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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.01 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5705be5c75 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.01 @@ -0,0 +1,431 @@ +From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Mon Jan 8 21:25:30 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 VAA14383 for <cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 21:25:28 GMT +Message-Id: <199601082125.VAA14383@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + id <11536-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; + Mon, 8 Jan 1996 20:43:04 +0000 +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #1 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 20:43:04 +0000 +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk + + +TeXhax Digest Monday, 8 January 1996 Volume 96 : Number 001 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: TeXhax Digest V95 #18 + Re: TeXhax Digest V95 #18 + some questions from a newcomer + more questions! + LaTeX2e + modes.mf 3.0 available + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> +Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:16:38 GMT +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V95 #18 + + > From: Andre HECK <heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr> + > Date: Tue, 05 Dec 95 17:25:31 +0100 + > Subject: Chemical TeX/LaTeX + > + > My daughter heard that specific chemistry-oriented TeX/LaTeX packages + > were available, without more details unfortunately. My search in the + > ctan archives were unsuccessful. + > Anyone knows more about this matter? If so, is there any shareware + > available? +there are several; look for chemtex, and xymtex; the latter, from +Japan, is described in an article in the next issue of +TUGboat. Another package, described by J Hagen at this years EuroTeX, +is published in the EuroTeX 95 proceedings, an article which will be +reprinted in TUGboat early next year + +Sebastian Rahtz +Secretary, TUG + +------------------------------ + +From: lamport@pa.dec.com +Date: Sun, 17 Dec 95 13:58:13 -0800 +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V95 #18 + +J. Greg Davidson, who hates being misquoted, writes + + I find that most people I show TeX to dislike it on sight and decline + my offer to help them learn to use it. At the same time, they're + interested in SGML and planning to convert existing documents to and + write new documents in that form. This is the source of our big + opportunity. + + My biggest gripe about TeX is that I find writing and understanding + TeX macros to be difficult... + + As people move towards keeping documents in SGML form, they will be + looking for a good text formatter to use in conjunction with their + SGML documents. + +Many people think that SGML offers a solution to the problems of +document preparation. They're wrong. SGML is just a statement of +the problem. The goals of SGML--a markup language that separates +logical structure from formatting directions--are precisely the goals +of LaTeX. However, LaTeX is a program to produce real output--not just +a syntax for wishing what the document should look like. It is this +difference that is the primary reason why LaTeX input is a lot uglier +than SGML; the difference between TeX syntax and SGML syntax has +little to do with it. + +SGML syntax has some nice features. However, if you look at the +HTML3.0 syntax for describing equations, you will discover that no-one +in his right mind would want to type any significant amount of +mathematics in SGML. Should HTML ever become expressive enough for +mathematical documents (at the moment, the only math symbols HTML3.0 +provides are \sqrt, \lnot, and \pm), one would have to create those +documents either with a WYSIWYG editor or by translating from a more +TeX-like syntax. + +We've learned a lot in the last dozen years, and we know how to do +some things better than Don did in TeX. But it's by no means clear +that we know how to create a system with the power of TeX that would +make adding new features very much easier. Think of all the work +that's been done to give unsophisticated users the power of a +programming language. After 30 years, there still doesn't seem to be +anything better than Basic. + +Leslie Lamport + + +------------------------------ + +From: gabriele@dtovf1.roma2.infn.it (gabriele migliorini) +Date: Wed, 27 Dec 95 15:27:26 +0100 +Subject: some questions from a newcomer + + Dear readers, + i just began working with LaTeX, and I am waiting for +a friend of mine to take me back from England a copy of the Companion +(here in Italy, English and american books cost twice their price, for +you get a very unfair exchange rate from bookshops) I'd like to get +some little help before getting the book, even if I fear my questions +could seem too much stupid for the expert ones. Two kind of problems: + +Text: how do I do to write a paragraph (or some paragraphs) and keep +all of them on the same page? I remember that (a long time ago) in +word perfect there was a function to put in a couple of markers +telling to keep all the text in beetween on the same page. By now, I +tried to resolve my problem by putting the paragraph in a minipage, +but this cannot function with in paragraph stuff. + +Graphics: I poked around to understand how to include graphics in my +documents, and I found many suggestions. Now, I've seen that (to me) +the best format are those whose commands ger embedded right into the +dvi file. I've seen that pstricks and eepic do thins kind of job, but +both are written for LaTeX209; I cannot let pst function, but eepic +seems great, with both XFIG and gnuplot. Now, my question: is there +anybody who knows if there are incompatibilities w/epic-eepic other +than the ones I didn't see? And what about PSTricks? + +Now, I have to thank everybody, and tell an happy new year to all the +readers, those that will help me, and those who will be bored by my English +an my questions. I apologize!. + +Sincerely, + gabriele + +gabriele@dtovf1.roma2.infn.it + + +------------------------------ + +From: gabriele@dtovf1.roma2.infn.it (gabriele migliorini) +Date: Wed, 27 Dec 95 16:17:26 +0100 +Subject: more questions! + +I remembered just now that I need one more information about LaTeX: +I'm writing about rotary motions, and I enocounter many rotations +vectors; the standard practice is to use the normal greek letters +you'd use for an angle, and tell the vector character typing the name +in bold face. I can do that with standard {\bf a}, but the command +{\bf \omega} doesn't work. How can I fix this behavior? Now, I'm to +ask if there is someone willing to tell me the reason why the \left +and \right verbs before opening and closing brackets and braces cannot +be implicitly told by LaTeX: if i'm writing a fraction like (\frac +{abc}{def}), I get small brackets; don't you think the standard +behavior should be to prepone an mplicit \left or \right to any +opening and closing bracket? (I see that |a|b|c| could break this +semantics, but I think you could make the bars use the explicit +notations and the other delimitations the implicit one) I thank you, +sincerely. + + gabriele + + + +------------------------------ + +From: Andrew Jones $STAFF <JONEAN@trentcollege.nott.sch.uk> +Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 16:29:11 +0000 +Subject: LaTeX2e + +To whom it may concern, I have a few problems which need solving, and +do not know where to go for advice: + +I currently possess just LaTeX, but wiped it off my system, when +trying to make room for something else. Stupidly, I did not back it +up and recall that I had some problems trying to install it last +time, having to change various lines in various files, both in emtex, +and in my Config.sys and autoexec.bat files. As you may gather, I am +pretty well a beginner with TeX. Does anyone know of anyone who would +be able guide me through the reinstallation? + +Secondly, when I originally installed it, I had it set up to print on +a Star LC10 9-pin dot matrix. I now possess a Canon BJ-10ex. I +managed to get various printer drivers, none written speciically for +this model, but none of them seem to work. Any suggestions? + +Finally, I was given your address from a visiting lecturer who uses +LaTeX enormously. It rekindled my interest in Latex, and I would +dearly love to get it properly re-installed once again. However, I +notice that LaTeX2e is mentioned a great deal. What are the +advantages, if any, of switching to this? I am currently using a +386sx-20 with a 70 MB HDD, but am hoping to upgrade to a 486DX2-66 +with a 400MB HDD and CD-ROM in the near future. + +I would gratefully appreciate any information that you can give me. + +Yours sincerely Andrew Jones at Trent College +the near future + + +------------------------------ + +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 14:55:22 -0500 +Subject: modes.mf 3.0 available + +I have released version 3.0 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from + + ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/modes.mf + +and shortly from ftp.cdrom.com:pub/tex/modes.mf and the ctan sites in +/tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes-3.0.mf. finger ctan@ftp.shsu.edu for a +list of all the CTAN sites and mirrors. The mailing list +tex-archive@math.utah.edu receives most TeX-related announcements; email +tex-archive-request@math.utah.edu to join. + +You can also get it by email from if you cannot ftp: email +fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of `sendme modes'. + +News: +- - most importantly, a new and much cleaner way of doing write/white + changes, compatible with the DC fonts as well as CM, etc. This *does* + affect the rasterization to some extent, but in the cases I tried, it + was no worse, and sometimes better. +- - a small test file, modetest.tex, included. +- - new modes for the Amiga ShowDVI previewer, PC previewing, + high-resolution fax, LJ 5, Canon BJC, Lexmark Optra 4049 R, Agfa 3400PS. +- - default localfont now ljfour. +- - screen_rows, screen_cols interchanged to match plain.mf. +- - TeX formatting improved, but still not completely working. + +As always, thanks to the contributors, and further additions and +improvements are welcome. Please send bug reports or suggestions to +tex-fonts@math.utah.edu (email tex-fonts-request to join the mailing list). + + +General information: + +modes.mf is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common +definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and +landscape mode. It uses up too much memory for the table sizes in the +original mf.web, so you either have to increase the sizes (as in Web2c) +or rename the file and remove unneeded modes. I can't decipher mf.web +well enough to understand how to make the modes use less memory; if some +Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd very much like to hear it. + +If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the +existing ones, please send them to me. Improvements to the exposition, +particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome. + +kb@cs.umb.edu + +mode_def agfafzz = % AGFA 400PS +mode_def agfatfzz = % AGFA P3400PS +mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga +mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 +mode_def apssixhi = % Autologic APS-Micro6 +mode_def atariezf = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer +mode_def atarinf = % Atari 95dpi previewer +mode_def atarins = % Atari 96x96 previewer +mode_def atariotf = % Atari ST SM 124 screen +mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi +mode_def bjtenex = % Canon BubbleJet 10ex +mode_def boise = % HP 2680A +mode_def canonbjc = % Canon BJC-600, 360x360dpi +mode_def canonex = % CanonEX in LaserWriter Pro 630 +mode_def canonlbp = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10 +mode_def cg = % Compugraphic 8600 +mode_def cgl = % Compugraphic 8600 landscape +mode_def cgnszz = % Compugraphic 9600 +mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS +mode_def cx = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX +mode_def datadisc = % DataDisc +mode_def newdd = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio +mode_def declarge = % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024 +mode_def decsmall = % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768 +mode_def deskjet = % HP DeskJet 500 +mode_def docutech = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 +mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover +mode_def eighthre = % EightThree (83x83) +mode_def epsdrft = % Epson at 120x72dpi +mode_def epsdrftl = % Epson at 120x72dpi landscape +mode_def epsfast = % Epson at 60x72dpi +mode_def epsfastl = % Epson at 60x72dpi landscape +mode_def epson = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family +mode_def epsonl = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family landscape +mode_def epsonact = % Epson Action Laser 1500 +mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120x216dpi +mode_def epsonlol = % Epson at 120x216dpi landscape +mode_def epstylus = % Epson Stylus +mode_def fourfour = % FourFour (44x44) (really low-res) +mode_def gtfax = % 204 x 196dpi G3fax +mode_def gtfaxl = % 204 x 196dpi G3fax landscape +mode_def gtfaxlo = % 204 x 98dpi G3fax +mode_def gtfaxlol = % 204 x 98dpi G3fax landscape +mode_def highfax = % 200 x 200dpi G3fax +mode_def hprugged = % HP RuggedWriter 480 +mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (\#1) +mode_def ibmd = % IBM 38xx (\#2) +mode_def ibmega = % IBM EGA monitor +mode_def ibmegal = % IBM EGA monitor landscape +mode_def ibmfzon = % IBM 4019 +mode_def ibmfztn = % IBM 4029-30, 4250 +mode_def ibmpp = % IBM ProPrinter +mode_def ibmppl = % IBM ProPrinter landscape +mode_def ibmsoff = % IBM 6154 display +mode_def sherpa = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) +mode_def ibmteot = % IBM 3812 +mode_def ibmtetz = % IBM 3820 +mode_def ibmtont = % IBM 3193 screen +mode_def ibmtosn = % IBM 3179 screen +mode_def ibmtosnl = % IBM 3179 screen landscape +mode_def ibmvga = % IBM VGA monitor +mode_def ibx = % Chelgraph IBX +mode_def itoh = % CItoh 8510A +mode_def itohl = % CItoh 8510A landscape +mode_def itohtoz = % CItoh 310 +mode_def itohtozl = % CItoh 310 landscape +mode_def iw = % Apple ImageWriter +mode_def jetiiisi = % HP Laser Jet IIISi +mode_def lasf = % DEC LA75 +mode_def lexmarkr = % IBM (Lexmark) Optra R (4049) +mode_def linolo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi +mode_def linolttz = % Linotype Linotronic L-300 with RIP-50 +mode_def linoone = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi +mode_def linotzzh = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi +mode_def ljfive = % HP LaserJet 5 +mode_def ljfour = % 600dpi HP LaserJet 4 +mode_def ljlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi +mode_def lmaster = % 1000dpi LaserMaster +mode_def lnzo = % DEC LN01 +mode_def lpstz = % DEC lps20 +mode_def lqlores = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi +mode_def lqmed = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi +mode_def lqmedl = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi landscape +mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor +mode_def lwpro = % Apple LaserWriterPro 810 +mode_def macmag = % Mac screens at magstep 1 +mode_def mactrue = % Mac screens at 72dpi +mode_def ncd = % NCD 19-inch +mode_def nec = % NEC 180dpi +mode_def nechi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi +mode_def neclm = % NEC PC-PR406LM 320dpi +mode_def nectzo = % NEC PC-PR201 series 160dpi +mode_def nexthi = % NeXT 400dpi, Newgen +mode_def nextscrn = % 100dpi NeXT monitor +mode_def nineone = % NineOne (91x91) +mode_def nullmode = % TFM files only +mode_def onetz = % OneTwoZero (120/120) +mode_def onezz = % OneZeroZero (100x100) +mode_def ocessfz = % OCE 6750-PS +mode_def okidata = % Okidata +mode_def okidatal = % Okidata landscape +mode_def okifte = % Okidata 410e in 600 DPI mode +mode_def pcscreen = % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns +mode_def pcprevw = % preview on pc screen +mode_def phaser = % Tektronix Phaser PXi +mode_def prntware = % Printware 720IQ +mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine) +mode_def qmsostf = % QMS 1725 +mode_def qmsoszz = % QMS 1700 +mode_def ricoh = % e.g., TI Omnilaser +mode_def ricoha = % e.g., IBM 4216 +mode_def ricohlp = % e.g., DEC LN03 +mode_def sparcptr = % Sun SPARCprinter +mode_def starnlt = % Star NL-10 +mode_def starnltl = % Star NL-10 landscape +mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi +mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi +mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ +mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi +mode_def vs = % VAXstation monitor +mode_def vtftzz = % Varityper 4200 B-P +mode_def vtftzzhi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi +mode_def vtftzzlo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi +mode_def vtfzszw = % Varitype 5060W, APS 6 +mode_def vtszz = % Varityper Laser 600 +mode_def xrxesnz = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 +mode_def xrxfzfz = % Xerox 4050/4075/4090/4700 +mode_def xrxnszz = % Xerox 9700 +mode_def xrxtszz = % Xerox 3700 + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #1 +*************************** + + +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 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However, I've just been asked about running +LaTeX on a Windows platform, and it occurs to me that I know nothing whatever +about this. + +Starting from scratch then, in an early-1996 Windows environment, where should +one go to get the ideal TeX/LaTeX setup? I assume there are `commercial' +solutions (we use Textures on Macintosh already) but I don't know how much +money might be available, so a price spectrum from zero to lottery-winner is +appropriate, I think. + +Thanks for any suggestions, + +Sam. +- -- +Sam Nelson, Comp Sci, Stirling U, FK9 4LA, Scotland ,->0->M +Email: sam@cs.stir.ac.uk Pager: 0839 456640 I->3-+->2->R=->-+->4->O +Tel: +44 1786 467443 Fax: +44 1786 464551 `->1->S=->-' +URL: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~sam R$+@$+ $@smtp$#$2$:$1@$2 + +------------------------------ + +From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk> +Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 17:33:17 GMT +Subject: Re: LaTeX2e + +> I currently possess just LaTeX, +> ... +> However, I notice that LaTeX2e is mentioned a great deal. What are +> the advantages, if any, of switching to this? + +I think this question is the result of a misunderstanding. LaTeX2e is +not an `alternative to LaTeX' but rather is just the current version +of LaTeX. The previous version (2.09) is now obsolete. + +Specifically if you should decide to re-install a complete emtex on +your PC (This is probably a good idea anyway, as emtex was +significantly re-organised and improved earlier this year) then the +LaTeX version that you will get by default will be LaTeX2e. + +emtex (including LaTeX, and suitable previewers etc) is available from +ctan sites such as ftp.tex.ac.uk in tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex. +You can make a basic installation by following QUICK.ENG (quick +English instructions) to be found in that directory. + +David + + +------------------------------ + +From: "Dr. Ke Chen" <chen@cis.pku.edu.cn> +Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:11:18 +0800 (GMT+0800) +Subject: latex2e IEEEtran macro wanted. + +I found the previous IEEEtran.sty did not work in LaTex2e. Some days ago, +a person sent me his own new IEEEtran.sty but there are a few problems +such as that the title of section is always typeset with a small font, +etc. As a result, I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me where +a complete IEEEtran macro in latex2e is available. + +Ke Chen + +#========================================================================# +# Dr. Ke Chen, Associate Professor Tel: +86-10-2751935(O) # +# National Lab of Machine Perception +86-10-2585703(H) # +# The Center of Information Science Fax: +86-10-2563883,2552779 # +# Peking University Email: chen@cis.pku.edu.cn # +# Beijing 100871, China chenke@pku.edu.cn # +#========================================================================# + + +------------------------------ + +From: maues@csv.warwick.ac.uk +Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:51:00 +0000 (GMT) +Subject: EmTeX printing to Canon BJ200ex printer + +I am absolutely a beginner as you can tell. +I have successfully installed emTex onto my PC and now is the Printer. +(use under DOS) + +I have a Canon BJ200ex printer. + +Q1. When the time I use the commands: +1) latex2e sample2e OKAY (where sample2e is the file name) +2) v @bj samples2e OKAY +3) prtbj10e samples2e ===> 6 blank pages +4) prtbj300 sample2e ==> 6 blank pages +5) prtp6h samples2e ===> there are some pages print out, which is the + original BUT for each line of the orginal + document, it comes out twice and into four + separate parts. + + +By the way, p6h is not the printer I am using, but every time I used the +print command, a file for the p6h fonts created under the font directory. + +Do you know what is it about? +And what should I do now? +What command should I use? + +Thanks + __\/__ + . / ^ _ \ . + |\| (o)(o) |/| + #---------------.OOOo--oo--oOOO.--------------# + # Trevor Jonathan Yuen # + # Mathematics Institute # + # University of Warwick # + # Phone: (0973) 345 457 # + #_________________________Oooo._______________# + .oooO ( ) + ( ) ) / + \ ( (_/ + \_) + + +------------------------------ + +From: Joao Luis Cardoso Soares <jls55@columbia.edu> +Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:59:41 -0500 (EST) +Subject: gtex installation help + +I've installed gtex 2.2 (by Young U. Ryu) on a Pentium machine running +windows 95, but I keep getting two error messages which might be related: +1) After running \tex\set-tex.bat I get + Sharing violation - c:\tex\set-tex.bat +2) When trying to open a DVI file whose fonts are to be created, I get + Cannot find the file ". + Make sure that the file exists on your system and that the path + and filename are correct. + +Does anyone have a suggestion, or at least let me know the email address of +the author. Many thanks, Joao +- -- +Joao Luis Cardoso Soares E-mail: jsoares@groucho.gsb.columbia.edu +Columbia University Tel : (212) 749-6222 (Home) +804 Uris Hall Fax : (212) 864-4857 (PhD student) +New York, NY 10027 http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~jls55/ + + +------------------------------ + +From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> +Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:44:10 -0500 (EST) +Subject: TUGboat 16 #3 is being mailed + +i'm pleased to announce that tugboat 16#3 will be mailed from the +printer tomorrow. the table of contents for this issue is attached. + +tugboat 16#4 will be sent to the printer within the next few days. +the schedule calls for mailing three weeks after the printer receives +the copy. + +the next issue, 17#1, will be dated march 1996 and should be delivered +to the printer within that month. thanks to all the members of the +production team who have made very great efforts to get this back on +schedule. + -- barbara beeton + + -------------------- + + TUGboat + + Volume 16, Number 3 / September 1995 + ================================ + +Contents (128 pages) + + +Robin Fairbairns + Production notes 222 + +Opening Address + Michel Goossens + President's words 223 + +Fonts + Jiri Zlatuska 227 + When MF does it alone + Richard J. Kinch + MetaFog: converting MF shapes to contours 233 + Alan Hoenig + The Poetica family: fancy fonts with TeX and LaTeX 244 + Michel Goossens + Using Adobe Type 1 Multiple Master fonts with TeX 253 + Jeremy Gibbons + Dotted and dashed lines in MF 259 + Sergey Lesenko + Printing TeX documents with partial Type 1 fonts 265 + +LaTeX + Matthew Swift + Modularity in LaTeX 269 + Dennis Kletzing + A multienumerate package 276 + +Hyphenation + Petr Sojka and Pavel Sevecek + Hyphenation in TeX --- Quo Vadis? 280 + Petr Sojka + Notes on compound word hyphenation in TeX 290 + +Literate programming + Wlodek Bzyl + Literate Plain source is available! 297 + Bart Childs, Deborah Dunn and William Lively + Teaching CS/1 courses in a literate manner 300 + +Methods + T.V. Raman + An audio view of (La)TeX documents --- part II 310 + Sebastian Rahtz + Another look at LaTeX to SGML conversion 315 + Robin Fairbairns + Omega --- Why bother with Unicode? 325 + Gabriel Valiente Feruglio + Modern Catalan typographical conventions 329 + +News & Announcements + TUG'96 Announcement 339 + Calendar 340 + +TUG Business + TUG'95 --- List of Attendees 341 + Institutional members 344 + +Advertisements + TeX consulting and production services 345 + +%% END OF FILE + +------------------------------ + +From: gabriele@dtovf1.roma2.infn.it (gabriele migliorini) +Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 13:12:34 +0100 +Subject: New problems from a newcomer... + +Dear readers, + at the very beginning, I have to thank all of you for reading +my previous post, an trying to give me sensible replies. To summarize, +the best answer to the bold greek letters is to simply get and run +amsbsy, that's part of the amslatex distribution. It gives two new +commands: a \boldsymbol that embolden a char in a font having a +correspondent bold-face, and a 'ppor men's bold', that overstrikes a +normal font, emboldening it even if there is not a bold typeface for +printing it. As I got asmlatex, I got many new useful functions, like +an extendable arrow symbol for writing limits, and a couple of new +strange (?bugs?): in the manual, I read that there are a couple of +operator redefining commands, that should make a log-like operator, +with eventual _{text} printed at bottom right of the operator, and a +lim like one, with text printed under the operator. But, in my printed +version, they look exactly the same, and therefore, something is not +doing it job. Furthermore, when I latexed the testmath.tex document, I +got some \i command undefined in math mode, about lines containing a +\begin or a \end... Are those signs of an incompatible behavior of + +a) the latex release of december'95 and amslatex +b) TeX 3.1415 and the other programs +c) the test documents, and amslatex (sure enough, I'm joking here!) + +Now, I'm crying for help another time: You know, I was writing down +some lecture notes for a course I attended In march, and I started +using latex after a disaster with the copy of word on the computer I +used: the equation editor suddenly decided not to run anymore. Now, I +have half of my work in Latex, and another half in Word 6 format. Is +there anybody who does know how to convert the latter? I read, in the +documentation about programs on ctan, that such a program cannot be +public domain... But does there exist a commercial program doing the +job? If it does exist, does some of you own a copy of it, and can be +so nice to let me send him my document, and convert it for me? + +I'll be, as usual, grateful 'till the end of my life to anybody +helping me. 