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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.07 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.07 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8631c3a2e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.07 @@ -0,0 +1,433 @@ +From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Wed May 29 16:20:12 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 QAA05215 for <cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:20:10 +0100 +Message-Id: <199605291520.QAA05215@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + id <25657-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; + Wed, 29 May 1996 16:14:30 +0100 +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #7 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:14:30 +0100 +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk + + +TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 29 May 1996 Volume 96 : Number 007 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 + Redefining maximum number of strings, fonts, etc... + margins + BibTeX/LaTeX2e question + BibTeX/LaTeX2e point -- PS + Location of index package (by David Jones)??? + \def with catcode 1 in parameter text? + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> +Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:06:40 +0100 +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 + + > From: "S. Warde" < + > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST) + > Subject: Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX + > We are currently moving from LaTeX 209 to LaTeX2e. We have + > found the hyper and hyperref packages in the contrib/supported + > directory. + > Though both authors acknowledge each other and say it would be + > a good idea to merge they don't say when. Until they do I would +tell us if its necessary, and I expect we'll do something about it. + + > We have obtained the dvihps source from ftp.tex.ac.uk this seems + > to be quiet old. Before installing it I was wondering if + > a - there was a more recent version +the author is working on it + + > b - anyone had 'ported' it to work with the kpathsea + > distribution +yes, its moderately trivial to do yourself. but i'll be in the next +release of dvipsk + + > c - knew of any limitations +yes, you cant vary the height of the anchor box... + + > d - knew of other dvips variants for creating pdf files +use the nativepdf option of hyperref, and you dont need dvihps at all + +sebastian rahtz + +------------------------------ + +From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> +Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:09:02 +0100 +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 + + > From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence) + > From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk> + > Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100 + > Subject: PostScript from other programs + > Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7 + > and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form? + +my generic solution is Acrobat Distiller. its an excellent (obviously) +PostScript interpreter. Use that to make a PDF (ie clean!) version of +the file, then use Acrobat Exchange to write out a new .ps version. + +i havent tried this per se with Frame files, but the principal should +be sound. + +sebastian + +------------------------------ + +From: mse@sdr.utias.utoronto.ca (Manfred D. M. Sever) +Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:51:46 -0400 +Subject: Redefining maximum number of strings, fonts, etc... + +Hello All! + +I would like to be able to increase the +maximum number ``strings'' available to +TeX for processing documents. It may also +be usefull to increase the upper limit +on the number of fonts allowed. + +I think this should be possible to do since +Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin discuss +this on page xi of their book. I believe +that increasing these limits also involves +recompiling TeX. + +However, I can't find the file that these +limits are set in. + +How do I proceed? + +Thanks in advance, + +Manfred. + + +------------------------------ + +From: Mr Marcilo Alves <marcilio@liverpool.ac.uk> +Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:11:57 +0100 (BST) +Subject: margins + +Hi, + +That's Marcilio from Liverpool. + +I am using book class in Latex2e with the option +[a4paper,twoside]. + +Yet, my output shows different margins; that is there +is a horizontal and vertical shift of one side of the output in +relation to the other side. + +Is this a problem with the book class or with +the printer. + +The printer is in the computer centre and I do not +know how to eventually set margins, etc... + + +Could you help me? + + +- - --------------------------------- + + +I am using fancyheadings to set the head of the page. +It works fine but it seems that the commands + +\listoffigures +\listoftables +\tableofcontents + +uses its own formatting for the heads. + +How can I set my own head in conjunction +with the above commands? + + +- - --------------------------------- + + +I do appreciate your help in advance! + +Thank you + +marcilio + + +------------------------------ + +From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk> +Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:31:37 +0100 +Subject: BibTeX/LaTeX2e question + +I am wondering whether there is a solution to this or whether it is "just one +of those things you have to hack around". + +The background: Using the Harvard family of citation styles with BibTeX and +LaTeX2e. Two references are different papers in the same tome. +Cross-referencing is used to avoid duplication of information. Both +references are used in the same document. The tome itself (item C) has no +author or editor. + +@InCollection{A, + ... + crossref = "C" +} +@InCollection{B, + ... + crossref = "C" +} +@Book{C, + ... +} + +The problem: Because the tome is cited in two difference references, three +entries get written to the bbl and auxiliary files. Because the tome has no +author or editor, the title is used as the citation mark (both short and long +form) -- and here is the problem -- this is emphasized, i.e. there is a \emph +in the parameters of the citation entries in the .aux file. When the aux +file +is read in, the error: + +! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 72. +<inserted text> + \fi + +occurs. + +There are three hack solutions: + +1. Manual edit the .aux file -- totally unacceptable. +2. Do not use crossref but suffer the replication of information -- +unacceptable but... +3. Force BibTeX not to generate the third reference item but to replicate +crossreference information in all entries -- I haven't investigated this and +therefore do not know how to do it. + +Have others seen this and found other solutions? + +Russel. + +======================================================================= + +Dr Russel Winder + + Reader in Software Engineering + Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems + +Information Systems Research Group +Department of Computer Science Phone: +44 (0)171 380 7293 +University College London Fax: +44 (0)171 387 1397 +Gower Street EMail: R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk +London WC1E 6BT +UK URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/R.Winder/ + +======================================================================= + + +------------------------------ + +From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk> +Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:48:19 +0100 +Subject: BibTeX/LaTeX2e point -- PS + +I forgot to note the obvious point about using the key field in the +bibliography item, I suppose that should be solution 0. My point was: +Has anyone got an answer to the problem of \emph appearing in the .aux +file, even if accidently? + +------------------------------ + +From: coleman@trillium.phys.uregina.ca (Robert Coleman) +Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 15:28:01 -0600 (CST) +Subject: Location of index package (by David Jones)??? + +On page 367 of the LaTeX Companion, the index +package written by David Jones is discussed. +I have, however, not been able to find it on +CTAN. From where can this package be ftped? +Thanks for the help. A direct reply would be +appreciated. + +Robert + +- -- +Robert Alan Coleman +Department of Physics +University of Regina +Regina, Saskatchewan +Canada S4S 0A2 + +Tel: (306) 585-4260 +Fax: (306) 585-4894 +email: coleman@cas.uregina.ca + + +------------------------------ + +From: Matteo Frigo <athena@glauke.lcs.mit.edu> +Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:41:45 -0400 +Subject: \def with catcode 1 in parameter text? + +Abstract: I want to put a token with catcode 1 in the parameter text +of a macro, and I don't know how. + +Problem: I wrote a macro \largeenough which takes one argument, and +formats it in the largest possible font so that the argument fits +in one page (I use it for slides). The macro works by trial and +error, and some other hackery. + +Now, I want to define a LaTeX environment + +\begin{largeenough} + text +\end{largeenough} + +to accomplish the same effect --- since the environment seems more +elegant to me. The problem is: how do I capture all text preceding the +\end{largeenough} ? I need it for the trial-and-error procedure. So +far, I use a simple-minded loop to accomplish this effect, but I +wonder if there is a better way. + +Essentially, I would like to define a macro + +\def\foo#1\end{largeenough}{...} + +where I have a { *with catcode 1* in the parameter text. Changing the +catcode doesn't work, because I want to keep the original catcode +of { in the normal text (inside the environment). + +Any idea? + +Thanks, +Matteo + + +------------------------------ + +From: Michael Doob <mdoob@cc.UManitoba.CA> +Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:39:09 -0500 (CDT) +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 + +> From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence) +> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:52:03 BST +> Subject: "Standard" Font sizes +> +> I am maintaining a TeX system here at ucl, and like many others I suspect +> am allowing the system to generate all the fonts as needed (via MakeTeXpk). +> All of these end up jumbled together in the texmf/fonts/tmp/pk directory +> (under either cx or ljfour). I would quite like to shift the common ones +> into the appropriate sub directory (texmf/fonts/public/cm/ ..) so that +> tmp can be deleted on a regular basis. Can someone tell me the +> standard/most common sizes required ? + +You could run a cron job that deletes pk files that haven't been accessed +recently. What's left over will be (by definition) the popular ones, and they +could be moved out to a more permanent location periodically. + + +Cheers, +Michael + + +------------------------------ + +From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk> +Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:32:12 +0100 +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 + +> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST) +You'd get a quicker information turn around by asking on comp.text.tex +newsgroup (or the equivalent info-tex mailing list). + +> b - anyone had 'ported' it [dvihps] to work with the kpathsea +> distribution + +I'm not sure, but if you use the [nativepdf] option to the hyperref +package you can use a standard dvips(k). The pdfmark operators are +written straight to the PS file via literal postscript specials. + +> on hypertex hosted at snorri.chem.washington.edu . 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