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+From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2002 #1 - 11 msgs
+Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:05:09 +0000
+
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+
+TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2002 : Number 1
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ 1. A change of direction for TeXhax (David Osborne)
+ 2. font problems with new TEX installation (Steve.Esson@esa.int)
+ 3. TUGboat 21-4 shispped to the printer (Mimi Burbank)
+ 4. TUG 2002 (Robin Fairbairns)
+ 5. Re: font problems with new TEX installation (Robin Fairbairns)
+ 6. unusual reference (Jonathan Myles)
+ 7. BibTeX formatting of an unusual reference (Nelson H. F. Beebe)
+ 8. LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (da blak sheap)
+ 9. formatting a booklet with passage numbers on the margins (Andreas Hadjiprocopis)
+ 10. Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (Fred K Ollinger)
+ 11. Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (Robin Fairbairns)
+
+----------
+
+Message: 1
+Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:07:27 +0000
+From: David Osborne <texhax-admin@nottingham.ac.uk>
+To: texhax@nottingham.ac.uk
+Subject: A change of direction for TeXhax
+
+Happy New Year to all TeXhax subscribers.
+
+As it has been several months since the last item was posted to TeXhax,
+the start of a new year seems a good time to make a change in the way in
+which TeXhax operates. For many years, TeXhax has operated as a digest:
+questions posted to it accumulated into monthly (or less frequent)
+digests which are circulated to the subscribers, with responses to the
+questions becoming part of the next digest, and so on. This does
+introduce a delay before questions are answered, which, as the quantity
+of postings has dropped, seems to have become self-reinforcing, further
+discouraging use of the list.
+
+As an experiment, I plan to remove this delay and circulate questions
+and answers immediately to all subscribers. TeXhax will then operate as
+a normal mailing list, though with the option of continuing to receive
+it in digest format. The digests will continue to be available in the
+usual locations and archives. You can change your subscription settings
+via the Mailman web interface at
+http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax
+
+You will need your list password before making changes but, if you have
+forgotten it, you can request that your password be mailed to you via
+the above web page. If you have any questions or requests please contact
+me at texhax-admin@nottingham.ac.uk
+
+I hope that this change will make TeXhax more responsive to the needs of
+its subscribers and encourage you to make use of it as a place to ask
+and answer questions and make announcements on all TeX-related matters.
+
+With best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2002
+
+David Osborne
+University of Nottingham
+-- TeXhax maintainer
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 2
+From: Steve.Esson@esa.int
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:56:48 +0200
+Subject: font problems with new TEX installation
+
+I've installed a new version of Tex on the systems here for
+the first time in about 10 years. Documents which previously
+processed OK, now produce errors like this:-)
+
+! Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10.95=cmr10 at 10.95pt not loadable:
+Metric (TFM) file not found.
+
+ What does this mean? I'm an amateur at this and there
+doesn't seem to be enough info around to find what the
+real problem is. The TEX directory, for example, contains
+a file called "cmr10.tfm", which is identical to the file of the
+same name in the old TEX installation which works.
+
+ Anybody any idea what I should be doing next to
+sort this out?
+
+ Thanks,
+S.
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 3
+From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@csit.fsu.edu>
+Subject: TUGboat 21-4 shispped to the printer
+To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mimirh.csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org,
+ texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl, tug-pub@tug.org,
+ tug-editorial-board@tug.org
+Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:52:15 -0500 (EST)
+
+I'm glad to announce that TUGboat 21-4 was shipped to the printer on
+December 19, 2001. We apologize to our members for the unusually
+long delay in receiving their issues of TUGboat, and we are working
+to correct the situation as fast as we can.
