Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!brahms.berkeley.edu!raymond From: raymond@brahms.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Supplementary TeX information Message-ID: <1990Oct6.051659.17267@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 6 Oct 90 05:16:59 GMT Expires: 1 Nov 90 01:00:00 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 946 [This is intended to supplement Bobby Bodenheimer's Frequently Asked Questions list.] This file is in several parts. [1] A list of ftp sites. [1a] Mail servers for selected sites. [2] A list of TeX implementations for the Macintosh. [3] How to obtain TeX for the IBM PC. [4] How to obtain TeX for UNIX boxes. [5] Email access to the LaTeX style archives. [6] The 97 gazillion versions of dvi2ps. [7] Converting whatever to TeX Please send corrections/additions to raymond@math.berkeley.edu. =============================================================================== [1] FTP sites. [1a] Major archive sites. Major archive sites: labrea.stanford.edu The "official" repository for TeX and related toys. yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au [131.170.24.42] A mirror archive of labrea, for users Down Under. /pub/tex/labrea [1b] A list of ftp sites. The original list is due to Ed Vielmetti (emv@math.lsa.umich.edu). The information was originally sorted by site. It's now sorted by product. I've also added information from other lists and articles. Product ftp-address Comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFtoPL tut.cis.ohio-state.edu v2.0 by Clayton M. Elwell AMS fonts labrea.stanford.edu directory PS: AMSTeX sun.soe.clarkson.edu (128.153.12.3) BibTeX dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu BibTeX for Atari ST by J. Longs BibTeX eedsp.gatech.edu v99 by J. Demel and Dimitri Vulis for MS-DOS BibTeX june.cs.washington.edu v.99c BibTeX labrea.stanford.edu v.99c, directory PS: BibTeX sun.soe.clarkson.edu Leslie Lamport's BibTeX (128.153.12.3) BibTeX midway.uchicago.edu BibTeX for Macintosh ChemTeX tex.aston.ac.uk macros for chemical structure diagrams, by Roswitha Haas. Login as userid "public", password "public". In directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.LATEX.CONTRIB.CHEMTEX] CM fonts labrea.stanford.edu METAFONT sources, directory PS: CM fonts sun.soe.clarkson.edu METAFONT sources ChTeX chiris.stevens-tech.edu Chinese TeX by J. B. Wang 192.12.216.114 Common-TeX berkeley.edu v2.9 by Pat Monardo DOSTEX wsmr-simtel20.army.mil PD1: wuarchive.wustl.edu DVIDIS cs.yale.edu v3.4 VAXStation previewer by Jerry Leichtner DVIIMP labrea.stanford.edu IMAGENDVI driver PS: Fig svax.cs.cornell.edu v1.4FS, ~/ftp/pub/fig/fig-fs.tar.Z Greek fonts princeton.edu by Silvio Levy LaTeX labrea.stanford.edu by Leslie Lamport in directory PS: LaTeX sun.soe.clarkson.edu by Leslie Lamport (128.153.12.3) LaTeX style son.soe.clarkson.edu pub/latex-style archive METAFONT dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu METAFONT for Atari ST by John Dunning METAFONT june.cs.washington.edu METAFONT labrea.stanford.edu by Donald Knuth in directory PS: MakeIndex ucbarpa.berkeley.edu v2.4 by Pehong Chen MuTeX (aka MTeX) is a system developed for typesetting music. It only does single-staff music and does not support grace notes and the like. It was originally developed in Germany and the internal documentation is all in German. The guide (Version 1.1) is about 40 pages long. If you make it available for FTP, please contact Fran\c{c}ois Jalbert (jalbert@cs.ucb.ca). MuTeX cs.ucb.ca src/MuTeX/MuTeX.tar.Z (slow) (128.189.97.5) MuTeX sol.cs.ruu.nl pub/TEX/mtex{fonts}.tar.Z (131.211.80.5) MuTeX stolaf.edu music TeX, aka mtex (130.71.128.1) pub/MuTeX.tar.Z pub/MuTeX_doc.tar.Z Includes English translation MuTeX sun.soe.clarkson.edu submit/music MuTeX suned.zoo.cs.yale.edu music TeX, aka mtex (128.36.21.1) MuTeX stolaf.edu music TeX, pub/TeX OzTeX midway.uchicago.edu pd TeX for Macintosh by Andrew Trevorrow 128.135.12.73 (replaces tank.uchicago.edu) OzTeX watmsg.waterloo.edu pd TeX for Macintosh by Andrew Trevorrow (129.97.129.9) OzTeX giza.cis.ohio-state.edu in the /pub/oztex directory PicTeX a.cs.uiuc.edu PicTeX june.cs.washington.edu PicTeX sun.soe.clarkson.edu (128.153.12.3) PicTeX svax.cs.cornell.edu : The PicTeX manual is not available in electronic form (at least, not legally). Manual can be obtained from TUG. Contact Tug@Math.AMS.com for more