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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.12 b/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.12 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d956df8f7b --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/99/texhax.12 @@ -0,0 +1,395 @@ +Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:17:52 +0000 +From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk +To: texhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #12 - 7 msgs + +TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 1999 : Number 12 + +Today's Topics: + + 1. two-line header & footer (George A. Stewart) + 2. Printing Labels/Envelopes via LaTex (Miles, Mark (Toronto - 22 Front)) + 3. TUGboat 20(3) was shipped to the printer last week (Mimi Burbank) + 4. Full page figure in a two column article (Yan Wong) + 5. Help Windvi (tu@math.uu.nl) + 6. Text, pictures, floating and stuff like that (Max Schäfer) + 7. gif/bmp/jpeg files for LaTeX (Paul Langdon) + +---------- + +Message: 1 +Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:32:47 -0500 +To: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr +From: "George A. Stewart" <georges@tiac.net> +Subject: two-line header & footer + +% Here is a demonstration + +\def\makeheadline{% + \vbox to 0pt {\vskip -25.2888truept % + \line {\vbox to11.2888truept {}\the \headline } + \vss }\nointerlineskip} +\headline={% + \tenrm\hbox{% + \vbox{% + \centerline{Running headline} + \vskip 2truept + \hrule}}} +\def\makefootline{% + \baselineskip=24truept + \line{\the \footline}} +\footline={% + \tenrm\hbox{% + \vbox{% + \hrule + \vskip 2pt + \centerline{\folio}}}} + +Sample text follows: This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages +255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages +255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages +255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages +255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages +255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages +255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages +255-257 (1986 edition). + +\vfill\eject\end + +---------- + +Message: 2 +From: "Miles, Mark (Toronto - 22 Front)" <mark_miles@ca.ml.com> +To: "'texhax@tex.ac.uk'" <texhax@tex.ac.uk> +Subject: Printing Labels/Envelopes via LaTex +Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:59:29 -0500 +<mark_miles@ca.ml.com> +charset="iso-8859-1" + + I wonder if you help with a problem I'm having with a 3rd part +vendor's software that uses LaTex to print labels and Envelopes. The +software we use access a database to pull a list of names and address to +print labels, when we print the resulting output produced for 11,000 labels +reaches 317mb BUT if we performed the same task from Word and a Visual Basic +app the resulting spool file is only 13mb for the same number of files. The +vendors has said its how LaTex works and there is nothing that can be done +but I can not accept that as an answer. If this is true then we will have +to skip using LaTex and write our own code. + + Could this be a bug that was fixed? + + The vendor has not told us what version there using but I found this +string in one of the log files. + (format=latex 96.9.25) 25 SEP 1996 09:53 +**port0.tex +(port0.tex +LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3 + +if you can reply to the return address and to milesfam@idirect.com + +Thank You + +Mark Miles + +---------- + +Message: 3 +From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu> +Subject: TUGboat 20(3) was shipped to the printer last week +To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mailer.scri.fsu.edu, office@tug.org, +texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl, tug-pub@tug.org +Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:31:15 -0500 (EST) + +Hello everyone - Merry Christmas and Happy New year! + +I didn't get this together last week, but the files were shipped +to Cadmus on Thursday the 22nd of December... + +Mimi Burbank +(for the TUGboat production team) + -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -- + + TUGboat + Volume 20, Number 3 / September 1999 + ================================ + +Editorial Overview + Christina~Thiele + Vancouver in August 155 + TUG'99 Program 160 + +TeX and Math on the Web + Stephen A. Fulling + Keynote: TeX and the Web in the higher education + of the future: Dreams and difficulties 162 + Patrick D.F. Ion + MathML: A key to math on the Web 167 + Douglas Lovell + TeXML: Typesetting XML with TeX 176 + Paul Topping + Using MathType to create TeX and MathML equations 184 + Chris Rowley + Models and languages