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From: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: graphs in LaTeX/TeX
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:20:54 GMT
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago

busch@cs.uni-sb.de (Pia Busch) writes:

 > I am looking for ... to print graphs in TeX or LaTeX.
...
 > Input ist a n-array relation, 
 > output is is a graph with namend knotes and arrows.

I suspect that "xypic" might be exactly what you are looking for.
Here is some info:

****************************************************************************
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.
****************************************************************************

Good luck!
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dhosek@linus.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: ||: label in METAFONT?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Distribution: usa
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:18:25 PDT

In article <1992Sep14.173126.25527@uwm.edu>, andrew@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andy Biewer) writes:
> Hello NetPeople,
 
> How does one use the ||: label in a METAFONT ligtable description?  Say, for
> instance, that I would like the characters k,m,n,p,c to be replaced by their
> uppercase counterparts K,M,N,P,C when they appear at the end of the word.
> First, is it possible to use a ligtable description to do this?  And,
> second, if so, how do I do it, and does it incorporate the ||: label?

||: is used to indicate a change of character at the beginning of
a word. For example, I might have F replaced with a swash F when
it occurs at that location. This is done using:

ligtable ||:
  "F" =: oct"177"; % Swash F

End-of-word ligatures require the choice of a boundary character.
My choice is usually oct"015" [carriage return] which I leave
empty (along with oct"40" [space]). Your example, for uppercasing
a letter at the end of a word would be handled as follows:

boundarychar:=oct"015";

ligtable "k":
  boundarychar =: "K";

In actuality, you'd also need to insert ligatures for k + various
punctuation marks, using =:| to retain the punctuation character:

ligtable "k":
  boundarychar =: "K",
  "." =:| "K";

and so on.

-dh

Don Hosek                  
dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu  
Quixote Digital Typography 
714-621-1291
From: zeke@reed.edu (Zeke Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Recipie Macros in TeX (not LaTeX)
Date: 10 Sep 92 03:52:26 GMT
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR

People seem to keep posting questions about this but I have yet to see
a reply.  Perhaps there was one but I missed it in the few hundred
articles each day.

Does there exist a set of macros for formatting recipies.  I have a
bunch that I'd liek to typeset but I don't really know what they
should look like.  Has anyone out there done the work yet.

Zeke
-- 
                           zeke@reed.edu 
"NeXT has made it possible for Tiny Tim to over-extend himself and buy
a Ferrari for the price of a Hundai and now Tiny Tim is pissed because
the gas station attendant won't sell him gas for 3 cents a gallon."
From: Anita Zanolini Hoover <anita@ravel.udel.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX and LaTeX Courses
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:58:54 -0400
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


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From: hasel@pollux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Alois Haselboeck)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: 2 emTeX installation questions
Date: 7 Sep 92 13:43:09 GMT

I've installed emTeX on a Laptop (MS-DOS) using the provided installation
procedures. The tool works quite well, but the following questions arised:

1) How can I bring out my dvi-files on a Canon Bubble-Jet BJ-10E?
Is it possible? Which drivers/fonts/parameters do I need?

2) I made the observation, that the previewer of emTeX is much slower
than the one of PCTeX. Are there any tricks to speed it up (special
arguments for the dviscr-call,...)?

Lots of thanks for any help.

Alois Haselb"ock                                hasel@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
University of Technology Vienna
Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Alois Haselb"ock                                hasel@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
University of Technology Vienna
Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: DEC LA50 fonts
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:23:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Sep10.182339.2762
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

Is there anyone who is using a DEC LA50 or LA75 dot-matrix printer
(with dvil75) to print TeX, and has generated all the fonts in exactly
the right sizes?  I'd really like to copy your fonts, if so.

-- 
+ Michael Covington - Artificial Intelligence Programs - U of Georgia - USA 
+ Unless otherwise noted, these are private opinions, not official statements.
From: "Phillip E. Parker" <PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 13:47:38 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

       Re: alignment in eqnarray mode?

Because eqnarray only allows 3 columns (two &) per line. You could do
this with array, but you might not like the results.

