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From: "Arthur Ogawa" <ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re:  TeX spell checker
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 02:00:11 PST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

You wanted an alternative to MS Word's spelling checker (Mac platform).
Remember, however that this spelling checker does learn, things are not
as bad is they might be. You can save your spelling dictionary for later use
on TeX documents.

I don't make a great deal of use of spelling checkers, but I have found
MS Word to be an acceptable tool for those times when one is required.

Art
From: jonathan@geop.ubc.ca (Jonathan Thornburg)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (LaTeX) how to get only nonzero part of chapter.section.subsection...
Date: 4 Jan 1993 17:07:43 GMT
Organization: U of British Columbia Astronomy + U of Texas Physics/Relativity
NNTP-Posting-Host: rubis.astro.ubc.ca
Summary: useful in running heads, rolling your own section headers, etc
Keywords: sectional unit chapter section running head nonzero

Using LaTeX, I can write:

	\chapter{First Chapter Title}
	% ==> 1
	Roses are red,
	\section{Something Boring}
	% ==> 1.1
	Violets are blue.
	\section{Something sleepy}
	% ==> 1.2
	\subsection{Nested}
	% ==> 1.2.1
	Text can be typeset,
	\subsection{Again}
	% ==> 1.2.2
	with \hbox{}es and glue.

where I have marked the result of a \ref to a \label defined at various
points in the text.  I'll refer to these results (1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1,
1.2.2, etc as "chapter.section.subsection...", to indicate that the
depth we go to varies from place to place, depending on both the sectional
unit structure of the document and the secnumdepth counter.

How can I (easily) get at these "chapter.section.subsection..." numbers?
For example, I'd like to stick them into a running header.

I *don't* want to get numbers 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, as I'd
get if I just said
	\thechapter.\thesection.\thesubsection
not to mention the fact that I'd like the whole works to respond properly
to secnumdepth.  Of course, a bit of loop programming to combine all the
different counters should do the trick, but I'm wondering if there's a
handy macro already defined to do this?  I have browsed latex.tex, but
the code that handles sectional units (which clearly does this) is beyond
my TeX-hacking ability.

- Jonathan Thornburg
  <jonathan@geop.ubc.ca> through mid-January 1993, then
  <jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu> or <jonathan@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu>
  [for a few more months] U of British Columbia / {Astronomy, Physics}
  [then through Aug/92] U of Texas at Austin / Physics / Relativity
From: LATEX@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (RW Hendricks)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: BOXIT and/or SHADOW
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:11:53 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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There is a lovely little macro on page 95 of Seroul and Levy's book - A
Beginner's Book of TeX.  I would like to use it to draw a box around two lines
of normal text which has the usual // at the end of the first line.
Unfortunately, LaTeX burps -- gets lost and thinks there is a missing \item.

It seems that the style SHADOW at SHSU does the same thing.  I have also had
zero luck  in using \fbox$some text//And some more text.

Obviously, I still do not understand how to package things inside boxes which
can be put into these macros.  I hope someone can help set me straight!

                                        Thanks
                                              Bob Hendricks
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: problems using fancybox.sty
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:19:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.192709.23339@news.nd.edu> gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu writes:
>\documentstyle[12pt]{article}
>\begin{document}
>\input fancybox.sty

No. The catcode will be wrong. Use 
 \documentstyle[12pt,fancybox]{...}
or, if you must,
 \documentstyle ...
 \makeatletter 
 \input fancybox.sty
 \makeatother

--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,uiuc.tex
From: heller@heller.slip.uiuc.edu (Helmut Heller)
Subject: How to get rid of this ONE line of text???
Reply-To: heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:15:46 GMT
Keywords: LaTeX, float, tables

Hello,

I have a rather large table (say a box of height \vsize) which I want to show  
up *IN THE RUNNING TEXT* (and *not* on a separate page at the end). When I  
twiddle with 
\def\topfraction{1.01}
\def\textfraction{-0.09}
LaTeX places the float (table) on a page in the running text, but it INSISTS  
on also placing at least ONE LINE OF TEXT on the same page. Not only does  
this look ugly, but my table sticks out on the bottom end and so this one  
line of text overprints part of the table which can not be tolerated.

Can anyone help and tell me what to do to get rid of this one last line of  
text on my page with the table (which should ideally only have the table  
(float), but appear in the running text)? 

Please e-mail if possible, and
THANKS A LOT!!

