MAPS 7

Gerard van Nes

MAPS 1991.2 (Dutch/English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 1-135

maps.pdf (1714kb)

keywords:
NTG, MAPS

abstract:
NTG's magazine

Gerard van Nes

Verslag (1991/2) (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 3-9

01.pdf (85kb)

keywords:
report, members meeting

abstract:
Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 20 november 1990; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; NTG jaarvergadering; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Rondvraag; NTG presentaties: `TeX in de praktijk'; Sluiting.

(anonymous)

TeX kalender & Glossary (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 9

02.pdf (7kb)

keywords:
calendar, glossary

(anonymous)

Werkgroepen NTG (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 10-11

03.pdf (11kb)

keywords:
working group

abstract:
Verslag werkgroepen.

Johannes Braams

Begroting 1991 en 1992 (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 12-13

04.pdf (23kb)

keywords:
budget

(anonymous)

TeX-NL subscription (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 14-16

05.pdf (17kb)

keywords:
TEX-NL, mailing list

abstract:
Overzicht gebruikers listserver.

(anonymous)

NTG fileserver faciliteiten (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 17-22

06.pdf (28kb)

keywords:
fileserver

abstract:
Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver.

Kees van der Laan

Van de Voorzitter (1991/2) (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 23

07.pdf (22kb)

keywords:
chairman

Kees van der Laan

NTG's continuation: The Third Year (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 24-25

08.pdf (27kb)

keywords:
NTG, continuation

abstract:
An NTG year of activity parallels the Dutch academic year: September to September. The membership increased by roughly 40% to circa 140 members of which 25 or so are institutional members. Due to the intermediate TeX course some financial reserve has been built up. NTG's third year can be characterized by `continuation,' and the embarkation upon a multi-year project.

Kees van der Laan

WG 1: Education; Contribution to TUG-LRP report (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 26-32

09.pdf (84kb)

keywords:
working group, education, TUG-LPR

abstract:
Worldwide TeX/METAFONT education is proposed with compatible modules, such that a user can plan an education path. A pool of teachers is proposed. How to address the problem of qualified teachers is touched upon.

Kees van der Laan

WG 1: Education; Review Michael Doob's A Gentle (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 33-35

10.pdf (44kb)

keywords:
book review, review

abstract:
Review of Michael Doob's `A Gentle Introduction to TeX'.

Jos Winnink

WG 7: PC-zaken; TeX voor MS/PC-DOS PC's en Atari's (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 36

11.pdf (21kb)

keywords:
working group, PC, MS-DOS, Atari

abstract:
Activiteiten van werkgroep 7: PC-zaken.

David van Leeuwen

WG 13: `Neerlandica'; The Right of ij to be a Ligature (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 37-38

12.pdf (34kb)

keywords:
Neerlandica, ij-ligature

abstract:
Discussion of the right of the Dutch `ij' to be a ligature.

Kees van der Laan

Enige Suggesties aan de Redactie van de MAPS (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 39-40

13.pdf (27kb)

keywords:
MAPS

abstract:
De functie van de MAPS wordt belicht en gerelateerd aan hoe dat te verwezenlijken. Punten aangestipt zijn: onjuiste afbrekingen, slecht-ogende automatische uitvullingen, en typos. Voorgestelde oplossing geen referee-mechanisme maar duidelijk aan de auteurs geven van wat van ze verwacht wordt plus overgaan op de nieuwere tools. Structureel is het te late verschijnen voorkomen vanwege het notulen-aspect: geen notulen geen vergadering.

Piet Tutelaers

A Font and a Style for Typesetting Chess using LaTeX or TeX (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 41-46

14.pdf (92kb)

keywords:
typesetting, chess, fonts

Kees van der Laan

Typesetting Bridge via LaTeX (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 47-50

15.pdf (35kb)

keywords:
bridge, LaTeX

abstract:
LaTeX macros and a bidding environment for typesetting bridge card distributions and bidding sequences are given. Examples borrowed from bridge literature are supplied.

