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From: bcampbell@ll.mit.edu (Betty Campbell)
Subject: Help installing TeX, LaTeX and Previewer on SGI 4D35
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:49:27 GMT


We would like to install LaTeX and the Previewer on our SGI 4D35.  The
source code has been gathered via anonymous ftp but that's it so far.  If 
anyone out there has done this, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
We are currently running IRIX V3.3 soon to upgrade to V4.04.

Thank you in advance.

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MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington, MA  
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert)
Subject: Re: /input or /include or ... ?
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Constance
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:52:57 GMT

osalazar@dcc.uchile.cl (SALAZAR CERNA OSCAR MAPOCHO) writes:

>     I want to include a C program file using \input{file.c} in 
> this way:
>            \begin{vertabim}
>            \input{file.c}
>            \end{verbatim}
[..]

Try the following .sty (Verbfile.sty):
--------------------------------------
% Here is a version of Adrian's VERBATIM.STY, for inputting whole files
% verbatim, which is "more LaTeX-like" in that it uses the actual LaTeX 
% macros which set up the `verbatim' environment.
% ---              V E R B A T I M F I L E S . S T Y
%
% --- This LaTeX style-file defines two user-callable macros:
% ---     \verbatimfile{<filename>}    for verbatim inclusion of a file
% ---     \verbatimlisting{<filename>} for verbatim inclusion with line numbers
%
% --- The macros are based on those distributed with Sunil Podar's
% --- `EPIC.STY' macro package, attributed to Tim Morgan,
% --- modified to keep internal macros internal by Adrian F. Clark,
% --- alien@uk.ac.essex.ese
% --- ---and further latexification by Chris Rowley,
% --- ca_rowley@uk.ac.open.acs.vax.
%
% --- Note that the precise layout of line breaks in this file is important!
%
\def\verbatimfile#1{\begingroup
                    \@verbatim \frenchspacing \@vobeyspaces
                    \input#1 \endgroup
}
\newcounter{lineno}
\def\verbatimlisting#1{\setcounter{lineno}{0}%
    \begingroup \@verbatim \frenchspacing \@vobeyspaces \parindent=20pt
    \everypar{\stepcounter{lineno}\llap{\thelineno\ \ }}\input#1
    \endgroup
}
------------------------------------
Then, as stated, type

  \documentstyle[..,verbfile,..]{..} 
  ..
  \begin{document}
  ..
  \verbatimfile{file.c}
  ..
  \end{document}

in your document. Hope this helps.
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From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: IBM Pennant Systems survey
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:05:55 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu

In article <199208281156.AA08401@claude.cs.umb.edu>, karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) writes:
|> Some of you may have seen the survey request from IBM,
|> where they want us to send them documents.  I asked them
|> what they would actually use the documents for.  After about
|> a week, someone finally responded with what is below,
|> telling me in effect that they won't tell me.

The response to you is merely a repeat of the original msg. Why don't
they let someone answer who has knowledge of affairs, instead of just
some bureaucrat.

|> I urge people not to cooperate with this survey.

Hear hear. Anything to hinder IBM.

|> karl@cs.umb.edu

Victor.
From: dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX In Practice
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:27:01 GMT
Organization: U. S. Naval Academy

In article <l9kqsnINN7kb@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
!In article <1992Aug24.211117.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu!, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:

!Do you think authors have anything to say about the choice of paper?

Yes, I have always discussed the paper among other things
with the publishers when discussing the production of my books.

!I think I was lucky that they let me veto the first cover design.

The solution to this is to basically do your own cover design and
send it in early on. In this way the `art' department will generally
respond with only minor variations. So with a little compromise
you generally get what you want.

!(But the letter that came with the second design told me between the
!lines that 'we will take this one whether you like it or not'.)

Oh, you should never have given up but insisted that you didn't like
it. Unless they were really on deadline you probably would have
gotten another shot at it. Publishers like to keep authors happy.
After all you MIGHT write another book.

!The closer you get to production of the book, the less an author can do
!about it.

This is true. So, you do everything early on. The publishing
industry is really geared to crisis management. So, they do
everything at the last minute and expect you to respond immediately.
(Well actually there are some that behave more rationally).

!If I would have had any say in the choice of paper I would have
!opted for parchment, in real leather binding :-)

And it would have looked terrible :-} (the curly for us old people
                                        with wrinkles.)

Dave Rogers

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: raman@cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman)
Subject: Announcing: SI-TWG TUG Special Interest Working group
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:16:57 GMT


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WG-92-04: (SI-TWG) --- Special Interest TWG

Title: TeX for the Disabled

Mandate: The primary purpose of this working group is as a forum
for those people interested in using and/or enhancing TeX to serve the needs
of the disabled.

