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From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Subject: Help needed with spacing
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 22:36:50 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
Originator: clin@signal.eng.umd.edu


   I am trying to print a line, such as a section heading in TeX, but
I want to control the amount of space afterwards.   For example,

\leftline{Summary of Stuff}
\vspace{2cm}
some text here.

    The effect that I am looking for is that the baseline of the left line, and
the baseline of the first line of text should be 2 cm apart.  Right now, it
appears to be doing something like this.  When it sees \vspace, TeX automatically
ends the leftline as a paragraph, inserts \parskip worth of vertical space, then
puts 2 more cm of space.   I would like a macro like

\sect#1#2

and use it like \sect{Summary of Stuff}{2cm}
where it will place approximate 2 cm of space between the
section heading and the first paragraph.   This will look like

Example:

Summary of Stuff        __________
                           |
                           |   baselines are 2cm + \baselineskip apart
   I am summing up      ___|_______
  
\sect{Summary of Stuff}{0cm} will make the lines \baselineskip apart.

Example:

Summary of Stuff         -----------
                               |  baselines are \baselineskip apart
   I am summing up       ______|____


   I would prefer e-mail responses, but will look out for posted responses.
Send responses to clin@eng.umd.edu.  Thanks in advance.

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: feit@ERA.COM (Mark Feit)
Subject: Anchoring Boxes
Organization: Engineering Research Associates, Vienna, VA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:57:22 GMT

I'm typesetting a phone directory for an amateur radio club I belong
to using plain TeX.  Needing a different format than that of your
average phone book, I decided on this:

 K3 AB  Don Wilson....................................(410) 936-1212
         440 Q Street  Hamsville, MD  21012
NK3 P   Steve Donneley...................Omitted at Member's Request
         1296 Repeater Road  Seekyou DE,  14131
WA4 XYZ Bob Smith.....................................(703) 555-1212
         1010 Disk Drive  Somewhere, VA  12345

To do it, I wrote the following macro:

\def\phonedirentry#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8#9{
	\par
	\def\nameline{#3 \dotfill \phone{#4}{#5}}
	\def\addrline{#6 \quad #7, #8 \quad #9}
	\noindent
	\hbox{
		% Set the call sign
		\vbox{
			\hbox{
				\hbox to 0.4in {\hfill #1}
				\hbox to 0.4in {#2\hfil\ }
			}
			\hbox{}
		}
		% Set the name, address and phone number
		\vbox{
			\hbox{\nameline}
			\hbox{\quad\addrline}
		}
	}
	\smallskip
}

So far, I've been unable to make the \vbox containing the name and
address lines stretch to the right edge of the page so the \dotfill
will have some dots in it.  The only thing I _can_ do that works is
use \hbox to xxx{...} for the name line.  It works (sort of), but I'd
really like the macro to work properly regardless of what kind of box
it's put in.

Any suggestions/pointers/flames/etc?

						- Mark

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From: Peter Schmitt <A8131DAL%AWIUNI11.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: where is manfnt?
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 17:29:43 MEZ
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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On Fri, 8 Jan 93 10:25:12 -0500 you said:
>
>  This seems like an easy question, but . . . where do I get manfnt from?
>I can't find the mf source in either my TURBOmetafont or the UofW Unix-TeX
>distribution. How can I print trapman without manfnt? I tried the manfnt
>that comes with dvipsone (looks like type-3 bitmap): I downloaded it to
>the PS printer, then started printing trapman. I get a title of
>
>                       A Torture Test for ()*+,-.*
>
>After looking at trapman.ps, it looks like this font will work OK for
>all but the first page (where it also reads "opqrstuq is a trademark of
>Addison-Wesley . . ."), but it would be nice to have the correct font.
>
If I remember it correctly then manfnt should come with the MetoFont source
of the cm Fonts, but be careful: I think it sometimes is called MANUAL instead
of MANFNT. If I am right then it contains some samples for the MetaFont book,
and the letters to produce the MetaFont logo (obviously the characters you
need for your printout)

