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March 2003 TUG news: 501(c)(3), election, annual conference, TUGboat (TUG board of directors) + 4. re-defining table (Michal Kaut) + 5. TUGboat 23-1 shipped today (Mimi Burbank) + +--__--__-- + +Message: 1 +To: Michal Kaut <m_kaut@hotmail.com> +cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: Re: case conversion +Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 16:38:08 +0000 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> + +> Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to +> upper- or lower-case? +> What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{} + +there are primitives with those names. they're not very satisfying in +some cases (e.g., \uppercase won't convert \oe to \OE). + +the corresponding latex macros are \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase; +these deal with issues like \oe<->\OE. + +david carlisle's textcase package adds various improvements (doesn't +change case of maths for example). + +robin fairbairns + +http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq + +--__--__-- + +Message: 2 +Organization: Atlis Systems, Inc. (301) 578-4200 info@atlis.com +Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:05:45 -0500 +Subject: Re: case conversion +To: Michal Kaut <m_kaut@hotmail.com> +From: William Adams <wadams@atlis.com> + +Michal asked: +> Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to +> upper- or lower-case? +> What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{} + +Googling for ``latex macro uppercase lowercase'' + +the ``I feel Lucky'' hit is: +http://www.it.ms.unimelb.edu.au/tex/help/faq/uktug-faq/texfaq_15.html + +which has the following text: +``LaTeX provides commands \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase + which fixes the latter problem. These commands are used + in the standard classes to produce upper case running heads + for chapters and sections.'' + +and explains its failings / weaknesses. + +A more robust solution would be to use Omega and OTPs + +William + +-- +William Adams, publishing specialist +voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 +www.atlis.com + +--__--__-- + +Message: 3 +Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:52:16 +0100 +From: board@tug.org (TUG board of directors) +To: texhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: March 2003 TUG news: 501(c)(3), election, annual conference, TUGboat + +Dear TeX user, + +A few notable news items from the TeX Users Group. + +1) TUG GOES CHARITABLE! Our first news item has been in the works for +many years: TUG has finally achieved full tax-exempt charitable status +in the USA, known as 501(c)(3). This means that membership dues (less +value of received benefits) and additional contributions to TUG are now +tax-deductible, with the usual limitations and exceptions. Fine print +on our web site and at the bottom of this email. Donations are happily +accepted via the membership form :). + +We will be sending a separate email to all affected TUG members +explaining the details and in a form suitable for tax documentation + +Kudos to our president, Mimi Jett, our office manager Robin Laakso, our +lawyer Amy Silliman, and many others for bringing this to fruition. +More information at http://tug.org/tax-exempt. + +2) TUG ELECTION RESULTS: One nomination was received for president: Karl +Berry. The following nominations were received for the TUG board: +Barbara Beeton, Cheryl Ponchin, Kaja Christiansen, Phil Taylor, Ross +Moore, Samuel Rhoads, Stephanie Hogue, Sue DeMeritt. (In addition, +Arthur Ogawa and Mike Sofka are continuing board members, whose terms +expire in 2005.) + +Since there were fewer nominations than board positions, and only one +candidate for president, there will be no actual ballot this year. The +election results take effect after the 2003 annual meeting. Candidates' +statements and other info at http://tug.org/election/2003/results.html. + +We'd especially like to welcome our new board member, Sam Rhoads. + +3) TUG 2003 CONFERENCE: The Silver Anniversary -- 25 years!-- of TeX +The TeX Users Group 24th Annual Meeting and Conference is scheduled for +July 20-24, 2003 at the Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Resort, Big Island, +Hawaii. See http://tug.org/tug2003. + +Register by April 19th for special hotel rates: +http://tug.org/tug2003/accommodation.html +For sharing accommodations: http://tug.org/tug2003/sharing.html. + +Group travel discount rates may be available for flights via major US +Gateways across the USA, if travel is booked with Protravel International +Inc., agent Gina Robles <grobles@protravelinc.com>. + +3a) BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE CLASS on LaTeX: will take place just before +the conference, from July 15-18 at the University of Hawaii at +Hilo. Enrollment is limited to 12. The cost is $275 ($300 after April 1, +so register now!). See https://www.tug.org/tug2003/latexclass.html for +more information and the registration form. If you have any questions +about the class, please email Sue Demeritt at susan.demeritt@tug.org. + +4) TUGboat Volume 22 Issue 3 (Sep 2001) was mailed around February 14. +If you were a TUG member in 2001 and haven't received your copy, please +let the office know (office@tug.org), so we can send you a copy right +away :). 