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Horn) +Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:11:04 -0500 +Subject: TeX/LaTeX on Windows + + From: "Sam Nelson (CO)" <Sam.Nelson@cs.stir.ac.uk + Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:27:33 +0000 (GMT) + Subject: TeX/LaTeX on Windows + + Not being a beginner, this is going to sound a bit weird, I suppose, but + despite having used TeX and LaTeX around here for more than a decade, I've + never been asked (very much) to put them up on PC platforms, which are in + little use in this department. However, I've just been asked about running + LaTeX on a Windows platform, and it occurs to me that I know nothing whatever + about this. + + Starting from scratch then, in an early-1996 Windows environment, where + should one go to get the ideal TeX/LaTeX setup? I assume there are + `commercial' solutions (we use Textures on Macintosh already) but I don't + know how much money might be available, so a price spectrum from zero to + lottery-winner is appropriate, I think. + +Check out http://www.YandY.com (or contact sales-help@Yandy.com). + + Thanks for any suggestions, + + Sam. + +> Sam Nelson, Comp Sci, Stirling U, FK9 4LA, Scotland ,->0->M +> Email: sam@cs.stir.ac.uk Pager: 0839 456640 I->3-+->2->R=->-+->4->O +> Tel: +44 1786 467443 Fax: +44 1786 464551 `->1->S=->-' +> URL: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~sam R$+@$+ $@smtp$#$2$:$1@$2 + +DISCLAIMER: respondent has connections with Y&Y + +------------------------------ + +From: Jonathan Dixon <dixonj@rococo.Colorado.EDU> +Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 13:59:29 MST +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #2 + +You wrote: +> From: "Dr. Ke Chen" <chen@cis.pku.edu.cn> +> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:11:18 +0800 (GMT+0800) +> Subject: latex2e IEEEtran macro wanted. +> +> I found the previous IEEEtran.sty did not work in LaTex2e. Some days ago, +> a person sent me his own new IEEEtran.sty but there are a few problems +> such as that the title of section is always typeset with a small font, +> etc. As a result, I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me where +> a complete IEEEtran macro in latex2e is available. +> +> Ke Chen +> +> #========================================================================# +> # Dr. Ke Chen, Associate Professor Tel: +86-10-2751935(O) # +> # National Lab of Machine Perception +86-10-2585703(H) # +> # The Center of Information Science Fax: +86-10-2563883,2552779 # +> # Peking University Email: chen@cis.pku.edu.cn # +> # Beijing 100871, China chenke@pku.edu.cn # +> #========================================================================# + +I have a version I modified to make an IEEEtran.cls. I haven't tested it +extensively, but for what I've done it seems to work. If someone can +provide a place to post it to, I'd be more than willing to have it +distributed. + +- -- +Jon Dixon +dixonj@colorado.edu +http://spot.colorado.edu/~dixonj/ + + +------------------------------ + +From: "Dr. Ke Chen" <chen@cis.pku.edu.cn> +Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:20:40 +0800 (GMT+0800) +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #2 + +On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Jonathan Dixon wrote: + +> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 13:59:29 MST +> From: Jonathan Dixon <dixonj@rococo.Colorado.EDU> +> To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +> Cc: chen@cis.pku.edu.cn +> Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #2 +> +> You wrote: +> > From: "Dr. Ke Chen" <chen@cis.pku.edu.cn> +> > Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:11:18 +0800 (GMT+0800) +> > Subject: latex2e IEEEtran macro wanted. +> > +> > I found the previous IEEEtran.sty did not work in LaTex2e. Some days ago, +> > a person sent me his own new IEEEtran.sty but there are a few problems +> > such as that the title of section is always typeset with a small font, +> > etc. As a result, I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me where +> > a complete IEEEtran macro in latex2e is available. +> > +> > Ke Chen +> > +> I have a version I modified to make an IEEEtran.cls. I haven't tested it +> extensively, but for what I've done it seems to work. If someone can +> provide a place to post it to, I'd be more than willing to have it distributed. +> +> -- +> Jon Dixon +> dixonj@colorado.edu +> http://spot.colorado.edu/~dixonj/ +> + +Thanks very much for your kind response. I think you might upload it +to CTAN archives. In addition, I would appreciate it if you would send +this macro to me by email for my immediate use. + +Ke Chen +#========================================================================# +# Dr. Ke Chen, Associate Professor Tel: +86-10-2751935(O) # +# National Lab of Machine Perception +86-10-2585703(H) # +# The Center of Information Science Fax: +86-10-2563883,2552779 # +# Peking University Email: chen@cis.pku.edu.cn # +# Beijing 100871, China chenke@pku.edu.cn # +#========================================================================# + + +------------------------------ + +From: dhlee@pearl.cs.pusan.ac.kr (DoHoon Lee) +Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 19:02:12 KST +Subject: spell checker for sun(UNIX) + +I am looking for spell checker utility for LaTeX. +Does anybody know where this be found ? Or +If you have spell checker for LaTeX, please let me got it. +Thanks in advance, + +Dohoon Lee +============================================================ +Dept. of Computer Science +Pusan National University +Pusan 609-735, Korea +dhlee@pearl.cs.pusan.ac.kr +============================================================ + + +------------------------------ + +From: Kris Lockyear <K.Lockyear@soton.ac.uk> +Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:17:08 PST +Subject: permille, fractions, space, \afterpage and procs + +Could anyone help me with five queries? The first two are perhaps simple, the last two I am unsure about. FYI I am using +LaTeX2e with emTeX on a PC. + +1) How can I get a permille sign (like a percent sign but with two zeros -- 0/00). I scanned the tables in The Companion and +The Book but don't see it. + +2) How can I get nice in-text fractions? By that I mean not 1/2 which $1/2$ would give you, or \frac{1}{2}, but a fraction +where there is a small 1, a diagonal line and a small 2. (I usually use the Times package and a PS laserprinter). + +3) I have a chapter which is nearly all text with some headings/sub-headings and footnotes. In places, LaTeX has increased +the white space between paragraphs or around sub-headings in order to place a \section at the top of a page. This looks very +ugly and I would rather have a little extra white space at the bottom of the page, than extra white space between paragraphs. + Is there any way I can stop LaTeX adding this extra space? + +4) In another chapter I have a lot of tables and figures. Following advice in The Companion, I often use +\afterpage{\clearpage} to flush out the figures etc. Unfortunately, this occasionally results in a blank page with the header +at the top, and a footnote at the bottom. Any suggestions? + +5) Lastly, later this year I have to produce a set of conference proceedings. Could I have some pointers to classes/packages +and/or articles which would enable me to do this in LaTeX2e. Specifically, including authors names and addresses in paper +titles and the TOC etc. + +Many thanks in advance, + +Kris Lockyear. + + + +------------------------------ + +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 14:36:53 +0000 +Subject: Table of contents, TUGboat 16(2) + +It appears that we (the TUGboat production team) did not post this +table of contents. Apologies to all ... + + TUGboat + + Volume 16, Number 2 / June 1995 + Guest Editor: Malcolm Clark + ================================ + +Addresses 99 + +General Delivery + Michel~Goossens 101 + Opening words + Malcolm~Clark + Introduction 101 + +Theme Issue on Portability of Electronic Documents + + Michel~Goossens and Janne~Saarela + A practical introduction to SGML 103 + Peter~Flynn + HTML & TeX: Making them sweat 146 + Geeti~Granger + The inside story of life at Wiley with SGML, 151 + LaTeX and Acrobat + Mark~D.~Doyle + The Los Alamos e-print archives: + HyperTeX in action 154 + Otfried~Schwarzkopf + The Hyperlatex story 159 + Yannis~Haralambous and Sebastian~Rahtz + LaTeX, hypertext and PDF, or the entry of TeX + into the world of hypertext 162 + Michel~Goossens and Janne~Saarela + TeX to HTML and back 174 + +News & Announcements + + Calendar 215 + Late-Breaking News + Mimi~Burbank and Barbara Beeton + Production notes 100 + Coming next issue + +TUG Business + Institutional members 217 + +Forms + TUG membership application + +Advertisements + TeX consulting and production services 218 + Index of advertisers 218 + +%%% end of file + + +------------------------------ + +From: Michel Goossens <Michel.Goossens@cern.ch> +Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:44:11 +0100 (MET) +Subject: Announcing TUG'96 in Dubna (Russia) July 28-Aug 2 1996 + +====================================================================== + + The 17th Annual TeX Users Group Meeting + + + polyglot polytechnic + + polymath POLY-TeX polymath + + polytechnic polyglot + + + July 28-- August 2, 1996 + + in JINR, Dubna, Russia + + Organized jointly by: TUG, CyrTUG, JINR + + CALL FOR PAPERS + +====================================================================== +Dear TeX Friends! + +So the time has arrived when TeX, the Polyglot, who has for many years +happily ``spoken'' many different languages written in the Latin +alphabet, extends its knowledge in the field of other alphabets. +During the Summer of 1996, a visit is planned to Russia where TeX +will have its first practical session in Cyrillic. + +Russia is that large country, with its enormous spaces, inhabited by +those enigmatic Russians, who started the century with a Revolution, +and ended it with ``Perestroyka''. A country who founded a brilliant +mathematical school, colonized the Cosmos, and conquered the world +with its literature, music, and ballet. + +So what awaits the TeX user who plans to attend TUG'96? + +At Moscow's international Sheremetevo-2 Airport, conference +participants will be met by a member of the organizing committee and +escorted by bus to Dubna, where from July 28 to August 2, the 17th TUG +conference will take place (see below for more about Dubna). If, for +some reason or another, you envision cold, the taiga, and white bears, +then we can reassure you, Dubna is in the European part of Russia, and +if you want to see the ice on the nordic oceans, you will have to +travel further than you would to reach the subtropics of the Black Sea +shore. Indeed, you will soon find that the pine forest in which the +comfortable town of Dubna is situated will remind you of a park. In +July and August, the weather is mostly warm and sunny, with an average +temperature of 28 degrees Centigrade. Guests will be housed in a +comfortable hotel on the banks of the Volga river in single or double +rooms (hot water, shower, telephone, and television). The Russian +``cuisine'' is characterized by its abundance, so one can forget about +slimming. + +The social program includes a picnic on the picturesque banks of the +Volga, where we will be taken by boat, a bus excursion to Sergiev +Posad (the center of the Russian Orthodox Church, where Andrey +Slephkhin works--- see his article on page 373 of TUGboat 16#4 or the +EuroTeX'95 proceedings page 331), and, on the last day a visit to +Moscow, following which the participants can be dropped of at the +airport to fly home, or at one of the railway stations, if they want +to prolong their visit. + +The conference's preliminary program will be announced as soon as we +receive from you, dear readers, proposals for presentations, courses +that you would like to teach or attend, poster sessions, or any +problem(s) or subject(s) that interest you. Please send your +suggestions to the conference electronic address + +TUG96@pds.jinr.ru +================= + +The theme of the Conference is: PolyTeX, TeX or the art of +multi-lingual, maths and technical typesetting. + + + polyglot polytechnic + + polymath POLY-TeX polymath + + polytechnic polyglot + + +=================== +PROGRAM COMMITTEE +=================== + +Evgeniy Vasilievitch Pankratiev Moscow, Russia + Email: pankrat@shade.msu.ru + +Michel Goossens Geneva, Switzerland + Email: goossens@cern.ch + +Mimi Burbank Florida, USA + Email: mimi@scri.fsu.edu + + +=========== +DEADLINES +=========== + +Submission of abstracts February 20 <<<<<<< + +Acceptance signified to authors February 29 <<<<<<< + +Preliminary articles March 31 <<<<<<< + +Proposals for workshops, demos, + and poster sessions April 20 + +Registration and transfer of a +non-refundable sum of $100 +per person to a Dubna bank May 31 + +Visa supporting information June 5 + +Revised articles June 10 <<<<<<< + +Start of Conference July 28 + + + +====================== +ORGANIZING COMMITTEE +====================== + +Vladimir Vasilievitch Korenkov Dubna, Russia + Email: korenkov@cv.jinr.ru + +Irina Anatolievna Makhovaya Moscow, Russia + Email: irina@mir.msk.su + +Sebastian Rahtz Oxford, UK + Email: s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk + + +====================== +PRACTICAL INFORMATION +======================= + +- - ---------------- +Conference costs +- - ---------------- + +The Conference Committee foresees a cost in the range 550--600 USD. +This sum includes the complete cost of the conference, namely the +registration fee, lodging (6 nights with six breakfasts, lunches, and +dinners), coffee/tea breaks, social events, and transport from +Sheremetevo Airport to Dubna. The payment should be made in the +following way: a `non-refundable' sum of $100 per person should be +transferred to a bank account (to be announced) before June 1st. +After receipt of that sum an official invitation, necessary for +obtaining a visa (see below), will be faxed to the participant. The +rest will be payable in cash upon arrival at the Conference (no credit +cards or cheques can be used in Dubna). %For participants of +economically weaker countries or for students %we hope to arrange +partial support via sponsors. We hope to arrange bursary funds for +support of students and those participants who demonstrate need. + +- - ----- +Visas +- - ----- + +Most of the visitors from outside Russia will need a visa to attend +the Conference. Therefore, for arranging a visa into Russia, +participants should inform the + + Mrs. N. Dokalenko, Conference Secretariat + E-mail nataly@ypr.jinr.dubna.su; + Fax 7 095 975 2381 or 7 09621 65 891 + +of their and (possibly) the accompanying person(s)'s full name, date +of birth, citizenship, passport number, arrival and departure dates. +The Secretariat will forward by fax the visa support message to the +participants with which they should apply for visas to the nearest +Russian Embassy or Consulate. Please note that you should apply for a +visa valid for Dubna, Moscow, and Sergiev Posad. (If you plan to visit +other cities in Russia you should obtain the relevant documents and +join them to the visa application, so that the names of all places to +be visited can be entered on the visa form as required.) + +- - -------------- +Transportation +- - -------------- + +The Organizing Committee will arrange direct transportation by bus +from the Sheremetevo-2 Airport to Dubna (130 km north of Moscow). The +Secretariat should be informed of the flight number, precise date and +time of arrival (Moscow time) `no later than' four working days before +a participant wishes to be met at the airport. It is our intention to +have each participant met by a member of Organizing Committee. +Details will be available later. + + +==================== +WELCOME TO DUBNA ! +==================== + +Dubna was founded in 1956 when the Convention establishing the Joint +Institute for Nuclear Research was signed. The town is situated on the +picturesque banks of the Volga river and the Moscow sea 120 km to the +north of Moscow. One can reach Dubna from Moscow within 2 hours going +by car, by bus or by express train. It will take you 1.5 hours to go +to Dubna from the Sheremetevo-2 International Airport. Waterways +connect Dubna not only to the Russian Volga cities, but also to the +waters of the Black, the Caspian, the Baltic and the White seas. + +There is no harmful environmental impact from the industrial plants; +this together with the large tracts of forest in the environs of +Dubna, and the vast water area dotted with small islands, makes the +area quite attractive for tourism and rest. The Volga embankment is +one of the prettiest parts of the town. In springtime, the streets of +Dubna are full of the odour of lilacs, the apple trees are pink-white; +in summer, lime trees, maples, birch trees and poplars make the town +seem totally green; in autumn the town is all golden excepting the +evergreen of old pine trees. The town's modern look harmonizes with +the quietness of the surrounding forest. The town was built in the +midst of a forest. There are separate patches of trees in the town +itself, and the town park is just a part of the forest. It takes just +a few minutes to get to the forest from the shopping centre on foot. A +few minutes' walk and you are outside the city limits! + +Small as it is, Dubna is a real metropolis. It is a scientific +metropolis. It is a ``big little city'', as a visiting American +scientist called it many years ago. Since the foundation of the Joint +Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), the name of Dubna has +constantly been in the pages of the world's newspapers and journals. +Dubna is one of the world centres for fundamental research in nuclear +physics. The Joint Institute plays an important role as a coordinator +of investigations of the scientists from 18 JINR member-state +institutes. Wide international scientific and technical cooperation +is one of the fundamental concepts of the JINR. + +Dubna is indeed a town of international friendship. Foreign speech can +be heard everywhere. But the words, no matter in which language they +are pronounced, are clear to everybody: friendly cooperation and +fraternity unite all the physicists and mathematicians living and +working in Dubna into an international scientific community. + +On October 3, 1994, Dubna opened its doors to its first university, +``International University of Dubna: Nature, Society and Man''. The +university is composed of five "cathedra" or faculties, including +socioeconomic sciences, ecology and earth science, computer education, +linguistics, and health and physical education. Two more faculties--- +law and government and technology--- are also being contemplated. + +The town has great experience in holding international conferences, +and exchanges of delegations between countries in the sphere of +science, education and culture. Dubna and La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA, +are sister cities. Dubna is famous for its hospitality. Famous +scientists, public figures and statesmen from different countries +visit Dubna. They are always impressed by the gracious welcome they +receive in Dubna and warm generosity which Dubna residents +demonstrate. + +======================= +A FEW WORDS ON MOSCOW +======================= + +Moscow, the capital of Russia, has a population of some nine million +people. It is a city rich in cultural, architectural and historical +monuments, and, at the same time, boasts a rapidly developing modern +urban community with brand new blocks of flats, long, straight and +broad avenues, parks, gardens, stadiums, schools, cinemas, department +stores, recreation centres, bridges and highways. Though +forward-looking, it cherishes the memory of its past, and its old +sections lend it a special charm. + + +Michel Goossens / TUG President + + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #3 +*************************** + + +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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As a consequence final papers not received by June 10 will not +appear in the Proceedings Issue of TUGboat. + +The most up-to-date information about TUG'96 will be available at the +URL: http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~mimi/tug96/tug96.html +or, by ftp from the CTAN archives in + tex-archive/usergrps/tug/tug96/news-mon.asc + +The TUG'96 Organizing Committee + + +------------------------------ + +From: rpreuss@bbn.com (Rob Preuss) +Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:07:58 -0500 +Subject: Memo Class? + +Q: Regarding Memorandum Class(es) for LaTeX2e. + + (short form) + Is there a popular/standard document class for creating memos + with LaTeX2e (and the AMS-LaTeX 1.2 add-ons) using TeXtures? + + (long form) + 10 years ago I wrote my own "memo" style using the standard + "article" style as a starting point. Main features included: + + - double column option + - 10pt, 11pt, 12pt options + - titlesection (created by \maketitle) sorta like + + MEMORANDUM + + To: ... + From: ... + Subject: ... + Date: ... + Copies To: ... + _______________________ + + - RHS header with + + short form contents of the "To:" field, + + contents of "Date:" field, and + + Page x of xx. + - footer with copyright info. + + Its been great, but now I'd like to upgrade to LaTeX2e while + taking advantage of all the nifty stuff offered by AMS-LaTeX. + + 1. Do I have to reinvent this or does something similar exist? + 2. If so, should I write a new class or just a package? + 3. Should this new class/package be more related to the + "article" class or the "amsart" class? + +Thanks very much! + +______________ + Dr. Robert D. Preuss (Rob) + BBN Acoustic Technologies Voice: 617-873-3773 + 70 Fawcett Street Fax: 617-873-2894 or 2918 + Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Internet: rpreuss@bbn.com + + + +------------------------------ + +From: Mr Marcilo Alves <marcilio@liverpool.ac.uk> +Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:26:32 +0000 (GMT) +Subject: startsection + +Hi, + +I'm trying to redefine the \section, \chapter look by +using the \@startsection command (Companion, page 24). + +I always get the message + + you can't use \spacefactor in vertical mode + + +Coul you help me? + +Here goes my input + + +\documentclass{book} +\renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection + {\section}% + {1}% + {2mm}% + {2mm}% + {2mm} + {\itshape}}% +\begin{document} +\section{Hi} +This is ... +\end{document} + + +and here the message + +This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) +(lixo.tex +LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1 +(/apps/TeX/inputs/tex/latex2e/base/book.cls +Document Class: book 1994/12/09 v1.2x Standard LaTeX document class +(/apps/TeX/inputs/tex/latex2e/base/bk10.clo)) +No file lixo.aux. +! You can't use `\spacefactor' in vertical mode. +\@->\spacefactor + \@m +l.10 \section + {Hi} +? + +Thanks + + +marcilio + + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #4 +*************************** + + +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. The hosts comprising CTAN include, among others, + ftp.dante.de (129.69.1.12) -- Germany + ftp.shsu.edu (192.92.115.10) -- USA + ftp.tex.ac.uk (128.232.1.87) -- UK +Please use your nearest server, to keep network load down. +The file /tex-archive/CTAN.sites on each of these hosts gives a +list of other sites which maintain full or partial mirrors of the CTAN. +Alternatively, finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for full details. + +TeXhax Digest back issues are filed below /tex-archive/digests/texhax/ +Keyword-In-Context indexes are filed in /tex-archive/digests/indexes/ + +A Hypermail version of TeXhax is also available on the World-Wide Web at URL +http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/digests/hyper/ + +\bye + diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.05 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.05 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c1a77277bb --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.05 @@ -0,0 +1,224 @@ +From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Mon Apr 15 11:53:11 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 LAA15365 for <cczdao@unix.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:53:11 +0100 +Message-Id: <199604151053.LAA15365@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + id <27588-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; + Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:52:28 +0100 +From: Majordomo list server <owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk> +To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #5 +Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk +Precedence: bulk +Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:52:28 +0100 +Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk + + +TeXhax Digest Monday, 15 April 1996 Volume 96 : Number 005 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: fractions, space, \afterpage (TeXhax) + Re: startsection (TeXhax Digest V96 #4) + Plain TeX query + disc set and printer driver for LaTex 2e + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Donald Arseneau <asnd@triumf.ca> +Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 20:47:44 PST +Subject: Re: fractions, space, \afterpage (TeXhax) + +In TeXhax Digest V96 #3, Kris Lockyear <K.Lockyear@soton.ac.uk> wrote: + +% 2) How can I get ... 1/2 with small 1, a diagonal line and a small 2. + +It is in The TeXbook, exercise 11.6. You probably have manmac.tex and/or +eplain.tex on your system somewhere; you can copy the definition out of +there to avoid re-typing it. + +% 3) LaTeX increased white space between paragraphs to place a \section at +the +% top of a page. This looks very ugly. + + +Declare \raggedbottom (described in the LaTeX manual) + +% 4) I often use \afterpage{\clearpage} to flush out the figures etc. +% this occasionally results in a blank page with a footnote at the bottom. + +a) In my opinion, this is never necessary. It only helps when figures are +*stuck* with impossible placement requirements. You are better off giving +realistic placement options for your figures and setting higher values for +\topfraction and \bottomfraction (say 0.8) and a lower \textfraction (0.2). +Re-read the LaTeX manual discussion of these. + +b) Don't write long footnotes. + +c) You can avoid most split footnotes using: +\raggedbottom \addtolength{\topskip}{0pt plus 1cm minus 0.2pt} +(No, the top won't be ragged; just the bottom.) + +Donald Arseneau asnd@reg.triumf.ca + + +------------------------------ + +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:33:00 +0000 +Subject: Re: startsection (TeXhax Digest V96 #4) + +Mr Marcilo Alves writes: +>I'm trying to redefine the \section, \chapter look by +>using the \@startsection command (Companion, page 24). + +Having not read the Companion, page 16 (I think it is), where it tells +you to: + + \makeatletter +>\renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection +> {\section}% +> {1}% +> {2mm}% +> {2mm}% +> {2mm} +> {\itshape}}% + \makeatother + +This is one of the most-FAQs. The Companion is _not_ a beginner's +book; if you've never programmed LaTeX macros before *PLEASE* +(everyone, not just Mr. Alves!) read the introductory pages first +(there are only twenty or so of them). + + +------------------------------ + +From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason) +Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:47:11 GMT +Subject: Plain TeX query + +% Could someone please answer a question which has been puzzling me for some +% while because, unless I misunderstand the TeXbook, TeX is not doing what I +% think it should do. Consider the following input file: +%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +\chardef\return=`\^^M +% +\def\dopling{% + \ifcat\space\noexpand\next + \wlog{<Pling><Space>}% + \else \ifcat\return\noexpand\next + \wlog{<Pling><Return>}% + \else \ifcat\bgroup\noexpand\next + \wlog{<Pling><Left brace>}% + \else + \wlog{<Pling><Other>}% + \fi \fi \fi}% +% +\catcode`\!