HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: guest@iat.holonet.net (HoloNet Guest Services)
Subject: Need help from PageMaker experts...
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:57:00 GMT

I am using PageMaker 4.2 with my Mac and a LaserWriter IIf.  I am printing
a newsletter, but one page seems to take *forever* to print.  What's weird
is that it takes forever to print using the Aldus driver, but prints
rather quickly when I print through the standard Apple driver.

The page has a masthead created in TypeStyler, composed of 72 point text
with two gradient-filled gradient-shadowed letters.  I also have a
gradient-filled box created in FreeHand 3.2 which is composed of a
120-element blend.  At the bottom I have two pieces of clipart (award
ribbons which I created in FreeHand).  I also have two columns of text and
a 1"x1" TIFF image.  It seems to take well over 5 minutes (maybe even 10)
to print the page using the Aldus driver, but zooms out in less than half
the time using the Apple driver.

I'm using System 7.0.1, TuneUp 1.1.1 and version 7.1.1 of the Apple
printer driver.  All the graphic elements on the page were put there using
System 7's publish & subscribe, so I assume they're all EPS images as
exported by FreeHand and TypeStyler (the TypeStyler masthead may be PICT,
I'm not sure).

Is there anything I can do to make printout faster?  I don't know why it
takes so long with the Aldus driver.  The only thing unusual about this
page is that I have quite a few elements that have smooth gradient-shading
(the ones created in FreeHand use blends) - is the Aldus driver doing
something "extra" with these gradient fills, like determining proper
calibration, etc?  If so, is there any way I can disable this by altering
the PPD/PDX?  I'd appreciate any help.  Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
From: elana@agora.rain.com (Elana Beach)
Subject: FAQ?
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 16:19:45 GMT

Does this newsgroup have ANYTHING resembling a FAQ?
If not, where do I email to get all the old posts?

Thanks in advance!

Elana

 
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gambhir@cs.cornell.edu (Navindra S Gambhir)
Subject: Re: detecting missing arguments in latex
Organization: Cornell University, Ithaca  NY 14853
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:45:40 GMT

In article <11SEP199219213030@msr.triumf.ca> asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau) writes:
>In article <6725@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>, gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (Gregory Lampshire) writes...
>> 
>> 
>>I want to set up a macro 
>>	\if <argument #1 is null> do this etc.
>>	\else etc.
>>	\fi
>
>There are a number of ways to do this, but the following is the best.
>(Best in most senses...but not in clarity!)
>There are two types of syntax to check for null parameters:
>\ifnull{#1}\then ... \else...\fi
>\if\naught{#1}...\else...\fi
>Choose the definitions that correspond to the desired syntax.
>
> [bunch of complicated stuff deleted]
>

Won't the following work?  (Yes, I need an answer.)

  \def\\{#1}
  \ifx\empty\\
    % null
  \else
    % not null
  \fi

where \empty is already \defn'd to be {}.

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Navindra S Gambhir                                   gambhir@cs.cornell.edu

I would rather write programs to help me write programs than write programs
From: jans@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Jan Snellman)
Subject: Problems with Lightning Textures 1.5
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:56:53 GMT

Having recently aquired Lighting Textures 1.5, I am stuck with the following
problem: certain math symbols, at certain magnifications, come out wrong. 
This goes for previewing as well as for printing. Minus signs and curly braces 
are among the symbols that are affected.
One would think that this is  a problem with the fonts, but since Lightning
Textures uses the same fonts as ordinary Textures, I am at a loss trying to
explain this deviant behaviour of LT.
Please respond by email if you had this particular problem , and/or if you
know how to remidiate it.

Jan Snellman
jans@matematik.su.se
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From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: SliTeX font problem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:42:00 GMT

In article <memo.628165@cix.compulink.co.uk>, rhorne@cix.compulink.co.uk writes...
> 
> 
> 

Yes, this is a common problem with SliTeX.  SliTeX uses something called
"Invisible Fonts" to print different colors.  You obviously have selected
colors not supported by your terminal so SliTeX has substituted invisible
fonts for all the text.  Try again using a color terminal.

