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+Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #8
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+TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 18 June 1996 Volume 96 : Number 008
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
+ Re: Location of David Jones' index package (TeXhax V96 #7)
+ Re: excalibur
+ TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+ Writing long formulas
+ Fonts in Latex2.09
+ [none]
+ EMTeX no longer available from ftp.shsu.edu
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
+Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 08:22:44 +0100
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
+
+ > 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.
+yes, you can do it. but its not trivial. current releases of TeX for
+DOS (emtex) and Mac (OzTeX) allow you to do it dynamically), while
+Textures and Y&Y TeX claim to just give you unlimited memory (I only say
+claim because i havent tried it myself). If you have Unix TeX, lets
+assume you have the web2c stuff. in that case, find the directory
+web2c/tex and the file ctex.ch. thats the "change file", and near the
+top you find a set of constants which are set to complicated
+values. thats where you play, and thats as far as I am going to give a
+recipe! you have to understand how change files work (read the WEB
+documentation) and what the values do. NOTE that some values are
+already at their upper limit
+
+sebastian rahtz
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
+Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:03:05 +0100
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
+
+> Abstract: I want to put a token with catcode 1 in the parameter text
+> of a macro, and I don't know how.
+
+You can't.
+
+> Essentially, I would like to define a macro
+
+> \def\foo#1\end{largeenough}{...}
+
+you have to go
+
+\def\foo#1\end#2{...
+and then check that #2 is `largeenough' and if not search for the next
+\end. It's a bit of a pain, but that's life. There are examples of this
+in the ams alignment environments, and tabularx and load of other
+places.
+
+David
+
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Matteo Frigo <athena@glauke.lcs.mit.edu>
+Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:07:58 -0400
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
+
+> \def\foo#1\end#2{...
+> and then check that #2 is `largeenough' and if not search for the next
+> \end. It's a bit of a pain, but that's life. There are examples of this
+> in the ams alignment environments, and tabularx and load of other
+> places.
+>
+> David
+>
+
+Thanks for your answer. In fact, this is what I am doing now. I am
+glad to hear that there is no better way to do the same thing.
+
+Cheers
+Matteo
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:32:15 +0100
+Subject: Re: Location of David Jones' index package (TeXhax V96 #7)
+
+Robert Coleman <coleman@trillium.phys.uregina.ca> writes:
+>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. [...]
+
+I maintain a file (on CTAN, of course) info/companion.ctan; this aims
+to list all packages mentioned in the Companion, and to give their
+location on CTAN.
+
+In this instance, it says
+
+ index
+ macros/latex209/contrib/misc/index.doc
+
+As you will note, this is a 2.09 package. A 2e one is in development,
+and I have a copy of a beta-version. Sadly, I failed to note which
+MIT machine I got it from, and it's pretty old. Perhaps David Jones
+himself will respond... (Or even submit a new version for the
+archive?)
+- --
+Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
+U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
+Home page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie (Dr Alun J. Carr)
+Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:55:33 +0100
+Subject: Re: excalibur
+
+On Wed, 1 May 1996 11:00:31 +0100 sens@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Pierre Sens) wrote:
+>Hi Tex users,
+>
+>I would like to use the spell checker Excalibur for documents in French on
+>my Macintosh. I heard about a french dictionnary for Excalibur. Does
+>anybody know where I could download it.
+
+<ftp://ftp.eg.bucknell.edu/pub/mac/Excalibur-dictionaries/Dico-Francais-sea.hq
+x>
+
+Alun
+
+
+- --
+Dr Alun J. CARR Phone: +353-1-7061989
+Mechanical Engineering Dept. +353-1-2693244 x1989
+University College Dublin Fax: +353-1-2830534
+Belfield E-mail: <Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie>
+Dublin 4 WWW: <http://tizit.ucd.ie/ajcarr/>
+Ireland
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
+Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:34:23 -0400
+Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
+
+> From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
+> Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100
+> Subject: PostScript from other programs
+>
+> I regularly need to include PostScript figures in documents. I find
+> idraw on Unix produces excellent relocatable PostScript descriptions
+> but it is a little simplistic. There are excellent command language
+> mechanisms for creating PostScript tricks using LaTeX but I really
+> want to make use of (essentially) WYSIWYG programs like idraw,
+> FrameMaker and Word to create images for inclusion in LaTeX2e
+> documents. Furthermore I often have the requirement to use other
+> people's PostScript in my LaTeX documents and have no control over the
+> programs used to create the PostScript.
