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From: INJS@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Juergen Schlegelmilch)
Subject: Re: TeXShell V2.5 released
Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU CLAUSTHAL
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:49:12 GMT

>Does it run *only* under OS/2 or does it also run under MS-DOS (with
>or without MSWindows)?
It *only* runs under MS-DOS (or DR-DOS, if you prefer), but it comes
with an OS/2 utility allowing it to start native OS/2 programs. This
utility is OS2EXECD.EXE written by Eberhard Mattes. To use it, start
os2execd.exe from an OS/2 command prompt; it will open a window and
wait for messages. Start TeXShell and modify e.g. the Options!Output!
Previewer to use DVIpm, append an exclamation mark '!' to the program
name. Now press F8 (with an primary or edit file set, of course) and
TeXShell will send message to os2execd.exe causing it to start DVIpm
with the required arguments and environment. After termination of
DVIpm os2execd.exe sends the exit code back to TeXShell, and TeXShell
is active again. Everything ok? Start os2execd.exe with the -v option
(verbose) to see the messages sent between it and TeXShell.
  J"urgen
From: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk (David Carlisle)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Alternatives to supertab.sty ?
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:33:43 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
In-reply-to: IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET's message of 25 Aug 92 13:15:15 GMT

>>>>> On 25 Aug 92 13:15:15 GMT, IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Stephan Petersen) said:

Stephan> I'm having some problems with supertab.sty concerning page breaks, page
Stephan> formatting, etc. Is there any other style-file that would kind of do the
Stephan> same job ( with less problems ;-) ) ?

I can not promise that you will have less problems, but you could try
my longtable.sty.

longtable is available from shsu and aston, and I think stuttgart.
Instructions on accessing shsu appear at the end.

Most questions like this can be answered by picking up a copy of
David Jones macro index, the entry for longtable says:

> Name: longtable.sty
> Description: LaTeX style option defining a multi-page version of
>     tabular.
> Keywords: LaTeX, array, tabular, multi-page
> Author: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
> Supported: yes
> Latest Version: v3.2, 9 Apr 1992
> Archives: shsu*
> Note: Documentation requires Mittelbach's doc.sty.
> See Also: supertab.sty

A new version will be released within the next few weeks, after the
promised new version of doc.sty is released. In the case of longtable,
only the documentation will change, not the actual code. 

David

If you would like to retrieve the file, include the command:
 SENDME STY.LONGTABLE
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
If you would like an overview of FILESERV, include the command HELP in your
message.  For anonymous ftp access, use Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) and
look in the directory [FILESERV.STY].
--
                           David Carlisle
                                    JANET: carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs

                                    Computer Science Department
                                    Manchester University
                                    Oxford Road
                                    Manchester
                                    England
                                    M13 9PL
From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: can't run emTeX386
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 12:07:13 +0200
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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>  I can't get emTeX386 to run in OS/2.  When I try to compile a document I get
>    [D:\emtex\texinput]tex386 ^&lplain sample
>    This is emTeX (tex386), Version 3.141 [3c-beta8] (no format preloaded)
>    **&lplain sample
>    (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

You probably still have the original bigTeX .fmt-files (of the
non-Beta-Version), which are not compatible with emTeX386. Either get
the Beta-Version of bigTeX or simply recreate the .fmt files in
\emtex\btexfmts: (replace "btex -i"  by "tex386 -i" in fmt.cmd and
then run fmt.cmd, this should in fact do the job).
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From: hafner@ALMADEN.IBM.COM ("James L. Hafner")
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: FoilTeX now available!
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:02:14 GMT

What is FoilTeX?
   FoilTeX is a LaTeX-like system for typesetting foils, slides,
transparencies, etc.  It differs quit a bit from SliTeX, both
in usability and in presentation.  It supports very large fonts
and all of LaTeX's font changing commands (using Old Font Selection
Scheme).   There are lots of built-ins for helping user's structure
their foils and it supports (automatically) just about everything
in standard LaTeX.  For more information, please consult the
documentation (foildoc.tex) which is part of the package.
   FoilTeX supports and is completely compatible with the new
color scheme included in recent releases of Rokicki's dvips driver.
(In fact, it was the FoilTeX effort that lead to the development
of that color scheme.)  Consequently, FoilTeX can be easily used
to get one-pass multicolor foils (if used with the right driver
and printer, of course).


