From: UKTeX-Request@tex.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #25 Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 15:37:08 +0100 Message-ID: <28509.773678228@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 8 Jul 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 25 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Questions & Answers}: File handle problems with betatest emTeX and Novell Netware re: File handle problems with betatest emTeX and Novell Netware Helvetica fonts? Re: Helvetica fonts? Re: Making slides NFS problems to ftp.tex.ac.uk Re: NFS problems to ftp.tex.ac.uk {Announcements}: Announcing babel version 3.4 patch level 1 Announcement of UKTUG AGM and elections ANNOUNCEMENT: Move of UK CTAN node Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@tex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Jun 1994 16:38:27 From: Mike Piff Subject: File handle problems with betatest emTeX and Novell Netware Has anyone else experienced file handle problems running the latest betatest of emTeX on a Novell network? The problems we are experiencing are - -- TeX cannot open a TeX file in the current directory, even though it could on the last run. - -- cannot write to xxx.log - -- cannot write to xxx.dvi - -- cannot open/write to xxx.aux Usually the first such error causes TeX to enter its infinite loop, and a reboot is essential, as any other filename gives the same result. Note also that the problem occurs even when working on c: with megabytes to spare, and neither temp nor tmp pointing at the network drives. When the problem occurs in a DOS shell from MS Windows, an attempt at exiting from windows causes a shutdown, as DOS says it has run out of file handles. We start with files=48 (+16) on our network. Any help would be much appreciated! Mike Piff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Dr M J Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %% %% Sheffield, UK. e-mail: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: 07 Jul 1994 15:51:32 From: Mike Piff Subject: re: File handle problems with betatest emTeX and Novell Netware Not really a problem with emTeX after all, but with DOS. Some of my files contained the combination call xxx > nul where xxx might be an .exe file. n repetitions of that causes DOS to get screwed up, in that it loses all its file handles, where n is as set in FILES=n in config.sys or its equivalent. Nothing will then work correctly! (EM says that OS/2 does not display this "feature".) Mike Piff ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 09:44:17 +0000 From: tmw@festival.ed.ac.uk (Tom Wright) Subject: Helvetica fonts? I'm trying to understand how to use helvetica fonts for my chapter headings Can anybody help I have something called helvetica.sty from CTAN but dont know how to use it? ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jun 1994 10:55:26 +0000 From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) Subject: Re: Helvetica fonts? In article , Tom Wright wrote: >[...] >I have something called helvetica.sty from CTAN >but dont know how to use it? Where on CTAN did it come from? When? (there's been an upheaval of the LaTeX-related macros recently) Which version of LaTeX are you using? The basic answer to your question is that you need a) a macro or two to request helvetica b) some .tfm files to enable TeX to do the setting c) some .vf files to enable the dvi->ps process to map the TeX character set to the postscript one d) a dvi->ps converter that can be persuaded to use resident fonts If you're using current LaTeX (2e), there's a canned solution for the whole job on CTAN (macros/latex/packages/psnfss and fonts/metrics/adobe/helvetic); if your site isn't up to date, you're rather more completely on your own... - -- Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 14:40:42 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Re: Making slides Richard Walker writes: > What now are my options for slide-making using 2e? > Do I have any, besides the standard slide style? > (FoilTeX and tvz's seminar are not yet updated for 2e, > as far as I can tell.) its pretty trivial to update seminar yourself. i did so in about 10 minutes, but TvZ asks that people not distribute patched copies as he wants to do it properly himself. well worth the effort, IMHO sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 13:52:15 -0000 From: A.F.Lack@city.ac.uk Subject: NFS problems to ftp.tex.ac.uk I used to mount the archive from ftp.tex.ac.uk:/work/ftp/pub/archive but just lately this has stopped working. Showmount -d indicates that the export directory is "/public/ctan/archive" but that has as contents only one entry, "Archive directory", which is a symlink to "../tex-archive". What is the correct mount point for the archive? Thanks, AFL ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 14:10:02 +0100 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: NFS problems to ftp.tex.ac.uk Andy, > I used to mount