******************************************************************************* * * * TTTTTTT X X M M GGGGGG A Mostly Unofficial * * T X X MM MM G Publication for Users * * T EEEEEEE XXX M M M M A G GG Of the TeX Computer * * T E X X M M M A A G G Typesetting System. * * T EEEE X X M M M AAAAA GGGGGG * * E A A Volume 2, Number 1 * * EEEEEEE A A Distribution: 623 or so... * * * ******************************************************************************* January 22, 1988 \footnote.....................................................................1 News Announcing TeX on DECnet....................................................2 Changes to TeX-L............................................................3 TeXeter.....................................................................4 TUG courses.................................................................5 Second Annual Readers Survey..................................................6 The Personal TeX Incorporated Bulletin Board..................................7 BibTeX and plain TeX..........................................................8 The Toolbox...................................................................9 Assorted useful information..................................................10 __1 \footnote{One year later...} Exactly 364 days ago, I took a file I had created on our local VAX, tacked some LISTSERV batch instructions to the front of it, sent it off to LISTSERV@CLVM and TeXMaG was born. At the time, there were a total of 53 subscribers (counting myself) and a shortage of disk space (the second issue was delayed two weeks because I didn't have enough free disk space to send out the new issue of TeXMaG). Today, TeXMaG has increased in size more than 1000%. The Listserv batch commands gave way to a regular list on BYUADMIN. Within months redistributions popped up all over net-land, including redistributions on Canada's CDNnet, and England's JANET. There are now four listservers distributing TeXMaG (although I *still* haven't been able to get back issues available) and more to be installed. Along the way, a lot of exciting things have happened in the TeX community. TeXhax, which was revived shortly before TeXMaG was first conceived, has grown tremendously and put out over 100 issues in 1987. The Bitnet redistribution of TeXhax is one of the top Bitnet lists in terms of total subscribers. In England, we have seen the birth of TeXline (Malcolm Clark's TeX magazine -- see the end of this issue for more information), and UKTeX, a British equivalent to TeXhax (I suppose they need something special there since they all drive on the wrong side of the road). At this year's TUG meeting, advances were made in standardizing some of the external parts of TeX: device drivers and \special commands; contents of distribution tapes; macro documentation; and so on. More and more resources are available to TeX users on the networks. Ken Yap created the LaTeX style repository in late 1986 and it is currently outgrowing its available resources. In Germany, there is a LISTSERV that contains numerous TeX-related files, especially those that are useful to German TeX users (macros for German quotation marks, for example). Glenn Vanderberg is in the process of installing more files on the TAMVM1 listserv and reorganizing the file access by breaking down the directories into more managable units. Even TeX users without Network access have something of a friend in the PCTeX Bulletin Board which is in the process of being revised and expanded. An excerpt from recent letter from Nelson Beebe to M. Jean Baptiste Durand of Prisma Press includes some interesting comments about the growth of TeX: By the end of this year [1987], the American Mathematical Society will have completed its conversion to publication of all of its journals using TeX, and the journal _Mathematical_Reviews_ is now available from an on-line service with text in the database maintained in TeX input form. The American publication TV Guide, which publishes over a billion issues a year (20 million a week) has begun work on the conversion of their publication to TeX. This effort is expected to take at least 2 years, because the tight deadlines of a weekly pulication leave no room for failures of a new system. * * * As you can see by this letter, I am excited about TeX, because I really do believe it has the potential for completely revolutionizing the typesetting and publishing industry, just as the development of computers will no doubt be later viewed as significant as the Industrial Revolution that changed the world at the beginning