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UKTeX Digest    Friday, 19 Mar 1993    Volume 93 : Issue 11

   ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary
        service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.''

Today's Topics:
 {Q&A}:
                              newcommand in LaTeX
                            Re: newcommand in LaTeX
                                     Dvips
                                   Re: Dvips
                     Re: Subdivisions in list (LaTeX 2.09)
                     Re: Subdivisions in list (LaTeX 2.09)
                     Re: Subdivisions in list (LaTeX 2.09)
                        Port of TeX to a small computer
                      Re: Port of TeX to a small computer
                                  seminar.sty
                            Re: Side-by-Side Setting
                         te - update since 1989? (fwd)
                              Including EPS files
 {Announcements}:
              TeX & MetaFont Conference at RHBNC, April 6th--8th.

Administrivia:
    Moderators:     Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
                    David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
    Contributions:  UKTeX@uk.ac.tex
    Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests:
                    UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex

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

Date:    Sat, 13 Mar 1993 11:38:19 +0000
From:    Peter Abbott <p.abbott@uk.ac.aston>
Subject: newcommand in LaTeX

I want to use the \newcommand with 11 parameters.

It complains I have more than 9. I do not have the LaTeX book available to
determine how to overcome this problem. Is it an absolute limit?

Peter

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

Date:    Sun, 14 Mar 1993 17:33:04 +0100
From:    Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Re: newcommand in LaTeX

Peter Abbott writes:

 > I want to use the \newcommand with 11 parameters.
 > 
 > It complains I have more than 9. I do not have the LaTeX book available to
 > determine how to overcome this problem. Is it an absolute limit?

It is an absolute limit of \newcommand as such, as it comes from the
limit of 9 parameters for a TeX macro. However, you can program around
that by using more than one step, e.g.,

\newcommand{\FirstStep}[9]{ ... collect the 9 arguments ... \SecondStep}
\newcommand{\SecondStep}[2]{ .. collect parameters 10 and 11, execute
                                desired actions .. }

   Rainer Schoepf
   Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum
    fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
   Heilbronner Strasse 10
   W-1000 Berlin 31
   Federal Republic of Germany
   <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de>

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

Date:    Sat, 13 Mar 1993 13:13:09 +0000
From:    Jon.Essex-Chemistry"Jon.Essex-Chemistry" <wrigjz@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Dvips

I have a problem running dvips ver 5.482 (obtained from aston about 9
months ago). 
When I try to dvips a file on my 486SX PC (4 meg ram) I get an error
message
!can't allocate more than 64K!
This file is not very large (6 pages) so I don't know why this is happening

If I try dvips -a then I get a message saying my pk files are corrupt

I have tried dvips386 which came with dvips but have never got it to 
work as it keeps failing  to run saying
CPU must be in REAL mode (not V86 mode) to run this program.

Can anyone help? ideally I would like to get the dvips386 running on this file
but would settle for just getting dvips to do the job

Thanks 
Jon Wright

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

Date:    15 Mar 1993 11:11:32 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Dvips

 > Can anyone help? ideally I would like to get the dvips386 running
 > on this file but would settle for just getting dvips to do the job

The later/latest version of the dvips package appears to avoid these problems,
and have some enhancements anyway. Please collect from ftp.tex.ac.uk
(advise me if you cannot do this, or cant find it)

Sebastian Rahtz

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

Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 1993 09:49:38 +0700
From:    "R.A.Reese" <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull.cc.sequent>
Subject: Re: Subdivisions in list (LaTeX 2.09)

Martin Ward asks:
> What's the date of your latex.tex / lplain.tex? It works for me!
> % LATEX VERSION 2.09 <25 March 1992>
> % File LPLAIN ...
> \def\fmtname{lplain}\def\fmtversion{2.09-March 25, 1992}

My versions both report 2.09 <18 March 1992>.  The PC version was
built from files fatched from the archive by me, the Unix version
is SPQR's Sparc version, fetched here and just un-tarred.

(R.) Allan Reese        Janet:          r.a.reese@uk.ac.hull
Head of Applications    Direct voice:   +44 482 465296
Computer Centre         Voice messages: +44 482 465685
Hull University         Fax:            +44 482 466441
Hull HU6 7RX, U.K.

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

Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 1993 11:16:39 +0100
From:    Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Re: Subdivisions in list (LaTeX 2.09)

Allan Reese writes:

 > Martin Ward asks:
 > > What's the date of your latex.tex / lplain.tex? It works for me!
 > > % LATEX VERSION 2.09 <25 March 1992>
 > > % File LPLAIN ...
 > > \def\fmtname{lplain}\def\fmtversion{2.09-March 25, 1992}
 > 
 > My versions both report 2.09 <18 March 1992>.  The PC version was
 > built from files fatched from the archive by me, the Unix version
 > is SPQR's Sparc version, fetched here and just un-tarred.

The difference between the March 18 and March 25 versons is an error
correction in lplain.tex, in the \c macro, I think.

   Rainer Schoepf

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

Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 1993 13:58:04 +0100
From:    Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Re: Subdivisions in list (LaTeX 2.09)

Alan Reese writes:

 > I am producing a long enumerated list and wanted to put subdivisions
 > within the list.  So I tried
 > 
 > \documentstyle{article}
 > ...
 > \item ...
 > \subsection*{Next lot}
 > \item
 > 
 > and found that LaTeX just hangs.

Unfortunately true. My private copy of latex.tex catches the loop, but
there will be no provisions to get around the problem in any other way.

 > -----
 > The pragmatic solution is to make the sections into separate lists but
 > preserve the list counter. There's no provision for this; I guess that
 > enumi etc are re-allocated as new counters every time a list is started.

No, but enumerate uses the list environment and \usecounter. The
latter resets the counter at the \begin{enumerate} command.

 > It took a little fiddling as the LaTeX User Guide only mentions \value
 > in the reference section, not at pp 91/92.  However, this works
 > 
 > \newcounter{lastitem}  % in preamble
 > ...
 > \setcounter{lastitem}{\value{enumi}}
 > \end{description}
 > 
 > \subsection*{Next lot}
 > \begin{enumerate}
 > \setcounter{enumi}{\value{lastitem}}
 > \item ...

Seems like the best way to me....

   Rainer Schoepf

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

Date:    Mon, 15 Mar 1993 13:17:00 +0000
From:    SWILCOX1@uk.ac.poly-of-wales.computer-centre.genvax
Subject: Port of TeX to a small computer

Dear All,

I am contemplating a port of TeX to a small computer (Sinclair QL with
a 16MHz 68000 and 2Meg Ram) and would like to have access to the source for
TeX in C not Pascal. I have the facility to read PC or ATARI disks but 
obviously not to un arc (etc) the compressed forms of the source code.

Is their any way of obtaining the necessary source files in a format that I 
can read so that I can attempt a port.

Yours,

S.J.Wilcox 
Department of Mechanical and Manf. Eng.
University of Glamorgan,
West Glamorgan
Wales

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

Date:    15 Mar 1993 13:42:33 +0000
From:    spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Port of TeX to a small computer

 > 
 > I am contemplating a port of TeX to a small computer (Sinclair QL
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
it isnt April 1st for some weeks...

 > a 16MHz 68000 and 2Meg Ram) and would like to have access to the source for
 > TeX in C not Pascal. I have the facility to read PC or ATARI disks but 
 > obviously not to un arc (etc) the compressed forms of the source code.
 > 
 > Is their any way of obtaining the necessary source files in a format that I 
 > can read so that I can attempt a port.

I'd suggest that you acquire the web2c Unix setup, and run it on a
larger machine (eg a Unix box) to generate C files, and then take
those to the little chap. Or you could try Common TeX (a hand
translation into C).

If you can get a PC connected to JANET or Internet, you can suck the
files off the Uk TeX Archive. but the details all depend on your setup

Sebastian

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

Date:    16 Mar 1993 14:03:04 +0000
From:    "John Rostron" <ROSTRON@uk.ac.east-london.whmain>
Subject: seminar.sty

I have downloaded the seminar files and have been trying to create
the sem-code documents with little success.

Firstly in the file tvz-code.sty, a number of the escape sequences in
the \DoNotIndex macro calls created errors. I had to comment these
out.

Later, on reading seminar.doc, it balked at the starred line (L 72)
claiming that \test@member was and unsefined control sequence.

  %    \end{macrocode}
  %
  % \begin{macro}{\test@member}
* %  The second argument to "\test@member" is a comma-separated list.
  %  "\test@member" checks whether the first argument is a member of
     this list
  %  (after expanding both the list and the first argument), setting
     "\if@test"
  %  appropriately.
  %    \begin{macrocode}

I had originally compiles an earlier versionm of sem-code, but before
printing it out I discovered this new version. I now wish I hadn't!

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

Date:    Wed, 17 Mar 1993 13:27:03 -0600
From:    Zdenek Wagner <WAGNER%earn.csearn@uk.ac.earn-relay>
Subject: Re: Side-by-Side Setting

Side-by-side setting of original text and translation even into more
languages is quite easy in LaTeX. This problem is solved by "multicolpar.sty".
The "multicolpar" environment defined in this style takes the number of columns
as the parameter (it will be the number of languages). Then it reads the text
paragraph by paragraph and typesets them side by side. The only problem is
that the page break cannot occur in the middle of a paragraph.
 
A long time ago I downloaded this style from Niord.shsu.edu but it may also be
available from other sites.
 
