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- TeXhax Digest Friday, 13 Nov 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 020
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- % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %
- % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group %
-
- Today's Topics:
- Concrete fonts
- Re: magnification in LaTeX
- magnification in LaTeX
- DVIHP for LaserJet II
- Spell Checkers and pk file conversion
- Re: Problems at SHSU
- other spell checkers
- printer driver
- LaTeX: \thispagestyle for "page of floats"?
- TeX/LaTeX Spell Checkers
- modes.mf 0.11 released
- New macro package: Lollipop TeX
- lucida (math) version 1.2 available
- eplain 2.2 available
- New version of SFPtoPK on FILESERV/Niord
-
- Administrivia:
- Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott
- Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
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- ------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 09:40:35 -0700
- From: mr370673@rs6550.mor.itesm.mx (Rafael Morales G.)
- Subject: Concrete fonts
-
- Does anybody know how can I get the Concrete Fonts (used in "Concrete
- Mathematics")? I posted a similar message few weeks ago, but I do not
- find any answer. Thank you.
-
- Rafael Morales Gamboa
- ITESM Campus Morelos
- Cuernavaca, Mor.
- MEXICO.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 23 Oct 92 16:20:48 +0000
- From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@shef.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: magnification in LaTeX
-
- > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 18:37:58 +0700
- > From: zheng@maths.uwa.oz.au (Wei Xing Zheng)
- > Subject: magnification in LaTeX
- >
- > The LaTeX Manual says, "The \magnification command in Plain TeX has no
- > counterpart in LaTeX. Magnification of the output can often be done by
- > the program that prints the dvi file." If anyone knows what this means
- > and how to do magnification in LaTeX, please kindly let me know.
- >
- > Many thanks.
- >
- > Wei X. Zheng
-
- For instance, using emTeX on a PC, one can say
-
- dvihplj test.dvi prn /m1200
-
- to magnify by a factor of 1.2. Thus, a 10pt original 5in wide will be 6in
- wide and looking like 12pt when magnified. The hairlines in characters are
- also magnified, so you can get the publisher to photo-reduce your camera
- ready document, assuming the publisher cannot work directly from the .DVI
- file. This gives a better result than reducing a true 12pt document to 10pt,
- since 10pt--> magnified 10pt--> 10pt is not the same as reduced 12pt.
-
- One problem you may find is that you may be missing some fonts at some
- magnifications. Also, your 14pt xxx font may really be a 12pt magnified
- font already, which gets a further dose of magnification on top.
-
- %% Dr M J Piff %% e-mail:
- %% Department of Pure Mathematics %%
- %% University of Sheffield %% M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk
- %% Hicks Building %%
- %% Hounsfield Road %%
- %% SHEFFIELD S3 7RH %% Telephone: SHEFFIELD (0742) 768555
- %% England %% Ext. 4431
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 16:37:22 +0000
- From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
- Subject: magnification in LaTeX
-
- Wei X. Zheng asks:
- ``The LaTeX Manual says, "The \magnification command in Plain TeX has no
- counterpart in LaTeX. Magnification of the output can often be done by
- the program that prints the dvi file." If anyone knows what this means
- and how to do magnification in LaTeX, please kindly let me know.''
-
- This means that you cannot tell LaTeX to produce a `scaled' dvi file
- (i.e. one that will produce output scaled by a certain factor when
- processed by a driver program). So centimeters allways will be true
- centimeters.
-
- You don't loose any functionality, as most dvi drivers allow you to
- scale your output (if scaled fonts are available). So if you are using
- dvips and you want to print an A5 page onto A4 for later reduction
- (so you get better resolution) you would use
- dvips -x 1400 <your file name>
- ^^^^^^^
- This means: magnify output by 1400/1000.
-
- Of course the exact procedure is dependent on the driver you use.
-
-
- Wolfgang Ratzka
- | | ) X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de
- | /\ | \ ratzka@vax1.rz.uni-regensburg.dbp.de
- |/ \| \ SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de
-
- Phone: +49 941 943 2085
- Paper mail: Wolfgang Ratzka \\ Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik \\
- Lehrstuhl Prof. Weise \\ Universit\"at Regensburg \\
- W-8400 Regensburg \\ GERMANY
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 12:39:27 -0800
- From: awslawson@ucdavis.edu (Wayne Slawson)
- Subject: DVIHP for LaserJet II
-
-
- Does anyone know of a free-ware program for printing dvi files
- on a (non-PostScript) LaserJet II printer driven from:
-
- 1. a Sparcstation I (or II)
-
- 2. a SGI Indigo?
-
- Any advice would be appreciated.
-
- Yours sincerely,
-
- Wayne Slawson
- awslawson@ucdavis.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 29 Oct 92 11:28:32 -0500
- From: "DR. JIM WALKER @CRL" <WALKERJ@crl.aecl.ca>
- Subject: Spell Checkers and pk file conversion
-
- I'd like to thank everybody who helped me with my spelling and pk problems.
-
- Several spell checkers were recommended:
- --------------
-
- MICROSPELL:
- Trigram Systems of 5840 Northumberland St. Pittsburgh, PA 15217 (FAX
- 412-422-3793) sells a system called MicroSpell (version 8 for MSDOS) for
- $79.oo (US).
-
- LSPELL20:
- Try looking out a copy of lspell20.zip, its a TeX/LaTeX aware spell checker
- which runs under DOS, written in Turbo Pascal I think.If memory serves correctl
- y it was in /mirrors/txtutl on wuarchive.wustl.edu,
- but archie should be able to direct you anyway ......
-
- AMSPELL:
- The third (you can ftp it on 141.210.10.117, file
- pub/msdos/txtutl/amspel20.zip) is a work of some people in
- netherlands.
-
- EPELLE/DOS & SSPELL:
- EPELLE est un ensemble de programmes visant \`a d\'etecter des mots
- mal orthographi\'es dans des textes fran\c cais saisis afin
- d'\^etre compos\'es en TeX.
-
- SSPELL est un programme visant \`a d\'etecter des mots mal
- orthographi\'es dans des textes anglais et d\'evelopp\'e par
- Maurice Castro (maurice@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au).
-
- L'ensemble est disponible sur le Sun de l'Institut Fourier
- (mozart [130.190.12.100]) par ftp : le fichier epespe.tar.Z dans
- le r\'epertoire ~/fourier.
-
- I've installed amspell and epell/dos, both of which are working fine.
-
- PK file conversion
- - ------------------
-
- I was recommended to run metafont or use a different previewer, I chose the
- latter.
-
- DVISCR:
- emTeX is available in all
- the standard archives, but the canonical source is
- rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
- in the directory
- /soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex
- Get the file README.ENG for an explanation of what the various parts are
- and which of them you need. (The german version is readme.ger).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 12:40:49 +0000
- From: David Osborne <cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Problems at SHSU
-
- In a message of 3 Nov 92 10:29:41 MDT, Zdenek Wagner said:
-
- > Also, texhax stopped to come while uktex comes from time to time and I hope
- > I have received all issues.
-
- TeXhax frequency is based on volume of received mail: there aren't
- many contributions at the moment. Would a regular (say, two-weekly,
- if possible) posting be a better arrangement?
- Better still, SEND IN MORE CONTRIBUTIONS!
-
- UKTeX receives a regular amount of traffic, so continues as a weekly digest.
-
- I welcome contributions to both TeXhax and UKTeX, to addresses
- TeXhax@tex.ac.uk and UKTeX@tex.ac.uk, respectively.
-
- Latest issues in V92 of each digest are: TeXhax #19 and UKTeX #40.
-
- Back issues are available for anonymous ftp from tex.ac.uk in
- directory [tex-archive.digests.NAME.YEAR]NAME.NN
- where NAME = {texhax|uktex}; YEAR=92, for example; NN=issue.
-
- ~~David Osborne (UKTeX Digest editor), (TeXhax Digest moderator)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 14:50:50 -0500
- From: benysh@ecn.purdue.edu (Darel Benysh)
- Subject: other spell checkers
-
- Someone just recently asked about PC spell checkers. I don't have any
- suggestions. Actually I was hoping someone would have suggestions as
- to where I could find a decent Public Domain spell checker that will
- run in Unix/Risk/BSD environments. I have been given permission to
- put software on a small DECstation network in order to make it usefull.
- Essentially, I'm putting on stuff that I will use since no one else uses
- the system except to logon to other mainframes. So, I've put TeX, TeXis,
- etc on it but have been unable to find a decent PD spell checker.
-
- Any ideas would be helpful.
-
- Darel Benysh Industrial Engineering
- benysh@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu Purdue University
- benysh@goofy.ecn.purdue.edu West Layfayette, IN, USA
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 22:16:35 -0500
- From: WanSoo T Rhee <WSRHEE@prime.cob.ohio-state.edu>
- Subject: printer driver
-
- I am looking for a print driver for TeX for Cannon Bubble Jet portable
- printer. How can I get these files?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- WanSoo T. Rhee
- email address : rhee.1@osu.edu
- office telephone: 614-292-5297
- fax number : 614-292-1272
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 12:26:18 +0000
- From: David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk
- Subject: LaTeX: \thispagestyle for "page of floats"?
-
- Can anyone suggest an easy way of specifying, in a LaTeX 2.09 style file,
- that, if a page contains only floats (i.e., [p] has happened), a particular
- \thispagestyle is to be used?
-
- I ask because I'm doing a .sty file which has page headers that include the
- current section title. If there's a mixture of floats and text on the
- page, then the "current section" title is still appropriate (since it can
- be taken as a header for the text). But if a page consists only of floats
- (which may have floated some way from the section where they appear in the
- .tex file), the "current section" header may be inappropriate or misleading
- and may be best suppressed. So I'd like to have \pagestyle{headings} most
- of the time, but to say something like "if we're on a page consisting only
- of floats (i.e., with no text at all), then \thispagestyle{plain}".
-
- I've browsed through latex.tex hoping to find a chunk of code that I can
- copy to my .sty file, with the addition of a \thispagestyle at a crucial
- point, but have failed to find a suitable chunk.
-
- David Rhead
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:36:36 +0000
- From: "Bernard J. Treves Brown" <MCNBJTB@CMS.MCC.AC.UK>
- Subject: TeX/LaTeX Spell Checkers
-
- TO MODERATORS: I've no idea how many details of commercial programs you
- like to give on the list - suffice it to say that I have no connection
- with Trigram other than being a past customer.
-
- Jim Walker asked about Spell Checkers for DOS which understand TeX/LaTeX:
-
- I know of two: there is DVISPELL, which is part of emTeX, and hence
- available from Aston, it works on .dvi files, which probably has advantages
- where accents are concerned, however, I've never used it...
-
- If you were prepared to part with hard cash then I would recommend
- Microspell from Trigram Systems, 5840 Northumberland St. Pittsburgh
- PA 15217. This is a commercial(!) system which "knows" about TeX, so
- it operates directly on the .tex file, with a built-in editor for
- _serious_ problems. I think it would probably cost ca 50 quid after
- currency conversions.
-
- Beware! MicroSpell has an american dictionary (but the american words
- are easily removed and U.K. English versions substituted).
-
- Bernard Treves Brown
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 16:46:41 -0500
- From: Karl Berry <karl@claude.cs.umb.edu>
- Subject: modes.mf 0.11 released
-
- I have released version 0.11 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from
-
- ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/modes.mf
-
- You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's (thanks, George!)
- file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of
- `sendme modes'.
-
- This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common
- definitions for write-white printers and `special' information.
-
- As usual, this version has only minor changes:
- * SparcPrinterWhite has been removed; fiddle with the darkness knob instead
- * still less punctuation in special output, to conserve space
- * change to `blacker' for the Varityper 4300P
- * doc fixes
-
- If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the
- existing ones, please send them to me.
-
- karl@cs.umb.edu
-
- mode_def AgfaFourZeroZero = % AGFA 400PS
- mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga
- mode_def AtariNineFive = % Atari 95dpi previewer
- mode_def AtariNineSix = % Atari 96x96 previewer
- mode_def AtariSLMEightZeroFour = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer
- mode_def AtariSMOneTwoFour = % Atari ST SM 124 screen
- mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5
- mode_def ApsSixHi = % Autologic APS-Micro6
- mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi
- mode_def boise = % HP 2680A
- mode_def CanonCX = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX
- mode_def CanonLBPTen = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10
- mode_def ChelgraphIBX = % Chelgraph IBX
- mode_def CItohThreeOneZero = % CItoh 310
- mode_def CItohEightFiveOneZero = % CItoh 8510A
- mode_def CompugraphicEightSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 8600
- mode_def CompugraphicNineSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 9600
- mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS
- mode_def DataDisc = % DataDisc
- mode_def DataDiscNew = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio
- mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover
- mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120dpi
- mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroMed = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi
- mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroLo = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi
- mode_def EpsonMXFX = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family
- mode_def GThreefax = % 200 x 100dpi G3fax
- mode_def HPDeskJet = % HP DeskJet 500
- mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (\#1)
- mode_def IBMD = % IBM 38xx (\#2)
- mode_def IBMFourZeroTwoNine = % IBM 4029-30, 4250
- mode_def IBMFourTwoOneSix = % IBM 4216
- mode_def IBMProPrinter = % IBM ProPrinter
- mode_def IBMSixOneFiveFour = % IBM 6154 display
- mode_def IBMSixSixSevenZero = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa)
- mode_def IBMThreeOneSevenNine = % IBM 3179 screen
- mode_def IBMThreeOneNineThree = % IBM 3193 screen
- mode_def IBMThreeEightOneTwo = % IBM 3812
- mode_def IBMThreeEightTwoZero = % IBM 3820
- mode_def IBMEGA = % IBM EGA monitor
- mode_def IBMVGA = % IBM VGA monitor
- mode_def imagewriter = % Apple ImageWriter
- mode_def laserjetlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi
- mode_def LASevenFive = % DEC LA75
- mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZeroLo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi
- mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZero = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi
- mode_def LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi
- mode_def LNZeroOne = % DEC LN01
- mode_def LPSFourZero = % DEC LPS40
- mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor
- mode_def MacMagnified = % Mac screens at magstep 1
- mode_def MacTrueSize = % Mac screens at 72dpi
- mode_def NEC = % NEC
- mode_def NEChi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi
- mode_def Newgen = % Newgen 400dpi
- mode_def NeXTprinter = % NeXT 400dpi
- mode_def NeXTscreen = % 100dpi NeXT monitor
- mode_def OCESixSevenFiveZeroPS = % OCE 6750-PS
- mode_def okidata = % Okidata
- mode_def OneTwoZero = % e.g., high-resolution Suns
- mode_def PrintwareSevenTwoZeroIQ = % Printware 720IQ
- mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine)
- mode_def RicohFourZeroEightZero = % e.g., the TI Omnilaser
- mode_def RicohLP = % e.g., the DEC LN03
- mode_def SparcPrinter = % Sun SPARCprinter
- mode_def StarNLOneZero = % Star NL-10
- mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi
- mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi
- mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ
- mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi
- mode_def VarityperFiveZeroSixZeroW = % Varitype 5060W
- mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroLo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi
- mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroHi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi
- mode_def VarityperFourTwoZeroZero = % Varityper 4200 B-P
- mode_def VarityperSixZeroZero = % Varityper Laser 600
- mode_def VAXstation = % VAXstation monitor
- mode_def XeroxEightSevenNineZero = % Xerox 8790 or 4045
- mode_def XeroxFourZeroFiveZero = % Xerox 4050
- mode_def XeroxNineSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 9700
- mode_def XeroxThreeSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 3700
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 92 12:58:09 -0500
- From: eijkhout@cs.utk.edu
- Subject: New macro package: Lollipop TeX
-
- The Lollipop Format, first public release, October 1992
-
- Victor Eijkhout
-
- What is Lollipop?
-
- The Lollipop format tries to bridge the gap between the fact
- that in TeX anything is programmable, and the fact that doing so is
- too hard for the people such as typographers,
- who know actually what to program. Or even for seasoned programmers.
-
- Lollipop is a macro package that gives the user powerful
- tools for programming macros for lists, headings, output routines
- and a number of other things. The Lollipop macros take the specifications
- for a macro, and then construct that macro.
-
- About this release
-
- Lollipop is not finished, but it is already quite powerful.
- (It has been used to typeset my book 'TeX by Topic', for instance.)
- I suggest that anyone who is interested format the manual
- and have a look at the examples in it. They document
- the current power of Lollipop (really: all examples,
- including of output routines, are formatted on the fly).
-
- Since Lollipop is still under development I will be very
- accessible for questions, bug reports and suggestions.
- Email preferred: eijkhout@cs.utk.edu.
- (And I will be flattered if you actually use Lollipop,
- but beware that changes may occur in future versions.)
-
- Lollipop can be ftp'ed from the directory /pub/eijkhout/tex
- on cs.utk.edu (log in as 'anonymous') where it is stored
- as 'lollipop.tar.Z'. Uncompress and 'tar -fx' it.
-
- Like a lot of TeXware, Lollipop is free. Make and give away
- all the copies that you want. Just don't ask money for it.
-
- Share and enjoy!
-
- Victor Eijkhout
- Department of Computer Science; University of Tennessee at Knoxville
- 104 Ayres Hall; 1403 Circle Dr.; Knoxville TN 37996-1301
- phone: +1 615 974 8298 (secretary 8295; fax 8296); home +1 615 558 3069
- Support the League for Programming Freedom! league@prep.ai.mit.edu
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 92 17:07:16 -0500
- From: Karl Berry <karl@claude.cs.umb.edu>
- Subject: lucida (math) version 1.2 available
-
- I've updated the Lucida font distribution to version 1.2.
-
- ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/lucida/lucida.tar.Z
-
- These files will be of no use to you unless you also have the Type 1
- PFA/PFB/etc. files with the outlines.
-
- Changes in this release:
-
- * \cdot (and hence \cdots) spacing corrected (vastly decreased).
-
- * Use dvips' new afm2tfm program.
-
- * New version of psnfss.sup for using these fonts with NFSS.
-
- The distribution includes the math fonts as a (more or less) drop-in
- replacement for Computer Modern. I've worked some on the magic math
- font parameters, but no doubt improvements are possible.
-
- I suggest using Tom Rokicki's dvips as your DVI-to-PostScript program.
- dvips is on labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*.tar.Z, and my hacked version
- with the same path searching algorithm is on
- ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/dvipsk.tar.Z. The afm2tfm program in those
- distributions is what I used to create the virtual fonts.
-
- Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz, who did much of the initial work, and Chuck
- Bigelow and Kris Holmes, who designed the typefaces.
-
- karl@cs.umb.edu
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 15:12:30 -0500
- From: Karl Berry <karl@claude.cs.umb.edu>
- Subject: eplain 2.2 available
-
- I have released Eplain version 2.2. It is available by ftp from
-
- ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z}
- ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.2.tar.Z
-
- You might also be able to get it by email from George Greenwade's file
- server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of
- something like `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'.
-
- I'm making this release only because it's been over seven months since
- the last release, and a number of bug fixes have accumulated. I haven't
- yet incorporated any of the good suggestions people have sent me
- (cross-referencing to figures and the like as well as pages and
- equations, figuring out the multi-column situation, generalizing toc
- files to other kinds of auxiliary files, indexing commands, etc., etc.).
- I hope to be able to do that soon. (I hope to be able to release a lot
- of things soon, as always...funny how that never happens.)
-
- Please send bug reports directly to me.
-
- Here is a summary of the most significant changes (from the file NEWS in
- the distribution):
-
- * New \toks register \everylist, expanded at the start of every list.
-
- * \footnoterulewidth defined as 2in, not 2true in, thus allowing the use
- of \mag after reading eplain.tex. The `2true in' was Knuth's, but I
- don't know why he did it.
-
- * \obeywhitespace works inside a \vbox.
-
- * \boxit is \long, and uses \ehrule and \evrule.
-
- * \writenumberedtocentry expands the chapter number, so `\the
- <register>' can be used.
-
- * \verbatim doesn't begin and end with \par, so it can be used in the
- middle of a paragraph.
-
- * \pathafterhook added to \path in path.sty, so macros can execute
- cleanup actions.
-
- * The \path command and its friends are documented in the manual.
-
-
- For those of you who haven't heard of Eplain: it is a collection of
- macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless
- of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic
- cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also
- has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of
- plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified
- math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'.
-
- karl@cs.umb.edu
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 07:53:24 -0600
- From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
- Subject: New version of SFPtoPK on FILESERV/Niord
-
- Norm Walsh <walsh@cs.umass.edu> (who has my best wishes in his
- "study-for-comps" semester) forwarded me a new version of his popular
- SFPtoPK. From Norm:
-
- SFPtoPK version 2.1(beta) fixes a small bug in SFPtoPK v2.00.
- If you tried to convert a font that was _both_ small enough
- to fit entirely in memory _and_ had a header shorter than 64
- bytes, SFPtoPK v2.00 would miss the first character in the
- font. The only fonts that I have seen that have a header
- smaller than 64 bytes are old LJ+ softfonts. Unfortunately,
- the PCX2FONT program creates this style of header. My
- apologies for the inconvienience. If you have any trouble,
- please let me know...
-
- The files are available via e-mail as a 6 part UUENCODEd ZIP archive by
- including:
- SENDME SPFONTWARE.SF2PK21B*
- in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
- The file SF2PK21B.ZIP is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from
- Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.SPFONTWARE].
-
- The SPFONTWARE package and directory also includes the rest of Norm's
- convenient utilities to convert Hewlett-Packard softfonts to *and* from
- TeX PK/TFM format. For more information on the files via e-mail, include:
- DIRECTORY SPFONTWARE
- in a mail message to FILESERV. Users of anonymous ftp may retrieve the
- description file (SPFONTWARE.DESCRIPTION) from Niord in the directory
- [FILESERV].
-
- Regards and best wishes to Norm, George
-
- George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU
- Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG
- College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266
- P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612
- Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
- Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net
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