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Article 84 of ucam.mlist.texhax:
From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (TeXhax Digest)
Subject: TeXhax Digest V1998 #5
Date: 4 Sep 98 17:53:09 GMT

TeXhax Digest       Friday, September 4 1998       Volume 1998 : Number 005

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    change of ip address for nfs.tex.ac.uk
    query
    Real Numbers
    TUGboat 19(2) shipped to printer this date
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    IBM techexplorer Version 2.0 for  Windows 95/NT,  AIX, Solaris, and SGI
    modes.mf 3.4 available
    Re: .pk files?
    .pk files?
    Latest version of Latex
    metafont base
    background
    EuroTeX'99

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

Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 10:30:02 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: change of ip address for nfs.tex.ac.uk

we have decided to move nfs access to the uk ctan to a different
system, and therefore the ip address has changed.

this will not of course affect people who mount the archive using the
correct cname.  people who attempt to mount the archive using an old
numeric ip address, or a cname other than nfs.tex.ac.uk will
experience rejections.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

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

Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 16:18:58 PDT
From: "job malig" <jobmalig@hotmail.com>
Subject: query

hello!

Do you have any idea how to convert Latex documents into Miles 33
equations?. I'm using PcTex32 Ver. 3.4 and I use packages such as :
Amssymb.sty, Siamltex.sty, Epsfig.sty and Epsf.sty(for figures),
Latexsym.sty(for symbols), Graphics.sty(for rotating figures).

Thank you. I would really appreciate your help.

Job Malig

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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

Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 12:09:29 +0100 (BST)
From: Ana Oliveira <arsgdo@dolphin.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Real Numbers

I wonder if you can help me. I've been using \Re to represent the real
numbers, but I really don't like the symbol. I've been trying to get the
R with a double bar at the back but I can't seem to find it.

Does it exist? Is there any package that might have it? I'm using LaTeX2e
<1996/12/01> patch level 1.

Thanks!

Ana.

 ---------------------------------------------------------------
   Ana Guedes de Oliveira          e-mail: arsgdo@doc.ic.ac.uk
   Ph.D student                    phone:  +44 171 594 8341
   Imperial College                fax:    +44 171 581 8024
   Department of Computing
   180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ

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

Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:39:24 +0100
From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu>
Subject: TUGboat 19(2) shipped to printer this date

I am pleased to announce that TUGboat 19(2) was shipped to Cadmus
this date.  Enclosed are the contents

                              TUGboat
                  Volume 19, Number 2 / June 1998
                  ====================================
Addresses                                                                91

General Delivery
  Mimi Jett
        From the President                                               93
  Barbara Beeton
        Editorial comments                                               94
        Copyright protection for typefaces; More on PS fonts;
        CyrTUG membership now free of charge;
        IBM's  techexplorer; New Omega for Mac;
        EuroTeX 98 --- The Tenth European TeX Conference
  April Fool's Hoax                                                      95
  CTAN CDROM series, compliments of DANTE                                97

Typography
  Peter Flynn
        Typographers' inn                                                98

Graphics Applications
  Denis Girou
        pst-fill --- a PSTricks package for filling and tiling areas    101

Book Review
  Michael Doob
        ``TeX Unbound'', by Alan Hoenig                                 113

Fonts
  Anshuman Pandey
        An overview of Indic fonts for TeX                              115
  Thierry Bouche
        Diversity in math fonts                                         121

Hints & Tricks
  Jeremy Gibbons
	`Hey --- it works!'                                             135
           Smart spaced macros everywhere (Robert Tolksdorf);
           Dashed lines (Pedro J. Aphalo);
           Double-headed arrows (Jeremy Gibbons)

LaTeX
  LaTeX project team
	Default docstrip headers                                        137
  LaTeX project team
        LaTeX News, Issue 9, June 1998                                  139

