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From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK
Subject: TeXhax Digest V1997 #9
Date: 14 Oct 97 10:29:50 GMT

TeXhax Digest             Tuesday, 14 October 1997      Volume 1997 : Number 009

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    Re: patgen
    LaTeX2e June 1997
    Getting the Index to Work - No Flames Please
    Re: Commercially available LaTeX for SGI?
    New releases of changebar and supertabular
    Q booch diagram typesetting
    LaTeX2e question
    BiBTeX question
    Announcing gsftopk 1.15
    release of AMSFonts in PostScript format
    Re: release of AMSFonts in PostScript format
    Re: release of AMSFonts in PostScript format

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From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 17:49:37 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: patgen

    find any version of patgen.web in the TeX archives.  Can anyone help me

It's at many places.  It's by itself at:
systems/knuth/unsupported/texware/patgen.web
on CTAN (e.g., tug2.cs.umb.edu:/tex-archive ...)

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From: "SIDNEY J.  Katzen" <SJ.Katzen@ulst.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:14:05 GMT
Subject: LaTeX2e June 1997

In older versions of LaTeX2e I was able to alter the textwidth of the
document in a homemade style file read at the beginning before
\begin{document} in the normal way:
\setlength{\textwidth}{etc}.
Now I find that that this has to be inserted before the
\begin{document} to have any effect. Alternatively I can use
\AtBeginDocument.  Other page dimension alterations in this style
file seem to work OK. Is this a bug?

Sid K
Dr. S.J. Katzen
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (5F06)
University of Ulster
Jordanstown
County Antrim
N. Ireland
UK BT37 0QB

Phone:  X-44-1232-36-6448
Fax:    X-44-1232-36-6804
e-mail: sj.katzen@ulst.ac.uk
URL:    http://www.nibec.ulst.ac.uk/~sidk

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From: wittenm@umich.edu (Matthew Witten)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:18:42 -0400
Subject: Getting the Index to Work - No Flames Please

This is probably a stupid question. But I am a Tex person trying to learn
how to use latex and makeindex (unix system). I am trying to find the
command to actually generate the final index and understand that if your
file containing the index details is foo.idx, then the command to make the
new printable index is

makeindex foo.idx

Unfortunately, when I use the command makeindex, or any variant, I get the
error cannot find command makeindex. Can someone help me out here? I'm not
a novice at tex, just at latex and making indexes. And, while your at it,
anyone with glossary development experience - where is the makeglossary
command hidden?

Please send comments directly to me. I will summarize for the list if there
is interest. Thanks for your patience.

Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D.

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From: Paul Garlick <itw-devilbiss.design@thenet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 09:06:52 +0100
Subject: Re: Commercially available LaTeX for SGI?

Dear User Group,

May I ask a quick question on the availability of a commercial version of
LaTeX to run on the workstation I am using.  It is a Silicon Graphics Indigo
2 R10000 running IRIX 6.2 (without a direct connection to the internet at
present).  Following a tip from the UK-TUG FAQ list I have contacted Arbor Text
Inc. but they in fact no longer supply the software.  Do you have any
information on alternatives? or would I be better off buying a modem and
downloading the free version?  The latter approach seems attractive but I do
not know any TeX gurus to ask if I get stuck.  If I could find the price of
a commercial version I could weigh up the pros and cons.

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Paul Garlick (imminent MSc thesis writer!).

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From: "Johannes L. Braams" <jlbraams@cistron.nl>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:13:04 +0200
Subject: New releases of changebar and supertabular

Hello,

As of tomorrow 29th september both the packages supertabular and changebar
will be available from CTAN in new versions, as described below.

Supertabular version 4.1a:
Two new environments have been added, mpsupertabular and mpsupertabular*.
They were provided by Axel Kielhorn <A.Kielhorn@tu-bs.de>. These environemnts
are variants of the old supertabular environments that put each tabular
segment in its own minipage. This easses the addition of footnotes to
a multipage tabular.
Fixed a few bugs, one with \\[...] inside \tablehead and \tabletail, the
other in the calculation of the available height on the first page of the
supertabular. This one affected it's use in twocolumn mode only.

