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 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 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 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 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 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 %%>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 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 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: ] 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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