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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/98/texhax.08 b/info/digests/texhax/98/texhax.08 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..169ffbef32 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/98/texhax.08 @@ -0,0 +1,326 @@ +Article 131543 of comp.text.tex: +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (TeXhax Digest) +Subject: TeXhax Digest V1998 #8 +Date: 2 Dec 1998 10:28:08 -0000 +Organization: None +X-Trace: oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk 912594488 4648 128.243.40.88 (2 Dec 1998 10:28:08 GMT) +X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nottingham.ac.uk +NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 1998 10:28:08 GMT + +TeXhax Digest Wednesday, December 2 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 008 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: appendix (TeXhax 98.7) + Re: appendix (TeXhax 98.7) + Re: appendix (TeXhax 98.7) + Appendices in LaTeX + LaTeX + epsfig and non-postscript printers + help on lucida + MIME-Version: 1.0 + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:25:00 +0000 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: appendix (TeXhax 98.7) + +In article <E0zcoUI-0001Io-00@nottingham.ac.uk> you write: +>From: Yomi Obidi <obidi@eng.buffalo.edu> +> +>I'm a bit confused about the incorporation of appendices in LaTex. +> +>I'm using \include{....} for the different chapters. +>Now, I have appendices A1, A2, A3, A4, B,C1,C2, and D. +> +>I have not found a helpful guide in the text (Lamport) on how to go about +>this. I'll appreciate any input in this regard. + +it's not clear what you're doing and what you want. + +\appendix (in the standard latex classes) changes the top-level +section `numbering' to be alphabetic (that's \section in article +class, \chapter in book and report class); in book and report class it +also changes the name `Chapter' to `Appendix'. + +i would expect you to be getting `A', `A.1', `A.2', ..., `B', `B.1', +... + +is this not what you observe? + +what do you actually want? +- -- +Robin Fairbairns + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:51:39 -0500 (EST) +From: Yomi Obidi <obidi@acsu.buffalo.edu> +Subject: Re: appendix (TeXhax 98.7) + +I want something of this format: + + Appendix A.1 + + Plate Stresses + +{ Fortran Code + goes + here + +} + +Appendix A.2 +. +. +. +. + +Appendix B + + Heating Schedule + +{ Description + of + the +heating method +goes here + +} + +etc + +Yomi Obidi + +On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Robin Fairbairns wrote: + +> In article <E0zcoUI-0001Io-00@nottingham.ac.uk> you write: +> >From: Yomi Obidi <obidi@eng.buffalo.edu> +> > +> >I'm a bit confused about the incorporation of appendices in LaTex. +> > +> >I'm using \include{....} for the different chapters. +> >Now, I have appendices A1, A2, A3, A4, B,C1,C2, and D. +> > +> >I have not found a helpful guide in the text (Lamport) on how to go about +> >this. I'll appreciate any input in this regard. +> +> it's not clear what you're doing and what you want. +> +> \appendix (in the standard latex classes) changes the top-level +> section `numbering' to be alphabetic (that's \section in article +> class, \chapter in book and report class); in book and report class it +> also changes the name `Chapter' to `Appendix'. +> +> i would expect you to be getting `A', `A.1', `A.2', ..., `B', `B.1', +> ... +> +> is this not what you observe? +> +> what do you actually want? +> -- +> Robin Fairbairns + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 17:59:50 +0000 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: appendix (TeXhax 98.7) + +> I want something of this format: +> +> Appendix A.1 +> +> Plate Stresses +> +> { Fortran Code +> goes +> here +> +> } +>[etc] + +report & book class will say `Appendix A' for the top level appendix, +but (in common with almost any book i know) won't put `appendix' in +front of every subsection of the the appendixes. + +if you want something like the above, you need to rewrite some part of +the class you're using. are you writing a dissertation of some sort? +(very often, one finds that universities have their own dissertation +classes that address issues like this.) + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:16:46 -0600 (CST) +From: Leif Peterson <peterson@bcm.tmc.edu> +Subject: Appendices