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TeXhax Digest    Wednesday,  6 Jan 1993  Volume 93 : Issue 001

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Today's Topics:
			     Re: epsf figure boxes
		  Page-selection on duplex PostScript printer
				TeX for a 386 PC
				 Re: TFM to AFM
			       LaTeX for the Mac?
		  PLEASE note mispelled SUBSRIBE to SUBSCRIPE
				     Thanks
			 Size of foo after typesetting
			       Translators to TeX
			   Problem with Textures 1.2
		     ASAETR, version 1.1 on FILESERV/Niord
	     Tib in LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation

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Date:    11 Dec 92 15:11:37 +0000
From:    spqr@minster.york.ac.uk
Subject: Re: epsf figure boxes

 > 
 > Has any one gotten a nice boxed figure from epsf.sty ?
 > I need also to just draw the borders of the eps inserted figure
 > instead if waiting for the entire bit map to print.

how about using psfig instead? i have taken James Darrell's psfig1.8
and emended it to use the macros in epsf.tex wherever possible (it
\input s epsf.tex). this lets you use psfig syntax for just printing
the name of the figure instead of the contents.

as for boxing it, i do (in LaTeX)
 \framebox{\psfig{figure=foo.ps}}
- - how about 
 \framebox{epsffile{foo.ps}}
??

************
 > 
 > I am currently using SBTEX for the IBM PC but it is limited by the infamous
 > 640K limit.  hat I would like ideally is a public domain version compiled
 > in flat memory (DOS-extended) mode.  The next step would be a convenient
 > place to find the source already in C form.

the famous and widely used emTeX package has a 386 version which has
its own DOS extender, and will be just what you want (assuming you
have a 386 or better). you can get emTeX via ftp from any TeX archive

sebastian rahtz

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Date:    Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:15:56 +0100
From:    Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: Page-selection on duplex PostScript printer

I don't think it is a particularly good idea to put the information
what to print on which side into the dvi file. In most of the cases,
the algorithm to accomplish this should be rather straightforward,
i.e. options given to the dvi translator at run time should do the
job.

Wolfgang Ratzka

X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de
ratzka@vax1.rz.uni-regensburg.dbp.de
SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de
Phone:	    +49 941 943 2085
Paper mail: Wolfgang Ratzka \\ 	Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik \\
	    Lehrstuhl Prof. Weise \\ Universit\"at Regensburg \\
	    W-8400 Regensburg \\ GERMANY

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Date:    Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:22:55 +0100
From:    Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: TeX for a 386 PC

   I am not a regular so please be patient in explaining where this question
   REALLY should have gone, and please reply directly yo me by email.

   I am currently using SBTEX for the IBM PC but it is limited by the infamous
   640K limit.  hat I would like ideally is a public domain version compiled
   in flat memory (DOS-extended) mode.  The next step would be a convenient
   place to find the source already in C form.

Not PD but free of charge: emTeX is a rather complete package for PCs
(in fact the best one in the market) and with it there comes a
beta-Version of a 386-DOS-extender-TeX available. Sadly however it's
not compatible with DPMI, but only with VCPI. On the other hand it
also runs under OS/2 2.0.

Where to get it: all major TeX-oriented ftp-sites should have it.

Wolfgang Ratzka

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Date:    Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:14:34 -0500
From:    bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Subject: Re: TFM to AFM

> Date:    Mon, 30 Nov 92 14:59:33 -0700
> From:    Brett Perkes <bperkes@cases.cs.usu.edu>
> Subject: TFM to AFM
> 
> I have been looking around for a TFM to AFM converter.  I haven't been very
> successful.  Does anyone know of such a utility or a possible round about
> way of achieving the same results?  I would appreciate any help that can
> be given.

TFMtoAFM comes with some software packages from Y&Y. It is, for example,
in the `Font Manipulation Package' along with AFMtoTFM, PFMtoAFM, AFMtoPFM,
SCRtoAFM, AFMtoSCR and more than a dozen other goodies.  TFMtoAFM not
only generates the usual AFM file, but also inserts comments describing the
extra information found in TFM files (like how to make large delimiters out
of pieces) that is not normally found in AFM files.  These comments are used
by AFMtoTFM.  Hence AFMtoTFM can even make TFM files for math fonts!

***********
Disclaimer: respondent has connnections with Y&Y

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Date:    Fri, 11 Dec 92 10:41:46 -0800
From:    rbhumbla@ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
Subject: LaTeX for the Mac?

anonymous ftp midway.uchicago.edu.  The package is called OzTeX and is
public domain.

Ravi

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Date:    Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:19:12 -0500
From:    Anita Zanolini Hoover <anita@ravel.udel.edu>
Subject: PLEASE note mispelled SUBSRIBE to SUBSCRIPE

It was brought to my attention that SUBSCRIBE was mispelled for
the new e-mail discussion list, you should use

 To subscribe to this list, send the following two lines to
   "listserv@ens.fr" on the Internet:

	   SUBSCRIBE METAFONT $<$Your name and affiliation$>$
	   SET METAFONT MAIL ACK

Sorry for the mistake, please make note of it!!!!

Thanks to Paul Howard for bringing this to my attention.

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Date:    Wed, 16 Dec 92 08:49:44 -0600
From:    jhandler@penguin.ils.nwu.edu (Jonathan B. Handler)
Subject: Thanks

to all of the nice folk that sent me info on LaTeX for
the mac.  If anyone else was interested (and didn't
already know, OzTex is currently available (at least) at

	midway.uchicago.edu

Thanks again,

Jon

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Date:    Wed, 16 Dec 92 10:50:28 -0500
From:    pat@po.CWRU.Edu (Paul A. Thompson)
Subject: Size of foo after typesetting

Friends:
    I need help in deTeXting a problem in the TeX FM.  I would like to 
determine the size of a fragment like "foo" after typesetting.  Reason:
I am using LaTeX to typeset a table.  I wish to use vertical rules to
separate tables.  I also want the column information to be almost tangent
to the vertical rules, much closer than the normal \tabcolsep allows.  

