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TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
lows you to output only the changed modules, so
you can make a short l i d g of only the modules
you changed, by using you. change file to put
"\let\msybe=\if f alse" in limbo at the beginning
of the WE3 program. See the latest TOPS-20
change file for an example of this.
The new TANGLE .WEB uses the new 0 feature,
while the old versions of Tangle will ignore it as an
unknown control code. Thus if you are bootstrap
ping to the new Tangle by using an old Tangle,
your first new TANGLE. PAS will not quite agree with
the TANGLE. PAS that you get after running the first
new TANGLE .PAS on the new TANGLE.WJZB. But the
difference is only in the debug-breakpoint code, and
doesn't alter the meaning of the Pascal program, so
this won't cause any special trouble.
A number of people have pointed out deficiencies
in the way change files are done. For instance, it
is not too convenient to change a single line in the
middle of a module. There is also some sentiment
for a system in which you list all of the lines you are
changing, so that Tangle/Weave would detect the
case where you get a new version of the program and
one of the modules which you have in your change
fde has been altered (so your change might no longer
be correct). I personally favor this approach, but we
don't have the manpower to consider implementing
this right now.
A note of caution on Tangle: More than one
person has tried altering Tangle to produce all lower
case output. This is dangerous business, because
Tangle's code for collapsing constants looks in the
output buffer for the strings "DW' and "MOD". Thus,
you can get incorrect results if you change Tangle
such that "did' and "mod" might end up in the
butfer.
Tangle's output is now a bit different than it used
to be. Firat of all, line breaks occur at semi-colons
or right braces whenever possible. Also, comments
are inserted s h d g where each fragment of code
came from. For instance, part of the Pascal output
might look like:
. ..Ci23:3 Foo; (456:)
B a r ; <:4563 More; (:123) ..
This means that module number 123 looked m m e
thing like thii:
Foo; .
(Another module)
More;
And module 456, called (Another module), consisted
of the single line:
Bar;
Thus, it is now easy to tellwhere each piece of Pascal
code came from. We intend to use this information
.
with the data gathered in the statement counting
experiment to find out how much of the total runtime of m 2 each individual module accounts for.
Note that the new output format implies that
each program produced by Tangle is of the form:
PROGRAM ZZZ; .... END. (:ygg)
The Pascal manual and the ANSI standard are not
specific about whether a program can end with a
comment, but no one haa yet reported this to be a
problem.
Here's a problem that a few l$jX installers are facing, having to do with evaluation of expressions. Consider: program eqres(output); type sizteenbit = 0. .65535; var s,t :aixteenbit; i,j : integer; procedure p(k :integer); begin wite(k) end; begin s :=65535; i := s 10; p(i); 8em t := 10; i := s t; p(i); 8em p(s t); p(65535 10); end. This program should print out 65545 four times. We have heard reports of a few compilers that try to o p timise some of the expression evaluations to be sixteen bit calculations, and produce the wrong result in some of these cases. The new ANSI Pascal standard document specifically aays that d expressions have to be computed to full integer precision, so the compilers in question are in the wrong. This does not bode well for aixteen-bit systems with a "LONG INTEGER" type,however, since even if you use your change 6le to change all integer variables to LONG INTEGER, the compiler might not do the above cad culations correctly. Us folks at Stanford are interested in addressing any bugs you may find in any of our WEB programs. The bug report format we most appreciate is "Module X in program Y is wrong because 2." If you have found that a bug exists in 'QjX82, but you can't locate the cause, then it would help for us to look at all the data. We need input 6les as well as the log fde. If you say \tracingall, ' I @ give8 its most verbose output. So please turn everything on, in the vicinity of whatever bug you're diagnosing; this makes it much easier to pinpoint the problem. In the same vein, please aend a note if you come across any supposedly non-system-dependent modules in l)jX that you find you had to change. They might be appropriate to be added to the index under "system dependent", or we may alter them so they aren't ayetern dependent any more. (XR:) + + + + TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 A hint for installers/maintainers: One trick I use is to keep a copy of Prof. Knuth's change file for the Sail system. Whenever there is a new I]FX I look to see where his new change flle is different from his old one, and I check my 'change a e for TOPS-20 to see if it needs a similar alteration. You can do the same thing by keeping a copy of the TOPS-20 change flle, and seeing when it changes. Actually, now that things are pretty settled down, it is probably easier just to check TeX82.BUG to see which modules have been changed, to check whether you. system-dependent stuff is impacted. I also save a copy of all the WEB programs, so that when new ones come, I can find all the changes, but this has not been necessary very often. Advice on making your l ) j X efficient: It is important that all records are declared such that they will be packed efficiently into memory. Referring to Module 110 in the brown Version 0 listing of T)ijX, note how the type memory-word is made. The hope is that your compiler will use 32 bits of storage for each rnernoy-word. Well, one of the variants of memory-word, glue-ratio, is a teal. In Pascal/VS, for instance, a red is allotted a doubleword, which blows it right there. The proper thing to do in that case is to change the definition of glue-ratio in module 106 to be a short-real (in the change file, of course). Similarly, VS Pascal insists that if you really wanted a variable declared 0. .255 to occupy a byte instead of a word, you have to say foo: packed 0. .255 (note that the placement of the reserved word packed is non-standard). So, to get TE;X down to a reaeonable size, you'll have to change the definitions of quarter-word, hacword, &d perhaps even two-choices and four-choices in module 110. This sort of change might be appropriate in other places too, but because most of memory is taken up by memory-words, it shouldn't be crucial. After your 'QjX port has passed the TRIP test, you should turn off run-time debug support. For production '&X it shouldn't be necessary to do bounds checking, uninitialized variable checking, and the like. Of course, if you run into an apparent bug, you'll probably want to turn it back on to help trace the problem as far as possible before reporting it to Stanford (hint, hint). Advice on porting First, make sure to consider the modules that are listed in the index under 'Dirty Pascal'. A few of these modules are debugging code that look through the big %em" array, and are considered dirty because they read from variants that weren't written into. That is, QjX may'have done MEAll01'.SC :=O .0, but a dirty module might WRITE (MEM [Ol ,INTI. Tbia has worked OK on all machines we've run into so far, but one can imagine an architecture in which it would cause a problem. Of m u m , normal users will never run into this code -"it's only for 'QjX installersjdebuggera. The dirty module (Display the value of glue-set(p)) requires a little special attention. On our system, if glue-set(p) was erroneously set to a pattern of bits that did not represent a legal floating point value, due to a bug in 'QjX, then our run-time system would blow up while trying to print out ite value. In order to make the code robust in the face of such bugs, so that the person trying to find the origin of the bug would be able to continue the job and use 'QjX82's internal debugging support to look around for further clues, the module in question was changed so that it first looked at glue-set(p) as an integer and figured out whether it was a legal floating point number. If not, it simply prints U?. ?" instead of write([email protected])). Of course, this is very system-dependent. On other computers, it may be appropriate to remove this test, but it will certainly be true that you'll at least have to change it. Other than the debugging modules mentioned above, 'QjX should never read from a differeot variant than it writes into in any record. Also, TEX should never refer to an uninitidised variable, except for the variable ready-already. The details about ready-already are pretty well covered in the section of the '@X program titled "The Main Pmgram." Different systems have different conventions about 110 to the user's terminal. On some eystems, INPUT is hardwired to the keyboard, OUTPUT is the screen, and that's it. On others, there might be another built-in fle that is hardwired to the meen, and INPUT and OUTPUT might always refer to disk flea. Another possibility is that the program can dynamically tell the system which flea should be associated with the terminal, and which with the disk. The 'QjXware programs and 'QjX iteelf try to be flexible enough to deal with all these poeeib'itiw. Consider TFtoPL, which mentions three files in its program statement in module 2: Q k j Z e , pl$k and
output. Module 2 also mentions that all of the wri+
ing to the output file goes through the print and
print-ln macros; so if you have a system, say, where
output to the terminal must go to file ttg, then you
can change the dehitions to:
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
You'd probably also want to change the program
statement not to include the tile output, and you
might have to do a rewrite on tty.
The same comments go for PLtoTF. DVItype is
a bit different, though. It uses the file output for its
main output, so you probably don't want this file
sseociated with your terminal. Hence, if output is
hardwired to the terminal on your system, you will
want to change the macros in module 3 to.
Od print(#)=wPite(type_file, #)
Od print_ln(#)=dte-ln(tYpe-file, #)
You'll also have to include a declaration of type-fire,
and do a reunite in some other modules.
DVItype holds a dialog with the user to get the
values of certain parameters. The files t e r n i n ,
termout: teztJile are declared in the section
Optional Modes of Output to be used for this purpose. If, say, your system reserves the predeclared
files input and output for this function, then you can
change the declarations to macros:
Od temin=input
Od temout=output
Pretty sneaky! You can do the same thing if the file
ttg is hardwired to your terminal.
There are more headaches due to differing a p
proaches to 110 on different systems. On many syetern, reading a single character from a file is a relatively expensive operation. That is, the time spent
doing
Program slow;
var c: char;
begin
while not eoj do begin
end;
end.
ie a major portion of how long QijX itaelf takes to
your system does recrd(c) via a elow procedure call.
However,many systems provide Borne eort of extension so that you can read a whole line of input at
once, more efficiently. For instance, on our vetem,
you can say:
W ~ Fline: packed array [I. .80] of char;
howmany: integer;
red(1ine:howmang);
and the variable howmany will get the number of
characters actually read in. In any case, all of our
programs always read a line at a time into a buffer
array (usually in a procedure called input&), so if
a f d t y similar to the one just mentioned exiata in
your syetem, you should be able to use it with 'QjX
by changing juat a few modules. (Some people may
be able to do this sort of thing by calling a procedure
in another language.)
Things are even worse for 110of binary byte data
(TF'M and DVI files) and word data (FYT files). Not
only might it be inefficient, but 110 of binary data
is even less standard than character. Even if your
compiler accepts things like:
var w: We of integer;
b: ffle of 0. .255;
mete(w,456); wite(b, 123);
you are well advised to check out that these things
will work aa expected. It is best to experiment with
a amall program to read and write such files before
jumping into the QX system,if there is any doubt
aa to how these tiles will work on your system. Once
again, for efficiency's sake, you may have to block
thiiga up yourself using an array as a buffer.
Two installation points: There have been some
questions on how to run the TRIP test tile. To get
results that are identical to ours, you'll have to comthat has some compilepile a special version of
time constants set to values that probably don't
match the values you'd want to use in a production
version of "&X. In particular, you should turn on
the stat and debug switches, and make the following
=
index in =a
internal
mem array, muat be etrictly leas than mcrzha&d;
thie is the value appropriate to the TRIP test He)
0 !mor_linc = 64; {width of context line%
on terminsl enor meesages)
0 !hulf-mw-line = 32; {width of f h t line6
of eontexts in terminal error meesages,
ahould be between 30 and ewmlinc - 15)
0 !mcrzptint-knc = 72; {width of longest
text lines output, should be at least 60)
0 !dvLbuf_siac= 800; {eiee of the output buffer,
must be a multiple of 8)
O! memmax = 3000; {great&
Od l l m e m b o s e = 2200 {smalleat
index in the
single-word area of mem, must be
substantially larger than mmrbase
and smaller than memmaz)
Finally, 'QjX's try-break procedure is still to bii
for some people's compilers when the stat switch ia
turned on. We suggest using your change file to
put the &atcode into a small procedure statically
embedded within try-break, ao that you won't have
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
10
I
OUTPUT DEVICES AND COMPUTERS
- Epmn MX-80; 100%: L J. Bunner and J. D.
Johnson, 'If3C on the HP-1000,p. 16; HP-1000.
As with previoue iesuee of TUGboat, neverel articles
have been eubmitkd for publication in the form of
camera copy. The following items were prepared on the
devices indicated, and can be taken ae representative of
the output produced by those devicea. With each item
is given a percentage, whicb is the aiae of the copy as
reduced photographically using the PMT process. The
bulk of this issue, as usual, has been prepared on the
DEC 2060 and Alphatype CRS at AMS.
- Florida Data OSP 130; l a p. 13; DEC 2060.
- HP 3680A; 145%: L. Carries, "Smsll"
p. a4;
HP-3000.
- hagen Imprint-10; 1-
G.M.K. Tobin,
Computer cauicp.qP&, p. 26; Apdlo.
- Veraat. 130%:
R. h t a and P.MacKay, UUnir
'If3C Site Report and the two articlea which follow,
p. 17; V . U N M .
