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- Subject: TeX-FAQ-supplement (part 1 of 3)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,news.answers,comp.answers
- From: chenguo@slinky.cs.nyu.edu (Guoying Chen)
- Date: 09 Apr 1994 00:51:25 GMT
-
-
- Archive-name: tex-faq-supplement/part1
- (c)Copyright by Guoying Chen. All rights reserved. 1992-1994
-
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- Supplementary TeX Information [STI.1994.04] (last modified: 4/8/94)
-
- This is the so-called STI (Supplementary TeX Information) file, a supplement
- to the ``Frequently Asked Questions'' maintained by Bobby Bodenheimer
- for newsgroup "comp.text.tex". Note that there is some duplication of material.
- I am grateful to our readers for providing any up-to-date info. This document
- cannot be useful without your input and support. Please send email to me
- (chenguo@slinky.cs.nyu.edu) if you have any suggestions and ideas to
- improve this document.
-
- This file is monthly (hopefully :-) posted to USENET newsgroup
- "comp.text.tex" and cross-posted to "news.answers" and "comp.answers".
- It is in several parts.
- The entire document is reposited in
- CS.NYU.EDU (128.122.140.24) at ~ftp/pub/tex/
- and also in TUG's CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) archivers
- (USA) ftp.shsu.edu
- (UK) ftp.tex.ac.uk
- (Germany) ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
- e.g. in ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.8.13), you can find this doc in
- /pub/tex/help/TeX-FAQ-supplement dir.
-
- It is also always convenient to get this document from rtfm.mit.edu
- in pub/usenet/comp.text.tex dir.
-
- ------------------- Contents of Information ------------------------
- PART I
- [1] Major FTP sites for TeX and its friends
- [1a] Major FTP sites
- [1b] Some mirror sites
- [1c] How to find more sites
- [2] Mail servers for selected sites.
- [3] Systems for TeX and friends
- [3a] TeX for Unix boxes
- [3b] TeX for IBM PC
- [3c] TeX for Macintosh
- [3d] TeX for VMS boxes
- [4] LaTeX macros and styles
- [4a] Basic sites
- [4b] some useful styles and macros
- [5] About Metafont, Fonts
- [6] TeX-related mailing lists.
- [7] Converting whatever <==> TeX
- [8] DVI drivers for printers
- [9] Other-than-English TeX
-
- PART II
- [10] Indexed Product information for TeX and friends
-
- >>> Disclaimer: I can't verify all the information contained herein. <<<
- >>> ----------- If you find an error or want to make an addition, <<<
- >>> please send email to me at chenguo@spunky.cs.nyu.edu. <<<
- >>> <<<
-
- ******************************* PART I *******************************
- [1] Major FTP sites for TeX and its friends
-
- [1a] Major FTP sites
- Please bear in mind the geographical location of the site to which you
- intend to ftp. (This can typically be determined by inspecting the
- last component in the site name.) Overseas links tend to be slow and
- expensive. Choose the closest available site. Most sites discourage
- ftp'ing during normal business hours (local time).
-
- Major archive sites (and their administrators):
-
- ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.8.13] (in CTAN)
- Computing Centre of the University of Stuttgart (RUS), Germany
- Time Zone: +0100 GMT, +0200GMT during summer
- Contact: Barbara Burr <infoadm@rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Rainer Schoepf <texinfo1@rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
- 350MB of TeX files. Works together with tex.ac.uk,
- This archive is the primary source for emTeX, publicTeX, publicMF and
- all styles by Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Schoepf (multicol, verbatim,
- theorem, NFSS, ftnright, array).
-
- labrea.stanford.edu [36.8.0.112]
- Stanford University, California, USA
- Time zone: -0700 GMT
- Suggested hours: Weekends and evenings.
- The "official" repository for TeX and related toys.
-
- pip.shsu.edu [192.92.115.10] (in CTAN)
- Contact: George D. Greenwade (bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET)
- Contains the usual TeX goodies, a large variety of BibTeX style
- files and it's expanding very fast.
