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TeXhax Digest    Thursday, 11 Mar 1993  Volume 93 : Issue 005

%  The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group  %
%    and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group    %

Today's Topics:
              RE: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename
              Re: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename
                      Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray
                                  About dvitps
                               TeX / Mathematica
                          Macros for figures in LaTeX
                  LaTeX putting extra space between list items
                Re: LaTeX putting extra space between list items
                                   HypherTeX
                        Wanted - a timer for MS-DOS TeX
                               C to TeX, anyone?
                       "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager"
                         Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction
                         Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction
                         new postings to e-MATH.ams.org
                              Eplain 2.3 available
                 The UK TeX Archive is now available on CD-ROM
         Announcement: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993
                UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993

Administrivia:
    Moderators:    David Osborne and Peter Abbott
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Date:    Wed, 24 Feb 1993 15:24:54 +0000
From:    TEX@rmcs.cran.ac.uk
Subject: RE: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename

In a posting to TeXhax of Tue, 16 Feb 1993 08:37:48 -0800, 
wagman%zephyr.hepnet@LBL.EARN wrote:

> We create a big book with long articles and a little book with portions of the
> long articles so our TeX file looks something like:
>  
> \ifnum\BigBookOrLittleBook = 1
> This stuff is for the long article and goes into great detail.
> \else
> See our Big Book for details and formulae on this principle.
> \fi
> And this stuff goes in both books.
>  
>  
> We run TeX twice on the file querying the user for \BigBookOrLittleBook, but
> this results in two DVI files with the same name. Is there some way to
> manually open the DVI file specifying a name? For our needs, they would be
> named:
> \jobname_Big.DVI and \jobname_Little.DVI
>  
> Gary S. Wagman
> Lawrence Berkeley Lab
> Berkeley, CA

Well, it would depend upon which implementation of TeX you might be
using.  The PD VMS implementation of TeX 3.141 accepts a command-line
qualifier /OUTPUT= (or maybe it's /DVIFILE=) that would permit this
control *from outside TeX*.

I believe it's the case that the output DVI file isn't opened until
something first needs to be shipped out to it (|ensure_dvi_open|) so you
could also redefine \jobname internally and thus cause the filename to
change that way.  It ought to work OK, but I've never tried it.

Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Date:    Wed, 24 Feb 1993 18:16:27 +0100
From:    Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@de.uni-regensburg.physik.rphs1>
Subject: Re: How to acheive user control of the DVI filename

   We run TeX twice on the file querying the user for \BigBookOrLittleBook, but
   this results in two DVI files with the same name. Is there some way to
   manually open the DVI file specifying a name? For our needs, they would be
   named:
   \jobname_Big.DVI and \jobname_Little.DVI

Why don't you simply use two different main files ????

Wolfgang Ratzka
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Date:    Thu, 25 Feb 1993 00:31:34 -0500
From:    Jon Ahlquist <ahlquist@rossby.met.fsu.edu>
Subject: Questions: twocolumn mode, eqnarray

1) When using LaTeX's twocolumn mode, \pagestyle{empty} does not
seem to turn off page numbering.  Am I doing something wrong,
or is this a bug/"feature" of twocolumn mode?

2) Does anybody have an extension of \begin{eqnarray}\end{eqnarray}
that numbers equations and can line up more than one term in each row?
I would like to line up several terms in several equations
to show similarity of structure among the equations.

Thanks.

Jon Ahlquist, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University
ahlquist@met.fsu.edu

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

Date:    Thu, 25 Feb 1993 04:31:37 -0500
From:    mycroft@edu.mit.ai.gnu
Subject: About dvitps

(Someone mentioned `dvitps', so I thought I would add a bit or three.)

I spent several hours bashing my head against the wall wondering why my
dvitps output looked horrible.  I discovered that the transformation
matrix it uses to convert default units to (essentially) physical units
is hard-coded in each output file in *floating point* and rounded to 3
decimal places.  At even 300 dpi, rounding error is noticable, and the
bitmapped fonts start scaling inconsistently.  This generates extremely
poor output.

Being lazy, I switched to dvips, and haven't had any trouble since.

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

Date:    25 Feb 1993 12:32:00 +0000
From:    JOHANNES-IDSO@no.sognhs.sfdh
Subject: TeX / Mathematica

Dear friends;
I use Mathematica and TeX / Latex.
One problem with this combination is that MMa gives answers in
opposite order of what I want.
If the answer is a polynom MMa gives it for instance like:

1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4

I want the answer in TeXform like

x^4+x^3+x^2+1.

Thus I have to turn it manually before I can use it in a book.