TeX Northeast
  Conference Program                                                    140
  Stephanie Hogue
        Final report: TeX Northeast                                     142
  TeX Northeast: Workshops and additional papers                        144
  Michael P. Barnett
        mathscape --- Combining Mathematica and TeX                     147
  Robert S. Sutor and Samuel S. Dooley
        TeX and LaTeX on the Web via IBM techexplorer                   157
  Amy Hendrickson
        Real Life LaTeX: Adventures of a TeX consultant                 162
  Alan J. Hoenig
        Typesetting with TeX and LaTeX                                  168
  Alan J. Hoenig
        Alternatives to Computer Modern Mathematics                     176
  Jeffrey McArthur
        Developing database publishing systems using TeX                188
  Ross Moore
        Presenting mathematics and languages in Web-pages,
           using LaTeX2HTML                                             195
  Oren Patashnik
        BibTeX 101                                                      204
  Peter Signell
        One-document scientific publishing for print and Web/CD         208
  Michael D. Sofka
        TeX to HTML translation via tagged DVI files                    214

Abstracts
  Les Cahiers GUTenberg, Contents of issue 28--29                       223

News & Announcements
  Calendar                                                              227
  TUG 98 -- Torun, Poland, 17-21 August 1998, Preliminary Program        92
  Wilfred Hennings
        Volunteers needed for LaTeX2rtf coordination
           and development                                              231
  TUG'99 Announcement                                                   229

Late-Breaking News
  Mimi Burbank
        Production notes                                                228
        Future issues                                                   228

TUG Business
  Institutional members                                                 230

Advertisements
  TeX consulting and production services                                231
  Y&Y Inc.                                                              232
  Blue Sky Researc                                                       c3

                  ====================================

To be included in this issue are 3 CTAN CDs.  Enjoy!

Mimi Burbank
(For the TUGboat production team)

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

Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 13:52:39 +0800
From: "Asia Prepress Technology, Clark Branch" <aptc@mozcom.com>
Subject: Mime-Version: 1.0

hello!

Do you have any idea how to convert Latex documents into Miles 33
equations?. I'm using PcTex32 Ver. 3.4 and I use packages such as :
Amssymb.sty, Siamltex.sty, Epsfig.sty and Epsf.sty(for figures),
Latexsym.sty(for symbols), Graphics.sty(for rotating figures). If you have
any idea please e-mail me at jobmalig@hotmail.com or aptc@mozcom.com.

Thank you. I would really appreciate your help.

Job Malig

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

Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:14:14 -0400
From: sutor@us.ibm.com
Subject: IBM techexplorer Version 2.0 for  Windows 95/NT,  AIX, Solaris, and SGI

The Interactive Scientific Publishing group at
IBM Research is pleased to announce that the
Introductory Edition of the IBM techexplorer
Hypermedia Browser, Version 2.0 for Windows 95,
Windows NT, IBM AIX 4, Sun Solaris 2.5 and 2.6,
and SGI IRIX 6.2 is now available at no charge from

http://www.software.ibm.com/techexplorer/.

IBM's techexplorer Hypermedia Browser dynamically
formats and displays expressions and documents
containing mathematical, technical, and scientific
markup.

techexplorer is a plug-in for Netscape and
Microsoft Internet Explorer that processes a
large subset of TeX and LaTeX. This version
also contains basic support for some of the
presentation tags defined in the W3C Mathematical
Marup Language specification.

Version 2.0 of the Professional edition of techexplorer
is also available for purchase from several electronic
distribution channels. Visit

http://www.software.ibm.com/techexplorer/shop/

for more information. The Professional edition builds on
the Introductory  edition by adding:

   * A scripting interface for developers who wish to
     programmatically control techexplorer from Java or
     JavaScript.

   * An add-in interface for authors who want to
     interactively send information to other applications.

   * Printing of full documents displayed by techexplorer.

   * Searching, with all matches selected.

Explore

http://www.software.ibm.com/enetwork/techexplorer/support/

to obtain support and join other users and developers in
discussions about techexplorer.

- ---

Robert S. Sutor
Manager, Interactive Scientific Publishing
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Angel L. Diaz
Research Staff Member, Interactive Scientific Publishing
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

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

Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:40:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Karl Berry <karl@cs.umb.edu>
Subject: modes.mf 3.4 available

I have released version 3.4 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from

	ftp://tug.org/tex/modes.mf

and shortly from any CTAN site in /tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes-3.4.mf.
finger ctan@ctan.org for a list of all the CTAN sites and mirrors.

News:

New modes for the Phaser 560, Lexmark Optra S 1250/1650/2450,
LaserJet 4000 FastRes, and one pixel/pt output.

