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diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.30 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.30 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6cd9d25023 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.30 @@ -0,0 +1,491 @@ +From: UKTeX-Request@tex.ac.uk +To: UKTeX Distribution: ; +Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #30 +Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk +Errors-To: owner-uktex@nottingham.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Content-ID: <10342.776710736.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 17:58:57 +0100 +Message-ID: <10343.776710737@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +UKTeX Digest Friday, 12 Aug 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 30 + +Today's Topics: + Re: Problems with LaTeX 2e + Re: Problems with LaTeX 2e + BibTeX field size limits + Re: Q: preface & bibliography in table of contents ? + Re: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager + Re: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager + Re: File handle problems in DOS (was in emTeX and Novell Netware + MuTeX - does it work? + LexiTeX / LexiBib release + + +Administrivia: + Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and + David Osborne (University of Nottingham) + Contributions: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk + Subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@tex.ac.uk + (message body = "subscribe uktex" or "unsubscribe uktex", [no quotes]) +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Date: Sat, 06 Aug 1994 19:57:12 -0000 +From: R A Bailey <maa01rab@goldsmiths.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: Problems with LaTeX 2e + +Whenever you install a new format file you can expect to have +to remake all the auxiliary files (*.aux, *.toc, *.lof, etc) +because those are written by each format in such a way that it +can read it itself. So the reported problem is neither nor +surprising nor a problem. +- -- +R. A. Bailey +Snail: Department of Mathematical Studies Tel: (+44) 81 692 7171 + Goldsmiths' College + New Cross Email: r.bailey@uk.ac.gold + London SE14 6NW + +Please note that I am moving to Queen Mary and Westfield College, +University of London, on 1 October 1994. After that date the +above address, eaddress and phone number will not find me. + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 14:16:00 -0000 +From: alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk (Alan Jeffrey) +Subject: Re: Problems with LaTeX 2e + +>>I have found that by deleting all the output files (.toc, .idx, .aux, +>>.lof etc) the document formats. But I need to run it through LaTeX +>>at least twice for the contents and tables to be incorperated into +>>the document! + +>>What am I doing wrong? + +Nothing! I'm afraid that .toc, .idx etc. files aren't compatible +between versions of LaTeX. You should regenerate the files. The good +news is you only need to do this once per document. + +Alan. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 06 Aug 1994 20:05:55 -0000 +From: Frank Bennett <fbennett@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk> +Subject: BibTeX field size limits + + +Does anyone know whether it is possible to expand the field size +limits in BibTeX? I am preparing an annotated bibliography of +Japanese commercial law cases, and the summary of facts for complex +cases may run beyond the normal limit of 3,000 characters. + +Cheers, +- ------------------- +Frank Bennett, Jr +Law Department +School of Oriental and African Studies +(University of London) +Thornhaugh Street +London WC1H 0XG +Tel: (071)323-6351 +Fax: (071)436-3844 +email: fbennett@uk.ac.ulcc.clus1 + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sat, 06 Aug 1994 20:19:28 -0000 +From: R A Bailey <maa01rab@goldsmiths.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: Q: preface & bibliography in table of contents ? + +The best way to get headings of funny `sections' like +prefaces in the the table of contents is to use the +counter secnumdepth described on pages 157 and 160 of the +Manual. I use + \setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1} + \chapter{preface} +Of course, you have to set secnumdepth back to its usual value +(which is 2 in the standard styles, I think) before you do +any `section' which you want to be numbered. + +This is why it works. \chapter without the star does + (i) put something in the toc file + (ii) write the chapter title + (iii) if secnumdepth \geq 0 then increase the counter for the + chapter and write it out. + +The above behaviour is much more predictable than \addtocontents, +which, IMHO, should be avoided if at all possible. +- -- +R. A. Bailey +Snail: Department of Mathematical Studies Tel: (+44) 81 692 7171 + Goldsmiths' College + New Cross Email: r.bailey@uk.ac.gold + London SE14 6NW + +Please note that I am