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+From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2002 #3 - 6 msgs
+Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:15:10 +0000
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+TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2002 : Number 3
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ 1. Re: automatic document production (Matej Cepl)
+ 2. Re: automatic document production (John Palmer)
+ 3. typesetting algorithms (=?iso-8859-2?q?Marx=20D=E1niel=20?=)
+ 4. bibtex question (David Wende)
+ 5. Re: bibtex question (Matej Cepl)
+ 6. modes.mf 3.5 available (Karl Berry)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 1
+Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:26:48 -0500
+From: Matej Cepl <ceplma00@yahoo.com>
+To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: automatic document production
+
+On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:47:19PM +0100, Peter Kravanja wrote:
+> 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?
+
+It is originally written for LyX (LaTeX based WYSIWYM
+wordprocessor), but it will most certainly work even for plain
+LaTeX. Try LyXQueries.py and LyXEnvelope.py on
+http://emptydog.com/geekland/gl_lyx.html .
+
+ Happy TeXing!
+
+ Matej
+
+--
+Matej Cepl, ceplma00@yahoo.com
+138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
+.
+We are told that [St. Anthony] once fell into dejection, finding
+uninterrupted contemplation above his strength; but was taught to
+apply himself at intervals to manual labour by a vision of an
+angel who appeared platting mats of palm-tree leaves, then rising
+to pray, and after some time sitting down again to work; and who
+at length said to him, "Do thus, and thou shalt be saved."
+ -- Life of St. Anthony
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 2
+Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:45:47 +0000 (GMT)
+From: John Palmer <johnp@stx69.demon.co.uk>
+To: <TeXhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: Re: automatic document production
+
+On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Peter Kravanja <Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
+ wrote:
+
+> 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?
+
+Your data-set is small, so you don't need the facilities that database
+systems provide for indexing and rapidly searching large bodies of data.
+Indeed you say that your intention is to print the whole set rather than
+to select subsets.
+
+I would start with perl (http://www.cpan.org/) which will give you all the
+facilities you need for transforming a list of members into LaTeX code.
+Once you have that, you are quite likely not to need a real database
+management system, since
+ --your data-set is rather small;
+ --you intend to process it as a whole rather than selectively.
+
+A DBMS does of course impose some discipline on the data which can make
+the perl programming easier; but in this case the benefits wouldn't (imho)
+justify spending a lot of effort, still less money, on acquiring a DBMS.
+
+Sorting the items into (alphabetical?) order can be done using either perl
+facilities or a utility sort program, so you don't need a DBMS for that
+either.
+
+If you really feel you need a DBMS there are public licence, open source
+DBMS like MySql (http://www.mysql.org/)
+
+regards
+John
+--
+John Palmer
+4 Horyford Close, Preston, Weymouth DT3 6DJ, England
+telephone: +44 1305 832240 office, 835410 domestic (same address)
+e-mail: johnp@bcs.org.uk (plain text preferred)
+website: http://www.stx69.demon.co.uk/
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 3
+Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:36:40 +0100
+From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Marx=20D=E1niel=20?= <dmarx@drotposta.hu>
+To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: typesetting algorithms
+
+Hello,
+
+Which package is the most useful for typesetting algorithms? I've seen the=
+ 'alg', 'algorithm' and 'program' packages, are there others for this =
+purpose? Do journals have a preferred way of typesetting algorithms?
+
+Thanks,
+Daniel Marx
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 4
+From: David Wende <DWende@lynxpn.com>
+To: "'texhax@tex.ac.uk'" <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: bibtex question
+Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 08:46:28 +0200
+
+Hello TEXHAX,
+
+Could someone please help.
+
+1) I wish to quote a chapter in a book, such that the output looks
+something like:
+
+Chapter Author. Chapter Title. In: Book Author. Book Title. etc etc.
+
+2) How do I get bibtext to cite the reference in round braces () instead
+of square braces [].
