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From: johanes@farida.cc.nd.edu (Johanes Suhardjo)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: HELP: March 25, 1992 LaTeX can't handle @{$}
Keywords: tabular array argument
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:17:21 GMT
Reply-To: suhardjo@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu
Organization: Civil Engineering Notre Dame

I've just installed LaTeX version 2.09 <25 March 1992> which I downloaded
from niord.shsu.edu.  It can't compile a LaTeX file which the old LaTeX
(version 2.09 <14 January 1991>) could.  The problem is when it gets to

\begin{tabular}{|@{$}c@{$}|c|c|c|}\hline

it quits because it thinks that a } is missing.  When I take out the @{$},
it compiles O.K.  Any help to fix this?
Thanks. 


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From: elgaard@diku.dk (Niels Elgaard Larsen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: how many pages in a dvi file
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:25:16 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) writes:

>we frequently receive dvi files that are to be printed on one of
>our typesetters.  it would be quite useful to be able to determine
>quickly how many pages are in a particular dvi file.

>it shouldn't be difficult to extract from dvitype the code to
>perform this check.  but (1) we don't want to reinvent any wheels,
>and (2) we haven't really got the time.  if anyone out there has
>already created such a utility, we'd really appreciate learning
>about it.

What about:

>dviselect a1.dvi 0: /dev/null
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Wrote 12 pages, 34752 bytes
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         Niels Elgaard Larsen          
         Institute of Computer Science,        
         University of Copenhagen      
         E-mail: elgaard@diku.dk
From: RATZKA@phyth1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: slides from TeX(tures)?
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:36:09 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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> From:       "GEORGE WHITE, BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION"
>             <G_WHITE@bionet.bio.dfo.ca>
>
> We have looked into using ghostscript to render PostScript files
> created from TeX, but the font quality is poor compared to either
> the old-fashioned manual methods or the ATM-rendered fonts of the
> above procedure.  I also contacted the makers of Freedom of Press,
> a commercial PostScript render, but they could not assure me that
> their product would handle the Y&Y PostScript CM fonts.
Did you try to use The ATM-fonts (should be standard type-1) with
GhostScript? It does work, at least on a PC, but I don't know whether this
violates anybodies license policy.


                                                       Wolfgang Ratzka
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From: petterr@stud.cs.uit.no (Petter Reinholdtsen)
Subject: Re: endnotes rather than footnotes
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:25:20 GMT

In article <BxHsM4.L2E@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
writes:
>Use `endnotes.sty', available by anonymous `ftp' from ftp.tex.ac.uk in
>/pub/archive/macros/latex.

In some mysterious ways, when I use this sty, the counter starts om 4!

"The text": (In Norwegian)
-----------
\documentstyle[a4,xlatin1,12pt,norsk,endnotes]{article}

\renewcommand{\theendnote}{\Alph{section}}
\renewcommand{\notesname}{Noter}
% (...)
\begin{document}
% (...)
Da han framsatte Det Kategoriske Imperativ\endnote{Det kategoriske imperativ, 
slik det ble formulert av Kant: ``Kan den regel jeg
handler etter, legges til grunn for en lovgiving med allmenn gyldighet, dvs.
gjeldende for alle mennesker i samme situasjon som jeg er i.''\footnote{Stigen,
1983 --- s.623} Da er det en moralsk lov, og skal flges.} 
konkluderte han med at dette var en egenskap med mennesket, som  alltid vil
% (...)

\begingroup
\parindent 0pt
\parskip 2ex
\def\enotesize{\normalsize}
\theendnotes
\endgroup

% (...)

\end{document}
-----------
Somebody have any ide why the fotnote starts with an D? 
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From: kris@diku.dk (Kristoffer H. Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: XY-pic: survey of usage before new release!
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:11:49 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

Dear comp.text.tex Reader,

If you have ever used XY-pic, the macros for typesetting graphs and
diagrams developed by me, then please take the time to fill in the
following form such that I may get my priorities right in the further
development of XY-pic.

The reason is that XY-pic version 2.7 was due out November 1st but is
somewhat delayed because of the need for testing the abundancy of new
features :-) so in the meantime I am probing how the package is
actually used (to ensure maximal stability of actually used features),
whether there is interest in a mailing list, how the package should be
available, and whether there are any features that are seriously
missing.

Therefore I kindly request that you send an E-mail containing a copy
of the form between the lines below where you have replaced the
explanations in brackets [...] with what they describe.