Where is FoilTeX?
   The first official non-IBM version of FoilTeX has just been
installed on some of the TeX archives.  It can be found in
   LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.INPUTS.FOILTEX] at ymir.claremont.edu
   soft/tex/foiltex at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de
   DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.FOILTEX] at TeX.ac.uk
and hopefully other archives as well.
   In all but the Aston archives you will find both a collection
of plain (ascii) files as well as a compressed tar file of the
entire package.


Who developed FoilTeX?
   FoilTeX was originally developed by here at IBM's
Almaden Research Center a couple of years ago.  It has found wide use
and acceptance inside IBM and the version out on the TeX archives is
an updated and improved version.  The archived version is also the
first release of the package outside of IBM.
   The package was first publicly announced at the TUG'92 meeting
in Portland, OR.


Any comments, questions or suggestions are welcome either on this
forum or by contacting me directly.

Jim Hafner
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        Almaden Research Center K53/802
        650 Harry Road
        San Jose, CA  95120-6099
        (408)927-1892
        FAX: (408)997-4662
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From: karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: IBM Pennant Systems survey
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:56:25 -0400
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

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.

I urge people not to cooperate with this survey.

karl@cs.umb.edu

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	Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 08:51:58 MDT
	From: "David Eldeen" <deldeen@vnet.ibm.com>
	To: karl@cs.umb.edu
	Subject: IBM Pennant Systems Survey
	Status: R

	Karl:

	In response to your questions about our survey I can tell you that we will use
	the documents for our tests.  If you have documents that are sensitive in
	content or form, (e.g. special TeX macros that are proprietary) you should
	not send them because they will be available to other product testing teams
	here at Pennant Systems.

	The data collected will be used for testing purposes also.

	This is all I can tell you about what the data and documents will be used for.

	I can tell you what IBM Pennant Systems is all about.

	Pennant Systems is an IBM Company who's mission is "Be the premier provider of
	print related systems and services".

	A brochure printed 3/92 states:

	"...Pennant Systems offers customers a way to distribute printing in the large
	host, midrange and local area network (LAN) environments."

	Please let me know if you would be interested in participating in the survey.
	If not, I understand and thank you for your interest.

	Sincerely,

	David Eldeen
	Analysts International Corp.
	IBM (303)924-7080
	AIC (303)721-6200
	INTERNET: deldeen@vnet.ibm.com
From: henrik@stat.tamu.edu (Henrik Schmiediche)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: PCTeX phone number
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:22:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: tamsun.1992Aug28.182229.12067
Organization: Department of Statistics, TAMU


   Hi,
could someone who knows the phone number of PCTeX please email it
to me? Thanks.

     - Henrik


--
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E-mail: henrik@stat.tamu.edu  |  Tel: (409) 845-8886/9447 Fax: (409) 845-3144
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From: nico@cs.ruu.nl (Nico Verwer)
Subject: Re: LaTeX question: frames with round corners
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:12:53 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <1992Aug27.123632.26858@cs.ruu.nl> nico@cs.ruu.nl (Nico Verwer) writes:

>Yesterday, I wrote:
>>I would like to have a macro similar to \fbox, but with rounded corners.
>
>Although there was only one me-too, I'll post my code here, just to
>contribute to comp.text.tex. This is largely borrowed from LaTeX.TeX.

Since then, I have received more reactions, and a bug report.
Some people pointed me to pstricks, which can do this, but it needs a
postscript printer.

The macro I posted did not work when you put an ovalfbox around a parbox
or minipage. That has now been solved, and the (hopefully correct) macro
is:

\def\ovalfbox#1{%
  \mbox{% mbox, leaves vertical mode!
    \begingroup \newdimen\@ovdp
    \boxmaxdepth\maxdimen
    \@ovttrue \@ovbtrue \@ovltrue \@ovrtrue
    \setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1}%
    \@ovxx\wd\@tempboxa \advance\@ovxx2\fboxsep
    \@ovdp\dp\@tempboxa \advance\@ovdp\fboxsep
    \@ovyy\ht\@tempboxa \advance\@ovyy\@ovdp \advance\@ovyy\fboxsep
    \@tempdimb \ifdim \@ovyy >\@ovxx \@ovxx\else \@ovyy \fi
    \advance \@tempdimb -2\p@
    \@getcirc \@tempdimb     % sets \@tempboxa en \@tempdima
    \@ovro \ht\@tempboxa \@ovri \dp\@tempboxa
    \@ovdx\@ovxx \advance\@ovdx -\@tempdima \divide\@ovdx \tw@
    \@ovdy\@ovyy \advance\@ovdy -\@tempdima \divide\@ovdy \tw@
    \@circlefnt
    \setbox\@tempboxa
    \hbox{\if@ovr \@ovvert32\kern -\@tempdima \fi
          \if@ovl \kern \@ovxx \@ovvert01\kern -\@tempdima \kern -\@ovxx \fi
          \if@ovt \@ovhorz \kern -\@ovxx \fi
          \if@ovb \raise \@ovyy \@ovhorz \fi}%
    \ht\@tempboxa\z@ \dp\@tempboxa\z@
    \raise-\@ovdp\hbox to\z@{\box\@tempboxa}%
    \hbox to\@ovxx{\hss\rm #1\hss}%
    \endgroup}}
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu ()
Subject: SEEKING TERRIBLY USEFUL TeX MACRO
Reply-To: ritley@uiucmrl.bitnet ()
Organization: Materials Research Lab
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:15:05 GMT


