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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:17:52 +0000
From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #12 - 7 msgs
TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 1999 : Number 12
Today's Topics:
1. two-line header & footer (George A. Stewart)
2. Printing Labels/Envelopes via LaTex (Miles, Mark (Toronto - 22 Front))
3. TUGboat 20(3) was shipped to the printer last week (Mimi Burbank)
4. Full page figure in a two column article (Yan Wong)
5. Help Windvi (tu@math.uu.nl)
6. Text, pictures, floating and stuff like that (Max Schäfer)
7. gif/bmp/jpeg files for LaTeX (Paul Langdon)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:32:47 -0500
To: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr
From: "George A. Stewart" <georges@tiac.net>
Subject: two-line header & footer
% Here is a demonstration
\def\makeheadline{%
\vbox to 0pt {\vskip -25.2888truept %
\line {\vbox to11.2888truept {}\the \headline }
\vss }\nointerlineskip}
\headline={%
\tenrm\hbox{%
\vbox{%
\centerline{Running headline}
\vskip 2truept
\hrule}}}
\def\makefootline{%
\baselineskip=24truept
\line{\the \footline}}
\footline={%
\tenrm\hbox{%
\vbox{%
\hrule
\vskip 2pt
\centerline{\folio}}}}
Sample text follows: This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages
255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages
255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages
255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages
255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages
255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages
255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages
255-257 (1986 edition).
\vfill\eject\end
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Message: 2
From: "Miles, Mark (Toronto - 22 Front)" <mark_miles@ca.ml.com>
To: "'texhax@tex.ac.uk'" <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: Printing Labels/Envelopes via LaTex
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:59:29 -0500
<mark_miles@ca.ml.com>
charset="iso-8859-1"
I wonder if you help with a problem I'm having with a 3rd part
vendor's software that uses LaTex to print labels and Envelopes. The
software we use access a database to pull a list of names and address to
print labels, when we print the resulting output produced for 11,000 labels
reaches 317mb BUT if we performed the same task from Word and a Visual Basic
app the resulting spool file is only 13mb for the same number of files. The
vendors has said its how LaTex works and there is nothing that can be done
but I can not accept that as an answer. If this is true then we will have
to skip using LaTex and write our own code.
Could this be a bug that was fixed?
The vendor has not told us what version there using but I found this
string in one of the log files.
(format=latex 96.9.25) 25 SEP 1996 09:53
**port0.tex
(port0.tex
LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3
if you can reply to the return address and to milesfam@idirect.com
Thank You
Mark Miles
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Message: 3
From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu>
Subject: TUGboat 20(3) was shipped to the printer last week
To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mailer.scri.fsu.edu, office@tug.org,
texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl, tug-pub@tug.org
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:31:15 -0500 (EST)
Hello everyone - Merry Christmas and Happy New year!
I didn't get this together last week, but the files were shipped
to Cadmus on Thursday the 22nd of December...
