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+Article: 111 of ucam.mlist.texhax
+From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2003 #1 - 5 msgs
+MIME-version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain
+Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:00:38 +0000
+
+Send TeXhax mailing list submissions to
+ texhax@tex.ac.uk
+
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+
+TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2003 : Number 1
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ 1. TUGboat 2001 Proceedings being shipped today (Mimi Burbank)
+ 2. tds 1.0 available (Karl Berry)
+ 3. I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Dr. Tarynn M. Witten)
+ 4. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Karl Berry)
+ 5. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Philip G. Ratcliffe)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 1
+Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:01:36 -0500
+To: TUGboat announcement <tug-board@tug.org>, tub-prod@csit.fsu.edu,
+ office@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl,
+ tug-pub@tug.org
+Subject: TUGboat 2001 Proceedings being shipped today
+From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@csit.fsu.edu>
+
+The TUG 2001 Proceedings are being shipped to the printer
+today. The contents are as follows:
+
+ TUGboat
+ Volume 22, Number 3 September 2001
+ ========================================
+
+TUG 2001 Program 115
+Participants at the 22nd Annual TUG Meeting 117
+
+A TeX Odyssey
+ Hans Hagen
+ Where will the odyssey bring us? 118
+ Mimi Jett
+ Future of publishing, Part 2 119
+ William Richter
+ Integrating TeX into a document imaging system 120
+ Arthur Ogawa
+ REVTeX version 4.0, an authoring package by the
+ American Physical Society 131
+ Anita Schwartz (Chair)
+ The TeX History Panel 134
+ Hans Hagen
+ Using TeX for high end typesetting 136
+ Peter Flynn
+ TeX---a mass market product? Or just
+ an image in need of a makeover? 137
+ David Tulett
+ LaTeX for Windows: a user's perspective 140
+
+PDF and TeX
+ Han The Thanh
+ Margin kerning and font expansion with pdfTeX 146
+ Ross Moore
+ PDF presentations using the Marslide package 149
+ Hans Hagen
+ Using TeX to enhance your presentations 160
+ Donald P. Story
+ Techniques of introducing document-level JavaScript 161
+ into a PDF file from a LaTeX source
+ Ross Moore
+ Online self-marking quizzes, pdfTeX, exerquiz 168
+ Martin Schroder
+ Using pdfTeX in a PDF-based imposition tool 180
+ Nelson Beebe
+ pdfTeX Panel 181
+
+Graphics, XML, and MathML
+ Ross Moore
+ Adobe plugin for WARMreader 188
+ Stephen Oliver
+ The TeXspec tool for computer-aided
+ software engineering 197
+ William Hammond
+ GELLMU: A bridge for authors from LaTeX to XML 204
+ Bob Caviness
+ Creating Math Web Documents (Workshop) 208
+
+ Fonts and Tools
+ Alan Hoenig
+ Typesetting Hebrew with TeX 209
+ Alan Hoenig
+ Modernizing Computer Modern 216
+ Nelson Beebe
+ Fonts Panel 220
+ Michael Downes
+ Managing multiple TDS trees 228
+ Michael Doob
+ Installing a CTAN mirror on your desktop 238
+ Richard Koch
+ Installing TeXshop 240
+ William Adams
+ Font installation: Agfa/Eaglefeather
+ to Linotype Zapfino 247
+
+ News & Announcements
+ Calendar 251
+ TUG 2003 Announcement 253
+ TUG Business
+ Institutional members 254
+
+ Advertisements
+ TeX consulting and production services 255
+ Kluwer
+ Just Published: TeX Reference Manual by David Bausum 256
+ Blue Sky Research cover3
+
+ ========================================
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 2
+Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:24:43 -0500
+From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
+To: ctan-ann@dante.de, tds@tug.org, tex-archive@math.utah.edu,
+ tex-implementors@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: tds 1.0 available
+
+I have released version 1.0 of the TeX directory structure (TDS)
+document. The only substantive change since 0.9996 (several years ago)
+is adding fonts/enc and fonts/map subdirectories (for encodings and map
+files, respectively).
+
+You can view it online (HTML) at http://tug.org/tds/ and retrieve it in
+many other formats from ftp://tug.org/tds/.
+
+It should be mirrored to ctan shortly.
+
+Email tds@tug.org if comments, questions, or suggestions.
