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From: neirac@kaa (Francois Neirac)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Where is rtf2tex ?
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:53:23 GMT
Reply-To: neirac@cenerg.cma.fr
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I have read some info about a software called (I think) rtf2tex, able to
translate RTF files (f.i. generated by MSWord) to latex files. 

In a FAQ I have found the followinf info :

rtf-tools       indri.primate.wisc.edu  v1.04 by Paul DuBois
                128.104.230.11          pub/RTF/RTF-1.04.shar

but this machine doesn't seem to have anonymous access.

I didn't find it no more on sumex, where it was supposed to be ?


So, please, if someone can help me ...

(Note : I am interested in a unix software running on my station, not in a
mac program ...)

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From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:17:33 -0800
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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But my understanding was that, for whetever reason, the idea was
to have straight margins down both sides of the column, in
the way news-magazines do.  Ragged right is the obvious solution
if you want ragged right margins.  Not everybody does.  The question
of whether ragged right margins are aesthetically preferable to
excesses of interword space is another matter entirely.


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From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
Date: 26 Jan 93 03:21:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: pith.1k2an0INNkjj
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
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In article <1993Jan26.015518.12345@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
>
>>There is really no doubt that Textures is immensely superior to OzTex. Of
>>course, unlike OzTex it costs real money ;-(, but at the "student price"
>>it is very good value.
>
>Incidentally, have you used both?  Very few people have, in my experience.
>(I used TeXtures 3 or 4 years ago, and was impressed, but also annoyed 
>that I could not use fonts from elsewhere.  Has that changed?)

But my question is:  Does Textures have the memory constraints
that OzTeX suffers from?  I have a 150-page solutions manual with
at least that many figures that gives OzTeX an awful time!  Right
now I'm struggling with commutative diagrams---every time I try
to typeset them, I get an overflow message.  I'd give anything
for a BIG OzTeX!  For small projects however, it works great.

-- 
Tom Scavo
scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
From: jns@ace.nas.nasa.gov (John N. Stewart)
Subject: [dvips-5.4.97] Working with different Lasers
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 21:33:30 GMT
Distribution: usa


Hey all, hopefully I am hitting the right newsgroups with this one. I
just installed the 5.4.97 version of dvips onto our NAS systems, and
the postscript it is generating is not printing properly on HP
LaserJet III's or the Imagen's we have.

That same PS file will display properly inside of ghostscript and will
print on an Apple Laserwriter. I've been working with the config
files, either using the default or changing the setup for our
particular printers, to no avail. Either "div" errors show up, or
nothing at all.

The error messages to the printers show nothing, and there are rarely
printouts with something like "offending command:" on them. So, does
anyone else experience this problem, is there a workaround, have I
done something wrong, etc.


The current HP config file is:
========================================================================
M ln
*
*   With a virtual machine, we can claim 1M of memory.
*
m 700000
*
*   And send output by default to a PostScript file.
*
o !lpr -Phlw1
*
*   Default resolution.
*
D 300
*
* Make sure that you look for write black fonts
*
* Do NOT use any % operators in the path, it will choke things later on
* we would like to say:
* P /usr/unsupported/lib/TeX/fonts/pk/imagen (but cannot, I think)
P /usr/local/pkg/TeX/clients/lib/fonts/pk/ln03:/tmp/Dvips.pk
========================================================================


Any help is appreciated...

--Ace

John Stewart (Ace)
CSS/DSS/Security/Postmaster/NewsAdmin
NASA Ames Research Center
(415) 604-4345
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: HPLJ 4 mf mode
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:21:55 GMT

In article <C17JxE.Dx2@cs.umu.se> pdale@cs.umu.se (Phillip Dale) writes:
>In <7624@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> ajn@essex.ac.uk (Alastair Neil) writes:
>>does anyone have a metafont mode that will work with dvips for printing
>>at 600dpi on a postscript hpLJ4 ?
>
>How about this one?  I use it and it seems quite acceptable...
> [mode deleted]

And where might one find a .dvi driver (hopefully in C for Unix) to
work with the hplj4?

BTW, I've heard the hplj4's have been having problems.  Anyone care to
comment?

-Joel
From: adb2y@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Allen David Boozer)
Subject: Re: help with XYpic
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:10:54 GMT

Could someone suggest a shareware LaTeX processor which runs under DOS
and is available for ftp?  I would like something that is small and
easy to install + use.  Also, I would need an HP Deskjet driver and a
screen previewer.  Any ideas?  Thanks for your advice!
From: "Arthur Ogawa" <ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re:  color documents
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 15:12:17 PST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

You wrote saying that you wished to add color attributes
to your TeX file and output to a film recorder via
the Freedom of Press clone PostScript rip.

