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From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: figure*'s disappearing in twocolumn style
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:28:45 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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I'm using Trevor Darrell's psfig.tex to include postscript pictures
into my LaTeX figures.  I'm then using Rokicki's dvips to convert the
dvi file to postscript for printing.  Everything works fine in single
column style, and in twocolumn style, the pictures that are in figure
environments come out fine, but the ones that are in figure*'s
disappear.

The code I use looks something like this:

\input{psfig}
\documentstyle[twocolumn]{article}
 ... 
\begin{figure*}
\centerline{\psfig{figure=starfigure.ps,width=\textwidth}}
\vspace{-.05\textwidth}
\caption{A double column figure}
\label{fig:star}
\end{figure*}

When I run latex, it tells me:
	psfig: searching for starfigure.ps for bounding box
	psfig: including starfigure.ps

When I run dvips, it reports the names of all the other pictures inside
the brackets of the page they appear on (e.g., [4[regfigure.ps]]), but
the pictures that are in figure*'s simply don't appear.  In the text,
the references to these figures are correct and in order.  However,
the figures themselves are just not there.  

Am I doing something stupid here?

-- 
Don't take life so serious ... it ain't *no how* permanent. -- Porkypine. 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bolden@beta.math.unc.edu (Jeffrey Bolden)
Subject: Re: canon BJ10e
Organization: University of North Carolina
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:29:53 GMT

	A few days back, somone posted a message asking about a driver for
this printer.  If you had any luck could you email me with the ftp site /
directory and file.


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: yfchyan@athena.mit.edu (Yih-Feng Chyan)
Subject: sender's address in Latex
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:40:21 GMT

Hi,

Has anybody ever encountered such a problem?  Not given the recipient's address
after \begin{letter}, Latex will not print out the sender's address specified by
\address properly.  According to the manual by Leslie Lamport, the \address
and \signature could be put anywhere in the file.  But from my experiences, if the
\address is put in the preamble, it won't be printed out (under the premise that
the recipient's address is not given).  If put between \begin{letter} and \opening
, the sender's address will be messed up by the date and/or sender's name.  Could
anybody suggest a way to overcome this problem?

Thanx in advance!

M.-J.
From: dak@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Dave Kruger)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:40:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
Organization: HP Australasian Response Centre (Melbourne)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
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rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely) writes:
: A repeat of a previous post I made a while back (in essence): MicroSpell is
: THE spellchecker for TeX
:
: [Stuff deleted]
:
: Yes - you will have to pay for MicroSpell, but you are supporting an
: individual who (I imagine - I have never met the author, only spoken on the
: phone when ordering) is deserving of your support.
: 

I keep hearing good things about MicroSpell, however, I missed Robert's earlier
post.  How can I get it?  Do you have address/phone/fax for the author/seller?
Also, how much is it, please?  Sorry if you answered these questions before.
I would like to support this product.  I can remember someone saying that the
author is even willing to listen to users and to accept their input as regards
enhancements (shock, horror!).  This fact alone makes me want to support him.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

Dave Kruger
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From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: using /looseness in LaTeX
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:03:39
Organization: /pearl/homes/eijkhout/.organization
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In-reply-to: alexis@maui.cs.ucla.edu's message of Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:16:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.221627.11410@cs.ucla.edu> alexis@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Alexis Wieland) writes:

   Using \looseness (described on pp 103-104 in The TeXbook) 
   in a LaTeX document does not seem to have any effect,
   even when this is coupled with an increased \tolerance.
   Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong,
   or is this useful tool not available in LaTeX ? 

Hm. I'd have to guess. Maybe your tolerance is still not enough?