information. : If you have a copy of the file pictex.dvi at your site, delete it now. Printing of that file is a violation of international copyright law. Funds from the sale of the PiCTeX manual are the only renumeration Michael Wichura (author of the package) gets for his work, and by illegally copying the manual, you not only deprive him of income he deserves, but also decrease the possibility of his releasing future macro packages under terms similar to those of PiCTeX. Preview argon.rti.org VAXStation previewer by Randy Buckland SBTeX eedsp.gatech.edu in subdirectory TeX, get the file (128.61.2.1) readme.tex before beginning SBTeX venus.ycc.yale.edu MS-DOS TeX by Wayne Sullivan SBTeX wsmr-simtel20.army.mil MS-DOS TeX by Wayne Sullivan PD1:SB30TEX.ZIP SeeTeX foobar.colorado.edu by Dirk Grunwald StTeX dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu TeX for Atari ST by Jwahar Bammi TeX freja.diku.dk UNIX TeX TeX june.cs.washington.edu UNIX flavored TeX TeX labrea.stanford.edu in directory PS:, WEB sources in TeX power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu? TeX science.utah.edu (128.110.192.2) TeX tek4310.kent.edu Yasir Doleh's TeX for ESIX TeX cs.toronto.edu U of Toronto's TeX for Irix3.2, SunOS and Ultrix TeXhax archive june.cs.washington.edu TeXsun unknown previewer for Sunview by Dirk Grunwald TeXware uclapp.physics.ucla.edu John Price's TeXware archive TransFig svax.cs.cornell.edu v1.4-3, ~/ftp/pub/fig/transfig.tar.Z Utah dvi driver ctrsci.utah.edu v10.1 by Nelson H. F. Beebe family in directory PS1:[TEX.DVI] Utah dvi driver science.utah.edu v10.1 by Nelson H. F. Beebe family (128.110.192.2) MS-DOS versions in aps:dviexe.arc MS-DOS dvi eedsp.gatech.edu by Nelson H. F. Beebe drivers (128.61.2.1) [unnamed] dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu Previewer for Atari ST by Robert Stabl [unnamed] foobar.colorado.edu BDF format font files for X by Dirk Grunwald xtex foobar.colorado.edu xtex previewer by Dirk Grunwald pub/SeeTeX Version 2.16.1 [unnamed] hmcvax.claremont.edu U of Washington's Cyrillic fonts [unnamed] listserv@mammutti.utu.fi Amiga CommonTeX? [unnamed] mims-iris.waterloo.edu fonts [unnamed] science.utah.edu Hershey fonts (128.110.192.2) [unnamed] sol.cs.ruu.nl Piet van Oostrum's TeX archive [unnamed] sol.cs.ruu.nl diagrma macros by Francis Borceux [unnamed] sun.soe.clarkson.edu DVI driver standards committee digests (128.153.12.3) [unnamed] sun.soe.clarkson.edu fonts for Canon printers (128.153.12.3) [unnamed] terminator.cc.umich.edu Atari TeX stuff [unnamed] ux.acss.umn.edu archives for Atari ST [unnamed] yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au Jacques Goldman's Hebrew fonts afm2tfm labrea.stanford.edu ape anna.stanford.edu Sriram Sankar's Ada macros for TeX cdvi wsmr-simtel20.army.mil MS-DOS previewer, PD1: cnoweb blake.u.washinton.edu by Jim Fox cweb princeton.edu by Silvio Levy detex haunama.staford.edu detex j.cc.purdue.edu detex uunet.uu.net detex is a filter which removes all TeX command. Typically used before piping into a spell-checker. The following patch is due to pkarp@grubby-thicket.nlm.nih.gov. File: Expand.c 118,119c118 < /* PDK - was strcat - how did this ever work? */ < strcpy(buf,buf2); --- > strcat(buf,buf2); dvi2dj pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu HP DeskJet, by James Krause dvi2img midway.uchicago.edu Imagewriter (Macintosh) dvi2ps june.cs.washington.edu of unknown authorship dvi2ps unknown by Tony Li dvi2tty sol.cs.ruu.nl ASCII dvi previewer 131.211.80.5 pub/TEX/dvi2tty.shar dvi2tty sun.soe.clarkson.edu dvi3ps pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu merge of several dvi2ps versions, by Kevin Coombes dvi3ps stag.math.lsa.umich.edu merge of serveral dvi2ps versions, 35.24.64.23 by Kevin Coombes, ./pub/kevin Version 3.3 (1 May 1990). dvi3ps tut.cis.ohio-state.edu merge of several dvi2ps versions, by Kevin Coombes dvidis venus.ycc.yale.edu previewer for Vax VMS dview wsmr-simtel20.army.mil MS-DOS previewer, PD1: dvimswin wsmr-simtel20.army.mil MS-Windows previewer by Doug McDonald dvimswin c.scs.uiuc.edu MS-Windows previewer by Doug McDonald dvimswin cica.cica.indiana.edu MS-Windows previewer by Doug McDonald [129.79.20.22] dvipage june.cs.washington.edu Neal Hunt's previewer for Sunview (v3.0) dvipr unknown dvips labrea.stanford.edu by Tomas Rokicki dvips labrea.stanford.edu by Tomas Rokicki, ~ftp/pub/dvips538.tar.Z neon.stanford.edu