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+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
+
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