23(1), the proceedings for TUG 2002, will be the next issue +mailed. 22(4), the last issue for the 2001 membership year, is also in +process. Back issues of TUGboat are available from the TUG office. + +For reference, this newsletter is available online at +http://tug.org/news/2003/03.txt. + +Respectfully submitted, +the TUG board (board@tug.org) + +Postscript: here is the full text from our lawyer for the tax-exempt +announcement. + +TUG has achieved tax-exempt charitable status in the United States, +meaning that it is now a 501(c)(3) organization. This means that +membership payments and additional contributions will now qualify for +income tax charitable deduction, subject to certain limitations +regarding the value of your membership benefits and materials. + +Please see http://tug.org/tax-exempt/ for details. + +--__--__-- + +Message: 4 +Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:48:58 +0100 +From: Michal Kaut <m_kaut@hotmail.com> +Organization: Molde College university +To: texhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: re-defining table + +Hello, + +I use the convention that table has caption at the top, so I would +like to change the spacing. Hence I would like to redefine table so +that it includes lines: +\setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{0pt} +\setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{10pt} + +I tried: +\renewcommand{table}[1]{% + \begin{table}[#1] + \setlength{\abovecaptionskip}{0pt} + \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{10pt} +}{\end{table}} + +but it (kind of obviously) leads to a circular reference. + +I there any way to add the to lines to the current format of table? +I do not want to re-define the table, since I may use packages that +change it as well. I just want to add the two lines. + +I know that I can either create a new command \topcaption, that will +do the formatting, or define a new environment mytable (which would +avoid the circular reference). Yet I would like to do it in a way that +the user (author) can use the standard commands. + +Is there a (simple) way to do it? + +Thank you very much! + +Best regards, +Michal Kaut + +-------------------------------------------------------------- +Michal Kaut +Molde University College +Postboks 2110, N-6402 Molde, Norway +tel. +47 712 14 243, fax +47 712 14 100 +michal.kaut@iot.ntnu.no, http://www.iot.ntnu.no/~mkaut/ +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +--__--__-- + +Message: 5 +Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:01:01 -0500 +To: TUGboat announcement <tug-board@tug.org>, tub-prod@csit.fsu.edu, + office@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl, + tug-pub@tug.org +Subject: TUGboat 23-1 shipped today +From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@csit.fsu.edu> + +Hello everyone, + +The Proceedings of the TUG 2002 annual meeting were shipped to the +printer today. Hopefully shipment to members will occur in two weeks +or so... + +The contents are enclosed for your perusal: + +Mimi Burbank +(for the TUGboat production team) +----------------------------------------------------------- + + TUGboat + Volume 23, Number 1 2002 + ======================================== + +Kaja Christiansen + Editorial Comments 2 + + TUG 2002, Thiruvananthapuram --- Report and travelogue 3 + TUG 2002 Program 8 + Participants at the 23rd Annual TUG Meeting 10 + +Talks + +K. Anil Kumar + TeX and databases ---TeX DBI 13 +Satish Babu + New horizons of free software: An Indian perspective 17 +Gyongyi Bujdoso and Ferenc Wettl + On the localization of TeX in Hungary 21 +Wlodzimierz Bzyl + The Tao of fonts 27 +Behdad Esfahbod and Roozbeh Pournader + FarsiTeX and the Iranian TeX community 41 +Hong Feng + The marriage of TeX and Lojban 46 + +Keynote +Hans Hagen + ConTeXt, XML and TeX: State of the art? 49 + +Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice + Low-level Devanagari support for Omega --- Adapting +devnag 50 + +David Kastrup + Revisiting WYSIWYG paradigms for authoring LaTeX 57 +Ross Moore + serendiPDF with searchable math-fields in PDF documents 65 +Karel Piska + A conversion of public Indic fonts from MF + into Type 1 format with TeXtrace 70 +Fabrice Popineau + TeXLive under Windows: What's new with the 7 edition? 74 +Roozbeh Pournader + Catching up to Unicode 80 +Sebastian Rahtz + PassiveTeX: An update 86 +S. Rajkumar + Indic typesetting --- Challenges and opportunities 90 +Denis Roegel + METAOBJ: Very high-level objects in MP 93 +Wagish Shukla and Amitabh Trehan + Typesetting in Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian: + A beginner's perspective 101 + +Karel Skoupy + New typesetting language and system architecture 106 +Karel Skoupy + TeX file server 107 +Stephen M. Watt + Conserving implicit mathematical semantics in + conversion between TeX and MathML 108 + +News & Announcements + Calendar 109 + +TUG Business + Institutional members 110 + +Advertisements + TeX consulting and production services 111 + Just Published: TeX Reference Manual by David Bausum 112 + Blue Sky Research cover3 + + ----------------------------------------------- + +--__--__-- + +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 |