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From: taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: wierd dvips problems/TeX's numbering of dvi files ??
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:24:31 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin

Hi,

I'm using dvips to prepare postscript output of homework assignments for
the Physics department here at UT.  The dvi file consists of about 600
unique versions of the assignment.  Each version is say 3 pages long.
The output postscript file's %%Page comments go "1 1, 2 2, 3 3, 1 4, 2
5,...etc" up to the final %%Page 3 1800"

Sometimes the people who are supposed to print the assignment out experience
a printer problem and need to restart the job (ie prepare another postscript
file from the dvi file that continues where the last one left off) and 
continue printing from say page 300 to 1800.

I would think that something like "dvips hw1.dvi -p300 -l1800 -o" would be
what I need but I get the message that 'the end of document reached before
the first specfied page' and no output.

If I try outputing the range from say pages 2-3 with "dvips hw1.dvi -p2 -l3 -o"
then I get the output that I'm expecting.  I think this must have something
to do with the fact that TeX is going [1][2][3][1][2][3]...when it is 
generating the dvi file.

I'd appreciate your advice as to how to get dvips to let me print the 
range that I want (from 300-1800)...

Please send me some mail, my news seems to be slow these days...I'll post
a summary.

Thanks in advance,

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From: neves@ee.rochester.edu (Jose Luis Neves)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Put a framebox around an algorithm ...
Date: 9 Oct 92 12:58:53 GMT
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

I have an algorithm I want to include in a report. I was able to tab the 
algorithm using the tabbing environment. My next step was to frame the 
algorithm and use it as a figure, which I was unable to do with the 
Latex command \fbox. If any one has a sugestion or know a .sty file
setup for this purpose please contact me at neves@ee.rochester.edu

--Jose
From: Donald Arseneau <ASND%TRIUMFER.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to center last line of a paragrraph
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 1992 01:31 PDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

From: Miroslav Dont <DONT%CSEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu>:

> How to center the last line of a paragraph?

The most elegant way avoids fiddling with boxes, but is counterintuitive
(elegance = counterintuitiveness very often in TeX!!)

\leftskip=0pt plus1fil \rightskip=-\leftskip % these cancel on most lines
\parfillskip=\leftskip \multiply\parfillskip by 2 % or \parfillskip=0pt plus2fil

I think I first heard this from barbara beeton.

> More concrete - I need this in the LaTeX caption command
> when the caption has more than one line ...

Take the definition of \@makecaption from the appropriate style file,
put \begingroup and the two lines above at the very beginning; put
\endgroup at the end.

Donald
Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:12031 comp.sys.next.software:2019
From: gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (Gregory B. Lampshire)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: getting the absolute page number in TeXview, how to do it!?
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:09:38 GMT
Reply-To: gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu
Followup-To: comp.text.tex




I am using TeXview on a NeXT under NS3.0.

When I preview I often want to print just the page I am looking at.  To do  
this I need the absolute page number from the begining of the dvi file.   
TeXview only display the (page number.chapter) combo which is not useful  
in this situation.

How can I get the abs. page number in TeXview so I can tell the print  
panel what to print?



--
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Virginia Tech 
Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: alex@opal.idbsu.edu (Alex Feldman)
Subject: MathSci Disk & Bibtex
Organization: Boise State University Math Dept.
Distribution: na
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:20:29

Does anyone have a script/program/.el file or anything else that will
convert the entries that one can get out of MathSci Disk (The AMS Math
Reviews on CD) to bibtex format?  If so, would you mail me a copy?
Thanks. 
--
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From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Request for name of book on TeX
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:21:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Oct11.142102.16277
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS

In the same spirit, are there any good introductory books on LaTeX (apart
from Lamport's manual)? I'm planning a one-month course here at Colby, and
want to build it around LaTeX.


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From: pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon) 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Uppercasing accented characters
Date: 11 Oct 92 13:48:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon) 

To: all
Reply-To: acc1bbs!pierre.darmon@ssr.com

% I am trying to define accented characters and uppercase them but am only
% halfway successful. Here is a short test exhibiting the problem

% First I define an accented character

\def\eaccentaigu{\'e}
\catcod\.=\active \gdef.{\relax\eaccentaigu}

% Now I can use . to get e

This is an accented e: .