+
+Enclosed are the contents of the issue:
+
+ TUGboat
+ Volume 21, Number 4 / December 2000
+ ====================================
+
+Editorial Comments
+ Barbara Beeton 315
+
+Micro-typographic extensions to the TeX typesetting system 317
+ Han The Thanh
+
+News & Announcements
+ TUG '2001 Announcement 435
+ Calendar 436
+
+TUG Business
+ Institutional members 437
+ TUG membership application 438
+
+Advertisements
+ TeX consulting and production services 439
+ IBM techexplorer 440
+ Blue Sky Research c3
+
+------------------
+
+Mimi Burbank
+(For the TUGboat production team)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 4
+To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mimirh.csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org,
+ texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl
+cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
+Subject: TUG 2002
+Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:00:01 +0000
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+TUG 2002 Annual Meeting and Conference
+September 1-7, Trivandrum, India
+======================================
+
+We are pleased to announce that the most exciting TeX event of
+2002, the international conference of TeX Users Group is
+scheduled to be conducted in India during September 1--7, 2002
+at Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala. This is going
+to be the first of its kind in the subcontinent and we are
+hoping for excellent participation.
+
+You are warmly invited to participate and/or offer a
+presentation at this most exciting event. We want to make this a
+big success, and we want lots of high-quality presentations. The
+theme for TUG 2002 is `Stand up and be proud of TeX!'. Show us
+why it is still the typesetting tool of choice, the range of
+material it can handle, and especially how it can coexist with
+the new world of XML. We want to hear about
+
+ * using TeX to typeset XML
+ * multilingual typesetting using Omega
+ * high-quality hyperdocuments using pdfTeX
+ * fonts for non-Latin languages
+ * new directions for Metafont and Metapost
+
+Full conference details can be found at
+
+ http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/
+
+suffice it to say here that Kerala is a very beautiful part of
+India, where you will be sure of very warm hospitality and
+excellent facilities. This is a marvellous opportunity to visit
+one of the most interesting countries in the world. The TUG 2002
+program committee chair is Sebastian Rahtz of Oxford
+University and organising committee chair is Satish Babu of
+InApp, Trivandrum.
+
+Proposals for papers shall be directed immediately to
+papers@tug2002.tug.org.in.
+
+Dates
+
+ * January/February 2002: send in abstracts for papers
+ * end of February 2002: notification of acceptance of paper
+ * end of March 2002: preliminary program available
+ * May 2002: send first version of full paper
+ * July 2002: send final version of full paper
+ * 4th-7th September 2002: TUG conference in India
+
+Pre-conference Tutorials (1 to 3 September 2002):
+
+ * Introduction to TeX
+ * LaTeX to SGML/XML/MathML conversion
+ * XML and XSL transformation procedures
+ * TEI XML
+ * Generation of hyperlinked documents with pdfTeX and ConTeXt
+ * Multilingual typesetting using Omega
+
+Email ids for contact:
+
+ tug2002@tug.org.in -- General information
+ papers@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Submission of papers
+ finance@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Financial matters
+ travel@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Travel information
+ media@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Media contact
+
+Robin Fairbairns
+For TUG 2002 Organising Committee
+
+[please circulate this as widely as seems appropriate; in particular,
+if you have membership mailing lists, please consider forwarding this
+message, or a pointer to the conference web site, to the list.]
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 5
+To: Steve.Esson@esa.int
+cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: font problems with new TEX installation
+Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:30:36 +0000
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+> I've installed a new version of Tex on the systems here for
+> the first time in about 10 years. Documents which previously
+> processed OK, now produce errors like this:-)
+>
+> ! Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10.95=cmr10 at 10.95pt not loadable:
+> Metric (TFM) file not found.
+>
+> What does this mean?
+
+it means exactly what it says. what's interesting is _why_ it can't
+find it.
+
+> I'm an amateur at this and there
+> doesn't seem to be enough info around to find what the
+> real problem is. The TEX directory, for example, contains
+> a file called "cmr10.tfm", which is identical to the file of the
+> same name in the old TEX installation which works.
+
+it's probably an indexing problem. if your old systems were that old,
+they likely didn't use an index; modern systems use variants of ls-R
+files as a sort of simple-minded database of the files available.
+modern systems _don't_ therefore look up files in directories.
+
+> Anybody any idea what I should be doing next to
+> sort this out?
+
+tell us what systems you're talking about --- the answer is different
+for different systems.
