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TeXhax Digest Friday, 24 Dec 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 017
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Today's Topics:
TeXhax in 94
Re: Abbreviation marks for feet and inches
RE: Abbreviation marks for feet and inches
Word for Windows
How to make Glossary during thesis writing
LaTeX2e -- Preliminary Release Available
Bachotek '94
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1993 09:54:26 +0000
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Subject: TeXhax in 94
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 19:49:17 +0000
From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.uni-mainz.de
Subject: Re: Abbreviation marks for feet and inches
Here are feet and inches (or minutes and seconds)
\def\feet{\'{}}
\def\inches{\H{}}
- --J"org Knappen.
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 15:46:33 +0000
From: P.Taylor@rhbnc.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Abbreviation marks for feet and inches
>From time to time I need to write LaTeX documents that include measurements in
>feet and inches. What I'm looking for is a method of using the ' and " marks
>to abbreviate feet and inches.
Maths mode is perfect: for example 1 foot four inches can be set as
$1' 4''$
Philip Taylor, RHBNC.
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 13:27:13 +0000
From: idb@cimio-limited.co.uk (Ian Bailey)
Subject: Word for Windows
I wonder if anyone might be able to help me.
I have several word-for-windows documents which I must now submit for
examination in LATEX format. Is there any software available to carry
out the conversion from WfW v.2.0 to a generic LATEX structure ?
If anyone has such a product for distribution (or for sale, if it is within
the budget of a student), then could they please let me know.
Ian Bailey
idb@cimio.co.uk
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 19:11:21 -0500
From: Ferose Lambay <fal@snail.cis.ufl.edu>
Subject: How to make Glossary during thesis writing
Hello TeX-Hackers,
I have quite got in a fix, I want to know how to make a glossary
with the description of the items in it and placed at the end in an appendix.
The LaTex book by Lamport only mentions the command \glossary to be used
similar to \index, and says nothing how to use \description to describe the
\item to be glossarized.
So what I understood was only how to put \glossary next to the word to be
put into the glossary, but nothing about how to use \description or which
commands \makeglossary to be used whether in the TeX file or the document file
Kindly help and quote an example for the usage of the commands to
make a glossary with some text.
Thanking you and wishing you all a Merry X'mas and
a Happy New TeX year.
Bye........
ferose A.
University of Florida
USA
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 14:57:57 +0100
From: Schoepf@sc.zib-berlin.de
Subject: LaTeX2e -- Preliminary Release Available
It's not a bird, it's not plain, it's.........
LaTeX2e -- Preliminary Release Available
Leslie Lamport and the LaTeX3 project team
21 December 1993
The new release of LaTeX is now available for testing.
LaTeX2e is the new standard version of LaTeX -- prepared and supported
by the LaTeX3 project team. It is upwardly compatible with LaTeX 2.09
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LaTeX2e puts an end to this unsatisfactory situation---it will give
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Seasons greetings to you all!
For the LaTeX3 Project
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David Carlisle
Alan Jeffrey
Frank Mittelbach
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Rainer Sch\"opf
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 11:12:41 -0500
From: Wlodek Bzyl <matwb@univ.gda.pl>
Subject: Bachotek '94
Dear David and Peter,
We send you an official announcement of the 2nd GUST meeting,
which will be held in the coming year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
- --W{\l}odek Bzyl
- --Tomek Przechlewski
(editors of the GUST bulletin)
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2nd General Meeting of the Polish
TeX Users Group (GUST)
Bacho\TeX '94
2nd general meeting of GUST will be held in Bachotek (Brodnica
Lake District) from 30.04 to 2.05 94.
The deadline for submission of papers is March 1st 1994.
A correspondence and papers should be directed to
Hanna Ko{\l}odziejska,
International Computers Ltd Poland,
ul. Leszno 21, 01-199 Warszawa
POLAND
e-mail: hkolo@plearn.edu.pl
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