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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.17 b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.17 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8841f706fa --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/95/texhax.17 @@ -0,0 +1,375 @@ +Received: from jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.193]) by granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA27104; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 18:39:35 GMT +Message-Id: <199512021839.SAA27104@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + id <15179-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; + Sat, 2 Dec 1995 18:11:20 +0000 +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V95 #17 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 18:11:20 +0000 +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk + + +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 + +The following 1 subscriber is currently being monitored: + +Err First Last Address +- --- ----- ----- ------- + 1 12/01 12/01 Pat Sosinski <HERMIT@WCO.COM> + Last error: Mailer shell.wco.com said: "550 <hermit@WCO.COM>... + User unknown" + +Err= Number of delivery errors received thus far +First= Date first delivery error was received (mm/dd) +Last= Date of most current delivery error (mm/dd) + +Subscribers will be automatically deleted from the list when delivery errors +have been reported for a period of 4 days or more, or when 100 delivery +errors have been received, whichever occurs first. 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