-
- ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23]
- The Claremont Colleges, California, USA
- Time zone: -0700 GMT
- Contact: Don Hosek ()
- (so-called the second-largest TeX archive? do not know if it
- keeps up-to-date info ??? )
- Aggresively tracks down packages for downloading.
-
- uk.ac.tex (in CTAN)
- Time Zone: 0000 GMT
- Home of the UKTeX newsletter, and a repository for all sorts
- of things. NOTE! This is not an Internet FTP site! (The FTP
- site is called "TeX.ac.uk", started service since March, 92.)
- Aggresively tracks down packages for downloading.
-
- tex.ac.uk
- The ftp accessible site of uk.ac.tex (see above info).
-
- wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [192.88.110.20]
- White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA
- Time Zone: -0600 GMT
- Contact: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
- Suggested hours: Weekends and evenings
- An archive of MS-DOS and other stuff. TeX-related things
- can be found in the directory pd1:<msdos.tex>.
-
- sun.soe.clarkson.edu [128.153.12.3]
- Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
- Time zone: -0400 GMT
- Assorted things, especially LaTeX style files.
- Apparently has become ``hopelessly out of date'',
- even with bad file protection.
-
- ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17]
- Department of Computer Science, Utrecht Univ., the Netherlands
- Time Zone: +0100 GMT
- Contact: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- Suggested hours: Weekends and evenings (2000 to 0900 UTC)
-
- midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.73]
- Time Zone: -0500 GMT
- Contact: Walter Carlip (oztex@midway.uchicago.edu)
- Home of various Macintosh TeX goodies (in macintosh/tex).
- Requests for any TeX-related things for the Mac can be sent
- to oztex@midway.uchicago.edu and Walter will see if he
- can find it. (How's *that* for dedication!)
-
- uunet.uu.net
- Suggested hours: Normal business hours [NB!]
- Not a TeX archive site, but rather a general-purpose archive
- site. You can find comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.misc
- materials here.
-
- >>> Odds are good that if you want something, one of these sites <<<
- >>> has it. See also section [1c] and [3]. <<<
-
- [1b] Mirror sites.
- yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au [131.170.24.42]
- Mirrors labrea (for users Down Under)
- /pub/tex/labrea
-
- wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
- Mirrors wsmr-simtel20.army.mil.
- /mirrors/msdos
-
- [1c] How to find more sites
- The `archie' server contains file listings for hundreds of ftp sites.
- Telnet to quiche.cs.mcgill.ca [132.206.2.3] and type `archie' when asked
- to log in. Then type `help'. (Currently, it still works!)
- OR, if your system has "archie", a program for querying archie
- anonymous ftp databases using Prospero.
-
- ===========================================================================
- [2] Mail servers for selected sites.
- When using mail servers, bear several points in mind.
- (a) Follow the instructions carefully. Each mail server
- accepts a different dialect of commands. Make sure
- you aren't following server X's instructions when sending
- requests to server Y.
- Mail servers are computer programs and ill-formed requests
- tend to give mail server administrators migraine headaches.
- (I know, I'm one such administrator.)
- (b) Use mail servers only if you cannot obtain the files by
- ftp or other means.
- (c) Requesting large amounts of material via mail servers
- is frowned upon by system administrators. Overuse of
- mail servers may result in the shutdown of said server.
-
- niord.shsu.edu:
- via automatic FILESERV: include your email mesg to
- FILESERV@shsu.edu with
- sendme <subject>
- Questions go to: George D. Greenwade (bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET)
-
- ftp.cs.ruu.nl: mail-server@cs.ruu.nl or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf
- Send the message
- begin
- path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
- send HELP
- end
-
- ftp.uni-stuttgart.de: mail-server@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
- [last confirmed: 30 Sep 91]
- Same instructions as for ftp.cs.ruu.nl.
-
- ymir.claremont.edu: mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu
- To retrieve files from ymir via the mailserver, send a message to
- mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a line saying
-
- send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME
-
- where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and
- FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is
- a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt
- Binary files are not available by this technique.
-
- uk.ac.tex:
- Login as username "public" and password "public". Then get the
- file [tex-archive]00readme.txt. Access via mail server:
- Send a message to texserver@tex.ac.uk
- The message body must contain at least the following three lines
- starting in column 1.
