HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rberesh@ohgpu.hydro.on.ca (R. Beresh)
Subject: Re: spell checking EmTeX
Reply-To: Robert.W.Beresh@ohrd.ohrd (R. Beresh)
Organization: Ontario Hydro Research Division
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:56:14 GMT

In article <18571@borg.cs.unc.edu> wagner@ives.cs.unc.edu (Michael Wagner) writes:
& 
& Can anyone recommend a good (hopefully public domain and
& ftp-able) spell-checker for EmTeX?  I really like being able
& to do LaTeX at home, but I need to get a spell checker (is
& ispell available for DOS?).
& 
& Mike
& 

There is an excellent spell checker called MicroSPELL that works very
well with TeX stuff. I have set up my user options from within the 
TeXShell program to call this spell checker. 
On the positive side:
- the program is free
- can build/use your own dictionaries
- has a built-in "fuzzy" search feature (much like ispell or WordPerfect(r))
  this allows the user to select the proper word from a list of alternatives
- the program can reside in memory (TSR)
- there are a lot of extra goodies along with the package (for example,
  specialized dictionaries (math for one))

On the negative side:
- The documentation is written in Japanese, however, you can figure out
  most of the stuff with just a little diligence.

This is the closest to ispell that I have seen and is a very good spell
checker.

ftp from utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (sorry don't have IP number handy)
look in ~/fj/fj.binaries.msdos/v007
files are as follows (from the archive index file):
#000470 v007i0001-0009 spljge.lzh   spell checker MicroSPELL 1.0JG
#000471 v007i0010-0013 spljgd.lzh   English Dictionary for MicroSPELL 1.0JG
#000472 v006i0014-0017 spljgs.lzh   Source files of MicroSPELL 1.0JG

Good luck!


Bob Beresh                     phone:  (416) 207-6505
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800 Kipling Ave (MS KR132)     
Toronto, Ontario, M8Z 5S4      email: rberesh@rd.hydro.on.ca
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800 Kipling Ave (MS KR132)     
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: xiao@ie.utoronto.ca (Yan Xiao)
Subject: Re: Excluding text from processing
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:10:14 GMT

lubkt@lehigh.edu (Binod K. Taterway) writes:

>In article <1h59iqINNgtq@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wright@med.wcc.govt.nz (Steve Wright  Phone +64 04 801 3735) writes:
>>In article <MAILQUEUE-101.921221141636.480@mail.lshtm.ac.uk>, ABARROS@lshtm.ac.uk (Aluisio J D Barros) writes:

>>>How can I exclude a chunk of text from being processed? I mean, as if

>How about
>\def\comment#1{}
>Caveat: The above approach won't work if you have more than a paragraph.

I use
\long\def\comment#1{}

Caveat: you get extra spacing where comment is in some cases.

Xiao
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A. Smith)
Subject: Creating a counter for the paragraph environment -- HOW??
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:24:18 GMT

Hi,
     I wish to use an additional section level, but **don't want it to  
affect the table of contents**.  I have tried deepsection.sty and it fails  
on this measure.  (It seems to do some strange stuff to the toc.)
I want my levels to be

I. section 1
II. section 2 
A. subsection 1
B. subsection 2
1. subsubsection 1
2. subsubsection 1

This I have already. But now I want \paragraph{nextleveldown} to produce
1.1 nextleveldown  
etc.  but not to appear in the toc.  How can this additional counter be  
created?  I have looked at deepsection.sty  and have no idea why it messes  
up the toc.  

I have even tried to \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
but that didn't work.   Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
--
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)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Subject: Re: Centered verbatim: how?
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:06:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.164637.9169@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
>How does one center a verbatim environment?  The following leaves
>the verbatim text left justified:
>
>	\begin{center}
>	\begin{verbatim}
>	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
>	\end{verbatim}
>	\end{center}
>
>Any ideas?  Thanks!

Do you want to center just a single line? Then try

  \begin{center}
  \verb+1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0+
  \end{center}

If you want to center several lines, get fancybox.sty.