I asked Wolfram Research about this thing and I got this very elegant
answer from Matthew Markert:

.... On the other hand, one can temporarily disable sorting in Plus
and therby achieve the TeXForm one wants.  The following code does
this.

unbackwards] :=
Block[{s},
  Unprotect];
  ClearAttributes];
  s = ToString]]];
  SetAttributes];
  Protect[Plus];
  s
] /; Head[p] === Plus

Then unbackwards[1+x+x^2+x^3]

produces {x^3} + {x^2} + x + 1

Note that ToString is used in this function to freeze the form.
If this is not done then once sorting is re-enabled, the terms will
go back to the old order.

I hope this helps.

- --Matthew Markert

So now it is very easy. One can simply copy the answer from MMa and
paste it into the tex-document.

I someone have useful tips about MMa and TeX I would be glad to hear.

Johannes Idsoe
Sogndal, Norway.

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

Date:    Tue, 02 Mar 1993 14:26:01
From:    anoop@parcom.ernet.in (Anoop Sarkar)
Subject: Macros for figures in LaTeX

I would like to know if there are any macros available that will
allow me to draw and format diagrams such as trees and arcs (preferably
with arrows) within the 'math' or 'figure' environments. If such a
macro package is available, information as to where it can be found
will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Anoop Sarkar
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, India

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

Date:    Wed, 03 Mar 1993 17:32:27 -0800
From:    Peter "J." Scott <pjs@euclid.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Subject: LaTeX putting extra space between list items

I'm doing nested lists that cover several pages in the LaTeX report style
that look something like:

1 ONE
  a EH
  b BEE
  c SEA
2 TWO
  a EH
  b BEE
  c SEA
3 THREE
  a EH
  b BEE
  c SEA

etc.  (They cover several pages because the a,b,c's are paragraphs.)  
I want to discourage page breaks after the ONE, TWO, THREE lines, so I'm
coding this as:

\raggedbottom
\begin{enumerate}
{\samepage
\item ONE
\begin{enumerate}
\nopagebreak[4]
\item EH
\nopagebreak[3]
\item BEE
\nopagebreak[2]
\item SEA
\end{enumerate}
\nopagebreak[1]
}
{\samepage
\item TWO
...etc...
\flushbottom

Which is working well, except that LaTeX puts more vertical space after just
the EH paragraphs than it does after the others, on some pages.  I thought
that the \raggedbottom would handle that.  How do I fix this?

Peter 

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

Date:    Wed, 10 Mar 1993 11:57:24 -0800
From:    Peter "J." Scott <pjs@euclid.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Subject: Re: LaTeX putting extra space between list items

I wrote:
> > I'm doing nested lists that cover several pages in the LaTeX report style
> > that look something like:
> > 
> > 1 ONE
> >   a EH
> >   b BEE
> >   c SEA
> > etc.  (They cover several pages because the a,b,c's are paragraphs.)  
> > I want to discourage page breaks after the ONE, TWO, THREE lines
[...] 
> Experimentation has determined that LaTeX puts extra vertical space after
> items which happen to end at the right margin; but not why, nor how to
> fix it.  Any ideas?

dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) has provided me with a
working answer:

> Try moving the \nopagebreak commands further back into the text.
> I.e., instead of typing
> 
>         foo foo foo.\nopagebreak[4]
> 
>         \item ....
> 
> type
> 
>         foo foo \nopagebreak[4]foo.
> 
>         \item ....
> 
> The problem is that the \nopagebreak command isn't quite transparent.
> It leaves an invisible something or the other (I forget what), which
> is ending up at the beginning of the next line of the paragraph, hence
> the extra vertical space when your paragraph completely fills a line.
> 
> You can also have the same problem with commands like \index, \label,
> and the such.

Peter J. Scott, Member of Technical Staff    |   pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,  NASA/Caltech     |   SPAN:  GROUCH::PJS

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

Date:    Thu, 04 Mar 1993 12:19:46 -0600
From:    mr370673@rs970.mor.itesm.mx
Subject: HypherTeX

I am interested in TeX has a tool for writing hypertext.  I know there exists
GNU texinfo.  Has anyone notice of related information.

Thank you.

Rafael Morales Gamboa
ITESM Campus Morelos
Cuernavaca, Mor.
MEXICO

INTERNET: mr370673@rs970.mor.itesm.mx

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

Date:    Fri, 05 Mar 1993 14:18:26 +0000
From:    "Jonathan Fine" <J.Fine@pmms.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Wanted - a timer for MS-DOS TeX

I am co-ordinator for timing tests, for the LaTeX 3 project. 
Although a certain amount can be done using only theoretical analysis
and a stopwatch, it would be nice to have a timer available.  The
results I obtain will be of interest to *all* TeX programmers for
whom performance is an issue, and will be made freely available.