of the last century. Beebe's comments really bring out one important fact: TeX is special. After all, *I* have never seen a SCRIPTmag or troffhax or GMLline or Wordstarboat or ... -dh Oh, by the way, as you may have noticed, the format has changed again. :-) Also, the listings of related publications at the end of the magazine have been expanded to include file repositories. New information is always welcome. __2 ********************************************************************** * Announcing Tex on Decnet * ********************************************************************** By Marisa Luvisetto and Massimo Calvani Thanks to the collaboration of several TeX-friends, we have created a depository for TeX and related software for VAX/VMS on DECnet in Italy. For any information, please send a (decnet) mail message to: 39937::luvisetto or 39003::fisica We received several requests from non-decnet nodes. As this is not our main work, in principle we would like to offer the service only for DECnet/SPAN, so that anybody interested can copy what he needs without too much help from us. The material at present available is listed below. AMSFONTS.DIR The Ams, Cyrillic and Eu* fonts AMSTEX.DIR;1 The Amstex package BASES.DIR;1 Basic PLAIN files for Tex and Metafont BEEBE.DIR Beebe's driver family (thanks Beebe) BIBTEX.DIR;1 The Bibtex package CLD.DIR;1 *.cld files to install TeX in DCL tables CM.DIR;1 CM fonts definitions DOC.DIR;1 *.Tex files for Tex and Metafont manuals DVITOVDU.DIR;1 Preview by Andrew Trevorrow (thanks Andrew) EXE.DIR;1 All *.exe files FONTS.DIR;1 All *.TFM files FORMATS.DIR;1 Basic *.fmt files INPUTS.DIR;1 *.sty files for Latex LATEX.DIR;1 The Latex package LATEXSTYLE.DIR;1 The Latexstyle collection of Ken Yap (thanks Ken) LN03.DIR;1 Driver for DEC LN03 laserprinter LN_FONTS.DIR;1 Fonts for Ln03 in PK format LN_FONTS_GF.DIR;1 Fonts for LN03 in GF format (thanks John Sauter) LSEDIT.DIR;1 Lse module for Latex MLLCNAF.DIR;1 Drivers for VT125-240-241-330-340, GPX, mVAX 2000 MF.DIR;1 Metafont MFWARE.DIR;1 Metafont PIXEL.DIR;1 *.pxl files at \magstep 1 --> 6 PSFIGTEX.DIR;1 Package to include Postscript files in TeX docs PSPRINT.DIR;1 Driver for Postscript Laserprinters by A. Trevorrow QMS.DIR;1 Driver for Qms/quick laserprinter QMS_FONTS.DIR;1 Fonts for Qms Laserprinter in GF format SAMPLES.DIR;1 Sample files for Tex and Latex SPELL.DIR;1 Speller utility SVI.DIR;1 Modules to produce 'save image' of exec. file TEX.DIR;1 .EXE files for Tex and Virtex TEXHAX.DIR;1 The TexHax magazine (thanks Malcolm Brown) TEXMAG.DIR;1 The Texmag magazine (thanks Don Hosek) TEXUK.DIR;1 The Uktex magazine (thanks Peter Abbott) TEXWARE.DIR;1 Tex related software as DViTYPE, TFTOPL, PLTOTF TRAP.DIR;1 Metafont torture test TRIP.DIR;1 Tex torture test WEB.DIR;1 Source for WEB programs, WEAVE and Tangle __3 ********************************************************************** * Changes to TeX-L * ********************************************************************** The Bitnet redistribution of TeX-L has undergone extensive revision in the past few weeks. First, its role as a Bitnet discussion group has been disabled. Glenn Vanderburg (the chief organizer of the list) in a note to list members sent in January said, Prompted by the recent annoying flurry of "subscribe me" and "unsubscribe me" messages, I will be restricting the list so that only TeXhax can mail to it. Originally it was intended that TeX-L support a Bitnet-based discussion which would be separate from TeXhax, but it now seems that it would be better to turn PeX-L into a TeXha| redistribution only. This may yet take some time, as the list is spread out to peer listservs on ten different nodes, and due to some confusion in the list's infancy I am not listed as an owner of four of them. I hope to have it all taken care of by mid-January, however, and the list should be much more pleasant and useful. Also, Glenn has revised the structure of files on the TAMVM1 listserver. Because the old directory was beginning to get unwieldly, the old TEX FILELIST has been broken into several parts: CHANGES FILELIST [Change files to make TeX run on various systems. (empty)] DOCUMENT FILELIST [Documentation files such as texman.tex. (empty)] DRIVER FILELIST [Sources and documentation for DVI drivers. (empty)] FONTS FILELIST [Computer Modern and other fonts. (empty)] LATEX FILELIST [The LaTeX style file repository (plus lplain, splain, etc). (empty)] MACROS FILELIST [Plain, assorted macro packages. (empty)] TEXHAX FILELIST [Contains all of the TeXhax journals since it resumed in 1986.] UTILITY FILELIST [Utilities