Technical Working Group Chair: T.V. Raman (raman@cs.cornell.edu)

Technical Council Liason: Michael Ferguson

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The annual TUG meeting held in Portland at the end of July 92
decided to form a special interest working group to address  the
possible advantages in using TeX to make documents more accessible to
the disabled.

I would like to invite people interested in this area to join this
group at this time.  In the initial phase, I see a need to gather
information about any relevant  ongoing work in this area.

To give a taste of what I mean by ongoing work, I found a Braille.sty
and Braille.tfm while wandering around the European archives, and so I
feel that there might be others out there who have already addressed
some of the questions.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

--Raman
-- 
   T. V. Raman <raman@cs.cornell.edu>Tel: (607)255-9202  R 272-3649
                       Office: 4116 Upson Hall,
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853-6201
                Res: 226 Bryant Avenue Ithaca NY 14850
Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:10740 gnu.emacs.help:3914
From: finin@algol.cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Scribe to LaTeX conversion
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:30:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
To: gnu-emacs-announce@uunet.uu.net

Several years ago I used an emacs package to convert a scribe document
to LaTeX.  I have another Scribe document to covert but no longer have
the emacs package.  Does anyone have a copy of this or something
equivalent that they could send me?  Tim
From: zaccone@rigel.cs.bucknell.edu (Rick Zaccone)
Subject: Re: Spell checker for Italian
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:46:20 GMT
Reply-To: zaccone@bucknell.edu

In article <1992Sep1.092510.1567@cube.sublink.org> arrigo@cube.sublink.org (Arrigo Benedetti) writes:

   Is there a spelling checker (commercial and/or PD) that can work with
   LaTeX and understand Italian words?

   I have ftp access.

   Thanks

   -Arrigo

I will be releasing version 1.2 of my program Excalibur in a week or
two.  Excalibur is a LaTeX spelling checker for the Macintosh.  It is
free.

This new version will let you convert any dictionary into Excalibur's
special format.  Excalibur 1.2 recognizes words that have TeX style
accents and it also recognizes Apple's extended character set.  This
should be a big help to non-English speaking users.

I'll announce when the program is ready on this forum.

Rick Zaccone
--
zaccone@bucknell.edu

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lasmith@athena.mit.edu (Lones A Smith)
Subject: DUAL HANDOUTS/PERSONAL NOTES MACRO IDEA
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:48:31 GMT




Hi,
     Here's an idea which likely has already been thought of and executed.
I just want to find out how to execute it.
     I am making class  notes. I would like on the same file to add my own comments that will NOT APPEAR on the notes. I do not want two separate files,
for editing purposes.   Here's what I want: I want to prefix the additional
comments for my expanded version of the notes by a symbol --- call it ** ---
so that lines preceeded by ** are only printed out when a particular control sequence in the preamble is present.  That is,

privatenotes.tex

Control sequence present
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
Class notes
Class notes
Class notes
Class notes
Class notes


classhandout.tex

Control sequence NOT present
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
** personal extra remarks
Class notes
Class notes
Class notes
Class notes
Class notes


Then when I LaTeX the first file, the ** should be ignored entirely, whereas when I LaTeX the second file ** should be read as %.  Brute force methods
have failed me.  Any ideas, (La)TeXperts??????

Thanks in advance, 
Lones Smith 
Economics
MIT

lasmith@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jwells@clausius.UVic.CA (John Wells)
Subject: Re: psfig and Macintosh special fonts
Summary: LaTeX, psfig, and EPS files with non-standard fonts
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 00:58:03 GMT

A few days ago I posted a message:

> I use psfig to include EPSF files prepared on a Mac, and most of the
> time all goes well. However, sometimes there are symbols or characters
> that print fine on the Mac but don't print within a LaTeX document.
> 
> My question: How can I ensure that non-standard PS fonts are included
> in an EPSF file, or if that's not possible, how can I manually
> transfer them from my Mac to the LaserWriter connected to my Sun?

Many thanks to the two people who mailed me replies. Marc
Heijligers (marc@es.ele.tue.nl) suggested trying MacToTex
(mactotex.tar.Z).

Ravinder Bhumbla (rbhumbla@ucsd.edu) suggested either (a) downloading
the font to the printer using the Laserwriter Font Utility, or (b)
getting the Postscript ASCII definition of the font and include it in
your EPS file.  

Ravi's second suggestion seemed the best solution, and in the end
worked perfectly. The specifics are:

1. Get the freeware utility unAdobe (it is included with the
dmm-lwstuff utility at mac.archive.umich.edu:mac/utilities/print).
UnAdobe (by Jerry Keough and Ted Ede at MITRE Corp.) runs on a Mac,
and produces an ASCII definition from an Adobe font file.

