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+Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2002 #2 - 15 msgs
+Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:40:07 +0000
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+TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2002 : Number 2
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+   1. formatting (Jan-Martin Wagner)
+   2. Euro symbol in LaTeX (John Simmie)
+   3. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk)
+   4. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (da blak sheap)
+   5. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (Robin Fairbairns)
+   6. Re: unusual reference (Ken Smith)
+   7. pdflatex --ipc (da blak sheap)
+   8. Re: pdflatex (Jan-Martin Wagner)
+   9. Re: pdflatex --ipc (Tomas G. Rokicki)
+  10. Re: pdflatex --ipc (Joan Boorstein)
+  11. Re: pdflatex --ipc (da blak sheap)
+  12. The latest TUGboat (Andrew Marlow)
+  13. Re: The latest TUGboat (Robin Fairbairns)
+  14. automatic document production (Peter Kravanja)
+  15. RE: automatic document production (Jeff Rankin)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 1
+Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:59:21 +0100
+From: Jan-Martin Wagner <jmartin@j10.physik.uni-jena.de>
+To: livantes@soi.city.ac.uk
+Subject: formatting
+
+Have you already tried "psnup -4 <infile> <outfile>"?
+Have you succeeded with a 2-up command without "eating"
+something, and then applying it twice?
+For 2-up, I use the follwing pstops command (adjusted for A4 paper):
+pstops 2:0L@.7\(21cm,0\)+1L@.7\(21cm,14.85cm\) <infile> <outfile>
+If you want to make it 4-up, use something like
+pstops 4:0@.5\(<shift_x>,<shift_y>)+1@ [etc.]
+up to +3@.5[as before] - ok?
+Good luck!
+Jan-Martin
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 2
+Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:41:07 +0000
+From: John Simmie <john.simmie@nuigalway.ie>
+Subject: Euro symbol in LaTeX
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+
+Hi:
+What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex=
+ documents?
+Thanks,
+
+      Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department
+  National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 3
+From: M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX
+To: john.simmie@nuigalway.ie (John Simmie)
+Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:47:14 +0000 (GMT)
+>
+> Hi:
+> What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex=
+>  documents?
+> Thanks,
+>
+>       Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department
+>   National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland
+>
+> _______________________________________________
+> TeXhax mailing list
+> TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax
+The easiest way to do this is to download and install the package
+eurosym from CTAN.
+
+Regards,
+
+Khurram.
+--
+M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk		Tel.:	(+44 || 0)1392 263654,	FAX: 217965
+http://www.ex.ac.uk/~mkwadee/	School of Engineering and Computer Science,
+/* Life */				University of Exeter, North Park Road,
+mind *intelligence;			Devon, EX4 4QF.
+intelligence=malloc(sizeof(brain));		For PGP public key, type
+main(){do_something_useful(intelligence);}	finger mkwadee@ne136.ex.ac.uk
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 4
+From: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
+To: "John Simmie" <john.simmie@nuigalway.ie>,
+	<texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX
+Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:22:23 +0100
+
+if you don't happen to find anything else, you can use
+
+\kern.17em{}C\kern-.95em\raise.19ex\hbox{\it
+=\/}\kern.17em{}
+
+it looks pretty good until \LARGE (including that), but from
+\huge and higher you should modify it a bit.
+
+if you use it more often, you can define it as a command for
+more comfortable access.
+
+hope that helps...
+
+regards,
+
+ronald
+
+-----Original Message-----
+From: John Simmie <john.simmie@nuigalway.ie>
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Date: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:56 PM
+Subject: Euro symbol in LaTeX
+
+Hi:
+What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, €, into
+latex documents?
+Thanks,
+
+      Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department
+  National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland
+
+_______________________________________________
+TeXhax mailing list
+TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 5
+To: John Simmie <john.simmie@nuigalway.ie>
+cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX
+Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:39:46 +0000
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+> What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex=
+>  documents?
+
+for a start, don't try using a feelthy m$ encoding for it (=80,
+above).  this abomination for a character code (i don't know which
+code page it appears in) doesn't yet figure in any of the latex
+inputenc definition files.  the euro does appear in the latin9 (iso/iec
+8859-15) character set, and that is properly covered in inputenc.
