HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: franzen@scoop.ims.uni-hannover.dbp.de (Jens Franzen)
Subject: Re: HELP: LaTeX on VMS
Reply-To: franzen@scoop.ims.uni-hannover.dbp.de
Organization: LFI, Uni Hannover, Germany
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:23:33 GMT

The european site I know is tex.ac.uk  (see the electronic journal UKTEX in this list).
 I suppose ymir.claremont.edu has them, too.

Greetings 
Jens

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca (Kevin Dorma)
Subject: Re: can't run emTeX386
Organization: Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:07:27 GMT

kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca (Kevin Dorma) writes:
: How's it goin', eh?
: 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)
: 
: Everytihing was installed using the defaults, except for a modified set-tex.cmd
: file.  
: Hardware: 486 with 4Mb Ram
: What am I doing wrong?  TIA
: 

Many thanks to all that wrote to me with suggestions.  The winner of the Most
Consice Answer Award is Wolfgang Ratzka, who wrote

  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).

That did the trick.  Thanks again.

                                  | 
Kevin Dorma                       | Hi, my Lyapunov exponent is 2.31.
kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca    | What's yours?
Ph.D. type of student             | 
Dept. of Chemical Engineering     | Don't look at my disclaimer, your's
University of Alberta             | is much more interesting.
Edmonton, Alberta                 | 
                                  |

 

Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:10585 gnu.ghostscript.bug:893
From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Adding fonts to GhostScript
Date: 26 Aug 92 10:43:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex,gnu.ghostscript.bug
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
X-Organisation: Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science
                University of Amsterdam
                Kruislaan 403
                NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam
                The Netherlands
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X-Fax:          +31 20 525 7490
To: gnu-ghostscript-bug@nluug.nl

Hi,

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?

Thanks in advance,
Marcel.
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dak@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
Subject: Re: Need help to fix my macro
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:17:47 GMT

jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee) writes:

>Hello. Somehow I must have made a mistake in the following latex macro:

>\def\content#1\endcontent{\def\@content{#1}}
>\def\endcontent{}

>When I use the above macro in a LaTeX file like this

>\begin{content}
>bla bla bla
>\end{content}

>I get an error saying something reach the end of file while scanning
>the use of content or something like that.

>What mistake do I make and how to correct it?
Well, TeX cannot see that \end{content} is the same as \endcontent. The
easiest remedy is to not use \begin and \end.
From: anik@crhc.uiuc.edu (Sadun Anik)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Printer for EmTeX
Date: 23 Aug 92 14:42:23
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
NNTP-Posting-Host: lyra.crhc.uiuc.edu
In-reply-to: yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu's message of Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:47:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug22.214742.17333@u.washington.edu> yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:

   Hello. I am considering a laser printer purchase in the not so distant 
   future, however, I do not know which ones will work agreeably with 
   the EmTeX package. I figure any PCL compatible printer that can "read"
   PCL would work, is there anything else I should consider?

If you can afford it, I would recommend a PostScript printer. There is
an excellent dvi to PS converter for free. It is as reliable
and well implemented as EmTeX and works with EmTeX without pain. It
knows how to use MetaFont (in case you don't generate or have 300dpi
fonts) and knows about EmTeX directory structure. There are two
advantages in using a PostScript printer. You can use the PostScript
fonts that are on your printer instead of standard TeX fonts to
generate stunning looking documents. You can also import PostScript
figures into your document. Many drawing and plotting programs
generate encapsulated PostScript and you can scale these figures
inside a LaTeX document. It is very easy to locate all the *.sty files
and other utilities that take care of PostScript files at TeX
distribution sites.  



--
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Center for Reliable and High-performance Computing
e-mail: anik@crhc.uiuc.edu
From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn, Official Muffin-sampler)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Obeying \penalty when \vsplitting into 3 cols
Date: 3 Sep 92 11:26:27 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

I have an application which is to print a list in three columns. The list
is subdivided into section, so the input goes

\sectionhead{heading}
\entry{text}
\entry{text}
\entry{text}
...
\sectionhead{heading}
\entry{text}
[etc]

I have extended Knuth's two-col code which uses \vsplit in the output routine
and it works fine for 99% of cases. The \balancetriplecolumns routine,
however (to get the final page into three shorter cols to finish up with)
occasionally splits the stuff up so that a heading appears at the bottom
of the column, with the text belonging to it at the top of the next column.
The macro for \sectionhead includes:

     \flexbreak\hbox{}
     \noindent{\sbf#1}\nobreak\smallskip\hrule\nobreak\medskip\nobreak%

with

\newskip\flexskipamount
\flexskipamount=1pc plus3pc minus.5pc
\def\flexbreak{\par\penalty-500 \vskip\flexskipamount}

to try and avoid this effect, but one one occasion it's breaking between the 
{\bf #1} and the \hrule, so the next column starts with a \hrule. I've tried the \penalty more negative, but that introduces masses of whitespace at the bottom 
of other columns on other pages in the printout and still doesn't fix the final
page.

The \balancetriplecolumns says (extraneous guff removed)

\def\balancethreecolumns{\setbox0=\vbox{\unvbox255} \dimen@=\ht0
  \advance\dimen@ by\topskip \advance\dimen@ by-\baselineskip
  \divide\dimen@ by3   \splittopskip=\topskip
  {\vbadness=10000 \loop 
                   \global\setbox3=\copy0
                   \global\setbox1=\vsplit3 to\dimen@
                   \global\setbox1=\vsplit3 to\dimen@
                   \ifdim\ht3>\dimen@ \global\advance\dimen@ by1pt 
                   \repeat}
  \setbox255=\vbox{\unvbox0}

and then \vsplits \box255 into a left, middle and right column. What puzzles me
is that when the problem occurs, it is breaking at a place where there is an
explicit \nobreak (between heading and \hrule) instead of where there is a
negative penalty and a goodish amount of flexibility. 

Clearly I have misunderstood something. What?

///Peter
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: teege@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Gunnar Teege)
Subject: Re: wrapping text around figures
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, TU Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:48:15 GMT

In article <26AUG199210130929@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> umarsa00@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (PROF. A.S. UMAR, (615)322-2459) writes:
   I am looking for LaTeX style files which allow the wrapping of text
   around figures. I am currently using a variant of the epsf style file
   for importing encapsulated postscript figures. 
There is a 'window' package for producing 'text windows' (plain
rectangles in a paragraph to be filled with something). From the comment:
------
\message{This is WINDOW.STY   by Elmar Schalueck    April 1991}
%   These routines and macros are mainly due to Alan Hoenig
%   I myself found them in a lovely book named
%   \TeX: applications, uses, methods (Malcolm Clark, ed.),
%   Horwood, New York 1990
%   Please report errors, suggestions for better versions, etc. to
%   elmar@uni-paderborn.de
------

If you cannot reach the author I can send or post it.

Gunnar Teege   Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
               PO-Box 202420, 8000 Muenchen 2, Germany
teege@informatik.tu-muenchen.de       Tel: +49 89 450552 25
From: irani@milli.cs.umn.edu (Erach A. Irani)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Putting "labels"/"axis" on a table
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:46:18 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

Hi,
	I'm looking for how to put labels/axis on a table 
e.g.

	horizontal


vertical


	or

	horizontal
v
e
r
t
...

Is there any easy way/style/macro to do this.

	Thanks,
	erach (irani@mail.cs.umn.edu)

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From: arrigo@cube.sublink.org (Arrigo Benedetti)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: PIC type line slopes in LaTeX
Date: 1 Sep 92 09:27:20 GMT
Reply-To: arrigo@cube.sublink.org
Organization: Arrigo Benedetti

In article <naren.715023446@menaik> 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 will summarize if I get additional information via email.
> 
> : Thanks,
> 
> :  -- Naren
> :     Narendra Ra[a]vi     Email : naren@cs.ualberta.ca
> 
> 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.
> 
> 2. Using xy-pic which allows line slopes of the order of 0.7
> 
> 3. Using bezier.sty and giving appropriate control points for generating
>    lines.
> 

Where can I find the said macros?
Thanks,

-arrigo
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Via S. Agata, 11               Tel:  (home)   +39 59 224929
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ajit@iitb.ernet.in (Ajit K. Jena)
Subject: Help with including PS files in Latex documents....
Keywords: postscript, fig, transfig 
Organization: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:07:41 IST

Hi,

Sorry if this is a trivial question but I looked at various
sources and could not arrive at a solution.