I
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
FONT DEVICES
Nelson H.F. Beebe
College of Science Computer
Department of Physics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tel: (801)581-5254
A fundamental problem with typesetting is that
output devices capable of displaying material as it
would appear in typeset form are expensive and
slow. Electrostatic printer plotters have resolutions
of 100 to 400 dots per inch and can produce up to
20 pages/minute, but cost from $10K to$100K and
require special paper. Laser printers offering resolutions of 240 to 300 dots per inch can produce up to
12 pages/minute on normal paper and cost around
$20K to$25K. High-quality phototypesetters start
around $20K, but are generally quite slow, requiring se much as 10 minutes/page, often on expensive photographic paper. It seems worthwhile therefore to investigate what low-cost output devices capable of accepting dawnloaded fonts are available on the market today. The goal is to find output devices which can display a typeset page about as rapidly as normal text can be displayed. This survey sets an upper limit of about$5K ($10K for color terminals) and includes both dot-matrix printers and display terminals. The cost limit excludes workstations like the Xerox Star and the Apple Lisa which are d e signed from the beginning to support multiple fonts. Multi-font devices whose fonts are pre-recorded in ROM storage by the manufacturer are excluded because of their general lack of usefulness for scientitic typesetting. Since the number of manufacturers of printers and terminals has become very large, I will no doubt have missed several. If reader response is sufficient, I would be willing to update this column in later issues of TUGboat. At present, all but two of these devices have severely limited maximum character matrix sizes, and most cannot properly handle proportional spaced fonts. The maximum matrix size is noted as "n x n", and the number of downloaded characters or amount of memory for font storage, where available, is dso given. For terminals, the screen resolution (H x V) is also given, since this is a limiting factor on the display quality. Entries are tabulated alphabetically by manufacturer name. M&(s): Character Grid: Manufectura: Tebpkma: Md(s): Character Grid: Manufacturer: Telephone: Ramarks: Modrl(s): Character Grid: Manufacturer: Telaphom: Remarks: Model(s): Character Grid: Mendacturn: Telephone: Remarks: Modd(s): Character GH: Manufacturer: Tabphona: CI-300, CI-600 17 X 17 GItoh Electronics, Inc., 5301 ~ t h o v c a Street, Los Angeles, CA 90066, USA (213) 306-6700. Florida Data OSP 120 and 130 matrix variable depending on character configuration; maximum dot density obtainable 360H x 192V (graphics option available) Florida Data, 600-D John Rades Blvd., Melbourne, FL 32935, USA (305) 2544700. Up to 18K RAM font starage. Sample o u t put of the earlier Florida Data BNY model may be found in TUGboat Vol. 2, No. 1 (February 1981), pp. 130-131; sample output of the current OSP 130 appears on p. 1 2 of this issue. Infoecribe 1000 7x9 Infoscribe, 2720 3. Croddy Way, Santa AnalCA 92704, USA (714) 741-8595. 96 characters font storage Okidata Microline 92 and 93 9x9 Okidata Corp., 111 Gaither Drive, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054, USA (800) 654-3282. 96 characters font storage Printek 900 series 9 x 9 a n d 18x18 Printek, 1517 Townline Road, Benton Harbor, MI 49022, USA (616) 925-3200. Modd(s): BBN BitGraph S c m : 768 x 1024 monochrome Character Grid: unlimited; proportional fonts supported. Menufactumr: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 10 TdrphoM: Remarks: [email protected]): stmm Cherutu Grid: Manufactumr: Tolophone: Rmarks: Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA 02174, USA (617) 497-3178. With the default 1 216~font, the BitGraph displays 64 lines of 85 characters. With a 5 x 8 terminal font, the smallest that hae lowercase letters with descenders, it shows 113lines of 128characters, and ia s t i l l quite readable. CIT-427 640 x 480 color 8X 14 GItah Electronics, Inc., 5301 Beethaven Street, Los Angeles, CA 90066, USA (213) 306-6700. font storage 7 9&eharacter aets TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 Modd(s): Screen: Character Grid: Manufactumr: Telephone: Remarks: Modd(s): Screen: Character Grid: Manufacturer: Telephone: Remarks: [email protected]): Screen: Character Grid: Manufacturer: Telephone: Remarks: Modd(s): Scmn: Character Grid: Manufacturer: Telephone: Modd(s): Screen: Character Grid: Manufacturer: Telephone: Remarks: MoLl(s): Screen: Character Grid: Manufacturer: Telephone: Remarks: Datacopy 1728 x 2200 monochrome Datacopy, 1070 Eaet Meadow Circle. Palo Alto, CA 94303. USA (415) 493-3420. Datacopy does not yet make this display available as a terminal, but I am including it here as something to be watched closely. The screen is sharp enough to display readable Cpoint type on a full page of text, or the engraving lines in a page image of a dollar bill. The January 1983 issue of Computer Graphics World (p. 65) contains a photograph of a sample image. Direct 628. 831. 1000, 1025 640 x 480 monochrome 10 X 12 Direct Inc., 4201 Burton Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA (800) 538-8404. 2 128-character user-definable fonts; downloading must be in blocks of 16 characters. Modal(&): Vectrix VX128 and VX384 Scm: 672 x 480 color Character Grid: 8 X 8 Manufactumr: Vectrix Corp., 700 Telephone: Remarks: Battleground Ave., Greensboro, NC 27401, USA (800) 3348181. Low-coat frame buffer; no cursor commands; font magnification factor6 1..I6 plus elants in 45 degree increments; 96 downloadable characters. 'QX ON TEE OSP130 Patrick Ion Bill Hall Rilla J. Thedford Mathematical Reviews 611 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Mathematical Reviews is now using the Florida Data OSP130 as a 'I)jX output device. The OSP130 Quadram Omega Data X7 prints on continuous stock (cards and paper) ss well 960 x 528 monochrome as on cubsheet paper. Average time per dense page 5 x 7 ASCII or 6 X 8 symbol of 'QX output is 1 min:40 sec. Current dot resoluQuadram Corp., 4357 Park Drive, tion is H120 x V128, although the mwhine does Norcross, GA 30093, USA have the potential for producing much higher resolu(404) 923-6664. 66 lines of 160 characters, or two split tion. This improvement requires a modified spooler screens with 66 lines of 80 characters. Up capable of handling a second set of font masks. At to 2048 downloaded characters. present the fonts used are those with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels/inch prepared by METAFONT Ramtek 6211 for the Florida Data BNY. Although the dot resolu640 x 480 color 8 X 12, proportional spacing tion is similar, the quality of the output is greatly h t e k Corp., 2211 Lawson Lane, improved. We are all very pleased. Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA Our OSP130 is driven by a Monolithic Syetems (408) 988-2211. MSC8004 280 processor which is fed and controlled through a multiplexor by the Dec2060 machine in Tektronix 4027, 4112, 4113 (raster), 4114, 4116 (storage tube) Providence, RI.We used a parallel Centronics inter640 X 480 color (4027, 4113), face and a hardware handshake, checking Busy only 640 x 480 monochrome (4112), [this involves using the 8255 in Mode I], to interface 4096 x 4096 monochrome (4114,4116) the OSP with the Monolithic. 8 x 14 on raster, vector fonts on storage The authors wish to thank the following people tubes Tektronix, kc., Instruments Division, P.0. for all their help in making our first attempt at such Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077, USA a task a SUCCESS: Frank Price and Jim Neil of (503) 627-2256. Florida Data Corporation, Marty Haase and Joel font storage 31 96-character sets (tube), Berkman of Monolithic Systems, and David Fuchs and 4116 support user-defined vector fonts. of Stanford. Terak 8510a, 8600 Anyone desiring more information about '&X on 640 x 480 monochrome (85108) the Florida Data OSP should contact the authors at and color (8600) the above addrew or call 1-313-763-6828. 8 x 10 and 16 x 10 in monochrome, unlimited in color Terak Corp., 14151 N. 76 St., Scottdale, AZ 85260, USA (602) 998-4800. LSI-11 based workstation with IlEC R T l l or UCSD Pascal operating systems. TUGbeat, Volume 4, No. 1 Sample Output horn Florida fjata 08P 130 and obfein the fb$erisatioos
(7)
(8)
to)
(10)
. (11)
5a
- l=(tih - l)LshMsh, La,&*
P + 1 =(tP+
= 52h +3.sh
~ ) L ~ ~ bNb A, w, h =t32h + a d
+ 1 r5'(sA + 1 )
+ 1 r @(eh+ I)
?7hf1=(7h+1)LThMTI, ~ ~ ~ , ~ ~ = ( 7 * + 1 ) 8 ~ 7 ~ ( 7 ~ ' + 7 ~ + 1 )
+ 1 =(lozb+ 1)LIOIMlOl, where LIOh,MIOh
=
+ s.1oSh + 7 . 1 0 ~ 5.10~+ 1 T 1 0 ~ ( 1 +0 2.1dh
~~
2 . d +1)
l l " h + l = ( l l h + l ) ~ l u ~where
Ilr, Llu,MIIr
=11sh+5.11a-118h-11ah+5.11~+1 7 llk(lla+llsh-llah+llh+l)
leh
+
+
The appropriste formulss for L and M are printed at the a d of each r e l e m t main
table.
The numb- with an Aurifeuillian tsctorisation can be completely mctored
more readily than other numbers bs - 1, because t h q break info two roughly equal
pieces. For this reason,Table 2LM has been extended to 2400, twice as far aa the
other base 2 fables. The Atuifeuillian bctorisations for the other bases (in Tablw
8 +, 5 -, 6 +, 7 +, 10 +, 11 + and 12 +) are not given in a separate table as in base
2, but are incorporated in a special format in the tables themselves and are d e d
somewhat ihrthu than the consecutively indexed entries, the extensinns being listed
below a line of dashes in the respective tables.
Since the hcbriaations produced in (4) t o (11) cut across those produced in
(2) and (a), i t is important t o analyze how the two 1Srdnriaations relate to each
other.
Qempk. Since 1 ~ 6 = 2 ~ . a 9we
, have f'rom (3) that
The fact that the second factorization splits both the algebraic and primitive
parts of 278 + 1 suggests that in order to describe this multiplicative strucfnre,
the primitire parb of L,, and M* should be defhned and then Ln md M* can
be expressed as a product of primitive parts as in (2). To do this we denok the
respectire primitive parts by L
: and M',. For base b, let y = ed(b) = (1 +(bld)j/2,
where d is odd, (b,d) = 1 , and (bid) is the Jacobi mmbol. (Recall that (bll) = 1.)
Also, let n = Fm, m odd, 8 2 0 . Then we hare tho formulas (which we state
without proor)
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
Site Reports
NEWS FROM ALL OVER
David Fuchs
Here's lots of news in no particular order:
'Q382. The code's in pretty good shape. We've
been running with version 0.95 for six weeks, during which time we found three amall bugs. At the
same time, inatding 'QjX found as many bugs in
the VAX/VMS Paacal 2.0 compiler, and one bug in
the DECSystem 10120 microcode! This must mean
something.
As I am writing this, Professor Knuth is testing version 0.96, which corrects the bugs, and adds
a dozen or so new features, and about as many
small improvements. Barring any further problems
with microcode, by the time you read this, version
,093should be available through normal distribution
channels. We expect to need only one more round
of changes by the time the manual is complete.
Chapter 21 of the new manual ('Boxes') is currently being written. When Chapter 23 is done,
we'll do a pre-print of the whole manual, and declare
the current version of the code to be 1.0. Our
tape distribution people [Ron and Maria Code, Data
Processing Services, 1371 Sydney Drive, Sunnyvale
CA 94087 (408-735-8006)] are willing to take orders
for version 1.0, and they will hold them until everything is ready to go. Of course, you can order version
0.96 if you like, since it will be almost the same.
A new feature of the tape distribution is that you
can order all the fonts at any of a number of different
resolutions. Currently, we have 200, 220, 240, 260,
280 and 300 dotlinch versions available, but more
will be forthcoming if the demand is great enough.
Right now, the distribution tape includes change
files for TOPS20 only. I hope to be able to add
change files for other systems in the near future. On
the other hand, it is line for users of the same kind of
systems to band together and handle it themselves.
For instance, the VAX/UNMport is up and running
a t a number of sites, and you should contact Rick
Furuta for details on its distribution.
There have been several independent IBM ports,
by Susan Plaee at Stanford CIT,Roger W e e at
SLAC, and Bruce Nemnich a t MIT. The latter two
have both discwered a method of saving a preloaded
'@X under VM/CMS! john Johnson reports he has
m 2 running on his HP-1000, and is happy to
talk to interested parties (he's getting output.on his
Epson printer). Bart Childs and Norm Naugle at
Texas A&M are in the final stages of getting 'QiJC82
running on their Data General MV8000. I'm sorry
if I've lefi anyone out, my only excuse is that things
are very hectic.
Conspicuously absent from the list is any 68031)based system. Our SUNSare just coming into opetion, but it looks like the modifications done to
the vAX/u~nrcompiler to enable it to deal with
can be transferred directly to the SUN version of u N X 4.1C BSD, and SUN Microsystems has
promised to do so. Another encouraging sign: Apple
is giving us a Lisa to try to put l&X on; it remains
to be seen whether their compiler is good enough.
I've been working on a VMS port. Tangle, Weave,
PLtoTF, TFtoPL and DVItype went into VMS 3.2
running Pascal 2.1 with little problem, since the new
compiler has much improved 110 support. -2
on VMS currently is able to correctly run through
the TRIP test fle. The biggest installation problem
were the half-dozen or so compiler bugs I ran into
on the way and had to kludge around. These have
been reported to Digital, so when the next release
of the compiler rolls around everything should be
beautiful.
Since the last TUGboat, we've added a new
means of communication for the QijX community: an
inter-network mailing list called TeXhax. Recipients
of messages to TeXhax are on the ARPAnet, CSnet
or WCPnet. The m&g list has 70 members scattered around the country, and even in England and
Germany. A number of the addremes are computer
bulletin boards, so the readership is actually larger
than 70. Most messages to date have dealt with
'QjX installation and portability questions, but I'm
hoping that when the manual ia completed and both
Tji382 and CSnet are in wider use, TeXhax will become a forum for information about macros, output
devices, fonts, etc. For those of you with no access
to any network, we'll be summarizing newsworthy
items from TeWrur in TUGboat (see my other article in this issue).
If you want to be added to TeXhax, send mail
to TMHAX-REQUESTOSU-SCORE on the ARPAnet,
or DRFOStanford on the CSnet, or Shasta!DRF
your real name and location, and CPU and output
devices you're interested in. To send a measage to
everyone on TeXhax, send mail to TMHAXOScore (or
..Shasta!Score !TMHAX,or to me, and I'll relay it).
One of the most exciting things going on ie Lealie
Lamport's work on his LaTeX system. This macro
package makes 'QjX82look a bit like Brian Reid's
SCRIBE system, including such features as:
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
- A Scribelike crossreference system, where see
tions, theorems, etc. are given symbolic names
by a \label(f 00) command, and then referenced as "Section \ref i f oo)" .
- Scribelike environment commands-e.g., for
an enumerated list, one writes
\begin(enumerate> . . . \end<enumerate>.
These will nest properly, and different levels
will be numbered differently.
- A PICTURE environment, with picture
drawing commands.
- The abiity to define different document styles.
- Flexible figure and formula numbering.
- Partiai document compilation.
The system is now in "Beta Test" at a few installations, and the first preprint of the manual is done.
Leslie has offered to speak about his system at this
summer's TUG get-together, which is reason enough
for everyone to attend! We hope to be able to put
the entire thing on the distribution tape, and distribute the manual, before the TUG meeting.
We heard from Dr. Wolfgang Appelt of the Gesellachaft fib Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, a r+
search organization in Germany. He reports that a
meeting for
users in Germany was attended by
people from more than a dozen installations, many
of which were already running 'QJC82. We hope
that this group will turn into the German chapter of
TUG.Interested parties should contact Dr. Appelt
a t GMD, Postfach 12 40, Schlofl Birlinghoven, D5205 St. Augustin l, Bonn. They are producing
'&582 output on a Perq/Canon printer, and are
looking into the poseibiity of interfacing to the
Hell-Digiset typesetter. Also, they hope to make
use of l3ank Liang's hyphenation-pattern-generator
-(whichshould be available on the distributibn tape
won) to enable ljiJB2 to do German hyphenation.
