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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.10 b/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.10 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c6bb0c03c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/97/texhax.10 @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +Article 77 of ucam.mlist.texhax: +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK +Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #10 +Date: 4 Nov 97 10:31:00 GMT + +TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 4 November 1997 Volume 1997 : Number 010 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + seminar.cls + [none] + EuroTeX'98: last Call for Papers + Re: Commercially available LaTeX for SGI? + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: pjbk@cee.hw.ac.uk (Peter JB King) +Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:12:22 +0100 (BST) +Subject: seminar.cls + +I recently retrieved seminar.cls from twx.ac.uk, having observed that +it had been updated. The version there, seems to have an extraneous } +in it, causing error messages from LaTeX. As far as I recall this was +immediately before the % end change of DPC 1997/09/16 + +The version info is + %% BEGIN seminar.cls + %% LaTeX2e seminar class, derived by Sebastian Rahtz from + %% `seminar.sty', generated on <1993/10/8>. Fixes from David Carlisle + %% and Denis Girou. + %% + %\def\fileversion{1.0} + %\def\filedate{1993/04/01} + \def\fileversion{1.2} + \def\filedate{1997/09/16} + %% + +I had also supposed that it might have been modified to conform to its +documentation, which states that a4 or a4paper is acceptable in the +\documentclass optional argument. In fact, only a4 is acceptable, +a4paper causing an error. + (/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.cls + Document Class: seminar 1997/09/16, 1.2 + Document Style: `seminar' v1.2 <1997/09/16> (tvz) + ! Undefined control sequence. + \ds@a4paper ->\ds@a + 4 + l.91 \ifnotesonly + \else\notesonlystarfalse\fi + +- -- +Peter King, Computing & Electrical Eng. Internet: pjbk@cee.hw.ac.uk + Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, or P.J.B.King@heriot-watt.ac.uk + Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland +Phone: (+44) 131 451 3433 Fax: (+44) 131 451 3431 + +------------------------------ + +From: piyas@juphys.ernet.in +Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 17:03:59 +0500 (GMT+0500) +Subject: [none] + +I am a Ph.D student. I'm very much interested to develop my expertise in +developing LATEX MAcros. Would you please help me in this regard sending +a helping manual. If the manual is available via e-mail, please send me +the file in compressed form. + +Regards. +Piyas Samanta + +P.S PLEASE CORRESPOND ME IN THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS + + ------------------------------------------------------- + Piyas Samanta + c/o Dr. C. K. Sarkar + Dept. of Electronics & Tele-Comm. Engg. + Jadavpur University + CALCUTTA 700 032, INDIA + + E-mail: piyas@juphys.ernet.in Fax: +91 33 473 2217 + ------------------------------------------------------ + +------------------------------ + +From: "Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <Qhaa006@Vms.Rhbnc.Ac.Uk>" <QHAA006@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> +Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:30:04 GMT +Subject: EuroTeX'98: last Call for Papers + +Final Call for Papers: the 1998 EuroTeX Conference at St Malo, France. + +Dear Colleague -- apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message, +but time is short and we must circulate as many TeX lists as possible before +the Call for Papers closes. Please see + + http://www.ens.fr/gut/manif/eurotex98/ + +for the official announcement of EuroTeX'98; the Call for Papers closes on +Monday 3rd November 1997. + +Philip Taylor, for the EuroTeX'98 Programme Committee. + +------------------------------ + +From: nospam@oddhack.engr.sgi.com (Jon Leech) +Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:03:26 -0800 (PST) +Subject: Re: Commercially available LaTeX for SGI? + +Paul Garlick writes: +> May I ask a quick question on the availability of a commercial version of +> LaTeX to run on the workstation I am using. It is a Silicon Graphics Indigo +> 2 R10000 running IRIX 6.2 (without a direct connection to the internet at +> present). Following a tip from the UK-TUG FAQ list I have contacted Arbor Text +> Inc. but they in fact no longer supply the software. Do you have any +> information on alternatives? + + I don't know about commercial versions for Irix. However, you can +just install the fw_tex package from the Irix 6.2 "Freeware 2.0" CD. This +includes TeX, LaTeX, documentation, binaries, etc. so you're pretty much set +to go. + + I'm no TeXpert, but I am successfully using this LaTeX to build the +OpenGL API specification - a 350 page document of complexity comparable to +the typical Ph.D. thesis. Hopefully it will do the job for you too. + + Jon Leech + Silicon Graphics + +------------------------------ + +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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