TUGBOAT Volume 16, Number 1 / March 1995

TUGBOAT Volume 16, Number 1 / March 1995 3 Addresses 4 EuroTEX94 Contest Answers / Barbara Beeton General Delivery 5 Opening words / Christina Thiele and Michel Goossens 8 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton Software & Tools 9MakingMakeTeXPK safer for Unix installations / Michael Jaegermann 12 Hyphenation exception log / Barbara Beeton Philology 18 Configuring TEXorLATEX for typesetting in several languages / Claudio Beccari 30 How to make a foreign language pattern file: Romanian / Claudio Beccari, Radu Oprea and Elena Tulei 42 TEX and Linguistics / Christina Thiele Font Forum 45 Introducing METAP OST / Alan Hoenig 46 Some METAFONT techniques / Yannis Haralambous 54 The program a2ac —Font handling on the PostScript level / Petr Olsak 60 Problems of the conversion of METAFONT fonts to PostScript Type 1 / Basil Malyshev 69 Partial font embedding utilities for PostScript Type-1 fonts / Basil Malyshev and Michel Goossens 78 Tight setting with TEX / Alan Jeffrey LATEX 80 XΥMTEX for drawing chemical structural formulas / Shinsaku Fujita News & 89 Calendar Announcements 90 Production notes / Mimi Burbank 91 Coming next issue TUG Business 92 Institutional members Forms 93 TUG membership application Advertisements 94 TEX consulting and production services TEXUsersGroup Board of Directors Memberships and Subscriptions Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana† TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published quarterly Christina Thiele, President ∗ ∗ by the TEX Users Group, Flood Building, 870 Michel Goossens , Vice President Market Street, #801; San Francisco, CA 94102, George Greenwade∗, Treasurer U. 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Alexander Lawson The Compositor as Artist, Craftsman, and Tradesman (1990) COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1 • MARCH 1995 SAN FRANCISCO • CALIFORNIA U.S.A. 2 TUGboat, Volume 16 (1995), No. 1 TUGboat TUGboat Editorial Board During 1995, the communications of the TEXUsers Barbara Beeton, Editor Group will be published in four issues. One issue Mimi Burbank, Production Manager (Vol. 16, No. 3) will contain the Proceedings of the Victor Eijkhout, Associate Editor, Macros 1995 TUG Annual Meeting. One issue (Vol. 16, Alan Hoenig, Associate Editor, Fonts No. 2) will be a theme issue, edited by a guest Christina Thiele, Associate Editor, Philology and editor; participation will be by invitation. Linguistics TUGboat is available at a special subscription See page 3 for addresses. rate to all members. Submissions to TUGboat are reviewed by vol- Other TUG Publications unteers and checked by the Editor before publication. However, the authors are still assumed to be TUG publishes the series TEXniques, in which have the experts. Questions regarding content or accu- appeared reference materials and user manuals for racy should therefore be directed to the authors, macro packages and TEX-related software, as well with an information copy to the Editor. as the Proceedings of the 1987 and 1988 Annual Meetings. Other publications on TEXnical subjects Submitting Items for Publication also appear from time to time. Two regular issues will be prepared in 1995. Dead- TUG is interested in considering additional manuscripts for publication. These might include lines for these and other future issues are listed in the Calendar, page 89. manuals, instructional materials, documentation, or works on any other topic that might be useful to Manuscripts should be submitted to a member the T X community in general. Provision can be of the TUGboat Editorial Board. Articles of general E interest, those not covered by any of the editorial made for including macro packages or software in computer-readable form. If you have any such items departments listed, and all items submitted on magnetic media or as camera-ready copy should or know of any that you would like considered for be addressed to the Editor, Barbara Beeton (see publication, send the information to the attention of the Publications Committee in care of the TUG address on p. 3). Contributions in electronic form are encour- office. aged, via electronic mail, on magnetic tape or TUGboat Advertising and Mailing Lists diskette, or made available for the Editor to retrieve by anonymous FTP; contributions in the form of For information about advertising rates, publication camera copy are also accepted. The TUGboat schedules or the purchase of TUG mailing lists, “style files”, for use with either plain TEXor write or call the TUG office. LATEX, are available “on all good archives”. For authors who have no access to a network, they will Trademarks be sent on request; please specify which is preferred. Many trademarked names appear in the pages of For instructions, write or call the TUG office. TUGboat. If there is any question about whether An address has been set up on the AMS computer for receipt of contributions sent via electronic a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates that it should be treated as if it is. The following mail: [email protected] on the Internet. list of trademarks which appear in this issue may Reviewers not be complete. MS/DOS is a trademark of MicroSoft Corporation Additional reviewers are needed, to assist in check- METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. ing new articles for completeness, accuracy, and PC TEX is a registered trademark of Personal TEX, presentation. Volunteers are invited to submit Inc. their names and interests for consideration; write to PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. [email protected] or to the Editor, Barbara TEXandAMS-TEX are trademarks of the American Beeton (see address on p. 3). Mathematical Society. Textures is a trademark of Blue Sky Research. Unix is a registered trademark of Unix Systems Laboratories, Inc. TUGboat, Volume 16 (1995), No. 1 5 group of keen implementors and developers with lit- General Delivery tle administrative involvement to one where most development work is now done outside the board, even outside TUG, and administrative issues have Opening words seemed to consume the board’s time and energy. In fact, most of the faces from when I first joined the Christina Thiele (Outgoing President) and board are no longer there. But this should not sur- Michel Goossens (Incoming President) prise anyone unduly. This first column for 1995 marks the transition be- The TEX community of today is very differ- tween myself and Michel Goossens, TUG’s new pres- ent from that of 7 years ago, much less 16 years ident. I am delighted to share this column with ago when TUG began. The program is mature, the him — and even more so to pass it on to him! users are world-wide and experienced, network access and network-based resources have increased to Passing the baton the point where almost everything is available elec- While this first issue of 1995 should normally have tronically: help, information, sources, documenta- been in your mailbox last March, thus before the tion—and fellow-users.

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