TeXhax Digest Thursday, 11 Mar 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 005 % 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: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename Re: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray About dvitps TeX / Mathematica Macros for figures in LaTeX LaTeX putting extra space between list items Re: LaTeX putting extra space between list items HypherTeX Wanted - a timer for MS-DOS TeX C to TeX, anyone? "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager" Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction new postings to e-MATH.ams.org Eplain 2.3 available The UK TeX Archive is now available on CD-ROM Announcement: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993 UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993 Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 15:24:54 +0000 From: TEX@rmcs.cran.ac.uk Subject: RE: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename In a posting to TeXhax of Tue, 16 Feb 1993 08:37:48 -0800, wagman%zephyr.hepnet@LBL.EARN wrote: > We create a big book with long articles and a little book with portions of the > long articles so our TeX file looks something like: > > \ifnum\BigBookOrLittleBook = 1 > This stuff is for the long article and goes into great detail. > \else > See our Big Book for details and formulae on this principle. > \fi > And this stuff goes in both books. > > > We run TeX twice on the file querying the user for \BigBookOrLittleBook, but > this results in two DVI files with the same name. Is there some way to > manually open the DVI file specifying a name? For our needs, they would be > named: > \jobname_Big.DVI and \jobname_Little.DVI > > Gary S. Wagman > Lawrence Berkeley Lab > Berkeley, CA Well, it would depend upon which implementation of TeX you might be using. The PD VMS implementation of TeX 3.141 accepts a command-line qualifier /OUTPUT= (or maybe it's /DVIFILE=) that would permit this control *from outside TeX*. I believe it's the case that the output DVI file isn't opened until something first needs to be shipped out to it (|ensure_dvi_open|) so you could also redefine \jobname internally and thus cause the filename to change that way. It ought to work OK, but I've never tried it. Brian {Hamilton Kelly} JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs (or System@uk.ac.tex) BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ac.uk INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: {mcsun,uknet,uunet}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. Phone: Swindon (0793) 785252 (UK), +44-793-785252 (International) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 18:16:27 +0100 From: Wolfgang Ratzka Subject: Re: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename We run TeX twice on the file querying the user for \BigBookOrLittleBook, but this results in two DVI files with the same name. Is there some way to manually open the DVI file specifying a name? For our needs, they would be named: \jobname_Big.DVI and \jobname_Little.DVI Why don't you simply use two different main files ???? Wolfgang Ratzka | | :-) ------------------------------------------------------- | /\ | \ X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de |/ \| \ SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 00:31:34 -0500 From: Jon Ahlquist Subject: Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray 1) When using LaTeX's twocolumn mode, \pagestyle{empty} does not seem to turn off page numbering. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug/"feature" of twocolumn mode? 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. Thanks. Jon Ahlquist, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University ahlquist@met.fsu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 04:31:37 -0500 From: mycroft@edu.mit.ai.gnu Subject: About dvitps (Someone mentioned `dvitps', so I thought I would add a bit or three.) I spent several hours bashing my head against the wall wondering why my dvitps output looked horrible. I discovered that the transformation matrix it uses to convert default units to (essentially) physical units is hard-coded in each output file in *floating point* and rounded to 3 decimal places. At even 300 dpi, rounding error is noticable, and the bitmapped fonts start scaling inconsistently. This generates extremely poor output. Being lazy, I switched to dvips, and haven't had any trouble since. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 1993 12:32:00 +0000 From: JOHANNES-IDSO@no.sognhs.sfdh Subject: TeX / Mathematica Dear friends; I use Mathematica and TeX / Latex. One problem with this combination is that MMa gives answers in opposite order of what I want. If the answer is a polynom MMa gives it for instance like: 1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4 I want the answer in TeXform like x^4+x^3+x^2+1. Thus I have to turn it manually before I can use it in a book. I asked Wolfram Research about this thing and I got this very elegant answer from Matthew Markert: .... On the other hand, one can temporarily disable sorting in Plus and therby achieve the TeXForm one wants. The following code does this. unbackwards] := Block[{s}, Unprotect]; ClearAttributes]; s = ToString]]]; SetAttributes]; Protect[Plus]; s ] /; Head[p] === Plus Then unbackwards[1+x+x^2+x^3] produces {x^3} + {x^2} + x + 1 Note that ToString is used in this function to freeze the form. If this is not done then once sorting is re-enabled, the terms will go back to the old order. I hope this helps. - --Matthew Markert So now it is very easy. One can simply copy the answer from MMa and paste it into the tex-document. I someone have useful tips about MMa and TeX I would be glad to hear. Johannes Idsoe Sogndal, Norway. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1993 14:26:01 From: anoop@parcom.ernet.in (Anoop Sarkar) Subject: Macros for figures in LaTeX I would like to know if there are any macros available that will allow me to draw and format diagrams such as trees and arcs (preferably with arrows) within the 'math' or 'figure' environments. If such a macro package is available, information as to where it can be found will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Anoop Sarkar Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, India ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1993 17:32:27 -0800 From: Peter "J." Scott Subject: LaTeX putting extra space between list items I'm doing nested lists that cover several pages in the LaTeX report style that look something like: 1 ONE a EH b BEE c SEA 2 TWO a EH b BEE c SEA 3 THREE a EH b BEE c SEA etc. (They cover several pages because the a,b,c's are paragraphs.) I want to discourage page breaks after the ONE, TWO, THREE lines, so I'm coding this as: \raggedbottom \begin{enumerate} {\samepage \item ONE \begin{enumerate} \nopagebreak[4] \item EH \nopagebreak[3] \item BEE \nopagebreak[2] \item SEA \end{enumerate} \nopagebreak[1] } {\samepage \item TWO ...etc... \flushbottom Which is working well, except that LaTeX puts more vertical space after just the EH paragraphs than it does after the others, on some pages. I thought that the \raggedbottom would handle that. How do I fix this? Peter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:57:24 -0800 From: Peter "J." Scott Subject: Re: LaTeX putting extra space between list items I wrote: > > I'm doing nested lists that cover several pages in the LaTeX report style > > that look something like: > > > > 1 ONE > > a EH > > b BEE > > c SEA > > etc. (They cover several pages because the a,b,c's are paragraphs.) > > I want to discourage page breaks after the ONE, TWO, THREE lines [...] > Experimentation has determined that LaTeX puts extra vertical space after > items which happen to end at the right margin; but not why, nor how to > fix it. Any ideas? dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) has provided me with a working answer: > Try moving the \nopagebreak commands further back into the text. > I.e., instead of typing > > foo foo foo.\nopagebreak[4] > > \item .... > > type > > foo foo \nopagebreak[4]foo. > > \item .... > > The problem is that the \nopagebreak command isn't quite transparent. > It leaves an invisible something or the other (I forget what), which > is ending up at the beginning of the next line of the paragraph, hence > the extra vertical space when your paragraph completely fills a line. > > You can also have the same problem with commands like \index, \label, > and the such. Peter J. Scott, Member of Technical Staff | pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech | SPAN: GROUCH::PJS ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 12:19:46 -0600 From: mr370673@rs970.mor.itesm.mx Subject: HypherTeX I am interested in TeX has a tool for writing hypertext. I know there exists GNU texinfo. Has anyone notice of related information. Thank you. Rafael Morales Gamboa ITESM Campus Morelos Cuernavaca, Mor. MEXICO INTERNET: mr370673@rs970.mor.itesm.mx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1993 14:18:26 +0000 From: "Jonathan Fine" Subject: Wanted - a timer for MS-DOS TeX I am co-ordinator for timing tests, for the LaTeX 3 project. Although a certain amount can be done using only theoretical analysis and a stopwatch, it would be nice to have a timer available. The results I obtain will be of interest to *all* TeX programmers for whom performance is an issue, and will be made freely available. The syntax I am looking for is that \gettime \mymacro will define \mymacro to be a fixed length sequence of digits, which represents the time at the instant the macro \gettime is called. More exactly, each computer has a clock that ticks, and \mymacro should contain the number of ticks - modulo some large number - since the tick count was last at zero. The implementation I am looking for is % initialise \newread \@timer \openin \@timer special.dev \relax % read "special.dev" to get the time \def\gettime #1 { \read\@timer to #1 } where "special.dev" is a logical device for MS-DOS. The idea is to write a logical device such that when TeX \read's the 'file' "special.dvs" it gets a line containing the timer count. I don't know if such a device can be constructed. The answer will depend on the degree and nature of buffering used when TeX reads a file. A cruder and easier alternative might be to create a file like device which when opened writes the timer count to a file, which TeX can then read in the usual manner. I would very much appreciate any help anyone can provide, to satisfy this need. Jonathan Fine 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, CB1 3HY Tel: 0223 215389 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1993 15:04:40 From: anoop@parcom.ernet.in (Anoop Sarkar) Subject: C to TeX, anyone? Is there a program available which will allow me to convert C source code into a TeX file. There are C beautifiers which format C source for troff; but is a C to TeX formatter available in the public domain? Thank you Anoop Sarkar Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, India ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1993 16:41:44 +0000 From: David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk Subject: "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager" Outside the TeX community, personal bibliographic systems tend to be proprietary things like ProCite, Library Master, EndNote, Papyrus and Reference Manager (rather than the public-domain BibTeX and Tib). For a variety of reasons, I anticipate that inter-working with the proprietary things will start to be more of a requirement for TeXies. Your colleagues may have 10000 references in an EndNote database that you'd like to access, your library may put you onto ProCite because that's what suits them for downloading information, etc., etc. I've come across TeXies who use ProCite, Library Master and EndNote. Is there any reader who has practical experience of using Papyrus or Reference Manager with LaTeX? If so, I'd be interested to hear about "what you tell Papyrus [Reference Manager]" and "what you tell LaTeX" so as to get them to work together sensibly. Specifically: * Do you (a) assume that LaTeX is always dealing with a Papyrus [Reference Manager] output file, or do you (b) try to arrange that the Papyrus [Reference Manager] input file is acceptable as LaTeX input (so that you can get equations etc. sorted out in your definitive .tex file without involving Papyrus [Reference Manager], before using Papyrus [Reference Manager] to give a derived .tex file in which citations have been sorted out)? * If (b), to what do you change Papyrus' usual %% delimiter [Reference Manager's usual {} delimiters]. * Have you managed to use Papyrus [Reference Manager] with the LaTeX \cite{...} system rather than the Papyrus %%...%% system [Reference Manager {} system]? I suppose this would mean having software of some sort (I know not what: please tell me!) that inspects the .aux file, finds what is cited, and then gets Papyrus [Reference Manager] to produce the required reference-list. Overall, the question is "Have you persuaded Papyrus [Reference Manager] (plus something else --- a shell-script?) to take a .aux file as input (like BibTeX would) and then to produce an output file that is similar to a BibTeX .bbl fle?" * Have you had any success in the "root file + \include-d file" situation? I'd also be interested in any other details that you think any LaTeX-er who is contemplating using Papyrus [Reference Manager] should know. If the "tricks of the trade" are too lengthy to go out as an item in a future TeXhax, would anyone contemplate submitting an article to TUGboat about them, or offering some notes as candidates for inclusion in archives such as that at Aston? David Rhead ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1993 19:11:25 -0800 From: vis!greg@UCSD.EDU Subject: Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction In my earlier message I said: The FSF has recently made available a popular CDROM (which, ironically, contains TeX). but I was mistaken: TeX is not on the Free Software Foundation's CDROM. Thus, the opportunity for UnixTeX to offer a CDROM is even greater, notwithstanding competition from semi-commercial vendors like Prime Time Freeware. I suspect that if you gathered together all of the free TeX-related tools, packages and documents you could put together a very full CDROM. I doubt that I am even familiar with half of the free TeX-related things that are available. Anyone planning on putting together such a CDROM should publish a list of the intended contents to TeXhax early in the