]> Gerard van Nes 1 1988 1-20 199 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes 1 1988 1-10 126 report members meeting Opening en Mededelingen; Introductie deelnemers; Brainstorming &tex; aandachtsgebieden; Instellen werkgroepen voor de aandachtsgebieden; Formele zaken; Rondvraag; Sluiting. 1 1988 13-14 55 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 1 1988 15-16 41 &tex;HaX mailing list listserver Information on subscribing to &tex;HaX. 1 1988 17-20 49 publications mailing list listserver Information on &tex; mailing lists. Gerard van Nes 2 1989 1-22 317 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes 2 1989 2-12 145 report members meeting Opening; Agenda bijeenkomst 23 juni 1988; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; Ledenbestand status en contributie; Vragen gebruikers; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Rondvraag; Presentaties; Sluiting. 2 1989 13-14 68 working group Verslag werkgroepen. 2 1989 15 52 NTG decisions 2 1989 15 52 actions Theo de Klerk 2 1989 17 62 VAX DOCUMENT VAX DOCUMENT is een commerciële toepassing die op &tex; gebaseerd is. Aanvankelijk binnen Digital Equipment Co. ontwikkeld voor intern gebruik voor productie van alle VAX/VMS documentatie en s/w produkten, maar nu ook in gebruikerslicensie voor VAX/VMS gebruikers verkrijgbaar. Vanaf VMS V4 is het resultaat hiervan te zien. Theo de Klerk 2 1989 19-20 71 book review Bespreking `Einführung in &tex;' (Norbert Schwartz); `&tex; für Fortgeschrittene' (Wolfgang Appelt); `&latex; eine Einführung' (Helmut Kopka); `Kompaktführer &latex;' (Reinhard Wonneberger) 2 1989 21-22 52 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. Gerard van Nes 3 1989 1-68 943 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes 3 1989 2-8 125 report members meeting Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 24 november 1988; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; Verenigingszaken; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Vragen gebruikers; Rondvraag; Presentatie Océ 6750 (&tex;)-laserprinter; Sluiting. 3 1989 9-10 62 working group Verslag werkgroepen. 3 1989 11 39 NTG decisions 3 1989 11 39 actions 3 1989 12 69 local guide Overzicht ontvangen local guides. 3 1989 13-14 68 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 3 1989 15-18 74 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. 3 1989 19-24 64 user questions Deze bijlage bevat de `vragen van de gebruikers' die gesteld zijn ten tijde van de NTG vergadering van mei 1989. Marius Broeren Jan van Knippenberg 3 1989 25-28 115 high quality printing Océ laser printers Digital Equipment Deze bijlage bevat de presentatie van Océ, gehouden op de NTG bijeenkomst van 11 mei 1989. Piet Roes 3 1989 29-30 90 dBase This is a note about the implementation of a combination of dBase III+ and &tex;. Kees van der Laan 3 1989 31-42 243 math SGML tables The markup of document elements via SGML is demonstrated with a few examples. Geerd Haayer 3 1989 43-44 78 fotozetters Linotronic PostScript Sinds enige tijd bestaat de mogelijkheid om bij A.J. Scholten — Transcripta fotozetsel van &tex;/dvi-files te laten maken. Het grote voordeel van Transcripta is dat er uitsluitend met &tex; gewerkt wordt en derhalve zeer veel deskundigheid bij het bedrijf in huis is. Men beschikt over een Linotronic 100, die een resolutie levert van 1270 dpi. Kees van der Laan 3 1989 45-48 140 GUTenberg report Thema: Grafische zaken en (La)&tex;, met name picture omgeving en PostScript. Kees van der Laan 3 1989 49-56 201 activities NTG Euro&tex; A history of the start of the NTG is given along with a survey of this first years' activities. The relation of NTG to other TUGs is also dealt with. Victor Eijkhout Nico Poppelier 3 1989 57-60 145 NTG meeting The Dutch &tex; Users Group, in Dutch `Nederlandse &tex; Gebruikersgroep' or NTG, was started about one year ago in Groningen. At the meeting in the autumn of 1988 it was decided to have a first presentation to `the outside world' in the summer of 1989. Kees van der Laan 3 1989 61-68 191 TUG conference WEB literate programming math reviews status &tex; &tex;3 &latex; PostScript Inhoudelijk:

• &tex; wordt aangepast o.a. ligaturen en \language;
• &latex; aanpassing wordt niet door Leslie Lamport opgepakt, Frank M?

Organisatorisch:

• Lokale voorzitters vice presidents van BoD van TUG;
• TUGboat artikelen nu ook met Duitse samenvatting;
• Michael F coordinator multilingual aspecten;
• &tex;HaX distributie onder auspiciën van TUG.

Producten:

• &tex; templates bij Hope Hamilton;
• Wordperfect-&latex; macro's bij Anita Hoover (of mij);
• Michael D's Gentle &tex; beschikbaar (of mij);
• KWIC van &latex; en &tex; opdrachten beschikbaar als Bell rapport;
• Arbor&tex;t's The Publisher volwassen.

Gerard van Nes 4 1990 1-88 546 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes 4 1990 3-9 60 report members meeting Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 11 mei 1989; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Verenigingszaken; Rondvraag; Sluiting. 4 1990 10 8 NTG decisions 4 1990 10 8 calendar 4 1990 11-12 15 working group Verslag werkgroepen. 4 1990 13-14 15 budget 4 1990 15 17 local guide Overzicht ontvangen local guides. 4 1990 16-18 16 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 4 1990 19-22 20 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. 4 1990 23-26 14 4 1990 27-28 17 software distributie 4 1990 29-30 17 DOS disks distribution 4 1990 31-32 19 TUG conference Cork The 1990 &tex; meeting in Europe is the fifth such conference organised since 1985. It also breaks new ground as the first to be a &tex; Users Group (TUG) meeting outside North America. The &tex; computer typesetting program is now widely established as the de facto standard in scientific, educational and commercial use for the setting of documents requiring very high standards of typographic control, particularly technical documents, and for applications where high quality, portability and device-independence are of importance. Kees van der Laan Theo Jurriens Jan Maasdam J. Bleeker 4 1990 33-34 18 SGML TUG conference courses Announcement of joint SGML User Group Holland and NTG meeting. Several courses are offered. Two parallel streams of lectures, one mainly devoted to SGML and the other to &tex;. C.G. van der Laan T.A. Jurriens J. Maasdam J. Bleeker 4 1990 35-42 59 courses SGML conference 4 1990 43-46 20 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 4 1990 47-51 39 working group education An impression of what has been done by members of the WG, and others, is given. Members: C.G. van der Laan (coord.), T. Biegstraaten, G. Haayer, J.R. Luyten, P. Tutelaers. Known — through december 1989 — courseware and &tex;-related (Dutch) courses are mentioned in appendices. 4 1990 52 7 working group PC MS-DOS Verslag werkgroep 7: PC-zaken. 4 1990 53-54 11 working group SGML An impression of what has been done by members of the WG is given. Members: C.G. van der Laan (coord.), T. Biegstraaten, J. Bleeker, D.C. Coleman, J. Grootenhuis. Prospects: Publishing houses strongly believe in the `marriage' of SGML and &tex;. 4 1990 55-56 17 working group dutch Verslag werkgroep 13: `Neerlandica'. 4 1990 57-60 28 working group communication Verslag werkgroep 14: Communicatie. Johannes Braams Victor Eijkhout Nico Poppelier 4 1990 61-66 48 &latex; national styles In its autumn 1988 meeting, the Dutch &tex; users group (NTG) established a working group (number 13) that was to concentrate on the problems involved in the use of &tex; for Dutch texts. Since then the working group, which includes the authors, has created a number of style options for &latex; that remedy some common problems with the non-English use of &latex;, and is on its way developing document styles that are compatible with the standard styles, but have a layout that is more palatable for Dutch users. In this article we treat implementation aspects of the styles and style options, and we discuss some matters of layout. Victor Eijkhout 4 1990 67-70 28 paragraph shapes Although the &tex;book states that &tex;'s paragraph mechanism `can be harnessed to a surprising variety of tasks', the strangest paragraph shapes that I have implement use no feature of the line-breaking algorithm. Instead, I have found that the control sequences \everypar and \lastbox are extremely powerful tools. I give three examples of this. Nico Poppelier 4 1990 71-72 9 &latex; cursussen Johannes Braams Kees van der Laan 4 1990 73-76 23 Euro&tex; conference Algemeen:

• Polen stal de harten;

Organisatorisch:

• Veranderingen &latex;, gecoordineerd door Frank M. en Jan R.;
• Teaching &tex; in discussie;
• Cork bijeenkomst voorbereid;
• Zowel PD als commerciële &tex; aktiviteiten nodig;
• Een Nederlandse vertaling van Schwarz's Einführung in &tex; is op komst;
• Leerzaam handout voor potentiële DANTE leden, inclusief questionnaire;
• Quixote Oriental Fonts project (Hosek);

Producten:

• Schroder's changebars macro;
• Thull's MS-DOS PD &tex;;
• &tex;-omgevingen: PC&tex;E (MS-DOS), &tex;E (AOS/VS), CEO-&tex;E (Data General).

Kees van der Laan 4 1990 77-82 56 education courseware modules Some critics — mainly &latex; based — on the approach are given: &tex;nically driven instead of result driven. Also is notified the omission of a general pedagogical method to be used. Furthermore, it is urged to have unified courseware. A set of &latex; courses is proposed. No test set is included. The underlying idea of having TUG certified courses world-wide is strongly endorsed. Victor Eijkhout Nico Poppelier 4 1990 83-88 48 In de huidige tijd van WYSIWYG `desktop publishing' systemen lijkt het vreemd een systeem te propageren met honderden, vaak ingewikkelde, instructies. Wat het tekstopmaaksysteem &tex; desondanks aantrekkelijk maakt, is het feit dat het programmeerbaar is: de basisinstructies kunnen worden samengevoegd tot zeer gecompliceerde instructies die een eenmaal ontworpen opmaak geheel automatisch feilloos reproduceren. Hierdoor hoeft de gebruiker uitsluitend nog de structuur van het document aan te geven en niet de vormgeving, het uiterlijk, ervan. Met deze gedachte sluit &tex; nauw aan bij recente ontwikkelingen in de uitgeverswereld omtrent SGML. Gerard van Nes 5 1990 1-146 1481 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes 5 1990 3-9 76 report members meeting Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 23 november 1989; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Verenigingszaken; Rondvraag; NTG presentaties; Sluiting; 5 1990 9 8 NTG decisions 5 1990 9 8 calendar 5 1990 10-11 15 working group Verslag werkgroepen. 5 1990 12 17 local guide Overzicht ontvangen local guides. 5 1990 13-15 16 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 5 1990 16-20 23 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. Piet van Oostrum 5 1990 21-26 52 FTP archives mailserver software Here is a brief description of our archive of &tex; stuff. The archive is available by FTP and by mail server. It contains various things, a.o. Atari ST software, GNU software, some Unix software and a lot of &tex; things. I will concentrate on the &tex; stuff in this message. 5 1990 27-28 21 NTG distribution software Deze bijlage beschrijft een aantal distributie-services die door enkele NTG leden worden uitgevoerd. 5 1990 29-30 18 MS-DOS disks distribution Jos Winnink 5 1990 31-34 40 working group PC MS-DOS Atari Activiteiten van werkgroep 7: PC-zaken. Kees van der Laan 5 1990 35-36 23 working group SGML seminar Terugblik op organisatie. 5 1990 37-38 22 Neerlandica Verslag werkgroep 13: `Neerlandica'. David Osborne 5 1990 39-42 48 SGML conference For their second full-day international meeting, the Nederlandstalige &tex; Gebruikersgroep (NTG) organised, in conjunction with the Dutch SGML Users Group, a conference intended to focus interest on the use of &tex; and SGMLtogether. On August 31st, approximately 100 delegates from both `camps' attended the day's events in Groningen, with what seemed a good balance between SGML-ers and &tex;ies. Joop van Gent 5 1990 43-48 75 databases document retrieval searching logical structure &tex; as a programming tool for advanced document retrieval systems. Frank Mittelbach Rainer Schöpf 5 1990 49-54 86 &latex;3 &latex; is a very valuable tool for document composition. As a &tex; macro package, it is unique in its concept of logical commands, at the same time retaining enough flexibility with visually oriented commands to allow the user a relatively easy correction of an automatically chosen layout. This fact makes it far superior to the plain and AMS-&tex; macro packages when it comes to professional applications. Therefore the &latex; re-implementation project is certainly one of the most important efforts to `expand &tex;'s horizon'. This is the place to link &tex; with the modern developments like SGML. This paper describes the current status of the re-implementation of &latex;. Amy Hendrickson 5 1990 55-66 211 techniques Most of us understand the basic form of &tex; macros but that understanding alone is often inadequate when we need to solve certain problems. We need additional insight to be able to develop methods of passing information, moving text with changed catcodes, preserving blank lines, and more. Writing a large macro package brings in a new set of issues: how toavoid bumping into implementation restrictions, e.g., constraints of hash size, string size, and others; how to make a pleasant user interface; how to make your code as concise as possible. Some of the techniques to be discussed here include making a macro with a variable number of arguments; changing catcodes in macros, defining a macro whose argument is intentionally never used; conserving hash size by using counters instead of newifs; csname techniques and non-outer dynamic allocation; and table making techniques. Finally, some suggestions are included on methods to use when developing new macros. Victor Eijkhout Andries Lenstra 5 1990 67-70 34 style design An argument for the need for a programmable meta format: a format that introduces a new syntactic level in &tex; for document style designers. Johannes Braams Victor Eijkhout Nico Poppelier 5 1990 71-74 46 &latex; dutch In this article an overview is given of the activities of working group 13 (WG 13) of the `Nederlandstalige &tex; Gebruikersgroep' (Dutch &tex; Users Group). This working group is also called `Neerlandica', and is interested in anything that has something to do with using &latex; (and &tex;) in a non-American environment. The topics tackled so far range from the design of a page layout suitable for A4 paper by adapting the American layout of article.sty to Dutch typographical tastes, to the implementation of a new letter style called `brief'. Barbara Beeton 5 1990 77-84 83 TUGboat production TUGboat has now completed more than ten years of publication. Starting with &tex;78 and an electrostatic printer and progressing through increasingly versatile software and hardware, the authors have kept us challenged, both with the content that the reader sees and the little tricks that happen `under the covers'. This talk will be a survey of some of the milestones of TUGboat production, our editorial philosophy, what we've learned about what &tex; can and cannot do, and some advice to authors and production editors of other publications. Jeroen Soutberg 5 1990 85-88 46 SGML Elsevier publishers Contents:

• Introduction;
• ESP;
• Manuscript routing;
• Role of SGML;
• Role of ...&tex;;
• Projects.

Kees van der Laan 5 1990 89-90 26 activities NTG Euro&tex; A survey of NTG's activities in its second year is enumerated. Joachim Lammarsch 5 1990 91-92 20 Dante Kees van der Laan 5 1990 93-98 71 GUTenberg Waarnemingen/beslissingen:

• Zusterclubs zijn automatisch lid van elkaar;
• DANTE en GUTenberg 100% gegroeid;
• TUGlib wordt uitgebreid met &tex; bibliografie;

Producten/macros:

• Zetten commutator diagrammen via &latex;;
• Ook muziek zetten nu via &tex;;
• Zetten van (ADA, ...) programma's;
• Zetten van bridge literatuur;
• Voor multilingual &tex;3.0 is ML&tex; nog nodig;
• &tex; in kleur?

Kees van der Laan 5 1990 99-102 47 Euro&tex; board-of-directors Cork TUG organizational:

• TUG is really open now;
• Working Groups will be sent off with better task

descriptions and reporting time schedules;

• How to fulfil better membership needs is proposed;
• A scholarly TUGboat and a separate newsletter is proposed;

Topical TUGboat issues are under consideration;

• No increased membership/postage fees for those outside USA;
• The dangling reciprocal membership question is near to a pilot study;
• BoD can operate faster because of adoption of voting by e-mail;
• An extended membership directory is asked for;
• A resource directory is asked for;
• Maintenance/evolution of &tex; etc. software must be handled by TUG and LUGs; DEK and LL are out of it!
• More attention will be paid to PR activities: Welcome c.q. Information/Demo packets will be prepared;

Euro-Summit:

• Eastern and Western European countries will exchange information;
• A status report, Euro-Summit Cork90 (?), will appear with contact addresses and status reports.

Nico Poppelier Kees van der Laan 5 1990 103-108 69 conference Cork Euro&tex; The following was on at this joint TUG90 and Euro&tex;90 meeting at Cork. Hypertext and &tex;. Cork encoding scheme for 8 bit fonts. Halftone output from &tex;. Macro writing in &tex;, especially Getting &tex;nical. The Dutch &tex; efforts were reported. The issue of a &tex; archive was raised again. Text around figures in &latex;. Document design and style development. Proposals for &latex;3.0. SGML and &tex; for tables and Math. Graphics and &tex;, such as PiC&tex; use, tif format and pk files. Old german fonts. BiB&tex; requirements. Discussion of &tex; books. The question of &tex; at schools was raised. Huub Mulders 5 1990 109-112 24 filetypes coherence structure Overzicht van de structuur van &tex; en METAFONT en de bijbehorende bestandtypen. 5 1990 113-114 21 Decus The DECUS Languages and Tools SIG Public Domain Working Group and the Electronic Publishing SIG &tex;/&latex;/WEB Working Group are proud to announce the 1990 DECUS &tex; Collection. This col-lection offers nearly everything a &tex; User would want on their system for &tex;. Victor Eijkhout 5 1990 115-117 35 book review Review of `Introduction to &tex;' (Jost Krieger, Norbert Schwartz), `&tex; for the advanced' (Wolfgang Appelt), `&tex; for the impatient' (Paul Abrahams). Victor Eijkhout 5 1990 118-121 36 indentation paragraph Indentation is one of the simpler things in &tex;: if you leave one input line open you get a new paragraph, and it is indented unless you say \noindent. And if you get tired of writing \noindent all of the time, you declare \parindent=0pt at the start of your document. Easy. More sophisticated approaches to indentation are possible, however. In this article I will sketch a quite general approach that can easily be incorporated in existing macro packages. For a better appreciation of what goes on, I will start with a tutorial section on what happens when &tex; starts a paragraph. Victor Eijkhout 5 1990 122-124 35 \parskip \everypar paragraph skips In this article I will present an approach that unifies the paragraph skip and the white spaces surroundingvarious environments. Since the macros given below make use of the \everypar token list, this article may be seen as a sequel to an earlier paper on an indentation scheme, which is based on a similar principle. The \everypar parameter was explained there. Kees van der Laan 5 1990 125-140 158 SGML What SGML (and &tex;) is all about is given in a nutshell. Markup of example document elements, by SGML and &latex;, are provided. Coupling SGML to &tex; is considered by direct translation and by the intermediate procedural markup phase. Interfacing SGML to (La)&tex; is also addressed. Some guidelines are provided in order to decide when SGML, or &tex; (alone, both, or neither) might be beneficial. It is a 3-in-1 paper: what is SGML and &tex; all about, examples of marked up copy in SGML and (La)&tex; and the coupling issues, finished up with a literature compilation. Nico Poppelier 5 1990 141-144 54 SGML scientific publishing Elsevier Science Publishershas for a few years investigated the possibility of accepting compuscripts, a manuscript in electronic form, created with &tex;, &latex; and a few other text processing systems, and converting these to SGMLform. This paper will discuss the current status of these activities, the reasons for converting compuscripts to SGMLform, and the various ways in which &tex; isused. Donald Knuth 5 1990 145-146 15 future My work on developing &tex;, METAFONT, and Computer Modern has come to an end. I will make no further changes except to correct extremely serious bugs. Gerard van Nes 6 1991 1-117 1243 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes 6 1991 3-10 91 report members meeting Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 11 mei 1990; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; Stand van zaken Europese samenwerking/TUG international; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Verenigingszaken; Rondvraag; SGML (&tex; and ...); Sluiting. 6 1991 10 8 calendar 6 1991 11-12 14 working group Verslag werkgroepen. Gerard van Nes 6 1991 13-14 23 report NTG Johannes Braams 6 1991 15-16 21 financial report Johannes Braams 6 1991 17 19 budget 6 1991 18-20 17 TEX-NL mailing list Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 6 1991 21-26 27 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. Kees van der Laan 6 1991 27-28 26 chairman &tex; Nationaal en Internationaal. Oftewel: wat gebeurt er allemaal? 6 1991 29-32 54 working group education Verslag werkgroep 1: Educatie. Erik-Jan Vens Jos Winnink 6 1991 33-36 47 working group fonts METAFONT Activiteiten van de werkgroep Fonts. Theo Jurriens 6 1991 37 15 working group photo typesetter inventory Verslag werkgroep 6. Jos Winnink Pieter Bison 6 1991 38-40 41 working group PC MS-DOS Atari em&tex; Activiteiten van werkgroep 7: PC-zaken, in het byzonder de situatie met betrekking tot em&tex;. Kees van der Laan 6 1991 41-42 27 working group PC MS-DOS Voorgesteld wordt een praktisch set voor de PC's beschikbaar te stellen, en de educatie daar op af te stemmen. Joop van Gent 6 1991 43 12 working group conference Kees van der Laan 6 1991 44-46 42 working group SGML structure Imposing structure upon &tex;. Henk Brouwer J.A. Jager P. Sader 6 1991 47 14 EGD Quatro conversion tables Conversie van tabellen binnen Quatro naar &tex;; het gebruik van macros binnen het EGD. Leo van Geest Marion van Geest 6 1991 48-56 164 CAWCS Overzicht van het gebruik van &tex; op het CAWCS. Kees van der Laan 6 1991 57-74 268 BLUe math &tex;ing mathscripts is not simply typing. Math has to be translated into &tex; commands. First the motivation for this work is given. Next traditional math page make-up is summarized along with the macroscopic math &tex; commands. After answering `Why &tex;ing mathscripts is difficult?' an anthology of &tex; falls and their antidotes is discussed. At the end suggestions are given in order to lessen the difficulties. Johannes Braams 6 1991 75-84 85 Babel &latex; document styles language multilingual The standard distribution of &latex; contains a number of document styles that are meant to be used, but also serve as examples for other users to create their own document styles. These styles have become very popular among &latex;. But it should be kept in mind that they were designed for American tastes and contain a number of hard-wired texts. This article describes a set of document-style options that can be used in combination with the standard styles, which makes the latter adaptable to other languages. Bobby Bodenheimer 6 1991 85-92 89 frequently asked questions FAQ comp.text.tex This article contains answers to some frequently asked questions on comp.text.tex. Please don't ask these questions again, as they've been answered many times before. Liam Quin 6 1991 93-98 56 METAFONT fonts availability This report includes all known fonts available in METAFONT format, whether public domain or not. Archive sites for ftp are listed where known. There is also a BITNET archive at LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. Piet van Oostrum 6 1991 99-106 82 program text generation Web; Cweb; Fweb; Spiderweb; Tgrind; C2&latex;; C++2&latex;; Cprog/Csty macros; Program environment; Scheme&tex;; Ada; Miscellaneous. Nico Poppelier 6 1991 107-108 32 &latex; engineers scientists book review Review of `&latex; for engineers and scientists' by David J. Buerger. Victor Eijkhout 6 1991 109-112 53 &tex; processor characters tokens lists expansion In this article I will describe the &tex; processor as a multi-layered engine that successively transforms characters into tokens, tokens into lists, and from these lists builds a typeset page. Nelson Beebe 6 1991 113-117 62 future &tex; METAFONT Gerard van Nes 7 1991 1-135 1714 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes 7 1991 3-9 85 report members meeting Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 20 november 1990; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; NTG jaarvergadering; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Rondvraag; NTG presentaties: `&tex; in de praktijk'; Sluiting. 7 1991 9 7 calendar glossary 7 1991 10-11 11 working group Verslag werkgroepen. Johannes Braams 7 1991 12-13 23 budget 7 1991 14-16 17 TEX-NL mailing list Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 7 1991 17-22 28 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. Kees van der Laan 7 1991 23 22 chairman Kees van der Laan 7 1991 24-25 27 NTG continuation 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 7 1991 26-32 84 working group education TUG-LPR 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 7 1991 33-35 44 book review review Review of Michael Doob's `A Gentle Introduction to &tex;'. Jos Winnink 7 1991 36 21 working group PC MS-DOS Atari Activiteiten van werkgroep 7: PC-zaken. David van Leeuwen 7 1991 37-38 34 Neerlandica ij-ligature Discussion of the right of the Dutch `ij' to be a ligature. Kees van der Laan 7 1991 39-40 27 MAPS 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 7 1991 41-46 92 typesetting chess fonts Kees van der Laan 7 1991 47-50 35 bridge &latex; &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 7 1991 51-62 169 bridge plain &tex; 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 7 1991 63-66 220 go diagrams 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 7 1991 69-70 24 tower of Hanoi Another version of &tex;ing 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 7 1991 71-75 64 Euro&tex; conference Paris

• 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? &latex;3: 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:
  LAMS&tex; is still going public. Very promising though, especially the wizards manual.

Kees van der Laan 7 1991 76-82 84 TUG conference

• Education:
  David Salomon is a great teacher: insights! He has donated his notes to TUG for inclusion in the &tex;niques 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:
  LAMS&tex; goes public. Arbor&tex;t has extended and improved their products. ETP, of Mimi Lafrenz, did steal the show.

Kees van der Laan 7 1991 83-84 13 TUG conference board-of-directors 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 7 1991 85-86 19 AMS TUG office 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 7 1991 87-90 226 Siberia &latex; courses USSR 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 7 1991 91-96 85 introduction new users 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 7 1991 97-101 55 &latex; book 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 7 1991 102-104 34 &latex; non-scientists simplification 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 7 1991 105-110 75 TUG conference future 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 7 1991 111-116 62 workshop PostScript Nelson Beebe 7 1991 117-123 76 TUGLIB FTP mail internet 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 7 1991 124 14 macros self-replication Victor Eijkhout 7 1991 125-126 26 new books book review Review of `A Beginner's Book of &tex;' (Kopka/Levy). Kees van der Laan 7 1991 127-129 38 INRS&tex; The work of Michael Fergusson on INRS&tex; is discussed, Michael's comments on the review are included. Ralph Youngen 7 1991 130 21 AMS&tex; Michael Spivak 7 1991 131 21 LAMS&tex; Yannis Haralambous 7 1991 132 21 Scholar&tex; Scholar&tex; 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. 7 1991 133-135 31 TUGboat contents Table of contents of TUGboat Volume 12.1 and 12.2. David Salomon 7 1991 135 18 courses insights This course, with no hands-on, is aimed at &tex; and &latex; users who are ready for to acquire more insights into the &tex;nigma. 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. Gerard van Nes 8 1992 1-150 1628 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes Jos Winnink 8 1992 1-4 51 report members meeting Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 2 mei 1991; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Rondvraag; NTG presentaties: `Fun with &tex;'; Sluiting. 8 1992 5 16 calendar glossary book 8 1992 6 12 working group Verslag werkgroepen. Kees van der Laan 8 1992 7 21 chairman Gerard van Nes 8 1992 8-10 33 report NTG In 1991 ging de NTG zijn 4e jaar van bestaan in. Wederom verschenen er een tweetal MAPS (Minutes & APpendiceS), twee NTG bijeenkomsten vonden plaats met een groeiend aantal lezingen, bestuursverkiezingen werden voor het eerst gehouden, een gecombineerd NTG/TUG lidmaatschap werd mogelijk, de samenwerking met Wiskundig Nederland kreeg gestalte, en er werd verdere aandacht besteed aan de continuering en acceptatie van de NTG. Johannes Braams 8 1992 11-12 26 financial report 8 1992 13-15 18 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 8 1992 16-22 39 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. Kees van der Laan 8 1992 23-24 31 review book review Review of Michael Urban's `An introduction to &latex;' Kees van der Laan 8 1992 25-30 74 &latex; Addendum `Publiceren met &latex;' Erik-Jan Vens 8 1992 31-32 29 working group fonts `Peremesjtsjenije', Een verhaal van nette armoei. Jos Winnink 8 1992 33-34 13 working group PC MS-DOS Atari Activiteiten van werkgroep 7: PC-zaken. Daniel Taupin 8 1992 35-52 275 music Music&tex; is a set of &tex; macros to typeset polyphonic, orchestral or polyphonic music. Theo Jurriens 8 1992 53-56 18 dates Three &tex;-coded algorithms are given for performing tricks with dates. Kees van der Laan 8 1992 57-58 22 document opslag en retrieval ITI-TNO Een verslag van de dag van het document. Centraal stond de problematiek: opslag en retrieval van documenten. Interessant waren het begrip bibliotheek zonder muren, en de intelligente auteursomgevingen. Het dilemma ten aaanzien van het centrale theam is: moeten wij alles bewaren of selecteren en vergeten? Ook het forum kwam hier niet uit. Er was een beurs met een 20-tal stands. Gerard van Nes 8 1992 59-62 40 chemistry electronic publishing KNCV Op 18 oktober 1991 werd door de sectie Computertoepassingen van de KNCV (Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging) een symposium m.b.t. chemische tekstverwerking georganiseerd. Naast een algemene introductie over `Electronisch Publiceren', kregen zowel de Apple Macintosh als MS-DOS geïnteresseerden (chemici) de huidige mogelijkheden van het verwerken van chemische teksten voorgeschoteld. Het pakket &tex; kwam in een laatste lezing naar voren. De duidelijk geslaagde dag werd bezocht door een kleine honderd deelnemers, inclusief een tiental leveranciers. Vele (leerzame) demonstraties, zowel tijdens de lezingen, als ook tussen de lezingensessies door, zorgden mede voor een duidelijk overzicht. David Salomon 8 1992 63-80 274 introduction Joachim Schrod 8 1992 81-86 67 components of &tex; &tex; needs a great amount of supplementary components (files and programs) of which the meaning and interaction often is unknown. This paper explains the components of the kernel system &tex; that are visible for the &tex; user and their relations. Frank Mittelbach 8 1992 87-90 49 &latex;3 Nelson Beebe 8 1992 91-114 237 &latex; editing emacs The structured markup of &latex; can be easy to read and understand, but tedious to type. Its syntax of environment groups bears a strong resemblance to the begin/end groups of the Algol family of computer programming languages, which can be described by rigorous grammars that in turn permit the automatic construction of lexical analyzers and parsers, and structured editors to support programming in those languages. This article describes a powerful facility for the preparation of &latex; documents using the Emacs text editor. Victor Eijkhout 8 1992 115-116 34 Most users of plain &tex; do not get very sophisticated in their use of fonts. Often they resort to declaring all used fonts explicitly with \font. There are some obvious disadvantages to that: it is not possible to switch a whole document in a simple way to a different typeface, or to a different size. As a result, I've seen such phenomena as an article with an abstract in 8 or 9 point, but where the formulas were still in 10 point, or pages of `magnified' type where the lines were cramped, because the \baselineskip was not increased with the type size. The need for a good font selection scheme is thus quite obvious, but the implementation of one is not. Theo Jurriens 8 1992 117-120 68 This article describes the use of &tex; in publishing observations of variable stars observed by Dutch amateur-astronomers. The observations are published in the journal `Variabilia' and in the so-called Reports. In the latter the observations, collected in several years, are published and submitted to the professional astronomer. It includes tables and light-curves: plot of the changing magnitude of the star versus time. In creating the light-curves: PIC&tex; is used. In preparing the files for PIC&tex; simple &tex;-coding is used for manipulating the data. Kees van der Laan 8 1992 121-124 51 FIFO LIFO FIFO, first-in-first-out, and LIFO, last-in-last-out, are well-known techniques for handling sequences. In &tex; macro writing they are abundant but are not easily recognized as such. &tex; templates for FIFO and LIFO are given and their use is illustrated. Kees van der Laan 8 1992 125-127 49 tower of Hanoi Another version of programming `The Tower of Hanoi' in &tex; is provided. No nodding knowledge of Lisp is required; just plain &tex;. There is no restriction on the number of disks, apart from the installed limits of &tex;. Generalized disks can be moved as well. Kees van der Laan 8 1992 128-132 59 crosswords \halign WYSIWYG plain &tex; A macro is provided for typesetting crosswords via (plain) &tex;, or any &tex;, which allows \halign use. The specification of the crossword information can be done in the WYSIWYG way, and does not require \halign markup, just the data. Theo Jurriens 8 1992 133-134 31 In dit artikel wordt mijn ervaring als &latex;-docent, vraagbaak voor secretaresses beschreven. Er zijn twee bronnen van problemen: organisatie en &tex;-techniek. Nico Poppelier Amy Hendrickson 8 1992 135-138 56 book review SGML Reviews of `&latex; for Everyone' (Jane Hahn), `Practical SGML' (Eric van Herwijnen), `&tex; by Topic, A &tex;nician's Reference' (Victor Eijkhout). Kees van der Laan 8 1992 139-142 62 LAMS&tex; Spivak's `The Joy of &tex;' and `LAMS&tex; — The Synthesis' are discussed. 8 1992 143-144 35 TUGboat Table of contents of TUGboat Volume 12.3, 12.4 and 13.1. 8 1992 145-146 31 journals Jiří Vesely 8 1992 147-148 22 Euro&tex; conference announcement Prague Announcement of the Euro&tex;'92 conference. David Salomon 8 1992 149-150 27 courses This advanced course, with no hands-on, is aimed at those &tex; and/or &latex; users who are ready for a deeper insight into the &tex;nigma. An extra one-day introductory course can be organized for inexperienced users, if there is enough demand. Gerard van Nes 9 1992 1-162 2054 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes Jos Winnink 9 1992 1-4 61 report members meeting Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 21 november 1991; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; NTG jaarvergadering; Verslag/discussie werkgroepen; Rondvraag; NTG presentaties: `&tex; and Scientific Publishing'; Sluiting. 9 1992 5 23 calendar glossary book software 9 1992 6 12 working group Verslag werkgroepen. Gerard van Nes 9 1992 7-8 38 MAPS Kees van der Laan 9 1992 9-11 47 chairman Johannes Braams 9 1992 12 21 budget 9 1992 13-15 22 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 9 1992 16-22 43 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. Huub Mulders 9 1992 23-30 173 formulas evaluation WordPerfect DECwrite &latex; De pakketten WP5.1, DECwrite en &latex; bieden de mogelijkheid om formules te typesetten. Om de mogelijkheden en kwaliteit te kunnen beoordelen is geprobeerd een vijftal formules met behulp van de drie pakketten te maken. Erik-Jan Vens 9 1992 31-32 21 working group fonts virtual fonts Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen wilde een deel van haar zelfgemaakte font aan kunnen spreken met de gewone letters op het toetsenbord, en niet met lastig in te typen en (evt.) lastig te onthouden macros. De aangewezen manier leek het maken van een virtueel font. Dus heb ik eens op een rijtje gezet wat je daarvoor nodig hebt. Kees van der Laan 9 1992 33-36 53 Euro&tex; conference Prague Highlights of this Euro&tex;'92 at Prague were:

• Graphics via &tex; and METAFONT.
• = METAFONT with PostScript output.
• PostScript fonts coupled to &tex;.
• What every advisory service should know.
• As&tex; as model for a scientific workbench.
• Several (free) tutorials: Advanced &tex;, Virtual fonts, XY-PiC.

