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diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.36 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.36 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d3c6ecefff --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.36 @@ -0,0 +1,345 @@ +From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk +To: UKTeX Distribution: ; +Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #36 +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: <1050.780943260.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 17:41:00 +0100 +Message-ID: <1051.780943260@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +UKTeX Digest Friday, 30 Sep 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 36 + +Today's Topics: + LaTeX training + Problems building 600dpi HPLJ fonts with EmTeX + LaTeX: emphasis within emphasis + line-breaking in mathematical formuli + [Q] Increasing TeX parameters in unix TeX... + Re: [Q] Increasing TeX parameters in unix TeX... + + +Administrivia: + Moderators: Peter Abbott (UK TeX Users Group) 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: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 15:04:49 -0000 +From: Andrew Carrick <uczpanc@ucl.ac.uk> +Subject: LaTeX training + +I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who runs training courses +for novices on LaTeX. Equally, anyone who has participated in a training +course and would recommend their people to us would be appreciated. Since we +are London based, the closer to central London the better. + +Appreciate your help. + +Andrew Carrick e-mail: a.carrick@ucl.ac.uk +UCL Press tel +44 71 380 7707 +Senior Editor - Science fax +44 71 413 8392 + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 15:29:53 -0000 +From: FGG@wpo.nerc.ac.uk +Subject: Problems building 600dpi HPLJ fonts with EmTeX + +I have tried to remake all my fonts for our 600dpi HPLJ. +After changing MODES.MFJ I tried MFJOB, but I get errors trying to write +files. My *guess* is that the environment is set up wrong (I have no TeX +environmental variables set in this instance). Hints please. + +Thanks, + +Fergus + +British National Space Centre +F.Gallagher@nerc.ac.uk + +=========================================================================== +C:\EMTEX\MFJOB> mfjob all +This is METAFONT, Version 2.0 [3a] (no base preloaded) +**&plain \mode=hplaser; mag=1; input line10 +(\emtex\mfinput\line10.mf (\emtex\mfinput\line.mf +! I can't write on file `line10.300gf'. +Please type another file name for output +! Emergency stop. +endchar->...roofrule);fi.chardx:=w;shipit; + if.displaying>0:makebox(scr... +l.150 endchar + ; +! I can't write on file `line10.tfm'. +Please type another file name for font metrics +! Emergency stop. +endchar->...roofrule);fi.chardx:=w;shipit; + if.displaying>0:makebox(scr... +l.150 endchar + ; +Transcript written on line10.log. +MFjob -- Version 1.1f -- Copyright (c) 1989-1990 by Eberhard Mattes +*** Error returned by `mf.exe': 3 +=============================================================== + +------------------------------ + +Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 14:47:15 -0000 +From: David_Rhead@vme.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk +Subject: LaTeX: emphasis within emphasis + +The LaTeX standard classes implement \emph{...} and {\em...} as italic. +For `emphasis within emphasis', \emph{\emph{...}}, they revert to roman. + +In certain types of passage, this can have the unfortunate effect of making +the *most important* text look *completely unimportant*. E.g., + ... \emph{text text \emph{text text} text text} ... +looks the same to a reader as + ... \emph{text text} text text \emph{text text} ... + +I'm trying to produce a class file in which `emphasis within emphasis' is +implemented differently. My current thinking is to try and implement it as +underlined italic. (Yes, I know that the `Companion' says that +`underlining is considered bad practice in the publishing world'. But [1] +`emphasis within emphasis' only occurs rarely, so the underlining would +only occur rarely [2] my British Telecom bills, which look professionally +designed, use underlining for `emphasis within italic' and it looks OK to +me [3] I can't offhand think of another neat way of indicating `emphasis +within italic' -- e.g., \uppercase{...} wouldn't emphasise acronyms, since +they are already uppercase.) + +Unfortunately, I can't find a convenient bit of code to hack at. The +fragment I found in latex.ltx is + \DeclareRobustCommand\em + {\@nomath\em \ifdim \fontdimen\@ne\font >\z@ + \upshape \else \itshape \fi} + \DeclareTextFontCommand{\emph}{\em} +which doesn't seem obviously hackable into something I could stick in a +class file to make \emph{\emph{...}} give underlined italic. Donald +Arseneau's ulem package (`Companion', section 3.1.2) seems worth a look, in +case it would do what I want, but I can't find it in the Cambridge archive. + +Could anyone point me to some code fragments that, when hacked together, +would enable me to put a chunk of code in a class file such that: +* ordinary `emphasis' is mapped to italic, as in the standard classes +* `emphasis within emphasis' is mapped to `underlined italic'? +Better still, has anyone already produced such a chunk of code? + + +David Rhead +david.rhead@nottingham.ac.uk + +------------------------------ + +Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 14:26:00 -0000 +From: alanje@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Alan Jeffrey) +Subject: line-breaking in mathematical formuli + +>As I never want to allow a line break wthin a formula, I would like to +>change the definition of $ to include an mbox. +>I am using LaTeX, but a standard TeX approach might be more useful, +>because I could pass it on to some friends who use standard TeX. + +Use \binoppenalty=10000 and \relpenalty=10000. These are the +penalties for breaking around binary ops or relations, and setting +them to 10,000 disallows any line-breaking. Using \mbox isn't a great +idea since it removes any stretchiness of the math formula. + +Alan. + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 23:25:33 +0100 +From: phy6tc@irc.leeds.ac.uk (Tim Collins) +Subject: [Q] Increasing TeX parameters in unix TeX... + +Hi! (Yes, it's me again!!!) + +How do I increase the size of TeX parameters under Unix? I have run +out of "strings"... that is I get a TeX errror... + +! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [number of strings=4463]. + +Can I change this parameter? If so where can I do it? + +I think we have a faily standard TeX setup here.... (I do hope +so!).... + +Cheers! +Tim. +P.S. I looked in the FAQ, it told me to look in "module 11". What on +earch is "module 11"?. + +Timothy L D Collins | phy6tc@gps.leeds.ac.uk +Physics Dept. | phy6tc@phys-irc.novell.leeds.ac.uk +University of Leeds, | +Leeds. | "Opinions expressed are just that: opinions!" + +------------------------------ + +Date: 28 Sep 1994 09:30:01 +0000 +From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) +Subject: Re: [Q] Increasing TeX parameters in unix TeX... + +In article <1994Sep27.222533.4300@leeds.ac.uk>, +Tim Collins <phy6tc@irc.leeds.ac.uk> wrote: +>Hi! (Yes, it's me again!!!) +> +>How do I increase the size of TeX parameters under Unix? I have run +>out of "strings"... that is I get a TeX errror... +> +>! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [number of strings=4463]. +> +>Can I change this parameter? If so where can I do it? +> +>I think we have a faily standard TeX setup here.... (I do hope +>so!).... + +You need to rebuild your TeX system from the sources. This is not +something for the faint-hearted, but if you know what you're doing +it's not too bad. + +What's the context of the problem? While it *is* possible to run out +of strings, it's fairly rare. Can you post the (end of the) .log file +(which would tell us how `standard' your setup is -- ours here allows +11K strings). + +>P.S. I looked in the FAQ, it told me to look in "module 11". What on +>earch is "module 11"?. + +Module 11 of the Web source for TeX. If you looked at it, you'ld +understand. + +Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk +U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK +Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html + +------------------------------ + + 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 #08 + +\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. 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 + 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB + 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 + World-Wide Web server: http://www.tex.ac.uk/UKTUG/home.html + +\bye + +End of UKTeX Digest [Volume 94 Issue 36] +**************************************** |