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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/93/texhax.17 b/info/digests/texhax/93/texhax.17 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..de1f0c0eb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/93/texhax.17 @@ -0,0 +1,386 @@ +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 + +Administrivia: + Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott + Contributions: TeXhax@ftp.tex.ac.uk + Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: + TeXhax-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk + + M O D E R A T O R ' S N O T E + + Please note the change of host in our mail addresses + to ftp.tex.ac.uk instead of tex.ac.uk + as the VAX system tex.ac.uk will soon be withdrawn.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 +you'd find interesting. + +Please spare a few minutes of your time to answer the following +questions and help us make TeXhax the publication you want it to be. +Send your replies to TeXhax-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk + +****************** +A. About TeXhax... + +1. TeXhax has traditionally been a "question and answer" digest of + mail messages. Do you like this format? + + YES / NO / NOT SURE + +2. If you answered "NO" or "NOT SURE" above, are questions best answered + in other places? + + YES / NO + +3. Do you like to see announcements of new TeX software and services + in TeXhax? + + YES / NO + +4. Would you like to see regular topic "columns", as in a magazine? + + YES / NO + +5. If you answered "YES", which of the following topics would you like + to see covered: + + News from the Archives YES / NO + Beginner's corner YES / NO + Expert's corner YES / NO + TUG News YES / NO + Announcements of meetings YES / NO + New publications YES / NO + TeX book reviews YES / NO + Other (please describe)... + +6. TeXhax currently appears at 2-weekly to monthly intervals, + depending on size of contents. Is this the right sort of frequency? + + YES / NO + +7. If you answered "NO", how often would you like to see it appear? + + WEEKLY / EVERY TWO WEEKS / MONTHLY + +****************** +B. About you... + +1. Are you a member of the TeX Users Group, or affiliated national + or language user group? + + YES / NO + +2. How do you currently receive TeXhax? + + a) Personally, via mail + + b) Read it in USENET newsgroup comp.text.tex + + c) Other + + MAIL / NEWS / OTHER + +3. Do you also read other electronic TeX-oriented media? + + a) UKTeX YES / NO + + b) Other (please describe)... YES / NO + +4. Do you think TeXhax overlaps with othe electronic TeX-oriented media? + + YES / NO + +5. Do you have an Internet connection? + + YES / NO + +****************** + +Thanks for your co-operation. + +David Osborne +(TeXhax Digest moderator) + +on behalf of +TUG Publications Committee + +------------------------------ + +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. 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