Article 77 of ucam.mlist.texhax: From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #10 Date: 4 Nov 97 10:31:00 GMT TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 4 November 1997 Volume 1997 : Number 010 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: seminar.cls [none] EuroTeX'98: last Call for Papers Re: Commercially available LaTeX for SGI? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: pjbk@cee.hw.ac.uk (Peter JB King) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:12:22 +0100 (BST) Subject: seminar.cls I recently retrieved seminar.cls from twx.ac.uk, having observed that it had been updated. The version there, seems to have an extraneous } in it, causing error messages from LaTeX. As far as I recall this was immediately before the % end change of DPC 1997/09/16 The version info is %% BEGIN seminar.cls %% LaTeX2e seminar class, derived by Sebastian Rahtz from %% `seminar.sty', generated on <1993/10/8>. Fixes from David Carlisle %% and Denis Girou. %% %\def\fileversion{1.0} %\def\filedate{1993/04/01} \def\fileversion{1.2} \def\filedate{1997/09/16} %% I had also supposed that it might have been modified to conform to its documentation, which states that a4 or a4paper is acceptable in the \documentclass optional argument. In fact, only a4 is acceptable, a4paper causing an error. (/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.cls Document Class: seminar 1997/09/16, 1.2 Document Style: `seminar' v1.2 <1997/09/16> (tvz) ! Undefined control sequence. \ds@a4paper ->\ds@a 4 l.91 \ifnotesonly \else\notesonlystarfalse\fi - -- Peter King, Computing & Electrical Eng. Internet: pjbk@cee.hw.ac.uk Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, or P.J.B.King@heriot-watt.ac.uk Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland Phone: (+44) 131 451 3433 Fax: (+44) 131 451 3431 ------------------------------ From: piyas@juphys.ernet.in Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 17:03:59 +0500 (GMT+0500) Subject: [none] I am a Ph.D student. I'm very much interested to develop my expertise in developing LATEX MAcros. Would you please help me in this regard sending a helping manual. If the manual is available via e-mail, please send me the file in compressed form. Regards. Piyas Samanta P.S PLEASE CORRESPOND ME IN THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS ------------------------------------------------------- Piyas Samanta c/o Dr. C. K. Sarkar Dept. of Electronics & Tele-Comm. Engg. Jadavpur University CALCUTTA 700 032, INDIA E-mail: piyas@juphys.ernet.in Fax: +91 33 473 2217 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ From: "Philip Taylor (RHBNC) " Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:30:04 GMT Subject: EuroTeX'98: last Call for Papers Final Call for Papers: the 1998 EuroTeX Conference at St Malo, France. Dear Colleague -- apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message, but time is short and we must circulate as many TeX lists as possible before the Call for Papers closes. Please see http://www.ens.fr/gut/manif/eurotex98/ for the official announcement of EuroTeX'98; the Call for Papers closes on Monday 3rd November 1997. Philip Taylor, for the EuroTeX'98 Programme Committee. ------------------------------ From: nospam@oddhack.engr.sgi.com (Jon Leech) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:03:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Commercially available LaTeX for SGI? Paul Garlick writes: > May I ask a quick question on the availability of a commercial version of > LaTeX to run on the workstation I am using. It is a Silicon Graphics Indigo > 2 R10000 running IRIX 6.2 (without a direct connection to the internet at > present). Following a tip from the UK-TUG FAQ list I have contacted Arbor Text > Inc. but they in fact no longer supply the software. Do you have any > information on alternatives? I don't know about commercial versions for Irix. However, you can just install the fw_tex package from the Irix 6.2 "Freeware 2.0" CD. This includes TeX, LaTeX, documentation, binaries, etc. so you're pretty much set to go. I'm no TeXpert, but I am successfully using this LaTeX to build the OpenGL API specification - a 350 page document of complexity comparable to the typical Ph.D. thesis. Hopefully it will do the job for you too. Jon Leech Silicon Graphics ------------------------------ About TeXhax... Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: send a one line mail message to TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk containing only the line subscribe texhax or unsubscribe texhax If you have problems with un/subscribing, please mail texhax-owner@nottingham.ac.uk For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to TUG@mail.tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, P.O. 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