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TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2002 : Number 1

Today's Topics:

  1. A change of direction for TeXhax (David Osborne)
   2. font problems with new TEX installation (Steve.Esson@esa.int)
   3. TUGboat 21-4 shispped to the printer (Mimi Burbank)
   4. TUG 2002 (Robin Fairbairns)
   5. Re: font problems with new TEX installation (Robin Fairbairns)
   6. unusual reference (Jonathan Myles)
   7. BibTeX formatting of an unusual reference (Nelson H. F. Beebe)
   8. LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (da blak sheap)
   9. formatting a booklet with passage numbers on the margins (Andreas Hadjiprocopis)
  10. Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (Fred K Ollinger)
  11. Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (Robin Fairbairns)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:07:27 +0000
From: David Osborne <texhax-admin@nottingham.ac.uk>
To: texhax@nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: A change of direction for TeXhax

Happy New Year to all TeXhax subscribers.

As it has been several months since the last item was posted to TeXhax,
the start of a new year seems a good time to make a change in the way in
which TeXhax operates. For many years, TeXhax has operated as a digest:
questions posted to it accumulated into monthly (or less frequent)
digests which are circulated to the subscribers, with responses to the
questions becoming part of the next digest, and so on. This does
introduce a delay before questions are answered, which, as the quantity
of postings has dropped, seems to have become self-reinforcing, further
discouraging use of the list.

As an experiment, I plan to remove this delay and circulate questions
and answers immediately to all subscribers. TeXhax will then operate as
a normal mailing list, though with the option of continuing to receive
it in digest format. The digests will continue to be available in the
usual locations and archives. You can change your subscription settings
via the Mailman web interface at
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You will need your list password before making changes but, if you have
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the above web page. If you have any questions or requests please contact
me at texhax-admin@nottingham.ac.uk

I hope that this change will make TeXhax more responsive to the needs of
its subscribers and encourage you to make use of it as a place to ask
and answer questions and make announcements on all TeX-related matters.

With best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2002

David Osborne
University of Nottingham
-- TeXhax maintainer

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Message: 2
From: Steve.Esson@esa.int
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:56:48 +0200
Subject: font problems with new TEX installation

I've installed a new version of Tex on the systems here for
the first time in about 10 years.   Documents which previously
processed OK, now produce errors like this:-)

! Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10.95=cmr10 at 10.95pt not loadable:
Metric (TFM) file not found.

  What does this mean? I'm an amateur at this and there
doesn't seem to be enough info around to find what the
real problem is.  The TEX directory, for example, contains
a file called "cmr10.tfm", which is identical to the file of the
same name in the old TEX installation which works.

  Anybody any idea what I should be doing next to
sort this out?

  Thanks,
S.

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Message: 3
From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@csit.fsu.edu>
Subject: TUGboat 21-4 shispped to the printer
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,
        tug-editorial-board@tug.org
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:52:15 -0500 (EST)

I'm glad to announce that TUGboat 21-4 was shipped to the printer on
December 19, 2001.   We apologize to our members for the unusually
long delay in receiving their issues of TUGboat, and we are working
to correct the situation as fast as we can.

Enclosed are the contents of the issue:

                              TUGboat
                  Volume 21, Number 4 /  December 2000
                  ====================================

Editorial Comments
    Barbara Beeton                                              315

Micro-typographic extensions to the TeX typesetting system      317
    Han The Thanh

News & Announcements
      TUG '2001 Announcement                                    435
      Calendar                                                  436

TUG Business
      Institutional members                                     437
      TUG membership application                                438

Advertisements
      TeX consulting and production services                    439
      IBM techexplorer                                          440
      Blue Sky Research                                          c3

------------------

Mimi Burbank
(For the TUGboat production team)

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Message: 4
To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mimirh.csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org,
    texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl
cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: TUG 2002
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:00:01 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>

TUG 2002 Annual Meeting and Conference
September 1-7, Trivandrum, India
======================================

We are pleased to announce that the most exciting TeX event of
2002, the international conference of TeX Users Group is
scheduled to be conducted in India during September 1--7, 2002
at Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala. This is going
to be the first of its kind in the subcontinent and we are
hoping for excellent participation.

You are warmly invited to participate and/or offer a
presentation at this most exciting event. We want to make this  a
big success, and we want lots of high-quality presentations. The
theme for TUG 2002 is `Stand up and be proud of TeX!'. Show us
why it is still the typesetting tool of choice, the range of
material it can handle, and especially how it can coexist with
the new world of XML. We want to hear about

    * using TeX to typeset XML
    * multilingual typesetting using Omega
    * high-quality hyperdocuments using pdfTeX
    * fonts for non-Latin languages
    * new directions for Metafont and Metapost

Full conference details can be found at

   http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/

suffice it to say here that Kerala is a very beautiful part of
India, where you will be sure of very warm hospitality and
excellent facilities. This is a marvellous opportunity to visit
one of the most interesting countries in the world. The TUG 2002
program committee chair is Sebastian Rahtz of Oxford
University and organising committee chair is Satish Babu of
InApp, Trivandrum.

Proposals for papers shall be directed immediately to
papers@tug2002.tug.org.in.

