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Article 104 of ucam.mlist.texhax:
From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk
Subject: TeXhax Digest, Vol 2001 #2 - 5 msgs
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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 09:27:58 +0100

TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2001 : Number 2

Today's Topics:

  1. Re: TeXhax Digest, Vol 2001 #1 - 5 msgs (Robin Fairbairns)
  2. OCR software -> LaTeX? (David Andrews)
  3. brackets in threeparttable caption (Michelle Marie Irizarry)
  4. Call for Contributions for EuroTeX 2001 (Pepping, Simon (ELS))
  5. TUGboat 21:3 (TUG 2000 Proceedings Issue) shipped today (Mimi Burbank)

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Message: 1
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest, Vol 2001 #1 - 5 msgs
<E14ND2k-0001Sg-00@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:36:59 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>

> I would like to put a picture on the title page of a report.
> But the obvious way to do it:
>
> \begin{abstract}
>     \begin{figure}[H]
>        \begin{center}
>            \includegraphics[scale=3]{picture.eps}
>        \end{center}
>     \end{figure}
> \end{abstract}
>
> does not work, the picture appears on a separate page before
> the title. Is there any way of doing this?

it doesn't seem at all obvious to me; you asked for a floating figure
not for a "picture".

unless you need a caption, there's absolutely no sense in using a
figure environment.  try

\begin{abstract}
   \begin{center}
       \includegraphics[scale=3]{picture.eps}
   \end{center}
\end{abstract}

or the like.

further points:

-- never use the center environment in figures, as you have done -- it
introduces unwanted extra vertical space.  say \centering instead.
(note this doesn't work with "legacy" graphics packages, but graphics/
graphicx -- which you're using -- are fine.)

-- you _can_ get captions outside of figures, even.  see the ccaption
package, or the (trivially simple) capt-of package.

Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:44:48 +0000
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
From: David Andrews <andrews@atm.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: OCR software -> LaTeX?

Does anyone know if there is any Optical Character Recognition
software (preferably for Windows 95, but Linux is another possibility)
that can read mathematics and convert it to (reasonably accurate) LaTeX?

David Andrews

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Message: 3
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
cc: miriza@MIT.EDU
Subject: brackets in threeparttable caption
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:28:37 -0500
From: Michelle Marie Irizarry <miriza@MIT.EDU>

Hi! I was wondering if any of you knew how to include brackets [] in the
caption of threeparttable. When I include these, I get an additional bracket
and a dot at the beginning of my caption like this:

                 Table 4.2: .
         ]Summary of blah blah blah Doe [1991].

Any help?

Thanks, Michelle

--
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*  Michelle M. Irizarry                                               *
*  miriza@mit.edu                        michelleirizarry@hotmail.com *
*                                                                     *
*  Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, MIT      28 Marney St.                *
*  77 Massachusetts Avenue               Apt. 2                       *
*  Office 48-320                         Cambridge, MA  02141         *
*  Cambridge, MA  02139                  Tel. (617) 576-6459          *
*  Tel. (617) 253-1691                                                *
***********************************************************************

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Message: 4
From: "Pepping, Simon (ELS)" <S.Pepping@elsevier.nl>
To: "'TeXhax@tex.ac.uk'" <TeXhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: Call for Contributions for EuroTeX 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:57:46 +0200
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Attached please find the Call for Contributions for EuroTeX 2001.

For the Program Committee,
Simon Pepping
Elsevier Science
s.pepping@elsevier.nl

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\begin{document}
\title{Call for Contributions for Euro\TeX~2001}
\date{21 March 2001}
\author{The Program Committee}
\maketitle

The Euro\TeX\ conference 2001 will take place from September 23rd to
September 27th in the Netherlands. The conference will be held in an
old abbey, Rolduc, near the city of Kerkrade.

Participants will be welcomed on Sunday evening the 23rd of September.
The conference proper will start on Monday and continue until
Wednesday. On Thursday courses and tutorials may be given.

The theme of the conference is:=20
\begin{center}
  \TeX\ and Meta\\
  the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Bits
\end{center}

So, what are "Good, Bad and Ugly Bits"? Traditionally we tend to focus
on Good Bits because they are so rewarding. It feels good to see a
beautifully typeset document that you were able to produce using all
the power that \TeX\ and Metafont/MetaPost provide.  We try to forget
how many Bad Bits we had to overcome, and are proud that we found more
or less elegant ways to program around them. Nevertheless, some of
these difficulties should be regarded as Ugly Bits that would not
exist in an ideal world.

What can we do?=20

First of all, keep up the Good Bits and extend them if possible.
Analyze the Bad Bits, learn from them, and find easy and generic ways
to get around them.  Find the Ugly Bits and eradicate them!

Let's make progress! Of course we need a lot of discussion to
distinguish between Good, Bad and Ugly, and about ways to deal with
them. We invite you all to demonstrate either of these bits. Feel free
to present your application (Good, not Bad or Ugly) at the conference!

