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+TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 18 June 1996 Volume 96 : Number 009
+
+(incorporating UKTeX Digest)
+
+Today's Topics:
+
+ pagebreaks, &c in indexes (resubmitted)
+ Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #8
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+From: David Handscomb <David.Handscomb@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
+Date: Tue, 18 Jun 96 10:45:08 BST
+Subject: pagebreaks, &c in indexes (resubmitted)
+
+As nobody responded when I first put this question, may I have another go?
+Surely there is a `makeindex' guru somewhere out there?
+
+- ----- Begin Included Message -----
+
+From dch Wed Oct 4 17:41:49 1995
+To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+Subject: pagebreaks, &c in indexes
+Content-Length: 869
+X-Lines: 41
+
+
+a) Is there any way of ensuring that an index generated by makeindex
+is not broken between an item and its following subitem? - e.g.:
+
+network 12
+news
+========= pagebreak ============
+ bad 13
+ good 14
+next 15
+
+I guess (see Companion p.359) that it could possibly be done via the
+keyword item_x1 in the *.ist file, if at all. If so, then how?
+\nopagebreak in the *.ind file seems to have no effect.
+
+
+
+b) Furthermore, is there any way of generating the following? My guess
+is `no':
+
+news
+ bad 13
+ good 14
+ \emph{see also} gnus
+
+
+
+David Handscomb
+
+Numerical Analysis Group
+Oxford University Computing Laboratory
+Wolfson Building
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+
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+E-mail dch@comlab.ox.ac.uk / na.handscomb@na-net.ornl.gov
+
+
+
+
+- ----- End Included Message -----
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+From: "e-Floyd B. Hanson, UIC 312-413-2142" <U12688@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
+Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:08:18 CDT
+Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #8
+
+> 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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+> \bye
+
+------------------------------
+
+End of TeXhax Digest V96 #9
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+\bye
+