=\active +% +\def!{\futurelet\next\dopling}% +% +! Hallo world. +! +!{Anyone for Tennis?}% +!% +! Just another line% +!---and another part of the same line +! +! \bye +%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +% Not a very sensible input file I know but it's just meant to illustrate the +% problem. When run through TeX, I get the following log file (without the +% leading `% ' of course): +%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +% This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (format=plain 93.5.19) 28 MAR 1996 18:31 +% **test +% (test.tex +% <Pling><Space> +% <Pling><Space> +% <Pling><Left brace> +% <Pling><Return> +% <Pling><Space> +% <Pling><Other> +% <Pling><Space> +% <Pling><Space> +% [1] ) +% Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 308 bytes). +%------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +% I understand all of these except the <Pling><Return> generated by the input +% line `!%'. Why should a comment character generate a <Return>? +% +% Thanks in anticipation. +% +% Colin Mason (cgm@sunserver.ssci.liv.ac.uk) + +------------------------------ + +From: Andrew Jones $STAFF <JONEAN@trentcollege.nott.sch.uk> +Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:12:44 +0000 +Subject: disc set and printer driver for LaTex 2e + +Please can anyone help me?? + +I have used Latex in the past, but unfortunately had to remove it. I +now possess a Canon BJ10ex printer, and I cannot get the exact driver for it. +I've been given several to try, but to no avail. +I also understand that I no longer have the latest version of LaTex ( I +bought mine in 1990). How is LaTex 2e different? + +Could anyone please advise me on where I may get a proper printer +driver for the BJ10ex, and possibly a disc set for LaTex 2e. + +I use Wordperfect 6.0 for word-processing. I recall reading somewhere +that there is a LaTex converter for WP6. + +My own machine is not on the Internet, and therefore I cannot +download, I would therefore need proper discs. Any help would be +greatly appreciated. + + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #5 +*************************** + + +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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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 ? + +Thanks. +- -- +************************************************************************** +Dr. Matthew Clemence ___ email mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk +University College London +11-20 Shropshire House, +London, England ++44 171 387 9300 x 8448/8264 ++44 181 442 1832 Home +************************************************************************** + +------------------------------ + +From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk> +Date: Wed, 17 Apr 96 17:57:14 BST +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #5 + +Perhaps the following is a clearer example: + +\chardef\xxx`\a + +\ifcat a\xxx +\message{yes} +\else +\message{no} +\fi + +\let\xxx=a + +\ifcat a\xxx +\message{yes} +\else +\message{no} +\fi + +\bye + +A \chardef token is not a character token, and so does not have a +catcode so as far as \ifcat is concerned it will compare true against +any other control sequence, but false against any character. +In your case \next is \let to ! ie it has the definition of +\futurelet \next \dopling +because +!% +! +is equivalent to + +!! + +and \return is a chardef control sequence, so + +\ifcat\return\noexpand\next + +finds two control sequences and so returns true. + +As my example above shows you can get an implicit character token +for use in \ifcat by using \let (the \bgroup you used is another such +example) but you can not do this for <return> as it is not possible to +make any token of catcode 5. input characters of that category always +produce tokens of catcode 10 (and sometimes also \par tokens) +You can not `see' the end of line by any method at all if you use the +normal system, if you make ^^M active then of course you can see a +ctacode 13 character token, but you disable the automatic system that +TeX uses for converting end of line to white space, so you need +arrange that the definition of ^^M does this `by hand'. + +David + + +------------------------------ + +From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu> +Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:16:12 -0500 (EDT) +Subject: TUGboat 17(1) Contents + + TUGboat + Volume 17, Number 1 / March 1996 + ================================ + +Addresses 3 +Soliciting Bids for TUG'97 4 + +General Delivery + Michel Goossens + From the president 5 + Barbara Beeton + Editorial comments 6 + DEK on tour; TUB: the year ahead 6 + TUG'95: Questions and answers with Prof. Donald E. Knuth 7 + +Software & Tools + Frank G. Bennett, Jr. + Camel: kicking over the bibliographic traces in BibTeX 22 + Filip Machi, Jerrold E. Marsden and Wendy G. McKay + Corrigendum: Introduction to FasTeX: a system of + keyboard shortcuts for the fast keying of TeX + (Volume 16(4), pp. 358-363) 28 + +Fonts + Donald E. Knuth + Important message regarding CM fonts 29 + Darko Zubrinic + Croatian fonts 29 + +Book Reviews + J. Vesely Two new books on TeX in the Czech Republic: 34 + Petr Olsak, Typograficky system TeX (TeX typesetting system); + Jiri Rybicka, LaTeX pro zacatecniky (LaTeX for beginners) + Lynne A. Price: + Ronald C. Turner, Timothy A. Douglass, and Audrey J. Turner, + README.1ST: SGML for Writers and Editors 35 + +Letters + Rama Porrat + There's still something missing... 37 + +Resources + Mimi Burbank and Michel Goossens + Electronic news from the family 37 + +Tutorials + Keith Reckdahl + Using EPS graphics in LaTeXe documents 43 + +Macros + Don Hosek + That ol' devil \expandafter 53 + J. Hagen and A. F. Otten + PPCHTeX: typesetting chemical formulas in TeX 54 + +LaTeX + David Carlisle + A LaTeX tour, Part 1: The basic distribution 67 + +Abstracts + Les Cahiers GUTenberg, No. 20 73 + +News & Announcements + Calendar 74 + TUG'96 Preliminary schedule 76 + +Late-Breaking News + Mimi Burbank + Production notes 78 + Future issues 78 + +TUG Business + TUG Bylaws 79 + 1996 TUG election cancelled 84 + TUG Board Members 84 + Institutional members 85 + +Forms + TUG membership application 86 + +Advertisements + TeX consulting and production services 87 + Index of advertisers 87 + + +------------------------------ + +From: "S. Warde" <sw25@leicester.ac.uk> +Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST) +Subject: Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX + +Looking for help in creating pdf files. + +1/ + 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 + be grateful for peoples experiences with this packages. + +2/ + 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 + b - anyone had 'ported' it to work with the kpathsea distribution + c - knew of any limitations + d - knew of other dvips variants for creating pdf files + We run LaTeX etc. on SGI's and HP's + +3/ + We have come across a reference to an archive and mailing list + on hypertex hosted at snorri.chem.washington.edu . This machine + does not seem to exist. Anyone know if the archive and maillist + are hosted elsewhere? + + Thank you + + Hugo Korwaser + Femsys Limited + Tel: +44 (0) 116 2541475 + sw25@leiceter.ac.uk + +------------------------------ + +From: sens@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Pierre Sens) +Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 11:00:31 +0100 +Subject: excalibur + +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. + +Thanks, + + + Pierre Sens + +Department of Physics +UCSB +Santa Barbara, Ca 93106 +U.S.A +Voice 1 (805) 893-8986 +Fax 1 (805) 893-2902 +email sens@physics.ucsb.edu + + + +------------------------------ + +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/ + +======================================================================= + + +------------------------------ + +From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> +Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:19:48 +0100 +Subject: [ANNOUNCE] TeX Live CDROM + +I am very glad to announce the launch today in Paris of TeX Live, a +new CD published by the TeX Users Group, the UK TeX Users Group and +GUIenberg (French TeX Users), with help from NTG (Dutch TeX Users) and +many individuals from other groups. + +TeX Live's 649 megabytes contains: + + - a ready to run Unix TeX setup, Thomas Esser's teTeX (based on Karl + Berry's Web2c). 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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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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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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 +Parks Road +Oxford OX1 3QD +ENGLAND + +tel. (national) 01865 273891 (international) +44 1865 273891 +FAX (national) 01865 273839 (international) +44 1865 273839 +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 +> *************************** +> +> +> 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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Hanson, UIC 312-413-2142" <U12688@UICVM.UIC.EDU> +Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:09:45 CDT +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #8 -- Helvetica Fonts in Latex2.09 + +If you have psfonts, then a simple way to use helvetica is to use the +style file helv.sty: +- ---cut--- +% latex style with helvetica text. +\def\@mrm{phvr}% Helvetica - roman +\def\@mit{phvro}% Helvetica -oblique +\def\@msl{phvbo}% Helvetica - bold - oblique +\def\@mbf{phvb}% Helvetica - bold +\def\@mcsc{phvrc}% Helvetica - small caps +\def\@mtt{pcrr}% courier +\def\@mss{phvr}% helvetica +\input psfonts.sty +- ---cut--- +> ------------------------------ +. +> 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! +> +> - --------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------ + +From: Hartmut Peters <peters@sunhp.msrc.sunysb.edu> +Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 18:34:47 -0400 (EDT) +Subject: wysiwyg + +Dear fellow TeXers, + +I am having a paper in the mill at Academic Press in the UK, and they only +do wysiwyg programs like word, yuk! My manuscript is in LaTeX both on Unix +and on a Mac under Textures. Does anybody know of a way to export the text +to wysiwyg programs? It wouldn't be a problem if the formatting +information got lost as long as the text came across. (Excalibur has a +parser that throws out the LaTeX/TeX commands...) + +The opposite way apparently works, but I haven't seen TeX --> wysiwyg, +yet. Well, if not, the Academic Press folks may have to digest the LaTeX +files or retype it (in which case I get to find all the typos...) I sure +wish they could handle something more professional than "Word"... + +Best regards from Lawn Guyland in the strange State of New York --> +:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: + HARTMUT PETERS | E-MAIL: hartmut.peters@sunysb.edu + (Assistant Professor) | OR: peters@sunhp.msrc.sunysb.edu + | BITNET: hpeters@sbccmail.bitnet + Marine Sciences Research Center | All-In-One/Stony Brook: hpeters + State University of New York at ... | + Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000 | TELEPHONE: +516 632-8682 + U.S.A. | TELEFAX: +516 632-8820 +:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: + + + +------------------------------ + +From: cgl@rc.service.rug.nl (Kees van der Laan) +Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:34:55 +0200 +Subject: Announcement NTG TeX & Graphics course + + ---------------------------------------------------------- + |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--- + +Sent to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk (earlier Dutch announcement to tex-nl@nic.surfnet.nl) +cc: TeX-D-L@vm.gmd.de, gut@ens.fr, uktex@tex.ac.uk, metafont@ens.fr, TUG@TUG.org, info-tex@shsu.edu + +------------------------------ + +From: Melvin Fitting <MLFLC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> +Date: Fri, 05 Jul 96 09:53:55 EDT +Subject: Re: TeXhax postings to the TEX-L list + +- --------------------------------- +| New e-mail address | +| fitting@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu | +| Please use from now on | +- --------------------------------- + +------------------------------ + +From: Melvin Fitting <MLFLC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> +Date: Fri, 05 Jul 96 09:54:34 EDT +Subject: New address + +- --------------------------------- +| New e-mail address | +| fitting@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu | +| Please use from now on | +- --------------------------------- + +------------------------------ + +From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 10:29:29 PDT +Subject: METAFONT for Macintosh? + +Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? + +I have a Macintosh PowerBook 5300c, system 7.5. +I am using the public domain METAFONT version 0.66 from the +Bluesky ftp site, and it is not fully operational. +Is there a better METAFONT for Macintosh available? + +Once the MF file is written, how does one install a font on the +Macintosh so that Bluesky's Textures can display the font on the +screen and print? + +Has anyone had success getting "penlabels" to work? + +Does anyone know how to produce output with grid lines and +penlabels like those in Donald Knuth's "Computer Modern +Typefaces, Computers & Typesetting volume E"? + +For some reason, I have not received a TeXhax digest in a while +even though I am still on the list, so please reply directly to +me in addition to posting to the list. + +Sincerely, +Tom Bryan + +E-Systems, Goleta Division +One South Los Carneros, Goleta, CA 93117-3197, USA +Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +FAX: (805) 964-0470 + + +------------------------------ + +From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu> +Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 16:14:04 -0500 (EDT) +Subject: TUGBoat 17(3) + +Dear colleagues, + +Below are the contents of the Proceedings Issue of TUGboat for 1996. + + TUGboat + Volume 17, Number 2 / June 1996 + ================================ + +Opening Address + Michel Goossens + Opening Words by the President 91 + +%%%%%%%%%%% +Fonts + Karel Piska + Cyrillic alphabets 92 + J\"org Knappen + The dc fonts 1.3: Move towards stability and + completeness 99 + Fukui Rei + TIPA: A system for processing phonetic symbols in + LaTeX + A.S. Berdnikov + Computer Modern Typefaces as Multiple Master Fonts 115 + A.S. Berdnikov + VFComb 1.3 --- the program which simplifies + virtual font management 120 + +%%%%%%%%%%% +Encoding and Multilingual Support + Yannis Haralambous + \Omega Times and \Omega Helvetica fonts under + development: Step ~One 126 + Richard J.~Kinch + Extending TeX for Unicode 147 + L.N. Znamenskaya and S.V. Znamenskii + Russian encoding plurality problem + and a new Cyrillic font set 161 + Peter~A.~Ovchenkov + Cyrillic TeX files: interplatform portability 166 + Michael M. Vinogradov + A user-friendly multi-function TeX interface + based on Multi-Edit 172 + Olga~G. Lapko + Full Cyrillic: How many languages? 174 + + +%%%%%%%%%%% +TeX Systems + John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous + The latest developments in \Omega 181 + Dag Langmyhr + StarTeX --- a TeX for beginners 184 + Gabriel Valiente Feruglio + Do journals honor LaTeX submissions? 191 + Sergei V. Znamenskii and Denis E. Leinartas + A new approach to the TeX-related programs: + A user-friendly interface 200 + Ivan G. Vsesvetsky + The strait gate to TeX 204 + Laurent Siebenmann + DVI-based electronic publication 206 + Kees~van~der~Laan + BLUe's format --- the off-off alternative 215 + +%%%%%%%%%%% +Graphics + Kees~van~der~Laan + Turtle graphics and TeX -- a child can do it 222 + A.S. Berdnikov, O.A. Grineva and S.B. Turtia + Some useful macros which extend the LaTeX + picture environment 229 + +%%%%%%%%%%% +News & Announcements + Mimi Burbank + Production notes 90 + Calendar 233 + +%%%%%%%%%%% +TUG Business< + Institutional members 234 + +%%%%%%%%%%% +Advertisements + TeX consulting and production services 235 +====== end of file + + + + +------------------------------ + +From: chag@moneyworld.com +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 01:06:33 +0100 +Subject: Chancellor Group (symbol = CHAG) + +http://chancellor.stockpick.com + +Chancellor Group, Inc. (symbol CHAG) just reported big quarterly earnings. +SGA Goldstar issued a "buy" recommendation. I understand other investment +advisors are looking to recommend CHAG. The company has a strong book value. +The short sellers need to cover. This looks like a good situation to me. +What do you think? They are located at: + + http://chancellor.stockpick.com + +Bob Williams, 206-269-0846 + +To terminate from my Investment Opportunities, Reply to +chag@moneyworld.com with "remove" in the subject field. + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #10 +**************************** + + +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. The hosts comprising CTAN include, among others, + ftp.dante.de (129.69.1.12) -- Germany + ftp.shsu.edu (192.92.115.10) -- USA + ftp.tex.ac.uk (128.232.1.87) -- UK +Please use your nearest server, to keep network load down. +The file /tex-archive/CTAN.sites on each of these hosts gives a +list of other sites which maintain full or partial mirrors of the CTAN. +Alternatively, finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for full details. + +TeXhax Digest back issues are filed below /tex-archive/digests/texhax/ +Keyword-In-Context indexes are filed in /tex-archive/digests/indexes/ + +A Hypermail version of TeXhax is also available on the World-Wide Web at URL +http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/digests/hyper/ + +\bye + + + diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.11 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.11 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aab4ff8edf --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.11 @@ -0,0 +1,416 @@ +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (Majordomo list server) +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #11 +Message-ID: <E0ugfTd-0004lZ-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.ukD> +Date: 17 Jul 96 23:44:30 GMT + + +TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 17 July 1996 Volume 96 : Number 011 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 + Re: wysiwyg (TeXhax Digest V96 #10) + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 + Metafont on Mac + Re: Metafont on Mac + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu (Amal Phadke) +Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:23:54 -1000 +Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? + +> From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 10:29:29 PDT +> Subject: METAFONT for Macintosh? +. +> Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? +> +> I have a Macintosh PowerBook 5300c, system 7.5. +> I am using the public domain METAFONT version 0.66 from the +> Bluesky ftp site, and it is not fully operational. +> Is there a better METAFONT for Macintosh available? +> +> Sincerely, +> Tom Bryan +> +> E-Systems, Goleta Division +> One South Los Carneros, Goleta, CA 93117-3197, USA +> Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +> FAX: (805) 964-0470 +> + +Tom: + + OzTeX 2.0.1, Andrew Trevorrow's Macintosh shareware version of TeX +now has its own METAFONT program OzMF. It has worked flawlessly for me so +far. OzTeX is available at all CTAN sites under +"/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex" directory. + +Cheers + +- --- +Amal Phadke +Department of Ocean Engineering, +School of Ocean and Earth Sciences & Technology +University of Hawaii at Manoa +2540 Dole street , Holmes Hall 408B +Honolulu, HI 96822, USA +Tel: (808) 956-8198 Fax: (808) 956-3498 + +e-mail: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu +WWW Page : http://oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu/~phadke + + + +------------------------------ + +From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:56:52 +0200 +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 + +The following message is a courtesy copy of an article +that has been posted as well. + +>>>>> Hartmut Peters <peters@sunhp.msrc.sunysb.edu> (HP) writes: + +HP> Dear fellow TeXers, +HP> I am having a paper in the mill at Academic Press in the UK, and they only +HP> do wysiwyg programs like word, yuk! My manuscript is in LaTeX both on Unix +HP> and on a Mac under Textures. Does anybody know of a way to export the text +HP> to wysiwyg programs? It wouldn't be a problem if the formatting +HP> information got lost as long as the text came across. (Excalibur has a +HP> parser that throws out the LaTeX/TeX commands...) + +HP> The opposite way apparently works, but I haven't seen TeX --> wysiwyg, +HP> yet. Well, if not, the Academic Press folks may have to digest the LaTeX +HP> files or retype it (in which case I get to find all the typos...) I sure +HP> wish they could handle something more professional than "Word"... + +Try tex2rtf (not latex2rtf), from the support directory on CTAN. It +produces RTF which can be read both by Wordpervert and Microsloth Word, and +probably plenty of others, too. + +If that doesn't work you could try detex, but it may throw away too much. +Or latex it, and push it through dvi2tty. +- -- +Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> +URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP] + +------------------------------ + +From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:09:21 +0200 +Subject: Re: wysiwyg (TeXhax Digest V96 #10) + +The following message is a courtesy copy of an article +that has been posted as well. + +>>>>> Hartmut Peters <peters@sunhp.msrc.sunysb.edu> (HP) writes: + +HP> Dear fellow TeXers, +HP> I am having a paper in the mill at Academic Press in the UK, and they only +HP> do wysiwyg programs like word, yuk! My manuscript is in LaTeX both on Unix +HP> and on a Mac under Textures. Does anybody know of a way to export the text +HP> to wysiwyg programs? It wouldn't be a problem if the formatting +HP> information got lost as long as the text came across. (Excalibur has a +HP> parser that throws out the LaTeX/TeX commands...) + +HP> The opposite way apparently works, but I haven't seen TeX --> wysiwyg, +HP> yet. Well, if not, the Academic Press folks may have to digest the LaTeX +HP> files or retype it (in which case I get to find all the typos...) I sure +HP> wish they could handle something more professional than "Word"... + +Try tex2rtf (not latex2rtf), from the support directory on CTAN. It +produces RTF which can be read both by Wordpervert and Microsloth Word, and +probably plenty of others, too. + +If that doesn't work you could try detex, but it may throw away too much. +Or latex it, and push it through dvi2tty. +- -- +Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> +URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP] + +------------------------------ + +From: John Burt <BURT@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:18:02 -0500 (EST) +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 + +Yes, I have had success running Metafont on a Mac. The one I use is +the Metafont that is a part of the CMacTeX package. It makes the standard +.tfm and .gf files, and you run gftopk on the .gf file to generate a .pk +file. Running Metafont is not trivial, but this Metafont behaves +exactly like the metafonts in the unix and vms worlds. It is shareware, but +you get the whole CMacTeX package, which is great, for your money. You +can download the most recent version from the author's home page. I +don't have his URL handy, but I think it's +http://math.tamu.edu/~tkiffe/cmactex.html +The author's name is Tom Kiffe. + +One note: your TeX must use standard .pk files (CMacTeX and OzTeX do---in +fact the latter uses Kiffe's Metafont as well). Some systems---I think +Te +textures among them---don't use standard .pk files. +John Burt +burt@binah.cc.brandeis.edu + +------------------------------ + +From: campbell@beloit.edu (Paul J. Campbell) +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 13:19:18 -0600 +Subject: Metafont on Mac + +I too have been experimenting with Metafont 0.66 on the Mac (acutally, when +it runs, it says it is 0.65). + +I'm glad you asked your question, so I can describe for my own +benefit---before I forget!