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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/02/texhax.04 b/info/digests/texhax/02/texhax.04 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7c9c866fbc --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/02/texhax.04 @@ -0,0 +1,559 @@ +From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2002 #4 - 8 msgs +Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:05:05 +0100 + +Send TeXhax mailing list submissions to + texhax@tex.ac.uk + +To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit + http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax +or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to + texhax-request@tex.ac.uk + +You can reach the person managing the list at + texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk + +When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific +than "Re: Contents of TeXhax digest..." + +TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2002 : Number 4 + +Today's Topics: + + 1. ALternate images in a PDF file (Joel Coltoff) + 2. TUG 2002: further call for papers (Robin Fairbairns) + 3. Side by side (Roger Gawley) + 4. Re: Side by side (Hartmut Henkel) + 5. Q: \time command? (Andreas Hadjiprocopis) + 6. Re: Q: \time command? (Robin Fairbairns) + 7. Re: Q: \time command? (Nelson H. F. Beebe) + 8. Re: Q: \time command? (John W. Shipman) + +--__--__-- + +Message: 1 +Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:33:57 -0500 (EST) +From: Joel Coltoff <joel@wmi.com> +To: <TeXhax@tex.ac.uk> +Subject: ALternate images in a PDF file + +Hi, + +I think I know what I want. I'm just not sure if it can be done +or how to get there if it can. What I want to do is have two versions +of each image in a file. If the printer is color capable then I +want to use image A. If not then use image B. Sound simple enough. +I can even do it in postscript. The problem is that when you distill +it the black and white stuff gets thrown away. I've not used pdftex +but as best as I can tell it supports the alternate image capabilities +of PDF. Does this give me what I want/need? All I've gotten so far is +the PDFTeX User Manual. Is there something else that shows some examples +of how to do this? A gentle nudge down the correct path would be greatly +appreciated. + +Thanks. + +-- +Joel Coltoff + +Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving +wordy evidence of the fact. + -- George Eliot + +--__--__-- + +Message: 2 +To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org, + texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl +cc: tug2002@tug.org.in, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk +Subject: TUG 2002: further call for papers +Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:02:25 +0000 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> + +Followup call for papers -- + +TUG 2002 Annual Meeting and Conference +September 1-7, Trivandrum, India +====================================== + +Even though the official deadline has passed, there is still time to +submit a proposal for a paper to be presented at 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. + +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/ + +Proposals for papers should be sent to papers@tug2002.tug.org.in + +We can accept proposals for a further two weeks (until the end of +March 2002), and will notify authors of the acceptance at the end of +that period. Other dates are: + + * 12 April 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 + +Email addresses 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: 3 +Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:41:23 +0100 (BST) +From: Roger Gawley <Roger.Gawley@durham.ac.uk> +To: texhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: Side by side + +Can anyone help? I am trying to format a document using plain TeX. There +any many instances of a structure like this: + + Concertina Workshop Now out of print but + Tutor for the English Concertina excellent if you can + by Alistair Anderson get it. Folk oriented. + Topic Records Ltd Accompanying record + 50 Stroud Green Road used to be available, but + London N4 3EF not necessary.(Authorised) + England photocopies available from + Andy's Front Hall, + Voorheesville, NY +. +I have tried to adapt a macro that I have used for addresses for years +(if you are the long-forgotten contibutor of this macro, many thanks) + +\def\address#1=#2={\hbox{\hsize3truein\vtop{#1}\hfil\vtop{#2}}\bigskip} +{\obeylines +\address +Tony Young +Mowbray House +Crook +Co. Durham +DL15 9JG += +Roger Gawley +17 Dryburn Road +Durham +DH1 5AJ += +}% stop obeying lines + +But I really want lines to be obeyed in the lefthand box, #1, but not in +the righthand, #2, box. It seems that \obeylines is more subtle than I +though because no ammount of moving it around seems to produce what I am +after. + +Can anyone spot what I am missing, or more positively, tell me how to get +the effect I am after? + +--__--__-- + +Message: 4 +Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:01:05 +0200 (CEST) +From: Hartmut Henkel <henkel@vh-s.de> +To: Roger Gawley <Roger.Gawley@durham.ac.uk> +cc: TeXhax <texhax@tex.