(Message texhax/v96:15) Resent: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:18:37 +0000 Resent: texhax-outgoing@nottingham.ac.uk Resent: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:16:56 +0000 Resent: texhax@nottingham.ac.uk From texhax-digest-owner@nottingham.ac.uk Thu Dec 19 18:12:44 1996 Received: from nottingham.ac.uk (jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.193]) by granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA20933 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:12:43 GMT Received: from majordom by nottingham.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.58 #10) id 0vamxI-0004Im-00; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:12:28 +0000 From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #15 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest Precedence: bulk Message-Id: Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:12:28 +0000 TeXhax Digest Thursday, 19 December 1996 Volume 96 : Number 015 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: New version of AMS-LaTeX released Latex e-TeX is released Plain TeX query about \font correct way to write Makefile? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bbeeton Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 08:24:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: New version of AMS-LaTeX released An interim release of the AMS-LaTeX version 1.2 macro collection has been posted. This release fixes a number of bugs, and documents others that have not yet been fixed, but are known and are on the list for attention when time becomes available. The documentation has been extensively revised and users are requested to pay careful attention to the READ.ME file. In particular, AMS-LaTeX 1.2 now requires a version of LaTeX2e no earlier than December 1994. The canonical home site for this collection is e-math.ams.org for ftp, or at http://www.ams.org/tex for those who prefer a Web connection. The collection has also been mirrored onto CTAN (locations shown are relative to the root of the tex archive at the particular site): location on e-math: location on CTAN: /pub/tex/amslatex under macros/latex/packages/amslatex The other AMS collections are available from the same AMS servers and have now been installed on CTAN in these new locations: location on e-math: location on CTAN: /pub/tex/amsfonts under fonts/amsfonts /pub/tex/amsltx11 under macros/latex209/contrib/amslatex /pub/tex/amstex under macros/amstex At CTAN, the changes have been made at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de; they will propagate to the mirrors in due course. Only the AMS-LaTeX collection has been updated; some minor changes are under construction in the AMSFonts and AMS-TeX collections, and a separate announcement will be made when these are posted. ------------------------------ From: zadokh@rafael.co.il (Zadok Hougui) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:23:22 +0200 Subject: Latex Hi Do you know where I could download a copy of Latex for use on an IBM PC compatible? (for a windows 3.1 or windows 95 environment) Thanks Zadok ========================================================================== Sadok Hougui 32 Lehi St. Kiryat Bialik, 27000 Israel Home phone: (972)-4-8740167 e-mail: zadokh@rafael.co.il ------------------------------ From: Philip Taylor Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:55:17 GMT Subject: e-TeX is released Dear Colleagues -- I am delighted to be able to tell you that after a protracted period of design and development, e-TeX is now formally released. In summary, e-TeX is an evolutionary (rather that revolutionary) development of TeX, and is 100%-compatible, including compatibility at the level of the TRIP test. However, it is also capable of operating in "extended" mode, in which case it adds approximately 30 new primitives to the TeX language whilst remaining completely compatible with TeX if none of the new primitives are used, and in "enhanced" mode, in which case it adds functionality (for the first release, TeX--XeT) at the expense of compatibility. Reference implementations are available for VMS (both VAX & AXP) and MS/DOS, the former implementation being primarily the work of Christian Spieler whilst the latter is the work of Peter Breitenlohner. As this message is being sent to TeX-Implementors as well as to the NTS and TeX lists, we hope that new implementations will become available in the near future. For further information on e-TeX, and for access to the sources and reference implementations, please see: http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/e-TeX/ Philip Taylor, for and on behalf of the e-TeX team / NTS group. ------------------------------ From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:45:13 GMT Subject: Plain TeX query about \font If you do: \font\titlefont=cmssdc10 \ifx\titlefont\nullfont \wlog{Using \string\nullfont}% \fi \bye You get the following message in the log file: Using \nullfont But if there is a blank line between the \font... and the \ifx... this does not happen. I would not expect to get the message anyway so why does it happen and why does inserting a blank line cure it? Thanks in advance for any help. Colin Mason. ------------------------------ From: Steve Kelem Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 09:30:11 -0800 Subject: correct way to write Makefile? What's the correct way to create a Makefile for LaTeX? I'm not sure how to capture the business about having to run: latex (Extract citations.) bibtex (Create the bibliography.) latex (Incorporate bibliography.) latex (Resolve references.) Thanks, /7\'7 Steve Kelem (408)879-5347 Steve.Kelem@xilinx.com \\ ` Xilinx FAX: (408)377-3259 // 2100 Logic Drive \\/.\ San Jose, California 95124 So far, I have the following, but it doesn't capture the above requirements. .SUFFIXES : $(LATEX_SUFFIXES) $(SUFFIXES) LATEX_SUFFIXES = .aux .bbl .blg .dvi .ilg .idx .ind .lof .log .lot .toc all : pop.ps %.ps : %.dvi dvips OPTIONS $*.dvi %.ind : %.idx makeindex $* %.bbl : %.aux bibtex $* %.dvi %.aux : %.tex latex $*.tex ------------------------------ End of TeXhax Digest V96 #15 **************************** About TeXhax... 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