+
+you've had two suggestions so far: to use the eurofont package, and to
+use a rather nasty looking macro-coded overstrike combination.  i
+would advise against both.
+
+i worked rather hard to produce
+
+  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=euro
+
+which explains why i don't like eurofont, and makes positive
+recommendations as to how you should proceed.
+
+(the faq answer doesn't deal with =80 or with the macro solution,
+since both have popped up in my ken within the last week or so and i
+have a reorganisation in hand which discourages me from putting up
+interim versions of the faq.)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 6
+Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:25:40 +1000 (EST)
+From: Ken Smith <kgs@maths.uq.edu.au>
+To: mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk, texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: unusual reference
+
+Jonathan Myles <mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk> posted to texhax and the
+following was forwarded on
+Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT)
+
+> I sometimes have to refer to a paper which it has become traditional in my
+> field to reference as:
+
+> Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting. "Breast Cancer
+> screening with mammography in women aged 40-49 years". Int J Cancer 1996;
+> 68: 693-9
+.
+> (obviously with slight variation according to the particular journal).
+
+> I'd like to be able to put this in a BibTex file.  Is there any way
+> of putting "Organising .... Meeting" as the Author Field and persuading
+> BibTex to leave it as it is?  Or is this, as I fear it might be, a
+> style-file-specific issue, if solvable at all?
+
+You can always use additional braces to make BibTeX leave things
+alone.
+
+author = {{Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting}},
+title = {...}
+journal = {...}
+etc.
+
+will ensure that the author is taken as "Organising Committee ... "
+and it will be sorted accordingly.
+
+A fairly detailed description of how to enter unusual items into a
+BibTeX database can be found in "The LaTeX Companion", by Goosens,
+Mittlebach and Samarin.
+
+> Thanks,
+
+> Jonathan Myles
+
+> Dept of Maths, Stats and Epidemiology,
+> Imperial Cancer Research Fund
+
+Ken Smith
+kgs@maths.uq.edu.au
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 7
+From: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
+To: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: pdflatex --ipc
+Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:29:51 +0100
+
+hello everybody,
+
+per default [pdflatex <file>.tex] produces <file>.pdf, but i
+need to have the pdf-output sent to stdout. in the manpages
+the option --ips is mentioned, but there are only two lines
+of explanation and i have no idea how to use this option. i
+thought, that it may be possible to get the output to stdout
+somehow via this ipc option, maybe by simply passing it to
+echo or something. has anyone an idea on how to manage this
+or what this ipc option means?
+
+thanks a lot in advance!
+
+r. schaffhirt
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 8
+Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:12:07 +0100
+From: Jan-Martin Wagner <jmartin@j10.physik.uni-jena.de>
+To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk, dablaksheap@web.de
+Subject: Re: pdflatex
+
+Hallo schwarzes Schaf (hello black sheep)!
+
+> per default [pdflatex <file>.tex] produces <file>.pdf, but i
+> need to have the pdf-output sent to stdout.
+
+This has recently been discussed in the pdftex section of TuG.
+See "redirecting tex dvi output" and the corresponding thread at
+http://tug.cs.umb.edu/ListsArchives/pdftex/2002-January/thread.html
+
+Read carefully through all postings, this seems to be a tricky problem.
+
+Have a nice day,
+
+ Jan-Martin
+
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+  Dipl.-Phys. Jan-Martin Wagner
+
+  Institut fuer Festkoerpertheorie   Tel.: + 49 - 36 41 - 94 71 67
+  und Theoretische Optik,            Fax:      ...      - 94 71 52
+  Fr.-Schiller-Universitaet Jena
+
+  IFTO, Max-Wien-Platz 1,            jmw@ifto.physik.uni-jena.de
+  D-07743 Jena, Germany              www.ifto.uni-jena.de/~jmartin
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 9
+Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:24:43 -0800 (PST)
+From: "Tomas G. Rokicki" <rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU>
+To: dablaksheap@web.de, texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc
+
+Put it in a script, have the script write a temp file and then
+echo that temp file.