+>
+> In the past I have been able to use PostScript produced by various
+> Macintosh programs (though judicious editing out of font information
+> is usually required) and also PostScript produced by the PostScript
+> driver under Windows3.1.
+>
+> At the pther extreme, FrameMaker has always been a pain in the !@#$.
+> The PostScript produced by this program is totally un-relocatable. It
+> assumes total control of the page and I have yet to discover the
+> necessary edits to remove it's dictatorial efforts and hence make the
+> PostScript relocatable.
+>
+> Moreover Microsoft appear to have gone down this same road and this is
+> my real problem. Word7 with the Apple LaaserWriter plus driver (under
+> Windows95) now produces code that it not relocatable. Indeed it has
+> this penchant for trying to enquire of the amount of virtual memory on
+> a regular basis which makes the PostScript file of a document
+> un-previewable with ghostscript. I have found the trick for removing
+> this VM quesry problem but have not found the trick for removing the
+> manipulations that bind the coordinate system to the page in it's
+> dictatorial manner.
+>
+> Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7
+> and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form?
+>
+> Thanks for any guidance and/or pointers.
+>
+> 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/
+>
+> =======================================================================
+
+You must make sure the applications export in EPS format.
+
+If you use raw PS, you are asking for trouble, because
+PS drivers are allowed to use arbitrary PS code including the
+forbidden-in-EPS operators that are troubling you.
+
+Most printer drivers have a check box this produce EPS output.
+If you can't use EPS because the output is multi-page then you
+are not using EPS, since that by definition is one page only.
+
+Berthold.
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Dominique de Waleffe <ddw@goedel.miscrit.be>
+Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 15:42:51 +0200
+Subject: Writing long formulas
+
+In Digital SRC report 119, Leslie Lamport presents a nice way to
+format long mathematical formulas so that reading is a lot easier.
+
+Does anyone know a Latex package which implements those conventions?
+
+I'd be very interested.
+
+D.
+- --
+Dominique de Waleffe
+Mission Critical, Wijnegemhofstraat 199, B-3071 Erps-Kwerps (Belgium)
+Phone: +32 2 759 95 60 Fax: +32 2 759 27 60
+email: ddw@acm.org, ddw@miscrit.be
+PGP key fingerprint: F9 CC 23 74 44 62 7C F3 8C 12 DF 71 BB 60 54 98
+
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: "Klaus M. Wendel" <a9304890@unet.univie.ac.at>
+Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:56:13 +0200 (MSZ)
+Subject: Fonts in Latex2.09
+
+Help!
+
+I am using LaTex Version 2.09 and i have to print a document in HELVETICA.
+
+Is there a (easy) way to do this?
+
+Thanks!
+
+- ---------------------------------------------------
+Klaus M. Wendel always :-)
+E-Mail: a9304890@unet.univie.ac.at
+WWW: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9304890/
+- ---------------------------------------------------
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: David Simpson <mifads@bure.ntnu.no>
+Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:53:46 +0100
+Subject: [none]
+
+Does anybody know how to convert LaTeX(2e) files
+to, dare I say, Word or Wordperfect documents?
+Apologies to all tex fans for asking this, but
+unfortunately I can't persuade all my PC-based colleagues
+to switch to LateX, but I need to send them text
+for reports.
+
+Thanks, Dave Simpson (david.simpson@dnmi.no)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
+Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:14:13 +0200 (MET DST)
+Subject: EMTeX no longer available from ftp.shsu.edu
+
+As ftp.shsu.edu is not properly managed, and the emTeX files there are
+partially out of date, I removed emTeX at teh request of Eberhard
+Mattes from ftp.shsu.edu.
+
+We are apologize for the inconvenience, but the CTAN team doesn't have
+the resources to manage a site from across the atlantic.
+
+For the CTAN team
+
+- --
+ Rainer Schvpf
+ Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous
+ der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight
+ Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding.
+ D-55099 Mainz
+ Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
+ <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE> The Gutenberg Galaxy
+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V96 #8
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