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From: tdw@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Thomas D. Wagner)
Subject: Makefiles for LaTeX documents
Organization: Vanderbilt University CS Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:03:57 GMT


A week or so ago someone posted a query to this newsgroup looking for
information about using Makefiles with LaTeX. I have been watching for
a reply but never saw one. I seem to recall seeing a posting several
months ago that included a generic Makefile for a generic LaTeX job.
If the person who posted this recent query or the poster of the
generic Makefile a few months back reads this could you please forward
any information either back to this newsgroup or directly to me.

Thank you


I don't have a .signature file.
From: tp1l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas W. Pope)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX for DOS
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:10:53 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


  Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I am looking for a version of LaTeX
for MSDOS based machines.  I know of (but have not seen) the DOS TeX
on simtel, but am more familiar with LaTeX...  Any pointers would be
appreciated...  Flames expected if this is a FAQ (se apology above)...
Thanks...
 
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From: "Heinz J Weyer, PhysInstUofBasel,Switz (056)99-3494, (061)267-3700"
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MtInfo-tex
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 1992 09:18 N
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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HELP
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From: BNB@MATH.AMS.COM (bbeeton)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Where is PicTeX documentation?
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:37:04 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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a slight correction to darrell mccauley's statement about the
pictex manual, "Unless something has changed, this is only
available to TUG members."

in fact it's available to anyone, but only through tug.  you can
find out the details by sending a message to  tug@math.ams.com .

a new edition has just been printed, with a few corrections.
for anyone who has a copy of the previous edition, don't worry --
only one of the errors was really technical, and wasn't in the
typing instructions, so it probably won't bother you.
						-- bb
From: Malki Cymbalista <VUMALKI@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: tangle.c and weave.c
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 14:02:03 +0300
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I am trying to compile tex for several of our Unix machines.
I have done this several times in the past and succeeded.  Now
I am having problems and cannot get past the web stage.  I just noticed
that the files tangle.c and weave.c are empty.  I tried to ftp
the web tar file that is at cs.umb.edu but failed to get the whole file.
Can some kind soul either send me the 2 C files or tell me from where
I can ftp them.
Thanks for any help.
Malki
From: mahilata@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeXview 3.0a6-8 bug
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:34:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: vogon.m0laWnk-0013ZmC
Organization: What? Me?
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I failed to find an email address of the author so this goes public, so
if someone please could forward this..

    ... and it is NeXT specific ...

This is a bug report for TeXview 3.0a6-8, authered by The Radical Eye,
as found in LaBrea

6-8 means, I looked into it somewhat in a6 but found the same phenomenon in a8.

When launched by opening or double clicking a dvi file, TeXview never gets
beyond the first page.
Instead it shows "bad dvi command".
This thing does not occur when either
- the dvi file is reprocessed by changing scale,
- is opened by "Document" "Open"/"Reopen",
- is double clicked when TeXview is up already, or
- is activated by a unix shell command, say "TeXview something"

gdb'ing revealed the fact, that at "processbop" time for the second page
curpos had wrong value. It was positioned, instead of next page's bop,
immediately beyond first page's bop.

--mahilata
From: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu (George D. Greenwade)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Unsubscribing from INFO-TeX
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:54:45 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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This message is probably not of interest to the c.t.t audience, so rn if
you're on c.t.t.

On Thu, 09 Apr 92 20:19:13 -0900, the question:
> Can someone tell me what address and command I need to use to unsubscribe
> from this list?
was posed by a nude VAXer.  (S)He has been removed.  Please allow me to
include the first paragraph of the monthly Routine Posting for everyone's
reference:

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From: JSBIEN%PLEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Janusz S. Bie/n)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TUG a member?
Date: 14 Apr 92 08:32:07 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Thanks to all the kind souls who send me the rates from the latest TUGboat
(I still have not got it).

Now my question is:

How to justify an expense of $540 for institutional (educational)
membership with 7 memberships while 7 individual memberships would
cost only $420?

I understand that commercial institutions may be willing to pay
higher fees for including their name on the list of institutional TUG
members, but I think that for universities the institutional
membership should be *cheaper* than an equivalent number of individual
memberships.

