(Message uktex/v94:42) From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #42 Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:14:46 +0000 Message-ID: <10597.784566886@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 11 Nov 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 42 Today's Topics: ftp site for TeX pk fonts (for UNIX system)? Re: ftp site for TeX pk fonts (for UNIX system)? LaTeX2e for MSDOS? Shibi Eshkar: LateX2e LateX2e Re: LateX2e Time delay in web2c-6.1 LaTeX2e LOOKING for ``\multirow'' in TABULAR environment [Q] Get MakeTeXPK to use /tmp Proposed merger of UKTeX with TeXhax Draft of typeset version of the FAQ Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (UK TeX Users Group) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe uktex" or "unsubscribe uktex", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 12:05:05 +0000 From: yfcw29@castle.ed.ac.uk (Alice Holt) Subject: ftp site for TeX pk fonts (for UNIX system)? I need to get hold of some pk fonts for TeX on a UNIX (SunOS) system. Could someone tell me the internet address of an FTP site that I could use, and where to find them. Thanks in advance. Tim Porter, Forestry Commission, Alice Holt Lodge. ------------------------------ Date: 31 Oct 1994 14:02:58 +0000 From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) Subject: Re: ftp site for TeX pk fonts (for UNIX system)? In article , Alice Holt wrote: >I need to get hold of some pk fonts for TeX on a UNIX (SunOS) system. >Could someone tell me the internet address of an FTP site that I >could use, and where to find them. As a general rule you can always get what's available from any CTAN archive. In our case, the local one is ftp.tex.ac.uk (here in Cambridge). There are some cm ones in tex-archive/fonts/cm/pk; there are .zip files of sets at 120, 240 and 300 dpi, and at 300 dpi for a write- white printer engine. (You're *much* better off building your own...) - -- Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Nov 1994 19:54:00 +0000 From: drg@cs.city.ac.uk (David Gilbert) Subject: LaTeX2e for MSDOS? I use emtex on my PC, and would like to upgrade to latex2e, since this is now the standard at my work. Is this available for MSDOS? David Gilbert D R Gilbert tel: +44-71-477-8444 (direct) Department of Computer Science fax: +44-71-477-8587 School of Informatics City University email: drg@cs.city.ac.uk Northampton Square uucp email: drg@citycs.uucp London EC1V 0HB UK ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 09:20:08 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: Shibi Eshkar: LateX2e I received the following on the UKTUG enquiries mail address. Answers please to M[sr] Eshkar, not to me (I know about LaTeX2e) - ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 10 Nov 94 10:11:24 +0200 From: shibi@mri.elscint.co.il (Shibi Eshkar) Message-Id: <9411100811.AA03700@mri.elscint.co.il> To: uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk Subject: LateX2e Sender: shibi@mri.elscint.co.il Dear Sir or Madam, I am a consultant to an Israeli Software house. They have received a package called LateX2e, (Latex to Epsilon), and I have been trying to install it. We are using a SGI chal2 machine (OS Version 5.2), once I try to unpack the files, using iniTex, I get the message "I cannot read tex.pool". I was wondering if you are familiar with this package ?, (it's origins are from Germany I believe), or if you have information on other packages who perform the same task). Thank you for your reply, Elisheva Eshkar shibi@mri.elscint.co.il (shibi@mri.elscint.co.il). - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 09:25:04 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: Re: LateX2e > I am a consultant to an Israeli Software house. They have received > a package called LateX2e, (Latex to Epsilon), No; a small (epsilon) improvement on LaTeX 2 > and I have been trying > to install it. > We are using a SGI chal2 machine (OS Version 5.2), once I try to > unpack the files, using iniTex, I get the message "I cannot read > tex.pool". This is due to incorrect installation of your TeX system. I'm afraid I can't help you -- I've never installed TeX on Unix, and never used an SGI machine at all. > I was wondering if you are familiar with this package ?, (it's > origins are from Germany I believe), or if you have information on > other packages who perform the same task). 2e is now the only supported version of LaTeX. If you want LaTeX, it's what you get. Its origins are the USA, Germany, Holland and the UK (at least). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 16:43:44 +0000 From: David_Rhead@vme.