--
Servus, Helmut  (W9/DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail preferred________________
heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu   "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" 
FAX:   (217)244-6078                      ZEN, one of BLAKES7                
Phone: (217)244-6914        -------------------------------------------------
Helmut Heller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute
Theoretical Biophysics Group, Room 3143, MC 251
From: walsh@ibis.cs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: New version of HPTFM2PL
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 10:50:58 -0500
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Greetings,

I uploaded a new version of HPTFM2PL this morning:

  ibis.cs.umass.edu:/pub/norm/tex/hp2pl10a.zip

HPTFM2PL converts HP Tagged Font Metric files to TeX PL format (easily
convertable to TeX TFM format with PLtoTF).  This new version includes
support for LJ4 TrueType HPTFMs (they use a different rounding algorithm).
I'm not confident that the new algorithm is correct, and I have no way to
test it, so I've added a /I switch to ignore it).

I have not yet generated the new PL/TFMs for the LJ4, but I will try to
do so this weekend.

I've also made some of the source code available in

  ibis.cs.umass.edu:/pub/norm/tex/hp2pl10a-source.zip

This is Turbo Pascal source and is not quite complete.  You would need
Turbo Power Software's Object Professional Toolkit to compile it.  However,
it is complete enough (I hope) to give you a flavor of what HP TFM files
look like.  If you want to port it, be my guest...

And, someone unfortunately perhaps, I should point out that the zip files
are in the PKZip 2.04c format.  I accidentally used the new zip so you may
not be able to extract them with v1.1.  Let me know if this causes inordinate
problems and I'll try to help out.

Archive maintainers: feel free to add hp2pl10a.zip to your archives.  However,
please leave the source on ibis only.

                                                  Enjoy,
                                                    norm
---
Norman Walsh         | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
<walsh@cs.umass.edu> | CMPSCI Dept., LGRC A210 | Standard disclaimer applies




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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.text
Subject: TeX and "Point" definition.
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:43:32 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada

HP PCL and PostScript are alike in that they call a "point" 1/72 inch,
rather than the more pendantically correct 1/72.26somethingsomething.

Could someone tell me what TeX think a point is?  At least, as far as PK
fonts are concerned...

[My machine doesn't receive comp.text.tex, so if you want to followup
rather than email, please leave comp.text in the Newsgroups: line]

Thank you.
-- 
Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
Psroff 3.0 info: psroff-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
Ferret list: ferret-request@ferret.ocunix.on.ca
From: munson@acacia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: New version (2.0) of ucthesis style
Date: 8 Jan 1993 22:49:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: acacia.cs.berkeley.edu


				1/8/93

Today, I submitted a new version of the files for the "ucthesis" style
to the archive at niord.shsu.edu.  A description of the style and of
the recent changes follows.  Because the style appears to no longer
work with pre-Jan. 1992 versions of LaTeX, I suggested to the archive
manager that the file be given a name like "ucthesis92.tar.Z".

If other archives would like me to submit the file to them directly, I
would be happy to do so.  Please send me appropriate directions for
submission.

Ethan Munson

%%% ====================================================================
%%%  @LaTeX-style-file{
%%%     filename        = "ucthesis.sty",
%%%     version         = "2.0",
%%%     date            = "08 Jan 1992",
%%%     author          = "Ethan V. Munson",
%%%     address         = "Computer Science Division
%%%                        571 Evans Hall
%%%                        UC Berkeley
%%%                        Berkeley, CA 94720
%%%                        USA",
%%%     telephone       = "(510) 643-7354",
%%%     email           = "munson@cs.berkeley.edu (Internet)",
%%%     codetable       = "ISO/ASCII",
%%%     keywords        = "LaTeX, ucthesis",
%%%     supported       = "until I graduate in 1993",
%%%     docstring       = "This file is the main file for the ucthesis
%%%                        style, which is intended to meet the requirements
%%%                        for University of California Ph.D. dissertations.
%%%                        It is based on the standard report.sty as 
%%%                        modified by Mittelbach and Schopf in Jan 1992.
%%%                        The primary differences are (1) the use of pseudo-
%%%                        double-spacing, except in certain special
%%%                        environments; and (2) the use of a 6 inch line
%%%                        with 4em paragraph indentation.
%%%
%%%                        I know of no bugs in this implementation,
%%%                        but would be happy to hear of any problems
%%%                        that arise with it.
%%%
%%%                        This version fixes a bug in the previous
%%%                        version of 20 Jun 1988.  The bug was that 
%%%                        "draft" optional mode didn't work because of
%%%                        problems in handling optional arguments.
%%%                        This file does not seem to work with earlier 
%%%                        versions of LaTeX (pre-Jan 1992).
%%%
%%%  }
%%% ====================================================================
From: gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: PC Graphics font needed
Date: 8 Jan 93 09:52:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: aim1.gram.726486773
Organization: Aztec Information Management

Hi TeXers

I apologise if this is in the supplementary info; I don't have a copy at the
moment and I need this yesterday. I am looking for a non-proportional font
of the IBM PC character set, including the line drawing characters. I have a 
whole bunch of text screen dumps that I need to make into figures, and this
seems like the best approach.

