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+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
+
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+ Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott
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+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+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
+
+------------------------------
+
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