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Time delay in web2c-6.1 LaTeX2e If I put a simple LaTeX 2.09 test file \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \begin{document} Text \end{document} through LaTeX 2.09, it takes about 5 seconds from when I press [return] to when I get my next prompt from the Unix shell. (The TeX was built from web2c some years ago.) If I put the LaTeX2e equivalent \documentclass[11pt]{article} \begin{document} Text \end{document} through LaTeX 2e, it takes 15-to-20 seconds to do the same thing. The TeX, LaTeX2e, etc., were built recently from Karl Berry's web2c-6.1, which gives TeX version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) and LaTeX2e patch level 4. The C compiler was gcc 2.5.8 with optimization turned on. As far as I know, there are no relevant hardware differences (i.e., I think the web2c-6.1 LaTeX 2.1 material is on the same disk as the LaTeX 2.09 material and can be accessed as quickly). With the web2c-6.1 LaTeX2e, the time seems to be spent in initialization somewhere. E.g., if I go latex2e no-such-file it takes about 15 seconds before I get told I can't find file `no-such-file'. If I go latex2e test where test.tex contains just \documentclass[11pt]{article} \begin{document} Text \end{document} it takes about 15 seconds between the ... patch level 4 and ... article.cls messages. The phenomemenon has been observed on a SUN and on an ICL DRS6000. It is stopping us putting LaTeX2e into user service (since the users' perception would be that "This so-called improvement actually makes things worse".) Can anyone offer any insight into why there might be this delay, and what we can do to avoid it? David Rhead ------------------------------ Date: 08 Nov 1994 10:07:32 +0000 From: gabi@ani.univie.ac.at (Gabriele Kotsis) Subject: LOOKING for ``\multirow'' in TABULAR environment Is there any possibility to produce a table like this in LaTeX: - ----------------------------- | text | text | text | text | - ----------------------------- | text | | text | text | - -------- text --------------- | text | text | text | text | - -------- text --------------- | text | | text | text | - ----------------------------- I.e. what I want to have is a command, that allows me to produce text which expands over several rows, something similar to a \multicolumn command. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance, Gabriele Kotsis P.S. I am using LaTeX 2.09 (TeX 3.14) on a SUN workstation. P.P.S I do NOT want to install LaTeX2e! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 10:08:19 +0000 From: stopsdj@aston.ac.uk (David Stops) Subject: [Q] Get MakeTeXPK to use /tmp When attempting to run xdvi (18d) I get the error message /usr/local/bin/MakeTeXPK: Could not mkdir /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk/cx Which is not surprising as /usr/local is a read only file system. What do I have to alter to get xdvi to write this information to /tmp thanks in advance David ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:03:36 +0000 From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Proposed merger of UKTeX with TeXhax It's proposed to merge the UKTeX Digest and TeXhax Digest to form one TeX-oriented digest of e-mail questions, answers and announcements. Since the UK TeX Archive (formerly at Aston University, now located at Cambridge University) has now become part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN), there's no longer any real need for a UK-oriented TeX digest, for which UKTeX was set up in 1987. A single digest for discussing all TeX matters simplifies the issue of "which digest do I post to, or should I post to both?". The intention is to merge the lists of subscribers at the end of this year and that after that date, articles posted to UKTeX will continue to be accepted, but will appear in TeXhax with articles posted to that digest. TeXhax will continue, being the "senior" digest with the larger list of subscribers. One difference between the digests is that UKTeX appears weekly, while TeXhax appears much less frequently depending on number of articles submitted. To begin with, at least, the plan is to post the new TeXhax weekly. Comments are welcomed (directly to me, please) and I'll summarise any responses to the digests in a few weeks. ~~David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 09:55:52 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: Draft of typeset version of the FAQ The UKTUG committee is working on a new version of the TeX FAQ, for publication in the UKTUG magazine Baskerville. I have just installed the current state of the work on ftp.tex.ac.uk in tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/faq/ -- it should propagate to the other CTAN sites soon (by the time this digest is published, at least). We would welcome any comments that interested parties may have to make. In particular, additions to the list of `required questions' (preferably with ready-supplied answers...) are solicited. There are one or two queries (the footnotes typeset in typewriter), which remain to be answered. Interesting files are: *.tex,*.sty should enable you to typeset the document, if that's what turns you on... Typesetting requires a current production LaTeX2e newfaq.dvi typeset to require current psnfss2e-style times and helvetica fonts newfaq-cm.dvi typeset in computer modern newfaq.ps set for a 300dpi printer (the only remaining one I have access to...) required-questions questions that _I_ know remain to be answered ChangeLog Well, you might find it interesting (I don't particularly) A WWW version of the thing is available at URL http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes We intend to make a plain text version to be fed back to Bobby Bodenheimer; the effort proceeds with his blessing... Robin Fairbairns Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html ------------------------------ End of UKTeX Digest [Volume 94 Issue 42] ****************************************