Kees van der Laan

Typesetting Bridge via TeX (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 51-62

16.pdf (169kb)

keywords:
bridge, plain TeX

abstract:
Enhanced plain TeX macros and a bidding environment for typesetting bridge card distributions and bidding sequences are given. As a follow-up of the LaTeX macros given in [12]. Moreover, macros for annotated printing of the course of the play are provided. Examples of use are included.

Hanna Kołodziejska

Go diagrams with TeX (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 63-66

17.pdf (220kb)

keywords:
go, diagrams

abstract:
Encoureged by Zalman Rubinstein, who described his chess diagrams in TUGboat vol. 10 no. 2, I have prepared some special fonts and TeX macros to be used in typesetting go diagrams.

Kees van der Laan

Towers of Hanoi, revisited (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 69-70

18.pdf (24kb)

keywords:
tower of Hanoi

abstract:
Another version of TeXing of `The Towers of Hanoi' problem is provided, which does not assume Lisp knowledge, just plain TeX. Also some variations of use are included, among others to remove the restriction on the disks: disk size can be supplied by more than one digit.

Kees van der Laan

6th European TeX Conference (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 71-75

19.pdf (64kb)

keywords:
EuroTeX, conference, Paris

abstract:

• User groups:
  CyrTUG is bound to become important. CSTUG prospers. HunTUG is modest. The Poles can't get organized. Yunus is only a list. The other five just go on.
• Panels:
  TeX in Europe, how can we obtain better acceptance? LaTeX3: impressive history, no release dates of yet.
• Presentations:
  Zlatuška's ACCENTS processor, for automatic generation of accented virtual fonts for European languages from English input fonts in the TeX font layout, looks promising.
• Publishing houses:
  MIR is involved. Springer is active and has some user guides out for a pilot journal. The Czech scientific journals are all formatted by TeX!
• Products:
  LAMSTeX is still going public. Very promising though, especially the wizards manual.

Kees van der Laan

The TUG91 Annual Meeting (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 76-82

20.pdf (84kb)

keywords:
TUG conference

abstract:

• Education:
  David Salomon is a great teacher: insights! He has donated his notes to TUG for inclusion in the TeXniques series.
• Publishing houses:
  The publishing houses accept (La)TeX copy. AMS leads with their total production formatted via TeX: 90K pages per year.
• Interchange format:
  DVI and Encapsulated PostScript!
• Workshops:
  Modifying manmac was great! The ways of encapsulating PostScript are put together by Anita Hoover. (see elsewhere in MAPS)
• Products:
  LAMSTeX goes public. ArborTeXt has extended and improved their products. ETP, of Mimi Lafrenz, did steal the show.

Kees van der Laan

TUG Board of Directors meeting (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 83-84

21.pdf (13kb)

keywords:
TUG conference, board-of-directors

abstract:
The following are loosely formulated issues which were agreed upon. For more preciseness the reader is referred to the (approved) minutes.

Kees van der Laan

Visit AMS and TUG office (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 85-86

22.pdf (19kb)

keywords:
AMS, TUG office

abstract:
A report is given of the role of AMS with respect to TeX and TUG. The TUG office is next door and the cooperation is beneficial. A few relevant documents and the AMS preprint styles as well as the accompanying documentation are enumerated.

Theo Jurriens

TeXniques in Siberia (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 87-90

23.pdf (226kb)

keywords:
Siberia, LaTeX, courses, USSR

abstract:
This article summarizes the problems of giving a LaTeX course in Siberia. It concludes with an overview concerning the future of TeX inside the USSR.

Alan Hoenig

An Introduction to TeX for New Users (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 91-96

24.pdf (85kb)

keywords:
introduction, new users

abstract:
The purpose of this brief introduction is not to present a tutorial into the use of TeX, but rather to introduce the user to the whole notion of what it means to use TeX, how TeX differs from other typesetting systems, and what the advantages are to using TeX.

