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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.06 b/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.06 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..99800b4435 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.06 @@ -0,0 +1,442 @@ +Article 99958 of comp.text.tex: +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK +Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #6 +Date: 25 Jul 1997 16:08:56 +0100 +Organization: None + +TeXhax Digest Friday, 25 July 1997 Volume 1997 : Number 006 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + PCTEX + [none] + Advanced mathematical typesetting in LaTeX + TUGboat Volume 18 Issue 1 + SliTeX + cyrtug'97 + TeX directory structure (tds) 0.9993 available + TeX Graphic Package? + boxed, multiline formula + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: Edson Luiz Cataldo Ferreira <chanteur@ax.apc.org> +Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:35:40 -0300 (EST) +Subject: PCTEX + +>Hi, Sir ! +> +> I've just got the version LATEX 2e and i'd like to obtain informations of +>it. More precisely i'd like to obtain informations about PCTEX (version 2e). +>I'd like to know if there is publications about it. That is, books or or +>other publication that explain how to use it. I've user a version older of +>PCTEX. +> +>Thank you for you attention, +> +>Edson. + +------------------------------ + +From: sla019@pop-ei.ku-eichstaett.de +Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:57:44 +0000 +Subject: [none] + +> I would gladly switch to a good quality simple ASCII text editor or +> another word processor, if I could find one that worked well with a good +> spell checker. I tried Epsilon and found it to be very cumbersome and +> inappropriate. + +Perhaps you should give good old Vedit a try. The Window version 5.0 is due +Jun 2. See +http://www.vedit.com + +Fritz Heberlein + +------------------------------ + +From: G.S.Padhi@soton.ac.uk +Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:33:31 GMT +Subject: Advanced mathematical typesetting in LaTeX + +Dear Sir, +I was wondering if you know any book on +ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL TYPESETTING in LATEX +Thanks in advance +Padhi + +------------------------------ + +From: Arthur Ogawa for TUG Office <tug-office@tug.cs.umb.edu> +Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:32:07 +0100 +Subject: TUGboat Volume 18 Issue 1 + +TeX User Group members should soon receive their first TUGboat of 1997, +Volume 18 Number 1. + +If you do not see your expected TUGboat arrive within two weeks +(possibly later for addresses outside the USA), please notify the TeX +User Group by replying to this message. + +If you are not currently a member of TUG and are interested in this +group, please see our home page at http://www.tug.org. The very poplar +TeX Live CD-ROM 2 is now bundled with TUG membership; please see the +link on our home page for more details. + +------------------------------ + +From: Fredy Aquino <fredy@jro.igp.gob.pe> +Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:56:21 -0400 (EDT) +Subject: SliTeX + +Hi friends!: +I have a question: I need to use the Slitex. + I tried to install it using the disk08 where I could +find the file slitex.zip. I followed the steps indicated to install +a disk : using the 4install.bat. The installation, apparently, was ok +all the files from the diskette were copied to the directory c:\emtex +where I installed the latex. But, when I tried to use it I got a +an error message: +!Latex Error: Unkown option 'errorshow' for package 'tracefnt' +... +1.270 \DeclareSymbolFont + <bold>{OT1}{cmr}{bx} + {n} +Question: What does it mean? + Can you tell where to find the slitex and how do I must install +it so I can use it? +Thank you very much! +Fredy Aquino + +------------------------------ + +From: CyrTUG <cyrtug@cemi.rssi.ru> +Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 19:17:58 -0700 +Subject: cyrtug'97 + +***************CyrTUG'97 ANNUAL MEETING IN PETERHOF**************** + in association with + St. Petersburg State University, Math-Mech Faculty + September 8--11, 1997, Peterhof, St. Petersburg +******************************************************************* +Organizing Committee Program Committee +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +Irina Makhovaya (Moscow) Eugenii Pankratiev (Moscow) +John Linn Roseman (New York) Kees van der Laan (Gr\"oningen) +Olga