% It works fine but I also want to have \uppercase to give E for
% \uppercase{.}, so I define:

\uccode`.=`E

% Now the problem is that I get:
%
% ! Undefined control sequence.
% <recently read> E
%
% l.27 \uppercase{^^82}
%
% when trying the following:

\uppercase{.}

% How can I achieve what I want? Any ideas appreciated.
% Thanks

\bye

%I apologize if this is a repost, but my feed site had problems for the
%past 10 days (no news nor mail) and I was told to repost everything I did
%not get answers for.

Pierre Darmon
acc1bbs!pierre.darmon@ssr.com
From: thorsten@ananas.toppoint.de (Thorsten Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: equation numbering
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 23:36:19 +0100
Distribution: world               
Organization: private UUCP site, Kiel, Germany

lambert@cs.concordia.ca (Francois Lambert) writes:

> I need to change equation numbering, instead of (1), (2), ...
>
> I need to have a new numbering in each section,
> example (1.1), (2.2), (2.15) etc.


I think, the following command will do it:

\renewcommand{\theequation}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{equation}}


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.specification.z
Subject: Re: Better fuzz semantic brackets?
From: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:02:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
Cc: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz

In <1992Oct8.190205.28762@lth.se> collberg@dna.lth.se (Christian S. Collberg) writes:

>I'm using fuzz.sty at 11 pts and find that the semantic brackets (used for
>the bag construct in Z) are way too skinny, and come out like a big blob
>on the printer. Does anyone have a better metafont description of these
>kinds of brackets than oxsy.mf?

Try Alan Jeffrey's "cspex" font. (Assuming "semantic brackets" are double
square brackets.)

Jeremy
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: trivedi@rabi.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: What happened to ``byron.u.washington.edu''?
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:20:25 GMT

tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:

 > What exactly _is_ the Unix TeX project?

I think this question captures the essence of the confusion. It is
difficult to justify paying one specific site for the stuff they
merely ftp'd from others for free. What about all other sites which
maintain various archives? Do you want this to spread?
 
The fair thing for such an archive would be to tell people not to
expect any free support beyond an explanation of where can they
find the README file. Those requesting special help are the ones
who should pay appropriate consulting fees.

Alternatively, if Byron people take special pains to collect the best 
tex stuff (including macros, fonts, and all), convert to c whatever
needs such conversion, and offer a .tar.Z file from which TeX could
be installed with one "make" after unpacking: now, that would be an 
effort worthy of being called "UNIX TeX PROJECT" for which they could 
ask shareware-style fees.

-----
 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rolf@green.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de (Rolf Schreiber)
Subject: Wanted: DVI to pixel driver
Organization: Mathemat. Institut A, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:41:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm searching for a (UNIX-) driver, that transforms a page of
tex-output in dvi-format into a pixel-file. The format of the
pixel-file should be as easy as possible, for that I can use this
pixel-data further on.

Any hints are welcome (perhaps it's not so hard to modify a program
like xdvi to do the desired thing?). 
 
Rolf
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
Subject: Re: How to \input{whole-latex-file}
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 18:41:50 GMT

In article <STEVE.92Oct8120657@diana.Advansoft.COM> steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) writes:
>I have a similar problem.  I have a largeish number (50+) of files
>which I would like to typeset *either* individually *or* as part of
>one or more larger documents.  Is there a trivial way to conditionally
>ignore \documentstyle{}...\begin{document}, and \end{document}?
>I suppose one could define a variant of \input that redefines them
>inside a group...

Try askinclude.sty by Pablo Straub.  Works great for typesetting
a multi-chapter book.

-- 
Tom Scavo
scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: asteindl@mch2ws2.tuwien.ac.at (Alois Steindl)
Subject: Re: NFSS for SliTeX?
Organization: Inst. f. Mechanics II, TU Vienna
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:38:01 GMT

Hi,
you might also check the psnfss (or nfss-postscript) package, available in 
Stuttgart. It contains also some SliTeX material and works fine for me.
Good luck
Alois
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From: Damian.Cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LATEX: NFSS: backwards-compatible?  (Was: FAQ)
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:43:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Organization: Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK
In-reply-to: bobby@hot.caltech.edu's message of 7 Oct 92 01:38:04 GMT

<diffs-faq_718421769@hot.caltech.edu> 
bobby@hot.caltech.edu (Bobby Bodenheimer):

[...NFSS...]
>  NFSS makes it relatively easy to use nonstandard fonts 
>  such as the PostScript ones with LaTeX, and easy to change math fonts.
>  It also allows dynamic loading of fonts at runtime (not when the 
>  format file is created). It is backward compatible with the old font 
>  selection scheme.