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%  __ 2    Math. Dept.                 Bitnet: pparker@twsuvm
% |__)     Wichita St. Univ.         Internet: pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
% |        Wichita KS  67260-0033         Fax: 1-316-689-3748
%          USA

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
Subject: Need dc fonts
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:18:37 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

I found the dc fonts on kth.se and built them for HP LaserJets (Canon)
in "all" sizes.  However, the .mf files are quite buggy and far from
all fonts were built properly.  I looked in the faq and didn't find
any info on where to find the latest version of the dc .mf files.
Anybody knows where?

Bo
-- 
   ^   Bo Thide'--------------------------------------------------------------
  |I|        Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden
  |R|      Phone: (+46) 18-303671.  Fax: (+46) 18-403100.  IP: 130.238.30.23
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From: barry@reed.edu (Barry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Is Literate Programming just for the academics?
Summary: Textures is a Web program
Keywords: WEB, Literate Programming
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:52:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep11.015250.28335
Organization: Blue Sky Research, Portland, Oregon

In article <1992Sep10.152641.1878@informatik.uni-bremen.de> ms@lehre23.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Martin Schroeder) writes:
>I think Literate Programming is quit appealing, but as far as I know the only
>large literate programs are TeX and Metafont. 8 years after Knuth's article this
>isn't very much. So:
> - Is Literate Programming only for the academics?
> - If it is: Are there any experiences with LARGE programs?
> - If it is: Why?
> - If it is not: Are there any experiences with LARGE programs?

Well, Textures (our TeX for the Macintosh) is a Web program,

Well, Textures (our TeX for the Macintosh) is a Web program,
perhaps 50,000 lines or so.  No judgement offered as to its
"literacy", but we find Web a very useful structuring tool.

Barry Smith, Blue Sky Research
barry@reed.edu
From: 00prneubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MLA style file?
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:55:09 GMT

Does anybody have a nice style for {\em submissions} to PMLA?  A LaTeX
user at my site wants to submit an article that meets their manuscript
requirements (including bibliography).  I will prepare him a style
file (and a .bst file) if necessary, but if such files already exist,
then why reinvent it?  I admit that I have not (yet) done my homework
(i.e., *he* has not yet done his) to find out exactly what the ms
requirements are, but, on the other hand, if anyone already has the
style files, then that would be superfluous anyway.

I checked David Jones' index and found no MLA entry.  Does anyone know
if the ms requirements for PMLA are similar to those of, e.g., the
Harvard files?  

ad10Qvance

-- 
Paul Neubauer   00prneubauer@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu  00prneubauer@bsuvax1.BITNET
                00prneubauer@bsu-ucs.UUCP       neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP
From: yoshi@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (D M Yoshikami)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: METAfont woes on NeXT machine
Keywords: METAfont, NeXT, Arrgh
Date: 15 Sep 92 12:16:16 GMT
Organization: National Naval Medical Center


Howdy.  We have this NeXT machine kicking around, and since I noticed
that it had a copy of TeX and METAfont which came with it, I figured
I'd put it to good use and set my various work papers on it as well as
play with some of the fonts.  Well, much to my annoyance, when I run
METAfont on some of the .mf files I picked up, it does everything BUT
write the .tfm files, even though the output log says that it did
(it's wrong).  This is enormously inconvenient -- to say the least :-)

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this problem...
or do I have to snag a new copy of METAfont?

Just wondering

DY :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dna@math.psu.edu (Douglas N. Arnold)
Subject: Re: FTP site for FAQ?
Reply-To: dna@math.psu.edu
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:45:26 GMT

>> Could someone tell me where I could ftp the faq for this group from?

The TeX FAQ (from Bobby Bodenheimer) and the periodic posting of supplementary
TeX information (from Guoying Chen) are available at ftp.math.psu.edu
in pub/FAQ.

---
Douglas N. Arnold                         dna@math.psu.edu
Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ.    (814) 865-0246
From: Damian.Cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Buy a manual!  (Re: MetaFont for Beginners.)
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:04:43 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK
In-reply-to: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of 8 Sep 92 09:52:44 GMT

<10665@spark.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski):

   I'd be glad to RTBMFBook, but some colleague of mine
   appears to have withdrawn the only copy from the library.

So buy a copy!  There is no point trying to make serious use of TeX or
METAFONT without your own copies of the manuals.