such as TeXtyl. (empty)] WEB FILELIST [TeX, METAFONT, TeXware, MFware, Common TeX (in C), and TRIP/TRAP] The comment following each filelist entry describes the types of files which *might* be found in the filelist. Note that the name of the filelist is not necessarily an exact indication of the contents. For instance, the WEB filelist contains the WEBs for TeX, METAFONT, etc., but might also contain something like Common TeX (which is in C, not WEB) or sources for other WEB-like languages (such as MWEB, WEB for Modula-2). The DRIVER filelist might contain not only drivers but also an index to drivers for various devices and other files related to drivers. In addition, each filelist can contain other filelists. __4 ********************************************************************** * TeXeter * ********************************************************************** TeX88, the Third European TeX conference will take place at Exeter University, UK, from Monday July 18th to Wednesday, July 20th, 1988. In view of the rate at which TeX is expanding its areas of application, and the developments which will have take place by next summer, papers are welcome from all areas of TeX, MetaFont and related subjects. Likely themes might include: * desktop and traditional publishing with TeX * document structure---LaTeX, SGML, ODA, etc. * non-technical TeX and MetaFont applications (humanities, music, exotic languages) * other technical areas (chemistry, physics, biology) * parochial peculiarities (European considerations!) * ai and expert system approaches * TeX and wysiwyg * MetaFont and fonts * page description languages and dvi * micro inputs * macro inputs * standards: * for \special * for printer drivers * for TeX macros * TeX environments The program will be structured to include both long and short contributions. The proceedings will be published after the conference. *Added Value* We shall run various workshops and participatory seminars before, during, and after the conference. Specifically, there will be workshops and courses, each taking approximately 2--3 days. Some will run concurrently: * document design * LaTeX style files (and how to modify them) * beginning/intermediate MetaFont * beginning/intermediate non-technical TeX * TeX macro writing Seminar rooms will be available during the conference for "birds of a feather" and other ad hoc group meetings. There will be facilities for exhibitions by the vendors of TeX-related software, hardware, and paperware. A number of micros will be available to allow the interchange of micro software, as well as demonstrations of particular packages etc. *What does it cost?* The total cost of the conference, including accomodation (from the evening of Sunday, July 17th, through Wednesday, July 20th) at Lopes Hall of Residence, meals, social activities, and the conference proceedings will be around 150 pounds. For non-residents, the charge will be about 100 pounds. The workshops and seminars will cost about 50 pounds per day, which also includes accomodation and meals. *Where is Exeter University?* Exeter is located in the sunny south west of England, close to Dartmoor, and only 10 miles from the sea. The university is approximately one mile north of Exeter city center. There is an excellant train service to London and the North from St. Davids Station. The M5 and M4 motorways provide quick and relatively painless access to London, the Midlands, and the North. There is ample car parking space on capus. The local airport has daily connections to the continent, as well as UK internal destinations. *Application Form* Name: ________________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Telephone: ___________________________________________________________ email: _______________________________________________________________ Please check where appropriate: ___ Please add my name to the TeX88 mailing list ___ I am interested in the courses (Please state which) ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___ I would like to present a paper (The title wil be) _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Send to: Malcolm Clark, TeX88 Imperial College Computer Centre Exhibition Road London SW7 2BP JANET: texline@uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa TeX88 is pleased to acknowledge the support of ArborText, Addison-Wesley Publishers Ltd., Ellis Horwood Ltd. (Publishers), Personal TeX, TeXpert systems and UniTeX systems. __5 ********************************************************************** * TeX Courses in Los Angeles Area * ********************************************************************** Two