Johannes Braams 9 1992 37-42 68 TUG conference Portland Verslag van de TUG conferentie in Portland, Oregon. Anita Hoover 9 1992 43-49 80 user support The primary emphasis of this paper is to address the issues related to supporting &tex; and &latex;. One essential ingredient to successfully supporting any package is that you must know your users. In the case of &tex; and &latex;, this is especially true, because the user base can be so diverse. This paper will focus on support strategies that address different types of users and what you can do as a &tex; and &latex; support person to adopt these strategies in your organization. Frank Mittelbach Chris Rowley 9 1992 50-56 80 craft typography automated typesetting document formatting models paradigm typographic rules visual contexts logical contexts global optimization This paper compares high-quality craft typography with the state of the art in automated typesetting. The first part discusses several typographical conventions which cannot be implemented by means of any formatting model currently in use. The second part explains why the current paradigms of computerized typesetting will not serve for high-quality formatting and suggests directions for the further research necessary to improve the quality of computer generated layout. Walter van der Laan Johannes Braams 9 1992 57-62 145 automated report writing &latex; This paper describes a system that produces project status reports using &latex;. The reports contain both textual and financial information. The textual part of the status reports is written by over a hundred people who don't need to know what &latex; is. The financial information is retrieved from a database. Ralph Youngen 9 1992 63-68 96 AMS The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is a both major publisher of mathematical research, and a professional organization whose members are mathematicians engaging in research at academic institutions and other research centers in the U.S. and around the world. A primary function of the Society is to provide channels of communication whereby these mathematicians can communicate the results of their research to each other, and to the broader scientific community. Foremost among these channels of communication is an extensive publications program which is based on the &tex; typesetting system. Nico Poppelier Eric van Herwijnen Chris Rowley 9 1992 69-80 143 DTD SGML scientific publishing This paper has two parts. In the first part we argue that scientific publishing needs one standard dtd for each class of documents that is published, for example one for all research papers and one for all books. In the second part we apply this reasoning to mathematical formulas, and we outline some design requirements for a document type definition for mathematical formulas. In the appendices we discuss and compare existing document type definitions for mathematical formulas. Erik-Jan Vens 9 1992 81-84 58 PostScript fonts pfb2mf conversion pfb2mf provides the &tex; community with an interface to the PostScript Type One fonts. There is an overwhelming amount of these fonts for sale and there are a lot of fonts in the Public Domain, so it extends the range of typefaces the &tex; user can choose from. David Salomon 9 1992 85-88 36 shaded rectangles PostScript One of the most common graphics used in documents is text with a shaded background. This is hard to do with &tex; but easy with PostScript. Simple PostScript code is presented here to create shaded rectangles, and a macro is developed to combine such a rectangle with text. John Hobby 9 1992 89-96 110 METAFONT METAPOST picture drawing METAPOST is a picture-drawing language very much like METAFONT except with PostScript output. The language provides access to all major features of Level 1 PostScript and it has facilities for integrating graphics with typeset text. This paper gives a brief overview of the METAPOST language and how it can be used. A few of the more interesting features are described in detail. Theo Jurriens 9 1992 97-99 48 METAFONT PostScript In this article author tries to defend a more general use of &tex; outside the world of mathematics, astronomy, physics etc. The ! or ? in the title of this paper is the question. Several examples are shown why &tex; is much powerful than a dull word-processing package. Theo Jurriens 9 1992 100-101 15 databases administration In dit artikel wordt beschreven hoe &tex; is gebruikt als een primitieve database voor de administratie van de 47ste Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie. Theo Jurriens 9 1992 102-104 24 floats multi-columns letter table of contents In het dagelijks gebruik van &latex; komen we zo af en toe toch nog wel eens problemen voor. In dit artikel vragen uit de praktijk en de mogelijke oplossingen. Victor Eijkhout 9 1992 105-110 66 Lollipop meta-format style design The Lollipop format is a meta-format: it does not define user macros, but it contains the tools with which a style designer can easily implement such user macros. This article will show some of the capabilities of Lollipop and will give the reader a small peek behind the scenes of the implementation. David Salomon 9 1992 111-114 50 index preparation MakeIndex A beta release of the MakeIndex program has recently become available for the Macintosh computer, and I immediately started using it to prepare the indexes of two new books. MakeIndex is easy to use with &latex; but, since I like to work with plain &tex;, I have developed all the necessary macros from scratch. They are presented here for the benefit of anyone who wants a professionally looking index. Kees van der Laan 9 1992 115-129 133 tables bordered table plain &tex; Characteristics of existing table macro collections are given. A kaleidoscope of tables — as next best to a taxonomy — is presented. Newly introduced is the class of bordered tables. Variations in print-ruled, nonruled, framed, nonframed, dotted, centered, flushed-can be obtained via the invoke of parameter setting macros; no modification of user mark up. Simultaneous row and column spans, partial rules, and dotted lines are dealt with. The listing of the macro \btable, with auxiliaries, is included. Kees van der Laan 9 1992 130-136 101 array addressing loops parameters linear search sorting switch plain &tex; A plea is made for being honest with &tex; and not imposing alien structures upon it, otherwise than via compatible extensions, or via (non-&tex;) user interfaces to suit the publisher, the author, or the typist. This will facilitate the process to get (complex) publications out effectively, and typographically of high-quality. Kees van der Laan 9 1992 137-138 40 heap sort plain &tex; Sorting in plain &tex; is implemented via heap sort. The heap sort algorithm is explained and the encoding given. Kees van der Laan 9 1992 139-144 89 FIFO LIFO BLUe plain &tex; FIFO, First-In-First-Out, and LIFO, Last-In-First-Out, are well-known techniques for handling sequences. In &tex; macro writing they are abundant but are not easily recognized as such. &tex; templates for FIFO and LIFO are given and their use illustrated. The relation with Knuth's \dolist, answer ex11.5, and \ctest, p.376, is given. Kees van der Laan 9 1992 145-146 43 crosswords An alternative macro, to van der Laan (1992b), is provided for typesetting crosswords via &tex;. Jan Krugers 9 1992 147-154 244 Scientific Word WYSIWYG Windows OS2WIN A software package for Windows and OS2WIN for inputting mathematical formulas WYSIWYG according to all &tex; rules. Internal storage format is a mixture of &tex;, &latex; and macros of own design. Mathematical formulas are immediately shown the way they will be printed. Line width for text is limited to the width of the windowfor ease of use. The built in previewer from Turbo&tex; shows the whole document layout. There are also dvi drivers included for PostScript, LaserJet, DeskJet and matrixprinters. Pictures can be called just as easy as formulas can be inputted. A description of the philosophy of this package and how to work with it. Gerard van Nes 9 1992 155-157 38 bugs Knuth Computers & Typesetting In may/june this year a discussion started on the &tex;-NL listserver (by Kees van der Laan and Nico Poppelier) about the releases of Knuths book series: it was not sure that Addison-Wesley was selling only the latest book editions. We have forwarded that discussion directly to Addison-Wesley in Amsterdam. The answer is included in next section. Michael Downes 9 1992 158 17 &latex;3 volunteers This is a call for volunteers to help in the development of &latex;3. There are many tasks needing to be done in support of the &latex;3 project which can be worked on concurrently with the development of the &latex;3 kernel. Furthermore, some tasks require special expertise not found among the core programming team. Initial research, analysis, and work on these tasks by volunteers can greatly speed up the process of integrating a number of desirable features into &latex;3. Many of these features can be extensively developed and tested under &latex; 2.09 even before the &latex;3 kernel is available. Jiří Zlatuška 9 1992 159 16 Euro&tex; proceedings Prague Euro&tex; '92 proceedings volume contains 330 pages of papers presented at the last European &tex; Conference held in Prague, Czechoslovakia. There are full texts of five invited talks included, presenting topics ranging from the future of &tex; to combinations involving METAFONT and PostScript, and also user support. The volume is available from the Czechoslovak &tex; user's group for only DM 30.—. 9 1992 160 56 TUG conference call for papers Call for papers for TUG'93 meeting. 9 1992 161-162 24 TUGboat contents Table of contents of TUGboat Volume 13.2 and 13.3. Gerard van Nes 10 1993 1-218 3082 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Gerard van Nes Jos Winnink 10 1993 1-4 49 report members meeting Opening; Verslag bijeenkomst 4 juni 1992; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; NTG presentaties: `The future of &tex;/&latex;'; Rondvraag en Sluiting. 10 1993 5-6 23 calendar glossary announcement Gerard van Nes 10 1993 7-10 60 MAPS MAPS NTG Kees van der Laan 10 1993 11-14 55 chairman Gerard van Nes 10 1993 15-17 29 report NTG In 1992 ging de NTG zijn 5e jaar van bestaan in. Twee NTG bijeenkomsten vonden plaats met vele goede lezingen, naast een succesvolle en goed bezette 5-daagse Advanced &tex; cursus (low budget; met het cursusmateriaal als MAPS-Special). Er verschenen wederom een tweetal MAPS uitgaven (Minutes & APpendiceS). Medewerking werd tevens verleend aan het &latex;3 projekt.
En voor de rest is er het diverse door de leden gedaan waaronder een Public Domain MS-DOS set (instap en volledige versie), proeflezen van de MAPS, en de hulpverlening bij vragen op de &tex;-NL discussielijst. Johannes Braams 10 1993 18-19 24 financial report 10 1993 20-22 19 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 10 1993 23-30 40 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. Frans Goddijn 10 1993 31-36 58 BBS bulletin board FGBBS Nieuw voor de Nederlandstalige &tex; Gebruikersgroep: een &tex; Bulletin Board speciaal voor diegenen die niet op het Internet zijn aangesloten. De naam: FGBBS. Op FGBBS is sinds kort een zo volledig en actueel mogelijke &tex;, em&tex;, &latex; en Music&tex; collectie beschikbaar voor alle bezitters van een modem. Het BBS is kosteloos toegankelijk voor iedereen en er zijn geen beperkingen aan de hoeveelheid bestanden die kunnen worden opgevraagd. Het systeem is aangesloten op een High Speed modem, vergeleken met de transmissiesnelheid die een directe Internet link biedt misschien niet geweldig, maar veel beter kan het niet over de gewone huis- tuin- en keukenPTTlijn. FGBBS is te bellen op 085-217041. Noot 31-jan-1997: nieuw nummer is 026-3217 041. David Jones 10 1993 37-40 39 &tex; &latex; AMS&tex; AMS&latex; macros index This is a catalogue of &tex; macros. Its scope includes all macros that are available via anonymous ftp or mail-server or some similar mechanism. Commercial packages will be included only if a full Catalogue entry is supplied to me by the vendor. Michel Lavaud 10 1993 41-52 436 back-end front-end scientific publishing As&tex; hyper&tex; tree link multi-author document file manager numerical computation formal computation worksheet databases email MS-DOS notebook OS/2 The PC is the cheapest computer and the most widespread one in the scientific community. Faced with commercial scientific word-processors that are improving steadily in wrong directions, it is urgent to make the use of &tex; easier on the PC, to ensure its future and avoid costly dead-ends to researchers. We have designed a program, As&tex;, that allows to create easily multi-author scientific documents in &tex; or &latex; on PCs. It provides an on-line hypertext help and a multi-level assistance in typing &latex; code. It allows to display and modify very easily the structure of a document, to archive and retrieve files related to it, to perform numerical and formal computations from the document and include automatically the results, to create &latex; tables from worksheets or databases of formulas. It processes electronic mail and files sent by list servers for a better use of information and eases considerably the use of anonymous ftp and archie servers by local archiving of selected informations. Wietse Dol Erik Frambach Maarten van der Vlerk 10 1993 53-56 58 4&tex; workbench PC MS-DOS freeware shareware &tex; and all its companions offer an enormous amount of possibilities. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that almost anything is possible; the disadvantage is that you need detailed knowledge of all related programs to fully exploit the possibilities. The MS-DOS program 4&tex; is an attempt to integrate all major &tex; related programs in a shell that shields you from the tedious and frustrating job of setting environment variables and program parameters. Robert Best 10 1993 57-68 196 Atari PD-&tex; Deze cursus is bedoeld als eerste kennismaking met &tex; op een eenvoudige PC. Een harde schijf is niet nodig. De cursus is gebaseerd op de PD-&tex; van Christoph Strunk voor Atari ST. De installatie en de functie van de basis bestanden van &tex; worden behandeld. Deze cursus is een gecorrigeerde herdruk van een serie artikelen in het blad ST uitgegeven door: Stichting ST. Daar zijn de in de tekst genoemde schijfjes te verkrijgen. Philippe Vanoverbeke 10 1993 69-72 37 TEX-NL discussionlist Gezeefd uit de NTG &tex;-NL discussielijst van 1992 en begin 1993: een zestiental vragen en antwoorden. Niet alleen voor de niet-netwerkers doch ook voor de &tex;-NL subscribers die de berichten te snel langs hun heen zagen gaan. Keuze is gemaakt op persoonlijke titel, veel is dus ongetwijfeld missende. Echter de onderwerpen welke in deze bijdrage worden behandeld zijn zeker van algemeen belang. Mark Sinke 10 1993 73 16 arm&tex; Acorn Archimedes port In dit artikeltje zal ik vertellen wat arm&tex; is en welke voor- en nadelen het systeem heeft. Het is geen uitvoerige opsomming van wat &tex; kan, omdat de lezer geacht wordt daarvan (enigszins) op de hoogte te zijn. Ik zal me meer richten op de technische kanten van het werken met &tex; op de Archimedes. Piet Tutelaers 10 1993 74-76 106 MathTime &latex; Philip Taylor 10 1993 77-85 126 extended &tex; NTS New Typesetting System &tex; and the other members of Knuth's Computers & Typesetting family are arguably amongst the most successful examples of computer software in the world, having been ported to almost every conceivable operating system and attracting an allegiance that verges on the fanatical. Development work on this family has now ceased, and many members of the computer typesetting community are concerned that some action should be taken to ensure that the ideas and philosophy enshrined in &tex; are not allowed simply to fade away. In this paper, we discuss some of the options available for perpetuating the &tex; philosophy, and examine the strengths and weaknesses of the present &tex; system. We conclude by postulating a development strategy for the future which will honour both the letter and the spirit of Knuth's wish that &tex;, METAFONT and the Computer Modern typefaces remain his sole responsibility, and at the same time ensure that the philosophy and paradigms which are the strengths of &tex; are not lost for ever by having artificial constraints placed on their evolution. Frank Mittelbach 10 1993 86-94 256 e-&tex; guidelines extensions With the announcement of &tex; 3.0, Don Knuth acknowledged the need of the (ever growing) &tex; community for an even better system. But at the same time, he made it clear, that he will not get involved in any further enhancements that would change the &tex;book. &tex; started out originally as a system designed to typeset its author's own publications. In the meantime it serves hundreds of thousands of users. Now it is time, after ten years' experience, to step back and consider whether or not &tex; 3.0 is an adequate answer to the typesetting requirements of the nineties. Output produced by &tex; has higher standards than output generated automatically by most other typesetting systems. Therefore, in this paper we will focus on the quality standards set by typographers for hand-typeset documents and ask to what extent they are achieved by &tex;. Limitations of &tex;'s algorithms are analyzed; and missing features as well as new concepts are outlined. Frank Mittelbach Chris Rowley 10 1993 95-100 61 &latex;3 This is a brief sketch of the &latex;3 Project: background, history, principles, aims and functionality. The new version of &latex; is, like the current version, a freely available system for automated processing of structured documents, formatting them to the highest typographic standards by use of the &tex; typesetting software. Although its uses include a very large range of published documents, the importance of its unsurpassed ability to format mathematical formulas will not be forgotten in producing the new version. It is being produced by an international group of volunteers under the technical direction of Frank Mittelbach. Michel Goossens 10 1993 101-113 225 PostScript &latex; epsfig NFSS In dit artikel toon ik aan hoe PostScript en &latex; een hoge graad van samenhorigheid bezitten, die het mogelijk maakt om de voordelen van beide systemen te kombineren om dokumenten elektronisch te publiceren. Allereerst vertel ik hoe, samen met de dvi-vertaler dvips en het stijlbestand epsfig, het invoegen van PostScript materiaal in een (La)&tex; bestand heel eenvoudig wordt. Samen met de stijl rotating kan men bijna elk gewenst globaal grafisch effekt verkrijgen zonder per-se een PostScript guru te zijn. In het tweede gedeelte van het artikel geef ik een kort overzicht van enkele op PostScript gebaseerde stijlbestanden, die bepaalde nuttige visuele effekten genereren, zoals grijze raampjes, kleurentypografie en het overdrukken van tekst. In het laatste gedeelte toon ik hoe eenvoudig het is om PostScript fonts te gebruiken in &latex; met het nieuwe fontselektie systeem (NFSS) van Frank Mittelbach. Yannis Haralambous 10 1993 114-119 122 virtual fonts This paper deals with virtual fonts. I would like to present some examples of their astonishing possibilities, taken from everyday typesetting (or almost). Yannis Haralambous 10 1993 120-123 41 virtual fonts AdjKerns Alan Hoenig 10 1993 124-139 279 METAFONT labelling figures figures with labels curvilinear When &tex; and METAFONT communicate to each other, they can do more together than they can alone. This presentation concentrates on two illustrations of this principal, and urges readers to come up with more. When &tex; becomes sensitive to information passed to it from METAFONT, it is possible to prepare diagrams and figures using METAFONT and then to have &tex; prepare labels which can be precisely positioned within the figure. When communication goes the other way, &tex; and METAFONT can prepare special purpose fonts which (among other things) can be set along curved baselines. Illustrations of both techniques are presented. David van Leeuwen 10 1993 140-141 25 numbers Johannes Braams 10 1993 142-144 28 quotation marks In this article some relatively simple macros are presented for people who need an occasional quotation mark that is different from the default quotation marks provided by &tex;. Kees van der Laan 10 1993 145-148 68 typesetting sequences citation lists lists of references linear sorting FIFO plain &tex; Typesetting sequences of numerical values, represented via symbolic names which get their values on the fly, is dealt with. The sorting of the sequence is done by a linear sorting algorithm, of complexity O(n2). Three or more consecutive numbers are typeset as a range. The objective was to encode typesetting sequences of numbers as simple, concise, general, compatible, modular, orthogonal, and ..., as possible in &tex;. Kees van der Laan 10 1993 149-170 259 sorting index preparation database handling multiple sorting keys Macros for number and lexicographic sorting are supplied. Data can originate from the copy, from file, or generated automatically. Lexicographic sorting allows words with ligatures and diacritical marks. Applications treated are: sorting with respect to report generation with &tex; as a database tool, sorting and compressing index.&tex;, Knuth's index reminders file, and sorting control sequences separately. It is illustrated by various examples that a set can be sorted within &tex; once the ordering of the set is defined and encoded in a comparison macro, in compliance with the parameter macro \cmp. Kees van der Laan 10 1993 171-191 227 computer-assisted typography manmac style customizing index preparation plain &tex; fonts The manmac macros are enumerated. A user's guide is provided, and the encodings are explained. As enhancements the writing of index reminders to the file index.&tex; is elaborated upon, and how to incorporate AMS fonts and non-CM fonts is referred to. In the appendixes I provided the source of manmac and my personalized report template. With respect to the latter, I played with the idea of formatting the MAPS specials series in this way. Kees van der Laan 10 1993 192-212 234 computer-assisted typography math bibliography markup AMS&tex; math fonts cyrillics plain &tex; The significance of the American Mathematical Society for the &tex; community at large, and more general the leading role of the AMS in the area of professional computer-assisted typesetting, is praised. AMS-&tex;, AMS-&latex;, their accompanying styles amsppt.sty, respectively amsart.sty, as well as AMS fonts are discussed. AMS provides excellent user's and installation guides along with the software and fonts, all in the public domain. Despite the quality, an alternative approach — and in detail some alternative encodings — are provided. A publisher is strongly encouraged to take notice of the computer-assisted publishing activities of this pace-setting society. A new procedural idea with respect to specifying and formatting bibliographies, given a background file of all the references an author is familiar with, is proposed to suit the author and the publisher. Sebastian Rahtz 10 1993 213-216 53 TUG conference Aston `A World-Wide Window on &tex;' 10 1993 217-218 19 TUGboat contents Table of contents of TUGboat Volume 13.4. Gerard van Nes 11 1993 1-227 2629 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Jos Winnink 11 1993 1-6 88 report members meeting Verslag bijeenkomst 19 november 1992; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; NTG-jaarvergadering; Rondvraag en Sluiting; Voordrachten: `Van font tot boek'; Volgende bijeenkomsten 11 1993 7-8 35 Kees van der Laan 11 1993 9-10 23 chairman Gerard van Nes 11 1993 11 22 Johannes Braams 11 1993 12-13 17 budget 11 1993 14-16 30 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 11 1993 17-23 45 fileserver Overzicht inhoud NTG fileserver. Jules van Weerden 11 1993 24 23 TEX-NL Deze bijdrage beschrijft de sinds kort aanwezige beschikbaarheid van het &tex;-NL archief op het internet. Zowel inzage is mogelijk in een subject-lijst als in de &tex;-NL e-mails zelf. George Greenwade 11 1993 25-27 39 This article is a adaption of the message send to new users on the INFO-&tex; distribution list. It describes some additional features of the LISTSERV (including some other mailing lists) and the additional FILESERV facillity. Frans Goddijn Henk de Haan 11 1993 28-35 82 FGBBS bulletin board LittleComm Silver Express offline reading Fidonet internet Henk de Haan en Frans Goddijn geven een uitleg over de werkzaamheden aan FGBBS. Nadat een directory met boeken op disk was gewist, werd de &latex;-bibliotheek van FGBBS belangrijk uitgebreid. Er werd voor bezoekers een mogelijkheid geschapen om zowel in fidonet als Internet berichten te lezen en te schrijven. Ook een systeem voor offline reading werd aangelegd. John Timmerman 11 1993 36-40 52 FGBBS LittleComm datacommunicatie Zoals uit het kopje al blijkt, ga ik er hier vanuit dat je nog niet veel ervaring hebt met datacommunicatie, en dat je hebt gekozen voor het gebruik van LittleComm. LittleCommspoort je vlug, veilig en voordelig door het fascinerende land van de datacommunicatie. door hem gebruikte setup. Christina Thiele 11 1993 41-42 23 Kees van der Laan 11 1993 43-51 122 4&tex; BBS cooperation NLUUG cooperation CyrTUG NTG's youth in context is depicted, with a wink to the future. Huib van Krimpen 11 1993 52-56 58 Kees van der Laan 11 1993 57-59 47 &latex; companion &latex;2.09 NTS outline fonts PDF CTAN TUG conference Aston This report contains the main issues as perceived by the author. The idea is to get the flavor and my view of the good items across, at the expense of completeness. Kees van der Laan 11 1993 60-61 34 board-of-directors conference planning long-range planning public relations &tex;nical council exchange of TUGboat and bulletins of LUGs The following are the loosely formulated issues as perceived by me. For more preciseness the reader is referred to the (approved) minutes. Kees van der Laan 11 1993 62-66 149 CyrTUG conference cyrillics MIR publishers The first open CyrTUG meeting with a few participants from abroad. A rich touristic program next to the usual issues: courses, and special attention to the national &tex; problems. Kees van der Laan 11 1993 67-87 273 AMS&tex; electronic publishing &latex; METAFONT EPS SGML hyper&tex; A survey of &tex;, its flavours, and its twin sister METAFONT, within the context of Electronic Publishing, is given. Piet van Oostrum 11 1993 88-102 177 Een &tex; systeem op een Unix systeem omhelst tegenwoordig veel meer dan alleen het gelijknamige programma. Een goed geïntegreerde werkomgeving is mogelijk voor het produceren van een veelzijdig scala aan documenten. We bespreken de structuur van het &tex; systeem, de gangbare hulpmiddelen en pakketten eromheen, zoals printer drivers, previewers, font beheer, grafische pakketten, bibliografiebeheer, index beheer, spelling controle e.d. Verder besteden we aandacht aan de beheers- en installatie aspecten ervan, zowel voor een stand-alone systeem als voor een client-server omgeving met eventueel heterogene systemen. Geoffrey Tobin 11 1993 103-110 89 This is not a tutorial on METAFONT. It is an attempt to describe how some of the pitfalls in running the program may, hopefully, be avoided. Robert Best 11 1993 111-114 64 Deze cursus is een vervolg op die in MAPS 1993.1. Na een inleiding in het eerste hoofdstuk werden toen in de volgende hoofdstukken behandeld: Boxen, METAFONT en PostScript, Figuren en een vreemd alfabet, en tot slot INI&tex; en INIMF. In deze bijdrage vervolgen we met hoofdstuk 6: het maken van een mooie brief, niet via `boxen' in &tex; maar m.b.v. &latex;. In hoofdstuk 7 bekijken we de `artikel-stijl', waarschijnlijk de meest gebruikte vorm van &tex;. Dat leidt tot een vergelijking van &tex; en &latex;. En tot een alternatief: &tex;sis. Deze cursus is een herdruk van een serie artikelen in het blad ST uitgegeven door Stichting ST. Daar zijn de in de tekst genoemde schijfjes te verkrijgen. Bobby Bodenheimer 11 1993 115-125 134 FAQ frequently asked questions comp.text.tex This article contains answers to some frequently asked questions on comp.text.tex. Please don't ask these questions again, as they've been answered many times before. Note that Guoying Chen (chen-guo@spunky.cs.nyu.edu) posts the monthly document Supplementary &tex; Information to this newsgroup containing other information and software relevant to &tex; users but beyond the scope of this article. Eberhard Mattes 11 1993 126-127 28 FAQ frequently asked questions This is an edited version of a document called em&tex;-user Frequently Asked Questions. Eberhard Mattes sent this document on october 3rd, 1993 to the em&tex;-user list. In the community of dutch &tex;-users em&tex; is widely spread. So questions to the list are probably also valuable for many em&tex;-users without direct access to the list. Wietse Dol 11 1993 128-130 44 In this note I have gathered some frequently asked questions and remarks. Most of the questions and answers were proposed in Dutch, so I tried to translate them into English. Blame me for (m)any bad English. Philippe Vanoverbeke 11 1993 131-132 26 Hier volgt opnieuw een selektie uit de NTG &tex;-NL discussielijst. Er werden enkele (korte) items uitgelicht uit de onderwerpen die aan bod gekomen zijn tussen juni en september 1993. George Greenwade 11 1993 133-140 86 CTAN archives FTP This paper outlines the concept, development, and use of the Comprehensive &tex; Archive Network (CTAN) — a network-accessible archive for files related to the &tex; family of document processing. The CTAN is a coordinated effort among consenting well-known archive sites which provides quick identification and retrieval files in a consistent manner from hosts on different continents, thereby reducing overall network load and increasing speed of retrieval. Moreover, it provides users with a parallel archive structure between hosts with holdings which are generally synchronized to within 30 hours of one another. This is achieved by routinely mirroring one another's holdings, as well as mirroring other archives to maintain an up-to-date collection of files. Phons Bloemen 11 1993 141-154 106 em&tex; 4&tex; distribution Presentatie van het 4all&tex; floppypakket. Opgezet als een &tex;-installatie samengepakt op 1 HD floppy, uitbreidbaar met `hapklare' brokken in de vorm van extra floppies. Het geheel is gebaseerd op het em&tex; pakket van Eberhard Mattes, en het 4&tex;-pakket. Phons Bloemen 11 1993 155-159 67 4&tex; &tex;Shell user interface This is a review of two `shell' programs for em&tex;, the PC-&tex; implementation of Eberhard Mattes. The `shells' provide an integrated development environment for making &tex; documents. The two `shells' presented here are &tex;SHELL by Jürgen Schlegelmilch, and 4&tex; by Wietse Dol, Erik Frambach and Maarten van der Vlerk. Wietse Dol 11 1993 160-162 47 Many people know about &tex; compilers and &tex; utilities for the MS-DOS PC. However, in the world of WINDOWS there is a lack of knowledge. This note is intended to inform people who like to run &tex; under WINDOWS and want all the good stuff that WINDOWS and &tex; offers. Roger Hunter 11 1993 163-166 48 The future of &tex; is invisibility. The role of &tex; should be similar to that of the microprocessor in a PC. The microprocessor is the heart of the system, but is completely invisible except for the sticker which says `intel inside.' &tex; must be made invisible with appropriate front-ends. These front-ends should emphasize the manipulation of content over appearance and reverse the trend toward WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interfaces with their emphasis on manipulation of appearance. Content-oriented interfaces provide far greater user productivity than WYSIWYG systems, and &tex; is the ideal basis for such systems. Philippe Vanoverbeke 11 1993 167-170 50 Eind 1992 kreeg ik een beta-versie van Scientific Word in de bus. Dhr. Kruger was toen zo vriendelijk om mij dit pakket toe te sturen ter evaluatie. Hierna volgt het rapport(je) met mijn bevindingen dat ik hem destijds toestuurde. Zonder twijfel is het product inmiddels verder geëvalueerd en zijn mijn bevindingen dan ook hoogswaarschijnlijk niet echt meer `up to date'. Wietse Dol 11 1993 171-176 151 In this paper we will show how 4&tex; can be used to incorporate graphics in &tex; documents. Using 4&tex; it not only becomes easy to include graphics in &tex; files, but also makes it possible to preview and print &tex; documents (including graphics) on any machine and any printer. For inserting graphics in &tex; documents, 4&tex; uses the style file figures.sty, the shareware programs &tex;CAD and GRAPHIC WORKSHOP, and the freeware programs: HP2XX, BM2FONT,PCLTOMSP, and GhostScript. All these programs are discussed and we also discuss how 4&tex; uses the strength of these programs to incorporate graphics in &tex; documents. Michel Goossens Frank Mittelbach Alexander Samarin 11 1993 177-184 77 In this article, which is part of the third chapter of our forthcoming book `A &latex; Companion', we take a look at &latex;'s list environments. First the various parameters and commands controlling the standard &latex; lists, enumerate, itemize,anddescription, are discussed. Then the general list environment is introduced and we tell you how to build custom layouts by varying the values of the parameters controlling this environment. Johannes Braams 11 1993 185-186 30 This article describes the changes that have been made to the babel system, since the article describing the system appeared in TUGboat Volume 12, number 2. This article announces the release of a new version of the babel system. Piet Tutelaers 11 1993 187-190 46 hyphenation new dutch Dutch hyphenation patterns for &tex; based upon `Groene boekje 1990' Donald Arseneau 11 1993 191-193 43 Editor's note: This description of an unusual macro file, shapepar.sty, is taken from the documentation; the full style file can be found in CTAN archives. Marek Ryćko Bogusław Jackowski 11 1993 194-198 70 Rob de Jeu 11 1993 199-200 27 In this article, I will explain a couple of things about the use of &latex; at Wolters Kluwer Academic Publishers (WKAP), a scientific publisher in Dordrecht. WKAP came into existence in the '80s after the merger between D. Reidel Publishing Company, Martinus Nijhoff and Dr W. Junk. Each year, WKAP publishes approximately 200 scientific journals and about 500 books (in reality, 200 scientific journal titles translates into some 1200 journal issues). Philippe Vanoverbeke 11 1993 201-204 43 Ongetwijfeld zal bovenstaande titel menig NTG-lid de wenkbrauwen doen fronsen...: Typografie, laat staan &tex;, is nu wel het laatste wat wij in verband brengen met onze blinde medemens. In de volgende paragrafen zal ik pogen te verklaren waarom ik &tex; als een mogelijk hulpmiddel zie voor de produktie van (eenvoudige) documenten in braille. Kees van der Laan 11 1993 205-210 76 literature database bibliography plain &tex; A new and flexible approach to maintaining and using a bibliography database within (All)&tex; is provided. Kees van der Laan 11 1993 211-212 30 matrix icons &latex; picture environment Some macros for typesetting matrix icons are provided, based upon &latex;'s picture environment, which don't need coordinate awareness: just the (dimensionless) sizes of the `boxes.' Włodek Bzyl Tomasz Przechlewski 11 1993 213-215 37 Mary Dyson 11 1993 216-218 37 digital typography curriculum development letterforms project report This paper briefly outlines the Didot project on teaching digital typography. A key issue, namely the nature of the interaction between computer and design specialists, is discussed and related to the type of material that could be included in a curriculum for digital typography. Teaching methods and material that have been developed in this area are outlined and an evaluation of one of these methods is described. Chris Rowley Frank Mittelbach 11 1993 219-220 35 &latex;2e is a new, standard version of &latex;-prepared and supported by the &latex;3 Project Team. Nico Poppelier 11 1993 221-222 29 book review Reviews of `A Guide to &latex;, Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users' (Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly), `&latex; Line By Line, Tips and Techniques for Document Processing' (Antoni Diller). Michael Ferguson 11 1993 223 21 Mary Dyson 11 1993 224-225 28 call for papers TEP TUG conference Darmstadt Santa Barbara call for papers for TEP'94 and for TUG'94. 11 1993 226-227 36 Table of contents of TUGboat Volume 14.1, 14.2 and 14.3. Gerard van Nes 12 1994 1-177 2821 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Jos Winnink 12 1994 1-5 70 report members meeting Opening 12e NTG bijeenkomst 18 november 1993; Verslag NTG bijeenkomst van 10 juni 1993; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; Begroting 1994; Wat verder ter tafel komt; &latex;3; MAPS; Verslag bijeenkomsten; Verslag werkgroepen; Rondvraag; Voordrachten: `(La)&tex; gebruikersomgeving'; Volgende bijeenkomsten; Sluiting 12 1994 6-7 37 Kees van der Laan 12 1994 8-10 53 chairman Gerard van Nes 12 1994 11-12 38 Gerard van Nes 12 1994 13-14 36 report NTG Johannes Braams 12 1994 15-16 32 financial report Jos Winnink 12 1994 17-18 25 &tex; &latex; &latex;3 At the 1993 spring meeting of the Dutch &tex; User Group (NTG) the NTG Board was asked to find out in what way &tex; and &latex; is used by its members. Main motivation for this question was to find out how important funding of the &latex;-3 project for the members of NTG is. Therefore it was necessary to have insight in the use of &tex; and related products/macro packages. It was decided that the board should held a inquiry among the members and if possible present the results at the fall 1993 meeting. This article describes the results of the survey. Erik Frambach 12 1994 19-21 67 CDROM 4all&tex; 4&tex; ISO9660 In about one half year the world's first turn-key &tex; system on CD-ROM was produced. It contains the ms-dos &tex; workbench 4&tex; version 3.20 in perhaps the largest form ever, plus many &tex; sources that are valuable to any &tex; user. In this article we present a look behind the scenes, so you get some insight in the course of events that mark the production of NTG's first CD-ROM. Frans Goddijn Henk de Haan 12 1994 22-24 31 FGBBS bulletin board Fidonet internet 4all&tex; LittleComm CDROM Stonden de eerste zes maanden van het FGBBS in het teken van onafgebroken uitbreiding van file- en berichtengebieden en het telkens vergroten van de beoogde gebruikersvriendelijkheid, het afgelopen halfjaar hebben we met succes gestreefd naar stabilisatie van het systeem, overigens zonder de actualiteit uit het oog te verliezen. Wietse Dol 12 1994 25-26 25 With the release of the CD-ROM there will also be a new release of the 4&tex; workbench (version 3.20). In this note I will try and explain what will be different from the earlier versions (e.g. installed with 4all&tex;). Wietse Dol 12 1994 27-30 47 Robert Best 12 1994 31-33 100 &tex;Draw MIDI&tex; Music&tex; Big&tex; MakeIndex &tex;Draw wordt getest. Veel Atari ST's worden gebruikt om electronisch muziek te maken, op te nemen (MIDI) en af te drukken in muziekschrift. Dat afdrukken kan ook met &tex;. Uitbreidingen van &tex; zoals &latex;, &tex;sis en Music&tex; maken het zetwerk makkelijker en mooier, maar &tex; heeft ook meer werkruimte nodig. We maken een Big&tex; en een trefwoordenregister voor een lange tekst. Deze cursus is een herdruk van een serie artikelen uit het blad ST, uitgegeven door Stichting ST. Daar zijn de in de tekst genoemde schijfjes te verkrijgen. Mark van Veen 12 1994 34-36 37 &latex;2e Deze keer gaat het over een recent uitgekomen macro-pakket, dat &latex;2e heet. Dit pakket vormt een krachtige set macro's, waarmee je zonder al te veel van &tex; af te weten goed uitziende teksten kan produceren. Deze cursus is een herdruk van een serie artikelen uit het blad ST, uitgegeven door Stichting ST. Daar zijn de in de tekst genoemde schijfjes te verkrijgen. Michel Goossens 12 1994 37-46 145 This article gives an overview of the new or extended user commands available with &latex;2e, the new &latex; release, compared to the previous version &latex; 2.09. After introducing the newpreamble commands, the extensions for defining new commands and environments, and handling length and boxes are discussed. The new font selection commands are explained, both for text and math, and it is shown how to easily use different font families. A list of supported class and package files is given and new possibilities for controlling page contents and floats are discussed. Most of this material is described in much greater detail in `The &latex; Companion' and in the second edition of the &latex; Reference Manual. Johannes Braams 12 1994 47-49 47 This article describes the Document Classes and Packages that are availabel or will be available shortly for use with &latex;2e . The number of available Packages and Classes will obviously change once &latex;2e is the `official' &latex;. Johannes Braams 12 1994 50-52 51 This article deals with the things you have to look for when upgrading and old .sty file for &latex;2e , turning it into either a Document Class or a Package. Sebastian Rahtz 12 1994 53-57 359 This paper offers a `back to basics' overview of the various types of software which are of assistance to the &tex;nical writer on a personal computer (this includes Unix machines, but excludes, for instance, VMS or VM/CMS systems). It is based on a presentation to the October UK-TUG meeting, and I am grateful to the other speakers, and our chairman Allan Reese, for insights and news. I would also like to refer readers to the Dutch &tex; Group's journal MAPS, whose issue 93.2 contains a variety of useful papers on &tex; interfaces, two of which are reproduced in Baskerville Volume 3.2 (December 1993). Alan Jeffrey 12 1994 58-59 32 This document gives a brief overview of the fontinst package. The fontinst package is used to build virtual fonts (VFs) which allow PostScript fonts to be used as drop-in replacements for the Computer Modern fonts in &tex;. Below, I'll describe VFs briefly, and describe how they can be built using the fontinst package. Nikos Drakos 12 1994 60-62 82 &latex;2HTML is a conversion tool that allows existing documents written in &latex; to become part of a global multimedia system. This paper presents some of the reasons for using such a system and describes the basic conversion process. Michel Goossens Sebastian Rahtz 12 1994 63-68 200 Norman Walsh 12 1994 69-91 550 book table of contents abstract preface book review review This article contains the Table of Contents, Preface, and Chapter 4 of `Making &tex; Work' by Norman Walsh; published by O'Reilly and Associates (ISBN 1-56592-051-1). No effort has been made to preserve the `look and feel' of the book in this text, and some simplifications have been performed (particularly with respect to special formatting issues and package names). Paul Thompson 12 1994 92 15 book review review This is a review of the book `Making &tex; Work' by Norman Walsch Dimitrios Filippou 12 1994 93-96 49 &tex; &latex; Greek fonts packages freeware commercial This paper contains some information on whatever exists for typesetting by &tex; documents which contain entirely or in part Greek text. Those who would like to typeset Greek texts not by plain &tex;, but rather with &latex;, may find this short article quite useful as well. Angelika Binding 12 1994 97-99 33 Hans Hagen 12 1994 100-102 62 use of &tex; practice PRAGMA uses &tex; for producing educational texts. To facilitate development of educational materials, a dedicated macro package has been developed as well as a full featured &tex;(t) editing environment. Hans Hagen 12 1994 103-105 44 Siep Kroonenberg 12 1994 106-107 28 databases spreadsheet tables This paper demonstrates how commercial software and &latex; can work together in data publishing. Siep Kroonenberg 12 1994 108-110 52 tables design rules whitespace fonts alignment justification A critical look at table typesetting as practiced by &latex; users, with before-and-after examples. Kees van der Laan 12 1994 111-114 59 foils formatting generic style slides transparencies &tex; macros for formatting transparencies are provided. The macros have been designed with reusability of earlier formatted document parts in mind, with a wink to maintenance of the tranparency set. Kees van der Laan 12 1994 115 22 literature database bibliography plain &tex; In addition to the earlier method of maintaining a database in &tex;, it is shown how to load the entries selectively, without modifying the entries of the database. Kees van der Laan 12 1994 116-118 40 escape character formatting generic style semi-transparent verbatim A suite of macros for verbatim mode is provided, which are simple, concise and flexible. The functionalities are: verbatim text, and file verbatim inclusion, with `options' for numbering and enabling of metacode. Options can be supplied via the toks variable \thisverbatim, and globally via \everyverbatim. The place within context can be handled via the defs \preverbatim and \postverbatim. The macros are context independent and can be used at the inner level with Any&tex;. Kees van der Laan 12 1994 119-150 361 block comment computer-assisted typography Euro&tex; &latex; markup optional parameters preprints publisher formats TTN TUGboat multi-columns verbatim The significance of TUGboat for the &tex; community at large is praised. (l)tugboat.sty, tugboat.cmn and the TUG authors' guide are discussed, next to their siblings (l)tugproc.sty and the option euro&tex;.sty. Article templates for the various `styles as is' are provided. Independent and in addition to these I included customing files. Also included is my concrete proposal for a tug.ppt style-for preprints of tugboat.sty, and tugproc.sty, in the spirit of ams.ppt. Furthermore, a new and simple alternative to the handling of options for &tex; is proposed, based on the toks variable \this<foo>, analogous to \every<foo>. This is applied to handling verbatims, with as a result a compact suite of verbatim macros to be used with Any&tex;. Nico Poppelier 12 1994 151-152 27 book review SGML Two new books are discussed: `Practical SGML' from Eric Herwijnen, and `math into &tex;, a simple introduction to AMS-&latex;' from George Grätzer. Donald Arseneau Raymond Chen Victor Eijkhout 12 1994 153-154 31 For the UNIX operating system, a list of characterizations exists describing what constitutes a novice, a user, a guru, ... Here we give a similar list for users of &tex;. The reader is kindly asked to take this purely in a humorous vein. Sebastian Rahtz 12 1994 155-156 24 CTAN FTP archives The UK&tex; Archive (Internet `Daughter' archive) on ftp.&tex;.ac.uk is part of a collaborating network of archives organised by the &tex; Users Group known as CTAN (Comprehensive &tex; Archive Network). The three main archives now follow the same structure and have identical files (ftp.&tex;.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and ftp.uni-stuttgart.de). Leslie Lamport &latex;3 project team 12 1994 157-158 28 The second test release of &latex; is now available. Notes about this release are at the end of this announcement. The first release revealed a few serious bugs and several other areas which need attention. Many people reported that documents and style files had been processed by the new system without serious problems; this includes one very important test — the original text of `The &latex; Manual'! We can also report that this release has been tested with all the files in the &latex; 2.09 test suite and produces only predictable differences in the output. David Thomas 12 1994 159-164 61 This document is for new and experienced users of literate programming tools. The purpose is to explain the concept of literate programming and to provide a resource for locating files of interest to literate programmers and those interested in literate programming. Kees van der Laan 12 1994 165-166 33 Bacho&tex; trip report music book design BLUe introduction Education was about:

• survey of &tex;,
• Polish typographical tradition,
• &latex;2e,
• LaMeX2e,
• Indexing and bibliography making,
• dvips use and so on,
• fonts with &tex; and PostScript,
• METAFONT.

