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UKTeX Digest Friday, 6 Aug 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 24
``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}:
breaking columns with multicol.sty
Re Digest 93.23 Equation editors.
Commutative Diagrams
Tex Memory capacity
{Announcements}:
UK TeX Users Group AGM -- 20 Oct 1993, Aston University
LaTeX2e -- A New Version of LaTeX
Distribution of TeX materials
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
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 17:20:37 +0100
From: A.F.Lack@uk.ac.city
Subject: breaking columns with multicol.sty
I have to produce a 3-column leaflet in which the quantity of text
is pre-determined for each column. What I need is something
like a \newcolumn command for use with multicol.sty.
Is there such a command, or an equivalent?
A.F.Lack, City University, London.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 12:40:06 +0100
From: ccsrar <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull.computer-centre>
Subject: Re Digest 93.23 Equation editors.
One of our maths professors is using a "wysiwyg" editor on
DOS (maybe Windows) PC. Like the Mac program described, it
outputs TeX code. Here are the details.
From n.j.cutland@uk.ac.hull.maths Tue Jul 13 09:11:35 1993
Leo can be obtained from
ABK Software
4495 Ottawa Place
Boulder
CO 80303
USA
The price just now is around $150 I believe.
Nigel
(R.) Allan Reese Janet: r.a.reese@uk.ac.hull.ucc
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.
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1993 18:15:00 +0700
From: dominic%uk.co.demon.geneva@uk.ac.uknet-relay
Subject: Commutative Diagrams
Is there a latex style file that will allow me to produce commutative
diagrams? The sort of thing I am thinking of is like the example given
in the TeXbook on page 182 (exercise 18.46).
Dominic Steinitz (Kingston University)
Dominic Steinitz dominic@geneva.demon.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1993 12:19:14 -0000
From: C D Radcliffe <men5cdr@sun.leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: Tex Memory capacity
I have a general query about TeX's memory capacity for storing strings.
I writing a PhD thesis containing many \label and \ref cross-references
and many \cite's and find I have used up TeX's string character memory.
On our Sun system with TeX C, Version 2.93 I get the message;
Heres how much of TeX's memory you used ...
...
9081 string characters out of 9081 etc.
I noticed that on the PC with EmTeX there are 12995 string characters
available and on the Vax implementation some 28,000 odd.
What determines the size of available TeX memory and is there any way
to increase it? Also what precautions can be taken to limit memory usage?
I already use very small labels for figures and equations,
(i.e. 3-4 chars) although my citations keys are often longer,
(i.e smith&jones(1993) ).
Can anybody shed any light ?
thanks
Chris Radcliffe, Dept of Mech Engineering, Leeds University
men5cdr@uk.ac.sun.leeds.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 21:32:55 -0000
From: R A Bailey <maa01rab@uk.ac.goldsmiths.scorpio>
Subject: UK TeX Users Group AGM -- 20 Oct 1993, Aston University
The Annual General Meeting of the UKTeX Users' Group will
take place on Wednesday 20 October 1993 at Aston University. Members
are invited to contribute beforehand in any of the following ways.
(1) The present chair's term of office expires at the AGM.
Nominations for his successor should be made in writing
and sent to me, to reach me by 20 August 1993. There
is no official nomination form. However, what you send
me should contain, clearly and legibly,
---name and address of nominee
---declaration that (s)he is willing to stand for this
office, signed by the nominee
---name and address of the nominator
---statement nominating the nominee, signed by the
nominator
---name and address of sender
---statement in support of the nomination, signed by
the seconder.
The nominee, nominator and seconder should all be members
of UKTeX, and the last two should be different from each
other.
(2) Many members of the present committee will be standing
down at the AGM. Written nominations for new committee
members should be sent to me, to reach me by 13 October
1993. Paperwork should be as above.
(3) A draft agenda for the AGM will be circulated by snail-
mail in August or September. Anyone wishing to propose
any motion to the AGM must send me, in writing, the
text of the proposed motion and their own name and
address, to reach me by 6 October 1993.