We use the "fig" package to draw figures. We produce the
postscript files for the figures. Our intention is to include
the postscript file in latex documents to be finally printed
out. We use the following latex command set to merge the PS
file:

\makebox[4.000in][l]{
  \vbox to 2.222in{
    \vfill
    \special{psfile=/usr1/ajit/rpts/nvp2-fig.ps}
  }
  \vspace{-\baselineskip}
}

This results in the figure space being left out as blank in
the final printout.

Can anyone please help us solve this problem ?

Please mail me your replies as our newsfeed is unreliable.

Thanks.

--ajit
Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:10900 gnu.emacs.help:3994
From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: After effects of using DEMACS
Date: 4 Sep 92 02:07:41 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.



In an earlier message, I said I had the following problem:
(1) I use DVIVGA and have no difficulty using the arrow keys and page up,
    page down, home, end keys with it.
(2) I use DEMACS and then exit DEMACS
(3) I use DVIVGA and the arrow keys, home,end,pageup,pagedown don't work any 
    more.

I have solved the problem in a certain sense. First I'll explain the solution
and then I'll explain why I am still not happy.

Originally, I had installed ANSI.SYS in my CONFIG.SYS file with the line:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS

With this, the problem was as above. After reading the DOS4.01 manual,
I changed the line to:


DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS/x


The /x option tells DOS that I have an extended keyboard and that the
arrows,home,end,pageup,pagedown on the numeric keypad are different from
the other keys of those names. When I use DVIVGA after running DEMACS,
I am unable to use the arrows, pageup,pagedown,home,end on the
numeric keypad, but I can use the other versions of these keys.

So my problem is solved, except I remember I used to be able to do it
in the numeric keypad even after using DEMACS. And the question still
bothers me: why is DEMACS exhibiting after effects?

One possibility is that DEMACS has some kind of Terminate and Stay REsident
feature, but I doubt that. So the other possibility that occurs to me
is:
(a) when DEMACS starts up, it somehow redefines the keyboard, using termcap
    information and stuff in some file in the directory TERM.
(b) when it exits, DEMACS does not clean up after itself and restore the
    original settings.

I plan to start looking at some of the various .el files that come with
DEMACS to hunt for clues. The file STARTUP.EL in the LISP directory and
the file IBMPC.EL in the TERM directory seem like good candidates. However,
I don't know whether the commands in these files have effects outside of
DEMACS. The other thing that seems logical to look for would be files
that tell DEMACS what to do before it exits. I haven't found these and
don't know if they exist.

It would also make sense to try to find all commands in the various .el
files that that affect the numeric keypad. After all, it seems that the
entire problem is that DEMACS stomps on the numeric keypad and leaves 
it stomped.

One other clue might have to do with error handlers, i.e. what happens
when DEMACS can't decide what kind of file it is dealing with. I usually
use DEMACS on TeX files and I don't have the .EL file for TeX. So I always
get an error message about being unable to find the .el file for tex.

I don't know if I will find the solution right away, but it seems that I
will perhaps emerge from this experience knowing something about elisp. :-)

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: environment for emtex previewers
Date: 3 Sep 92 05:38:48 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.



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

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

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune)
Subject: Basic plan for oddpage/evenpage line numbering macro
Keywords: pentastich, line numbering
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:01:44 GMT

Cameron Smith suggested reading the TUGboat tutorial by David Saloman
that appeared in Volume 11 (1990), Nos. 1, 2, and 4.  The math dept.
here had Nos. 1 and 2 so I read those.  I was very impressed with
the amount of thought that went into creating the sample OTRs (Output
Routines).  The example given on pages 221 and 222 of No. 2 was
especially illuminating.  My plan is first to do the exercise on
page 222 (i.e., restore the flexible glues to the copy of \box255).
The oddpage/evenpage logic can be contained in the /output= portion
so that the numbers are written on the correct side.  Within the
oddpage/evenpage logic the lineCount can be used to determine which
lines will be augmented with the linenumber information.  I will probably
leave out the special case of actual display math in the .tex file
for now since my application does not require it.  The \renewcommand
should be able to kick on and off the special \output= command when
the line numbering is not needed.  My thanks to Cameron Smith and
David Saloman for their help.  Any other comments or suggestions are
welcome before I begin.