in LaTeX + +Dear Yomi: + +First, you don't need to make each appendix a chapter, as that would make +each appendix title appear in the table of contents as a +chapter. Instead, simply input each appendix file with + +\input{appendA} (where the filename is appendA.tex) + +Next, at the beginning of file appendA.tex put + +\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}} +\thispagestyle{plain} +\section*{\bf \Huge Appendix A} +\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bf Appendix A} +\renewcommand{\thepage}{A--\arabic{page}} +\markboth{Appendix A}{} +\markright{Appendix A} + +then put your appendix text here. + +If you begin each appendix file with the commands above, an line with page +number should be added to the table of contents for each +appendix. Also, page numbering in appendix A will be A-1, A-2, but only in +the appendix. The actual number of the page should show +in the table of contents. + +Good luck, + +Leif Peterson, Ph.D. +Baylor College of Medicine + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:17:43 -0600 (CST) +From: Leif Peterson <peterson@bcm.tmc.edu> +Subject: LaTeX + +Nicholas: + +have you tried putting the following commands in the preamble, i.e., before +\begin{document}, and varying the even and odd margins and +textwidth until your page numbers are even? + +documentstyle{article} + +\setlength{\textwidth}{6in} +\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{1.00in} +\setlength{\evensidemargin}{1.00in} + +\begin{document} + +Leif E. Peterson, Ph.D. +Baylor College of Medicine + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:16:41 +0000 (GMT) +From: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <livantes@soi.city.ac.uk> +Subject: epsfig and non-postscript printers + +Hello, + I want to include some pictures/graphs in documents +using latex and then ** print ** them in a NON-POSTCRIPT printer. + +I can convert my pictures to postscript and then (using epsfig) insert +them into latex and easily print on a postscript printer, but what happens +when one has a non-ps hewlet packard for example? + +I understand that one may use the ``picture'' environment to draw +lines etc (using texcad for example) but suppose I have a gif file? + +thank you very much, +a. + +Andreas Hadjiprocopis livantes@soi.city.ac.uk +Computer Science Department www.soi.city.ac.uk/~livantes/home.html +Room A528, City University +44 71 477 8551 tel +Northampton Sqr, ec1v0hb, London, UK 8587 fax + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:34:36 +0100 (MET) +From: Marco Taglienti <tgl@pcxas1.unicam.it> +Subject: help on lucida + +Using The Latex Companion for guide to typesetting my documents i notice +the beautyful style of fonts. I read in the companion that to use those +fonts I must specify the package lucidbrb.sty. In the sunsite archive i +download the package lucida where i find the sources to create the styles. +The documentation i found suggest to do: +`Latex lucidabr.ins' to create the styles and .fd files. The result is a +succesion of Unrecognized command sequencies... +The second thing suggested is +`Latex lucidabr.yy', but it has the same effect. +I decided to use latex on lucida.ins, and this time seems to work, but +when i use dviscr (calling mfjob itself) doesn't find fonts needed. +How can I do to use lucidbrb.sty correctly? +It's so difficult obtain a style like the Companion? +What is the right procedure to install it? + +Please help me, nobody can help me in Italy! + +Hopefully, + Marco Taglienti + Universita' degli Studi + Camerino Italy + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 21:38:27 PST +From: "KALIDOSS MURUGESAN" <mkalidoss@hotmail.com> +Subject: MIME-Version: 1.0 + +Dear Sir, +Please favour me with the four *.tfm (ygoth, yfrak, yswab and yinit) +files to be used along with the *oldgerm* package. +Thank you, + +M.KALIDOSS +DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS +ST.JOSEPH'S COLLEGE +TIRUCHIRAPALLI - 620 002 +INDIA +EMAIL: mkalidoss@hotmail.com + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V1998 #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 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, 1466 NW Front Avenue, +Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820 USA (phone: 1 503 223 9994, +fax: 1 503 223 3960). + +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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