+
+Thanks
+
+David Wende
+Manager Board Design
+Lynx Photonic Networks
+
+Tel: (972) 3 9155000
+Direct: (972) 3 9155014
+Mobile: (972) 54 905822
+Fax: (972) 3 9033129
+email: dwende@lynxpn.com
+http://www.lynxpn.com
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 5
+Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:30:13 -0500
+From: Matej Cepl <ceplma00@yahoo.com>
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: bibtex question
+
+On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:46:28AM +0200, David Wende wrote:
+> 1) I wish to quote a chapter in a book, such that the output
+> looks something like:
+>
+> Chapter Author. Chapter Title. In: Book Author. Book Title.
+> etc etc.
+>
+> 2) How do I get bibtext to cite the reference in round braces
+> () instead
+
+Use package natbib and read its manual (natbib.dvi). To explain
+everything in mail would be too long. And BTW the program is
+called BibTeX (no `t' in the end).
+
+ Matej
+
+--
+Matej Cepl, ceplma00@yahoo.com
+138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
+
+My point was simply that such tax proposals [for Pigovian taxes
+compensating for the transaction costs] are the stuff that dreams
+are made of. In my youth it was said, that what was too silly to
+be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into
+mathematics.
+ -- Ronald Coase
+ Notes on the Problem of Social Cost
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 6
+Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:08:32 -0500
+From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
+To: tex-fonts@math.utah.edu, texhax@tex.ac.uk, ctan-ann@tug.org
+Subject: modes.mf 3.5 available
+
+I have released version 3.5 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from
+
+ ftp://tug.org/tex/modes.mf
+
+and shortly from any CTAN site in /tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes-3.5.mf.
+See http://www.ctan.org/ a list of CTAN mirrors and other information
+
+News:
+
+New epson-related modes for the old 9-pin series.
+Various email addresses corrected.
+
+As always, thanks to the many contributors, and further additions and
+improvements are welcome. Please send bug reports or suggestions to
+tex-fonts@math.utah.edu (email tex-fonts-request to join).
+
+General information:
+
+modes.mf is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common
+definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and
+landscape mode. It uses up too much memory for the table sizes in the
+original mf.web, so you either have to increase the sizes (has been done
+in Web2c) or rename the file and remove unneeded modes. I don't
+understand mf.web well enough to understand how to make the modes use
+less memory; if some Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd like to hear it.
+
+If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the
+existing ones, please send them to me. Improvements to the exposition,
+particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome.
+
+kb@tug.org
+
+mode_def agfafzz = % AGFA 400PS (406dpi)
+mode_def agfatfzz = % AGFA P3400PS (400dpi)
+mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga (100dpi)
+mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 (723dpi)
+mode_def apssixhi = % Autologic APS-Micro6 (1016dpi)
+mode_def atariezf = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer (300dpi)
+mode_def atarinf = % Atari previewer (95dpi)
+mode_def atarins = % Atari previewer (96dpi)
+mode_def atariotf = % Atari ST SM 124 screen (101dpi)
+mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph (118dpi)
+mode_def bjtenex = % Canon BubbleJet 10ex (360dpi)
+mode_def bjtzzex = % Canon BubbleJet 200ex (360 dpi)