-
- atari.archive.umich.edu: atari@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Send the message "help" to receive instructions.
-
- hearn.bitnet (Nijmegen, The Netherlands):
- Send the message GET TEX-L FILELIST to LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET
-
- DHDURZ1.BITNET: primary source for the VM/CMS implementation and several
- drivers for IBM printers. Send a message containing the following three
- lines to <LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.BITNET>
-
- HELP
- GET README FIRST TEX
- GET TEX FILELIST
-
- ===========================================================================
- [3] Systems for TeX and friends
-
- [3a] TeX for Unix boxes
- get unix version from CTAN's /tex-archive/systems/unix.
- e.g. ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.8.13)
-
- See also [10] of PART II for other ftp sites for UNIX TeX package.
- Note that the site at university of washington has suspended the
- service due to the budget cut. (contact mackay@cs.washington.edu)
-
- [3b] TeX for IBM PC
- -------------------
- The definitive source for public domain PC TeX-related software is Jon
- Radel. His catalog which is currently >= 40 pages long contains several
- versions of TeX for the PC, device drivers, fonts, macros, TUG
- documents, etc. The physical distribution of the disks has been taken
- over by TUG. The catalog should be free for the asking. The final
- determination on prices for disks has not yet been determined, but
- for the moment, software is distributed on 5.25" 360K and 1.2M floppy
- disks. 3.5" disks are available by prior arrangement. There is a
- charge of $3.50/floppy in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico; $4.00/floppy
- elsewhere.
-
- Major sources of ftp sites are listed in part [1a] and [10].
- particularly see
- DOSTeX, emTeX, emTeX386, Public TeX, SBTeX and related entries in [10].
-
- [3c] TeX for Macintosh
- -----------------------
- o Textures (lowercase 'x') [C]:
- A nice system, fast, and well-featured. The editor leaves a
- little to be desired, but with a good DA editors, that's not a big issue.
-
- If you buy it from the TeX Users Group, they will get the vendor royalty.
- TeX Users Group
- P.O. Box 9506
- Providence, RI 02940-9506
- Phone: 401-751-7760
-
- The publisher is Blue Sky Research,
- 534 SW Third Avenue, Portland, OR 97204.
-
- o OzTeX: You can't beat the price on this one. It's free (public
- domain even). It comes with source, and a web-to-modula2 program.
- The nice (or not) feature of this program is that it uses PK and TFM files
- directly (unlike Textures which bundles them into Mac formats).
- Another nice feature is that OzTeX creates dvi files directly.
-
- Available via anonymous ftp from:
-
- midway.uchicago.edu in pub/sources/OzTeX.
- watmsg.waterloo.edu (129.97.129.9) in pub/oztex.
- ymir.claremont.edu (goes without saying)
-
- o DirectTeX: runs under MPW (Apple's development system with a
- command line interface, making it look a bit UNIX-alike.
- It can be found on ftp.uni-stuttgart.de in the directory:
- pub/mac/tex/directtex
- Note that DirectTeX is ShareWare.
-
- x MacTeX: FTL is officially defunct, and MacTeX is no longer available.
-
- o CTeX: The web2c version ported to the Mac (under MPW).
- Available from ymir and midway.
-
- ? An ArborText representative posted the following:
- 535 W. William St. / Suite 300 / Ann Arbor, MI 48103 / USA
- (313) 996-3566 (voice)
- (313) 996-3573 (fax)
- help@arbortext.com: email address for product support.
-
- [3d] TeX for VMS boxes
- ----------------------
- TeX ymir.claremont.edu [p] for VMS
- TeX Aston Archive [tex-archive.tex.vms]tex.ch.
- TeX Northlake Software [C] email toTeX@nls.com
- ============================================================================
- [4] LaTeX styles and macros
-
- From the issue of March, 1992, we began providing brief information about
- main sites that archive LaTeX style files, and some additional info.
- This part is not an attempt to list all sites exhaustively, but a
- guide for searching your desired style files potentially available in
- these resources.
- Your contributions and comments to this part are especially welcome.