Just a suggestion.  Damian.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: schieber@jetson.uh.edu (Schieber, Jay D.)
Subject: Re: pictex.tex
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:31:00 GMT

In article <17058@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, wagner@ike.ucdavis.edu writes...
>would be truly grateful.  Email would be appreciated, as
>I don't generally read this group.  Thanks in advance,
> 
>---
>John Wagner
>Institute of Theoretical Dynamics
>University of California, Davis
> 
>Bush/Quayle 1992: Saddam has a job, do you?
> 
>My opinions aren't even mine, much less those of anyone else...
>+------------------------------------+----------------------------+
>| jmwagner@ucdavis.edu               | Wenn Du meinen Quelltext   |
>| jmwagner@ucdavis                   | verstehen kannst, bist Du  |
>| {ucbvax, lll-crg}!ucdavis!jmwagner | mir einen Schritt voraus!  |
>+------------------------------------+----------------------------+
      					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      					Dieses Teil der Post war das
      					einzige das ich verstand!
      				



> 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lasmith@athena.mit.edu (Lones A Smith)
Subject: Changing left margin within an document -- HOW?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:09:04 GMT


Hi,
     This is another in a series of questions orignated from my secretary.
Within LaTeX, is it possible to change the left margin temporarily and
still retain the option (within this new smaller page) to use eqnarray,
array, etc.?  This comes up when writing proofs of results, where one says

Thm  blah blaah .....
Proof:
(==>) proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof 
      proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof
       
             eqnarray stuff
     proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof  QED

(<==) proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof proof 
      proof proof proof proof 
      
            array stuff                                       QED



Thanks, 
Lones Smith
MIT economics

BTW  A related desire is to be able to hfill within the  eqnarray* or array
     environments.    This was implicitly done in my above proof, where
     QED was on the same line as array stuff.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hvdberg@math.utwente.nl (Harmen van den Berg)
Subject: author index
Originator: hvdberg@math.utwente.nl
Keywords: Author index, BiBTeX
Organization: University of Twente (Dept. Applied Math.), Enschede, the Netherlands.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:40:48 GMT

>> I'm posting this message for someone else, so please reply directly to him.<<

Dear (La)TeX'ers,
I like to prepare two different indexes: an author index and a subject index.
I have the impression that it is possible to create the author index from the
information supplied in the \cite's. Does anyone have prepared macro's or other
stuff to perform this task? Please reply to me directly. My email address is:
Kettenis@RCL.WAU.NL

Dik Kettenis
-- 



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From: deutsch@euclid.math.colostate.edu (jesse deutsch)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Karl Berry modes.mf
Keywords: modes, metafont
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:24:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Please tell me where I can find the Karl Berry modes.mf file.
Thanks.   Jesse   deutsch@euclid.math.colostate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Big TeX's -- how hard are they to come by?
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:04:29 GMT

rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:


>Now, Web, I suppose, supports dynamic allocation of memory through
>Pascal's new() operator, whose behavior in extreme cases is unspecified
>and the execution speed of which is compiler dependent. 

>A similar problem is that if you use dynamic allocation of memory, you
>can't compare the speed of different implementations of a given algorithm,
>partly because the speed of different types of pointer allocation is
>compiler dependent and not easily computed. To be able to rank
>implementations of algorithms according to their speed is crucial if a
>program does a lot of operations on its data structure, as TeX does.

Sorry, /dev/null is full.
This is really nonsense.
There was difficulty with dynamic allocation in Pascal,
but there is absolutely no reason why it should not be introduced
into TeX in C.
In fact Karl Berry (in charge of UnixTeX distribution)
has said that he is working on this.

However, I doubt if it would be possible to go
from small to large TeX dynamically,
as the size of the elements in the large mem array 
(and other arrays) 
differs in the 2 cases.
For this reason,
it would still be necessary to have small and large TeX,
even if the latter was dynamically extensible.


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson)
Subject: growing old trying to include mac ps in tex
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:40:45 GMT

For longer that I would like to admit I've been trying to include postscript
figs generated on a Mac into a TeX doc.

My latest attempt was to buy Canvas 3.0.4 which will output EPSF.  When 
xfered to my Unix box, the EPSF file prints correctly.  (The TeX generated text
without the fig prints equally well.)  Whenever the EPSF file is included 
everything looks wonderful in a ghostview window, but the printer gives
a dictfull error.

