Nelson H. F. Beebe's Home Page (original) (raw)

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Nelson H. F. Beebe
University of Utah
Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB
155 S 1400 E RM 233
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
USA
Email: beebe@math.utah.edu (Internet)
Tel: +1 801 581 5254
FAX: +1 801 581 4148
PGP public key ID 0xA93C57C2 (fingerprint = 7C18 7199 BC82 5EAB 06EB 9B96 FD9E 0E97 A93C 57C2),
MCW public key ID 0xFE0A1F46 (fingerprint = B574 BCC7 210E 9A29 E810 C85B 6ADE 786E FE0A 1F46),
and notes for their use.

Table of contents

Archive tools

This section now has its own Web page.

Bibliography collections and support software

This section points to all of the bibliography material that I've found on the Internet, including a large collection that I maintain and develop at our site for the TeX Users Group.

Simple (and free!) HTML/SGML software tools

• dehtml: HTML command stripper (e.g. prior to spell checking).
• HTML prettyprinter in awk: To see sample output of the prettyprinter, turn on View Source in your WWW client viewer to show how this page is formatted.
• HTML prettyprinter in lex and C. Up to version 0.05, the capabilities of the two prettyprinters tracked one another, but the awk version is now frozen at that level. This version is much faster, since it is written in a compiled language, and it has acquired many new features that are absent from the old awk prototype. The distribution files are available in three popular formats, and include source, documentation, test suite, and also an IBM PC executable with build and test scripts.
• FTP index file to HTML converter: To see sample output of the converter, select test01.index to see the original index, and then select test01.html to see what the formatted result looks like from your WWW client. Turn on View Source in your WWW client viewer to show what the raw HTML code looks like.
• Notes and pointers about html-check and sgmls for grammatically rigorous, and automatic, validation of HTML files.
• Notes and pointers about James Clark's SP 0.4, SP 1.0.1k SP 1.3 and SP 1.3.4 a new implementation of SGML tools, including nsgmls (an sgmls -compatible validating SGML parser) and spam (an SGML normalizer).
• UNIX Makefile for maintaining a personal public_html directory.
• BibTeX bibliography on SGML and HTML.
• html2ps, an HTML to PostScript converter.

Books

This section has its own Web page.

Conference talks and papers

• Microprocessor Overview: presentation and abstract, Second Annual Cluster Computing in the Sciences Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 8--9 February, 2001. This presentation is also available at the conference Web site.

Digital libraries

This topic is now so large that coverage has been moved to a separate Web page.

Java language

• Java bibliography (3000+ literature references, including 1500+ books in 20+ languages)
• Java notes and GNU Emacs Makefile support for Sun Java
• John December's Java bibliography
• Java and HotJava frequently asked questions
• Java developer frequently asked questions
• Java home site
• Java programming for the Internet
• Java tutorial
• Java applet collection
• English and German applet collection
• Java Cup International programming contest ($1,000,000 in prizes)
• Java language white paper
• HotJava browser white paper
• Sun Java technology papers
• Java World magazine
• Java on a chip

Standardized library catalogs

• HyperDOC: The National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Willow user interface

TeX and Metafont

• The LaTeX Navigator [Nancy, France]
• The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
  Master site
  • Heidelberg, Germany
  • Salt Lake City, UT, USA (high-bandwidth North American mirror for CTAN and TeX Live)
    Mirror sites
  • List of known mirror sites
  • Current status of roughly 100 mirror sites
• TeX User Group (TUG) (contains pointers to other national/linguistic/regional TeX user groups)
• TeX vendors

TeX Live 2022 pretest releases

The Web location https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/ is a frequently updated site with pretest releases of the TeX Live 2022 system expected to be released in summer 2022. There are binary distributions available for about80 different operating systems. The site also includes simple instructions for installing the base TeX Live 2022 system.

Unix and Unix-like systems

This lengthy section has been moved to a separate file.

Virtual machines

This section has been moved to a separate file.

WWW client programs

• Amaya: experimental HTML 3.2 client browser and authoring tool, HTML 3.2 grammar and SGML parser catalog entry
• Arena: experimental HTML 3.0 client, and HTML 3.0 style sheets
• links text-only browser for the World-Wide Web
• lynx and doslynx: text-only browsers for the World-Wide Web (essential for dialup and ASCII terminal access)
• NSCA Mosaic
• Netscape software, Netscape extensions to HTML 2.0 grammar, comparison of Netscape grammar extensions with HTML 3.0, commentary on Netscape extensions, and the Netscape hall of shame
• SoftQuad's Panorama client for SGML and HTML browsing under Microsoft Windows.
• Corporation for National Research Initiatives' grail client for interactive WEB nodes
• Sun Microsystems' HotJava client for interactive WEB nodes
• w3m text-only browser for the World-Wide Web
• Caligari WorldSpace VRML authoring tool Work is underway on the follow-on to HTML 3.2, code-named Cougar.

WWW server programs

• Jigsaw, an HTTP server written entirely in Java.

Links to other stuff

• Audio CD database. Several player programs can access this dynamically to display CD disc and track titles.
• Encyclopaedia Britannica's Internet Guide
• Glimpse: fast exact and approximate string searching in files
• Greek letters in HTML: use this page to check how your browser handles them (scientists are rather fond of most of them)
• Managing Gigabytes: extremely fast full text searching in files The MG authors now have a home page in Australia.
• Mathematics for computer-generated spoken documents
• Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories work on text-to-speech synthesis
• University of Utah Mathematics Department FTP archive
• University of Utah Mathematics Department WWW home page
• X3 Standards Committee (programming language standardization, and more)
• APR (Applied Parallel Research, Inc.) High Performance Fortran benchmark results
• Free Software Foundation and GNU Project
• HPFF (High Performance Fortran Forum) High Performance Fortran benchmark results
• IBM PC and Apple Macintosh benchmarks
• giftrans server for transforming GIF images to a transparent background
• Inktomi HotBot index of 50M+ WWW pages See SunExpert Magazine, p. 52, August 1997, for a description of this parallel search engine: 26 Sun Ultra 2 systems with a 160 MB/s Myrinet network connection, indexing about twice as many documents as DEC's AltaVista.
• Open Source: keeping software free for everyone
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG) home page (with pointers to lots of software for producing PNG files). PNG files offer an alternative to the patented royalty-requiring GIF files, and are supported by recent versions of popular browsers.
• Starting Point PowerSearch (pointers to major Web indexing sites)
• SPEC Newsletter (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation computer benchmarks)
• TOP500 supercomputers
• Visible Human Project at the U.S. National Library of Medicine
• DEC's index of 11+ billion words in 22+ million WWW pages, and 13,000 Usenet news groups There is now a book describing this search engine.
• WebTech HTML file validation service
• World Weather Database
• Yahoo index of WWW pages
• AnyWho Reverse Telephone Search Includes search-by-telephone-number, search-by-personal-name and search-by-business-name, and also offers street maps in various magnifications.
• 90M U.S. telephone white pages entries