (pre-stomach) operations of TeX itself. It absorbs and tokenizes source code just as TeX does (respecting all the rules about catcodes etc.), and expands macros as appropriate. What's left is a stream of TeX primitives and possibly undefined macros. However, instead of typesetting the primitives or complaining about undefined macros, XMACRO just writes their names to the output file. The effect is to generate a new TeX file that should be equivalent to the original, but that has all user-defined macros expanded. This form should satisfy the journals. For example, at the end of this message can be found listings of two short input files, xsample.src and xsample.bbl, and the file xsample.tex that was output by XMACRO. I am attempting to convince the REVTeX people to distribute this utility along with the REVTeX release. There's nothing definite yet. Meanwhile, as an experiment and debugging exercise that will run for ONE MONTH beginning with the public release of this texhax announcement, users may submit valid REVTeX files to me; they'll receive the expanded results back shortly by email. The rules are: (1) Valid REVTeX 3.0 file only. This must be precisely as you would submit it to the journal, except that your macro definitions shouldn't be expanded. The file will first be run as-is through LaTeX. If LaTeX detects an error, I will probably not attempt the XMACRO expansion. (2) One source file per document. (I.e., .bbl files must be inserted manually.) This is in spite of the example at the end of this message, which demonstrates that XMACRO can handle automatic insertion of the .bbl file. (3) Please try to localize all user definitions to the start of the file, before the \documentstyle command. (4) Send the file to krommes@princeton.edu as the text of a message with the precise subject ``XMACRO request''. (5) EMAIL submissions ONLY. No disks! This experiment is intended to be a debugging exercise and to publicize the existence of this utility. I am NOT RESPONSIBLE for errors in the expanded file that is returned to you (although obviously I'd like to hear about them), delays in publication, losses of promotions or Nobel prizes, etc! I do certainly promise not to publish your manuscript under my name, release it to anyone else, or to use any of its contents unethically in any way. But you submit a manuscript to the experiment AT YOUR OWN RISK. If you're uncomfortable with any aspect of this experiment, please don't participate. XMACRO presently expands the following primitives. (There are a few obvious omissions such as \Afterassigmnent that will be added in the future.) \Advance \Aftergroup \Begingroup \Bye \Catcode \Char \Chardef \Count \Countdef \Csname \Def \Divide \Edef \Else \Endcsname \Endgroup \Endinput \Expandafter \Fi \Futurelet \Gdef \Global \If \Ifcat \Iffalse \Ifnum \Ifodd \Iftrue \Ifx \Ignorespaces(*) \Input \Jobname(*) \Let \Long \Lowercase \Message \Multiply \Newcommand \Noexpand \Number \Outer \Par \Relax(*) \Renewcommand \Romannumeral \Show \Showthe \String \The \Toks \Toksdef \Undef \Uppercase \Xdef Note that these are in uppercase. In most cases, lower-case versions will be expanded as well if you use the -t option. Exceptions that are expanded only in upper case are indicated by (*). However, in some cases you might want to use the -t option, but pass a few lower-case primitives unchanged to the output file. To prevent XMACRO from expanding a primitive such as \the, say ``\undef\the''. Suggestions are welcome. If you think this utility is a good idea, lobby the APS and AIP: AIP (Christopher Hamlin): hamlin mis@aps.org APS (Peggy Sutherland): peggys@aip.org Thanks for your help. - --- John krommes@princeton.edu | John A. Krommes | Plasma Physics Laboratory (Mail to krommes@princeton.edu is forwarded | P.O. Box 451 to krommes@lyman.pppl.gov == 192.55.106.129) | Princeton, NJ 08543 (To ftp files, you must use lyman.pppl.gov.) | Phone: (609) 243--2606 =============================xsample.src====================================== % XMACRO source file that demonstrates automatic expansion of TeX macros. % Invoke with: xmacro -t xsample % (This file \Input's xsample.bbl) % The following should be in a macro file. \let\^^M\ % See xsample.bbl for an occurrence of \^^M. % Simple substitution. \def\A{Alfv\'en} % Simple symbols \def\abar{{\overline\alpha}} \def\Apar{A_\parallel} \def\dss{\delta_{\text{s},s}} % Macros with arguments (and with pattern recognition). \def\<#1>{\langle#1\rangle} \def\M#1,#2{M^{#1}{}_{#2}} % Recursive math definitions. \let\a\alpha \def\meanA{\<\a>} % A convenience REVTeX macro. \def\Eq#1{Eq.~(\ref{#1})} % The following two def'ns demonstrate one way to automate insertion of the % .bbl file. \def\bibliographystyle#1{} % Here, note the use of an inner level of grouping, as well as the use of % the ## token. \def\bibliography{\begin{references} {\Def\begin##1##2{}\Def\end##1{} \Input{\Jobname.bbl} } \end{references}} % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \documentstyle[aps]{revtex} \begin{document} \bibliographystyle{pf} See \Eq{a} below for a definition of the \A\ velocity. This sentence will have to be broken in the \TeX\ file because of the macro expansion. An attempt is made to do this gracefully. Here is a silly equation: \begin{equation} \abar = \dss\<\Apar> + \meanA + \M\a,\gamma \label{a} \end{equation} \bibliography \end{document} ==============================xsample.bbl====================================== \begin{thebibliography}{10} \bibitem{PRL} J.