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From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk
Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2002 #2 - 15 msgs
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:40:07 +0000

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TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2002 : Number 2

Today's Topics:

   1. formatting (Jan-Martin Wagner)
   2. Euro symbol in LaTeX (John Simmie)
   3. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk)
   4. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (da blak sheap)
   5. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (Robin Fairbairns)
   6. Re: unusual reference (Ken Smith)
   7. pdflatex --ipc (da blak sheap)
   8. Re: pdflatex (Jan-Martin Wagner)
   9. Re: pdflatex --ipc (Tomas G. Rokicki)
  10. Re: pdflatex --ipc (Joan Boorstein)
  11. Re: pdflatex --ipc (da blak sheap)
  12. The latest TUGboat (Andrew Marlow)
  13. Re: The latest TUGboat (Robin Fairbairns)
  14. automatic document production (Peter Kravanja)
  15. RE: automatic document production (Jeff Rankin)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:59:21 +0100
From: Jan-Martin Wagner <jmartin@j10.physik.uni-jena.de>
To: livantes@soi.city.ac.uk
Subject: formatting

Have you already tried "psnup -4 <infile> <outfile>"?
Have you succeeded with a 2-up command without "eating"
something, and then applying it twice?
For 2-up, I use the follwing pstops command (adjusted for A4 paper):
pstops 2:0L@.7\(21cm,0\)+1L@.7\(21cm,14.85cm\) <infile> <outfile>
If you want to make it 4-up, use something like
pstops 4:0@.5\(<shift_x>,<shift_y>)+1@ [etc.]
up to +3@.5[as before] - ok?
Good luck!
Jan-Martin

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:41:07 +0000
From: John Simmie <john.simmie@nuigalway.ie>
Subject: Euro symbol in LaTeX
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk

Hi:
What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex=
 documents?
Thanks,

      Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department
  National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland

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Message: 3
From: M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX
To: john.simmie@nuigalway.ie (John Simmie)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:47:14 +0000 (GMT)
>
> Hi:
> What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex=
>  documents?
> Thanks,
>
>       Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department
>   National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland
>
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The easiest way to do this is to download and install the package
eurosym from CTAN.

Regards,

Khurram.
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Message: 4
From: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
To: "John Simmie" <john.simmie@nuigalway.ie>,
	<texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:22:23 +0100

if you don't happen to find anything else, you can use

\kern.17em{}C\kern-.95em\raise.19ex\hbox{\it
=\/}\kern.17em{}

it looks pretty good until \LARGE (including that), but from
\huge and higher you should modify it a bit.

if you use it more often, you can define it as a command for
more comfortable access.

hope that helps...

regards,

ronald

-----Original Message-----
From: John Simmie <john.simmie@nuigalway.ie>
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Date: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:56 PM
Subject: Euro symbol in LaTeX

Hi:
What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, €, into
latex documents?
Thanks,

      Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department
  National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland

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Message: 5
To: John Simmie <john.simmie@nuigalway.ie>
cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:39:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>

> What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex=
>  documents?

for a start, don't try using a feelthy m$ encoding for it (=80,
above).  this abomination for a character code (i don't know which
code page it appears in) doesn't yet figure in any of the latex
inputenc definition files.  the euro does appear in the latin9 (iso/iec
8859-15) character set, and that is properly covered in inputenc.

you've had two suggestions so far: to use the eurofont package, and to
use a rather nasty looking macro-coded overstrike combination.  i
would advise against both.

i worked rather hard to produce

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=euro

which explains why i don't like eurofont, and makes positive
recommendations as to how you should proceed.

(the faq answer doesn't deal with =80 or with the macro solution,
since both have popped up in my ken within the last week or so and i
have a reorganisation in hand which discourages me from putting up
interim versions of the faq.)

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:25:40 +1000 (EST)
From: Ken Smith <kgs@maths.uq.edu.au>
To: mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk, texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: unusual reference

Jonathan Myles <mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk> posted to texhax and the
following was forwarded on
Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT)

> 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?

You can always use additional braces to make BibTeX leave things
alone.

author = {{Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting}},
title = {...}
journal = {...}
etc.

will ensure that the author is taken as "Organising Committee ... "
and it will be sorted accordingly.

A fairly detailed description of how to enter unusual items into a
BibTeX database can be found in "The LaTeX Companion", by Goosens,
Mittlebach and Samarin.

> Thanks,

> Jonathan Myles

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

Ken Smith
kgs@maths.uq.edu.au

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Message: 7
From: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
To: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: pdflatex --ipc
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:29:51 +0100

hello everybody,

per default [pdflatex <file>.tex] produces <file>.pdf, but i
need to have the pdf-output sent to stdout. in the manpages
the option --ips is mentioned, but there are only two lines
of explanation and i have no idea how to use this option. i
thought, that it may be possible to get the output to stdout
somehow via this ipc option, maybe by simply passing it to
echo or something. has anyone an idea on how to manage this
or what this ipc option means?

thanks a lot in advance!

r. schaffhirt

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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:12:07 +0100
From: Jan-Martin Wagner <jmartin@j10.physik.uni-jena.de>
To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk, dablaksheap@web.de
Subject: Re: pdflatex

Hallo schwarzes Schaf (hello black sheep)!