+mode_def bjtzzs = % Canon BubbleJet 200 (720x360dpi)
+mode_def bjtzzl = % BubbleJet 200 landscape (360x720 dpi)
+mode_def boise = % HP 2680A (180dpi)
+mode_def canonbjc = % Canon BJC-600 (360dpi)
+mode_def canonex = % LaserWriter Pro 630 (600dpi)
+mode_def canonlbp = % Symbolics LGP-10 (240dpi)
+mode_def cg = % Compugraphic 8600 (1301x1569dpi)
+mode_def cgl = % Compugraphic 8600 landscape (1569x1302dpi)
+mode_def cgnszz = % Compugraphic 9600 (1200dpi)
+mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS (5333dpi)
+mode_def cx = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX (300dpi)
+mode_def datadisc = % DataDisc (70dpi)
+mode_def newdd = % DataDisc (70x93dpi)
+mode_def declarge = % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024 (100dpi)
+mode_def decsmall = % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768 (82dpi)
+mode_def deskjet = % HP DeskJet 500 (300dpi)
+mode_def docutech = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 (600dpi)
+mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover (384dpi)
+mode_def eighthre = % EightThree (83dpi)
+mode_def epscszz = % Epson Stylus Color 600 (720 dpi)
+mode_def epsdrft = % Epson (120x72dpi)
+mode_def epsdrftl = % Epson (72x120dpi)
+mode_def epsfast = % Epson fast (60x72dpi)
+mode_def epsfastl = % Epson fast landscape (72x60dpi)
+mode_def epsmed = % Epson med MX/FX 9-pin (240x144dpi)
+mode_def epsmedl = % Epson med MX/FX 9-pin landscape (144x240dpi)
+mode_def epson = % Epson MX/FX 9-pin (240x216dpi)
+mode_def epsonl = % Epson MX/FX 9-pin landscape (216x240dpi)
+mode_def epsonact = % Epson Action Laser 1500 (300dpi)
+mode_def epsonlo = % Epson (120x216dpi)
+mode_def epsonlol = % Epson landscape (216x120dpi)
+mode_def epsonsq = % Epson SQ 870 (360dpi)
+mode_def epstypro = % Epson Stylus Pro (360dpi)
+mode_def epstyplo = % Epson Stylus Pro (180dpi)
+mode_def epstypmd = % Epson Stylus Pro (720x360dpi)
+mode_def epswlo = % Epson low MX/FX 9-pin (120x144dpi)
+mode_def epswlol = % Epson low MX/FX 9-pin landscape (144x120dpi)
+mode_def esphi = % Epson Stylus Pro (720dpi)
+mode_def epstylus = % Epson Stylus (360dpi)
+mode_def fourfour = % FourFour (44dpi)
+mode_def gtfax = % G3fax (204x196dpi)
+mode_def gtfaxl = % G3fax landscape (196x204dpi)
+mode_def gtfaxlo = % G3fax (204x98dpi)
+mode_def gtfaxlol = % G3fax landscape (98x204dpi)
+mode_def highfax = % G3fax (200dpi)
+mode_def hprugged = % HP RuggedWriter 480 (180dpi)
+mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (240dpi)
+mode_def ibmd = % IBM 38xx (240dpi)
+mode_def ibmega = % IBM EGA monitor (96x81dpi)
+mode_def ibmegal = % IBM EGA monitor landscape (81x96dpi)
+mode_def ibmfzon = % IBM 4019 (300dpi)
+mode_def ibmfztn = % IBM 4029-30-39, 4250 (600dpi)
+mode_def ibmpp = % IBM ProPrinter (240x216dpi)
+mode_def ibmppl = % IBM ProPrinter (216x240dpi)
+mode_def ibmsoff = % IBM 6154 display (118dpi)
+mode_def sherpa = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) (240dpi)
+mode_def ibmteot = % IBM 3812 (240dpi)
+mode_def ibmtetz = % IBM 3820 (240dpi)
+mode_def ibmtont = % IBM 3193 screen (100dpi)
+mode_def ibmtosn = % IBM 3179 screen (87x65dpi)
+mode_def ibmtosnl = % IBM 3179 screen landscape (65x87dpi)
+mode_def ibmvga = % IBM VGA monitor (110dpi)
+mode_def ibx = % Chelgraph IBX (9600dpi)
+mode_def itoh = % CItoh 8510A (160x144dpi)
+mode_def itohl = % CItoh 8510A landscape (144x160dpi)
+mode_def itohtoz = % CItoh 310 (240x144dpi)
+mode_def itohtozl = % CItoh 310 landscape (144x240dpi)
+mode_def iw = % Apple ImageWriter (144dpi)
+mode_def jetiiisi = % HP Laser Jet IIISi (300dpi)
+mode_def lasf = % DEC LA75 (144dpi)
+mode_def lexmarkr = % Lexmark Optra R 4049 (1200dpi)