~A. Krommes, \newblock ``Thermal fluctuations in gyrokinetic plasma at finite beta,'' Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett., in press. \end{thebibliography} ========================xsample.tex (output from XMACRO)======================= % --- Macros expanded with XMACRO (version 0.6, December 25, 1992) --- % Copyright (C) by John A. Krommes/Princeton University (1992) % Source file: "xsample.src" % Output file: "xsample.tex" % XMACRO source file that demonstrates automatic expansion of TeX macros. % Invoke with: xmacro -t xsample % (This file \Input's xsample.bbl) % The following should be in a macro file. % See xsample.bbl for an occurrence of \^^M. % Simple substitution. % Simple symbols % Macros with arguments (and with pattern recognition). % Recursive math definitions. % A convenience REVTeX macro. % The following two def'ns demonstrate one way to automate insertion of the % .bbl file. % Here, note the use of an inner level of grouping, as well as the use of % the ## token. % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \documentstyle [aps]{revtex} \begin {document} See Eq.~(\ref {a}) below for a definition of the Alfv\'en\ velocity. This sentence will have to be broken in the \TeX \ file because of the macro expansion. An attempt is made to do this gracefully. Here is a silly equation: \begin {equation} {\overline \alpha }= \delta _{\text {s},s}\langle A_\parallel \rangle + % \langle \alpha \rangle + M^{\alpha }{}_{\gamma } \label {a} \end {equation} \begin {references} { \bibitem {PRL} J.~A. Krommes, \newblock ``Thermal fluctuations in gyrokinetic plasma at finite beta,'' Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett., in press. } \end {references} \end {document} ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 15:02:15 +0000 From: CHAA006@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK Subject: Revised date/place: TeX for non-American languages; MF in theory and practice. I am sorry to have to announce that the proposed UK-TuG Conference in Glasgow will not be going ahead as planned, primarily for financial reasons. However, the conference _will_ take place, but at an alternative venue and time which I hope will prove attractive to you. The conference is now scheduled to take place at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (`The Country Campus of the University of London') during Spring, when the campus is at its best and most attractive. The actual dates are April 6th--8th, with the same programme as previously announced; April 6th is reserved for travelling, registration and the Conference dinner; April 7th will consist of a series of talks (with plenty of time for discussion) from an internationally famous panel of invited speakers, including Dominik Wujastyk (who together with Graham Toal is responsible for the authoritative UK hyphenation patterns, and who is also a Sanskrit scholar), Bernard Gaulle (until recently president of GUTenberg, the French-speaking TeX Users' Group, and an authority on good French typographic practice), and Yannis Haralambous (who is the author of ScholarTeX, and a renowned authority on MetaFont). On April 8th, two concurrent MetaFont tutorials will take place, one on MetaFont in Theory, led by Yannis, and one on MetaFont in Practice. The former will be concerned with the design and implementation of new fonts through the medium of MetaFont, whilst the second will be more practical and aimed at answering questions such as ``how do I generate all the Computer Modern fonts at 600 dpi for my new laser printer?''. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College is situated conveniently close to London Heathrow Airport, and is also served by regular fast trains from London Waterloo (circa 30 minutes). Accommodation will be en-suite, and all meals will be included in the price. Further details (including price) will be issued as soon as the approximate numbers are known; please send a message to the address below if you are interested in attending this conference and wish to be kept informed. If you have already let me know that you intended to attend the Glasgow conference, please re-confirm for the RHBNC conference in order that I may accurately record likely numbers. Philip Taylor, RHBNC P.Taylor@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vax (Janet); P.Taylor@Vax.Rhbnc.Ac.Uk (Internet). [If you have no e-mail access, the following alternatives are possible but deprecated: Tel: +44 784 443172 Fax: +44 784 434348 Snail-mail: Philip Taylor; The Computer Centre; RHBNC; University of London; Egham Hill; Egham; Surrey; TW20 0EX; United Kingdom. ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 93 13:38:29 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: TeX Users Group meeting, Aston, July 1993 [NOTE: a TeX source follows at the end of this plain text announcement. If you reproduce this announcement anywhere, please run the TeX version. If you have the facilities to print the conference logo (encapsulated PostScript, using psfig), contact the organisers for a copy of the file] PLEASE CIRCULATE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE *************************************************************************** World Wide Window on TeX 14th Annual TeX Users Group Meeting July 26th - 30th, 1993 *************************************************************************** Aston University in Birmingham (United Kingdom) will be the venue for the 1993 TUG conference. Aston is the home of the `Aston Archive', one of the largest collections of electronic TeX paraphernalia. This is the first time that the annual meeting will have been held outside of North America. The location of the conference at one centre of the electronic web and its movement from North America encourage particular focus on the `world-wide' aspects of TeX, LaTeX and METAFONT. The marked rise in maturity of windowing systems (X Window system, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Atari, Amiga, etc.) also allows us to exploit more visually oriented methods in employing the TeX tools. It is hoped that there will be a contribution to the conference from the Didot project, further extending the range of topics to include digital typography and font creation. The conference will feature the normal paper presentations. Workshops, poster displays, courses, panels and `birds of a feather' sessions will also form integral components. Contributions are urgently sought in the following subject areas: - archives - electronic networks - formatting structured documents - LaTeX3 - graphical user interfaces to TeXware - non-English issues - non-Latin scripts - digital typography - editing structured documents - - styles - other typesetting systems - document views - Contributions: Proposals for full papers, workshops and poster sessions should be sent to the programme co-ordinators as soon as possible: Chris Rowley Malcolm Clark Parsifal College IRS Open University University of Westminster 527 Finchley Road 115 New Cavendish Street London NW3 7BG London W1M 8JS phone: +44 71 794 0575 +44 71 911 5000 ex 3622 fax: +44 71 433 6196 +44 71 911 5093 email: tug93-proposals@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk Deadline for paper proposals: February 26th, 1993 Conference committee: Chairman: Peter Abbott Administration: Maureen Campbell Programme: Chris Rowley and Malcolm Clark Editors: Sebastian Rahtz and Mimi Burbank Courses organiser: Carol Hewlett Publicity and demonstrations: Philip Taylor Social programme: David Osborne Enquiries: Requests for further information (full details of costs, accommodation options, conference registration forms, etc.), as well as requests for space for demonstrations and displays, should all be sent to the following address, as should completed forms and any other written correspondence: Email Post tug93-enquiries@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk Peter Abbott Information Services Aston University Aston Triangle Birmingham B4 7ET United Kingdom fax: +44 21 359 6158 phone: +44 21 359 5492 Courses: There will be a selection of TeX Users Group courses organised in conjunction with the meeting. Various workshops will also form a part of the main conference. Social details: The conference will take place on the Aston University campus in central Birmingham, with excellent travel connections. Birmingham is situated very conveniently for access to all parts of England, especially the Midlands areas including Stratford and Oxford, as well as much of Wales. Participants will be given details of local events and sightseeing suggestions, including a guide to the culinary treats offered by Birmingham's multi-ethnic society. Social events will include dinners, receptions, and a mystery trip to an unexpected face of Birmingham. Accompanying persons will be helped to have a rewarding time in the area, and will also be offered a beginners' course in TeX; this course is available as well to those who would like a crash course in TeX prior to the conference proper. The approximate cost of attendance at the conference will be 100 pounds, or 250 pounds including accommodation and meals. The normal accommodation will be on campus in the University residences. Those wishing to book outside hotel accommodation, or executive accommodation on campus, will find details on the booking form. The normal accommodation provided will be on campus in the University residences, but alternative arrangements (e.g. for executive accommodation on campus, or hotel accommodation) are also possible; full details of these and other options are given on the booking form which is available upon request. Full computer facilities, including electronic mail and network contacts, will be available to participants. The rich holdings of the UK TeX Archive will, of course, be easily accessible. ************************ TO PRINT THE TEX VERSION, CUT FROM HERE DOWN AND PROCESS WITH TeX OR LaTeX: % This file should be processable by plain TeX or by LaTeX \newif\ifislatex \newif\ifusesPS \usesPSfalse % if you don't use PostScript %\usesPStrue % if you like PostScript and have the logo file \def\Dot{~$\bullet$\ } \def\MF{{\rm{\mf META}\-{\mf FONT}}} \font\mf logo10 at 12pt \def\PlainTeXery{\message{Clever person! you use plain TeX!