If you are using Textures, you can do this by using the
\special{rawpostscript <PS code>}. It will be up to you
to determine the color capabilities of your FoP/film
recorder device.

OxTeX may or may not be able to do likewise; anybody know?
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bryanb@plato.ds.boeing.com (Brian Baker)
Subject: Fonts
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:48:15 GMT

     I am trying to put together the emTeX package from the
Claremont archive (MAILSERV@ymir.claremont.edu).  The screen
previewer 'dviscr.exe' (which is called by 'v.bat') requires
some font libraries such as lj_0.fli, lj_1.fli, etc...  I
can't find these files in the Claremont archive.  Could
someone familiar with this archive, or anyone else familiar
with emTeX please help.  Thanks,
                         Bryan B.
                         bryanb@nyquist.boeing.com
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
Organization: Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo, Norge
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:55:16 GMT

	Textures 1.5 is $200 if you're a student, and is much better than
	OzTeX.
--
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       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
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From: TEXAMPLES%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@SHSU.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: a better script "I" symbol than {\cal I} for null infinity "scri"
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 14:58 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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This is a relativity-related physics symbol request.
When talking about the asymptotic structure of spacetimes, one has
timelike, null and spacelike "infinities". Relativists have used a
script capital letter I (which I believe insiders call "scri") for
the symbol denoting null infinity (of which there are two: past and future,
unlike the ghosts of charles dickens).

The problem is that in TeX, the only standard script fonts we have are the
\cal uppercase letters, some of which do not seem to resemble the "usual"
script letters used by scientific journals. In particular, {\cal I}
just looks like a normal printed "I" seen at the bottom of a pool with waves
on its surface causing some distortion, not at all like the longhand symbol
most of us recognize as the uppercase script I or perhaps were once taught
to write longhand.

Is there anything a low level TeX user can do to get a better symbol without
knowing how to play with fonts or metafont?
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From: wenlin@ee.tamu.edu (Wen-Lin Hsieh)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to use Times fonts in math environment?
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:06:25 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ee.tamu.edu

I read this news group a lot but it's the first time I send a quesiton
to this group. My question is partially described in the subject line.
In fact, my Dept. bought a MathTime package which allows us to use
PostScript fonts for typesetting mathematics with TeX. The problem
is MathTime doesn't work with LaTeX. I was told that somebody might
have written a macro to do the job. any ideas? Any information would
be highly appreciated.

You are more than welcomed to email me the information.

Wen-Lin Hsieh
wenlin@ee.tamu.edu
From: dheitjan@biostats.hmc.psu.edu (Daniel F. Heitjan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re:  color documents
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 08:44:56 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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The answer to my query of the other day seems to be
to use the latest version of dvips.  Where can I
obtain this?  Is it proprietary or in the public
domain?  Until now I have been using DVILASER/PS
Sun Version 6.3.1 by ArborText, Inc.  The folks at
ArborText do not have a product for handling color,
nor do they plan one.

Incidentally, I have already made color slides from
PostScript code, and the results were very good.  The
PostScript for those slides, which are graphs rather
than text, was produced by S-Plus version 3.1.
Unfortunately S-Plus does not have very extensive or
sophisticated text-handling routines, although it
does make beautiful graphics.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
From: "Tundra" Tim Daneliuk <tundra@eskimo.chi.il.us>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re:  the virtual font craze
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:10:36
Organization: TundraWare
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>
> Wolfgang Ratzka writes:
>
> >I'm  not  so   sure wether Christoph   Kukulies' longing for    good
> >collection of  virtual fonts' is not  based on a misunderstanding.  As
> >much as I understand  (please correct me), virtual  fonts are mainly a
> >means to
> >
> >- utilize internal fonts of an output device (e. g. PostScript)
> >
> >- rearrange the encoding of a font and do fancy things with accented
> >  characters.
> >
>
> I agree with your suggestion to shed some light on the usefulness
> of virtual fonts and what actually can be done with them.
>
> --Chris
>
While we're asking for the shedding of light: I for one, would like to see
(or have its location named if it already exits) a tutorial on font handling
generally within TeX.  Topics could include the role of MetaFont, purpose
and installation of NFSS, and so on.  The problem is that attacking
these topics without any tutorial intro is a little intimidating.

Just a thought...

