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+From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Mon Apr 15 11:53:11 1996
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+Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #5
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+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
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