Or are you forgetting that 1/ \looseness has only effect for one
paragraph, and that 2/ it has to be specified pretty much in that
paragraph, because any \par resets it? And then maybe you
make the ubiquitous mistake
 {\tolerance=1 A paragraph of text .... and text.}
That is, if you enclose a paragraph in a group, be sure
to end it in the group:
 ... and text.\par}

     - alexis.                    <alexis@cs.ucla.edu>
--
Victor
``I have seen this funny quote, if only I could find it back.''
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: zhu@athena.mit.edu (Erin Zhu)
Subject: help with installing TeX
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:36:33 GMT

So here I am, installing TeX (the just the plain usual ones) on a Unix
machine for the first time, everything seem to have compiled, and there
are dandy little executable files like initex, virtex, inimf and virmf.
I try running initex, it tells me that it can't find any .tfm files.
I look at the README file, it doesn't tell me anything about producing
the said .tfm files.  Could some kind soul tell me how to go about it?

Thanks in advance,

  --Erin

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Christopher.Vance@adfa.oz.au (Christopher JS Vance)
Subject: NFSS, extra space on font change
Originator: cjsv@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Computer Science, University College, UNSW/ADFA, Canberra, Australia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:56:15 GMT

I am using NFSS and am trying to use the Concrete fonts.  I have used
subst@fontshape to get LaTeX to use cmb for bold.

I appear to get an extra space when I first change fonts to cmb.

Has anybody else seen this?  Any hints where I should look?  Is this a
known problem long since fixed?

-- Christopher
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: creider@taptet.sscl.uwo.ca (Chet A. Creider)
Subject: how to eliminate unwanted interbox space in macro?
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:54:37 GMT

The following works in the sense that the fbox boxes don't have space
between them:
\documentstyle[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\fbox{\rule[-.1cm]{0cm}{.4cm}laak}\fbox{\rule[-.1cm]{0cm}{.4cm}wa}\fbox{\rule[-.1cm]{0cm}{.4cm}it} \\
\makebox[3cm]{$\uparrow$} \\
\makebox[0.2cm]{ }\framebox[3.0cm]{Finite control} \\
\end{document}

However, when I try to write a macro to make the construction process a little
easier, a space appears betweens each box.  Is there anyway to get rid of this?
\documentstyle[12pt]{article}
\newcommand{\fabox}[1]
	{
	\fbox{\rule[-.1cm]{0cm}{.4cm}#1}
	}
\begin{document}
\fabox{laak}\fabox{wa}\fabox{it} \\
\makebox[3cm]{$\uparrow$} \\
\makebox[0.2cm]{ }\framebox[3.0cm]{Finite control} \\
\end{document}

Finally, as is probably obvious, my normal language is -me, not LaTeX.
Is there a simpler way to do what I'm doing within LaTeX?

Many thanks,

Chet Creider
<creider@csd.uwo.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: iigsa01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Schilling)
Subject: dvips error? (bop-hook)
Reply-To: andreas@gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Organization: Universitaet Tuebingen, WSI/GRIS, FRG
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:42:16 GMT


If I use the bop-hook in the way recommended by the dvips manual to
produce a light DRAFT across the pages of my TeX document, all subsequent
TeX output jobs prduce the DRAFT also. Some of my collegues don't like that.


Is this a bug of dvips? What can I do about it?

Thank you for any hints.


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Jon@Radel.com (Jon Radel)
Subject: Re: Modern TeX. Michael Vulis
Reply-To: jon@radel.com (Jon Radel)
Organization: Stanford Telecom, SED, Reston
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 18:59:22 GMT

In article <9970771@MVB.SAIC.COM> "R.A.Reese" <R.A.Reese@seq.hull.ac.uk> writes:
>I have a publisher's leaflet for a (new?) book "Modern TeX and its applications"
>by Michael Vulis,  CRC Press (in UK at least) 304pp+PC disk 24pounds.
>
>The list of contents looks interesting. Has anyone seen/reviewed a copy yet?

In the U.S. the pre-publication orders and review copies have quite
recently been shipped.  I got mine late last week.  Consequently, I
doubt that there are any reviews out yet.  :-)

(I have not yet read enough of it to do it any justice, so I will not comment
on it.)

--Jon Radel
jon@radel.com

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.text
From: georgere@microsoft.com (George V. Reilly)
Subject: Re: TeX and "Point" definition.
Date: 05 Jan 93 21:39:35 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

dak@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Dave Kruger) writes:
) clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
) : Could someone tell me what TeX think a point is?  At least, as far as PK
) : fonts are concerned...