Various formatting glitches fixed.

As always, thanks to the many contributors, and further additions and
improvements are welcome.  Please send bug reports or suggestions to
tex-fonts@math.utah.edu (email tex-fonts-request to join).

General information:

modes.mf is a collection of Metafont mode_def's.  It also makes common
definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and
landscape mode.  It uses up too much memory for the table sizes in the
original mf.web, so you either have to increase the sizes (as in Web2c)
or rename the file and remove unneeded modes.  I don't understand mf.web
well enough to understand how to make the modes use less memory; if some
Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd like to hear it.

If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the
existing ones, please send them to me.  Improvements to the exposition,
particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome.

kb@tug.org

mode_def agfafzz =                  % AGFA 400PS (406dpi)
mode_def agfatfzz =                 % AGFA P3400PS (400dpi)
mode_def amiga =                    % Commodore Amiga (100dpi)
mode_def aps =                      % Autologic APS-Micro5 (723dpi)
mode_def apssixhi =                 % Autologic APS-Micro6 (1016dpi)
mode_def atariezf =                 % Atari ST SLM 804 printer (300dpi)
mode_def atarinf =                  % Atari previewer (95dpi)
mode_def atarins =                  % Atari previewer (96dpi)
mode_def atariotf =                 % Atari ST SM 124 screen (101dpi)
mode_def bitgraph =                 % BBN Bitgraph (118dpi)
mode_def bjtenex =                  % Canon BubbleJet 10ex (360dpi)
mode_def bjtzzex =                  % Canon BubbleJet 200ex (360 dpi)
mode_def bjtzzs =                   % Canon BubbleJet 200 (720x360dpi)
mode_def bjtzzl =                   % BubbleJet 200 landscape (360x720 dpi)
mode_def boise =                    % HP 2680A (180dpi)
mode_def canonbjc =                 % Canon BJC-600 (360dpi)
mode_def canonex =                  % LaserWriter Pro 630 (600dpi)
mode_def canonlbp =                 % Symbolics LGP-10 (240dpi)
mode_def cg =                       % Compugraphic 8600 (1301x1569dpi)
mode_def cgl =                      % Compugraphic 8600 landscape
(1569x1302dpi)
mode_def cgnszz =                   % Compugraphic 9600 (1200dpi)
mode_def crs =                      % Alphatype CRS (5333dpi)
mode_def cx =                       % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX (300dpi)
mode_def datadisc =                 % DataDisc (70dpi)
mode_def newdd =                    % DataDisc (70x93dpi)
mode_def declarge =                 % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024 (100dpi)
mode_def decsmall =                 % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768 (82dpi)
mode_def deskjet =                  % HP DeskJet 500 (300dpi)
mode_def docutech =                 % Xerox 8790 or 4045 (600dpi)
mode_def dover =                    % Xerox Dover (384dpi)
mode_def eighthre =                 % EightThree (83dpi)
mode_def epscszz =                  % Epson Stylus Color 600 (720 dpi)
mode_def epsdrft =                  % Epson (120x72dpi)
mode_def epsdrftl =                 % Epson (72x120dpi)
mode_def epsfast =                  % Epson (60x72dpi)
mode_def epsfastl =                 % Epson (72x60dpi)
mode_def epson =                    % 9-pin Epson MX/FX (240x216dpi)
mode_def epsonl =                   % 9-pin Epson MX/FX landscape (216x240dpi)
mode_def epsonact =                 % Epson Action Laser 1500 (300dpi)
mode_def epsonlo =                  % Epson (120x216dpi)