moving to Queen Mary and Westfield College, +University of London, on 1 October 1994. After that date the +above address, eaddress and phone number will not find me. + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 09:13:23 +0100 +From: amillard@vax.oxford.ac.uk +Subject: Re: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager + +B. Pevzner (pevzner@mgm.mit.edu) writes: + +>I am looking for a bibliography database manager for either UNIX or +>DOS or Windows that can: +> +>(1) import bibliography files in an arbitrary (but fixed, of course) format +> according to a user-defined template +> +>(2) export bibliography files according to a user-defined template +> (e.g. let me export files in BibTeX format) +> +>(3) search by the field(s) +> +>(4) be programmed to detect and merge duplicate entries +> according to a "key" field +> +>Could you suggest any program (either free- or share-ware or commercially +>available) that would come as close as possible to doing all this? +>Or maybe someone has written an MS-Access application to do this? +> +I use "Idealist" a free text database system available for DOS and Windows (I +have only used the Windows version) from +Blackwell Software +Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd. +Osney Mead +Oxford OX2 0EL +UK + +Fax: + International +44 865 791738 + UK 0865 791738 + +It certainly satisfies your requirements (1), (2) and (3), and it might be +possible to do (4), but there isn't a proper macro language, simply a facility +for attaching a series of commands to a button on the button bar. So this +might have to be done manually. +I had very few problem importing my files from LocoFile, and no problem geting +TeX output for the bibliography of my thesis (using Plain TeX, not BibTeX). +Length of text is no problem for Idealist, the wife of a colleague works for +Blackwell, and tells us that they store the entire text of books using their +mainframe verson. + +Andrew + +Dr. Andrew Millard +Research Laboratory for Archaeology Phone +44-865-283930 + and the History of Art, Fax +44-865-273932 +Oxford University, E-mail AMILLARD@VAX.OX.AC.UK +6, Keble Rd, +Oxford. OX1 3QJ +U.K. + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 12:32:11 +0000 +From: Bernard Treves Brown <MCNBJTB@fs4.instrumentation.umist.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager + + +> Date: 02 Aug 1994 20:56:17 +0000 +> From: pevzner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Boris Pevzner) +> Subject: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager +> +> I am looking for a bibliography database manager for either UNIX or +> DOS or Windows that can: +> +> (1) import bibliography files in an arbitrary (but fixed, of course) format +> according to a user-defined template +> +> (2) export bibliography files according to a user-defined template +> (e.g. let me export files in BibTeX format) +> +> (3) search by the field(s) +> +> (4) be programmed to detect and merge duplicate entries +> according to a "key" field +> +> Could you suggest any program (either free- or share-ware or commercially +> available) that would come as close as possible to doing all this? +> Or maybe someone has written an MS-Access application to do this? + +Papyrus from Research Software Design should be able to cope with all +the above. In practice, a number of people use it to generate references +for direct import into (La)TeX. I have written a few macros to aid +this process. However, I have read of people preparing BiBTeX files +with it. It will happily generate the appropriate TeX codes for +accents and the like. +Best Wishes, +Bernard Treves Brown + + +Bernard J. Treves Brown +Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science +UMIST, Manchester. UK +Email: MCNBJTB@FS4.IN.UMIST.AC.UK +Tel: 061-200 4899 +Fax: 061-200 4911 + +------------------------------ + +Date: 08 Aug 1994 10:46:45 +From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk> +Subject: Re: File handle problems in DOS (was in emTeX and Novell Netware + +%%>Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 10:11:59 -0000 +%%>From: Paul Doyle <Paul.Doyle@UCG.IE> +%%>Subject: Re: File handle problems with betatest emTeX and Novell Netware +%%> +%%>> Some of my files contained the combination +%%>> +%%>> call xxx > nul +%%>> +%%>> where xxx might be an .exe file. n repetitions of that causes DOS to get +%%>> screwed up, in that it loses all its file handles, where n is as set in +%%>> +%%>> FILES=n +%%> +%%>Using > nul is only a problem if you're loading TSRs - the +%%>file handles are released when the program exits. No exit, no +%%>release. +%%> +%%>Paul. +%%> + +Have you tried it? Here is an example to illustrate the problem. The +behaviour exhibited here should never happen, but it does! +(I assume that attrib is an external command in your version of MS-DOS. +chkdsk or mem work equally well, as does TeX. :-) + +rem ScrewUpDOS.bat +:loop +call attrib > nul +goto loop + + +Notice the File Creation Error messages after n repetitions in the loop. +Now break in and try running LaTeX, and you will see the weird error +messages my users were getting. + +Mike Piff + + +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +%% Dr M J Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %% +%% Sheffield, UK. e-mail: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk %% +%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 12:05:33 +0000 +From: palmerj@westminster.ac.uk (Jake Palmer) +Subject: MuTeX - does it work? + +Does anyone have a working version of MuTeX? +(a deluge of negative answers will not be appreciated) + +In the one I've got there seems to be an error in +the metafont file noten16.mf in that the flags for +downward pointing stems are generated as invisible. +If your version of MuTeX produces flags for downward stems +please please e-mail me so I can find out what's wromg +with mine. + +Jake Palmer +Imaging Technology Research Group + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 22:45:13 +0100 +From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk> +Subject: LexiTeX / LexiBib release + +The following message was posted to the wrong list by mistake, and +Frank asked archive maintainers to forward it, having deleted his +own copy. (Not that I'm an active archive maintainer yet...) + +- ------- Forwarded Message + +From: Frank Bennett <fbennett@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk> +Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 18:53:19 BST +Subject: LexiTeX / LexiBib release + +Two `doc' files have been placed in the UK CTAN `incoming' directory. +These are: + +lexibib-1.0c.doc: This is a BibTeX style that exports a *.bbl file +whose entries are in the format required by LexiTeX. This is a +bare-bones alpha release, which provides only incomplete support +for a few entry types (books, articles, and Japanese law cases). +A test database and a sample file are included. Apart from the +fact that there is no user documentation (yet), highlights of +the package are the modular design of functions, and fairly +clear documentation of how the sub-functions used to build +output in the entry-type functions operate. + +lexitex-2.0f.doc: This is a further upgrade of the LexiTeX style, +with the essential inner workings needed to cooperate with LexiBib. +An added, as yet undocumented feature is support for leading +volume numbers for multivolume works. The syntax for this is: + + \lexicite:1:{citenickname} + +Where `1' stands for whatever the volume designation is meant +to be. Any LexiBib book entry with a non-empty volume or +number field is open to the appending of a volume number with +\lexicite:?: syntax. + +Comments on these files will be most welcome. + +Enjoy! +- - ------------------- +Frank Bennett, Jr +Law Department +School of Oriental and African Studies +(University of London) +Thornhaugh Street +London WC1H 0XG +Tel: (071)323-6351 +Fax: (071)436-3844 +email: fbennett@uk.ac.ulcc.clus1 + +- ------- End of Forwarded Message + +------------------------------ + + UK TeX Archive + >>> tex.ac.uk <<< + Part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) + + tex.ac.uk -- mail + [user@tex.ac.uk] + + ftp.tex.ac.uk -- anonymous ftp + [username: anonymous, password: <your-e-mail-address>] + + gopher.tex.ac.uk -- Gopher access + + www.tex.ac.uk -- World-Wide Web access + [URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive] + + nfs.tex.ac.uk -- NFS access + [nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive] + +\section Files of Interest + + tex-archive/00Contents + tex-archive/CTAN.sites + tex-archive/FILES.bydate + tex-archive/FILES.byname + tex-archive/FILES.bysize + tex-archive/MAP + tex-archive/README.archive-features + tex-archive/README.site-commands + tex-archive/README.uploads + +\section Digests + + This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory + tex-archive/digests/uktex/94 + This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory + tex-archive/digests/texhax/94 + Latest TeXhax: V94 #05 + +\section Media Distributions + Postal addresses are given below. + +\subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape + Our latest copy of May/June 1991 contains: + TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities + suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V + tar format, 1 file (36Mb) + + Send One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format + (DC600A or DC6150) with envelope AND stamps for return + postage to David Osborne (address below); regret that due to currency + exchange difficulties, this service is offered only within the UK. + +\section TeX Implementations for Small Computers + +\subsection PC and Mac disks + + From January 1994 the UK TeX Users' Group is distributing an + emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. 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