Here is the form:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
>To: kris@diku.dk
>Subject: XY-pic survey form

* User:        [`real' name]
* E-mail:      [electronic mail address]
* Field:       [occupation/subject, e.g., "category theory"]

* TeX version: [TeX version you use, e.g., "unix TeX 3.0" or "emTeX"]
* TeX format:  [TeX format you use, e.g., "plain TeX" or "LaTeX"]

* Access:      [leave only those that you can use to retrieve XY-pic]
               Anonymous ftp (.tar.Z achive on ftp.diku.dk)
               Usenet (shar archive posted to from comp.text.tex)
               E-mail (shar archive in personal mail)

* Wishes:      [please motivate any further features that you wish
		were available in XY-pic]
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Feel free to add any other comments that you might care to have.

Sincerest regards with thanks for your time,

	Kristoffer Rose

______________________________________________________________________
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Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen {\O}        Fax: +45 35321401
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Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen {\O}        Fax: +45 35321401
Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:13463 comp.sys.atari.st:17078
From: marshall@cs.uq.oz.au (Marshall Harris (G.M.))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Released: ASCREEN 3.2 (DVI previewer for Atari)
Date: 24 Nov 92 03:46:10 GMT
Reply-To: marshall@cs.uq.oz.au
Followup-To: comp.text.tex

In <4048@rbiffm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> lingnau@math.uni-frankfurt.de (Anselm Lingnau) writes:

>In article <RIDDERBUSCH.PAD.92Nov11084340@nozzle.sni.de>,
>ridderbusch.pad@sni-usa.com (Frank Ridderbusch, STO SI211) writes:

>> I'm afraid to report, that this new ascreen doesn't run under MiNT. I

>Julian Reschke tells me that the program file header in the distributed
>ASCREEN 3.2 isn't set up correctly. Apparently this is because I still use a
>slightly outdated Turbo C linker (it seems that it *is* time to upgrade, after
>all).

Will ASCREEN work with CSTeX on a MegaSte? Has anyone managed to get it to
work? I can't!
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From: BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: how many pages in a dvi file
Date: 16 Nov 92 06:34:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: MATH.721931672.294909.BNB
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we frequently receive dvi files that are to be printed on one of
our typesetters.  it would be quite useful to be able to determine
quickly how many pages are in a particular dvi file.

it shouldn't be difficult to extract from dvitype the code to
perform this check.  but (1) we don't want to reinvent any wheels,
and (2) we haven't really got the time.  if anyone out there has
already created such a utility, we'd really appreciate learning
about it.
					-- barbara beeton
					   bnb@math.ams.org
From: "Daniel H. Luecking" <DL24794@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: backslash in mailers
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 13:14:01 CST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Petr Novotny <NOVOTNYP@CSEARN.BITNET> said

> By the way, I learned that some of the MAILERs convert backslashes. Do you
> often encounter this problem?
Frequently mail arrives in which backslashes are represented as the "cents"
symbol (a "c" with a verical bar through it). Less frequent, but MUCH more
confusing, it gets converted to a "c". A couple of other symbols have shown
up from time to time and once all left and right braces failed to appear
at all.

Does anyone know if anything can be done by the sender to minimize this?
Dan Luecking
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Subject: Re: FrameMaker 2.0 PS graphics --> LaTeX
Keywords: monthly faq
Reply-To: gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare)
Organization: The Bates Motel
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:38:15 GMT

chuan@stein.u.washington.edu (Chuan Lee) writes:
>gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
>>fig2-1.ps:%%BoundingBox: (atend)
>>fig2-1.ps:%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
>>
>>Could any LaTeX/TeX users relying on FrameMaker 2.0 please tell me
>>how to get the program to set BoundingBox, or how I can fudge this
>>with the bblx, bbllx, bblly, bburx and bbury fields of \psfig?
>
>The figures usually appear too low with the original setting.
>So I modify the setting to "raise" the bbox by 1.5--2" (BTW,
>my figures are 2" above the lower edge), as
>
>%%BoundingBox: 108 144 612 792

I assume from this that you are adjusting the BoundingBox coordinates
manually in the .PS file?  Would the bbllx, etc. fields of \psfig{}
override the BoundingBox coordinates given in the .ps figure?  And
does clip= work the way that it's supposed to?

The figure in FrameMaker starts 1 inch from the top and left edges of
the page:

\begin{figure}
\vspace{-1in}
\hspace{-1in}
\psfig{file=fig2-1.ps, bbllx=72, bblly=432, bburx=540, bbury=720, clip=}
\caption{xxxx}
\end{figure}

I have specified these coordinates in both the LaTeX and .ps files, 
I get a clean run on latex and dvips, the output file appears in the
queue BUT nothing comes out of my Laserwriter II. )-;

I have been reducing my bblly coordinate to lower the bottom of the
BoundingBox, but to no avail.