The syntax I am looking for is that
        \gettime \mymacro
will define \mymacro to be a fixed length sequence of digits, which
represents the time at the instant the macro \gettime is called. 
More exactly, each computer has a clock that ticks, and \mymacro
should contain the number of ticks - modulo some large number - since
the tick count was last at zero.

The implementation I am looking for is
        % initialise
        \newread \@timer
        \openin \@timer special.dev \relax

        % read "special.dev" to get the time
        \def\gettime #1
        {
          \read\@timer to #1
        }
where "special.dev" is a logical device for MS-DOS.  The idea is to
write a logical device such that when TeX \read's the 'file'
"special.dvs" it gets a line containing the timer count.

I don't know if such a device can be constructed.  The answer will
depend on the degree and nature of buffering used when TeX reads a
file.  A cruder and easier alternative might be to create a file like
device which when opened writes the timer count to a file, which TeX
can then read in the usual manner.

I would very much appreciate any help anyone can provide, to satisfy
this need.

        Jonathan Fine
        203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, CB1 3HY   
        Tel: 0223 215389


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

Date:    Fri, 05 Mar 1993 15:04:40
From:    anoop@parcom.ernet.in (Anoop Sarkar)
Subject: C to TeX, anyone?

Is there a program available which will allow me to convert C source
code into a TeX file. There are C beautifiers which format C source
for troff; but is a C to TeX formatter available in the public domain?

Thank you

Anoop Sarkar
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, India


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

Date:    Sun, 07 Mar 1993 16:41:44 +0000
From:    David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk
Subject: "Papyrus" and "Reference Manager"

Outside the TeX community, personal bibliographic systems tend to be
proprietary things like ProCite, Library Master, EndNote, Papyrus and
Reference Manager (rather than the public-domain BibTeX and Tib).
 
For a variety of reasons, I anticipate that inter-working with the
proprietary things will start to be more of a requirement for TeXies.  Your
colleagues may have 10000 references in an EndNote database that you'd like
to access, your library may put you onto ProCite because that's what suits
them for downloading information, etc., etc.
 
I've come across TeXies who use ProCite, Library Master and EndNote.
 
Is there any reader who has practical experience of using Papyrus or
Reference Manager with LaTeX?  If so, I'd be interested to hear about
"what you tell Papyrus [Reference Manager]" and "what you tell LaTeX" so as
to get them to work together sensibly.  Specifically:
*    Do you (a) assume that LaTeX is always dealing with a Papyrus
     [Reference Manager] output file, or do you (b) try to arrange that the
     Papyrus [Reference Manager] input file is acceptable as LaTeX input
     (so that you can get equations etc.  sorted out in your definitive
     .tex file without involving Papyrus [Reference Manager], before using
     Papyrus [Reference Manager] to give a derived .tex file in which
     citations have been sorted out)?
*    If (b), to what do you change Papyrus' usual %% delimiter [Reference
     Manager's usual {} delimiters].
*    Have you managed to use Papyrus [Reference Manager] with the LaTeX
     \cite{...} system rather than the Papyrus %%...%% system [Reference
     Manager {} system]?  I suppose this would mean having software of some
     sort (I know not what: please tell me!) that inspects the .aux file,
     finds what is cited, and then gets Papyrus [Reference Manager] to
     produce the required reference-list.  Overall, the question is "Have
     you persuaded Papyrus [Reference Manager] (plus something else --- a
     shell-script?) to take a .aux file as input (like BibTeX would) and
     then to produce an output file that is similar to a BibTeX .bbl fle?"
*    Have you had any success in the "root file + \include-d file"
     situation?
I'd also be interested in any other details that you think any LaTeX-er who
is contemplating using Papyrus [Reference Manager] should know.
 
If the "tricks of the trade" are too lengthy to go out as an item in a
future TeXhax, would anyone contemplate submitting an article to TUGboat
about them, or offering some notes as candidates for inclusion in archives
such as that at Aston?
 