-
- Notice that dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) has compiled
- a "TeX Index" for TeX styles. Contact him for more info if you cannot
- find the style you want from following sources.
-
- [4a] basic Sites How to Get It
- ------------------ ----------------------
- labrea.stanford.edu via anon ftp, dir: tex/latex
- Basic LaTeX styles
-
- niord.shsu.edu [192.92.115.8] via anon ftp or via automatic FILESERV.
- via ftp dir: [FILESERV.STY]
- Look at the file [FILESERV.Description] for highlight info.
- via automatic FILESERV: include your email mesg to FILESERV@shsu.edu with
- sendme <subject>
- Questions go to: George D. Greenwade (bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET)
-
- ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.8.13] via anon ftp
- dir: /pub/tex/latex/sty -- Basic styles
- dir: /pub/tex/latex-style-supported
- /pub/tex/latex-style-unsupported -- others unsupported
-
- sun.soe.clarkson.edu via anon ftp or via archive-server
- via ftp dir: pub/tex/latex-style
- Download the file "Index" to know what it has, and
- Description file for what they are.
- Mainly are additional contributions to basic styles
- via archive-server: include a mesg in your email like
- sendme help
- for instructions.
-
- ymir.claremont.edu anonymous ftp,
- dir: [anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib]
- over 200 style files (as of 03/92) with some documented examples
-
-
- [4b] Some useful styles and macros: (Examples and other relevant information)
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- bigstart.sty comp.text.tex author: smith@gramian.harvard.edu
- (posted March 25, 1992)
-
- bnf.sty ftp.cs.kun.nl at pub/tex-bnf
- (131.174.32.1) by (hugh@cs.kun.nl)
-
- chomsky.sty For drawing hierarchical tree diagrams. TeXhax issue #54
-
- citesort.sty comp.text.tex macros to sort citation lists
- Post Dec.11, 1991 by Ian Green (img@eng.cam.ac.uk)
-
- comment.sty niord.shsu.edu SYS6:[MX.FILESERV.STY]
- comment out blocks of text
-
- cprog.sty anon ftp from sun.soe.clarkson.edu
- by Eamonn McManus at dir: /pub/tex/latex-style
- Lets you typeset C++ directly into LaTeX without needing a preprocessor.
-
- fancybox.sty
- fancyheadings.sty by piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
- ftp.cs.ruu.nl multi-line header/footers and much more
- 131.211.80.17 TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.{doc,sty}
-
- fax.sty ftp.sisu.se pub/fax.sty (uddeborg@sisu.se)
-
- floatfig.sty ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
- in /soft/tex/latex-style-supported/floatfig
-
- labels.sty comp.text.tex sty file for printing sheets of labels
- (posted Jan 2. 1992) spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
-
- longtable.sty SHSU.edu at [STY] dir
-
- lslide.sty comp.text.tex LaTeX/AmSLaTeX style for
- (posted March 29,1992) slide typesetting
- Author: youngryu@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Young U. Ryu)
- ftp site: ftp.cc.utexas.edu [128.83.186.13] pub/young
-
- multicol.sty ftp.cs.ruu.nl [p] LaTeX multicolumn style
- ymir.claremont.edu [p] by Frank Mittelbach
- balances columns on partial pages, lets you switch between single
- and double column modes on the same page.
-
- outline.sty fileserv@shsu.edu
- by Peter Halvorson (peter@fission.gatech.edu)
-
- portland.sty ymir.claremont.edu portrait and landscape in the same
- LaTeX document
-
- rcs.sty (posted to comp.text.tex) by wstomv@wsinpa01.win.tue.nl
- include RCS (Revision Control System) keyword strings in a LaTeX
- document such that the keyword values can be referred to in the document.
-
- rot.tex/rot.sty augean.ua.oz.au for rotated TeX or LaTeX
- pub/misc/rotate.tar.Z
- People who obtained rot.{tex,sty} before 24 Feb 91 should grab a new
- version. (A subtle bug fix appeared then.)