I have found that it is awkward to provide empty space for figures
at the top of selected pages
in a document.  I usually accomplish this by means of \topinserts
scattered thoughout the document.

SURELY it must be possible to collect these \topinserts together and
position them at the BEGINNING  of the document.
A macro which I can envision doing this might look (when it is
called) something like this:
	\Topinsert{3}{\vskip 5 true in}  %figure on page 3


I have a feeling such a macro would be VERY difficult to write.
However, it would be TREMENDOUSLY useful.

Has anyone seen such a macro as this??  Might anyone be willing
to write one????


Many thanks!
From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Paper and fonts (was Re: TeX In Practice)
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:30:35 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 <1992Aug25.131542.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
|> In article <l9kqsnINN7kb@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:

|> > If I would have had any say in the choice of paper I would have
|> > opted for parchment, in real leather binding :-)
|> 
|> Probably would have taken Baskerville even worse. Today's smooth
|> papers are largely an outgrowth of the demands of the
|> transitionals and moderns as well as certain illustrative
|> printing processes.

Bull, Don. Have you ever seen a page printed by Bodoni himself?
I have. (If you ever get to Antwerpen, Belgium go see the Plantijn
museum. It makes people like you and me positively drool. They
have some neat samples of old printing there, by Plantijn and
some others. Also lots of old equipment.)
That paper is of high quality, but nowhere near as smooth as what
is used nowadays, for instance in my book :-) And Bodoni's type
is much more demanding that Baskerville.

|> -dh

Victor.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Subject: Loading TeX/LaTeX formats
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:37:22 GMT


Ok, I understand that plain.fmt and lplain.fmt are the preloaded default
formats that TeX and LaTeX uses, however, how would I load a different 
format for use in TeX? Would I do the same thing I did for plain.fmt,
by using IniTeX (-i), then dump the output to a file (plain.fmt)?

Thanks
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    .  .      +---------------------------------+
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson)
Subject: slightly long equations?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:57:01 GMT

I have several equations which just force the equation number onto the next
line.  It appears that everything would fit on a single line if the equation
was set flush left.  Is this bad style (not having an indented equation)?
If not, how can I set an equation flush left?

Many thanks,

-- 

Darran Edmundson
darran@chaos.phys.sfu.ca
From: yang@bmsr10.usc.edu (Fang Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTex and SigmaPlot
Date: 25 Aug 1992 15:41:36 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bmsr10.usc.edu

Here is my story:

I generated a couple of .ps files from SigmaPlot in PC and uploaded
to Sun station. I can print them in the Postscript printer (Apple)
individually. However when I included them in a LaTex file by '\speical',
I had difficulty in printing so-generated .ps file. The printer would blink 
for a while and stopped without printing out anything. 
But, I can view them in X-window.

I need your help to solve this mystery.
Please E-mail me since I seldom read this group.

Fang




Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: marc@hemlock.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Subject: Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC
Originator: marc@hemlock
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 1 Sep 92 03:51:17 CDT


I *hate* to sound like I'm supporting IBM (I'm not!), but hasn't anybody heard
of variable (V) and undefined (U) length records on IBM mainframes?  I have
transferred DVI files to VB datasets and sent them through a DVI2TTY driver
quite sucessfully.  Remember: not every IBM dataset is 80-byte, fixed length!

Cheers,

[M][a][r][c]
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:36:49 PDT

In article <l9r7r0INNq42@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
> In article <1992Aug28.010819.1940@umr.edu>, mcastle@mcs213d.cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle) writes:
> |> Our local IBM mainframe has a 3820 laster printer on it that can handle 
> |> duplex printing.  The mainframe has TeX and dvi support for the 3820, but
> |> I'd rather use the TeX system on our unix system.  My problem is moving the
> |> dvi files from the ascii based unix system to the ebcdic based ibm mainframe.

> |> I've done a little of of looking and asking around, but can't seem to find
> |> anything that looks like it would be useful for making an easy transition
> |> between the systems.

> You don't say that you have tried to simply transport the dvi files and
> that you've failed. Have you tried simply binary transporting them?

> (Dvi files are completely byte-based, so it should work. In the past I've
> moved dvi files from an Atari-st to a Unix system, and they printed
> perfectly.)

DVI files should be transferred as binary files.

When moving a DVI file to any system with a record-based file
system (CMS, MVS, VMS, ???), you also need to worry about the
padding of the final record of the file. Simply using FTP to
transfer the file with F1024 records is not enough for a valid
DVI file on CMS (although it is necessary). One must also make
sure that the file is padded xDF (which is valid) instead of the
x00's that are inserted by every file transfer protocol.

-dh

btw Victor, even ignoring the record issue, ST-Unix is far from
an analogous file transfer.

And it's the paper, not the ink.

Don Hosek                  
dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu  
Quixote Digital Typography 
714-621-1291
From: wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: Adding fonts to GhostScript
Date: 28 Aug 92 09:20:33 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


Marcel Wijkstra writes:
      I have several .afm font files, which are used for 'enscript' (creating
      a PostScript file with a specified font/size from plain ascii). Unfortunately,
      not every afm font is supported by GhostScript (2.3, with GhostView 1.3).
      Is there a way to convert/add them to GhostScript? If possible, can I
      locate them in a different directory than the gs font dir?

Sorry, but .afm is for Adobe Font Metrics, and .afm files (very much
like .tfm files in the TeX world) only contain the widths etc. of the
characters, not the outlines. The real fonts data are in files called
.pfb (binary) and .pfa (ASCII) , and are usually not free.

Starting with Version 2.4, Ghostscript should be in fact able to use
them. All you have to do is put the files in your font directory (or
point the GS_LIB variable to where they are) and edit your Fontmap file.
I tried it with the fonts coming with MS-Windows 3.1 an the Adobe Type
Manager. It works really fine.
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From: gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (Gregory Lampshire)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: I'm confused about writing styles and using NFSS....
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:39:17 GMT


	

Awhile ago I posted a question about how to get a style option working  
with NFSS.  The style option contained \xipt etc calls to macros which  
aren't defined in the basic NFSS latex format (since lfonts.new doesn't  
contain such a declaration).  The funny thing that I noticed is that all  
the other styles which do call \xipt to set the font sizes work fine  
except for my locally defined thesis font.  Since I got something to work  
okay with my thesis style, I am now wondering:

1) Which is the more established packaged for using times.sty.  I have  
two, one from Tom Jones called psfonts, and another called PSNFSS.

2)  Since I had to include oldlfont.sty in the Rainer Shoepf package into  
my thesis style to get it to work, I assume that \xipt was not defined.   
What then is the proper way to set the \LARGE etc macros using ps fonts?   
Or do I just use the old \xipt and always include oldlfont.sty?



So I ask you, what package do you use that has a times.sty in it and when  
writing your own style, should you go right for the ps fonts or should you  
do some more general way via \xipt and let some other style file handle  
the mapping between ps fonts and \xipt (and hence \LARGE etc)?


The three packages with a times.sty in it that I know of are:

1) Tom Jones, psfonts
2) Tom Rick. (with dvips), psfonts
3) psnfss, pnfss.sup and times.sty


2) Tom R.'s psfonts does not appear to be as general as the other two in  
that 1 and 3 correct for x heights and have conv. macros for change to  
entire font families quickly.


Help!


--
Gregory Lampshire 
Virginia Tech
Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering
gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
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My opinions are my very own and do not reflect the opinions of any  
employer
From: schach@csa2.lbl.gov (A SCHACH VON WITTENAU)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: BIBUNITS.STY --- How to Use
Date: 4 Sep 92 02:44:14 GMT
Reply-To: schach@csa2.lbl.gov
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.197
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

Hi all:
	I have FTP'ed BIBUNITS.STY from NIORD.SHSU.EDU (?)
and am having trouble getting it to work.  I am doing the following:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentstyle[12pt,bibunits]{book}
\begin{document}
\bibliographyunit[\chapter]
\input{chap1}
\input{chap2}
    .
    .
    .
    .
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\bibliography{biblist.bib}
\end{document}


	Each "CHAP" file has a \putbib at the end.

	Any suggestions/working examples?


			ASvW   SCHACH@LBL.BITNET
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