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From: watro@kochel.mitre.org (Ronald J. Watro)
Subject: How to number lines in TeX doc's ?
Organization: Research Computer Facility, MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:57:37 GMT

Does anyone have a method for adding line numbers to TeX documents?
It seems that one solution is to number lines using the dvi to ps
converter.  There is a postscript file that works with dvi2ps to add
line numbers, but it doesn't seem to work with dvips.  Anyone have a
pure TeX solution or a solution with dvips.  Thanks

Ron Watro

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Ron Watro
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: cfan@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (Fan, Changguan)
Subject: HELP: need DVI driver for HP laserjet IIP with UNIX
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:20:00 GMT

I would appreciate if anybody can tell me where I can get a DVI driver
for HP laserjet IIP for a 386i SUN workstation.  Thanks.


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: konkar@bimini.stanford.edu (Ranjit Konkar)
Subject: problems with BIBINPUTS variable
Reply-To: Ranjit Konkar <konkar@sunrise.stanford.edu>
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Distribution: comp
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:04:15

The man pages of bibtex say that the program is supposed to use the
paths in this environment variable when searching for bib files. But
my program seems to not want to look anywhere else except the current
directory despite my clearly mentioning the location of the bib files
in the variable. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, can you
suggest what I may be doing wrong?

Ranjit
From: ICH559@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Maik Boltes)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LANDSCAPE
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:20:55 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

Hey,
I just looked through the posted questions and answers,
but again I couldn't find any answer about LANDSCAPE
in LaTeX...I hope someone reads this and is able
to give me a possibility to have landscape layout.

                 MAIK
From: Steve Manch <RAMANCH@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:29:01 +0200
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

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.

  Thanks,
  Steve
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: cac@space.mit.edu (Charlie Collins)
Subject: Re: Margins - Width in LaTeX?
Originator: cac@xnmusc
Reply-To: cac@space.mit.edu (Charlie Collins)
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:43:55 GMT


In article 25257 in comp.text.tex, Dan Charrois writes

>I've been having problems getting the margins right in my LaTeX
>documents. I do the following:
>\textwidth 6.5 in
>\textheight 8.9 in
>\hsize 6.5 in
>\vsize 8.9 in

I had the same trouble for a while until I started setting:
\marginparwidth 0pt
\oddsidemargin 0pt
\evensidemargin 0pt
\marginparsep 0pt

\topmargin 0pt

LaTeX uses default values for these things, but those default values may conflict
with one another if all of the stuff doesn't add up to 8.5x11. Or that's what
I believe is going on.

                           Charlie
			   cac@space.mit.edu
From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: EmTeX with 386MAX ?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:15:08 GMT
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan) writes:

>In article <93020.171531HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>>Has anyone been able to run EmTeX 3.14l Beta to run with 386MAX 6.01?
>>I keep getting 'DMPI not supported'. I know that 386MAX supports VCPI
>>mode.

>This should probably go in the FAQ (or in the documents for emtex386).
>Anyway, the emx extender used by tex386 is not smart enough to ask
>whether VCPI is supported in addition to DPMI, so it doesn't look any
>farther after it finds that DPMI is supported (why Mattes doesn't ask
>someone with access to a DPMI-compliant 32-bit C compiler to compile
>emtex for him is a mystery to me).

>Anyway, there is a solution. You tell 386max to turn off its DPMI support.

actually there is a better solution --- if you are willing to hack a little
bit:
 - get EMX.EXE, EMXL.EXE and EMXBIND.EXE from the new emx V0.8f package
   (I beliebe it is in emxdev.zip on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu or the main
   TeX server in Stuttgart Germany)
 - use EMXBIND to update the EMX copy in TEX386.EXE to version 0.8f
Works for me without any problems.

Eberhard Mattes has fixed the above mentioned problem in emx V0.8e
(TEX386.EXE beta 8 comes with emx V0.8d built in)

Good luck,

- Clemens
From: Peter Schmitt <A8131DAL%AWIUNI11.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Titled boxed text
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 14:30:41 MEZ
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I have not seen an answer on this, so maybe it is still open:

> From: stuart@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (Stuart Kemp)
> Subject: Need help with macro
> Date: 17 Jan 93 07:12:59 GMT
>
> I would like to have a macro that can be given two parameters, a vbox and a
> title, and I would like the macro to draw a "double-box" (i.e. 2 lines,
> about 1mm apart) all around the vbox, and have the title appear on the lines
> at the top (without the horizontal lines visible under the title). i.e.
>
>
>                       === Title ===
>                       || Some    ||
>                       || Text    ||
>                       || Here    ||
>                       =============
>
> I can do it without the 'Title' (\boxit{\boxit{\vbox{...}}}) ... can anyone
> help me out with this extra bit?
>

The following definitions should work:
(You may want to adapt the kern's to the values you prefer!)

