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From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 16:23:12 +0000
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UKTeX Digest Friday, 16 Dec 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 47
Today's Topics:
TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences
TeXhax/UKTeX merger opinions
Limited number of copies of the EuroTeX '94 Proceedings available
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Moderators: Peter Abbott (UK TeX Users Group) and
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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 11:59:22 +0700
From: pV@CC.Uniud.It
Subject: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences
Hello,
I would like to know if there is a way, in TeX, to test for
the existence of a control sequence.
What I want to do is to programmatically detect if a macro
has already been defined.
I devised this (ugly) piece of code:
\def\MYMACRO{anything}
\ifx\MYMACRO\UNDEFINED
The macro is {\it not\/} defined
\else
The macro {\it is\/} defined
\fi
It works, provided that the dummy macro \UNDEFINED is
*really* undefined!
There must be a more reliable (and elegant!) way to do the
same thing. Can you give me any hint?
Thanks in advance.
Paolo Vicario
UNIX system manager
Universita` degli Studi di Udine - Centro di Calcolo
via Mantica 3
I 33100 UDINE
Tel. +39 432 556704 Internet: pv@cc.uniud.it
FAX +39 432 556729 DECnet: UDUNIV::PAOLO (37963::PAOLO)
Tlx. 450412 UNIVUD I
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 12:18:27 +0000
From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: TeXhax/UKTeX merger opinions
Following my note about merging the TeXhax and UKTeX Digests
(TeXhax V94 #10, UKTeX V94 #42), I received 12 responses, all
in favour of the merger. There were two reservations expressed:
- - frequency of the new TeXhax... weekly was felt by a couple of
people to be too often
- - one person requested that the digest be given a new name
One of the advantages of increased frequency is that questions
can be answered and announcements made in a more timely fashion.
This has always been one of the "advantages" of the UKTeX Digest
which I'd like to carry over into the new, merged digest.
However, after we've had a few issues, if lots of people feel
strongly that a weekly digest is hitting their mailbox too often,
please let me know and we could move to, perhaps, two-weekly issues.
As for names, well, I felt it would be less confusing to keep the
name of the "elder" publication, which is mentioned in many online
locations and Internet list-of-lists (e.g., Meckler's "On Internet 94").
If you have any views on any of this, please let me know.
~~David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator)
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 12:20:39 -0000
From: CHAA006@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk
Subject: Limited number of copies of the EuroTeX '94 Proceedings available
I have two copies of the 1994 EuroTeX proceedings for sale at DM15-00 plus
postage; if I receive more requests than I have copies, I will endeavour
to order further copies from Poland.
Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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