mode_def epsonlol =                 % Epson landscape (216x120dpi)
mode_def epsonsq =                  % Epson SQ 870 (360dpi)
mode_def epstypro =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (360dpi)
mode_def epstyplo =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (180dpi)
mode_def epstypmd =                 % Epson Stylus Pro (720x360dpi)
mode_def esphi =                    % Epson Stylus Pro (720dpi)
mode_def epstylus =                 % Epson Stylus (360dpi)
mode_def fourfour =                 % FourFour (44dpi)
mode_def gtfax =                    % G3fax (204x196dpi)
mode_def gtfaxl =                   % G3fax landscape (196x204dpi)
mode_def gtfaxlo =                  % G3fax (204x98dpi)
mode_def gtfaxlol =                 % G3fax landscape (98x204dpi)
mode_def highfax =                  % G3fax (200dpi)
mode_def hprugged =                 % HP RuggedWriter 480 (180dpi)
mode_def ibm_a =                    % IBM 38xx (240dpi)
mode_def ibmd =                     % IBM 38xx (240dpi)
mode_def ibmega =                   % IBM EGA monitor (96x81dpi)
mode_def ibmegal =                  % IBM EGA monitor landscape (81x96dpi)
mode_def ibmfzon =                  % IBM 4019 (300dpi)
mode_def ibmfztn =                  % IBM 4029-30-39, 4250 (600dpi)
mode_def ibmpp =                    % IBM ProPrinter (240x216dpi)
mode_def ibmppl =                   % IBM ProPrinter (216x240dpi)
mode_def ibmsoff =                  % IBM 6154 display (118dpi)
mode_def sherpa =                   % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) (240dpi)
mode_def ibmteot =                  % IBM 3812 (240dpi)
mode_def ibmtetz =                  % IBM 3820 (240dpi)
mode_def ibmtont =                  % IBM 3193 screen (100dpi)
mode_def ibmtosn =                  % IBM 3179 screen (87x65dpi)
mode_def ibmtosnl =                 % IBM 3179 screen landscape (65x87dpi)
mode_def ibmvga =                   % IBM VGA monitor (110dpi)
mode_def ibx =                      % Chelgraph IBX (9600dpi)
mode_def itoh =                     % CItoh 8510A (160x144dpi)
mode_def itohl =                    % CItoh 8510A landscape (144x160dpi)
mode_def itohtoz =                  % CItoh 310 (240x144dpi)
mode_def itohtozl =                 % CItoh 310 landscape (144x240dpi)
mode_def iw =                       % Apple ImageWriter (144dpi)
mode_def jetiiisi =                 % HP Laser Jet IIISi (300dpi)
mode_def lasf =                     % DEC LA75 (144dpi)
mode_def lexmarkr =                 % Lexmark Optra R 4049 (1200dpi)
mode_def lexmarks =                 % Lexmark Optra S 1250/1650/2450 (1200dpi)
mode_def lexmarku =                 % Lexmark Optra R+ 4049 (600dpi)
mode_def linolo =                   % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 (635dpi)
mode_def linolttz =                 % Linotronic L-300 with RIP-50 (3386dpi)
mode_def linoone =                  % Linotronic [13]00 (1270dpi)
mode_def linotzzh =                 % Linotype Linotronic 300 (2540dpi)
mode_def ljfive =                   % HP LaserJet 5 (600dpi)
mode_def ljfivemp =                 % HP LaserJet 5MP (600 dpi)
mode_def ljfour =                   % HP LaserJet 4 (600dpi)
mode_def ljfzzz =                   % LaserJet 4000N, ProRes mode (1200dpi)
mode_def ljfzzzfr =                 % HP LaserJet 4000 FastRes (600dpi)
mode_def ljlo =                     % HP LaserJet (150dpi)
mode_def lmaster =                  % LaserMaster (1000dpi)
mode_def lnotr =                    % DEC LN03R Scriptprinter (300dpi)
mode_def lnzo =                     % DEC LN01 (300dpi)
mode_def lpstz =                    % DEC lps20 (300dpi)
