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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.13 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.13 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a5a88f113c --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.13 @@ -0,0 +1,429 @@ +From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Tue Oct 15 11:48:14 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 LAA27207 for <cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:48:12 +0100 +Message-Id: <199610151048.LAA27207@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + id <14694-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; + Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:42:19 +0100 +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #13 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:42:19 +0100 +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk + + +TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 15 October 1996 Volume 96 : Number 013 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Answers + Re:TeXhax Digest V96 #12 + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #12 + (Fwd) Repeated announcement T&G course NTG + Memory question + ispell problems + Re: word to latex converter + Announce: xtem X11-TeX-Menu 5.23 + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Jose Manuel Souto Menendez <mtpsomej@lg.ehu.es> +Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:14:51 +0100 (WET DST) +Subject: Answers + +I am writing a book with Latex and I would like to know how it is posible +to write the answers of some of the exercises in such a way that that +they appear at the end of the book. Are there any macros to solve +this problem? (I am using AMSLaTeX, and with LaTeX2e). + Thank you very much, + Jose M. Souto + +------------------------------ + +From: kletzing@totcon.com (Dennis Kletzing) +Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:47:39 -0400 +Subject: Re:TeXhax Digest V96 #12 + +Barry: + +I just noticed your post to TeXhax. Did you ever get a response? The +\bordermatrix macro in the Texbook will do just what you want. If you don't +have it I'll be glad to send it along. + + + + +>In article <199608220854.JAA28160@paperboy.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>, you write: +>From: Barry Tesman <tesman@dickinson.edu> +>Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 09:37:43 -0400 (EDT) +>Subject: Matrices +> +>I am trying to produce the following "labelled" matrix with latex: +> +> B1 B2 B3 +> / \ +> a1 | 8 10 4 | +>A = a2 | 11 5 18 | +> a3 | 27 6 18 | +> \ / +> +>I tried to use array/tabbing/tabular but am having trouble placing +>the left and right large parentheses around the matrix but not the labels. +>Any ideas would be most helpful. + + + +_______________________________________________________________________________ +Dennis Kletzing +Department of Mathematics & Computer Science +Stetson University +DeLand, Florida +kletzing@totcon.com + + + +------------------------------ + +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:56:09 -0400 +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #12 + + In the times font ptmr8r, the usual positions for + the left single quote "60 and for the right single + quote "27 contain instead of the symbols found in + the font cmr a symbol that looks like a grave accent + and a symbol that looks like a vertical prime, + respectively. How is one to get matched single quotes? + + There is an older font rptmr that has the usual + single quotes in those positions. Is there + some way to use the font ptmr8r and still get the + usual single quotes, for example, by means of some + trick using virtual fonts and rptmr? + +Use ptmr (close to plain-compatible) or ptmr8q (Cork), which have the +usual quotes in the usual positions. Those are virtual fonts based on 8r. +I wouldn't call them tricks, exactly. + +ptmr8r is close to Windows-compatible, for reasons explained in the +8r.enc source file. Its primary purpose is to make all characters +commonly present in Type 1 fonts available for typesetting (i.e., with +virtual fonts), not to be the One True Encoding for typesetting itself. + +If you want to use 8r itself, then you'll have to make ` and ' active +and have them typeset the right character. You probably don't want to do this. + +------------------------------ + +From: Erik Frambach <E.H.M.Frambach@eco.rug.nl> +Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:33:26 GMT+0200 +Subject: (Fwd) Repeated announcement T&G course NTG + +- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- +Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:03:16 +0200 +Reply-to: Netherlands Tex users-Group <NTG@NIC.SURFNET.NL>, + Kees van der Laan <cgl@RC.SERVICE.RUG.NL> +From: Kees van der Laan <cgl@RC.SERVICE.RUG.NL> +Subject: Repeated announcement T&G course NTG + + ---------------------------------------------------------- + |Announcement NTG's one-day low-budget no-nonsense course| + | | + | (La)TeX and Graphics | + ---------------------------------------------------------- + +What? MetaPost, PostScript, mftoeps... (no font design) + +Language? English + +Teacher? Boguslaw Jackowksi + +Where? University of Utrecht + +When? The day before *or* after NTG's fall meeting of 24 Oct. + (To be announced late August) + +Costs? Fl 50 members of NTG or other LUGs; non-members Fl 150 + +Subsription? Treasurer NTG, Giro 1306238, Eindhoven + (Do mention TeX and Graphics course) + +Information? Kees van der Laan, cgl@rc.service.rug.nl + +Literature? Jackowksi's METAFONT booklet will be in English available. + Have a look at + Hobby's CSTR 162, A user manual for MetaPost, + from + netlib@research.att.com + with message + send 162 from research/cstr + or copy it from NTG's 4AllTeX CD-ROM + +When the number of subscriptions is insufficient of + + 7 September---ultimate date for registration--- + +the course will be cancelled (and money refunded). + +- ---Kees--- + +------------------------------ + +From: Mark Freeman <AFINMF@razor.wbs.warwick.ac.uk> +Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:00:09 GMT +Subject: Memory question + +Sorry if this is a FAQ or a newbie question, but I am in need of some +help. I have tried crawling the web pages but with little success... + +I am running LaTeX2.09 (dated 9/1/90) under DOS. I am towards the end +of writing my thesis and am currently trying to compile it as one +document (rather than individual chapters) using \include +instructions. On first compilation it runs fine, and will continue +to compile on each subsequent compilation UNLESS I have run BibTeX +first. In this case, I can only get it to recompile if I instruct +"del *.aux" prior to recompilation - obviously not very satisfactory. +The number of different references is around 180 at present +(although there are many more \citeasnoun instructions). + +The error message I am getting on recompiling after running BibTeX is +insufficient memory. On looking at the .log file it appears to be +"save size" that is crashing. After first compilation the memory +counter is "362s" and then on second compilation I get "601s ... out +of ... 600s". Other sections of memory appear to be fine. + +I have tried to reduce the number of \citeasnoun, but this appears to +make no difference. If I edit my .aux file to manually remove about +50 of the 180 citations it will recompile with no problem. + +Any ideas about what I should do to get it to recompile with no +crashes after running BibTeX? I would be very grateful if you would +email me direct with any potential solutions. + +Thanking you in advance for your help. + +Mark Freeman. + +------------------------------ + +From: Clinton Arokianathan <clint@elec.gla.ac.uk> +Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:02:23 +0100 +Subject: ispell problems + +I have recently downloaded ispell version 3.1. + +Unfortunately it is still the US dictionary despite using the Makefile in +/languages/british. We also have the /langages/english folder. +What lables need to be changed in local.h? + + +I would be grateful if you can help + +Clint + +- --------------------------------------------------------------------- + Clinton R Arokianathan + Nanoelectronics Research Centre + Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering + University of Glasgow + Glasgow G12 8QQ + Scotland + + phone: +44-(0)141-339-8855 Ext 6024 (office) + 8349 (laboratory) + fax: +44-(0)141-330-4907 + + e-mail: clint@elec.gla.ac.uk +- --------------------------------------------------------------------- + + +------------------------------ + +From: cross@seraph1.sewanee.edu (Clay C. Ross) +Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:30:23 +0100 +Subject: Re: word to latex converter + +At 12:24 PM 10/10/96, Kevin R. Vixie wrote: + + * I am interested in your web site dealing with word to tex conv. but it + * seems to be offline right now. + * + * Kevin R. Vixie + +This was my reply: + +I do not now have, nor ever have had such a site. I HAVE answered *many* +questions since spring about rtf2latex and latex2rtf, two programs that +others wrote. To find the flavor you need, look them up using a web browser. + +Also, rtf2tex and tex2rtf probably exist. Find them by searching. + +- -- I add this for this transmission: -- + +There seems to be a great deal of interest in converters to- and from- +Word (on many platforms). All I know about them is that the conversions +work as follows: + +Word Doc. -> Word(Save As) -> RTF(text)Doc.