Version 5.38 (beta) yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au [131.170.24.42] dvips terminator.cc.umich.edu by Tomas Rokicki, ported by Russel Lang MS-DOS version. pc1/text-mgmt/TeX/dvips*.zip dviselect mimsy.umd.edu Chris Torek's page extractor tex/mctex.beta.1dec89.Z dvisun unknown dvivga b.scs.uiuc.edu MSDOS VGA previewer by Doug McDonald (128.174.90.2) dvivga1.arc is the executable and dox. dvivga[2-8].arc are font files. dvivga9.arc is the source. dvivga wsmr-simtel20.army.mil MSDOS VGA previewer by Doug McDonald emTeX rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de directory /soft/tex/emtex (129.69.1.12) emTeX terminator.cc.umich.edu msdos/text-mgmt/TeX/emtex/disk[1-6] get emtex.README before beginning. : emTeX is a full TeX implementation, with previewer, METAFONT, lots of printer drivers, etc. For MS-DOS and OS/2. Documentation is in German, although an English translation is allegedly under way. The programs themselves are in English. By Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) errata labrea.stanford.edu PS: errata were also published in the article . D.E. Knuth, The Errors of TeX, Software -- Practice and Experience, Vol. 19(7), 607--685 (July 1989) . For a copy of the Technical Report, send $10 (payable to Stanford University) to Publications, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2140. fweb lyman.pppl.gov FORTRAN WEB general wsmr-simtel20.army.mil pd1: MSDOS archives iptex unknown ispell tut.cis.ohio-state.edu directory pub/gnu/ispell ispell is a general purpose spell checker that "knows" about LATEX. Works in combination with Emacs. A file ispell.el is also available. ivd2dvi june.cs.washington.edu by Larry Denenberg jTeX unknown mfware sun.soe.clarkson.edu METAFONT utilities (128.153.12.3) multicol.sty sol.cs.ruu.nl LaTeX multicolumn style by Frank Mittelbach p2c csvax.caltech.edu Pascal to C translator physe uclapp.physics.ucla.edu PHYSE macro package phyzzx uclapp.physics.ucla.edu PHYZZX macro package psfig linc.cis.upenn.edu by Trevor Darnell spideryweb princeton.edu Spidery WEB, by Norman Ramsey texdvi2tty comp.sources.unix TeX DVI driver for TTY's, etc. Volume 7 texi2roff neat.cs.toronto.edu GNU Texinfo to troff translator by Beverly Erlebacher textyl venus.ycc.yale.edu by John Renner tgrind rtsg.ee.lbl.gov tgrind venus.ycc.yale.edu by Jerry Leichtner tib minos.inria.fr James Alexander's "tib" bibliography 128.93.39.5 web2c june.cs.washington.edu v 2.20 web2c uunet.uu.net wp2latex sol.cs.ruu.nl Handles WordPerfect 5.0 131.211.80.5 pub/TEX/wp2latex.arc wp2latex ymir.claremont.edu in directory [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc. front_ends.wp2latex] : WordPerfect users should also consult TUGboat issues 10#1 and 10#4. wp2latex.zip wsmr-simtel20.army.mil 26.2.0.74 wp2latex.zip wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 wp2latex glenn@extro.ucc.su.oz.au C language version Glenn Geers (not yet avail for ftp) xdvi sipb.mit.edu X11 DVI previewer ftp/pub/x11r3.dvi xfig cayuga.cs.rochester.edu xfig expo.lcs.mit.edu [1c] Mail servers for selected sites. sol.cs.ruu.nl: mail-server@cs.ruu.nl =============================================================================== [2] A list of TeX implementations for the Macintosh. o Textures (no capital 'x' any more): This product is a bit pricey (with LaTeX, it's around $750, I believe). But it's a nice system, fast, and well-featured. The editor leaves a little to be desired, but with the growing availability of good DA editors on the Mac, that's not as big of an issue as it used to be. If you decide to buy it, get it from the TeX Users Group so that they get the vendor royalty. TeX Users Group P.O. Box 9506 Providence, RI 02940-9506 Phone: 401-751-7760 The publisher's address is Kellerman & Smith, 534 SW Third Avenue, Portland, OR 97204. o OzTeX: You can't beat the price on this one. It's free (public domain even). It comes with source, but it's a hand translation of Modula 2, so that might not help all that much. The nice (or not) feature of this program is that it uses PK and TFM files directly (unlike Textures which bundles them into Mac formats). Available via anonymous ftp from: midway.uchicago.edu in pub/sources/OzTeX. watmsg.waterloo.edu (129.97.129.9) in pub/oztex. x MacTeX: This *used* to be available. As near as anyone can tell, the manufacturer, FTL, has disappeared from the face of the earth. This