Tim
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From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: spell checking EmTeX
Date: 31 Dec 1992 15:33:37 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: rberesh@ohgpu.hydro.on.ca's message of 31 Dec 92 12:56:14 GMT


In article <1992Dec31.125614.14773@ohgpu.hydro.on.ca> rberesh@ohgpu.hydro.on.ca (R. Beresh) writes:

   In article <18571@borg.cs.unc.edu> wagner@ives.cs.unc.edu (Michael Wagner) writes:
   & 
   & Can anyone recommend a good (hopefully public domain and
   & ftp-able) spell-checker for EmTeX?  I really like being able
   & to do LaTeX at home, but I need to get a spell checker (is
   & ispell available for DOS?).
   & 
   & Mike
   & 

   There is an excellent spell checker called MicroSPELL that works very
   well with TeX stuff. I have set up my user options from within the 
   TeXShell program to call this spell checker. 
   On the positive side:
   - the program is free

Hmm, last time I looked, MicroSpell was from Trigram Systems in Pittsburgh,
and was definitely NOT free.  It is, the best spell checker, however!


Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: lubkt@lehigh.edu (Binod K. Taterway)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Excluding text from processing
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:36:14 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University Computing Center

In article <1h59iqINNgtq@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wright@med.wcc.govt.nz (Steve Wright  Phone +64 04 801 3735) writes:
>In article <MAILQUEUE-101.921221141636.480@mail.lshtm.ac.uk>, ABARROS@lshtm.ac.uk (Aluisio J D Barros) writes:

>>How can I exclude a chunk of text from being processed? I mean, as if
>>all lines started with % signs. I have already tried to create an
>>environment like \start{ignorethis}...\end{ignorethis} but it did not
>>work.
>>

How about

\def\comment#1{}

Then

\comment{
You text here that won't be processed.
}

Caveat: The above approach won't work if you have more than a paragraph.

Regards,

Binod.
From: Richard P Hayes <CXEV@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Venn diagrams
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 23:45:01 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

If anyone has devised a set of macros, preferably for LaTeX, that
facilitate the drawing of Venn diagrams, I would be grateful to
be informed about them. Alternatively, if anyone has constructed
a decent Venn diagram from scratch and would be willing to share
the description as a model, I would be most appreciative.
  Richard Hayes
  CXEV@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA
From: thor@cmi.no (Thor Gjesdal)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: \listofsymbols macros anyone?????
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:00:05 GMT
Organization: Christian Michelsen Research a/s

-- 

hi there,
i've read or heard or seen somewhere or whatever about a set of macros to generate list of symbols (much in the same way as \tableofcontents) of course with automatic sorting and all sorts of bells and whistles. In fact i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it will feed the cat while i'm on vacation too.
  
I have been looking around in a couple of archives for this, but to no avail. and the question is simple: 
	-does these macros exist or have i been misled?
	-if yes: where can i get them?

ciao,
	thoR


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From: robertb@kronecker.mit.edu (Robert Becker)
Subject: Re: problems downloading emtex
Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 14:38:08 GMT

In article <wfDGULi00WB34SREsv@andrew.cmu.edu> mf4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Fichman) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I downloaded emtex via anonymous ftp from ymir.claremont.edu.  When I
>tested the integrity of the various *.zip files using pkunzip's -t
>option, several of the files failed, and showed errors.

The problem is that the PKZIP supplied with the emTeX distribution
is out of date.  Find PKZIP Version 1.10 and use that.
-- 

---------------
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Cambridge, MA  02139-4307        (617)253-1797    robertb@math.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Subject: Own Counters with Labels/Ref
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:57:51 PST

I would like to use \ref on a counter that I define myself. That is, I want to
be able to say somewhere,

	This refers to \ref{hi}.

	<some text>
	setcounter{myctr}{20}
	\newlabel{hi}{{\arabic{myctr}}}

it would print the contents of myctr where the label was processed, i.e.

	This refers to 20.

It  works if the label  comes before the reference,  not thereafter.  That is,
the information is not written to the aux  file. This is probably very simple,
but I have tried many variations and didn't get it.

/ivo welch
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: booklet printing with dvips/psnup: poor output
From: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 10:37:17 GMT
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computation Center.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
: In <H.eg.OrqZKspCnj2@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de> kruel@wpcst1.phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel)
: >  Everything works fine except that the output on a SUN SparcPrinter
: >is very poor. The characters come out cribbled, e.g. you can't
: >recognize the vertical bar of an `e' and so on.
:
: dvips includes bitmap representations of the fonts used into the postscript
: file. The postscript utilities tell the printer to shrink that bitmap which
: is a lossy process. If you work with scalable fonts this problem is overcome
: by 'hints' in the font description that f.e. tell the renderer to leave the
: vertical bar of an 'e' at least 1 pixel wide. This is not possible with the
: bitmap fonts you use.
:
: There are two solutions. 1) Tell dvips to use 600dpi fonts (which hopefully
: exist or can be calculated with metafont). This most likely will give enough
: resolution so that you don't miss details. 2) Use scalable Postscript fonts.
: Dvips supports virtual fonts for the standard Postscript font families. There
: are some styles for TeX and LaTeX that exchange the standard Computer Modern
: fonts with Postscript fonts.
:
There is one more solution, which in my opinion is much better. That is
to use the -x option of dvips to reduce the page on the dvi level (dvips
will use smaller pk-fonts) and then use the pstops program *without any
reduction* to rearrange the pages. Or to use the dvidvi program and forget
all together about the psnup or pstops programs.