At this conference we would like to take a new view on contributions.
\begin{itemize}
\item Of course we welcome a presentation accompanied by a written
paper, as usual.
\item But does it bother you to write a paper, or does your
contribution seem fit for an interesting presentation but not for a
written paper?  We will welcome the presentation equally much, and do
with only a short summary on paper or even entirely without the paper
work.
\item Or do you find yourself in the opposite situation: You would
like to clarify your new package or other work extensively on paper
but believe that it would be unsuitable to cover it equally
extensively in an oral presentation? Feel free to let us have your
paper and at the conference present only the highlights.
\item Or do you believe your ideas only warrant a short presentation
without a paper? It is equally welcome.
\end{itemize}

We do expect from each contributor a \emph{short summary} of the
proposed contribution. This summary will inform the Program Committee
of your plan. And at the conference it will be the introduction to
your contribution, or your complete contribution if that is what you
propose.

We invite you to submit your proposal for a contribution to the
conference. You can send it by email to \euromail.
If you have no access to e-mail you can send your contribution to:
\begin{flushleft}
   Euro\TeX\ 2001 program committee\\
   Spuiboulevard 269\\
   3311 GP Dordrecht\\
   The Netherlands.
\end{flushleft}
In such a case we would ask you to submit your paper in electronic
form on a floppy disk.

We are working with the following time schedule:

\begin{center}
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
    may 10      & deadline for receiving proposals\\
    june 10     & deadline for receiving full draft papers\\
    july 11     & end of review\\
    august 11   & deadline for receiving final, reviewed papers\\
  \end{tabular}
\end{center}

An up-to-date list of contributions as well as more information about
the conference can be found at \euroweb.

\end{document}

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Message: 5
From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@csit.fsu.edu>
Subject: TUGboat 21:3 (TUG 2000 Proceedings Issue) shipped today
To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mimirh.csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org,
texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl, tug-pub@tug.org
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:43:12 -0400 (EDT)

I'm  glad to announce 160 pages were shipped to the printer today.
We are very late, deeply apologetic, and hopeful of getting the
next three issues "out the door" as soon as possible.

Enclosed are the contents of the issue:

				 TUGboat
		     Volume 21, Number 3 /  September 2000
		     ====================================

Editorial Comments							155
     Robin Fairbairns
TUG 2000 Program							157

Talks
     Benjamin Bayart
	The description language chosen for FDNTeX			159
     Barbara Beeton
	Unicode and math, a combination whose time has come -- Finally! 176
     Alexander Berdnikov, Yury Yarmola, Olga Lapko, and Andrew Janishewsky
	Some experience in converting LH Fonts from MF
    	          to Type1 format [Abstract]				186
     Wlodek Bzyl
	Typesetting TeX documents containing computer code		187
     David Carlisle
	XMLTEX: A non validating (and not 100% conforming)
	      namespace aware XML parser implemented in TeX		193
     Donald DeLand
	Developing interactive, Web-based courseware [Abstract]		200
     Michael Downes
	The amsrefs LaTeX package and the amsxport BibTeX style		201
     Jonathan Fine
	Line breaking and page breaking					210
     Michel Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz
	PassiveTeX: from XML to PDF					222
     Pedro Palao Gostanza
	Fast scanners and self-parsing in TeX				235
     Hirotsugu Kakugawa
	A device-independent DVI interpreter library
	    for various output devices					243
     M. Y. Kolodin, O. V. Eterevksy, O. G. Lapko, and I. A. Makhovaya
	``Russian style'' with LaTeX and babel:
          what does it look like and how does it work			250
     Alex Kostin & Michael Vulis
	Mixing TeX & PostScript: The GeX model				251
     Michel Lavaud
	The AsTeX Assistant and Navigator [Abstract]			265
     Bernice Sacks Lipkin
	LaTeX and the personal database					266
     Frank Mittelbach
	Formatting documents with floats: A new algorithm for LaTeXe	278
     Timothy Murphy
	The Penrose notation: a LaTeX challenge [Abstract]		291
     Marina Yu. Nikulina and Alexander S. Berdnikov
	Chess macros  for chess games and puzzles			298
     John Plaice
	Omega version 2 [Abstract]					303
     Apostolos Syropoulos and Richard W. D. Nickalls
	A Perl port of the mathsPIC graphics package			292
     Philip Taylor and Jiri Zlatuska
	The NTS project: from conception to birth [Abstract]		304

News & Announcements
      Calendar								306
      TUG '2001 Announcement						154
      Miscellaneous Photos						305

TUG Business
      TUG '2000 Attendees						308
      Institutional members						306
      TUG membership application					310

Advertisements
      TeX consulting and production services				311
      IBM techexplorer							312
      Blue Sky Research							 c3

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Mimi Burbank
(for the TUGboat production team)

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