version, if you can somehow manage to locate it, was PostScript-specific and used outline versions of the CM and LaTeX fonts which were available for an extra fee (only math fonts were supplied by default). Here are some addresses, if you want to try to hunt them down: FTL Systems, 234 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 205, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 1K5 allegedly, it is also distributed by Personal TeX, Inc., 12 Madrona Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. =============================================================================== [3] How to obtain TeX for the IBM PC. The definitive source for public domain PC TeX-related software is Jon Radel. His catalog which is currently 40pages long contains several versions of TeX for the PC, device drivers, fonts, macros, TUG documents, etc. A catalog is available by sending an envelope which can contain 10 sheets of 8.5x11 paper with adequate return postage or $2.00 (US). Contact: Jon Radel Postal Address: P.O. Box 2276 Reston, VA 22090 Notes: Software is distributed on 5.25" 360K floppy disks. For floppies sent with a return mailer, there is a charge of $1.50/floppy U.S. orders, $2/floppy elsewhere. For orders where floppies are supplied by Jon Radel, there is a charge of $5/floppy for U.S., Mexican and Canadian orders, $6/floppy elsewhere. Other sources are the ftp sites listed in part [1]. The following information was released on 1 Feb 1989: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DosMF has passed the TRAP test and is now part of the DosTeX distribution. DosMF is distributed with the complete set of Computer Modern Metafont source files as well as sources for the LaTeX fonts. As with the current version of DosTeX, the size of the mem[] array is user-controllable and preloaded versions may be created from inimf dumps. Other array sizes and constants are as specified in METAFONT: The Program (except max_in_open, which has been raised from 6 to 10). Performance is approximately 30 seconds per character when generating the cmr10 font at 200 dpi on a 8 Mhz 1-ws AT clone. MSDOS versions of GFtoDVI and GFtoPK are included as well. Online graphics support is provided within DosMF for the Hercules card. Alternatively, the DosTeX Hercules previewer may be used with the output of GFtoDVI. The default local mode is for the Epson printer operating at 240h x 216v dpi. No provision has been made to avoid name truncation under MSDOS (i.e., mfput.2602gf becomes mfput.260). DosMF is probably no match for commercially available implementations, but it should be just fine for people who do not use Metafont that often or wish to learn how to design fonts with the language. The DosTeX distribution occupies 7 360k floppy disks. If you receive it from the vendor, a printed version of the installation/operation instructions is also included, along with support by mail or telephone as needed. To receive DosTeX, send a check or money order payable to Electronetics, Inc. for US$75 (US$85 outside USA) with your name and address to: Electronetics, Incorporated c/o Gary Beihl 119 Jackrabbit Run Round Rock, TX 78664 -- Gary Beihl (beihl@mcc.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen McGrath (smg@eedsp.gatech.edu) has placed a rather complete collection of TeX gizmos for MS-DOS on eedsp.gatech.edu (128.61.2.1) in the TeX directory. Get the file "readme.tex" before starting. It includes SBTeX from Wayne Sullivan, Nelson Beebe's dvi drivers, an EGA/VGA/8514 screen previewer, a BibTeX 0.99 implementation from J. Demel and Dimitri Vulis, macro and style packages, and a humongous number of cm and am fonts. You will need at least 4MB for the TeX/LaTeX/SliTeX/AmsTeX/BibTeX/etc stuff, and up to 30 MB to install and unpack all of the drivers and fonts. 