2. Move the resulting file across to the LaTeX host, and include it at
the beginning of the document which will import the EPS file requiring
the font. I used a 
  \special{header=newfont.ps}
line before the \begin{document}.

As well, my thanks go to Ravi for solving a second, related problem:
characters from the standard Postscript Symbol font were not printing
at all, when contained in an EPS file produced by the Mac graphing
program DeltaGraph. The problem is a bug in the EPS files produced by
DeltaGraph, and can be solved by adding the line
  (Symbol) findfont cd /|______Symbol exch definefont pop
just before or after the %%EndSetup line in the EPS file.

Thanks again, all.






-- 
    John Wells
    jwells@me.uvic.ca
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: palachar@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Prasad Palacharla)
Subject: latex
Summary: How can I insert a postscript file into a latex document??  Thanks for 
Keywords: postscript
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:01:48 GMT

Could any one help me embed a postscript file in a latex document.  Thanks for 
replying.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: Boldface greek letters....How to?
From: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it (Massimo Campostrini)
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:45:58 +0100
Reply-To: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it
Distribution: world
Organization: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa, Italy

John Patrick Lestrade writes:
|> 	I am in need of boldface greeks to represent vectors.  Is this hard to
|> 	achieve?
|> 
In the standard TeX distribution for Unix I found the font
"cmmib10", which does a fair job. BTW, has anybody written MetaFont code 
to generate a "more bold" math italic font? It's hard to distinguish 
cmmib10 from cmmi10 (printing on an average-resolution laser printer!)
-- 
        Massimo Campostrini,  Theoretical Physicist,
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa,
Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy  ||  Phone: (+39)(50)42093
Internet: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it    ||  Fax:   (+39)(50)48277
From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DirectTeX
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:59:52 GMT
In-reply-to: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu's message of 1 Sep 92 17:05:12 GMT


In article <1992Sep1.130513.15275@husc3.harvard.edu> gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea) writes:

   In article <1992Aug31.233934.1@cbrown.claremont.edu> dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu writes:
   >In article <1992Aug31.172419.15257@husc3.harvard.edu>, gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea) writes:
   >> By the way: for Mac users who have access to the MPW shell, this
   >> implementation of TeX is hard to beat!
   >
   >Well, I haven't seen DirectTeX in person, but Textures is not too
   >shabby. The most recent release has had a great deal of the inner
   >loop optimised in 68000 assembly resulting in speed increases of
   >200% or more. On a Quadra they're claiming TeXbook processing at
   >rates of about 40 pages per SECOND. That's slick. I have my
   >doubts about the utility of "Flash mode", but some people like
   >it.

   Yes, but no metafont, no integrated BibTeX and Makeindex, no
   (semi-)automatic font generation, and proprietary formats for everything... 

Well, yes, but...  it doesn't need automatic font generation or MetaFont ---
since it uses the CM fonts on Adobe Type 1 format.

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX In Practice
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:57:22 GMT
Organization: U. S. Naval Academy

In article <SCHOEPF.92Aug26102441@quattro.sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de writes:
>In article <2074@usna.NAVY.MIL> dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC)) writes:
>
>   And it would have looked terrible :-} (the curly for us old people
>					   with wrinkles.)
>
>No, :-} is already reserved for the bearded ones :-)


Well, I qualify there also! :-}

Dave Rogers
From: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu (David Kotz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: trouble with floats
Summary: floating all the way to the back
Keywords: float, figure, table, help
Date: 4 Sep 92 05:26:05 GMT
Followup-To: dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: dfk@wildcat.dartmouth.edu

Please respond by EMAIL.

I can't figure out why latex is floating my figures all the way to the
back of the document. The first figure is about a half-page high, and
there is plenty of surrounding text (about 30 pages). No amount of
fiddling with parameters convinces it to come sooner. I have to resort
to \clearpage. What can I try?

Here's my latest settings. I use [htb] as the location option,
although [h], [ht], and [htbp] do the same thing.

\setcounter{topnumber}{2}
\setcounter{bottomnumber}{2}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{.9}
\renewcommand{\bottomfraction}{.9}
\renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{.1}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{.1}

Thanks in advance,
dave
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email: David.Kotz@Dartmouth.edu    or   dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: 00prneubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeXShell V2.5 released
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:18:00 GMT

In article <16855AD9C.INJS@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de>, 
 INJS@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Juergen Schlegelmilch) writes:
> Hello emTeX users,
> I'm now able to release version 2.5 of TeXShell.
...
> TeXShell V2.5 adds some new features to that of version 2.4:
> - OS/2 support: TeXShell is able to start native OS/2 programs
>   from within a DOS box of OS/2 2.0 using a utility written by
>   Eberhard Mattes

Does it run *only* under OS/2 or does it also run under MS-DOS (with
or without MSWindows)?