---what works. + +There is a file metafont-for-beginners on CTAN (I think it is in /doc), but +I have not seen anything specific to the Mac. + +Last week I had my first success with Metafont. I was able to take a +Metafont description of an .mf file and turn it into a font suitcase that +works with any application. + +The key problem is that .mf files cannot be processed without some additions. + +I used the program shell + +mode=laserwriter; % Metafont checks mfinputs:local.mf for all mode_def's; + % put here the option that fits your printer +mag=magstep0; % could be magstep1, or 0.5,2,3,4,5 as well +%screenstrokes; % could be screenchars, for per character viewing, +but works faster this way +input hcyr % this is the .mf file to process; add more +input lines as needed +bye + +To the original .mf file I added the following introductory lines: + +font_size 10pt#; % the "design size" of this font; can be whatever you like +ht#:=10pt#; % height of characters +xgap#:=0.6pt#; % horizontal adjustment (I just guessed at this) + +If you don't put in lines like those, everything appears to work, Metafont +says that it writes the fonts to files, and indeed it creates files---empty +ones! + +You process the program shell file with Metafont with the settings Make +Suitcase and (for me, by default) Plain, by selecting Metafont on the +Metafont menu. + +Metafont adds the font to the MFfonts suitcase and creates an MFmetrics +suitcase (you can see the latter and you can double-click the former to +examine the contents---that's how I found out I wasn't getting anything). +You need the latter for use with TeX but the former will work with any +program (Word, etc.) if you put it into the System folder. The application +program (e.g., Word) will scale the font (with jaggies) to any size; if you +want nice looking characters, process the .mf file to make fonts at all the +sizes you will use. + +I was just making a font of ancient Croatian script for a couple of +students here, but part of my reason for exploring all this is an old +desire (and a new need) to be able to take fonts for IBM (.pfb, .pfa, .pfm +files) and make them into Mac bitmapped (or preferably PS) fonts. After +exploring lots of software on CTAN last week, I am convinced that this can +be done but (as far as I know) only by making a detour to using some Unix +programs along the way. + +A promising new port of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont (0.66), BibTex, and +Metapost(!) for the Mac was promulgated this April. Called cmactex25, it is +available at CTAN (it's shareware, $35). CMacTeX handles afm, pfa, pfb, and +tfm files directly and there is no need to convert them into a Mac-specific +format. I have explored only its font utilities so far. + + + + Paul J. Campbell + Mathematics and Computer Science + Beloit College + 700 College St. + Beloit, WI 53511 + (608) 363-2007 (ofc) + 362-2805 (res) + 363-2718 (fax) + campbell@beloit.edu + + + +------------------------------ + +From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 15:41:45 PDT +Subject: Re: Metafont on Mac + +Dear Paul, + +Thank you for your advice on using Metafont 0.66 on the Mac. I +tried your advice and got the Blue Sky version to work for the +first time. However, I was still dissatisfied with the +deficiencies of the Blue Sky Metafont. I received two other +replies (enclosed) that led me to download and try OzTeX, +DirectTeX, and CMacTeX. I only have a few days of experience +with these other packages, but thus far I like the OzTeX the best +and it replicates the examples in Knuth's MetaFont book without +any problems (something I couldn't do in the Blue Sky version). + +Sincerely, +Tom + +- -- +Dr Thomas A Bryan +E-Systems, Goleta Division +One South Los Carneros, Goleta, California, USA 93117-3197, USA +Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +FAX: (805) 964-0470 + +Home: 275 Savona Avenue, Goleta, California, 93117, USA (805) 968-1264 + +Return-Path: <@ESDSVR.esd.ray.com:Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie> +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:22:47 +0100 +From: Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie (Dr Alun J. Carr) +Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? +X-Sender: ajcarr@pop3.ucd.ie +To: tbryan@esd.ray.com +Mime-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT + +Tom, + +>Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? + +Well, I haven't even tried the Bluesky one, which is obsolete, to say the +least. All the `mainstream' TeX implementations for the Mac (OzTeX, +DirectTeX Pro, and CMacTeX) come with their own METAFONT implementations, +which work extremely well, with the DVI previewers/printer drivers +automatically calling METAFONT to generate missing fonts. Textures seems to +be primarily Postscript font based, rather than bitmap-based, so METAFONT +is a bit of an anomaly in a Textures system. I know only one Textures user +here at UCD, and even he abandoned it a while back, and started using +DirectTeX Pro (which works like a dream in conjunction with the Alpha text +editor and the Excalibur spelling-checker). + +You can find the latest releases of OzTeX, CMacTeX and DirectTeX Pro, with +their METAFONTs at the UK or German CTAN sites (the US CTAN is pretty-much +defunct): + +<ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/mac/> +<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/mac/> + +Hope this helps. + +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 + + + +Return-Path: <@ESDSVR.esd.ray.com:phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu> +Mime-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:23:54 -1000 +To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +From: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu (Amal Phadke) +Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? +Cc: tbryan@esd.ray.com + +> From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 10:29:29 PDT +> Subject: METAFONT for Macintosh? +> +> Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? +> +> I have a Macintosh PowerBook 5300c, system 7.5. +> I am using the public domain METAFONT version 0.66 from the +> Bluesky ftp site, and it is not fully operational. +> Is there a better METAFONT for Macintosh available? +> +> Sincerely, +> Tom Bryan +> +> E-Systems, Goleta Division +> One South Los Carneros, Goleta, CA 93117-3197, USA +> Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +> FAX: (805) 964-0470 +> + +Tom: + + OzTeX 2.0.1, Andrew Trevorrow's Macintosh shareware version of TeX +now has its own METAFONT program OzMF. It has worked flawlessly for me so +far. OzTeX is available at all CTAN sites under +"/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex" directory. + +Cheers + +- --- +Amal Phadke +Department of Ocean Engineering, +School of Ocean and Earth Sciences & Technology +University of Hawaii at Manoa +2540 Dole street , Holmes Hall 408B +Honolulu, HI 96822, USA +Tel: (808) 956-8198 Fax: (808) 956-3498 + +e-mail: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu +WWW Page : http://oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu/~phadke + + + + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #11 +**************************** + + +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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Raman in the news + ANNOUCEMENT: Sauter-2.4 + single quotes using the times postscript fonts??? + How do you get equal variable-sized delimiters? + Coversion of DVI file to ASCII File + DEK in the news + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 15:50:23 PDT +Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? + +Amal: + +Thank you for your advice on running METAFONT on the Macintosh. +I downloaded OzTeX and it is working very well for me. I had +been beating myself over the head with the Blue Sky version for +weeks trying to get it to work properly. You saved me a great +deal of time. + +Cheers, +Tom + +- -- +Dr Thomas A Bryan +E-Systems, Goleta Division +One South Los Carneros, Goleta, California, USA 93117-3197, USA +Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +FAX: (805) 964-0470 + +Home: 275 Savona Avenue, Goleta, California, 93117, USA (805) 968-1264 + +------------------------------ + +From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de> +Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 19:01:13 +0200 (MET DST) +Subject: Migration of CTAN-related mailing lists + +The CTAN-related mailing lists + + CTAN@shsu.edu + CTAN-ANN@shsu.edu + +have now been migrated to a new mailing list server, located at +Heidelberg, Germany. These lists can now be reached as + + CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de + CTAN-ANN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de + +Requests for subscription/deletion must be sent to + + LISTSERV@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de + + + +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 + +------------------------------ + +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. + +Thanks, + +Barry Tesman < tesman@dickinson.edu > +Dickinson College +Carlisle, PA, USA + + + +------------------------------ + +From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> +Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:53:20 -0600 (MDT) +Subject: T.V. Raman in the news + +You might care to look at this just-appeared profile of TUGboat +author and TUG conference participant T. V. Raman: + +@String{j-SCI-AMER = "Scientific American"} + + +@Article{Gibbs:1996:PVR, + author = "W. Wayt Gibbs", + title = "Profile: T. V. Raman: Envisioning Speech", + journal = j-SCI-AMER, + volume = "275", + number = "3", + pages = "52, 54", + month = nov, + year = "1996", + acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, + bibdate = "Mon Aug 19 08:48:09 1996", +. + +Curiously, this article shows a single equation, which seems +to violate the Scientific American practice of eschewing +equations. + +======================================================================== +Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 +Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 +Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu +University of Utah URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe +Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA +======================================================================== + +------------------------------ + +From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE +Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 16:31:56 +0100 +Subject: ANNOUCEMENT: Sauter-2.4 + +I have uploaded a new Sauter release to the CTAN archives in directory +tex-archive/fonts/cm/sauter24/ +and it will propagate to the mirrors soon. + +Attached is the release file. + +J"org Knappen. + +%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%* + +The release 2.4 of the Sauter tools to generate true sized fonts contains +the following news: + +* Support for LaTeX2e 1996/06/01 +* Fixes to cmcsc fonts +* Fix to the capital S in cmmi fonts +* Sauterised versions of AMS symbol fonts, bbm fonts and rsfs fonts + contributed by Hubert Holin + +If you already have version 2.3 of the Sauter fonts, please regenerate +the cmcsc fonts for sizes => 10pt, there was a bug affecting the depth of +the letter `q'. + +Please recalculate the cmmi fonts for sizes >12pt, the capital S will look +much better afterwards. + +Send any questions, comments and suggestions to + +J"org Knappen knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de + +------------------------------ + +From: coleman@natasha.phil.uregina.ca (Robert Coleman) +Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 16:09:17 -0600 (CST) +Subject: single quotes using the times postscript fonts??? + +I have installed the times.sty package that uses +the psfonts courier, helvetica and times in LaTeX2e. +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? + +Thanks, +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 + +********end message*********************** + +------------------------------ + +From: holliegp@eee.bham.ac.uk (Garry Hollier) +Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:21:42 +0100 +Subject: How do you get equal variable-sized delimiters? + +In a LaTeX (I'm using LaTeX2e <1994/06/01> patch level 2) expression like + +\begin{eqnarray} + \left<delimiter> + %some stuff + \right.\\ + \left. + %some more stuff + \right<delimiter> +\end{eqnarray} + +how do you ensure that the resulting <delimiter>'s are the same size? + + +------------------------------ + +From: "ABDOL S. SOOFI, ECONOMICS, UW-PLATTEVILLE; HTTP://VMS.WWW.UWPLATT.EDU/~SOOFI" <SOOFI@uwplatt.edu> +Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:00:59 -0500 (CDT) +Subject: Coversion of DVI file to ASCII File + +Greetings to all, + +Is there a way to convert a filename.dvi to its LaTeX source file (ASCII +file)? I am in a peculiar situation. I have the dvi version of a revised +file, but its revised LaTeX source file is missing? + +Also, what is the meaning of ``dvi file is corrupt''? What are the +possible sources of this problem? + +Thanks in advance for any insights. + +- --Abdol + +------------------------------ + +From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> +Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:54:23 -0600 (MDT) +Subject: DEK in the news + +The September 1996 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal has an editorial on p. 6 +which begins: + + It was a pleasant surprise to open the mail and read that Donald + Knuth, the author of the three-volume {\em The Art of Computer + Programming}, is the recipient of the Inamori Foundation's + 1996 Kyoto Prize in the category of Advanced Technology. + Considering that a check for $460,000 accompanies his wall + plaque, Dr. Knuth is probably more pleased than I. + + According to Kazuo Inamori, president of the Inamori Foundation + and chairman of Kyocera, Knuth was given Japan's highest + private award for his contributions to the betterment of + humankind. In addition to {\em The Art of Computer Programming}, + Knuth (who was featured in an April 1996 DDJ interview) is + the creator of the TeX document-preparation system, Metafont + font-design system, and LR parser and attribute grammar. + TeX has been described as the most important achievement + in publishing since Gutenberg's moveable type. + + Previous Kyoto Advanced Technology laureates include John + McCarthy of artificial-intelligence fame, and George Gray, + developer of the liquid-crystal display. Please join me + in hearty congratulations to Dr. Knuth. + + ... + + Jonathan Erickson + Editor-in-chief + +======================================================================== +Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 +Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 +Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu +University of Utah URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe +Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA +======================================================================== + + + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #12 +**************************** + + +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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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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Are there any macros to solve +> this problem? (I am using AMSLaTeX, and with LaTeX2e). +> Thank you very much, +> Jose M. Souto + +I do not know of any macros for doing this, I have to admit I didn't look that +hard. I wrote my own macros for doing this, initially as TeX macros then as +LaTeX(209|2e) environment(s). + +My basic algorithm was to write the exercise and answers out to a file and +then read them in at the appropriate place in the text. This is not entirely +trivial as the writing has to be of the original code; the verbatim stuff from +the standard TeX/LaTeX(209|2e) came in very handy at this point. + +I suppose I should have turned these macros into a separate package and +submitted it, if there is enough interest I can do this. Otherwise I could +let you have a copy of my macros. + +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: reynoldd@ccmail.dcu.ie +Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 08:53:11 +0000 (GMT) +Subject: Converting LaTex2e to HTML + + Dear TeXhax Digest, + + Presumably there's alot of work being done on how to convert LaTex2e + to HTML. I want to put lecture notes with equations onto our intranet. + Can you point me to where I might find relevant advice. + + Latex2html seems a good answer for unix users. However I use DOS, WIN + 3.11 and OS2 Warp. I did find correspondence on a newsgroup about + compiling a DOS version of LaTex2HTML, but there was much discussion + about perl and fork, about which I am ignorant. + + Any advice would be gratefully received. + + Regards, + + David Reynolds + +------------------------------ + +From: Andreas Schlechte <inas@mexico.mib.harz.de> +Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 18:48:23 +0100 (MET) +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #13 + +Hi, + +In reply to + +> 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 + +Well, you can either use the macros, Knuth is using in his TeXbook. But it's +(a bit) difficult to implement these. I use some other macros, based on the +package "moreverb.sty", which must be included. + + ---- solution.sty ---- + % + % open new file solution.tex for writing + % + \newwrite\solutionout + \immediate\openout\solutionout=solution.tex + % + % define environment solutionwrite + % + \def\solutionwrite{% + \@bsphack + \let\do\@makeother\dospecials + \catcode`\^^M\active \catcode`\^^I=12 + \def\verbatim@processline{\immediate\write\solutionout{\the\verbatim@line}}% + \verbatim@start} + \def\endsolutionwrite{\@esphack} + % + % Use this command to close file + % + \def\closesolutionfile{\immediate\closeout\solutionout} + ---- end ---- + +With these package you will be able to write any string into the file. Here +is an example: + + \documentclass{book} + \usepackage{moreverb,solution} + \begin{document} + \begin{solutionwrite} + You may use any character in this environment. its although possible to + write TeX-command into the file: + \begin{quote} + Like this quoted block. + \end{quote} + \end{solutionwrite} + %... + \closesolutionfile + \input solution.tex + \end{document} + +The only restriction is, that you might not write the string +\end{solutionwrite} into the file. In my opinion there is rather +no need for this. + +Hope, this helps a little bit at least, + + Andi + +- -- +>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< +> Andreas Schlechte Tel.: +49-5323-1289 Q < +> Am Klepperberg 2 +49-5323-9499-7 < +> 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Fax.: +49-5323-9499-3 < +> Andreas.Schlechte@tu-clausthal.de http://www.tu-clausthal.de/~inas < +>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< + +------------------------------ + +From: "P. WISUTHSERIWONG" <fe32@dial.pipex.com> +Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 15:07:26 +0000 +Subject: Downloading TeX & LaTeX + +Hi there, + +I'm wondering if you could help. I'm interested in using LaTeX but have +no idea where & how I can get the programmes. Could you tell me the +actual file names I need to download from the ctan site please? Oh, do I +have to have TeX in order to run LaTeX? + +Thanks very much for your time. + +P. Wisuthseriwong + + +------------------------------ + +From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason) +Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:08:54 GMT +Subject: Plain TeX query about \csname ... \endcsname + +If you do: + + \tracingrestores=1 + {\expandafter\xdef\csname 777\endcsname{555}} + \bye + +you get the message: + + {retaining \777=macro:->555} + +in the log file. Page 301 of the TeXbook says that nothing needs to go on the +save stack at the time of a global assignment so I was initially surprised to +get the message. However, page 213 says that \csname ... \endcsname defines the +control sequence to be like \relax if it is not currently defined. So, it would +appear that \csname ... \endcsname first locally defines \777 to be like \relax +and the \xdef then globally redefines it to be 555. If you then do: + + \tracingrestores=1 + {\globaldefs=1 \expandafter\xdef\csname 777\endcsname{555}} + \bye + +it makes no difference. Why? Shouldn't the \csname ... \endcsname globally +define \777 to be like \relax? Or is this some strange exception to the rules? + +Thanks in advance for any help. + +Colin Mason. + +------------------------------ + +From: Mark Freeman <AFINMF@razor.wbs.warwick.ac.uk> +Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:29:49 GMT +Subject: Memory question + +On 29/8/96 I posted a question to TeXhax on a memory problem that I +was encountering running LaTeX2.09 under Dos on a document with many +references. The following reply was sent to me by Jonathan Fine: + +> So far as I can tell, the problem is with the lines of code +> > \def\bibcite#1#2{\global\@namedef{b@#1}{#2}} +> > \def\@namedef#1{\expandafter\def\csname #1\endcsname} +> in the main source file for latex, version 2.09. (Comments on LaTeX +> 2e appear later.) +> +> Please place the definition +> > \def\bibcite#1#2{\begingroup\expandafter\endgroup\expandafter +> > \gdef\csname b@#1\endcsname{#2}} +> somewhere in the preamble to your document. If I am correct, then +> the problem will go away. +> +> Explanation. When \csname ... \endcsname produces an undefined +> control sequence, it is as a local assignment given the value \relax. +> This has the side effect of occupying space in the save stack. The +> replacement definition does not remove this side effect, but makes it +> harmless. The \expandafter's function so that the local definition +> is valid only within the +> > \begingroup\expandafter\endgroup +> group of \bibcite. At the end of this group, the previous value of +> \undefined is restored for \b@#1, and this frees up the space in the +> save stack. Use \tracingall to get the gory details. +> +> For another explanation, see my article in Baskerville (4)1, +> published 1994. In my article I wrote "This [side effect] can cause +> problems in processing LaTeX documents which have a lot of +> cross-references." So far as I can tell, this problem remains with +> LaTeX 2e. + +As I am running \harvardcite as opposed to \bibcite I made the +following minor adjustment to Jonathan's proposed solution: + + \def\harvardcite#1#2#3#4{\begingroup\expandafter\endgroup + \expandafter\gdef\csname b@#1\endcsname{#2} + \begingroup\expandafter\endgroup + \expandafter\gdef\csname bhf@#1\endcsname{#2} + \begingroup\expandafter\endgroup + \expandafter\gdef\csname bha@#1\endcsname{#3} + \begingroup\expandafter\endgroup + \expandafter\gdef\csname bhy@#1\endcsname{#4}} + +This appears to have fixed my problem. I hope that others might +find this correspondance useful. + +Regards, + +Mark Freeman. + +------------------------------ + +From: "Robert Greer c/o CUNY 212-346-8450 (fax 346-8453)" <GREER%BMACADM.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> +Date: Fri, 01 Nov 96 10:43:13 EST +Subject: 'none' + +Acknowledge-To: <GREER@BMACADM> + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #14 +**************************** + + +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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The documentation has been extensively +revised and users are requested to pay careful attention to the +READ.ME file. In particular, AMS-LaTeX 1.2 now requires a version +of LaTeX2e no earlier than December 1994. + +The canonical home site for this collection is e-math.ams.org for ftp, +or at http://www.ams.org/tex for those who prefer a Web connection. +The collection has also been mirrored onto CTAN (locations shown are +relative to the root of the tex archive at the particular site): + + location on e-math: location on CTAN: + + /pub/tex/amslatex under macros/latex/packages/amslatex + +The other AMS collections are available from the same AMS servers +and have now been installed on CTAN in these new locations: + + location on e-math: location on CTAN: + + /pub/tex/amsfonts under fonts/amsfonts + /pub/tex/amsltx11 under macros/latex209/contrib/amslatex + /pub/tex/amstex under macros/amstex + +At CTAN, the changes have been made at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de; +they will propagate to the mirrors in due course. + +Only the AMS-LaTeX collection has been updated; some minor changes +are under construction in the AMSFonts and AMS-TeX collections, and +a separate announcement will be made when these are posted. + + +------------------------------ + +From: zadokh@rafael.co.il (Zadok Hougui) +Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:23:22 +0200 +Subject: Latex + +Hi +Do you know where I could download a copy of Latex for use on an IBM PC +compatible? (for a windows 3.1 or windows 95 environment) +Thanks +Zadok +========================================================================== +Sadok Hougui +32 Lehi St. +Kiryat Bialik, 27000 +Israel + +Home phone: (972)-4-8740167 +e-mail: zadokh@rafael.co.il + + +------------------------------ + +From: Philip Taylor <CHAA006@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> +Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:55:17 GMT +Subject: e-TeX is released + +Dear Colleagues -- + +I am delighted to be able to tell you that after a protracted period of +design and development, e-TeX is now formally released. In summary, e-TeX +is an evolutionary (rather that revolutionary) development of TeX, and is +100%-compatible, including compatibility at the level of the TRIP test. +However, it is also capable of operating in "extended" mode, in which case +it adds approximately 30 new primitives to the TeX language whilst remaining +completely compatible with TeX if none of the new primitives are used, and in +"enhanced" mode, in which case it adds functionality (for the first release, +TeX--XeT) at the expense of compatibility. + +Reference implementations are available for VMS (both VAX & AXP) and MS/DOS, +the former implementation being primarily the work of Christian Spieler whilst +the latter is the work of Peter Breitenlohner. As this message is being +sent to TeX-Implementors as well as to the NTS and TeX lists, we hope that new +implementations will become available in the near future. + +For further information on e-TeX, and for access to the sources and reference +implementations, please see: + + http://www.rhbnc.ac.uk/e-TeX/ + +Philip Taylor, +for and on behalf of the e-TeX team / NTS group. + +------------------------------ + +From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason) +Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:45:13 GMT +Subject: Plain TeX query about \font + +If you do: + + \font\titlefont=cmssdc10 + \ifx\titlefont\nullfont + \wlog{Using \string\nullfont}% + \fi + \bye + +You get the following message in the log file: + + Using \nullfont + +But if there is a blank line between the \font... and the \ifx... this does not +happen. I would not expect to get the message anyway so why does it happen and +why does inserting a blank line cure it? + +Thanks in advance for any help. + +Colin Mason. + +------------------------------ + +From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com> +Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 09:30:11 -0800 +Subject: correct way to write Makefile? + +What's the correct way to create a Makefile for LaTeX? +I'm not sure how to capture the business about having to run: + latex (Extract citations.) + bibtex (Create the bibliography.) + latex (Incorporate bibliography.) + latex (Resolve references.) + +Thanks, +/7\'7 Steve Kelem (408)879-5347 Steve.Kelem@xilinx.com +\\ ` Xilinx FAX: (408)377-3259 +// 2100 Logic Drive +\\/.\ San Jose, California 95124 + +So far, I have the following, but it doesn't capture the above requirements. + +.SUFFIXES : $(LATEX_SUFFIXES) $(SUFFIXES) + +LATEX_SUFFIXES = .aux .bbl .blg .dvi .ilg .idx .ind .lof .log .lot .toc + +all : pop.ps + +%.ps : %.dvi + dvips OPTIONS $*.dvi + + +%.ind : %.idx + makeindex $* + +%.bbl : %.aux + bibtex $* + +%.dvi %.aux : %.tex + latex $*.tex + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #15 +**************************** + + +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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