: Regards,
: --
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From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: A small box
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:16:28 GMT
	<MARTINC.92Dec17171611@grover.cs.unc.edu>
	<1992Dec18.162633.11410@math.ucla.edu> <1gt6qeINNt2v@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
Reply-To: karl@cs.umb.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


   >>   >I'd like to use a small box, about .25in square...

See \openbox in Eplain (ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/eplain.tar.Z).

Hey, why am I muttering about Eplain in all my messages today?  This is
bizarre.
--
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Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to lpf@uunet.uu.net.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Tim Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: OzTex problem
X-Xxdate: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15: 59:18 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: tsl1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:53:16 GMT

In article <ysong-221292152223@mac169.phys.nwu.edu> Y.Q. Song,
ysong@nwu.edu writes:
>I recently have noticed a problem with OzTeX 1.4 that occasionally some
of
>the characters are not compiled correctly. For a few times, a "T" become
a
>"\Gamma" in the dvi file. Te problem may disappear when I quit and
lunched
>OzTeX again. Wonder if anyone has such experience.

I too had that problem (before I switched to DirectTeX). As I recall, I 
came up with no better fix than yours: relaunch OzTeX.

Tim Larkin
Federal Nutrition Laboratory
Tower Road
Ithaca, New York
tsl1@cornell.edu
607-255-7008
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A. Smith)
Subject: centering and renaming tableofcontents --- HOW??
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:35:24 GMT

Hi,

Currently, the toc is 
1. called ``Contents'', and is 
2. left justified, and
3. intoo small a font

I have to call it ``Table of Contents'', center it, and hpefully enlarge  
the type size. How might this be done??

Thanks in advance,
--
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: JIM GOIT -- PI <JG_PI@ac.nsac.ns.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: problems with xdvi and AP-Tex fonts
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:35:21 AST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Hi:

I am trying to use xdvi on my VT1200 to preview dvi files created on our
microvax.  It works great expect when it encounters a file with one of the
AP-Tex font from Kinch Computers.  I bought the whole set from Kinch about two
years ago and they work fine on our ln03+ & ln06 with dvi2ln3.  We don't have
PostScript at this site.

When xdvi comes across a file with the one of this font set, it gives the
following error message:


xdvi: File psmhvno lacks preamble command


I have followed up with Dr. Kinch and he tells me the font set did not come
from metafont but could not offer any other help.

I get a similar message when I use dvi2vdu:

Loading font data from tex_disk:[tex.fonts.][360]psmhlv.pk
Bad pre command in tex_disk:[tex.fonts.][360]psmhlv.pk

Can anybody offer a possible solution to this problem?  We like the AP-Tex
fonts but would really like some sort of screen previewer on the VAX. Right now
the only driver we have that works on them beside lntex is tty. Not the best
solution.

Thanks.

Jim Goit, JG_PI@ac.nsac.ns.ca
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to typeset "Player A"
From: maschler@vms.huji.ac.il (MICHAEL MASCHLER)
Date: 2 Jan 1993 18:54 IDT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


In preparing a book, I ran into the following problem: How should I
typeset "Player A"?  Should it be Player A or should it be Player $A$?

My inclination is not to add the dollar signs for the following reasons:

a. The A is not a mathematical entity. It is a name for the player, like
   Player Abraham. Alternatively, it is an enumeration part, like
   Player 1, Player 2, etc.

b. Graphically, I find it unpleasent to have a somewhat slanted $A$ together
   with the unslanted Player.

My co-author prefers $A$, claiming that it better stressed this way.

I looked at several books on the subject and they all use a slanted A,
or italic A. However, Player 1 was always printed with no slant, or italics.


My questions are: Is there a correct way to typeset Player A?
                  If not, what do you prefer personally, and why?