D
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From: Zdenek Wagner <WAGNER%CSEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 11:17:49 MDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

set info-tex nomail
set texpubs nomail
From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Sqrt in \section, how?
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:33:51 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu

In article <1992Sep8.144512.17710@daimi.aau.dk>, tange@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Tange) writes:
|> How do you include a sqrt-sign in a \section{}-line?
|> 
|> I thought that:
|> 
|> \section{$\sqrt{6}$}
|> 
|> would do, BUT IT DOESN'T!

In LaTeX, unlike in plain TeX, \sqrt is a macro with expandable
parts. Thus it breaks in section headings. Use \protect\sqrt
for best results. (Of course this is all in the manual :-)

Victor.
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From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams )
Subject: Update to harvard bibliographic style family
Keywords: tex, bibtex
Organization: Design Computing Unit, The University of Sydney
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:48:32 GMT

New upgraded versions of the harvard family of bibliography styles are available
in pub/harvard on archsci.arch.su.oz.au (129.78.66.1).

The following enhancements have been made:

- new macros \citeyear (thanks to Renate Schmidt (schmidt@mpi-sb.mpg.de) and
  \citename have been added
- citation styles agsm, dcu and kluwer have been altered so that author lists
  greater than length 2 are only abbreviated to the et al form if no confusion
  or ambibuity will result, e.g. 
    Smith, Jones and Bloggs (1980), and
    Smith, Jones and Abercrombe (1980)
  will not be abbreviated as they both abbreviate to Smith et al (1980). The
  previous versions of the styles would have abbreviated these to
  Smith et al (1980b) and Smith et al (1980a). These changes have been made in
  response to a number of postings lamenting this behaviour.
- as a side affect of this change *.bbl files will be smaller as the optional
  abbreviated citation is now only used if the abbreviated citation differs from
  full citation.
- the documentation has been changed as necessary

The relevant files are:
  harvard.sty - new macro package
  harvard.tex - documentation
  harvard.bib - necessary bib file for harvard.tex
  agsm.bst, dcu.bst, kluwer.bst and nederlands.bst - bibtex style files

-- 
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Key Centre for Design Quality |phone: +61-2-692 2053 or +61-2-660 6156
University of Sydney          |+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

P.S. Thought is being given to the use of initials to disambiguate names.

P.P.S. Other suggestions for enhancements to the harvard family are welcomed.
       Of particular relevance are *.bst files for styles that are similar to
       but not identical to those already provided.
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From: hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson)
Subject: Re: \dict full, what now? (was: growing old . . .)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:12:27 GMT

In article <BuBqFL.1MF@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) writes:
>Can anyone offer suggestions for what to do when the dict is full
>printing postscript output?  The file I'm trying to print is actually
>pretty small, but I requires dictionaries from TeX, (Rokicki's) dvips
>(several), and a Mac (LaserPrep) dictionary.  This fills the \dict space
>on a LaserWriterIINT.
>
>(The mac generated postscript file which is included in the TeX document 
>via psfig/epsf prints fine alone.)
>
>The relavent specs
>TeX 3.x
>LaTeX 2.09
>dvips 5.47
>
>Other than this major problem, I'm very happy with dvips and TeX/LaTeX on
>my Unix box.
>
>Thanks in advance.


Many, many thanks to Tom Ivar Helbekkmo for a _Great_ solution to this
problem.  Others suggested things like 1)hack the postscript everytime and
2)use TeX on the mac instead.

