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+TeXhax Digest Friday, 24 Dec 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 017
+
+% 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:
+ TeXhax in 94
+ Re: Abbreviation marks for feet and inches
+ RE: Abbreviation marks for feet and inches
+ Word for Windows
+ How to make Glossary during thesis writing
+ LaTeX2e -- Preliminary Release Available
+ Bachotek '94
+
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+ Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott
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+ as the VAX system tex.ac.uk will soon be withdrawn.
+
+ A Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year to all our readers!
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1993 09:54:26 +0000
+From: David Osborne <TeXhax-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk>
+Subject: TeXhax in 94
+
+Dear reader,
+
+We're planning some changes to TeXhax in '94 to make it a more useful
+electronic publication for the TeX community. We have some ideas but
+we'd like your suggestions for what you'd like to see in it, and what
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+
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+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 19:49:17 +0000
+From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.uni-mainz.de
+Subject: Re: Abbreviation marks for feet and inches
+
+Here are feet and inches (or minutes and seconds)
+\def\feet{\'{}}
+\def\inches{\H{}}
+
+- --J"org Knappen.
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 15:46:33 +0000
+From: P.Taylor@rhbnc.ac.uk
+Subject: RE: Abbreviation marks for feet and inches
+
+>From time to time I need to write LaTeX documents that include measurements in
+>feet and inches. What I'm looking for is a method of using the ' and " marks
+>to abbreviate feet and inches.
+
+Maths mode is perfect: for example 1 foot four inches can be set as
+
+ $1' 4''$
+
+ Philip Taylor, RHBNC.
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 13:27:13 +0000
+From: idb@cimio-limited.co.uk (Ian Bailey)
+Subject: Word for Windows
+
+I wonder if anyone might be able to help me.
+
+I have several word-for-windows documents which I must now submit for
+examination in LATEX format. Is there any software available to carry
+out the conversion from WfW v.2.0 to a generic LATEX structure ?
+
+If anyone has such a product for distribution (or for sale, if it is within
+the budget of a student), then could they please let me know.
+
+
+Ian Bailey
+
+idb@cimio.co.uk
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 19:11:21 -0500
+From: Ferose Lambay <fal@snail.cis.ufl.edu>
+Subject: How to make Glossary during thesis writing
+
+Hello TeX-Hackers,
+ I have quite got in a fix, I want to know how to make a glossary
+with the description of the items in it and placed at the end in an appendix.
+ The LaTex book by Lamport only mentions the command \glossary to be used
+similar to \index, and says nothing how to use \description to describe the
+\item to be glossarized.
+ So what I understood was only how to put \glossary next to the word to be
+put into the glossary, but nothing about how to use \description or which
+commands \makeglossary to be used whether in the TeX file or the document file
+ Kindly help and quote an example for the usage of the commands to
+make a glossary with some text.
+
+ Thanking you and wishing you all a Merry X'mas and
+a Happy New TeX year.
+ Bye........
+ ferose A.
+ University of Florida
+ USA
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 14:57:57 +0100
+From: Schoepf@sc.zib-berlin.de
+Subject: LaTeX2e -- Preliminary Release Available
+
+It's not a bird, it's not plain, it's.........
+
+
+
+ LaTeX2e -- Preliminary Release Available
+
+ Leslie Lamport and the LaTeX3 project team
+
+ 21 December 1993
+
+The new release of LaTeX is now available for testing.
+
+LaTeX2e is the new standard version of LaTeX -- prepared and supported
+by the LaTeX3 project team. It is upwardly compatible with LaTeX 2.09
+documents, but contains new features.
+
+
+Over the years many extensions of LaTeX have been developed. This is,
+of course, a welcome development, since it shows that the LaTeX system
+is in a healthy state. It has, however, had one unfortunate
+consequence: there are now several incompatible systems, in the sense
+of format (.fmt) files, all claiming to be LaTeX. Therefore, in order
+to process documents coming from various places, a site maintainer
+needs to provide several format files: LaTeX (with and without NFSS),
+SLiTeX, AmSLaTeX, and so on. In addition, when looking at a source
+file it is not always clear for which format the document was written.