the archive from ftp.tex.ac.uk:/work/ftp/pub/archive > but just lately this has stopped working. > What is the correct mount point for the archive? There's an important announcement concerning the UK TeX Archive and its relocation today from Aston to Cambridge. See below. ~~David Osborne (UKTeX Digest editor) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 1994 23:47:44 +0200 From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: Announcing babel version 3.4 patch level 1 Hello, On CTAN, in the directory macros/latex/packages/babel the latest version of babel, version 3.4 patch level 1 has been made available. This version of the babel system has been upgraded for use with LaTeX2e. Yet it can (again) also be used with plain TeX. Patch level 1 fixes a problem with \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin. They didn't get their proper values in the earlier release. Also some incompatibilities with plain TeX have been removed. Version 3.4 patch level 1 is not compatible with T1 output encoding, some of the language specific files may give unecpected results with T1. The support for typesetting in russian that was available in versions 3.3 and earlier has (temporarily) been withdrawn in versino 3.4. I need someone to help me with that. Happy TeXing, Johannes Braams PTT Research, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3326477 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jul 1994 10:25:55 -0000 From: R A Bailey Subject: Announcement of UKTUG AGM and elections Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of the UKTUG will be held on the morning of Wednesday 19~October 1994 at the University of Warwick, in the Staff Club `Quiet Room' in Rootes Building. The Constitution contains the following clauses: 17. The annual general meeting of the UKTUG shall be held in the United Kingdom not later than the last day of November in each year on a date and at a time to be fixed by the Committee and notified to members at least 35 days in advance for the following purposes--- (1) to receive from the Committee a report balance sheet and statement of accounts for the preceding financial year (2) to fill the vacancies in the Committee and to appoint auditors for the ensuing year (3) to decide on any motion which may be proposed to the meeting in the manner provided below (4) to fix the entrance fee (if any) and annual subscription 18. Any member desirous of proposing any motion at the annual general meeting shall give notice in writing to the secretary not later than 14 days before the date of such meeting 23. No amendment (other than a motion for adjournment) shall be moved to any motion proposed at any annual or special general meeting unless written notice of the amendment shall have been sent to the secretary prior to the meeting I think that Clauses 17(3), 18 and 23 are self-explanatory. A draft agenda, covering items~(3) and~(4), will appear in Baskerville 4.4. In the meantime, anyone wishing to propose any motion to the AGM must send me, in writing, the text of the proposed motion and their own name and address, to reach me by 5~October 1994. If there are any changes to the draft agenda, the final agenda will be sent to members in the 14 days before the AGM. As for vacancies on the Committee, C. A. Rowley will continue as Chair in 1994--94 and P. Abbott as Treasurer and Membership Secretary. Clause 10 of the Constitution implies that at most 3 other members of the present Committee may continue without being re-elected. Thus Clause 9 implies that there are up to 7 vacancies to be filled. The following parts of Clause 10 describe the procedure for filling these vacancies: (3) Any two members who are individuals may nominate any member or members of the group who are individuals to fill any of the vacancies by giving at least 7~days notice in writing to the secretary (4) If there are more nominations than vacancies then the membership will be decided by an election by single transferable vote in which every member of the UKTUG who is an individual and is present at the annual general meeting shall be entitled but not obliged to vote Nominations for committee members in accordance with the above sub-clauses are thus being sought. Written nominations for new committee members should be sent to me, to reach me by 12~October 1994. There is no official nomination form. If you like, you may use the forms provided in Baskerville 4.3. Otherwise, what you send me should contain, clearly and legibly, ---name and address of nominee ---declaration that (s)he is willing to stand for this office, signed by the nominee ---name and address of the nominator ---statement nominating the nominee, signed by the nominator ---name and address of seconder ---statement in support of the nomination, signed by the seconder. The nominee, nominator and seconder should all be members of the UKTUG, and the last two should be different from each other. Once elected, the Committee appoints officers