JSB
Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University
From: fedtmule@diku.dk (Jens Markussen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX stuff on OS/2 2.0....
Summary: --
Keywords: OS/2, LaTeX, etc.
Date: 6 Apr 92 11:53:53 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

Hello outthere, 

	I've been running TeX (emTeX vers. 3.0[3a]) on my 286 PC with 640 kB
for a while now. I'm considering buying a new computer (386 or 486) and
maybe changing to OS/2. Now my question is: Is there an TeX version running
OS/2 vers 2.0 (and is it an 32-bit application?).
	Also I would like to know is there is a DVI-file viewer for OS/2 2.0
and if so, does this viewer use OS/2's font-capabilities (Adobe stuff) or do
you still have to keep massive amounts of font-files lying around ??
	How about printer output - will the Adobe stuff help here?? Would 
DVIPS work under OS/2? Would GhostScript?

Lots of questions ... :-)
	
Regards,

Jens Markussen (fedtmule@diku.dk)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: angelino@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (flavio angelino)
Subject: PD Editor that import postscript
Keywords: sgml postscript
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:43:05 GMT


Hello, just a quickly question.

I'm looking for a public domain editor than can import postscript file
generated with xpr.
I usually use LaTeX + psfig, but I can't import pictures obtained from xwd|xpr
as X Window Dumps.
Does exist some product related with SGML that resolve this problem?

Appreciate any response.

Tanks


Flavio.

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  Text Processing Laboratory,
  Information Science Departement, 
  Milan University, Via Comelico 39,  
  I-20135 Milano, Italy.
From: aj3u@onyx.cs.virginia.edu (Asim Jalis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Printing out bib file
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:05:36 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903

Is it possible to print out all the entries in a bib file without
citing them?  I want to get a hardcopy of my bib file printed out
through latex and can't figure out a way of doing this that does
not involve generating cites for every entry in the file.

Any ideas?  Please respond through e-mail.

Asim.
From: devido-antonio@CS.YALE.EDU (Antonio DeVido)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvipsrc
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:47:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr12.154716.264
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158

greetings,
	I have converted my dvi output to PostScript and have received the 
messages:
This is TeX, C Version 3.0
(file2.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <14 January 1992>
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/article.sty
Standard Document Style `article' <14 Jan 92>.
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/art10.sty)) (psfig.sty
psfig: version 1.1 (MC-TeX)
) (file2.aux) [1] (file2.aux) )
Output written on file2.dvi (1 page, 544 bytes).
Transcript written on file2.log.
...
This is dvips, version 5.4 (C) 1986-90 Radical Eye Software
' TeX output 1992.04.12:1138' -> file2.ps
<tex.pro><special.pro>. [1<tri.ps>]

with the following statements in the tex file:

\documentstyle[psfig]{article}
...
\special{psfile=tri.ps}

yet the PostScript output isn't printing on the laserwriter. The PostScript 
certainly has the necessary "bounding box" data etc., so perhaps s/o could
indicate my error?
-- 
Antonio J. De Vido // devido@cs.yale.edu   // league@prep.ai.mit.edu
Eckert and Mauchly attempted to patent the ENIAC technology, including the
aspects invented by John Von Neomann. Neumann opposed patents and published
some of the technology.
From: tk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Tommy Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: tib and bib and refer and lookbib and ...(was Re: tib and bib)
Date: 7 Apr 92 10:36:01 GMT
Reply-To: tk@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Tommy Kelly)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

I have move from a site which has tib to one which only has bib.  However
I have found that tib files are almost identical to refer files, eg.

%A T. Liu
%A Y. Lin
%D 1991
%I Elsevier Science Publishers
%J INTEGRATION, the VLSI Journal
%P 43-46
%T FLORA: A data path allocator based on branch-and-bound search.
%V 11

And I have found that r2bib will convert.  So I can now translate my tib
file to an acceptable bib format:

@article{key125,
	author =	"T. Liu and Y. Lin",
	year =		"1991",
	publisher =	"Elsevier Science Publishers",
	journal =	"INTEGRATION, the VLSI Journal",
	pages =		"43-46",
	title =		"FLORA: A data path allocator based on branch-and-bound search.",
	volume =	"11"
}

HOWEVER - now I have to choose which to continue to use.

bibgrep searches the bib style file. 
But look bib will search the tib (refer) style file.

