Article 82 of ucam.mlist.texhax: From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (TeXhax Digest) Subject: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3 Date: 5 Jun 98 16:01:53 GMT TeXhax Digest Friday, June 5 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 003 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: tex to postscript conversion latex3e pdftex \ifcat peculiarity? TeX question ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:07:48 +0100 From: iain@lndn.tensor.pgs.com (Iain Christie) Subject: tex to postscript conversion Hi, Do you have or know where I could get hold of a program to convert a tex file to postscript format? I have downloaded a .tex file from the net but am unable to print it in a useful form, currently it is impossible to read any of the mathematical equations. Regards, Iain ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:08:22 +0100 (BST) From: sssgst3@reading.ac.uk Subject: latex3e In submission to a conference paper, the organisers would like our papers done in latex3e and LNCS. Does anyone know where I can get hold of this latex3e and LNCS? I've used Alta Vista and archie on DOC at IC but no joy. Any gotchas and caveats would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance. M. Saoldonicia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 00:34:49 +0000 From: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" Subject: pdftex Greetings, I would like to know the location of pdftex. Any pointers to installing it would be gratefully recieved Gurunandan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 16:29:30 GMT From: cgm@ssci.liv.ac.uk (Colin Mason) Subject: \ifcat peculiarity? Consider the following input file: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - \def\test{\afterassignment\dotest \let\next= }% \def\dotest{\message{<}% \ifcat \relax\noexpand\next \message{16}\fi \ifcat\noexpand~\noexpand\next \message{13}\fi \ifcat 0\noexpand\next \message{12}\fi \ifcat \bgroup\noexpand\next \message{ 1}\fi \message{>}}% \catcode`\|=\active % \def~{\penalty\@M \ } % tie (defined in plain) \let|=\relax \test| \let|=0 \test| \let|=\bgroup \test| \let~=0 \let|=\relax \test| \let|=0 \test| \let|=\bgroup \test| \let~=\bgroup \let|=\relax \test| \let|=0 \test| \let|=\bgroup \test| \bye - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - If it is \TeX'ed using plain \TeX, then the result is as follows: This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (format=plain 94.2.24) 26 MAY 1998 16:47 **test (test.tex < 16 > < 12 > < 1 > < 16 > < 13 12 > < 1 > < 16 > < 12 > < 13 1 > . No pages of output. I understand the first three messages (< 16 > < 12 > < 1 >) but I don't understand either the < 13 12 > or the < 13 1 >. The control sequence \next is effectively \let equal to tokens of first category 16, then 12, then 1. The construction \noexpand~ should be category 13 regardless of the definition of ~. \next should never be category 13, should it? And how can it have two different category codes at the same time? Maybe I'm just thick! I came across this because a wierd macro I was writing didn't work properly. There's a better way of writing the macro anyway (isn't there always?) but any explanation of what's going on would be much appreciated. Colin Mason ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:48:51 +1000 (EST) From: Aaron Harwood Subject: TeX question To the TeX people, I have a quick question about TeX, "How do I turn hyphenation processing off?" 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