Whatever else the NFSS is, it is *not* backwards-compatible, because it
changes the meanings of some documents.  For example:

	\documentstyle{article}
	\begin{document}
	\bf Bold \sl slanted.
	\end{document}

Whether or not the semantics of the NFSS are "better" or "more logical"
than the old semantics is debatable, but it certainly is not the case
that they are identical.

Yes, I am aware that the NFSS includes a backwards-compatibility mode
which restores the old semantics -- but that isn't quite the same thing.
If it is not possible to use any old document unchanged on the new
system, then it ought not to claim to be fully backwards-compatible.

Having said that, I don't think that confusing the FAQ by specifically
describing NFSS as not being backwards-compatible would be useful
either.  Better to just delete that sentence last.  Most users will
assume that the NFSS will work with their documents, because it will
never occur to them that there is any way to do the user interface to a
FSS other than the LaTeX way.
From: yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Differences between .vf fonts and Adobe postscript?
Date: 17 Oct 92 02:51:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct17.025157.17647
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Hello. I am wondering if virtual fonts (.vf) are equivilent to postscript
fonts downloadable to a printer. What are the other types of scalable
postscript printer fonts (I assume .vf fonts are scalable) with different
suffixes which come with .tfm or .afm metrics? 

For example, I know that ADOBE distributes its fonts with .afm files,
however, the printer postscript fonts (the scalable postscript fonts
that actually get sent to the printer) are not .vf files. What are these
font's suffixes, and why can't TeX use these fonts to download to the
printer (why does TeX rely on .vf transformations)?

ALso, how can dvips find these font files since they're not named with
the .vf suffix? Does config.ps offer a variety of searching suffixes?

What is the general difference between .vf and other scalable printer 
fonts?

How would I be able to use the various fonts distributed by ADOBE
in my documents using TeX with dvips? Since ADOBE doesn't distribute
their scalable postscript fonts in .vf, how would I use them?

Thank you (I have many other questions, but some are directly linked
to the answers that might result from these, so I'll hold off, I have
decided to post my questions because I do not want to burden the busy
life of Geoffrey Tobin, who's helped me with TeX problems more than 
I could ask for! =)
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: "gavin peters" <gavin.peters@canrem.com>
Subject: output device driver for
Reply-To: "gavin peters" <gavin.peters@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:14:23 EST

-> Standard suggestion: Use the latest version of dvips (which supports
-> color) and print the PostScript using GhostScript. (If you happen to
-> work with MS-DOS this is bound to be slow. )

Please mail me at gavin.peters@canrem.uucp with info on where I can get
my grubby little hands on DVIPS?
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mchung@ee.tamu.edu (Maranatha Chung)
Subject: Page number
Keywords: emTeX, dvips
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:38:57 GMT

I am working on a PC 486. I have installed emtex on my system. When I
compile my latex document, I can see the page number using the dvi
viewer that comes with emtex. However, when I use dvips 5.47 to do 
the conversion, the page numbers disappear. Anyone out there may
know why or how to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance.
Private email is welcomed at mchung@ee.tamu.edu

Maranatha
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (David Monro)
Subject: mf sources
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:02:02 GMT

Could someone who knows about such things mail me a list
of ftp sites for publicly avaliable mf sources for fonts
other than the CM and AMS fonts? I'd like to see what's
avaliable these days.

Does anybody know what fonts most closely approximate those
used by the unix troff typesetting command? (Or at least
what people usually on their output devices.)

TIA,

-- 
David Monro
e-mail: davem@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
From: "Sunando Sen" <SENS@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: ispell for DOS?
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:31:00 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

mfreid@hkuxa.hku.hk wrote:

> [Sorry that this is not a totally appropriate place for this post, but
> it is of some interest to TeX and LaTeX users currently stuck on PC's.]
>
> I've used ispell on Unix systems, and it seems to be by far the nicest
> way to spell-check TeX documents, since it recognized they TeX/LaTeX
> contructs.  However, I can't find any PC (DOS) versions on the net (I
> did find some amiga versions using Archie :-)
> Does anyone know of a DOS port?

