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MacOSX-TeX Digest #119 - Tuesday, October 9, 2001
bibTeX Tool
by "J.Huelsmann"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] bibTeX Tool
by "Martin Stokhof"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Installing Truetype fonts?
by "Arun Mangalam"
OS X 10.1: pros and cons!
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Installing Truetype fonts?
by "Malte Harder"
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Subject: bibTeX Tool
From: "J.Huelsmann"
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 08:10:34 +0200
Hey Folks!
Is there a utility to edit .bib files so I can sort the fields
alphabetically and the like?
--Jan--
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] bibTeX Tool
From: "Martin Stokhof"
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 08:54:46 +0200
>Hey Folks!
>Is there a utility to edit .bib files so I can sort the fields
>alphabetically and the like?
>
>--Jan--
I don't know about a stand alone utility, but Alpha's BibTeX can do this.
Martin Stokhof
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Installing Truetype fonts?
From: "Arun Mangalam"
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 14:09:06 -0400
Hello,
I don't know if you've already solved the problem. There are other
options such as using perl scripts:
http://ftp.epix.net/CPAN/modules/by-module/Font/MHOSKEN/
You can take a look at a listing of all kinds of open-/closed-source
TrueType software here:
http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/ttsoftware.html
And, finally, an informative site on how to use TrueType fonts in a
tetex distribution [instructions for a PC using Miktex but can be
adapted for MacOSX]:
http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm
On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 12:56 PM, Jerry Stratton wrote:
>> The docs in my tetex doc directory [u should have the same somewhere]
>> point to ttf2tfm and where it can be found:
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/ttf2tfm.html
>
> The only link on that page which works, downloads ttf2tfm for DOS and
> OS/2 and the source for freetype-1.2; I have not successfully compiled
> that source yet, but as near as I can tell I won't have ttf2tfm even if
> I do, as it isn't part of that source.
>
> Jerry
>
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Subject: OS X 10.1: pros and cons!
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:20:15 +0200
Hello,
I just switched to OS X 10.1 from 10.0 (French localization), and
noticed something strange: in TeXShop 1.13, the Page Setup menu item is
available for the source (.tex) window but unavailable for the typeset
(.pdf) window. As far as I remember, this wasn't so in OS X 10.0.
By the way, for those considering to switch to OS X 10.1: yes, things
are faster, but strange things happen too! For example, in Mail, there
are some attachments I can no longer view (Mail complains it cannot find
them, whereas I can still see them in the corresponding mbox files, in
MIME form, and in OS X 10.0 they were visible), and some - other -
mailboxes have unexpectedly become read-only (I finally had to suppress
the extension .mbox of these mailboxes and change the Locked attribute
of the mbox files inside them, which had become Locked without my ever
asking so). This happened after I attempted to import my old Eudora
mailboxes in Mail, using the Import function, but I doubt that's
connected, and the problems I mention affect recent mailboxes, not the
Eudora ones.
Sorry for the off-topic stuff. Does anybody know a place or mailing list
discussing these things?
Bruno Voisin
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Installing Truetype fonts?
From: "Malte Harder"
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:59:45 +0200
I'm not sure but, I think i've found the ttf2tfm source code:
http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlprod/Build/source/freetype/contrib/ttf2pk/
It's ttf2pk and ttf2tfm
Malte
On Tuesday, October 9, 2001, at 08:09 PM, Arun Mangalam wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't know if you've already solved the problem. There are other
> options such as using perl scripts:
>
> http://ftp.epix.net/CPAN/modules/by-module/Font/MHOSKEN/
>
> You can take a look at a listing of all kinds of open-/closed-source
> TrueType software here:
>
> http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/ttsoftware.html
>
> And, finally, an informative site on how to use TrueType fonts in a
> tetex distribution [instructions for a PC using Miktex but can be
> adapted for MacOSX]:
>
> http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 12:56 PM, Jerry Stratton wrote:
>
>>> The docs in my tetex doc directory [u should have the same somewhere]
>>> point to ttf2tfm and where it can be found:
>>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/ttf2tfm.html
>>
>> The only link on that page which works, downloads ttf2tfm for DOS and
>> OS/2 and the source for freetype-1.2; I have not successfully compiled
>> that source yet, but as near as I can tell I won't have ttf2tfm even
>> if I do, as it isn't part of that source.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
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