I've heard from quite a few people with Imagen
and Symbolics printers. It looks like prices are coming down a little, and I hope the new entry in the
marketplace, the Lasergra6x machine based on the
Xerox 2700 engine, will help continue the trend.
I don't know any more about Lasergraflx, except
that the folks at Texas A&M report that they are
promising support for
output. Meanwhile, our
HP 2680 has been connected to our Ethernet, and we
hope to start wing real l)ijX output from it soon.
On the phototypesetter front, things are heating
up. The
project is lookmg for a new machine
more appropriate for our needs than our Alphatype
CRS. Autologic is promising that we'll be able to
write the code ourselves, but recently Compugraphic
has become re-interested in '[email protected] (perhaps taking the
cue from
and Apple). If they decide they're willing to let the 8600 be made Metafontccompatible,
we'll be facing a hard decision. This has to get
straightened out pretty quickly-we want to print
the TE;X; manual on the new machine. Stay tuned.
A number of corporations around the country
have inquired about the availability of l)ijX experts
to hire, on a full-time or consulting basis. So far,
I haven't been able to help them very much, but if
you fit the bill, you might want to get in contact
Some people have encountered trouble with
square roots on m 8 2 . Recall that Q3.82 makes a
different assumption about the position of the square
root symbol within its box than m 0 did. To get
acceptable output with m 2 , you'll need up-todate symbol and math extension fonts. (The reason
for this change was to improve the alignment of the
surd with the top rule, even in the face of rounding
on different raster resolutions.)
Another item of note is that we're trying to improve the efficiency of m 8 2 . I should point out
that it's none too shoddy as it is-the compiler being used in its development is very stupid when it
comes to code generation, but we find that '43X32
is about the same speed as TjjX80 in Sail, and it's
quite a bit better than the old Pascal version. A
good optimizing compiler, coupled with a reasonable disk 110 system should produce a fairly zippy
In order to squeeze out lurking inefficiencies,
however, we're conducting an experiment: A number of compilers support some f o m of statement
execution profiling, where the user is told, after his
program nma, how many times each statement was
executed. With the aid of a little system wiz8pdry,
we're compiling such counts for lji9.32,with the
' $on the SU-AI results cumulative over all users of & computer. See if you can guess which Pascal statement was executed over 80 million times during the 2900 or so times '&X was run over the last 6 weeks (anewer below). We're not just playing games, of course; we're trying to find where we should spend our time trying to speed up the code, by un-rolling loops, using macros instead of procedure calls, etc. Finally, there will be index entries in the published [email protected] code indicating the modules that are part of the inner loop, ao that they can be hand-optimired on various systems if anyone cares to do so. The answer to the question above ia CSPTR: =O at the beginning of the GETNEXT procedure. By the way, of the almost 20000 lines of code in TjiJC82, 752 of them were not executed in over a month. Many of these statements are fatal error messages. m. TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 [email protected], Irene J Bunnor and John D Johnson JpT Wordware, P.0 Box 354, Cupertfna, U A W 1 5 ; (416) for Hewlett-Packard HP-1000Computer Systems has been implemented b y JDJ Wordware The code was obtained from Donald E. K n u t h and t h e WEB programming system was used t o perform t h e modlflcations required t o make run on this mini-computes. It is Interfaced t o an inexpensive ($bO(X00) Epson MX-80 dot matrix impact printer.
A combination of automatic translation and hand
editing have been used t o create a set of fonts usable by this device.
HP-1000mini-oomputers are 16 bit architecture machines with a real time, multiuser operating system.
Programming is supported by a screen mode editor,
a Pasoal compiler, and a symbolic debugger. The
standard addrassing accommodates programs up to
64K Bytes, much too small for
Extended addressing, supported by a virtual memory system,
permits larger data sizes. Program segmentation
permits larger code sizes. Heavy utilization of these
on the KP-1000.
two features enable us to flt
The Epson MX-80dot matrix impact printer is used
In its high resolution graphics mode. I n this mode
It has a horizontal resolution of 120 dots per inch
and a vertical resolution of 144 dots per inch. The
dot size is larger than this resolution resulting in
aiijaaent dots overlapping. A program was written
and spethat reads in the DVI flle produced by
oial pixel flles. It constructs the raster image for a
complete page in memory before outputting t o the
printer. Interweaving rows of dots is required during this outputting. EIght horizontal rows of dots
are printed, the paper is advanced by dot width
then the eight interweaved horizontal rows of dots
are printed. About six minutes are required to print
a full 8 by 11 inch page.
P
Special raster descriptions for the fonts are required
so the daftnition of pixel flles was changed for this
implementation. One of the changes is t o a vertical
raster instead of a horizontal raster. Even though
the print head moves horizontally, the h(TX-80 is basically a vertical raster device The eight dots i t
prints h parallel are arranged in a vertical row.
Raster descriptions are changed from a 32 bit organieation into a 16 bit organization t o accommodate
the word width of the HP-1000.The biggest change
Is t o low resolution. Metafont was unavailable so
the Arst approximation to the required pixel flles
was created b y writing a program to automatically
translate standard pixel flles into the new f o r m a t
This progam reads In a 240 dot per inch P X L flle
and produces a 120 dot per inch vertical raster pixel
Rle. The small dWerence in t h e printer's horizont a l and vertical resolution is Ignored Horizontal dimensions are accurate while vertical dimensions are
compressed
Translation t o low rarolution pixel flles is achieved
b y mapping four pixels from t h e input flle t o a single pixel in the output fllc If t w o or mare of the
input pixels are set, then the oarresponding output
pixel is s e t Characters appear too bhak in theee
automatically created pixel flles The large dot site
compared to the resolution causes the strokes to be
too wide. Better looking characters are obtained
b y hand editing the fonts. A p r w a m was written
which translates a pixel flie into an ASCII flla that
contains a picture of each charantar built up u s i q
a t signs and spaaes. The system editor k then used
t o modify these pictures. Finally, another [email protected] from the -1
flle back into a pixel flle
Hand editing a font requires several hours and several iterations
Porting Td( to a small machlne turned out to be
quite a challenge. The first step was t o briryg up
the Tangle program so that the WEB source could
be translated t o PascaL This was not too dimtult.
Porting
itself was much harder. Its data is too
large, its code is too big and it has too many Ales for
the standard Pascal runtime 1/0 system. The large
data problem is handled by utiliiing extended addressing which requires moving large arrays t o the
h e a p WEB macrm in the change flle are used to
do t h k For each large m a y , the change file meates a pointer t o t h e array as well as an entry in
the initialization oode which does a L h d ' on tbis
pointer. Other macros change all the old accesses t o
the m a y into pointer dereferenced accesses
The large oode problem is solved by segmenting.
is too large t o
This was very difficult because
be handled b y the automatic multilevel segmenter.
Special segmenting is used which allows t h e p
ing of value parameters between segments Luokuses only value parameters so no changes
ily,
t o parameter lists are required t o accommodate the
segmentation A p r o p u n was written t o aid in segmenting
First i t reads and parses the Pascal
source and builds a prooedure call graph. Then thls
program is ujad interactively t o place procedure
in various segments. The goal is t o minimize or086
segment calls subject to an ovaall segment s h e restriction. Once the user is satisfled with the segmentation, this program builds the required s o w w film
t o pass to the compiler as well as the segmentation
flles t o pass t o the Hnking programs Several i t a a tions were required before acceptable segmentation
was achieved.
deolares more flles than the standard Pasod
runtime 1/0 system can handle The main psoblem with this I/O package is its inability to use Rle
buffers in the extended addressing area. T o overcome this problem, a special runtime 1/0 system
was written which can put Ale buffass in t h e h e a p
WEB macros are usad t o map standard 1/0 statements into calls to these spacial 110 routines
is now avail.able on the HP-1000 family of
computers Currently, typesetting paformanor Is
raqyhly 1500 words per minute. T b i page was formatted using an A700 Series HP-1000s n d output
on an Epson NZX-80 printer.
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
Udx
Site Report
Richard Furuts and Pierre MacKayt
Department of Computer Science
University of Washington
We'd like to take this opportunity to introduce
ourselves to the TUGboat readership and report on
new developments. We took over the Unix
aite
coordinator duties from Robert Morris in November,
1982. Since then, much of our 'IjijX time has been
devoted to m 8 2 , both on Unix and on Tops2O.
We have submitted a separate article in which we
describe ' & X at our particular site in more detail,
but here, let us turn our attention t o the state of
'l)ijC on Unix machines.
We are pleased to report that 'QX82 is
currently running on VAX/Unix, 4.1BSD3 thanks
to the efforts. of Favel Curtis of Cornell University
and Howard Trickey of Stanford University. New
versions of m 8 2 have been coming up on Unix
within a couple of weeks of their announcement at
Stanford, so we are pretty much up to date. Howard
and Pave1 have written an article summarizing their
experiences in porting w 8 2 to Unix which follows
this report. Details on how to obtain m 8 2 for
Unfortunately, we have not heard of any
versions of m 8 2 for other flavors of Unix. Some
interest has been expressed in porting m 8 2 to
the Sun workstation (running 4.2BSD) and some
preliminary work is in progress. We have also heard
from a person who wants to port m 8 2 t o a PDP11 running 2BSD Unix, but as far as we know,
he has not yet started working actively on it. If
you're doing a port to one of these other machines
or versions of Unix, please keep us posted.
We are trying t o handle as much of our
correspondence as possible through electronic mail.
We can be reached from the Arpanet, from CSNet,
and via uucp. Our Arpanet and CSNet addresses
are FurutaBWashington and MacKayOWashington.
On uucp, it's
...decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!uw-june!furuta
and ...uw-june!mackay. An alternate uucp route is
...ucbvax!lbl-csam!uw-beaver. .. .
t o u r work is funded, in part, by a grant from
Northern Telecom.
17
We also are maintaining an eIectronic mailing
list, [email protected], for discussions between
Unix 7)jX sites. If you want to be included on this
list, send Arpanet, CSNet, or uucp mail to Fnruta.
for Berkeley Unix, 4.lBSD
m 8 2 is now available for sites running
Berkeley Unix, version 4.1. We are now making
available a 'beta test" distribution which includes
sources for QX and WEB, libraries, fonts, and
whatever device drivers we can obtain. At the time
of writing, we have drivers for the Versatec, thanks
t o Carl Bindiig of our Department, and for the
Imagen laser printer, thanks, again, to Pave1 Curtis.
We also hope to have a Symbolics laser printer
driver in place before the distribution begins. If you
have DVI 2 drivers for other devices, please send
them t o us and we'll happily include them in future
distributions. Our fonts are now in the PXL format,
128 characters per font (the older arrangement), and
with magnifications of 1.0, 1.2, and 1.3 included for
most entries.
The present distribution will be the latest
version of m 8 2 available to us (presently 0.95).
Note that versions before 1.0 are considered to be
pre-releases so the language they d e b e is subject to
change. If you want to wait for 1.0, please let us
know when you request your tape.
Aa the implementation uses a modified version
of Berkeley's pe Pascal compiler, we will only be able
t o provide a complete distribution to those sites with
source licenses for 4.1BSD. We will, however, try to
accomodate those with binary licenses for 4.lBSD.
Please make sure that you indicate clearly whether
you have a source or a binary license for 4.lBSD.
The complete distribution presently occupies
something on the order of 11 to 12 megabytes of
disk storage on our machine. Of this, about 3
megabytes is used t o store the fonts, 1 megabyte
for the modified pc sources, and the remainder for
w 8 2 , WE3, device drivers, and other parts of the
system. Of course, not all of this needs to be
retained on-line. The frugal site may be able to
get by using only perhaps a half of this amount
of disk space.
Tapes will be in tar format, blocked 20, and
written a t 1600 bpi, unless otherwise specified (we
can also write 800 bpi).
