TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2
Janet users may obtain back issues from the As- Resources ton 'QX repository (for details, contact Peter Ab- bott, e-mail address above). DECnetISPAN users may obtain back issues from the European (con- Announcing (belatedly) -MAG tact Massimo Calvani, fisicaQastrpd.infn. it) or American (contact Ed Bell, 7388 : :bell) DECnet Don Hosek T)?J repositories. University of Illinois at Chicago Others with network access should send a mes- After being chided for not publicizing my electronic sage to archive-serverQsun.soe.clarkson.edu "magazine" enough, I have decided to make a formal with the first line being path followed by an address announcement of its availability to the 'J&X cornmu- from Clarkson to you, and then a line nity at large. get texmag texmag.v.nn What is =MAG? for each back issue desired where v is the volume number and nn the issue number. The line index WMAG is available free of charge to anyone reach- texmag will give a list of back issues available. able by electronic mail and is published approxi- A typical mail request may resemble: mately every two months. The subject material index t exmag generally falls somewhere between the somewhat get texmag texmag.l.08 chaotic (but still useful) correspondence of 'QXHAX and UKW, and the printed matter in TUGboat How do I submit articles to TEXMAG? and QXline. Some previous articles have included I was hoping you would ask. Articles are accepted an early version of Dominik Wujastyk's article on on all aspects of T)?J, M'QX, and METAFONT from fonts from TUB 9#2; an overview of the differ- specific information on interfacing graphics packages ent font files used by 'QX, METAFONT, and device with particular DVI drivers to general information drivers; macros for commutative diagrams and sim- on macro writing to product reviews to whatever ple chemical equations and many other topics. One else strikes your fancy. A general rule of thumb to issue was dedicated to the issue of non-English 'QX. use in deciding whether something would make a How do I subscribe? suitable WMAG article is to assume that it would! WMAG has two special columns for shorter You can only subscribe if you have access to one submissions as well: "The Toolbox" is a forum for of the electronic mail networks and can send mail presenting short useful macros, and "T)?J Myster- to Bitnet (I have neither the time nor resources ies and Puzzles" presents interesting and unusual to mail hardcopy issues to those without network typesetting problems for possible solutions by the access). To subscribe, one should send the follow- WMAG readership (these questions are also for- ing one line message to 1istservQpucc bitnet or . warded to the WHAXand UKm groups in hopes listservQpucc.princeton.edu: of getting as many responses as possible). The pur- SUBS TEXMAG-L your full name pose of both of these columns is to attempt to pro- If you have problems doing this, send a note to vide exposition of problem solving mniques, so U33297Quicvm.uic .edu asking to be added to the when submitting macros for either of these, please list (this address sends mail to me, not a server, so try to explain how and why you did what you did. phrase it for human reading. There are also several "regional" redistribu- o Don Hosek tions. CDNnet subscribers may subscribe by send- 3916 Elmwood Stickney, IL 60402 ing a note asking for a subscription to WMAG Internet: [email protected]. edu to list-requestQubc. csnet. Janet subscribers Bitnet: u33297@uicw should request subscriptions from Peter Abbott, AbbottpQUk.Ac.Aston. Where can I get back issues? Users with FTP access to the internet may re- trieve back issues of 'QXMAG from the directory pub/texmag on sun.soe.clarkson.edu. TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2 mine wait for articles to arrive, you sit and wait a long time. I feel that Z&Wine has been well supported, Malcolm W Clark even if I do write far too much of it still. I try not to mine now terms itself 'a newsletter of the rn edit very much, but it is always necessary to re-word community'. When it began in 1985, it described (and sometimes re-write) in order to make articles itself as a newsletter for QX users in the UK and fit into pages. Sorry. The next issue of wine, Ireland. The w-world has changed even in the number 9, will have a table of contents for all the last four years. previous ones. I try to include areas which are not In 1984, I attended the historic TUG meeting at strictly Wware (where mware includes Urn, Stanford where announced that QX had been d@m, METAFONT, etc.), like SGML, POST- finalised, and that no more work was to be done SCRIPTmatters, reports of relevant meetings (like on it, with the exception of bug fixes. At the