) Page 57 of the TeXbook says the following:
)     pt  point
)     pc  pica (1 pc = 12 pt)
)     in  inch (1 in = 72.27 pt)
)     bp  big point (72 bp = 1 in)
)     . . .
)     sp  scaled point (65536 sp = 1 pt)

) Don't ask me what (or what use) a scaled point is.

TeX does all its internal calculations in scaled points, giving
more than enough precision for any practical purpose.

Note also that TeX's big point (bp) corresponds exactly to
what many other systems and typesetting languages, including
PostScript, call a point.
________________
George V. Reilly   <GeorgeRe@Microsoft.Com>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mikep@.adaclabs.com (Mike Pechner)
Subject: I just want to print FSF docs
Originator: mikep@slinky
Organization: Adac Laboratories, Milpitas Ca
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:18:35 GMT

I just want to be able to print the documents that come with
FSF (emacs,gcc and such).

What are the minimal parts of tex I need to do this.
And where can I ftp the code.  
If possible, a utility that outputs roff or postscript
would be best.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Subject: Re: Own Counters with Labels/Ref --- Solution
Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
Date: 8 Jan 93 08:32:32 PST


Thanks to Alexander Durner, who came up with a solution:


1) You should use the `\label' command instead of `\newlabel' to
   force writing to the aux file. `\newlabel' just defines the label
   for the rest of the document.
2) To make LaTeX `know' which counter it should use for the label,
   (locally) redefine `\@currentlabel'. 

While this sounds easy, there is still some work to be done:

1) the `\@currentlabel' contains an @ (at sign) which normally has
   `category code' 12 (= other) and thus can't be used in a
   command name. With LaTeX, the two commands
     \makeatletter
   and
     \makeatother
   are available to change this catcode.

2) the \label command is written to the aux file at the same time
   when the `completed page' is shipped to the dvi file (this is
   necessary to keep page-number references right). Thus, the
   \@currentlabel should be set to the counter's value, not to
   the counter's name. (I think that expansion is done during LaTeX's
   processing of \label, but to make things clearer I've used
   \edef instead of \def or \newcommand.) 

3) any changes to \@currentlabel should be kept local (otherwise,
   it could mess up the references to theorems etc.)


I suggest you define a private macro as follows

\makeatletter
\def\mycounterlabel#1#2{% #1=label, #2=counter
    \begingroup % to keep change to \@currentlabel local
    \edef\@currentlabel{\arabic{#2}}% label := the value of #2
    \label{#1}%
    \endgroup}
\makeatother
    
Then you could say, e.g., 
   
   \mycounterlabel{mylabel}{my}
    
to get the desired effect in your sample text.    

LaTeX defines \theCOUNTER to print COUNTER's value (default: arabic)
and \p@COUNTER to print a `prefix' for it (e.g., section number; 
default: empty).

The LaTeX def. of \@currentlabel inside a theorem-like environment
is done by \refstepcounter, and looks like

\edef\@currentlabel{\csname p@#2\endcsname\csname the#2\endcsname}%

where #2 is the COUNTER name.

If you don't want to hardwire the `arabic' into your
\mycounterlabel macro, you might replace the \edef line (and
\renewcommand the \theCOUNTER macro as you like).

A.D.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: A8131DAL@vm.univie.ac.at (Peter Schmitt)
Subject: Re: Disabling the underscore character
Organization: University of Vienna
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:43:24 GMT

>file name as part of what it does.  The macro does not
>work if the file name has an underscore character in it,
>since it interprets the underscore as the subscript
>character and starts inserting $ signs.

>\def\foo#1{ {\tt #1} }
>\foo{file_name.ext}

>I tried defining foo as follows:

>\def\foo#1{ {\catcode`_=12 {\tt #1} } }

This is a very common error: The catcode is already fixed when the
argument is passed!

>{\catcode`_=12 \foo{file_name.ext} }

>Is there a way of avoiding this and doing everything
>inside the macro?

