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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/98/texhax.04 b/info/digests/texhax/98/texhax.04 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..745e6d38fa --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/98/texhax.04 @@ -0,0 +1,386 @@ +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 +***************************** + +About TeXhax... + +Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + +Subscription and unsubscription requests: + send a one line mail message to TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk + containing only the line + subscribe texhax + or + unsubscribe texhax +If you have problems with un/subscribing, +please mail texhax-owner@nottingham.ac.uk + +For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to +TUG@mail.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). + +Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX +Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by +anonymous ftp. 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