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
To order, send a check for $50 (U.S. Funds) made to the University of Washington, documentation of the type of Unix license you hold, and your address to: Richard Furuta Computer Science, FR-35 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 We would appreciate it if foreign sites could increase the amount of their check as appropriate to pay the added postal costs necessary for mailing the tape. We'd prefer not t o receive purchase orders. Please contact us if that causes you problems and we'll try to set up alternate arrangements. If you have a CSNet, Arpanet, or uucp mail address, please include it--we'll add you to our mailing list. The lower limit of law-res fonts As noted above, we run 'QijX on a DECSystem 2060 as well as on the VAX. Since we do have use of the 2060, we occasionally run off PM, fonts for other Unix sites with METAFONT. (METAFONT is written in the SAIL programming language and so does not run on Unix machines. Indeed, use of METAFONT is pretty much limited to DECSystem10's and DECSystem-20's.) We have recently received several requests for very coarse-grained PXL fonts at resolutions of 100 dots to the inch or less, which prompts a few observations. 100 dots to the inch is just acceptable for upright fonts, but rather chancy for slanted or italic fonts, and anything significantly lower is hopeless. There is not much point in asking for a PXL font at 0.38 magnification (72 dots to the inch) unless you simply want it as a rough guide for a pixelediting program. At least half the characters are unidentifiable at that resolution. In the long run, the best results at any resolution under about 300 dots to the inch will require a stage of pixel editing. METAFONT is astonishingly good at making the critical decisions aboyt difficult regions of a font character, but it is not perfect. At 100 dots to the inch, it is often overstrained. This point can best be appreciated by looking at an example from CMIlO, produced a t .5 magnification. The slant brings out all the worst problems of aliasing, and in this case produces a comically misleading result. f ~ n i xand VAX are registered trademarks of Bell Laboratories and Digital Equipment Corporation, respectively. C h u '135 Bight brukmt Pixel Width 8 Plxel Height 16 x-offset 1 Y-offmet to R u t e r Pointer 844 Width 0.27777 (2.7777 pt.) (modified output from David hchs's PXtTYP) The upper horisontd of the right square bracket is caught at a point where METAFONT's rounding operation shifts the entire lot of pixels one position to the right and as a result the bar ends up on the wrong side of the character. A pixel editor can &r this better than METAFONT can. There is no point in complicating the basic METAFONT character descriptions with statements that will handle such an extreme case. Even after editing, the italic and slant fonts (CMSnn, CMInn and CMTInn) will still look pretty crude. But most of the characters in roman, YATHEX and even symbol fonts are not too bad. Anyway, until the price and availability of 200 pixel/inch bit-mapped displays comes to be very different from what it is now, we must live with what we can get. * * t * Porting l&X to VAX UNlX Pavel Curtis and Howard !hickey Over the past few montha, the authors have independently ported m 8 2 t o run under Berkeley's V~X/Unixf (version 4.1BSD). One of us (Pavel) subsequently merged our ideas to produce tbe VAX/Unix distribution of l)j?C announced in thii issue's Unix Qj?C Site Report. Both implementations required small changes to Berkeley's pc compiler. This note describes the problems encountered in making these changes and in bringing up itself. porters are aware that the capabilities of the available h c a l compiler will almost totally determine how difficult the port will be. Unhappily, the pc compiler has more deficiencies than one might wish. This is somewhat understandable, since it was designed for instructional use and not for the preparation of production software. On the plus side, the documentation was good enough to allow us to anticipate most of the problems. TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 Also, we seem t o be the exception t o T ~ c h s L' d ' that T)ijX uncovers a t least one compiler bug for every compiler tried-our problems were caused by deficiencies, not bugs. This meant that there were few unexpected problems, and we were able to do the initial port in surprisingly little time (one or two weeks). The most significant shortcoming of pc was also the one major place where Professor Knuth departed from Jensen and Wirth's Pascal and from the proposed standard: a default clause in the case statement. It has been suggested that the best way to handle this problem is to write a program t o translate the case statements used in 'QX to case statements without default clauses. This is actually fairly difficult to do properly, since it entails discovering the type of the case expression (character, integer, or integer subrange) and then forming a succinct test for the gaps between the expressions that actually occur as case labels. Since the pc compiler already generates code to check for an unmentioned value, the best possible translation would result in doing this work twice. The old PQX implementation made a half-hearted attempt, by using an editor script to collect most of the information needed, but one still had t o do the translation manually. We considered it imperative$
fast and
that bringing up a new version of 'I$be easy, enabling all installations to track bug hes and added features. The last thing one normally resorts to in order t o circumvent a language deficiency is that horror of horrors: compiler modification. No one except the author or maintainer of a compiler really understands the implications of a given change t o the code, so it is easy to introduce obscure buga. Also, the compiler modifier has to be wary of new versions of the compiler from its maintainer. Having said this, we must now say that we both came to the conclusion, in this case, that compiler modification was the answer. Examination of the then current code showed that pc was already trapping the default case in order t o have an error message printed. It was immediately obvious how to give control to another statement instead, and it was hard t o see how any bugs could be introduced. Since so few changes were needed, the new-compilerversion problem was not too daunting, so the deed was done. Compiler modification was dehitely not the answer for the next problem, memory packing. To avoid wasting a large amount of memory, we needed t o define the types quarterword and halfword to contain 8 and 16 bits, respectively. It is not possible t o convince pc to pack 0. ,65535 into 16 bits or 0. .255 into 8 bits. While it might not be too dif3cult to get the memory allocator to do this, the code generator could easily be a different question. Fortunately, the compiler d l pack -128 .. 127 and -32768 .. 32767 into the proper sizes and 'fEX has been written so that these ranges can be easily used in the all important memory-word record. A similar problem occurs with the non-character bytejiles, but here one must be careful that the bits actually written to the files look like the range 0 ..255 has been used (otherwise, device independent output files and 'fEX font metric files can't be transported between sites). So, for example, instead of writing a value of 200 t o a fle, we write 200 - 256 = -56. In spite of the above, we would still waste a tremendous amount of memory if we could not h d a way t o fit the type called glue-ratio into 32 bits. Usually a glue-ratio is made the same as real, but pc puts r e a h into 64 bits, and has no provision for any kind of 'short" re&. Fortunately, the VAX hardware has a 32-bit floating point data type, so the following trick could be used: Pascal is told that a glue-ratio is a (32-bit) integer, but we redly store floating point numbers there; external procedures (written in C) are then used to convert back and forth between those pseudo-reds and pc's 84-bit variety. The rest of the changes necessary were more conventional. There were a few places where 'QX uses variables names that pc uses for special things (e.g., input, t e a , time, and date), but the WEB system provided an easy way to fix them. The pc runtime system doesn't provide for recovery from file opening errors, or for closing a file immediately. It was easy to modify a few of the run-time library procedures t o make files behave the way 'QX assumes they will. SpecificalIy, the following changes were made: Opening an input or output Ele that isnY there causes the 'end-of-file" flag to be set true or false, respectively, rather than being a fatal error. Reading past end-of-file is silently ignored, rather than being a fatal error. The f i s t get from the terminal is now ignored. Provision is made to explicitly close a file. The pc run-time system as supplied simply closes files on scope exit. The alternative to changing the run-time library would be to do all input/output with external C procedures, but this would have meant changing every place in the code that ueed get, put, read, write, tests for end-of-fie, etc. Macros wouId have TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 heIped to some extent, but it is hard to see how to convert a file variable argument into information that conveys the type of the file. Also, one has to be on guard for a varying number of arguments. Adding onto this the need to simulate Pascal's conventions about text files, it just seemed easier t o make the run-time library changes. One particularly irritating thing about pc is that it doesn't accept keywords which are written using uppercase characters, even though that is required by the standard! (More precisely, there is a flag allowing for upper case keywords to be used but this switch also turns off all of the other extensions Berkeley did make to the Jensen and Wirth standard.) There were a number of places in TAUGLE that had to be changed in order to prevent the conversion to uppercase. A subtle bug can show up if one is not careful in making this change: when TMlOLE does constant folding, it looks for keywords like MOD and D I V in the output buffer. The easiest place to convert to lowercase is before these comparisons, and if the comparisons are not changed an incorrect program may result. Another problem we had with TANGLE was getting it to put the statement Stinclude .ert.hU in the Pascal output. This statement is needed to tell pc about externally compiled procedures. The double quote marks in the statement could not be emitted by TANGLE, and there was no way to force the '1' to be just after a line break. We introduced primitives into WEB that eventually evolved into the =verbatim Pascal string" and the "force Pascal line break" primitives now in the standard WEB language. The amount of time it takes to compile is a major annoyance. Using an otherwise unloaded VAX 11/780, it takes approximately an hour of real time to create a runnable ']CEX from the IEB source code. Back in the real world, one of us has experienced upwards of a five hour wait when other people were using the machine. Now that the port is complete, this is no longer such a bother. On those infrequent occasions when a new version of is being installed, one can simply have the compilation done in the middle of the night. For regular use, i t appears necessary to have a version of the program which has the PLAIN macros preloaded. Unfortunately, U N M is not se amenable to this idea as some other systems, notably TOPS20. We were able, however, to retrieve a program from the net.sources group on USENET which will do the trick. The program, called "undump", takes a core-image and the executable file which produced it and constructs a new executable lile incorporating all of the data areas of the coreimage. After &me involved machinations and close p e m a l of the order of file opens or closes within 'I& a$
procedure
,
was
an average of 30 seconds or so of stsrt-up time over
Some statistics regarding the port are in order.
The production version compiles into about 235,000
bytes of code. This doesn't include the large data
arrays, which need not be allocated untii runtime.
At leaat 250,000 bytes of data area are needed
in addition to the code to get a usable W.In
a memory-rich system it is not unreasonable to
allocate 500,000 bytes for this purpose. It is possible,
as mentioned above, to save a version of &
' X that
has its data areas preloaded with fonts and macrm,
but one wouldn't want t o have too many such
versions; they are on the order of 750,000 bytes long
each. As for running speed, a sample six-page paper
(single-spaced, 10-point type, using a page of macros
and a couple of fonts on top of PLAIN) took 44 cpu
seconds to format using the preloaded-with-PLAIN
version of the program. For comparison, the same
paper took 37 cpu seconds on the SAIL DEC-10
computer wed to develop
With regard to output drivers for UNR, there
are not many yet available. One of us (Howard)
has a driver written in C for the Xerox Dover
printer "press" format, adapted from a program
that handled the old (version 1)DVI files. The new
program handles either version. Pave1 has written
one for- the Xmagen/Canon Imprint Laser Printer,
also in C.
Looking back on the port, it must be said that
the combination of the WEB system and Professor
Knuth's careful coding has resulted in quite a
portable program. It now takes less than a day
to bring up a new version of I
t
i
.
3and check that
it passes the nefarious TRIP test. It is rarely
necessary to touch the changes we've made, aince
the new features and bug ftres usually don't occur
in the *system-dependent" parts. As a result, 'QjC
is a program that can easily stay up 'to date and
incorporate the latest bug k e s at many sites on
many hosts. That, combined with the care taken
to ensure that the output will be the exactly the
same from host to host, means that we have a solid
basis for portable documents.
m.
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
'I$jX at the University of Washfngtonr Tops-20, Unix, Vereatee, and the Monolithic Pierre MacKay and Richard h u t a t Department of Computer Science University of Washington We would l i b to take this opportunity to environment in the Department of describe the Computer Science at the University of Washington. We presently run m 8 2 on a DECSystem-2060 and on a VAX11/780, located in our Computer Science Laboratory. Our primary output device has been an elderly Versatec printer/plotter which prints on 11" wide paper. The Versatec is shared by QX, troff, and Scribe users. We expect to receive a laser printer shortly. Since we have the use of the DEC-2060 and of the Arpanet, we have had the opportunity to copy working versions of m 8 2 directly from the SCORE machine at Stanford and to prepare our documentation using W 8 2 even before the problems involved in creating the Unix version of QX were entirely solved. We therefore gave a high priority to putting together drivers for our Versatec. This effort was complicated by the fact that while the version 2 DVI fies were created on the DECdO, the Versatec was connected to the 780's Unibus, and we had no controller to drive the Versatec directly from the DEC-20 in any case. We decided to begin by modifying a magnetic tape file transfer system which we had developed for m 8 0 output. Although slow, this system had the distinct advantage that it supplied bit-mapped rasters to the Versatec at an even rate and avoided the extreme variations in toner density which can appear if the paper races past the print head to skip over white space. Our first, very provisional output driver, DVItoVBT, did all the necessary translation for the Versatec, and wrote full-width Versatec rasters, ten to a block, on magnetic tape on the DEC-20. We then read the tape on the VAXll-780 and printed the rasters on the Versatec. Generally, we could fit twenty or thirty pages worth of information onto a 2400' tape reel. DVItoVRT still exists, but it has never been entirely finished. It boasts the version number 0.8, but that may be something of an exaggeration. In any case it works. It is dreadfully slow, but it works, though only for vertically oriented output on roll-paper. The DVftoVBT driver is based on the DVItype - - f o u r work is funded, in part, by a grant from Northern Tefecom. processor which was made available concurrently with 'Q9CS2, and i t preserves all possible elements of DVItme. The addition to DVItype which may be of most general interest is the part that reads the PXL fonts. DVItypo gets all the font information it needs Font Metric) files associated from the TF"H with each font, but a driver program must take account of the structure of the font itself. Our programs read PXL files as described by David Fuchs in TUGboat, Volume 2, No. 3, pages 8-12; they allow for scaling either in the '&X input itself, or at the time when the DVI file is interpreted for the output device. The most practical use of scaling is the latter. As a general habit, we format all Q ' X material at true sire and expand it to a 1.3 magnification in the driver program. A reduction of 77%, which is available on a several photocopying machines, restores true dimensions and very much improves the apparent sharpness of each typeface. Since DVItotlIlT does the necessary bibpushing to create a Versatec raster in as nearly standard Pascal as we can manage, it is infuriatingly slow. Processing and writing a page of WEB output to tape takes about 30 seconds of elapsed time on a moderately loaded TOPS20 system, which is enough to discourage all but the most devoted user. Fortunately, in December, BNR Inc. lent us a Monolithic Systems Corp. processor, which is intended to be used as an intelligent controller for the Versatec. (For a description of earlier uses of the Monolithic and of the support programs for earlier versions of '[email protected], see Phil Sherrod and Alan Wright. "!&X Support Programs." TUGboat, Volume 2, No. 1, pages 17-19.) Except on the rare occasions when its font memory fils up, and a new font has to be written over one of the old fonts, the Monolithic allows us to drive the Versatec just about as fast as it can physically be driven. Sherrod and Wright reported some improvements that they made at Vanderbilt University, but we have not felt the need to consider those yet. At present we are. content with a two-step process based on software developed at Stanford some years ago involving (1) translation from DVI format to an intermediate work file (m)format, and (2) shipment of the VEIL command and data fUe to the Monolithic processor. We did modify the format of the VEB iile to allow us to use the same second pass with both DVI 1 and DVI 2 and we updated the software to use PXL files. These intermediate work fles (VER files) are queued and deleted automatically after use. This can be an inconvenience, since they must be totally regenerated again if needed, but they are so large that we cannot afford to leave them on the disk. (m TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 * * * * * * * * * * * We wrote a new program, D V X M , to handle the fist pass for DVI 2 files. This program, based (like DVI~OYBT)on DVItype, is now fully debugged for vertical output on continuous roll paper. We have not yet decided what t o do about rotated output on fan-fold paper. The one thing we do not want to do is go back to bitpushing in standard Pascal. The regular use of 1.3 magnification and 1300PXL fonts makes fan-fold paper rather impractical in any case. We have left the necessary hooks in the program so that rotated output could be added, but there has been no decision when or whether we will hang anything on those hooks. At present, the intermediate work file makes no attempt to conform with BigEndian conventions. It is very much an artifact of a 36bit environment. We have worked out a coding system which would fit very nicely into a 32-bit environment, but at present we do not know of any users who could take advantage of it. The 32-bit coding would actually result in a slightly larger work file if the w e d material included a large number of tall characters (e. g., most of the characters in MATHEX fonts), but it would result in a slightly smaller work file on a page with short rule segments. In any case, we will soon need to modify our present VEB Gle format again to allow for the new 256 character PXL iile format and to take advantage of the larger number of fonts which may be defined in m 8 2 . Once we had our output from version 2 DVI working nicely, we were left with one more anomaly: our METAFONT still produced proof-mode output using version 1 DVI. We rewrote our copy of WOUT .S A I for the new conventions, and .now our entire l)QC environment is consistent with w 8 2 . (When you try to produce postamble values to simulate 'IJEX output, you have to remember the diecrepancy between the m 8 2 8ccrled point which is 1/(216)th of a printer's point, and the PXL font FIX,which is 1/(2~O)thof the design size. Otherwise you get, some very strange dimensions.) We have also modiiied our METAFONT to use DEC's GIG1 terminal as the "drawdisplay" output device rather than Stanford's Datadisc terminal. At present, our principal concern with METAFONT is the production of a set of Nrukhi characters for an Arabic Script enhancement to '&X82. Monte C. Nichols Sandia National Laboratory Livermore, Califomir) Last issue I reported that we expected to see T~jX82running on VAX/VMS systems by late 1982. Boy was I wrong. One problem has been the wait for the new VMS version of Pascal,although that is no longer a problem for most of us. Additionally, the group at Oregon Software has been unable to find spare time to devote to bringing up QjX82 (note that their work on Q ' X has been on an uncornpeneated baais - Yes, you can get something for nothing, Virginia, it just takes longer). Several others have been working on the implementation but have been thwarted by other problems. David Fuchs (Stanford) has just reported sucms using VMS 3.2 and Pascal 2.1; see page 14. Hopefully the new version of Pascal will soon reside on many VMS machines (it was delivered in Italy long before it was available here on the West coast) and we will all be in business. There should be several other articles in this issue written by VMS folks. In addition, I have received several letters very recently that contain leads for further articles of interest to the VMS community. Hopefully they will find their way into the next issue of TUGboat. David Fuchs has very kindly made available many more fonts in .tfm and .pxl format. They are for 2OOdpi devices and the .pxl fdes exist in magnifications of 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, and 1500. These files are presently being unpacked from tape and will be sent soon to Oregon Software where they can be distributed to you. These fonts will work for the most recent version of 'QX now being distributed by OS as well as the version of l3$C82 that we dl
long to see. In addition, I still have the fdes sent me
courtesy of AMS which supplement those from D. F.
but which exist only as METAFONTflea and thus
need to be "treated" by the METAFONTprogram
on a DEC 10 or 20 machine.