same those of the British Computer Society's Electronic meeting I saw w demonstrated on the Sun, under Publishing Group, the SGML Users Group, TUG, a windowing environment, where input text and a and anything similar). Software and book reviews preview could be viewed side by side. I returned are becoming more frequent. I even managed to per- to the Old World determined to be a missionary. suade one brave soul to review The =book. There TQX was alive in Britain, but I felt that we had to is a fair amount of very mainstream Wnical stuff try to identify one another, and started to build a which would not be too out of place in TUGboat. mailing list from the TUGboat listings (an arduous Barbara Beeton and I have discussed the possibil- task, since even to this day there are no regional ity of reprinting some Wine articles in TUGboat. subdivisions provided1). Encouraged in my fool- I have recently increased the amount of plagiarism hardiness by others I decided to start a newsletter, by using material which has appeared over the elec- based on that mailing list. From the outset, mine tronic networks, or which goes into other newletters. has been free. Obviously somebody has paid for the minetries to maintain a degree of informal- raw materials and the postage, but we just don't ity - at least that's my excuse for the typos. Many enquire too deeply about that. of its readers do not have access to electronic net- The newsletter format has been fairly consis- works, and, to my chagrin, the majority are not even tent, and frankly, pretty mundane. Because of a TUG members. I believe that it is very important fundamental restriction to easily obtainable raw ma- to get out into the community of 'little people'- terials (A4 paper), I use double columning, with a the ones who do not work in organisations where basic 10 point typeface. I have yet to find a really there are lots of fellow Wies; with the successful robust set of double columning macros. The first porting of T)jX to personal machines, the possibili- editions were set using m80(a slightly augmented ties of isolation have increased. I would like to think m78)running on a CDC machine under NOS, and that T@dine was addressing that situation (without with an Autologic APS-p5 phototypesetter for out- ignoring the other parts of the community). put device. The pages were pasted up from a sort of As the newsletter grew (in bulk), its mailing galley. I also included material prepared by oth- list also grew, especially outside the UK and Ire- ers from a variety of devices (embarassingly, this land. This was the main reason for changing the also included a typewriter). Since then production 'subtitle' so that the newsletter merely described it- has switched fist to Microw and a LaserWriter, slef in more general, non-nationalistic terms. This and now uses Textures on a Mac Plus (again with however represents a problem. Mailing costs for the a LaserWriter). The quantity of paste up has di- minority outside the British Isles now dominate the minished to almost nothing (but not for ideological costs. I try to arrange redistribution centres. TUG reasons -I still feel that paste up is often the best has agreed to provide a subsidy. Some of the small way to tackle problems). surplus from last year's m88conference has also What goes into mine? As all editors will re- helped to offset costs. alise, what goes into most newsletters is a mixture What next? I once said that the newsletter of what you are prepared to write yourself and what would never be electronic. Without exactly eat- you can extract from your friends. If you sit and ing my words, future editions (and some past ones) will be included in the Aston Archive. This Editor's note: Clearly Malcolm had not seen may mean that the newsletter can be printed else- this year's membership list when he wrote this. A where (although there wiil be problems where graph- listing by country and city has been added, by pop ics are included). It is not intended to remove ular demand. the need for printed paper copies. mine is set 194 TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2 using m-the layout may not be exciting, but There are still two major impediments to using it is part of the newsletter. I would like to see mail for accessing the archive: it come out more regularly (even if not more fre- 0 Character tables at Gateways quently). And I'd like to see more people volunteer 0 Limits on the size of mail messages. articles. You can submit articles electronically - to texlineQvaxa.cc.imperial.ac.uk The mail server will be amended to enable large if you have JANET access files to be sent in smaller units to avoid the second mwcQdoc.ac.uk problem but as yet there is no satisfactory way of if you have UNIX/UUCP access eliminating