13MB is a realistic estimate for TeX, drivers, and CM fonts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And some comments on emTeX. The attribution on the following has been lost, but I think it came from the author. It has been translated from German by Chris Martin. --- Advantages (no attempt at completeness) Complete TeX/Metafont distribution, everything you need, including .sty files, printer drivers and cmr .mf files (Zeichensaetze??). Full size (64k mwords), even with small available memory as virtual memory techniques are used. SB29TeX and MicroTex, for instance, allow only as much memory for TeX as there is chkdsk memory available. There is a BigTeX (262141 mwords) Expanded memory is used when available. Quick. Probably faster than its competitors---it has been compared with SB28TeX, publicTeX (Dante), MicroTeX and PC-TeX 2.1 Comparatively error free. publicTeX's virtual memory doesn't work (at least in the version at RUSMV1). Reliable, as it has been translated by machine---(there really are people who have typed in TeX from the book and hand converted it to C). A fairly new TeX version (2.99). Version 2.993 (version 3.0 after two months without an error) soon. Umlauts and other accented and other national characters can be translated into TeX if required. Metafont is included. Really good printer drivers for dot matrix printers (at present, Epson RX-80, FX-80 LQ-800; NEC P6, P7; C.Itoh 8510a, Apple Imagewriter) and HP LaserJet Plus. Unfortunately no PostScript driver yet. Dot matrix driver which can be converted to (nearly) all dot matrix printers. Very good screen previewer---uses gray scales to display pages in reduced size display. All the drivers can insert graphics in the text. Line graphics are also possible. All programs run under OS/2 in protected mode. emTeX is faster and larger (memory) than OS2TeX. Will work on networks (network aware?!) Utility programs such as MakeIndex and texchk are supplied. MFjob, a program to run Metafont in comfort, is included. Very soon TeXCAD will be included in the software set, a program to draw pictures on the screen which will be converted into picture environment commands (I am negotiating with the author at present). Errors are quickly corrected. --------------------------- Disadvantages (no claim to completeness) Quite a lot of disk space is needed as quite a lot of programs are supplied. No Postscript driver yet. --------------------------- Summary of the comparison with other TeX versions: MicroTeX slower, less memory available, not free. PC-TeX: the only reasonable alternative but not free MuTeX: not yet compared (appears to be not as good but I haven't been told why). Not free. DOSTeX not yet compared (apparently much slower) publicTeX slower, not error free. OS2TeX slower, less memory available, only OS/2 SB29TeX slower: to get the full 64k of TeX mwords you need to reduce the space taken by DOS quite a lot. TurboTeX: what's that? =============================================================================== [4] How to obtain TeX for UNIX boxes. [This section to be rewritten...] =============================================================================== [5] Email access to the LaTeX style archives. Send email to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server containing the single word "help". You will receive instructions on how to use the email server. =============================================================================== [6] The 97 gazillion versions of dvi2ps. [The following information is due to Don Hosek (dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU)] (Unix) Arbortext, Inc. DVIlaser/PS Uses GF, PK, and PXL files. Allows inclusion of graphics, use of printer resident fonts, font substitution, font scaling, landscape printing and magnifies or shrinks images. A program AFtoTF is included for generating TFM files from AFM files. Cost: $500 workstations; $750 mainframes. Site licenses available. Academic discounts available. Aston, Clark, FTP-uk.ac.aston.tex dvitops (by James Clark) Uses PK files. Allows use of printer-resident and downloaded PostScript fonts. Allows inclusion of graphics files and inline PostScript as well as arbitrary linear transformations to regions of the DVI file. Output is designed so that each page depends only on itself and the preamble. There is no device-dependence in the MF code. Included are programs for converting AFM files to PL files (aftopl) and for converting Adobe fonts from IBM PC format to straight Postscript (afbtops). Written in C. Distributed as source. Bechtolsheim, FTP-csseq.tamu.edu dvitps (by Stephan v. Bechtolsheim) Uses GF, PK, and PXL files. Fonts may have up to 256 characters. Allows use of printer-resident PostScript fonts. Supports inclusion of PostScript graphics (through PSFIG), graphics through the tpic specials, arbitrary extension and mapping of the PostScript fonts, memory management, and generation of TranScript-compatible code. Included are programs for creation of TFM files for PostScript fonts (pfd2tfm) and for management of PostScript font mappings (printpdr). Carleton University FTP-science.utah.edu, University of Utah DVIALW (by Nelson H.F. Beebe and Neal Holtz) Uses GF, PK or PXL files. Graphics inclusion is supported. Written in C. Source is included. Massachusetts Institute of Technology dvi2ps Uses PXL files. Allows landscape printing and graphics inclusion. Written in C. Source is included. Oxford dvi2ps (modified by Paul Leyland) Uses PK files. van Oostrum dvi2ps (modified by Piet van Oostrum) Uses PK files and PostScript built-in fonts. Arbortext, Inc. Contact: Sales Department Postal Address: 535 W. William Street Suite 300 Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Internet: sales@arbortext.com Phone: (313) 996-3566 Aston Contact: Peter Abbott JANET: abbottp@uk.ac.aston Postal Address: Computing Service Aston Triangle Birmingham B4 7ET Notes: A complete copy of the Aston archive is available in VMS BACKUP format on two 2400' tapes at 6250bpi. To receive it send two blank tapes and return postage. The Unix TeX distribution may also be obtained in exchange for one 2400' tape and return postage. Bechtolsheim Contact: Stephen v. Bechtolsheim Postal Address: 2119 Old Oak Drive West Lafayette, IN 47906 Note: Send $80 ($110 outside the continental U.S.) and you will receive a Sun cartridge plus complete documentation. Carleton University Contact: Neil Holtz Phone: (613) 231-7145 Clark Contact: James Clark Postal Address: 30 Peel Street London W8 7PD England UUCP: jjc@jclark.uucp FTP-csseq.tamu.edu FTP-science.utah.edu Contact: Nelson H.F. Beebe Phone: (801) 581-5254 Internet: Beebe@Science.Utah.EDU Files: PS:*.* (Beebe drivers and documentation) FTP-uk.ac.aston.tex Contact: Peter Abbott JANET: abbottp@uk.ac.aston Notes: Accessible to JANET users only. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Contact: Chris Lindblad Postal Address: MIT AI Laboratory Room 733 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 12138 Internet: CjL@Reagan.ai.Mit.EDU Oxford Contact: Paul Leyland Bitnet: pcl@robots.ox.ac.uk Internet: pcl%robots.ox.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Bitnet: pcl@uk.ac.ox.robots University of Utah Contact: Nelson H.F. Beebe Postal Address: Center for Scientific Computing 220 South Physics University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Phone: (801) 581-5254 Internet: Beebe@Science.Utah.EDU Availability: All of the Beebe drivers are distributed together. They are available on 1600bpi 9-track tape in TOPS-10/20 BACKUP/DUMPER format, VAX/VMS BACKUP format, Unix tar format, and ANSI D-format. Send a tape plus $100 for a copy. IBM PC floppies are available from Personal TeX or Jon Radel. FTP: The programs are available for anonymous FTP from SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU on the internet; information is in the file PS:00README.TXT. A VAX/VMS binary distribution is available for anonymous FTP (password guest) from CTRSCI.UTAH.EDU. 00README.TXT in the login directory gives details. On JANET, the programs may be obtained from the directory aston.kirk::[public.texdvi210]. On DECnet, they are available from the DECnet file repository, for more information send mail to the DECnet address <39937::luvisetto>. Bitnet servers: The drivers are available from Listserv on EARN to European Bitnet users. Sending the command GET DRIVER FILELIST (in an interactive message, or as the first line of a mail message) to LISTSERV@DHDURZ1. Files are obtained with the command GET filename filetype. van Oostrum Contact: Piet van Oostrum piet@cs.ruu.nl Tom Rokicki has a driver called dvips which should be more or less the same as the one on the NeXT. His e-mail address is rokicki@neon.stanford.edu Send additions and corrections to the list of dvi-to-postscript converters to dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu =============================================================================== [7] Converting whatever to TeX The following summary was posted by mark@nuri.inria.fr (james mark) on 28 Aug 90: A few weeks ago I posted a request for conversion programs that would translate TeX or LaTeX documents to and/or from any other text or desktop publishing format. Here is a summary of the responses I got. All of the following programs are available by anonymous ftp. All of them convert something else to TeX or LaTeX; apart from BibTeX (see below), I