}% \hsize6.3in\vsize9.7in\nopagenumbers \def\LaTeX{{\rm L\kern-.36em\raise.3ex\hbox{\sc a}\kern-.15em T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}} \ifusesPS %%% change onlythe following three lines %%% to reflect local font-naming conventions \def\Palatino {psmpalr } \def \PalatinoBold {psmpalb } \def \PalatinoItalic {psmpali } \font \rm = \Palatino scaled \magstep 1 \font \it = \PalatinoItalic scaled \magstep 1 \font \bf = \PalatinoBold scaled \magstep 1 \font \big = \PalatinoBold scaled \magstep 1 \font \bigger = \PalatinoBold scaled \magstep 3 \font \sc = cmcsc10 scaled \magstep 1 \font \tt = cmtt10 scaled \magstep 1 \font \cmu = cmu10 scaled \magstep 1 \else \font\sc cmcsc10 at 12pt\font\tt cmtt10 at 12pt\let\cmu\it \font\rm cmr12\font\bigger cmbx10 at17.28pt\font\big cmbx10 at12pt \fi \baselineskip = 14.4 pt \islatexfalse\usesPSfalse\def\pounds{{\cmu \$}}\def\newpage{\vfill\eject} \rm } \def\LaTeXery{\typeout{Clever person! you use LaTeX!}% \ifusesPS \documentstyle[palatino,psfig,11pt]{article} \textwidth6in\textheight10in \else \documentstyle[11pt]{article}\textwidth6.2in\textheight9.2in \fi \islatextrue\pagestyle{empty} \oddsidemargin0in\topmargin-.7in\headsep0pt\headheight0pt \def\big{\large\bf}\def\bigger{\LARGE\bf} \begin{document} } \ifx\documentstyle\undefined \PlainTeXery \else \LaTeXery \fi \parindent0pt \parskip6pt %----------------------------------------------------- \ifusesPS \centerline{\psfig{figure=t93logo.eps,height=1.8in}} \else \centerline{{\bigger World Wide Window on \TeX}} \fi \bigskip \centerline{{\big 14th Annual \TeX\ Users Group Meeting July 26th\thinspace --\thinspace 30th, 1993}} \bigskip Aston University in Birmingham (United Kingdom) will be the venue for the 1993 TUG conference. Aston is the home of the `Aston Archive', one of the largest collections of electronic \TeX\ paraphernalia. This is the first time that the annual meeting will have been held outside of North America. The {\bf location} of the conference at one centre of the electronic web and its movement from North America encourage particular focus on the `world-wide' aspects of \TeX, \LaTeX\ and \MF{}\null. The marked rise in maturity of windowing systems (X Window system, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Atari, Amiga, etc.)\ also allows us to exploit more visually oriented methods in employing the \TeX\ tools. It is hoped that there will be a contribution to the conference from the Didot project, further extending the range of topics to include digital typography and font creation. The {\bf conference} will feature the normal paper presentations. Workshops, poster displays, courses, panels and `birds of a feather' sessions will also form integral components. {\bf Contributions} are urgently sought in the following subject areas:\hfil\break \ignorespaces\Dot archives\Dot electronic networks\Dot formatting structured documents\Dot \LaTeX3\Dot graphical user interfaces to \TeX ware\Dot non-English issues\Dot non-Latin scripts\Dot digital typography\Dot editing structured documents\Dot styles\Dot other typesetting systems\Dot document views\Dot \bigskip \leftline{{\big Contributions:}} Proposals for full papers, workshops and poster sessions should be sent to the programme co-ordinators as soon as possible: \smallskip \halign{#\hfil\qquad&#\hfil\qquad\qquad&#\hfil\cr &Chris Rowley&Malcolm Clark\cr &Parsifal College&IRS\cr &Open University&University of Westminster\cr &527 Finchley Road&115 New Cavendish Street\cr &London NW3 7BG&London W1M 8JS\cr phone:&+44 71 794 0575&+44 71 911 5000 ex 3622\cr % email:&\tt c.a.rowley@open.ac.uk&\tt malcolmc@wmin.ac.uk\cr fax:&+44 71 433 6196 &+44 71 911 5093\cr email:&\qquad\rlap{\tt tug93-proposals@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk}\cr } \medskip \leftline{{\big Deadline for paper proposals:\quad February 26th, 1993}} \medskip \centerline{{\it see over for more details}} %%\hbox to\hsize{{\small Supplement to {\bf TUGboat} 13, no.\ 4, %% December 1992}\hfil {\it see over for more details}} \newpage \leftline{{\big Conference committee:}} \medskip \halign{#\hfil\quad&#\hfil\cr \it Chairman: & Peter Abbott\cr \it Administration: & Maureen Campbell\cr \it Programme: & Chris Rowley and Malcolm Clark\cr \it Editors: & Sebastian Rahtz and Mimi Burbank\cr \it Courses organiser: & Carol Hewlett\cr \it Publicity and demonstrations: & Philip Taylor \cr \it Social programme: & David Osborne\cr } \medskip \leftline{{\big Enquiries:}} Requests for further information (full details of costs, accommodation options, conference registration forms, etc.), as well as requests for space for demonstrations and displays, should all be sent to the following address, as should completed forms and any other written correspondence: \smallskip \halign{#\hfil\quad&#\hfil\cr {\it Email } & {\it Post } \cr {\tt tug93-enquiries@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk} & Peter Abbott \cr & Information Services \cr & Aston University \cr & Aston Triangle \cr & Birmingham B4 7ET \cr & United Kingdom\cr & \rlap{{\it fax:}}\phantom{{\it phone:}}\quad +44 21 359 6158 \cr & {\it phone:}\quad +44 21 359 5492 \cr } \medskip \leftline{{\big Courses: }} There will be a selection of \TeX\ Users Group courses organised in conjunction with the meeting. Various workshops will also form a part of the main conference. \medskip \leftline{{\big Social details: }} The