+
+Thanks,
+karl (for the TDS working group)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 3
+From: "Dr. Tarynn M. Witten" <tmwitten@mail1.vcu.edu>
+Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:01:02 -0500
+Subject: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+
+Hi Everyone:
+I am writing a book and I have a very large number of references
+(almost 1000). I have created a bibtex database and have gone through
+it with a fine tooth comb. No matter what I do, I keep getting the
+following BibTex error whenever I try to call Bibtex:
+
+This is Big BibTeX version 0.99c
+Implementation: EMX/GNU C 32 bit for Win32
+Release version: 3.71 (18 Aug 1996)
+
+The top-level auxiliary file:
+C:\pctexv4\MyAgingBook\LatexAgingBookStructure.aux
+A level-1 auxilliary file: agingbook_master_macropak.aux
+A level-1 auxilliary file: FontDefinitions.aux
+A level-1 auxilliary file: Definitions.aux
+A level-1 auxilliary file: TitlePage.aux
+A level-1 auxilliary file: LegalPage.aux
+The style file: plain.bst
+Database file #1: allrefs.bib
+ Illegal end of database file---line 38789 of file allrefs.bib
+ : }
+ :
+
+I could really use some help with this because I cannot get all of the
+references into the book. It stops at 100 references. The bibtex file
+is called allrefs.bib and my code call for the bibliography within the
+tex file of the book is
+
+\bibliographystyle{plain}{9999}
+\bibliography{allrefs}
+
+I am running on PCTeX 4.0
+
+The log file allrefs.log states the following:
+
+PTITeX 3.4, (c) Personal TeX, Inc. 1985-1998
+This is TeX 3.14159 (preloaded format=LATEX 3.1.4) 11 FEB 2003 17:27
+**&LATEX C:/pctexv4/MyAgingBook/allrefs.bib
+(C:\pctexv4\MyAgingBook\allrefs.bib
+LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
+Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, loaded.
+
+! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
+
+See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
+Type H <return> for immediate help.
+ ...
+
+l.1 @
+ preamble{ "\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{} "
+? x
+.
+Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
+ 6 strings out of 845
+ 235 string characters out of 7711
+ 9801 words of memory out of 57344
+ 3024 multiletter control sequences out of 10000
+ 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 20000 for 255
+ 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 607
+ 5i,0n,4p,1b,14s stack positions out of 200i,40n,60p,5000b,600s
+No pages of output.
+
+What is interesting about the log file is the fact that the actual
+database has no preamble code in it anywhere and there is no other
+bibtex related code in the main program.
+
+Thank you
+Please direct responses to me at twitten@vcu.edu
+Dr. Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D., FGSA, FCSBC, MSW(c)
+Senior Fellow and Director of Research and Development
+Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
+VCU Life Sciences, Academic Campus, Suite 111
+1000 West Cary Street
+P.O. Box 842030
+Richmond, VA 23284-2030
+(p) 804-827-7371
+(f) 804-828-1961
+(e) twitten@vcu.edu
+(w) http://www.people.vcu.edu/~tmwitten
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 4
+Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:13:36 -0500
+From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
+To: twitten@vcu.edu
+Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+
+ **&LATEX C:/pctexv4/MyAgingBook/allrefs.bib
+
+Run bibtex, not latex, on the .bib file.
+That is:
+ latex yourbook -> creates yourbook.aux
+ bibtex yourbook -> reads yourbook.aux and allrefs.bib, writes yourbook.bbl
+ latex yourbook -> reads yourbook.bbl
+
+Hope this helps,
+karl
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 5
+From: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <philipratcliffe@tiscali.it>
+To: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:14:36 +0100
+
+Your problem is that BibTeX simply runs out of memory and therefore stops
+reading the bib file at some random point. You need to run BibTeX8 (the
+so-called eight-bit version), which is more configurable and allows for a
+much larger database.
+
+If you are using MiKTeX or the like, then you should already have it and its
+documentation, otherwise you can downlaod from CTAN.
+
+One word of warning: if you are using a bst that orders alphabetically, you
+may find a slight difference in the output between the standard and the
+eight-bit versions.
+
+Cheers, Phil Ratcliffe
+
+--__--__--
+
+About TeXhax...
+
+For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to
+office@tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1466 NW Front Avenue,
+Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820 USA (phone: 1 503 223 9994,
+fax: 1 503 223 3960).
+
+End of TeXhax Digest
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+From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2003 #2 - 5 msgs
+Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:25:08 +0000
+
+Send TeXhax mailing list submissions to
+ texhax@tex.ac.uk
+
+To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
+ http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax
+or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
+ texhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+
+You can reach the person managing the list at
+ texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk
+
+When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
+than "Re: Contents of TeXhax digest..."
