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TeXhax Digest              Tuesday, 18 June 1996       Volume 96 : Number 008

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
    Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
    Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7
    Re: Location of David Jones' index package (TeXhax V96 #7)
    Re: excalibur
    TeXhax Digest V96 #6
    Writing long formulas
    Fonts in Latex2.09
    [none]
    EMTeX no longer available from ftp.shsu.edu

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From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 08:22:44 +0100
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7

 > I would like to be able to increase the
 > maximum number ``strings'' available to
 > TeX for processing documents.  It may also
 > be usefull to increase the upper limit
 > on the number of fonts allowed.
yes, you can do it. but its not trivial. current releases of TeX for
DOS (emtex) and Mac (OzTeX) allow you to do it dynamically), while
Textures and Y&Y TeX claim to just give you unlimited memory (I only say
claim because i havent tried it myself). If you have Unix TeX, lets
assume you have the web2c stuff. in that case, find the directory
web2c/tex and the file ctex.ch. thats the "change file", and near the
top you find a set of constants which are set to complicated
values. thats where you play, and thats as far as I am going to give a
recipe! you have to understand how change files work (read the WEB
documentation) and what the values do. NOTE that some values are
already at their upper limit

sebastian rahtz


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From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:03:05 +0100
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7

> Abstract: I want to put a token with catcode 1 in the parameter text
> of a macro, and I don't know how.

You can't.

> Essentially, I would like to define a macro

> \def\foo#1\end{largeenough}{...}

you have to go

\def\foo#1\end#2{...
and then check that #2 is `largeenough' and if not search for the next
\end. It's a bit of a pain, but that's life. There are examples of this
in the ams alignment environments, and tabularx and load of other
places.

David



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From: Matteo Frigo <athena@glauke.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:07:58 -0400
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7

> \def\foo#1\end#2{...
> and then check that #2 is `largeenough' and if not search for the next
> \end. It's a bit of a pain, but that's life. There are examples of this
> in the ams alignment environments, and tabularx and load of other
> places.
> 
> David
> 

Thanks for your answer. In fact, this is what I am doing now. I am
glad to hear that there is no better way to do the same thing.

Cheers
Matteo


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From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:32:15 +0100
Subject: Re: Location of David Jones' index package (TeXhax V96 #7)

Robert Coleman <coleman@trillium.phys.uregina.ca> writes:
>On page 367 of the LaTeX Companion, the index
>package written by David Jones is discussed.
>I have, however, not been able to find it on
>CTAN. [...]

I maintain a file (on CTAN, of course) info/companion.ctan; this aims
to list all packages mentioned in the Companion, and to give their
location on CTAN.

In this instance, it says

  index
    macros/latex209/contrib/misc/index.doc

As you will note, this is a 2.09 package.  A 2e one is in development,
and I have a copy of a beta-version.  Sadly, I failed to note which
MIT machine I got it from, and it's pretty old.  Perhaps David Jones
himself will respond...  (Or even submit a new version for the
archive?)
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U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Home page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html


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From: Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie (Dr Alun J. Carr)
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:55:33 +0100
Subject: Re: excalibur

On Wed, 1 May 1996 11:00:31 +0100 sens@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Pierre Sens) wrote:
>Hi Tex users,
>
>I would like to use the spell checker Excalibur for documents in French on
>my Macintosh. I heard about a french dictionnary for Excalibur. Does
>anybody know where I could download it.

<ftp://ftp.eg.bucknell.edu/pub/mac/Excalibur-dictionaries/Dico-Francais-sea.hq
x>

Alun


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From: bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:34:23 -0400
Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #6