from its membership. Your present secretary is retiring (forced to under Clause 10(1)) and there is at present no Publicity person. Anyone with talents for either of these jobs is strongly encouraged to stand for election to the Committee. In all the above, `in writing' means `on paper', not email. Please put `UKTUG' on the outside of the envelope when you send me any of the above. Otherwise, people may find themselves elected to the wrong committee. My address is Department of Mathematical Studies Goldsmiths' College New Cross London SE14 6NW until 31 August 1994; and School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary and Westfield College Mile End Road London E1 4NS from 1 September 1994. R. A. Bailey, Honorary Secretary, UK TeX Users' Group ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 10:25:07 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Move of UK CTAN node The UK node of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network changed its home this morning (Friday 8 July, 1994), UK time -- it now resides on machines at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. In parallel with the move, a number of new network names have been generated, which distinguish the archive's different services. To access the new archive, please use: tex.ac.uk for email www.tex.ac.uk for www ftp.tex.ac.uk for FTP [128.232.1.87] nfs.tex.ac.uk for NFS gopher.tex.ac.uk for gopher The archive no longer provides: - a WAIS server, - an NIFTP (UK JANET coloured-book file transfer) service (coloured-book only sites within the UK should use the JANET NIFTP/ftp gateway), - public terminal access; browsing facilities are now only available via WWW, ftp or gopher. The gopher service isn't quite what it was, but we'll be working on that. The file system to mount on the new NFS service is nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive ftp users should notice no change. Any shortcomings in any of the services should be reported by email to ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk - -- Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html ------------------------------ UK TeX Archive >>> tex.ac.uk <<< Part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) ftp.tex.ac.uk -- anonymous ftp (For anonymous ftp, login: anonymous, password: ) gopher.tex.ac.uk -- Gopher access www.tex.ac.uk -- World-Wide Web access nfs.tex.ac.uk -- NFS access \section Files of Interest tex-archive/00Contents tex-archive/CTAN.sites tex-archive/FILES.bydate tex-archive/FILES.byname tex-archive/FILES.bysize tex-archive/MAP tex-archive/README.archive-features tex-archive/README.site-commands tex-archive/README.uploads \section Digests This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory tex-archive/digests/uktex/94 This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory tex-archive/digests/texhax/94 Latest TeXhax: V94 #04 \section Media Distributions Postal addresses are given below. \subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape Our latest copy of May/June 1991 contains: TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V tar format, 1 file (36Mb) Send One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format (DC600A or DC6150) with envelope AND stamps for return postage to David Osborne (address below); regret that due to currency exchange difficulties, this service is offered only within the UK. \section TeX Implementations for Small Computers \subsection PC and Mac disks From January 1994 the UK TeX Users' Group is distributing an emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. The cost covers copying and postage costs, and the shareware fee for OzTeX. Each set costs \pounds30, and is available from Peter Abbott, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB. Cheques must be payable to `UKTUG'. Please note that this service **is available to UKTUG members only.** Each set comes with an installation guide, and (at least) full TeX and Metafont, a previewer, a PostScript driver, and CM fonts. Two update disks a year will be sent out automatically, with the current version of LaTeXe, and other goodies. A subscription service will be available for subsequent years. In addition, subscribers can request up to 3 disks a year with any material from the CTAN archives, but this will be supplied `as is', without instructions. OzTeX and emTeX are also available on disk from TeX Users Group; mail TUG for details. \subsection TeX for the Atari ST Enquiries for TeX for the Atari ST etc. can be directed to: The Fast Club, 7 Musters Road, Nottingham NG2 7PP. 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Internet: TUG@TUG.org \section UK TeX Users Group Details available from Jonathan Fine, 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3HY, UK or from Internet: UKTuG-Enquiries@tex.ac.uk or from World-Wide Web server: http://www.tex.ac.uk/UKTUG/home.html \bye End of UKTeX Digest [Volume 94 Issue 25] ****************************************