conference will take place on the Aston University campus in central Birmingham, with excellent travel connections. Birmingham is situated very conveniently for access to all parts of England, especially the Midlands areas including Stratford and Oxford, as well as much of Wales. Participants will be given details of local events and sightseeing suggestions, including a guide to the culinary treats offered by Birmingham's multi-ethnic society. Social events will include dinners, receptions, and a mystery trip to an unexpected face of Birmingham. Accompanying persons will be helped to have a rewarding time in the area, and will also be offered a beginners' course in \TeX; this course is available as well to those who would like a crash course in \TeX\ prior to the conference proper. The approximate cost of attendance at the conference will be \pounds 100, or \pounds 250 including accommodation and meals. The normal accommodation will be on campus in the University residences. Those wishing to book outside hotel accommodation, or executive accommodation on campus, will find details on the booking form. The normal accommodation provided will be on campus in the University residences, but alternative arrangements (e.g. for executive accommodation on campus, or hotel accommodation) are also possible; full details of these and other options are given on the booking form which is available upon request. Full computer facilities, including electronic mail and network contacts, will be available to participants. The rich holdings of the UK \TeX\ Archive will, of course, be easily accessible. \ifislatex \def\Action{\end{document}} \else \let\Action\bye \fi \Action ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 09:22:19 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: MS Windows LaTeX tools available on FILESERV/Niord Mike Reid has been working with me on correcting some aspects of my VMS LATEX.HLP file for inclusion in the VMS Help Librarian. The *real* meat of this announcement, though, is that Mike has ported this file to a format compatible with Microsoft Windows (which is about the nicest help utility around), as well as provided a few other utilities for the Windows environment which may be of interest to users of LaTeX. Attached are (1) Mike's announcement, (2) the FILESERV description file for these packages, and (3) very brief information on how to retrieve the updated VMS Help file. Regards and thanks to Mike for his efforts on these projects, George George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net MS-Windows LaTeX Help and microEMACS Interface January 14, 1993. Michael F. Reid >From April 1993 I have uploaded: LATEXHLP.ZIP A LaTeX help file for MicroSoft Windows VMS2WINH.ZIP Conversion from VMS help to Windows Help QH2WINH.ZIP Conversion from QHELP to Windows Help MEWLTX10.ZIP microEMACS for Windows LaTeX interface to Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), directory [FILESERV.MSWIN-LATEX] The LaTeX help file is a translation of a VAX/VMS help file collated by George Greenwade. The conversion program is in the VMS2WINH.ZIP file, in case you want to recompile the file with your own additions. NOTE: You need the MicroSoft Help Compiler (HC) to recompile the help file. This comes with many Windows programming toolkits. A conversion from QHELP (a DOS freeware help engine) to Windows help is in the QH2WINH.ZIP file. This is similar to the vms2winh program, and is posted here because I know Peter Flynn is working on a TeX help system based on QHELP. ##### LaTeX microEMACS Interface ##### The MEWLTX10.ZIP file contains code for a microEMACS for Windows Interface. This allows you to insert LaTeX commands, insert template files, run TeX processes, parse errors in log files, call up help, and so on, using the menus. This is still under development, so I would appreciate positive or negative comments. *************************************************************************** MSWIN-LATEX ----------- The MSWIN-LATEX package includes UUENCODEd ZIP archives containing Michael Reid's LaTeX help file for MicroSoft Windows and microEMACS for MicroSoft Windows LaTeX interface. To retrieve the 3 part distribution of the LaTeX help file, include: SENDME MSWIN-LATEX.LATEXHLP* in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve the 2 part distribution of the microEMACS for Windows LaTeX interface, include: SENDME MSWIN-LATEX.MEWLTX10* in the body of a mail message to FILESERV. The ZIP files upon which this distribution is based, as well two other utilities created by Reid are available for anonymous ftp retrieval on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.MSWIN-LATEX]: LATEXHLP.ZIP A LaTeX help file for MicroSoft Windows VMS2WINH.ZIP Conversion from VMS help to Windows Help QH2WINH.ZIP Conversion from QHELP to Windows Help MEWLTX10.ZIP microEMACS for Windows LaTeX interface The VMS help file is available from FILESERV (in 4 parts) by including: SENDME VMS-LATEX-HELP in the body of a mail message to FILESERV. The file LATEX.HLP (VMS Help Librarian file) is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord in [FILESERV.VMS-LATEX-HELP]. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 13:07:37 +0700 From: Wlodek Bzyl Subject: MeX 1.03 MeX, version 1.03 on halina.univ.gda.pl ======================================= What is MeX? The Mex package is an adaptation of PLAIN and LaTeX formats to the Polish language and to the Polish printing customs. MeX is bilingual. You can switch between languages with the \language\english and \language\polish commands. The package contains: - - the set of macro files, called MeX and LaMeX. These are the Polish versions of the PLAIN and LaMeX formats, respectively - - hyphenation rules for the Polish language - - METAFONT programs for the Polish letters and quotation marks. The authors are: - - formats: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski & Marek Ry\'cko - - hyphenation patterns: Hanna Ko\l{}odziejska & Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski & Marek Ry\'cko - - fonts: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski & Marek Ry\'cko consultant: Roman Tomaszewski Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and Marek Ry\'cko were awarded on EuroTeX'92 with the Cathy Booth Prize for their work in the developement of Polish TeX. W\l{}odek Bzyl Instytut Matematyki Uniwersytet Gda\'n{}ski Wita Stwosza 57, FAX: (pl) 058 414 914 80-952 Gda\'n{}sk, Poland Internet: matwb@halina.univ.gda.pl ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 93 21:48:39 -0500 From: bbeeton Subject: TUGboat 13 #4 -- contents The last 1992 issue of TUGboat is at the printer, and will soon be ready for mailing. Attached is a list of the contents. -- bb -------------------- TUGboat vol. 13, no. 4, December 1992 Contents 415 Addresses General Delivery 417 Malcolm Clark Changing TeX? 418 Barbara Beeton Editorial comments 419 An interview with Donald Knuth, November 1991 Dreamboat 425 Richard Palais Moving a fixed point 433 Philip Taylor The future of TeX Software 443 Nickolas J. Kelly and Christian H. Bischof XBibTeX and friends 447 Nigel Chapman Searching in a DVI file 452 Hyphenation exception log Literate programming 457 Bart Childs Errata: Literate Programming, A Practitioner's View (TUGboat 13, no. 3, pp. 261-268) Philology 457 Yannis Haralambous Hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek and Latin Fonts 470 Darko Zubrinic The exotic Croatian Glagolitic alphabet 472 John Sauter Postnet codes using METAFONT 476 Yannis Haralambous A typewriter font for the Macintosh 8-bit font table Graphics 477 Sebastian Rahtz and Leonor Barroca Addendum: A style option for rotated objects in TeX (TUGboat 13, no. 2, pp. 156-180) 478 Ray Seyfarth Diag: a drawing preprocessor for LaTeX Book Reviews 486 Victor Eijkhout Wynter Snow, ``TeX for the Beginner'' 487 George Greenwade Arvind Borde, ``TeX by Example'' 489 A.G.W. Cameron Andre Heck, ed., ``Desktop Publishing in Astronomy & Space Sciences'' Typesetting on PCs 490 Erich Neuwirth TeX implementations for IBM PCs: comparative timings Warnings 493 Frank Mittelbach Where does this character come from? Solution to the puzzle, TUGboat 13, no. 2, p. 190 Macros 494 Victor Eijkhout The bag of tricks 495 Jonathan Fine Too many errors 496 Victor Eijkhout One error less 497 Paul Anagnostopoulos ZzTeX: A macro package for books 505 Jonathan Fine The \noname macros -- A technical report LaTeX 510 Frank Mittelbach, Chris Rowley and Michael Downes Volunteer work for the LaTeX3 project 516 Mike Piff Correction sheets in LaTeX 518 Mike Piff Text merges in TeX and LaTeX 524 Sebastian Rahtz A style file for printing sheets of labels Abstracts 528 Cahiers GUTenberg #13 News & Announcements 530 Calendar 532 Call for Papers: Special Issue of ``Electronic Publishing: Origination, Dissemination and Design'' on Active Documents Late-Breaking News 533 Barbara Beeton Production notes 534 Coming next issue TUG Business 534 Institutional members Forms 537 TUG membership application Advertisements 536 Index of advertisers 544 TeX consulting and production services ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 15:39:52 +0000 From: Martin Ward Subject: Pandora LaTeX style file Enclosed is a style file for LaTeX which uses the Pandora and Euler fonts instead of Computer Modern. I find the heavier weight of Pandora ideal for screen previewing - you get a much more readable screen, with only slightly fewer characters per page. Note that this requires the new font selection scheme to be installed. Comments/enhancements are welcome. Has anyone created a caps/small caps virtual font for Pandora? Or any other design sizes? Martin. JANET: Martin.Ward@uk.ac.durham Internet (eg US): Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk or if that fails: Martin.Ward%uk.ac.durham@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk or even: Martin.Ward%DURHAM.