Changebar version 3.3c
Finally fixed the bug that produced diagonal bars when a changebar was
started near the end of a page. Also made changebar work in LaTeX's
twocolumn mode, in twocolumn the bars appear on the `outside' of each
column (which means to the left of the left column and to the right of
the right column).
Also fixed a bug in the calculation of the positioning of the bars.

If you encounter any problems with these packages please report them
to me, using the latexbug.tex mechanism

Kind regards,

Johannes Braams

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From: Aleksei Makarov <makarov@iitam.omsk.net.ru>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 16:13:05 +0000 (   )
Subject: Q booch diagram typesetting

Hi!

Is there a pakage that simplifies the typesetting of booch diagrams
(those as used in object-oriented porgramming)?

A. Makarov

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From: "AS Dawes" <adawes@awe.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 13:09:18 +0100
Subject: LaTeX2e question

Can you please tell me if there is a package for LaTeX2e
which I can get hold of on the WWW that does the following
or similar:-

I have a postscript file in EPS format which I want to
place ANYWAY on my page. The implication of this is that
it can overwrite text etc if present under it. I wish to
set properties such as its height and width as well as
an arbitrary origin on the page (for example coordinates
could be measured from the bottom left hand corner of page).
I hope you can help and look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you

Regards
Dr. Alan Dawes

p.s. I am using LaTeX2e <1996/06/01>

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From: Tomasz GRZEGORCZYK <grzegor@lemahp6.epfl.ch>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 17:19:14 METDST
Subject: BiBTeX question

Since it is the first time I write to this address I do
not know how is it organized, who am I speaking to
and how should I write this e-mail.
So, sorry for the `non personnal' mail and I hope to
write it in a better way next time!

The question I have is about BiBTeX and cross references.
As a matter of fact, it is easy to make them by number but
is it also possible (and how!) to make them by name and date?
I mean that so far, the output in the text (article, PhD thesis) is
a reference like `[number]' and one has to go to the bibliography to
check what does it correspond to. Instead of that, I would like to
have in the text something like `[name, date]'.
Does this format already exist or should I try to write a macro
by myself?

Thank you for your help!
Tomasz

PS: the LaTeX version I am using is Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1),
LaTeX2e <1996/06/01>

- --
- ---------------------------------------
Tomasz Grzegorczyk
Grzegorczyk@lema.epfl.ch
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
LEMA-DE-EPFL
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
phone: +41-21-693 4643
fax:   +41-21-693 2673
http://lemawww.epfl.ch/
- ---------------------------------------

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From: vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:01:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Announcing gsftopk 1.15

This is to announce that version 1.15 of gsftopk is available.  gsftopk is
a utility that calls Ghostscript to render PostScript fonts, and then converts
them into pk format.  This allows you to view PostScript fonts in xdvi.

In addition to various bug fixes, this version:

    1.	Is ported to the Amiga (courtesy of Christophe Labouisse).

    2.	Accepts '<<', '<[', and '<<[' syntax in the psfonts.map file.

    3.	Accepts numerous additional command-line arguments.

    4.	Has better configuration scripts (thanks to Nelson Beebe for help
	on this one).

The upgraded version is available from CTAN in the file:

	tex-archive/fonts/utilities/gsftopk/gsftopk-1.15.tar.gz

Recall that CTAN is one of the following hosts:

	tug2.cs.umb.edu
	ftp.dante.de
	ftp.tex.ac.uk

or one of their numerous mirror sites.

- --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu

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From: Ralph Youngen <rey@ams.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 23:12:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: release of AMSFonts in PostScript format

The American Math Society is pleased to announce the release, for free
and unrestricted use, the Type-1 (PostScript) versions of the AMSFonts.
This collection includes the Euler, ``extra symbol'' and cyrillic fonts
in selected sizes.