Regards
 
                                                ,
,%%%/        /`               /     /|      /%%%
   /        /           |_/  /__/  ' |     /
  /     /%%/ /%%/ /%%/ /%%/ /\       | /| / /%%/ /%%/ /%%/ /%%/ /%%%
 /   , /  / /%%% /  / /%%% /  \      |/ |/ /  /_/  / /  / /%%% /
 %%%%  %%%  %%% '  '  %%% '    `           %%%  %%/ '  '  %%%
                              Zdenek Wagner______/
 
Some gateway between me and you may garble backslash. It will appear
on your screen as %

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

Date:    Thu, 18 Mar 1993 14:03:32 +0700
From:    "R.A.Reese" <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull.cc.sequent>
Subject: te - update since 1989? (fwd)

I'll have to broadcast this as the message got bounced - IN307 not recognized.
Forwarded message:

> From rar Thu Mar 18 12:15:15 1993
> To: in307@bitnet.dhafeu11
> 
> I've been using te for several years with a version dated 28 Nov 89.
> Thanks for a most useful program.  Today we found the first bug, when
> a student was working on a document file that was 62000 characters.
> te hung and it was necessary to reboot the machine. Deleting a few
> lines at random to reduce the file size to 59000 characters then
> allowed te to load and edit.
> 
> Do you have a more recent version of te?  I don't mind if it cannot
> edit large files but it ought to "bow out gracefully" and return you
> to DOS.  I checked the Aston archive and Nov 89 is the latest (only)
> version.x
> 

(R.) Allan Reese

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

Date:    Thu, 18 Mar 1993 18:26:38 +0000
From:    ccaamrg@uk.ac.ucl
Subject: Including EPS files

I am Mike Gahan from University College London.

I want to produce a LaTeX document with pictures in encapsulated
postscript. I have discovered the \epsffile macro, but I would like to
place several eps pictures side by side, each with its own caption,
and the whole lot to be treated as a single floating figure. I am in 
single column mode.

Mike

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

Date:    Thu, 18 Mar 1993 14:02:11 +0000
From:    Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: TeX & MetaFont Conference at RHBNC, April 6th--8th.

The UK TeX Users' Group (UK-TuG) have organised a two-and-a-half day
meeting at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of
London) at Egham in Surrey between April 6th and April 8th, 1993.  The
themes of the conference are ``TeX for non-American languages'' and
``MetaFont in Theory and Practice''.  Whilst it was originally planned
that the conference would be regarded as a single entity, many have
asked if it would be possible to attend for only a part of the time at
a proportional rate, and in order to accommodate such requests we are
now pleased to offer each day as a separate option.

April 6th is reserved for registration and the Conference Banquet:
this will take place in the Picture Gallery (and perhaps be the last
opportunity to see the Turner before it is sold!).

April 7th is composed of a series of talks by a panel of
internationally famous scholars:

    Bernard Gaulle will present ``Good Typesetting Practice for French
    Texts''.  This talk will have the subtitle ``From Typewriting to TeX
    typesetting''.  Starting with a short overview of the consequences of
    twenty years of computing upon French typography in peoples' minds,
    the basic rules of typing will be reviewed.  Next the traditional
    French typographic practices will be discussed. ``Can the major points
    of the french typography be automatically done by TeX or LaTeX?'' A
    large part of the lecture will discuss that question which can be
    logically divided in five subparts: hyphenation, translation,
    typography in the line, typography within the page and specific tools.

    Yannis Haralambous will review existing systems for oriental language
    typesetting, and then discuss the specific problems associated with
    Khmer and Tifinagh.  He may also cover standardisation of the Berber
    language, and discuss his implementation of a Mongol vertical
    typesetting system.

    Dominik Wujastyk will present two papers, one on hyphenation and the
    other on Indian scripts with TeX.  In the first he will give an
    outline of some of the differences between the hyphenation of British
    and American English, and go on to describe how PATGEN was used to
    create a set of British English hyphenation patterns for use with TeX.
    Rather than dwell on the internals of TeX hyphenation, he will instead
    discuss the practical aspects of getting a working set of patterns,
    and using them with TeX.  In the second, he will discuss many of the
    problems associated with typesetting Indian scripts; he writes:
    ``India is not so much a country as a sub-continent.  Fourteen major
    languages, and countless dialects, make it a linguist's heaven.
    Unlike Europe, though, each major language is written in its own
    script.  And Sanskrit, the lingua franca of India until the Raj and
    English, was written in all these scripts, depending on where the
    scribe was working.  In this talk I shall survey the growing number of
    Indic scripts being created in Metafont, and discuss the technical and
    aesthetic issues raised.  I shall also peer into the future and make
    perilous judgements about what will and what won't work in the long
    run!''

On April 8th, Yannis will present a tutorial on MetaFont in Theory and
Practice.  Yannis has an international reputation for beautiful font
generation through MetaFont, and an opportunity to hear him talk on
the problems of font design and implementation is not to be missed.
There will be hands-on facilities for those who wish to make use of
MetaFont whilst they are at RHBNC (there will, of course, be access to
TeX as well...).

Each day is charged at \pounds 30-00; en-suite accommodation is
available at \pounds 28-50 per night; and dinner is available on 7th
and 8th April at \pounds 8-00 (lunch is provided in the basic costs on
7th and 8th April, and the evening banquet occurs on April 6th).  All
charges exclude VAT, which should be added.  As the College needs to
know final numbers not later than ten days before the start of the
Conference, please respond immediately by e-mail if you would like to
come for one or more days (the fee for the three days is \pounds 80-00
plus VAT, for those who wish to attend all sessions).  Booking forms
will be provided for those responding by e-mail.

                                        Philip Taylor, RHBNC

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