HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX In Practice
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:48:11 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 <SCHOEPF.92Aug26102441@quattro.sc.ZIB-Berlin.de>, Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf) 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 :-)

Wrong. That's :-)=

|>    Rainer Schoepf

Victor. 8-)  
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: kris@diku.dk (Kristoffer H. Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Commutative diagram
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:59:43 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

hank@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:

>... You might check
>Kristoffer Rose's xypic macros. They are very good for any
>commutative-diagram-like stuff. Look at diku.du [129.142.96.1]. These will
>also work with LaTeX.

Thank for the praise, but the ftp address is wrong...here is the right one:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
XY-pic is available by anonymous ftp from diku.dk [129.142.96.1] in

	pub/TeX/misc/xypic.TRAILER	this file
	pub/TeX/misc/xypic.tar.Z	compressed tar archive
	pub/TeX/misc/xypicman.ps.Z	compressed 300 dpi PostScript
					manual source
	pub/TeX/misc/xypicready.tar.Z 	ready to use if you have a
					300 dpi laser-printer!

The `ready to use' package includes the manual in DVI form and TEX-,
TFM-, and PK-files that should be copied to the appropriate TEXINPUTS,
TEXFONTS, and DVI driver font directories."
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Regards,
-- 
______________________________________________________________________
Kristoffer H{\o}gsbro ROSE                      Internet: kris@diku.dk
DIKU (TOPPS group), University of Copenhagen       Voice: +45 35321420
Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen {\O}        Fax: +45 35321401
From: furnish@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Bibtex style for annotated bibliography?
Summary: I need one.
Date: 24 Aug 92 01:48:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Can someone send me, or tell me where to find, a Bibtex style file for
making annotated bibliographies?  Basically I just want something that
works like the plain style, but prints out whatever annotation exists
(if any) for the entry.

Many thanks for any help.

Geoff Furnish
furnish@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: Egyptian Language Fonts
Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:41:31 GMT

In article <BtzqtL.6wq@gate.demon.co.uk> James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>   Before I go ahead and start coding up between 800 and 3000 glyhps in 
>   METAFONT I thought I'd ask out here. Does anybody know of any 
>   hierogyphic, demotic or hieratic fonts available for typesetting Middle 
>   Egyptian?
>

There's an article about this in one of the more recent issues of PUBLISH.
As I recall, there was an article about a commercially available font. If
this is a PostScript font, you can (most likely) use it with TeX.



>   James Petts
>   ********************************************************************
>   * "We use the classical theory on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, *   
>   *  and the quantum theory on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays."   *
>   ************************************** Wm. Bragg *******************

       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
       N-0589 OSLO 5           |           rolfl.lindgren@usit.uio.no 
--
       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
       N-0589 OSLO 5           |           rolfl.lindgren@usit.uio.no
From: kayvan@satyr.Rational.COM (Kayvan Sylvan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX to WordDefect
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:40:51 GMT
Organization: Rational, Satna Clara, CA
In-reply-to: wilcox@cmns.think.com's message of 28 Aug 92 19:33:35 GMT

In article <9208281933.AA13438@cmns.think.com.Think.COM> wilcox@cmns.think.com (Greg Wilcox) writes:

   I have a chapter of a book which is done in TeX (actually LaTeX).
   Unfortunately, the publisher insists that he needs it in WordPerfect
   format. The chapter is full of equations, all carefully crafted in TeX.
   Does anyone know of a way to convert TeX equations into WordPerfect
   equations? Thanks for any suggestions or pointers.

You need to apply a conversion process to the publisher, not your
document.

1/2 ;-)

			---Kayvan
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bloomfld@stat.ncsu.edu (Peter Bloomfield)
Subject: Experience with Scientific Word?
Originator: bloomfld@essspb.stat.ncsu.edu
Keywords: LaTeX, Scientific Word
Organization: Statistics, NCSU
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:42:38 GMT


Can anyone offer any experiences with or opinions about 
Scientific Word (from TCI)?  Specifically,
1.  For entry of mathematical material, how does SW compare 
with WYSIWYG programs such as MS Word, or Exp, or T3?
2.  Does SW really encourage the author to concentrate on
document structure and content, rather than appearance?
3.  More generally, does SW promote good document-preparation
practices?

All comments welcome!  I'd be glad to summarize if there's
interest.

Peter Bloomfield
Department of Statistics, NCSU
From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Virtual font previewers (?)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 22:43:33 +0200
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

   Do any PC previewers (besides Arbortext's) handle virtual fonts?

emTeX's previewer does.