game to allow us to make sure that it is truly comprehensive. _Greg J. Greg Davidson Institute for Software Research and Development +1 (619) 452-8059 6231 Branting Street San Diego, CA 92122 USA vis!greg@nosc.mil ucsd----+--vis vis!greg@ucsd.edu nosc----| ***************************************************** * Member of the League for Programming Freedom. * * For more info, write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu * ***************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: 10 Mar 1993 21:28:20 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction > Prime Time Freeware. I suspect that if you gathered together all of > the free TeX-related tools, packages and documents you could put > together a very full CDROM. I doubt that I am even familiar with half > of the free TeX-related things that are available. Anyone planning on > putting together such a CDROM should publish a list of the intended > contents to TeXhax early in the game to allow us to make sure that it > is truly comprehensive. the Prime Time Freeware CD is a direct copy of the UK TeX Archive taken in December 1992. Although there have been minor additions since then, the archive contains all the packages known to mankind (ie me....), based on looking at listings of SHSU, Ymir, Stuttgart, old Aston, Jones' Index, as well as the obvious specialized archives like the AMS, Utah etc. At a late stage, I added odds and ends PTF had tracked down (various language support things). Since then, I have been trying with George Greenwade to get this archive (duplicated at Aston and SHSU) even better catalogued and up to date. To that aim, I have generated a skeleton database listing the `packages' which we stock. Most lack a description, author or date (not thats its unknown, I just have not had a week to spare reading READMEs!). There are 600 odd entries there now (and this excludes things like macro files or style files for plain and LaTeX - the latter is covered by Jones). Anyone interested in checking and expanding this list will find it as ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/help/ctan/ctan.dat. It is NOT for really general public consumption yet, but anyone is welcome to say what they think, or offer me money to scan README files :-} Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: 26 Feb 1993 17:48:27 -0500 From: AMS Technical Support Subject: new postings to e-MATH.ams.org We have just updated all non-binary files in the AMS TeX archive at e-math.ams.org . The motive for this update was to change our address in the documentation on these files from *math.ams.com to *math.ams.org (both the "math" and "e-math" nodes are involved.) Two files do contain "significant" updates: ams/amstex/amsppt.sty ams/amslatex/inputs/amssymb.sty This change also masks some important earlier postings; ams/amsfonts/doc/userdoc.cyr (12 Nov 92) ams/amsfonts/doc/userdoc.tex (12 Nov 92) ams/amstex/amstex.bug (12 Nov 92) ams/amstex/doc/amsppt.doc (12 Nov 92) If your copies of these files are earlier than these updates, it is recommended that you replace them with the current versions. For other files, the present change makes no difference for most purposes of actually using the files, so although uniformity among distributed versions is a good thing, actually installing the new versions is a matter of personal preference. The updated files will be installed shortly through routine updating procedures at these major archive sites: Aston (uk.ac.tex (JANET), and ftp.tex.ac.uk (Internet)) SHSU (niord.shsu.edu) Stuttgart (ftp.uni-stuttgart) Technical Support American Mathematical Society Internet: TECH-SUPPORT@MATH.AMS.ORG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1993 11:48:02 -0500 From: Karl Berry Subject: Eplain 2.3 available I have released Eplain version 2.3. It is available by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z} ics.uci.edu:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.3.tar.Z You might also be able to get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'. I haven't yet implemented all the good ideas people have sent me (generalizing toc files to other kinds of auxiliary files, indexing commands, etc., etc.), but I did implement general cross-references, so I figured a release would be worthwhile. Please send bug reports directly to me. Here is a summary of the most significant changes (from the file NEWS in the distribution): For those who haven't previously heard of Eplain: it is a collection of macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net. ------------------------------ Date: 09 Mar 1993 09:06:28 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: The UK TeX Archive is now available on CD-ROM From: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Date: 23 Feb 93 21:02:59 GMT Reply-To: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Organization: Canta Forda