for formatted documents 189 + D.P. Story + TeX: Acrobat and TeX team up 196 + +Customizing Document Layout + Jean-luc Doumont + Doing it my way: A lone TeXer in the real world 202 + Peter Flynn + The vulcan package: A repair patch for LaTeX 208 + David Carlisle, Frank Mittelbach, and Chris Rowley + New interfaces for LaTeX class design, Parts I and II 214 + +TeX in Publishing + Kaveh Bazargan + Multi-use documents: The role of the publisher 217 + Frederick H. Bartlett + Very like a nail: Typesetting SGML with TeX 221 + Harry Payne + Making a book from contributed papers: + Print and Web versions 222 + Robert L. Kruse + Managing large projects with PreTeX: + A preprocessor for TeX 227 + Arthur Ogawa + Database publishing with Java and TeX 231 + Paul A. Mailhot + Implementing dynamic cross-referencing and PDF + with PreTeX 232 + Hu Wang + A Web-based submission system for meeting abstracts 237 + Petr Sojka + Hyphenation on demand 241 + Jonathan Fine + Active TeX and the DOT input syntax 248 + +Fonts, Graphics, and New Developments + Jean-luc Doumont + Drawing effective (and beautiful) graphs with TeX 255 + Wendy McKay and Ross Moore + Convenient labelling of graphics, the WARMreader way 262 + Sergey Lesenko and Laurent Siebenmann + Viewing DVI files with Acrobat Reader---DVIPDF + gives birth to AcroDVI 272 + Alan Hoenig + MathKit: Alternatives to Computer Modern Mathematics 282 + Fabrice Popineau + fpTeX: A teTeX-based distribution for Windows 290 + Jeffrey McArthur + Managing TeX software development projects 299 + Timothy Murphy + Java and TeX 309 + +Poster Exhibition + Christina Thiele + Text of `The Apocalypse' as graphics + by Prof. Alban Grimm 316 + Prof. Alban Grimm + Text of `The Apocalypse'as graphics 318 + +Workshops + Eitan Gurari and Sebastian Rahtz + LaTeX to XML/MathML 320 + D.P. Story + How to create quality interactive PDF documents + for the WWW using LaTeX 321 + Michael Doob + Writing class files: First steps 322 + Anita Hoover + Converting a LaTeX 2.09 style to a LaTeXe class 323 + +Panels + Stephen A. Fulling, Moderator + TeX and math on the Web 324 + Kaveh Bazargan, Moderator + TeX in publishing 325 + Arthur Ogawa, Moderator + The Future of LaTeX 326 + +News & Announcements + Calendar 329 + TUG2000--- The 21st Annual Conference 154 + GUTenberg 2000---LaTeX and XML: Cooperating with the Internet 331 + +Cartoon + Roy Preston + An Analogy with Web Sites 330 + +TUG Business + TUG'99 Attendees 327 + Institutional members 332 + TUG membership application 333 + +Advertisements + TeX consulting and production services 334 + Cambridge University Press 335 + Y&Y Inc. 336 + Blue Sky Research c3 + + ================================ + +---------- + +Message: 4 +Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:38:51 -0700 (MST) +From: Yan Wong <ywong@enme.ucalgary.ca> +To: texhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: Full page figure in a two column article + +Hello, + +I'm wondering if anybody can help me with a problem I'm having. I +cannot find the solution to this problem anywhere on the web. + +I'm trying to write a two-column article using LaTeX2e and I'm having +trouble outputting two things within the article: a title that spans both +columns, and a full page figure (that also, obviously, spans both +columns). + +For the figure, I tried inserting the /onecolumn command just before my +figure but the previous page breaks at an awkward spot. I know the +/afterpage package doesn't work in the two-column mode. Is there anything +else I can do? + +As for the title that spans two columns, I am clueless. Thanks in advance +for any help that is offered or for any nudge in the right direction. + +Yan + +---------- + +Message: 5 +Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:49:02 +0100 (MET) +From: <tu@math.uu.nl> +To: texhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: Help Windvi + +Dear Sir, +I have installed Texlive from CD-Rom (the newest version)into my PC, under Windows 98 including WinEditor program. Everything was going well, except that I could not view dvi file inside Texshell (I could run Tex succesfully) as well as inside Winedt. +1) After running Tex, I click into Preview icon, windvi opened and closed immediately, although Windvi can run well independently (means outside Texshell or Winedt). Looked at Programs Call, everything fixed well. +2) Inside Winedt, after runing tex successfully, I clicked into the "Dvi Preview" line in the Accessories menu, nothing happended. +Then I clicked "Dvi Search", it said that the program "yap.exe" could not be found. I went into the files Winedt.ini in the Winedt directory and changed the lines contating those programs. Namely, I