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU BITNET: Martin.Ward%durham.ac.uk@UKACRL UUCP:...!uknet!durham!Martin.Ward %% \def\fileversion{1.0} \def\filedate{93/01/18} %% %% COPYRIGHT 1993 Martin Ward, Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk %% %% DESCRIPTION: %% Set text in pandora and maths in euler fonts where possible. %% Uses the new font selection scheme. %% %% INSTALLATION: %% Put this file where your TeX looks for inputs, under the name %% pandora.sty. %% %% DOCUMENTATION: %% Include pandora as a LaTeX style option. Most text will be set in %% the pandora fonts (apart from caps/small caps, bold extended %% slanted/italic and semibold condensed, which will appear in Computer %% Modern). %% Requires the new font selection scheme. %% %% COPYING: %% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify %% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by %% the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or %% (at your option) any later version. %% %% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, %% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of %% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the %% GNU General Public License for more details. %% %% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License %% along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software %% Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. %% %% CODE: \@ifundefined{selectfont} {\@latexerr{`pandora' style option could only be used with the new font selection scheme}\@eha \endinput}{} \input{amsfonts.sty} %% Please don't change the next lines unless you know exactly what you %% are doing. %% %\def\default@shape{n} %\def\default@series{m} %\def\default@family{cmr} \def\default@family{pnr} %\def\default@errfont{cmsy10} %% %% Again, this is doubly dangerous bent. %% \fontfamily\default@family \fontseries\default@series \fontshape\default@shape \new@fontshape{pnr}{m}{n}{% <5>pnr10 at4.82pt% <6>pnr10 at5.79pt% <7>pnr10 at6.94pt% <8>pnr10 at8.33pt% <9>pnr10 at9.13pt% <10>pnr10% <11>pnr10 at10.95pt% <12>pnr10 at12pt% <14>pnr10 at14.4pt% <17>pnr10 at17.28pt% <20>pnr10 at20.74pt% <25>pnr10 at24.88pt}{} \extra@def{pnr}{}{} \new@fontshape{pnr}{m}{sl}{% <5>pnsl10 at4.82pt% <6>pnsl10 at5.79pt% <7>pnsl10 at6.94pt% <8>pnsl10 at8.33pt% <9>pnsl10 at9.13pt% <10>pnsl10% <11>pnsl10 at10.95pt% <12>pnsl10 at12pt% <14>pnsl10 at14.4pt% <17>pnsl10 at17.28pt% <20>pnsl10 at20.74pt% <25>pnsl10 at24.88pt}{} \subst@fontshape{pnr}{m}{it}{pnr}{m}{sl} % \new@fontshape{pnr}{m}{it}{% % <5>pnsl10 at4.82pt% % <6>pnsl10 at5.79pt% % <7>pnsl10 at6.94pt% % <8>pnsl10 at8.33pt% % <9>pnsl10 at9.13pt% % <10>pnsl10% % <11>pnsl10 at10.95pt% % <12>pnsl10 at12pt% % <14>pnsl10 at14.4pt% % <17>pnsl10 at17.28pt% % <20>pnsl10 at20.74pt% % <25>pnsl10 at24.88pt}{} % Hmmm... can't find a Pandora small caps, use cmsc for now: \subst@fontshape{pnr}{m}{sc}{cmr}{m}{sc} % \new@fontshape{pnr}{m}{sc}{% % <5>cmsl10 at4.82pt% % <6>cmsl10 at5.79pt% % <7>cmsl10 at6.94pt% % <8>cmsl10 at8.33pt% % <9>cmsl10 at9.13pt% % <10>cmsl10% % <11>cmsl10 at10.95pt% % <12>cmsl10 at12pt% % <14>cmsl10 at14.4pt% % <17>cmsl10 at17.28pt% % <20>cmsl10 at20.74pt% % <25>cmsl10 at24.88pt}{} \new@fontshape{pnr}{b}{n}{% <5>pnb10 at4.82pt% <6>pnb10 at5.79pt% <7>pnb10 at6.94pt% <8>pnb10 at8.33pt% <9>pnb10 at9.13pt% <10>pnb10% <11>pnb10 at10.95pt% <12>pnb10 at12pt% <14>pnb10 at14.4pt% <17>pnb10 at17.28pt% <20>pnb10 at20.74pt% <25>pnb10 at24.88pt}{} %%%%%%%%% bold extended series \subst@fontshape{pnr}{bx}{n}{pnr}{b}{n} \subst@fontshape{pnr}{bx}{sl}{cmr}{bx}{sl} \subst@fontshape{pnr}{bx}{it}{cmr}{bx}{sl} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% Sans serif font shapes %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \new@fontshape{pnss}{m}{n}{% <5>pnss10 at4.82pt% <6>pnss10 at5.79pt% <7>pnss10 at6.94pt% <8>pnss10 at8.33pt% <9>pnss10 at9.13pt% <10>pnss10% <11>pnss10 at10.95pt% <12>pnss10 at12pt% <14>pnss10 at14.4pt% <17>pnss10 at17.28pt% <20>pnss10 at20.74pt% <25>pnss10 at24.88pt}{} \subst@fontshape{pnss}{m}{it}{pnss}{m}{sl} \new@fontshape{pnss}{m}{sl}{% <5>pnssi10 at4.82pt% <6>pnssi10 at5.79pt% <7>pnssi10 at6.94pt% <8>pnssi10 at8.33pt% <9>pnssi10 at9.13pt% <10>pnssi10% <11>pnssi10 at10.95pt% <12>pnssi10 at12pt% <14>pnssi10 at14.4pt% <17>pnssi10 at17.28pt% <20>pnssi10 at20.74pt% <25>pnssi10 at24.88pt}{} %%%%%%% Font/shape undefined, therefore substituted \subst@fontshape{pnss}{m}{sc}{cmr}{m}{sc} %%%%%%%% semibold condensed series \subst@fontshape{pnss}{sbc}{n}{cmr}{sbc}{n} %%%%%%%%% bold extended series \new@fontshape{pnss}{bx}{n}{% <5>pnssb10 at4.82pt% <6>pnssb10 at5.79pt% <7>pnssb10 at6.94pt% <8>pnssb10 at8.33pt% <9>pnssb10 at9.13pt% <10>pnssb10% <11>pnssb10 at10.95pt% <12>pnssb10 at12pt% <14>pnssb10 at14.4pt% <17>pnssb10 at17.28pt% <20>pnssb10 at20.74pt% <25>pnssb10 at24.88pt}{} \extra@def{pnss}{}{} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% Typewriter font shapes %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \new@fontshape{pntt}{m}{n}{% <5>pntt9 at4.82pt% <6>pntt9 at5.79pt% <7>pntt9 at6.94pt% <8>pntt9 at8.33pt% <9>pntt9% <10>pntt9 at 10pt% <11>pntt9 at10.95pt% <12>pntt9 at12pt% <14>pntt9 at14.4pt% <17>pntt9 at17.28pt% <20>pntt9 at20.74pt% <25>pntt9 at24.88pt}{} \subst@fontshape{pntt}{m}{it}{cmtt}{m}{it} \subst@fontshape{pntt}{m}{sl}{cmtt}{m}{sl} \subst@fontshape{pntt}{m}{sc}{cmtt}{m}{sc} % From the Euler fonts designed by Hermann Zapf we need the families % `euler cursive'. (Others will follow in the finial version of this % option.) \new@fontshape{eur}{m}{n}{% <5>eurm5% <6>eurm6% <7>eurm7% <8>eurm8% <9>eurm9% <10>eurm10% <11>eurm10 at10.95pt% <12>eurm10 at12pt% <14>eurm10 at14.4pt% <17>eurm10 at17.28pt% <20>eurm10 at20.74pt% <25>eurm10 at24.88pt}{} % We will have to set a \verb+\skewchar+ but I don't know the right % value. \extra@def{eur}{\skewchar#1'177}{} % % Don Knuth re-designed some of the math extension symbols to blend % better with the euler fonts. So we have a font called `Euler % compatible extension font' available in 7 to 10pt. \new@fontshape{euex}{m}{n}{% <5>1euex7% <6>1euex7% <7>euex7% <8>euex8% <9>euex9% <10>euex10% <11>1euex10% <12>1euex10% <14>1euex10% <17>1euex10% <20>1euex10% <25>1euex10}{} % \extra@def{euex}{}{} \new@mathversion\mv@euler % Now we define the basic {\em math groups\/} for the new version, % i.e.