-
- seminar.sty princeton.edu making seminar slides
- pub/seminar.tar.Z
-
- supertab.sty ymir.claremont.edu tables that can span pages
- [anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib]
-
- twoup.sty son.sue.clarkson.edu two-up LaTeX style file
-
- tugboat.sty and friends ftp: SHSU.edu at [.TUGBOAT.FTP]
-
- ucthesis.sty shsu.edu U California thesis style
-
- vita.sty (posted to comp.text.tex by Kim C. Border (kcb@hss.caltech.edu))
- Curriculum vita style based on _A Handbook for Scholars_
- by Mary-Claire van Leunen.
-
- xarticle.sty ymir.claremont.edu article style for 7pt 8pt and 9pt
- [anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib]
-
- ===============================================================================
- [5] About Metafont, fonts
- Liam R. E. Quin (lee@sq.sq.com) posted a digest document about
- available Metafont Fonts in comp.text.tex, on 3 May 92 03:48:55 GMT.
- Part II section [10] lists some of avail fonts for Metafont in PUBLIC DOMAIN.
- See also section [9] for relevant information along with Other-than-English TeX.
-
- CMTTSS package: includes the METAFONT source files for Arthur Ogawa's
- <ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov> family of fixed pitch, sans serif, condensed
- fonts. These fonts are provided in three weights (light, regular, and
- bold) and are based on cmbase and cmtt10. To retrieve the package,
- ftp Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.CMTTSS].
-
- ===============================================================================
- [6] TeX-related mailing lists
-
- There are two basic classes of mailing lists. The UNIX-style one
- and the BITNET-style one. For UNIX-style mailing lists, send your
- add request to the address provided. A human being will respond.
- For BITNET-style mailing lists, send a message to the LISTSERV address
- provided containing the line
-
- SUB name-of-mailing-list your-name
-
- For example,
- SUB YUNUS Guoying Chen
- and a computer program will respond.
-
- You can tell the difference because the UNIX-style ones are just an
- address, while the BITNET-style ones have a name plus an address.
-
- cct-Digest: Good for those without net access. (thanks to
- bed_gdg@SHSU.edu (George D. Greenwade) )
- Ctt-Digest includes posts made to comp.text.tex, excluding
- (a) posts which got there from INFO-TeX and (b) the
- periodicals which are carried on TeX-Pubs (TeXhax Digest,
- UKTeX Digest, the FAQ and FAQ Supplement, TeXMaG, and TUG's "TeX
- and TUG News").
- The archives of the Digest are retained on Niord. For the most recent
- month are retained in [.COMP-TEXT-TEX]COMP-TEXT-TEX.yyyy-mm-dd; prior
- archives are in the ZIP files [.COMP-TEXT-TEX.00_COMPRESSED]yy-mm-dd.ZIP;
- indices for each month are in [.COMP-TEXT-TEX]COMP-TEXT-TEX.yyyy-mm-INDEX.
-
- To subscribe to ctt-Digest, include the command:
- SUBSCRIBE ctt-Digest "Your Real Name in Quotes"
- in the body of a mail message to LISTSERV@SHSU.BITNET (LISTSERV@SHSU.edu).
-
- emTeX mailing list: emtex@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de for subscription
- emtex-user@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de for sending articles
-
- INFO-TeX: INFO-TeX on LISTSERV@SHSU.edu or INFO-TeX-Request@shsu.edu
-
- METAFONT discuss mailing list:
- To subscribe to this list, send the following two lines to
- ``listserv@ens.fr'' on the Internet:
-
- SUBSRIBE METAFONT $<$Your name and affiliation$>$
- SET METAFONT MAIL ACK
-
- the owner is Jacques Beigbeder (``beig@ens.fr''), coordinator
- is Yannis Haralambous (``yannis@gat.citilille.fr'')
-
- MuTeX/MusicTeX mailing list: mutex-request@stolaf.edu
-
- Russian TeX: RUSTEX-L on LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
-
- Spanish TeX: Submissions: spanish-tex@uu.es
- Subscription and administration: spanish-tex-request@uu.es
-
- TeXhax: Subscription requests and administration to
- Internet TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk
- Janet TeXhax-Request@uk.ac.tex
- Contributions: Internet TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
- Janet TeXhax@uk.ac.tex
-
- Turkish TeX: YUNUS on LISTSERV@TRMETU.BITNET
-
-
- ===============================================================================
- [7] Converting whatever <==> TeX
-
- Only the names of programs are presented here. Refer to section [10]
- to see where to get them from. This information is based on a summary
- by Mark James (jamesm@procor.dialogic.com) posted on 28 Aug 90. Please
- also note Dana Jacobsen (jacobsd@solar.cor2.epa.gov) compiled a list
- about bibtex, refer and conversion tools in September 1992. All
- program on his list are avail at cerberus.cor.epa.gov (134.67.4.48) in
- /pub/bibtools.