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Phone:	+49 941 943 2085
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From: chd@thisbe.ece.arizona.edu (Chris De Young)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: DVI to HP problem - fonts?
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:23:36 GMT
Reply-To: chd@thisbe.ece.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: --
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4

I'm having a problem using DVIJET with TeX Version 3.1 [PD VMS 3.3/DECUS]....
A few questions:

Will DVIJET work for a LaserJet series II?  (once I get it working at all that
is).  If not, where can I find a DVIHP that will?

DVIJET <filename>.DVI results in the following errors:

%Font file [cmbx10 [mag 868]] could not be opened; 0 font files are open
Proceeding with zero size characters for this font
Current TeX page counters: [0]

%Font file [cmbx12 [mag 603]] could not be opened; 0 font files are open
Proceeding with zero size characters for this font
Current TeX page counters: [0]
.
.
.
and so on; there are about 8 of these (one per font I would assume).
Where can I get the fonts for a Hewlett Packard LaserJet series II, and 
where/how do they need to be installed?  Or, how do I go about making them
if I can do that with Metafont (I'm a complete Metafont novice)?

Any help is greatly appreciated....

Chris DeYoung
chd@hermes.ece.arizona.edu
From: rvm20@melsun0.mel.go.jp (Prasad Akella)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Nonstandard captions
Date: 30 Aug 92 11:00:26 GMT
Reply-To: rvm20@melsun0.mel.go.jp (Prasad Akella)
Organization: Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST, MITI.

In article <QebFBJe00iUyE3pJQN@andrew.cmu.edu> cc3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher N. Carlson) writes:
>I'd like figure captions to be flush-left instead of centered, and the
>"Figure x.xx" label to be boldface.  Ought to be an easy modification,
>but I can't figure out how to do it.  Any suggestions?


I'd like mine (the caption, that is) to be in landscape mode (since an
.spef figure i imported is in landscape mode).



any sugggestions?

thanks
-prasad
From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:45:26 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt

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?

It will most probably fail.

That has nothing to do with ASCII or EBCDIC. Most DVI drivers assume
that IBM mainframes (I assume that they run either MVS or VM/CMS, not
AIX/370 ;-) store the files in fixed record files. The driver's
documentation should tell on which file format they can work. If not,
one can just look at the FCB attributes of the DVI files produced by
the mainframe TeX.

If a DVI file is transferred (of course, binary) the last record is
filled up very often, since the length of a UNIX DVI file is not a
proper multiple of the record length. Usually this padding is done
with null bytes. But the DVI definition explicitely forbids null
bytes at the end -- but it allows as the usage of "DF bytes as
padding chars.

Ie, the possible solutions for Michael:
 -- Either he is able to set the padding character in his transfer
    program to "DF.
 -- Or he must write a small tool on his UNIX box which appends a
    proper number of "DF bytes.
 -- Or he must write a small tool on his mainframe which replaces all
    null-bytes at the end of the DVI file with "DF bytes (but then he
    should check if four "DF bytes are in front of all these null
    bytes, otherwise it is surely no DVI file.)

--
Joachim

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Joachim Schrod			Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

	``How do we persuade new users that spreading fonts across the page
	like peanut butter across hot toast is not necessarily the route to
	typographic excellence?				-- Peter Flynn
From: simmons@krang.vis.citri.edu.au (Stephen Edward Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: A question for a TeXnician about \shipout
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:42:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

I have written a LaTeX style that takes pages in pairs and ships them
out, one on the left hand side of a (landscape) A4 page and the other on 
the right.  This was done by re\defining \shipout to save the left
hand pages in a box, and then call the real \shipout with the 
left and the right hand pages in an \hbox when the right page is complete.

This works fine, except for cross-referencing.  Because the \write commands
are expanded when the double pages are finally shpped out, references to the
page numbers come out with odd pages numbers (the left hand pages) replaced
with the right hand page number.

Is there any way to convince \writes on the left hand pages to occur when the
page is complete and stored in the temorary box rather than when both pages
are shipped out?  

Alternatively, is it possible to replace references to \count0 on the left
hand pages to \count0-1 so that they come out correctly when the double
page goes through TeX's intestinal tract?

Thanks. 

Stephen Simmons
From: edavis@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Ellen Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: REPOST: centering page numbers using refman
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:31:36 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

I don't think my original post made it out, at least I did not
see it on my machine.  So here it is again:

	I am writing a document using the report style with regmar
and refman style options.  From refman.sty:

% Page Styles:
% The pagestyles plain, headings and myheadings are redefined and new
% pagestyles footings and myfootings are defined, which all use the
% \fullwidth, with \thepage on the outer side of the (odd/even) page
% and some with a \hrule below the head line or above the foot line.

