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+From: UKTeX-Request@tex.ac.uk
+To: UKTeX Distribution: ;
+Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #30
+Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk
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+Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 17:58:57 +0100
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+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
+
+------------------------------
+
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+
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+
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+ tex-archive/digests/texhax/94
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+
+\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)
+
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+ (DC600A or DC6150) with envelope AND stamps for return
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+ 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. The cost
+ covers copying and postage costs, and the shareware fee for
+ OzTeX. Each set costs \pounds30, and is available from
+ Peter Abbott, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB.
+ Cheques must be payable to `UKTUG'. Please note that this
+ service **is available to UKTUG members only.**
+
+ Each set comes with an installation guide, and (at least)
+ full TeX and Metafont, a previewer, a PostScript driver, and
+ CM fonts. Two update disks a year will be sent out
+ automatically, with the current version of LaTeXe, and other
+ goodies. A subscription service will be available for
+ subsequent years. In addition, subscribers can request up to
+ 3 disks a year with any material from the CTAN archives, but
+ this will be supplied `as is', without instructions.
+
+ OzTeX and emTeX are also available on disk from TeX Users Group;
+ mail TUG for details.
+
+\subsection TeX for the Atari ST
+
+ Enquiries for TeX for the Atari ST etc. can be directed to:
+ The Fast Club, 7 Musters Road, Nottingham NG2 7PP. Phone
+ 0602 455250, fax 0602 455305. They also supply a variety of
+ TeX-related software in Atari format.
+
+ Enquiries for disks etc. can also be directed to:
+ The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD
+ Internet: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk
+
+\section Postage Rates
+
+ Quarter-inch cartridges: UK: GBP 1.00, Europe: GBP 2.00.
+
+\section Postal Addresses
+
+ Please include SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS for return postage.
+
+ Peter Abbott
+ Information Systems, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET
+ Internet: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk
+
+ David Osborne
+ Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD
+ (for Unix cartridges ONLY -- MUST include stamps for return postage)
+ Internet: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk
+
+ TeX Users Group
+ P.O. Box 869, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, USA.
+ Internet: TUG@TUG.org
+
+\section UK TeX Users Group
+
+ Details available from
+ Jonathan Fine, 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3HY, UK
+ or from
+ Internet: UKTuG-Enquiries@tex.ac.uk
+ or from
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+
+\bye
+
+End of UKTeX Digest [Volume 94 Issue 30]
+****************************************