> From: Russel Winder <R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
> Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100
> Subject: PostScript from other programs
> 
> I regularly need to include PostScript figures in documents.  I find
> idraw on Unix produces excellent relocatable PostScript descriptions
> but it is a little simplistic.  There are excellent command language
> mechanisms for creating PostScript tricks using LaTeX but I really
> want to make use of (essentially) WYSIWYG programs like idraw,
> FrameMaker and Word to create images for inclusion in LaTeX2e
> documents.  Furthermore I often have the requirement to use other
> people's PostScript in my LaTeX documents and have no control over the
> programs used to create the PostScript.
> 
> In the past I have been able to use PostScript produced by various
> Macintosh programs (though judicious editing out of font information
> is usually required) and also PostScript produced by the PostScript
> driver under Windows3.1.
> 
> At the pther extreme, FrameMaker has always been a pain in the !@#$.
> The PostScript produced by this program is totally un-relocatable.  It
> assumes total control of the page and I have yet to discover the
> necessary edits to remove it's dictatorial efforts and hence make the
> PostScript relocatable.
> 
> Moreover Microsoft appear to have gone down this same road and this is
> my real problem.  Word7 with the Apple LaaserWriter plus driver (under
> Windows95) now produces code that it not relocatable.  Indeed it has
> this penchant for trying to enquire of the amount of virtual memory on
> a regular basis which makes the PostScript file of a document
> un-previewable with ghostscript.  I have found the trick for removing
> this VM quesry problem but have not found the trick for removing the
> manipulations that bind the coordinate system to the page in it's
> dictatorial manner.
> 
> Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7
> and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form?
> 
> Thanks for any guidance and/or pointers.
> 
> Russel.
	> 
> =======================================================================
> 
> Dr Russel Winder
> 
>   Reader in Software Engineering
>   Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems
> 
> Information Systems Research Group
> Department of Computer Science		  Phone: +44 (0)171 380 7293
> University College London		  Fax: +44 (0)171 387 1397
> Gower Street				  EMail: R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk
> London WC1E 6BT
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> 
> =======================================================================

You must make sure the applications export in EPS format.  

If you use raw PS, you are asking for trouble, because 
PS drivers are allowed to use arbitrary PS code including the
forbidden-in-EPS operators that are troubling you.

Most printer drivers have a check box this produce EPS output.
If you can't use EPS because the output is multi-page then you
are not using EPS, since that by definition is one page only.

Berthold.


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From: Dominique de Waleffe <ddw@goedel.miscrit.be>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 15:42:51 +0200
Subject: Writing long formulas

In Digital SRC report 119, Leslie Lamport presents a nice way to
format long mathematical formulas so that reading is a lot easier. 

Does anyone know a Latex package which implements those conventions? 

I'd be very interested.

D.
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Phone: +32 2 759 95 60  Fax: +32 2 759 27 60
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PGP key fingerprint: F9 CC 23 74 44 62 7C F3  8C 12 DF 71 BB 60 54 98



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From: "Klaus M. Wendel" <a9304890@unet.univie.ac.at>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:56:13 +0200 (MSZ)
Subject: Fonts in Latex2.09

Help!

I am using LaTex Version 2.09 and i have to print a document in HELVETICA.

Is there a (easy) way to do this?

Thanks!

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From: David Simpson <mifads@bure.ntnu.no>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:53:46 +0100
Subject: [none]

Does anybody know how to convert LaTeX(2e) files
to, dare I say, Word or Wordperfect documents?
Apologies to all tex fans for asking this, but 
unfortunately I can't persuade all my PC-based colleagues
to switch to LateX, but I need to send them text
for reports.

Thanks,  Dave Simpson      (david.simpson@dnmi.no)


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From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:14:13 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: EMTeX no longer available from ftp.shsu.edu

As ftp.shsu.edu is not properly managed, and the emTeX files there are
partially out of date, I removed emTeX at teh request of Eberhard
Mattes from ftp.shsu.edu.

We are apologize for the inconvenience, but the CTAN team doesn't have
the resources to manage a site from across the atlantic.

For the CTAN team

- -- 
   Rainer Schvpf
   Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung           A point of view can be a dangerous
    der Universitdt Mainz                  luxury when substituted for insight
   Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12         and understanding.
   D-55099 Mainz
   Germany                                  Herbert Marshall McLuhan:
   <Schoepf@Uni-Mainz.DE>                          The Gutenberg Galaxy

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