TFJ is a big program and I Inc., for use with a lesser format- made no attempt to overlay or ter. Because of this. I did not split it in any way. We therefore have to do any conversion of PXL usually run it as a batch job. files. Unfortunately. I do not own This is not a problem since the fonts and therefore cannot News from the formatting is essentially a batch distribute them. Project process anyway. We also provide Finally, I would like to thank a small, online version that makes Pierre MacKay for providing me The news from Stanford is that a useful learning tool, but is not with the latest sources and for METRFONT 1.0 is now officially capable of much real formatting. encouraging me to become a site released, along with the en- The batch TEX runs in about coordinator for this implementa- tire Computer Modern family. 370K (octally speaking); the tion of TE,)C. TEX 1.5, when used with the online version takes about 230K. new CM fonts, is officially called Jim Fox Our printer driver (PT~X)is University of Washingt,on TJ$ 2.0. Distribution tapes with derived from dvitype. (My guess all of this stuff should be done is that all printer drivers are by the time you read this. Font derived from dvitype.) Ours has tapes now come in GF format, been extended to provide a very and include more sizes and flexible and easy-to-use graphics magnifications (as well as more insertion capability. Essentially, Data General Site different faces) than with the old PTeX will scale, center, and draw AM series. a 'real' plot (e.g., a Calcomp Report The five-volume series Com- lot), without the need for any puters and Typesetting is almost We have successfully ported !&X custom fitting by the user. A 1.5~.Of course, it was absolutely complete, and 90% of it has \special control sequence speci- already gone to the printer as no problem. The previous change fies the file that contains graphics file was sufficient. We use the "c" of this writing. Volume A is The data, plus the height and width of Wbook, B is the TJ$ program, suffix to indicate that it uses the the area the plot is supposed to CM family of fonts. (See the next C is The METRFoNT~o~~,D is fill. The file will automatically be the METRFONT program, and E item.) I have not had enough scaled and drawn. The \special time to create the program for is about Computer Modern. The command is actually generated Wbook and The METRFONT~OO~ using non-virw's. by library macros that also U'e have upgraded our will both be available in softcover build the enclosing vbox. This (like The Wbook has been). METRFONT port to 0.999999. command, for instance, drew a I have spent a day or two making David Fuchs square, column-width Tektronix the . GF files. I am now testing %anford University plot in the last TUGBOAT: these in preparation for a new \graph(\f ile=Cbpr3 release tape. It took about a day \width=\columnwidth of CPU time on the MVlOk to \height=\columnwidth) make the complete CM family at The \graph ma,cro has other, op- rnagsteps zero, half, one. and two. tional parameters that can specify As soon as I can complete CDC Cyber Site Report a border and a surrounding the program for non-virw's and rule. We presently support three finish testing the new fonts. I will This article introduces a new graphics sources: Tektronix and start sending the new distribution CDC implementation. It Calcomp plots, and Ma~int~osh tapes out. has been running under NOS 2 MacPaint pictures. I have had a lot of requests on our Cyber 180-855 at the I had the good fortune to for the utility items. These are Academic Computing Center already have a printer and fonts available on MS-DOS diskette or since the spring of 1985. Our available when I started this several reasonable tape formats. first version was 1.1 but we project; these had been previously Bart Childs upgraded to version 1.5 last fall. purchased from Talaris Systems, Printing is done by a pair of QMS Texas A 8t M University Lasergrafix 1200 laser printers. UNIX Site Report

Macintosh Site Report experienced Tj$ users will have is possible that our position on no difficulty without a manual; opposite sides of the country TUUfor the Apple Macintosh is and it includes automatically, at is actually an advantage in our available now, in a pre-release no extra charge. a copy of the search for new contributions. package for experienced W published release (version 1.0) The question has some- users. MACTEX runs on Mac- when available. times been asked, particularly intosh XL, Macintosh 512, and The published version 1.0 at times when the backlog piled IVIacintosh Plus computers; one will have, among other niceties. up, why we maintain a separate double-sided or two single-sided the ability to include MacPaint distribution at all. The reason floppy disk drives are required, and MacDraw pictures in TEX lies in the nature of the UNIX with a hard disk recommended for documents. TEX distribution, which is very large documents. Iv~cTEXcom- To obtain a copy of the much shaped by the