-> rtf2latex -> LaTeX Doc. -> LaTeX + or +Latex Document -> latex2rtf -> Word(read and convert RTF) -> Word Document + +Some TeX/LaTeX expert could provide a valuable service by setting up a +site dedicated to such converters. I am almost totally ignorant of the +issues; for me to become involved would be foolhardy. Please, would an +informed person step up to provide this service (a Converter Site)? + +CCR + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Clay C. Ross (615) 598-1301 + http://cross.sewanee.edu/ + Mathematics & Computer Science + The University of the South + Sewanee, Tennessee 37383-1000 + + + +------------------------------ + +From: l44@iwd.uni-bremen.de (Roland Weibezahn) +Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:23:56 +0200 +Subject: Announce: xtem X11-TeX-Menu 5.23 + +Dear xtem users, + +We have finished the new version (xtem_TeXMenu.5.23) of + + "xtem", an X11-TeX-menu + +which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl7.5/ and Tcl7.6-beta1) +as well as with the old version (Tcl7.4). + +In addition to adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk, we have done +errror corrections and added new features, such as: + + - installation (and maintenance of the logfiles) is much easier with + the (new) installation procedure, + + - (optional) logfile analyze after TeX run, you can then click at each + error message (incl. overfull/underfull boxes) in order to edit + the texfile at the corresponding position, + + - "quick&dirty" button for quick TeXing and previewing of a small text + fragment (including preamble), + + - the edit file can be selected from other directories than the main file, + + - (optional) vertical scrollbars for the text widgets, + + - revision of all bindings (conforming behaviour: actions are done + at button release), + + - LaTeX syntax got it's own button now. + +Most setting files from older versions of xtem may be kept unchanged: + + - mkcommand.vst must be updated + - texfmt.vst should be updated to enable "quick&dirty" + - logform.vst one line concerning logfile analyze can/should be added + + + +You will find all files on our file server: + + http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html +or + ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu.5.23.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu_5eng.ps.gz + ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu_5ger.ps.gz + +Here you may also find the sources: Tcl7.5, Tk4.1, TclX7.5.2 + + ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tcl7.4p2.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tk4.0p2.tar.g + ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tclX7.4a-p1.tar.gz + +We have uploaded the new xtem version to the +neosoft server into "/pub/tcl/incoming/", +and it's already mirrored to the CTAN servers, +so you also may get all the material from + ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/NEW/xtem_* +and ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/xtem_texmenu/xtem.v5/* +and the other CTAN servers. + + +For those who don't know xtem_TeXMenu up to now, we give a short overview: + +xtem provides for a simple and comfortable graphical user interface to control +the following facilities: + + - file and directory selection, directory creation, + - editor (vi, emacs, ...) including additional windows for the + LaTeX-syntax (using hypertext) and examples, + - TeX, LaTeX, ..., + - previewer (ghostview, xdvi, TkDvi, ...), + - printing (including comfortable printer selection, ...), + - syntax and spelling check, + - makeindex, + - bibtex, + - additional programs as required, + . + . + . +Online help is available for all the buttons and windows by simple mouse click. +xtem is written for Unix platforms and has been tested on many systems. + + + +Thanks, + Roland Weibezahn +- --- +Dr. Roland Weibezahn +weibezahn@iwd.uni-bremen.de phone: +49-421-218-3532 +University Bremen, IWD, postbox: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany +http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html (the xtem_TeXMenu project) + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #13 +**************************** + + +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 only the line + subscribe texhax + or + unsubscribe texhax +If you have problems with un/subscribing, +please mail texhax-owner@nottingham.ac.uk + +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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