I want to again encourage anyone who develops a
spooler for devices other than those presently wadable on VMS to send them to me or to Oregon
Software so they can be made available to the rest
of the VMS community.
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
David Kiapp
At Calma R&5D in San Diego, we produce
approximately five thousand pages of technical
documentation every six months. The majority
of this work is in the form of user manuala for
our computer-aided design systems. Until now, the
typesetting of these books was done by a commercial
typesetter, at considerable expense to the company.
The typeset copy is then mailed to our corporate
publications office for printing.
Late last year, after a brief familiarization and
testing period, a decision was made to use l&X to
produce camerweady copy of all of our documentation. Lower costs, faster typesetting time, and keep
ing wntrol of the entire production process in-house
were major factors in this decision. The conversion to l)jX was to occur within our normal delivery
schedule, necessitating very fast and concentrated
work to produce this large volume of material.
Work began immediately on the creation of a
suitable macro package that allows us to create
many of the complex layouts used in our boob with
relative ease. Lynne Price, 7&wizard from our Sunnyvale office, was (and is) instrumental in cresting thia package, as well as advising me on debugging, creation of new macros and generally soothing frmsled nerves. We now have an excellent table of contents generator, with an index generator just around the corner. Most of our problems resulted from trying to duplicate the current typeset layout of the books, instead of simply redesigning them in a way that's easy for TE;X. Happily, we have not encountered anything that absolutely can't be done (somehow). Our macro package was designed so that our typists could easily insert control sequences in the text of the manuals. I then review the manuals to inaert any complicated layouts, such as table alignments and the syntax descriptions of computer commands, for example: F F VPA P ws IMAX Ys MAX Xa [[vec][ADD]OTR let] 4 (One book had nearly 400 such syntaxes.) Finally, I debug and run the input m e to generate the manual. In February of this year (two months before our production deadline) we switched from the original 9jjX to the newer version (uaing TFM flea). We now run '[email protected] on both our VPX-11/780 and 730 under VMS, with output a-ble on a Versatec V-80 (used for draft copy) and a Symbolics LGP-1 Laser Graphics printer (for camera copy). As this is written, we are pushing hard to meet the deadline, with some 3500 pages completed in draft form and about 1700 in final, camera-ready wpy. As a tool for high-volume production, TE;X has prwen itself to us at Calma R&D. It doe8 require quite a bit of familiarisation and practice, but the results so far have been worth it. Norman Naugle and Bart Childs The be& news about QjX at TAMU is the arrival of a QMS L88ergrafix 1200 printer and the ability to produce 'J&lB2 dvi flea successfully on a Data General MV8000. Although we have been nznning TjQC using VPX/VMS systems, the lack of a reasonable output device has hampered our progress. Until now, our output devices have been Printronix and Trilog printers-suitable for overhead projectore. Them printers use a driver (modified) and 200 bpi fonts obtained from Oregon Software. Initially, the QMS printer will be used in the graphics mode to paint pages, but development of a driver is under way. The printer will have '&X2
fonts at 300bpi in ROM plus dawn-loadable fonts.
It is anticipated that the printer will digest dvi flea
a page at a time, i-e., from bop to eop. This strategy
ehould allow the printer to approach its 12 page per
minute capacity. Hooks for embedded graphics are
possible and are being considered.
Our plan is to offer Q $8 2 on all major computers on the TAMU campus. This includes VPX, Prime, Amdahl, DG, and Cyber. Available output devices will include Lasergrh, Versatec, 'hilog, Printronix, Xerox 9700, and Linotron 202. We are hoping for something like an Autologic APS-5 in 1984. Although we can't say TjQC correctly since we're from TeXAS, we can eary Thank you! to everyone in the 'QjX community for their generous support to an isolated outpost. TUGboat, Volume 4, No. I Send submiesionn to: Lance Carnes 163 Linden Lane Mill Valley, CA 94941 (416) 388-8863 The number of r m a [email protected] implementations is growing by leaps and bounds. In addition to TYX's m-in-C, Tom Hickey's Apollo implementation, and my HP3M)O version, there is an implementation on the HPlOOO and a possible Apple LISA version The people at TYX inform me that they are busy bringing up m 8 2 in a C version which will run on all of their machines (ONYX, PDPll-44, PLEXUS) as well as on 68000-based systems. My understanding is that this is not a WEB transport, but a rewrite in C (as was their W8O). Tom Hickey has already transported w 8 2 to the Apollo, and reports that it was an easy task. Tom notes that the new version is faster, though this may be partially due to the new Apollo processor. He is using an Imagen printer, and a report on the activities at OCLC appears elsewhere in this issue. m 8 2 is in the works for the HP3000. See the site report below. (Again this issue, this page was printed on the HP2R80A Laser Printer.) There is a new implementation of w 8 2 for the HPlOOO from JDJ Wordware, Cupertino, CA. They have a driver for the Epson MX-80, as well as for the Imagen. See their report elsewhere in this issue. Alas, there is still nothing for the &bit micros, but there is good chance the Apple LISA will soon support a version of [email protected] See David h c h ' s article in this issue. HP3000 SITE REPORT Lance Carnes w 8 2 is struggling to life on the HP3000! D a m porting the WEB system was unbelievably painlees, and bringing up w 8 2 is still before me. What follows is a brief glimpse of what has been done so far. After unloading the WEB sources from tape, it took me exactly three tries to successfully compile and run TANGLE, and have it output itself in Pascal! Stunned, I decided to press my luck and try to bring up WAVE. This came up the first time, mostly because the change file is almost identical to that for TANGLE. Most of the problems encountered so far had to do with the change files. After trying to create them ad hoc based on the listings, it occurred to me combine all of the system dependent modules (identifiable by their index reference €4 taptem dependemcieo) as a first approximation change file. This works out well, since you need only read and modify the lines in this ale. m 8 2 should be up in the next few weeks, and I will be able to report on its performance at the July meeting. TWO BUGS IN '&$SO-in-Psscal
Lance Carnes
For those of you still hacking away at W
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following bugs have been identified. Both are c a d
by variables which contain uninitialixed values.
The first bug occurs in the procedure byphonate
where exception lookup is done. In the August 1981
)$, section 470, the following appears: listing of l for i:=j + l to n do tr uncro o r 4 d:= 6hortAsciiNull; And then in section 472 there appears: for i := 1 to hashlength do h h := hashr16 + truncwor4{ The problem I experienced was that hash, which is computed from the first hwhlengthcharacters, became a negative number. It turned out this occurred because for n < hauhlength the last haahlength-n places in the array truncword were not assigned a value. Since truncword is a locat array, its initial value is just whatever garbage was left on the stack, and if the garbage happened to be a negative 32-bit integer, harh became negative also. The fix for the bug is t o replace n with ma& mudistindionLength in the code from section 470 shown above. The second bug turned up when a source file had the following: \xdef \ junkie(). The symptom is an array index violation in Pascal rnntime. The bug occurs in the procedure ~cantoks. Refer to Section 194 in the August 1981 listing of J'& The array index violation occurred in the third to last line: l i q q ) :=0; { delimit token list ) It turna out q is not set in the case of an empty definition, i.e. {I and , since it is a local variable, it just contains whatever garbage is on the stack. The fix for this bug is to replace q with p. A workaronnd is to use \xdef\junkie{{)}. The moral of this story is: if you are going to use a Pascal variable be sure you have previously assigned it a value. -- - . TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 25 * * * * * * * * * * * Fonts * * * * * * * * * * * Pictures Are Just Bii LetScott B. Guthery We ham found that a handy way to include pictures coming from rsster gaphies software in reports is to transform the pi&es into a chsracters in a %@C font. Using two excellent articles by David Fnche we mote s program called TKKIZE that accepts rasterired pictures coming from graphics packages on our time-shared system or from personal mrkdations and builds TFY and Pla files which contain the pictures. In the document one then oimp1y switches to this font, c a b out the character corresponding to the picture one wants to display and plirees it where one wishes on the page. The logo at the beginning of this article asll prepared on one of our worketatione as was the following diagram which shows haw we generate reports containing pictures from our LOW8 database system: I report.tex Dadd hchs, -Pod I -TEX T I E 'XLt X -~picture ~ Mat& Film, TUGBOAT, Vdamc 2, Number 1(Februv, 1981). TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 Georgia K. M. Tobfn Omce of Rwauch, OCLC Online Computer Ltbrary Center, Ine. @$
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is a font I designed using Thom Hickey's Pascal version of METaFONT on an ApoUo microcomputer. It is intended to capture the flavor of a type of calligraphy called Copperplate, a form o t script
originally engraved directly onto smooth copper plates using a stylus. This brief report will provide a gem
era1 description of the design and implementation in M E T n F O N T of f%&?d,focusing its attention on
the setup of the pens and subroutines used in drawing the characters. In designing @&d, I followed the
specifications for the letter forms set down in, 'Calligraphy in the Copperplate Style," by Herb K a u h a n and
Geri kmelsky. According to them, Copperplate letters are characterized by thick downward strokes and
hairline-thin upward strokes, and the characters' axes have a uniform slant of 54 degrees from the baseline.
that cmbore Blb for nnt, ie., it contains all the
Cubare is the file that fills the same function for
assorted definitions and subroutines that take care of the nasty details tbat METWONT needs to know.
C u b r e began life as a clone of the bore that Thom Hickey used in designing Chel (Computer Helvetica), and
only gradually developed its own character. The Brst and moat obvious change was to adjust the grid upon
which characters are designed to account for the slant and proportions of Copperplate-style characters. The
erst requirement is easily satisfled by setting trzy (one of M E T R F O N T ' s transformation parameters) to
0.75; this gives the designated slant of 54 degrees from the baseline- (Of course, other trzgs may be used.
While these do not give the canonical Copperplate look, they result in some interesting and useful fonts. For
instance, I used a trzg of O to produce a non-slanted variant called Tinplate ( d d h )which can be used on
the Apolio video display.)
The second requirement entails setting up the proper heighb for upper case characters (represented by
the value of h), and lower case characters (represented by the value of m) and the proper descender depth
(represented by the value of d). Kaufman and Hornelsky [email protected] that the baseline is three units above the
descender; the t o p of lower case letters extend two units above the baseline; and the tops of upper ease
characters extend three units above the tops of lower case letters. Total design size, then, equals eight units;
therefore, h must equal 518 of design size, m must equal 215 of h, and d must equal 3/8 of design size to get
the grid we want, namely:
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Next, 1defined a series of horizontal and vertical pens Bner than those required by Chel. The horizoatsi
, q,ws, we, and w7; the vertical pens are r l o l , wlm, and q ~w7 .is the thickest
pens are called WE, w ~ wa,
pen required by
and is used in most of the downward strokes of apper case characters. It gives a
stroke of about 4.5 points when drawing a character with a design silre of 80 points. wa is the pen %&f
used for most of the downward strokes in lower ease characters; it produces a stroke of about 3.8 points when
drawing a character with a design size of 80 points. tpr and wlol are hairline-thin Wow grows"; tbat is, pens
whose widths grow relatively slowly ss boldness and/or expansion increases. These pens draw strokes wider
than one pixel only at the greatest boldness and/or expansion,
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A good deal of a font's character depends upon the subroutines with which it is drawn. In developing the
subroutines, I took into account the fact that, aecordiig to Kaufman and Hornelsky, there are nine
basic strokes which occur in almost aU the lower case letters and some of the upper case letters. Not all of
these basic strokes became subroutines, and some subroutines were required for common shapes not described
by those strokes; but all subroutines arc described in fairly tiresome detail below.
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Bmic Stroke One
Basic Stroke One is simply a straight line,'but, because one or both of its ends may or may not taper, it is
best produced by a call to either Strone or Ucstrone. Strone ia used for lower case letters, ie., it uses ws for
most of the length of the stroke. It requires four parameters: the top point on the stroke (ttop), the bottom
point on the stroke (bbd), the index of the pen used at the top and the index of the pen used at the bottom.
These last two are needed to control taper at the ends. For example, the call
produces a vertical line fkom 1 to 2 which starts with a wa, gradually widens to a ws, and then tapers down
again to a ws. Ucdrone is used for upper case letters, ie. it uses a to, for most of the stroke. It only
is done
requires two parameters, the top point and the bottom point, becaw tapering of the stroke fkom a
automatically at both ends.
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the lowest point the rounded bottom reaches ( b h t ) , the ending point on the stroke (tip), and the index of the
pea used at the top (wa lor tapering lowercase letters, ws for non-tapering lower case letters or tapering upper
ease letters, wf for non-tapering upper case letters), and then passing those paruneten to either Strtwa (for
lower case letters) or Udrtwo (for upper case letters).