>Oh, did I miss your question?  I think you got the bbox problem
>because you don't have the right PSFIG package.

Actually, I have the latest version off of the Claremont server (1.9).
The BoundingBox that I get is for a full 8.5 x 11 page -- got it.  But
if my \textwidth is 6.5 inches, and my top margin is 1 inch, then I'll
have to shrink my BoundingBox accordingly?  I also know of the "clip="
field, but I am still unable to get a figure out.  The bblx, bbllx,
bblly, bburx and bbury fields of \psfig are supposed to allow me to
set a bounding box manually, but I'm not sure if it will override the
%%BoundingBox field in the figure file (and, \psfig 1.9 INSISTS on
those fields; it craps out otherwise).

gld
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
Subject: Re: Changebar style
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 20:29:01 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.121602.14922@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
>In article <01GR7X3RRAOY8WWB69@crl.aecl.ca>, WALKERJ@crl.aecl.ca (DR. JIM WALKER @CRL) writes:
>|> 
>|> I'd like to use changebars in LaTeX. I've retrieved "changebar.sty" from
>|> sun.soe.clarkson.edu, but I've run into a few problems. I'm using dvips386,
>|> and it doesn't seem to like the "\special{ln03:... }" commands that exist
>|> in changebar.sty.
>
>The latest version of changebar.sty has a \driver command that enables
>you to select which DVI converter you're using.  One option is dvips,
>which is what you need (the others are dvitops and dvitoln03; I have a
>still more recent version that claims to support the emTeX DVIDRV
>\special commands, but haven't got it to work yet).  I got my copy of
>the working changebar from aston.

Will this version of changebar.sty work with OzTeX?

-- 
Tom Scavo
scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Subject: When Do Virtual Fonts Get Used?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:40:57 GMT



Hmm. The concept of a virtual font has escaped me. I realize that virtual
fonts perform the map between TeX and postscript, however, I do not know
when the .vf files are used. I have successfully made the .tfm and .vf
files using afm2tfm and vptovf. And I know that the .tfm files are used
by TeX when making the .DVI file. However, when are .vf files used?

When I convert .dvi files to .ps files using DVIPS, the program just
embeds the .pfb fonts into the file as a header. Where in the whole 
process do .vf files get used?

Thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: roten@CUBA.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Roten)
Subject: Newbie question: where do the fonts go in UNIX TeX installation ?
Organization: /cuba_b/dirbe/roten/.organization
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:22:21 GMT

I am in the process of installing (or rather, reinstalling) UNIX TeX 
on a replacement for the applications disk that died on my Sun more 
than a month ago.  But there is one matter the internal READMEs and 
installation notes do not adequately address, IMO, and I suspect more 
than one of you can be of assistance.  

Unfortunately for me, I last fought my way through this 4 years ago, 
and the fiddlin' details have leaked out of the infamous RotenMemory 
(tm).  

Once the cmfonts are unpacked ( cat cmfonts.tar.Z.* | zcat | tar xf - ), 
where do I _put_ the subdirectories pk118/, pk300/, and tfm/ ?  Not to 
mention gf/ ?  When I 'mv' them to the TEXFONTS directory, TeX does not 
seem to see them ?  

Thanks in advance.  

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From: A8131DAL%AWIUNI11.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Peter Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: problems with german hyphenation tables
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:45:28 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Curiously, the personal (e-mail) answer bounced back (unknown local user)
I try it this way: (Sorry, I am too lazy to translate it
- it contains nothing important.)


Peter Schmitt                             a8131dal@awiuni11.edvz.univie.ac.at
                                                        schmitt@awirap.bitnet
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Vielleicht verstehe ich die Anfrage falsch - ich verwende nur PC's:
Ist damit die Erstellung eines `preloaded' Formats gemeint? Das wird n"amlich,
glaube ich, kaum mehr gemacht.
Ist einmal ein .fmt erstellt, so genuegt doch tex &<format> als Aufruf.
Oder uebersehe ich ein Problem?
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: yves@vlsi.info.uqam.ca (Yves Blaquiere)
Subject: "Phasor" command exists in LaTeX?
Organization: Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:48:38 GMT


Is there exist a "phasor" command in math environment already writen
somewhere, such as \phasor{\theta}? This command would generated
something like this:

	/  \theta
       /__________

This is different of the $\angle$ symbol because \theta must be
underlined. This command is used very often in circuit analysis when
the phasor notation is used.

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From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)
Subject: New header/footer in LaTeX
Distribution: world
Organization: Job hunters use Parachute
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:12:40 +0000

How do I change the default header/footer for a LaTeX document? I read
Lamport's book and a couple of style files but I'm none the wiser?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards, Trevor.