Computer Lab, Pacifica, CA The UK TeX Archive is now available on CD-ROM Issue 2-1 of Prime Time Freeware (PTF) contains a snapshot of the UK TeX Archive. The collection is stored in compressed tar format, and occupies ~300 MB (~1 GB, uncompressed). As far as we know, this is the only CD-ROM distribution of the archive; we hope the TeX community will find it useful. PTF is a semi-annual CD-ROM distribution of UNIX-related freeware source code and documentation. Each issue consists of two ISO-9660 CD-ROMs and an explanatory booklet. PTF 2-1 contains 1200 MB of compressed archives, expanding to well over 3 GB of freeware. List price is $60 US, $50 for SUG and USENIX members. California orders must include 7% to help with sales tax. Domestic (USA) Shipping and Handling is $5 per order. Foreign S/H is $10 per unit, limited to $25 per order. We charge $10 per order to handle purchase orders. We accept Mastercard and Visa, postal money orders in US funds, and checks in US funds THAT ARE PAYABLE THROUGH A US BANK. Contact us for unusual cases, quantity discounts, etc. Inquiries and orders may be sent (no email orders, please) to: Prime Time Freeware 370 Altair Way, Suite 150 Tel: +1 408-738-4832 ptf@cfcl.com Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA Fax: +1 408-738-2050 Yours, Rich Morin Proprietor, PTF P.S. Please do *NOT* respond to this message via netnews. I do not read this group on a regular basis, and will miss your response. -- Rich Morin, Canta Forda Computer Laboratory | Prime Time Freeware - quality UNIX consulting, training, and writing | freeware at affordable prices P.O. Box 1488, Pacifica, CA, 94044, USA | ptf@cfcl.com rdm@cfcl.com +1 415-873-7841 (Voice/Fax) | +1 408-738-4832 (V), -2050 (F) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 18:09:13 +0000 From: CHAA006@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK Subject: Announcement: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993 The UK TeX Users' Group (UK-TuG) are pleased to announce a multi-day conference, to be held at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London) between April 6th--8th, 1993. The themes of the conference are ``TeX for non-American languages'' and ``MetaFont in Theory and Practice''; the speakers include Bernard Gaulle, Yannis Haralambous and Dominik Wujastyk. For \pounds 80-00, conference delegates will be entitled to participate in the conference itself (including a full-day tutorial on one or other aspects of MetaFont), the conference banquet, and lunch, coffee and tea on each day; dinners and en-suite accommodation are also available. If you would like to participate in this conference, please complete and return the application form which appears elsewhere in this digest. Any questions should be addressed to Philip Taylor (RHBNC) , but it should be noted that he will be unable to answer e-mail during the period 7th--14th March. Philip Taylor, RHBNC. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1993 17:52:24 +0000 From: CHAA006@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK Subject: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993 \magnification \magstep 1 \hsize = 210 true mm \vsize = 297 true mm \hoffset = 1.0 true in \voffset = 1.0 true in \advance \hsize by -2\hoffset \advance \vsize by -2\voffset \hoffset = 0.0 true in \voffset = 0.0 true in %%% Knuths crazy (1",1") origin \parindent = 0.0 em \parskip = 0.5 \baselineskip \abovedisplayskip = 0 pt \belowdisplayskip = 0 pt \abovedisplayshortskip = 0 pt \belowdisplayshortskip = 0 pt \font \xviibf = cmbx12 scaled \magstep 1 \font \xxvbf = cmbx12 scaled \magstep 3 \font \CMU = cmu10 \font \logo = logo10 \font \xxvcmsy = cmsy10 scaled \magstep 4 \font \xxvlogobf = logobf10 scaled \magstep 4 \font \smallcaps = cmcsc10 \def \newpage {\vfil \eject} \def \MF {{\logo META}\-{\logo FONT}} \let \MetaFont = \MF % {{\manual META}\-{\manual FONT}} \def \pagefill {\vskip 0 pt plus 1 filll} \catcode `\< = \active \catcode `\> = \active \def \pounds {{\CMU \$}} \def <#1>{\expandafter \ifx \csname #1\endcsname \relax {\it #1\/}% \else \csname #1\endcsname \fi } \expandafter \def \csname UK-TuG\endcsname {\begingroup \lccode `\T = `\T \lccode `\E = `\U \lccode `\X = `\G \def \kern {\dimen 0 = }% {\smallcaps uk-\expandafter \lowercase \expandafter {\TeX}}% \endgroup } \begingroup \parskip = 0 pt \parindent = 0 pt \baselineskip = 25 pt \leftskip = 0 pt plus 1 fil \rightskip = \leftskip \parfillskip = 0 pt \let \logo = \xxvlogobf \obeylines \xviibf U.K. Users' Group Conference: April 6th--8th \centerline {\vrule height 0.5 pt depth 0.5 pt width 0.3 \hsize} \xxvbf for non-American Languages \xxvbf in Theory and Practice \endgroup \pagefill \leavevmode \centerline {\xxvcmsy \char '175} \pagefill The~U.K. Users' Group () are pleased to announce their first-ever multi-day conference, which~will take place