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From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvi2lj4 with MakeTeXPK
Date: 27 Jan 93 09:17:27 GMT
Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland

This is frequently asked question, but since I have saw no answer: is there
dvi->laserjet 4 filter ? I have patches to dvixxx posted by H Wenk, but since
our LJ4 is not yet accesible from the SUN, I have not tested it. Anyway, it
does not have the feature I'd like, namely usage of MakeTeXPK like dvips.
With it, one does not have to generate fonts one does not need. Instead,
dvips generates fonts as needed.

--
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University Of Tampere,				   	           av@cs.uta.fi
Finland
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A. Smith)
Subject: Printing out latex.tex as a manual with correct page #'s -- HOW
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:56:36 GMT

Hi,
     latex.tex has a table of contents at the outset that I presume has  
meaning. So how do I print it out so that the page numbers work out?

--
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: y1@wilbur.psu.edu (Zhaohui Yang)
Subject: Q: latex crossreference, should I always run it twice?
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 17:29:09 GMT


Hi, netters,

Although I use latex for some times, there is still one question I am not
clear yet.  In latex I use command \label etc. to create a cross reference.
and when I run latex at the first time, all the \label will be marked as
'undefined'.  But when I run the latex at the second time, with those .aux
files, the problems can be solved.  

I am wondering if there are some better way to do the crossreference, rather
than run the latex twice, first creat a .aux and then use that to create 
crossreference #.

Thanks in advance.

Yang
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Metafont on the Mac
Summary: MF for the Mac
Keywords: TeX Mac Metafont
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:35:43 GMT

I've left my Think-C version of MF and iniMF
in pub/Mac/TeX on ftp.maths.tcd.ie ,
as MF.sit.hqx and iniMF.sit.hqx .
(The latter includes mf.pool .)

This is a vanilla version of MF,
ie I have made as few changes from standard Unix-TeX
as possible (and there were surprisingly few).
The program runs as it would
on a dumb Unix terminal.

I'm offering it because the OzTeX MF requires MPW (I think).
I'm not sure why this is so, as OzTeX itself 
certainly does not require MPW.

The only Mac-kiness I've indulged in
is to look for the TeX environment variables
(MFINPUTS, etc) in a file called "TeX Preferences"
in the standard Mac Preference Folder
(inside the System Folder).
The file TeX.Preferences (loc. cit.) is a sample "TeX Preferences" file.

I've also added a facility to allow several fonts 
to be processed sequentially,
by a command (in Unix language)

MF < batchfile

ie re-directing the Standard Input 
(in the console window) to a file.
I've left a sample batchfile ("MF.batchfile") in pub/Mac/Tex .
(I did this in an earlier version,
but had not realised that MF does not always
close all its files.
Consequently the number of open files built up
until the maximum allowed was reached.
In this version I have ensured that all files are closed
after each font is processed.)

I'll leave the sources
(in the form of diffs from the standard distribution)
in pub/Mac/TeX/src-5.851c .

There is also a MF.README ,
and GFtoPK.sit.hqx .
(I'm not sure if the OzTeX version of this needs MPW,
but the Euro-OzTeX version doesn't run on my Mac --
I think it is looking for a floating-point chip.)

The StyleWriter printer I use is 360dpi.
This means that I can use most of the supplied 300dpi fonts,
by a stroke of luck.
The magstephalf fonts are missing, of course,
and the Euro-OzTeX manual is in 11pt, which needs these.
But it is easy enough to change the 11pt to 12pt,
and run it through LaTeX again.
(It's still in French, though!)

-- 
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: vaitken@dres.dnd.ca (Vic Aitken)
Subject: \thebibliography to BibTeX Conversion
Keywords: BibTeX
Reply-To: vaitken@dres.dnd.ca
Organization: Defence Research Establishment Suffield
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:22:22 GMT

Hi All:

   When I started using LaTeX, I wrote all my references by hand
in a 

   \begin{thebibliography}{99} 
   \bibitem{label1} ...
   \bibitem{label2} ...
   \end{thebibliography}

format. Consequently, I have a lot of refs.tex files around, since
I never got around to using BibTeX. Is there a program available
which will read a file in the above format and, perhaps with some
help by the user, convert the \bibitem entries into BibTeX entries?
If not, would a program of this sort be useful to anyone but myself?
Any replies appreciated...e-mail or post...Thanks.