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: Side by side + +Dear Roger, + +with inspiration from Salomon's Advanced TeXBook I found the following: + +{\obeylines + \gdef\aaa#1=#2\endblk{ + \hbox to 140pt{ + \vtop{\hsize=50pt + \parindent=0pt + #1} + \hss + \vtop{\hsize=90pt + \parindent=0pt + \let^^M\space + #2}} + \endblk + } +} + +\def\startblk{\hrule\bgroup\obeylines\aaa} +\def\endblk{\egroup\hrule} + +\startblk + Hello + You + out there + in a + Stack! += + Hello + You + out + there + in a + Paragraph! +\endblk + +\bye + +Best Regards + +Hartmut + +On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Roger Gawley wrote: + +> Can anyone help? I am trying to format a document using plain TeX. There +> any many instances of a structure like this: +> +> Concertina Workshop Now out of print but +> Tutor for the English Concertina excellent if you can +> by Alistair Anderson get it. Folk oriented. +> Topic Records Ltd Accompanying record +> 50 Stroud Green Road used to be available, but +> London N4 3EF not necessary.(Authorised) +> England photocopies available from +> Andy's Front Hall, +> Voorheesville, NY +> +> I have tried to adapt a macro that I have used for addresses for years +> (if you are the long-forgotten contibutor of this macro, many thanks) +> +> \def\address#1=#2={\hbox{\hsize3truein\vtop{#1}\hfil\vtop{#2}}\bigskip} +> {\obeylines +> \address +> Tony Young +> Mowbray House +> Crook +> Co. Durham +> DL15 9JG +> = +> Roger Gawley +> 17 Dryburn Road +> Durham +> DH1 5AJ +> = +> }% stop obeying lines +> +> But I really want lines to be obeyed in the lefthand box, #1, but not in +> the righthand, #2, box. It seems that \obeylines is more subtle than I +> though because no ammount of moving it around seems to produce what I am +> after. +> +> Can anyone spot what I am missing, or more positively, tell me how to get +> the effect I am after? +> +> _______________________________________________ +> TeXhax mailing list +> TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Henkel +von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH +Schlossplatz 8, D-68723 Schwetzingen, Germany +E-Mail henkel@vh-s.de +WWW http://www.vh-s.de +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +--__--__-- + +Message: 5 +Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:32:40 +0100 (BST) +From: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <livantes@soi.city.ac.uk> +To: TeXhax <texhax@tex.ac.uk> +Subject: Q: \time command? + +Hello texhackers, + +I was wondering whether the \today command may be adjusted so as to +give me the current time as well (e.g. the time the document was +formatted with latex) + +many thanks, + +Andreas Hadjiprocopis livantes@soi.city.ac.uk +Computer Science Department www.soi.city.ac.uk/~livantes/home.html + +On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Hartmut Henkel wrote: + +> Dear Roger, +> +> with inspiration from Salomon's Advanced TeXBook I found the following: +> +> {\obeylines +> \gdef\aaa#1=#2\endblk{ +> \hbox to 140pt{ +> \vtop{\hsize=50pt +> \parindent=0pt +> #1} +> \hss +> \vtop{\hsize=90pt +> \parindent=0pt +> \let^^M\space +> #2}} +> \endblk +> } +> } +> +> \def\startblk{\hrule\bgroup\obeylines\aaa} +> \def\endblk{\egroup\hrule} +> +> \startblk +> Hello +> You +> out there +> in a +> Stack! +> = +> Hello +> You +> out +> there +> in a +> Paragraph! +> \endblk +> +> \bye +> +> Best Regards +> +> Hartmut +> +> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Roger Gawley wrote: +> +> > Can anyone help? I am trying to format a document using plain TeX. There +> > any many instances of a structure like this: +> > +> > Concertina Workshop Now out of print but +> > Tutor for the English Concertina excellent if you can +> > by Alistair Anderson get it. Folk oriented. +> > Topic Records Ltd Accompanying record +> > 50 Stroud Green Road used to be available, but +> > London N4 3EF not necessary.(Authorised) +> > England photocopies available from +> > Andy's Front Hall, +> > Voorheesville, NY +> > +> > I have tried to adapt a macro that I have used for addresses for years +> > (if you are the long-forgotten contibutor of this macro, many thanks) +> > +> > \def\address#1=#2={\hbox{\hsize3truein\vtop{#1}\hfil\vtop{#2}}\bigskip} +> > {\obeylines +> > \address +> > Tony Young +> > Mowbray House +> > Crook +> > Co. Durham +> > DL15 9JG +> > = +> > Roger Gawley +> > 17 Dryburn Road +> > Durham +> > DH1 5AJ +> > = +> > }% stop obeying lines +> > +> > But I really want lines to be obeyed in the lefthand box, #1, but not in +> > the righthand, #2, box. It seems that \obeylines is more subtle than I +> > though because no ammount of moving it around seems to produce what I am +> > after. +> > +> > Can anyone spot what I am missing, or more positively, tell me how to get +> > the effect I am after? +> > +> > +> > _______________________________________________ +> > TeXhax mailing list +> > TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +> > http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax +> +> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +> Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Henkel +> von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH +> Schlossplatz 8, D-68723 Schwetzingen, Germany +> E-Mail henkel@vh-s.de +> WWW http://www.vh-s.de +> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ +> +> _______________________________________________ +> TeXhax mailing list +> TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax + +--__--__-- + +Message: 6 +To: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <livantes@soi.city.ac.uk> +cc: TeXhax <texhax@tex.