\def\tboxit#1#2{{\setbox0=\hbox{\kern5pt#1\kern5pt}\edef\titlewidth{\the\wd0}%
                \setbox2=\vbox{#2}
                \setbox2=\vbox{%
                    \vbox to1pt{\vss\hbox to\wd2{\strut\hfil#1\hfil}\vskip0pt}%
                    \box2
                    }
                \Tboxit{\titlewidth}{\Tboxit{\titlewidth}{\box2}}}}
\def\Tboxit#1#2{\vbox{%
    \setbox0=\hbox{\vrule\kern3pt\vbox{\kern3pt#2\kern3pt}\kern3pt\vrule}%
    \hbox to\wd0{\hrulefill\kern#1\hrulefill}\nointerlineskip
    \box0
    \hrule
    }}

%%% Tests:

\setbox2=\vbox{\hsize6cm
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
              }

$$\tboxit{Title}{\box2}$$

\tboxit{New Title}{\vbox{\hsize7cm
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
   Test this boxing macro!
              }}

\end

Peter


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:55:18 GMT

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.

Well, as Lord Melbourne (?) said,
"I wish I were as certain about anything
as you are about everything."

My impression is that Macky people prefer TeXtures,
while Unix people are happier with OzTeX,
where they feel they have more control.

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?)


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
From: duggan@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Access to MSXM10 font for PrintServer 40
Date: 20 Jan 93 09:45:34 GMT

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a method to get access to MSXM10 font for
a postscript laser printer on a Digital PrintServer 40 using Postscript in
TEX. I have been able to get it to run on a QMS style T800 printer, but the
font will not work on the PrintServer 40.

Any ideas or am I totally lost.

John
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Yanchun Zhao <yzhao@math.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: TeX capacity exceeded
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:48:42 GMT

I have two pictures plotted by gnuplot.  I transfered these pictures
to Latex and compiled no problem on university's machine.
When I compiled it on my PC using emtex, I got:

! Tex capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=655337].

Then it exited with no output. I have a 386x33mhz with 4 mg RAM machine. 
If I only compile one picture at one time, there is no problem. 
Anyone can tell me how to increase the capacity of emtex? Thanks!
Please reply to this account since I don't read the news group very often.

Yanchun 
-- 

--
Yanchun Zhao   (yzhao@math.uwaterloo.ca yzhao@newlagrangian.uwaterloo.ca)
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Macintosh to run TeX/LaTex
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:19:48 GMT

UKTeX@tex.ac.uk writes:

>	I am considering buying a Macintosh for word processing using TeX and 
>LaTeX. I would be interested in knowing what people feel is the minimum 
>configuration which would allow me to run with reasonable response. The main use 
>would be to work on draft papers which are typically 10-20 pages long containing 
>a couple of tables and some mathematics. Any suggestions as to suitable printers 
>for draft copies would also be appreciated. Finance is of course a proble
>		

I'm running Euro-OzTeX
(FTP-ed from ftp.cicb.fr [IP 129.20.128.2]
directory pub/gut/Euro-OzTeX)
on a Mac Classic II (4MB RAM),
printing on a StyleWriter (360dpi).
I'm very pleased with this setup.
The StyleWriter output seems to me as good as a LaserWriter.

I previously ran OzTeX on a Mac Plus (1MB RAM)
without any problems.

The Euro-OzTeX has one or two minor problems to iron out,
but with Yannis in charge I'm sure this is only a matter of time.
(I should emphasize that TeX itself runs perfectly well.)

I find it slightly easier to run TeX on the Mac
than on a Sun with xdvi and dvips.

I'm sure TeXtures is technically superior to OzTeX.
On the other hand TeX is TeX is TeX ...
if it runs then it doesn't much matter where it runs.



-- 
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: mfreid@hkuxb.hku.hk (Mike Reid)
Subject: Re: M.Reid's Latexhlp for MS Windows
Organization: The University of Hong Kong
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Distribution: all
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:59:08 GMT

Carl Riehm (riehm@maccs.mcmaster.ca) wrote:
:  I downloaded M.Reid's latexhlp file for MS Windows from niord.shsu.edu but 
: can't figure out how to use it. Can someone help?  Thanks, Carl Riehm.