Peter


Peter Schmitt                             a8131dal@awiuni11.edvz.univie.ac.at
                                                        schmitt@awirap.bitnet
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:09:26 EST
From: Terry Harrison  336 Beam BAB 3-3357 <HBX@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX to MS-Word

i have many documents in TeX that i need to convert to MS-Word on short
notice.  is there a PD or commerical product to do all (or part) of this?
_____________________________
Terry Harrison
Management Science Department
Penn State University
INTERNET: hbx at psuvm.psu.edu
From: brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: bug in bar-code env.sty
Date: 6 Jan 1993 08:52:32 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: natinst.com

     I'm no LaTeX guru, so I'm having trouble figuring out what's wrong.  I've
been experimenting with the bar-code version of env.sty (which I got from
ymir.claremont.edu in the [tex.inputs.latex-contrib] directory (files env.sty
and env-sample.tex)).  The \ZipBar doesn't work if the ZIP code starts with
two occurrences of the same digit.  E.g., "\ZipBar{11036-1234}" doesn't work.
It ends up printing "036-1234" on another page, and the zip bar doesn't show
up.
     Is there a later version of this somewhere?  Anybody feel up to debugging
this?  Please send me mail if you can help me figure this out.  Thanks.

Brian
From: Benjamin Svetitsky <BQS%TAUNIVM.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: NFSS
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 11:44:57 IST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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I keep hearing about the New Font Selection Scheme, and now I've received
a LaTeX style file that demands it.  What IS NFSS?  Is it a new version
of TeX?  I'm running TeX 3.14t, with the plain and lplain formats that
came with it, and I thought I was more or less up to date.

Ben Svetitsky
School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University
From: goodhear@husc8.harvard.edu (Eric Goodheart)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: spell.zip
Summary: Spelling for TeX/LaTeX
Keywords: English Dictionary?
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:56:01 GMT

I recently downloaded what appears to be a Dutch spelling-checker
for TeX.  The distribution includes dutch dictionary files.  I
like the way the program works, but I need an English dictionary.

Incidently, I use this on my pc.  If anybody knows of something
out there, kindly drop me a line.

Thanks in advance.

Eric Goodheart
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: palais@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: TeX spell checker
Reply-To: palais@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:21:40 GMT

>> This posting concerns finding a TeX spell checker to be used on documents
>> created by Textures Lightening...
>> Anyway, what does exist out there?  Please state whether it is public domain
>> (and how to get it) or where to get it and how much it costs.
>> cbs@cebaf.gov

>there is a free LaTeX spell-checker for the mac called Excalibur; the
>following is quoted from its release announcement of a few months back,
>so some of the exact file paths below may have changed.

>You can get Excalibur 1.2 from the following ftp sites:
>
>sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6] in info-mac/app/excalibur-12.hqx
>sol.cs.bucknell.edu [134.82.1.8] in pub/mac/Excalibur-12-sea.hqx
>mac.archive.umich.edu [141.211.182.23] in mac/misc/tex/excalibur1.2.sit.hqx
 
  I've been using Excalibur with Textures 1.5 for about a month now, and it
works beautifully for me---I highly recommend it. The only "problem" with 
it is that it is necessary to close the file in Textures before opening it  
with Excalibur to spell-check, but this is a minor inconvenience. By the 
way, it is apparently designed for LaTeX, but works perfectly with plain 
TeX files.  I hope that Blue Sky will make arrangements with the author to 
let them integrate it into Textures.
   R. Palais
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: benjie@quack.sac.ca.us (Android)
Subject: LaTeX for Linux???
Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
Date: 5 Jan 1993 04:23:21 UTC

I am looking for LaTeX for Linux, all information are welcome
Benjie

-- 
     BBB		Benjie Chen
    BCCCB 		benjie@quack.sac.ca.us
    BCCCB		No Axiomatic System Could Produce All Number-
     BBB		Theoretical Truths, Unless It Is Inconsistent.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: crath@bnr.ca (Christopher Rath)
Subject: Re: PC Graphics font needed
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:48:28 GMT