I would like the page numbers to be centered at the bottom of the
page.  As a novice latex user, I cannot figure out how to do this.
Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

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From: jxp@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito)
Subject: Re: Boldface greek letters....How to?
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:22:00 GMT

Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de> writes:

>In LaTeX I use (Warning, Poor Man's bold is not very pretty)

You don't need to do this! Try this:
\font\bgreek=cmmib10 % bold symbols at 10 pt (see p430 of TeXbook for font)
\def\balpha{\hbox{\bgreek\char`013}} % gives a bold alpha, etc.
Now you can say $$x = \balpha$$.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: Boldface greek letters....How to?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 26 Aug 92 21:26:57 PDT

In article <1992Aug27.002200.6849@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>, jxp@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito) writes:
> Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
 
>>In LaTeX I use (Warning, Poor Man's bold is not very pretty)
 
> You don't need to do this! Try this:
> \font\bgreek=cmmib10 % bold symbols at 10 pt (see p430 of TeXbook for font)
> \def\balpha{\hbox{\bgreek\char`013}} % gives a bold alpha, etc.
> Now you can say $$x = \balpha$$.

But if you looked closely at his definition, you'd see that the
poor man's bold was only used for scriptsized letters. Even OFSS
LaTeX handled 10pt boldmath fine. 

-dh
From: ilh@lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: darker Courier?
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:02:37 GMT
Reply-To: ilh@lcs.mit.edu
Organization: MIT/LCS Spoken Language Systems
In-reply-to: dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu's message of 28 Aug 92 00:45:38 GMT

There are two public domain Couriers (PostScript type-1) as part of
the X11R5 distribution.  One by Bitstream and the other by IBM.  One
of them (Bitstream's I think) is significantly darker than Adobe's and
is probably exactly what you want.  Both come with four faces (roman,
oblique, bold, bold-oblique).  I think they're in PFB or PFA format.

--

                                Lee Hetherington
                                ilh@lcs.mit.edu
From: musgrave@denali.ims.alaska.edu (Dave Musgrave)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX sources?
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:32:26 GMT
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Organization: University of Alaska Institute of Marine Science

OK...I didn't see an FAQ but I know there must be something out there.
Where do I find the TeX and LaTeX sources, execs, etc., for the
following systems?

DOS
Macintosh

All help appreciated?
--
Dave Musgrave

Institute of Marine Science        internet: musgrave@ims.alaska.edu
University of Alaska Fairbanks     omnet: d.musgrave
Fairbanks, AK 99775-1080
907) 474-7837                      fax:907) 474-7204
From: WAGNER%CSEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Zdenek Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: bold greek
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:10:18 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Joe Petrolito writes:

  Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de> writes:

  >In LaTeX I use (Warning, Poor Man's bold is not very pretty)

  You don't need to do this! Try this:
  \font\bgreek=cmmib10 % bold symbols at 10 pt (see p430 of TeXbook for font)
  \def\balpha{\hbox{\bgreek\char`013}} % gives a bold alpha, etc.
  Now you can say $$x = \balpha$$.

yes, in fact i use PMB only for the script and scriptscript sizes. (I
use vectors in exponents, too).

ZW: Wouldn't it be easier to use New Font Selection Scheme and define a
cnewmathalphabet?

Zdenek Wagner
<wagner@earn.cvut.cs>
<wagner@csearn.bitnet>
From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: moving DVI files from ASCII to EBCDIC
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:48:58 GMT
Reply-To: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

In article <1992Sep1.035118.28210@hemlock.cray.com>, marc@hemlock.cray.com
(Marc Bouron) writes:
|> 
|> 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!

Yes, some of us have heard of them :-) The TeX implementation I developed 
for the local MVS mainframe will write DVI files with any of those record
formats. The standard TeX command there does default them to being RECFM=FB,
LRECL=80 though. This is partly historical (we used to pour them down 
virtual card punches to get to external DVI-eating software, so it was
convenient for them to be chopped up into 80-byte records already) but
has some advantages when copying them around. The effects of removing
"trailing spaces" from a DVI file that has been chopped up into arbitrary
sized records can be quite strange!

Chris Thompson
Cambridge University Computing Service
JANET:    cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx
Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rael@ll.mit.edu (Bill Lear)
Subject: Re: Delimiters
Keywords: LaTeX, \def, delimiters
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 17:21:19 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.130422.7351@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> J.Deane@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Jonathan Deane) writes:
>
[...]

