Article 145307 of comp.text.tex: From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk (TeXhax Digest) Subject: TeXhax Digest V1999 #6 Date: 4 Jun 1999 18:49:45 +0100 Organization: ACS, The University of Nottingham X-Trace: oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk 928518586 1364 128.243.241.164 (4 Jun 1999 17:49:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nottingham.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Jun 1999 17:49:46 GMT Organisation: (University of Nottingham - mail2news gateway) TeXhax Digest Friday, June 4 1999 Volume 1999 : Number 006 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Two important new books Re: Two important new books TtH and bibliographic entries `Final' location for the UK TUG FAQ New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:46:15 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Subject: Two important new books Last night, I bought two important new books which have just appeared at bookstores in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: The preface to the first begins: This books brings together more than 30 articles nad notes that I have written about the subject of digital typography, popularly called ``desktop publishing''. ... I guess I must have ink in my veins. @String{pub-CSLI = "CSLI Publications"} @String{pub-CSLI:adr = "Stanford, CA, USA"} @Book{Knuth:1999:DT, author = "Donald E. Knuth", title = "Digital Typography", publisher = pub-CSLI, address = pub-CSLI:adr, pages = "xvi + 685", year = "1999", ISBN = "1-57586-011-2 (cloth), 1-57586-010-4 (paperback)", LCCN = "Z249.3.K59 1998", bibdate = "Sat May 08 07:52:35 1999", price = "US\$29.95", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, } The second book is the long-awaited definition of PostScript Language Level 3. While previous editions of several Adobe PostScript books had a distinctive spine, with red at the top, and white at the bottom, this new one unfortunately has a black spine, with red and white lettering, making it harder to spot on a bookshelf. The cover retains the old red/white style. Although Apple and Xante have been shipping printers with Level 3 support for more than two years, Hewlett-Packard (visit them at http://www.hp.com/go/printers) only in the last few months, with the new HP Color LaserJet 8500, offers such support, and the number two printer vendor, Lexmark, has yet to do so. @String{pub-AW = "Ad{\-d}i{\-s}on-Wes{\-l}ey"} @String{pub-AW:adr = "Reading, MA, USA"} @Book{Adobe:1999:PLR, author = "{Adobe Systems Incorporated}", title = "{PostScript} Language Reference", publisher = pub-AW, address = pub-AW:adr, edition = "Third", pages = "xii + 897", year = "1999", ISBN = "0-201-37922-8", LCCN = "QA76.73.P67 P67 1999", bibdate = "Sat May 08 07:43:15 1999", price = "US\$49.95, CDN\$74.95", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, } - -------------------------------- Entries for these books, and related publications, can be found in the bibliography archives at ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.* ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/postscri.* ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/texbook3.* http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-m.html#master http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-p.html#postscri http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table-t.html#texbook3 The master Web page for these collections can be found at http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/index-table.html with brief journal tables-of-contents at http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/toc/ and extensive cross-referenced journal article indexes at http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/idx/index.html These collections are mirrored regularly to several other Internet archives, include the huge Karlsruhe Computer Science archive at http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/ That page includes pointers to eight mirror sites around the globe. The Karlsruhe archive contains about 930,000 entries, of which 232,659 come from the Utah archive. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - - - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org - - - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 12:36:03 -0400 From: Y&Y Support Line Subject: Re: Two important new books At 08:46 AM 99/05/08 -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: >Although Apple and Xante have been shipping printers with Level 3 >support for more than two years, Hewlett-Packard (visit them at >http://www.hp.com/go/printers) only in the last few months, with the Which is no doubt related to the fact that they just spent an enormous amount of effort creating a reliable clone for PS level II. >new HP Color LaserJet 8500, offers such support, and the number two >printer vendor, Lexmark, has yet to do so. Regards, Berthold. mailto:support@YandY.com http://www.YandY.com (Y) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 18:17:30 +0100 From: "Massimo Pinto" Subject: TtH and bibliographic entries I am trying to use TtH (TeX to HTML) from the MiKTeX 1.20 distribution. My main problem is that I cannot make TtH find my bibliographic entries, it is issuing error messages as: no bibcite for "Pinto98" no bibcite for "Pinto99" and whatever the "key" is. My .aux and .bbl files are in the same directory as my .tex file is, and when I run LaTeX od PDFTeX my document comes out fine. I think it is something that I am missing with TtH. Also, it does not convert EPS to GIF, when instructed to do so. Any suggestion? Massimo - ----------------------------------------------- Massimo Pinto Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust pinto@graylab.ac.uk - ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:36:29 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: `Final' location for the UK TUG FAQ Not long after the UK TUG FAQ was first published on paper, in _Baskerville_, the annals of the UK TeX Users' Group (vol 4 no 6, December 1994), the group established a `temporary' Web address for interactive access to the FAQ. The group is very grateful to the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences of the University of Sussex at Brighton, for hosting this `temporary' service for four years! Now, at last, the group is pleased to announce that a `final' home for the FAQ has been established, in association with the CTAN node at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes The sources, and readily-printable copies, of the FAQ remain on CTAN in directory usergrps/uktug/faq At present the interactive FAQ offers exactly the same facilities as it always has, but there are plans to develop new facilities to further enhance the FAQ's utility. The FAQ is under constant development, and in particular a new printed version is in preparation. The UK TeX Users' Group would very much welcome contributions at this time. Comments, suggestions and error reports concerning the FAQ should be addressed to the current maintainer, via uktug-faq@tex.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:39:42 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Subject: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN The CTAN team have been concerned, for some time, about the copyright status of the material held on the CTAN archives. In the course of preparation of the latest TeX Live disc, Sebastian Rahtz compiled a list of the licence status of many available packages, and it is the CTAN team's intention to extend that list to as full coverage of the archive holdings as is possible. In parallel with this work, we have instituted a new hierarchy on CTAN, called nonfree/; it is our intention to move all items, for which there are significant distribution restrictions, to that hierarchy. STRUCTURE The nonfree hierarchy mimics the structure of the main part of CTAN; there are (or may in the future be) sub-hierarchies nonfree/biblio, /fonts, /graphics, /indexing, /language, /support, /systems and /web For each entry in the non-free hierarchy, there is a corresponding entry in the main part of CTAN, which is a symbolic link to the nonfree/ hierarchy. Since CTAN does not index symbolic links, the only appearance that a non-free item makes in the FILES.* files is its instance on the nonfree/ hierarchy. The `quote site index' command uses FILES.byname, so that it will always tell you if the item you're seeking is not free. CRITERIA Licensing conditions that CTAN currently recognises are listed in http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html In the terms defined therein, the nonfree/ tree will hold items whose licensing is unknown, nocommercial, nosell, shareware, or other. Notes: 1. CTAN cannot hold matter whose distribution is restricted, anyway: the archive has no control over what its mirrors might do. This is why there is no category `nodistribute'. 2. The `nonfree' licensing category nosource _does_ stay in the main CTAN tree; there are usable items on CTAN whose source is not publicly available, but which are nevertheless freely usable and distributable by all and sundry. 3. We need to treat unknown licenses as nonfree, because of the legal situation in many countries that one is obliged to assume that an author would not wish his/her propertty to be treated as if it were in the public domain. We have, as yet, moved nothing of category unknown to the nonfree/ hierarchy; we will be doing that job later in the year. THE FUTURE The CTAN team are slowly moving items to the nonfree/ hierarchy. This process may be expected to accelerate during the course of this year; in particular, one may expect items of category unknown to be moved starting next month (June 1999). If *you* are an author who has not responded to an enquiry about the status of your stuff on CTAN, we urge you to release a new version which makes its licensing status clear, and to upload that version to CTAN in the usual way (see README.uploads on any CTAN site). Don't forget to mail ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de -- uploads don't get acted upon without such a message. If you don't do this, and we don't otherwise deduce the status of your stuff, it is liable to be moved to the nonfree/ hierarchy, and to disappear from future CD distirbutions of TeX. OTHER INFORMATION While CTAN is _not_ enforcing an open-source policy, we recommend sites such as http://www.opensource.org/osd.html for discussion of the issues behind software licensing. ------------------------------ End of TeXhax Digest V1999 #6 ***************************** About TeXhax... Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: send a one line mail message to TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk containing only the line subscribe texhax or unsubscribe texhax If you have problems with un/subscribing, please mail texhax-owner@nottingham.ac.uk For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to office@tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1466 NW Front Avenue, Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820 USA (phone: 1 503 223 9994, fax: 1 503 223 3960). Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by anonymous ftp. 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