The best solution (imho) was Tom's 

___
I know...  I ran into this, too, and hacked up a solution that at least
seems to work fine for me.  Maybe this isn't the "right" way to do it,
but hey...  :-)

In my dvips config.ps file, I make it include a file of my own, thus:

   *
   *   With a LaserWriter, claim 300000 bytes of memory
   *
   m 300000
   *
   *   But fix the darn userdict problem
   *
   h userdict.pro
   *
   *   And compress fonts, please
   *
   Z
   *
   *   Default resolution.
   *
   D 300
   *
   *   Last resort sizes.
   *
   R 100 120 144 300 360 400 432 480

And then my userdict.pro just contains the single line:

   /userdict 200 dict def userdict begin

The size of 200 entries was just a guess that turned out OK -- I seem
to remember checking the default size, and then increasing it a bit
for the temporary replacement dictionary, and then tested it and found
that it worked.  Haven't had any problems with this, even when the
laserwriters run for a long time, doing a mixture of dvips and Macintosh
output...

The result is that output files that start out e.g. like this:

   %!PS-Adobe-2.0
   %%Creator: dvips 5.47 Copyright 1986-91 Radical Eye Software
   %%Title: guide.dvi
   %%Pages: 82 1
   %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 843
   %%EndComments
   %%BeginProcSet: userdict.pro
   /userdict 200 dict def userdict begin
   %%EndProcSet
   %%BeginProcSet: texc.pro
   /TeXDict 200 dict def TeXDict begin /N /def load def /B{bind def}N /S /exch
   load def /X{S N}B /TR /translate load N /isls false N /vsize 10 N /@rigin{
   isls{[0 1 -1 0 0 0]concat}if 72 Resolution div 72 VResolution div neg scale
   Resolution VResolution vsize neg mul TR matrix currentmatrix dup dup 4 get

[...and so on and so forth...]

Hope this helps...

-tih
--
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone: +47-5-959205
Postmaster for domain nhh.no.   Internet mail: tih@barsoom.nhh.no
From: bultman@dgw.rws.nl (G.W.Bultman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: no cross-ref generated in latex
Date: 12 Sep 92 18:10:42 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Hi,

I have trouble generating cross-references in Latex.
Although I run Latex twice, and the file .aux appears,
I still get <??> where the references should have been.

Advise anyone?


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dak@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
Subject: Re: Wait a minute, was degree symbol
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date:  6 Sep 92 09:16:49 GMT

Alan R. Heyd <IA8@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>In all the replies for creating a degree symbol, every one is using
>some form of

>\def\degree{^\circ}.

>  Shouldn't it be

>\def\degree{:\circ}    % Note: can only be used in math mode
Either I, your TeX, or your character codes are crazy. I read an
up-arrow in your first example, a colon in your second one.
Purpose should be a raised small circle. So what gives?
From: hasker@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Hasker)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Is Literate Programming just for the academics?
Keywords: WEB, Literate Programming
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:40:12 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL

barry@reed.edu (Barry Smith) writes:

>>isn't very much. So:
>> - Is Literate Programming only for the academics?
>> - If it is: Are there any experiences with LARGE programs?
>
>Well, Textures (our TeX for the Macintosh) is a Web program,
>perhaps 50,000 lines or so.  No judgement offered as to its
>"literacy", but we find Web a very useful structuring tool.

I think 50k lines only rates as "large" as opposed to "LARGE". 1/2 :-)
LARGE would mean hundreds of thousands of lines by today's standards.

Rob
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dls@wuee1.wustl.edu (Donald L. Snyder)
Subject: Re: Scientific Word
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:28:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.224718.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu> dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
>In article <grl.716278230@groucho>, grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Greg Lehmann) writes:
>> boris@math10.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Boris Hemkemeier) writes:
> 
>>>Hi folks,
> 
>>>we (more exactly: some professors in our department) are looking for a
>>>WYSIWYG (La)TeX front end. Who works with "Scientific Word" by TCI
>>>Software research, Inc.? Experiences and comments are welcome.
> 
I've been trying SciWord recently after experiencing some disappointments
with AmiPro (a Lotus product).  The company, TCI, that created SciWord
also did the mathematics editor imbedded in AmiPro, so SciWord and
the AmiPro math editors are quite similar.  My biggest difficulty with
SciWord is graphics.  SciWord does permit importing graphics .EPS files,
but does not handle them well in my experience.  I have not been able to
place a graphic at a specified location in the document, and graphics
cannot be scaled -- or at least I haven't been able to accomplish this.