the character translation problem. But if you must send your request to be added to Access from JANET sites to the archive is the mailing list by this means (together with your relatively simple and painless. The FTP facil- article of course), please, please, pretty please, give ities that are provided can be illustrated by a me your street address. Remember that mine is simple example. (I shall use the VAX/VMS no- produced on paper, and that paper is not so easily tation, but there are corresponding formats for transmitted electronically (yet). I really don't like UNIX, VM/CMS, NOS/VE etc). A user called typing stuff in myself. It is awfully boring and error- orinocco is registered on a system with the prone. Floppy disks travel remarkably well- that's name uk .ac . wimbledon . common. To extract files a hint. Send them to: from the archive, orinocco signs on to his sys- Malcolm Clark tem and types the command transfer. The re- Imperial College Computer Centre quired parameters are input filename, output file- Exhibition Road name, remote username, remote username, pass- London SW7 2BP word. If we assume orinocco wishes to fetch the UK file [tex-archive] OOreadme . txt, the sequence is That way, you are guaranteed a place on the mailing list. transfer %-Input filename? uk. ac. aston. tex: : [tex-archive] OOreadme. txt %-Output filename? archive.list %-Remote username? public %-Remote username password? public
UK- and the Aston Archive Transfer nnnnn has been queued. Sometime later the file is available on the sys- Peter Abbott tem at uk ac wimbledon. common. Failure to find or Aston University UK . . transfer the file and other error messages are notified At the time of writing this report (May 1989) the via the normal VAX/VMS mail system. reorganisation of the archive is in full swing. Since The Aston mail server is a batch job which UKWis now available in a number of archives runs on a VAX 8650 processor under the VAX/VMS it is safer to say read those for the most uptodate operating system. Sometimes genuine mail disap- information. pears for one reason or another, so if no reply is re- The archivists, listed in TUGboat Vol. 10 no. 1, ceived after a suitable period you are recommended have been extremely active and there now exists con- to try again. It is impossible to give estimates of the siderable supporting documentation which allows turnaround time for any individual user; the server users to navigate there way around the archive as runs once per hour and the mail messages are queued well as giving details of the required elements for for transmission. The mail software makes a max- building a version of TeX for the target system. imum of 30 attempts to send a message (10 at 10 MAC users are now catered for in that Om(de- minute intervals, 10 at 1 hourly intervals and 10 at 4 scribed on page 202) is available in HQX format hourly intervals). This rather extended period is de- which is mailable from the archive. MS DOS sys- signed to overcome short-term network failures and tems have likewise been catered for with mailable for systems which are switched off for short periods versions of the relevant PC software. of time or overnight. The cluster system at Aston is The problem of stream-lf files has, hopefully, normally available 24 hours a day, seven days a week been overcome and access to ALL items in the with the occasional booked systems maintenance on archive via mail should now be possible. TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2 a Wednesday morning and twice yearly maintenance The DECUS l)i~XCollection checks by DEC. Instructions on how to extract files from the M. Edward Nieland archive are contained in a help file, and this file is 7 Introduction available by sending a mail message to The DECUS rn Collection is a collection of freely distributable files of T@ and T@ware for com- UK addresses on JANET are big-endian format and puters found in DEC (Digital Equipment Corpo- most users 'on the other side of a gateway' will need ration) sites. The collection is made available by to specify it as texserver9t ex. aston. ac .uk. The the DECUS Language and Tools SIG (Special In- subject line in the incoming mail message is ignored, terest Group) Public Domain Working Group. It is as is any text, until a line starting with --- (three available from DECUS Library and through DECUS minus or hyphen characters in columns 1 to 3); any LUGS (Local User Groups). text on that line is also ignored. The next line is the The collection currently covers three operating name9return address in UK format and the third systems: VMS, UNIX, and MS-DOS. The collec- line is the word help (in UPPER, lower or MiXeD tion is distributed in VMS BACKUP format (one case). For example: 6250 BPI tape, one TK-50, or two 1600 BPI tapes). --- (any text on this line is ignored) The collection contains a ready-to-run set up for the nameaaddress VMS operating system. help The collection includes executables, fonts, style files, and source. The version date of the current The best rule to observe in quoting nameQaddress is to use the format: collection is February 1989. JANET sites 8 What is available? [email protected] The DECUS lJjX collection is one of the largest col- Sites via earn-relay (Internet, Earn) lections of T@ware available in the United States. name%little-endian%big-endian@earn-relay It contains over 54 megabytes of TEX material. 