The contributions to the conference were about:

• emerging GUST archive,
• &latex; and Polish,
• AmS&latex;.

Phil Taylor had the stage when talking in full colour about book design. Kees van der Laan talked about Manmac, and his BLUe system. Kees van der Laan 12 1994 167 26 Nordic TUG NTUG annual meeting The meeting of the Nordic countries was attended. Few people did show up because of the distance. Issues at stake were:

• hyphenation patterns for Norwegian,
• how to create your own documentsstyle,
• TUGboat blues.

12 1994 168-169 29 TUG conference Santa Barbara Announcement of TUG '94 conference. 12 1994 170 16 Euro&tex; conference announcement Gdansk Announcement of Euro&tex;'94 conference. Erik Frambach Wietse Dol 12 1994 171-174 37 announcement 4&tex; 4all&tex; CDROM Announcement of NTG's 4all&tex; cd-rom Erik Frambach Wietse Dol 12 1994 175 16 courses 4&tex; Aankondiging 4&tex; cursus 12 1994 176-177 28 TUGboat contents Table of contents of TUGboat Volume 14.4, and 15.1. Gerard van Nes 13 1994 1-214 3930 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Frans Goddijn 13 1994 1-4 63 report members meeting Opening 13e NTG bijeenkomst 9 juni 1994; Verslag NTG bijeenkomst van 18 november 1993; Ingekomen stukken en Mededelingen; NTG ledenvergadering; Verslag werkgroepen; Rondvraag en Sluiting; Voordrachten: `&tex; en Educatie'; Volgende bijeenkomsten; Sluiting 13 1994 5-6 38 Johannes Braams 13 1994 7 21 chairman Gerard van Nes 13 1994 8-9 68 13 1994 10-11 24 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. 13 1994 12-13 20 listserver 4&tex; Overzicht gebruikers listserver. Johannes Braams 13 1994 14-17 69 conference TUG conference Santa Barbara Michel Goossens 13 1994 18-22 72 TUG conference Santa Barbara Kees van der Laan 13 1994 23-26 338 CyrTUG Dubna PostScript &latex;2e A magnificant trip to get to know the CyrTUG and its chapters better. Not only Moscow, but also Kazan and St-Petersburg. The driving force is hosted at MIR. The cooperation of the JINR at Dubna and CyrTUG is bound te become beneficial. As usual there were courses around the conference. Issues discussed during the conference:

• &latex; developments,
• Use of colours,
• &latex; and PostScript,
• UNIX platforms next to DOS,
• Various user reports,
• BLUe's set of macros on top of manmac.

Michel Goossens 13 1994 27-30 59 Euro&tex; conference Gdansk Report of Euro&tex;'94 conference in Gdansk. Frans Goddijn Henk de Haan 13 1994 31-33 30 FGBBS bulletin board Fidonet FrontDoor internet 4all&tex; CDROM De komst van de 4all&tex; CD-ROMs heeft de afgelopen maanden voor veel nieuws gezorgd, ook op FGBBS. Het NTG schonk FGBBS een CD-ROM drive, waarop de 4all&tex; werd geplaatst. Inmiddels is de tweede editie 4all&tex; gearriveerd, en deze is in zijn geheel beschikbaar via het bulletin board systeem. 13 1994 34-36 43 4&tex; 4all&tex; CDROM The most important items concerning the 4all&tex; CD-ROM. Hans Paijmans 13 1994 37-38 28 4all&tex; review In het Nederlandse maandblad `Personal Computer Magazine' verscheen in het oktober nummer de hier beschreven recensie van &latex;/&tex; en de onlangs verschenen 4all&tex; CD-ROM. Hans Renkema 13 1994 39 28 Wietse Dol 13 1994 40-42 38 The second release of the 4all&tex; CD-ROM comes with 4&tex; 3.25. This version of 4&tex; has a new utility that is not described in the manual. In this note I will explain the use of this extra feature: Makefont. With the makefont utility it becomes easy to include whatever PostScript font you need into your (La)&tex; documents. If you have a complete font family of PostScript fonts you can also decide to develop your own style file and use this as your default font family (instead of the CMR family). Robert Best 13 1994 43-44 34 &tex; kan niet alleen instructies uitvoeren maar ook vragen. Het resultaat hangt dan af van de antwoorden van de gebruiker: interactie. Als voorbeeld maken we een brief waarbij de gebruiker (die niets van &tex; hoeft te weten) nog de afzender en de geadresseerde kan aangeven. En ... &tex; doet niet moeilijk over Poolse accenten. Deze cursus is een herdruk van een serie artikelen uit het blad ST, uitgegeven door Stichting ST. Daar zijn de in de tekst genoemde schijfjes te verkrijgen. Rens Swart 13 1994 45-50 89 METAFONT is een programma waarmee het mogelijk is om via wiskundig beschreven curves en oppervlakken lettertypes of andere symbolen te ontwerpen. Deze kunnen gebruikt worden in het zetprogramma &tex;. Dit artikel gaat niet in op het werkelijke ontwerp-proces en zelfs nauwelijks op de faciliteiten die METAFONT hiertoe biedt, maar op de vraag hoe METAFONT functioneert in de Atari-omgeving, gebaseerd op het Public Domain pakket van Christoph Strunk. Kortom: hoe kun je aan het werk met METAFONT? Deze cursus is een herdruk van een serie artikelen uit het blad ST, uitgegeven door Stichting ST. Daar zijn de in de tekst genoemde schijfjes te verkrijgen. Frank Langbein 13 1994 51 19 Frans Goddijn 13 1994 52-54 44 Palatino Johan Polak Donald Knuth Hermann Zapf math fonts TYPO-L typography Some time ago I started work on a book (a collection of letters written by one of the most renowned Dutch publishers, Johan Polak) and at the time I was typesetting it in the Palatino font. Then I heard that the creator of Palatino, the world famous Hermann Zapf, has worked with Donald Knuth. What did they do, I wondered? Is &tex; more famous than we think it is? Did the fingers of both geniuses touch in the creation of our Math fonts? The replies to my queries in TYPO-L were promising. You decide. Frans Goddijn 13 1994 55-56 42 oldstyle mediaeval digits numbers Een toevallige samenloop van omstandigheden brengt een even verbluffend mooie als oeroude optie van &tex; aan het licht, die tot dusverre door bijna iedereen over het hoofd is gezien. Prachtige `hangende cijfers' zijn in de standaard Computer Modern fonts al sinds jaar en dag beschikbaar, als math italic. 13 1994 57 14 The &latex;3 project team is pleased to announce the release of the new standard version of &latex;. It is upwardly compatible with existing &latex; documents, and contains new features including the long-awaited graphics extensions. Johannes Braams 13 1994 58-64 101 In the first section of this article I describe what document classes and packages are and how they relate to &latex; 2.09's style files. Then the process of upgrading existing style files for use with &latex;2e is described. Finally I give an overview of the standard packages and document classes that are part of the distribution of &latex;2e. Dag Langmyhr 13 1994 65-72 164 &latex;2e document class design document class implementation lecture notes The new &latex;2e makes it very easy to create new document classes. This paper describes how to use the new features of &latex;2e. The class `lecnotes' — a document class suitable for lecture notes — is used as an example. Tetsuo Iwakumay Tetsuo Furukawa 13 1994 73-110 798 &latex;2.09 optional style files People may not need to read this article any more if &latex;2e has been completed. But since this is somehow transient period from &latex; v.2.09 to a new one, this kind of documents may be useful for those who are making documents every day and night. This is a concise guide for these people. Authors are hoping this may become a help to many users of &latex;. Henk de Haan 13 1994 111-114 199 &latex; wordt voor veel verschillende soorten drukwerk gebruikt. In dit artikel wordt het vormgeven van een proefschrift met behulp van &latex;2e beschreven. Hierbij spelen de persoonlijke voorkeuren van de auteur een belangrijke rol, zonder dat daarbij de krachtige mogelijkheden van &latex; onbenut blijven. Hans Renkema 13 1994 115-117 88 In bepaalde kringen is het tekstverwerkingsprogramma (of beter: het zetsysteem) &tex; bijzonder populair. Het programma is vrij verkrijgbaar bij Bulletin Boards en bestaat ook in een versie voor de Mac. Hans Renkema is een enthousiaste &tex; Macintosh gebruiker. In dit artikel geeft hij een beschrijving van &tex;. Simon Pepping 13 1994 118-122 66 Elsevier electronic publishing &latex; SGML Dit artikel beschrijft enkele aspekten van Elsevier Science's electronic publishing programma. Alle tijdschriften in de Physics en Mathematics uitgeefprogramma's accepteren &latex; files van auteurs en gebruiken die voor publikatie. De dvi files gebruiken PostScript fonts die gekombineerd zijn in in-huis ontwikkelde virtuele fonts. In andere wetenschappelijke disciplines worden auteurs files van een breed scala aan tekstverwerkings programmas geaccepteerd en gebruikt voor publikatie. In zijn toekomstige electronic publishing strategie kent Elsevier Science een centrale rol toe aan SGML. Alle binnenkomende artikelen zullen uniform gestruktureerd worden met gebruik van SGML. Alle benodigde publikatietypen zullen uit deze ene bron worden gegenereerd. &tex; is een uitstekende formatter voor sommige van deze publikatietypen. Michel Goossens Frank Mittelbach 13 1994 123-126 48 Some aspects of the production of The &latex; Companion are described. Piet van Oostrum 13 1994 127-135 96 Standard &latex; offers the page styles empty, plain, headings and myheadings. For simple page layouts these suffice, but they are rather rigid. A more flexible page layout may be obtained by using the FANCYHEADINGS package. This article describes how to create advanced page headers and footers in &latex; documents by using this package. Some of the techniques described are also applicable with other page styles. Phons Bloemen 13 1994 136-138 114 METAFONT Een verslagje van een stoeipartij met METAFONT, waarbij METAFONT wordt `misbruikt' als matrixprinter. Door alleen de vorm van de `printnaalden' te definiëren, en een beperkt aantal plaatsen waar ze neer mogen komen, kun je heel snel een font in elkaar zetten. Phons Bloemen 13 1994 139-148 131 PostScript fonts automated font generation font installation A guide through the jungle of installing and using PostScript and other types of fonts in &tex;. The installation of the font is discussed, and it is shown how to use the fonts in an automatic font generation scheme. Jos Winnink 13 1994 149-152 148 graphics &tex; &latex; Dra&tex; Eitan Gurari's graphics package for (La)&tex; is discucced. Jeroen Fokke Piet van Oostrum 13 1994 153-166 495 In deze artikel wordt eerst aandacht besteed aan de (beperkte) mogelijkheden die &latex; zelf biedt voor het maken van plaatjes. Soms zijn die voldoende, en dan is het wel zo gemakkelijk om die te gebruiken. Daarna wordt de rol van PostScript besproken bij het gebruik van plaatjes, al of niet in combinatie met &latex;. Vervolgens wordt een vijftal tekenprogramma's besproken waarmee interactief ingewikkeldere figuren gemaakt kunnen worden. Tenslotte wordt aangegeven hoe `bitmaps' (letterlijke afbeeldingen van het scherm van een computer) als plaatje behandeld kunnen worden. Dit laatste is vooral van belang bij het schrijven van handleidingen voor programma's. Hans Hagen Ton Otten 13 1994 167-177 201 &context; chemics PPCH&tex; chemical formulas structure formulas In dit artikel wordt een macropakket beschreven waarmee chemische (structuur)formules kunnen worden gezet. Dit pakket is te gebruiken bovenop Plain &tex;, &latex; en andere pakketten. Het pakket is in eerste instantie ontwikkeld bovenop &context;.
This article is about a package for typesetting chemical formulas. The package has a multi-lingual interface. This means that all all commands and keywords can be toggled to English. Some day, this article and the manual will be translated in English too. Hans Hagen 13 1994 178-182 61 interface user interface multilingual interface &context; interface Macropakketten voor &tex; zijn vrijwel altijd Engelstalig. In dit artikel wordt een meertalige interface beschreven, zoals die is toegepast in PPCH&tex;, een pakket dat kan worden gebruikt om chemische structuurformules te zetten. Hans Hagen 13 1994 183 31 superscript alignment subscript alignment PPCH&tex; font dimensions In dit (korte) artikel wordt een mechanisme beschreven om subscript op een lijn te krijgen. Dit is nodig omdat de positie van een subscript mede bepaald wordt door de hoogte en diepte van een eventueel aanwezig superscript. Hans Kuykens 13 1994 184-188 81 Kees van der Laan 13 1994 189-199 137 active documents design documentation error handling floats format inner versus outer world inserts lifephases formats markup language plain &tex; scripts software engineering reusable software parts style transparencies An independent format — blue.fmt — is proposed to assist authors with creating, formatting, exchanging and maintaining compuscripts during the lifephases of publications. The format builds upon manmac.&tex; and the functionalities provided by tugboat.sty. Experience gained by publishers has been picked up too, because of my in-depth study of the activities of AMS with respect to &tex; formatting. More recent work of Knuth and co-authors has been borrowed from gkpmac.&tex;. The design goal was to provide a format which suits me, which is easy to customize — to the world outside, and in general to changing circumstances — and which complies with the adages of software engineering. Another aim of blue.fmt is that it can be used throughout the lifecycle of publications on modest equipment to format articles, transparencies and you name it. The hoped for lifety is a lifetime. En-passant the design process is accounted for. New is the handling of a database of references — with cross-referencing — or pictures all in one-pass job. Kees van der Laan 13 1994 200-206 82 circle curve databases disks graphics format lines pictures plain &tex; reusable software parts selective loading software engineering splines vectors Graphics facilities for plain &tex; have been collected from The &tex;book, manmac and gkpmac, as part of blue.fmt. The gkpmac picture macros are handy and provide a subset of &latex;'s functionality. A database of pictures is proposed. No interaction with METAFONT (or ) nor the incorporation of encapsulated PostScript have been treated. Kees van der Laan 13 1994 207-209 58 compatible extension cross-referencing graph referencing math referencing optional parameters plain &tex; symbolic names tables referencing A one-pass semi-automatic cross-referencing scheme for math is proposed, which requires some hand adjustments when forward references are used. The method is just a little beyond manmac's approach, to assist BLUe. Kees van der Laan 13 1994 210-211 24 BLUe format items plain &tex; The design and coding of items for BLUe's format is explained. The treated items — bulleted, (automatically) numbered or alphabetisized — are a compatible extension to plain's \item. Pitfalls in use are mentioned. Kees van der Laan 13 1994 212-214 40 BLUe format headings plain &tex; The design of headings for BLUe's format is explained, starting from the basic and general two-part macros up to the full-blown blue((sub)sub)head versions. Robin Fairbairns 13a 1994 1-27 256 FAQ frequently asked questions Baskerville 100 frequently asked questions answered. Topics are &tex;, &latex;, METAFONT, PostScript, special typesetting, format conversions, DVI drivers & previewers, recent &tex; developments and more. Gerard van Nes 14 1995 1-214 3540 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Frans Goddijn 14 1995 1-4 66 report members meeting Opening 14e NTG bijeenkomst 17 november 1994; Verslag NTG bijeenkomst van 9 juni 1994; Ingekomen stukken en mededelingen; Begroting 1995; Wat verder ter tafel komt; Communicatie; Rondvraag en Sluiting; Voordrachten; Volgende bijeenkomsten 14 1995 5-6 46 Johannes Braams 14 1995 7 14 chairman Gerard van Nes 14 1995 8-10 58 Wietse Dol 14 1995 11-12 33 budget Wietse Dol 14 1995 13-14 38 financial report Gerard van Nes 14 1995 15-17 47 report NTG Christina Thiele 14 1995 18 21 Frans Goddijn 14 1995 19-20 20 FGBBS bulletin board statistics 4all&tex; OS/2 FGBBS kreeg weer de nodige uitbreidingen, waarvan een sneller modem het meest merkbaar is. Jules van Weerden 14 1995 21 15 listserver TEX-NL Overzicht gebruikers listserver. Henk de Haan 14 1995 22-23 70 NTG internet WWW WWW Het internet is een van de meest snel groeiende elektronische media. Dit is mede te danken aan het zogenaamde World Wide Web (WWW). In dit artikel wordt ingegaan op de functie van het Word Wide Web, het gebruikte tekstformaat (HTML) en de mogelijkheden die het voor de NTG kan hebben. Er wordt ingegaan op de huidige (experimentele) service en er worden een aantal mogelijke nieuwe toepassingen vermeld. 14 1995 24-26 38 Gerard van Nes 14 1995 27-29 47 Frank Mittelbach 14 1995 30 12 We are pleased to present the final report on `Math Font Encoding' produced by Justin Ziegler for the &latex;3 project. Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen 14 1995 31-34 278 Ed Boets 14 1995 35-36 27 thesis DocuTech 4all&tex; Het digitaal produceren van een proefschrift beschrijft hoe een proefschrift, in &latex; gemaakt, als PostScript-file via het modem naar de drukker gestuurd kan worden om vervolgens op een DocuTech systeem (600 dpi) gedrukt te worden. Erik Frambach 14 1995 37-39 57 METAFONT mode_def bitmapped fonts In order to obtain maximum output quality when using METAFONT for rendering bitmapped fonts you need to specify the characteristics of the intended output device. This is done by defining a mode_def in which several variables are assigned. The meaning and effect of these variables are discussed in a case study of two types of laser printers. Vladimir Batagelj 14 1995 40-46 132 PostScript inclusion of graphics dictionaries error handling PostScript is becoming a de facto standard as a device independent page description language. By embedding PostScript elements in &tex; we can extend the use of &tex; to new areas of application. In the first part of the paper we give some general information about PostScript and its features. In the rest of the paper we present some of our own experiences and solutions in combining &tex; and PostScript:

• dictionaries, prolog files and how to save a lot of space with PostScript figures produced in CorelDRAW, Mathematica, ...;
• writing &tex;-PostScript macros, case: drawing graphs (combinatorics) in &tex;; PostScript error handling mechanism, an application in function graph drawing macro.

David Barron 14 1995 47-48 24 In this article we present a few ideas as a framework for the discussion of portable documents. We address a number of questions:

• What are portable documents?
• Who needs them, and why?
• How to produce them, now and in the future.