Mimi Burbank
(for the TUGboat production team)
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --
TUGboat
Volume 20, Number 3 / September 1999
================================
Editorial Overview
Christina~Thiele
Vancouver in August 155
TUG'99 Program 160
TeX and Math on the Web
Stephen A. Fulling
Keynote: TeX and the Web in the higher education
of the future: Dreams and difficulties 162
Patrick D.F. Ion
MathML: A key to math on the Web 167
Douglas Lovell
TeXML: Typesetting XML with TeX 176
Paul Topping
Using MathType to create TeX and MathML equations 184
Chris Rowley
Models and languages for formatted documents 189
D.P. Story
TeX: Acrobat and TeX team up 196
Customizing Document Layout
Jean-luc Doumont
Doing it my way: A lone TeXer in the real world 202
Peter Flynn
The vulcan package: A repair patch for LaTeX 208
David Carlisle, Frank Mittelbach, and Chris Rowley
New interfaces for LaTeX class design, Parts I and II 214
TeX in Publishing
Kaveh Bazargan
Multi-use documents: The role of the publisher 217
Frederick H. Bartlett
Very like a nail: Typesetting SGML with TeX 221
Harry Payne
Making a book from contributed papers:
Print and Web versions 222
Robert L. Kruse
Managing large projects with PreTeX:
A preprocessor for TeX 227
Arthur Ogawa
Database publishing with Java and TeX 231
Paul A. Mailhot
Implementing dynamic cross-referencing and PDF
with PreTeX 232
Hu Wang
A Web-based submission system for meeting abstracts 237
Petr Sojka
Hyphenation on demand 241
Jonathan Fine
Active TeX and the DOT input syntax 248
Fonts, Graphics, and New Developments
Jean-luc Doumont
Drawing effective (and beautiful) graphs with TeX 255
Wendy McKay and Ross Moore
Convenient labelling of graphics, the WARMreader way 262
Sergey Lesenko and Laurent Siebenmann
Viewing DVI files with Acrobat Reader---DVIPDF
gives birth to AcroDVI 272
Alan Hoenig
MathKit: Alternatives to Computer Modern Mathematics 282
Fabrice Popineau
fpTeX: A teTeX-based distribution for Windows 290
Jeffrey McArthur
Managing TeX software development projects 299
Timothy Murphy
Java and TeX 309
Poster Exhibition
Christina Thiele
Text of `The Apocalypse' as graphics
by Prof. Alban Grimm 316
Prof. Alban Grimm
Text of `The Apocalypse'as graphics 318
Workshops
Eitan Gurari and Sebastian Rahtz
LaTeX to XML/MathML 320
D.P. Story
How to create quality interactive PDF documents
for the WWW using LaTeX 321
Michael Doob
Writing class files: First steps 322
Anita Hoover
Converting a LaTeX 2.09 style to a LaTeXe class 323
Panels
Stephen A. Fulling, Moderator
TeX and math on the Web 324
Kaveh Bazargan, Moderator
TeX in publishing 325
Arthur Ogawa, Moderator
The Future of LaTeX 326
News & Announcements
Calendar 329
TUG2000--- The 21st Annual Conference 154
GUTenberg 2000---LaTeX and XML: Cooperating with the Internet 331
Cartoon
Roy Preston
An Analogy with Web Sites 330
TUG Business
TUG'99 Attendees 327
Institutional members 332
TUG membership application 333
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services 334
Cambridge University Press 335
Y&Y Inc. 336
Blue Sky Research c3
================================
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:38:51 -0700 (MST)
From: Yan Wong <ywong@enme.ucalgary.ca>
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Full page figure in a two column article
Hello,
I'm wondering if anybody can help me with a problem I'm having. I
cannot find the solution to this problem anywhere on the web.
I'm trying to write a two-column article using LaTeX2e and I'm having
trouble outputting two things within the article: a title that spans both
columns, and a full page figure (that also, obviously, spans both
columns).
For the figure, I tried inserting the /onecolumn command just before my
figure but the previous page breaks at an awkward spot. I know the
/afterpage package doesn't work in the two-column mode. Is there anything
else I can do?
As for the title that spans two columns, I am clueless. Thanks in advance
for any help that is offered or for any nudge in the right direction.
Yan
----------
Message: 5
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:49:02 +0100 (MET)
From: <tu@math.uu.nl>
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Help Windvi
Dear Sir,
I have installed Texlive from CD-Rom (the newest version)into my PC, under Windows 98 including WinEditor program. Everything was going well, except that I could not view dvi file inside Texshell (I could run Tex succesfully) as well as inside Winedt.
1) After running Tex, I click into Preview icon, windvi opened and closed immediately, although Windvi can run well independently (means outside Texshell or Winedt). Looked at Programs Call, everything fixed well.
2) Inside Winedt, after runing tex successfully, I clicked into the "Dvi Preview" line in the Accessories menu, nothing happended.