0 Internet sites may be able to use Included are: name%little-endian%big-endian@nsfnet-relay 'I)$2.95 0 Sites via uk.ac.uk (UUCP) 0 Ul&X 2.09
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Anyone who has problems getting mail back 0 METAFONT 1.7 is welcome to send me (abbottphk ac aston) the . . 0 msis 2.11.5 message that they have tried and I will forward it BIB^ .99c to AM-rn
with a copy to the originator showing the WEB name9address format that is required. I do not 0 METAFONT Tools (GFtoPK, PXLtoPK, guarantee to be able to solve every query but will GFTODVI, etc.) do my best. 0 UlJjX Style Collection o Peter Abbott 0 Utah DVI Driver Collection Computing Services 0 GLOTEX Aston University Aston Triangle 0 IDXW Birmingham B4 7ET, England 0 l&XTYL Internet: pabbottm 0 DVItoLN03 nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk 0 LN03DVI
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0 Halftone Fonts The DECUS WCollection is also available
0 SPELL (VMS Spelling checker that via the DECUS National LUG Organization understands QX and I4W) Tape Copy Project. The Tape is made available to DECUS LUGS at no charge (you provide the 0 DVIDIS (Previewer for VAXStations) tape). Contact your local LUG to see about 0 RNOtoW getting a copy of the tape. If you don't know 0 SCREENVIEW how to contact your LUG, contact DECUS at 0 PSIPQX (508) 480-3446 to find out. 0 Templates for LSE 10 Additions to the collection 0 PSFIG Additions to the DECUS Collection are 0 TGRIND accepted and encouraged. Submissions and TR2W suggestions for submissions can be sent to the The MS-DOS material is included in ARC files: collection editor: DOSTEX M. Edward (Ted) Nieland 0 SBQX Systems Research Laboratories, 1nc. CDVI (previewer) 2800 Indian Ripple Road Dayton, OH 45440-3696 DVIVGA (previewer) Internet: tnielandQaamr1. af .mil DVIEW (previewer) Phone: (513) 255-8846 0 Fonts The following UNIX material is included in compressed TAR files: WEB2C
0 COMMONQX 0 S2I4TJ3x Contents of Archive Server PIC2FIG as of 1 May 1989 PSFIG Michael DeCorte 0 MFWARE Due to the size of the archive, from now on the IPW first issue of the year will contain the complete list 0 DEW of files and the following issues will only contain the FIG-FS new and updated files. 0 BIBW-IN-C As always, submissions are encouraged. If you TIB do submit a file please include at the top of the file: your name; your email address; your real address; 0 TRANSFIG the date. Also please make certain that there are WIDX no lines in the file longer than 80 characters as some 0 MAKEINDEX mailers will truncate them. Mail should be sent to mrdQsun.soe.clarkson.edu The sources to TEXX and VXDVI previewers for archive-managementQsun.soe.clarkson.edu XI1 are also included. For Internet users: how to ftp 9 How do I get a copy? An example session is shown below. Users should The DECUS l)$ Collection can be obtained from realize that ftp syntax varies from host to host. Your the DECUS Library for a minimal charge (cost to syntax may be different. The syntax presented here cover expense). The order number is V-SP-58. To is that of Unix ftp. Comments are in parentheses. order contact: The exact example is for retrieving files from the The DECUS Program Library IPW Archive; the syntax is similar for the other 219 Boston Post Road BP02 archives, only the directories differ. The directory Marlboro, MA 01752-1850 for each archive is given in its description. Phone: 508 480-3418 TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2
