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+Article 83 of ucam.mlist.texhax:
+From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (TeXhax Digest)
+Subject: TeXhax Digest V1998 #4
+Date: 6 Jul 98 09:55:39 GMT
+
+TeXhax Digest Monday, July 6 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 004
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ Re: Fwd: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+ Re: TeX question
+ Re: tex to postscript conversion
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+ Re: \ifcat and \noexpand
+ Bold Greek letters in plain Tex
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+ A few pages with different margin and text-width
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 18:27:52 +1
+From: "Maarten Gelderman" <mgelderman@bik.econ.vu.nl>
+Subject: Re: Fwd: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+
+> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:08:22 +0100 (BST)
+> From: sssgst3@reading.ac.uk
+> Subject: latex3e
+>
+> In submission to a conference paper, the organisers would like our
+> papers done in latex3e and LNCS. Does anyone know where I can get
+> hold of this latex3e and LNCS? I've used Alta Vista and archie on
+> DOC at IC but no joy. Any gotchas and caveats would be much
+> appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
+This should be LaTeX2e and Lynxs (or something like that, it is a
+WYSIWYG-editor for LaTeX), I guess. Obtain a decent Linux
+distribution like RedHat (loop at www.redhat.com) and just use it.
+Otherwise obtain TeX for the platform of your choice and use ik (loop
+e.g. at ftp.dante.de or www.ntg.nl or www.tug.org for more
+information)
+
+> To the TeX people,
+>
+> I have a quick question about TeX,
+>
+> "How do I turn hyphenation processing off?"
+>
+> I seem to see lots of things saying that TeX hyphenation is so good
+> but I don't want hyphenation.
+>
+Use something like \hyphenchar\font=-1
+
+Regards,
+
+Maarten
+=========================================================
+Maarten Gelderman geldermanm@acm.org
+Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam tel +31 20 444 6073
+De Boelelaan 1105 kr 3A36 fax +31 20 444 6005
+NL-1081 HV AMSTERDAM
+The Netherlands
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:16:35 +0100 (BST)
+From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+
+> the organisers would like our papers done
+> in latex3e and LNCS.
+
+there is no such thing as latex3e. They meant the current version of
+latex, which is latex2e.
+
+Springer have some `beta' latex2e support files for LNCS I forget the
+exact URL, but if you start off at http://www.springer.de and follow
+links for author submission, you'll find them.
+
+David
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:12:41 +0100 (BST)
+From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+
+[I didn't know people still used texhax. You would get much quicker
+response on comp.text.tex. texhax messgaes do (I believe) just sit in
+a stack waiting for enough messages to be posted before it is worth
+sending out a digest]
+
+> The construction \noexpand~ should be category 13 regardless of the definitio
+.
+> of ~.
+
+`be' may mean different things to different people. What is true is
+that the construction will expand to a token of category 13, whose
+expansion (in this expansion step) is suppressed.
+
+But \ifcat does not only test for the category of character tokens, as
+you clearly know. You wrote
+
+\ifcat \bgroup\noexpand\next
+
+\bgroup is a command token and as such has no category. However it is
+\let to a character token, and in the case of a command being so let
+\ifcat tests the category of the implicit token. This also applies
+to active characters. a ~ that is \let to a 0 is the same as \xxx that
+is let to a 0 they will both be \ifcat (and \if) equal to 0.
+so
+
+ \ifcat\noexpand~\noexpand\next \message{13}\fi
+ \ifcat 0\noexpand\next \message{12}\fi
+
+are both testing the same thing, so both are true.
+You can distinguish between them with \ifx if you want.
+
+The last case is similar if you \let~\bgroup then
+ \ifcat\noexpand~\noexpand\next \message{13}\fi
+ \ifcat \bgroup\noexpand\next \message{ 1}\fi
+are the same thing, as in each case the first non expandable token
+after the \ifcat is \let equal to a { and so \next is tested against
+the category of the implicit { token.
+
+David
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 08:40:53 -0400 (EDT)
+From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
+Subject: Re: TeX question
+
+ "How do I turn hyphenation processing off?"
+
+\hyphenpenalty = 10000
+or
+\pretolerance = 10000
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 08:40:58 -0400 (EDT)
+From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
+Subject: Re: tex to postscript conversion
+
+ Do you have or know where I could get hold of a program
+ to convert a tex file to postscript format?
+
+dvips or dvipsk. One or the other is part of just about every TeX
+distribution. You can get it by itself from
+ftp://tug.org/tex/dvipsk.tar.gz.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 09:15:16 +0200
+From: schneide@igd.fhg.de (Schneider Uwe)
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+
+Hi,
+
+> In submission to a conference paper, the organisers would like our papers
+done
+> in latex3e and LNCS. Does anyone know where I can get hold of this latex3e
+> and LNCS?
+
+Oops, I didn't knew that latex3e is available, yet.
+
+> LNCS?
+
+You should be able to download it from Springer (LNCS: Lecture Notes on
+Computer Science), where I got it. The URL is 'http://www.springer.de'.
+
+Hope this helps ...
+
+Regards, Uwe
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:14:54 +0100
+From: Jonathan Fine <J.Fine@dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
+Subject: Re: \ifcat and \noexpand
+
+In connection with a category code programming query Colin Mason writes:
+> The construction \noexpand~ should be category 13 regardless of the
+> definition of ~.
