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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.05 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.05 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c1a77277bb --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.05 @@ -0,0 +1,224 @@ +From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Mon Apr 15 11:53:11 1996 +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 LAA15365 for <cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:53:11 +0100 +Message-Id: <199604151053.LAA15365@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + id <27588-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; + Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:52:28 +0100 +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #5 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:52:28 +0100 +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk + + +TeXhax Digest Monday, 15 April 1996 Volume 96 : Number 005 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: fractions, space, \afterpage (TeXhax) + Re: startsection (TeXhax Digest V96 #4) + Plain TeX query + disc set and printer driver for LaTex 2e + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Donald Arseneau <asnd@triumf.ca> +Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 20:47:44 PST +Subject: Re: fractions, space, \afterpage (TeXhax) + +In TeXhax Digest V96 #3, Kris Lockyear <K.Lockyear@soton.ac.uk> wrote: + +% 2) How can I get ... 1/2 with small 1, a diagonal line and a small 2. + +It is in The TeXbook, exercise 11.6. You probably have manmac.tex and/or +eplain.tex on your system somewhere; you can copy the definition out of +there to avoid re-typing it. + +% 3) LaTeX increased white space between paragraphs to place a \section at +the +% top of a page. This looks very ugly. + + +Declare \raggedbottom (described in the LaTeX manual) + +% 4) I often use \afterpage{\clearpage} to flush out the figures etc. +% this occasionally results in a blank page with a footnote at the bottom. + +a) In my opinion, this is never necessary. It only helps when figures are +*stuck* with impossible placement requirements. You are better off giving +realistic placement options for your figures and setting higher values for +\topfraction and \bottomfraction (say 0.8) and a lower \textfraction (0.2). +Re-read the LaTeX manual discussion of these. + +b) Don't write long footnotes. + +c) You can avoid most split footnotes using: +\raggedbottom \addtolength{\topskip}{0pt plus 1cm minus 0.2pt} +(No, the top won't be ragged; just the bottom.) + +Donald Arseneau asnd@reg.triumf.ca + + +------------------------------ + +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:33:00 +0000 +Subject: Re: startsection (TeXhax Digest V96 #4) + +Mr Marcilo Alves writes: +>I'm trying to redefine the \section, \chapter look by +>using the \@startsection command (Companion, page 24). + +Having not read the Companion, page 16 (I think it is), where it tells +you to: + + \makeatletter +>\renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection +> {\section}% +> {1}% +> {2mm}% +> {2mm}% +> {2mm} +> {\itshape}}% + \makeatother + +This is one of the most-FAQs. The Companion is _not_ a beginner's +book; if you've never programmed LaTeX macros before *PLEASE* +(everyone, not just Mr. Alves!) read the introductory pages first +(there are only twenty or so of them). + + +------------------------------ + +From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason) +Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:47:11 GMT +Subject: Plain TeX query + +% Could someone please answer a question which has been puzzling me for some +% while because, unless I misunderstand the TeXbook, TeX is not doing what I +% think it should do. Consider the following input file: +%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +\chardef\return=`\^^M +% +\def\dopling{% + \ifcat\space\noexpand\next + \wlog{<Pling><Space>}% + \else \ifcat\return\noexpand\next + \wlog{<Pling><Return>}% + \else \ifcat\bgroup\noexpand\next + \wlog{<Pling><Left brace>}% + \else + \wlog{<Pling><Other>}% + \fi \fi \fi}% +% +\catcode`\!=\active +% +\def!{\futurelet\next\dopling}% +% +! Hallo world. +! +!{Anyone for Tennis?}% +!% +! Just another line% +!---and another part of the same line +! +! \bye +%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +% Not a very sensible input file I know but it's just meant to illustrate the +% problem. When run through TeX, I get the following log file (without the +% leading `% ' of course): +%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +% This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (format=plain 93.5.19) 28 MAR 1996 18:31 +% **test +% (test.tex +% <Pling><Space> +% <Pling><Space> +% <Pling><Left brace> +% <Pling><Return> +% <Pling><Space> +% <Pling><Other> +% <Pling><Space> +% <Pling><Space> +% [1] ) +% Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 308 bytes). +%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +% I understand all of these except the <Pling><Return> generated by the input +% line `!%'. Why should a comment character generate a <Return>? +% +% Thanks in anticipation. +% +% Colin Mason (cgm@sunserver.ssci.liv.ac.uk) + +------------------------------ + +From: Andrew Jones $STAFF <JONEAN@trentcollege.nott.sch.uk> +Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:12:44 +0000 +Subject: disc set and printer driver for LaTex 2e + +Please can anyone help me?? + +I have used Latex in the past, but unfortunately had to remove it. I +now possess a Canon BJ10ex printer, and I cannot get the exact driver for it. +I've been given several to try, but to no avail. +I also understand that I no longer have the latest version of LaTex ( I +bought mine in 1990). How is LaTex 2e different? + +Could anyone please advise me on where I may get a proper printer +driver for the BJ10ex, and possibly a disc set for LaTex 2e. + +I use Wordperfect 6.0 for word-processing. I recall reading somewhere +that there is a LaTex converter for WP6. + +My own machine is not on the Internet, and therefore I cannot +download, I would therefore need proper discs. Any help would be +greatly appreciated. + + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #5 +*************************** + + +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 +If you have problems with un/subscribing, please mail owner-texhax@nott.ac.uk + +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, 1850 Union Street, #1637 +San Francisco CA 94123 (phone: 1 415 982 8449, fax: 1 415 982 8559) + +Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX +Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by +anonymous ftp. 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