particular bines 1m82 version 2.0 and the pre-release package, contact character of the UYIX system new CM Computer Modern fonts Brenda Cavallaro, Addison- itself. What we offer on our tapes with an integrated text editor. Wesley (EMSD), Reading. Mas- is not just a collection of change screen display viewer, and print sachusetts, 01867, or call her at files but something as close to a drivers for the Apple Imagewriter (617) 944-6795. sort of turnkey system as we can and Apple Laserwriter. manage. It is not quite possible Barry Smith The standard memory alloca- to put a UNIX distribution Kellerman & Smith tion (mem = 30000 words) is avail- tape on the drive. copy it, type able in a 512KB Macintosh (or make tex and go home, but we Switcher partition). Additional have attempted to arrange files in memory is automatically used to such a way that we could actually extend mem to 64000 words, allow provide a Makef ile which would more fonts, improve performance UNIX Site Report do that, if we really thought that by reducing segment swapping, any rational systems programmer and to permit text editing to Since October, I have been the would want to try it. Moreover, continue during l&X processing. only resident site coordinator for the UNIX TjjX distribution has In a 1 MB system, typical page UXX W, owing to Richard attracted to itself a rich variety of processing time is 10-20 seconds. Furuta's departure for the Uni- supporting programs. about half The text editor supports versity of Maryland. This will in of which are quite specific to the very large files, multiple active part explain some of the delays UNIX system. and it is constantly windows. and the standard Mac- in delivery which have intervened attracting more. We are trying intosh selection, cut, and paste at various times, and arbitrary to offer much more than a set operations. hardware failures or shortages of change files which will bring The screen display viewer of magnetic tape account for up the various programs directly accurately displays typeset docu- the rest. The backlog has been related to and METAFONT. ments, with random access to any unmistakable evidence of the We are trying to offer an entire page and a viewing magnification increasing interest in UNIX TJ$. m-users environment. working instantly changeable to any value and I find myself wondering what in the UNIX system In recent from 100 through 5000. the expected increase in the range months we have been able to Due to the high interest of target machines will bring. make that environment more expressed, we are making the We are still unable to provide comfortable and less restrictive by MAC^ package available for anything guaranteed to work separating the 4.1 BSD and the pre-release distribution (transla- on System V machines, but the 4.2,'4.3 BSD distributions. As a tzon: we'd like to get some of you interest is now so widespread in result. we do not ask for a BSD out of our hair so we can finzsh both the System V and Xenix source license any longer except zt) . This pre-release package worlds, that we expect to hear of from those few sites that still contains everything described a free public-domain port to one use 4.1 BSD. This also remoyes above, but has only sparse docu- or the other system before the any restrictions about recopying mentation, several loose ends. and end of the year. Richard Furuta and redistribution, though we do some missing features. However: and I still collaborate over the insist that any redistributed cop) it's truly a Macintosh program, so electronic mail network, and it be complete, and include all the

Volume 7, Number 1 Short Reports files that were sent out with the an unexpected and, u-e trust. This brir~gsus to a serlous original tape. ilnintended limitation on the consideration of font5 and their The past six months have array bounds in SUN Pascal. TVe effect on the sheer size of the seen major changes in just about expect that both these problems distribution The only thing that every directory on the tape. TJ$ will soon be resolved, and we has made it possible to work out is now offered at version 2.0, have reports of sites which have a relatively painless traniition of IQWis offered at version 2.09 successfully compiled initex and this sort, with both varieties of (consistent with the manual virtex using SUN3 software, fonts available simultaneously, published by Addison-Wesley), which probably indicates that the is the timely release of Tomas and METRFONT is offered at array bounds problem is already Rokicki's PK format and its version 1.0. This last item is the corrected. associated utility programs. As most significant change on this Paul Richards's configure font styles and sizes proliferate. occasion. Paul Richards of the script includes options for the the storage requirement for the University of Illinois has made Pyramid which he has validated. loosely packed PXL format a complete METRFONT system We have not yet had the oppor- becomes excessive. In the next