+
+LaTeX2e puts an end to this unsatisfactory situation---it will give
+access to all such extensions based on a single format and thus end
+the proliferation of mutually incompatible dialects of LaTeX 2.09.
+
+It uses an enhanced version (NFSS2) of the New Font Selection
+Scheme. Files such as amstex.sty (formerly the AmSLaTeX format) or
+slides.sty (formerly the SLiTeX format) will become extension
+packages, all working with this single format.
+
+The introduction of this new version will also make it possible to add
+a small number of often-requested features (such as extended versions
+of \newcommand).
+
+To summarize:
+
+ * Standardisation: a single format incorporating NFSS2, to replace the
+ present multiplicity of incompatible formats (NFSS,
+ lfonts, pslfonts, etc.)
+ * Maintenance: a standardised system supported by a reliable
+ maintenance policy.
+
+
+LaTeX2e adheres, as far as possible, to the following principles:
+
+ * Unmodified version 2.09 document files can be processed with
+ LaTeX2e.
+
+ * All new features of LaTeX2e conform to the conventions of version
+ 2.09, making it as easy as possible for current users to learn to
+ use them.
+
+LaTeX2e is described in a new edition of `LaTeX: A Document Preparation
+System' by Leslie Lamport (to appear during 1994) and `The LaTeX
+Companion' by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, both published by
+Addison-Wesley.
+
+LaTeX2e will be distributed twice a year. This distribution is a
+preliminary test release, and doesn't contain all of the files that
+will be part of the full release. In particular, it does not contain
+the planned extensions in the area of graphics inclusion.
+
+The first full release will be available in Spring 1994.
+
+This is a test release, so please get it and test it on as many
+different systems as possible!
+
+
+LaTeX2e can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from the CTAN archives:
+
+ ftp.tex.ac.uk /tex-archive/macros/latex/distribs/latex2e-test
+ ftp.shsu.edu /tex-archive/macros/latex/distribs/latex2e-test
+ ftp.uni-stuttgart.de /tex-archive/macros/latex/distribs/latex2e-test
+
+Please report any problems with LaTeX2e by using the report-generating
+program latexbug.tex, included in the LaTeX2e distribution. Error
+reports can be sent to the following mail address:
+
+ latex-bugs@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
+
+Note that no one on the programming team will be reachable until
+January 1994 (to give them a chance to see their families again). All
+mail sent to the above address will be answered then.
+
+
+Seasons greetings to you all!
+
+
+For the LaTeX3 Project
+
+Johannes Braams
+David Carlisle
+Alan Jeffrey
+Frank Mittelbach
+Chris Rowley
+Rainer Sch\"opf
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 11:12:41 -0500
+From: Wlodek Bzyl <matwb@univ.gda.pl>
+Subject: Bachotek '94
+
+Dear David and Peter,
+
+We send you an official announcement of the 2nd GUST meeting,
+which will be held in the coming year.
+
+Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
+
+- --W{\l}odek Bzyl
+- --Tomek Przechlewski
+(editors of the GUST bulletin)
+
+*****************************************************************
+ 2nd General Meeting of the Polish
+ TeX Users Group (GUST)
+ Bacho\TeX '94
+
+2nd general meeting of GUST will be held in Bachotek (Brodnica
+Lake District) from 30.04 to 2.05 94.
+
+The deadline for submission of papers is March 1st 1994.
+A correspondence and papers should be directed to
+ Hanna Ko{\l}odziejska,
+ International Computers Ltd Poland,
+ ul. Leszno 21, 01-199 Warszawa
+ POLAND
+ e-mail: hkolo@plearn.edu.pl
+
+******************************************************************
+
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+End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 93 Issue 17]
+*****************************************