Jonathan Fine 14 1995 49-52 90 This article is about typography, SGML, &tex;, and SIMSIM, which is a new &tex; macro package. Close by are copies of several of the OHP transparencies. They were typeset directly from an SGML document instance using SIMSIM. Horst Szillat 14 1995 53-55 38 SGML — Standard Generalized Markup Language — is a formal language to describe structured text documents. It should be introduced here by comparison to &tex; and &latex;. Peter Flynn 14 1995 56-60 53 HTML is often criticised fo its presentation-oriented conception. But it does contain sufficient structural information for many everyday purposes and this has led to its development into a more stable form. Future platforms for the World Wide Web may support other applications of SGML, and the present climate of popularity of the Web is a suitable opportunity for consolidation of the more stable features. &tex; is pre-eminently stable and provides an ideal companion for the process of translating HTML into print. Geeti Granger 14 1995 61-63 41 Martin Key 14 1995 64-66 30 Nikos Drakos 14 1995 67-68 33 A new version of &latex;2HTML (version 95.1) is available since January 1995. This article outlines some of the main changes. Arno Kemperman 14 1995 69-73 117 Welkom op de digitale snelweg! Steeds meer informatie wordt er aangeboden op het Internet, en met het uitgroeien van het Internet groeit de onoverzichtelijkheid. In dit artikel wordt een toepassing van &latex;2HTML beschreven waarbij een &latex; document wordt omgezet naar een reeks goed gestructueerde pagina's op het World-Wide Web. Deze toepassing betreft een document die een handleiding is voor Internet-gebruikers (voornamelijk voor medewerkers van Laboratoriumvoor Analytische Chemie, KUN, Nijmegen). Er worden wat voordelen en voorbeelden van het &latex;2HTML gebruik gegeven en hoe je het programma kunt aanpassen naar je eigen wensen. Bekijk de &latex; documenten ook eens op deze moderne manier en blader eens met de muis door je tekst, getransformeerd tot een digitaal wonder op je scherm. Oftewel: &latex;2HTML2! Karen Strom 14 1995 74-76 74 electronic publishing thesis WWW preprints data distribution The Star Formation Group at FCAD has begun to make use of the World Wide Web to explore the advantages of hypermedia presentations for the distribution of preprints, Ph. D. theses and observatory publications. As a byproduct of this work, a method for displaying subscripts and superscripts has been developed. This set of bitmaps is publically available. Norman Walsh 14 1995 77-82 204 There are a lot of different software packages, style files, fonts, etc. in the CTAN archives. Finding the things you need in a timely fashion can be difficult, as I found out while writing Making &tex; Work. The ability to combine descriptions of packages with the directory listings from CTAN could help alleviate some of the difficulty. HTML, the document structuring language of the World Wide Web, provides one possible means of combining different views of the archive into a single vision. The CTAN-Web project is my attempt to provide this vision. Arthur Smith 14 1995 83-86 57 hyper&tex; hyperlink xhdvi HTML \special The popularity of the World-Wide-Web and the HTML hypertext language for electronic distribution of information over the internet has thus far been difficult to extend to scientific documents, in part because &tex;, the word processing language of choice for technical and mathematical documents, does not have the hypertext capabilities necessary for full integration into the WWW. Hyper&tex; consists of a collection of extensions of &tex; to handle both internal and external (local or networked) hypertext, thus allowing the huge body of &tex;-based documents to be more fully integrated with the WWW. This introduction was originally prepared for the American Physical Society e-print meeting at Los Alamos, New Mexico, Oct. 15, 1994. Otfried Schwarzkopf 14 1995 87-98 144 &latex; HTML conversion &latex; WWW emacs lisp Hyper&latex; is a little package that allows you to use &latex; to prepare documents in HTML (the hypertext markup language used by the World Wide Web), and, at the same time, to produce a fine printed document from your input. You can use all of &latex;'s power for the printed output, and you don't have to learn a new language for creating hypertext documents. Yannis Haralambous 14 1995 99-108 178 Acrobat DVIHPS PDF repere recticrt Wij beschrijven hier het produktieproces van elektronische hyper-documenten met behulp van &latex; en Adobe Acrobat. Na een algemene beschrijving van de voor- en nadelen van &latex; terzake geven we een omschrijving van elke stap, alsook van zekere te nemen voorzorgen met als doel efficiënte Acrobat documenten te bekomen. De lezer zal in dit artikel een beschrijving vinden van de software tools DVIPS repere en recticrt, en eveneens de basisprincipes van het formaat PDF. Vertaald door Philippe Vanoverbeke. Wiegert Tierie 14 1995 109-119 239 Marion Neubauer 14 1995 120-124 79 conversion MS-WORD WinWord WordPerfect RTF Production of a large document with many contributors may require conversion of all submitted manuscripts into the same format, for example &latex;. A large proportion of manuscripts are submitted in the formats of WORD and WordPerfect, two very popular word processing programs. I will discuss different approaches converting such files to &latex; format. First of all the differences between the word processors MS-WORD and WordPerfect versus the document preparation system &latex; will be explained, and problems encountered during text conversion into &latex; will be discussed. The conversion can be done either by means of a seperate program (external conversion) or using macros, style sheets and a printer driver from within the word processors (internal conversion). Advantages and disadvantages of both methods for different types of text elements such as plain text, lists, tables and mathematical formulas will be discussed. This is followed by an overview of the conversion programs currently available. Hans Renkema 14 1995 125-126 31 Jan Krugers 14 1995 127-128 35 Scientific Word WYSIWYG Windows OS2WIN Scientific Word version 1.x from TCI Software Research has gotten improvements and an offspring. The improvements are not only better support for different &latex; styles and dialects but also more user conveniences and better stability. The offspring is Scientific Workplace, a similar Windows software package under Windows 3.1. But besides all the Scientific Word functions it also has a built-in Maple Version V interface and many Maple symbolic calculation functions. Not to forget that version 2.0.1. works fine under OS/2 Warp with all its speed and data exchange advantages. Cees Fortuin 14 1995 129-130 42 Het pakket SCIENTIFIC WORKPLACE. versie 2.0(SWP), vroeger Scientific Word, is een uitgebreide versie van een `WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet' tekstverwerker gebaseerd op &latex;2e en werkend onder Microsoft Windows. De uitbreiding bestaat uit een deel van een `Computer Algebra' pakket, de kernel van Maple. Verder is er een programma om toetsen samen te stellen, uit databestanden met opgaven. Deze voorlopige test van versie 2.0 is uitgevoerd op een IBM compatibele PC, met een 486 processor en 8MBintern geheugen, door een persoon met &latex; 2.09 en Maple ervaring, maar zonder kennis van MSWindows (`waar is dat nou voor nodig...') of SCIENTIFIC WORKPLACE. Voor het installeren en testen zijn twee volle dagen gebruikt. Dit verslag geeft vanzelfsprekend slechts een eerste indruk van het pakket. Hans Hagen 14 1995 131-136 64 \TaBlE color tables tables color &context; tables Dit artikel beschrijft enkele macro's die het mogelijk maken binnen TABLE cellen van een tabel van een achtergrondkleur of raster te voorzien. We beperken ons tot een wat technische beschrijving en gaan voorbij aan de esthetische kant van de zaak. Hans Hagen 14 1995 137-138 23 &tex; visualizing editing colored &tex; color &tex; visualization Vooral beginnende &tex;-gebruikers ervaren de mix van commando's en tekst als verwarrend. Mede om die reden hebben wij zo'n vier jaar geleden onze tekstverwerker afgestemd op het gebruik van &tex;, door &tex;-commando's op een wat afwijkende manier weer te geven. Het blijkt dat, afgezien van aanvullende mogelijkheden om de syntax te controleren, het aantal fouten in commando's drastisch afneemt. Hans Hagen Johan Jonker 14 1995 139-145 376 color gray conversion color gray printing color optimizing use &context; color palets Wie tegenwoordig op een zwart-wit tv-toestel een uitzending volgt zal zich vaak tevreden moeten stellen met een weinig contrastrijk beeld. Na de introductie van de kleuren-tv is nog lang rekening gehouden met zwart-witkijkers. De keus van kleuren in decors werd mede afgestemd op de weergave in zwart-wit. Dit is niet verwonderlijk, omdat de zwart-witkijkers een ruime meerderheid vormden. Op papier lijkt zich een dergelijke ontwikkeling af te spelen. Voor kleurenprinters geschikte illustraties, kunnen op zwart-wit printers een matig beeld opleveren. Het is dan ook de vraag hoe we aan de `wensen' van de overgrote meerderheid van zwart-wit printers tegemoet kunnen komen. Herman Haverkort 14 1995 146-148 75 Bij het vormgeven van een voorstel voor reglementen overschreed een verstokte WordPerfect-gebruiker de grenzen van zijn geliefde tekstverwerker. Frans Goddijn hielp hem aan de &tex;. In dit artikel geeft een nieuwe &tex;-gebruiker een globale indruk van zijn laatste ervaringen met WordPerfect en zijn eerste ervaringen met &tex;. Hij doet dit aan de hand van het werk aan een document waarin het mogelijk moest zijn om vele typografische middelen onafhankelijk van elkaar te gebruiken om verschillende soorten passages aan te duiden. Dit bleek in &tex; goed te realiseren, zij het met veel inspanning, en het resultaat was zeer bevredigend. Toen het eerste document eenmaal gereed was, bleek het bovendien daarna zeer eenvoudig om soortgelijke documenten te zetten. Herman Haverkort 14 1995 149-155 137 circle counter dice footnote forbidden environment frame index This article presents hhmuf's multinotes: special cheery footnotes to be used in special situations, including so-called `forbidden environments'. Then it presents hhflxbox's self-scaling frames: encircling macros are provided but you can define enwhatevering macros yourself by means of the macros provided by hhflxbox. Finally hhcount is presented: macros to handle simple and composite counters in a fancy way. Herman Haverkort Frans Goddijn 14 1995 156-162 129 paragraph mark distribution select During work towards a flexible document as a continuous report on a wide variety of contacts for the Meridian Arts Ensemble in New York, Frans Goddijn felt the need to tag and mark certain paragraphs for specific groups of readers. Herman Haverkort wrote a package for &latex;2e, hhparmrk, which facilitates this by offering the possibility to set various signs next to paragraphs. This article presents hhparmrk, gives examples of its use and a short manual. For the hackers among us some of the &tex;nical tricks involved behind the scenes are glanced at. Bernd Raichle 14 1995 163-168 81 expansion sorting algorithms &tex;'s macro processor, the so-called mouth, can be used to perform very complex tasks. Because this part of &tex;'s programming language is as powerful as a Turing machine, it is possible to implement algorithms using only &tex;'s mouth. I will show how sorting algorithms can be implemented in a straight-forward and very elegant and under-standable way using only macros and macro expansion &tex;niques. Kees van der Laan 14 1995 169 23 philosophy plain &tex; A plea is made for writing macros in plain &tex; sufficiently documented to be used with all flavours of &tex;. Kees van der Laan 14 1995 170-177 102 active list separators addresses comment blocks compatible extension data integrity databases FIFO lazy evaluation list element tag mail-merge number ranges pattern matching pictures plain &tex; references reusable software parts searching selective loading set macros software engineering table of contents variant document parts The backgrounds, use, and coding of BLUe's Format Databases have been discussed. Two kinds of databases have been introduced class I (data, such as addresses, references, and script parts for example pictures), and class II (macros, such as variant formats and tools). At the heart lies the selective loading &tex;nique, which allows that only what is needed will be loaded on-the-fly. The data structures and operations on them have been treated. The use within the &context; of typesetting scripts have been elucidated via examples. At the end the coding is explained. Kees van der Laan 14 1995 178-186 117 compatible extension index number ranges one-pass job ordering table plain &tex; reusable software parts software engineering sort keys The creation of a modest index within a one-pass &tex; job is proposed. In general a proof run and a final run are needed. The markup for the index entries is the same as used by Knuth for The &tex;book. The process is controlled by the tags: \sortindex and \pasteupindex. The file which emerges after \sortindex can be enriched by hand, for example to include `see also' and the like. Sorting keys can be specified too, as well as items which have to be ignored for the sorting. The macros have been developed for use with English documents. To leave open the use with other languages the ordering has been parameterized in an ordering table. Kees van der Laan 14 1995 187-192 73 active list separators addresses compatible extension databases data integrity FIFO lazy evaluation letter list element tag mail-merge pattern matching plain &tex; reusable software parts set macros software engineering The backgrounds, use, design, and coding of BLUe's Letters format have been discussed. The purpose is to format a letter, merge it with address(es) from a database, and typeset it all with the appropriate background such as logo and the like, completely within &tex;. Separate labels can be obtained too, either specified by name or searched for by pattern. Kees van der Laan 14 1995 193-199 81 active list separators compatible extension databases data integrity FIFO house style lazy evaluation list element tag pattern matching plain &tex; reusable software parts separation of concerns set macros software engineering The backgrounds, use, design, and coding of BLUe's Reports format have been discussed. The purpose is to format a report as a compatible extension of the default note format of BLUe's format. As such it is an example of how to customize BLUe's format system with a format of your own. The differences have to do with not only using titles but also reusing the titles for table of contents, list of examples, and running headlines the preliminary pages and cover pages which are absent with the default note format appendices may contain collected information from the script such as answer to the exercises (similar as in The &tex;book), table of examples, table of contents, and an index. Kees van der Laan 14 1995 200-204 73 BLUe format catcodes multiple use of copy plain &tex; The use of two-part macros in BLUe's format is discussed. First the reason why in general two-part macros are beneficial is explained. Practical examples from the &tex;-NL discussion list have been treated. The automatically generation of a one-part macro on top of two-part macros is given. The impossibility of reusing copy with different catcodes in &tex; is mentioned and illustrated with an example from the &tex;book. Kees van der Laan 14 1995 205-207 58 BLUe format optional parameters plain &tex; The use of options in BLUe's format is discussed. A survey is given of how Knuth coped with the functionality of optional arguments in &tex; and manmac. As an extension to &tex;'s \every<tag> the BLUe's \this<tag>s are introduced, with the advantage of simpler handling of arguments. It is contrasted with the use in TUGboat's style files and AMS's ppt.sty. Kees van der Laan 14 1995 208-210 45 compatible extension FIFO Pascal pattern matching plain &tex; pretty-printing reusable software parts software engineering The formatting of PASCAL programs within plain &tex; is proposed. Only \beginpascal and \endpascal have to be added as markup. In general the literate programming tools are to be preferred, especially when designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining professional software. 14 1995 211 26 Erik Frambach 14 1995 212-213 81 Bacho&tex; report GUST Poland Verslag bijeenkomst Poolse &tex; users group GUST. 14 1995 214 22 Euro&tex; conference announcement Announcement of Euro&tex;'95 conference. Wietse Dol 15 1995 1-22 1675 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Frans Goddijn 15 1995 1-4 56 report members meeting Opening 15e NTG bijeenkomst 24 mei 1995; Verslag NTG bijeenkomst van 17 november 1994; Ingekomen stukken en mededelingen; NTG ledenvergadering; Verslag commissie voor kascontrole / vaststelling nieuwe commissie; Bestuursverkiezingen; Euro&tex;'95; Miscellaneous; Rondvraag en sluiting; Voordrachten. Erik Frambach 15 1995 5 14 chairman Michel Goossens 15 1995 6 14 Wietse Dol 15 1995 7 17 budget Wietse Dol Gerard van Nes 15 1995 8-13 1471 TUG conference St. Petersburg Florida Michel Goossens 15 1995 14-20 77 TUG conference St. Petersburg Florida 15 1995 21-22 57 Euro&tex; conference Arnhem Programma en inschrijfformulier Euro&tex; conferentie. Wietse Dol 15a 1995 1-441 6708 NTG Euro&tex; conference proceedings Arnhem Proceedings Euro&tex;'95 in Arnhem Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Andrey Astrelin 15a 1995 1-4 200 graphics picture environment \special Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Alexander Berdnikov S. Turtia 15a 1995 5-10 430 graphics 3D pictures graphics plotting The MS DOS program which creates 2D and 3D &tex; pictures for the plots of functions of two variables f(x,y) is described. In comparison with Gnuplot this program enables to plot the equilines (2D view) and the surface (3D view) pictures correctly and without memory overflow even for complex cases. The input is the ASCII file which contains the data points (Xij, Yij, Zij) of the function z = f(x,y) calculated over non-regular quadrangular mesh. The output is the ASCII file which contains the required picture in &tex; format. The program has a flexible menu driven user interface and enables to create and to preview the output pictures with a variety of styles. At the time being the program supports &latex; commands, EPIC/EEPIC macros and em&tex; specials. In future the program should support &tex; graphical tools like MFPiC, PiC&tex; and EPS-files. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Alexander Berdnikov S. Turtia 15a 1995 11-16 264 virtual fonts VFcomb The MS DOS program which enables to simplify the design of the virtual fonts is described. Its main purpose was to facilitate the integration of CM-fonts with cyrillic LL-fonts created by O. Lapko and S. Strelkov but it can be used for various applications. It uses the information from TFM-files (converted to ASCII form by TFtoPL) and the ASCII data files created by the User on its input, and produces the VPL-file on its output which can be converted to the virtual font using VPtoVF. The characteristic feature of the program is that it can assemble the font ligature tables and user defined ligature tables for the characters extracted from various fonts and combine the metric information from various TFM-files. VFComb supports the full syntaxis of PL-files and VPL-files as it was defined by D.E. Knuth and adds new commands like symbolic variables or conditional operators, which simplifies the creation and the debugging of the virtual fonts. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Johannes Braams 15a 1995 17-26 282 Babel multilingual In this article I will give an overview of what has happened to Babel lately. First I will briefly describe the history of Babel; then I will introduce the concept of `shorthands'. New ways of changing the `language' have been introduced and Babel can now easily be adapted for local needs. Finally I will discuss some compatibility issues. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Stanisław Brabec 15a 1995 27-34 254 typography plain &tex; When I have started my professional typography works in plain &tex;, I found many things, which are done in each document. Some of them are language specific or trivial, but there exists many topics, which are strongly untrivial, and often required. &tex; has many limitations, but there is (in recent time) nothing better in whole the world. Thus, we have powerful macro language but we haven't easy way to do many things: references, contents, page offsetting, interpretation of text token by token, cooperation with PostScript devices, device independent color and line drawing capabilities, easy box rotation and landscaping, making sheets and booklets, making other margins than 1in, creating cropmarks, color signatures, color separations etc.
Certainly, there is many powerful macro systems, but they are very big, often slow, and cancels many capabilities of plain &tex;. I have been particularly inspired by them, and particularly by some macros for plain &tex;. But many of these macros are incompatible, if you want to use two of them, because one overwrites settings of the second.
This all is good reason to write powerful macros these things instead of creating trivial macros twice a month. Then you needn't spend much time to correct bugs caused by these trivial macros. That's why I have written my upages.&tex; macros. This chapter doesn't want to be a manual to these macros, but only an introduction with examples.
upages.&tex; macros consists on more parts. In this text I will describe the most powerful and interesting parts of them. I hope that my macros will greet many plain &tex;ists. They makes easy to prepare documents and to make hooks and patches. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Michel Goossens Janne Saarela 15a 1995 35-104 808 SGML HTML WWW DTD ISO8879 SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language, deals with the structural markup of electronic documents. It was made an international standard by ISO in October 1986. SGML soon became very popular thanks in particular to its enthusiastic acceptance in the editing world, by large multi-national companies, governmental organizations, and, more recently, by the ubiquity of HTML, Hypertext Markup Language, the source language of structured documents on WWW. This article discusses the basic ideas of SGML and looks at a few interesting tools. It should provide the reader with a better understanding of the latest developments in the field of electronic documents in general, and of SGML/HTML in particular. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Michel Goossens Janne Saarela 15a 1995 105-168 891 &latex;2HTML HTML &latex; translation conversion tools Both &latex; and HTML are languages that can express the structure of a document, and similarities between these two systems are shown. A detailed study is made of the &latex;2HTML program, written by Nikos Drakos, that is today the most complete utility for translating &latex; code into HTML, providing a quasi-automatic translation for most elements. A discussion of a few other tools for translating between HTML and &latex; concludes the article. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Pedro Palao Gostanza Manuel Núñez García 15a 1995 169-180 355 Pascal formatting program code This paper is based on our ideas about how a system which formats programs written in a structured language must work. Particularly, tools which help in typesetting texts where algorithms are described. Most of our ideas have been put in practice in the pascal system, which automatize the elegant layout of Pascal programs. This system is programmed as a &tex; macro package. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Hans Hagen 15a 1995 181-196 451 Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Hans Hagen Ton Otten 15a 1995 197-222 337 This article is about a package for typesetting chemical formulas. The primary interface of this package is in the dutch language. Because PPCH&tex; has a multilingual interface, all commands and keywords can be toggled to english. The Dutch version of this article is published in NTG's MAPS (94.2) and is translated to English by H. de Weert. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Yannis Haralambous Sebastian Rahtz 15a 1995 223-238 381 &latex; HTML PDF hyper&tex; An onverview of the relation between &latex;, HTML (WWW) and PDF is presented. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Jörg Knappen 15a 1995 239-256 812 DC fonts TS1 text symbol encoding I present the release 1.2 of the dc fonts and the companion text symbol fonts. I give an overview of the improvements on the dc fonts from version 1.1 to 1.2. The rationale for introducing a text symbol font is explained and the text symbol encoding TS1 is presented. In the appendix, there are font tables of the mentioned fonts. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Bogusław Jackowski 15a 1995 257-272 522 METAFONT PostScript MFtoEPS The MFtoEPS package enables METAFONT to produce EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) output. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Kees van der Laan 15a 1995 273-278 278 active list separators addresses comment blocks compatible extension data integrity databases FIFO lazy evaluation list element tag mail-merge number ranges pattern matching pictures plain &tex; references reusable software parts searching selective loading set macros software engineering table of contents variant document parts The use of BLUe's format databases is treated. A new issue is introduced since the emerge of BLUe's Format system this spring. Boolean tags can be added to for example address.dat entries to denote fields and their contents. Together with \search one can easily obtain the list of names — and via these names the full entries, i.e., the addresses — of those who have not paid their membership fee, for example. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Kees van der Laan 15a 1995 279-288 294 compatible extension index number ranges one-pass job ordering table plain &tex; reusable software parts software engineering sort keys The creation of a modest index within a one-pass &tex; job is treated. In general a proof run and a final run are needed. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Olga Lapko Irina Makhovaya 15a 1995 289-294 279 Babel Russian typography As with other languages using nonlatin basis there are some typographic features and national peculiarities that must be shown in the style. The paper describes the Russian style with macros \captionrussian for four standard Russian documents, \daterussian, \Asbuk and \asbuk for Russian alphabet counters and \mathrussian for Russian math operators. Some problems concerning the usage of this style (e.g. usage of different encodings) are described. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Andries Lenstra Steven Kliffen Ruud Koning 15a 1995 295-308 285 databases data manipulating filtering ASCII The authors explain how to handle data in &tex; documents, in particular, how to avoid ever having to type in — and check! — the same data or text twice. These data may be stored in ordinary (non-&tex;) databases, in ASCII files arranged according to the easy da&tex; format, or in the &tex; document itself. da&tex; works in plain &tex; and is supposed to work in &latex;. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol &latex;3 project team 15a 1995 309-314 242 &latex; modifications This is an updated version of a document that was first written to be part of the distribution of the new standard &latex;. It was produced in response to suggestions that the modification and distribution conditions for the files in our system should be similar to those implied by Version 2 of the GNU General Public Licence, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Although we are by now convinced that the principles described here are sound, the detailed consequences of these for the distribution and modification conditions are still evolving. Thus this article should not be treated as a definitive version of these conditions, even at the date of its publication. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Joachim Schrod 15a 1995 315-316 156 TDS standardization The concept of a standardized &tex; directory structure is explained. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Laurent Siebenmann 15a 1995 317-330 311 Occam's Razor macro management plain &tex; &tex; typescripts electronic publishing docstrip &latex; The philosophical principle known as Occam's Razor asserts that entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity. The &tex; utility OCCAM is a tool to eliminate from a collection of supporting &tex; macros (composite commands) those that are unnecessary in a given typescript. Hopefully, it will serve to (a) let Plain &tex; users produce typescripts which can be electronically posted in a compact form that is nevertheless autonomous and perfectly archival, and (b) to simplify a macro package before making modifications for a special purpose.
The OCCAM utility will ultimately be programmed entirely in &tex; language to assure that it is universally available. Today it is just an evolving prototype implemented with a bit of help from an editor (on Macintosh) that has a programmable control language based on GREP.
To achieve reasonably automatic functioning of OCCAM, not requiring surveillance by a &tex; programmer, it is necessary to maintain a carefully structured master version of each macro package involved; this .occ version can double as the documented source version of the package. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Andrey Slepuhin 15a 1995 331-338 301 Church-Slavonik The multilingual ability of &tex; is one of its most important properties. Due to &tex; it became possible to produce high-quality books in many different languages (sometimes with very exotic grammatic rules). For more than 10 years of its existence &tex; became a real polyglot and it seems that it doesn't want to stop evaluating. In this paper one more, may be rather exotic, example of practical usage of &tex; is considered, and also many ideas and solutions which result from 5-year experience of &tex; using. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Antonín Strejc 15a 1995 339-350 337 Windows typesetting proceedings non-&tex;-users Since 1992 the ``WORKSHOP 9x'' seminar takes place at the Czech Technical University (CTU) every year. The aim of this wide seminar is to give all the CTU researchers or teams an oportunity to present their research projects in twenty minutes of speech and two pages of proceedings of the seminar. I solved the technical problem of making the proceedings using &latex;. As the number of contributions increases year by year and the time for making the book is limited some automation of the typesetting process was and still is necessary. The W94 and W95 are attempts to transfer part of the typesetting work from the final typesetter to the authors. The W9x is simple single-purpose user-interface between &latex; and the MS-DOS user who may know nothing about &tex; and &latex;. Some experiences (both technical and psychological) of using this system in the two last years are discussed in the paper and may be useful for organizers of seminars, conferences etc. where contributors are not &tex; users and the proceedings are to be made with &tex;. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Daniel Taupin 15a 1995 351-358 304 Music&tex; MusiX&tex; music MusiX&tex; is a new music typesetting package derived from Music&tex;, but it provides more beautiful scores than Music&tex; did. While Music&tex; was a single pass package, MusiX&tex; is a three pass system: the first pass performs a rough &tex;ing which reports the spacings of each music section, the second pass is a computation of the best note spacings, and the third one is the final &tex;ing process. The beauty of single notes does not significantly differ from Music&tex;, but slurs are much more beautiful, and notes are regularly spaced instead of being irregularly spaced with glue. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Philip Taylor 15a 1995 359-370 284 e-&tex; NTS extended &tex; extensions compatibility e-&tex; is the first concrete result of an international research & development project, the NTS Project, which was established under the aegis of DANTE during 1992. The aims of the project are to perpetuate and develop the spirit and philosophy of &tex;, whilst respecting Knuth's wish that &tex; itself should remain frozen. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Wiegert Tierie 15a 1995 371-390 429 Acrobat PDF An overview of the concept and features of Adobe Acrobat is given. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Gabriel Valiente Feruglio 15a 1995 391-424 752 commutative diagrams macro packages There have been several efforts aimed at providing &tex; and its derivatives with a suitable mechanism for typesetting commutative diagrams, with the consequent availability of several macro packages of widespread use in the category theory community, and a long debate about the best syntax to adopt for commutative diagrams in &latex;3 has taken place during 1993 in the CATEGORIES discussion list. From the user's point of view, however, there is not much guidance when it comes to choosing a macro package, and even after a decision is made, the conversion of diagrams from the particular conventions of a macro package to another macro package's conventions may prove to be rather hard.
Typesetting commutative diagrams is a surprisingly difficult problem, in comparison with &tex; macro packages for other purposes, as judged by the amount of code needed and years of development invested. The existing macro packages for typesetting commutative diagrams are reviewed in this paper and they are compared according to several criteria, among them the capability to produce complex diagrams, quality of the output diagrams, ease of use, quality of documentation, installation procedures, resource requirements, availability, and portability. The compatibility of the different macro packages is also analyzed. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Erik-Jan Vens 15a 1995 425-430 229 METAFONT PostScript Type 1 fonts conversion A report of the process of converting Hermann Zapf's Euler fonts from METAFONT sources to PostScript Type1 format. Proceedings of the Ninth European &tex; Conference Wietse Dol Jiří Zlatuška 15a 1995 431-441 288 METAFONT graphics Combining METAFONT and &tex; when typesetting text and graphics together is shown on several occasions to bring very impressive results. A. Hoenig presented a method for communication between &tex; and METAFONT in order to solve two problems otherwise difficult to handle within &tex; or METAFONT alone: label placement for diagrams generated by METAFONT, and curvilinear typesetting. We show that the method for curvilinear typesetting (involving three passes in Hoenig's approach) can be considerably simplified by using the extended ligature mechanism of &tex; 3, and that a single METAFONT pass is actually sufficient, with quite a simple interface on &tex;'s side. Institutional seal text placement can be realized as a simple METAFONT application using this method. While PostScript offers ready-to-use easy solutions to this class of problems, METAFONT solutions can still be preferable to PostScript because of the ability of adding META-ness, e.g., by introducing second-order magnitude corrections/distortions to the letters and/or logos in order to enhance legibility when used in smaller sizes. Wietse Dol 16 1996 1-139 1463 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Frans Goddijn 16 1996 1-2 46 report members meeting Opening 16e NTG bijeenkomst 5 september 1995; Verslag NTG bijeenkomst van 24 mei 1995; Ingekomen stukken en mededelingen; Begroting 1996; Verslag TUG'95; Rondvraag en sluiting; Volgende bijeenkomsten. 16 1996 3 37 Erik Frambach 16 1996 4 18 chairman Gerard van Nes Wietse Dol 16 1996 5-6 18 Wietse Dol 16 1996 7-8 51 financial report Gerard van Nes 16 1996 9-11 68 report NTG Michel Goossens 16 1996 12-13 19 Frans Goddijn 16 1996 14-15 20 BBS internet Een beschouwing over de vraag of, sinds de opkomst van Internet, er nog behoefte is een een BBS systeem. De voorlopige conclusie luidt dat een BBS op regionaal en klein-nationaal gebied een prettige aanvulling kan zijn op hetgeen het Internet te bieden heeft. Michel Goossens Sebastian Rahtz 16 1996 16 11 GUTenberg and UKTUG, in collaboration with TUG and NTG, are producing a plug-and-play CD-ROM based on Thomas Esser's te&tex; distribution. It adheres to the TDS (&tex; Directory Structure) tree structure (see, for instance, TUGboat 16(4), pages 401-412). Michel Goossens 16 1996 17-23 105 Euro&tex; conference Arnhem Report of Euro&tex;'95 conference in Arnhem. Wietse Dol Erik Frambach 16 1996 24-25 46 Bacho&tex; report GUST Poland Verslag bijeenkomst Poolse &tex; users group GUST. 16 1996 26-29 83 TUG conference Dubna Dirk van Delft 16 1996 30-32 154 Sinds 1962 werkt Donald Knuth aan een informaticabijbel die over twintig jaar af moet zijn. Tussendoor ontwierp hij een tekstververwerker met eigen typografie en legde hij een Mona Lisa uit dominosteentjes. Jack Woehr 16 1996 33-37 94 Christina Thiele 16 1996 38-49 201 Knuth dutch visit interview NTG On January 6th 1996, Kees van der Laan informed the NTG that Donald Knuth would be in Holland in March. Knuth was invited by the Mathematisch Centrum (MC, nowadays called Centrum voor Wiskunde en Infor-matica, CWI) because of CWI's 50th anniversary. Both Knuth and Mandelbrot were invited as speakers at the celebration. The NTG noticed that this was an exceptional occasion to organize a special meeting with Knuth for all Dutch &tex; and METAFONT users who would like to meet the Grand Wizard himself. Fortunately Knuth accepted the NTG invitation and so a meeting was organized in `De Rode Hoed' in Amsterdam on March 13th. About 35 people from all over the country and even from Belgium joined to meet Knuth. Everything was recorded on both video and audio tape by Gerard van Nes. Christina Thiele volunteered to write this transcript. Siep Kroonenberg 16 1996 50-53 26 4&tex; configuring DOSKEY GhostScript An example of a command-line interface for an existing 4&tex; installation. Configuration involves defining environment variables and DOSKEY macros. This simplicity comes at the cost of greater dependence on PostScript/GhostScript and the loss of some advanced features. Cees Fortuin 16 1996 54-56 63 In 1980 werd ik docent natuurkunde aan de HTS te Arnhem voor de afdeling elektrotechniek. Toendertijd werd een leerboek gebruikt dat heel aardig de meer traditionele componenten behandelde, maar bijna niets wist te melden over wat tegenwoordig in een schakeling zit: dioden, transistoren en dat soort componenten. Een eerste navraag bij landelijke collega's leverde wel een soort werkgroepje op, maar niet de gezochte `nieuwe' leerstof. Dus maar zelf schrijven. Dat moet in eerste instantie letterlijk worden opgevat, maar ook met een tekstverwerker als &latex; moet veel zelf worden gedaan. Wat begon rond 1985 als dictaat, per hoofdstuk afgedrukt, eindigde rond 1995 als boek: twee delen `Elektron natuurkunde' in de serie natuurkunde voor het HBO bij de Educatieve Uitgevers. Rom Pijlgroms 16 1996 57 12 Ter sprake komen de persoonlijke ervaringen met &latex; rond onder meer de uitwerkingen en antwoorden-boeken van de methode `Wiskunde voor het hoger onderwijs' (R. van Asselt, e.a., uitgave van: Educatieve Partners Nederland BV), de ervaringen met betrekking tot verzorgde bijscholingscursussen &latex; t.b.v. het personeel van de faculteit en de overige tekstverwerkingsactiviteiten. Rein Smedinga 16 1996 58 13 Begin mei heeft bij de afdeling wiskunde en informatica van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen voor de tiende keer een &latex;-cursus plaatsgehad. Onderstaand een kort relaas over het ontstaan van deze cursus en het doel ervan. Ben Geels 16 1996 59 35 Piet Tutelaers 16 1996 60 12 Herbert Swan 16 1996 61-73 172 &latex;2HTML is, as its name implies, a translator which converts a standard &latex; document into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), for incorporation into the World-Wide Web. Like &latex;, it is freely available software, supported by highly dedicated volunteers. Unlike &latex;, it is currently available only on UNIX platforms. Jan Jacobs Jan-Egbert Sturm 16 1996 74-75 55 Hans Hagen 16 1996 76-81 180 typographic programming database publishing &context; interactive documents screen design interactive documents In dit artikel wordt de ontwikkeling van een interactief document beschreven. De getoonde voorbeelden demonstreren de kracht van &tex; als typografische programmeertaal. Omdat dergelijke documenten het moeten opnemen tegen (vaak dedicated) programma's, kan het ontwikkelen ervan worden omschreven als typografisch programmeren. Kees van der Laan 16 1996 82-84 43 BLUe format dialogue with &tex; games plain &tex; user interface With the game tic-tac-toe as example it is shown how to dialogue with &tex;. Three versions of a macro are discussed. The first prototype implements the bare-to-the-bones game. The other versions have increasingly better user interfaces and more intelligence implemented. Kees van der Laan 16 1996 85-90 94 binary tree BLUe format graphics plain &tex; recursion trinary tree turtle graphics The implementation of the turtle graphics idea in plain &tex; as part of BLUe's format graphics facilities has been discussed. Examples are the (recursive) coding of the Pythagorian and trinary trees. As spin-off the implementation of a (binary) chart — a binary tree with labels — is given. Rotation of trees goes simply by renaming the wind directions. Kees van der Laan 16 1996 91-99 113 BLUe script conversion MAPS mouth processing plain &tex; Conversion should not be a problem. It is best to use a general accepted tool, which comes with a preprint format. Until BLUe's format is generally accepted a BLUe script has to converted to comply with publishers' formats to get it out. Conversion via &tex;'s expansion is exercised in this note, with as result a plain &tex; Convertor Assistant, in the spirit of AWK. In netland it does not matter because BLUe's format system is available from CTAN and NTG's 4all&tex; CD-ROM, and therefore everybody can format BLUe scripts, and no conversion is needed. Kees van der Laan 16 1996 100-107 137 computer art constructivism graphics Hilbert hidden lines METAFONT PostScript projection It is all about the author's first steps in METAFONT, for creating graphics to be included in &tex; documents, with a wink to . The graphics comprises 2D pictures and 2.5D images of 3D objects via projection techniques. Learning METAFONT was much easier than learning &tex;. Included examples are: cat, Hilbert curve, and Gabo's linear construction in space no 2. A few highlights on macro writing in METAFONT have been selected. The appendix contains the table of contents of my anthology.mf file of examples. Piet van Oostrum 16 1996 108-125 167 This article describes how to customize the page layout of your &latex; documents, i.e how to change page margings and sizes, headers and footers, and the proper placement of figures and tables (collectively called floats) on the page. Originally this was the documentation of the fancyheadings package. It did contain also other info, e.g. advanced use of marks. It has now been upgraded to include more, e.g. the handling of floats. The fancyheadings documentation has been upgraded to conform to version 2 of this package 1 . For reasons of compatibility with certain operating systems, the name of the package has been changed to fancyhdr. Although this paper uses &latex;2e commands, most of the techniques can be used with older &latex; versions with appropriate changes. Hans Hagen 16 1996 126-139 85 visualizing &tex; &context; verbatim color verbatim &tex; visualizing This module implements (just another) verbatim environment. Especially when the output of &tex; is viewed on an electronic medium, coloring has a positive influence on the readability of &tex; sources. About half of the module is therefore dedicated to typesetting &tex; specific character sequences in color. In this article I'll present some macro's for typesetting inline, display and file verbatim. The macro's are capable of handling <tabs> too. Wietse Dol 17 1996 1-175 1504 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Frans Goddijn 17 1996 1-3 30 report members meeting Opening 17e NTG bijeenkomst 1 juni 1996; Notulen van de zestiende bijeenkomst van 5 september 1995; Ingekomen stukken en mededelingen; NTG ledenvergadering; Verslag commissie voor kascontrol en vaststelling nieuwe commissie voor kascontrole; Bestuursverkiezingen; Miscellanious; Rondvraag en sluiting. 17 1996 4 37 Erik Frambach 17 1996 5 15 chairman Wietse Dol 17 1996 6 32 Wietse Dol 17 1996 7 32 budget Michel Goossens 17 1996 8 43 Kees van der Laan Erik Frambach 17 1996 9-10 64 CyrTUG TUG conference Dubna Report of TUG meeting in Dubna, Russia. Frans Goddijn 17 1996 11-16 76 new dutch dutch spelling spell checker Groene Boekje Het SPELLINGBESLUIT gepubliceerd in Staatsblad 394 (Besluit van 19 juni 1996, houdende voorschriften omtrent de schrijfwijze van de Nederlandse taal) heeft niet alleen gezorgd voor veel gekrakeel tussen neerlandici, maar het vormde ook een buitenkans voor uitgeverijen van werken als HET GROENE BOEKJE (binnen zes maanden 500.000 verkochte exemplaren). Kleinere ondernemingen brachten floppies op de markt met woordenlijsten en algoritmen. Intussen sloeg een groepje mensen (bestaande uit — in alfabetische volgorde — Erick Branderhorst, Erik Frambach, Frans Goddijn, Hans Hagen, Gerard van Nes, Piet Tutelaers, Jacoline van Weelden en Peter van Zeeland, en terzijde gestaan door Hans Linders) de handen ineen om te komen tot een vrij beschikbare, zo correct mogelijke Nederlandse woordenlijst. Hans Hagen 17 1996 17-22 82 future &tex; reflection This articles is meant as a starting point for further discussion on the future of &tex;. The author wrote this expose after a discussion in the NTG board concerning the future of &tex; and the NTG. Gabriel Valiente Feruglio 17 1996 23-31 117 &latex; journals submissions academic The survival of &latex; in the academic world will depend on &tex; and &latex; evolving towards changing publishing practices, but also on publishers actually accepting &latex; submissions. Much has been said about the former, with a recent feature number of TUGboat addressing the subject of electronic publishing. When it comes to the latter issue, however, it is often taken for granted that scientific journals honor &latex; submissions. An extensive research over the Internet reveals that, on the contrary, at the turn of the century many journals still regret to accept &latex; submissions, sometimes preferring RTF or even bare ASCII sources to &tex; or &latex;. This note discusses some of the issues behind this situation and compiles all journals known to the au-thor that accept electronic submission of &latex; articles in source form, thereby complementing the &tex; counterpart. Alan Hoenig 17 1996 32-33 37 Alan Hoenig 17 1996 34-40 131 Virtual fonts allow us to use all digital fonts with &tex;, even non-&tex; ones, and do much more for us. What are virtual fonts? Several projects grant us necessary experience with them. This document comprises somewhat less than half of the similarly named chapter which will appear in the book &tex; Unbound: &latex; and &tex; Strategies for Fonts, Graphics, and More, by Alan Hoenig, to be published in early 1997 by Oxford University Press. This excerpt is simplified so that it may be printed using the standard suite of &tex; fonts; the original depends heavily on PostScript fonts and the author's style file for its typesetting. Consequently, some displays could not be included. For any questions or comments, please contact the author at ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. Alan Hoenig 17 1996 41-45 62 This book will be published by Oxford University Press in early 1997. Contact the author at ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu for further information. David Carlisle 17 1996 46-51 75 &latex; base distribution documentation guide In this article I hope to give a `guided tour' around the files that make up the basic &latex; distribution. Subsequent articles in this mini-series will cover other packages by the &latex; development team, and also some of the main contributed packages. David Carlisle 17 1996 52-56 98 &latex; tools package distribution documentation guide In the previous article in this series I started by giving a description of the files in the `base' &latex; distribution. In part 2, I shall cover the `tools' and `graphics' distributions. These are distributed in the tools and graphics subdirectories of the CTAN directory macros/&latex;/packages. Although these files are not part of the min-imal base distribution they should normally be included in the &latex; installation at any site. The &latex; book assumes that at least the graphics distribution is installed. Herman Haverkort 17 1996 57-64 165 small lists directory calendar key fob credit card stuffing This article gives an impression of my way of designing and typesetting very small telephone and address lists, birthday calendars etc. Design considerations and typesetting tricks are presented. The latter include macros which define the sheets (from A4 to credit card and even key fob size), macros to process data records (typically specified in a separate file) in various ways, and macros to stuff and stow data in very limited space. Alexander Berdnikov Olga Grineva 17 1996 65-71 143 Keith Reckdahl 17 1996 72-114 277 This document explains how to use Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files in &latex;2e documents. The graphics and graphicx packages provide commands which insert, scale, and rotate EPS graphics. Dag Langmyhr 17 1996 115-121 107 &tex; format novice &tex; robust &tex; error recovery in &tex; &tex; with SGML notation This article describes Star&tex;, a new &tex; format for students writing their first report and other novice users. Its aim is to provide a simpler and more robust tool for users with no previous knowledge of &tex; and &latex;. Kees van der Laan 17 1996 122-125 79 BLUe format loops plain &tex; tail recursion The implementation of loops in plain &tex; is surveyed. Van der Goot's loop is a remarkable straight implementation of tail recursion. Nesting of loops and the pitfalls in there are discussed. The use of hidden counters and the flip-flop traversal are given. Kees van der Laan 17 1996 126-131 58 BLUe format databases pattern recognition plain &tex; tree searching selective loading Various ways of searching in plain &tex; are surveyed. Its use in BLUe's format for selective loading of macros, addresses, pictures, formats and tools is discussed. Interactively searching through a binary tree in dialogue with &tex; is also given. Kees van der Laan 17 1996 132-136 77 BLUe format heap sort index preparation plain &tex; quick sort Various ways of sorting in plain &tex; are surveyed. Macros for linear sorting (in the mouth), quick sort and heap sort are given. The use for sorting index reminders for indexing on-the-fly is touched upon. Kees van der Laan 17 1996 137-150 161 declarative program EPS Escher graphics imperative code &latex; Koch island Malevich math graphs METAFONT MFtoEPS Mondrian PostScript projection reverse video ROEX Schroefer sideways tables suprematism text along curved paths tiling It is all about creating EPS — with graphics — to be merged with (La)&tex; scripts. The emphasis is on creating raw PostScript for simple symmetrical pictures. Asides, like incorporating accurate graphs of math functions, typesetting text along curved paths, or tables set sideways, next to reverse video, clipping and tiling have been addressed. A poor man's MFtoEPS approach is touched upon: (declarative) METAFONT into (imperative) PostScript. Hans Hagen 17 1996 151-156 168 Hans Hagen 17 1996 157-174 119 &context; visual debugging debugging boxes glue penalties kerns fills By redefining some &tex; primitives, one can get an impression of what &tex; and macros are doing behind the screens. This article visualizes some rather common but often unnoticed &tex; features. The visual debugger described here is part of &context;, but can be used in plain &tex; and other macro packages as well. Hans Hagen 17 1996 175 6 Wietse Dol '17a' 1996 1-36 1088 NTG introduction Informatie voor geïnteresseerden in &tex; & de NTG. Introductie over &tex; met vele voorbeelden. Taco Hoekwater 18 1997 1-167 24776 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Frans Goddijn 18 1997 1-2 30 report meeting members meeting Opening, Notulen, Ingekomen stukken en mededelingen, bestuursmutaties, subsidieaanvraag, begroting 1997, MAPS zaken, Activiteiten, Lustrumcommissie, Werkgroepen Erik Frambach 18 1997 3-4 27 Taco Hoekwater 18 1997 5 16 18 1997 6-7 36 Erik Frambach Wybo Dekker 18 1997 8-9 14 financial report Gerard van Nes 18 1997 10-12 37 report NTG Michel Goossens 18 1997 13-14 33 Frans Goddijn 18 1997 15-17 34 FGBBS report Hoewel ``de loop eruit is'' in de BBS winkelstraten, houdt FGBBS stand als het rustige knopenwinkeltje dat met enige regelmaat wordt bezocht door een kleine maar trouwe klantenkring uit de wijde omgeving. Kees van der Laan 18 1997 18 12 working group education Een overzicht van de activiteiten binnen en buiten de WG wordt gegeven, met daarnaast een suggestie. Taco Hoekwater 18 1997 19 12 working group SGML Een korte introductie van de werkgroep SGML en een oproep voor geinteresseerde leden Erik Frambach Hans Hagen 18 1997 21-23 88 NTG internet WWW Sinds kort zijn de WWW-pagina's van de NTG (WWW.ntg.nl) geheel vernieuwd. Dit artikel geeft een overzicht van de ideeën achter de nieuwe opzet en uitvoering. Frans Goddijn 18 1997 25-36 95 TEX-NL discussionlist tips hints beginner help stylefiles In 1993 publiceerde Philippe Vanoverbeke in de MAPS tweemaal een selectie van berichten uit de &tex;-NL lijst. Nu, een poosje later, wordt de draad weer opgepakt. Een aantal oplossingen, hints en gouden tips over onderwerpen waarvan je weleens denkt: ``hoe zat dat ook alweer?'' Deze informatie is, samen met nog veel meer van dergelijke waardevolle berichten uit &tex;-NL, ook na te lezen op FGBBS in het berichtengebied FGBBS.ARCHIVE. Opvallend is dat in bijna alle gevallen het snelste en definitieve antwoord wordt gegeven door Piet van Oostrum (piet@cs.ruu.nl, WWW.cs.ruu.nl/~piet), zonder wie &tex;-NL niet het zeer nuttige en snelle medium zou zijn dat het nu is. OOSTRUM-NL zou ook een goeie naam zijn. Erik Frambach 18 1997 37-39 37 Bib&tex; Perl HTML conversion Bib&tex;-bibliografieën kunnen met behulp van een Perl-script vertaald worden naar HTML. Een variant op dat script levert een compleet &latex;-bestand. Nog een andere variant levert een plain &tex;-bestand dat naar believen bijgeschaafd kan worden. Als gereedschap is enkel Perl en (La)&tex; nodig. Ton Biegstraaten 18 1997 41-44 56 Ten behoeve van een collegedictaat is een tabel nodig met de Latin-1 of iso-8859-1 characterset. Dit artikel behandelt het invoeren en afdrukken van deze characterset met behulp van &latex;2e. Taco Hoekwater 18 1997 45-52 5233 SGML entities SGML conversion SGML This package provides an easy-to-use interface to the SGML character entity sets (ISO 8879, Annex D). All entity sets defined in the Annex are supported, but there are still some minor problems. Michel Goossens Sebastian Rahtz Frank Mittelbach 18 1997 53-60 55 abstract table of contents preface &latex; This handy reference describes techniques and tricks needed to illustrate &latex; documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard &latex; color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine &tex; and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful format of The &latex; Companion, this new book will be an invaluable &latex; resource for incorporating pictures into text. Hans Hagen 18 1997 61-63 27 PIC&tex; PPCH&tex; When using ppch&tex; in &latex;, one can run out of dimension registers. This article describes a loading mechanism that take care of proper loading of PIC&tex;, that is, by using as few dimensions as possible. Hans Hagen 18 1997 65-67 37 PDF pdf&tex; web2c Currently a new extension of &tex; is under development. This web2c based extension pdf&tex; not only produces DVI output, but alternatively generates PDF code. Functionality as well as new primitives are described. Ton Otten 18 1997 69 17 Hans Hagen 18 1997 71-82 243 METAPOST puzzles graphics METAPOST can be used for more than math oriented graphics. This article describes some macros for drawing