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Article 83 of ucam.mlist.texhax:
From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (TeXhax Digest)
Subject: TeXhax Digest V1998 #4
Date: 6 Jul 98 09:55:39 GMT

TeXhax Digest          Monday, July 6 1998          Volume 1998 : Number 004

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    Re: Fwd: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
    Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
    Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
    Re: TeX question
    Re: tex to postscript conversion
    Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
    Re: \ifcat and \noexpand
    Bold Greek letters in plain Tex
    Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3
    A few pages with different margin and text-width

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 18:27:52 +1
From: "Maarten Gelderman" <mgelderman@bik.econ.vu.nl>
Subject: Re: Fwd: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3

> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:08:22 +0100 (BST)
> From: sssgst3@reading.ac.uk
> Subject: latex3e
>
> In submission to a conference paper, the organisers would like our
> papers done in latex3e and LNCS.  Does anyone know where I can get
> hold of this latex3e and LNCS?  I've used Alta Vista and archie on
> DOC at IC but no joy.  Any gotchas and caveats would be much
> appreciated.  Many thanks in advance.
This should be LaTeX2e and Lynxs (or something like that, it is a
WYSIWYG-editor for LaTeX), I guess. Obtain a decent Linux
distribution like RedHat (loop at www.redhat.com) and just use it.
Otherwise obtain TeX for the platform of your choice and use ik (loop
e.g. at ftp.dante.de or www.ntg.nl or www.tug.org for more
information)

> To the TeX people,
>
> I have a quick question about TeX,
>
> "How do I turn hyphenation processing off?"
>
> I seem to see lots of things saying that TeX hyphenation is so good
> but I don't want hyphenation.
>
Use something like \hyphenchar\font=-1

Regards,

Maarten
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Maarten Gelderman                     geldermanm@acm.org
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam          tel +31 20 444 6073
De Boelelaan 1105 kr 3A36             fax +31 20 444 6005
NL-1081 HV AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:16:35 +0100 (BST)
From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3

>  the organisers would like our papers done
> in latex3e and LNCS.

there is no such thing as latex3e. They meant the current version of
latex, which is latex2e.

Springer have some `beta' latex2e support files for LNCS I forget the
exact URL, but if you start off at http://www.springer.de and follow
links for author submission, you'll find them.

David

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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:12:41 +0100 (BST)
From: David Carlisle <david@dcarlisle.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3

[I didn't know people still used texhax. You would get much quicker
response on comp.text.tex. texhax messgaes do (I believe) just sit in
a stack waiting for enough messages to be posted before it is worth
sending out a digest]

> The construction \noexpand~ should be category 13 regardless of the definitio
.
> of ~.

`be' may mean different things to different people. What is true is
that the construction will expand to a token of category 13, whose
expansion (in this expansion step) is suppressed.

But \ifcat does not only test for the category of character tokens, as
you clearly know. You wrote

\ifcat   \bgroup\noexpand\next

\bgroup is a command token and as such has no category. However it is
\let to a character token, and in the case of a command being so let
\ifcat tests the category of the implicit token. This also applies
to active characters. a ~ that is \let to a 0 is the same as \xxx that
is let to a 0 they will both be \ifcat (and \if) equal to 0.
so

  \ifcat\noexpand~\noexpand\next \message{13}\fi
  \ifcat         0\noexpand\next \message{12}\fi

are both testing the same thing, so both are true.
You can distinguish between them with \ifx if you want.

The last case is similar if you \let~\bgroup then
  \ifcat\noexpand~\noexpand\next \message{13}\fi
  \ifcat   \bgroup\noexpand\next \message{ 1}\fi
are the same thing, as in each case the first non expandable token
after the \ifcat is \let equal to a { and so \next is tested against
the category of the implicit { token.

David

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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 08:40:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: Re: TeX question

    "How do I turn hyphenation processing off?"

\hyphenpenalty = 10000
or
\pretolerance = 10000

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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 08:40:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: Re: tex to postscript conversion

     Do you have or know where I could get hold of a program
     to convert a tex file to postscript format?

dvips or dvipsk.  One or the other is part of just about every TeX
distribution.  You can get it by itself from
ftp://tug.org/tex/dvipsk.tar.gz.

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 09:15:16 +0200
From: schneide@igd.fhg.de (Schneider Uwe)
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3

Hi,

> In submission to a conference paper, the organisers would like our papers
done
> in latex3e and LNCS.  Does anyone know where I can get hold of this latex3e
> and LNCS?

Oops, I didn't knew that latex3e is available, yet.

> LNCS?

You should be able to download it from Springer (LNCS: Lecture Notes on
Computer Science), where I got it. The URL is 'http://www.springer.de'.

Hope this helps ...

