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+From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk
+To: TeXhax Distribution: ;
+Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #04
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+Content-ID: <25155.791480565.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
+Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 15:42:47 +0000
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+Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk
+
+TeXhax Digest Monday, 30 Jan 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 04
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+ TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences
+ Archived TeXhax?
+ Re: Archived TeXhax?
+ Re: Plain text and numbering lines
+ Re: Plain text and numbering lines
+ Announce: Catalan hyphenation patterns available
+
+
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 08:34:37 +0700
+From: pV@CC.Uniud.It
+Subject: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences
+
+Hello,
+
+I would like to know if there is a way, in TeX, to test for
+the existence of a control sequence.
+
+What I want to do is to programmatically detect if a macro
+has already been defined.
+
+I devised this (ugly) piece of code:
+
+ \def\MYMACRO{anything}
+ \ifx\MYMACRO\UNDEFINED
+ The macro is {\it not\/} defined
+ \else
+ The macro {\it is\/} defined
+ \fi
+
+It works, provided that the dummy macro \UNDEFINED is
+*really* undefined!
+
+There must be a more reliable (and elegant!) way to do the
+same thing. Can you give me any hint?
+Any help will be appreciated.
+Thanks in advance.
+
+- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Paolo Vicario
+UNIX system manager
+Universita` degli Studi di Udine - Centro di Calcolo
+via Mantica 3
+I 33100 UDINE
+
+Tel. +39 432 556704 Internet: pv@cc.uniud.it
+FAX +39 432 556729 DECnet: UDUNIV::PAOLO (37963::PAOLO)
+Tlx. 450412 UNIVUD I
+- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 11:38:20 -0500
+From: fang@phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong)
+Subject: Archived TeXhax?
+
+Do you have the Digest archived for retrieving via http or ftp?
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:09:22 +0000
+From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk
+Subject: Re: Archived TeXhax?
+
+> Do you have the Digest archived for retrieving via http or ftp?
+
+Yes. All back-issues of the digest are archived in the CTAN (Comprehensive
+TeX Archive Network), of which your nearest will be ftp.shsu.edu (ftp access)
+or www.shsu.edu (http access). There's also a hypertext version built using
+Hypermail, which has recently been set up and was announced in V95 #02.
+The information on archived copies is carried in the "trailer" at the end of
+each digest, which you should read for more information.
+
+~~David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 11:52:18 -0500
+From: BURT@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU
+Subject: Re: Plain text and numbering lines
+
+The best way to produce marginal line numbers in prose in plain TeX is
+to use the EDMAC macro package, by John Lavagnino and Dominik Wujastyk.
+This is a package of plain TeX macros designed for the production of
+scholarly editions, and it produces marginal line numbers in a very nifty
+way. You can get a copy of EDMAC at a CTAN site near you, such as at
+pip.shsu.edu if you are writing from the U.S. I'm not sure off the top of
+my head what subdirectory it is in, but it isn't hard to find.
+
+If you are producing line numbers for verse rather than prose, and you are
+using LaTeX rather than plain TeX, one way of doing it (the way I do it)
+is to define a /verseline macro, which increments a counter and prints a
+line number (using marginpar) every n lines. But that won't work from
+prose, obviously. EDMAC is probably the way to go!
+John Burt
+Brandeis University
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 20:57:22 +0000
+From: Dominik Wujastyk <dom@uclblr.iisc.ernet.in>
+Subject: Re: Plain text and numbering lines
+
+
+On plain text with numbered lines, try using EDMAC. It does the job
+well, but it has a lot of bells and whistles that you may not need for
+simple line-numbering. E.g., it has elaborate footnote mechanisms to
+let you have footnotes referring to the line numbers, etc.
+
+Still, it can do what you want. See the file edmac316.zip or edmac.doc
+which is on CTAN somewhere.
+
+Dominik
+
+- --
+Dr Dominik Wujastyk | Email: dom@vigyan.iisc.ernet.in
+Tel: +91-80-843-5320 | NB: if you have
+ or -5249 | trouble mailing
+ | to this address,
+ | try: d.wujastyk@ucl.ac.uk
+ | [Do Not send to: dom@uclblr.iisc.ernet.in]
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 15:47:44 +0000
+From: badenes@imec.be (Goncal Badenes)
+Subject: Announce: Catalan hyphenation patterns available
+
+Hi,
+
+this is to announce that my set of hyphenation patterns for the Catalan
+language have been uploaded to ctan. They should be available as
+language/hyphenation/cahyph.tex.
+
+An excerpt from the file follows:
+
+% Hyphenation patterns for Catalan.
+% This is version 1.10
+% Compiled by Gon\c{c}al Badenes and Francina Turon,
+% December 1991-January 1995.
+%
+% Copyright (C) 1991-1995 Gon\c{c}al Badenes
+%
+% General permission for use and non-profit redistribution is granted.
+% For special commercial use, contact the address above.
+%
+% This patterns have been created using standard, conservative
+% hyphenation rules for catalan. The results have refined running them
+% through patgen. In that way, the number of hits has been increased.
+%
+% These rules produce no wrong patterns (Results checked against the
+% ``Diccionari Ortogr\`afic i de Pron\'uncia'', Enciclop\`edia
+% Catalana. The percentage of valid hyphen misses is lower than 1%
+%
+% *** IMPORTANT ***
+% \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin should be set to 2 and 2
+% respectively. If you set them below these values incorrect breaks
+% will happen (specially at the beginning of foreign words and words
+% which begin with some prefixes).
+% *** IMPORTANT ***
+%
+% Please report any problem you might have to the authors!!!
+%
+
+Enjoy it!
+
+ Goncal Badenes
+
+- --
+Goncal Badenes, PhD Tel: +32 16 281517
+IMEC Fax: +32 16 281214
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+B-3001 Leuven (Belgium)
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+\bye
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+End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 95 Issue 4]
+****************************************