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+From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk>
+To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk
+Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
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+TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 29 May 1996 Volume 96 : Number 007
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+ Redefining maximum number of strings, fonts, etc...
+ margins
+ BibTeX/LaTeX2e question
+ BibTeX/LaTeX2e point -- PS
+ Location of index package (by David Jones)???
+ \def with catcode 1 in parameter text?
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
+Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:06:40 +0100
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+
+ > From: "S. Warde" <
+ > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST)
+ > Subject: Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX
+ > We are currently moving from LaTeX 209 to LaTeX2e. We have
+ > found the hyper and hyperref packages in the contrib/supported
+ > directory.
+ > Though both authors acknowledge each other and say it would be
+ > a good idea to merge they don't say when. Until they do I would
+tell us if its necessary, and I expect we'll do something about it.
+
+ > We have obtained the dvihps source from ftp.tex.ac.uk this seems
+ > to be quiet old. Before installing it I was wondering if
+ > a - there was a more recent version
+the author is working on it
+
+ > b - anyone had 'ported' it to work with the kpathsea
+ > distribution
+yes, its moderately trivial to do yourself. but i'll be in the next
+release of dvipsk
+
+ > c - knew of any limitations
+yes, you cant vary the height of the anchor box...
+
+ > d - knew of other dvips variants for creating pdf files
+use the nativepdf option of hyperref, and you dont need dvihps at all
+
+sebastian rahtz
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
+Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:09:02 +0100
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+
+ > From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence)
+ > From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
+ > Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100
+ > Subject: PostScript from other programs
+ > Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7
+ > and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form?
+
+my generic solution is Acrobat Distiller. its an excellent (obviously)
+PostScript interpreter. Use that to make a PDF (ie clean!) version of
+the file, then use Acrobat Exchange to write out a new .ps version.
+
+i havent tried this per se with Frame files, but the principal should
+be sound.
+
+sebastian
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: mse@sdr.utias.utoronto.ca (Manfred D. M. Sever)
+Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:51:46 -0400
+Subject: Redefining maximum number of strings, fonts, etc...
+
+Hello All!
+
+I would like to be able to increase the
+maximum number ``strings'' available to
+TeX for processing documents. It may also
+be usefull to increase the upper limit
+on the number of fonts allowed.
+
+I think this should be possible to do since
+Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin discuss
+this on page xi of their book. I believe
+that increasing these limits also involves
+recompiling TeX.
+
+However, I can't find the file that these
+limits are set in.
+
+How do I proceed?
+
+Thanks in advance,
+
+Manfred.
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Mr Marcilo Alves <marcilio@liverpool.ac.uk>
+Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:11:57 +0100 (BST)
+Subject: margins
+
+Hi,
+
+That's Marcilio from Liverpool.
+
+I am using book class in Latex2e with the option
+[a4paper,twoside].
+
+Yet, my output shows different margins; that is there
+is a horizontal and vertical shift of one side of the output in
+relation to the other side.
+
+Is this a problem with the book class or with
+the printer.
+
+The printer is in the computer centre and I do not
+know how to eventually set margins, etc...
+
+
+Could you help me?
+
+
+- - ---------------------------------
+
+
+I am using fancyheadings to set the head of the page.
+It works fine but it seems that the commands
+
+\listoffigures
+\listoftables
+\tableofcontents
+
+uses its own formatting for the heads.
+
+How can I set my own head in conjunction
+with the above commands?
+
+
+- - ---------------------------------
+
+
+I do appreciate your help in advance!
+
+Thank you
+
+marcilio
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
+Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:31:37 +0100
+Subject: BibTeX/LaTeX2e question
+
+I am wondering whether there is a solution to this or whether it is "just one
+of those things you have to hack around".
+
+The background: Using the Harvard family of citation styles with BibTeX and
+LaTeX2e. Two references are different papers in the same tome.
+Cross-referencing is used to avoid duplication of information. Both
+references are used in the same document. The tome itself (item C) has no
+author or editor.
+
+@InCollection{A,
+ ...
+ crossref = "C"
+}
+@InCollection{B,
+ ...
+ crossref = "C"
+}
+@Book{C,
+ ...
+}
+
+The problem: Because the tome is cited in two difference references, three
+entries get written to the bbl and auxiliary files. Because the tome has no
+author or editor, the title is used as the citation mark (both short and long
+form) -- and here is the problem -- this is emphasized, i.e. there is a \emph
+in the parameters of the citation entries in the .aux file. When the aux
+file
+is read in, the error:
+
+! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 72.