In article <1ioae7INNf78@life.ai.mit.edu> bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
>
>   In article <gram.726486773@aim1> gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler) writes:
>
>      Hi TeXers
>
>      I apologise if this is in the supplementary info; I don't have
>      a copy at the moment and I need this yesterday. I am looking
>      for a non-proportional font of the IBM PC character set,
>      including the line drawing characters. I have a whole bunch of
>      text screen dumps that I need to make into figures, and this
>      seems like the best approach.
>
>      Does anyone know if/where such a font is available, or have
>      other suggestions about how to do these figures?
>
>      A frequently asked question.  Use Adobe PrestigeElite or
>      LetterGothic.  It has all the characters in IBM OEM encoding.
>      OR used IBMExtended from Impramatur Systems in Cambridge, Mass.
>
>   Berthold K.P. Horn
>   Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

There is also a program floating around that reads VGA '.fnt' font
files and converts them to the appropriate TeX .pk and .tfm files.
Thus you can exactly duplicate your screen snapshots in your document.
Try archie...I'm not sure where it might be found.

Christopher

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: Chapter Headings
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:32:47 GMT

In article <93012.105253PDA101@psuvm.psu.edu> <PDA101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>  Hi TeXers,
>  I'm writing a thesis at PennState University. As all thesis requirements,
>those at PSU are typewriter age, and very unflexible. Anyway, I need my chapter
>headings to be 14 pts max and centered. I have redefined \chapter to do that,
>but unfortunately I don't see how to do it for the Contents, List of Figures
>and  List of Tables, which appear Huge and flush left. Does anyone have any

I've done this for our dept (but not at 14 pt). If I recall correctly, 
if you redefine the makechapter stuff, it will fix all the headings which
are done with chapter. If this is in error, please email, and I will send 
the style file. Remember that these must be preceded by \makeatletter and
followed by \makeatother if they are in your tex file (as opposed to a 
style file).

\def\@makechapterhead#1{{\parindent 0pt
 \begin{center}\vspace*{\@topvspace}\sc
 \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne \@chapapp{} \thechapter\par\fi #1
 \end{center}} }

\def\@makeschapterhead#1{{\parindent 0pt
 \begin{center}\vspace*{\@topvspace}\sc#1\end{center}} }

--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:08:44 GMT

In article <samh.726198770@zen> samh@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Sam Huxham) writes:
>In <1993Jan2.040345.1500@midway.uchicago.edu> hsue@ellis.uchicago.edu (yung chang  hsueh) writes:
>
>>   ....            Could someone have any suggestion as to
>>what spell-checker I should use and where I could get them.
>
>I use amSpell version 2.03 in amspel20.zip (by A. Merkens),
>available on simtel.  It's free.  I don't know how it compares to
>Microspell (which, I understand, is not free).
>
>--Sam

A repeat of a previous post I made a while back (in essence): MicroSpell is
THE spellchecker for TeX (I cringe when I have to use ispell on UNIX -
spellchecking is the one thing that is really better on my slow (386SX) DOS
machine at home).  It is faster on a slow DOS machine than ispell is on a
fast UNIX machine.  And running ispell or its look-a-likes (I include
amSpell here, being a bit loose in usage) on a slow DOS machine is even
worse.  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.  Spend a few $$ on a good
speller, and steal somebody else's program - preferably MicroSoft or Lotus
;-}  (I deny ever typing that...)   

Seriously, MicroSpell has lots of advantages - it is easily configurable,
you can add to the supplemental dictionary either by hand or on the fly (as
you check your documents) - again easily, you can look up words with
wildcards, and of course, it understands TeX - eg it even understands that \'e
represents the ASCII 130 character, and so on.  Now if only there was a UNIX
version...