+but this is not qyite correct. Character tokens have a category, and
+active characters have category 13.
+
+This is not how \ifcat works. It expands until it gets two unexpandables,
+and then looks that the meanings of the unexpandables.
+If both are, say,
+> alignment tab character ?
+where ? need not be the same in both cases, the \ifcat is true. All clear
+so far?
+
+Now let's look at \noexpand. If a token is expandable (a macro, an \if
+command, \the, and some others listed in Chapter 20 of the TeXbook) then
+the \noexpand <token> promotes that instance of the <token> to \relax.
+But if it is not expandable, then the \noexpand has no effect.
+
+Exercise:
+What happens when you type
+a) \expandafter \show \noexpand &
+b) \expandafter \show \noexpand \relax
+c) \expandafter \show \noexpand \ifcase
+d) \expandafter \show \noexpand \temp
+e) \expandafter \show \noexpand ~
+
+Once you have mastered this, all should be clear. (The answer to (d) and
+(e) will depend on the current meaning of \temp and |~|, of course.)
+
+Regards
+
+Jonathan Fine
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:24:59 +0200 (METDST)
+From: Stefano Tonellato <stone@unive.it>
+Subject: Bold Greek letters in plain Tex
+
+Hi everybody. Can anybody tell me how bold Greek letters can be produced
+with plain Tex?
+
+Thanks
+
+Stefano Tonellato
+
+ ****************************************
+ | Stefano Tonellato |
+ | Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia |
+ | Dipartimento di Statistica |
+ | S. Polo - Campo S. Agostin 2347 |
+ | 30125 Venezia (ITALY) |
+ | Phone +39-41-2577427 |
+ | Fax +39-41-710355 |
+ ****************************************
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 04:36:07 -0400
+From: Sebastian Rahtz <rahtz@scri.fsu.edu>
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
+
+TeXhax Digest writes:
+ (Iain Christie)
+ > Do you have or know where I could get hold of a program
+ > to convert a tex file to postscript format?
+ >
+ > I have downloaded a .tex file from the net but am unable to
+ > print it in a useful form, currently it is impossible to read
+ > any of the mathematical equations.
+You need an entire TeX system to format it and convert the result to
+PS. Start from http://www.tug.org/interest.html for pointers to free
+implementations.
+
+*************
+ > From: sssgst3@reading.ac.uk
+ > Subject: latex3e
+ >
+ > In submission to a conference paper, the organisers would like our papers done
+ > in latex3e and LNCS. Does anyone know where I can get hold of this latex3e
+ > and
+Go to Springer Verlags Web pages. Its their style and they support
+it. Its said to be pretty bad....
+
+************************
+
+ > I would like to know the location of pdftex. Any pointers to
+ > installing it would be gratefully recieved
+Look at CTAN:systems/web2c. this contains pdftex. as do
+systems/win32/web2c, systems/win32/miktex and
+systems/macintosh/cmactex
+
+****************************
+
+ > I have a quick question about TeX,
+ >
+ > "How do I turn hyphenation processing off?"
+ >
+ > I seem to see lots of things saying that TeX hyphenation is so good but I
+ > dont want hyphenation.
+
+select an undefined language which has no hyphenation patterns loaded:
+
+D:\>tex
+This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2c 7.2)
+**\relax\showhyphens{category}
+
+Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 0
+[] \tenrm cat-e-gory
+
+*\language99
+*\showhyphens{category}
+
+[] \tenrm category
+
+Sebastian Rahtz
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:50:08 +0100 (BST)
+From: David Rhead <David.Rhead@nottingham.ac.uk>
+Subject: A few pages with different margin and text-width
+
+I'm producing A4 catalogues with LaTeX2e. The body of the catalogue has a
+3-column design (courtesy of multicol), mostly using a 7-point font.
+
+I want the front matter to be more friendly, with more white space.
+So I want to do it in a single column, in a 10-point font.
+
+For consistency between the front matter and the body ("the same grid")
+- -- and to keep to readability conventions which limit the number of
+characters per line -- I want the single column in the front matter to
+align with the outer two columns in the body.
+
+I tried approaching this by saying that, within the 10 pages or so of
+front matter, I want:
+* \oddsidemargin to be temporarily bigger than it is in the rest of the
+ catalogue
+* \textwidth (or \linewidth?) to be temporarily smaller than it is in the
+ rest of the catalogue.
+The LaTeX book (page 181) says that anomalies may occur if one tries to
+change such things in the middle of a document. So it isn't surprising
+that this approach gave unwanted side-effects. (My page footer got shifted
+sideways.)
+
+I got the visual effect I wanted by fiddling with \hspace and minipage, so
+that each page in the front matter contained a minipage (whose width
+equalled that of the outer two columns in the body), with the minipages on
+odd-numbered pages pushed outwards with \hspace. But this gives
+maintenanace problems. (If the text changes next year, I'll have to re-do
+the manual fiddling.)
+
+Can anyone suggest a satisfactory way of getting a few consecutive pages
+with:
+* a larger inner margin than the rest of the publication
+* a correspondingly narrower text-width than the rest of the publication.
+
+ David Rhead
+ Academic Computing Services
+ University of Nottingham
+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V1998 #4
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