-
- BibTeX -> refer - refer-to-bibtex
- BibTeX -> tib - refer-to-bibtex
- ChiWriter -> TeX - Chi2TeX by Horstmann Software, US$75
- LaTeX -> Framemaker - la2mml
- MS-Word -> La/TeX - wd2latex.zip
- PC-Write -> TeX - pcwritex.arc, pcwtex.zoo
- refer -> BibTeX - refer-to-bibtex, r2bib
- RTF -> troff - rtf-tools
- RTF -> TeX - rtf2TeX
- RUNOFF -> TeX - RUNOFF-to-TeX
- scribe -> LaTeX - scribe2latex, s2latex
- TeXinfo -> troff - texinfo2troff, texi2roff
- tib -> BibTeX - refer-to-bibtex
- troff -> LaTeX - TROFF-TO-LATEX.TAR-Z, tr2latex
- troff -> TeX - tr2tex, textr
- WordPerfect -> LaTeX - wp2latex.zip, wp2x
- WordPerfect -> TeX - wp2x
-
- ===============================================================================
- [8] DVI drivers for printer X/display Y
-
- You can ftp a substantial listing of whatever-to-dvi
- converters from ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.drivers.info].
- Here are some supplementary:
-
- Printer/Display Recent queries from
- --------------- -------------------
- HP DeskJet Martin v.d. Boogaard reports:
- The version of Beebe's driver I tried to use was
- adapted by Paul Kirkaas (kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu) and
- Peter Lamb (prl@iis.uucp).
-
- HP DeskJet on PC emTeX on PC supports it (see also emTeX)
-
- HP LaserJet II, IIP,III, on Sun and PC
- darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu reports:
- Gustaf Neumann's dvi2xx5? is said to compile on Unix
- for source: look at pd1:<msdos.tex> on simtel20.army.mil
-
- Xerox 8700 mdeck@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mary Deck) suggests
- TeXrox, by Thomas J. Reid of Texas A & M University
- support Xerox 9700/9790, 8700/8790, 4050
- Contact: x066tr@tamvm1.bitnet
-
- ===============================================================================
- [9] Other-than-English TeX and friends
- From time to time, people ask about the avalaibility of TeX processing
- languages other than English. From this issue (June 1992), we summarize
- all info we have here:
-
- In standard Unix TeX distribution, it includes the babel package, a
- collection of various language fonts:
- Classical Greek, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Modern Icelandic, Cyrillic,
- Modern Turkish, German (Gothic/Fraktur).
- On host ymir.claremont.edu, you might be able to find more other langs
- under the directory LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.BABEL].
-
- For other languages, you might want to look at these (might be the lastest):
-
- Arabic: pylos.nmsu.edu see pub dir.
- see ArabTeX
-
- Chinese:
- see pmC --- poorman's Chinse TeX
- cc2tex --
- ChTeX --
- the good sites to find interesting Chinese text processing stuff
- are crl.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.14), pylos.nmsu.edu and ahkcus.org.
- With much more recent stuff are sites of ifcss.org and cnd.org.
-
- Dutch:
- see dutchsort.bib -- sorts non-English (esp. Dutch) names properly.
- hyphenation (Danish, Dutch, English)
-
- French: Gaulle Bernard <gaulle@circe.fr> informed me that
- The french-speaking TeX Users Group (GUTenberg) has is own archives on
- ftp.cicb.fr (129.20.128.2) at /pub/GUTenberg
- The appropriate stuff for French-Speaking users is available also
- separately in his distribution called "the french style files"
- which includes hyphenation & abbreviation files, (La)TeX style, etc.
