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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.04 b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.04 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..155bc0467c --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.04 @@ -0,0 +1,240 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #04 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Content-ID: <25155.791480565.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 15:42:47 +0000 +Message-ID: <25156.791480567@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +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 + + +Administrivia: + Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott + Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + Subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk + (message body = "subscribe texhax" or "unsubscribe texhax", [no quotes]) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +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 +Advanced Semiconductor Processing +0.25um CMOS Process Integration +Kapeldreef 75 e-mail: badenes@imec.be +B-3001 Leuven (Belgium) + +------------------------------ +About TeXhax... + +Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + +Subscription and unsubscription requests: + send a one line mail message to TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk + containing either subscribe texhax + or unsubscribe texhax + +To obtain the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) lists for TeX, send a +message with no subject to fileserv@shsu.edu, consisting of +SENDME FAQ + +For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to +TUG@TUG.org, or write TeX Users Group, P.O. 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