Non-Internet users: how to retrieve by mail rn UK users: Aston University maintains a rn To retrieve files or help documentation, send mail archive covering all aspects of 'I)$,IKI$$K, to archiver-serverQsun.soe.clarkson.edu with METAFONT, and ancillary software. UKW the body of the mail message containing the com- (like Whax) digests are distributed from mand help or index or send and the command Aston. For users with Colour book software, path. The send command must be followed by FTP access is available; for all users, mail the name of the archive and then the files you access is available. Send enquires in the first want. The path command must be followed by a instance to inf o-texQuk.ac .aston (via path from Clarkson to you in domain style format. internet use pabbottQnss .cs .ucl .ac .uk). You should realize that Clarkson does not have Italian users: Marisa Luvisetto maintains a uucp connection; therefore you must send it to a SPANIDECNET depository. He has an Internet or Bitnet host that does have a uucp software for redistribution such as the connection. Therefore uunet !host ! user is guaran- MX'@CStyleArchive, Beebe's driver family, teed to bounce, but host !userQuunet .uu. net will Whax, WMAG, UKW magazines, work. For example, this user should send dvitovdu, psprint, texsis. For more To: archive-serverQsun.soe.clarkson.edu information on what is available and how Subject : to get it, please send a mail message to path host!userQuunet.uu.net 39947::luvisetto or 39003::fisica. send latex-style Readme Index American users can also contact Ed Bell at send latex-style resume.sty 7388: :bell. Marisa Luvisetto's internet Unfortunately it is not at this time possible for address is fisicaQastrpd.infn.it. mail users to request files larger than 100k. They rn Canadian users: A shadow copy of the are only available with ftp. UwStyle Archive is kept on Traffic on the network servers and gateways neat. ai .ut oronto.ca, and is updated has been very high recently, and in order to provide automatically from the master source. improved service, there have been some volunteers It can be accessed via anonymous FTP to maintain local "slave" repositories of the LXQX (128.100.1 .65). Mail access is also possible style collection. There is usually a geographic or by mailing to inf oQai .utoronto .ca or network restriction requested, since the idea is to utai ! info. For more details about mail cut down traffic, not add to it. The following areas access, send a message to that address with a will be covered by the volunteers listed. message body that reads Bitnet users: Texas A&M maintains a request : info list-server and file-server which is already topic : help handling (with TEX-L) much of the Bitnet request : latex-style distribution of Whax. An inquiry via topic: info listserv will retrieve a list of all W-related files: Additional volunteers should contact me. tell listserv at tam1get tex f ilelist
Sample FTP session for Internet users % ftp sun.soe.clarkson.edu (a.k.a. 128.153.12.3) ... (general blurb) user: anonymous password:
Distribution for IBM PC and clone users DVI Driver Standards There are two sources. This directory contains digests from the DVI David W. Hopper Driver standards committee. Files are located 446 Main Street in pub/dvi-standard for ftp users. Mail users Toronto, Ontario should request files from the dvi-st andard archive. Canada M4C 4Y2 Files are named driver.YY .MM where YY is the year has IPw style files only. David has in been in of the issue, MM is the month. There are also articles a state of flux for a little while and would like to about DVI standards here. apologize for any delays. If you have not received I4m Sources requested files from him you should get in contact with him. You should send: This directory is a duplicate of tex.latex on Score, 1. either one 1.44 MB 3.5 inch diskette, one 1.2 MB and contains the 7$$ files needed to build IM&X. diskette or four 360 KB diskettes, blank and Files are located in pub/lamport for ftp users. Mail formatted; users should request files from the lamport archive. 2. indication of the format required; METAFONT Sources 3. a self-addressed mailer; and 4. a $5.00 donation per set of files, to cover postage This directory contains the WEB files needed to build and equipment wear & tear. (If you live outside METRFONT. It is a duplicate of tex.mf on Score. North America, airmail delivery will probably Files are located in pub/& for ftp users. Mail users require more postage. You should probably should request files from the mf archive. contact David for details.) TjiJX Documentation 5. No phone calls or personal visits please. This directory contains documentation on It Jon Radel w. is a duplicate of tex .doc on Score. Files are located P. 0. Box 2276 in pub/lamport for ftp users. Mail users should Reston, VA 22090 request files from the lamport archive. has I4w style files and other material including . For a list of what is available and other QJX Inputs information send a SASE. This directory contains the rn files needed to AM-W Sources build plain m. It is a duplicate of tex. inputs on Score. Files are located in pub/tex-inputs for This directory contains the T@ source needed ftp users. Mail users should request files from the to build AMSW, and is a duplicate directory tex-inputs archive. of tex.amstex on Score. Files are located in pub/amstex for ftp users. Mail