TeX courses -- Beginning and Intermediate -- will be offered in 1988. Each course will meet one evening a week for six weeks. The Macintosh and IBM PC will be used for the lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on practice. Practical exercises will be reviewed and explained; they are to be accomplished between classes. These courses will take place at the Northridge Campus, California State University, on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 9:30 p.m. The fee for each course wil be $325. Preregistration deadline is 25 days prior to the starting date of each course. A $25 discount maybe taken on registrations postmarked prior to the deadline. Addditional information concerning room location, parking, etc., will be sent to each registrant. *Beginning TeX Course -- February 10--March 16, 1988* Typesetting and what makes TeX different from word processing; the input read by TeX and the output it generates; how to run TeX on the Macintosh and IBM PC; dimensions, fonts and how they are specified in TeX; boxes and glue: what theyare and how to use them in unusual situations; generating tables; introduction to macros; the concept of an output routine: some simple examples; typesetting mathematics with TeX. Five homework asignments will be handed out, each on the material covered during the class. The instructor will be available by phone between classes for assistance. The assignments will be graded and also solved in the following class. *Intermediate TeX Course -- March 30--May 4, 1988* The concept of penalty and its use in building lines and pages; macros: conditions and recursion in macros; fine points of mathematics typesetting; output routines and how to use them for special effects; advanced topics in generating tables; a detailed coverage of TeX's line breaking algorithm. The homework policy is the same as teh Begnning Course. To register, or for more information about this course or other TeX courses, call or write: TeX Users Group P.O. Box 9506 Providence RI 02940 (USA) (401) 272-9500 ext. 232 __6 ********************************************************************** * The Second Annual Readers' Survey * ********************************************************************** Well, a year has gone by and it's time to find out who's out there and what they want. I have worked to make this survey as useful as possible, as well as attempting to make it a little easier for me to score. Some of the questions remain (for example, "Name") but many have been revised to reflect the fact that (1) this is no longer a brand new publication and (2) I have a better idea of what sort of questions to ask. So, with no further ado, here is the 1988 Reader's Survey. Part one: Who are you? Name _______________________________________________________________ Userid ____________________ Country (or state for U.S.) ____________ Native Language ____________________________________ Age ___ Sex ___ Occupation: (Indicate what type of institution you work for, and check the appropriate category) ___ Educational (includes students) ___ Student ___ Academic Faculty ___ Research Faculty ___ Clerical Staff ___ Computing Staff ___ Editorial ___ Other (indicate) __________________________________________ ___ Government ___ Research ___ Clerical Staff ___ Computing Staff ___ Editorial ___ Other (indicate) _________________________ ___ Commercial Institution ___ Non-profit Institution ___ Research ___ Clerical Staff ___ Computing Staff ___ Editorial ___ Other (indicate) _________________________ Name your place of employment ______________________________________ What is your primary field/major____________________________________ How did you hear about TeXMaG? (Check all applicable answers) ___ Netmonth/BITNET servers ___ TeXhax ___ Friend ___ The editor publicizes it shamelessly. ___ Other (indicate) __________________________________________ How do you receive TeXMaG? ___ LISTSERV ___ Local redistibution ___ Public disk or directory at your node ___ Friend ___ Other (Specify) __________ Part two: What do you have? What kind of machine do you have TeX running on at your site? (Check all applicable answers) Big Machines: ___ Amdahl (MTS) ___ IBM VM/UTS ___ CDC Cyber ___ Prime ___ Cray ___ Siemens BS2000 ___ Data General MV ___ Sperry 1100 ___ DEC-10 ___ Symbolics Lisp ___ DEC-20 ___ UNIX (BSD) ___ HP9000/500 ___ Unix (System V) ___ IBM MVS ___ VAX/VMS ___ IBM VM/CMS ___ Other (Specify) ___________________________________________ Little Machines: ___ Amiga ___ HP9000/200 ___ Apollo ___ IBM PC (or compatible) ___ Apple Macintosh ___ Integrated Solutions ___ Atari ST ___ SUN ___ AT&T System V Unix ___ Texas Instruments PC ___ Cadmus 9200 ___ VAXstation (Unix) ___ HP1000 ___ VAXstation (VMS) ___ HP3000 ___ Other (Specify) ___________________________________________ What do you use as your output device? Laser printers: ___ Agfa P400 ___ Kyocera ___ Canon ___ Phillips Elpho ___ Cordata LP300 ___ PostScript printer ___ DEC LN01 ___ QMS Lasergrafix ___ DEC LN03 ___ Symbolics ___ HP 2680 ___ Talaris ___ HP 2688A ___ Xerox Dover ___ HP Laserjet ___ Xerox 2700, 3700, 4045 ___ HP Laserjet Plus ___ Xerox 87xx, 97xx, 4050 ___ IBM 38xx, 4250, Sherpa ___ Xerox Interpress printer ___ Imagen ___ Other (Specify) ___________________________________________ Dot matrix and other low resolution printers: ___ Apple Imagewriter ___ MPI Sprinter ___ DEC LP100, LA75 ___ Okidata ___ Diablo ___ Printronix ___ Epson ___ Star ___ Facit 4542 ___ Texas Instuments 855 ___ Florida Data ___ Toshiba ___ Fujitsu ___ Varian ___ GE 3000 ___ Versatec ___ NEC ___ Other (Specify) ___________________________________________ Typesetters: ___ Allied Linotype CRTronic ___ Compugraphic 8400 ___ Allied Linotype L100, L300P ___ Compugraphic 8600 ___ Allied Linotype L202 ___ Harris 7500 ___ Alphatype CRS ___ Hell Digiset ___ Autologic APS-5, Micro-5 ___ Other (Specify) ___________________________________________ What version of TeX are you currently running? _____________________ Which of the following do you subscribe to/read regularly? ___ TeXhax (Arpanet list) ___ TUGboat ___ TeXline ___ UKTeX ___ Anything else you think I should know about _______________ Part three: What do you want? On each of the topics listed give a rating of LL if you think that there should be much less coverage, L if you think there should be a little less coverage, S if you think the overage should remain about the same, M if you think there should be a little more coverage and MM if you think there should be much more coverage. If you feel that you might be willing to write an article in any given area, indicate by placing a * next to your rating. ___ Plain TeX ___ Macro writing ___ Macros ___ Tutorials ___ LaTeX ___ Document style design ___ Macro writing ___ Macros ___ Tutorials ___ AmS-TeX ___ Macro writing ___ Macros ___ Tutorials ___ Metafont ___ Font design ___ Font examples ___ Tutorials ___ WEB ___ Programming in WEB ___ Variations on WEB ___ Variations on WEB formatting ___ Reviews of TeX related products ___ Information on available TeX services on the networks (mailing lists, file repositories, etc.) ___ Articles about supporting TeX ___ Anything else: ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Part four: What did I miss? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Part five: What's the gig? Return this survey to DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET (for non-BITNET sites, the address is most likely DHOSEK%HMCVAX.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU) sometime before February 21. A summary of results will be posted in an upcoming issue. __7 ********************************************************************** * Personal TeX, Inc. Bulletin Board * ********************************************************************** By Jon Radel <6033138@PUCC.BITNET> After Don Hosek mentioned this BBS (Bulletin Board System) in the last issue of TeXMaG, I decided to call it and upload such issues of TeXMaG and TeXhax that were missing in their collection and also check on how worthwhile it was as a source of information. Unfortunately, despite the dedication of the SYSOP, the board is rather inactive, in part because full access (e.g., being allowed to download files) is limited to registered customers of Personal TeX, Inc. As of January 1988, however, the SYSOP is in the process of expanding the file collections and is planning to allow free access to many of the files to all callers. Those who call can find a few gems on this BBS: complete collections of TeXhax and TeXMaG, the LaTeX-style collection from the University of Rochester, WEB source from Stanford, patches for PCTeX, various PC oriented TeX utilities, and a slew of odds and ends. There are also message areas for asking technical questions about their own PCTeX and the Arbor Text products that they market. You can get access to all of this by calling and leaving the SYSOP a message with your serial number, if you have one. If you don't call anyway and look around. It is well worth it for those of us who run TeX on IBM PCs. Contact the board at (415)388-1708, 300/1200/2400 bps at 8N1 (8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit). The board is up 24 hours, 7 days, except for a while at about 9am weekdays and another unspecified period very late at night when the FIDO BBS software waits to exchange mail with other FIDO systems in the network. __8 ********************************************************************** * BibTeX and plain TeX * ********************************************************************** By Anthony J. Ferro Ok, you've begged, borrowed, stolen, or (sigh!) written a set of macros to produce output in the way you like it (or the way *they* demand it :-(). But wait!! Alas and woe! It is written in plain TeX, and you had your heart set on using BibTeX to set your 5498 bibliographic citations. What will you do?? To solve this problem, here is a handy dandy example of how to get plain TeX to work with BibTeX. This macro produces the basic things BibTeX expects to see in the AUX file, and reads in the generated BBL file. The example \citer has the effect of placing an entry in the bibliography, but does nothing to the text. \references and \endreferences are executed before and after the bibliography, to allow setting of the bibliography style. This macro is not intended to be a final version, but it help in getting started in setting those funny little bibliographies we all know and love. [[Editors' Note: If anybody out there wants to use these macros for a basis in creating a polished set of macros for BibTeX, I wouldn't mind seeing them in these pages. -dh]] %%------------------------------- Rip here ------------------------- % Pseudo-BIB.TEX % % These commands are examples of how to use BibTeX with plain TeX. % Syntax is similar to LaTeX, but can be changed to suit the user. % % Example: % .... Blah, blah \citer(Keyword) blah, blah.... % \bibliography{gunk} %<-- the *.BIB file % \bibliographystyle{plain} %<-- the *.BST file (style) % % \citer Puts nothing in the text, it only enters something in the *.AUX % file (which is now generated). This allows citing of entries in the % bibliography, but not the text. % % Anthony J. Ferro % Physics Dept. -- Astronomy Group % Arizona State University % Tempe, AZ 85287 % FERRO@ASUCPS.BITNET \newcount\citeon \citeon=0 \def\citer#1{\ifnum\citeon<1\citeon=1\openout1\jobname.aux \write1{\string\relax}\fi % \write1{\string\citation{#1}}} % Put your favorite method of citing here! \def\bibliography#1{\openin2\jobname.bbl \ifeof2 \message{No \jobname.BBL file. } \write1{\string\bibdata{#1}} \closein2 \else { %important, lets \end be redefined TEMPORARILY \def\begin##1##2{\references} \def\bibitem##1{} \def\newblock{} \def\end##1{\endreferences} \input\jobname.bbl } \write1{\string\bibdata{#1}} \closein2 \fi } \def\bibliographystyle#1{\write1{\string\bibstyle{#1}}} \def\references{\bf This is the beginning of MY REFERENCES} \def\endreferences{\bf This is the end of MY REFERENCES} %%%-------------------- Un-Rip here --------------------------------- __9 ********************************************************************** * The Toolbox * ********************************************************************** >> \anti macro By Richard S. Holmes Here's a plain TeX macro for particle physicists. How do you typeset the symbol for a neutral antiparticle that has a superscript? For example, the antiparticle of $K^0$ -- is it $\overline{K^0}$? No, that looks ugly: the bar extends over the superscript 0; it should just be over the K. Is it ${\overline{K}}^0$? No, because then the superscript comes out too high. You want the 0 at the same height as in $K^0$. Here's my solution, based loosely on the \over... macros in plain TeX (see The TeXbook). Maybe there's a simpler solution -- frankly I don't understand everything in this macro and some of it may be superfluous -- but it does the job, and since it ain't broke, I ain't gonna fix it. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CUT HERE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % \anti -- Definition. % Produce a superscripted antiparticle: #1 with an overbar and a super- % script #2. Looks better than \overline{{#1}^{#2}} (bar does not extend over % superscript) or {\overline {#1}}^{#2} (superscript does not stick up above % bar; in fact, superscript is at same height as for the charge conjugate, % {#1}^{#2}). If you want subscripts too, you'll have to modify % this definition to take a third argument. Math mode is assumed. % Macro by Rich Holmes (rich@suhep.bitnet), 1/88 % \def\anti#1#2{\vbox{\ialign{##\crcr \hrulefill$\smash{\phantom{\scriptstyle#2}}$\crcr % the right length bar \noalign{\kern-1pt\nointerlineskip\vskip 0.25ex} % the right spacing $\hfil{#1}^{#2}\hfil$\crcr}}} % the right text %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CUT HERE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \def\Kzerobar{\anti{K}{0}} \def\Dstarbar{\anti{D}{*}} % et cetera %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CUT HERE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% __10 TeXMaG is an electronic magazine published by the Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Department available free of charge to all interested parties reachable by electronic mail. It is published sporadicly, and the editor likes to think that its monthly so the readers humor him. Subscription requests should be sent to Don Hosek or send the following message to LISTSERV@BYUADMIN: SUBS TEXMAG-L Your_Full_Name. European subscribers may send the SUBS command to LISTSERV@DEARN, subscribers on CDNnet should send subscription requests to (being sure to mention that they wish to subscribe to TeXMaG), and JANET subscribers should send requests to be added to the list to Peter Abbott, . Back issues are available for anonymous FTP in the file BBD:TEXMAG.TXT on SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU. They may also be obtained from Don Hosek . Article submissions, contributions for the Toolbox, and letters to the editor are always welcome and should be sent to . Other publications of interest to TeX users are: TeXHAX. Arpanet mailing list for persons with questions, suggestions, etc.. about TeX, LaTeX, MetaFont and related programs. Submissions for this list should be sent to . Internet subscribers may subscribe by sending a request to . JANET subscribers should send subscription requests to . BITNET users may subscribe by sending the following command (as an interactive message or as the first line of a mail message) to LISTSERV@TAMVM1: SUBS TEX-L your_full_name. The list is peer-linked to other listserves in the United States and Europe. Australian users should send subscription requests to Japanese users should send subscription requests to . Unix-TeX. Arpanet mailing list specifically for users of TeX under the Unix operating system. Submissions for this list should be sent to . Requests to be added or deleted from the mailing list should be sent to . UKTeX. A U.K. version of TeXhax. To subscribe, send a note to Peter Abbott at . TeXline. A TeX newsletter edited by Malcolm Clark. To subscribe, send a note to . TUGBoat. A publication by the TeX Users Group. An excellant reference for TeX users. For more information about joining TUG and subscribing to TUGBoat send (real) mail to: TeX Users Group c/o American Mathematical Society P. O. Box 9506 Providence, RI 02940-9506, USA LaTeX-style collection. A collection of LaTeX files is available for FTP and mail access at cayuga.cs.rochester.edu. To obtain files via FTP, login to cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (192.5.53.209) as anonymous, password guest and go to the directory public/latex-style (where the files are). The file 00index contains a brief description of current directory contents. If your site does not have FTP access, you may obtain files by mail by sending a message to latex-style@cs.rochester.edu with the subject "@file request". The first line of the body of the message should be an @. The second line should contain a mail address from rochester TO you (for example, if you are user@site.bitnet, the second line should be user%site.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu). The lines that follow should be the filenames you desire and the last line should also contain only an @. LISTSERV@DHDURZ1 has file archives of interest to TeX users. Included are the Beebe drivers and contents of the LaTeX style collection, as well as some TeX macros. Many files are available only in German. LISTSERV@TAMVM1 also has file archives that may be of interest to TeX users on BITNET, including the files from the Score.Stanford.EDU FTP directories and back issues of TeXHAX. For a list of files available, send the following command to LISTSERV@TAMVM1: GET TeX FILELIST. DECNET. There is a TeX file collection on DECnet accessible from DECnet and Spam. Available files include the Beebe DVI drivers, the LaTeX style collection, and back issues of TeXhax, TeXMag, and UKTeX. For more information, contact Marisa Luvisetto (DECNET: <39937:luvisetto>, Bitnet: ) or Massimo Calvani . JANET. Peter Abbott keeps an archive of TeX-related files available for FTP access. For more information send mail to . Special thanks to those who contributed to this issue, Don Kubota, Eric Prosser, and Dean Bell.