mode_def lqlores =                  % Epson LQ-500 (180dpi)
mode_def lqmed =                    % Epson LQ-500 (360x180dpi)
mode_def lqmedl =                   % Epson LQ-500 landscape (180x360dpi)
mode_def lview =                    % Sigma L-View monitor (118x109dpi)
mode_def lwpro =                    % Apple LaserWriterPro 810 (800dpi)
mode_def macmag =                   % Mac screens at magstep 1 (86dpi)
mode_def mactrue =                  % Mac screen (72dpi)
mode_def ncd =                      % NCD 19-inch (95dpi)
mode_def nec =                      % NEC (180dpi)
mode_def nechi =                    % NEC-P6 (360dpi)
mode_def neclm =                    % NEC PC-PR406LM (320dpi)
mode_def nectzo =                   % NEC PC-PR201 series (160dpi)
mode_def nexthi =                   % NeXT Newgen (400dpi)
mode_def nextscrn =                 % NeXT monitor (100dpi)
mode_def nineone =                  % NineOne (91x91) (91dpi)
mode_def nullmode =                 % TFM files only (101dpi)
mode_def onetz =                    % OneTwoZero (120/120) (120dpi)
mode_def ocessfz =                  % OCE 6750-PS (508dpi)
mode_def okidata =                  % Okidata (240x288dpi)
mode_def okidatal =                 % Okidata landscape (288x240dpi)
mode_def okifte =                   % Okidata 410e in 600DPI mode (600dpi)
mode_def pcscreen =                 % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns
(118dpi)
mode_def pcprevw =                  % PC screen preview (118dpi)
mode_def phaser =                   % Tektronix Phaser PXi (300dpi)
mode_def phaserfs =                 % Tektronix Phaser 560 (1200dpi)
mode_def phasertf =                 % Tektronix Phaser 350 (600x300dpi)
mode_def pixpt =                    % one pixel per point (72.27dpi)
mode_def prntware =                 % Printware 720IQ (1200dpi)
mode_def qms =                      % QMS (Xerox engine) (300dpi)
mode_def qmsostf =                  % QMS 1725 (600dpi)
mode_def qmsoszz =                  % QMS 1700 (600dpi)
mode_def qmstftf =                  % QMS 2425 (1200dpi)
mode_def ricoh =                    % e.g., TI Omnilaser (300dpi)
mode_def ricoha =                   % e.g., IBM 4216 (300dpi)
mode_def ricohlp =                  % e.g., DEC LN03 (300dpi)
mode_def ricohsp =                  % Ricoh sp10ps/lp7200-ux (600dpi)
mode_def sparcptr =                 % Sun SPARCprinter (400dpi)
mode_def starnlt =                  % Star NL-10 (240x216dpi)
mode_def starnltl =                 % Star NL-10 landscape (216x240dpi)
mode_def stylewri =                 % Apple StyleWriter (360dpi)
mode_def sun =                      % Sun and BBN Bitgraph (85dpi)
mode_def supre =                    % Ultre*setter (2400dpi)
mode_def toshiba =                  % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ (180dpi)
mode_def ultre =                    % Ultre*setter (1200dpi)
mode_def vs =                       % VAXstation monitor (78dpi)
mode_def vtftzz =                   % Varityper 4200 B-P (1800dpi)
mode_def vtftzzhi =                 % Varityper 4300P (2400dpi)
mode_def vtftzzlo =                 % Varityper 4300P (1200dpi)
mode_def vtfzszw =                  % Varitype 5060W, APS 6 (600dpi)
mode_def vtszz =                    % Varityper Laser 600 (600dpi)
mode_def xrxesnz =                  % Xerox 8790 or 4045 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxfzfz =                  % Xerox 4050/4075/4090/4700 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxnszz =                  % Xerox 9700 (300dpi)
mode_def xrxtszz =                  % Xerox 3700 (300dpi)

