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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/93/texhax.01 b/info/digests/texhax/93/texhax.01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0fd47e4075 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/93/texhax.01 @@ -0,0 +1,358 @@ +TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 6 Jan 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 001 + +% The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % +% and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % + +Today's Topics: + Re: epsf figure boxes + Page-selection on duplex PostScript printer + TeX for a 386 PC + Re: TFM to AFM + LaTeX for the Mac? + PLEASE note mispelled SUBSRIBE to SUBSCRIPE + Thanks + Size of foo after typesetting + Translators to TeX + Problem with Textures 1.2 + ASAETR, version 1.1 on FILESERV/Niord + Tib in LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation + +Administrivia: + Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott + Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: + TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk + +------------------------------------------------------------ + +Date: 11 Dec 92 15:11:37 +0000 +From: spqr@minster.york.ac.uk +Subject: Re: epsf figure boxes + + > + > Has any one gotten a nice boxed figure from epsf.sty ? + > I need also to just draw the borders of the eps inserted figure + > instead if waiting for the entire bit map to print. + +how about using psfig instead? i have taken James Darrell's psfig1.8 +and emended it to use the macros in epsf.tex wherever possible (it +\input s epsf.tex). this lets you use psfig syntax for just printing +the name of the figure instead of the contents. + +as for boxing it, i do (in LaTeX) + \framebox{\psfig{figure=foo.ps}} +- - how about + \framebox{epsffile{foo.ps}} +?? + +************ + > + > I am currently using SBTEX for the IBM PC but it is limited by the infamous + > 640K limit. hat I would like ideally is a public domain version compiled + > in flat memory (DOS-extended) mode. The next step would be a convenient + > place to find the source already in C form. + +the famous and widely used emTeX package has a 386 version which has +its own DOS extender, and will be just what you want (assuming you +have a 386 or better). you can get emTeX via ftp from any TeX archive + +sebastian rahtz + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:15:56 +0100 +From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de> +Subject: Page-selection on duplex PostScript printer + +I don't think it is a particularly good idea to put the information +what to print on which side into the dvi file. In most of the cases, +the algorithm to accomplish this should be rather straightforward, +i.e. options given to the dvi translator at run time should do the +job. + +Wolfgang Ratzka + +X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de +ratzka@vax1.rz.uni-regensburg.dbp.de +SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de +Phone: +49 941 943 2085 +Paper mail: Wolfgang Ratzka \\ Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik \\ + Lehrstuhl Prof. Weise \\ Universit\"at Regensburg \\ + W-8400 Regensburg \\ GERMANY + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:22:55 +0100 +From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de> +Subject: TeX for a 386 PC + + I am not a regular so please be patient in explaining where this question + REALLY should have gone, and please reply directly yo me by email. + + I am currently using SBTEX for the IBM PC but it is limited by the infamous + 640K limit. hat I would like ideally is a public domain version compiled + in flat memory (DOS-extended) mode. The next step would be a convenient + place to find the source already in C form. + +Not PD but free of charge: emTeX is a rather complete package for PCs +(in fact the best one in the market) and with it there comes a +beta-Version of a 386-DOS-extender-TeX available. Sadly however it's +not compatible with DPMI, but only with VCPI. On the other hand it +also runs under OS/2 2.0. + +Where to get it: all major TeX-oriented ftp-sites should have it. + +Wolfgang Ratzka + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:14:34 -0500 +From: bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) +Subject: Re: TFM to AFM + +> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 92 14:59:33 -0700 +> From: Brett Perkes <bperkes@cases.cs.usu.edu> +> Subject: TFM to AFM +> +> I have been looking around for a TFM to AFM converter. I haven't been very +> successful. Does anyone know of such a utility or a possible round about +> way of achieving the same results? I would appreciate any help that can +> be given. + +TFMtoAFM comes with some software packages from Y&Y. It is, for example, +in the `Font Manipulation Package' along with AFMtoTFM, PFMtoAFM, AFMtoPFM, +SCRtoAFM, AFMtoSCR and more than a dozen other goodies. TFMtoAFM not +only generates the usual AFM file, but also inserts comments describing the +extra information found in TFM files (like how to make large delimiters out +of pieces) that is not normally found in AFM files. These comments are used +by AFMtoTFM. Hence AFMtoTFM can even make TFM files for math fonts! + +*********** +Disclaimer: respondent has connnections with Y&Y + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 10:41:46 -0800 +From: rbhumbla@ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla) +Subject: LaTeX for the Mac? + +anonymous ftp midway.uchicago.edu. The package is called OzTeX and is +public domain. + +Ravi + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:19:12 -0500 +From: Anita Zanolini Hoover <anita@ravel.udel.edu> +Subject: PLEASE note mispelled SUBSRIBE to SUBSCRIPE + +It was brought to my attention that SUBSCRIBE was mispelled for +the new e-mail discussion list, you should use + + To subscribe to this list, send the following two lines to + "listserv@ens.fr" on the Internet: + + SUBSCRIBE METAFONT $<$Your name and affiliation$>$ + SET METAFONT MAIL ACK + +Sorry for the mistake, please make note of it!!!! + +Thanks to Paul Howard for bringing this to my attention. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 08:49:44 -0600 +From: jhandler@penguin.ils.nwu.edu (Jonathan B. Handler) +Subject: Thanks + +to all of the nice folk that sent me info on LaTeX for +the mac. If anyone else was interested (and didn't +already know, OzTex is currently available (at least) at + + midway.uchicago.edu + +Thanks again, + +Jon + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 10:50:28 -0500 +From: pat@po.CWRU.Edu (Paul A. Thompson) +Subject: Size of foo after typesetting + +Friends: + I need help in deTeXting a problem in the TeX FM. I would like to +determine the size of a fragment like "foo" after typesetting. Reason: +I am using LaTeX to typeset a table. I wish to use vertical rules to +separate tables. I also want the column information to be almost tangent +to the vertical rules, much closer than the normal \tabcolsep allows. + +- - I have determined that I can use \tabcolsep to make a very small space + around the table entries, so that I get the spacing desired +- - However, unless I use the p{wd} construction in the + \begin{tabular}{p{1in}p{23pt}etc.etc.} construction, + I do not get the vertical rules lined up, but rather all jagged. +- - If I set the columns to have a length which is long enough to + typeset the longest string + a little, then things all work out. +- - So I need the length of the longest string + +If I could figure that out internally, this would save unending fudging and +adjusting (is there some term for the process of playing with parameters +until stuff comes out right - if not, I suggest the term "quidge"). On the +other hand, I may be squashing a sow bug with a large rock - is there an +easier way? Reply privately if possible. + +Paul Thompson, Ph.D. | Department of Psychiatry | (216) 844-7463 +Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH 44106 + +When I hear "family values," I reach for my revolver. - para. Hans Jonst + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 13:17:17 +0700 +From: "Z. Rubinstein" <RSMA407@HAIFAUVM.bitnet.washington.edu> +Subject: Translators to TeX + +Hello, +Does anyone know of translators from Microsoft Word to +TeX(or Latex etc.). +On the same subject does there exist an assembled list of +translators available today and the relevant addresses +from which to acquire them. +Thank you. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 12:18:38 -0500 +From: Leandros Perivolaropoulos <PH520013@BROWNVM.brown.edu> +Subject: Problem with Textures 1.2 + + I would appreciate your help in the following problem I have with + the program Textures 1.2 (TeX on the Mac). + I am using a DeskWriter C to print a document and the only way to + get the printout at the right size is to use a reduction at the + Page Setup of the File menu, by about 25%. Could ATM solve the problem? + How can I obtain ATM? This problem does not appear with other programs + like Word 4.0. + Thanks for your help. + Leandros + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 10:54:12 -0600 +From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu> +Subject: ASAETR, version 1.1 on FILESERV/Niord + +In <1992Dec22.180745.27490@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> (comp.text.tex, Tue, 22 +Dec 1992 18:07:45 