Sure: Use a macro to call \foo:
e.g.: \def \Foo{\bgroup\catcode`\_=12\foo}
and add a \egroup to the end of \foo

Peter
From: mtd@acsu.buffalo.edu (Manakshi K. Trivedi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How good is pictex macro package?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:44:06 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


I need to decide whether to use "pictex" and other associated macros to
make drawings like boxes, grids, binary trees etc. I am in the process
of getting the mannual. My main concern is how good it is and it is worth
the trouble learning it.

Compared to what? My other alternatives would be packages like DrawPerfect,
etc. I do not have an easy access to Mac or Sun(for FrameMaker).

Please send comments and queries by Jan-15 to: mtd@acsu.buffalo.edu

If there are more than 5 queries then I'll post a summary.

Any and all comments are welcome.

Thanks in advance.

MTD
From: muzic@ds2.uh.cwru.edu (Ray Muzic)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to do side-by-side figs?
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:19:24 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ds2.uh.cwru.edu

Previously I asked:

>Is there a way in LaTeX to put two figures next to each other in a 1 column 
>document?  I want them to be numbered as 1 and 2 and not as 1a and 1b so I
>believe Cochran's subfigure.sty is not applicable.

>Here's the excerpt from my document:

>\documentstyle[citesort,fancyheadings,ps,subfigure,doublespace,times,psgreek,11pt]{article}

>\noindent \begin{figure}[tb]
>  \begin{center}
>      \makebox[3.25in][l]{\postscript{3.25in}{AllSpec}} \\
>  \end{center}
>  \caption{Figure caption goes here. \label{fig:sspe}}
>\end{figure}

>\noindent \begin{figure}[tb]
>  \begin{center}
>    \makebox[3.25in][l]{\postscript{3.25in}{Cspec}} \\
>  \end{center}
>  \caption{Figure caption goes here. \label{fig:cspec}}
>\end{figure}

I now have 2 solutions:

1) Use subfigure.sty with a modified definition of subfigure.  This
was pointed out to me and is well documented by the Steve Cochran
(author of subfigure.sty) in his V1.6 (prerelease).

2) Do something like:
\noindent \begin{figure}[tb]
  \begin{center}
    \begin{tabular}{cc}
      \makebox[3.25in][l]{\postscript{3.25in}{Allspec}} &
          \makebox[3.25in][l]{\postscript{3.25in}{Cspec}} \\
      Figure \protect\ref{fig:allspec} & Figure \protect\ref{fig:cspec}\\
    \end{tabular}
  \end{center}
  \caption{Left figure caption goes here. \label{fig:allspec}}
  \caption{Right figure caption goes here. \label{fig:cspec}}
\end{figure}

The difference in the methods lies in the location of the figure caption.
In 1, the figure caption has a width equal to the subfigure.  In 2,
the captions appear below one another, at the full width of the text.

Thanks for the input.

Ray
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From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Forcing expansions in Tex
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:52:58
Organization: /pearl/homes/eijkhout/.organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu
In-reply-to: mandal@rose.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:42:00 GMT

In article <MANDAL.93Jan5124200@rose.cis.ohio-state.edu> mandal@rose.cis.ohio-state.edu (Manas Mandal) writes:

   [I posted this the day before Christmas, and got no responses. So I am
   trying again, hoping that Someone Out There knows the answer.]

You rang?

   While processing, I want to typeout the current chapter number, so at
   the relevant place, I issue the command \typeout{\thechapter}

   If \thechapter is defined as               I get as output
	   \roman{chapter}                         iii
	   \Roman{chapter}                         \uppercase {iii}

   QUESTION 1::

   Is this a bug in LaTeX? \Roman is not expanded but everything else
   gets displayed properly?

No bug. The \uppercase command is *not expandable* in the
technical sense, and that's the one that counts.

   So how do I force the expansion without changing the definition of
   \@Roman? Can I say something like
	   \typeout{\expand\thechapter}
   so that \thechapter is correctly expanded?