I'm interested in hearing the experience of others in using graphics
in SciWord documents.  Has anyone tried using LaTex graphics procedures
such as PSFIG.STY?
From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Graphing several sets of data points in LaTeX
Date: 8 Sep 92 03:46:53 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

In article <1992Sep7.111418.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
 hank@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:

>Caveat: I've only played with this.  PicTeX can take data-points and plot.
>PicTeX can require considerable TeX-memory. Since you use emTeX, you can
>use tex386 beta-8 and get good performance if you have a 386. If you use
>btex186 or btexp, be prepared to wait.

Hank's suggestions are good, and I'd like to add another, which is
faster and uses much less TeX memory than PicTeX.

Mfpic by Thomas Leathrum (moth@dartmouth.edu) interpolates data points
with either straight lines or with cubic Beziers (your choice).

Other features include rotated ellipses, arrows, curved arrows, dotted
lines, shaded regions, parametric functions, captions and labels.

Sample files illustrate the production of bar graphs, pie charts,
commutative diagrams, and X-Y graphs.

How does it do it?  Mfpic is an interface between TeX and MetaFont, so
if you have a copy of the MetaFont program (which is included with
Unix TeX and emTeX), then you can use mfpic, because no knowledge of
MetaFont is required.

Mfpic stores its pictures in MF font sources, which MetaFont turns
into TFM and PK files, so you can preview and print on your existing
TeX installation(s).  The PK files are compact (about 10 K for several
pictures).

If you must  :-)  use PostScript, then Rokicki's dvips has a "-Z"
bitmap compression option, which I urge people to use, as it reduces
the PS file's size by ten or twenty fold.

By the way, there are programs such as the free program mf2ps, for
turning MF font sources into PostScript, but I haven't tried this with
mfpic.

If a user of mfpic does know MetaFont, then (s)he can readily extend
mfpic.

Mfpic version 0.2 is due for release very soon.  Look for it on
comp.text.tex.


Geoffrey Tobin
From: PCD <duggan@siam.org>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TABLE Overfull
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:33:12 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I'm encountering a problem.
Whenever LaTeX decides to put two tables on a page, or
a table and a figure, as floats at the top, the page
text is invaraibly overfull, running off the bottom of
the page.  Why could be causing this? Anyone
have any hints for areas of tex to examine. (That
ususally is the problem, not fixing it, but knowing what
to look at.)

any help would be much appreciated.

paul duggan
duggan@siam.org
From: djossou@charly.inria.fr (Coco Djossou)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Latex's figure environment
Date: 9 Sep 92 04:34:10 GMT
Reply-To: djossou@sophia.inria.fr
Organization: INRIA Sophia Antipolis


	  From: hubertc@cs.berkeley.edu (Hung-Hsien (Hubert) Chang)
	  Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
	  Subject: Latex's figure environment
	  Message-ID: <1992Sep8.041520.7161@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
	  Date: 8 Sep 92 04:15:20 GMT
|> I was told that I can use the "figure" environment to include 
|> the postscript file into the latex file. I tried and the figure
|> doesn't locate at the place I put my command
|> 
|> \begin{figure}
|> \epsfbox{example.eps}
|> \cpation{exmaple}
|> \end{figure}
|> 
try this (see LaTeX reference manual p.176, C.8.1 Figures and Tables)
\begin{figure}[htbp]        %% h=Here t=Top b=Bottom p=Page of floats
\epsfbox{example.eps}       %% or \centerline{\epsfbox{example.eps}}
\caption{example}
\end{figure}

Coco D.
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From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: Any ideas on fixed point addition?
Summary: Use dimensions 
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:46:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.220128.16318@Princeton.EDU>, tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU () writes...
>Here is a macro for fixed point addition.
> 
>USAGE \FPadd{num1}{num2}\cs
> 
>This sets \cs to num1+num2.


