(Message texhax/v94:10) From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution: ; Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #10 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:20:14 +0000 Message-ID: <11271.784567214@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Friday, 11 Nov 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: TeX for Alpha? How to obtain new LaTeX? Proposed merger of UKTeX with TeXhax kpathsea 2.3/dvipsk 5.58c/xdvik 18d/dviljk 2.3 available Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe texhax" or "unsubscribe texhax", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 16:31:59 +0100 From: Julian Barquin Gil Subject: TeX for Alpha? I would very much appreciate any information on the way to get public domain TeX and LaTeX for an alpha workstation. It would be very useful to get a multilingual version. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Julian Barquin Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica C/ Fernando el Catolico 63-D 28015 Madrid, Spain Phone: +-34-1-5449088 e-mai: barquin@iit.upco.es ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 09:55:17 +0800 From: Hu Zejun Subject: How to obtain new LaTeX? Can you tell me how I can get new version for latex? Hu Zejun School of Applied Science Nanyang Technological University Singapore ------------------------------ 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: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 03:40:51 -0400 From: "K. Berry" Subject: kpathsea 2.3/dvipsk 5.58c/xdvik 18d/dviljk 2.3 available New versions of dvipsk/xdvik/dviljk are in the usual place: ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{xdvik,dvipsk,dviljk}.tar.gz ... and CTAN and its mirrors; see the end of this message. Please use the nearest site, to reduce the load on our Sparc 1. The patch that John Interrante and others created for web2c 6.1 for the previous kpathsea release should basically work for this release; you can get that as the file web2c.kpathsea-2.2.help from the above sites. Naturally, I am working on the next release of web2c. It will be ready no sooner than a month or two from now (and perhaps significantly longer); it's no use to ask me precisely when, as I simply do not know. As always, thanks to the many people who contributed. I tried to record names in the ChangeLog entries. Please report bugs to tex-k@cs.umb.edu. Email tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu with a line containing subscribe you@preferred.email.address in the body of the message to join this mailing list. If you only want to see announcements, not bug reports and discussion, subscribe to tex-archive@math.utah.edu instead. (Email tex-archive-request@math.utah.edu to join that list.) kb@cs.umb.edu Help fight the new programming monopolies -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net. Here's the NEWS: kpathsea 2.3 * Extra :'s in an envvar value referring to the texmf.cnf value work. * Names like dpi600/cmr10.pk can be found in ls-R. * KPATHSEA_DEBUG environment variable checked. * Directories like pk/ljfour directly under $TEXMF/fonts are found. * New standalone program, kpsexpand, optionally compiled and installed, to do variable expansion (not path searching). * Debugging output written to stderr instead of stdout. * pxlNNN support removed; I never intended to support `pxl1500'. dvipsk 5.58c * -o and -f once again do not read config.$PRINTER, but a new option -mode and a compile-time default specify the mode. * \special{"...} was never supposed to have a closing quote, so don't omit it. xdvik 18d * New --with-ps={no,gs,dps,news} configure options; gs is still the default. * The file selection can be cancelled. * No complaints about finding 249 dpi if looking for 250. 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