David Rhead

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

Date:    Tue, 09 Mar 1993 19:11:25 -0800
From:    vis!greg@UCSD.EDU
Subject: Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction

In my earlier message I said:

        The FSF has recently made available a popular CDROM (which,
        ironically, contains TeX).

but I was mistaken: TeX is not on the Free Software Foundation's
CDROM.  Thus, the opportunity for UnixTeX to offer a CDROM is even
greater, notwithstanding competition from semi-commercial vendors like
Prime Time Freeware.  I suspect that if you gathered together all of
the free TeX-related tools, packages and documents you could put
together a very full CDROM.  I doubt that I am even familiar with half
of the free TeX-related things that are available.  Anyone planning on
putting together such a CDROM should publish a list of the intended
contents to TeXhax early in the game to allow us to make sure that it
is truly comprehensive.

_Greg


J. Greg Davidson        Institute for Software Research and Development
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Date:    10 Mar 1993 21:28:20 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: UnixTeX CDROM; Correction

 > Prime Time Freeware.  I suspect that if you gathered together all of
 > the free TeX-related tools, packages and documents you could put
 > together a very full CDROM.  I doubt that I am even familiar with half
 > of the free TeX-related things that are available.  Anyone planning on
 > putting together such a CDROM should publish a list of the intended
 > contents to TeXhax early in the game to allow us to make sure that it
 > is truly comprehensive.

the Prime Time Freeware CD is a direct copy of the UK TeX Archive
taken in December 1992. Although there have been minor additions since
then, the archive contains all the packages known to mankind (ie
me....), based on looking at listings of SHSU, Ymir, Stuttgart, old
Aston, Jones' Index, as well as the obvious specialized archives like
the AMS, Utah etc. At a late stage, I added odds and ends PTF had
tracked down (various language support things). Since then, I have
been trying with George Greenwade to get this archive (duplicated at
Aston and SHSU) even better catalogued and up to date. To that aim, I
have generated a skeleton database listing the `packages' which
we stock. Most lack a description, author or date (not thats its
unknown, I just have not had a week to spare reading READMEs!). There
are 600 odd entries there now (and this excludes things like macro
files or style files for plain and LaTeX - the latter is covered by
Jones).

Anyone interested in checking and expanding this list will find it as
ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/help/ctan/ctan.dat. It is NOT for really
general public consumption yet, but anyone is welcome to say what
they think, or offer me money to scan README files :-}


Sebastian Rahtz

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Date:    26 Feb 1993 17:48:27 -0500
From:    AMS Technical Support <tech-support@MATH.AMS.ORG>
Subject: new postings to e-MATH.ams.org

We have just updated all non-binary files in the AMS TeX archive
at e-math.ams.org .  The motive for this update was to change our
address in the documentation on these files from
   *math.ams.com
to *math.ams.org
(both the "math" and "e-math" nodes are involved.)

Two files do contain "significant" updates:
   ams/amstex/amsppt.sty
   ams/amslatex/inputs/amssymb.sty

This change also masks some important earlier postings;
   ams/amsfonts/doc/userdoc.cyr (12 Nov 92)
   ams/amsfonts/doc/userdoc.tex (12 Nov 92)
   ams/amstex/amstex.bug (12 Nov 92)
   ams/amstex/doc/amsppt.doc (12 Nov 92)

If your copies of these files are earlier than these updates, it
is recommended that you replace them with the current versions.

For other files, the present change makes no difference for most
purposes of actually using the files, so although uniformity among
distributed versions is a good thing, actually installing the new
versions is a matter of personal preference.

The updated files will be installed shortly through routine updating
procedures at these major archive sites:
   Aston (uk.ac.tex (JANET), and ftp.tex.ac.uk (Internet))
   SHSU (niord.shsu.edu)
   Stuttgart (ftp.uni-stuttgart)


Technical Support
American Mathematical Society
Internet: TECH-SUPPORT@MATH.AMS.ORG


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Date:    Mon, 01 Mar 1993 11:48:02 -0500
From:    Karl Berry <karl@claude.cs.umb.edu>
Subject: Eplain 2.3 available

I have released Eplain version 2.3.  It is available by ftp from

  ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z}
   ics.uci.edu:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.3.tar.Z

You might also be able to get it by email from George Greenwade's file
server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of
something like `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'.

I haven't yet implemented all the good ideas people have sent me
(generalizing toc files to other kinds of auxiliary files, indexing
commands, etc., etc.), but I did implement general cross-references, so
I figured a release would be worthwhile.

Please send bug reports directly to me.

Here is a summary of the most significant changes (from the file NEWS in
the distribution):

For those who haven't previously heard of Eplain: it is a collection of
macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless
of how your document appears.  For example, it has macros to do symbolic
cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading.  It also
has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of
plain TeX's output.  For example, it lets you produce left-justified
math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'.

karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net.