+<inserted text>
+ \fi
+
+occurs.
+
+There are three hack solutions:
+
+1. Manual edit the .aux file -- totally unacceptable.
+2. Do not use crossref but suffer the replication of information --
+unacceptable but...
+3. Force BibTeX not to generate the third reference item but to replicate
+crossreference information in all entries -- I haven't investigated this and
+therefore do not know how to do it.
+
+Have others seen this and found other solutions?
+
+Russel.
+
+=======================================================================
+
+Dr Russel Winder
+
+ Reader in Software Engineering
+ Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems
+
+Information Systems Research Group
+Department of Computer Science Phone: +44 (0)171 380 7293
+University College London Fax: +44 (0)171 387 1397
+Gower Street EMail: R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk
+London WC1E 6BT
+UK URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/R.Winder/
+
+=======================================================================
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
+Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:48:19 +0100
+Subject: BibTeX/LaTeX2e point -- PS
+
+I forgot to note the obvious point about using the key field in the
+bibliography item, I suppose that should be solution 0. My point was:
+Has anyone got an answer to the problem of \emph appearing in the .aux
+file, even if accidently?
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: coleman@trillium.phys.uregina.ca (Robert Coleman)
+Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 15:28:01 -0600 (CST)
+Subject: Location of index package (by David Jones)???
+
+On page 367 of the LaTeX Companion, the index
+package written by David Jones is discussed.
+I have, however, not been able to find it on
+CTAN. From where can this package be ftped?
+Thanks for the help. A direct reply would be
+appreciated.
+
+Robert
+
+- --
+Robert Alan Coleman
+Department of Physics
+University of Regina
+Regina, Saskatchewan
+Canada S4S 0A2
+
+Tel: (306) 585-4260
+Fax: (306) 585-4894
+email: coleman@cas.uregina.ca
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Matteo Frigo <athena@glauke.lcs.mit.edu>
+Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:41:45 -0400
+Subject: \def with catcode 1 in parameter text?
+
+Abstract: I want to put a token with catcode 1 in the parameter text
+of a macro, and I don't know how.
+
+Problem: I wrote a macro \largeenough which takes one argument, and
+formats it in the largest possible font so that the argument fits
+in one page (I use it for slides). The macro works by trial and
+error, and some other hackery.
+
+Now, I want to define a LaTeX environment
+
+\begin{largeenough}
+ text
+\end{largeenough}
+
+to accomplish the same effect --- since the environment seems more
+elegant to me. The problem is: how do I capture all text preceding the
+\end{largeenough} ? I need it for the trial-and-error procedure. So
+far, I use a simple-minded loop to accomplish this effect, but I
+wonder if there is a better way.
+
+Essentially, I would like to define a macro
+
+\def\foo#1\end{largeenough}{...}
+
+where I have a { *with catcode 1* in the parameter text. Changing the
+catcode doesn't work, because I want to keep the original catcode
+of { in the normal text (inside the environment).
+
+Any idea?
+
+Thanks,
+Matteo
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Michael Doob <mdoob@cc.UManitoba.CA>
+Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:39:09 -0500 (CDT)
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+
+> From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence)
+> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:52:03 BST
+> Subject: "Standard" Font sizes
+>
+> I am maintaining a TeX system here at ucl, and like many others I suspect
+> am allowing the system to generate all the fonts as needed (via MakeTeXpk).
+> All of these end up jumbled together in the texmf/fonts/tmp/pk directory
+> (under either cx or ljfour). I would quite like to shift the common ones
+> into the appropriate sub directory (texmf/fonts/public/cm/ ..) so that
+> tmp can be deleted on a regular basis. Can someone tell me the
+> standard/most common sizes required ?
+
+You could run a cron job that deletes pk files that haven't been accessed
+recently. What's left over will be (by definition) the popular ones, and they
+could be moved out to a more permanent location periodically.
+
+
+Cheers,
+Michael
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
+Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:32:12 +0100
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+
+> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST)
+You'd get a quicker information turn around by asking on comp.text.tex
+newsgroup (or the equivalent info-tex mailing list).
+
+> b - anyone had 'ported' it [dvihps] to work with the kpathsea
+> distribution
+
+I'm not sure, but if you use the [nativepdf] option to the hyperref
+package you can use a standard dvips(k). The pdfmark operators are
+written straight to the PS file via literal postscript specials.
+
+> on hypertex hosted at snorri.chem.washington.edu . This machine
+> does not seem to exist
+the mailing list is now reachable via ....
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V96 #7
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