+
+TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2003 : Number 2
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ 1. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Herbert Gintis)
+ 2. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Philip G. Ratcliffe)
+ 3. Re: Primer (Tom Schneider)
+ 4. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Robin Fairbairns)
+ 5. case conversion (Michal Kaut)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 1
+Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:58:29 -0500
+To: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <philip.ratcliffe@uninsubria.it>
+From: Herbert Gintis <hgintis@attbi.com>
+Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+
+At 10:14 PM 2/13/2003 +0100, Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
+>Your problem is that BibTeX simply runs out of memory and therefore stops
+>reading the bib file at some random point. You need to run BibTeX8 (the
+>so-called eight-bit version), which is more configurable and allows for a
+>much larger database.
+.
+>If you are using MiKTeX or the like, then you should already have it and its
+>documentation, otherwise you can downlaod from CTAN.
+>
+>One word of warning: if you are using a bst that orders alphabetically, you
+>may find a slight difference in the output between the standard and the
+>eight-bit versions.
+>
+>Cheers, Phil Ratcliffe
+ How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
+and otherwise cryptic, sites.
+
+Herb
+
+Herbert Gintis
+Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of
+Massachusetts
+External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
+15 Forbes Avenue, Northampton, MA 01060 413-586-7756
+Fax: (011) 44 0 871 433 4050
+Recent papers are posted on my <http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~gintis>web site.
+Get Game Theory Evolving (Princeton, 2000) at
+<http://www.isbn.nu/0691009430/amazon>Amazon.com.
+ Weakness Corrupts. Weakness masquerading as
+ moral superiority is beneath contempt.
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 2
+From: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <philipratcliffe@tiscali.it>
+To: "Herbert Gintis" <hgintis@attbi.com>
+Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:56:52 +0100
+
+> How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
+> and otherwise cryptic, sites.
+
+Well, the CTAN archives is the obvious place to look:
+
+http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html
+
+However, if you have MiKTeX, for example, you should already have everything
+(and the documentation) and you can just substitute the comand BibTeX with
+BibTeX8. If the default settings are still not sufficient, it is completely
+configurable.
+
+Chees, Phil Ratcliffe
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 3
+From: Tom Schneider <toms@ncifcrf.gov>
+Subject: Re: Primer
+To: Axel.NoSpam@gmx.de (Axel Kielhorn)
+Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:16:33 -0500 (EST)
+
+Axel:
+
+Thanks for your notes. I would prefer to avoid adding fonts outside
+the standard distribution for my papers because that forces others to
+do the same.
+
+To recapitulate the problem:
+
+I have found that if I convert from ps to pdf:
+
+echo "quit" | gs -q -r2000x2000 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$name.pdf $name.ps
+
+the pdf looks horrible on the screen (Sun workstation, acrobat) but it
+prints ok.
+
+So I have been using:
+
+\usepackage{pslatex} % Times New Roman Font
+or
+\usepackage{times}
+
+This displays well on the screen but when sent to our printer
+it loses all the dashes! That is completely unacceptable.
+
+Isn't there a system that works well in all directions????
+This is frustrating.
+
+Tom
+
+ Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
+ National Cancer Institute
+ Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
+ Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
+ toms@ncifcrf.gov
+ permanent email: toms@alum.mit.edu (use only if first address fails)
+ http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/
+
+> Hi Tom!
+>
+> > Ah ha! I know that the pdf file is rather bad on the screen (though it
+> > prints fine) but don't know why or what to do about it.
+> >
+> > > If you have control over your toolchain I suggest using the Type 1
+> > > version of the CM fonts. Depending on your TeX installation adding
+> > > "-PCMPS" to your DVIPS options may be sufficient.
+> >
+> > It doesn't work:
+> >
+> > dvips: warning: no config file for `CMPS'
+>
+> Sorry, this was my fault. I am using some files not included in the
+> standard distribution. You may have the fonts already installed, but
+> with different support files.
+>
+> If not, you can get them from your nearest CTAN mirror, for me it is
+> ftp.dante.de, for you that may be tug.ctan.org. The fonts will be at
+> /tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/cmps-unix.tar.gz
+> (or similar, I have the CD here.)
+>
+> Put the pfb files into a directory searched by DVIPS (you sysadmin will
+> know).
+>
+> There are several ways to treat the psfonts.cmz file:
+>
+> You can add the contents to the psfonts.map file, this file is read by
+> DVIPS when it looks for fonts.
