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+Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2003 #2 - 5 msgs
+Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:25:08 +0000
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+TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2003 : Number 2
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ 1. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Herbert Gintis)
+ 2. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Philip G. Ratcliffe)
+ 3. Re: Primer (Tom Schneider)
+ 4. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Robin Fairbairns)
+ 5. case conversion (Michal Kaut)
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 1
+Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:58:29 -0500
+To: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <philip.ratcliffe@uninsubria.it>
+From: Herbert Gintis <hgintis@attbi.com>
+Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+
+At 10:14 PM 2/13/2003 +0100, Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
+>Your problem is that BibTeX simply runs out of memory and therefore stops
+>reading the bib file at some random point. You need to run BibTeX8 (the
+>so-called eight-bit version), which is more configurable and allows for a
+>much larger database.
+.
+>If you are using MiKTeX or the like, then you should already have it and its
+>documentation, otherwise you can downlaod from CTAN.
+>
+>One word of warning: if you are using a bst that orders alphabetically, you
+>may find a slight difference in the output between the standard and the
+>eight-bit versions.
+>
+>Cheers, Phil Ratcliffe
+ How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
+and otherwise cryptic, sites.
+
+Herb
+
+Herbert Gintis
+Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of
+Massachusetts
+External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
+15 Forbes Avenue, Northampton, MA 01060 413-586-7756
+Fax: (011) 44 0 871 433 4050
+Recent papers are posted on my <http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~gintis>web site.
+Get Game Theory Evolving (Princeton, 2000) at
+<http://www.isbn.nu/0691009430/amazon>Amazon.com.
+ Weakness Corrupts. Weakness masquerading as
+ moral superiority is beneath contempt.
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 2
+From: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <philipratcliffe@tiscali.it>
+To: "Herbert Gintis" <hgintis@attbi.com>
+Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:56:52 +0100
+
+> How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
+> and otherwise cryptic, sites.
+
+Well, the CTAN archives is the obvious place to look:
+
+http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html
+
+However, if you have MiKTeX, for example, you should already have everything
+(and the documentation) and you can just substitute the comand BibTeX with
+BibTeX8. If the default settings are still not sufficient, it is completely
+configurable.
+
+Chees, Phil Ratcliffe
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 3
+From: Tom Schneider <toms@ncifcrf.gov>
+Subject: Re: Primer
+To: Axel.NoSpam@gmx.de (Axel Kielhorn)
+Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:16:33 -0500 (EST)
+
+Axel:
+
+Thanks for your notes. I would prefer to avoid adding fonts outside
+the standard distribution for my papers because that forces others to
+do the same.
+
+To recapitulate the problem:
+
+I have found that if I convert from ps to pdf:
+
+echo "quit" | gs -q -r2000x2000 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$name.pdf $name.ps
+
+the pdf looks horrible on the screen (Sun workstation, acrobat) but it
+prints ok.
+
+So I have been using:
+
+\usepackage{pslatex} % Times New Roman Font
+or
+\usepackage{times}
+
+This displays well on the screen but when sent to our printer
+it loses all the dashes! That is completely unacceptable.
+
+Isn't there a system that works well in all directions????
+This is frustrating.
+
+Tom
+
+ Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
+ National Cancer Institute
+ Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
+ Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
+ toms@ncifcrf.gov
+ permanent email: toms@alum.mit.edu (use only if first address fails)
+ http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/
+
+> Hi Tom!
+>
+> > Ah ha! I know that the pdf file is rather bad on the screen (though it
+> > prints fine) but don't know why or what to do about it.
+> >
+> > > If you have control over your toolchain I suggest using the Type 1
+> > > version of the CM fonts. Depending on your TeX installation adding
+> > > "-PCMPS" to your DVIPS options may be sufficient.
+> >
+> > It doesn't work:
+> >
+> > dvips: warning: no config file for `CMPS'
+>
+> Sorry, this was my fault. I am using some files not included in the
+> standard distribution. You may have the fonts already installed, but
+> with different support files.
+>
+> If not, you can get them from your nearest CTAN mirror, for me it is
+> ftp.dante.de, for you that may be tug.ctan.org. The fonts will be at
+> /tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/cmps-unix.tar.gz
+> (or similar, I have the CD here.)
+>
+> Put the pfb files into a directory searched by DVIPS (you sysadmin will
+> know).
+>
+> There are several ways to treat the psfonts.cmz file:
+>
+> You can add the contents to the psfonts.map file, this file is read by
+> DVIPS when it looks for fonts.
+>
+> You can rename the file to psfonts.CMPS and add the command
+> "p +psfonts.CMPS" (without the quotes) to config.ps. This looks like the
+> best idea when you always want to use the PS fonts, even for printing.
+>
+> You can rename the file to psfonts.CMPS and create a file called
+> config.CMPS which consists only of one line:
+> p +psfonts.CMPS
+> This is what I did. To use the PS fonts you have to specify -PCMPS when
+> invoking DVIPS. Without this option bitmaps will be used which may be
+> neccesary for old printer with low memory.
+>
+> After installing the fonts you may have to call texhash to tell TeX
+> about the changes, your administrator will know.
+>
+> > % dvips -v
+> > This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
+>
+> That is the same version I have.
+>
+> > I use ghostscript to convert to pdf,
+> >
+> > echo "quit" | gs -q -r2000x2000 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
+> > -sOutputFile=$name.pdf $name.ps
+>
+> You tell GhostScript to use 2000 DPI resolution but the fonts are
+> already turned into bitmaps by DVIPS, normally at 300 DPI (laserwriter).
+> When using PS fonts, you don't have to specify a resolution at all.
+>
+> > % gs -v
+> > Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17)
+> > Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved.
+> >
+> > Do we need to upgrade?
+>
+> I have used the same version untill recently, it should do.
+>
+> I hope this helps, please feel free to ask more questions.
+>
+> Axel
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 4
+To: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <philip.ratcliffe@uninsubria.it>
+cc: "Herbert Gintis" <hgintis@attbi.com>, texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
+Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:37:26 +0000
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+> > How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
+> > and otherwise cryptic, sites.
+>
+> Well, the CTAN archives is the obvious place to look:
+>
+> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html
+>
+> However, if you have MiKTeX, for example, you should already have everything
+> (and the documentation) and you can just substitute the comand BibTeX with
+> BibTeX8. If the default settings are still not sufficient, it is completely
+> configurable.
+
+the sources, if that's the way you choose to go, are to be found on
+ctan in
+
+ biblio/bibtex/8-bit
+
+that directory is full of zip files with cryptic 8+3 filenames for
+users subject to brain-dead operating systems.
+
+i don't see a bibtex8 in my current tetex distribution, and am in
+between builds of tetex 2.0* so can't check that.
+
+--__--__--
+
+Message: 5
+Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:44:43 +0100
+From: Michal Kaut <m_kaut@hotmail.com>
+Organization: Molde College university
+To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: case conversion
+
+Hello,
+
+Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to
+upper- or lower-case?
+What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{}
+
+Thank you very much
+
+Michal Kaut
+
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+m_kaut@hotmail.com, alt.: michal.kaut@seznam.cz
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