arbitrary jigsaw puzzles and shifting puzzles. METAPOST can be fun! Siep Kroonenberg 18 1997 83-85 240 scan image bitmap resolution halftone PostScript Guidelines are given for working with scans and bitmaps, with the emphasis on PostScript printing from &tex;. Hans Hagen 18 1997 87-91 2634 METAPOST fonts in METAPOST &context; METAPOST graphics can contain &tex; produced text. Unfortunately, when including such graphics in &tex; documents, only DVIPS knows how to include the right glyphs. This articles describes a method (and macros) to handle glyph inclusion independant of DVI drivers. The &context; module described here can be used in other macro packages as well. (A later version of this module implements a more efficient mechanism as well as some additional functionality.) Kees van der Laan 18 1997 93-98 75 EPS fractal intersection Koch island METAFONT METAPOST MFtoEPS outline PostScript ROEX star tiling Drawing the outline of stars is discussed. A METAFONT/Post and a PostScript program are included, next to a Colombus' egg PostScript solution. The appendices contain compositions of stars and a few versions of a PostScript operator to calculate the intersection point of two lines determined by four points. Kees van der Laan 18 1997 99-102 48 analytic geometry clipping intersection linear equations logos METAPOST METAFONT MFtoEPS outline PostScript ROEX tangent The problems as treated by Jackowski in his lecture at NTG's 1996 fall meeting: a tangent to a circle, intersection of circles, V-like logo, and (circular) clipping of waves, are provided with alternative solutions, along with straightaway PostScript codes. Erik Frambach Kees van der Laan 18 1997 103-104 54 Bacho&tex; GUST Poland A report of GUST's 5th conference in Bachotek, Poland. Ton Biegstraaten 18 1997 105-113 1394 De verzameling fonts die beschikbaar is binnen &tex; is zeer omvangrijk. In dit artikel wordt een subjectieve poging gedaan hier iets van te laten zien. Kees van der Laan 18 1997 115-116 26 BLUe databases plain &tex; How to use &tex; for a database oriented application is shown by the example of a collection of Jazz CDs. The request was to provide (part) of the title of a tune and to let &tex; response with all the CDs which contain that tune. Only a few lines of code was all that was needed to fulfill the purpose. The example might serve as a user-oriented stepping stone for understanding how in BLUe's format &tex; as database engine has been used. Andries Lenstra Ruud Koning 18 1997 117-123 72 databases data integrity da&tex; De auteurs geven een inleiding in da&tex;. Dat is een verzameling macro's waarmee gegevens eenvoudig kunnen worden verwerkt in een &tex; of &latex; file. Twee voorbeelden illustreren de grote mogelijkheden van deze macro's. Een uitgebreide handleiding en de macro's zelf staan op WWW.xs4all.nl/~rhkoning. Wiegert Tierie 18 1997 125-130 6095 Philip Taylor 18 1997 131-144 7860 Abstract in het pools, tekst vertaald uit het engels door Taco Hoekwater Taco Hoekwater 18 1997 145-150 121 LyX review WYSIWYG front-end Dit artikel is een recentie van het programma LyX. Lyx is een programma voor X windows dat dient als (bijna-)WYSIWYG schil bovenop &latex;. De huidige stabiele beta-versie, die hier dan ook besproken wordt, is versie 0.10.7. Het programma wordt geschreven door een aantal auteurs onder `leiding' van Matthias Ettrich (ettrich@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de). Taco Hoekwater 18 1997 151-154 129 DVI previewer previewer X interface kdvi is een aangepaste versie van xdvi, een DVI previewer voor het X Window Systeem. De belangrijkste verandering is het gebruik van een `echte' grafische interface ter vervanging van de nogal primitieve widgets van xdvi. kdvi is alpha software, de huidige versie is 0.2. De auteur is Markku Hihnala (mah@ee.oulu.fi). Kees van der Laan 18 1997 155-159 61 aligning figures BLUe format captions DVI EPS figures minimal markup overprinting portability PostScript Portable manuals should be written and marked up in this way. Just a few macros to take care of the formatting. The manual can be easily personalized. The dvips manual has been made available as a BLUe report with an index — based on IR-s by Rokicki — and a ToC. Both are welcome when using the manual. Some experience in using dvips under UNIX is also reported: overprinting a picture, adding a caption, and aligning pictures. A pitfall in using psfig is mentioned as well. Hans Hagen 18 1997 161-166 44 compound words hyphenation &context; boundary characters The dutch language permits words to be combined in many ways. To permit such compound words to be hyphenated properly, a versatile mechanism is presented, that handles all kind of compound and boundary situations. Although part of &context;, this module can be used in other packages as well. Johannes Braams 18 1997 167-170 61 In deze voordracht zal ik kort aandacht besteden aan `wat is &tex;', `wat is &latex;'. Hierbij komt ook het concept van `structuur markup' aan de orde. Vervolgens zal ik ingaan op de geschiedenis van het babel pakket. Aan de hand van een aantal voorbeelden zal ik toelichten welke problematiek zich voordoet bij het op een correcte wijze vormgeven van documenten waarin meerdere talen worden gebruikt. Johannes Braams 18 1997 171-174 43 18 1997 175-190 72 Taco Hoekwater 19 1997 1-175 4016 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Frans Goddijn 19 1997 1-3 39 report meeting members meeting Opening, Notulen, Ingekomen stukken en mededelingen, ledenvergadering Erik Frambach 19 1997 4 59 Taco Hoekwater 19 1997 5 15 19 1997 6-7 31 Wybo Dekker 19 1997 8 13 budget NTG bestuur 19 1997 9 25 Erik Frambach 19 1997 10-11 38 4&tex; 4all&tex; em&tex; plug & play CDROM De vierde editie van de 4all&tex; cdroms komt eraan. Dit artikel beschrijft wat er zoal nieuw is in deze editie. Siep Kroonenberg 19 1997 12 15 MAPS paper format fontkeuze multi-columns layout Toelichting bij de nieuwe vormgeving van de MAPS: papierformaat, font keuze, aanpassingen voor twee-kolomsopmaak. Taco Hoekwater 19 1997 13-18 54 MAPS class file macro design layout Dit artikel beschrijft de macros die gebruikt worden in de nieuwe maps class file. De nadruk ligt op de macros die proberen een stramien te ondersteunen. Philip Taylor 19 1997 19-27 104 design typography layout Book design cannot be taught; it can only be learned, preferably by critical study of as many books as possible. Of all the elements which make up a book, white space is frequently the least considered and the most important. Avant garde designs are compared and contrasted with more conservative and traditional approaches. Three key elements: uniformity, information and structure are identified, and `good design practice' discussed in terms of each of these. Philip Taylor 19 1997 28-38 121 design typography layout In the predecessor to this paper, three fundamental concepts of uniformity, information and structure were introduced, and general guidance given on each of them. In this paper, more practical advice is given, specifically in two areas: guidance on actual dimensions, proportions and layout; and guidance on implementing some of the ideas through the medium of the &tex; language. Finally, some difficult (and even insoluble) problems in layout are discussed. Kees van der Laan 19 1997 39-67 819 Apollonius computer art Douat Duerer EPS Escher graphics METAFONT METAPOST outline Kepler Mondrian parquet Penrose PostScript puzzles Soddy tiling Truchet turtle graphics zero finding Drawing tilings by computer is discussed. Examples are borrowed from literature. New are their included METAFONT and PostScript programs, with sometimes a new variation of a picture. Maarten Gelderman 19 1997 68-70 44 PostScript installation toolbox Er lopen in de wereld zo veel &tex;-gebruikers rond, dat het zelden zal voorkomen dat een normale gebruiker de eerste is die een probleem tegen komt. Meestal zal dit probleem ook al door iemand anders zijn opgelost en vaak staat de oplossing op de 4all&tex;, &tex;live of een andere cd-rom. Indien daar niet te vinden is staat er vast wel een oplossing op ctan of één of andere Internetsite. Het probleem zit hem niet in de beschikbaarheid, maar in het opsporen van de oplossing. Artikelen in maps zijn daarvoor natuurlijk een belangrijke informatiebron. Sommige oplossingen zijn echter zo eenvoudig dat er nooit een artikel aan gewijd zal worden. Over een draadstriptang valt nu eenmaal niet al te veel te vertellen. In Toolbox zal niet alleen de draadstriptang worden besproken, maar ook het gebruik van lucifers om het plastic van het einde van het snoer af te branden. Stuur ook informatie over uw favoriete tools naar mij op, zo kan Toolbox een belangrijke informatiebron worden over utilities, macro's en andere eenvoudige trucs voor de gewone &tex;-gebruiker. Deze keer is de spil van het verhaal PostScript. Erik Frambach 19 1997 71-72 27 TUG conference San Francisco Een kort verslag van de conferentie van de &tex; Users Group 1997 in San Francisco, USA. Robbert Hardin 19 1997 73-75 32 &latex; Windows systems installation Op verzoek van Frans Goddijn heeft FGBBS-user Robbert Hardin een verslag geschreven van de installatie van het pakket &latex; voor Windows (16 diskettes, ook op FGBBS te vinden). Erik Frambach 19 1997 76-78 110 &latex; Chinese CJK fonts PostScript Big5 Met behulp van het &latex;-package `CJK' is het mogelijk om tekst te zetten in het Chinees, Japans en Koreaans. In dit artikel laat ik in het kort zien wat ervoor nodig is om Chinese tekst met &latex; — Japans en Koreaans blijven buiten beschouwing. Het installeren van de benodigde software wordt behandeld, evenals het gebruik van dit systeem in de praktijk. Kees van der Laan 19 1997 79-86 98 active list separators greyboxes hyphenation of accented words minimal markup partitioned matrices two-part macros It is argued that for using &tex; — a multi-level tool — &tex; inside knowledge should not be necessary for the layman, for production purposes. The `why, what and when,' especially at the grey level will be discussed. Necessary insight issues are enumerated. Maarten Gelderman 19 1997 87-96 86 local guide &latex; installation editor Jed Dit is de Local Guide van de &latex; installatie van de Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie van de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam. De Local Guide is niet bedoeld als &latex;-handleiding, maar als aanvulling daarop. Er wordt een korte uitleg over &latex; gegeven, een aantal bijzonderheden van onze &latex;-installatie wordt genoemd en de gebruikte editor (Jed) wordt besproken. De Local Guide kan zeker worden uitgebreid. Eenieder die nieuw materiaal heeft kan dit aan mij doorsturen en ik zal zorgen dat het, zoveel mogelijk ongewijzigd, wordt opgenomen. Kluwer Academic Publishers 19 1997 97-111 209 &latex;2e electronic submission user manual class file Kluwer This is the user manual for the kluwer.cls class file for the preparation of articles to be submitted to journals or spin-offs of journals published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The kluwer.cls is a generic class, which allows us to have a simple conversion to different journal layouts. The kluwer.cls class file is similar to the article class file of &latex;, but it has some extra fields in the preamble and some extended commands for the body text. Frans Goddijn 19 1997 112-114 35 Quark Xpress manual Hoe prachtig ``ons &tex;'' ook is, in de wijde wereld daarbuiten is het onbekend. De meeste drukkers en grafische ontwerpers weten niet eens wat het is. Pas als je het magische woord ``Quark Xpress'' laat vallen, tel je voor hen mee. Afgelopen zomer kocht ik een manual van meer dan 600 pagina's en verslond dit in de vakantie. Wat heeft dat pakket dat wij niet hebben? Hans Hagen Ton Otten 19 1997 115-177 2263 &context; manual Hierna volgt een introductie op &context;. Deze handleiding is, net als &context;, beschikbaar in het Nederlands en Engels en binnenkort ook in het Duits. Dit is de eerste versie; op- en aanmerkingen zijn dan ook welkom. Taco Hoekwater 20 1998 1-348 15809 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Frans Goddijn 20 1998 1-2 87 report members meeting Erik Frambach 20 1998 3-4 136 Mimi Jett 20 1998 5 75 Taco Hoekwater Siep Kroonenberg 20 1998 6 59 20 1998 7-8 138 Wybo Dekker 20 1998 9-10 63 financial report Gerard van Nes 20 1998 11-14 95 report NTG Jules van Weerden Maarten Gelderman 20 1998 15-16 105 discussionlist TEX-NL Frans Goddijn 20 1998 17-19 106 BBS bulletin board file requests email library Hans Hagen Maarten Gelderman 20 1998 20-24 162 NTG MAPS enquete Siep Kroonenberg 20 1998 25-26 129 NTG logo EPS Hans Hagen 20 1998 26 93 \expandafter macro language Erik Frambach 20 1998 27-32 141 NTG &tex; user groups lustrum Een terugblik op tien jaar NTG, met een vooruitblik naar de komende jaren. Erik Frambach Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater Siep Kroonenberg 20 1998 33-37 250 Euro&tex; conference Saint-Malo This year's Euro&tex; conference was held in Saint-Malo. On behalf of the NTG ERik Frambach, Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater and Siep Kroonenberg represented the dutch &tex;-community. In this report they discuss the social and &tex;nical aspects of the conference. Hans Hagen 20 1998 37/43 163 expansion macro language Siep Kroonenberg 20 1998 38-43 1101 color printing color model device-independent color color conversion color separation PDF This paper takes a look at issues arising in color printing, such as color models, color conversion and color separation. Increasingly, it is feasible to perform these functions on existing PostScript files, independent of the authoring software. The PDF format plays a key role in this trend. Richard Kinch 20 1998 44-45 800 MicroSoft Knuth joke Gerard van Nes 20 1998 46-64 876 MAPS reprint This is a fascimile of the very first MAPS issue, originally published in 1988 Gerrit Oomen 20 1998 65-71 4106 typesetting monotype traditional typesetting Taco Hoekwater 20 1998 72-79 360 typography dutch Dit artikel geeft een beschouwing over ``Nederlandse'' typografie, aan de hand van een aantal scans van in Nederland gepubliceerde boeken en tijdschriften uit de afgelopen drie eeuwen. Het artikel laat een aantal traditionele typografische vormen zien, met toevoeging van wat commentaren over het gebruikte proces. Hans Hagen 20 1998 80-107 379 &context; layout grids two-up logos arranging pages This article is actually chapter 3 of the &context; reference manual, typeset in the MAPS layout. Attention will be paid to defining layout specific areas, rearranging pages, locating logos, typesetting on a grid and adding cutmarks. Klaus Lagally 20 1998 108-116 230 Arab&tex; transliteration arabic Farsi Urdu Pashto We present a &tex; macro package for generating the arabic writing from a standardized ASCII input notation. It can handle partial or full vocalization, and generates automatically most of the common ligatures. There is limited support for Farsi, Urdu, and Pashto. Arab&tex; is compatible with Plain &tex; and also most &latex; environments; arabic and other material can be mixed freely. For special purposes the standard transliteration can be additionally generated. Arab&tex; uses no preprocessor and thus should be compatible with any &tex; implementation that allows dynamic loading of additional macro files and fonts. Frans Goddijn 20 1998 117-119 71 oldstyle mediaeval digits numbers trucs pstricks Erik Frambach vroeg zich af of het mogelijk zou zijn om met wat trucs de oldstyle cijfers te emuleren dij fijnproevers zo mooi vinden. En het kostte nog minder moeite dan hij had verwacht! Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen 20 1998 120-124 154 DVIview previewer Windows outline fonts DVIview is a new viewer for the Windows platform. Key features: virtual fonts, rotated and colored text and performance. This article focuses on the development process and hilights some features of the software. Maarten Gelderman 20 1998 125-130 190 Bib&tex; bibliography bibdb bibedit toolbox Literatuurverwijzingen vormen deze keer de hoofdmoot van het verhaal. David Carlisle 20 1998 131-137 170 &latex; psnfss mfnfss Babel Erik Frambach 20 1998 138-141 178 conversion HTML WWW tex4ht Gurari's &tex;4ht-programmatuur maakt het mogelijk om in &tex; geschreven teksten (plain &tex;, &latex; of wat dan ook) vrij eenvoudig te converteren naar HTML. Als voorbeeld nemen we de 4&tex;-handleiding die in &latex; is geschreven. Erik Frambach 20 1998 142-145 242 &tex; implementations visual &tex; Windows HTML MicroPress' Visual &tex; is a complete &tex; implementation for MS-DOS and all flavors of MS-Windows. The Windows version is reviewed here. It supports several interesting features that go beyond standard &tex;, such as outline fonts and conversion to HTML. Fabrice Popineau 20 1998 146-149 141 DVI previewer windvi manual This article is an adaptation of the HTML file that comes with the current (0.40) version of windvi Ton Otten 20 1998 150-209 742 PPCH&tex; chemical formulas graphics manual A few years ago PPCH&tex; was introduced. This generic macro package can be used to typeset chemical structure formulas. Currently the NTG supports a dedicated mailing list, to which quite some users subscribed. Here we present the long awaited for english update of the manual. The dutch and german manuals were already available for about a year and can be uploaded from the NTG server. Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen 20 1998 210-213 120 web2c &tex; implementations MS-DOS djgpp Web2c is getting popular and popular. Why? Because it is widespread. I'll discuss some of the aspects of the port to the MS-DOS environment. I used the variant on the 4all&tex;4 CD-ROM. Frans Goddijn 20 1998 214-232 223 TEX-NL registered guru tips hints hack bugs Dit is het vierde 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 voorjaar 1997 stond deel 3. Voor deze aflevering is een aantal berichten gezeefd uit TEX-NL van maart 1997 tot maart 1998. Tenzij anders is vermeld, zijn de onderstaande antwoorden van Piet van Oostrum. Omdat het wat bewerkelijk is om sommige trucs over te tikken, staat dit artikel ook op FGBBS. Kees van der Laan 20 1998 233-234 81 Bacho&tex; GUST Poland A report on GUST's sixth conference in Bachotek, Poland Kees van der Laan 20 1998 235-237 99 BLUe manmac output routine plain &tex; preprints The back-to-the-roots OTR for BLUE's notes is discussed. It consists of Plain &tex;'s OTR for 1-column and the compatible extension as given in the &tex;book for 2-columns. Only the pagebody differs: 2-columns instead of 1-column. This replacement is aimed at facilitating a personalized preprint OTR, such that BLUe can easily adapt it. The modified blue.tex will be distributed by CTAN, and NTG's 4All&tex; CD-ROM. David Carlisle 20 1998 238-242 169 e-&tex; &latex;3 &context; meeting Barbara Beeton Thierry Bouche Taco Hoekwater Patrick Ion Jörg Knappen Chris Rowley Ulrik Vieth 20 1998 243-246 95 Euro&tex; math fonts bof Roger Kehr 20 1998 247 94 xindy Euro&tex; bof This is an adaptation of the ascii file posted to the xindy newsgroup by Roger Kehr in the week following Euro&tex;. NTS team Peter Breitenlohner 20 1998 248-263 221 e-&tex; The preparation of this report was supported in part by DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung &tex; e.V. `&tex;' is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. Taco Hoekwater 20 1998 264-275 657 METAFONT PostScript Type 1 fonts conversion metafog This article makes a comparison between bitmapped and vector fonts, and presents some of the problems I encountered when I tried to convert METAFONT sources into PostScript Type 1 fonts. Simon Pepping 20 1998 276 78 SGML XML comparison Dit is een inleiding op de volgende bijlage James Clark 20 1998 277-279 107 SGML XML comparison This document provides a detailed comparison of SGML (ISO 8879) and XML. Taco Hoekwater 20 1998 280-285 155 &context; &latex; comparison copyright size speed functionality Some aspects of &context; and &latex; are compared: the political decisions, the offered functionality, size of the system, and relative speed. Hans Hagen 20 1998 286-289 105 verbatim METAPOST Perl JavaScript &context; Although for real pretty printing of sources one has to use CWEB like environments, &tex; can als do a pretty job rather well. The &context; verbatim environment has pretty printing built in. One can either use color or fonts. The latter is used in the MAPS, the former in this article. Hans Hagen 20 1998 290-296 933 METAPOST JavaScript PDF &context; pdf&tex; Due to it's open character, &tex; can act as an authoring tool. This article demonstrates that by integrating &tex;, METAPOST, JavaScript and PDF, one can build pretty advanced documents. More and more documents will get the characteristics of programs, and &tex; will be our main tool for producing them. The example described here can be produced with pdf&tex; as well as traditional &tex;. Siep Kroonenberg 20 1998 297-298 85 Windows suites wordprocessors graphics export import OLE frogs The author is tried beyond endurance by current Office software. Wietse Dol 20 1998 299-301 156 4&tex; Windows beta preview Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen 20 1998 302-304 126 Perl &tex; application A simple application where perl is used to extract data from log-files and create output using &tex;. The perl-scripts in this article run under perl 4.036 and should also run under perl 5. Hans Hagen 20 1998 305-310 110 dropped caps &context; first line treatment Sometimes documents can be enhanced with special typography for the first character or lines of chapters. In this article I present some macros for dropped caps and first line treatment. Although more advanced solutions are possible, the examples show at least how things work. Users can derive their own macros from them. Hans Hagen Ton Otten 20 1998 311-347 1150 manual beginner &context; This is the second half of the &context; manual for beginners. Those who want an index and a quick reference guide, can dowload the complete manual from the NTG server. The layout is adapted to the MAPS layout. Taco Hoekwater 21 1998 1-84 3430 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Maarten Gelderman 21 1998 1 62 Opening; Notulen 20ste bijeenkomst; Verslag van de secretaris; Verslag penningmeester en kascontrolecommissie; Bestuursverkiezingen; Erelidmaadschap. Erik Frambach 21 1998 2 63 Siep Kroonenberg Taco Hoekwater 21 1998 3 63 21 1998 4 122 Maarten Gelderman 21 1998 5-6 87 Jules van Weerden 21 1998 7-8 109 discussionlist TEX-NL De NTG is niet alleen met webpagina's op het Internet aanwezig, maar ook middels een aantal discussielijsten. In dit artikel wordt kort aangegeven wat een discussielijst is, hoe je je aan- en afmeldt en wat je te wachten staat na aanmelding. Tevens wordt een overzicht gegeven van de in Nederland aanwezige &tex;-gerelateerde lijsten. Erik Frambach 21 1998 9-12 316 &tex; user groups addresses NTG &tex; Future working group 21 1998 13-19 176 &tex; future proposals Propositions and conjectures on the future of &tex;. This article was presented at TUG'98 in Torun, Poland. NTG &tex; Future working group 21 1998 20-27 175 &tex; future proposals \special standard Proposal for a \special standard. This article was presented at TUG'98 in Torun, Poland. Maarten Gelderman 21 1998 28-30 160 plain &tex; &latex; integrating toolbox This Toolbox follows the eclectic approach that most readers will know from previous ones. Without aiming to give a comprehensive oversight of the logic behind them, I present some plain &tex;-commands that can be used directly in &latex;. As the editors of this journal decided to make English the preferred language for contributions, this column is no longer in Dutch. However, as far as my limited command of the language allows, I will try to keep the tone informal and the discussion accessible to novice users. Kaveh Bazargan Philip Taylor 21 1998 31-34 128 TUG conference Torun Poland The 19th annual &tex; Users Group Meeting took place in Torun, Poland, in August of this year. The following is the impression of the authors who tried to attend all the talks. Unfortunately a couple of the talks were not attended by either of the authors. Apologies to those authors. Kees van der Laan 21 1998 35-39 210 BLUe btable code tables data generation dynamical markup parameterization tables tail recursion The issue of generating and using parameterized data for tables in &tex; is elaborated upon. The automatic insertion of markup along with the use of parameterized markup and the \btable macro is not the issue, but are prerequisites. \btable's use, along with the automatic insertion of markup in the data as such, can be seen as tools, stepping stones, which made it possible to concentrate on pure data generation, or its use in typesetting tables by &tex;. Kees van der Laan 21 1998 40-41 126 cyrillics MIME Macintosh pdf&tex; The typesetting in &tex; of English mixed with Russian is discussed for a Macintosh. Starting from the WNCY-fonts only a few extra control sequences have to be remembered for the keyboarding. The approach is suitable for all machines which have the WNCY-fonts. Email in cyrillics can be handled by formating via pdf&tex; and sending the .pdf file as attachment in a MIME message. Kees van der Laan 21 1998 42-48 211 BLUe crosswords expansion fifo look ahead minimal markup mouth processing preprocessing tables tail recursion A plea is made for a reappraisal of &tex;'s capabilities of expansion in the gullet of minimal marked up scripts into complete marked up scripts. Attention is focused on expansion of implicitly marked up table data by spaces and e-o-l-s into data separated by \cs and \rs, the abstract but explicit column and row separators, respectively. The ultimate aim is that the processing tool can't be distilled from the `marked up' script. Kees van der Laan 21 1998 49-52 153 internet HTML multi-media PDF pdf&tex; PostScript WWW New hardware not only urged me to get &tex; & Co running again, in a richer environment, but I had also to catch up with developments since. Most noteworthy in relation with &tex; and documents, are the acceptance of the PDF exchange format and the HTML format, next to the realization of multi-media. Ton Otten Hans Hagen 21 1998 53-60 166 SI-units units &context; In order to support a consistent typography of units in technical documents the &context; module units was developed. When this module is loaded all SI-units are available. Seldom used and/or complex units can be defined by the user with the command \unit[]{}{}. Sebastian Rahtz 21 1998 61-69 415 jade jadetex dsssl Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL specification, and includes a &tex; backend; the Jade&tex; macro package is needed to process the Jade &tex; output. We describe how Jade and Jade&tex; work together. This article was written for the newsletter of the International SGML Users Group. Thierry Bouche 21 1998 70-84 1013 math fonts fontinst MathTime Lucida mathptm virtual fonts math fonts &latex; We will examine the issues raised when modifying (La)&tex; fonts within math environments, and attempt to suggest effective means of accessing a larger variety of font options, while avoiding typographic nonsense. Taco Hoekwater 22 1999 1-176 3451 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Erik Frambach 22 1999 1 21 Taco Hoekwater Siep Kroonenberg 22 1999 2 17 NTG 22 1999 3 22 Donald Knuth 22 1999 4 21 NTG logo FGBBS Frans Goddijn 22 1999 5-6 22 FGBBS geschiedenis Jules van Weerden 22 1999 7-8 31 NTG discussionlist discussionlist TEX-NL De NTG is niet alleen met webpagina's op het Internet aanwezig, maar ook middels een aantal discussielijsten. In dit artikel wordt kort aangegeven wat een discussielijst is, hoe je je aan- en afmeldt en wat je te wachten staat na aanmelding. Tevens wordt een overzicht gegeven van de in Nederland aanwezige &tex;-gerelateerde lijsten. Erik Frambach 22 1999 9-10 600 Bacho&tex; GUST conference announcement Redaktie 22 1999 11 347 Frans Goddijn 22 1999 13-31 79 TEX-NL guru hints hack bugs Dit is het vijfde 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 voorjaar 1998 stond deel 4. Voor deze aflevering is een aantal berichten gezeefd uit TEX-NL van maart 1998 tot januari 1999. Met dank aan Piet van Oostrum die opnieuw de meeste antwoorden aandroeg, en aan de andere actieve abonnees van TEX-NL! Taco Hoekwater 22 1999 32-36 85 fonts PostScript fonts Dit artikel geeft een korte inleiding in de interne werking van PostScript computer-fonts en hun coderingen. Dit artikel is een aanpassing van een serie slides die gepresenteerd werden op de NTG bijeenkomst van 22 oktober 1998 in Leuven. Maarten Gelderman 22 1999 37-42 53 fontinst Type 1 fonts installation In this brief tutorial I will describe how a PostScript Type 1 font can be made available to &tex; using the fontinst-utility (version 1.8). I will not delve into the technical details of this program or the exact functionality of each of the font files used during this process, as those aspects of font-installation are described in other articles in this issue of MAPS. I will not delve into the advanced features of fontinst either, but rather will provide a hands-on tutorial. Roland Kwee 22 1999 43-51 80 fonts PostScript Linux Adobe dvips GhostScript This article discusses practical issues for installing Adobe PostScript fonts for &tex; running on Unix/Linux. It also presents a script for automating the installation in order to install a package with over 200 fonts. As a useful side effect, the script creates a font data base and a font catalog to help the buyer/user of the font collection. Siep Kroonenberg 22 1999 52-54 42 NFSS font families font attributes This paper gives a brief overview of the &latex;2e NFSS font machinery and font definition files. It also gives examples of ad-hoc font changes with low-level NFSS commands. Hans Hagen 22 1999 55-76 237 &context; fonts encodings typography This article is the revised chapter 5 of the &context; reference manual, typeset in the MAPS layout. We will pay attention to all kind of font switching, fine tuning, and also provide some background information. Special attention is paid to the mapping of font names to files and some words are spent on encodings. This text is typeset in Lucida Bright but within the layout specification of the MAPS. Hein Laan 22 1999 77-80 108 euro teken euro fonts Maarten Gelderman 22 1999 81-88 164 typefaces design font classification Almost anyone who develops an interest in fonts is bound to be overwelmed by the bewildering variety of letterforms available. The number of fonts available from commercial suppliers like Adobe, URW, LinoType and others runs into the thousands. A recent catalog issued by FontShop alone lists over 25.000 different varieties. And somehow, although the differences of the individual letters are hardly noticable, each font has its own character, its own personality. Even the atmosphere elucided by a text set from Adobe Garamond is noticably different from the atmosphere of the same text set from Stempel Garamond. Although decisions about the usage of fonts, will always remain in the realm of esthetics, some knowledge about font characteristics may nevertheless help to create some order and to find out why certain design decisions just do not work. The main aim of this paper is to provide such background by describing the main aspects that might be used to describe a font. Taco Hoekwater Hans Hagen 22 1999 89-93 50 e-&tex; ee&tex; extensions SGML This article gives an introduction to eetex. Eetex is an extension to e-tex 2.0 that defines a collection of new primitives. Most of these deal with list data structures, but some other things are added as well. Hàn Thê Thành Sebastian Rahtz Hans Hagen 22 1999 94-114 145 pdf&tex; manual Taco Hoekwater Michael Vulis 22 1999 115-116 30 V&tex; Linux port MicroPress This document is a short introduction to V&tex; for Linux, a partial port of V&tex; that is free for non-commercial use. The most interesting feature of the compiler is the use of PDF as a backend instead of DVI. Taco Hoekwater Michael Vulis 22 1999 117-122 75 PDF inline graphics EPS inclusion GeX V&tex; This is a short introduction to the pilot release of GeX. GeX is the most rapidly evolving part of V&tex;; more detailed documentation is available in the distribution of V&tex;. This article specifically describes GeX as implemented in the public domain version of V&tex;/Linux. While the same or additional features may be available in the commercial Windows version, we describe what exists in the freely downloadable version. For information on downloading V&tex;/Linux see the NTG web site or the article in this MAPS issue. Wietse Dol Erik Frambach 22 1999 123-126 82 4spell 4&tex; spell checker In this paper we will describe the features of 4Spell 1.1, a Windows spell-checker for &tex; documents. Since there aren't many good spell-checkers around and since 4Spell only works on Windows platforms, we will also explain how the spell-checking is done. This should make it possible to write a spell-checker for other platforms (why not use perl and become platform independent :-) 4Spell is part of the new 4&tex; for Windows (release expected by the end of March 1999). We realized, however, that this tool could be useful for people who do not want to use 4&tex; and hence we made it a stand-alone freeware program. Erik Frambach 22 1999 127-129 76 project management A new project manager, 4Project, analyses your &tex; document and gives you easy access to any item in it. Wybo Dekker 22 1999 130-135 85 Perl mfpic mkpic Perl may be an easy interface to &tex; when it comes to repetitive tasks, like writing letters, creating reports from databases, and many more. This article shows how Perl can be used to generate many similar pictures via the mfpic style Erik Frambach 22 1999 136-141 72 millennium Y2K Will &tex; and related programs continue to work properly after the year 2000? This article describes how &tex; deals with dates and how this affects its behavior after the year 2000. Richard Müller 22 1999 142-143 72 PPCH&tex; chemistry structure formulas databases A database with PPCHTeX code would ease the work for those who have to draw chemical formulas only occasionally and have no time to become acquainted with it. But experts could also make use of it. The establishing of such a database is discussed and proposed. Berend de Boer 22 1999 144-147 38 &context; tutorial Hans Hagen 22 1999 148-152 57 speeding up format optimizing code e-&tex; &context; Macros can be collected in macro packages. These packages can be stored in a form that permits fast loading. Although &tex; is already pretty fast, for demanding applications it makes sense to speed up &tex; to the max. Switching to e-&tex; and beyond is one way to achieve this, another way can be found in optimizing the macro code by means of a dedicated program. Currently the combination of both can speed up &tex; runs by at least 10%. Hans Hagen 22 1999 153-161 54 tables alignment &context; This article describes the &context; tabulate environment, which can be used to typeset tables that are part of the text flow. This mechanism differs from the TaBlE based table mechanism, but recognizes the same preamble commands. It offers automatic width calculations when typesetting (multiple) paragraphs in tables and splits the tables over pages. Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater 22 1999 161 17 fonts error messages &tex; error messages and warnings are not always that clear. Sometimes confusion is due to optimizations in &tex; the program. We will discuss the noty always honest \the\font. Kaveh Bazargan 22 1999 162-163 21 publishing Frans Goddijn 22 1999 164-167 116 typography fonts design expert book review Tijdens de heuglijke NTG-dag in het vorstelijke Leuven vond ik op de boekentafel van Addison-Wesley twee leuk uitziende boeken over typografie en ontwerp. Mooie, knalgele boekjes die even onderhoudend als leerzaam bleken, geschreven door Robin Williams: The Non-designers's Type Book en The Non-designers's Design Book. Ik sla er één voor u open. Siep Kroonenberg 22 1999 168-173 941 graphic design typography This paper shows some real-life examples of typography, some good, some not so good. We shall have a look at what is on the page and speculate about what the publisher or designer is trying to accomplish. Erik Frambach Taco Hoekwater Siep Kroonenberg 22 1999 174-175 30 report Dante NTS e-&tex; A report on Dante's 20th meeting which took place in Dortmund. The future of the NTS project and the e-&tex; project were hot issues that were discussed during this meeting. Taco Hoekwater 23 1999 1-116 5200 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater Siep Kroonenberg 23 1999 1 35 NTG bestuur 23 1999 2 48 Jules van Weerden Maarten Gelderman 23 1999 3-4 72 discussionlist TEX-NL Erik Frambach 23 1999 5-7 91 &tex; user groups addresses Siep Kroonenberg 23 1999 8-12 174 &tex; user groups Vancouver TUG conference Frans Goddijn 23 1999 13-31 187 TEX-NL guru hints hack bugs 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 23 1999 32-47 123 CDROM &context; NTG MAPS PDF SGML XML 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 23 1999 48-52 186 4&tex; 4all&tex; Windows software 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 4all&tex; you could ask yourself what this new edition offers as compared to e.g. the older versions of 4all&tex; and the &tex;-live CDrom. Below we will give a summary of all of the goodies of the new 4all&tex; distribution and give you pointers to the internet where you can find more information. Maarten Gelderman 23 1999 53-55 78 mail-merge regular expressions emacs Excel makefiles toolbox 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 23 1999 56-68 81 literate programming WEB Nuweb logos 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, pic&tex; en &latex;. Paul Huygen 23 1999 69-71 104 DTP &latex; 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 23 1999 72-74 67 programming DTP vertical mode 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 23 1999 75-76 30 KIX font barcode PTT 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 23 1999 77-83 136 math fonts PostScript METAFONT 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 23 1999 84-89 338 &context; presentation slides transparencies PDF 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 23 1999 90-102 175 flowcharts graphics charts METAPOST &tex; 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 23 1999 103-107 3290 ASCII editors Windows comparison 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 23 1999 108-112 96 emacs Auc&tex; &latex; &tex; packages editing 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 Auc&tex; package for the preparation of &latex; documents. The main characteristics of Emacs are discussed, followed by a more detailed description of the facilities that Auc&tex; offers to assist the author of &latex; documents. Finally we describe how Auc&tex; can be customized to support your own or external commands and &latex; packages. Siep Kroonenberg 23 1999 112-116 133 PostScript DSC comments PDF GhostScript graphics conversion EPS inclusion bounding box 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. Taco Hoekwater 24 2000 1-92 1236 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater Siep Kroonenberg 24 2000 1 29 NTG bestuur 24 2000 2 18 Maarten Gelderman 24 2000 3-6 49 drukkers PostScript DocuTech Een beschrijving van de perikelen rondom het aanleveren van PostScript output aan een drukker. Sven A. Bovin 24 2000 7-8 37 shell script vi &latex; Unix De ontstaansgeschiedenis van een shell script om vanuit vi met één toets &latex; op te roepen en, indien nodig, xdvi te starten voor het previewen. Siep Kroonenberg 24 2000 9-11 72 texmf tree Windows Linux Perl Configuration At Kluwer Academic Publishers we use &tex; for typesetting journals. Since there are obvious advantages to using a standardized distribution, we provide our typesetters with one on CD. This article describes the principles of this setup. Thierry Bouche 24 2000 12-26 464 poetry &tex;: a typesetting engine limited to scientific publishing? Where would be the fun? Yannis Haralambous John Plaice 24 2000 27-37 168 Omega Multiple-Alphabet Font omlgc The Omega project aims to offer open and flexible means for typesetting different scripts. By working at several different levels, it is possible to offer natural support for different languages and scripts, and strictly respect typographical traditions for each of them. This is illustrated with a large PostScript Type 1 font for the commonly used left-to-right non-cursive alphabets, called omlgc (Omega Latin-Greek-Cyrillic). This font, which more than covers the Unicode sections pertaining to those alphabets, as well as those of IPA, Armenian, Georgian and Tifinagh (Berber), is built—virtually—out of smaller glyph banks. The Omega typesetting engine, based on that of &tex;, is used to print documents using this font. The characters can be accessed either directly, or through the use of filters, called Omega Typesetting Processes (OTPs), which are applied to the input stream. Erik Frambach 24 2000 38-40 60 Polish ogonek input encoding Writing in Polish with &tex; requires a few tricks. In Polish you need several accents that are often not available in `standard' fonts. Some &tex; macros can solve this problem more or less. We will show the pros and cons. Another `problem' is input encoding. One can use 8-bit input in combination with the corresponding codepage definition, or a 7-bit encoding with a few extras to make typing easier. Both methods will be discussed. This article reflects the content of a lecture held at the NTG meeting on 11 November 1999. Maarten Gelderman 24 2000 41-43 69 make texexec PDF EPS math fonts toolbox This toolbox contains some varia. First I discuss some reactions on remarks I made in an earlier toolbox. Next, Hans Hagens texexec is used in the following section to create EPS and PDF files from METAPOST source. Files created this way are often more usefull than the EPS files METAPOST itself creates. How to prepare a single source file for usage with both traditional &tex; and pdf&tex; is discussed next. I also show how easy it is to set up a font different from Computer Modern for typesetting simple mathematics, pay some attention to a failed attempt to install a TrueType font and present a small PostScript header file that can be used to produce watermarks. Hans Hagen 24 2000 44-45 36 METAPOST PDF pdf&tex; When a METAPOST graphic uses fonts, the PostScript file is not self contained and hardly usable outside &tex;. One can however use &tex; itself, or actually pdf&tex;, to create such a graphic. Although this method uses an &context; module, the solution provided here is independant of this macro package. The macros responsible for the process are collected in the file mptopdf.tex. Victor Eijkhout 24 2000 46-48 52 CDROM labels \parshape Now that CD burners are becoming standard equipment in personal computers, there is a need for software to typeset CD labels. Of course, one can just squeeze a normal paragraph of text in the confines of a label, but it would be much more elegant to set the text to use all the available space. In this short article I will explain the macros that I wrote during a Christmas holiday, and that contain a few neat tricks. Victor Eijkhout 24 2000 49-51 38 programming loop macro The plain &tex; format contains a \loop macro that has been a source of frustration and puzzlement to users ever since. Its syntax is somewhat strange, you have to insert an \if... condition in it but cannot use \else, and nested use of the macro runs into various problems. In this article I will describe my own improved loop macro, which I've called \repeat to prevent confusion. Hans Hagen 24 2000 52-53 51 &context; presentations Today most presentations are enlightened by text shown on transparencies or using video beamers. This text is often rather limited in size. In this article I present a method of annotating pages that can be used with the &context; presentation styles. Hans Hagen 24 2000 54-57 46 PDF postprocessing texexec pdf&tex; This article introduces some ways to manipulate PDF files using pdf&tex;, &context;, and &tex;exec. The method described here can be used for arbitrary PDF input, given that it can be handled by pdf&tex;. Michael A. Guravage 24 2000 59-64 142 Literate Programming Structured Programming WEB This article is a short introduction to the theory and practice of a programming style known as Literate Programming; a style that changes the focus of writing programs away from telling a computer what to do and toward explaining to a person what it is we are telling the computer to do. Literate Programming overcomes the limitations inherent in presenting traditionally structured program text. Using a balanced mix of informal and formal methods, literate programs are presented in a way suited for human understanding. Processing a literate program source results in both a nicely typeset document describing the parts of the program in an order that elucidates their design, and source code in an order in which it will compile. Berend de Boer 24 2000 65-92 80 &context; tutorial If you are a &latex; user, switching to an entirely different macro-package is a very big step. Everything you put so much effort in to learn, doesn't work anymore. To help lessen the pain for users make the switch, this document shows short &latex; code snippets and how you do the same in &context;. Sven Bovin 25 2000 1-124 1334 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Siep Kroonenberg Sven Bovin 25 2000 1 31 Erik Frambach 25 2000 2-3 41 Euro&tex; conference Announcement of the 12th European &tex; Conference, which will be held in Kerkrade in the Netherlands, from 23 to 27 September 2001. The theme is ``&tex; and Meta: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Bits''. Jules van Weerden Maarten Gelderman 25 2000 4-5 46 discussielijsten TEX-NL De NTG is niet alleen met webpagina's op het Internet aanwezig, maar ook middels een aantal discussielijsten. In dit artikel wordt kort aangegeven wat een discussielijst is, hoe je je aan- en afmeldt en wat je te wachten staat na aanmelding. Tevens wordt een overzicht gegeven van de in Nederland aanwezige &tex;-gerelateerde lijsten. Erik Frambach Siep Kroonenberg 25 2000 6-8 48 user groups A list of all &tex; user groups currently known to us. Piet van Oostrum 25 2000 9-12 54 &tex; &latex; packages CTAN proceedings Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief. Het is de bedoeling om in elke MAPS zo'n artikel te plaatsen. Ik zal hierbij één of meer bijdragen wat uitvoeriger beschrijven en andere bijdragen kort noemen. De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. De uitgebreidere bijdragen zijn ook geen handleidingen. Beschouw het maar als een soort menukaart die de bedoeling heeft om de lezer te laten watertanden. Berend de Boer 25 2000 13-18 55 &context; pdf(e)-&tex; installatie nieuws In deze sectie zal het laatst bekende nieuws op het gebied van pdf&tex; en &context; aan de inner crowds worden ontfutseld. In deze eerste aflevering komt aan bod wat de laatste versies van pdf&tex; en &context; zijn. En tevens waar je ze kunt halen. En verder in iedere aflevering een &context; tip: vandaag over het produceren van A5 boekjes die op A4 worden afgedrukt. Frans Goddijn 25 2000 19-55 180 TEX-NL discussielijsten This is part seven in a series of articles started in 1993 by Philippe Vanoverbeke. Philippe selected a number of messages from the TEX-NL mailing list which deserved to be remembered and lookup up by readers of MAPS. Solutions, hints and tips. MAPS of fall 1999 had part 5. This installment more or less covers august 1999 through july 2000. During a hectic year I had missed most messages and working through the backlog for this article provided me with a useful and time consuming opportunity to see what I would have missed otherwise. Questions and answers are marked in twins but sometimes a reply poses a new question, invoking one more answer, making for an instructive thread. As before, honorary member Piet van Oostrum, and also Hans Hagen are always helpful members of the list. To them and all the others feeding the list with their stimulating questions and helpful answers thanks! Maarten Gelderman 25 2000 56-71 137 &latex; packages praktijkvoorbeeld In deze toolbox wordt een voorbeeld besproken van een redelijk omvangrijk &latex;-document. Het nut van de verschillende packages komt aan de orde en er wordt tevens besproken hoe de packages worden gebruikt in het document zelf en welke opties daarvoor in de preamble moeten worden opgenomen. Wybo Dekker 25 2000 72-73 34 &tex; Live Unix Recently all NTG members received the latest &tex;Live cdrom. This article describes a quick and efficient method of installing the content of the &tex; repository. Since you can download the latest cdrom image via the internet, you can also use this method for occasional updates. Hans Hagen 25 2000 74-78 54 pdf pdf&tex; &context; em&tex; specials positioning It is no secret that pdf&tex; introduces new primitives, but some of them are less known than others. In this article I will describe an example of the use of \pdfsavepos cum suis. We will investigate their usage by implementing a simple em&tex; specials simulator. Hans Hagen 25 2000 79-80 127 pdf fdf annotations pdf&tex; &context; This article describes how to use pdf&tex; to typeset annotations added to pdf documents. This method uses &context; but can be applied to any valid pdf document. Hans Hagen 25 2000 81-85 74 micro typography margins kerning pdf&tex; &context; At the time of this writing, Hàn Thê Thành is writing his thesis, wherein he explains in great detail two extensions to &tex;'s typesetting engine. In this article we will explore marginal kerning, or character protruding. We will demonstrate the effects and introduce the new primitives, as well as explain how to enable this feature in &context;. Bogusław Jackowski Janusz Nowacki Piotr Strzelczyk 25 2000 86-102 672 Antykwa Półtawskiego fonts Type 1 fonts METAFONT METAPOST The implementation of the Antykwa Półtawskiego font in METAPOST and its conversion to PostScript Type1 outline font. Santiago Muelas 25 2000 103-113 95 TXP METAPOST &latex; METAGRAF awk &tex; In this article we show a general macro written in pure METAPOST for putting any text using any font over any path. The routine will be explained in detail and some graphics will be included for clarifying purposes. Very special thanks are due to Maarten Gelderman who has made the final translation with the biggest care and interest. Hans Hagen 25 2000 114-124 76 METAPOST MetaFun &context; graphics This article is a nearly 100% copy of chapter 3 of the MetaFun manual. This chapter discusses a few alternative ways to define and include METAPOST graphics in a document. This article contains some colors, so if you want to get the real picture, you should fetch the MetaFun manual from www.pragma-ade.com (beta manual download page). The MetaFun macros (METAPOST as well as &tex;) are part of the regular &context; distribution. Simon Pepping 26 2001 1-246 4502 NTG MAPS Euro&tex; proceedings Euro&tex; proceedings Simon Pepping 26 2001 1-4 45 Siep Kroonenberg 26 2001 5 56 David Antoš Petr Sojka 26 2001 7-17 130 patterns Unicode hyphenation tagging transformation Omega PatGen PatLib reimplementation templates C++ The program PatGen, being nearly twenty years old, doesn't suit today's needs: it is nearly impossible to make changes, as the program is highly optimised (like &tex;); it is limited to eight-bit encodings; it uses static data structures; reuse of the pattern technique and packed trie data structure for problems other than hyphenation (context dependent ligature handling, spell checking, Thai syllabification, etc) is cumbersome. Those and other reasons explained further in the paper led us to the decision to reimplement PatGen from scratch in an object-oriented manner (like NTS - New Typesetting System reimplementation of &tex;) and to create the PATtern LIBrary PatLib and the (hyphenation) pattern generator based on it. We argue that this general approach allows the code to be used in many applications in computer typesetting area, in addition to those of pattern recognition, which include various natural language processing, optical character recognition, and others. S. Austin D. Menshikov Michael Vulis 26 2001 18 22 In this article we show how by means of the GeX plugin technology one can process and display geographic information including real-time weather data as part of a &tex; to PDF compilation. Giuseppe Bilotta 26 2001 19-26 89 I first came across the need for a &tex; in library form when I was thinking about developing a graphical real-time front-end to &tex; (the &tex;Perfect project, more info at texperfect.sourceforge.net). A quick survey (on the comp.text.tex newsgroup) showed that other projects could have benefited from a library providing &tex; typesetting capabilities, and I thus decided to develop &tex;lib as a separate project from &tex;Perfect. A `call for developers' on the same newsgroup provided the project with developers/consultants/helpers. Berend de Boer 26 2001 27-39 130 Much data exists only in databases. A familiar example is an address list. Every once in a while this data must be presented to humans. To continue with the address list example, annually an address list must be printed and mailed. In this article I attempt to given an exhaustive overview of going from structured data through &context; to output. Tobias Burnus 26 2001 40 25 The Mathematical Meta Language (MathML) oft he World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) based on XML has gained more support in the last months. Looking at the W3C's list ofsof tware which supports MathML one sees that the number of applications which can produce MathML is rather long, but the list of applications supporting typesetting of MathML is rather short. J. Chlebíková J. Guričan M. Nagy I. Odrobina 26 2001 41-48 324 structured editing &tex; XML The Euromath System is an XML WYSIWYG structured editor and browser with the possibility of &tex; input/output. It was developed within the Euromath Project and funded through the SCIENCE programme of the European Commission. Originally, the core of the Euromath System was based on the commercial SGML structured editor Grif. At present, the Euromath System is in the final stage of re-implementation based upon the public domain structured editor Thot and XML. During the re-implementation process several principal differences between the basic features of Thot and the basic purposes of the Euromath System had to be resolved. Jonathan Fine 26 2001 49-58 123 Instant Preview is a new package, for use with Emacs and xdvi, that allows the user to preview instantly the file being edited. At normal typing speed, and on a 225MHz machine, it refreshes the preview screen with every keystroke. Instant Preview uses a new program, dvichop, that allows &tex; to process small files over 20 times quicker than usual. It avoids the overhead of starting &tex;. This combination of &tex; and dvichop is the &tex; daemon. One instance of the &tex; daemon can serve many programs. It can make &tex; available as a callable function. It can be used as the formatting engine of a WYSIWYG editor. This talk will demonstrate Instant Preview, describe its implementation, discuss its use with &latex;, sketch the architecture of a WYSIWYG &tex;, and call for volunteers to take the project forward. Hans Hagen 26 2001 59 25 As a typesetting engine, &tex; can work pretty well with structured input. One can build interfaces that are reasonably well to work with and code in. XML on the other hand is purely meant for coding, and the more rigorous scheme prevents errors and makes reuse easy. Contrary to &tex;, xml is not equivalent to typesetting, although there are tools (and methods) to easily convert the code into other stuctured code (like HTML) that then can be handled by rendering engines. Should we abandon coding in &tex; in favor of xml? Should we abandon typesetting using &tex; in favor of real time rendering of relatively simple layout designs? Who are the good and bad guys in that world? And even more importantly: to what extent will document design (and style design) really change? Hans Hagen 26 2001 60 25 &tex; is used for producing a broad range of documents: articles, journals, books, and anything you can think of. When &tex; came around, it was no big deal to beat most of those day's typesetting programs. But how well does &tex; compete today with mainstream Desk Top Publishing programs? What directions will publishing take and what role can &tex; play in the field of typesetting? What are today's publishing demands, what are the strong and what are the weak points of good old &tex;, and what can and should we expect from the successors of &tex;? Taco Hoekwater 26 2001 61-73 93 This module takes care of references to publications and the typesetting of publication lists, as well as providing an