I have run into something similar, but not exactly the same problem.  My
solution was to do the following:

\newcommand{\pub}[2]{%
\def\next{#2}%
\ifx\next\empty
\def\next{#1}%
\ifx\next\empty % 1 and 2 are empty
\else
, #1% 2 is empty
\fi
\else
, #1, #2% neither are empty
\fi
}
 
\newcommand{\NYT}[2]{{\em New York Times}\pub{#1}{#2}}
\newcommand{\WSJ}[2]{{\em Wall Street Journal}\pub{#1}{#2}}
\newcommand{\SA}[2]{{\em Scientific American}\pub{#1}{#2}}
%
% etc.

In use, it looks like this:

     This  was  found  in the \NYT{December 12, 1992}{pp. 33--44,} and
     was  mentioned  in  the \WSJ{}{}\/ sometime during the summer. As
     well, \SA{June 1990}{} had quite a detailed report


I hope this provides some help.


Bill Lear (rael@ll.mit.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dak@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
Subject: Re: Italic and Slanted Roman, HELP !!!!!!
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date:  1 Sep 92 16:53:17 GMT

atmos@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:



>Can anyone help?

>I am having a few problems matching the slant of 10pt Slanted Roman characters 
>(cmsl10) to that of the 10pt Text Italics (cmti10). 

>This is all because I do not like the italic number 4 and I want to replace 
>it with a slanted Roman 4 instead, in headers etc. 

>I have been experimenting with the \fontdimen parameters, but they appear to 
>have no effect. Am I missing the point? 
You are. Playing with the fontdimen parameters will make TeX think the
characters look different (for positioning of accents, the italic correction
is defined for each character). It will not in any way change the appearance
of characters, since they are in fonts defined by METAfont, which are
outside TeXs reach. The outlook of single characters cannot be influenced
from TeX. You have to generate new fonts for that with different parameters.
Forget it, it is much too complicated and not worth the effort.
From: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: PIC type line slopes in LaTeX
Date: 31 Aug 92 11:08:17 GMT
Organization: Computer Power Software

naren@cs.UAlberta.CA (Narendra Ravi) writes:

>In an earlier article I write:

>: LaTeX picture environment limits the slopes for lines. But the PIC
>: language provides a decent mechanism for drawing lines of any slope in the
>: troff environment. Is there something similar in LaTeX?

>I received email indicating the following solutions.

>1. EEpic macros which can draw lines of any slope. The limitation being
>   the slope has to be specified as integers.

	Only the point coordinates are integers, with a scale factor
	applied which can be any dimension.  As far as I know there is no
	limitation on the slope.  

	You will need a previewer which implements the tpic specials.  xdvi
	is one.  Of course your printer driver must do the same.

-- 
Anthony Shipman                 "You've got to be taught before it's too late,
CP Software Export Pty Ltd,      Before you are six or seven or eight,
19 Cato St., East Hawthorn,      To hate all the people your relatives hate,
Melbourne, Australia, 3121       You've got to be carefully taught."  R&H
From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Fancy script fonts found in Mathematical journals
Date: 2 Sep 92 11:36:29 GMT
In-reply-to: tolk@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de's message of 2 Sep 92 07:56:48 GMT


In article <1992Sep2.075648.8834@cs.tu-berlin.de> tolk@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Robert Tolksdorf) writes:

   sdyck@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sheldon Dyck) writes:

   >Does anyone know where I can locate the fancy script font found in many 
   >mathematical journals such as the Bulletins of the American Mathematical 
   >Society? I have looked through the pk directory in ymir.claremont.edu but
   >with no luck. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
   >


   you could try Ralph Smith's Formal Script Symbol Fonts, a family
   called rsrf. the characters should be what you are looking for. They
   should be at the usual servers, as the author's located in 
   \cal ifornia :-)

   Ciao Robert

Or Adobe Math Pi Two.  It has nice curly script letters, although for some
strange reason they are not where you expect them to be in the character 
encoding...

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: greek circumflex
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:53:22 PDT

In article <1992Aug28.213404.28565@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:
> I'm using Levy's greek fonts and at the same time am learning classical
> Greek.  My text, by Harvard Univ Press, uses a rounded '^' for a circumflex,
> but Levy uses a '~'.  Which is more common in classical greek texts?

They're interchangable and depend primarily on the font used. My
text from Fordham U uses ~. I have other books which use ^. I
wouldn't worry about it (you might as well worry about the shapes
of rho and kappa).

-dh