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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.08 b/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.08 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d77ecd1687 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.08 @@ -0,0 +1,258 @@ +Article 75 of ucam.mlist.texhax: +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK +Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #8 +Date: 19 Sep 97 17:37:58 GMT + +TeXhax Digest Friday, 19 September 1997 Volume 1997 : Number 008 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + patgen + EuroTeX'98, first Call for Papers + tableofcontents and index problem in AMSLaTeX + Upgrading to LaTeX(2e) + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: gpg@arbortext.com (Gary Grosso) +Date: Thu, 28 Aug 97 13:24:38 -0400 +Subject: patgen + +Hi all, + +I'm looking for patgen.web. I found a man page, which says: + Frank Liang wrote the first version of this program. Peter + Breitenlohner made a substantial revision in 1991 for TeX 3. + +I would like to download a copy of this latest version. I can't, in fact, +find any version of patgen.web in the TeX archives. Can anyone help me +please? Thanks! + +- -- + +Gary Grosso +ArborText, Inc. +Ann Arbor, MI, USA +gpg@arbortext.com + +------------------------------ + +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 17:01:48 +0100 +Subject: EuroTeX'98, first Call for Papers + + ======================================= +| EuroTeX'98 | +| | +| Xth European TeX Conference | + ======================================= + +Programme Committee +================== + +Thierry BOUCHE -- UJF, Grenoble, France +Andre DESNOYERS -- IBP, Paris, France +Robin FAIRBAIRNS -- Cambridge, UK +Daniel FLIPO -- Maths, Lille, France +Bernard GAULLE -- IDRIS, Paris, France +Michele JOUHET (President) -- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland +Irina A. MAKHOVAYA -- Mir Publishers, Moscow, Russia +Tomasz PRZECHLEWSKI -- University of Gdansk, Poland +Christophe PYTHOUD -- LING, Lausanne, Switzerland +Bernd RAICHLE -- Esslingen, Germany +Philip TAYLOR -- RHBNC, University of London, UK +Gabriel VALIENTE -- Technical University of Catalonia, Catalonia, Spain +Kees VAN DER LAAN -- Garnwerd, The Netherlands +Jiri ZLATUSKA -- Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic + +Local Organisation: Jacques Andre (President) -- Irisa, Rennes, France +================== Barbara Auzeby -- Blueprint, St-Germain en Laye, France + Eric Picheral -- CRI Univ. Rennes 1, France + +Conference Chairman: Michel Goossens -- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland + +Call for Papers +============== + +GUTenberg is organizing EuroTeX'98 which will be a part of WEPT'98 the +second Week on Electronic documents and Typography +<http://www.irisa.fr/ep98/week.html> including also the following conferences +EP'98 (Electronic Publishing), RIDT'98 (Raster Imaging and digital +Typography) and PODDP'98 (Principles of Digital Document Processing). +EuroTeX'98 will be the place where the principal actors in the field of +scientific and technical publishing, especially those using TeX as +typesetting engine, will meet. The conference will be held in the corsair +town of St Malo (Brittany, France) from Sunday morning March 29th to +Tuesday evening March 31st 1998. + +Authors are invited to submit proposals for article(s) in English or in +French, which will be reviewed by the Programme Committee in accordance +with the schedule below. The first page should contain the title of the +paper and the full name, affiliation and contact details (including +email address) for each author; the expected time required for oral +presentation should also be specified. + +Calendar +======= +15 October 1997 : Deadline for submission of abstracts. +1 November 1997 : Notification of acceptance or rejection. +15 December 1997 : Deadline for draft version of the papers. +9 January 1998 : Committee response. +1 February 1998 : Deadline for final version of the papers. +29-31 March 1998 : Conference EuroTeX'98. + +An incomplete list of possible subjects follows. +- - Tools, editors, viewers, print drivers for TeX. +- - Specific formats. +- - LaTeX packages. +- - World archives, CTAN servers, maintenance, validation, enhancements. +- - Multi-lingual tools, formats and documents. +- - Fonts. +- - Standardization. +- - Multimedia publications. +- - Page models, style sheets, DSSL, ... +- - PostScript, PDF, SGML, HTML, XML, MathML applications. +- - Graphics, sound and pictures. +- - Editorial chain. +- - Internet explorers. +- - Editorial, bibliographic and textual databases. +- - Revisable documents. +- - Copyright questions with respect to scientific and technical + publications. +- - Journalism, publicity, works of art, printing. +- - Scientific publications: tools for mathematics, physics, chemistry, + etc. +- - What future for paper publication versus electronic publication? +- - Possibilities offered by the new digital media: CD-ROM, Zip, etc. +- - Publication and consultation at home or in the office. +- - Conversion of proprietary formats. +- - LaTeX versus other products from competitors. + +Proposals should be transferred using FTP to our server as follows: +ftp cadd.cern.ch +user anonymous +password your e-mail address +cd /pub/cern/DTPs/Eurotex + +then create an author-specific directory. After having copied their +file(s) to this directory the authors are requested to send a message to +the Chair of the Programme Committee advising her that the transfer has +taken place (michele.jouhet@cern.ch). + +The authors whose articles are accepted will receive instructions for +the preparation of the final version of their paper. Accepted papers +will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available +at the conference. + +For further information in English or French, please write to: +Michele JOUHET -- CERN/AS, 1211 Geneve 23, Suisse +(michele.jouhet@cern.ch) +Bernard GAULLE -- IDRIS, France (gaulle@idris.fr) + +------------------------------ + +From: Jan Krupa <krupa@alpha.sggw.waw.pl> +Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 15:31:18 MET-1MET DST +Subject: tableofcontents and index problem in AMSLaTeX + +Dear La(TeX) users, + +I use AMSLaTeX (\documentclass[11pt]{amsbook}) and have problem with +** tableofcontents **. I mean: +- - there is no hyphenation when the titles of chapters or (sub)section + are long. e.g.: + + CONTENTS + .... + 3.2.4 The nucleus of thermoelastic strain in a space with a spherical cavity, + in a solid sphere and in a shell 30 + +but there should be + + 3.2.4 The nucleus of thermoelastic strain in a space with a spheri- + cal cavity, in a solid sphere and in a shell.................. 30 + +** Similar things happen when try to generate index ** + +- - there is no the "dots" like below + 3.2.1 Some title .................................................... 20 + +I have + + 3.2.1 Some title 20 + +instead. + +Could someone suggest what is going on ? + +When I use the 'book' class instead 'amsbook' the tableofcontents +and 'index' are nice but I would +prefer to use amsbook. + +If would be so kind please send the answer to 'krupa@alpha.sggw.waw.pl' +because I have often trouble to access to the news so I could miss the +answer. + +Best Regards + +Jan Krupa + +------------------------------ + +From: Edward L Chupp <elc@hopper.unh.edu> +Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:25:33 -0400 (EDT) +Subject: Upgrading to LaTeX(2e) + +In the late 1980's I bought a TeX package (version 2.09). I now need an +upgrade to LaTeX(2e). I specifically need the style file epsfig.sty, but +upon examining it I noted that it needs a number of other files aswell. +Could you please advise me where I can obtain this package (LaTeX(2e) +either commercially or by shareware. I am not a TeXpert, so I would not +know hot to "upgrade," i. e., I probably would have to start with a brand +new TeX/LaTeX. + +Thank you for your help! + +- --mary:) + +------------------------------ + +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@mail.tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, P.O. 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