If the somewhat-limited precision of TeX's lengths is enough, how about

\def\FPadd#1#2#3{\FPdim#1\p@ \advance\FPdim#2\p@
  \edef#3{\expandafter\pointless\the\FPdim}}

\newdimen\FPdim

\begingroup 
\catcode`P=12 \catcode`T=12 
\lowercase{
\endgroup\def\pointless #1PT{#1}
}

The final incantation is to get pt with catcode 12 into the syntax 
of \pointless.  \the gives pt with catcode 12.

Donald Arseneau            asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: shen@athena.cs.uga.edu (Mingzuo Shen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: bibtex: complete inclusion of different databases
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:16:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

Hi all,

    I wonder if there is a way to do this ...

    Say there are two bibliographical databases called hf.bib and
pulay.bib (there could be many more, but the idea should be the
same). Now I would like to include all the entries in hf.bib at
one place, and all the entries of pulay.bib at another place of
my very long document (a sort of a book). I tried eplain within
TeX, and also LaTeX, and I used a style file aip.bst (American
Institute of Physics). Eplain with plain TeX is my prefered
environment.  

    Failing that, is there is way to force the numbering of
citations to restart from 1 at some point? 

    Any pointer and/or help is appreciated.

Mingzuo Shen
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith)
Subject: Re: Big TeX's -- how hard are they to come by?
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:11:49 GMT

In article <18p7lpINNc73@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu
(Ajay Shah) writes:
>cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith) [That's me!] writes:
>>Are there enough free Big TeX implementation available nowadays that
>>I can simply tell someone who's running out of memory to go get one?
>
>I find it hard to appreciate why TeX should not know how to dynamically
>allocate RAM on demand.  Does this have something to do with being
>written in pascal?  I seem to recall that new() returns nil if
>you are out of memory.

I don't have the source code to TeX (Volume B of Computers & Typesetting)
available just now (I returned it to the library; couldn't justify buying
a copy), and I didn't study it closely when I did have it, but I seem
to recall DEK's having made a comment that he wasn't happy about
having to statically pre-allocate tables to hold all of TeX's
data structures, but that since Pascal implementations were so
non-standard in their handling of new() he had no choice.  In particular
I believe he specifically stated that on some Pascals a call to new()
when there wasn't enough memory available would either crash the program
or return a pointer to random garbage.  Of course the Pascal you use
today may do something more sensible, but (a) this was about 15 years
ago, and (b) he was writing for the lowest common denominator, trying
to allow for worst-case behavior.  (And a darn good thing too; that's
probably the reason that it has been possible to port TeX to so many
systems having so little in common with one another.)

>Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu

Cameron Smith (cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ky04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KUN YU)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to put figure inside text?
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:08:38 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I would like to put a figure inside text so it faces text on three sides, 
up, left and down, like WordPerfect does. Or you can say text around 
figure. Because the figure is small, 1.5x1.5in, it does not look good
if it takes the whole textwidth.
Is there a style option that allows me to do that?
ps. I use psfig to input the figure.
-- 



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From: nziring@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Neal Ziring)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Online TeX documentation
Keywords: TeX online-help
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:37:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Great Beyond


	Does anybody know of an on-line description of TeX or LaTex
from which a beginner could learn how to build simple documents?  My
officemate is blind, so it is not an option for him to read the TeXBook
or some other classic.   If he has on-line text, then his PC can read
it to him aloud.  

	If anyone can point to an archive site where I could grab some
stuff, or perhaps a P.O.C., we would appreciate it.   As a last resort,
TeX source for a book might work (after being run through detex).

	Thanks in advance...

-- 
...nziring  (Neal Ziring  @  Afterlife, Nat'l Computer Security Center)
INFOSEC Evaluations Technology Division - "If you want it done bad,
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