+
+-tom
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 10
+Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:44:06 -0500 (EST)
+From: Joan Boorstein <jboor@math.umb.edu>
+To: dablaksheap@web.de, texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc
+
+I can find no man entry for pdflatex on my local network so can't help with
+the options you mention.  However pdf files are standardly displayed using
+the Adobe Acrobat reader.  This is freeware and is easily downloadable, if
+it is not available to you on your machine.
+
+Hope this helps,
+Joan Boorstein
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 11
+From: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
+To: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc
+Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:46:05 +0100
+
+that is the thing i wanted to avoid. that has too many
+side-effects. i want to use it with a web-server and there
+may be numerous connections at the same time from the same
+ip.
+
+thanks though!
+
+ronald
+
+-----Original Message-----
+From: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU>
+To: dablaksheap@web.de <dablaksheap@web.de>;
+texhax@tex.ac.uk <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Date: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:24 PM
+Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc
+
+>Put it in a script, have the script write a temp file and
+then
+>echo that temp file.
+>
+>-tom
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 12
+Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:34:04 +0000
+Subject: The latest TUGboat
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+From: Andrew Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk>
+
+When will the latest TUGboat be sent out please? I got an email from the
+US in early December but I have not yet received my copy.
+
+Regards,
+
+Andrew Marlow (member of TUG and UK TUG).
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 13
+To: Andrew Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk>
+cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: The latest TUGboat
+Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:34:46 +0000
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+> When will the latest TUGboat be sent out please? I got an email from the
+> US in early December but I have not yet received my copy.
+
+i think the mail back then was to say the sources had gone off to the
+printer.
+
+i'm told the issue has started arriving in us subscribers' mailbags
+and things.  it's probably reasonable to expect it to arrive over here
+quite soon.
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 14
+Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:47:19 +0100
+From: Peter Kravanja <Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
+To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: automatic document production
+
+Hello,
+
+I'm facing the following problem. An association has about 700 members and
+keeps information about them (name, address, language skills, hobbies,...)
+in a database. Once a year this association wants to produce a book with
+all this information, to be published and distributed to the members.
+
+How can this be done in an efficient way? Does anyone know of some sort of
+interface between a database (which format??) and (La)TeX, so that with a
+few commands the relevant data gets extracted from the database and turned
+into a file that (La)TeX can process?
+
+Thanks for your help!
+
+Peter Kravanja
+--
+Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 15
+From: "Jeff Rankin" <jrankin@oneil.com>
+To: "Peter Kravanja" <Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
+	, <TeXhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: RE: automatic document production
+Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:27:15 -0500
+
+Hi:
+
+We use perl connect to MS SQL Server database, retrieve the required
+information through SQL, and output LaTeX using a combination LaTeX
+templates for headers, footers, etc., and outputting the body information
+through perl. We're currently outputting parts catalogs using this
+technique, and it has proven to be reliable and very fast, almost to the
+point that parts catalogs can be requested though a web interface on demand.
+This technique doesn't do it with "a few commands", I dont' know of any
+techniques that will allow this.
+
+HTH
+
+Sincerely,
+W. Jeffrey Rankin
+Lead Publications Programmer
+
+O'NEIL & ASSOCIATES, INC. <http://www.oneil.com>
+495 Byers Rd.
+Miamisburg, Ohio 45342-3662
+Phone: (937) 865-0800 ext. 3504
+Fax: (937) 865-5858
+E-mail: jrankin@oneil.com
+
+-----Original Message-----
+From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk [mailto:texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
+Peter Kravanja
+Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:47 AM
+To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: automatic document production
+
+Hello,
+
+I'm facing the following problem. An association has about 700 members and
+keeps information about them (name, address, language skills, hobbies,...)
+in a database. Once a year this association wants to produce a book with
+all this information, to be published and distributed to the members.
+
+How can this be done in an efficient way? Does anyone know of some sort of
+interface between a database (which format??) and (La)TeX, so that with a
+few commands the relevant data gets extracted from the database and turned
+into a file that (La)TeX can process?
+
+Thanks for your help!
+
+Peter Kravanja
+--
+Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
+
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