Thanks,
JAF
-- 
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Oakland University             - until you know the truth.  Then there's
jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu  - only one.  --  C. S. Lewis
Disclaimer: Not O.U. opinions  -
From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX and A4?
Date: 29 Aug 1992 12:46:20 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: boogie.cs.utexas.edu

This is such a simple question, but I didn't see the answer in the
Lamport book or the FAQ.  How do I tell LaTeX I want to use A4 paper?
Do I need a whole new style, or is there an option to the usual styles
(report, article, whatever)?

A few people flaming my ignorance by email will be sufficient to
educate me.

	Thanks,
	Janet Swisher
	swisher@cs.utexas.edu
From: louarn@irisa.fr (Philippe Louarn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to test the page value of a float?
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:07:36 GMT
Organization: IRISA, Rennes (France)

I want to be able to test the value of the page number where a floating
figure WILL be put.

I tried :

\begin{figure}[p]
\ifodd\value{page} <DO_SOMETHING> \else <DO_ANOTHER_THING>\fi
\end{figure}

That does not run, cause the \value{page} give me the value of
the current page (where the figure is declared) and not the value
of the page where the figure will be put.

Any ideas ?


-- 
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                  Campus de Beaulieu - F-35042 RENNES Cedex - France 
                  Tel : (33) 99 84 73 66 / Fax : (33) 99 32 38 38
                  louarn@irisa.fr
From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DirectTeX
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:28:18 GMT
Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS

In article <1992Sep1.105759.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu> dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
>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, 
>
>A point of sorts, but much as I hate to admit it, MF is a dying
>format. Blue Sky supplies the CM fonts in Type 1 PS format
>standard now (which means life is a little unpleasant on a low
>memory low end Mac) and most of us are moving to Type 1 as our
>font format anyway.

I don't want to start a war, but note that, first, Type 1 fonts of any
quality cost real money, and second, there are still things available in MF
format that I haven't seen as Type 1 fonts (Levy's greek fonts, the lamstex
fonts, etc.) The only real Type 1 alternative to CM seems to be
LucidaBright, at least if one wants to do mathematics.

>>no
>> (semi-)automatic font generation, 
>
>Yes there is. It's called ATM. I've never seen Textures come up
>blank on a font bitmap request.

Won't help with non-Type 1 fonts, of course.

>>and proprietary formats for everything... 
>
>Hmm, dvitool lets one export/import DVI files, reading
>from/saving to text files for the source is likewise trivial. And
>if you must use bitmap fonts, you can get a utility from Blue Sky
>(for free!) for doing the translation.

True, but it's all rather clumsy. And I wouldn't want to convert each of
the AMS fonts at each magstep using it... Much simpler to download either
the mf source or the pre-built pk files.

>Plus, at many educational institutions, a site license is held
>and the package can be had relatively inexpensively. Probably at
>a price comparable to buying MPW, no?

Probably cheaper than buying MPW, which is why I qualified my initial
statement. If MPW is already there, DIrectTeX is quite attractive. If not,
it becomes pretty expensive, and Textures (or OzTeX, for that matter) is
probably a better choice.




-- 
============================================================================
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Dept. of Math/CS				(207)-872-3278
Colby College					Mudd 407
From: nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Is There a Newer SliTeX
Date: 27 Aug 1992 15:26:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu

In article <1992Aug27.044102.24152@menudo.uh.edu> yzhao@cs.uh.edu (Yi Zhao) writes:
>I am trying to use SliTex To prepare a set of slides for a presentation.
>The materials are largely drawn from the paper written in LaTeX. I need
>to make citations and to include figures in my slides, which are nicely done
>in LaTeX by using figure and bibliography environments. The problem is I can
>no longer use the citations and figures in the same way as I did in LaTeX.
>For figures, I can print them separately, but as far as ciatation is concerned,
>I cannot figure out a better way other than manually put stuffs like [ABC 92]
>into the source SliTeX file. So, the question is:
>
>Is there a better SliTeX {sty, or, tex} that can handle figure and
>bibliography stuffs?
>
>Any advice is appreciated.
>
>Yi Zhao

I posted a similar query a few months ago. The consensus was that
slitex is unneccessary, and that you can do as well with a slide
style in latex and have all the other nice features of latex (as
well as not bother with slitex.fmt, etc.). There are several nice
slides styles out there - I chose lslide.sty because it is simple
and worked for me (and I like the shadow boxes!). There are more
complicated packages (seminar) but lslide does the basics quite
nicely. Both lslide and seminar are at niord.

Neal

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