interface between Bib&tex; and &context;. This is a preliminary version; changes may be needed or wanted in the near future. In particular, there are some minor issues with the multi-lingual interface that need to be solved. Jean-Michel Hufflen 26 2001 74-94 224 Bibliographies multilingual features &latex; bib&tex; This paper describes mlbib&tex;, a new implementation of bib&tex; with multilingual features. We show how to use it as profitably as possible, and go thoroughly into compatibility between bib&tex;s current implementation and ours. Besides, the precise grammar of mlbibtex is given as an annex. Bogusław Jackowski Krzysztof Leszczyński 26 2001 95-110 169 cmdfont special commands METAPOST fonts postscript We propose the use of a special pseudofont as an enhancement (in a sense) of the \special instruction. The examples of the implementation show that the technique applied here would prove to be extremely useful, especially with METAPOST. Bogusław Jackowski Janusz M. Nowacki Piotr Strzelczyk 26 2001 111-119 221 outline fonts scalable fonts parameterized fonts Type 1 fonts METAFONT METAPOST A package for preparing parameterized outline fonts in PostScript Type 1 format is described. The package makes use of METAPOST, awk, and T1utils, therefore is supposed to be easily portable to various computer platforms. Its beta version along with a sample font (Knuth's logo font) is available from: ftp://bop.eps.gda.pl/pub/metatype1 Michal Marvan 26 2001 120-129 144 natural mathematical notation In this paper we introduce Nath, a &latex; 2.09/2e style implementing a natural &tex; notation for mathematics. Michael Moortgat Richard Moot Dick Oehrle 26 2001 130-140 145 A well-known slogan in language technology is `parsing-as-deduction': syntax and meaning analysis of a text takes the form of a mathematical proof. Developers of language technology (and students of computational linguistics) want to visualize these mathematical objects in a variety of formats. We discuss a language engineering environment for computational grammars. The kernel is a theorem prover, implemented in the logic-programming language Prolog. The kernel produces &latex; source code for its internal computations. The front-end displays these in a number of user-defined typeset formats. Local interaction with the kernel is via a tcl/tk GUI. Alternatively, one can call the kernel remotely from dynamic PDF documents, using the form features of Sebastian Rahtz' hyperref package. Janusz Marian Nowacki 26 2001 141-145 76 The macro package Poligraf was for the first time presented at the Polish &tex; Users' Group meeting `Bacho&tex;'96'. Users' suggestions and remarks have been taken into account leading to this new, completely re-worked version. Simon Pepping 26 2001 146-150 70 ex&tex; DSSSL file location extension of ex&tex; primitives in ex&tex; What can be done after the completion of Ex&tex;? I describe a dream, some results, and some further ideas. Fabrice Popineau 26 2001 151-161 157 &tex;Live web2c This paper is about the current status of the &tex;Live software. The first part of the paper will address the structured description of its content and how the Windows 1 setup program can use it. The past experiments with the Windows installer have revealed that the problem was harder than expected. The new &tex;Live 6 description files will allow a more effective way to use the setup program. Some further enhancements are even scheduled. The second part of the paper will address a set of possible extensions to the Web2C/Kpathsea pair (read it as a call for code contributions!). Some aspects of its use were not foreseen when it was devised and it may be time for an enhancement. Pedro Quaresma 26 2001 162-172 144 Communicative diagrams &latex; &tex; pic&tex; DCpic is a package of &tex; macros for graphing Commutative Diagrams in a (La)&tex; or &context; document. Its distinguishing features are: the use of PIC&tex; a powerful graphical engine, and a simple specification syntax. A commutative diagram is described in terms of its objects and its arrows. The objects are textual elements and the arrows can have various straight or curved forms. We describe the syntaxand semantics of the user's commands, and present many examples of their use. Martin Schröder 26 2001 173 25 pdf&tex; has been used successfully to build an industrial-strength PDF-based imposition tool. This paper/talk describes the pitfalls we encountered and the lessons learned. Laurent Siebenmann 26 2001 174-186 111 A new faithful ASCII representation for Russian called ASCII-Cyrillic is presented here, one which permits accurate typing and reading of Russian where no Russian keyboard or font is available — as often occurs outside of Russia. ASCII-Cyrillic serves the Russian and Ukrainian languages in parallel. This article initially discusses Russian; but, further along, come the modifications needed to adapt to the Ukrainian alphabet. Karel Skoupy 26 2001 187 34 NTS Java extension NTS is a modular object-oriented reimplementation of &tex; written in Java. This document is a summary of a presentation which shows the path along which the characters and constructions present in the input file pass through the machinery of the program and get typeset. Along the way the key classes and concepts of NTS are visited, the differences with original &tex; are explained and the good points where to dig into the system are proposed. Igor Strokov 26 2001 188-191 54 visual &tex; A prototype of a visual &tex; is implemented by means of minor modifications of canonical &tex;. The changes include the ability to start compilation from an arbitrary page, fast paragraph reformatting, and retaining the origin of visual elements. The new features provide direct editing of the document preview and correct markup of the source text. Péter Szabó 26 2001 192-206 162 PDF font conversion Type 1 fonts METAFONT vector outline raster bitmap pdf&tex; This paper analyses the problem of converting &tex; fonts to Type 1 fonts, describes &tex;trace, a new free conversion program, and compares it to other possible methods and existing utilities. &tex;trace works by rendering the font in high resolution and then tracing (vectorizing) it. Ulrik Vieth 26 2001 207-216 120 math typesetting math fonts symbol fonts font metrics font encodings Taking the conference motto as a theme, this papers examines the good, the bad, and the ugly bits of &tex;'s math typesetting engine and the related topic of math fonts. Unlike previous discussions of math fonts, which have often focussed on glyph sets and font encodings, this paper concentrates on the technical requirements for math fonts, trying to clarify what makes implementing math fonts so difficult and what could or should be done about it. Paul Wackers 26 2001 217-218 36 typography manuscript incunabulum This paper describes how the modern type of books slowly came into existence during the middle ages. The first printers modeled their products on these handwritten books but needed — in time — some adjustments because of the differences in production between a manuscript and a printed book and because of the differences between producing for a patron or for an anonymous mass market. Włodek Bzyl 26 2001 219-243 505 Nowadays, a great number of documents are produced every day. Many authors would like their documents to stand out from the rest not only by content but also by typographic design. For this purpose one may use decorative letters, ornaments, dingbats and special fonts. If each document would have to look different from all the others a great many fonts and font deviations are needed. This could be achieved by combining the METAPOST language with the type 3 font format. This new font creation technology enables users endless single-use-only variations in weight and width, style and size, and in color. A new level of control over the embellishment level off onts in documents is thereby achieved. Michael Guravage 26 2001 244-245 64 The structure of a software program may be thought of as a `web' that is made of many interconnected pieces. To document such a program, we want to explain each individual part of the web and how it relates to its neighbors. D.E.K. Johannes Braams 27 2002 1-119 3635 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Johannes Braams 27 2002 1 45 Erik Frambach 27 2002 2-5 60 gebruikersgroepen user groups Een overzicht van alle ons bekende &tex; gebruikersgroepen met bijbehorende contactgegevens. Jules van Weerden 27 2002 6 43 Piet van Oostrum 27 2002 7-9 62 &tex; &latex; Packages CTAN Type 1 fonts fonts PDF pstricks PostScript Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief. De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus wel een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. De uitgebreidere bijdragen zijn ook geen handleidingen. Beschouw het maar als een soort menukaart die de bedoeling heeft om de lezer te laten watertanden. Siep Kroonenberg 27 2002 10-12 93 Software patenten WIPO EPO standaarden Europa In dit stuk wordt aandacht gevraagd voor software patenten en andere aanslagen op onze elektronische vrijheid. Donald Knuth 27 2002 13 601 Letter A facsimile copy of a letter by Donald E. Knuth to Siep Kroonenberg about the Euro&tex;2002 proceedings. In the letter, dated 26 November 2001, Donald E. Knuth congratulates Siep Kroonenberg on the "most beautiful design and production of the Euro&tex;2001 proceedings." He further describes how both he and Mrs. Knuth love its look and feel. The letter is hand written with a pencil on the personal stationery (Donald E. Knuth, Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming) of the Stanford University in Stanford, California. Although the actual text of the letter is somewhat more concise than this abstract, it is a must-see for any &tex; user. Patrick Gundlach 27 2002 14-19 68 Euro symbol MetaPost How to create the Euro symbol in Metapost. Hans Hagen 27 2002 20-22 54 Euro symbol MetaPost When Patrick Grundlach posted a nice MetaPost version of the euro symbol to the &context; discussion list, he added the comment "The official construction is ambigious: how thick are the horizontal bars? How much do they stick out to the left? Is this thing a circle or what? Are the angles on the left side of the bars the same as the one on the right side? ..." The alternative below is probably not as official as his, but permits a finetuning. You are warned: whatever you try, the euro is and will remain an ugly symbol. Jean-Luc Doumont 27 2002 23-28 135 While a world-renowned standard in many academic fields, Don Knuth's much acclaimed typesetting system is almost unknown in most parts of the real world, where many a document designer has achieved professional success without ever hearing (let alone pronouncing) the word `&tex;'. Outside academia, the lone &tex;er faces not only compatibility headaches, but also outright incomprehension from his customers, colleagues, or competitors: why would anyone want to use &tex; to produce memos, two-color newsletters, full-color brochures, overhead transparencies, and other items — in short, anything but books that contain a lot of mathematics? As a consultant in professional communication, I have been using &tex; for all documents I have produced for my clients and for myself during the last ten years or so. Though it has turned out to be most successful, this approach is seen by most as a mere idiosyncrasy. And yet, the systematic use of my own &tex; and PostScript programming gives me three unequalled advantages over using off-the-shelf software: I travel light, I can go anywhere I please, and I guarantee I'll get there. Jean-Luc Doumont 27 2002 29-35 407 A standard approach to producing documents that include illustrations consists in typesetting text with specialized typesetting software (such as &tex;) and inserting illustrations created with different, equally specialized software. To better integrate the illustrations into the typeset page, it would be nice to be able to produce or modify them directly with the typesetting software. Drawing graphs with &tex;, for example, would allow one to set them \hsize wide and 0.75\hsize high, position labels exactly \baselineskip below the horizontal axis, and, especially, typeset all annotations with the same fonts, sizes, and mathematical beauty as the rest of the document. The hybrid &tex; and PostScript macros presented in this paper take advantage of &tex;'s power to graph and annotate data sets in a variety of ways in order to produce effective, beautiful, well-integrated graphs. They use &tex; to draw all horizontal and vertical lines (axes, tick marks, grid lines) and set all annotations, and PostScript to draw the data, as markers, lines, and areas. While fairly simple, they have been successfully harnessed to appear in a wide range of real-life applications, up to logarithmic graphs and (with some patience) complex multipanel displays. Of course, the macros are a tool for drawing final graphs rather than exploring or transforming data sets. Hans Hagen Ton Otten 27 2002 36-40 477 Within the &tex; community there is a widely used database for bibliographic references, BIB-&tex;, but not for figures. To manage figures &context; now supports a figures database. The database is setup in XML and converted to an interactive PDF figure library featuring ordered displays and a search mechanism. From the library, figures can be included easily in &context; documents as long as both the PDF and the XML files remain present. Ernst van der Storm 27 2002 41-44 258 &latex; 4all&tex; PostScript Verslag van het gebruik van &latex; voor DTP-doeleinden, met enkele eenvoudige macro's en het integreren van plaatjes: een beschrijving aan de hand van de praktijk. Karel Wesseling Gertrude van der Sar Jos Settels 27 2002 45-50 419 non-guru 4&tex; &context; A tale of more than 10 years of joy and struggle with &tex; followed by a period of bliss, of easy to use tools, quickly obtained results and incredible possibilities from the coming of 4TeX and &context;, narrated by non-gurus. Karel Wesseling 27 2002 51-55 65 non-guru &latex; &context; bibliography citation command Moving from &latex; to &context; is not really simple but to return from &context; to &latex; would have been equally hard were it not for a publication by Berend de Boer in MAPS 24 explaining how to do &latex; things in &context;. Only one thing was missing, a do-it-yourself thebibliography. Hans Hagen had a solution which is described below. Siep Kroonenberg 27 2002 56-59 167 Dit verhaal richt zich tot mensen die op hun eigen machine &tex; aan de praat willen krijgen, zonder hulp van een systeembeheerder of guru-vriendje. Siep Kroonenberg 27 2002 60-61 308 Macintosh Mac OS X &tex;Shop Nu het Macintosh platform tot Unix is bekeerd en ingebouwde ondersteuning heeft voor pdf, bezit de Mac hele goede papieren als een platform voor &tex;. Het programma &tex;Shop is hiervan het bewijs. Siep Kroonenberg 27 2002 62-65 77 texmf trees configuration environment variables file searching Texmf trees can make a &tex; installation more maintainable. With creative use of environment variables, it is possible to run different versions and different configurations in different xterm or console windows. Hans Hagen 27 2002 66-119 208 MathML &context; Typesetting math in MathML using &context;. Johannes Braams 28 2002 1-85 1610 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Johannes Braams 28 2002 1 26 Siep Kroonenberg 28 2002 2-4 110 NTG Flyer Piet van Oostrum 28 2002 5-7 59 &tex; &latex; packages CTAN classes memoir KOMA script soul underline ulem mathpazo fonts Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief. De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus wel een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. De uitgebreidere bijdragen zijn ook geen handleidingen. Beschouw het maar als een soort menukaart die de bedoeling heeft om de lezer nieuwsgierig te laten worden. Michael Guravage 28 2002 10-13 58 Maps Editors Patrick Gundlach 28 2002 14-19 230 Euro symbol MetaPost How to create the Euro symbol in Metapost. Corrected reprint of this article in Maps 27. Maps Editors Hans Hagen 28 2002 20-24 23 MathML &context; Typesetting math in MathML using &context;. Corrected pages of this article from Maps 27. Siep Kroonenberg 28 2002 25-26 29 fonts texnansi encoding virtual fonts reencoding Taco Hoekwater 28 2002 27 19 macro programming &context; api general documentation A new website exists that contains documentation for the lower-level &context; macros. The URL for this website is tex.aanhet.net/context. This website also contains a full mirror of the pragma-ade website. Maarten Wisse 28 2002 28-35 64 This article explains how the author employs the &tex;4ht convertor to manage multiple format (XML and PDF) output from a single Latex source by writing a &tex;4ht configuration file and a Latex class file. Furthermore, it is explained how &tex;4ht and the new OpenOffice package can be used to create a new Latex to MS Word convertor. Karel H Wesseling Hans Hagen 28 2002 36-52 114 This guide describes the uses and options of the texexec program that is available in the &context; distribution. The options are invoked by calls on a command line, which are words preceded by two hyphens as in —make. There are options for running &context; on your &tex; file to produce printable output, options to specify languages, an option to make listings of (software program) files word for word, options for conditional execution, for selecting pages to print, for printing on differently sized paper, for directing your output to a particular file, for conversion of SGML and XML to &tex;. If it is no problem to you to use a command line and to occasionally look things up in the help file or in this user s guide, you will find texexec to be a useful, even indispensable tool for &context;. Wybo Dekker 28 2002 53-58 40 The ctable package lets you easily typeset centered, captioned table and figure floats with optional footnotes. Both caption and footnotes will be forced within the width of the table. Wybo Dekker 28 2002 59-64 48 &latex; make perl script mk is a Perl script that, in close collaboration with vpp is helpful in the cyclic process of editing, viewing, and printing a latex document. Wybo Dekker 28 2002 65-68 36 view print PDF PostScript vpp displays a PDF document or a PostScript document (after conversion to pdf) using gv, xpdf, or acrobat reader (in that order of choice), or perhaps another pdf viewer. One can use the viewer to print the document but, alternatively, leave the viewer and use vpp's facilities to print selected pages to a one- or two-sided hardcopy or an A5-booklet. Frans Goddijn Karel H Wesseling 28 2002 69-72 36 With MetaPost fully integrated in &context; using this graphic language has become convenient. When we tried to use John Hobby's `graph.mp' package, however, it turned out to require extra initializations and to produce unacceptable, shifted data graphs. Solutions to both problems are given. Karel H Wesseling 28 2002 73-79 228 non-guru &context; MetaPost layers mode command For years I have used a home-made logo in Pictex within &latex;, together with name and address as letterhead. Separate versions for myself and my wife were pre-printed on an HP 300 DPI Laserjet. With MetaPost fully integrated in &context;, we decided to convert to MetaPost and print the letterhead with each letter automatically. I used the versatile &context; layer mechanism and the mode option. Fabrice Popineau 28 2002 80-85 230 In this article, I will explain how to practically use MetaPost. This program is very different from usual drawing programs, but it fits very well in a &tex; based typesetting system. Wybo Dekker 29 2003 1-161 6080 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Wybo Dekker 29 2003 1 75 Frans Goddijn 29 2003 2-5 544 Erik Frambach 29 2003 6-9 79 history volunteer work problems lugs &tex; user groups This article is based on a presentation given at the UK TUG meeting in Oxford in October 2002. It describes some current problems that &tex; user groups face and it attempts to distill lessons learned and recommendations from almost 25 years of &tex; user groups history. Koen Wybo 29 2003 10-14 116 Hoe ik een &latex;-adept werd; argumentatie pro &latex; en contra zijn grafische concurrenten: Word en OpenOffice. Kees van der Laan 29 2003 15-23 169 Bacho&tex;2003 GUST Poland A (partial) report of GUST's 11th meeting at Bachotek, Poland is given. It is incomplete because I could not understand most of the Polish contributions and I skipped the &latex; day. It reflects just of one of the threads through Bacho&tex;03's life. A question is raised: can the &tex;-world follow with pdf&tex; the evolving PDF standard? Wybo Dekker 29 2003 24-25 84 index rules tooltips uitvullen Nieuwe avonturen in &tex;-land. Simon Pepping 29 2003 26-37 118 Docbook In &context; combines two technologies that are widely used by authors of technical literature: the Docbook DTD and the &context; macro package for &tex;. It is a &context; module that allows one to produce a typeset version of a Docbook XML file, in dvi or pdf format. Sjouke Mauw Victor Bos 29 2003 38-43 95 The MSC macro package facilitates &latex; users to easily include Message Sequence Charts in their texts. This article describes the motivation for developing the MSC macro package, the features of the MSC macro package, and the design of the MSC macro package. Roland Smith 29 2003 44-49 154 gevaarlijke stoffen labels 67/548/EEC &latex; Volgens Europese regelgeving (67/548/EEC) is men verplicht om verpakkingen voor gevaarlijke stoffen te voorzien van labels die bepaalde informatie moeten bevatten. Met behulp van het labels package en een aantal in postscript geschreven pictogrammen is het mogelijk deze labels zelf te maken. Karel H Wesseling 29 2003 50-52 86 For scientific plotting I like to use the Graph package by John Hobby within Context and when I have two or more separate graphs made I combine them into one figure with one figure caption. Combining is easy but aligning the graphs in a pleasing way required a trick. Willi Egger 29 2003 53-59 125 There are different environments with which one can typeset tables; all of them have their advantages and disadvantages. One of the recent problems I had to solve was to draw a typesetter's type-case from the lead-typesetting era. Since it looks like a table, I built the drawing in the \bTABLE . . . \eTABLE environment. Siep Kroonenberg 29 2003 60 83 In deze maps wordt voor het eerst gebruik gemaakt van optisch uitvullen met behulp van protruding characters, dat wil zeggen dat wordt gepoogd de rechterkantlijn er rechter uit te laten zien door tekens met horizontale uitsteeksels, zoals onder andere afbreekstreepjes, iets in de kantlijn te laten uitsteken. Ferdy Hanssen 29 2003 61-64 118 user &latex; fonts This paper presents a user's experience with installing fonts for use in &latex;. It will be shown that it is not hard to make a standard Type 1 font work, if you use modern font installation software for &latex;. All the steps necessary to install the example fonts will be shown. The example fonts used are Adobe Garamond from Adobe and Mrs. Eaves from Emigre. Philip Lehman 29 2003 65-160 593 This guide is an unmodified printout of Philip Lehman's original guide, which is available from CTAN (current location: info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide directory) Wybo Dekker 30 2004 1-92 6263 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Wybo Dekker 30 2004 1 87 Siep Kroonenberg 30 2004 2-4 145 Maps &latex; classfile &context; module fonts This paper introduces the renewed Maps classfile and includes some usage notes. Piet van Oostrum 30 2004 5-7 196 &tex; &latex; packages CTAN classes beamer slides fonts Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief. De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus wel een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. De uitgebreidere bijdragen zijn ook geen handleidingen. Beschouw het maar als een soort menukaart die de bedoeling heeft om de lezer nieuwsgierig te laten worden. Siep Kroonenberg 30 2004 8-9 317 &tex;Live fonts documentatie &tex; distributie Dit stuk brengt de rijke inhoud van de &tex;Live cd onder de aandacht van de lezer. Hans Hagen 30 2004 10-12 98 &tex;Live collection Past and future of the &tex;Live Collection is described. Taco Hoekwater 30 2004 13-20 133 Het einddoel van het CX&tex; project is om een hele texexec aanroep van begin tot eind te kunnen uitvoeren binnen één enkel, zo efficiënt mogelijk, systeemproces. De eerste onderdelen van deze distributie worden in dit artikel gepresenteerd: nog op zichzelf staande, maar al wel naar C vertaalde versies van texexec, texutil en pdfetex. Hans Hagen 30 2004 21-24 106 Editors are a sensitive, often emotional subject. Some editors have exactly the properties a software designer or a writer desires and one gets attached to it. Still, most computer experts such as &tex; users often are use three or more different editors each day. Scite is a modern programmers editor which is very flexible, very configurable, and easily extended. We integrated Scite with &tex;, &context;, &latex;, MetaPost and viewer and succeeded in that it is now possible to design and write your texts, manuscripts, reports, manuals and books with the Scite editor without having to leave the editor to compile and view your work. The article describes what is available and what you need with special emphasis on highlighting commands with lexers. Wybo Dekker 30 2004 25-32 371 ruby script txfonts pxfonts oldstyle figures This paper describes a Ruby script osf that can be used to make a copy of a virtual font with its figures replaced with old style figures. Adam T. Lindsay 30 2004 33-41 202 This Mac-specific My Way documents some fonts available exclusively on MacOSX 10.3, `Panther', and makes them available to Mac users with fairly minimal installation effort. I do not distribute the fonts themselves. Adam T. Lindsay 30 2004 42-48 129 The Unicode standard includes a number of signs, symbols, dingbats, bullets, arrows, graphical elements, and other miscellaneous glyphs. Prompted by finding a font dedicated to many such Unicode symbols on MacOSX systems, this magazine documents some ways of enabling these symbols on your own system. Wybo Dekker 30 2004 49 98 hyphenation diaresis umlaut &latex; heeft moeite met het afbreken van woorden die een ë bevatten. Dit verhaal laat zien hoe dat probleem op te lossen: gebruik \"e of \"{e} of ë voor een eindstandige ë en "e voor alle andere. Analoog voor de ï. R.F. Smith 30 2004 50-51 149 &latex; automatisch opmaken C This article describes a simple way to generate &latex; output from C programs. Willi Egger 30 2004 52-59 216 Typesetting (large) documents presents significant challenges that have to be resolved before a satisfactory printed result is achieved; e.g. the internal structure of the document should be clear, and the document's typographical layout should match its content. This article, based on a presentation given at the NTG day in Arnhem on 13 November 2003, describes a traditional design technique known as the harmonic proportion. Siep Kroonenberg 30 2004 60-65 519 PDF PostScript color Acrobat separations overprint This article discusses preparing documents for professional printing with TEX and pdftex, including color printing and prepress standards. Piet van Oostrum 30 2004 66-86 534 Bib&tex; bibliografie literatuurlijst referentie &latex; citeren woordenlijsten Dit artikel beschrijft het gebruik van Bib&tex; waarbij de nadruk gelegd wordt op die aspecten die voor veel mensen als moeilijk ervaren worden. Het is een uitwerking van een lezing die de auteur gegeven heeft op de NTG-dag in Arnhem op 13 november 2003. Siep Kroonenberg 30 2004 87-89 184 Op de volgende twee bladzijden hebben we onze &tex; flyer nog eens afgedrukt. De voorkant beschrijft de sterke punten van &tex;, en de achterkant bevat de nodige informatie om mensen een snelle start te geven met &tex;. Frans Goddijn 30 2004 90-91 3811 Wybo Dekker 31 2004 1-108 5350 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Wybo Dekker 31 2004 1 105 Piet van Oostrum 31 2004 2-4 142 slides beamer classes CTAN packages &latex; &tex; Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief. De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. De uitgebreidere bijdragen zijn ook geen handleidingen. Beschouw het maar als een soort menukaart die de bedoeling heeft om de lezer lekker te maken. Hans Hagen 31 2004 5-7 94 In this article I will describe the current state of the &context; macro package and the forces that play a role in its evolution. I will also indicate the directions in which we look for further developments. Taco Hoekwater 31 2004 8 61 extensions bugs sarovar development MetaPost Giuseppe Bilotta 31 2004 9-11 104 e-Omega Omega e&tex; A brief introduction to the Aleph project, a &tex; extension providing most of Omega and e&tex; features. Maarten Sneep 31 2004 12-18 164 MetaPost graphs error-bars MetaPost is an interesting companion for generating figures for documents written in &tex; or one of its derivatives. This article focuses on generating graphs in MetaPost, and more specifically on two problems one can encounter when creating graphs: multi part graphs and error bars. Dwight Aplevich 31 2004 19-24 104 Electric circuit diagrams line drawings &latex; The evolution of the Circuit_macros package is described, with some of the conventions for drawing circuit elements and some of the lessons learned. Frans Goddijn 31 2004 25-31 154 Kort na het succesvol compileren van mijn eerste &tex;-document wilde ik graag overstappen op &tex; voor zoveel mogelijk documenten. En het idee om het briefhoofd te kunnen typesetten tegelijk met het printklaar maken van de brief zelf leek me erg leuk. Maar dan liefst wel met zo min mogelijk code voor dat briefpapier in de betreffende briefbestanden. Dus met alle nodige commando's in een aparte stylefile. En ook graag met een eenvoudiger briefhoofdje om op vervolgvellen te plaatsen als de brief langer is dan een pagina. Dankzij tips en hulp van Henk de Haan is me dat destijds gelukt en in de loop van de tijd heb ik op dezelfde manier ook anderen hun briefpapier helpen maken. Brooks Moses 31 2004 32-39 276 Most methods of creating plots in MetaPost work by doing all of their calculations in MetaPost, or by doing all of their calculations in a preprocessing program. There are advantages to dividing the work more equitably by doing the mathematical and data-visualization calculations in a preprocessing program and doing the graphical and layout calculations in MetaPost. The MetaPlot package provides a standard, flexible, interface for accomplishing such a collaboration between programs, and includes a general-purpose set of formatting macros that are applicable to a wide range of plot types. Examples are shown of linear plots with idiosyncratic annotation and two-dimensional contour plots with lines and filled contours on a non-cartesian mesh. Willi Egger Hans Hagen 31 2004 40-45 334 font cb-greek greek module Context Maps There are situations where one needs to typeset pieces of text in greek. Until recently there was no direct support to do this in &context;. With the integration of the module greek this has changed. The basics were built by Giuseppe Bilotta (Italy). The module uses a subset of the cb-greek fonts. The article describes the module and the way greek text is coded. A couple of short and a longer examples of greek text are given. Steve Grathwohl 31 2004 46-51 149 I show how a simple book design can be implemented in &context; Adam T. Lindsay 31 2004 52-58 763 &context; fonts OpenType This is a summary of issues encountered and solutions implemented in order to support some advanced OpenType features in &context;. This article describes an accompanying set of support files that address installation (using &tex;Font), accommodating extended opticals families, and some "pro" font features. The extended character set afforded by pro fonts enables support for comprehensive small caps and old-style figures. Although the typescripts and commands are described together, certain features (like variant encodings for &tex;Font and optical typescripts) can be used independently of the other features described. Hans Hagen 31 2004 59-61 314 Hans Hagen presenteert een zeer overdadige titel- en achterpagina van een handleiding uit 1899. De redactie van de Maps looft een prijs uit voor de beste en elegantste &tex;-benadering van deze layout. Frans Goddijn 31 2004 62-66 1185 Een terugblik op 12 jaar met een softwarepakket dat op een of andere manier met vriendschappen te maken heeft Siep Kroonenberg 31 2004 67-70 184 docstrip PostScript boxes picture environment letterhead This article describes several techniques useful for implementing a professionally designed layout such as a letterhead. Wybo Dekker 31 2004 71-76 234 drukken kopiëren papierrichting papierdikte raster drukkwaliteit Een boek zetten, dat is nog tot daaraan toe, maar het dan ook nog netjes gedrukt krijgen... ik neem u graag mee langs de valkuilen, tot lering en leedvermaak. Eckhart Guthöhrlein 31 2004 77-86 180 MetaObj is a macro package for MetaPost, a programming language for graphics producing PostScript output, based on the well-known metafont. MetaObj is written and maintained by Denis B. Roegel. It has been released under the LPPL and is available from CTAN. The cool thing about MetaObj is that it provides very high-level object-oriented macros which simplify the construction of complicated drawings by defining objects of arbitrary complexity and combining them to larger structures. This is already reflected in the name of the package: MetaObj is a shortcut for "MetaPost Objects". Patrick Gundlach 31 2004 87-90 160 &context; documentation Wiki website live typesetting on demand texshow mailinglist archive source browser The goal of the contextgarden.net project is to enhance the documentation of &context;. It consists of several web services that together provide the technical framework behind the documentation. A large (and growing) percentage of the supplied content is actually provided by the visitors of the interconnected web sites. with XML processing, grid-based typesetting, stepcharts, MetaFun and MathML, and more. Hans Hagen 31 2004 91-94 772 &context; fontsampler howto &tex;live Frans Goddijn Willi Egger 31 2004 95-98 475 Greek setup Math-mode Maps &context; opmaak setup layout screen-document reference-list symbol Het boek "Bloei der decadence" van Johan Polak was jarenlang uitverkocht maar het is als PDF weer beschikbaar gekomen. Via Internet is het vrij te downloaden. Voor wie het op het computerscherm wil lezen is er een interactieve schermversie en een andere versie is geschikt om uit te printen. Beide nieuwe edities van het boek zijn opgemaakt in de &context; omgeving. Dit artikel beschrijft enige aspecten van het opzetten van een project. Door de gigantische hoeveelheid referenties naar boeken, tijdschriften, personen, plaatsnamen en andere termen werd het een gecompliceerde klus. Doel was om de wijze van verwerking toch zo simpel mogelijk te houden. Dus geen plain-&tex; hackwerk maar simpele methodes die gebruik maken van de typische &context; eigenschappen. Ook wilden we met een overzichtelijk klein aantal stuurbestanden het gecodeerde boek zowel als scherm- en als papierversie kunnen compileren. Een bijzondere uitdaging vormde hiernaast het feit, dat er in een voetnoot een stuk Griekse tekst is weergegeven. Hendri Adriaens Uwe Kern 31 2004 99-103 179 PSTricks preset pointers package options xkeyval keyval category codes This article introduces the xkeyval package as an extension of the well-known keyval package. The package provides more flexible commands, syntax enhancements, and a new option processing mechanism for class and package options using the key=value syntax. Taco Hoekwater 31 2004 104-105 417 boekbespreking Treebus vormwijzer tekstwijzer Wybo Dekker 32 2005 1-148 4617 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Wybo Dekker 32 2005 1-2 139 Piet van Oostrum 32 2005 3-5 178 classes CTAN packages &latex; TeX Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief (en mogelijk andere bronnen op het Internet). De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. De uitgebreidere bijdragen zijn ook geen handleidingen. Beschouw het maar als een soort menukaart die de bedoeling heeft om de lezer lekker te maken. Reinhard Zierke Graham Williams Joachim Schrod Rainer Schöpf Jim Hefferon Robin Fairbairns 32 2005 6-8 169 The readers of Tugboat likely know the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network as a great pile of &tex; stuff. That is, it is full of &tex; materials, and it is great, but it is also something of a pile — a bit of a mess. We will sketch some plans for improving CTAN. As part of that, we will outline its architecture, history, and some present issues. Taco Hoekwater MetaPost Team 32 2005 9-13 155 MetaPost development sarovar bugs extensions The MetaPost development team is pleased to announce version~0.9 of MetaPost. This article documents the changes since the previous version, and provides a roadmap for future development. Adam Lindsay 32 2005 14-15 321 Font Variants are a new (meta-)feature in &context;, offering the opportunity of easier access to advanced or unusual font features, without the hassle of using full typescript switches. This article briefly runs through the basic theory and practice of so—called font variants, and gives a few strategies for adapting it for your own uses. Adam Lindsay 32 2005 16-25 467 &context; fonts Euler math The Euler math font was designed by Hermann Zapf. &context; support was limited until now. We show how to use the Eulervm &latex; package in combination with some new math definitions and typescripts to give a more informal look to your equations. Taco Hoekwater 32 2005 26-28 167 lettrines module initials dropped capitals &context; The &context; module lettri is port of the &latex; package lettrine by Daniel Flipo that provides a way to typeset dropped capitals at the beginning of paragraphs. Steve Peter 32 2005 29-34 420 pscyr omega makor ledmac latexsym fontenc ednotes edmac devnag colortab bigfoot babel psgreek pstricks syntax xetex grammar tipa philology phonology lemmata linguistics semantics cyrillic teubner unicode arabic armenian chinese devanagari greek hebrew japanese korean russian sanskrit &tex; has long been associated with mathematics and ``hard'' sciences such as physics. But even during the early days of &tex;, linguists were attracted to the system, and today a growing number of them are turning to &tex; (&latex;, &context;). Aside from the general advantages of &tex; for producing academic papers, it offers linguists largely intuitive means for dealing with often complex notational issues. In this paper, an abbreviated version of my Practical &tex; 2004 talk, I show some notational issues and their solutions in &tex;. Taco Hoekwater 32 2005 35 116 pdfopen scripting X window system acrobat reader pdf The command-line programs pdfopen and pdfclose allow you to control the X Window System version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from the command line or from within a script. Oscar Boot Frans Absil 32 2005 36-43 302 conversie transformatie XML XSLT XPath Saxon database Access publiceren In dit artikel wordt de geautomatiseerde aanmaak van het programmaboek voor de Bacheloropleiding Technische Wetenschappen bij de Hogere Defensie Opleidingen (HDO) toegelicht. Een belangrijk aspect hierbij vormt de omzetting van een Microsoft Access database naar &latex; tabellen en bijlages in de uiteindelijke documentatie: XML bestanden worden als tussenstap gehanteerd. Hendri Hondorp 32 2005 44-49 186 fancyhdr hyperref pdflatex pdfpages proceedings conferentieverslag In dit artikel wordt beschreven hoe Proceedings voor een Workshop of Conferentie gemaakt kunnen worden met behulp van pdflatex en de packages pdfpages, fancyhdr en hyperref Frans Goddijn Hendri Adriaens 32 2005 50-51 154 enumerate numbered items lists counting backwards etaremune This article briefly describes the seemingly trivial task of numbering items in a list with decreasing numbers, starting with the number equal to the amount of items in the list. Karel Wesseling 32 2005 52-55 123 To teach yourself MetaPost, the book ``Learning MetaPost by Doing'' by André Heck is probably unsurpassed. However, the examples therein are processed on Unix using &latex;. &context; users have a bit of detective work to do before they can have successful compilations. If you are new to &context;, the lines below may help save your a few hours of experimenting. These instructions were extracted from the MetaFun manual by Hans Hagen (from chapters 1, 2 and 3), and from a small macro that he once gave me that makes it possible to use the graph package by John Hobby. André Heck 32 2005 56-112 808 metapost tutorial This course is only meant as a short, hands-on introduction to METAPOST for newcomers who want to produce rather simple graphics. The main objective is to get students started with METAPOST on a UNIX platform. André Heck 32 2005 113-117 114 metapost tutorial This course is only meant as a short, hands-on introduction to METAPOST for newcomers who want to produce rather simple graphics. The main objective is to get students started with METAPOST on a UNIX platform. Janusz Nowacki 32 2005 118-132 1585 Antykwa Torunska documentation Zygfryd Gardzielewski fonts Ernst van der Storm 32 2005 133-137 266 faxen macro's Latex2RTF Latex Beschreven wordt hoe &latex; gebruikt wordt als schakel tussen een bestaande bedrijfsapplicatie en een faxserver; data worden automatisch geëxporteerd naar een &latex;-document. Ernst van der Storm 32 2005 138-140 216 softwaredocumentatie stroomdiagram write18 flow Latex Flow is een handig programma om stroomdiagrammen te maken; via \write18 kan het vanuit een &latex;-document worden aangeroepen zodat eventuele wijzigingen vanzelf tevoorschijn komen. Taco Hoekwater 32 2005 141-148 412 tug verslag conferentie eurotex 2005 Een verslag van de 16de jaarlijkse EuroTeX conferentie, gehouden in Pont-à-Mousson van 7 tot 11 maart 2005. Wybo Dekker 33 2005 1-78 1909 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Wybo Dekker 33 2005 1 114 Maarten Sneep 33 2005 2-3 130 spelling afbreken patronen Dennis van Dok 33 2005 4-13 326 mp3 jewel case paragraph filling grip ripping audio Making jewel case listings for mp3 cdroms is a particular challenge, since up to about ten times as much information has to be on them as on jewel cases for regular audio disks. Here &tex;'s abilities to adjust entire paragraphs, as opposed to just single lines, shine at you. Siep Kroonenberg 33 2005 14-18 333 font installation afm2pl afm2tfm TrueType pdftex mapfiles For one-off projects, you can cut corners with font installation and end up with a more manageable set of files and a cleaner &tex; installation. This article shows how and why. Idris Samawi Hamid 33 2005 19-35 323 font installation &context; expert font Installing fonts for &context; can be intimidating business. In this issue we take on a real monster: a collection of Adobe Minion Pro expert fonts. We hope our installation of this collection will provide an illustrative example for &context; users, and help to ease the pain of installing new fonts (if you can install Minion Pro, Myriad Pro and Poetica, you can install just about anything!). Hans Hagen 33 2005 36-40 146 hyphenation patterns &context; Taco Hoekwater 33 2005 41-45 124 &context; survey usage User responses to the question: `What do you do with &context;?'. Piet van Oostrum 33 2005 46-51 511 classes CTAN packages &latex; &context; graphics programma's &tex; Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief (en mogelijk andere bronnen op het Internet). De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. De uitgebreidere bijdragen zijn ook geen handleidingen. Beschouw het maar als een soort menukaart die de bedoeling heeft om de lezer lekker te maken. Jan van de Craats 33 2005 52-53 186 color separation printing The book Basisboek wiskunde (`Basic Mathematics') by Jan van de Craats and Rob Bosch was typeset in &latex; and submitted for printing as one big pdf-file. In this book one extra color (blue) was used for titles, headings, footings, important formulas, figures and also as a background color for certain pages or parts of text. Jan van de Craats, who did the typesetting, reports on a trick for obtaining color separation without flaws. Henri Adriaens Chris Ellison 33 2005 54-58 278 &latex; presentations powerdot prosper pstricks xkeyval This article describes some technical details of the powerdot class which was developed during the summer holidays of 2005. Siep Kroonenberg 33 2005 59-64 342 miktex texniccenter filename database windows registry roaming profiles graphic file formats Ovidiu Gheorghies 33 2005 65-78 315 MetaPost &tex; &latex; UML class diagram state machine diagram use case diagram activity diagram MetaUML is a GNU GPL MetaPost library for typesetting exquisite UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams. MetaUML offers a highly customizable, object-oriented API, designed with the ease of use in mind. This paper presents usage examples as well as a description of MetaUML infrastructure. This infrastructure may prove useful for general MetaPost typesetting, providing object-oriented replacements and enhancements to functionalities offered by the boxes package. Taco Hoekwater 34 2006 1-108 12536 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater Wybo Dekker 34 2006 1 104 Taco Hoekwater 34 2006 2 162 i-installer i quit gerben wierda Hans Hagen 34 2006 3-7 209 &context; tools scripts This article describes the tools that are available for running &context;, for testing, finding, analysing files, installing fonts, and more Taco Hoekwater Hans Hagen 34 2006 8 166 &context; meeting announcement Hans Hagen 34 2006 9-21 271 &context; mkii mkiv luatex This article is the first in a series about &context; and luatex. For those who use &context; it is a progress report of the development process and the choices that are being made. For those not using &context; it gives some insight in what luatex is about. Aditya Mahajan 34 2006 22-34 294 &context; math amstex This article explains how to do various kinds of alignments in &context;. A visual output is presented, and it is then shown how that effect can be achieved in &latex; and &context;. We hope that article will make the transition from &latex; with amsmath package to &context; easier. Taco Hoekwater 34 2006 35-37 166 metapost filename templates cmyk color greyscale object specials encapsulated postscript font inclusion groff The new release of metapost includes some new features as well as a number of bugfixes. The new functionality includes: the possibility to use a template for the naming of output files; support for cmyk and greyscale color models; per-object Postscript specials; the option to generate Encapsulated Postscript files adhering to Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions; the ability to embed re-encoded and/or subsetted fonts; and support for the GNU implementation of troff (groff). Jerzy Ludwichowski 34 2006 38 107 eurotex bachotex announcement Bogusław Jackowski 34 2006 39-46 2085 math texbook This paper aims to provide a collection of illustrations to Appendix G of the texbook. To begin with, I will summarize briefly the main issues of the texbook which will be dealt with here; next, I confine myself to the explanation of the figures. Naturally, I will use the same notation as is used in Appendix G. Hans Hagen Jerzy Ludwichowski Volker Schaa 34 2006 47-50 240 fonts In this short presentation, we will introduce a new project: the ``LM-ization'' of the free fonts that come with &tex; distributions. We will discuss the project objectives, timeline and cross-LUG funding aspects. Taco Hoekwater Hans Hagen 34 2006 51-54 995 fonts cowfont Duane Bibby We want to introduce a new display font to the &tex; community. The font is a digitization of a series of Duane Bibby drawings, commissioned by Pragma ADE. The digital version for use with &context; is prepared by Bittext based on scans provided by Pragma ADE. Paul Lemmens 34 2006 55-64 378 &latex; proefscrift In dit artikel beschrijf ik hoe ik mijn proefschrift in &latex; gezet heb. Ik ga in op mijn werkomgeving, de extra pakketten die ik gebruikte, de (lokale) truuks die ik in het bronbestand gebruikte en de problemen die ik ondervond (en oplossingen daarvoor). Hans van der Meer 34 2006 65-67 206 Een in &tex; gecodeerde randomgenerator maakt het mogelijk om willekeurige getallen en beslissingen te verwerken in de productie van documenten. Paweł Jackowski 34 2006 68-77 291 bachotex tricks The Bacho&tex; 2006 conference continued the Pearls of &tex; Programming open session introduced in 2005 during which volunteers present &tex;-related tricks and shorties. Siep Kroonenberg 34 2006 78-80 232 encapsulated postscript pdf converter graphical interface command-line This article introduces epspdf, a converter between eps, PostScript and pdf which can be run either via a graphical interface or from the command-line. Frans Goddijn 34 2006 81-84 1867 interview Dave Walden There's a treasure URL on the TUG site, where Dave Walden has collected a number of excellent interviews with key people of the &tex; community - a lively `Who's Who' for anyone who has met some &tex; luminaries or seen them in action during conferences. The interviews go way beyond the obvious as Dave invites his guests to respond to his lucid questions. The result is a growing collection of significantly detailed portraits of the people who have made the &tex; landscape the way it is today. Even if you've known one of the featured people for years, you're certain to discover something interesting about this person that you've never been aware of. Although there is an excellent interview with Dave himself on the site, conducted by Karl Berry, we decided to interview Dave for MAPS, exploring some subjects that were mentioned in his online conversation with Berry. You might want to read that interview first to have context for some of the questions and answers in this interview. Wybo Dekker 34 2006 85-101 1025 isodoc letters examples &latex; The `isodoc' class can be used for the preparation of letters, invoices, and, in the future, similar documents. Documents are set up with options, thus making the class easily adaptable to user's wishes and extensible for other document types. Geert Verhaag 34 2006 102-104 1084 dust-cover &context; This short article describes how to setup a dust-cover for a book, using the standard features available in &context;. Taco Hoekwater 34 2006 105-108 4285 tug marrakesh After TUG 2003 in America (Hawaii - USA), TUG 2004 in Europe (Xanthi - Greece), TUG 2005 in Asia (Wuhan - China), the TUG 2006 was held in Africa, more precisely in Marrakesh. Processing multilingual e-documents went beyond the limits of its traditional cultural areas and new horizons in the internationalization of &tex; were explored. Taco Hoekwater 35 2007 1-54 16658 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater 35 2007 1 227 Taco Hoekwater 35 2007 2 398 tug san diego announcement Taco Hoekwater 35 2007 3 124 obituary Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater 35 2007 4 86 metapost project library reuse Hans Hagen 35 2007 5-8 97 luatex tokens &tex; internals Taco Hoekwater 35 2007 9-10 99 luatex metapost string pool programming This short article discusses the method that is used in Metapost and luatex to integrate the string pool file into the program. This method allows the redistribution of a single updated executable in place of both a program and a data file, and this makes updating those programs easier on both the user and the developer. Willi Egger 35 2007 11-17 173 graphics language &latex; &context; For those who are looking for an alternative for external graphic drawing tools, PGF / TikZ offers a wealth of possibilities. PGF is a macro-package that, together with its user interface TikZ, comprises a kind of `graphics language' to build graphics inside the text as inline graphics or as pictures of larger size. PGF is a macro-package originally written for &latex;. In the meantime it is also available for use within &context;. The package comes with a large set of libraries for different kinds of graphics. There is extensive documentation and a tutorial. For support a mailing list and web-site are available. Users of the package with &context; have to install the xkeyval package version 1.8. PGF and TikZ are distributed under the GNU Public License version 2. Siep Kroonenberg 35 2007 18-26 523 graphics converting bitmap vector compression eps pdf jpeg lossy lossless resolution In this article, we discuss graphics file formats, software to create graphics and procedures to convert them to &latex;- and pdflatex-compatible formats. Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater 35 2007 27-29 8867 Hermann Zapf Richard Hirsch 35 2007 30-36 342 metapost tutorial Twelve square sheets of paper can be folded in such a way that they can be assembled to a pentagon dodecahedron (origami). The single units are called modules, hence the name modular. If the sheets bear calendrical information at the right places, the dodecahedron shows the calendar for each month on its faces: the dodecalendar. In this article we let MetaPost calculate piece by piece the information that needs to be printed on the module paper to enable us to fold the modules and assemble the dodecahedron. Mojca Miklavec 35 2007 37-42 2352 report epen Michael Guravage 35 2007 43-50 2416 report bachotex eurotex Frans Goddijn 35 2007 51-54 684 miktex windows Taco Hoekwater 36 2008 1-89 21486 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater 36 2007 1 84 Taco Hoekwater 36 2008 2 1838 tug cork announcement Wilfred van Rooijen 36 2008 3-12 10651 Xe&tex; Xe&latex; CJK unicode horizontal and vertical typesetting Japanese This paper tries to illustrate some of the particularities of typesetting CJK characters using several flavors of &latex;. Special attention is given to Japanese. A short introduction is given about the nature of the character scripts and the special demands those alphabets put on character and font encodings. Typesetting Japanese using p(te)&tex;, &latex;, Lambda, and Xe&latex; is discussed. Special discussion is given to Xe&latex;, and the possibilities of including annotation markup and vertical typesetting in Japanese texts using Xe&latex;. It will be shown that although typesetting vertical material is possible with Xe&tex; v0.997, more development work will be needed in this area to create a dependable vertical typesetting system. Jelle Huisman 36 2008 13-17 213 talen schrift fonts xetex This article is an adaptation of the lecture I gave at the NTG spring meeting of 8 June 2007. This article begins with a little background information about languages, scripts, and fonts. The second part of the article gives some examples of multilingual use of &tex;, using Xe&tex;. Dit artikel is een bewerking van de lezing die ik op de NTG voorjaarsbijeenkomst van 8 juni 2007 heb gehouden. Dit artikel begint met wat achtergrondinformatie over talen, schriften en fonts. Het tweede deel van het artikel geeft een aantal voorbeelden van meertalig &tex;-gebruik met behulp van Xe&tex;. Piet van Oostrum 36 2008 18-21 172 tex latex miktex tetex texlive etex pdftex pdfetex This short article describes the different `layers' in a &tex; system, the differences between &tex; engines, extensions, macro packages, and distributions. I hope to take away some of the confusions that people new to &tex; and less technically inclined people have when they are confronted with terms like pdftex, texlive, tetex, miktex, pdflatex and so on. Ulrik Vieth 36 2008 22-23 127 fonts encodings book review Luigi Scarso 36 2008 24 83 Stated briefly: "should I buy this book?" YES. Hans Hagen 36 2008 25-26 26 fonts ij ligature opentype This article discusses how some typical Dutch language related typesetting issues are dealt with in Latin Modern by means of the language and script tags. Aditya Mahajan 36 2008 27-32 131 context theorems enumerations This article explains some of the recent advancements in &context; enumeration mechanism that handles most of the requirements of theorem-like constructions. Hans van der Meer 36 2008 33-38 216 context examination multiple choice Exam is a module for consistent production and maintenance of student examinations. Provided for are various types of questions such as with long and small answers, yes/no questions and multiple choice. Roland Smith 36 2008 39-42 190 revision control subversion RCS CVS git Revision control is the management of multiple versions of the same unit of information. Originating in formalized processes in engineering, it was first automated for managing source code for computer software. Since &tex; documents are like source code, they lend themselves well to being managed by a revision control system.