Is one style more widely used.  Is one significantly better than the other?

tommy
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: Poscript Math fonts for TeXREAD/NEW/FOLLOWUP
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 6 Apr 92 02:29:02 PST

In article <1992Apr2.150952.10255@mcs.drexel.edu>, jsmith@king.mcs.drexel.edu (Justin Smith) writes:
 
> Are there any poscript math fonts for TeX? I dislike the
> appearance of the standard TeX fonts, so I use Palatino or
> Times. One problem occurs at this point --- the density of the 
> standard TeX fonts is much less than most Postscript fonts.
> While there is nothing wrong with using special fonts for math,
> it is distracting for math fonts to be much lighter-weight
> than the text.  I once saw a .tfm for times-italic that was
> supposed to have been set up for use as a math font, but that
> has serious shortcomings (some characters seem to be mapped improperly).
 
Michael Spivak (author of AmS-TeX and LAmS-TeX) has developed a
set of fonts for typesetting math in Times Roman. The fonts are
reasonably priced (~$100 depending on whether one is commercial
or educational). There's no built-in LaTeX support. I have a
mathtime.sty file under development (I need to fix \boldmath
support to properly switch back to cm (the mathtime fonts don't
have bold math symbols) and update the documentation). I will
distribute the file on request, but would prefer that people wait
for the official release which should come later this month
(definitely before I leave for Guatemala at the end of the
month).

The TeXplorators Corporation
3701 W. Alabama, Suite 450-273
Houston, TX 77027 (USA)
713-524-5515
Fax: 713-523-6743

-dh

Don Hosek                  
dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu  
Quixote Digital Typography 
714-621-1291
From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help me with \def and verbatim (in LaTeX)
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:10:06 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennesee, Knoxville
Distribution: world
Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu

In article <kut4fnINN385@alhena.usc.edu>, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

|> I'm trying to \def something which uses \begin{verbatim} and \end{verbatim}.
|> How should it be done?

Tricky business, old chap.

|> \def\fndef#1#2{
|> \item \index{Library Function {\tt #1}}
|> \small \begin{verbatim}
|> #2
|> \end{verbatim} \normalsize
|> }

This won't work. As you've found out. The \begin{verbatim} sets up a lot
of exceptional values for certain TeX parameters (category codes of
most of the special characters), but if you scoop up the verbatim text
as argument #2, you've already fixed their values, and there's nothing the
verbatim mode can do about it.

If you leave out parameter #2, and abuse the grouping of LaTeX's
environments you can write

\def\beginfndef#1{
\item \index{Library Function {\tt #1}}
\small \begin{verbatim}}

\begin{fndef}{name of hte function}
ver@@#$^batim
}}}}{{{{text!&&&&
\end{verbatim}\end{fndef}

If the double \end bothers you, you can redefine some internal LaTeX
commands for the verbatim mode, but I doubt that that's worth the trouble.

Victor.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 17:34:16 EDT
From: Alan R. Heyd <IA8@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX: modifying report.sty

   I've had to modify the report.sty file so that my thesis will be
accepted by the thesis office here at Penn State.  One thing I changed was
@afterindentfalse to @afterindenttrue, however, only the first
paragraph after a \chapter{} heading is indented.  Paragraphs after
\section{}, \subsection{} and on down are not indented.  How can I
fix this.