changed "yap.exe "into "windvi.exe" and "YAP" into "WINDVI". +Then, running Winedt again, but Dvi Preview still did not work. This time, when I clicked into "Dvi Search", the error line did not appear, but Windvi opened and closed immediately ( it looked as the same problem as Texshell). I do not know how to solve this. +Could you please be so kind to help me to correct this problem? +If anything is still not clear, please let me explain more. +Thank you very much in advance. +Yours respectively, +N. Tu + +---------- + +Message: 6 +Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:37:49 +0100 +From: "Max Schäfer" <maxschaefer@maxschaefer.de> +To: texhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: Text, pictures, floating and stuff like that + +Hi folks! + +I'm using pdfTeX with MiKTeX under Win32, but I think my problem ain't +pdf-specific. One smallish remark ahead: Maybe this problem isn't such a +problem at all, just a typical, foolish newbie-question, maybe it has +been around on this mailing list a couple of times already, but perhaps +even you TeX-gurus remember the time when you were new to TeX, so, could +you please reply nevertheless? ThanX ;-) +OK, here we go: I'm trying to format text in three columns (in +landscape, but that's the smallest problem) and to put in a picture at a +fixed position. Now I want my text to float around that picture, which +means that the first column has to be slimmed down in its middle, the +middle column has to be interrupted and the right column has to be +indented. Perhaps this explanation isn't too clear, so I'll try to +include a rough ASCII-draft ('T' representing text, 'P' representing +picture) of how it should look like: + +TTT TTT TTT +TTPPPPPPPTT +TTPPPPPPPTT +TTT TTT TTT + +First, I considered using \parshape, but besides that I couldn't +persuade it to leave some lines blank (in the middle column), the +alignment of the right- resp. left-indented columns was awful, some +words even sticked out into the picture. So I dropped that idea (and +also dropped multicol, which I was using, too) and began fiddling around +with the \output-routine. My idea was to make TeX believe it was writing +to a set of relatively small pages and thus letting it perform +pagebreaks according to this imagination, then save those small pages to +boxes and finally putting them together to a real page. The individual +sub-pages would have been: + ++---+---+---+ +|TTT|TTT|TTT| ++---+---+---+ ++--+ +--+ +|TT| |TT| +|TT| |TT| ++--+ +--+ ++---+---+---+ +|TTT|TTT|TTT| ++---+---+---+ + +Now you all surely have begun to feel pity with me (I hope :-) because +you already know what pitfall I dropped into. Well, I _knew_ that I +couldn't just change the pagesize inside the output routine and hope it +would fit. I had read in the TeXbook that, to make these changes take +effect, I had to unpack \box255 and put it back onto the vertical list. +I also found a macro there, which claimed to do the box-unpacking, but I +failed to make it work :-( +Now, do you think I'm heading in a completely wrong direction? Is there +any simpler solution? Please tell me if you know one! But if there +isn't, would anybody be so kind to give me at least a sketch of an +\output-macro, that, after setting the pagesize, does unpacking and +pushing back? That would be really great! + +-- Max + +PS: You know, it is kind of urgent and if I can't find a solution soon, +I'll perhaps have to use some WYSIWYG-tool ... urghhh =:-() + +---------- + +Message: 7 +From: "Paul Langdon" <ptl89@hotmail.com> +To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +Subject: gif/bmp/jpeg files for LaTeX +Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:12:46 GMT + +Hi LaTeX gurus, +Can a GIF/BMP or JPEG file be incorporated into a LaTeX +document much like an EPS or eepic file generated via xfig +could be inserted in + +\begin{figure} +\psfig{figure=file.eps,width=...,height=...} + +It's easy to do this under Word, Adobe, etc but I wonder if +there is an equivalent for using file.gif, file.bmp, file.jpg +in LaTeX ... + +Thanks + +Paul + +______________________________________________________ +Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com + +---------- + +About TeXhax... + +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). + +Send TeXhax mailing list submissions to + texhax@tex.ac.uk +To subscribe or unsubscribe via the web, visit + http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax +or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to + texhax-request@tex.ac.uk +You can reach the person managing the list at + texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk + +End of TeXhax Digest |