Does anyone know if/where such a font is available, or have other suggestions
about how to do these figures? 

BTW, I did try using xterm, xwd and xpri; I also tried xwd2pnm and pnm2ps.
I found that the one case produced small files but that they were trash, while
the other case produced files over 1Mb in size each time (a pixel image).
I want a solution that (i) works (ii) without creating huge files.

Thanks in advance
Graham
-- 
Graham Wheeler                     | "That which is weak conquers the strong,
Network Systems Programmer         | that which is soft conquers the hard."
Aztec Information Management       | 		Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching Ch. 78
gram@aim1.aztec.co.za              | There's no justice, there's just us
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jarleb@medusa.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann)
Subject: Re: footnotes in tables
Reply-To: jarleb@medusa.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann)
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:54:09 GMT


In article <1ik4j7INNh19@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, sven@jacobs2.css.msu.edu (Sven Bohm) writes:
|>From: sven@jacobs2.css.msu.edu (Sven Bohm)
|>Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
|>Subject: footnotes in tables
|>Reply-To: sven@jacobs2.css.msu.edu (Sven Bohm)
|>
|>Is there an easy way to create footnotes in a table using latex ? I want  
|>to annotate one number in a table and have the footnote appear below the  
|>table if possible. 
|>Thanks,
|>---
|>Sven B hm
|>sven@jacobs2.css.msu.edu  (NeXTMail welcome)
|>
|>P.S. I have Kresten Krab Thorup ftn.sty but using \ftn{} I don't get any  
|>footnotes.  Using \footnote{} i get a subscript but no footnote.
|>

This is quite easily done, you just put your table in a minipage, like in
this example :

\begin{table}
\begin{minipage}[t]{5in}
\begin{tabular}{l|l}
This is & a test  \\
This is  & yet another test\footnote{With a footnote} \\
And again & The End
\end{tabular}

\end{minipage}
\caption{You can have your own caption also.}
\end{table}


Hope this helps.

					Jarle.

      ---------------------------------------
       Internet: jarleb@medusa.uio.no         
       or        Jarle.Brinchmann@astro.uio.no
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A. Smith)
Subject: Challenge: producing a List of Equations --- HOW??
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:27:28 GMT

Hi,
     How can I produce a list of (my numbered) equations for handy  
reference. They all are enumerated, so it seems theoretically possible.

--
Lones A. Smith
Department of Economics
MIT E52-252C
Cambridge MA 02139
v-mail: (617) 253-0914
e-mail: lones@lones.mit.edu  (NeXT mail or the garden variety stuff)
From: mclean@math.tamu.edu (Robert Mclean)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: row vector times matrix alignment
Date: 8 Jan 1993 23:55:00 GMT
Organization: Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: math.tamu.edu


Many thanks to the respondents of my query on how to get tex to output

( x y z ) ( a b c )
          ( d e f )
          ( g h i )

Two solutions presented themselves. One due to Donald Arseneau who
did it "right" by modifying TeX's matrix code. See the his posting.

The "slick and quick" solution is as follows:

this is another method using vphantoms (boo!):
$$
\matrix{ \vec x= \cr
   \vphantom{ 0 } \cr
   \vphantom{ 0 } \cr}
\matrix{ \pmatrix{a & b & c\cr} \cr
   \vphantom{ 0 } \cr
   \vphantom{ 0 } \cr}
\pmatrix{ 1 & 0 & 0 \cr
   0 & 1 & 0 \cr
   0 & 0 & 1 \cr}
$$
and this solution is due to Bruce Ikenaga of Case Western
\bye

Possibly, one should use \mathstrut's instead of the \vphantom's.
Also, the later method actually does a better job of aligning the rows.

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: A8131DAL@vm.univie.ac.at (Peter Schmitt)
Subject: Re: Disabling the underscore character
Organization: University of Vienna
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:43:24 GMT

>file name as part of what it does.  The macro does not
>work if the file name has an underscore character in it,
>since it interprets the underscore as the subscript
>character and starts inserting $ signs.

>\def\foo#1{ {\tt #1} }
>\foo{file_name.ext}

>I tried defining foo as follows:

>\def\foo#1{ {\catcode`_=12 {\tt #1} } }

This is a very common error: The catcode is already fixed when the
argument is passed!

>{\catcode`_=12 \foo{file_name.ext} }

>Is there a way of avoiding this and doing everything
>inside the macro?