Alan Heyd
ia8@psuvm.psu.edu
From: salehi@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Masoud Salehi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: xfig, dvips and $special$
Date: 17 Apr 92 00:59:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: splinter.SALEHI.92Apr16205901
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Organization: Northeastern University

I use  xfig to generate  figures for my LaTeX files. My figures contain 
some math and I use the "special" command from the edit window of xfig to 
make it interprete them as LaTeX math formulas. After saving the fig file,
if I use transfig with pictex, latex, epic, or any other option  other than ps
and psfig, the result is as I intended, all math formulas appear OK. However, 
if I use ps or psfig options and after LateXing use dvips to generate the 
ps file and view it with a PS viewer the math formulas appear exactly as they
were typed with $ and \ ,...etc.

Your suggestions and hints are appreciated.

M. Salehi
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From: Erik-jan.Vens@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Erik-jan Vens)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DVI drivers for TeX 3.141
Keywords: dvi laser tex
Date: 11 Apr 92 07:44:23 GMT
Reply-To: E.J.Vens@icce.rug.nl (Erik-Jan Vens)
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <xwpj3la.maw@netcom.com> maw@netcom.com (Martin Walker) writes:
>However, when trying to print to my LaserJet IIP using dvilj2p, I get
>garbage characters all over the text, and no font size changes.
>
>Where, oh where (and I've looked EVERYWHERE - just about every site on
>the FTP list) can I get LaserJet drivers which WORK! I'm using SCO Unix
>3.2.4 with SCO DevSys 3.2.4 or GCC 2.1. If anyone has working
>drivers for SCO, I'd appreciate it if you could mail me the source
>you compiled..

Kean,

  having just brought up TeX et.al. under SCO with GCC 2.1. No problems.
I have compiled Mr. Neumann's dvilj2p for printing on our HP LaserJet
IIIp. No problems. Printing however posed some problems, until I found
the undocumented '-og' flag to 'lp'. So when you print:

  dvilj2p -a<somepath> <somedvi> -e- | lp -og

it should be fine.

I have picked up the latest (alpha) release from "ftp.tu-wien.ac.at" and
it contained a file describing setting up 8-bit printer support. These
instructions were not for my situation, but who knows what you can find
there.

EJee.

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From: minidis@urz.unibas.ch ( Capt.J.T. Kirk )
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Date as Stardate (as in Star Trek)
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:49:17 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

Here is a '\stardate' macro for all Star Trek freaks
(and naturally other 'normal' people too)

%-Cut here-
%---- Definition for Stardate as in Star Trek (used for 'normal' life) ----
%---- Written 9203.26 by A.Minidis (Capt. J.T. Kirk)                   ----
%---- USAGE: ' \stardate '                                             ----
%---- Result:  Stardate YYMM.DD           ; YY=year, MM=month, DD=day  ----
%----                        KEEP ON TREKKING                          ----
\newcount\sdyear
\sdyear=\year \advance\sdyear by -1900
\def\stardate{%
{\sc Stardate \number\sdyear %
	\ifnum \month<10 0\fi%
	\number\month%
	.ifnum \day<10 0\fi%
	\number\day}}
%--------------------------------------------------------------------------
%-and cut here-

if anybody should have a suggestion how to imrove this macro, I'd appreciat it.

 
Alexander                                <minidis@urz.unibas.ch>
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From: BNB@MATH.AMS.COM (bbeeton)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: re: .mf sources for metafont logo
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:39:49 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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if you have access to ftp, the .mf sources for manfnt and logo*
can be found at labrea.stanford.edu in the directory /tex/lib .
here is the file information from a listing of the tex directories
that i retrieved a month or so ago.  (there have been some source
changes in some cm*.mf files since then, but the file locations
have not changed.)

   /tex/lib:
   -r--r--r--  1 468      fsuser       2628 Aug 15  1989 logo.mf
   -r--r--r--  1 468      fsuser        367 Aug 15  1989 logo10.mf
   -r--r--r--  1 468      fsuser        381 Aug 15  1989 logo8.mf
   -r--r--r--  1 468      fsuser        382 Aug 15  1989 logo9.mf
   -r--r--r--  1 468      fsuser        392 Aug 15  1989 logobf10.mf
   -r--r--r--  1 468      fsuser         60 Aug 15  1989 logosl10.mf
   -r--r--r--  1 468      fsuser      27071 Aug 11  1989 manfnt.mf

						-- bb