These fonts, produced by Blue Sky Research, of Portland, Oregon, and
Y&Y Inc., of Concord, Massachusetts, and previously distributed by them,
are made available through the cooperation of a consortium of scientific
publishers along with Blue Sky and Y&Y.  Members of this consortium include:

    Elsevier Science
    IBM Corporation
    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
    Springer-Verlag
    American Mathematical Society (AMS)

In order to assure the authenticity of these fonts, copyright will be
held by the AMS.  This is not meant to restrict in any way the legitimate
use of the fonts.  However, the AMS does require that the AMS copyright
notice be removed from any derivative versions of the fonts which have
been altered in any way.  A more detailed statement of these requirements
can be found at the AMS Web site, http://www.ams.org/tex/ .

The canonical versions of these fonts are located on the AMS FTP server
and are also accessible via the Web:

    ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/psfonts/ams

Four system-specific packages are available from the AMS site:

    for use on Macintosh, containing the fonts in standard Macintosh
    Type 1 format

     - packaged as required for use by Textures
     - packaged for use by OzTeX, CMacTeX, or other Mac TeX implementations

    for use on a Windows or DOS system, containing fonts in PFB format with
    PFM metrics files;

    for use on a Unix system, containing fonts in PFB format with AFM
    metrics files.

Each system-specific package is accompanied by a READ.ME file which contains
instructions for downloading and installing the fonts.  Please review the
appropriate READ.ME file in its entirety before undertaking to install the
fonts on your system.

The fonts in Macintosh and PFB (binary Type 1 outline) formats, along with
metrics in appropriate form, will be mirrored on the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network (CTAN) in the area

    fonts/amsfonts/ps-type1

Users requiring the fonts in PFA (ASCII Type 1) form should convert them
with the aid of one of the tools available for that purpose from CTAN.

The AMS does not provide installation assistance or technical support
beyond any installation instructions included with the collection.
Installation and use of these fonts may require some technical expertise.

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From: ralph@pierce.math.hawaii.edu (Ralph Freese)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 14:27:49 -1000
Subject: Re: release of AMSFonts in PostScript format

Great! Thanks!!

	Ralph

One slight glitch in how these fonts are set up on TeXLive2 which
may effect how TeXLive3 is set up:

We copied the ams pfb files into a new directory under
./texmf/fonts/type1 and changed dvips's map file for the
cmps printer to use these rather than the bakoma versions.
The glitch is that bokoma had some intermediate sizes the ams
didn,t, for example, msbm8. Since mxbm8.tfm exists, the dvi file
can have it and then using

  dvips file.dvi -P cmps -o

will fail because there is no msbm8.pfb in the ams map file.

Of course this can be solved in several ways like getting rid of
msbm8.tfm. What we did was make the file ../texmf/dvips/cmps/config.cmps
be

  p +amsbkm.map
  p +cmbkm.map
  p +cmps.map
  p +amsps.map

(amsps.map is the ams's map file.) In this case the ps file generated
will have the fonts like MSBM10 (from the ams) and msbm8 (from bakoma).

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From: ralph@pierce.math.hawaii.edu (Ralph Freese)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:30:33 -1000
Subject: Re: release of AMSFonts in PostScript format

Thanks. That's certainly the answer. The unix distribution of the amspsfonts
didn't mention this but it is in the documentation for the amsfonts.

But one more glitch: using this from unix gives

! LaTeX Error: File `OMXcmex.fd' not found.

As I know you know, this is because LaTeX has changed to all lower case
for these files. For now I'll link OMXcmex.fp to omxcmes.fd, but the
AMS will have to upgrade its amsfonts.sty file.

	Thanks again,
	Ralph

> Hi:  That is what the psamsfonts option is for!
>
> Use it when you load the AMS package in LaTeX 2e.
>
> --
> Berthold K.P. Horn            mailto:bkph@ai.mit.edu
> Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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