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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.08 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.08 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..986a3421aa --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.08 @@ -0,0 +1,372 @@ +From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Tue Jun 18 10:21:36 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 KAA23924 for <cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:21:32 +0100 +Message-Id: <199606180921.KAA23924@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + id <14408-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; + Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:17:25 +0100 +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #8 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:17:25 +0100 +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk + + +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 +*************************** + + +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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