MAPS 23

Taco Hoekwater: MAPS 1999.2 (English/Dutch); MAPS 23, 1999, 1-116; maps.pdf (5200kb); keywords:
NTG, MAPS; abstract:
NTG's magazine
Taco Hoekwater, Siep Kroonenberg: Redactioneel (Dutch); MAPS 23, 1999, 1; 01.pdf (35kb)
NTG bestuur: NTG and TeX info (Dutch); MAPS 23, 1999, 2; 02.pdf (48kb)
Jules van Weerden, Maarten Gelderman: De NTG en het Internet (1999/2) (Dutch); MAPS 23, 1999, 3-4; 03.pdf (72kb); keywords:
discussionlist, TEX-NL
Erik Frambach: TeX User Groups around the world (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 5-7; 04.pdf (91kb); keywords:
TeX user groups, addresses
Siep Kroonenberg: TUG'99, Vancouver (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 8-12; 05.pdf (174kb); keywords:
TeX user groups, Vancouver, TUG conference
Frans Goddijn: Gezeefd uit de TEX-NL discussielijst (Dutch); MAPS 23, 1999, 13-31; 06.pdf (187kb); keywords:
TEX-NL, guru, hints, hack, bugs; abstract:
Dit is het zesde deel uit een serie die in 1993 door Philippe Vanoverbeke in de MAPS is gestart. Philippe maakte een selectie van berichten uit de TEX-NL lijst. Een aantal oplossingen, hints en gouden tips over onderwerpen waarvan je weleens denkt: ``hoe zat dat ook alweer?'' In de MAPS van najaar 1998 stond deel 5. Voor deze aflevering is een aantal berichten gezeefd uit TEX-NL van maart 1999 tot juli 1999.
Hans Hagen: The NTG MAPS bibliography — from SGML to TeX to PDF (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 32-47; 07.pdf (123kb); keywords:
CDROM, ConTeXt, NTG, MAPS, PDF, SGML, XML; abstract:
A few years ago, the NTG decided to put their MAPS volumes on the internet in the PDF file format. At about the same time, it was decided to build the associated bibliography in such a way that it could be used to produce both a HTML and PDF document.
Recently, the MAPS bibliography has been converted to a proper XML document source. In the process, the descriptions were made as consistent as possible. The XML source was used as input for a PDF document, that provides extensive browse and search options. This PDF file, along with the MAPS articles, is provided to NTG members as an additional service.
In this article the electronic NTG MAPS will be presented and the specific characteristics of the production process will be explained. Also, some of the complicating aspects will be discussed. I assume that the reader is familiar with SGML and TeX. The focus will be on the interface between SGML, TeX and PDF.
Wietse Dol, Erik Frambach: 4TeX 5.0 for Windows and the 4allTeX CDroms (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 48-52; 08.pdf (186kb); keywords:
4TeX, 4allTeX, Windows, software; abstract:
Every year many software distributors launch a new version of their software products. They all tell you that there are fundamental improvements and bug fixes and that you have to upgrade immediately. With the release of edition 5 of 4allTeX you could ask yourself what this new edition offers as compared to e.g. the older versions of 4allTeX and the TeX-live CDrom. Below we will give a summary of all of the goodies of the new 4allTeX distribution and give you pointers to the internet where you can find more information.
Maarten Gelderman: Toolbox: the toolbox? (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 53-55; 09.pdf (78kb); keywords:
mail-merge, regular expressions, emacs, Excel, makefiles, toolbox; abstract:
This MAPS is about the TeX Toolbox, about other programs than TeX itself. So this MAPS's toolbox should probably deal with this kind of material. As a consequence this toolbox is even more eclectic than earlier ones. First I will show you how I make mailings to NTG-members, by combining Excel and LaTeX. Next I will present the most ugly regular expression I know of, and finally I will say something about using makefiles.
Paul Huygen: Maak een logo met behulp van literate programming (Dutch); MAPS 23, 1999, 56-68; 10.pdf (81kb); keywords:
literate programming, WEB, Nuweb, logos; abstract:
In dit artikel wordt beschreven hoe de literate programming techniek gebruikt kan worden om complexe taken uit te voeren en te documenteren. Als voorbeeld wordt een logo ontworpen met behulp van de gereedschappen AWK, picTeX en LaTeX.
