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Article 101 of ucam.mlist.texhax:
From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk
Subject: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #14 - 6 msgs
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:57:03 +0100

TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 1999 : Number 14

Today's Topics:

  1. Y2K problem? (Igor Katkov)
  2. Re: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #13 - 9 msgs (Dr Engelbert Buxbaum)
  3. ifthenelse (andrej t. hocevar)
  4. TUGboat 20(4) shipped to Cadmus (Mimi Burbank)
  5. vertical placement oddity (Jeffrey J. Gray)
  6. Re: TUGboat 20(4) shipped to Cadmus (Mimi Burbank)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:01:32 +0400 (MSD)
From: Igor Katkov <katkov@monet.npi.msu.su>
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Y2K problem?

Hello!

It looks like a Y2K problem ;)

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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:43:50 +0100
From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #13 - 9 msgs

TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 1999 :
Number 13

Today's Topics:

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I'm sorry if I'm wrong and it's just a misunderstanding.

Best regards,
Igor

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 08:44:53 +0300
From: Dr Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert@hsc.kuniv.edu.kw>
Organization: Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuwait
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #13 - 9 msgs

> Subject: Plain text from LaTeX
> We have a demand to word-count LaTeX documents.
> Does anyone have or know of either a program to count the word in a latex
> document or (even better) a program to extract a plain text representation
> from a dvi file?

What I do in such a situation is to use the wordcount function of my textprocessor,
and then count all \ separately, as they start TeX commands. Subtracting the latter from the former gives a rough guestimate of the No of words in the text. For most intents and purposes this should be good enough.

> Subject: Roman type Greek letters
> Could anyone tell whether it's possible
> to make Greek letters look like Roman type

The normal Greek characters in TeX are in italic, as they are intended mainly for
maths. If you want to typeset Greek text you need a special font. This is available
in the font directory at CTAN.

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Message: 3
From: "andrej t. hocevar" <ah@siol.net>
To: <texhax@tex.ac.uk>
Subject: ifthenelse
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:43:52 +0200
charset="iso-8859-1"

could anyone tell me how to say that something is true for capital letters
only?
thank you,

andrej t. hocevar

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:53:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu>
Subject: TUGboat 20(4) shipped to Cadmus
To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@scri.fsu.edu, office@tug.org,
texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl

I am glad to announce that TUGboat 20(4) was shipped to the
printer yesterday afternoon.  We hope that shipment will begin
sometime after the 15th of July, but as yet have no firm
schedule.
	We apologize for the long delay in getting this issue to you!
.
Mimi Burbank
Production Manager

                   ====================================
                                TUGboat
                    Volume 20, Number 4 /  December 1999
                    ====================================

Addresses                                                       339

General Delivery
   Mimi Jett
        From the President                                      341
   Barbara Beeton
        Editorial comments                                      342
           On being a fossil
           Erratum: Mimi Jett's term of office
           Gutenberg: the man of the millennium
           Sebastian Rahtz leaves the TUGboat production team
           International news: Greek, Russian and Vietnamese groups
           Clarification of the CTAN ``nonfree'' classification
           The origin of the @ sign
           Communication by flags

Typography
   Peter Flynn
        Typographers Inn                                        344

Font Forum
   Vladimir Koutny
        TrueType Fonts in TeX                                   347
   Vit Zyka
        The Semaphore Alphabet                                  348

Software & Tools
   Brian E. Travis
        The Paper Path: XML to paper using TeXML                350
   Igor I. Strokov
        a WYSIWYG TeX impleemntation                            356

Book Reviews
   Bill Casselman
        ``The LaTeX Graphics Companion'' and ``TeX Unbound'' --
        A review of two books                                   359
            ``The LaTeX Graphics Companion, by Michel Goosens,
             Sebastian Rahtz, and Frank Mittelbach;
            ``TeX Unbound'', by Alan Hoenig
   Peter Flynn
        ``Digital Typography'', by Donald Knuth                 364

Errata
   Jonathan Fine
        Erratum: The good name of TeX, TUGboat 20(2), pg 93     366
   Christina Thiele
        TUG'99, TUGboat 20(3)                                   366

Resources
   Jim Hefferon
        A CTAN search page                                      367

Hints & Tricks
   Jeremy Gibbons
        Hey --- it works!                                       367
   Christina Thiele
        The Treasure Chest                                      370

LaTeX
   LaTeX Project Team
        The LaTeX News, Issue 12, December 1999                 375
   Bruce Shawyer
        Scaled Pictures in LaTeX                                376

Tutorial
   Philip Taylor
        Book design for TeX users: Part 2: Practice             378

Report
   Ross Moore
        Preparation of documents for multiple
          modes of delivery --- Notes from TUG'99               389

Abstracts
   Les Cahiers GUTenberg, Contents of double issue 33/34
            (November~1999)                                     394
   EuroTeX'99 Proceedings --- Paperless TeX                     395

News & Announcements
   Calendar                                                     399
   TUG2000 Announcement                                         401

Cartoon
   Roy Preston
        Download free fonts!                                    340

Late-Breaking News
   Mimi Burbank
        Production notes                                        400
        Future issues                                           400

TUG Business
   Institutional members                                        402
   Statement of ownership                                       430

Advertisements
   TeX consulting and production services                       403
   Y&Y Inc.                                                     404
   Blue Sky Research                                             c3

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

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:02:37 -0500
From: "Jeffrey J. Gray" <jeff@che.utexas.edu>
Organization: Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
To: texhax@tex.ac.uk
Subject: vertical placement oddity

Hi,

I've uncovered some odd behavior that I can't seem to get rid of or find
in documentation or FAQs...  When I use \flushbottom on my document,
line spacing expands to fill up pages, but the subsection headings do
not move along with the rest of the text.  Therefore, the section
headings end up overwriting text in the previous section, and a large
gap is then left between the sections.  (These extreme behavior is only
on a few pages with bad page breaks, but looking closely at other pages
I can see that headings are misplaced vertically)

Any idea what could cause such behavior?  I'm writing a thesis with a
custom package, but the package uses the standard \@startsection to
define the section headings, with appropriate rubber lengths, and I
can't find any other modifications that would affect section headings.
All the other packages I'm using are standard-distribution packages
that, to my knowledge, shouldn't have anything to do with section
headings. (amsmath,latexsym,graphicx,psfrag,rotating,overcite)  I can't
seem to figure out

Thank you for any help you can provide,

Jeff Gray

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:39:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mimi Burbank <mimi@scri.fsu.edu>
Subject: Re: TUGboat 20(4) shipped to Cadmus
To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@scri.fsu.edu, office@tug.org,
texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl

a "my fingers got ahead of themselves" error in the
contents of TUGboat 20(4) :

>    Statement of ownership                                       430
								  ^^^

should be   "403"

sorry,

mimi burbank

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