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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 |