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: Q: \time command? +Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:28:18 +0100 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> + +the ctan catalogue isn't terribly clever, but with the keyword "time" +returned (amongst lots of stuff about "times fonts") + +time Defines a macro \now to macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff/ + print the current time. + +--__--__-- + +Message: 7 +Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 06:29:42 -0600 (MDT) +From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> +To: TeXhax <texhax@tex.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: Q: \time command? + +Andreas Hadjiprocopis <livantes@soi.city.ac.uk> asks on +Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:32:40 +0100 (BST) + +>> I was wondering whether the \today command may be adjusted so as to +>> give me the current time as well... + +Instead of the \today command, use the \time command. + +Here is a solution lifted from a style file that I've used for years +to get a timestamp in typeset letters: + +% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +% +% TIME OF DAY +% +\newcount\hh +\newcount\mm +\mm=\time +\hh=\time +\divide\hh by 60 +\divide\mm by 60 +\multiply\mm by 60 +\mm=-\mm +\advance\mm by \time +\def\hhmm{\number\hh:\ifnum\mm<10{}0\fi\number\mm} + +Use it like this in a LaTeX document: + + \date{\today{ }\hhmm} + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +- 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, 110 LCB 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 +Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:38:04 -0600 (MDT) +From: "John W. Shipman" <john@nmt.edu> +To: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <livantes@soi.city.ac.uk> +cc: TeXhax <texhax@tex.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: Q: \time command? + +On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Andreas Hadjiprocopis asked: + ++-- +| I was wondering whether the \today command may be adjusted so as to +| give me the current time as well (e.g. the time the document was +| formatted with latex) ++-- + +Below my .signature you will find the macros I use for timestamping +documents in the ANSI standard order (year-month-day hour:minute). + +Best regards, +John Shipman (john@nmt.edu), Applications Specialist, NM Tech Computer Center, +Speare 128, Socorro, NM 87801, (505) 835-5950, http://www.nmt.edu/~john + ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber + +================================================================ +% today.tex: Macro to print today's date +%-- +% Author: John W. Shipman, NM Tech Computer Center, +% Socorro, NM 87801; john@nmt.edu +%-- +% EXPORTED FUNCTIONS: +% \today: Outputs today's date as ``yyyy-mm-dd'' +% \now: Outputs the current time as ``hh:dd'' +% \timestamp: \today, plus one space, plus \now +%-- +\newcount\minute % Current minute within the hour +\newcount\hour % Current hour (24-hour type) +\newcount\hourMins % Temporary for taking hour modulo 60 +% +% - - - \ n o w - - - +% +\def\now% +{% Displays today's time as ``hh:mm'' +% The \time macro gives the minutes since midnight. Compute +% the whole hours by dividing this by 60, then find the +% minute by effectively taking the minutes modulo 60. +% + \minute=\time % Number of minutes since midnight + \hour=\time \divide \hour by 60 % Get hours + \hourMins=\hour \multiply\hourMins by 60 + \advance\minute by -\hourMins % Hours modulo 60 +% + \zeroPadTwo{\the\hour}:\zeroPadTwo{\the\minute}% +}% --- \now --- +% +% - - - \ t i m e s t a m p - - - +% +\def\timestamp% +{% Displays ``yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm'' + \today\ \now +}% --- \timestamp --- +% +% - - - \ t o d a y - - - +% +\def\today% +{% Displays today's date and time as ``yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm'' + \the\year-\zeroPadTwo{\the\month}-\zeroPadTwo{\the\day}% +}% --- \today --- +% +% - - - z e r o P a d T w o - - - +% +\def\zeroPadTwo#1% +{% Left zero pad of the argument to 2 digits. The argument +% should be a number between 1 and 99. This macro outputs +% a `0' if the argument is less than ten, then it outputs +% the argument. +% + \ifnum #1<10 0\fi % Conditionally output a zero + #1% Then output the argument +}% --- \zeroPadTwo --- + +--__--__-- + +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 |