No, because you need more than expansion.
The best I can come up with right now is the following:
	\edef\tmp{\noexpand\typeout{\thechapter}}
	\uppercase\expandafter{\tmp}
which you hide of course in a macro because it's ugly.

(This first generates \tmp as a control sequence that means
 \typeout{iii} , and then you uppercase the whole of that.
The behaviour of \uppercase is often counterintuitive.
See a couple of cute examples in section 3.6.2 of the
book by yours truly.)


--
Victor
``I have seen this funny quote, if only I could find it back.''
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,syr.general
From: rshankar@top.cis.syr.edu (Ravi V. Shankar)
Subject: Can I split a printout into odd- and even-numbered pages?
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 14:43:56 EST

When printing documents set in (say) LaTeX, I think it would be useful to have
an option that allows you to print the odd-numbered pages as a set followed by
the even-numbered pages. If you have direct access to the printer and can
re-feed the paper appropriately, you have a pseudo double-side printer.

Is such an option available now? Or else, has anyone hacked up something that 
could do this?

Thanks,
Ravi

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From: rlp@sunset.lanl.gov (Dick Phillips)
Subject: Re: Blue Sky CM fonts
Keywords: NeXT, PostScript
Reply-To: rlp@lanl.gov
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 13:52:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.210935.23876@newshost.lanl.gov> rlp@sunset.lanl.gov (Dick  
Phillips) writes:
> Folks:
> 
> This may seem like an esoteric problem, but it's very real when you
> MUST solve it.  I'm running TeX on a NeXT, which is a PostScript machine.
> For a book I'm doing, I need to use PostScript versions of the CM fonts;
> bitmapped versions are unacceptable.  Fortunately, Blue Sky Research
> sells Type 1 versions of the CM fonts, 75 in all.  I've bought them and
> installed them.  Everything seemed to go smoothly until I tried printing
> the quadratic equation.  That is, I used the simple Plain TeX expression:
> 
> 	$$-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}\over 2a$$
> 
> Curiously, all elements appeared to be correct, except the minus and
> plusminus signs were missing.  I've tried several other equations with
> integral signs, matrix brackets, greek characters, etc., and I get
> mixed results.  For example, theta is missing, while alpha and phi are
> correct.  Also, the multiply "x" and left arrow don't appear.  Any 
> thoughts on what might be amiss?  Seems like an encoding problem, but
> I wouldn't know where to look.  Since this problem is not likely to be
> of widespread interest, please reply directly to me at rlp@lanl.gov.
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Dick Phillips

Thanks to all who replied to my plea for help.  Barry Smith of Blue Sky
Research called within an hour of my posting and talked me through a
potential solution. The evidence seemed to indicate that many characters
were missing, both from the font encoding vectors and the *.afm files,
in the first 32 positions.  Not included in my posting was the fact that
I bought the Macintosh version of the CM fonts and used Altsys'
Metamorphosis Pro to convert them for use on the NeXT.  While I have had
no trouble with that program in the past, it apparently can not deal with
TeX encodings properly.  I have just reinstalled the CM fonts, starting
from MS DOS versions (thanks again to Barry Smith) and everything works
perfectly.  Thanks again,

Dick Phillips
From: ruvan@clu.cf.ac.uk (Ruvan Weerasinghe)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: [newapa] style files?
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:54:39 GMT
Organization: Computational Linguistics Unit, U of Wales - Cardiff, Cardiff, UK.
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway


Hi,
	Can anyone mail me newapa.sty and newapa.bst files?

Ta,

Ruvan.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rosenth@vision.ethz.ch (Lukas Rosenthaler)
Subject: TeX / LaTeX on Alpha AXP (DEC) ?
Summary: Has anyone ported TeX / LaTeX to DEC Alpha AXP (OSF/1)
Keywords: TeX / LaTeX DEC Alpha
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:11:58 GMT

Has anyone experience or already ported TeX / LaTeX 3.14 to the
DEC Alpha AXP machines running OSF/1 ??

L. Rosenthaler

rosenth@vision.ethz.ch