-rags
From: "Daniel H. Luecking" <DL24794%UAFSYSB.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: row vector times matrix alignment
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 16:47:44 CST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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> From: mclean@math.tamu.edu (Robert Mclean)
>
> In article <1ifgo0INN20p@tamsun.tamu.edu> mclean@math.tamu.edu (Robert Mclean)
writes:
> > ...
> >I would like to have a row vector times a matrix to look like this:
> >
> >(x,y,z) (a1,a2,a3)
> >        (a4,a5,a6)
> >        (a7,a8,a9)
> >
> >rather than how TeX usually spits it out as:
> >
> >        (a1,a2,a3)
> >(x,y,z) (a4,a5,a6)
> >        (a7,a8,a9)
> >
> >Any, suggestions how to get it to align them at the top?
> >
>
> I received two suggestions on how to do this: (1) Use LaTeX or AMS-LaTeX
> where this is an option for the array environment. (I use AMS-TeX.)
> (2) Look at the plain.tex file's \matrix command and change a \vcenter
> to \vtop. Here's the modified code:
>
>    <code deleted>
>
> Unfortunately, this produces:
>
>         (        )
>         (        )
>         (        )
> (x,y,z) (a1,a2,a3)
>         (a4,a5,a6)
>         (a7,a8,a9)
>
> Aack! Any suggestions.
>

Yes. The problem is that the delimiters are constructed to be
symmetric above and below the math axis. Putting the array in a
\vtop  causes the math axis of the whole matrix to be in the top
row.  This is correct for aligning the two matrices at their
top rows, but not for the variable delimiters.

The following macro works by putting the array in a  \vtop, then
unboxing it into a  \vcenter  with the parenthesis and spacing
added.  This is done inside math mode with  \displaystyle  set,
inside an  \hbox  inside a  \vbox  to the height of the original
\vtop. This worked in simple examples, but can probably be
defeated by more complicated ones.  Two successive  \tpmatrix's
will align at their first rows.

\catcode`@=11
\def\tpmatrix#1{
  \setbox\z@=\vtop{\normalbaselines\m@th
    \ialign{\hfil$##$\hfil&&\quad\hfil$##$\hfil\crcr
      \mathstrut\crcr
      \noalign{\kern-\baselineskip}
      #1\crcr
      \mathstrut\crcr
      \noalign{\kern-\baselineskip}
    }
  }
  \dimen\z@=\dp\z@
  \setbox\z@=\vbox to \ht\z@{
    \hbox{$\displaystyle \left(\,\vcenter{\unvbox\z@}\,\right)$}
    \vss
  }
  \dp\z@=\dimen\z@
  \box\z@
}
\catcode`@=12
$$
\pmatrix{x & y & z}
\tpmatrix{a_1 & a_2 & a_3 \cr
          a_4  & a_5 & a_6 \cr
          a_7  & a_8 & a_9 \cr
}
$$
\bye

Another possibility is to use the  \bordermatrix  macro of plain
TeX, which normally is used to produce
               A B C
           D ( 1 2 3 )
           E ( 4 5 6 )
           F ( 7 8 9 ),
but with the  "D"  position holding the vector (and other
border positions empty).  This will not work if the vector is
replaced with a matrix required to be aligned at the top row
with the second.

I hope this helps.

> robert mclean

Dan Luecking
From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Anchoring Boxes
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:50:21
Organization: /pearl/homes/eijkhout/.organization
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In-reply-to: feit@ERA.COM's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:57:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.175722.13313@ERA.COM> feit@ERA.COM (Mark Feit) writes:

    K3 AB  Don Wilson....................................(410) 936-1212
	    440 Q Street  Hamsville, MD  21012
   NK3 P   Steve Donneley...................Omitted at Member's Request
	    1296 Repeater Road  Seekyou DE,  14131

   Any suggestions/pointers/flames/etc?