Bmic Stroke Three
Basic Stroke Three is the reverse of Basic Stroke Two. It can be produced with a call to either Strthree or
Ucdrthree for either lower or upper case, respectively. SCrthtx takes three parameters: the bottom point on
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the straight stem of the stroke (bbof), the highest point the rounded top reaches (ttop), and the ending point
on the stroke (tip). U d r t C a requires tboa three parameters, a8 well as the index of the pen ascd at the
is wed if the stroke is to taper at the bottom, or if it does not.
bottom of the straight stem;
Basic Stroke Foar is a combination of strokes two and three, and may be produced with a call to SCrfour
for lower case; this stroke does not occur in any upper caae letters. Str3w requires four parameters: the
highest point of the rounded top (ttop), the lowest point of the rounded bottom (bbd),the leflmost point where
the stroke begins (kip), and the rightmostpoint where it ends ( d i p ) . AU tapering required is handled by the
subroutine (which is a nice way of saying that yon have no control over the pens used.)
Basic Stroke Five
Basic Stroke Five is an oval which is thick on the left hand side and thin on the right. This stroke does
not occur in any upper case letter. It may be produced by calling SYrfive. The parameters required are: the
highest point (ttop), the lowest point (W),the rightmoat point (right), and the leitmost point (lefi). All
tapering is handled by the subroutine.
B d c Stroke Six Bade Stroke Seven B d c Stroke Eight
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Basic StrdLe Six does not wear otfen enough to merit its own subroutine, and is produced on an ad boc
basis. Basic Strokes Seven and Eight are adequately handled by, respectively, one or twocab to the subroutine
Hairwc, which produce6 a concave arc fiom the ftrst point it receives (drt)to the second point it receives
(dop)using a haitline thin pen.
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Basic Stroke Nine is produced by a call to Smine. This subroutine requires two parameters: the point
a t which the dot appears (dot), and the ending point of the hairline tail (tip). A similar stroke is produced by
Dotloop, which takes the same two parameters, but produces a tail with a shallower curve.
la addition t o the bmic strokes that Kaufman and Hornelsky describe, there are a number of strokes which
occur more or less fkequently i~ Copperplate letters which are also handled by subroutines in cubare. These
are described below.
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Arc is used to produce a tapering arc. It requires three parameters: the thinnest point on the arc (drawn
with a w l ) (art),the thickest point on the arc (dop), and the index of the pen used a t the thickest point.
Groware also produces an arc given two points, rtrt and dop, but allows the user to specify both the pen with
which we are to start drawing at drt and the pen with which we finish drawing at dop.
A curving stroke, which tapers at one end and concludes with a dot at the other, is produced by the
subroutine Ddrtroke. Dddrokc requires three parameters: the b i h h t and rightmost point on the stroke
(art), the nadir of the stroke's rounded bottom (#m), and the end point where the dot appears (dot).
Flounce
This decorative stroke, which appears in several upper case letters, is produced by a call to Rouncc. Four
parameters are required: the leftmost point (rim), the rightmost point (&d),the highest point (topp) and the
lowest point ( W ) All required tapering is handled automatically within the subroutine.
Several subroutines are used to produce smooth, symmetrical waves. Those which have a crest followed
by a trough are produced by Zhdr, Z8quigi, or Qrquigl.
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Z6quig1, Qrquigl and Zhair ail take the following parameters: the wave's starting point (dart), the yvalue of the turning point at the top of the crest ( m t ) , the mid-point of the wave ([email protected]), the y-value of the
turning point at the bottom of the crest (trough), the wave'sending point (jiniuh), and a variable equal to the
reciprocal of the ending slope. Zhair draws the entire wave thus defined with a hairline thin epen, and so does
not require any pen width parameters. Qequigl and Zsquigl are passed two pen width parameters before the
slope variable is given: the index of the pen with which we start drawing and the index of the pen with which
we conclude. Qrquigl difters horn Zapuigl in that Z ~ q u i gb
l desigxd for waves with a horizontal orientation
(i-e., it draws with a vpen), whereas Qrquigl is designed for waves with a vertical orientation (i.e., it draws
with an hpn). Moreover, the Qrquigl wave tapers only a t its ending point, whereas Zrquigl tapers at both the
starting and ending points. All three are variations of Zdrato used in Don Knuth's cmbuse, and they rely on a
subroutine Zcomp (which is pilfered wholesale from cmbore) to handle the trigonometric nitty-gritty iavolved.
Strokes which have a trough followed by a crest are produced by Muquigl or Trquigl. Mequigl uses slightly
thinner pens. Both subroutines require the following eight parameters: the wave's ~tartingpoint (rtart), the
x-coord'iate of the turning point a t the bottom of the trough (truugh), the wave's midpoint (mid#), the xcoordinate of t b turning point a t the top of the crest (wed), the wave's ending point (finirh), the index of
the pen with which we start drawing, the index of the pen with which we conclude, and the slope at mid-wave.
These subroutines are also adapted horn cm&ue. They call Scomp for computing values.
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At one point, Kaufman and Homelsky remark, 'The joining of letters into words is as important as the
forming of the letters themselves". This nicely sums up another problem ia designing
Le., contriving
t o make discrete characters appear to join like flowing script. This is relatively simple for the lower case letters.
I simply designed each so that the 'beginning of the character (that is, its left side) included the point with
coordinates (0,2/5h), and the "ending" of the character (that is, its right side) was precisely at the point with
coordinates (r, 2/5h). Occasionally, this produces a small bit of overlap:
The finishing upswing on the 'v' mns into the left side of the 'e', the finishing upswing on the 'r' runs into
the left side of the 'l', and so on. Normally, this isn't apparent (I hope):
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No single ruie for beginning and ending points applies to the upper case letters, but then, none needs to:
the upper case letters never need t o be connected in sequence. What the precise value of an upper case letter's
smallest x-coordinate is doesn't matter (as long, of course, as it is greater than zero). Some upper case letters
(viz., H, J, K,M,R, U, X and Z)end in a hairline upswing that must connect to minuscules; for these, the
right side must end at the point with coordinates (r, 2/5h). The other upper case letters stand independently,
and their right hand sides need only end a t some point with an x-eoordiiate less than r.
Non-Connecting Upper Case
Connectlng Upper Cane
There are still a number of rough spots in GuBdd. One problem is tied t o the convention that the
beginning of lower ease letters include the point with coordiiates (0,2/5h). In certain cases, viz., b, h, i,j, k, I,
p, r, s and t, the letter form which connects nicely ie not always the most desirabk form. When these letters
do not follow another lower case letter, a form which begins witb a lead-in hairline stroke horn the baseline
looks better than the usual combining form. That is, I claim that:
As of this writing, I have not found a way to put the information that (for instance) '001 is to replace 'b
after a blank, or after certain upper case letters, or after certain punctuation marks. I am able to print these
ligatures by manually inserting a dummy character (*) in fkont of letters to be replaced and including '* in the
ligature table; but this approach is far too c~mbersomeand I hardly ever insert an * every place I need one.
At present, all upper and lower case letters, all digits and about a dozen punctuation marks are designed,
and look acceptably good in mod design sizes for moot boldnews and mart expansions. I hope to carry out
exhaustive testing to determine speciae problems and to correct those, so that the same can be said of all
design sizes at all boldnesses and expansions.
Meanwhile, here's a sample:
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BSblfogr8ph.y
=key, Thomas B. "The Status of METRFONT at OCLCw.ZVObwt, Volume 2, No. 2, Jufy 1981,
pp. 3538.
Hickey, Thomas B.; Tobin, Georgia KU,The Book o j CM8. Privately produced limited edition. 1982.
Kaalhran, Herb; Hornelsky, Geti. CdIipoghy in the CappGlpccte SC&.
York, 1980.
Dover Publications, Inc. New
Knuth, Donald E. The Computer Modern Family o j m
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Kautb, Donald E.
Society/Digital Press. 1979.
TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1
The Fifth ATypI Workhg Seminar
The Computer and fhe Hand in Type Design:
The Aesthetics and Technology
of Digital Lettedorms
During the week of July 31-August 7, at
Stanford University, the Committee for Education
and Research in Letterforms of the Association
Typographique Internationale (ATypI) is sponsoring an International Working Seminar on electronic
and traditional methods of letter design. The program includes workshops, seminars and illustrated
lectures, and it will conclude with a typographical
excursion to San Francisco.
The Seminar will begin on Monday morning,
August 1, with the keynote address, "A Turning
Point in Type Designn, by John Dreyfus, Honorary
President of ATypI. Other speakers include the type
designers Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Andre
Guertler, Christian Mengelt, Gerard Unger and
Bram de Does; typographera Jack S t a u f f ' e r and
Charles Biielow; lettering artists David Kinderaley
and John Benson; type punch-cutter Henk h o s t ;
designer Veronika E l k ; and computer mientisb Donald Knuth, Patrick Baudelaire and Neil
Wiseman.
The theme and purpose of the Seminar are:
- To acquaint educators and designers with the
new computerized methods of type produe
tion and to review certain traditional lettering crafts, including punch-cutting and stone
cutting.
- To provide practical experience with computeraided design systems.
- To bring designers and engineers together for
future cooperation and creation in type design.
Working installations of the MARUS, METAFONT,ALTO, CAMEX, and other systems will be
available for use during the Seminar. Demonstrations and assistance in using the computers will be
provided. Morning seminar sessions will be devoted
to working with computer systems, and the systems
will be available at other times of the day and night
for further exploration.
Prior to the Seminar, information materials on
each computer-aided design system, with samples
of selected design problems, will be sent to each
registered participant. This is to acquaint participants with the systems before their arrival at the
Seminar.
The Seminar is intended for design research,
not scientific research. Participants do not need
scientific training. The emphasis will be on the prac-
tice of design with the new computer technology,
The Seminar language is English, with translators
for German and French.
Fees of $950 per person include Seminar, shared double room, meals, reception, and excursion. The rooms and meals are in a Stanford Residence Hall on the Stanford Campus. For a private, single room, the total Seminar fee is$1025 per person. For partial bookings, e.g. 'seminar without room and meals,
or a stay of less than the full week,send inquiries to
To reserve a position at the Seminar, or for additional information, write to
Charles Bigelow
President, ATYPI Committee on
Education and Research in Letterforms
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, Caliiomia 94305 USA
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HOW TO BUILD A \STRUT
Barbara N. Beeton
American Mathematical Society
Struts are things that keep objects a 3x4 die
tance apart, like the wings of a biplane. Because
of the way that
p u b boxes together vertically, struts are sometimes needed to maintain the
desired distance. The concept was introduced in the
definition and explanation of \ l on pp. 108-109 of
the '&jX manual
and Metefont]: '"&x doean't
use \baselineskip and \lineskip before and after
apply the desired spacing also affects adjacent \hbox
pars which contain more than one line, but in that
case, a visible vertical rule would not be a satisfa+
tory remedy. As it happens, an invisible vertical rule
[m
is just the thing, but &at let us look at the problem
in more detail.
In text,\baselineskip is typically set a t 2 poi&
greater than the text body size: 10sn-12, 9sn11, &on-10. For some special work, though, it
may be desirable to set material more densely, even
"solid" -1kn-10, ete. Only rarely are lines of
text set any closer than that, and struts won't help
with that problem in any case, so it will be ignored here. A strut for solid text should be the
same height and depth as the tallest and deepest
characters in the font; in METAFONT text fonts,
a parenthesis ( ) or square bracket [ ] quelifies, ao
adjacent vertical boxes containing one of these on
the last and first lines respectively will be separated
by the desired distance. Consider the following example, which consists of three \hbox pars: the h
t
junction lacks sdicient ascenders and descenders to
force the baselines apart to the \baselineskip distance (this is \tenpoint\rm \baselineskip lOpt),
but the second junction looks no different from two
lines in the middle of a paragraph.
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(This example may be
contrived, but it works.)
Now,define a strut with the maximumheight and
depth of any character in the font, and insert it a t
the beginning of the first and end of the last line in
each paragraph:
par7?ph
descenders
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(This example may be
contrived, but it works.)
Finally, reset \baselineskip 12pt and apply a
strut that is 2 points longer:
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descenders in the last line.
one can scarce see an
a n m to this (let's cheat).
(This example may be
contrived, but it works.)
There are probably many ways actually to define
struts, but only two will be shown here. In one
approach, strut is defined within the range of each
"aim" dehition (this is Knuth's approach):
\def \tenpoint(\baselineskip 12pt ...
\def\strut(\lorer 3.5pt\vbox t o 12ptO3
... )
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more efEcient (because rules take lese memory space
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height 8.5pt depth 3.5pt ridth Opt)
The preceding defined a strut of the "mxmd"
kind, which at AMS we c d a \strutt. We also
use "throwaway" definitions, in which the size of
the strut is calculated on the basis of the current
text font, so that only two definitions are necessary,
rather than one for each sire (some applications include as many as 6 "text" sires, including titles,
footnotes, et al.). These probably run less efficiently,
but permit more generality in the construction of
\tenpoint and its friends, a memory-saver when
there are frequent sine changes.