Grineva (St. Petersburg) Alexander Berdnikov (St. Petersburg) +Olga Lapko (Moscow) Joseph Romanovskii (St. Petersburg) +Marina Kuznetsova (Moscow) Stanislav Klimenko (Protvino) + + TeXnical School + ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +1. Reports on hot topics in the use and development of TeX and METAFONT + (multilingual support, electronic publishing, graphics, cyrillic + fonts, etc.) +2. Demonstration of new developments +3. Workshops: Exchange of Experience +4. The TeX Archives +5. New public-domain TeXware +6. Tutorials + +******************************************************************** + Non-TeX Activities + ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +1. An excursion to Oranienbaum +2. An excursion to St. Petersburg +3. An excursion to Peterhof Palace +4. Walks and discussions with colleagues +5. Conference banquet +6. Cultural events +7. A book kiosk + +******************************************************************** + Accommodations + ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +1. 1 or 2 persons to a room (WC, shower-bath and so on) +2. Coffee/Tea/Lunch/Dinner +3. A train from St. Petersburg to Peterhof and vice versa on the first + and last days of the meeting, respectively + +******************************************************************* + Application form* + ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + (Send, please, by e-mail before 31 July, 1997) + +Yes, I want to come to the CyrTUG'97 Annual Meeting! I have +completed the form below. + +Full name (last, first, middle)_____________________________________ + +Member of CyrTUG or TUG or LUG ____________________________________ + +Citizenship: ______________________________________________________ + +Birthday (Day, Year): ________________________________________ + +Passport number: ___________________________________________________ + +Date of issue (Day, Year): __________________________________________ + +Expiration date (Day): _____________________________________________ + +Date of arrival to the hotel (Day): _______________________________ + +Time of arrival (if known) (a.m., p.m.): + +Date of departure from the hotel (Day): + +Type the of room wanted: + double single + +Address: Street_______________________________________________________ + + City________________________State/Province___________________ + + Postal Code_________________Country__________________________ + +Telephone (including international code) + ____________________________________________________________ + +Fax ____________________________________________________________ + +E-mail ____________________________________________________________ + +Do you need visa support? + Yes (if so, make sure you've filled your fax number or snail mail +address) + No + +If yes, please tell us the date of your planned entry into Russia + (Day): _______________________________________________________ + +Date of planned exit from Russia (Day): __________________________ + +Topic of report delivered (if any) _________________________________ + + ____________________________________________________________ + + ____________________________________________________________ + +(Paper submissions and proposals for tutorials should be sent to +Program Connittee: Eugenii Pankratiev, Moscow State University, +e-mail: pankrat@shade.msu.ru. +The deadline for submissions is 31 July 1997) + +Anything you would like to add? ____________________________________ + +____________________________________________________________________ + + Date _________________ Signature _________________ + +_____________________________________________________________________ + +*Participants from foreign (non-C.I.S) countries will pay a +REGISTRATION FEE of US$100.00 and an ACCOMODATION and FOOD fee of +US$150.00--250 (depends on accomodations) in cash on arrival (no checks +or credit cards, please). The discount for TUG or LUG members is +50% of the REGISTRATION FEE +********************************************************************* +For contacts and more information: +Irina Makhovaya +e-mail: cyrtug@mir.msk.su or cyrtug@cemi.rssi.ru +phone: (095) 286-0622 +address: CyrTUG, Mir Publishers, + 2 Pervyi Rizhskii Pereulok, + Moscow, 129820, Russia + +------------------------------ + +From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu> +Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 16:59:28 -0400 (EDT) +Subject: TeX directory structure (tds) 0.9993 available + +Another