Paul Huygen: Zet tekst op een vaste plaats op een bladzijde (Dutch); MAPS 23, 1999, 69-71; 11.pdf (104kb); keywords:
DTP, LaTeX; abstract:
In dit artikel is beschreven hoe een LaTeX probleem werd opgelost door het aan de TeX kopstukken voor te leggen via de NTG mailing list. Het concrete LaTeX probleem was het plaatsen van tekst op een vaste plaats op een bladzijde.
Roland Kwee: DTP with TeX (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 72-74; 12.pdf (67kb); keywords:
programming, DTP, vertical mode; abstract:
A set of simple macros is presented, in the style of modular programming, to make it easy to put texts at arbitrary positions on the page, without being restricted by formatting rules. This is not only useful for single-page documents like announcements and business cards, but also for designing stationery with letterheads or printing labels. The method is based on putting kerned texts in boxes with zero horizontal and vertical size and staying in vertical mode. This works with plain, and any other, TeX and can be combined with any other document formatting.
Maarten Gelderman: Het gebruik van KIX (tm) in TeX (Dutch); MAPS 23, 1999, 75-76; 13.pdf (30kb); keywords:
KIX, font, barcode, PTT; abstract:
Recentelijk introduceerde de Nederlandse PTT de zogenaamde KIX (tm)-code. Deze KlantIndex is een streepjescode die gebruikte wordt ten behoeve van de automatische verwerking van poststukken. In dit artikel laat ik zien hoe KIX met relatief weinig moeite gebruikt kan worden binnen TeX en LaTeX.
Taco Hoekwater: An Extended Maths Font Set for Processing MathML (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 77-83; 14.pdf (136kb); keywords:
math, fonts, PostScript, METAFONT; abstract:
Last years autumn, work started on a new set of mathematical fonts that are intended to cover the full range of characters included in MathML as well as those included in the proposals for mathematical extensions in the next version of Unicode.
This paper presents the first result of that work: A new Times-compatible maths font set consisting of about 1500 symbols and a few alphabets; along with a collection of TeX macros to use them.
These fonts are donated to the public domain by Kluwer Academic Publishers and are available in both METAFONT source and Adobe Type 1 formats.
Hans Hagen: TeX as presentation tool — an introduction to the ConTeXt presentation environments (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 84-89; 15.pdf (338kb); keywords:
ConTeXt, presentation, slides, transparencies, PDF; abstract:
In this article I will introduce a few styles I wrote on behalf of presentations. These styles are part of the ConTeXt distribution and can serve as an example of defining layouts in this macro package. More details can be found in the documented styles.
Hans Hagen: Typesetting flow charts — let TeX and METAPOST do the job (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 90-102; 16.pdf (175kb); keywords:
flowcharts, graphics, charts, METAPOST, TeX; abstract:
This article presents the ConTeXt module that deals with flowcharts and related types of charts. The charts are drawn at run—time by METAPOST in close cooperation with TeX. This not only gives us rather good graphics, but also provides a seamless integration of flow charts in documents, including hyperlink support and other fancy features.
Erik Frambach: ASCII editors for TeX on MS-Windows (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 103-107; 17.pdf (3290kb); keywords:
ASCII editors, Windows, comparison; abstract:
There are many good ASCII editor programs available for TeX-users using MS-Windows. However, they all have there strong points and their weaknesses. In this article I will discuss a few of them.
Piet van Oostrum: Using Emacs and AucTeX for preparing LaTeX documents (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 108-112; 18.pdf (96kb); keywords:
emacs, AucTeX, LaTeX, TeX, packages, editing; abstract:
Users of TeX and LaTeX can be helped very much by an editor that knows about the specifics of these packages. For instance it can do syntax coloring so that the user sees immediately the difference between normal text and TeX commands; it can insert skeletons for often used commands and environments in order to prevent missing elements (e.g. missing \end parts), etc.
This article describes the use of the Emacs editing environment with the AucTeX package for the preparation of LaTeX documents. The main characteristics of Emacs are discussed, followed by a more detailed description of the facilities that AucTeX offers to assist the author of LaTeX documents. Finally we describe how AucTeX can be customized to support your own or external commands and LaTeX packages.
Siep Kroonenberg: Tools for PostScript and PDF (English); MAPS 23, 1999, 112-116; 19.pdf (133kb); keywords:
PostScript, DSC comments, PDF, GhostScript, graphics, conversion, EPS inclusion, bounding box; abstract:
This paper explains why PostScript is interesting for TeX users, and describes various tools for working with PostScript, with special attention to GhostScript. The paper concludes with a section on PDF, the derivative of PostScript which is destined to take over much of the role of PostScript in the prepress workflow.