Oh boy. I've once done this for someone, but I can't find the
macro. And I dont' want to spend half an hour reconstructing
it. Anyway: the trick is (or at least one trick is) to
recursively analyse the \vtop that you make for the address,
	"\def\address#1{\box\addressbox\vtop{#1\par\apart}}
	"\def\apart{\unskip\unpenalty\setbox\linebox\lastbox{\apart}}"
measure the length of the first line
	"\box0\hbox{\unhbox\linebox}\global\linelength\wd0"
and then \wd\addressbox\linelength".

Something along those lines. (Get more ideas from 5.9.6 of
TeX by Topic, or Tugboat 11(1) 51--53.)

--
Victor Eijkhout ................................ `There are also a few bugs,
Department of Computer Science .......... though not as many as I've come to
University of Tennessee ............... expect in new [MS]Windows products.'
Knoxville TN 37919 ................................ (from a software review)
Newsgroups: uw.tex,comp.text.tex
From: peg@cs.washington.edu (Pete Granger)
Subject: Re: Troff --> Tex conversion
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 19:21:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.064720.29939@ugle.unit.no> bgitv@termo.unit.no (Bard Grimsmo) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.203802.12296@beaver.cs.washington.edu> peg@cs.washington.edu (Pete Granger) writes:
>>
>>I have a file (just one) that dates back to my days as a troff user,
>>which I would like to convert to Tex or (preferably) LaTex. I could do
>>it manually, but I am lazy. Does anyone know of a program that will do
>>this for me?
>>
>Yes, the "tr2latex" program will do it, you will find it at most large
>FTP-servers in the TeX directory.

Thanks for the pointer. I found it at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de. It
compiles and does convert my .trf file to a .tex file.

Unfortunately, it doesn't create a .tex file that works -- it attempts
to use fonts that aren't here (a conversion program should stick with
standards, I would think), messes up simple things like centering
lines, and doesn't bother to convert the tables (doesn't know how to
translate tab stops), which is what interested me in the first place.

I guess I'll just have to overcome laziness. :-)
-- 
Pete Granger          | "Dolphins had been telling humans dirty jokes for thou-
peg@cs.washington.edu |  sands of years, before men...began to understand."
                      |      - David Brin, "Sundiver"
From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:37:29 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1993Jan6.004020.25115@hparc0.aus.hp.com> dak@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Dave Kruger) writes:
>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.
>Dave Kruger

Here is my reply to DK (in part) - I feel like an advertising agent! but
this is a good product, and I have no connection, so I guess it is legit. 
(Now if anyone can arrange for me to get a reduced price on a UNIX version,
that'd be nice... ;-}   )

The author is as worthy as you suggest, so here is the data:
(as it appears in my manual - I hope it is still valid)

MicroSpell
Trigram Systems
5840 Northumberland St
Pittsburgh PA 15217
USA

Tel: (412) 422-8976
Fax: (412) 422-3793

Price: not sure, but it used to be about $75.

- rags
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lmlars01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: dvitovdu under VMS
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:40:00 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

I have set up dvitovdu on a VAX/VMS and it works fine to a VT340 emulator on my
Macintosh in both Regis and Tek mode. But it does not behave at all nicely with
the Tek emulation on other people's Telnet or Kermit under MS-DOS. It
over-writes lines on the top of the screen and doesn't erase pages. Is the
problem with dvitovdu or Telnet? Is there a better (free?) TekTeX previewer for
VMS?

=============================================================================
Lee Larson                                     lmlars01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Department of Mathematics                                       (502)588-6826
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA
From: wilcox@cmns.think.com
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: wider macro
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 14:43:29 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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I would like to write a TeX macro which inserts spaces after every letter in
its argument. For example:

		WIDER  ->  W I D E R

My attempt works, but causes lots of error messages:

\def\wider#1{{\getwider#1\end}}
\def\getwider#1{#1 \ifx#1\end \let\next=\relax \else \let\next=\getwider \next}

It also ignores spaces in the input, so all words get run together.
Any suggestions?