-- 
Paul Neubauer   00prneubauer@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu  00prneubauer@bsuvax1.BITNET
                00prneubauer@bsu-ucs.UUCP       neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ibe1109@draper.com (Ira Ekhaus)
Subject: xfig (or other drawing programs) and equations (text in math mode)
Organization: Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:04:47 GMT


It doesn't seem that xfig understands TeX input.
Is this true?
Do other routines provide TeX 'text' with figures (this might probably
be a graphics front end to pictex)

thanks,

Ira
ekhaus@draper.com
Phone: 617 258 1109
Draper Laboratories m.s. 7c
555 Technology Square
Cambridge , MA 
02139
From: hsbrown@arnold.Princeton.EDU (Scott Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: ftp site for epsf macros
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:59:23 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

Does anybody know where I can get the epsf macros?
I checked the FAQ and did not see this info.
Thanks,
	Scott
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow)
Subject: Stripping a .dvi down to text, how to...
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:59:39 GMT

Howdy,
  I have a largish (~130 pages) .dvi files that I need to convert to text.
I don't have access to the .tex source files. Is there any tools available
to do this? I've gone through the FAQ and the closest thing I found was 
converting [La]TeX to/from various formats.

George

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: icking@gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Subject: Re: environment for emtex previewers
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:22:21 GMT

In <ARA.92Sep3003848@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:

>How do I have to set my environment variables to use emtex previewers.
>I think these are dviscr.exe and dviscrs.exe.

 SET-TEX.BAT

>There are so many files in my emtex directory that I can't find anything,
>pertinent documentation in particular.

 V.BAT       to view
 PRTHPLJ.BAT to print on a HP-Laserjet
 PRTxyz.BAT  to print on <xyz>

And follow ...\EMTEX\DOC\ENGLISH or ...\GERMAN - it's one of the best
documented systems. RT<fine>M :-)

Werner

PS: But if you didn't follow the installation recommendation and changed
    may be the directory structure or some names ... you may have problems.	    But with computers you may solve problems you wouldn't have without
    computer.
--
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GMD - Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH          _`\<,_
Schloss Birlinghoven, P.O.Box 1316, D-5205 Sankt Augustin, Germany   (_)/ (_)
                             "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod." ~~~~~~~~~~~
From: mppu3@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Conor McMenamin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Need DVI -> printer conversion software
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:07:53 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

Sorry if this is a FAQ, the FAQ list seems to have been deleted on my site...

	I use LaTeX on a Unix machine (sunos 4.1.1), but intend to do
large amounts of printing from two IBMPC's-one is linked to a HP
LaserJetIII, one to a HP DeskJet500. Unfortunately I cannot install
emTeX on either of these machines, as I don't own them and neither has
the disk space. However I can successfully print binaries, made on the
UNIX machine, on these printers, and have done so with the output from
various graphical packages. So down to my question:

	Does anyone know of the existence/availability of software to
convert a DVI file to Deskjet500 or HP LaserJet(III) format for use on a
UNIX machine?

	Many thanks,
	Conor.

P.S. Either email to me or post to the net, I will summarise to the net if
an answer is found!!
From: jracine@weber.ucsd.edu (Jeff Racine)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: dviscr and ATI Graphics Ultra
Date: 30 Aug 1992 16:15:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu

Try the following:

dviscr lj.cnf /oa102:800:600:53 /pt /v1 /o3 /ocr=1 /ocs10 /fl=-1

This should do the trick. it runs the ATI card in 800x600 mode, uses
the greyscale aliasing feature etc.


-- 
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jracine@weber.ucsd.edu
racine@nexus.yorku.ca
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Spelling Checking
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:44:56 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <86987@netnews.upenn.edu>, jin@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu 
(Xuegen Jin -Luzzi) writes:
> I am a novice to Latex and Tex. I was wondering whether there is a spelling
> checking function for latex file. Please reply in mail. Thanks in advance.

I am definitely not the one to give the best info on this, but I did notice
an interesting program for MSDOS machines (announced on
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives). I've included part of the doc file below. 
Others have said that ispell works well. There is also MicroSpell (?) which
received high marks from users. Hopefully someone else will followup.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu

amSpell blurb follows...

=================
     amSpell
=================
A spell checker for ASCII and (La)TeX files
===========================================
amSpell is basically a spell checker for plain ASCII files, with some
special features for dealing with TeX files. The program is written in
Turbo Pascal and runs on any MS-DOS computer.

The basic idea behind this program is to make spell checking easier by

*  providing the context of the possibly misspelled word;
*  offering alternatives;
*  offering facilities for editing the word;
*  automatically replacing wrong words by the indicated words;
*  learning new words.
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