First point is that it's not really "my" file. I translated it from
George Greenwade's VMS file. I hope others might look at my effort
(including some simple C code) and do the same thing for other popular
systems (X-windows anyone?) that they know about.  

Sorry if it's confusing. I usually access the help file from the
microEMACS for Windows (mewin) shell that I also posted. From that
shell there is a HELP menu item...

However, if you are not interesed in using mewin, you can view the
file using the winhelp.exe program that comes with windows and is
located in your windows directory. I've put together a short
description below. [This description doesnt really belong on this
group, since it is about Windows, not TeX! Sorry!]

You can either:
1. Create a program-manager "entry" for winhelp by the usual methods
(use the File/New... menu item in program manager). The you can run
winhelp and open the latex.hlp file. Of course this is tedious.
2. Use the File/Properties dialog to add the path-name of latex.hlp to
the "Command Line" entry. i.e. 
Command Line: winhelp c:\mydir\latex.hlp
3. Associate .hlp files with winhelp, using File Manager, then you can
run a help file by clicking on it. 

If you *still* can't figure it out, pls. email me! 

--
Mike Reid, mfreid@hkuxa.hku.hk 
Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Rd, HONG KONG
Phone: (852) 859 7944 or 859 2360 Fax: (852) 559 9152 Telex: 71919 CEREB HX
From: <barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Two questions
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 11:31:58 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I have two questions.  The first is answered regularly on this net, but
I never needed it before, so I haven't kept the solutions.  I don't
think I've seen the second answered and, while I think I can do it, I am
kind of pressed right now and don't want to reinvent wheels.  First, how
to redefine \raggedright so that hyphenation is allowed and even
encouraged?  This is for very narrow columns.  Second, how to output
formatted numbers, so that with input either the actual number 1000 or
a counter containing that number, the output will be 1,000.  The numbers
I have are all four or five digits, but there is no reason it shouldn't
be perfectly general.

Michael Barr
From: gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: EmTeX with 386MAX ?
Date: 22 Jan 93 03:40:11 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology

In article <93020.171531HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>Has anyone been able to run EmTeX 3.14l Beta to run with 386MAX 6.01?
>I keep getting 'DMPI not supported'. I know that 386MAX supports VCPI
>mode.

This should probably go in the FAQ (or in the documents for emtex386).
Anyway, the emx extender used by tex386 is not smart enough to ask
whether VCPI is supported in addition to DPMI, so it doesn't look any
farther after it finds that DPMI is supported (why Mattes doesn't ask
someone with access to a DPMI-compliant 32-bit C compiler to compile
emtex for him is a mystery to me).

Anyway, there is a solution. You tell 386max to turn off its DPMI support.
There's a utility that comes with 386max, called memlimit, and you can tell it

  memlimit nodpmi,N

where N is the number of DPMI requests to refuse. If N=0, then it will
refuse all further requests. If you change your mind later and want to
turn DPMI support back on, you can say, ``memlimit nodpmi,1'' The next
DPMI request will be refused, but the second and all subsequent
requests will be granted.

Thus, I use a batch file, tex.bat, that reads:

rem a loop in case I have more than 9 arguments
set __ARGS__=
:start
if "%1"=="" goto endloop
set __ARGS__=%__ARGS__% %1
shift
goto start
:endloop
memlimit nodpmi,1
tex386 %__ARGS__%
set __ARGS__=

Good luck,
Jon
-- 

Disclaimer --- The government probably disagrees with my opinions.
From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: help with dvidvi
Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:47:09 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
NNTP-Posting-Host: cie.uoregon.edu

In article <1993Jan25.001805.5670@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo) writes:
>
>>Looking at Gary Levin's twoup.sty, it appears that 
>
>>  dvidvi '2:0(-0.35in,-0.25in),1(4.65in,-0.25in)' old.dvi new.dvi
>
>>should work, but it doesn't, at least not with Timothy Murphy's 
>>recent (and appreciated!) port of dvidvi to the Macintosh.
>
>I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do,
>but I think you must have a "-m" switch anyway.

That's exactly what I was missing!  The command

  dvidvi -m 2:0(-0.35in,-0.25in),1(4.65in,-0.25in) old.dvi new.dvi

works perfectly.  I simply reformatted the document using the
parameters given in twoup.sty, got rid of the 11pt documentstyle
I was using before, and ran dvidvi on the resulting .dvi file
spit out by OzTeX.  The only problem is that OzTeX doesn't
recognize any .dvi file other than its own, so I had to use
resEdit to modify the file type.  But that's a minor inconven-
ience I can certainly live with.