available in the . /mf 84 directory, tunity to try them out at the few Sears we can expect that PK together with all the significant University of Ll'ashington. We format will replace PXL format METRFONT-ware. The new ver- are also expecting change files for throughout the community. sion covers a number of different Pyramid compilatio~isof ?C)$ in (This change presents a new target systems, and appropriate the immediate future argument for WEB-coded output Makef iles are created through 2.0 is functionally drivers, incidentally, since the an interactive configure script. identical with the most recent essential code to unpack PK Here, on one of the local 4.3 BSD release of Tm 1.5. The only forrnat can be patched into a GNIX machines, METRFONT change in the Pascal code comes WEB-coded driver directly out of came up absolutely smoothly, in the addition of a couple of lines Rokicki's pktopx program ) with no difficulties at all, and to clean up terminal interaction On the distribution tape, we passed the trap test with com- at one point in the program. have begun by packing the entire plete success. The real significance of the new list of 300 dpi fonts, leaving only The approach to compilation version is that it implies the use the * .1500pxl fonts available on SUES now assumes that the of cm fonts in place of the am fonts in the loosely packed version. SUN assembler (the last stage of (which were modified versions The 200/240 dpi fonts are all a pc compilation) is now capable of a yet earlier set of cm fonts). in pxl format still, but that is of dealing with a unitary METR- There is no impediment at all to solely because they also serve as FONT (or w)file in something preloading the old plain. tex into the working font library at th~s under a week of elapsed time. For virtex 2.0, and we have therefore site. As we move into the full those who are still running the gone ahead with the distribution conversion to Chl fonts. we hope old "whirling dervish" assembler, of 2.0 on the tapes now to find enough space to offer both there is a split-source script being written. For about six the CM and the AM fonts on to allow for compilation in four months, we plan to continue the tape for a few months. but chunks. The problem with the with am fonts as the basic option, eventually we must be ready to old assembler has been identified and cm as the alternate. The drop the AM fonts altogether. by one of our correspondents. new versions of plain. tex and We would urge all sites ~eceiving It includes "optimizing code" webmac . tex are provided under UKIX to keep this in mind, whose execution time increases the names cm .plain.t ex and and to start preparing for the as the cube of the number of cm . webmac .tex. As soon as all change now. The transition statements in the source file. the supplementary LAW fonts will be relatively painless if AM At the time of writing there are available in new METRFONT versions of favorite macro files are are still some problems with format, we will switch over totally prepared in advance. arid stored SUNS software. The old undump to the new fonts, but we will away for the arrival of "CZI-day." program no longer works, owing then allow a transition period Among the last productions to a change in the format of both during which am.plain. tex and from the old version of METR- core and a.out files, and on some am. webmac . tex remain on the FONT-in-SAIL program is the versions of the software there is tape as alternatives. large collection of Cyrillic and Special Symbol fonts which the collection of free software justifies described elsewhere in this issue. American Mathematical Society Richard Stallman's predictions at and public domain drivers for has generously offered for free, the time when the Free Software the Versatec and LN03 printers. unlicensed distribution. These are Foundation was being organized. (Kote that Kellerman and Smith the fonts described and illustrated that a very large number of very also offer commercially supported in TUGBOAT 6, no. 3: 124- superior programmers will be Versatec and LK03 drivers as 128, and they are included on quite ready to contribute their separately priced items.) the tape in a separate directory efforts to the enhancement of The above package includes ./amsf onts, together with the the entire programming environ- executable images of all programs essential macros used to call them ment. Some of the policies of (VMS 4.2 or later), all sources into text. the UNIX TEX distribution have and build command files, a copy In order to get all this new been revised with the specific aim of the mbook, and 150 pages of material packed down to fit onto of bringing them more closely VAX/VXIS specific documenta- a single reel of tape, we have into line with the policies of the tion including turnkey installation had to resort to compression on Free Software Foundation. The procedures. The package is sup- an increasing number of text Free Sbftware Foundation has plied in BACKUP format on