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+TeXhax Digest Saturday, 2 December 1995 Volume 95 : Number 017
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ TeXhax goes on automatic pilot
+ Printing problems
+ Re: invisible printing / figure separations
+ Re: invisible printing / figure separations
+ Re: TeX with an SGML syntax?
+ Where is Dr. Von Bechtolsheim ?
+ TEX-L: Daily error monitoring report
+
+
+ For details of how to subscribe, unsubscribe and contribute articles,
+ see the end of this issue.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk
+Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 16:03:22 +0000
+Subject: TeXhax goes on automatic pilot
+
+As moderator, it's getting very difficult to find time to edit the digest from
+individual messages, particularly now that I've started a part-time research
+degree. So, I've taken a deep breath and put TeXhax on "automatic pilot",
+under the control of the Majordomo list manager I use here. Majordomo's
+digest program has been doing sterling work for me on a digest of the Lotus
+Cars mailing list, the 300th automatically-produced issue of which dropped
+into my mailbox today, so I'm confident it can do the job. I'll be keeping a
+close eye on the digester's performance, but I hope this change should mean
+more regular issues of TeXhax --- assuming people keep sending mail for
+inclusion in it, of course!
+
+~~David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Salvatore Ruggieri <ruggieri@iron.di.unipi.it>
+Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:45:20 +0100 (GMT+0100)
+Subject: Printing problems
+
+I have a big problem with printing PostScript files generated with
+dvips starting from a Latex document.
+
+In the Latex document some \epsffile macro appear, and epsf files
+(generated with ps2epsi starting from a PostScript from FrameMaker 4)
+are included and printed correctly only on a few printers
+(actually, just a Sun).
+
+The problem arises mainly with HP, but also with Apple and other printers.
+The figures are not printed, although I can see them using xdvi
+or ghostview.
+
+Can anyone help me, please ?
+
+Thanks.
+
+Salvatore Ruggieri
+
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 17:19:51 +0000
+Subject: Re: invisible printing / figure separations
+
+Bruce Leban (texhax 95#16) writes:
+
+> I want to be able to print a TeX file with all of the text omitted.
+> It sounds weird, but I want to print pages with color figures and the
+> output from the color printer is not high enough quality for the text.
+
+Actually, it's not a bad way to proceed...
+
+> The idea is to print the pages twice:
+>
+> 1) print the pages with the figures deleted
+> --- easy enough by replacing each figure with a box of the
+> appropriate size; an easy hack to do this for EPSF figures
+> is to replace each EPSF file with a dummy version that
+> contains just the %!EPSF and %%BoundingBox lines.
+
+Presumably doable with graphics package draft mode, with even less
+editing on your part... (Though it does insist on printing a file
+name...)
+
+> 2) print the pages with only the figures
+> --- this is the problem; obviously I can carefully write code
+> to position the picture at just the right place for each
+> page but this is tedious.
+>
+> Any suggestions that would make this easier?
+
+Use the color package; saying \textcolor[rgb]{0.0,0.0,0.0} would
+probably get rid of most of it ;-)
+
+> Looking in the TeXhax archives, I found a similar request in TeXhax 93.16,
+> but no answer. FYI, I am using TeX C 2.9 (on a DEC workstation) and
+> Textures 1.7 (on a Mac), both with LaTeX 2.09.
+
+Of course: LaTeX2e wasn't released until June 1994, and even the
+prerelease of the graphics and color packages didn't happen until
+April of that year (IIRC).
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
+Date: Mon, 27 Nov 95 17:30:00 GMT
+Subject: Re: invisible printing / figure separations
+
+> Use the color package; saying \textcolor[rgb]{0.0,0.0,0.0} would
+> probably get rid of most of it ;-)
+
+or \color{white} which is less typing, put it in the preamble then
+page headers etc will also be white.
+
+If there is a requirement to have a draft mode that leaves just white
+space rather than put in the file name, this is probably easy enough
+to achieve, well something like the following in a package file loaded
+after graphics will probably work...
+
+\def\Gin@setfile#1#2#3{%
+ \ifx\\#2\\\Gread@false\fi
+ \ifGin@bbox\else
+ \ifGread@
+ \csname Gread@%
+ \expandafter\ifx\csname Gread@#1\endcsname\relax
+ eps%
+ \else
+ #1%
+ \fi
+ \endcsname{\Gin@base#2}%
+ \else
+ \Gin@nosize{#3}%
+ \fi
+ \fi
+ \Gin@viewport@code
+ \Gin@nat@height\Gin@ury bp%
+ \advance\Gin@nat@height-\Gin@lly bp%
+ \Gin@nat@width\Gin@urx bp%
+ \advance\Gin@nat@width-\Gin@llx bp%
+ \Gin@req@sizes
+ \expandafter\ifx\csname Ginclude@#1\endcsname\relax
+ \Gin@drafttrue
+ \expandafter\ifx\csname Gread#1\endcsname\relax
+ \@latex@error{Can not include graphics of type: #1}\@ehc
+ \global\expandafter\let\csname Gread#1\endcsname\@empty
+ \fi
+ \fi
+ \leavevmode
+ \ifGin@draft
+ \hbox to \Gin@req@width{%
+% \vrule
+ \hss
+ \vbox to \Gin@req@height{%
+% \hrule \@width \Gin@req@width
+ \vss
+% \edef\@tempa{#3}%
+% \rlap{ \ttfamily\expandafter\strip@prefix\meaning\@tempa}%
+ \vss
+% \hrule
+ }%
+ \hss
+% \vrule
+ }%
+ \else
+ \@addtofilelist{#3}%
+ \ProvidesFile{#3}[Graphic file (type #1)]%
+ \setbox\z@\hbox{\csname Ginclude@#1\endcsname{#3}}%
+ \dp\z@\z@
+ \ht\z@\Gin@req@height
+ \wd\z@\Gin@req@width
+ \box\z@
+ \fi}
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
+Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:13:39 -0700 (MST)
+Subject: Re: TeX with an SGML syntax?
+
+J. Greg Davidson <jgd@well.sf.ca.us> asks about using SGML as a markup
+language in place of TeX's macro language.
+
+First, it is important to note that SGML is <em>not</em> a programming
+language: it lacks loops, and has only extremely primitive conditional
+processing, both essential elements of a programming language (see
+C. Boehm and G. Jacopini, Comm. ACM, 9, 366--371 (1966)). SGML also
+lacks general macros, though simple entity definitions are possible.
+TeX's macro language is very definitely a programming language.
+
+There have been a few attempts to put a different face on TeX:
+
+ (a) Free Software Foundation's Scribe-like TeXinfo system,
+ available at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/texinfo*.*;
+
+ (b) Lisp-like markup language:
+
+@String{TUGboat = "TUGboat"}
+
+@Article{Semenzato:TB12-34-434,
+ author = "Luigi Semenzato and Edward Wang",
+ title = "{{A text processing language should be first a
+ programming language}}",
+ journal = TUGboat,
+ year = "1991",
+ volume = "12",
+ number = "34",
+ pages = "434--441",
+ month = Nov,
+}
+
+ (c) SGML2TeX, briefly described on p. 295 of this
+ excellent recent book:
+
+@String{pub-ITCP = "International Thomson Computer Press"}
+@String{pub-ITCP:adr = "20 Park Plaza Suite 1001, Boston,
+ MA 02116 USA"}
+
+@Book{Flynn:1995:WH,
+ author = "Peter Flynn",
+ title = "The {WorldWideWeb} Handbook",
+ publisher = pub-ITCP,
+ address = pub-ITCP:adr,
+ year = "1995",
+ ISBN = "1-85032-205-8",
+ LCCN = "TK5105.888 .F56 1995",
+ acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
+ pages = "xix + 351",
+ note = "Includes HTML quick reference guide.",
+ bibdate = "Wed Nov 15 08:24:30 1995",
+}
+
+Because TeX's macro language is powerful, unusual, and idiosyncratic,
+it is difficult to replace it with something that retains the power,
+yet is much easier to program, while still preserving all of the
+underlying functionality of TeX, which is essential for peaceful
+evolution and preservation of the substantial investment in existing
+documents (several tens of millions of dollars for the American
+Mathematical Society alone).
+
+My personal view is that the WorldWideWeb's use of HTML, a particular
+document instance of SGML, is rapidly helping to spread SGML awareness
+in the Internet community, and that will in turn put pressure on
+vendors of text processing software to provide better support for
+SGML. Once WWW browser clients become grammar based, as the
+commercial Panorama viewer for IBM PC Windows has already done, there
+is no reason to restrict WWW documents to HTML; they could employ
+arbitrary SGML coding and document types.
+
+For the WYSIWYG word processors, the spread of HTML use is probably a
+<em>good thing</em>, since it may force them in the direction of
+structured, rather than visual, markup. TeX's power as a typesetting
+engine can be used behind the scenes as a backend part of an SGML ->
+TeX system: Arbortext has been doing this quite successfully for a
+number of years as a commercial organization, and several publishers
+that I know of do the same with home-grown translation systems.
+
+========================================================================
+Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254
+Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148
+Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu
+University of Utah URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe
+Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
+========================================================================
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: jaffer@tif173.ed.ray.com ( Dave Jafferian )
+Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 19:51:10 -0500
+Subject: Where is Dr. Von Bechtolsheim ?
+
+ Does anyone have an email address for Stephan v. Bechtolsheim, the
+author of the TeXPS package (c) 1987, 1988 distributed with TeX-3.14 ? A
+message I sent to svb@cs.purdue.edu was returned.
+
+ - Dave Jafferian, Raytheon Company, Marlborough, MA
+ (jaffer@ed.ray.com)
+
+- -----------------------------------------------------------
+The preceding comments are those of the author and do not
+represent the policies of Raytheon Company nor anyone else.
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: "L-Soft list server at DEARN (1.8b)" <LISTSERV@VM.GMD.DE>
+Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:04:28 +0100
+Subject: TEX-L: Daily error monitoring report
+
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+------------------------------
+
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