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UKTeX Digest    Thursday,  8 Jul 1993    Volume 93 : Issue 23

   ``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:
 {Questions & Answers}:
                       Equation editor for Unix
                          Complete citation
                     Re: Merging lists of numbers
                     Re: Merging lists of numbers
                 Survey: UKTeX Digest in MIME format


                      E D I T O R ' S   N O T E

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	 However, please continue to send questions, answers
		   and announcements for inclusion.
                                                        --Ed.

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Date:    Fri, 02 Jul 1993 13:58:24 -0000
From:    I.Ellery@uk.ac.east-anglia.xgate
Subject: Equation editor for Unix

I am forwarding this for HP003@UK.AC.EAST-ANGLIA.CPC865, reply
either to me, him or UkTeX!

>   I have just seen a demo of a program called Equation Editor
> running on a MAC this morning. It is a WYSIWIG environment for
> creating complex equations. The advantage is it can output in
> TeX format and so can be pasted straight into your .tex file.
> Do you know if a similar program exists for workstations, in 
> particular HP's (commerical or public domain) ?

Thanks,
     Ian 

     Ian Ellery,                              email i.ellery@uk.ac.uea   
     Computer Centre,                               (i.ellery@uea.ac.uk) 
     University of East Anglia                phone 0603 592392          
     Norwich, NR4 7TJ                         fax   0603 505859          

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Date:    Sun, 04 Jul 1993 17:13:47 -0000
From:    David_Rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme
Subject: Complete citation

In UKTeX issue 22, "Andy" of Strathclyde's Computer Science department
asked about
(1) how to \cite{Bloggs} and have the full reference appear in situ
so as to be able to, for example,
(2) prepare reading lists.
 
Assuming that Andy's real problem is (2), the solution seems easy.
It is
     You don't want \cite, you want \nocite.  See page 74 of
     Lamport's book or page 2 of Patashnik's "BibTeXing".
For example, the following .tex file will give a reading list that consists
of everything in test.bib.  (Here authordate1-4.sty is a .sty file that
gives the type of un-numbered reference-list you'd probably want in a
reading list, and authordate1.bst is chosen to go with authordate1-4.sty.
They're available from Aston.  But \nocite will work even if you don't use
these.)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
\documentstyle[11pt,authordate1-4]{report}
 
\begin{document}
 
\nocite{*}
 
\bibliographystyle{authordate1}
\bibliography{test}
 
\end{document}
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
There are people whose real problem is (1), or something like (1).  They
tend to be in the humanities or law, and to want to have citations in
footnotes, or citations in bibliographical essays.  They may not want a
reference-list (because all the information is in footnotes) or they may
want a reference-list that uses a different format from that used in
footnotes (e.g., "surname, initial" in one, but "initial surname" in the
other).  
 
I don't know of anything that can do (1) properly.  I have an experimental
system for the LaTeX end.  It's cumbersome, but I can't think of anything
better.  (It ignores \cite, etc., and defines bespoke commands.) I suppose
a .bst file could be written that would deal with the BibTeX end -- but not
in time to help Andy if his problem is really (1).
 
David Rhead

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Date:    Mon, 05 Jul 1993 08:54:37 +0000
From:    Dave Love <d.love@uk.ac.daresbury>
Subject: Re: Merging lists of numbers

>>From:    Adrian F Clark <alien%essex.ac.uk@uk.ac.essex>

 > Generating page numbers comes down to the following TeX or LaTeX
 > problem.  Given a macro with a set of numeric arguments, as in say

 >   \xref{1 2 4 4 6 7 7 7 7 41}

 > (the arguments of which would be generated by \pagerefs) how easy
 > would it be for \xref to generate

 >   "See pages 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, and 41."

 > i.e., the macro has to ignore duplicate arguments (which should be
 > already sorted, fortunately) and output "and" before the last number
 > in the list.  The actual format of the arguments is fairly flexible,
 > since they'll be machine-generated.

noweb already does it like this -- see Ramsey's code.  cites.sty sorts
and merges a list of citations, but doesn't put `and' before the last
entry -- an unnecessary refinement IMHO, but doubtless not impossible.
Alan Jeffrey's lambda.sty is probably the most elegant way of
processing lists of expandable items i.e., not \pagerefs as explained
in the article.

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

Date:    Mon, 05 Jul 1993 15:38:41 -0000
From:    David Carlisle <carlisle@uk.ac.manchester.computer-science>
Subject: Re: Merging lists of numbers

> Date:    Thu, 01 Jul 1993 16:48:54 +0100
> From:    Adrian F Clark <alien%essex.ac.uk@uk.ac.essex>
> Subject: Merging lists of numbers
[.....]
> 
> Generating page numbers comes down to the following TeX or LaTeX
> problem.  Given a macro with a set of numeric arguments, as in say
> 
>   \xref{1 2 4 4 6 7 7 7 7 41}
> 
> (the arguments of which would be generated by \pagerefs) how easy
> would it be for \xref to generate
> 
>   "See pages 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, and 41."
> 
> i.e., the macro has to ignore duplicate arguments (which should be
> already sorted, fortunately) and output "and" before the last number
> in the list.  The actual format of the arguments is fairly flexible,
> since they'll be machine-generated.
> 
> Neat LaTeX solutions on the back of a e-postcard, please!

The following macros seem to work, although I havent tested them too
much. they work by expansion only which is useful sometimes if you
want to use it in a \write. It uses -1 as an end of list marker so as
written it only works for non-negative integers.


% Document Previewer: xdvi
% Document Type: TeX
% Master File: xref.tex
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\def\TT#1#2{#1}
\def\FF#1#2{#2}

\def\FirstRef#1 #2 {%
\ifnum#1=#2 \expandafter\TT\else\expandafter\FF\fi
{\FirstRef#2 }%
{\ifnum#2>-1 \expandafter\TT\else\expandafter\FF\fi
  {See pages #1\LaterRef#2 }%
  {See page #1}}}

\def\LaterRef#1 #2 {%
\ifnum#1=#2 \expandafter\TT\else\expandafter\FF\fi
{\LaterRef#2 }%
{\ifnum#2>-1 \expandafter\TT\else\expandafter\FF\fi
  {, #1\LaterRef#2 }%
  { and #1}}}


\def\xref#1{\FirstRef#1 -1 }


\xref{1 2 4 4 6 7 7 7 7 41}

\xref{1}

\xref{1 1 1}

\xref{1 1 1 2 3 3}


\bye


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Date:    Thu, 08 Jul 1993 18:02:20 +0100
From:    David Osborne <cczdao@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Survey: UKTeX Digest in MIME format

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