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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.07 b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.07 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9659fa8e22 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.07 @@ -0,0 +1,275 @@ +From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk +To: TeXhax Distribution: ; +Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #07 +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: <2610.796051821.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 13:30:22 +0000 +Message-ID: <2611.796051822@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +TeXhax Digest Friday, 24 Mar 1995 Volume 95 : Issue 07 +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + tex footnote problem + Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences + public-tex installation question + Lucida Bright Fonts + Typetalk (fwd) + + + M O D E R A T O R ' S N O T E + + Apologies for the delay in the appearance of this issue, + due to me working hard on bringing a new campus mail relay into + service which will hopefully speed up the distribution of the digest. + + --David Osborne + +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: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 11:31:00 +0000 +From: "C.FORDE@UK.AC.QUB.V2,PH 0232-245133-3950" <C.Forde@qub.ac.uk> +Subject: tex footnote problem + +We are having a problem with the footnote symbols printed out below the +last line of text in a document: +e.g. + + +text lines +: +: +: +last text line +__________________________________ +odaggerNumber of lines in program +odoubledaggerUpdated versions available + +In the above dagger indicates the sybmol dagger or double dagger +We would like rid of the zeros before the dagger symbols +any ideas + +The tex that generates the stuff is as below: +We are using latex (Northlake Convergent TeX, V3.14b-1) on this file + + +\documentstyle[twoside,ifthen]{article} +% +% preamble for program index +% +% these declarations set up a reasonable page size for A4. +% Use by including the line "\input layout " AFTER the \documentstyle{..} +% declaration (assuming you call this file layout.tex) +% +\pagestyle{headings} +\textheight 23cm +\textwidth 15.5cm +\linewidth 15.5cm +\topmargin 0.00in +\footheight 1cm +\pagenumbering{arabic} +\raggedright +% +\parindent 0in % no paragraph indent +\setlength{\parskip}{0cm} % about one line between paragraphs +% +\newenvironment{sublist}{ + \begin{list}{} + {\setlength{\labelsep}{0.3cm} + \setlength{\parsep}{0cm} + \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.2cm} + \setlength{\leftmargin}{1.5cm}}}{\end{list}} +% +% to print one footnote only per page +% +\newcount\a +\newcount\b +\a=0 +% +\newcommand{\pfootnote}{ +\b=\value{page} + \ifnum\a=\b \else \a=\value{page} + \footnotetext{\ddag Updated version available.} \fi} +% +% set footnote symbol to dagger +% +\newcounter{sfoot1} +\setcounter{sfoot1}{2} +\newcommand{\fnlines}{$\fnsymbol{sfoot1}$} +% +\newcounter{sfoot} +\setcounter{sfoot}{3} +% footnote symbol for superseded programs set to double dagger +\newcommand{\fnsf}{$\fnsymbol{sfoot}$} +% right arrow symbol +\newcommand{\rtarrow}{$\rightarrow$} +\begin{document} % PLUS THE \end COMMAND AT THE END. +\oddsidemargin 0.0in +\evensidemargin 0.0in +\tableofcontents +\newpage +\input{index} + + +Regards +Colin + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 15:03:53 +0000 +From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <CHAA006@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences + +>> My own solution to the skipped-if problem is not as pretty: + +>> \let\then\iftrue +>> \def\ifundefined#1\then{\ifx#1\undefined\empty} +>> ... +>> \ifundefined\test\then Fail\else Graduate\fi + +This is interesting, and is similar to my own `properly nestable user-written +ifs' which also use \then; the difference is that they modify \then on +the fly, unfortunately a manner which prevents the code from being used +in expansion-only contexts. One of the things I am wondering about +for e-TeX is whether more things could be done in (e-)TeX's mouth... + + Philip Taylor, RHBNC. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 14:06:01 +0000 +From: George Kiraz <George.Kiraz@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Subject: public-tex installation question + + +I am trying to install the public tex version +(systems/msdos/public-tex) on my PC, and I am having problems. initex +cannot find tex.poo (although the error message calls the file +tex.pool) . I placed tex.poo in a specific directory and i did SET the +variable for it, but that did not solve th e problem. + +I appreciate any help (please reply by email to george.kiraz@cl.cam.ac.uk). + + +thanks + +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + _ _ + \\\||/// + ___________\||||/___________ George Kiraz + \___\___\___/ \___/___/___/ University of Cambridge + \___\___\_|ARAM|_/___/___/ Computer Laboratory + \___\___\_\__/_/___/___/ New Museum Site + \___\___\_||_/___/___/ Cambridge, CB2 3QG + |||| Tel. +44 1223 334615 + |||| Fax. +44 1223 334678 + |\_//\\_/| george.kiraz@cl.cam.ac.uk + \_/ \_/ + +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 14:03:07 +0000 +From: Kieran Parsons <kieran@ccr.bris.ac.uk> +Subject: Lucida Bright Fonts + + +Does anyone know of a UK supplier of Lucida Bright and Lucida Math fonts? + +(or if not, any supplier at all!) + +Thanks in advance, + + Kieran +- -- + +########################################################################## +# # +# Sender: Kieran Parsons # +# E-mail: k.parsons@uk.ac.bristol # +# # +########################################################################## + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:35:24 +0000 +From: "R. Allan Reese" <R.A.Reese@computer-centre.hull.ac.uk> +Subject: Typetalk (fwd) + + +TYPETALK: mailing list on typography and graphic design + +There now exists an Internet mailing list dedicated to all manner of +discussions related to typography and graphic design. Note that this list +is interested primarily in the ARTISTIC aspects of graphic design. The +list is unmoderated, and no one will censor what you say, but questions of +the "Why won't my TrueType font print on my HP LaserJet?" and "Why won't +SuperATM work with <a certain font>?" sort are best directed to the +newsgroup comp.fonts. Note that this Typetalk mailing list has nothing to +do with the Typetalk relay service in the U.K. + +To subscribe, send a message containing the words: subscribe typetalk +(and no other words or characters) in the body of a message to +listmanager@hookup.net. (The subject line is ignored.) + +Owner: owner-typetalk@hookup.net + + +- ---forwarded by +(R.) 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