- with inline documentation and test files, at /pub/GUTenberg/french.
- All other french stuffs around the world are now obsoleted (specially:
- french.sty < V3.10, fhyphen.tex, francais.sty).
-
- see also epelle -- French spelling checker, incl. accents
-
- German:
- see Babel
- German dictionary
- ascii2german.sh -- converts "ae" "oe" "ue" and "ss" to
- the appropriate German characters
- Greek: (kd@doc.ic.ac.uk)
- Purpose: including/typesetting greek text in TeX/LaTeX.
- Release features: TeX and LaTeX compatibility, full accentuation,
- hyphenation, LaTeX-styles for article, book etc.
- The new release includes: font bug fixes, automated installation
- procedures for UN*X and DOS systems and a set of utilites including
- C-source for greek text converters.
-
- The latest release of GreekTeX for the kd family of fonts is version
- 3.1 and can be found in (146.169.21.1)
- laotzu.doc.ic.ac.uk:/public/tex/kdgreek3.1.tar.Z
- or the UK TeX archive and any mirroring site.
-
- Hebrew:
- see Babel
- see also hebkb110, Hebrew TeX
-
- Irish: (of computer modern fonts) iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- ftp.uni.stuttgart.de:/soft/tex/fonts/eiad
- see its instruction file Leigh_me
- Italian:
- see hyphenation (Italian)
-
- Japanese:
- see Nihongo TeX (ASCII Nihongo TeX)
- ASCII Nihongo TeX is developed by the ASCII Corp. The current
- version is 1.7 based on the original TeX 2.99. Its package
- also includes pTeX (publishing TeX) which experimentally
- supports vertical typesetting.
- see JTeX (NTT JTeX)
- NTT JTeX was originally developed by Mr.Saito of NTT Corp.,
- is now maintained by Mr.Sakurai (sakurai@math.metro-u.ac.jp).
- The current version 1.32 is based on the original TeX 3.14.
- see JEMTEX
- see pmJ -- poorman's Japanese
-
-
- Korean: (Hangul)
- What "hlatex" does is to translate KS-Codes to control sequences
- that may be recognized by standard TeX executable.
- leesch@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr (lee.sok_chan) reports:
- you need Korean Editors, Hangul Emulators to using Hangul TeX.
- All Wanted Sources are available from anonymous ftp service supported by
- CAIR.KAIST.AC.KR[143.248.11.170] with *.TAR.Z files.
- cair.kaist.ac.kr:/pub/hangul/*
- Recommend Emulator: Hanterm, which is a patched Xterm version
-
- see also hlatex
-
- Pashto : see ArabTeX
- Persian: see ArabTeX
-
- Polish:
- see hyphenation (Polish)
-
- Portuguese:
- see hyphenation (Portuguese)
-
- Russian: Peter Lanius (planius@ips102.desy.de) reports that
- Alexander Samarin from IHEP, Protvino (Russia) is the
- person to ask. Email: SAMARIN@VXCERN.CERN.CH
-
- Turkish:
- see Babel
-
- Urdu: see ArabTeX
-
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- Claudio Fleiner (fleinerc@cfruni52.bitnet) reports his experience in
- using hyphenation-pattersn for different laguages (including accented
- char's) in LaTeX. The needed files are:
- NFSS: at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.8.13]
- in soft/tex/macros/latex/styles/base/nfss
- DC-Fonts: at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.8.13]
- in soft/tex/fonts/metafont/dc
- DC-Style: at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.8.13]
- in soft/tex/latex-styles-supported/nfss-dc
-
- Hyphenation-Patterns:
- german: included in dc-font
- french: use the INRS-Patterns and convert them for the
- dc-fonts (you may get them from me
- (fleinerc@cfruni52.bitnet)
- italian, spanish:
- look in the directory soft/tex/hyphenation
- at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
- also Julio Sanchez (jsanchez@gmv.es)'s pattern
- family generation script can be found on goya.uu.es
- on dir src/TeX/spanish.
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