Here's the relavent specs.
TeX 3.x /LaTeX 2.09		LaserWriter IINT
dvips 5.47 (Rad. Eye)
epsf,psfig.sty's

The error:
%%[ Error: dictfull; OffendingCommand: def ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

I'm about to the point of cut and paste.  :````(
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: fischer@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Phil Fischer)
Subject: baselineskip in footnotes
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:04:22 GMT


Hello,

Is there a simple way of changing the baselineskip in footnotes in Plain
Tex? Please email.

Phil Fischer                         | Hamilton, Ont.
fischer@crocus.physics.mcmaster.ca   | Canada
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy       | L8S 4M1
McMaster University                  | 416-525-9140 X 4574
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: fournes@belay (Who, me?)
Subject: Font editor wanted.
Organization: Belay Enterprises Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 15:52:35 GMT

Forgive me if this has been asked before, or is in FAQ, but is there a
pd font editor for TeX fonts, and if so, where can I get a copy?

Thanks :-) .

                                        --- Eugen Fournes
                                e-mail: fournes%belay@uunet.uunet
From: roegel@loria.fr (Roegel Denis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: SliTeX font problem
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:22:11 GMT
Organization: CRIN (CNRS) Nancy - INRIA Lorraine

Several months ago, I noticed a little problem that appeared
when using SliTeX. I first thought this is particuliar to our site,
but after some investigations, I am no longer so sure.

The problem is as follows. 

It appears when using $\Longrightarrow$ in SliTeX. As explained in the
TeXbook, $\Longrightarrow$ is formed by `=' and \Rightarrow. With SliTeX,
unfortunately, the equal sign is not exactly aligned with the Rightarrow,
both on the dvi and on the ps files. And this looks awful. It does not happen
with LaTeX nor TeX.

Seeking a solution, I found that the fonts we use here are inconsistant:

\Longrightarrow is defined by \def\Longrightarrow{\Relbar\joinrel\Rightarrow}
          where \def\Relbar{\mathrel=}, \mathchardef\Rightarrow="3229,
                and \joinrel is a kern.

That means that \Longrightarrow tries to join `='  from \textfont0 and
                                              `=>' from \textfont2.

\textfont0 is \fourteenrm when running SliTeX under style slides.sty
and \textfont2 is \fourteensy.

These two are respectively lcmss8 scaled \magstep 3
                      and  cmsy8  scaled \magstep 3.


I first wanted to change lcmss8.mf to make the signs fit. Indeed, when 
lowering the math_axis, one gets better results, but it still remains
unsatisfying. (just a note: our version of lcmss8.mf is the good version,
I just checked in on several ftp sites). On the other hand, I cannot change
cmsy8.mf, for it is the symbol font of TeX. 

My conclusion is so that THERE SHOULD BE A SLITEX VERSION OF CMSY8, that is,
a version where the lines are thicker. I searched for lcmsy*, but there
was nothing on the ftp sites. And neither scmsy*. Has some kind soul already
run into the same problem and provided a solution, or shall I build lcmsy8.mf
myself ?

 
 
Any help appreciated.

Denis   (roegel@loria.fr)


PS. There may be other similar inconsitancies, but I am sure other TeXnicians
will link them, if so.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: matheson@open.dal.ca (Steven Matheson)
Subject: reducing chapter title spacing (LaTeX)
Organization: OPEN, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:47:58 GMT

Does anyone know how to reduce the space above a chapter title 
in latex?  We are using our thesis style (based on Stanford's) 
with report.sty and are currently getting about 1in of space 
above the title.  Although this looks good in general, I would 
like to move the chapter title up in the Abstract section, as 
the abstract must fit on one page.  All other chapters should 
remain as is.

Thanks in advance!

______________________________________________________________
Steven Matheson                   E-mail: matheson@open.dal.ca
Dept. of Oceanography             Phone: (902) 494-6663
Dalhousie University              FAX:  (902) 494-3877
Halifax, NS CANADA, B3H 4J1
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 12:34:04 EDT
From: Alan R. Heyd <IA8@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Wait a minute, was degree symbol

In all the replies for creating a degree symbol, every one is using
some form of

\def\degree{^\circ}.

  Shouldn't it be

\def\degree{:\circ}    % Note: can only be used in math mode


Just wondering if I was missing something.


Alan Heyd
ia8@psuvm.psu.edu