draft (0.9994) of the TeX Directory Structure (TDS) standards document +is now available from: + http://www.tug.org/tds/ + ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/tds.tar.gz + +The DVI file is: + ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/tds/tds.dvi + +Soon it will be on CTAN as well, in the `tds' directory. +(finger ctan@mail.tug.org for a list of CTAN hosts.) + +The only differences from 0.9993 are a revised section on AmiWeb2c from +the author and some editorial changes. If no problems arise from the +discussion at the upcoming TUG 97 meeting (http://www.tug.org/tug97/), +this will become version 1.0. + +Please send comments to twg-tds@mail.tug.org. + +kb@mail.tug.org, for the TDS committee + +------------------------------ + +From: Frank Ende <101644.2150@CompuServe.COM> +Date: 22 Jul 97 07:27:41 EDT +Subject: TeX Graphic Package? + +Greetings To Tex UK, +I have just started to use Tex (in it's standard form) ver 3.141. I am +endeavouring to produce fairly complex standard documents(tax forms, +governmental forms etc). + +My question: I am trying to produce fairly exact +documents. As a beginner ( and someone who has spent most +of my adult life in the world of windows) I find TeX difficult to use. Are there +Graphics packages (with a GUI) which produce TeX code? Which ones would you +recommend, and how can I get them quickly (help). Our operating system is SUN OS +5.4 generic sun4m. and we currently using TeX 3.141. + +A second question: We are also trying to run TeX on a Sequent system(DYNIX 4.0 +V4.1.2 i386). We are encountering problems compiling the TeX code. Is there a +pre-compiled executable available somewhere which runs under this system? + +Shane Hoey. + +------------------------------ + +From: Jan Krupa <krupa@alpha.sggw.waw.pl> +Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:48:13 MET-1MET DST +Subject: boxed, multiline formula + +Could somebody explain (or only suggest) to me how to get the following +"boxed and displayed formula" (I need it to have in book) or may be +there is some macro (LaTeX2e) which does it or may be somebody could send me +some private macro: + _____________________________________________ + | | + | e.g.: \iint_D xydxdy | +(1) | formula 1 \sum.... | + | .... | + | | + | e.g.: \lim.. | + | formula2 .... | +(2) | ..... | + | | + |_____________________________________________| + +or + _____________________________________________ + | | + | e.g.: \iint_D xydxdy | +(1) | formula 1 \sum.... | + | .... | + |_____________________________________________| + | | + | e.g.: \lim.. | + | formula2 .... | +(2) | ..... | + | | + |_____________________________________________| + +I would like to have the box horizontal and vertical centered +and automatically numbered. +I would prefer to have it in LaTeX2e (AMSLaTeX) + +It was told to use minipage environment so +I have tried to use 'minipage' and 'tabular' environments but the results +are rather poor, the places of numbers are not adjusted and the width of +the box is not equal to the width of textwidth (ho to do that?) : + +- ------- +\documentclass[12pt,leqno]{amsart} +\textwidth=12 true cm +\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} +\begin{document} +bbbbbbb aaaaaaaaa aaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaa aaaaa +aaaaaa aaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaa aaaaaa aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa aaaaaa aaaaaaaa +aaaaaa aaaaaaaa +\par +\bigskip +\noindent +\begin{tabular}{ p{1cm}| p{11cm}|} +\cline{2-2} +(1) +& \begin{minipage}[c]{11 true cm} +\begin{equation} +\iint\limits_D \nonumber +\end{equation} +\end{minipage} \\ +(2) & +\begin{minipage}[c]{11 true cm} +\begin{equation} +\sum_i x_i \nonumber +\end{equation} +\end{minipage} \\ +\cline{2-2} +\end{tabular} +\bigskip + +\begin{minipage}[c]{1cm} +\vspace{-0.8em} +\begin{eqnarray} +\ \\ +\ \nonumber \\ +\ \\ +\ \nonumber \\ +\ \\ +\ \nonumber \\ +\ +\end{eqnarray} +\end{minipage} +\framebox{ +\begin{minipage}{11cm} +%\vspace{-\abovedisplayskip} +\begin{eqnarray} +\iint\limits_D xy dx dy \nonumber\\ +\sum_i x_i \nonumber\\ +\iint\limits_D xy dx dy \nonumber\\ +\sum_{\sum\limits_{k=0}^i}^{\sum\limits_{s=1}^m} x_i \nonumber +\end{eqnarray} +\end{minipage}} + +\end{document} + +- ------ +Thanks in advance. + +Jan Krupa +Warsaw Agricultural University + +------------------------------ + +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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