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From: bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
Subject: Re: continued on the next page
Originator: bern@kleopatra
Organization: Theor. CS, FB IV / CS, Univ. of Trier, Germany (Internet TI.Uni-Trier.DE)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:05:10 GMT

In <1992Nov23.125947.10381@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ms@lehre24.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Martin Schroeder) writes:
>Thanks very much, but I would like a one-pass solution (if it is impossible, tell me).
>I would like something in the foot like
>\ifpagefollowing
>   continued on the next page
>\fi        

Why not use "\thispagestyle{empty}" or similar at the End of your Text?
Of course, this requires that you include the "continued" in the Page Style,
but this should be no big Work.

Greetings,
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From: Steffen Steinhaeuser <steinhaeuser@V6000A.GSI.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: It works!!! was: '{'
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:15:55 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Hi!

Looking in latex.tex for dirty tricks, I found a very good one.

\documentstyle[german]{article}

% The following defines \@charlb and \@charrb to be { and }, respectively
% with \catcode 11.
{\catcode`[=1 \catcode`]=2
\catcode`{=11 \catcode`}=11
\gdef\charlb[{]  %<-- I deleted the @, because it's not usable in this level
\gdef\charrb[}]  %<-- I deleted the @, because it's not usable in this level
]% }brace matching

\begin{document}
\newwrite\datafile
\immediate\openout\datafile=output.tex
\def\antwort{\charlb  }
\immediate\write\datafile{\antwort }
\immediate\closeout\datafile
\end{document}

LaTeX this file and you'll have a left brace in output.tex.

I myself couldn't believe some minutes ago, that there is any existing
possibility, but here it is. I hope, this all you wanted.

CU

Steffen Steinhaeuser

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:12:43 GMT

In article <19535@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, puente@sourri.ucdavis.edu (Carlos Puente) writes:
> We would like our appendix to begin with:
> 
> Appendix A
> 
> and then continue numbering equations as in the
> article style file:  A.1, A.2, etc.
> We do not want Appendix A to be enlarged
> or on its own line as in the book
> or report style files.  Can you help?

Look for \secdef in latex.tex. It provides a fairly flexible way of defining
new sections. 
% \secdef{UNSTARCMDS}{STARCMDS} :
%    When defining a \chapter or \section command without using
%    \@startsection, you can use \secdef as follows:
%       \def\chapter { ... \secdef \CMDA \CMDB }
%       \def\CMDA    [#1]#2{ ... }  % Command to define \chapter[...]{...}
%       \def\CMDB    #1{ ... }      % Command to define \chapter*{...}

Try:
...
\appendix
\renewcommand{\chapter}{\secdef\Chapter\SChapter}
\def\Chapter[#1]#2{\refstepcounter{chapter}\SChapter{\thechapter{} #2}}
\def\SChapter#1{\newpage\noindent#1}

\chapter{This is my first Appendix}
...

This is very bare. You need to add to the def of \Chapter the appropriate 
commands for the toc, and commands to handle the opt arg [#1].

-- 
--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: HELP: attack of \vbox and \hbox
Date: 20 Nov 1992 23:20 PST
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In article <By0yFz.DoH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, schneid@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Schneider) writes...
% >I need a plain TeX solution for this problem.  I want to have
% >text displayed on the page like this:
% > 
% > blah blah qwe qwa asd asdf asdf asdf 			$1000
% > asdf asdf asdf asdf sadf adf asdf 
% > 
% > asdf asdf asdfasd asdf asdf adf asdf			$1500
% > 
% > asdf asdf   asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf			$3000
% > asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asf
% > asdf asd asdfas asdfasdf asdfasdf
% > 
% >Of course the text I am using isn't really "blah asdf etc."
% >My problem is that the whole thing need to be in a vertical box
% >and one can't specify the *width* of a vbox, right?  I want the
% >text in each subsection to be in paragraph form.  Let's say
% >textwidth of 5 inches, .5 inch between text and $amounts,
% >pagewidth of 6.5 inches.  HELP!


\def\amount#1{\par\noindent
  \hbox to0pt{\kern\hsize \kern-\rightskip \kern.5in 
  \$#1\hss}\ignorespaces}

\vbox{
\hsize=6.5in \rightskip=6.5in \advance\rightskip -5in\relax

\amount{1000} blah blah qwe qwa asd asdf asdf asdf
asdf asdf asdf asdf sadf adf asdf 

\amount{1500}asdf asdf asdfasd asdf asdf adf asdf

}

\bye        Donald Arseneau          asnd@reg.triumf.ca