at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of~London) in~Egham, Surrey, between April~6th and~8th 1993. The Conference, which has two themes --- ~for non-English languages, and~ in~Theory and Practice --- is timed to co-incide with the start of Spring, when the campus is at its best. The~first day (April~6th) is reserved for registration and the conference banquet; April~7th is devoted to , and will include papers from an~international panel of invited speakers, including Bernard Gaulle, Yannis Haralambous and Dominik Wujastyk. Bernard~is past-president of GUTenberg (the~French-speaking Users' Group), and an~authority on good French typographic practice; Yannis~is a~renowned authority on and exotic fonts, and~is the author of the ``Scholar'' package; and~Dominik is co-author (with Graham Toal) of the definitive U.K. hyphenation patterns, as~well as being a Sanskrit scholar and linguist. There~will be ample time for questions in addition to the formal papers. April~8th is day: there~will be two concurrent tutorials, one~entitled ` in Theory', led~by Yannis, in~which the theme will be the design and implementation of fonts through the medium of , and~the second entitled ` in Practice', in~which the more practical (but equally important) aspects of the use of (such~as how to build a~complete set of Computer Modern fonts for a new laser printer) will be addressed. Booking~is now taking place for this event, which~will be limited to a~maximum of fifty persons; the~Conference fee (80-00) includes the Conference banquet, which~takes place after Registration on April~6th, lunch~for April~7th \& 8th, and~attendance at all lectures plus the tutorial of choice; optional~items include {\it en-suite\/} accommodation at 28-50 per night (available for up to three nights), and~evening dinner for the second and third days of the Conference. Early~booking is advised, as~this is expected to be a~very popular event. To~reserve a~place for the Conference, please~complete the form below and return it together with cheque (made payable to {\it The U.K. Users' Group\/}) or company order, to: \begingroup \parindent = 2 em \leavevmode \parskip = 0 pt \obeylines % Philip Taylor, The Computer Centre, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England. \endgroup \noindent Please~reserve me a~place for the Conference at RHBNC on April~6th--8th, 1993. I~have completed the booking form below to indicate my exact requirements in terms of accommodation and meals. I~understand that if I~need to cancel my reservation, I~can be guaranteed at most a~50\% refund up to fourteen days before the Conference, and~no refund thereafter, unless the Conference organisers are able to re-allocate my place, in which case I~agree to a~10\% cancellation charge being deducted. \pagefill \begingroup \openup 0.9 \baselineskip \vskip -\baselineskip \tabskip = 0 pt \halign to \hsize \bgroup \qquad # \hfil&\tabskip = 0 pt plus 1 fil #\hfil &\tabskip = 0 pt \hfil #\cr &&\cr &Signed: \span \hrulefill \cr Name:& \span \hrulefill \cr Address:& \span \hrulefill \cr & \span \hrulefill \cr & \span \hrulefill \cr & \span \hrulefill \cr E-mail address:& \span \hrulefill \cr Facsimile number:& \span \hrulefill \cr Telephone number:& \span \hrulefill \cr Special dietary requirements:& \span \hrulefill \cr \egroup \endgroup \pagefill If ing your own reservation form, please edit the alignment below to remove any lines which you do not require, and amend the entries for sub-total, V.A.T. and total to indicate the amounts applicable; if completing a ready-printed form, simply score through any items not required and add appropriate amounts to the sub-total, V.A.T. and total lines. $$\hbox to \hsize \bgroup \hss \vrule \hss \vbox \bgroup \def \toprule {\noalign {\hrule \vskip \dp \strutbox}} \def \midrule {\noalign {\vskip \dp \strutbox \hrule \vskip \dp \strutbox}} \def \botrule {\noalign {\vskip \dp \strutbox \hrule}} \def \blank {\noalign {\vskip \ht \strutbox \vskip \dp \strutbox}} \def \\{\hfil \break} \let \par = \crcr \tabskip = 0 pt plus 1 fil \obeylines % \halign to \hsize % \bgroup % \vtop {\hsize = 0.8 \hsize \raggedright \strut#\strut}&$\,$\hfil # \toprule Conference fee (inc.~all lectures and choice of tutorial, \phantom {Conference fee (}conference dinner % (April~6th), $2 \times \rm lunches$:& 80-00 \blank Accommodation April 6th:& 28-50 Accommodation April 7th:& 28-50 Accommodation April 8th:& 28-50 \blank Dinner April 7th:& 8-00 Dinner April 8th:& 8-00 \blank Handling charge (only if payment does not accompany order):&5-00 \midrule Sub-total:& V.A.T (@$\,$17.5\%):& Total:& \botrule \egroup % \egroup \hss \vrule \hss \egroup $$ \end ------------------------------ Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX Users Group, and the latest software versions is available in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. 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