received no information at all on conversions going the other way (although prep.ai.mit.edu (128.52.14.14) is rumored to have something called texinfo2troff, for those who are into texinfo). troff ----- TROFF-TO-LATEX.TAR-Z is available on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in directory pd2:. This program, written by Kamal Al-Yahya at Stanford, assists in the translation of a troff document into LaTeX format. It recognizes most -ms and -man macros, plus most eqn and some tbl preprocessor commands. Anything fancier than that needs to be done by hand. Two style files are provided. There is also a man page (which converts very well to LaTeX :-). The program is copyrighted but free. scribe ------ wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74), in directory pd2:, was reported to have a program called scribe2latex, but I couldn't find it there. I have an old copy (which I have been unable to test) if anyone is interested. It was written by Van Jacobson of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. WordPerfect ----------- wp2latex.zip is available on wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in directory mirrors/msdos/tex and on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in directory pd1:. This is a PC program written in Turbo Pascal by R. C. Houtepen at the Eindhoven University in the Netherlands. It converts WordPerfect 5.0 documents to LaTeX. Pascal source is included. Users find it "helpful" and "decent" in spite of some limitations. It gets high marks for handling font changes. Limitations include no indices, table of contents, margins or graphics. It also won't handle the new features of WordPerfect 5.1, in particular the equation formatter. The program is copyrighted but free. Glenn Geers of the University of Sydney (glenn@extro.ucc.su.oz.au) is translating wp2latex into C and adding some WordPerfect 5.1 features, in particular its equation handling. This is an ongoing project; the current C code is available by anonymous ftp from ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23) in directory [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.front_ends.wp2latex]. It was also posted to alt.sources on 8 August 1990. PC-Write -------- pcwritex.arc is available on wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in directory mirrors/msdos/tex and on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in directory pd1:. This is a print driver for PC-Write that "prints" a PC-Write V2.71 document to a TeX-compatible disk file. It was written by Peter Flynn at University College, Cork, Ireland. It is public domain. I've had no comment from users. RUNOFF ------ Peter Vanroose, of the University of Leuven, Belgium, has written a RUNOFF-to-TeX conversion program in VMS Pascal. It is available from comp.text archives (they do exist, don't they? The program was submitted in December 1987) or from the author (peter@dit.lth.se); or, for that matter, from me, since he sent me a copy. REFER/Tib --------- There are a few programs for converting bibliographic data between BibTeX and REFER/Tib formats. They are available for anonymous ftp from wheaties.ai.mit.edu (128.52.32.13) in directory pub/refer-to-bibtex. In spite of the directory name, it also contains a program (or rather a shell script) to convert BibTeX to REFER as well. I have not tested any of these. **************** In addition, a group at Ohio State University is working on a common document format based on SGML. In theory any format could be translated to or from this one. Also, Framemaker supposedly has "import filters" to aid in the translation from alien formats (presumably including TeX) to Framemaker; perhaps other desktop publishing programs have similar things. For those who are considering writing a conversion program, may I suggest Microsoft Word to LaTeX, since this seems to be the most frequently-asked unanswered question on this topic. If anyone has further information, I'm always ready to update the above list. **************** Thanks to the following people who contributed information to this posting: Bill von Hagen (wvh@transarc.com) Darren New Paul Amer (amer@cis.udel.edu) James Darrell McCauley (jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu) Declan (declan@portia.stanford.edu) Peter Vanroose Greg Roelofs Glenn Geers (glenn@extro.ucc.su.oz.au) Disclaimer: All errors and opinions are mine. Mark James or