Dates

    * January/February 2002: send in abstracts for papers
    * end of February 2002: notification of acceptance of paper
    * end of March 2002: preliminary program available
    * May 2002: send first version of full paper
    * July 2002: send final version of full paper
    * 4th-7th September 2002: TUG conference in India

Pre-conference Tutorials (1 to 3 September 2002):

    * Introduction to TeX
    * LaTeX to SGML/XML/MathML conversion
    * XML and XSL transformation procedures
    * TEI XML
    * Generation of hyperlinked documents with pdfTeX and ConTeXt
    * Multilingual typesetting using Omega

Email ids for contact:

   tug2002@tug.org.in         -- General information
   papers@tug2002.tug.org.in  -- Submission of papers
   finance@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Financial matters
   travel@tug2002.tug.org.in  -- Travel information
   media@tug2002.tug.org.in   -- Media contact

Robin Fairbairns
For TUG 2002 Organising Committee

[please circulate this as widely as seems appropriate; in particular,
if you have membership mailing lists, please consider forwarding this
message, or a pointer to the conference web site, to the list.]

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Message: 5
To: Steve.Esson@esa.int
cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: font problems with new TEX installation
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:30:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>

> I've installed a new version of Tex on the systems here for
> the first time in about 10 years.   Documents which previously
> processed OK, now produce errors like this:-)
>
> ! Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10.95=cmr10 at 10.95pt not loadable:
> Metric (TFM) file not found.
>
>   What does this mean?

it means exactly what it says.  what's interesting is _why_ it can't
find it.

> I'm an amateur at this and there
> doesn't seem to be enough info around to find what the
> real problem is.  The TEX directory, for example, contains
> a file called "cmr10.tfm", which is identical to the file of the
> same name in the old TEX installation which works.

it's probably an indexing problem.  if your old systems were that old,
they likely didn't use an index; modern systems use variants of ls-R
files as a sort of simple-minded database of the files available.
modern systems _don't_ therefore look up files in directories.

>   Anybody any idea what I should be doing next to
> sort this out?

tell us what systems you're talking about --- the answer is different
for different systems.

if it's tetex-based, you may get some help from
http://ctan.tug.org/installationadvice/ (though be aware that this
page isn't deemed quite "ready" yet)

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jonathan Myles <mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk>
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: unusual reference

I sometimes have to refer to a paper which it has become traditional in my
field to reference as:

Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting. "Breast Cancer
screening with mammography in women aged 40-49 years". Int J Cancer 1996;
68: 693-9
.
(obviously with slight variation according to the particular journal).

I'd like to be able to put this in a BibTex file.  Is there any way
of putting "Organising .... Meeting" as the Author Field and persuading
BibTex to leave it as it is?  Or is this, as I fear it might be, a
style-file-specific issue, if solvable at all?

Thanks,

Jonathan Myles

Dept of Maths, Stats and Epidemiology,
Imperial Cancer Research Fund

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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:03:41 -0700 (MST)
From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: BibTeX formatting of an unusual reference

Jonathan Myles <mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk> asks on Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24
+0000 (GMT) about formatting the reference

>> ...
>> Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting. "Breast Cancer
>> screening with mammography in women aged 40-49 years". Int J Cancer 1996;
>> 68: 693-9
>> ...

in BibTeX.  Here is what I'd do for this one:

@Article{OCCFM:1996:BCS,
  author =       "{Organising Committee Collaborators, Falun Meeting}",
  title =        "Breast Cancer screening with mammography in women aged
                 40--49 years",
  journal =      "Int. J. Cancer",
  volume =       "68",
  pages =        "693--699",
  year =         "1996",
  OPTmonth =     "??",
  OPTnumber =    "??",
}

Bracing text in the author field prevents its being further
manipulated by BibTeX.  I also used proper en-dashes for ranges, and
put the periods back into the journal abbreviation (it is a particular
journal style to remove them).

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- Nelson H. F. Beebe                    Tel: +1 801 581 5254                  -
- Center for Scientific Computing       FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 -
- University of Utah                    Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu  -
- Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC      beebe@acm.org  beebe@computer.org -
- 155 S 1400 E RM 233                       beebe@ieee.org                    -
- Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA    URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe  -
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Message: 8
From: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
To: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:38:24 +0100

hi everybody,

if someone could help me with this, i were very grateful:

we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make
it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put
it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are
found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to
reconfigure?

any help appreciated...

tia

ronald

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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:44:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <livantes@soi.city.ac.uk>
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: formatting a booklet with passage numbers on the margins

Hi all,
2 problems:
1) i would like to format something like, say, the bible, or ancient greek
texts where you have the passage number. So I will have a paragraph
and on the right margin (or left margin if it is an odd/even page)
would like to have at the height=middle of paragraph a number printed

e.g.

<THIS IS MY
 PASSAGE/
 PARAGRAPH>      <This is the Right margin>
para pa apapapa
apapapa ap ap a
apapa pa ap p p  <PASSAGE_NUMBER GOES HERE>
apap apa pa paa
aja191919191919

I tried to do it with marginpar but ... it is float and moves up and down.
any idea on that?

Secondly,
this is not much latex but rather postscript
Would like to print that into A4, 4 pages on one side of A4, 4 pages on
the other side. so that i fold it in four and then bind it, just like
books,
I tried pstops and psbook
BUT: it seems that it 'eats' the top of my pages (all 4 of them)
I used a scaling of 0.48
To cut the short story long, is there a pointer to doing that because i
check the net but they have only 2up and pstops options are so cryptic.
thanks in advance, and sorry for the trouble

andreas.

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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:55:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>
To: da blak sheap <dablaksheap@web.de>
cc: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files

> we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make
> it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put
> it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are
> found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to
> reconfigure?

as root:

texhash

Fred

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Message: 11
To: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 21:02:36 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>

> we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make
> it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put
> it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are
> found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to
> reconfigure?

see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages+wherefiles

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