Regards, Uwe

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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:14:54 +0100
From: Jonathan Fine <J.Fine@dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: \ifcat and \noexpand

In connection with a category code programming query Colin Mason writes:
>  The construction \noexpand~ should be category 13 regardless of the
>  definition of ~.
but this is not qyite correct.  Character tokens have a category, and
active characters have category 13.

This is not how \ifcat works.  It expands until it gets two unexpandables,
and then looks that the meanings of the unexpandables.
If both are, say,
>   alignment tab character ?
where ? need not be the same in both cases, the \ifcat is true.  All clear
so far?

Now let's look at \noexpand.  If a token is expandable (a macro, an \if
command, \the, and some others listed in Chapter 20 of the TeXbook) then
the \noexpand <token> promotes that instance of the <token> to \relax.
But if it is not expandable, then the \noexpand has no effect.

Exercise:
What happens when you type
a)    \expandafter \show \noexpand &
b)    \expandafter \show \noexpand \relax
c)    \expandafter \show \noexpand \ifcase
d)    \expandafter \show \noexpand \temp
e)    \expandafter \show \noexpand ~

Once you have mastered this, all should be clear.  (The answer to (d) and
(e) will depend on the current meaning of \temp and |~|, of course.)

Regards

Jonathan Fine

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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:24:59 +0200 (METDST)
From: Stefano Tonellato <stone@unive.it>
Subject: Bold Greek letters in plain Tex

Hi everybody. Can anybody tell me how bold Greek letters can be produced
with plain Tex?

Thanks

Stefano Tonellato

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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 04:36:07 -0400
From: Sebastian Rahtz <rahtz@scri.fsu.edu>
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V1998 #3

TeXhax Digest writes:
 (Iain Christie)
 > Do you have or know where I could get hold of a program
 > to convert a tex file to postscript format?
 >
 > I have downloaded a .tex file from the net but am unable to
 > print it in a useful form, currently it is impossible to read
 > any of the mathematical equations.
You need an entire TeX system to format it and convert the result to
PS. Start from http://www.tug.org/interest.html for pointers to free
implementations.

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 > From: sssgst3@reading.ac.uk
 > Subject: latex3e
 >
 > In submission to a conference paper, the organisers would like our papers done
 > in latex3e and LNCS. Does anyone know where I can get hold of this latex3e
 > and
Go to Springer Verlags Web pages. Its their style and they support
it. Its said to be pretty bad....

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 > 	I would like to know the location of pdftex. Any pointers to
 > installing it would be gratefully recieved
Look at CTAN:systems/web2c. this contains pdftex. as do
systems/win32/web2c, systems/win32/miktex and
systems/macintosh/cmactex

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 > I have a quick question about TeX,
 >
 > "How do I turn hyphenation processing off?"
 >
 > I seem to see lots of things saying that TeX hyphenation is so good but I
 > dont want hyphenation.

select an undefined language which has no hyphenation patterns loaded:

D:\>tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2c 7.2)
**\relax\showhyphens{category}

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 0
[] \tenrm cat-e-gory

*\language99
*\showhyphens{category}

[] \tenrm category

Sebastian Rahtz

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:50:08 +0100 (BST)
From: David Rhead <David.Rhead@nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: A few pages with different margin and text-width

I'm producing A4 catalogues with LaTeX2e.  The body of the catalogue has a
3-column design (courtesy of multicol), mostly using a 7-point font.

I want the front matter to be more friendly, with more white space.
So I want to do it in a single column, in a 10-point font.

For consistency between the front matter and the body ("the same grid")
- -- and to keep to readability conventions which limit the number of
characters per line -- I want the single column in the front matter to
align with the outer two columns in the body.

I tried approaching this by saying that, within the 10 pages or so of
front matter, I want:
*  \oddsidemargin to be temporarily bigger than it is in the rest of the
   catalogue
*  \textwidth (or \linewidth?) to be temporarily smaller than it is in the
   rest of the catalogue.
The LaTeX book (page 181) says that anomalies may occur if one tries to
change such things in the middle of a document.  So it isn't surprising
that this approach gave unwanted side-effects.  (My page footer got shifted
sideways.)

I got the visual effect I wanted by fiddling with \hspace and minipage, so
that each page in the front matter contained a minipage (whose width
equalled that of the outer two columns in the body), with the minipages on
odd-numbered pages pushed outwards with \hspace.  But this gives
maintenanace problems.  (If the text changes next year, I'll have to re-do
the manual fiddling.)

Can anyone suggest a satisfactory way of getting a few consecutive pages
with:
*  a larger inner margin than the rest of the publication
*  a correspondingly narrower text-width than the rest of the publication.

                                               David Rhead
                                               Academic Computing Services
                                               University of Nottingham

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