users should request rn Sources files from the amstex archive. This directory is a duplicate of tex .web on Score, BIB= Sources and contains the WEB files needed to build m. Files are located in pub/tex-source for ftp users. This directory is a duplicate of tex.bibtex on Mail users should request files from the tex-source Score, and contains the style files and the BIB^ archive. WEB files needed to build BIBT@. Files are located in pub/bibtex for ftp users. Mail users should 7QX Tests request files from the bibtex archive. The directory contains the files needed to test rn CM Fonts using the triptest. It is a duplicate directory of tex.tests on Score. Files are located in This directory contains the METAFONT files needed pub/tex-tests for ftp users. Mail users should to build the CM fonts, and is a duplicate of tex. cm request files from the tex-tests archive. on Score. Files are located in pub/cm-fonts for ftp users. Mail users should request files from the TjiJXhax Digests cm-f onts archive. This directory contains all of the back issues of T@hax. Files are named texhax .YY. NNN where YY is the year of the issue and NNN is the issue number. TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2 199
Files are located in pub/texhax for ftp users. Mail Files are located in pub/bibtex-style-0.98 for users should request files from the texhax archive. ftp users. Mail users should request files from the bibtex-style-0.98 archive. WMAG Digests btxbst .doc A master file for BibTeX styles This directory contains all of the back issues of with standard styles and some new QXMAG. Files are named texmag .V .NN where V ones. is the volume number and NN is the issue number. Files are located in pub/texmag for ftp users. Mail Kl&X Style Files users should request files from the texmag archive. This directory contains files that are specific to Transfig Collection IPW. Most of these are style files but some of them are programs. Some of the files support BIBQX This directory contains the C source for Transfig; style files that are in the BIBQX Collection or a program that converts Fig output to other forms the BIBQX 0.98 Collection. Files are located in such as w.Files are located in pub/transf ig pub/latex-style for ftp users. Mail users should for ftp users. Mail users should request files from request files from the latex-style archive. the transf ig archive. agugrl-sample.tex TUGboat Files AGU Geophysical Research Letters style This directory contains files related to TUGboat agujgr-sample. tex and is a duplicate of tex.tugboat on Score. Files AGU Journal of Geophysical are located in pub/tugboat for ftp users. Mail users Research style should request files from the tugboat archive. cd.sty Commutative diagram macros UKWDigests cd-doc.tex This directory contains all the back issues of breakcites.sty UKQX. Files are named uktex .YY .NNN where allows citations to break across YY is the year of the issue and NNN is the issue lines number. Files are located in pub/uktex for ftp bsf . sty provide access to bold san serif users. Mail users should request files from the fonts in IPQX uktex archive. deproc.readme deproc .sty DECUS proceedings style and -4M-m documentation This directory contains style files specific to AMS eepicl1b.shar QX users. Files are located in pub/amstex-style a picture environment that used for ftp users. Mail users should request files from tpic specials the amstex-style archive. fancyheadings.sty mssymb . sty the definitions for the symbols modify the headers and footers in the two "extra symbols" fonts fullpage .sty get more out of a page created at the AMS german. sty style file for German hackalloc .sty make allocation local for IPW This directory contains files that are specific to version 0.99 of BIBQX. Many of these files are to ij cai89. sty Conference style for IJCAI-89 be used with files in the IPW Collection. Files are ij cai89. tex located in pub/bibtex-style for ftp users. Mail jeep. sty useful modifications of the article users should request files from the bibtex-st yle jeep .tex style archive. ltugbot .sty for articles to tugboat named. bst for use with ijcai89. sty mitpress .sty a simple MIT Press format mf .sty make METAFONT logos at all sizes BIBQX 0.98 Collection named. sty for use with named. bst This directory contains files that are specific to nat sci .sty natural sciences style (BIBQX file version 0.98 of BIBQX. Many of these files are in bibtex-style-0.98) to be used with files in the IPQX Collection. TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2 pagef oots. sty ccslc9 .mf puts footnotes at the bottom of gkpmac .t ex each page ocr-a.mf OCR-A fonts by Tor Lillqvist parskip. sty sets parindent to 0 and puts some ocr-ai .mf glue into parskip to aid page ocr-aii .mf breaks ocr-aiii .mf portland.sty environments to switch between ocr-aiv.mf portrait mode and landscape mode cmpica.mf CM Pica by Don Hosek refman.sty document style for reference cmpicab .mf manuals similar to the PostScript cmpicati .mf manual pica.