GMT), mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) posted: +> Announcing ASAETR 1.1, a set of LaTeX and BibTeX styles (+ a font), with +> documentation, for authors associated with the American Society of +> Agricultural Engineers. This is the package described at my presentation at +> the 1992 International Winter Meeting of ASAE held in Nashville recently +> (ASAE Paper No. 92-3572). +> +> It is temporarily available via anonymous ftp from +> Name: pasture.ecn.purdue.edu +> Addresses: 128.46.161.85, 128.46.133.85, 128.46.129.85 +> Directory: pub/mccauley/tex/asaetr +> but I hope to update the version on shsu.edu soon. + +I have placed the files on Niord for your access. Attached for reference +is the description file. + +- -George +========= + ASAETR + ------ +The ASAETR package includes the a UUENCODEd ZIP archive containing the 11 +files for version 1.1 (22 December 1992) of James Darrell McCauley's ASAETR +file set. This package includes a set of LaTeX and BibTeX styles, with +documentation and samples, to make your articles look like those in +Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE). +Also included are the metafont source file, precompiled PK (at 300dpi) +font, and TFM file for the font cmcscsl10. This is not official and not +(yet) an accepted way to submit articles to ASAE. + +The American Society of Agricultural Engineers editorial staff encourages +authors to submit electronic manuscripts in the following formats: +MacWrite, MS-Word, MS-Works (preferably Version 2.0), WordPerfect (Version +5.0 or later), and WriteNow. Though LaTeX is not an accepted format to +submit articles to ASAE, it does have utility when predicting page length +and appearance of an article that you submit. Predicting page length is +especially important when submitting "Technical Notes" (which cannot exceed +two pages) and when trying to avoid unnecessary page charges. + +You may retrieve the package of of 4 UUENCODEd files by including: + SENDME ASAETR +in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). +For users of anonymous ftp, the ZIP file is available from Niord.SHSU.edu +(192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.ASAETR] as ASAETR-1_1.ZIP; the +individual files are available in [FILESERV.ASAETR.ASAETR-1_1]. + +Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) +File Blocks Save file as: ASAETR.UUE + +ASAETR.UUE_1OF4 This file UUDECODEs to ASAETR-1_1.ZIP + through +ASAETR.UUE_4OF4 78 (each) + +Approximate total blocks in full ASAETR package = 311 + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 23:15:20 +0000 +From: David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk +Subject: Tib in LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation + +From browsing through James Alexander's documentation about Tib (a TeX +bibliographic preprocessor), I have the impression that Tib was designed +for production of fairly short documents (e.g., an article), rather than +for the production of long documents (e.g., a book). Have I got the right +impression? + +In particular: +* it looks as though one should go + tib book.tex + and get + book-t.tex + Having 2 big .tex files may be expensive in filestore. +* it is not clear to me what one is supposed to do if one is using + LaTeX's "root file + \include-d files" approach (typically with one + \include command per chapter). Can the Tib-ing be parcelled up into a + shell script that makes the whole process as painless as using BibTeX + would be? (E.g., would you have a Tib index for each chapter?) + +Does anyone have any experience that they'd like to share of using Tib in +the LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation? + +David Rhead + +------------------------------ + +Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX +Users Group, and the latest software versions is available +in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. + +Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + +Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: + On Internet: + send a one line mail message to TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk + SUBSCRIBE TEX-L <your real name> + UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L + On BITNET: + send a similar one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx + On JANET: + send a similar one line mail message to TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex + +Back issues of the digest are available for anonymous ftp from +the UK TeX Archive, tex.ac.uk (134.151.40.18) +in [tex-archive.digests.texhax.YY]texhax.NN +where YY = last two digits of year, NN = issue number + +\bye + +End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 93 Issue 1] +**************************************** |