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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.08 b/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.08 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c7249fed27 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.08 @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ +Article 96 of ucam.mlist.texhax: +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (TeXhax Digest) +Subject: TeXhax Digest V1999 #8 +Date: 9 Aug 1999 11:01:07 GMT + +TeXhax Digest Monday, August 9 1999 Volume 1999 : Number 008 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: inverse limit symbol + Re: inverse limit symbol + semidirect products + drawing a graphical representation of C structures + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:32:26 -0400 (EDT) +From: Barbara Beeton <bnb@ams.org> +Subject: Re: inverse limit symbol + +fernando gouvea wants an "inverse limit" symbol that will take +limits. + + ... This should be a usual + lim, with a left-pointing arrow under it, and it should be a "math operator + with limits", that is, one should be able to write something like \ilim_n + and get + + lim + <-- + n + + with, of course, the right spacing and so on. + +this can be done quite easily, building on the existing ams-latex +definition \varinjlim: + + \newcommand{\ilim}{\mathop{\varinjlim}\limits} + +using it: + + \[ + abc \ilim_n def + \] + +of course, as in-line text, the lower limit will appear in subscript +position. + -- bb + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:06:54 -0400 +From: "Fernando Q. Gouvea" <fqgouvea@colby.edu> +Subject: Re: inverse limit symbol + +**** On Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:32:26 -0400 (EDT), Barbara Beeton <bnb@ams.org> said: + +bb> this can be done quite easily, building on the existing ams-latex +bb> definition \varinjlim: + +bb> \newcommand{\ilim}{\mathop{\varinjlim}\limits} + +Thanks. There's always something really easy one has missed! + +You mean \varprojlim, but this solution does seem to work fine. I've been +using the following ugly hack: + +\newcommand{\ilim}[1]{\displaystyle\lim_{\xleftarrow[\hidewidth\scriptstyle + #1\hidewidth]{\hphantom{\mathrm{iii}}}}} + +which puts the arrow a bit lower than does \varprojlim. I'll have to +experiment with both versions to see. + +bb> of course, as in-line text, the lower limit will appear in subscript +bb> position. + +So one probably should just throw in a \displaystyle into the definition +(at least for my taste!). + +Fernando + +- -- + +Fernando Q. Gouvea +Department of Mathematics Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online +Colby College http://www.maa.org +Waterville, ME 04901 +fqgouvea@colby.edu http://www.colby.edu/math +========================================================== + +Mophobia, n.: + Fear of being verbally abused by a Mississippian. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:12:51 -0400 +From: Noam Shomron <shomron@gnu.org> +Subject: semidirect products + +Is there a collection of macros for producing symbols to denote semidirect +product, besides the standard "bowtie" symbol? I have seen papers where a +broken direct sum sign is used, for instance. + +Thanks! + +Noam Shomron + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:58:48 +0100 (BST) +From: Calum Mackay - Computer Systems CTE <calum.mackay@UK.Sun.COM> +Subject: drawing a graphical representation of C structures + +Hi all, + +Would anyone know of an existing package that draws C structures? I'm after +something that I can give a definition of a structure to, and have it draw a +little box depicting the struct, with fields in it linked (i.e. pointing to) +another struct box? + +I imagine I could build something like this myself with pstricks, but I +wondered +if it had already been done. + +best regards, +Calum. + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V1999 #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 +office@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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