- - I have determined that I can use \tabcolsep to make a very small space 
  around the table entries, so that I get the spacing desired
- - However, unless I use the p{wd} construction in the 
  \begin{tabular}{p{1in}p{23pt}etc.etc.} construction, 
  I do not get the vertical rules lined up, but rather all jagged. 
- - If I set the columns to have a length which is long enough to 
  typeset the longest string + a little, then things all work out.
- - So I need the length of the longest string 

If I could figure that out internally, this would save unending fudging and
adjusting (is there some term for the process of playing with parameters
until stuff comes out right - if not, I suggest the term "quidge").  On the
other hand, I may be squashing a sow bug with a large rock - is there an
easier way?  Reply privately if possible.

Paul Thompson, Ph.D.  |  Department of Psychiatry  |  (216) 844-7463
Case Western Reserve University  | Cleveland, OH  44106

When I hear "family values," I reach for my revolver. - para. Hans Jonst

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Date:    Sun, 20 Dec 92 13:17:17 +0700
From:    "Z. Rubinstein" <RSMA407@HAIFAUVM.bitnet.washington.edu>
Subject: Translators to TeX

Hello,
Does anyone know of translators from Microsoft Word to
TeX(or Latex etc.).
On the same subject does there exist an assembled list of
translators available today and the relevant addresses
from which to acquire them.
Thank you.

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Date:    Wed, 30 Dec 92 12:18:38 -0500
From:    Leandros Perivolaropoulos <PH520013@BROWNVM.brown.edu>
Subject: Problem with Textures 1.2

      I would appreciate your help in the following problem I have with
 the program Textures 1.2 (TeX on the Mac).
  I am using a DeskWriter C to print a document and the only way to
 get the printout at the right size is to use a reduction at the
 Page Setup of the File menu, by about 25%. Could ATM solve the problem?
  How can I obtain ATM?  This problem does not appear with other programs
 like Word 4.0.
   Thanks for your help.
                 Leandros

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Date:    Thu, 31 Dec 92 10:54:12 -0600
From:    "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: ASAETR, version 1.1 on FILESERV/Niord

In <1992Dec22.180745.27490@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> (comp.text.tex, Tue, 22
Dec 1992 18:07:45 GMT), mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) posted:
> Announcing ASAETR 1.1, a set of LaTeX and BibTeX styles (+ a font), with
> documentation, for authors associated with the American Society of
> Agricultural Engineers. This is the package described at my presentation at
> the 1992 International Winter Meeting of ASAE held in Nashville recently
> (ASAE Paper No. 92-3572).
> 
> It is temporarily available via anonymous ftp from
>   Name:       pasture.ecn.purdue.edu
>   Addresses:  128.46.161.85, 128.46.133.85, 128.46.129.85
>   Directory:  pub/mccauley/tex/asaetr
> but I hope to update the version on shsu.edu soon.

I have placed the files on Niord for your access.  Attached for reference
is the description file.

- -George
=========
                                  ASAETR
                                  ------
The ASAETR package includes the a UUENCODEd ZIP archive containing the 11
files for version 1.1 (22 December 1992) of James Darrell McCauley's ASAETR
file set.  This package includes a set of LaTeX and BibTeX styles, with
documentation and samples, to make your articles look like those in
Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE). 
Also included are the metafont source file, precompiled PK (at 300dpi)
font, and TFM file for the font cmcscsl10.  This is not official and not
(yet) an accepted way to submit articles to ASAE.

The American Society of Agricultural Engineers editorial staff encourages
authors to submit electronic manuscripts in the following formats:
MacWrite, MS-Word, MS-Works (preferably Version 2.0), WordPerfect (Version
5.0 or later), and WriteNow.  Though LaTeX is not an accepted format to
submit articles to ASAE, it does have utility when predicting page length
and appearance of an article that you submit.  Predicting page length is
especially important when submitting "Technical Notes" (which cannot exceed
two pages) and when trying to avoid unnecessary page charges.

You may retrieve the package of of 4 UUENCODEd files by including:
 SENDME ASAETR
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
For users of anonymous ftp, the ZIP file is available from Niord.SHSU.edu
(192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.ASAETR] as ASAETR-1_1.ZIP; the
individual files are available in [FILESERV.ASAETR.ASAETR-1_1].

Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File                  Blocks  Save file as: ASAETR.UUE

ASAETR.UUE_1OF4               This file UUDECODEs to ASAETR-1_1.ZIP
 through
ASAETR.UUE_4OF4           78 (each)

Approximate total blocks in full ASAETR package = 311

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Date:    Mon, 04 Jan 93 23:15:20 +0000
From:    David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk
Subject: Tib in LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation

From browsing through James Alexander's documentation about Tib (a TeX
bibliographic preprocessor), I have the impression that Tib was designed
for production of fairly short documents (e.g., an article), rather than
for the production of long documents (e.g., a book).  Have I got the right
impression?
 
In particular:
*    it looks as though one should go
       tib book.tex
     and get
       book-t.tex
     Having 2 big .tex files may be expensive in filestore.
*    it is not clear to me what one is supposed to do if one is using
     LaTeX's "root file + \include-d files" approach (typically with one
     \include command per chapter).  Can the Tib-ing be parcelled up into a
     shell script that makes the whole process as painless as using BibTeX
     would be?  (E.g., would you have a Tib index for each chapter?)
 
Does anyone have any experience that they'd like to share of using Tib in
the LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation?
 
David Rhead

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