Systems like RCS and git are very suitable for single writers working on their own projects.

More elaborate systems like CVS and subversion are more suited for groups cooperating on projects. It takes more effort to master them.

For most single users, git is the best alternative for multi-file projects, followed by RCS for working on single &tex; files. Hans Hagen 36 2008 43-50 138 lua tex context Frans Goddijn 36 2008 51-52 111 doe het zelf boek online drukker pod It is becoming easier to produce a book, while for publishers it is less interesting to invest in new authors. Publishing on your own looks natural, but if you want to do it beautifully, it is a challenge.

Het wordt steeds makkelijker om zelf een boek te produceren terwijl het voor uitgevers steeds minder interessant wordt om in nieuwe auteurs te investeren. Zelf publiceren ligt voor de hand maar als je het mooi wil doen is het een uitdaging. Dave Walden 36 2008 53-64 5608 self-publishing publishers cost This note summarizes what I have learned about self-publishing. Taco Hoekwater 36 2008 65 424 meeting bohinj announcement Taco Hoekwater Hans Hagen 36 2008 66-68 131 metapost mplib reuse Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater 36 2008 69-81 113 metapost mplib luatex Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater Volker Schaa 36 2008 82-84 705 fonts euler update Hans van der Meer 36 2008 85-89 211 metapost context color drawing block arrow label Typesetting of blocks and arrows in &context; with MetaPost. Taco Hoekwater 37 2008 1-90 18482 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater 37 2008 1 22 Taco Hoekwater 37 2008 2 179 tug cork announcement Hans Hagen 37 2008 3-11 72 An introduction to the combination of &tex; and the scripting language Lua. Mojca Miklavec Arthur Reutenauer 37 2008 12-16 268 Until recently, all of the hyphenation patterns available for different languages in &tex; were using 8-bit font encodings, and were therefore not directly usable with UTF-8 &tex; engines such as Xe&tex; and Lua&tex;. When the former was included in &tex; Live in 2007, Jonathan Kew, its author, devised a temporary way to use them with Xe&tex; as well as the "old" &tex; engines. Last spring, we undertook to convert them to UTF-8, and make them usable with both sorts of &tex; engines, thus staying backwardly compatible. The process uncovered a lot of idiosyncrasies in the pattern-loading mechanism for different languages, and we had to invent solutions to work around each of them. Taco Hoekwater 37 2008 17-24 298 Notudoc is a commercial Internet application &context; uses for the on-the-fly generation of PDF documents, for the e-readers of IREX technologies, and more. This article gives a look behind the scenes. NotuDoc is een commerciële internet applicatie die &context; gebruikt voor het on-the-fly genereren van pdf documenten, onder andere voor de e-readers van iRex technologies. Dit artikel geeft een blik achter de schermen. Hans Hagen 37 2008 25-39 76 Willi Egger 37 2008 40-44 59 maps context layer label xy-arrangement Sometimes one needs to print a single label which will be glued onto a package, a large envelope or for the identification of a box. In certain situations one wants to produce a series of identical labels or one needs to typeset whole databases of addresses. &context; offers the possibility of using the XY-arranging procedure to print on each of the labels being present on a sheet. Here a possible approach is presented for labels of the size 105 x 42.3mm i.e. (14 labels on a A4). It is shown how to print a single label but also how to get multiple copies of the same content and how to prepare sheets of labels containing the addresses of a database. Willi Egger 37 2008 45-47 811 maps context layer envelope Once in a while one has to prepare an envelope with printed address based on the guidelines provided by the Dutch mail service TNT. This short communication shows a way to achieve this with &context;. The article shows the solution for the DL-type of envelope. From there, it is a small step to define other envelopes with different dimensions. Hans van der Meer 37 2008 48-54 2736 cd dvd jewelcase Production of CD and DVD covers in several variations using &context;. Taco Hoekwater Hans Hagen 37 2008 55-58 38 To make Knuth's punk font usable with &context; MKIV, it had to be converted from Metafont to MetaPost input. This article highlights the most important changes that had to be made in the conversion process. Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater 37 2008 59-66 11143 Hans Hagen 37 2008 67-69 541 Jonathan Kew 37 2008 70-72 1169 editor gui interface multi-platform tex front-end texshop A multi-platform competitor for &tex;Shop is described: &tex;works. Norbert Preining 37 2008 73-89 912 &tex; Live 2008 has been released recently, and the DVDs are ready to go gold. This is the first release of &tex; Live shipping the &tex; Live Manager, tlmgr for short. Besides taking over some of the tasks from texconfig (which has never been available for Windows) it finally brings many new features to the &tex; Live world, most importantly the option for dynamic updates. This article will present the new &tex; Live Installer, the &tex; Live Manager, and at the end lists other changes in &tex; Live 2008. Taco Hoekwater 37 2008 90 107 context meeting the hague announcement Taco Hoekwater 38 2009 1-65 2577 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater 38 2009 1-2 26 Ulrik Vieth 38 2009 3-11 282 The city of Cork has become widely known in the &tex; community, ever since it gave name to an encoding developed at the European &tex; conference of 1990. The `Cork' encoding, as it became known, was the first example of an 8-bit text font encoding that appeared after the release of &tex; 3.0, and was later followed by a number of other encodings based on similar design principles. As of today, the `Cork' encoding represents only one out of several possible choices of 8-bit subsets from a much larger repertoire of glyphs provided in fonts such as LatinModern or &tex;Gyre. Moreover, recent developments of new &tex; engines are making it possible to take advantage of OpenType font technology directly, largely eliminating the need for 8-bit font encodings altogether. During the entire time since 1990 math fonts have always been lagging behind the developments in text fonts. While the need for new math font encodings was recognized early on and while several encoding proposals have been discussed, none of them ever reached production quality or became widely used. In this paper, we review the situation of math fonts as of 2008, especially in view of recent developments of Unicode and OpenType math fonts such as the STIX fonts or Cambria Math. In particular, we try to answer the question whether a `Cork' math font encoding is still needed or whether Unicode and OpenType might eliminate the need for &tex;-specific math font encodings. Ulrik Vieth 38 2009 12-21 743 In recent years, we have seen the development of new &tex; engines, Xe&tex; and Lua&tex;, adopting OpenType font technology for providing Unicode typesetting support. While there are already plenty of OpenType text fonts available for use, both from the &tex; community and from commercial font suppliers, there is little support for OpenType math fonts so far. Ironically, it was left to Microsoft to develop a de facto standard for OpenType math font information and to provide the first reference implementation of a full-featured OpenType math font. In order to develop the much-needed math support for LatinModern and &tex;Gyre fonts, it will be crucially important to develop a good understanding of the internals of OpenType math tables, much as it is necessary to develop a good understanding of Appendix G and &tex;'s \fontdimen parameters to develop math support for traditional &tex; fonts. In this paper, we try to help improve the understanding of OpenType math internals, summarizing the parameters of OpenType math fonts as well as illustrating the similarities and differences between traditional &tex; math fonts and OpenType math fonts. Taco Hoekwater 38 2009 22-31 206 The math machinery in Lua&tex; has been completely overhauled in version 0.40. The handling of mathematics in Lua&tex; has been extended quite a bit compared to how &tex;82 (and therefore PDFTEX) handles math. First, Lua&tex; adds primitives and extends some others so that Unicode input can be used easily. Second, all of &tex;82's internal special values (for example for operator spacing) have been made accessible and changeable via control sequences. Third, there are extensions that make it easier to use OpenType math fonts. And finally, there are some extensions that have been proposed in the past that are now added to the engine. Hans Hagen 38 2009 32-46 297 This article is complementary to Taco Hoekwater's article about the upgrade of the math subsystem in Lua&tex;. In parallel (also because we needed a testbed) the math subsystem of &context; has been upgraded. In this article I will describe how we deal with Unicode math using the regular Latin Modern and &tex; Gyre fonts and how we were able to clean up some of the more nasty aspects of math. Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater Hartmut Henkel 38 2009 47-50 115 Aditya Mahajan 38 2009 51-56 64 &context; Lua&tex; &tex; Programming This article summarizes a recent thread on the &context; mailing list regarding table typesetting. To make the article interesting, I have changed the question and correspondingly modified the solutions.