Sure: Use a macro to call \foo:
e.g.: \def \Foo{\bgroup\catcode`\_=12\foo}
and add a \egroup to the end of \foo

Peter

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au (Christopher JS Vance)
Subject: Re: NFSS, extra space on font change
Originator: cjsv@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Computer Science, University College, UNSW/ADFA, Canberra, Australia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:47:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.045615.15571@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au (Christopher JS Vance) writes:
| I am using NFSS and am trying to use the Concrete fonts.  I have used
| subst@fontshape to get LaTeX to use cmb for bold.
| 
| I appear to get an extra space when I first change fonts to cmb.

I seem to have had a % missing in the definition of subst@fontshape in
my copy of lfonts.new.

-- Christopher

Newsgroups: uw.tex,comp.text.tex
From: peg@cs.washington.edu (Pete Granger)
Subject: Troff --> Tex conversion
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 20:38:02 GMT


I have a file (just one) that dates back to my days as a troff user,
which I would like to convert to Tex or (preferably) LaTex. I could do
it manually, but I am lazy. Does anyone know of a program that will do
this for me?

It doesn't require full generality -- the file just consists of a
bunch of tables, so even if there is a program that just converts
tables, that would probably be sufficient.

Thanks.
-- 
Pete Granger          | "Dolphins had been telling humans dirty jokes for thou-
peg@cs.washington.edu |  sands of years, before men...began to understand."
                      |      - David Brin, "Sundiver"
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: seanhe@cmgroup.engr.wisc.edu (Sean He)
Subject: Re: UNIX VERSIONS OF TEX
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:05:59 CST
Originator: seanhe@cmgroup.engr.wisc.edu

In article <9301052221.AA05945@morpheus.chpc.utexas.edu> mwitten@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu writes:
>We are in the process up upgrading TeX, AMS TeX, LaTeX etc in `
>our UNIX shop. The versions we have a quite old. Sigh ....
>I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me what the
>current versions of things are (in the UNIX environment) and
>where to get them. I know that AMS can be gotten by anonymous ftp
>from the AMS. Where are the new versions of TeX, SliTex, Latex, etc?
>
>Please direct comments to me and not the list. Thanks,
>
>matthew
>

Same here. Please reply via e-mail. Thanks.


Sean


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: roten@cuba.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Roten)
Subject: How the *&^%$#!! do I make the bloody format files for UNIX TeX ?!?!?!
Organization: /cuba_b/dirbe/roten/.organization
X-Newsreader: GNU Emacs 18.59.1, GNUS 3.13, NNTP 3.10
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:22:27 GMT

This is the fifth time I have had to install UNIX TeX.  And, yet once again, 
I have to install the bloody format files without any documentation.  The 
problem is, I no longer have the luxury of unlimited time to jack around 
with undocumented, or hidden-documented aspects of TeX.  Right now, I have 
just finished messing with TeX for 4 hours and have not yet gotten the 
plain format file installed.  

Could some good person tell me how to do this ?  My patience has been reduced 
to zero.  Thanks in advance.  

--
Charles Roten | Hughes-STX, Incorporated | 
  roten@cuba.gsfc.nasa.gov               | 'Use the Source, Luke!'
  7601 Ora-Glen Dr., Greenbelt, MD 20706 | 
  301-513-7805 (w),  301-317-0872 (h)    |            Obi-Wan Stallman
From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Figures with text parts with accents
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 10:46:08 +0100
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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   Hi All,

   I would like to include postscript figures in Latex, for example
   created by Xfig, using text with accents, for example written in portuguese
   or french.

Xfig should be able to create these characters (using the compose key).

Another method is to use `special' text (must be made `special' by
using `edit object') using TeX macros. If you use transfig with the
language option pstex (this calls fig2dev for the languages pstex and
pstex_t), the Makefile created will produce a PostScript file
(containing graphics and non-special text) and a TeX file (containing
the special text and \specials including the PostScript part.)

					 		Wolfgang Ratzka
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From: Timothy Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Strange behavior using \font
Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:02:02 GMT
Organization: Cornell University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0415.cit.cornell.edu
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
X-XXDate: Sat, 9 Jan 93 16:06:04 GMT

In article <19930108.101158.858@almaden.ibm.com> Michael Fortinsky,
fortinsk@torolab5.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>everything worked. Why is "mikea" valid and "mike1" not valid?
>Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

1) Numbers cannot be parts of control sequences. 2) the = is optional.
So TeX interprets \font\mike1 to be equivalent to \font\mike=1,
and cannot find the file 1.tfm.

Tim Larkin
tsl1@cornell.edu