Rein Smedinga

Hoe met LaTeX een boek kan worden gemaakt (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 97-101

25.pdf (55kb)

keywords:
LaTeX, book

abstract:
Het creëren van een boek met LaTeX is geen vanzelfsprekende bezigheid. Onderstaand het relaasvan zo'n poging: het boek-in-wording Inleiding Informatica dat in eerste instantie als dictaat bij het bijbehorende college is geschreven en nu in een boekversie is aangeboden aan Addison-Wesley. In onderstaand betoog wordt voorbij gegaan aan het belangrijkste onderdeel van het schrijven van een boek: het schrijven van de tekst. We zullen het hier slechts hebben over de problemen en oplossingen voor wat betreft de layout.

Theo Jurriens

Ladies and LaTeX (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 102-104

26.pdf (34kb)

keywords:
LaTeX, non-scientists, simplification

abstract:
This paper describes the use of LaTeX by non-astronomers at the Kapteyn Institute. Although the general opinion is that it is too complicated for non-scientist, experience in Groningen proves otherwise. If you provide good tools or styles everybody is capable of using LaTeX. Also, the astronomers took over tricks from the ladies, simplifying their lives, too.

Nico Poppelier

Two Sides of the Fence (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 105-110

27.pdf (75kb)

keywords:
TUG conference, future

abstract:
The purpose of this talk is to give an overview of the four days of the twelfth annual TUG meeting; it is an attempt to show that the different streams in the programme of the meeting are connected, that they are part of a whole. Also, I make some comments and observations regarding the current status and the future of TeX, and the future of publishing in general.

Anita Hoover

Report on Workshop: Getting PostScript into TeX and LaTeX Documents (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 111-116

28.pdf (62kb)

keywords:
workshop, PostScript

Nelson Beebe

The TUGLIB Server (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 117-123

29.pdf (76kb)

keywords:
TUGLIB, FTP, mail, internet

abstract:
Scores of sites on the worldwide Internet now provide access to assorted collections of software relating to TeX and METAFONT. In many cases, these are accessible only via the Internet mechanism known as anonymous ftp, a scheme that permits logins from unknown users, usually on other machines, with very restricted access. The name ftp is an acronym for file transfer protocol. To improve the access to the TeX archives and other software at Utah, I have installed `tuglib'. This server provides a means whereby remote users can send electronic mail messages containing service requests to a daemon program. The daemon parses the requests, logs them, and responds to them.

Victor Eijkhout, Ron Sommeling

Self-replicating macros (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 124

30.pdf (14kb)

keywords:
macros, self-replication

Victor Eijkhout

New books on TeX (2) (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 125-126

31.pdf (26kb)

keywords:
new books, book review

abstract:
Review of `A Beginner's Book of TeX' (Kopka/Levy).

Kees van der Laan

Impression INRSTeX, and some more (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 127-129

32.pdf (38kb)

keywords:
INRSTeX

abstract:
The work of Michael Fergusson on INRSTeX is discussed, Michael's comments on the review are included.

Ralph Youngen

AMSTeX (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 130

33.pdf (21kb)

keywords:
AMSTeX

Michael Spivak

LAMSTeX (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 131

34.pdf (21kb)

keywords:
LAMSTeX

Yannis Haralambous

ScholarTeX (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 132

35.pdf (21kb)

keywords:
ScholarTeX

abstract:
ScholarTeX is a collection of fonts, macros, preprocessor, hyphenation patterns, other related software and a 150-pages manual with many illustrations, exemples, exercises and mottos. It's purpose is to allow the use of TeX in the following languages: Greek, Epigraphical Greek, Armenian, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Saxon, Old German, Phonetic Alphabet.

(anonymous)

TUGboat, Table of Contents (English)

MAPS 7, 1991, 133-135

36.pdf (31kb)

keywords:
TUGboat, contents

abstract:
Table of contents of TUGboat Volume 12.1 and 12.2.

David Salomon

`Insights in TeX' course (1) (Dutch)

MAPS 7, 1991, 135

37.pdf (18kb)

keywords:
courses, insights

abstract:
This course, with no hands-on, is aimed at TeX and LaTeX users who are ready for to acquire more insights into the TeXnigma. For those who are still working at the `book' level an extra one-day introductory course can be organized if need for that is large enough.