a files. On the latest tapes. all the chosen TEX as the appropriate 1600 bpi, 2400 foot magnetic files in */doc are compressed. vehicle for documentation of its tape. and costs $200.00 (U.S.) using a very efficient program programs, and I have recently had including shipping within the U.S. collected from net . sources and the pleasure of helping to set the and Canada. Add $50.00 (U.S.) forwarded to us by Paul Richards. GNU Emacs manual into type. for air freight shipment to other We have put this onto the tape We have by these actions started countries. in a separate ./compress direc- on a program of cooperation and Kote that this package tory, so that those who have no resource sharing by which we no longer includes the Almost immediate access to the net can hope to accelerate the collection Computer Modern (AM) fonts, uncompres s these files. and development of software and that it requires VSIS 4.2 or Work on new drivers is con- tools which will be made freely later (or at least the recent VhIS tinuing throughout the world. We available throughout the world to Pascal library). We will continue have news that the long-awaited all competent users. to make the previous TEX 1.3 LN03 driver may soon appear, VMS release available on request. Pierre MacKay and a recent communication from for the same distribution fee. University of Washington Helsinki offers a driver for the HP Barry Smith Laserjet'. For those who set their Kellerman & Smith sights on something beyond the I limits of dry toner resolutions. I recommend keeping a lookout for the announcement of a new 2400 dpi laser-diode photo-typesetter VAX/VMS Site Report that will become available at "By the time you read this" - UT@ News well below $10.000, perhaps even a handy phrase, attributed as low as $5,000. That ought to D. Fuchs -we should have Starting with this issue. I will try to trigger the next drop in the completed a VAX/VhIS package keep users abreast of the latest price of dry toner print engines to containing the latest versions I4T@ news. I expect this news something like $1,000 apiece. of w82 (2.0), LXl$J (2.09), to be dull; LATEX was designed to I have not even attempted METAFONT(~.~),the new Com- be dependable. not exciting. No to list all the names of individual puter Modern fonts (1.0), and major bugs have been discovered contributors to the UKIX all of the related Tmware and and no noticeable enhancements distribution over the past six METRFONTware programs. are planned. months, but that in no way The package will also include The first printing of the diminishes my appreciation of additional software on an unsup- I4w manual sold out quickly at their assistance. I should like ported basis: Andrew Trevorrow's many bookstores. A large number instead to point out how the con- DVItoVDU preview display driver of copies from that printing are tinuing growth of the UNIX T$$ apparently on a boat en route Volume 7. Number 1 Short Reports to Timbuktu, so Addison-Wesley T&X is now truly multi- rushed out a small second print- lingual. The restriction on the ing. No corrections were made to trie-op size has been removed. that printing. It is now possible to accommodate Two new document-style up to 65000 languages - although options have been added: bezier currently has a. consistency for drawing curves and if then check that arbitrarily restricts it with conditional evaluation and to 100. looping conlmands. A document Contrary to what was re- style that will format text for ported in the previous article, the ACM "transactions" journals cannot change hyphenation is in preparation, and I will be rules on a word by word basis. It negotiating with the ACM to is restricted to the language in allow authors to submit either force at the end of a paragraph. camera-ready copy or input The reason for this is that the files. value of the language param- I suspect that many sites eter is not carried along with have installed UTG without the character in the same way installing the appropriate human as the font information. Most system for maintaining it. There applications should be satisfied should be a site coordinator who with paragraph by paragraph is responsible for installing I4m hyphenation. For those that are (with any necessary site-specific not, an extension involving an changes), creating and main- increase in the size of a char node taining the Local Guide, fielding is possible. questions from users, and obtain- Michael J. Ferguson ing the latest versions of Urn INRS-Tdkcommunications files. Leslie Lamport Digital Equipment Corporation

Multilingual Update This note updates the extension to TEX that allows for multi- lingual hyphenation reported in TUGBOAT 6; no. 2 (July 1985): 57-58. A key feature of the extension is that it accorn- modates standard fonts, including words with accented letters. For details of the features the reader should refer to the TUGBOAT report. The changes and retractions are as follows:

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