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Date:    09 Mar 1993 09:06:28 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: The UK TeX Archive is now available on CD-ROM

   From: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin)
   Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
   Date: 23 Feb 93 21:02:59 GMT
   Reply-To: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin)
   Organization: Canta Forda Computer Lab, Pacifica, CA


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Date:    Thu, 04 Mar 1993 18:09:13 +0000
From:    CHAA006@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK
Subject: Announcement: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993

The UK TeX Users' Group (UK-TuG) are pleased to announce a multi-day
conference, to be held at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of
London) between April 6th--8th, 1993.  The themes of the conference are ``TeX
for non-American languages'' and ``MetaFont in Theory and Practice'';  the
speakers include Bernard Gaulle, Yannis Haralambous and Dominik Wujastyk. 

For \pounds 80-00, conference delegates will be entitled to participate in the
conference itself (including a full-day tutorial on one or other aspects of
MetaFont), the conference banquet, and lunch, coffee and tea on each day;
dinners and en-suite accommodation are also available.  If you would like to
participate in this conference, please complete and return the application form
which appears elsewhere in this digest.  Any questions should be addressed to
Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vax>, but it should be noted that
he will be unable to answer e-mail during the period 7th--14th March. 

Philip Taylor, RHBNC.

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

Date:    Thu, 04 Mar 1993 17:52:24 +0000
From:    CHAA006@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK
Subject: UK-TuG Conference at RHBNC; April 6th--8th, 1993

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The~U.K. <TeX> Users' Group (<UK-TuG>) are pleased to announce their first-ever
multi-day conference, which~will take place at Royal Holloway and Bedford New
College (University of~London) in~Egham, Surrey, between April~6th and~8th
1993.  The Conference, which has two themes --- <TeX>~for non-English
languages, and~<MetaFont> in~Theory and Practice --- is timed to co-incide with
the start of Spring, when the campus is at its best.
 
The~first day (April~6th) is reserved for registration and the conference
banquet; April~7th is devoted to <TeX>, and will include papers from
an~international panel of invited speakers, including Bernard Gaulle, Yannis
Haralambous and Dominik Wujastyk. Bernard~is past-president of GUTenberg
(the~French-speaking <TeX> Users' Group), and an~authority on good French
typographic practice; Yannis~is a~renowned authority on <MetaFont> and exotic
fonts, and~is the author of the ``Scholar<TeX>'' package; and~Dominik is
co-author (with Graham Toal) of the definitive U.K. hyphenation patterns, 
as~well as being a Sanskrit scholar and linguist. There~will be ample time for
questions in addition to the formal papers. April~8th is <MetaFont> day: 
there~will be two concurrent tutorials, one~entitled `<MetaFont> in Theory', 
led~by Yannis, in~which the theme will be the design and implementation of 
fonts through the medium of <MetaFont>, and~the second entitled `<MetaFont> in
Practice', in~which the more practical (but equally important) aspects of the
use of <MetaFont> (such~as how to build a~complete set of Computer Modern fonts
for a new laser printer) will be addressed.
 
Booking~is now taking place for this event, which~will be limited to
a~maximum of fifty persons;  the~Conference fee (<pounds>80-00) includes the
Conference banquet, which~takes place after Registration on April~6th, 
lunch~for April~7th \& 8th, and~attendance at all lectures plus the tutorial of
choice; optional~items include {\it en-suite\/} accommodation at <pounds>28-50
per night (available for up to three nights), and~evening dinner for the second
and third days of the Conference.  Early~booking is advised, as~this is
expected to be a~very popular event.  To~reserve a~place for the Conference,
please~complete the form below and return it together with cheque (made payable
to {\it The U.K. <TeX> Users' Group\/}) or company order, to: 
 
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Philip Taylor,
The Computer Centre,
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University of London,
Egham Hill,
Egham,
Surrey TW20 0EX,
England.
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Please~reserve me a~place for the <UK-TuG> Conference at RHBNC on 
April~6th--8th, 1993.  I~have completed the booking form below
to indicate my exact requirements in terms of accommodation and
meals.  I~understand that if I~need to cancel my reservation,
I~can be guaranteed at most a~50\% refund up to fourteen days
before the Conference, and~no refund thereafter, unless the
Conference organisers are able to re-allocate my place, in which
case I~agree to a~10\% cancellation charge being deducted.
 
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If <TeX>ing your own reservation form, please edit the alignment below to
remove any lines which you do not require, and amend the entries for sub-total,
V.A.T. and total to indicate the amounts applicable; if completing a
ready-printed form, simply score through any items not required and add
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Accommodation April 6th:& 28-50
Accommodation April 7th:& 28-50
Accommodation April 8th:& 28-50
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