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Just because \hbox pars go away in 'I)jX82
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it won't. But there will be a more emcient way
to define them. See item 137 in the current list of
differences between '&80 and m 2 . DETFJWNNG HASHTABLE SIZE AND OTHER QUANTITIES l3arbara N. Beeton American Mathematical Society The hashtable, in which names of control sequences are recorded, is limited in eize. In -0, a common size is 1009 (= MIX); it will be larger in TpjX.82, but the number of primitives and m e s in PLAIN.TEX is also larger than the basic set. And once a name is loaded, it is never removed. So it's not too hard to run out of space for new names. At AMS,a file d e d HOWMANY.MAC (a shortened version is shown below) is used to help determine how much apace is left after all the header fie \def s for a job have been installed. To use it, load in the heade.(s), then \input howmany.mac; this will rapidly fill the hashtable and blow up when there's no more room, returning with the error measage the number of control eequence names that were able to be loaded before apace ran out. The control sequence names used in such a file must be unique. In HOWIIANY.YAC, only 20 lettera of the alphabet were used, so that the file is e d y extensible with the help of a few commands to an editor. This also made checking the count easier. If the count is wrong, or a name in this file duplicates that of an exiating control sequence, results will be unreliable. The followingtest ran on a SAIL version of -0 on a DEC 2060. Otex header.fi1 [input tram: notices1 AMS TeX varsize of 11500 created Wednesday, August 18, 1982 16:07:51 t h i e run of TeX begun: Tuesday, March I,1983 23:00:32 (PS:<AUSTEX>HOWNANY.NAC . 3 I ! TW capacity exceeded, sorry bshsize=1009]. p.1,1.67 \def \-DC (63 1 No output file . It is useful to run a new set of header files through this test before putting them into production, and some other useful checks can be performed at the same time. Use a 'slow' version of 'QjX (one compiled in such a way that statistics are saved for euch things as memory size), and insert \ddt (for m 0 ) before \input howmany .mc. This will report the location on the page and the current neating level, all of which should ordinarily be 0 if there aren't any braces missing in the header. It will also tell you how much memory the header requires- if total avctilable memory is 22,000 words, and the header alone occupies 19,000, some pruning is in order. TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 % Usage: \contfC {Page #I <\col~colunn#)> % <\tiCtitle)> (< . .> is optional) SOME LAYOUT hlACROS August Mohr . \def \contf#lC\def\TI<)\def Editor's1u)t.c Theautharofthisnoteistheeditotof CommUMXationa, an elabol.ateblaidoutnewletter fot the UNIX cmmunih. Hb p h Was use his lagout m r o s to desc* themse1ues. But the deadline arriued, before the [email protected] So, for better or worse, here's a few macros that you might find interesting. This one has a structure that has been useful in several variations. \def \by Xi\\ C\def \OFO\gdef \of ##I: :{\gdei \OFC\uuslcip, <\it #1\/333 {\ragged 1000\hbox par size C\uuskip\bf By #i\OF\par))) This one can be used as either \by Author N. h e \ \ \by Arthur N. h e s \ o f Groupth, Inc. : :\\ to produce a paragraph-form author-credit. Note that the macro \of will redefine \OF when it is used. Otherwise, \OF remains 0. \by is closed with \\, and \of is closed with : :. (I'm not very pleased with the : :\\ construction; at the time I tried to do without braces B la Mike S p i d . ) The same general pattern is used in \cont and \conti, which produce the "Continued on .. " and "Continued from ... " references at the tops and bottoms of columns. Of course, to get them at the top or bottom, they have to be referenced by the \output routine, but that's another subject. The special thing about them, like \by above, is that they have optional parts. They may be used in simple or complex Ways 8uch a, . \COL{)\def \col##i<\gdef \COLC\unskip, Column Mi)) \def \ti##l{\gdef \TIi\hbox to size{\hf il \contiont ##i\strut\hfill)) \xdei \PG<#I) \TI\hbox to size<\hfil\contfont Continued from \PG\COL\strut\hfil)) Both \col and \ti are optional, and their order is not important, but the page number should come before them. If \ti is used, the result is two limes, the first containing the "Titlen. The really tricky part is \xdef \PG, which is given the entire input parameter string, and allows \col and \ t i , if they are present, to do their work of redefining \COL and \TI. These macros are most useful in output routines or inside other macros, since it would be rare in . straight text to know when and where the page will break. The structure, however, is useful in many cases. I I I I I I I I 1 1 I I I I I header TITLE A text (2) I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I (1) I I I I I I text I I 1 1 I I I text I I 1 I (3) I I I 1 I TITLE B I I I text I I I I I I I I continued (6) I I I (5) I I text I i (7) I 1 I l I i I I I (end) I \contf{previow page\col3\tifi Simple Title)) The key to making the pieces optional, such as \col and \ti,is that they are always given one argument, which may have more than one part. Here are the macros: % \contfont is a font, 9pt italic. % \strut is a m u l e of width 0 and height and depm to match the fonb. % % Article continuation macros \def \cont#l{\def \COLo\def \col#l{\gdef \COLC\unskip, Column ##I33 \vekip2pt\hbor to sizeC\hfil \contfont Continued on #l\COL\hfil)) IL o o t e r I In another issue, I'd like to describe how I get 'QjX to do some of the trickier kinds of 3-colurnn layout. In a page like this, pieces 3 and 4 must balance, allowing for title (1)and the continuation line, and their sines also depend on the length of article B. In my solution, the output routine keeps changing the \vsize, and saving the pages in successive \boxes. When the proper number of boxes have been filled, it puts out the completely assembled page. If there are other TUGboat readers who have tried similar constructions, I'd like to hear from TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 them. I'm also interested in corresponding with people who'd like to use a layout schema like this to help me get the macros to be less idiosyncratic. --- Standard TeX fonts --- % \font \font \font \font \font \font A=life H=halv I=helv J=halv K=helv Lshelv at at at at at at 9pt % tOpt 8pt 6pt 5pt 9pt *** Font under teat TESTING THE WIDTHS OF A FONT Robert M. McClure Unidot, Inc. Communicated by August Mohr This macro takes the characters of a font and makes a string of 10 of them, then draws a box around the string. The box's size is determined by I]EX, from the font-metric file. The character string is generated by the typesetter. When the width is right, the box will match the characters, but when the width is off, the box will show the ditrerence. Using 10 characters in a row multiplies the difference by 10, which makes it much easier to be very accurate about the width. The width file is based on a "design size" of 18pt, so testing with a 9pt font means the error is only multiplied by 5, relative to the width file. Here's the flle "f ontest. x" : \def \boxit#l<\vboxC\hrule \hboxI\vnile #l\nule3\hrule33 \def \vborit#ii\hbox<\vrule \vbox<Vuule\hbox(Wl~\hrule3\vrule33 \def\need#l<\vskip Xi minus lfil \penalty O\vslcip -ti minus -1fil3 b s i z e 7in \vsize gin \maxdepth apt \topbaseline 1Opt \lineskip Opt \parindent Opt \parskip Opt \def\vsk<\vslrip .in plus .lin> \baselineskip Opt \:A > \hbox<\:H life- 115 *** Name and number of font being tested \vsk \vsk \hbox<\x<002)\~<003~ \hbox<\x<000>\~€001~~ \hbox<\x<OO4>\x<OO5>~\oak \hbox<\x<OO6>\x€OO7)) \hbox<\x<OlO>\x<Oll~\vsk \hbox<\x<OlZ>\x~O13~ \vak \hbox<\x<Ol6~\x<Ol7>~ \hbox<\x<0143\~<015~ \hbox<\x<020)\~<02i)) \vsk \hbox<\x<O22)\d023>> \hbox<\x<O24>\x<O25H \vrk \hbox<\r<026>\~<027)) \hbox<\x<030>\~€031~ \vsk \hbox<\x<032>\~<033)) \hboxC\x<034>\x<035~\vsk \hbox<\x<036>\~<037)) \vsk \hbox<\dO42>\~<043)> \hbox<\x<040~\x<041~ \hbox<\x<044)\~€045H \vsk \hbox<\x<046>\~<047~ \hbox<\xiO50)\x<O51~ \vrk \hbox<\x<052>\~<053)) \hbox<\x<054>\~<055H \hbox€\x<060>\~<061>~ \hbox<\x<064~\~€065H \hbox<\x<O70>\~<071>> \hbox<\xiO74>\x<O75H \hbox<\x<lOO>\x<lOl~ \hbox<\x<lO4>\x<lO5~ \hbox<\x<1iO>\x<ill~ \hbox<\x<114>\~<115~ \hbox<\x<l203\x<l21~ \hbox<\r<l24>\~<125>> \hbox<\x<l30>\x<l31~ \hbox<\x<l34)\x<l35H \hboxi\~iiro)\x<iri>> \hbox<b<l44>\x<i45H \hbox<\di50~\~<151>> \hbox<\x<i54)\~<15533 \hbox<\dl60>\x<l61)3 \hbox<\x<l64>\xCl6533 \hbox<\xi17o>\x<i7133 \hbox<\x<174)\~<1753> \-ill \eject \end % TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 \dei\period<\saveO\hbox .\hskip .3em)\hbox to Opt<.\hss)\hskip 1wdO plus 1.2em minus .033em) < Problems \def\'#l((\def\'<test for double quote) \xdef\blah.(#l) \ifx \blah\'i\rightquoteC' '3) \else<\rightquoteC')#I3 Send Submissions to: Lynne A. Price TUG Macro Coordinator Calma R#D 527 Lakeside M e Sunnyuale, CA 94086 33 Hanging punctuation In the lastissue, Problem #2 gave this example of a paragraph in which (nearly) all lineinitial and line final punctuation symbols extended into the margin, eo that the text itself is aligned: 'Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.' 'I hope this works.' "Do you also?" "Hope it works, I mean." 'In quotes.' 'In single quotes.' "In doubie quotes." Haw now brown caw? "The rain in spain stays mainly on the plain." Thia is a sentence. I should take the time to look for a nicely typeset book that has paragraphs, paragraphs, and paragraphs with hanging punctuation, so that I will have examples of characters, such as periods, commas, and quotation marks, that "protrude" into the margin. If I am lucky, this rather short, and very disjointed, paragraph will illustrate what 1 need to w to debug these macros. The problem: prepare a file PUNCTUATION. TEX containing definitions necessary to make punctuation characters behave as shown. The folluwing set of definitions is one possible solution. . \spaceskip .3ea plus .4en Plinus lem \def\cwa(\saveO\hbox <, \ h a p . 3 e n ) \ h h to Opt<,\hes)\hukip 1wdo plus .5em lainus .OBem3 \def\'#l(<\def \'(test for double quote3 \xdef\bloh<tl3 \ifx \blah\'{\leftquoteC"33 \elsei\leftquote('3tl) 33 \def \rightquote#l<\saveO\hbox <#l\hskip .3em)\hbox to Opt<#l\hss3\hsWp IwdO plus .4em minus .led \chcode'54=13 \chcode'39=13 \chcode'140=13 \chcode'46=13 % % % % Make , automatically invoke Make ' automatically invoke Make ' automatically invoke Make . automatically invoke \, \' \' \. When a comma or period is encountered, the macros check whether the next character is a space (macros \, and \ .). If so, appropriate glue is inserted (macros \comma and \period) to produce the desired effect if the character should occur at the end of a line. When a single left or right quotation mark is encountered, macros \' and \' test to see if the next character is another occurrence of the same symbol and then call respectively \leftquote or \rightquote to insert the symbol and appropriate glue. The \leftquote macro must also test to see if the open quote symbol is the fist character in a new paragraph. This approach is not completely general, because it assumes that the closing quotation marks will be followed by white space. This does not account for apostrophes, for example, or quotation marks followed by parentheses. To solve this problem, the quotation mark macros can be extended, by analogy to the comma and period macros, to test whether they are followed by spaces. Users of versions of l)ijX that do not provide the \ifx control sequence may want to modify the input slightly, by inserting backslash characters before punctuation symbols, or by using the "long form" (\comma) directly, as was necessary for preparing being this copy. (At the AMS, the version of used is an antique-a SAIL version current as of March 1981. We hope the next issue of TUGboat will be a demonstration of m 2 . ) TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 Letters et alia To the Editor: New releases of l34jX82 have been made since the last announcement in TUGboat, and I thought your readers would like to know about tbis. The present release is number 36. There have been five releases in the past year. The entire Stanford font library is now available for distribution. It is broken into 6 tapes according to the pixel densities. METAFONTis also available, but it is written in SAIL and recorded with the non-standmd version of ASCII used at the Stanford AI center. I am enclosing an order form for your convenience. Please get rid of any old forms you may have. It is our wish and that of the '[email protected] group a t Stanford to make these materials available at a reasonable price to all intemted persons. We hope that those who have ordered tapes from ua have been satisfied with our service in the past and will continue to deal with us in the future. Maria Code DP Services 1371 Sydney Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94087 MANIPULATION DE DOCUMENTS JOU'RN&,ESFRANCOPHONES Rennea, 4-6 Mai 1983 Edidar's note: Alhugh the deadline haa w e d to h i t a paper for preaentdh uk this conference, it may sCil1 be poasrible to attend or to arrange to receive wpiea of thR proceedkga. Objecfifs Le but de ces journbs eat de fake le point sur lea sydmes informatids de manipulation de documents (textes au sene large du terme). Ces j o u d e s viment apds celles de Lausanne (Fthier 1981) et de Portland (Juin 1981), et s'adresaent B un public b c o p h o n e . L'accent sera plus particulihment mis sur l'impact des nouvelles technologies logicielles ( s y h e s experts, etc.) et mat&elles (disques o p tiques numbriques, imprimantes B laser, etc.) sur le traitement dee textee contenant dea informations graphiques (formules, dessins, sch6m89 etc.). L'utilisation de tels systbmes par les professionels des artrr graphiques et de Edition sera aussi consid&&. I1 s'agira de "Journ6esn s'addressant aux techniciena d6ja sficialistes du sujet (concepteurs, imp& mentem, utiliaateurs ayant acquis m e exp4rience dans ce dornaine). L'auditoire sera limit4 B une centsine de personnes. Ces J o m h se d6rouleront sur deux modes: - Exposb et table rondes - D4monstrations, non comrnerciales, de prototypes Thhmea des journ4es - Typographic - SystRmes interactifs de manipulation de documents - Manipulation dans un texte des diverses infor- mations graphiques (formules math4matiques ou chimiques, s c h b , desains, photos ete.) - Mise en page de textes illustr6a - Mise en page spkiique aux terminaux vidbtex - Manipulation de documents vocaux - Structuration et codage des documents illuatrbs - Emploi de bases d'informations gdnhalis6es - Utiliaation des nouvelles technologies (imprimantes sans impact, disques optiques num&iques, etc.) - Editeura intelligents et systbes experts - Ergonornie des matkriels et des interactivit4s hornmemachine - Normes (CCITT, ISO, etc.) - Reproduction et d8usion d'ouvrages dalisb par des systhmes informatids de manipulation de documents - Exp4riences de r6disations informatiques dam les milieux professionels des arts graphiques et de l'klition. Jacques Andr6 lRISA/INRZA- Rennes Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu 35042 Reimes CBdex, France tel. (99)36 20 00; Ma:950 4733 - 41 TUGbaat, Volume 4, No. 1 Dreamboat * * * * * * * * * * * AS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE? A. E. Siegmsn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Edward L Ginston Laboratory, Stanford University . Many of the future users of T&JC will not be computer professionals. The majority of future users, in fact, will be "knowledge workersB- scientists and engineers, editors and writers, humanities scholars, university faculty members, secretaries, and even business professionals. Many of these users will want to do ail their text composition, communication, document preparations, and (very important) their record-keeping using only a local screen editor, an electronic mail system, and w- nothing else. One reason for keeping this list of computer tools as short as possible is that the working user of a computer system - in contrast to a computer professional - usually wishes t o