Thanks for your help!

-- 
Tom Scavo
scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
From: tim@deakin.OZ.AU (Tim Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Building your own format file on Unix?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:35:29 +1100
Organization: Deakin University
NNTP-Posting-Host: mimas.cc.deakin.oz.au
Keywords: initex \dump .fmt


Has any one out there built a complex format file using initex on
Unix?  I have read the TeX manual page, and experimented with initex,
but haven't had much luck.

I am trying to build a custom format file to match one that is used on
our VMS systems.  The format file is built on our VMS systems using
the following command procedure:

   $ TEX /INIT /NOFORMAT LPLAIN
   fontdef.etex
   preload.ori
   newlfont.sty
   \input docdefs.etex
   \input deakin.etex
   \dump

Note also that I want to call the resulting format file something
other than "lplain.fmt".
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rjirwin@top.cis.syr.edu (Robert J. Irwin)
Subject: Pretty-printing Program Code
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 17:19:55 EST

Are their any aids to gloriously displaying program code (keywords
bold-faced, intelligent page-breaking, etc.) in TeX/LaTeX?  
Something like the following...

\begin{BeautifulProgram}

<code snatched from a program source file goes here>

\end{BeautifulProgram}

...would be perfect.  I'm assuming my question isn't answered in the FAQ,
which I couldn't find in this newsgroup.  Please send response by e-mail
to rjirwin@top.cis.syr.edu.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.
From: walsh@ibis.cs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LJ4 TFMs
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 15:44:10 -0500
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

For those who've been waiting...

I put the rest of the TFMs for the HP LaserJet IV builtin fonts on

  ibis.cs.umass.edu:/pub/norm/hptfm2pl/HPLJ4/*

Please let me know if you have any trouble.  In fact, let me
know even if you don't have any trouble ;-).  I have no way
of testing these things myself.

                                                  Be seeing you...
                                                    norm
---
Norman Walsh         | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
<walsh@cs.umass.edu> | CMPSCI Dept., LGRC A210 | Standard disclaimer applies
Elvis is dead.  Accept it.

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
	<1993Jan26.015518.12345@maths.tcd.ie>
	<ROLFL.93Jan26102735@ulrik.uio.no>
	<EIJKHOUT.93Jan26121248@cupid.cs.utk.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:29:57 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.
>

It seems, tho I'm not certain, that the Textures font format is a font
suitcase with the tfm stuck in the resource fork. The Mac must have the
screen font and Textures must have the Textures font for each font used.

You can create a Textures font from an afm file if you've got the screen
font. 
--
       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
       N-0589 OSLO 5           |           rolf.lindgren@usit.uio.no
From: gilpin@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Need help: emTeX & theapa.sty
Date: 24 Jan 93 09:55:56 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Help, please!
I'm trying to use Young U. Ryu's theapa.sty (v. 2.5.1) with emTeX v. 3.0's
LaTeX implementation.  I can't seem to input theapa.sty without getting an
error.  Following is a verbatim dump:

                                                                                
C:\MYTEX>latex fnern                                                            
This is emTeX, Version 3.0 [3a] (no format preloaded)                           
**&lplain fnern                                                                 
(fnern.tex                                                                      
ILaTeX Version 2.09 <9 Jan 1990>                                                
(c:\emtex\texinput\theapa.sty                                                   
APA Citation (& Optional APA Heading) Style - Version 2.5.1 (5/92)              
LaTeX error.  See LaTeX manual for explanation.                                 
              Type  H <return>  for immediate help.                             
! Missing \begin{document}.                                                     
\@latexerr ...diate help.}\errmessage {#1}                                      
                                                                                
<to be read again>                                                              
                   @                                                            
l.654 \newif\if@                                                                
                F@cite\@F@citetrue                                              
? h                                                                             
You're in trouble here.  Try typing  <return>  to proceed.                      
If that doesn't work, type  X <return>  to quit.                                
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-------- (End of transcript) ------------

  I'm somewhat new to LaTeX.  Could someone please explain what the problem
is, and what I need to do?  Thanks!

--------
Andy Gilpin, Dept. of Psychology,     |Internet: gilpin@uni.edu
Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls,  |Phone: (319) 273-6104
Iowa 50614-0505                       |
                                           
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