\ the groups 0 to 3. \define@mathgroup\mv@euler{0} {pnr}{m}{n} \define@mathgroup\mv@euler{1} {eur}{m}{n} \define@mathgroup\mv@euler{2} {cmsy}{m}{n} % We also add a special math group to the euler version which % contains the redesigned math symbols. Since we don't assume that % this version has to live in coexistance with the `normal' or `bold' % version we don't add this group to the other versions. \new@mathgroup\euex@group \define@mathgroup\mv@euler\euex@group {euex}{m}{n} % % To set up the math version properly we have to reset some % \verb+\mathcode+s. We have to take, for example, digits in math % from the math group number one, i.e.\ from the euler cursive font. % If we do this globally switching back to, let's say, \LaTeX{}s % normal version will produces an undesired effect: we will then get % oldstyle numerals in math. % % We will leave this problem open at the moment until there is more % experience with this new font selection scheme. After all, it does % not seem a very good idea to use such incompatible math versions % together in one document. % % So here we are, re-arranging some of the internal tables: \mathcode`\0="7130 \mathcode`\1="7131 \mathcode`\2="7132 \mathcode`\3="7133 \mathcode`\4="7134 \mathcode`\5="7135 \mathcode`\6="7136 \mathcode`\7="7137 \mathcode`\8="7138 \mathcode`\9="7139 % % And here are some example for using the symbols from the special % extension font. We use \verb+\hexnumber@+ to get the unknown assignment to % \verb+\euex@group+ as a hexadecimal number into the macro \verb+\@tempa+. \edef\@tempa{\hexnumber@\euex@group} \mathchardef\intop="1\@tempa 52 \mathchardef\ointop="1\@tempa 48 \mathchardef\sum="1\@tempa 50 \mathchardef\prod="1\@tempa 51 % % Since numbers for footnotes are text numbers and not math % formulas we prefere shapes comming from Concrete roman (like % 12345) instead of $12345$. So we have to change the footnote mark % generation to avoid using math mode. \def\@makefnmark{\raise 1ex\hbox{\scriptsize\@thefnmark}} % % \mathversion{euler} %% switch to Pandora Roman family: \family{pnr}\selectfont% \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{pnr}% %% Make the msam and msbm fonts available to the "euler" math version: \define@mathgroup\mv@euler\msa@group{msa}{m}{n}% \define@mathgroup\mv@euler\msb@group{msb}{m}{n}% ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 11:32:45 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: New version of UCTHESIS (2.0) on FILESERV/Niord In <1il0d5$9b6@agate.berkeley.edu> (comp.text.tex, 8 Jan 1993 22:49:09 GMT), munson@acacia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson) posted: > Today, I submitted a new version of the files for the "ucthesis" style to > the archive at niord.shsu.edu. A description of the style and of the > recent changes follows. Because the style appears to no longer work with > pre-Jan. 1992 versions of LaTeX, I suggested to the archive manager that > the file be given a name like "ucthesis92.tar.Z". > > If other archives would like me to submit the file to them directly, I > would be happy to do so. Please send me appropriate directions for > submission. >.... %%% docstring = "This file is the main file for the ucthesis %%% style, which is intended to meet the requirements %%% for University of California Ph.D. dissertations. %%% It is based on the standard report.sty as %%% modified by Mittelbach and Schopf in Jan 1992. %%% The primary differences are (1) the use of pseudo- %%% double-spacing, except in certain special %%% environments; and (2) the use of a 6 inch line %%% with 4em paragraph indentation. %%% %%% I know of no bugs in this implementation, %%% but would be happy to hear of any problems %%% that arise with it. %%% %%% This version fixes a bug in the previous %%% version of 20 Jun 1988. The bug was that %%% "draft" optional mode didn't work because of %%% problems in handling optional arguments. %%% This file does not seem to work with earlier %%% versions of LaTeX (pre-Jan 1992). I think I'm just about caught up with submissions and apologize for the delay in getting this into a public area. I have placed the files so they are accessible from FILESERV as well as from Niord. Also, the prior version of ucthesis.sty (STY.UCTHESIS*) has been removed from our style directory. The description file from FILESERV follows. Regards and my thanks to Ethan for this update, George UCTHESIS -------- The UCTHESIS package includes the LaTeX style files and options which are consistent with the requirements for theses and dissertations at the University of California. The files in this package supercede prior versions of ucthesis.sty and are consistent with distributions of LaTeX dated January 1992 or later. The package is provided as a 2 part UUENCODEd ZIP archive. To retrieve the package via e-mail, include: SENDME UCTHESIS in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 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