+>
+> You can rename the file to psfonts.CMPS and add the command
+> "p +psfonts.CMPS" (without the quotes) to config.ps. This looks like the
+> best idea when you always want to use the PS fonts, even for printing.
+>
+> You can rename the file to psfonts.CMPS and create a file called
+> config.CMPS which consists only of one line:
+> p +psfonts.CMPS
+> This is what I did. To use the PS fonts you have to specify -PCMPS when
+> invoking DVIPS. Without this option bitmaps will be used which may be
+> neccesary for old printer with low memory.
+>
+> After installing the fonts you may have to call texhash to tell TeX
+> about the changes, your administrator will know.
+>
+> > % dvips -v
+> > This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
+>
+> That is the same version I have.
+>
+> > I use ghostscript to convert to pdf,
+> >
+> > echo "quit" | gs -q -r2000x2000 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
+> > -sOutputFile=$name.pdf $name.ps
+>
+> You tell GhostScript to use 2000 DPI resolution but the fonts are
+> already turned into bitmaps by DVIPS, normally at 300 DPI (laserwriter).
+> When using PS fonts, you don't have to specify a resolution at all.
+>
+> > % gs -v
+> > Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17)
+> > Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved.
+> >
+> > Do we need to upgrade?
+>
+> I have used the same version untill recently, it should do.
+>
+> I hope this helps, please feel free to ask more questions.
+>
+> Axel
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 4
+To: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <philip.ratcliffe@uninsubria.it>
+cc: "Herbert Gintis" <hgintis@attbi.com>, texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:37:26 +0000
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+> > How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
+> > and otherwise cryptic, sites.
+>
+> Well, the CTAN archives is the obvious place to look:
+>
+> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html
+>
+> However, if you have MiKTeX, for example, you should already have everything
+> (and the documentation) and you can just substitute the comand BibTeX with
+> BibTeX8. If the default settings are still not sufficient, it is completely
+> configurable.
+
+the sources, if that's the way you choose to go, are to be found on
+ctan in
+
+ biblio/bibtex/8-bit
+
+that directory is full of zip files with cryptic 8+3 filenames for
+users subject to brain-dead operating systems.
+
+i don't see a bibtex8 in my current tetex distribution, and am in
+between builds of tetex 2.0* so can't check that.
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 5
+Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:44:43 +0100
+From: Michal Kaut <m_kaut@hotmail.com>
+Organization: Molde College university
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: case conversion
+
+Hello,
+
+Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to
+upper- or lower-case?
+What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{}
+
+Thank you very much
+
+Michal Kaut
+
+---------------------------------------------------
+Michal Kaut
+Bj=F8rsetsletta 2, N-6411 Molde, Norway
+tel. +47 712 14 243 (office), +47 402 23 444 (mobile)
+m_kaut@hotmail.com, alt.: michal.kaut@seznam.cz
+http://www.iot.ntnu.no/~mkaut/personal.htm
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+--__--__--
+
+About TeXhax...
+
+For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to
+office@tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1466 NW Front Avenue,
+Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820 USA (phone: 1 503 223 9994,
+fax: 1 503 223 3960).
+
+End of TeXhax Digest
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+From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2003 #3 - 5 msgs
+Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:45:09 +0000
+
+Send TeXhax mailing list submissions to
+ texhax@tex.ac.uk
+
+To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
+ http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax
+or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
+ texhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+
+You can reach the person managing the list at
+ texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk
+
+When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
+than "Re: Contents of TeXhax digest..."
+
+TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2003 : Number 3
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ 1. Re: case conversion (Robin Fairbairns)
+ 2. Re: case conversion (William Adams)
+ 3. March 2003 TUG news: 501(c)(3), election, annual conference, TUGboat (TUG board of directors)
+ 4. re-defining table (Michal Kaut)
+ 5. TUGboat 23-1 shipped today (Mimi Burbank)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 1
+To: Michal Kaut <m_kaut@hotmail.com>
+cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: case conversion
+Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:38:08 +0000
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+> Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to
+> upper- or lower-case?
+> What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{}
+
+there are primitives with those names. they're not very satisfying in
+some cases (e.g., \uppercase won't convert \oe to \OE).
+
+the corresponding latex macros are \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase;
+these deal with issues like \oe<->\OE.
+
+david carlisle's textcase package adds various improvements (doesn't
+change case of maths for example).