+mode_def lexmarks = % Lexmark Optra S 1250/1650/2450 (1200dpi)
+mode_def lexmarku = % Lexmark Optra R+ 4049 (600dpi)
+mode_def linolo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 (635dpi)
+mode_def linolttz = % Linotronic L-300 with RIP-50 (3386dpi)
+mode_def linoone = % Linotronic [13]00 (1270dpi)
+mode_def linotzzh = % Linotype Linotronic 300 (2540dpi)
+mode_def ljfive = % HP LaserJet 5 (600dpi)
+mode_def ljfivemp = % HP LaserJet 5MP (600 dpi)
+mode_def ljfour = % HP LaserJet 4 (600dpi)
+mode_def ljfzzz = % LaserJet 4000N, ProRes mode (1200dpi)
+mode_def ljfzzzfr = % HP LaserJet 4000 FastRes (600dpi)
+mode_def ljlo = % HP LaserJet (150dpi)
+mode_def lmaster = % LaserMaster (1000dpi)
+mode_def lnotr = % DEC LN03R Scriptprinter (300dpi)
+mode_def lnzo = % DEC LN01 (300dpi)
+mode_def lpstz = % DEC lps20 (300dpi)
+mode_def lqlores = % Epson LQ-500 (180dpi)
+mode_def lqmed = % Epson LQ-500 (360x180dpi)
+mode_def lqmedl = % Epson LQ-500 landscape (180x360dpi)
+mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor (118x109dpi)
+mode_def lwpro = % Apple LaserWriterPro 810 (800dpi)
+mode_def macmag = % Mac screens at magstep 1 (86dpi)
+mode_def mactrue = % Mac screen (72dpi)
+mode_def ncd = % NCD 19-inch (95dpi)
+mode_def nec = % NEC (180dpi)
+mode_def nechi = % NEC-P6 (360dpi)
+mode_def neclm = % NEC PC-PR406LM (320dpi)
+mode_def nectzo = % NEC PC-PR201 series (160dpi)
+mode_def nexthi = % NeXT Newgen (400dpi)
+mode_def nextscrn = % NeXT monitor (100dpi)
+mode_def nineone = % NineOne (91x91) (91dpi)
+mode_def nullmode = % TFM files only (101dpi)
+mode_def onetz = % OneTwoZero (120/120) (120dpi)
+mode_def ocessfz = % OCE 6750-PS (508dpi)
+mode_def okidata = % Okidata (240x288dpi)
+mode_def okidatal = % Okidata landscape (288x240dpi)
+mode_def okifte = % Okidata 410e in 600DPI mode (600dpi)
+mode_def pcscreen = % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns (118dpi)
+mode_def pcprevw = % PC screen preview (118dpi)
+mode_def phaser = % Tektronix Phaser PXi (300dpi)
+mode_def phaserfs = % Tektronix Phaser 560 (1200dpi)
+mode_def phasertf = % Tektronix Phaser 350 (600x300dpi)
+mode_def pixpt = % one pixel per point (72.27dpi)
+mode_def prntware = % Printware 720IQ (1200dpi)
+mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine) (300dpi)
+mode_def qmsostf = % QMS 1725 (600dpi)
+mode_def qmsoszz = % QMS 1700 (600dpi)
+mode_def qmstftf = % QMS 2425 (1200dpi)
+mode_def ricoh = % e.g., TI Omnilaser (300dpi)
+mode_def ricoha = % e.g., IBM 4216 (300dpi)
+mode_def ricohlp = % e.g., DEC LN03 (300dpi)
+mode_def ricohsp = % Ricoh sp10ps/lp7200-ux (600dpi)
+mode_def sparcptr = % Sun SPARCprinter (400dpi)
+mode_def starnlt = % Star NL-10 (240x216dpi)
+mode_def starnltl = % Star NL-10 landscape (216x240dpi)
+mode_def stylewri = % Apple StyleWriter (360dpi)
+mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph (85dpi)
+mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter (2400dpi)
+mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ (180dpi)
+mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter (1200dpi)
+mode_def vs = % VAXstation monitor (78dpi)
+mode_def vtftzz = % Varityper 4200 B-P (1800dpi)
+mode_def vtftzzhi = % Varityper 4300P (2400dpi)
+mode_def vtftzzlo = % Varityper 4300P (1200dpi)
+mode_def vtfzszw = % Varitype 5060W, APS 6 (600dpi)
+mode_def vtszz = % Varityper Laser 600 (600dpi)
+mode_def xrxesnz = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 (300dpi)
+mode_def xrxfzfz = % Xerox 4050/4075/4090/4700 (300dpi)
+mode_def xrxnszz = % Xerox 9700 (300dpi)
+mode_def xrxtszz = % Xerox 3700 (300dpi)
+
+--__--__--
+
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