Thanks in advance for every answer and advise you may care to give,

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: abbasi@star.enet.dec.com (My name is Nasser Abbasi)
Subject: seeking opinions about Scientific Word software and its TeX output
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:12:49 GMT


Hello, I've seen an Ad. about this new WYSWYG Scientific word processor,
it is supposed to generate as output a .TeX file of the document you
are working on. Has any one used this software? if so, could you please
give your opinion of it? I've read that the cost of it is about $600
for the PC. 
if you are using it, does it have all the TeX capabilities available
from plain TeX? is it worth the $600 price? how happy are you with it?
etc.. etc...

please post here or send  mail i'll appreciate it. 

thanks in advance.

\bye
\nasser

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: andy@awds.imsd.contel.com (Andy Moskoff)
Subject: Tex Binaries
Organization: GTE Federal Systems, Westlake Village, CA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:33:37 GMT

Hi,


This is my first posting so, excuse please if this has been asked before.

Does anyone know where I can get the Tex binaries and complete
distribution for ISC Unix 3.01?

I understand the source is huge and I really don't have the time to try
and build it. Please send responses via e-mail. Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: totran@glider.lerc.nasa.gov (le tran)
Subject: Latex: description enviroment
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:24:58 GMT

I need your help in Latex. I want to do

\begin{descrition}
\item[ this]     Description of 'this'
\item{ is]     Description of 'is'
\item{ a]     Description of 'a'
\item{ test]     Description of 'test'
\end{descrition}

As you can see, the margins between the items and the descriptions vary.
I want these margins to be fixed, like this 

\begin{descrition}
\item[ this]     Description of 'this'
\item{ is]       Description of 'is'
\item{ a]        Description of 'a'
\item{ test]     Description of 'test'
\end{descrition}

This can be done if I used the tabular enviroment, but my description
list is longer than one page, and the tabular enviroment does not allow
the page breaking in a middle of the tabular enviroment.

Please send your suggestion to: totran@glider.lerc.nasa.gov

Thanks in advance.

Le
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From: baron@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Jonathan Baron)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Scribe/FinalWord to LaTeX conversion
Date: 30 Dec 92 02:53:07 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I have been using FinalWord and have just decided to try LaTeX.
Our computer has a program (from where I don't know) called
s2latex, which does a basic conversion.  But here is a little
file that might help to supplement it:

@heading REPLACE section
@subheading REPLACE subsection
@foot REPLACE footnote
@display ENV quote

You call this by saying
s2latex -s thisfile < FinalWordfile

Then the following replacements are also useful:

s/heading{/section{toc}{/g
s/section{/section{toc}{/g
s/chapter{/chapter{toc}{/g
s/@{[\achrt`<]*}/\\noindent /g
s/`/``/g
s/' /'' /g
s/'$/''/g
s/')/'')/g

These are used with the stream editor sed:
sed -f thisfile < outputofs2latex > finaltexfile

These two things together will handle almost everything in a
basic, nonfancy, manuscript.  (Tables excluded.)

Jon Baron
From: Malki Cymbalista <VUMALKI@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: bst file for Journal of_Magnetic Resonance
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 11:24:56 +0200
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I am looking for a bst file for The Journal Of Magnetic resonance.
This journal requires references in the following form:
1.  Reference number should be in italic type followed by a period.
2.  Authors names in a small caps font
3.  Name of publication in italics
4.  Journal number in bold, roman font followed by a comma
5.  Page number in plain Roman font
6.  Year in plain Roman font in parentheses

Any information will be appreciated.

thanks

malki
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: he@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Liang He)
Subject: How to print four column text?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:10:05 GMT

Does anyone know how to print four-column text on a
landscape page format with LaTeX or TeX? Thanks.

Liang He
he@monk.physio.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A. Smith)
Subject: Putting less space in  toc indents --- HOW??
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:53:20 GMT


Hi,

This is highly correlated with my last post.   With 
subsubsubsections, (which I want) it would be nice if the \tableofcontents  
command didn't indent over so much with each higher level.   What do I  
do??

Sincerely,

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)

PS Apologies. This errantly (*my* error) got posted to another service.

Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:14554 comp.text:1511
From: perham@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Per Hammarlund)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.text
Subject: Typefonts in the New Yorker magazine?
Date: 2 Jan 93 11:59:02 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: /afs/nada.kth.se/home/sans/perham/.organization


What type fonts are used in the New Yorker magazine for headers and
text?  Is anyone of the free and accessible?

Please answer with email, perham@nada.kth.se.

Thanks,
per
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex