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- UKTeX Digest Thursday, 24 Dec 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 48
-
- UKTeX Digest, Christmas Number
- On behalf of the UK TeX Archivists and the UK TeX Users Group,
- we wish all our readers a very happy Christmas and New Year
-
-
- Today's Topics:
- {Q&A}:
- RE: Unhyphenable hyphens
- RE: Unhyphenable hyphens
- Inclusion of CGM files into LaTeX
- Re: Inclusion of CGM files into LaTeX
- {Archive News}:
- APLWEB and Literate Programming in APL
-
-
- Administrivia:
- Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
- David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
- Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex
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-
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 16:32:25 +0100
- From: Frank Jensen <fj%dk.auc.iesd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
- Subject: RE: Unhyphenable hyphens
-
- > \font \mainfont = ps-nbr
- > \font \partfont = ps-nbr
- > \hyphenchar \partfont = -1
- > \def \partno #1{{\partfont #1}}
-
- This code will not work as most users expect. TeX only stores one
- copy of a font internally. The \hyphenchar assignment will affect
- both \mainfont and \partfont. Try \showthe\hyphenchar\mainfont.
-
- - ---
- Frank Jensen, fj@iesd.auc.dk
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Aalborg University
- DENMARK
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:02:53 +0000
- From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
- Subject: RE: Unhyphenable hyphens
-
- > \font \mainfont = ps-nbr
- > \font \partfont = ps-nbr
- > \hyphenchar \partfont = -1
- > \def \partno #1{{\partfont #1}}
-
- >> This code will not work as most users expect. TeX only stores one
- >> copy of a font internally. The \hyphenchar assignment will affect
- >> both \mainfont and \partfont. Try \showthe\hyphenchar\mainfont.
-
- My thanks to Frank Jensen for pointing this out; I had worried when I made
- the suggestion that this might be the case, but as my esteemed colleagues
- in UKTEX-REVIEWERS allowed it to pass without comment, I hoped I was on safe
- ground. An experiment confirms that Frank is quite correct in his assertion,
- and I therefore offer the following as a work-around (one is usally
- recommended to take a renamed copy of the font in circumstances such as
- these, but I believe there is a simpler, albeit slightly kludgy, solution):
-
- \font \mainfont = ps-nbr at 655360 sp
- \font \partfont = ps-nbr at 655361 sp
- \hyphenchar \partfont = -1
- \def \partno #1{{\partfont #1}}
-
- Philip Taylor, RHBNC.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 12:20:00 +0000
- From: XRASIMMIE%ie.ucg.bodkin@uk.ac.earn-relay
- Subject: Inclusion of CGM files into LaTeX
-
- Is there a way to include CGM files into LaTeX?
- In the same way that one can include encapsulated Postscript via
- \BoxedEPSF{} say?
-
- John Simmie: Chemistry Department: University College Galway: Ireland
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 08:11:46 +0000
- From: Malcolm Clark <malcolmc@uk.ac.westminster>
- Subject: Re: Inclusion of CGM files into LaTeX
-
- i recall an article in tugboat by andrews (tb 10(2), 1989)
- which described this on a clutch of mainframes, but i
- can't recall if it were specifically for latex.
-
- the short answer is 'not exactly'.
-
- anyone got a cgm2ps? it can't be all that difficult.
- cgm is not a language in the same sense, although
- i recall it does have a fair suite of primitive shapes.
-
- malcolm
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 22 Dec 92 12:02:22 +0000
- From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
- Subject: (archive availability) APLWEB and Literate Programming in APL
-
- I have put the software described below in the UK TeX
- (Internet/Daughter) archive in pub/archive/web/aplweb
-
- sebastian rahtz
-
- Literate programming in APL
- and APLWEB
-
- A few years ago, Donald Knuth introduced WEB, a system for
- presenting source code and documentation in a single document.
- His scheme allows an author to give extended and copious notes
- about the intention of the code, along with the code itself, in
- a single document.
-
- Most readers will have heard about TeX, the most famous example
- of a successful product done this way, and I am sure that there
- must be other programming products done with WEB, but I can not
- name any others. Now, from the University of Bielefeld comes
- APLWEB, a method for presenting APL code in a literate way.
- With APLWEB exposition and code may be blended into a single
- source document. Two tools, TANGLE and WEAVE, are provided,
- which extract the APL executable code and produce TeX source,
- respectively.
-
- APLWEB is a means by which one may write an article or book,
- and include along with it, in one place, the APL source for the
- immediate execution lines and APL functions that accompany it.
-
- The developer of APLWEB is Dr. Christoph von Basum, e-mail
- <CvB@erasmus.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, who has written his Ph.D.
- thesis about literate programming in APL. He is the author
- of all the C-code and TeX-macros. The ccapl-font was designed
- by students at the University of Bielefeld.
-
- This work was communicated to us by Bernhard Strohmeier, whose
- e-mail address is <bstrohmeier@erasmus.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>.
- Mr. Strohmeier is a Ph.D. student at the University of
- Bielefeld, working under the supervision of Professor Peter
- Naeve and Dr. Peter Wolf. Mr. Strohmeier is using APLWEB as a
- tool to aid in the writing of his doctoral thesis about causal
- networks.
-
- The first English language release of this work works with IBM
- APL2 and STSC APL. It is designed to run on IBM personal
- computers.
-
- Lee Dickey
- 1992-12-07
-
- - - --
- Prof. Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
- Internet: ljdickey@math.UWaterloo.ca
- ljdickey@math.waterloo.edu
- UUCP: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP
-
-
-
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