+
+if it's tetex-based, you may get some help from
+http://ctan.tug.org/installationadvice/ (though be aware that this
+page isn't deemed quite "ready" yet)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 6
+Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT)
+From: Jonathan Myles <mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk>
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: unusual reference
+
+I sometimes have to refer to a paper which it has become traditional in my
+field to reference as:
+
+Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting. "Breast Cancer
+screening with mammography in women aged 40-49 years". Int J Cancer 1996;
+68: 693-9
+.
+(obviously with slight variation according to the particular journal).
+
+I'd like to be able to put this in a BibTex file. Is there any way
+of putting "Organising .... Meeting" as the Author Field and persuading
+BibTex to leave it as it is? Or is this, as I fear it might be, a
+style-file-specific issue, if solvable at all?
+
+Thanks,
+
+Jonathan Myles
+
+Dept of Maths, Stats and Epidemiology,
+Imperial Cancer Research Fund
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 7
+Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:03:41 -0700 (MST)
+From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: BibTeX formatting of an unusual reference
+
+Jonathan Myles <mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk> asks on Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24
++0000 (GMT) about formatting the reference
+
+>> ...
+>> Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting. "Breast Cancer
+>> screening with mammography in women aged 40-49 years". Int J Cancer 1996;
+>> 68: 693-9
+>> ...
+
+in BibTeX. Here is what I'd do for this one:
+
+@Article{OCCFM:1996:BCS,
+ author = "{Organising Committee Collaborators, Falun Meeting}",
+ title = "Breast Cancer screening with mammography in women aged
+ 40--49 years",
+ journal = "Int. J. Cancer",
+ volume = "68",
+ pages = "693--699",
+ year = "1996",
+ OPTmonth = "??",
+ OPTnumber = "??",
+}
+
+Bracing text in the author field prevents its being further
+manipulated by BibTeX. I also used proper en-dashes for ranges, and
+put the periods back into the journal abbreviation (it is a particular
+journal style to remove them).
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+- Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 -
+- Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 -
+- University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu -
+- Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org -
+- 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org -
+- Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe -
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 8
+From: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
+To: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files
+Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:38:24 +0100
+
+hi everybody,
+
+if someone could help me with this, i were very grateful:
+
+we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make
+it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put
+it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are
+found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to
+reconfigure?
+
+any help appreciated...
+
+tia
+
+ronald
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 9
+Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:44:39 +0000 (GMT)
+From: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <livantes@soi.city.ac.uk>
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: formatting a booklet with passage numbers on the margins
+
+Hi all,
+2 problems:
+1) i would like to format something like, say, the bible, or ancient greek
+texts where you have the passage number. So I will have a paragraph
+and on the right margin (or left margin if it is an odd/even page)
+would like to have at the height=middle of paragraph a number printed
+
+e.g.
+
+<THIS IS MY
+ PASSAGE/
+ PARAGRAPH> <This is the Right margin>
+para pa apapapa
+apapapa ap ap a
+apapa pa ap p p <PASSAGE_NUMBER GOES HERE>
+apap apa pa paa
+aja191919191919
+
+I tried to do it with marginpar but ... it is float and moves up and down.
+any idea on that?
+
+Secondly,
+this is not much latex but rather postscript
+Would like to print that into A4, 4 pages on one side of A4, 4 pages on
+the other side. so that i fold it in four and then bind it, just like
+books,
+I tried pstops and psbook
+BUT: it seems that it 'eats' the top of my pages (all 4 of them)
+I used a scaling of 0.48
+To cut the short story long, is there a pointer to doing that because i
+check the net but they have only 2up and pstops options are so cryptic.
+thanks in advance, and sorry for the trouble
+
+andreas.
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 10
+Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:55:09 -0500 (EST)
+From: Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>
+To: da blak sheap <dablaksheap@web.de>
+cc: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files
+
+> we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make
+> it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put
+> it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are
+> found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to
+> reconfigure?
+
+as root:
+
+texhash
+
+Fred
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 11
+To: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
+cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files
+Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 21:02:36 +0000
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+> we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make
+> it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put
+> it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are
+> found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to
+> reconfigure?
+
+see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages+wherefiles
+
+--__--__--
+
+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