learn as few systems or languages as possible. This also minimizes the number of file formats to be concerned with, and the number of programs that must be provided on the system. An important implication of this is that it would be very desirable t o develop a 'QjX programming language, separate and distinct from the l&jX typesetting program. That is, one would like to have a programming language which would retain essentially the same syntax and the same programming capabilities as '&X (plus additional capabilities), but which would work only with ASCII characters and produce only ASCII output. What's important of course is not so much the ASCII aspect, but retaining (and even supplement- ing) most of the programming language and macro capabilities of '&X, while eliminating everything related to the more sophisticated typesetting and printing aspects. As one illustration of what this implies, consider a user who keeps bibliographies, address lists, and other sets of records with each record stared in a format like \author{J. Jones) \title(History of T)jX) \date(December 1982) 42 TUGboat, Volume 4' No. 1 By defining suitable macros for \title, \author and so forth, it is possible at present not only to introduce these records into documents to be typeset, but also to use 'l)jX to manipulate, rearrange, and reformat these records in a variety of ways, i.e. to use T)jX ss a programming and record-manipulating language. Suppose however that the user only needs t o manipulate these records, and then output a reordered subset of each record in ASCII lineprinter format, not as typeset output. Reasons for doing this might be t o get output on a local hardcopy terminal; or perhaps not printed output at all, just reformatted output to be sent t o another file or electronically transferred to a non-'QX-using colleague. This can be done at present by using \send to transfer the formatted output to another file and discarding the pages that 'QjX produces; but this solution is inelegant, incomplete, and expensive. A supplementary m - l i k e language, which did not require learning an entire new syntax, and which might offer added arithmetic and logical capabilities, would be extremely useful in this situation. It's not necessary here to explore just which capabilities should be retained or added and which should be discarded in such a T)ijX programming language. Clearly the line-breaking and page-making capabilities of might go; the entire con- cept of glue might be eliminated; and so forth. A side benefit is that a simplified 'QjX programming language might be a much less expensive program to run. (This may not seem important to computer professionals in working environments where extensive computer resources are readily available. La environments where users must pay for CPU cycles on a fully costed basis, however, QjX is in fact an expensive program to run). All this is obviously not something that has much connection with Don Knuth's original objectives in writing ?&X. If however is to become a widely used language - as I believe it is - for people who work with words and ideas, then the concept that l)jX and its derivatives should meet essentially d l the needs for those people becomes important. The importance of minimizing the number of languages that a lay computer user has to learn should not be minimized. This note is to suggest to the 'hgboat community that an offshoot of "l&X, which uses the same notation and syntax to manipulate strings, numbers, and files, without doing any typesetting at d l , is well worth thinking about. - - - TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 43 * * I * * * * * * * * . Advertisements * . . * * * * * * * * * * USERS INC. - A SEINICE FOR Paul Gross0 David Rodgem James Sterken Textset, fnc. can offer QiJC Users: T e x t ~ d jlne. will distribute a WEB DVI-t+ printer driver program for the APSS family of r Finalquality phototypesetting from DVI files phototypesetters that wwss jointly developed with using a variety of font styles. Dave F'uchs and for which Textset wiU provide supr Consulting assistance with installstion of port and maintenance. We have experience install'l'&X82, with developing DVI-to-printer driver ing under four Werent operating system enprograms, and with developing specialized (MVS,VM/CMS, UMX, and MTS) and vironments applications. experience supporting several printing devices. Textset, Inc. is a newly formed company offering Textset's computer system is a Motorola 68000direct-typesetting to customers who have documents baaed SUN workstation with Berkeley UMX(4.2). stored on a computer system or word processor and We have dial-in and dial-out communications need a path to highe~t~quality photocomposition. We have adopted [email protected] our typesetting language capability at 300 and 1200 baud and can process standard magnetic tape at 800, 1600, and 6250 bpi. and use an AutologicAPS-5 phototypesetter for final Proof-quality galleys are produced on a Florida Data PWS. OSP-130 printer. We have access to TjjX capabilities Manuscripts can be trBIlSmitted by telephone or that are available at the University of Michigan standard magnetic tape. Ordinarily, 72hour turnComputing Center: QiJC82, a WEB DVI-to-printer around is available for production typesetting. In driver program for the Xerox 9700 page printer, special cases, 24hour turnaround ia possible. and a Fortran implementation of METAFONT. The Toxtwt's production syetem can support existing Computing Center will acquire a phototypesetter Autologic fonts and Computer Modern Fonts as soon as they become available. Stanford and Autologic later in 1983. Inquiries can be directed to Textset, he. at 1612 have reached an agreement that will make Computer Anderson, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 [Telephone: (313) Modem fonts available as soon ae Autologic makes 996-3566]. the necessary pack& and pricing decisions. -SET, = Advertisement Advertisement 44 Advertisement TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 OURAPPLICATIONS FIRM WARE PACICLK;E WILL SAVE YOU TIME AND MONEM 0 INDUSTRIAL GRAPHICS 0 BUSINESS GRAPHICS 0 LETTER QUALITY WORD PROCESSING 0 MULTIPLE FONTS 0 OCR 0 CRT HARDCOPY 0 FORMS CREATION O EDP LINE PRINTING 0 GRAPHIC PRINTINGIPLOTTING for scientific, analytical and CADICAM... and our list goes on and on. AND OURCONTROLLERS DO THEPLOTTING FOR YOU!All you do is supply simple print instructions to the printer in your normal data stream. AND OUR INTERFACES COVER ALMOST ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM YOU CAN THINK OF...Burroughs, DEC, IBM, NCR, Speny Univac, Wang, and others. QMS LASERGWFIX 1200...' A PICTURE IS WORTHA THOUSAND WORDS." ~ a s e r a ~ a 6 ~ 1Features 200 ~irrnwar~s~p For o r t output Advertisement Advertisement TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 45 -2 ORDER FORM The lateat official versions of 'I$$software and documents are a d able from Maria Code by special arrangement with the Computer Science Department of Stanford University. Eight different tapes are available. The standard distribution tape contains the source of m 2 and WEB, the test program, a few "changen files, the collection of fonts in T F M format, and other miscellaneous materials. Six tapes are PXL font collections, recorded in magnifications of 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400 and 1500 respectively (there is too much to fit on a single tape). The last tape contains the SAIL source for METAFONT and associated materials, including .MF source files. Each tape will be a separate 1200 foot reel which you may send in advance or purchase (for the tape media) at 10.00 each. Should you send a tape,you will receive back a different tape. Tapes may be ordered in ASCII or EBCDIC characters. You may request densities of 6250, 1600 or 800 (800 is discouraged since it is more trouble to make). The tape price of 82.00 for the first tape and 62.00 for each additional tape (ordered at the same time) cwers the cost of duplication, order processing, domestic postage and some of the costs at Stanford University. Extra postage is required for first claw or export. Manuals are available at the approximate coat of duplication and mrriling. Pricea for manuals are subject to change as revisions and additions are made. It ia assumed that one set of manuals will d i c e you. If you require more than two sets, please write for prices since we must ask for more money for postage and handling. Please send a check or money order (payable on a US bank) along with your order if possible. Your purchase order will be accepted, as long as you are able to make payment within 30 days of shipment. Please check this out before sending a purchase order since many large firms seem to be unable to make prompt payment (or don't worry about it). The order form contains a place to record the name and address of the ' X person who should be notified of new 'I$$ releases. This should be the Q user, not someone in the purchasing department. Your order will be N e d with the most recent versions of software and manuals available from Stanford at the time your order is received. If you are waiting for some future release, please indicate this. Orders are normally filled within 48 h o w . There may be periods (like short vacations) when it will take longer. You will be notified of any serious delays. if you want to inquire about your order you may call Maria Code a t (408) 735-8006 preferably between 9:30 a m . and 230 p.m. West Coast time. If you have questions regarding the implementation of QJC or the like, you must take these to Stanford University or aome other friendly 'QjX user. Nm,please complete the order form on the reverse side. -- - - TUGboat, Volume 4, No. 1 46 -2 ** TAPES ** ORDER FORM density (6250,1600 or 800) = characters (ASCIIor EBCDIC) = T&jX standard distribution tape. Font library (100OPXL) (1000 = 200 pixels/inch, 1100 = 220 pixels/inch, etc.) Font library (110OPXL) Font library (1200PXL) Font library (1300PXL) Font library (1400PXL) Font library (1500PXL) METAFONT (available only in SAIL ASCII) Total number of tapes. Tape costs:82.00 for &st tape; $62.00 for each additional. Tape cost =$
Media coats: $10.00 for each tape required. Media cost =$
** MANUALS **
q g 8 2 - $20.00 Test Manual -$8.00
WEB - $10.00 =ware -$8.00
Manuahcost = $California orders only: add sales tax =$
Domestic book rate: no charge.
Domestic first dam $2.50 for each tape and each manual. Export surface mail:$2.50 for each tape and each manual.
Export air mail to North Ameriea: $4.00 each. Export air mail to Europe:$7.00 each.
Export air mail to other areas: $10.00 each. (make checks payable to Maria Code) Total order =$
Person to contact (if different):
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Telephone
Send to: Maria Code, DP Services, 1371 Sydney Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Usere Group
Memberahip/Order Form
Request for Information
Send completed form with -ttance
The &'JC Usera Group publiahes a membership list
containing information about the types of equip
ment on which members' organbations plan to or
have installed TjjX, and about the applications for
which
would be used. It is important that this
information be complete and up-bdate.
on the other side of this form, obtaining information from the most knowledgeable pereon at your
installation if necessary. Some sites have more than
one computer ~ystemon which l&X haa been or
might be installed. Please list dl such machines
below. Output device information should be given
on the other side.
If you need more apace than is provided here,
i s appreciated.
[email protected] Usere Group
c/o American Mathemstical Society
P.O. Box 6248
Providence, Rhode Island 02940, U S A
Mail to (if different):
Name:
QTY
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(checks, money orders, UNESCO coupons) to:
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Users Group
c/o American Mathematical 8ociety
P.O. Box 1571, Annex Station
Providence, Rhode Island 02901, U.S.A.
For foreign bank tkansfm
the name and addreas of the AMS bank ia:
Rhode IuIand Hoepital 'I'rwt National Bank
One Hospital Trust P h a
Providence, Rhode Island 02903, U.S.A..
General correspondence
l"mM
AMOUNT
TUG Membership - 1983 (includes TUGboat aubecription) 8 $20.00 each* TUGboat Library Subecription - 1983 8$20.00 each *
TUGboat Foreign Air Mail Poatane Option 0 $12.00 each* bee page 3. Vol. 4. No. 1) TUGboat Back h u e 8 1980 #l (1 copy, no charge) [email protected] %lO.OO/issue 1982Q$15.00/issue
circle iesue(s) desired.
additional @ $lO.OO/copy #I, #%#3 #I, #2 The Joy of '&X (revised preliminary edition, 1982) 8$10.00 each
'BjX Lecturee on Tape (see cover 3, Vol. 4, No. 1)
Max Dim's F M 2')jX (macro package supplement; revised 10/81) O \$8.00 each
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*[email protected]
air mail postage option ie mailable for members/uubucribere
outside North America ( S d . mail pontage is included.)
TOTAL ENCLOSED:
(Prepayment in U.S. dollars required)
* * *
Membership Lid Information
Institution (if not part of address):
Title:
Phone:
S p d c applications or reason for interest in 'QjX
My installation can offer the following software or
technical euppart to TUG:
Date:
Status of
[ ] Being installed
[ ] Upandrunningsinee
[ ] Under conaideration
{ ] SAIL
Version of 'IjiJC:
Pascal: [ ] -2
[ ] qgao
[ ] Other (describe)
F'mm whom obtained:
Please liet high-level [email protected] usera at your site who would not
mind k g contacted for information; give name, address, and
telephone.
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Approximate number of users:
Computer system(8):
'QjX Uaeru Group
M e m W p FoFm
page 2
unless this form haa already been Wed out by someone else at your inetdation.
Use a separate form for each output device.
Name
Institution
A. Output device information
Device name
Model
Name
Telephone
Device resolution (dote/inch)
Print speed (average feet/minute in graphics
mode)
Phyeical size of device (height, width, depth)
Purchase price
Device type
I ] photographic I ] electrostatic
[ ] impact [ 3 other (deecribe)
Paper feed [ 1 tractor feed
[ ] friction, continuous form
[ 1 friction, sheet feed [ ] other (describe)
Pamr characteristics
a. Paper type required by device
[ ] plain [ ] electrostatic
[ ] photographic [ ] other (describe)
b. Special forma that can be wed [ ] none
[ ] preprinted one-part [ ] multi-part
[ ] card stock [ ] other (demibe)
c. Paper dimension8 (width, length)
maximum
usable
9. Print mode
[ ]Character: ( )Am% ( )Other
[ ] Graphics [ ] Both char/graphica
10. Reliability of device
[ ] Good [ ] Fair [ ] Poor
11. Maintenance required
[ ] Heavy [ ] Medium [ ] Light
12. Recommended usage level
[ I Heavy [ I Mxklm [ I Light
13. Manufacturer information
a Manufacturer name
Contact person
Telephone
b. Delivery time
c. Service [ ] Reliable [ ] Unreliable
B. Computer to which this device is interfaced
1. Computer name
2. Model
3. Type of architecture. *'
4. Operating system
*If your computer i. Yao(tware comprtibls* with .no%hattype
(6.g. Amdahl with IBM 370). indierts the type hare.
C. Output device driver software
[ ] Obtained from Stanford
[ ] Written in-house
I I Other ([email protected])
D. Separate interface hardware (if my) between host
computer and output device (e.g. 280)
1. Separate interface hardware not needed because:
[ ] Output device i s run off-line
[ ] O/D contains user-programmable micro
[ ] Decided to drive O/D direct from host
2. Name of interface device (if more than one,
specify for each)
3. Manufacturer information
a Manufacturer name
Contact pereon
Telephone
b. Delivery time
c. Purchase price
4. Modifications
[ 1 Specified by Stanford
I ] Designed/built in-house
I I other (explain)
5. Software for interface device
[ ] Obtained from Stanford
[ ] Written in-houee
[ I other (explain)
E. Fonts being used
[ 1 Computer Modern: ( ) .tfm ( ) .tfx
[ ] Fonts supplied by manufacturer
[ I Other ( e r r p W
1. From whom were fonts obtained?
2. Are you using Metafont? [ J Yea [ 1 No
F. What are the strong points of your output device?
G. What are its drawbacks and h m have you dealt
with them?
H. Comments - overview of output device