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.