From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #02 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <18953.790261408.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 13:03:31 +0000 Message-ID: <18954.790261411@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Monday, 16 Jan 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 02 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: xdvi window sizing problem lamstex and amstex 2.1 John Rutter: Latex2e Latex2e kpathsea 2.6/xdvik 18f/dvipsk 5.58f/dviljk 2.5 available xtem X11-TeX-menu, new release HyperTeXhax on the World Wide Web Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe texhax" or "unsubscribe texhax", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 12:29:23 +0000 From: David Lindsey Subject: xdvi window sizing problem When using xdvi (patchlevel 15) on a PC with a small (14") monitor acting as an X-terminal, the panel of control buttons on the right hand side of the window becomes truncated rather than rescaled. This results in the loss of access to the 'Next' button and those that normally occur below it in a fully sized window. The display area is also truncated, but access to the 'missing' part is available using the slider bars in the usual way. The effect is the same as resizing the xdvi window when running with a larger (17") monitor using either the mouse or the -geometry option at startup to resize the window. Is this something we have to live with (by using the keyboard alternatives to the missing buttons); do later versions deal with the problem or am I missing some obvious solution to it? David Lindsey (d.c.lindsey@abdn.ac.uk) Aberdeen University Computing Centre ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:01:20 -0600 From: Cliff Bergman Subject: lamstex and amstex 2.1 LamsTeX uses a special version of AMSTeX called amstexl.tex. All of the distribution sites I've checked (including CTAN) contain amstex-l derived from amstex version 2.0. Has anyone created an updated version of amstexl for the newest (version 2.1) of amstex? cliff bergman cbergman@iastate.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 11:13:51 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: John Rutter: Latex2e uktug-enquiries is not an appropriate address for submitting technical questions; I am forwarding you question to TeXhax for consideration. (The address you mailed to is for enquiries about membership, etc., of UK TUG.) Robin Fairbairns - ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 10:51:54 GMT From: John Rutter Subject: Latex2e To: uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk Dear TUG, I am composing a document in Latex 2e, but have difficulty in finding a system which has installed amscd. The file may not have been included in the Latex distribution: it has not for example been included with a recently supplied copy of Latex 2e for Textures nor has it been installed on our unix machine. I have obtained it by ftp from Stanford, but am not sure, in view of its non-supply whether the version there is compatible with the current version of Latex 2e. Can you please advise me? Similar remarks apply to the package \changebar. Another problem I have had with running Latex 2e is the apparent non-availability on our systems of the font which corresponds to commands such as \rightsquigarrow. Has this font not been include in the amssymb package? Many thanks in advance. John Rutter. - ------- End of Forwarded Message An answer: amscd is part of AMSLaTeX, and as such is available with AMSLaTeX. The source is available in the canonical place for all TeX-related matter, your neighbourhood CTAN (ftp.tex.ac.uk); it appears in more than one location in the archive, but the master is tex-archive/ fonts/ams/amslatex; you are expected to pull the whole directory, and to install it by means of the various .ins files -- see READ.ME for details. As a general rule you should not try Stanford for anything nowadays. While stuff is often available from there, it's not maintained with the same assiduity that is applied to the CTAN machines. Robin Fairbairns ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 19:15:13 -0500 From: "K. Berry" Subject: kpathsea 2.6/xdvik 18f/dvipsk 5.58f/dviljk 2.5 available New versions of dvipsk/xdvik/dviljk are in the usual place: ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{xdvik,dvipsk,dviljk}.tar.gz ... mirrored at ftp.cdrom.com:/.14/tex/tex-k ... and CTAN and its mirrors; see the end of this message. Please use the nearest site, to reduce the load on our old Sparc 1. I will not be reading email until next Tuesday (January 17), so I've left the previous versions in place, just in case there are big problems with this release, despite the efforts of the pretesters. This version primarily fixes problems with the last release. The most notable other change is that I've replaced the kpsexpand program with something more general program, kpsewhich. John Interrante will update the patch for web2c 6.1 soon. (Naturally, I am working on the next release of web2c. It will be ready no sooner than a month or two from now (and perhaps significantly longer); it's no use to ask me precisely when, as I simply do not know.) As always, thanks to the many people who contributed. I tried to record names in the ChangeLog entries. Please report bugs to tex-k@cs.umb.edu. Email tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu with a line containing subscribe you@your.email.address in the body of the message to join this mailing list. If you only want to see announcements, not bug reports and discussion, subscribe to tex-archive@math.utah.edu instead. (Email tex-archive-request@math.utah.edu to join that list.) kb@cs.umb.edu Help fight the new programming monopolies -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net. Here's the NEWS: kpathsea 2.6 * MakeTeXPK installed from kpathsea, instead of each driver. * MakeTeXPK.site looked for in texmf/web2c, instead of texmf/dvips. * texmf.cnf installed and looked for in texmf/web2c, instead of texmf. * If a mode is not explicitly specified, search all subdirectories (this was actually in a previous release). * install-sh only looked for in the top-level directory. * kpsewhich replaces and generalizes kpsexpand. xdvik 18f * --with-ps=dps works again, and multiple --with-ps options are allowed. * Don't warn about overstrike characters if copy mode was explicitly requested. * Class name for the `mfmode' resource changed to `MFmode'. * SIGIO configure test may work with compilers besides gcc. dvipsk 5.58f * EMTeX specials supported by default. dviljk 2.5 * Redefining MFMODE[36]00 actually works, and is documented. Here are the CTAN sites and their mirrors: prompt$ finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu [...] Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically): dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /tex-archive ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia) /pub/tex/ctan ftp.muni.cz (The Czech Republic) /pub/tex/CTAN nic.switch.ch (Switzerland) /mirror/tex ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands) /pub/tex-archive Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically): ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp (Japan) /CTAN ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au (Australia) /tex-archive ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA) /tex-archive ftp.loria.fr (France) /pub/unix/tex/ctan ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Germany) /pub/tex ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Germany) /tex-archive (/pub/tex) ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA) /pub/text-processing/TeX ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore) /pub/zi/TeX src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England) /packages/tex/uk-tex sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA) /packages/TeX Please send updates to this list to . The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are: ftp.dante.de (Germany) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- e-mail via ftpmail@dante.de -- Administrator: ftp.shsu.edu (Texas, USA) -- anonymous ftp and gopher /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- NFS mountable from ftp.SHSU.edu:/pub/ftp/tex-archive -- e-mail via ftpmail@ftp.SHSU.edu -- World Wide Web access on www.SHSU.edu -- Administrator: ftp.tex.ac.uk (England) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive -- World Wide Web access on www.tex.ac.uk -- Administrator: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 12:34:13 +0100 From: l44@blue.lrw.uni-bremen.de (Roland Weibezahn) Subject: xtem X11-TeX-menu, new release We announce the new version (3.12.1) of "xtem", an X11-TeX-menu xtem provides for a simple and comfortable graphical user interface to control the following facilities: - editor (vi, emacs, ...) including additional windows for the LaTeX-syntax (using hypertext) and examples - TeX, LaTeX, ... - previewer (ghostview, xdvi, TkDvi, ...) - printing (including comfortable printer selection, ...) - syntax and spelling check - makeindex - bibtex - additional programs as required . . . Online help is available for all the buttons and windows by simple mouse click. xtem is written for Unix platforms and has been tested on many systems. It requires Tcl (version 7.3), the appropriate Tk (including patch P1) and TclX. The configuration has to be done by the local TeX-Administrator by adapting configuration files ("open lists"). xtem is available by anonymous ftp from the CTAN-servers (in directory /pub/tex/support/xtem_texmenu) It is also available directly from ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de /pub/tex/xtem_version3.12 (English and German descriptions, README's and the program itself) Here you can also obtain Tcl (7.3), Tk (3.6+p1), TclX (in /pub/tcl) Happy and comfortable TeXing, the authors: G. Lamprecht, W. Lotz, R. Weibezahn - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Roland Weibezahn Phone : +49-421-218-3532 LRW Bremen Telefax: +49-421-218-4112 c/o University Bremen Bibliothekstr. 1 Postbox: 330440 28359 Bremen 28334 Bremen Germany email: weibezahn@lrw.uni-bremen.de ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 12:18:32 +0000 From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: HyperTeXhax on the World Wide Web TeXhax is now available in a hypertext form over the World Wide Web (WWW). I've extracted all the articles from the 1994 and 1995 issues of the digest and run them through Hypermail to create a set of Web pages which can be accessed sequentially, or by means of indexes of subject, thread, date or author. I've also done the same for last year's UKTeX Digest. I hope to keep this year's hypertext version of TeXhax up to date as each issue of the digest is produced. The URLs for this year's and last year's TeXhax, and for last year's UKTeX are UK/Europe: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/digests/hyper/texhax/95/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/digests/hyper/texhax/94/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/digests/hyper/uktex/94/ USA: http://www.shsu.edu/tex-archive/digests/hyper/texhax/95/ http://www.shsu.edu/tex-archive/digests/hyper/texhax/94/ http://www.shsu.edu/tex-archive/digests/hyper/uktex/94/ Alternative access may be available via HTTP or ftp to some of the various mirrors of the CTAN archive, for example http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/tex/uk-tex/digests/hyper/texhax/95/ Read the file http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/CTAN.sites for details of the mirror sites which may be closer to you. ~~David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) Web: http://www.nott.ac.uk/~cczdao/ ------------------------------ About TeXhax... 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