+
+robin fairbairns
+
+http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 2
+Organization: Atlis Systems, Inc. (301) 578-4200 info@atlis.com
+Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:05:45 -0500
+Subject: Re: case conversion
+To: Michal Kaut <m_kaut@hotmail.com>
+From: William Adams <wadams@atlis.com>
+
+Michal asked:
+> Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to
+> upper- or lower-case?
+> What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{}
+
+Googling for ``latex macro uppercase lowercase''
+
+the ``I feel Lucky'' hit is:
+http://www.it.ms.unimelb.edu.au/tex/help/faq/uktug-faq/texfaq_15.html
+
+which has the following text:
+``LaTeX provides commands \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase
+ which fixes the latter problem. These commands are used
+ in the standard classes to produce upper case running heads
+ for chapters and sections.''
+
+and explains its failings / weaknesses.
+
+A more robust solution would be to use Omega and OTPs
+
+William
+
+--
+William Adams, publishing specialist
+voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
+www.atlis.com
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 3
+Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:52:16 +0100
+From: board@tug.org (TUG board of directors)
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: March 2003 TUG news: 501(c)(3), election, annual conference, TUGboat
+
+Dear TeX user,
+
+A few notable news items from the TeX Users Group.
+
+1) TUG GOES CHARITABLE! Our first news item has been in the works for
+many years: TUG has finally achieved full tax-exempt charitable status
+in the USA, known as 501(c)(3). This means that membership dues (less
+value of received benefits) and additional contributions to TUG are now
+tax-deductible, with the usual limitations and exceptions. Fine print
+on our web site and at the bottom of this email. Donations are happily
+accepted via the membership form :).
+
+We will be sending a separate email to all affected TUG members
+explaining the details and in a form suitable for tax documentation
+
+Kudos to our president, Mimi Jett, our office manager Robin Laakso, our
+lawyer Amy Silliman, and many others for bringing this to fruition.
+More information at http://tug.org/tax-exempt.
+
+2) TUG ELECTION RESULTS: One nomination was received for president: Karl
+Berry. The following nominations were received for the TUG board:
+Barbara Beeton, Cheryl Ponchin, Kaja Christiansen, Phil Taylor, Ross
+Moore, Samuel Rhoads, Stephanie Hogue, Sue DeMeritt. (In addition,
+Arthur Ogawa and Mike Sofka are continuing board members, whose terms
+expire in 2005.)
+
+Since there were fewer nominations than board positions, and only one
+candidate for president, there will be no actual ballot this year. The
+election results take effect after the 2003 annual meeting. Candidates'
+statements and other info at http://tug.org/election/2003/results.html.
+
+We'd especially like to welcome our new board member, Sam Rhoads.
+
+3) TUG 2003 CONFERENCE: The Silver Anniversary -- 25 years!-- of TeX
+The TeX Users Group 24th Annual Meeting and Conference is scheduled for
+July 20-24, 2003 at the Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Resort, Big Island,
+Hawaii. See http://tug.org/tug2003.
+
+Register by April 19th for special hotel rates:
+http://tug.org/tug2003/accommodation.html
+For sharing accommodations: http://tug.org/tug2003/sharing.html.
+
+Group travel discount rates may be available for flights via major US
+Gateways across the USA, if travel is booked with Protravel International
+Inc., agent Gina Robles <grobles@protravelinc.com>.
+
+3a) BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE CLASS on LaTeX: will take place just before
+the conference, from July 15-18 at the University of Hawaii at
+Hilo. Enrollment is limited to 12. The cost is $275 ($300 after April 1,
+so register now!). See https://www.tug.org/tug2003/latexclass.html for
+more information and the registration form. If you have any questions
+about the class, please email Sue Demeritt at susan.demeritt@tug.org.
+
+4) TUGboat Volume 22 Issue 3 (Sep 2001) was mailed around February 14.
+If you were a TUG member in 2001 and haven't received your copy, please
+let the office know (office@tug.org), so we can send you a copy right
+away :). 23(1), the proceedings for TUG 2002, will be the next issue
+mailed. 22(4), the last issue for the 2001 membership year, is also in
+process. Back issues of TUGboat are available from the TUG office.
+
+For reference, this newsletter is available online at
+http://tug.org/news/2003/03.txt.
+
+Respectfully submitted,
+the TUG board (board@tug.org)
+
+Postscript: here is the full text from our lawyer for the tax-exempt
+announcement.