& res .sty a format for doing resumes by pcpunct .mf Michael DeCorte b-circle .mf John Sauter's reparameterized resume.sty a format for doing resumes by b-cmb.mf Computer Modern. To create an Stephen Gildea b-cmbsy .mf arbitrary CM font is to create a file b-cmbx .mf with the following two lines: svlncs sty a document style for articles in . b-cmbxsl.mf design-size:=SIZE; books printed in the Springer- b-cmbxti.mf input b-FONT Verlag LNCS series b-cmcsc .mf verbatimfiles .sty This will produce the typeface b-cmdunh .mf FONT with design size SIZE. for include a file in a verbatim mode b-cmex.mf example, if FONT is cmr and SIZE is TjiJC Fonts b-cmff .mf 11, you will get cmrll. b-cmfi .mf This directory contains the METAFONT files for b-cmfib .mf user contributed fonts. Files are located in b-cminch.mf pubhex-fonts for ftp users. Mail users should b-cmitt .mf request files from the tex-f onts archive. b-cmmi .mf apl .shar APL fonts and related macros b-cmmib .mf t engwar.shar the fonts used by Tolkien in Lord b-cmr.mf of the Rings b-cmsl .mf vu jast yk .txh description of a lot of different b-cmsltt.mf fonts b-cmss .mf greek1 .shar for papers in Greek b-cmssbx.mf greek:!. shar b-cmssdc.mf hershey .pas Hershey fonts b-cmssi .mf hershey.txh b-cmssq.mf acwtosc .pas b-cmssqi .mf hershey-test.tex b-cmsy .mf orient .mf b-cmtcsc .mf xhershey .shar b-cmtex .mf Hershey script fonts and a b-cmt i .mf program to convert vector fonts to b-cmtt .mf METAFONT b-cmu .mf b-cmvtt .mf ccr5 .mf the fonts and macros for Concrete b-lasy .mf ccr6 .mf Mat hematics b-lasyb .mf ccr7.mf b-line mf ccr8 .mf . b-linew mf ccr9 .mf . c-circle.mf ccrl0 .mf c-cmbx .mf cccscl0.mf c-cmff .mf ccmil0 .mf c-cmmi .mf ccsl10 .mf c-cmr.mf cctil0.d TUGboat, Volume 10 (1989), No. 2 c-cmss .mf c-cmssbx.mf Site Reports c-cmssq.mf c-cmsy .mf c-cmt i .mf Data General site report c-cmtt .mf c-line .mf Bart Childs c-sigma.mf We have now installed T@ 2.98 and the rest of bold2math .mf the changes that have been made to the sources barcodes .mf to generate barcodes at Stanford since the first of the year. As usual, milstd .tex for logic diagrams change the revision number, tangle, compile, . . . milstd.mf The new Data General printers are a consid- erable improvement over the previous ones. The TEX Programs new ones based upon the Canon engine do not This directory contains programs that are of general have arbitrarily small limits for downloaded fonts. interest to TEX users in general. Files are located in This driver should work well for the vanilla Canon pub/tex-programs for ftp users. Mail users should printer. request files from the tex-programs archive. We are in the process of rewriting these drivers dvidoc.patch-sun2 in CWEB. It will be interesting to perform some diffs for sun2 running Sun OS 3.4 timings to see if we can get an improved throughput. dvidoc.shar3 These drivers are descendants of dvitype. a DVI to character device filter for Unix BSD systems fig2epicllc.shar converts fig code to epic or eepic files schemetex.sh - simple support for literate Prime 50 Series Site Report programming in Lisp. A Unix filter John M. Crawford that translates schemew source into Uwsource We've recently updated our T@ distribution tape to keep up with the latest revisions of software coming TEX from Stanford and friends. This includes updates This directory contains style files for plain m. to TEX, METAFONT, utility programs, and META- Files are located in pub/tex-style for ftp users. FONT sources, as well as a rebuild of some of the Mail users should request files from the tex-style METAFONT fonts. The Umand AMS-QX source archive. files have been updated. Further updates to this declare. tex macros to allocate local registers software can be quickly incorporated onto our tape, ithyphen. tex hyphen.tex for Italian as our Internet network facilities allow us quick, easy access to the various software repositories. mssymb. tex the definitions for the symbols Updated versions of various device drivers have in the two "extra symbols" fonts also been incorporated into our new tape spins, created at the AMS thanks to contributions by some of our friendly off- scorecard.tex site Q-5 and Primos users. We now also have avail- prints a baseball scorecard for one able a version of !QX with greatly expanded memory team arrays, by locally incorporating Bart Child's 64 Bit texpictex.tex work into our QXport. tpic \special changes to F'pZQx o Michael DeCorte 2300 Naudain St. "H" Philadelphia, PA 19146 [email protected] Bitnet: md@clutx