There is an ispell for OS/2 2.0, but none for DOS yet.  However, there is
a DOS spell checker called AMSPELL, which works with TeX/LaTeX files.  It
is available at any SIMTEL mirror, e.g., wuarchive.wustl.edu, in the
directory msdos/txtutl/amspel20.zip.

Sincerely,

Sunando Sen
sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson)
Subject: Centering and framing a verbatim file
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 06:54:31 GMT


I am using the verfile macro from misc.sty and I wish to
have the entire block of text centered and framed.

I currently am trying this.

\begin{figure}[h]
\centerline{\hbox{
\psframebox[framearc=.15,linewidth=.5pt]{%
\verbfile{Example.h}}}}
\caption{Example.h - Objective-C class interface file}
\end{figure}

This produces the entire file on one line in a psframebox (pstricks)

I don't want each line centered I want the whole block centered

How???

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gsifk@termo.unit.no (Geir Skaugen)
Subject: Re: rotating tables
Reply-To: gsifk@termo.unit.no (Geir Skaugen)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 07:43:30 GMT

--In article <1992Oct7.083513.14416@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, 
ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson) writes:
 
|> I wish to rotate tables ie. they will only fit in landscape mode.
|> 
|> How do I do this?
|> 
|> 

Try SIDE.STY 
Description below:

%% Save file as: SIDE.STY                       Source: FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET
%+
% Name:
%       side.sty
% Purpose:
%       Include sideways (landscape) tables and figures in LaTeX documents
%       by defining new environments called sidetable and sidefigure.
%       Three options are available for placement along the width of the
%       printed page:
%               flush top               [t]
%               centered (default)      [c]
%               flush bottom            [b]
%       Standard LaTeX behavior (flush left) is preserved in the other
%       direction.
% Usage:
%       \documentstyle[side,...]{...}
%
%       \begin{sidetable}
%         \caption{\label{mysidetable} A landscape floating table on a page.}
%         \begin{center}
%           \begin{tabular}{|l|c|}
%               \hline
%               Column1&Column2\\
%               Line1&\\
%               &Line2\\
%               \hline
%           \end{tabular}
%         \end{center}
%       \end{sidetable}
%


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From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: PK to TFM ?
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:03:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: iecc.1992Oct7.200348.18222
Organization: I.E.C.C.

I have a bunch of Bitstream fonts that Fontware generates in any size I want,
but as a Laserjet font download file.  But I also have a handy program that
came with jetroff and turns the LJ files into 300pk files.  What I don't have
is a way to generate TFM files.

Does anyone have a program that will generate TFM files from PK?  I realize
I'm not likely to get ligatures and kerning, but it'd be a lot better than
nothing.  (The alternative is troff which is adequate but so ugly.)

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From: steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: xfig fails - why?
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:08:54 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Don Steiny Software



	Hello,

	I compiled xfig on SVR4 and when I envoke it it says 

	Connection to client closed

	and exits.   Does anyone out there know why I am getting this message
and how I could fix it?

	Thanks.

-don
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Don Steiny Software
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(408) 425-0382
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dylander@hill.euromath.dk (Jakob Dylander)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvi driver problem with epic/eepic
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:21:34 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Math.


I'm posting this for a friend who doesn't have access to  
Netnews. But I will forward answers mailed to me. Thanks 

********************************************************

In our work with the word proccesing language LaTex at 
Dept. of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen we have
run into some serious trouble when using the picture
styles "epic.sty" and "eepic.sty", since our capabilities
of handling the \tpic special command are so far rather
limited. Can anybody help me with the following problems

1.Where can I get (by anonymous ftp) a dvi previewer for 
  MS-DOS that can handle dvi files containing the \tpic
  special command generated by LaTeX with epic.sty and 
  eepic.sty.

2.Where get I get (by anonymous ftp) a dvidriver for the
  HPLaserPrinterIII+ that can handle dvi files containing
  the \tpic special command generated by LaTeX with epic.sty
  and eepic.sty. We already have the driver "dvijep" by 
  Nelson Beebe, but this one does not get around the problem.
  It should be added that the majority of people at our institute 
  is not interested in implementing postscript at the moment.

If anybody has any suggestions on how to solve this problems
I would be greatful.

Sincerely

Mads Ipsen 
e-mail: mpi@kiku.dk
Dept. of Chemistry, LabIII.
H.C. Oersteds Instituttet
Universitetparken 5
2100 Kbh. O
Denmark

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