Then I clicked "Dvi Search", it said that the program "yap.exe" could not be found. I went into the files Winedt.ini in the Winedt directory and changed the lines contating those programs. Namely, I changed "yap.exe "into "windvi.exe" and "YAP" into "WINDVI".
Then, running Winedt again, but Dvi Preview still did not work. This time, when I clicked into "Dvi Search", the error line did not appear, but Windvi opened and closed immediately ( it looked as the same problem as Texshell). I do not know how to solve this.
Could you please be so kind to help me to correct this problem?
If anything is still not clear, please let me explain more.
Thank you very much in advance.
Yours respectively,
N. Tu
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:37:49 +0100
From: "Max Schäfer" <maxschaefer@maxschaefer.de>
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Text, pictures, floating and stuff like that
Hi folks!
I'm using pdfTeX with MiKTeX under Win32, but I think my problem ain't
pdf-specific. One smallish remark ahead: Maybe this problem isn't such a
problem at all, just a typical, foolish newbie-question, maybe it has
been around on this mailing list a couple of times already, but perhaps
even you TeX-gurus remember the time when you were new to TeX, so, could
you please reply nevertheless? ThanX ;-)
OK, here we go: I'm trying to format text in three columns (in
landscape, but that's the smallest problem) and to put in a picture at a
fixed position. Now I want my text to float around that picture, which
means that the first column has to be slimmed down in its middle, the
middle column has to be interrupted and the right column has to be
indented. Perhaps this explanation isn't too clear, so I'll try to
include a rough ASCII-draft ('T' representing text, 'P' representing
picture) of how it should look like:
TTT TTT TTT
TTPPPPPPPTT
TTPPPPPPPTT
TTT TTT TTT
First, I considered using \parshape, but besides that I couldn't
persuade it to leave some lines blank (in the middle column), the
alignment of the right- resp. left-indented columns was awful, some
words even sticked out into the picture. So I dropped that idea (and
also dropped multicol, which I was using, too) and began fiddling around
with the \output-routine. My idea was to make TeX believe it was writing
to a set of relatively small pages and thus letting it perform
pagebreaks according to this imagination, then save those small pages to
boxes and finally putting them together to a real page. The individual
sub-pages would have been:
+---+---+---+
|TTT|TTT|TTT|
+---+---+---+
+--+ +--+
|TT| |TT|
|TT| |TT|
+--+ +--+
+---+---+---+
|TTT|TTT|TTT|
+---+---+---+
Now you all surely have begun to feel pity with me (I hope :-) because
you already know what pitfall I dropped into. Well, I _knew_ that I
couldn't just change the pagesize inside the output routine and hope it
would fit. I had read in the TeXbook that, to make these changes take
effect, I had to unpack \box255 and put it back onto the vertical list.
I also found a macro there, which claimed to do the box-unpacking, but I
failed to make it work :-(
Now, do you think I'm heading in a completely wrong direction? Is there
any simpler solution? Please tell me if you know one! But if there
isn't, would anybody be so kind to give me at least a sketch of an
\output-macro, that, after setting the pagesize, does unpacking and
pushing back? That would be really great!
-- Max
PS: You know, it is kind of urgent and if I can't find a solution soon,
I'll perhaps have to use some WYSIWYG-tool ... urghhh =:-()
----------
Message: 7
From: "Paul Langdon" <ptl89@hotmail.com>
To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: gif/bmp/jpeg files for LaTeX
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:12:46 GMT
Hi LaTeX gurus,
Can a GIF/BMP or JPEG file be incorporated into a LaTeX
document much like an EPS or eepic file generated via xfig
could be inserted in
\begin{figure}
\psfig{figure=file.eps,width=...,height=...}
It's easy to do this under Word, Adobe, etc but I wonder if
there is an equivalent for using file.gif, file.bmp, file.jpg
in LaTeX ...
Thanks
Paul
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