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:53:42 +0100
From: Rebecca and Rowland <rebecca@astrid.u-net.com>
Subject: Re: .pk files?

At 5:43 pm +0200 11/8/98, Rosa Maria Gomez Flores wrote:
>Hello everybody!
.
>	I'm a little bit loss all those fonts file formats to use TeX.
>
>	Can anyone say me how to see and print (I'm using YAP under Windows
>NT) a
>(plain) TeX document when:
>
>	1) I only have the .mtf and .vf files. I thouth that DVI drivers needed
>.pk files, but it seems it is enought, because in all CTAN directorys I
>didn't find them, nor the .mf file.

It's a bit difficult to know what to say: there are lots of mf files at
CTAN.  DVI drivers need *something* to print with: pk files are one sort of
file that's useful.  Some dvi drivers can also use Postscript Type 1 and
TrueType founts directly.

Do you mean `tfm' when you say `mtf'?

>	2) I have the .amf file, but not the .ps to get .pk

Do you mean `afm' when you say `amf'?

>	Sometimes I have got to compile something with TeX --I can't say
>exactly
>how :-((   --, but I never can see or print the .dvi file.
[snip]

It sounds like you're trying to use non-Metafont founts with TeX (normally
PS Type 1 founts).  There are lots of files at CTAN to allow you to use PS
Type 1 founts with TeX, but in most cases the founts concerned are
commercial products which you have to buy from a firm that sells founts.

You might find it useful to ask this question on comp.text.tex.

Rowland.

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:43:00 +0200
From: Rosa Maria Gomez Flores <rosa.gomez@star-ag.ch>
Subject: .pk files?

Hello everybody!

	I'm a little bit loss all those fonts file formats to use TeX.

	Can anyone say me how to see and print (I'm using YAP under Windows NT) a
(plain) TeX document when:

	1) I only have the .mtf and .vf files. I thouth that DVI drivers needed
.pk files, but it seems it is enought, because in all CTAN directorys I
didn't find them, nor the .mf file.

	2) I have the .amf file, but not the .ps to get .pk

	Sometimes I have got to compile something with TeX --I can't say exactly
how :-((   --, but I never can see or print the .dvi file.

	Thanks in advance:

		Rosa

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

Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 21:03:02 +0200
From: "Bernardo Rodrigues" <RodriguesB@science.unp.ac.za>
Subject: Latest version of Latex

I have been using Texmex, since sometime back. What is the new version
of Latex and where can I get it.

 With thanks

Bernardo

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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 23:43:37 +0200
From: Rosa Maria Gomez Flores <rosa.gomez@star-ag.ch>
Subject: metafont base

Hello people!

	I'm trying MetaFont, I work on Windows NT, I have WinZip and the file
mf.zip from GTEX in the CTAN. When I expand the zip file, I get some files
and directories (the mf.exe says: "This is METAFONT, Version 2.718 (gTeX
distribution 2.2)", and prompt: **). In the mfbase directory, there are to
MSDOS-macros, cm.bat and plain.bat, to create the base files. But when I
try them, give me the error:
		! I can't read mf.pool.

	And that it because I have only a "mf.poo" file, but when I rename or copy
it into mf.pool, they still give me the same error. It is the same if I
copy it in the directory of the file mf.exe.

	Does anyone of you know how to get the base files, or the .pool file or
another MetaFont version that run under MS-DOS or Windows NT?  Please,
please, tell me any idea that could help me to begin!

	Thanks a lot of and happy weekend!

		Rosa

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

Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:49:29 +0200
From: Rosa Maria Gomez Flores <rosa.gomez@star-ag.ch>
Subject: background

Hi!

	I'd like to write in plain TeX a box with the background black and the
text white, and another with the background gray and the text black.

	Has anybody do something similar? Any suggestion? Thanks you very much!

	Rosa

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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:23:13 +0200 (METDST)
From: "EuroTeX'99" <eurotex99@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: EuroTeX'99

erg.de>
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You are cordially invited to:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

               EUROTeX'99, the XIth European TeX Conference
                     September 20 - September 23, 1999
                            +++++++++++

EuroTeX'99 will take place in Heidelberg, Germany from September 20th to
September 23th, 1999. It is organized by the

  University of Heidelberg

represented by the departments

  Institute of Psychology and
  Computing Center

Organized by

  Prof. Dr. Joachim Funke,
  Prof. Dr. Joachim Werner,
  Dr. Peter Sandner and
  Joachim Lammarsch

The conference will start on the morning of Monday September 20th and will
last until the Thursday afternoon September 23, 1999. The Sunday prior to
the conference and the following Friday will be reserved for tutorials.

The main conference will take place on Monday and Tuesday.  Talks,
presentations and discussions about document publishing are planned.
The late afternoons will be reserved for BOF-Sessions.

Social events and dinner are planned on Tuesday und Wednesday evening.
EuroTeX'99 offers guided tours of the historic town center and of the
castle of Heidelberg, as well as a boat trip along the Neckar river.

All who will spend the weekend after the conference in Heidelberg will be
able to enjoy a large, traditional, city-wide festival called
'Heidelberger Herbst' with a lot of fun in the streets of the historic
down town.

The call for paper will be sent out sometime in the following weeks after
the program for the conference is complete. Again we thank the European
TeX Organisations for their confidence to delegate EuroTeX to the
University of Heidelberg.

Kind regards
Joachim Lammarsch
(on behalf of the organizers)

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