> per default [pdflatex <file>.tex] produces <file>.pdf, but i
> need to have the pdf-output sent to stdout.

This has recently been discussed in the pdftex section of TuG.
See "redirecting tex dvi output" and the corresponding thread at
http://tug.cs.umb.edu/ListsArchives/pdftex/2002-January/thread.html

Read carefully through all postings, this seems to be a tricky problem.

Have a nice day,

 Jan-Martin

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Dipl.-Phys. Jan-Martin Wagner

  Institut fuer Festkoerpertheorie   Tel.: + 49 - 36 41 - 94 71 67
  und Theoretische Optik,            Fax:      ...      - 94 71 52
  Fr.-Schiller-Universitaet Jena

  IFTO, Max-Wien-Platz 1,            jmw@ifto.physik.uni-jena.de
  D-07743 Jena, Germany              www.ifto.uni-jena.de/~jmartin

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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:24:43 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tomas G. Rokicki" <rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU>
To: dablaksheap@web.de, texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc

Put it in a script, have the script write a temp file and then
echo that temp file.

-tom

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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:44:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Joan Boorstein <jboor@math.umb.edu>
To: dablaksheap@web.de, texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc

I can find no man entry for pdflatex on my local network so can't help with
the options you mention.  However pdf files are standardly displayed using
the Adobe Acrobat reader.  This is freeware and is easily downloadable, if
it is not available to you on your machine.

Hope this helps,
Joan Boorstein

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Message: 11
From: "da blak sheap" <dablaksheap@web.de>
To: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:46:05 +0100

that is the thing i wanted to avoid. that has too many
side-effects. i want to use it with a web-server and there
may be numerous connections at the same time from the same
ip.

thanks though!

ronald

-----Original Message-----
From: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU>
To: dablaksheap@web.de <dablaksheap@web.de>;
texhax@tex.ac.uk <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc

>Put it in a script, have the script write a temp file and
then
>echo that temp file.
>
>-tom

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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:34:04 +0000
Subject: The latest TUGboat
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
From: Andrew Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk>

When will the latest TUGboat be sent out please? I got an email from the
US in early December but I have not yet received my copy.

Regards,

Andrew Marlow (member of TUG and UK TUG).

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Message: 13
To: Andrew Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk>
cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: The latest TUGboat
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:34:46 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>

> When will the latest TUGboat be sent out please? I got an email from the
> US in early December but I have not yet received my copy.

i think the mail back then was to say the sources had gone off to the
printer.

i'm told the issue has started arriving in us subscribers' mailbags
and things.  it's probably reasonable to expect it to arrive over here
quite soon.

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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:47:19 +0100
From: Peter Kravanja <Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: automatic document production

Hello,

I'm facing the following problem. An association has about 700 members and
keeps information about them (name, address, language skills, hobbies,...)
in a database. Once a year this association wants to produce a book with
all this information, to be published and distributed to the members.

How can this be done in an efficient way? Does anyone know of some sort of
interface between a database (which format??) and (La)TeX, so that with a
few commands the relevant data gets extracted from the database and turned
into a file that (La)TeX can process?

Thanks for your help!

Peter Kravanja
--
Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

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Message: 15
From: "Jeff Rankin" <jrankin@oneil.com>
To: "Peter Kravanja" <Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
	, <TeXhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: automatic document production
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:27:15 -0500

Hi:

We use perl connect to MS SQL Server database, retrieve the required
information through SQL, and output LaTeX using a combination LaTeX
templates for headers, footers, etc., and outputting the body information
through perl. We're currently outputting parts catalogs using this
technique, and it has proven to be reliable and very fast, almost to the
point that parts catalogs can be requested though a web interface on demand.
This technique doesn't do it with "a few commands", I dont' know of any
techniques that will allow this.

HTH

Sincerely,
W. Jeffrey Rankin
Lead Publications Programmer

O'NEIL & ASSOCIATES, INC. <http://www.oneil.com>
495 Byers Rd.
Miamisburg, Ohio 45342-3662
Phone: (937) 865-0800 ext. 3504
Fax: (937) 865-5858
E-mail: jrankin@oneil.com

-----Original Message-----
From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk [mailto:texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
Peter Kravanja
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:47 AM
To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: automatic document production

Hello,

I'm facing the following problem. An association has about 700 members and
keeps information about them (name, address, language skills, hobbies,...)
in a database. Once a year this association wants to produce a book with
all this information, to be published and distributed to the members.

How can this be done in an efficient way? Does anyone know of some sort of
interface between a database (which format??) and (La)TeX, so that with a
few commands the relevant data gets extracted from the database and turned
into a file that (La)TeX can process?

Thanks for your help!

Peter Kravanja
--
Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

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