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Test3. Paweł Jackowski 38 2009 57-62 83 The Bacho&tex; 2009 conference continued the Pearls of &tex; Programming open session introduced in 2005 during which volunteers present &tex;-related tricks and shorties. Siep Kroonenberg 38 2009 63-65 910 Presentaties geometry wallpaper fancyhdr This article shows how one can produce presentations in one's own style, without making use of dedicated presentation packages. Taco Hoekwater 39 2009 1-182 31635 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Hans Hagen 39 2009 1-1 3656 39 2009 2-2 347 39 2009 3-3 2243 39 2009 4-4 519 Kees van der Laan 39 2009 5-33 17656 2.5D automatically numbered items awareness Babel&tex; binary and trinary tree blue.tex &context; data integrity education Escher Gabo H-fractal impossible cube insight Malevich master class MetaPost minimal markup PDF PostScript plain &tex; regular surface reuse smiley suprematism &tex; Collection DVD turtle graphics yin yang In this note a proposal about education is made and some education is done. Why not offer a macro writing Master Class, in plain &tex;&MetaPost via internet, to endorse Minimal Markup and to strive after readable, adaptable, robust and reusable macros, by using paradigms? The macros are destined to be included in a library for reuse in Any&tex;. Educational issues are: language, awareness, insight, and &tex; nique proper. Courseware is indispensable. The personality of the teacher is all important. Self-study is not enough and considered dangerous. A few turtle graphics macros for line-drawing in plain &tex;, used for sketching a binary tree and fractals, are given. Knuth's gkppic macros are used for flowcharts. Of both their advantages and disadvantages are mentioned. Graphics with curved lines, via PostScript and MetaPost, such as envelope, smiley, yin yang, Schröfers opart, and a circle covered by circles are included. 2.5D graphics emulated from Naum Gabo constructive works and Escher's impossible cube, both specified by data in 3D and projected on 2D with the viewing angles as parameters, are supplied. Without explanation Spirals on the sphere and a torus are included. Reuse of macros, pictures, references, tools, formats is relevant with my blue.tex released in about 1995, as an unusual, integrated example, to be re-released under LPPL after review on the &tex; Live Distribution DVD of 2010. At the end a suggestion is done to extend MetaPost towards 3D. Luigi Scarso 39 2009 34-58 2468 Lua Python dynamic loading ffi. luatex lunatic is an extension of the Lua language of luatex to permit embedding of a Python interpreter. A Python interpreter hosted in luatex allows macro programmers to use all modules from the Python standard library, allows importing of third modules, and permits the use of existing bindings of shared libraries or the creation of new bindings to shared libraries with the Python standard module ctypes. Some examples of such bindings, particularly in the area of scientific graphics, are presented and discussed. Intentionally the embedding of interpreter is limited to the python-2.6 release and to a luatex release for the Linux operating system (32 bit). Willi Egger 39 2009 59-71 993 &context; CD-ROM DVD label booklet inlay layer. After having burned a disk you sometimes need to add a label and, if the disk is stored in a jewel case, a booklet and an inlay for the jewel case. The following article describes how to create a label for the disk on a commercial label-sheet and a booklet and an inlay for the jewel case. The following solutions are based on &context; 's built-in layer capabilities. Hans Hagen 39 2009 72-77 474 During the third &context; conference that ran in parallel to Euro&tex; 2009 in The Hague we had several sessions where MKIV was discussed and a few upcoming features were demonstrated. The next sections summarize some of that. It's hard to predict the future, especially because new possibilities show up once Lua&tex; is opened up more, so remarks about the future are not definitive. Jelle Huisman 39 2009 78-85 615 This article describes two recent projects in which &context; was used to typeset language data. The goal of project E16 was to typeset the 16th edition of the Ethnologue, an encyclopaedia of the languages of the world. The complexity of the data and the size of the project made this an interesting test case for the use of &tex; and &context;. The Dictionary Express tool (DEtool) is developed to typeset linguistic data in a dictionary layout. DEtool (which is part of a suite of linguistic software) uses &context; for the actual typesetting. Siep Kroonenberg 39 2009 86-91 740 &tex;Live MIKTEX installers editors roaming profiles Windows Vista This article describes a network &tex;Live installation for Windows users and the context in which it operates. Jean-Michel Hufflen 39 2009 92-98 651 Functional programming &tex; programming lexical vs. dynamic scope macros evaluation strategies. We are in charge of a teaching unit, entitled Advanced Functional Programming, for 4th-year university students in Computer Science. This unit is optional within the curriculum, so students attending it are especially interested in programming. The main language studied in this unit is Scheme, but an important part is devoted to general features, e.g., lexical vs. dynamic scoping, limited vs. unlimited extent, call by value vs. call by name or need, etc. As an alternative to other programming languages, &tex; allows us to show a language where dynamic and lexical scoping—\def vs. \edef—coexist. In addition, we can show how dynamic scoping allows users to customise &tex;'s behaviour. Other commands related to strategies are shown, too, e.g., \expandafter, \noexpand. More generally, &tex; commands are related to macros in more classical programming languages, and we can both emphasise difficulty related to macros and show non-artificial examples. So &tex; is not our unit's main focus, but provides significant help to illustrate some difficult notions. A.-M. Aebischer B. Aebischer J.-M. Hufflen F. Pétiard 39 2009 99-104 648 Teaching &latex; successive steps of a course lab-class-based curriculum students' perception For four university years, we had to introduce 2nd-year university students in Mathematics to &latex;. An important goal was to make them able to use &latex; when they are given some long homework in Mathematics the year after (3rd-year university). This teaching unit only included lab classes and was 15 hours long. We present our approach in detail and explain how it was perceived by students. Hans Hagen 39 2009 105-106 207 This article is converted from the slides presented at the conference. Stanislav Jan Šarman 39 2009 107-111 21367 With pen shorthand, the traditional speech-recording method, unwritten speech is at first manually captured and then transliterated into a digital text. We have built programs which reverse the second step of this process, i.e. transform text into shorthand. Here we present as a special case an online system, which converts English text into Pitman 2000 shorthand using Metafont and &latex;. The impact of our system on pattern recognition of handwritten shorthand and on stenography teaching is discussed. Péter Szabó 39 2009 112-130 722 There are several tools for generating PDF output from a &tex; document. By choosing the appropriate tools and configuring them properly, it is possible to reduce the PDF output size by a factor of 3 or even more, thus reducing document download times, hosting and archiving costs. We enumerate the most common tools, and show how to configure them to reduce the size of text, fonts, images and cross-reference information embedded into the final PDF. We also analyze image compression in detail. We present a new tool called pdfsizeopt.py which optimizes the size of embedded images and Type1 fonts, and removes object duplicates. We also propose a workflow for PDF size optimization, which involves configuration of &tex; tools, running pdfsizeopt.py and the Multivalent PDF compressor as well. Taco Hoekwater 39 2009 131-135 735 NotuDoc is a commercial Internet application that uses &context; for the on-the-fly generation of PDF documents for, amongst other things, the e-reader devices of iRex technologies. This articles offers a glimpse behind the scenes. Taco Hoekwater 39 2009 136-140 224 Lua&tex; 0.50 features a complete departure from Pascal source code. This article explains a little of the why and how of this change. Taco Hoekwater 39 2009 141-142 1859 The Dutch translation of the 750 page textbook "Introduction to the Practice of Statistics" is typeset using a set of &context; macros. This article gives a short impression of the production process of this book, showing that the use of &tex; for the actual typesetting was perhaps the least cumbersome part of the process. Hans Hagen Taco Hoekwater 39 2009 143-144 313 Now that MetaPost 1.200 has been released the time has finally come to focus on the numerical precision extensions that we have been hinting at for some years already. Version 2.000 of MetaPost will have a runtime configurable precision and infinite numeric input range. John Trapp 39 2009 145-165 783 Ulrik Vieth 39 2009 166-178 480 math typesetting physics notation Twenty years ago, the author was just about to start his university studies in math and physics. A year or so later, he not only discovered a fascinating program called &tex;, but he also got involved in a project of typesetting a series of lecture notes which eventually became book manuscripts for a complete course in theoretical physics. In the end, he spent about seven years working on typing, editing, revising, and formatting more than 2500 book pages containing a large amount of math. While there are many experiences from such a project one could talk about, ranging from issues of project management to document design and layout, this talk will focus on two specific topics: adapting &latex; to deal with the specific requirements of mathematical notation in physics and fine-tuning the appearance of math formulas. 39 2009 179-181 359 39 2009 182-182 191 Taco Hoekwater 40 2010 1-83 6323 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater 40 2010 1-1 92 Hans Hagen 40 2010 2-8 53 &context; mkiv luatex font names Kees van der Laan 40 2010 9-65 2437 Apollonius Cabri Coxeter Descartes circle theorem Escher Java Mathematica Metafont MetaPost overloading polymorphic operator Peaucellier-Lipkin linkage (partial) pivoting plain &tex; PostScript library radical circle reflection Rerich Sandaku Soddy solving 3X3 linear equations Circle inversions are exercised and drawn with PostScript operators which are also included in this plain &tex; document. Interesting pictures will be shown, resulting from inversion of straight line pieces and other procedures. I demonstrate a way to calculate the circle of anti-similitude, by which two circles are inverses of each other. Furthermore, I show how one can transform two distinct circles into two concentric circles. How to draw a circle orthogonal to a circle which passes through one or two points within the circle is done via the circle inversion technique. The above is generalized into finding the circle which cuts the boundary at an arbitrary angle, e.g. 80 degrees, and passes through a point within the circle. Orthogonal circular arcs can form an Escher-like grid, as he used in his Circle Limits. Four variants of the grid of Circle Limits III have been included. The first cuts the boundary at 80 degrees, the second at 90 degrees, and the third with a mixture of both. The fourth is Coxeter's solution. A smiley pattern is inverted in (orthogonal) circular arcs within a circle with the aid of PostScript's pathforall by (repeated use of) circle inversion. How to draw a circle orthogonal to 1, 2 or 3 other distinct circles is shown. Apollonius problem is solved by the use of the circle inversion transformation and also by transforming the 3 quadratic equations into 1 non-linear equation and a 2x2 system of linear equations, and solving these equations in PostScript and MetaPost. A closer look yielded that we only have to solve one quadratic equation in r, the radius of the wanted circle, in order to obtain the solution of Apollonius problem. Coding problems in MetaPost will be mentioned and circumvented. I demonstrate the way one can create and use a PostScript library. A plea is made for creating and maintaining a PostScript library of operators, graphics and utilities. A snapshot of this growing library is included. A few tiny but handy PostScript operators are given next to a (numerical) PostScript operator to solve a 3x3 linear system of equations, where partial pivoting is implemented and the calculations are done with the accuracy of the underlying computer arithmetic, which is much better than MetaPost's accuracy for the moment. How to overload a PostScript operator, e.g. length, is given. The question whether the PostScript library can be used in MetaPost will be answered. The pearl of the paper is twofold: first the rediscovery that Apollonius problem is solved by the solution of a quadratic equation, and second the operator Apollonius, which reflects this rediscovery and can be used to obtain all 8 solutions of Apollonius problem. Another gem is Apollonius2, which is suited for the case that one circle contains the other two. The culmination of it all is the operator radical for drawing the radical circle of three given distinct circles. 40 2010 66-66 324 Hans Hagen 40 2010 67-71 60 &context; mkiv luatex grouping underbar overbar overstrike text backgrounds 40 2010 72-72 2213 Luigi Scarso 40 2010 73-79 417 Lua&tex; &context; Mark IV OpenType FontMatrix. OpenType fonts with Postscript outline are usually defined in a dimensionless workspace of 1000x1000 units per em (upm). Adobe Reader exhibits a strange behaviour with pdf documents that embed an OpenType PostScript font with unusual upm: this paper describes a solution implemented by Lua&tex; that resolves this problem. Piet van Oostrum 40 2010 80-83 1035 This article describes some recent contributions to the CTAN archive (and other internet sources.) The selection reflects what interests me and what I think others may be interested in. It is, therefore, a personal choice, not a comprehensive review. Taco Hoekwater 41 2010 1-92 7937 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater 41 2010 1-1 27 41 2010 2-2 44 Taco Hoekwater 41 2010 3-8 80 &tex;Live TLContrib distribution contribution packages TLContrib is a distribution and associated website that hosts contributed, supplementary packages for &tex;Live. The packages on TLContrib are those not distributed inside &tex;Live proper for one or several of the following reasons: because the are not free software according to the FSF guidelines, because they contain an executable update, because they are not available on CTAN, or because they represent an intermediate release for testing. Anything related to &tex; that can not be on &tex;Live but can still legally be distributed over the Internet can have its place on TLContrib. Piet van Oostrum 41 2010 9-13 720 Dit artikel beschrijft een aantal recente bijdragen uit het CTAN archief (en andere bronnen op het Internet). De selectie is gebaseerd op wat ik zelf interessant vind en wat ik denk dat voor veel anderen interessant is. Het is dus een persoonlijke keuze. Het heeft niet de bedoeling om een volledig overzicht te geven. Hans Hagen 41 2010 14-18 51 Taco Hoekwater Hartmut Henkel 41 2010 19-24 66 &tex; Live 2010 will contain Lua&tex; 0.60. This article gives an overview of the changes between this version and the version on last year's &tex; Live.
Highlights of this release: CWEB code base, dynamic loading of lua modules, various font subsystem improvements including support for Apple .dfont font collection files, braced input file names, extended PDF LUA table, and access to the line breaking algorithm from LUA code. Paweł Jackowski 41 2010 25-30 176 Luigi Scarso 41 2010 31-36 105 Lua&tex; &context; MkIV PDF/A color font. I present some considerations on electronic document archiving and how MKIV supports the ISO Standard 19500-1 Level A Conformance (PDF/A-1a:2005), an ISO standard for long-term document archiving. Paul Isambert 41 2010 37-44 149 John C. Haltiwanger 41 2010 45-48 70 generative typesetting multi-output translation layer pre-format The demands of typesetting have shifted significantly since the original inception of &tex;. Donald Knuth strove to develop a platform that would prove stable enough to produce the same output for the same input over time (assuming the absence of bugs). Pure &tex; is a purely formal language, with no practical notion of the semantic characteristics of the text it is typesetting. The popularity of &latex; is largely related to its attempt to solve this problem. The flexibility of &context; lends it to a great diversity of workflows. However, document creation is not straight-forward enough to lend itself to widespread adoption by a layman audience, nor is it particularly flexible in relation to its translatability into other important output formats such as HTML. Subtext is a proposed system of generative typesetting designed for providing an easy to use abstraction for interfacing with &tex;, HTML, and other significant markup languages and output formats. By providing a mutable translation layer in which both syntax and the actual effects of translation are defined within simple configuration files, the infinitely large set of typographic workflows can be accomodated without being known in advance. At the same time, once a workflow has been designed within the Subtext system, it should enjoy the same long-term stability found in the &tex; system itself. This article briefly explains the conditions, motivations, and initial design of the emerging system. Hans Hagen 41 2010 49-67 104 Jean-Michel Hufflen 41 2010 68-78 782 Typesetting computed texts &tex; &latex; &context; Xe&tex; Lua&tex; xml xslt character maps XQuery xsl-fo. This article is a comparison of methods that may be used to derive texts to be typeset by a word processor. By `derive', we mean that such texts are extracted from a larger structure, which can be viewed as a database. The present standard for such a structure uses an xml-like format, and we give an overview of the available tools for this derivation task. Kees van der Laan 41 2010 79-90 4185 Art color cubism De Stijl golden ratio Mondrian pointillism pseudo-random numbers MetaPost PostScript Toorop Mondriaan has worked most of his live as an abstract painter, influenced by the magic realism of Jan Toorop, and by Cubism and Pointillism. He was member of De Stijl and has lived in Paris and in New York. Some of his work seems to have been composed randomly, though he was very precise, as witnessed by the overpainting of various squares in his Victory Boogie-Woogie. Mondriaan's `random' work Composition in Line 1916, is emulated and varied in MetaPost and PostScript, in color, with the lines (position and size) randomly chosen. He was the first painter to frame work by Lozenges. Division of the sides of his Lozenge with 2 lines is near to the golden ratio. Emulated Lozenges obeying the golden ratio have been included. The variations look nevertheless Mondriaan-esque. 41 2010 91-92 1770 Taco Hoekwater 42 2011 1-110 13201 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater 42 2011 1-1 29 42 2011 2-2 2533 Koen Wybo 42 2011 3-4 3668 Nicolaas J.I. Mars 42 2011 5-6 472 Willi Egger 42 2011 7-14 153 Maps Context module lua Sometimes, a cheap personal organizer on paper can come in handy. This solution prepared in &context; MKIV provides a range of options to set up such a personal organizer. The point is, that the PocketDiary is printed on a single sided A4 landscape sheet of paper and then folded into a pocket size booklet hereby preventing that unprinted/empty pages are seen. The PocketDiary is easy to make and after 1 week it is simply replaced with a subsequent booklet. A detailed description is given of the system and how to set up a production file. At the end of the article instructions are included how to fold the booklet. Hans Hagen 42 2011 15-23 511 Hans Hagen 42 2011 24-26 94 Kees van der Laan 42 2011 27-33 581 Adobe afii ASCII CID Cyrillic EPSF encoding vector keyboard layout lemniscate minimal encapsulated PostScript OTF plain &tex; Photoshop PSlib qwerty &tex; works An OTF with Cyrillic —- keyboard and glyphs —- is used in PostScript for an 8th March congratulation. The wired-in ASCII code table in &tex; inhibits keyboarding Cyrillic. Luigi Scarso 42 2011 34-42 255 Lua&tex; &context; MARKIV binding PARI/GP This paper shows how to build a binding to PARI GP, the well known computer algebra system, for &context; MKiV, showing also some examples on how to solve some common basic algebraic problems. Graham Douglas 42 2011 43-54 2969 The relationship between &latex;'s page layout parameters and the conventional desktop publishing (DTP) model of a page are explored and formulae to map between them are presented. A sample implementation of those formulae in Lua is provided, showing how to achieve customised page layouts in Lua&tex;. The placement of crop marks is addressed, and a technique for preparing and adding them to typeset pages is discussed. Taco Hoekwater 42 2011 55-56 44 How to use the dynamic Lua module loading abilities in Lua&tex; under Linux or similar systems. Thomas A. Schmitz 42 2011 57-68 104 Kees van der Laan 42 2011 69-110 2243 2.5D art AFII ASCII astroid Bernstein polynomials BoundingBox Bézier cubic de Casteljau algorithm ConTEXt cropping on-the-fly EPSF Gabo hyperboloid METAFONT MetaPost minimal encapsulated PostScript plain &tex; projection PSlib stringed surface TEXworks Gabo's Torsion is emulated in EPSF, Encapsulated PostScript File format. Gabo's constructive art, Math, Computer Graphics and the use of PostScript are touched upon. Whether PostScript is a suitable language for projection and drawing 3D objects on paper is experienced. An introduction to PostScript aimed at EPSF use, in a nutshell, is included. How to obtain cropped pictures along with the conversion to .pdf is mentioned. An interesting observation is made: Bézier cubics, specified by begin point, the control points and the end point, are invariant under (oblique parallel) projection, which allows to project B-cubics efficiently. The efficient projection of (approximated) circles and ellipses has been addressed. For the evaluation of B-cubics de Casteljau's algorithm is used. Emulations in EPSF of Gabo's Linear Construction in Space No 1 and 2, of one of his Spheric Themes, and his Linear Construction Suspended, are also included. For the MetaFont afficionados my interactive version of old is also included. Ján Kula 43 2011 64-337 29888 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Ján Kula Pavel Stříž 43 2011 69-69 77 43 2011 74-77 197 43 2011 78-83 83 Arthur Reutenauer 43 2011 84-90 245 Luigi Scarso 43 2011 91-101 131 Luigi Scarso 43 2011 102-115 1107 Ulrik Vieth 43 2011 116-126 1070 Taco Hoekwater Hartmut Henkel 43 2011 127-133 481 Taco Hoekwater 43 2011 134-139 615 John Haltiwanger 43 2011 140-146 109 Willi Egger 43 2011 147-156 776 Libor Sarga 43 2011 157-165 631 Jan Přichystal 43 2011 166-169 106 Timothy Eyre 43 2011 170-181 8430 Hans Hagen 43 2011 182-300 4886 Tomáž Hála 43 2011 301-308 186 Karel Píška 43 2011 309-332 612 Taco Hoekwater 44 2013 1-126 8726 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Taco Hoekwater 44 2013 1-2 23 Hans Hagen 44 2013 3-7 66 Kees van der Laan 44 2013 8-12 772 Adobe afii CD-ROM &context; DVD EPSF extending encoding vector label lightscribe minimal encapsulated PostScript numero sign OTF Photoshop plain &tex; PSlib &tex; works How to make CD and DVD labels by PostScript, to be printed on prefab glued paper, assisted by Photoshop for the conversion of an illustration into EPSF, is explained. Koen Wybo 44 2013 13-14 496 Zeggen dat &latex; niet gemakkelijk is om aan te leren, is een open deur intrappen. Met een degelijk boek als &latex; and Friends word je meer dan behoorlijk op weg gezet. Saying that &latex; is not easy to learn is a truism. With a good book like &latex; and Friends you will more than adequately be put on the road. C.M. Fortuin 44 2013 15-26 137 Kegelsneden kunnen systematisch worden benaderd door hoekpunten van een (deel van een) omgeschreven veelhoek. Een algoritme wordt ontwikkeld voor het bepalen van de steunpunten van een iteratieve derdegraads "Bézier" benadering van kegelsneden. Voor de start zijn drie punten nodig. Het algoritme is onafhankelijk van de stand van de kegelsnede. Conic sections can systematically be approximated by vertices of a (part of a) circumscribed polygon. An algorithm is developed for the determination of the support points of a third degree iterative "Bezier" approach of a conic. Initially, three points are needed. The algorithm is independent of the position of the conic section. Kees van der Laan 44 2013 27-48 2511 2.5D Adobe ALGOL art backtracking BASIC CWI Deubert EPSF FIFO fractal fractal geometry IDE Julia set Lauwerier Lévy LIFO Lindenmayer minimal encapsulated PostScript minimal plain &tex; Pascal triangle Photoshop production rule Pythagoras Tree PSlib self-similarity Sierpiński sieve sentinel &tex; works (adaptable) user space Word Pythagoras Trees are drawn elegantly in PostScript, varied by randomness, colour and the use of curves. Lindenmayer production rules for systematic PS program development are enriched by PS concepts. Kees van der Laan 44 2013 49-78 1672 Acrobat Pro Adobe art attractor backtracking Cantor Dust C curve dragon curve fractal Game of Life Hilbert curve infinity kronkel (twist) Lauwerier Lévy Lindenmayer Minkowski Monte Carlo production rule PSlib Sierpiński Star fractals TACP Turtle Graphics von Koch (island) Classical mathematical fractals in BASIC are explained and converted into mean-and-lean EPSF defs, of which the .eps pictures are delivered in .pdf format and cropped to the prescribed BoundingBox when processed by Acrobat Pro, to be included easily in pdf(La)&tex;, Word, ... documents. The EPSF fractals are transcriptions of the Turtle Graphics BASIC codes or programmed anew, recursively, based on the production rules of oriented objects. The Lindenmayer production rules are enriched by PostScript concepts. Experience gained in converting a &tex; script into WYSIWYG Word is communicated. Hans van der Meer 44 2013 79-90 125 exam examination collection problem question multiple choice &context; XML HTML Described is a module for the consistent production and maintenance of student examinations. It can typeset questions with long or short answers, yes/no questions and multiple choice. The questions are formulated as XML documents and access &context; through a special interface with HTML-like syntax. Hans van der Meer 44 2013 91-96 83 &context; HTML XML include vocabulary Described is a module for the typesetting of a subset of HTML operators. These can be used to build data sets in XML with HTML as formatting elements and have them typeset in &context;. Other features are the inclusion of predefined content and provision for language localized words and expressions. Hans van der Meer 44 2013 97-105 102 &context; table Described is a module for the typesetting of tables. The module resembles the &latex; tabular environment but is in fact based on a much older package, the origins of which are lost to the author. Sietse Brouwer 44 2013 106-108 102 documentation projects wiki infrastructure &context; An effort is underway to encourage both reading and editing of the &context; wiki. This article names nine concrete improvements that are part of this effort, and makes a case for each of them. These nine items are the following. To impose structure and to ease navigation: predictable article names; navboxes; and a simple Main Page. To coordinate efforts: a `How this wiki works' page; a village pump; and templates for flagging problems. To make things easy for our editors: templates for common things; template documentation; sandboxes and testcases for templates. Taco Hoekwater 44 2013 109-113 67 After years of talks about future plans for MetaPost 2.0, finally real progress is being made. This paper introduces a pre-release of MetaPost 2 that can optionally use IEEE floating point for its internal calculations instead of the traditional 32-bit integers. Hans Hagen 44 2013 114-122 63 A &context; spreadsheet module, based on Lua. Michael Guravage 44 2013 123-126 2349 Conference report. Taco Hoekwater 45 2012 1-168 36589 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine 45 2012 1-2 25 Kees van der Laan 45 2012 3-46 17707 Acrobat Pro Adobe backtracking BLUe Blue Sky bridge chess ConTeX t crosswords dancing text Deubert Escher Gabo Hagen Henderson Jackowski Lancaster Lauwerier Lindenmayer magic square Malevich MetaFun MetaPost Metafont MetaType1 Mondriaan Monte Carlo musiX.tex Nolde Photoshop pi-decimals projection PSlib PSTricks PSView Pythagoras tree Rycko Schrofer Soto Taupin TeX works tic-tac-toe Vasarely Recreational use of TeX&Co in my work is enumerated and elucidated. Examples from MetaFun, from Lancaster's Fonts for Free, from Jackowski&Rycko metafont logo, and from Word have been borrowed. PostScript and let TeX insert mark-up, will be the main subjects of discussion. PostScript is not sufficient for graphics. Now and then MetaPost is used to specify a problem in a declarative way, or at the end Photoshop is used to enrich the graphics interactively by colour gradients. Moreover, for drawing emulations of 3D objects, projection techniques are indispensable. Emulations of Escher's impossible cube and of Gabo's objects are included as 3D-examples. All my pictures have a recreational flavour because none has been triggered by external practical need. Interesting is the combined use of Turtle Graphics and recursion. TeX codes and PostScript codes are compared, although they are like apples and pears intrinsically incomparable, but ... have been used for the same purpose. The most astonishing is that so much from BLUe.tex passed by unnoticed. Pic.dat for TeX-alone pictures has received its cousin library, PSlib.eps, for PostScript pictures. The TeX-MF-flow picture has been updated and included, next to a screen-shot of a nowadays IDE TeX works. In this note I'll try to draw your interest, to persuade you, kind reader, to look at the contents, the paradigms, and the kernel and modules set-up of BLUe.tex. My sincere hope is that BLUe.tex will be saved from oblivion, that the paradigms used will be adhered. The serious undertone in TeX is about minimal mark-up or better still the absence of user mark-up, where TeX will insert the mark-up. The serious undertone in PostScript is about printing along paths, especially for the special cases where the paths are implicit. Handy and convenient is the extended PSlib.eps to over 300 pictures. Critics on TeX&Co and pdfTeX have been included, next to my wishes. After the presentation PSTtricks was shown to me, and my comment on it is included. Kees van der Laan 45 2012 47-97 12828 Adobe attractor Barnsley bifurcation chaos escape-time algorithm Feigenbaum constant fractalD Fractalus package IFS Julia Lauwerier Mandelbrot Monte Carlo PSlib PSView repeller self-similarity Stuif's previewer TeX works Verhulst growth model Winfract package XaoS fractal package Lauwerier's BASIC codes for visualization of the usual Julia fractals: JULIAMC, JULIABS, JULIAF, JULIAD, JULIAP, of the Mandelbrot fractal MANDELx, MANDIS, MANDET and his codes for the advanced circular symmetric Julia fractals JULIAS, JULIASYMm, JULIASYM, FRACSYMm, as well as the classical 1D bifurcation picture Collet, have been converted into PostScript defs. Examples of use are included. A glimpse into Chaos theory, in order to understand the principles and peculiarities underlying Julia sets, is given. Bifurcation diagrams of the Verhulst model of limited growth and of the Julia quadratic dynamical system --- M-fractal --- have been included. Barnsley's triples: fractal, IFS and equivalent dynamical system are introduced. How to use the beginnings of colours in PostScript is explained. How to obtain Julia fractals via Stuif's Julia fractal viewer, and via the special fractal packages Winfract, XaoS, and Fractalus is dealt with. From BASIC codes to PostScript library defs entails software engineering skills. The paper exhibits experimental fractal geometry, practical use of minimal TeX, as well as ample EPSF programming, and is the result of my next step in acquainting myself with Lauwerier's 10+ years work on fractals. Mari Voipio 45 2012 98-98 28 Taco Hoekwater 45 2012 99-100 49 The latest version of Metapost (1.80x) has a third output backend: it is now possible to generate PNG bitmaps directly from within Metapost. Leo Arnold 45 2012 101-106 514 mathematics problem sheet shell escape In general LaTeX will produce only one output document. This paradigm shifts when harnessing the power of the so-called shell escape. We will show how to produce multiple output documents with differing content from one single source document. The principle is developed step by step illustrating a typical application in academic teaching. Focusing on mathematical problems we then explore two ways of automating calculations by integrating free software into the LaTeX run. Patrick Gundlach 45 2012 107-107 28 Taco Hoekwater 45 2012 108-111 74 A new interface in MPLib version 1.800 allows one to resolve path choices programmatically, without the need to go through the MetaPost input language. Taco Hoekwater 45 2012 112-115 63 The new pdfparser library in LuaTeX allows parsing of external PDF content streams directly from within a LuaTeX document. This paper explains its origin and usage. Luigi Scarso 45 2012 116-123 585 We present MetafontLUA, a Metafont version which is capable of code instrumentation and has an embedded Lua interpreter that allows glyphs curves extraction and post-processing. We also show and discuss an example of a Metafont source processed by MetafontLUA to output an OpenType font. Willi Egger 45 2012 124-127 58 In accordance to the conference's theme, a workshop for making a portfolio binder has been held. The portfolio was made so it could carry the papers for the conference, such as preprints of the proceedings, additional papers and the carpenter's pencil given to each participant. The construction is made from a single sheet of cardboard with folded flaps along three sides, so that it completely envelopes the content. The portfolio is held closed by a black elastic band. Hans Hagen Idris Samawi Hamid 45 2012 128-154 3321 Jean-Michel Hufflen 45 2012 155-162 129 BibTeX mlBibTeX mlbibtex2xml mlbiblatex mlbibcontext LaTeX ConTeXt MkII ConTeXt MkIV LuaTeX biblatex package bib module These last years, mlBibTeX's kernel functions have been reused and extended in order to put new programs about bibliographies into action. Examples are the hal program, allowing an open archive site to be populated, the mlbiblatex program, building bibliographies suitable for the biblatex package, the mlbibcontext program, doing the same task for ConTeXt documents. We show how all these programs are organised, and explain how some operations can be refined or extended. For a point of view related to efficiency, the programs mlbiblatex and mlbibcontext are written using pgScheme only, so they are more efficient than analogous programs that would interpret a .bst bibliography style of BibTeX. Jean-Michel Hufflen 45 2012 163-164 66 This short statement aims to sketch the broad outlines of the presentation performed at the 6th ConTeXt meeting. 45 2012 165-166 42 45 2012 167-168 36 Michael Guravage 46 2015 1-108 17284 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Michael Guravage 46 2015 1-2 29 Erik Frambach 46 2015 3-4 6519 Frans Absil 46 2015 5-7 496 This paper is an introduction to and review of the &tex;/Shop Mac OS X program for typesetting &tex;/ document source files and previewing the output. Features of this tool and user experience will be presented. This information might be helpful to the novice user, looking for a &tex;/ typesetting environment on the Mac. Willi Egger 46 2015 8-12 295 When editing text or code on a Mac, TextMate is an excellent choice. It offers an abundance of features which makes it a great editor for &tex; as well as the macro-packages &latex; and &context;. Editing HTML, XML and CSS is also supported, as are many other programming languages. Specially tagged texts are quick and easy to write, thanks to autocompletion and placing of start- and end-tags. Further the editor supports projects — a sidebar to the editing window that shows files belonging to the project. Another useful feature is the column selection method and the (near) end of line selection. TextMate offers a clipboard history, so multiple items can be retrieved. TextMate can be customized to a very large extent. Sytse Knypstra 46 2015 13-15 294 Editor Synctex scripts Van de vele beschikbare &tex;- (&latex;-, &context;) editors is &tex;works een vrij nieuwe. Hij munt uit door zijn eenvoud in de gebruikersinterface, de koppeling tussen brontekst en pdf-resultaat en door een grote mate van flexibiliteit. Met behulp van scripts kan men in principe iedere gewenste optie zelf toevoegen. Siep Kroonenberg 46 2015 16-22 648 &tex;Studio is de primaire &latex; editor bij de &tex;Live installatie van onze universiteit. In dit stuk wil ik laten zien waarom ik voor deze editor heb gekozen en waarom &tex;Studio interessant kan zijn speciaal voor de beginnende &latex;-gebruiker en voor een &latex;-cursus. Kees van der Laan 46 2015 23-86 5104 Apollonius Bluebook.eps CD-DVD label Deubert Escher flowcharts fractals Gabo Julia Koch Lancaster Lauwerier Lévy Lindenmayer Mandelbrot Mondriaan Op Art orthogonal circles Photoshop pi decimals PostScript projection PSlib.eps Pythagoras Tree Soto stars text along path tiling toroid Schrofer Vasarely A selection of PostScript definitions collected in my PSlib.eps library and documented as e-book catalogue is presented. Now and then variant pictures have been included from pic.dat which comes with Blue.tex. Old Metafont codes have been included which may be useful for MetaPost programmers. Variants of pictures enriched by postprocessing in Photoshop show other possibilities. Escher's doughnut is a teaser which has to be done in MetaPost. Next to PSlib.eps comes the file PDFsfromPSlib, which contains the pictures in .pdf format. The complete PSlib.eps, PDFsfromPSlib as well as the catalogue as e-book, will be released on occasion of NTG's 25th lustrum which will be celebrated in the fall of 2014, on www.ntg.nl. A prerelease will be offered to the GUST's file server. The (static) library for &tex; alone pictures, pic.dat, packaged with Blue.tex, will be redistributed as well. Kees van der Laan 46 2015 87-97 3581 BLUe Cardioid Cornu Escher folium Descartes Gyre-logo hidden lines Jackowski Lauwerier Lemniscate Limaçon Mathematica MetaPost Metafont PostScript Photoshop polar coordinates projection PSlib PSTricks Spirals Voss Curves specified in Polar Coordinates can be elegantly programmed in PostScript with the rotate command; which performs rotations in User Space. This has been shown for the Cardioid, the Limaçon, the Lemniscate, the Archimedes and the Growth spiral. The Gyre-logo has been analyzed and imitated in PostScript. Printing of text along spiral-like belts on a sphere in the projection plane has been done, yielding poor man's typesetting text on a sphere in projection. Hans Hagen 46 2015 98-100 135 Hans Hagen 46 2015 101-108 109 Michael Guravage 47 2017 1-61 24294 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Michael Guravage 47 2017 1-2 34 Kai Eigner 47 2017 3-7 99 Frans Absil 47 2017 9-19 843 This article presents an overview of how to create various document types about music, such as articles, e-books and web presentations. It discusses the workflow, the set-up of a specific typesetting environment with definitions, tools and additional software. Hans van der Meer 47 2017 21-27 73 combinations line-up placement of blocks Described is a module for the placement of items either on the same horizontal line or on top of each other. Alignment and separation of the items can be varied in horizontal and vertical direction as required. Titles can be added and their location, style and color specified. Hans van der Meer 47 2017 29-31 59 Module for processing notes. Notes are classified according to categorie and contain information about subject, date of intake, etc. The presentation of notes can be filtered according to several criteria. Frans Goddijn 47 2017 33-43 9463 W. Egger 47 2017 45-57 13696 Woodworking is one of my passions. The project of making my own violin is some kind of crown to the whole development. Throughout the violin making lessons notes were made, sketches drawn and photos taken. At home all sketches were turned into drawings. All information is put together in a CONTEXT project from which it is possible to compile/typeset a book. This article describes the setup of the book in CONTEXT, shows the functioning of some macros and presents two chapters of the book. Maps redactie 48 2018 1-84 1974 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Maps redactie 48 2018 1-2 20 Karl Berry, editor 48 2018 3-45 851 Hans Hagen 48 2018 46-50 50 Much of the LUA code in CONTEXT originates from experiments. When it survives in the source code it is probably used, waiting to be used or kept for educational purposes. The functionality that we describe here has already been present for a while in CONTEXT, but improved a little starting with LUATEX\ 1.08 due to an extra helper. The code shown here is generic and not used in CONTEXT as such. Hans Hagen 48 2018 51-58 196 Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Pianowski & Piotr Strzelczyk 48 2018 59-65 589 Siep Kroonenberg 48 2018 66-69 402 The TeXLive Launcher offers Windows users of a network TeXLive installation similar conveniences as a locally-installed TeXLive. It is easy to integrate additional TeX-related software.\endgraf This paper describes the launcher and its configuration. As an example, it shows how it is used at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Norbert Preining 48 2018 70-75 423 This article serves first as an introduction to two of the central utility programs in any TeXLive installation, \updmap and \fmtutil, describing the general functionality as well as the syntax of the configuration files. In addition, we report on changes that we have carried out over the last few years relating to the operation mode. These changes include switching to multiple configuration files, and the user-mode versus system-mode changes to be introduced in TeXLive 2017. Last but not least, we close with a list of best practices to help guide users. NTG 48 2018 77-80 37 49 2019 1-74 18332 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine Van de penningmeester 49 2019 1-2 26 Frans Goddijn 49 2019 3-4 8809 Tim van de Kamp 49 2019 5-5 309 hackerskamp SHA Last year there was a large hacker camp on the Flevopolder. Because TeXnicians can also call themselves "hackers", there was even a real "LaTeX village" present at the camp this year. A short report of the camp. Hans van der Meer 49 2019 6-12 97 Second, revised and extended, version of a module for processing of notes. Notes are classified according to category/subcategory and can contain information about subject, author, date, source, etc. The typesetting of the notes can be filtered according to several criteria. Many aspects of the formatting are easily configurable. Hans van der Meer 49 2019 13-26 506 My Takenotes module for processing notes is used to present a selection from the notes collected mainly from the \ConTeXt users group on the internet. Hans Hagen 49 2019 27-28 38 Hans Hagen 49 2019 29-30 39 Hans Hagen 49 2019 31-34 64 Dennis van Dok 49 2019 35-36 304 Ernst van der Storm 49 2019 37-38 346 gedicht met vertaling kolommen bladvullende kop programmaboekje For many years I have been making program booklets for the Nieuwegeins Kamerkoor, and always with LaTeX, resp. LuaTeX. This article describes some macros I used to create the booklet. Aligning a song text on the page — usually A5 — and its translation is usually manual work. The package verse turned out to be unsuitable, this article contains an alternative. Taco Hoekwater 49 2019 39-40 50 The application MUPDF (mupdf.com) is a very fast, portable, open-source PDF previewer and development toolkit actively supported by Artifex, the creators of GhostScript (artifex.com). But MUPDF is not just a very fast, portable, open-source PDF previewer and toolkit. It also comes with a handy collection of command-line tools that are easily overlooked. The command-line tools allow you to annotate, edit, and convert documents to other formats such as HTML, SVG, PDF, and PNG. You can also write scripts to manipulate documents using Javascript. This small paper gives a quick overview of the possibilities. Siep Kroonenberg 49 2019 41-42 539 It can be difficult to find the information you need, and that includes TeX and LaTeX users. But I hope to show here that you usually don't have to search long. TeX Live and MiKTeX install almost complete documentation ootnote{With TeX Live this is an installation option. Online there are also very complete and easily searchable overviews. Ernst van der Storm 49 2019 43-48 2583 Sometimes it is necessary for a choir or an orchestra to copy a piece from a music book, the result being a number of scanned images — usually of the jpeg or pdf type. \par %[2ex] Below I describe a method to make the margins of all pages straight and symmetrical with a few LaTeX macros, to display the scans on the entire page and to make the result as one PDF usable for printing. For example, correcting the trapezoidal shape of a scan is only possible with more specific software such as DigiKam.\par Using an editor with column editing options can be useful. Rens Baardman 49 2019 49-53 1029 Hans Hagen 49 2019 54-57 61 Piet van Oostrum 49 2019 58-70 5299 LaTeX travelling iPad Overleaf git distributed version management Github This article describes the adventures that I had while working on a small TeX project without my beloved laptop at hand. With only an iPad to do the work and without a local TeX system installed on it there were several challenges. I document them here so that others can enjoy the struggles I had and can benefit from the solutions when they encounter similar situations. maps redactie 50 2020 1-78 8767 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine maps redactie 50 2020 1-1 23 Hans Hagen 50 2020 2-2 36 Frans Goddijn 50 2020 3-4 1201 Dennis van Dok 50 2020 5-8 68 Verslag van de bezorger 50 2020 9-11 1340 Frans Goddijn 50 2020 12-12 2224 Frans Goddijn 50 2020 13-14 358 Floris van Manen 50 2020 15-17 55 Markus Kohm 50 2020 18-24 512 There are various packages on CTAN that can be used to change the page style of a document. One of the most popular is likely to be fancyhdr . Another, more basic package is the KOMAscript package scrlayer . With its layer model, this package goes far beyond what a page style package usually does. Therefore, soon after the release of scrlayer , the desire was expressed to be able to use the layers of scrlayer together with the page styles of fancyhdr . With the experimental package scrlayer-fancyhdr this is now possible. Sergey Slyusarev 50 2020 25-30 1312 Taco Hoekwater 50 2020 31-44 189 Herbert Voß 50 2020 45-45 207 Philippe Vanoverbeke 50 2020 46-48 341 After just under three decades, I have finally decided to no longer renew my membership. Frans Goddijn asked me for a report about my experiences with LaTeX/TeX since 'then days' in the early 1990s until now… A long story of course, but also nice for me to look back at the past. Hans Hagen 50 2020 49-52 64 Hans Hagen 50 2020 53-56 64 Hans Hagen 50 2020 57-58 48 Frans Goddijn 50 2020 59-60 308 Dennis Holierhoek 50 2020 61-63 326 Hans Hagen 50 2020 65-74 654 maps redactie 51 2021 1-102 2615 NTG MAPS NTG's magazine maps redactie 51 2021 1-1 18 Hans Hagen 51 2021 2-2 36 Hans Hagen 51 2021 3-6 184 Hans Hagen 51 2021 7-8 36 Hans Hagen 51 2021 9-12 100 Hans Hagen 51 2021 13-24 89 J.A.M. Vermaseren 51 2021 25-39 1003 This paper shows some of the features of Axodraw. It puts emphasis on applications, not only in the field of physics, but also in completely unrelated fields like mathematical tiling constructions, fashion patterns or the design of sudokus. Tomáš Szaniszlo 51 2021 40-64 515 Donald Knuth Computer Programming as Art Boundless Interests Q&A In October 2019, the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, hosted Donald Knuth as a guest who led two questions and answers sessions at this occasion dedicated to the themes of Computer Science and art. Besides some background on these lectures, you can also find their transcripts in this article. Hans van der Meer 51 2021 65-68 272 Formerly part of the module hvdm-xml but now split off into an independent module with its own description. Used for making other modules language sensitive. The module is especially tailored for XML use. Hans van der Meer 51 2021 69-76 90 Lua macro file font list date Described is a module containing a number of helper macros, many of them programmed in Lua. Jerzy Ludwichowski 51 2021 77-78 343 Pieter van Oostrum 51 2021 79-96 570 LaTeX package fancyhdr headers footers versiebeheer testen This article provides an overview of the development of the LaTeX package fancyhdr, and the tools I use for this. An overview is also given of the method of testing. Siep Kroonenberg 51 2021 97-98 307