Sorry for the plethora of dates. They are all laid down in
the constitution.
In all the above, `in writing' means `on paper', not email.
Please put `UKTUG' on the outside of the envelope when you
send me any of the above. Otherwise, people may find themselves
elected to the wrong committee.
R. A. Bailey (Secretary, UKTUG)
Department of Mathematical Studies
Goldsmiths' College (University of London at New Cross)
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1993 13:32:26 +0200
From: schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Rainer Schoepf)
Subject: LaTeX2e -- A New Version of LaTeX
The following announcement was made last week at the Annual meeting of
the TeX User's Group (TUG) at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. There
will be a new, standardised version of LaTeX (working name: LaTeX2e)
being released before the end of 1993. Not much has been said about
the new features; the perhaps most important point was that support
for PostScript fonts will be built in.
The text below was converted automatically from LaTeX source format
into plain text by the dvidoc processor.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
LaTeX2e -- A New Version of LaTeX
Leslie Lamport and the LaTeX3 project team
July 27, 1993
1 Reasons For LaTeX2e
There are two primary reasons for introducing a new version of
LaTeX:
* Standardisation: a single format incorporating NFSS2, to
replace present multiplicity of incompatible formats (NFSS,
lfonts, pslfonts, etc.)
* Maintenance: a standardised system is essential to a
reliable maintenance policy.
Note that LaTeX2e is only a ``working name''---thus this may
change.
2 Guiding Principles
The following two guiding principles are to be followed:
I Unmodified version 2.09 input files will produce the same
output with LaTeX2e as with version 2.09.
II All new features of LaTeX2e will conform to the conventions
of version 2.09, making it as easy as possible for current
users to learn to use them.
3 Preamble Commands
In order to distinguish old (2.09) documents from those using
facilities from the new version, LaTeX2e documents will use a
different command on the first line.
\documentclass[options]{class}
The \documentclass command specifies what kind of document
this is---for example, article, book, letter, slide.
\includepackage[options]{package}
Including a package adds new commands and/or redefines
existing commands to provide additional functionality.
\documentstyle[options,dvidoc]{style}
Invokes the LaTeX2.09 compatibility mode.
4 Documentation
The new version will be described in a new edition of LaTeX:
A document preparation system by Leslie Lamport and in The
LaTeX Companion by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin (both to be
published by Addison-Wesley). The Companion will also contain a
complete description of NFSS2.
5 Distribution Policy
Maintenace of the new system will be undertaken by the LaTeX3
project team.
A complete distribution of all files, incorporating
corrections of errors, will be made available twice a year on
fixed dates. This will happen even if there were no changes to
the files, and hence only the release dates have to be updated.
We are currently looking into the possibility of additionally
distributing diff files.
6 Error Reports
Error reports can be made using a report generating program
latexbug.tex. This will be part of the main distribution.
Error reports will be accepted only if the version of LaTeX2e
that produces the error is not older than one year. Error
reports can be sent to the following mail address:
latex-bugs@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
or a postal address that is to be announced.
Rainer Schoepf
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum
fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
Heilbronner Strasse 10
D-10711 Berlin
Federal Republic of Germany
<Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.d400.de>
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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1993 11:43:16 -0000
From: Peter Abbott <abbottp@aston.ac.uk>
Subject: Distribution of TeX materials
Distribution of TeX materials from Aston University.
I regret to have to announce that due to the planned closure of the
University VAX service at the end of the 1993 Aston University will
no longer be able to supply magnetic tapes containing archive
material. Neither will we be able to supply backup copies of the
current working TeX system.
Changes in workload and resources mean that Aston will also be
unable to supply copies of EmTeX or OzTeX on discs.
The new financial year has just started and this is an appropriate
time to make changes so ALL distribution of materials will cease
from now.
FTP and MAIL access to the archives is NOT affected by these changes
and both
tex.ac.uk
and
ftp.tex.ac.uk
will continue to be available until further notice.
Gopher access and other services are not affected.
Peter
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