+
+TUG has achieved tax-exempt charitable status in the United States,
+meaning that it is now a 501(c)(3) organization. This means that
+membership payments and additional contributions will now qualify for
+income tax charitable deduction, subject to certain limitations
+regarding the value of your membership benefits and materials.
+
+Please see http://tug.org/tax-exempt/ for details.
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 4
+Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:48:58 +0100
+From: Michal Kaut <m_kaut@hotmail.com>
+Organization: Molde College university
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: re-defining table
+
+Hello,
+
+I use the convention that table has caption at the top, so I would
+like to change the spacing. Hence I would like to redefine table so
+that it includes lines:
+\setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{0pt}
+\setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{10pt}
+
+I tried:
+\renewcommand{table}[1]{%
+ \begin{table}[#1]
+ \setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{0pt}
+ \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{10pt}
+}{\end{table}}
+
+but it (kind of obviously) leads to a circular reference.
+
+I there any way to add the to lines to the current format of table?
+I do not want to re-define the table, since I may use packages that
+change it as well. I just want to add the two lines.
+
+I know that I can either create a new command \topcaption, that will
+do the formatting, or define a new environment mytable (which would
+avoid the circular reference). Yet I would like to do it in a way that
+the user (author) can use the standard commands.
+
+Is there a (simple) way to do it?
+
+Thank you very much!
+
+Best regards,
+Michal Kaut
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+Michal Kaut
+Molde University College
+Postboks 2110, N-6402 Molde, Norway
+tel. +47 712 14 243, fax +47 712 14 100
+michal.kaut@iot.ntnu.no, http://www.iot.ntnu.no/~mkaut/
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 5
+Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:01:01 -0500
+To: TUGboat announcement <tug-board@tug.org>, tub-prod@csit.fsu.edu,
+ office@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl,
+ tug-pub@tug.org
+Subject: TUGboat 23-1 shipped today
+From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@csit.fsu.edu>
+
+Hello everyone,
+
+The Proceedings of the TUG 2002 annual meeting were shipped to the
+printer today. Hopefully shipment to members will occur in two weeks
+or so...
+
+The contents are enclosed for your perusal:
+
+Mimi Burbank
+(for the TUGboat production team)
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+ TUGboat
+ Volume 23, Number 1 2002
+ ========================================
+
+Kaja Christiansen
+ Editorial Comments 2
+
+ TUG 2002, Thiruvananthapuram --- Report and travelogue 3
+ TUG 2002 Program 8
+ Participants at the 23rd Annual TUG Meeting 10
+
+Talks
+
+K. Anil Kumar
+ TeX and databases ---TeX DBI 13
+Satish Babu
+ New horizons of free software: An Indian perspective 17
+Gyongyi Bujdoso and Ferenc Wettl
+ On the localization of TeX in Hungary 21
+Wlodzimierz Bzyl
+ The Tao of fonts 27
+Behdad Esfahbod and Roozbeh Pournader
+ FarsiTeX and the Iranian TeX community 41
+Hong Feng
+ The marriage of TeX and Lojban 46
+
+Keynote
+Hans Hagen
+ ConTeXt, XML and TeX: State of the art? 49
+
+Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice
+ Low-level Devanagari support for Omega --- Adapting
+devnag 50
+
+David Kastrup
+ Revisiting WYSIWYG paradigms for authoring LaTeX 57
+Ross Moore
+ serendiPDF with searchable math-fields in PDF documents 65
+Karel Piska
+ A conversion of public Indic fonts from MF
+ into Type 1 format with TeXtrace 70
+Fabrice Popineau
+ TeXLive under Windows: What's new with the 7 edition? 74
+Roozbeh Pournader
+ Catching up to Unicode 80
+Sebastian Rahtz
+ PassiveTeX: An update 86
+S. Rajkumar
+ Indic typesetting --- Challenges and opportunities 90
+Denis Roegel
+ METAOBJ: Very high-level objects in MP 93
+Wagish Shukla and Amitabh Trehan
+ Typesetting in Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian:
+ A beginner's perspective 101
+
+Karel Skoupy
+ New typesetting language and system architecture 106
+Karel Skoupy
+ TeX file server 107
+Stephen M. Watt
+ Conserving implicit mathematical semantics in
+ conversion between TeX and MathML 108
+
+News & Announcements
+ Calendar 109
+
+TUG Business
+ Institutional members 110
+
+Advertisements
+ TeX consulting and production services 111
+ Just Published: TeX Reference Manual by David Bausum 112
+ Blue Sky Research cover3
+
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+
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