-- 
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Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES)
Box 4000, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, T1A 8K6
(OPINIONS ARE MY OWN, NOT THOSE OF DRES)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: HOUGHTON@jylk.jyu.fi (DAVID HOUGHTON, LK)
Subject: DVICAN Error
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:28:48 GMT
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HAs anyone come across this error when using DVICAN :-

dia2:[sovellus.tex314.tex.exe]dvican.exe;1: 
FATAL--readpost():  POST missing at head of postamble
Current TeX page counters: [0]

If so, what does it all mean.

Thanks 
Dave.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: imsgtcar@sinc.oscs.montana.edu (Tim Carlson)
Subject: Re: Introductory LaTeX notes: covering post
Keywords: latex, notesn
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:42:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.021809.8789@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons) writes:

>There's a missing percent that makes the environment "mathegs" not work. It
>should be

>> \newenvironment{mathegs}%
>> {\medskip\footnotesize\begin{center}%
>> \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
>> \begin{tabular}{ll}%
>> \it \makebox[190pt][l]{Type} & \it To produce\\}% Note extra percent!
>> {\end{tabular}\end{center}\medskip}

Now this is strange, I had the error when running an older version of
LaTeX (May 89) but not when running the newer version of LaTeX (March
92) (with NFSS, although it shouldn't make a difference).  
Anyway, I just thought it was curious.

>Thanks for your effort, Gavin!

Yeah, I'll say that.  I think we all appreciate your work.  I've 
scanned through it (70+ pages) and think its just great!!!!!

Tim
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From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: how to define a LaTeX environment with an *optional* argument?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:30 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1jpnnsINN5el@retriever.cs.umbc.edu>, finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin) writes...
>Is there a way to define an environment in LaTeX that takes a single
>optional argument?  
>I would like to have the argument to boxed be optional and default to,
>say \defaultBoxWidth.  Is there a way to do this within LaTeX, or does
>one have to define this directly in TeX?
> 
Yes and no.  All of LaTeX is implemented "directly in TeX", but you can 
look at how LaTeX does it to do the same thing yourself.  Look in the
LaTeX.tex file.

\newsavebox{\mybox}

>  \newenvironment{boxed}[1]%
>      {\beginsbox{\mybox}\begin{minipage}{#1}%
>       }%
>      {\end{minipage}\endsbox
>        \setlength{\fboxsep}{8pt}%
>        \centerline{\fbox{\usebox{\mybox}}}}
> 

becomes:

% in a style file or use \makeatletter
\def\boxed{\@ifnextchar[{\@box@d}{\@box@d[\defaultBoxWidth]}}
\def\@box@d[#1]{\beginsbox{\mybox}\begin{minipage}{#1}}
\def\endboxed{\end{minipage}\endsbox
        \setlength{\fboxsep}{8pt}%
        \centerline{\fbox{\usebox{\mybox}}}

Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:12:48
Organization: /pearl/homes/eijkhout/.organization
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In-reply-to: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:27:35 GMT

In article <ROLFL.93Jan26102735@ulrik.uio.no> rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:

	   It's a drawback that there's no simple way to convert bitmap (pk) fonts
	   to Textures fonts.

Is there really a Textures font format, or is that just general Macintosh?
In that case it is somewhat amazing that no one has written a convertor.

--
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University of Tennessee ............... expect in new [MS]Windows products.'
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From: isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Sylvia Isler)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: DVIM72-MAC Problems -- merging PICTs with .dvi files
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:29:51 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I am using OzTeX and DVIM72-MAC.  I've tried unsuccessfully to merge
PICT files into my latex documents.  When using OzTeX, the merge is
successful. That is, the PICT file is merged correctly.

However DVIM72-MAC does not merge the PICT at all. I have the PICT
file in the same directory as my dvi file and the command I use
to merge the files is: \special{pict=<filename>.pict}

If anyone can give me some clues as to what the problem might be,
please do.

Thanks,
Sylvia Isler
isler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: David Osborne <cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 09:46:51 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Pierre MacKay writes (25 Jan 93 18:51:33 PST):

 >   > Is there any way to write a macro which would allow words
 >   > which can't be hyphenated to be placed on the next line,
 >   > rather than be given an overfull box? Such a macro would be
 >   > very useful with narrow columns.
 >
 > You might try increasing \fontdimen3 for your text font to a REALLY
 > large size.  Then TeX will always be glad to stretch interword space,
 > just like Time magazine does.  It might tend to reduce hyphenations
 > below the level you want, so be prepared to tweak the hyphenation
 > penalty too.

A simpler and more aesthetic solution is to use \raggedright, which
Knuth suggests (TeXbook, p.29) for exactly this problem.  It can also
be used in LaTeX (Lamport, p.112).

~~David Osborne
  Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham