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From: nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX bib styles for odd punctuation
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:32:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: network.1dupiaINNk2i
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu

I recently posted a citation question for latex, which asked how to
get

As many (e.g. Beck 1992) have argued.

Several people kindly sent me email. The solution appears to be 
Young Ryu's theapa .sty and .bst which allows complete control over
punctuation everywhere in the citation. This seems very useful since
every journal seems to have a slightly different idea about whether
they want commas, etc. (Why journals can't standardize on these
things is just one of the many things I don't understand.)

theapa is available by ftp from ftp.cc.utexas.edu in pub/young

Thanks to all for their answers, and special thanks to Young Ryu for
both answering and writing the style!

Neal

-- 
Neal Beck 
Dept of Politcal Science, UCSD
beck@ucsd.edu
Dislaimer: The Regents pay me (in scrip?) to distribute my opinions!
From: envbvs@epb11.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TransFig and xfig 2.1.5 available
Date: 10 Nov 1992 18:02:52 GMT
Organization: lbl
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.123

TransFig 2.1.5 is available on export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/transfig.2.1.5.tar.Z.
Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

>>> It is important for users of xfig 2.1.5 to get this latest version 
>>>    of TransFig.

TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics
which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide
variety of environments.

The transfig directory contains the source for the transfig command
which generates a Makefile which translates Fig code to various graphics
description languages using the fig2dev program.  In previous releases,
this command was implemented as a shell script.

The fig2dev directory contains a general program for translating from
Fig code to other graphics desciption languages.  The dev subdirectory
contains a library of output drivers used by fig2dev.

Drivers currently exist for the following graphics langauges:
(E)EPIC macros, LaTeX picture environment, PIC, PiCTeX, PostScript, and TeXtyl.
Fig2dev can be configured with a subset of these drivers


I have taken over the maintenance of TransFig from Micah Beck so please send any
bug notices, fixes, contributions etc to me at bvsmith@lbl.gov.

Brian V. Smith
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

-- 
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: How to lower a subscript?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:16:45 GMT

In an in-line equation, viz., $t_\theta$, the theta is a bit to high
(for my taste).  I have tried to lower it through $t_{\lower
1ex\hbox{\theta}}$, but that obviously doen't work.  Any help
would be appreciated.
patrick

--
John Patrick Lestrade        
cnesta::lestrade                       Let's try again in '96!
lestrade@ra.msstate.edu
From: ron miller <CARLM@NASAGISS.GISS.NASA.GOV>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX for the IBM RISC 6000 workstn
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 15:05:56 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Does anyone know of a company that sells TeX and LaTeX for the IBM RISC
6000 workstations?  Thanks.
From: schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Query: kerns, accents, ligatures
Date: 13 Nov 1992 10:58:12 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
Reply-To: schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: lamothe

In article <ROLFL.92Nov10125358@ulrik.uio.no>, rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
|> In article <11396@leonard.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
|>  	[ Stuff about ligatures and kerning deleted ]
|> 
|> ... and that's why I use PostScript fonts. In (most of) them, the accented
|> characters are supplied as letters in their own right, complete with
|> kerning information. 
|> 

... and that's why I use DC fonts. In ALL of them, the accented
characters are supplied as letters in their own right, complete with
kerning information.

The only problem is that currently the math fonts are not yet
available, but you can use the normal cm math fonts with them since
they are compatible.
--
Andreas Schwab
schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
From: dd435157@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Dan Doner)
Subject: How to include postscript in LaTex?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:08:39 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College
Keywords: postscript

Would someone please send me an example of how to incorporate a postscript
or encapsulated postscript file in a LaTeX document?  I have read the 
Transfig documentation but haven't been able to get it to work.  I'm not sure if
I'm doing something wrong or if I dont have everything set up properly.

Thanks in advance,
Dan

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     Graduate Student
     Mechanical Engineering
     Colorado State University
     dd435157@LANCE.ColoState.Edu
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          "So much information, so few neurons..."



Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: Postscript ligature tables and expert sets (or lack of)
Organization: Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:29:23 GMT

In article <BxJw95.M2J@cs.bham.ac.uk> hsg@cs.bham.ac.uk (Howard S. Goodman) writes:
>   We have a problem here, in that when using AGaramond-Regular (which is resident
>   in the printer) the system is automatically looking for AGaramondExp-Regular
>   (the `expert set', which we don't have) for `ff', `ffi' and `ffl' ligatures.
>
>   How can we tell TeX/dvips that those ligatures don't exist, and that it should
>   make do with the `fi' and `fl' ligatures in AGaramond-Regular?
>
>   (We are using version 5.47 of Radical Eye Software's dvips, if that helps.)

That last sentence did the trick.

The pre-bulit tfm files that came with the (now, in theory, obsolete)
dvips 5.47 assumed the entire AGaramond font family. What you need to to
is to rebuild the tfm and vpl files without explicit reference to the
expert characters. To do this, say

	afm2tfm AGaramond-Regular -v padr rpadr
	vptovf padr.vpl padr.vf padr.tfm
	cp *.tfm    .../tfm/.
	cp *.vf	    .../vf/.

	likewise for
	
	AGaramond-Bold padb
	AGaramond-Italic padri
	AGaramond-BoldItalic padbi

Good luck,

--
       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
       N-0589 OSLO 5           |           rolf.lindgren@usit.uio.no 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.lang.postscript
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: Latex & HP LaserJet III Si
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:30:28 GMT


We have a HP Laser Jet III Si working in the postscript
mode.  We use dvips for generating postscript from Latex.
Some of the PostScript files do not print on this
machine, whereas they seem to do fine on a QMS printer.
How can I fix this problem ?  Any pointers/solutions
are greatly appreciated.

Suresh
From: david@worg.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (David Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to lower a subscript?
Keywords: hbox, scripstyle
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:56:08 GMT
Reply-To: david@worg.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: Vancouver NeXT Users Society (VeNUS)

In article <lestrade.721513005@Ra.MsState.Edu> lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John  
Patrick Lestrade) writes:
> In an in-line equation, viz., $t_\theta$, the theta is a bit to high
> (for my taste).  I have tried to lower it through $t_{\lower
> 1ex\hbox{\theta}}$, but that obviously doen't work.  Any help
> would be appreciated.
> patrick
> 
> --
> John Patrick Lestrade        
> cnesta::lestrade                       Let's try again in '96!
> lestrade@ra.msstate.edu

You almost got it right!
You should say: $t_{\hbox{\lower1ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle\theta$}}}$


-- 
David Lau (aka Sleepy Head)
Independent Software Developer
Phone: (604)276-9860  FAX: (604)276-8606
Email: david@worg.questor.wimsey.bc.ca
From: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk (David Carlisle)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Distance to right margin
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:10:14 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
In-reply-to: flabes@parsytec.de's message of 10 Nov 92 23:45:10 GMT

>>>>> On 10 Nov 92 23:45:10 GMT, flabes@parsytec.de (Oliver Imbusch) said:

Oliver>   I want to draw a \framebox from `the actual cursor position' to the
Oliver>   right margin. How can I find out the right value?

Oliver> Thanx in advance

Oliver> Oliver Imbusch, flabes@parsytec.de

It depends rather on how you came to be at the point where you `are'.
If you got there by some explicit positioning, it is relatively simple
to use some arithmetic to figure out the length of the box. If TeX has
been breaking lines, and so you do not know where the current point
is, one of the following two tricks might be of use.

David
========================================================================
\documentstyle{article}

\begin{document}

\parskip=2\baselineskip

A standard parahraph:

foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 

The same paragraph, finished with \fbox{hello}.

\noindent\vbox{%
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
\par
\setbox0=\lastbox
\setbox0=\hbox{\unhbox0 \unskip\unskip}%
\dimen0=\hsize
\advance\dimen0 by-\wd0
\hbox{\box0 \framebox[\dimen0]{hello}}%
}

If you just want an empty \fbox{\ \ } you can do the slightly easier:


foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar%
\vrule height .7em
\leaders\vbox{\hrule width 1pt\vskip .7em \hrule width 1pt}\hfill
\vrule height .7em

This last construction need not be at the end of a paragraph:


foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar%
\vrule height .7em
\leaders\vbox{\hrule width 1pt\vskip .7em \hrule width 1pt}\hfill
\vrule height .7em\break
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar 
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar%
\vrule height .7em
\leaders\vbox{\hrule width 1pt\vskip .7em \hrule width 1pt}\hfill
\vrule height .7em


These are all off the top of my head, the spacing could probably be
improved.


\end{document}
--
                           David Carlisle
                                    JANET: carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs

                                    Computer Science Department
                                    Manchester University
                                    Oxford Road
                                    Manchester
                                    England
                                    M13 9PL
From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: re: metafont tweaking for photo-reduction
Date: 09 Nov 1992 14:31:18 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

andy biewer asks (comp.text.tex, november 7) if the cm fonts have
been tweaked so that when 300dpi fonts are reduced from 12pt to 10pt
they will not look so rough.

no, i don't think so, and furthermore, i think it's not generally
possible.  this reduction will have the effect of giving you a
resolution of about 360dpi, which is still not particularly high.

a word of advice though.  when using metafonted fonts, *don't* use
"true" size fonts.  *do* use magnified fonts -- \magstep 1 is exactly
what you want.  better still, use a style that can be magnified as a
unit to \magstep 1, so that baselines and other internal dimensions
remain in the proper relationships to one another.  this is the real
reason that magnified fonts were created -- not to get bigger sizes.

						-- bb
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: grossman@cs.ucf.edu (David Grossman)
Subject: SLITEX Question
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1992 12:59:03 GMT

I hope this is not a FAQ but I have been meaning to convert to SLITEX
from Powerpoint for my presentations for quite some time as I do all
my word processing in LATEX.

Anyway, I'd like to know the best way to tell SLITEX that I want
to rotate the output so that I am printing on an 11 x 8.5 pages instead
of the normal 8.5 x 11. Under EMTEX there are some command line 
options to rotate a .dvi at print time, but I think it would be 
better if I could do this in the source .TEX file or I'll keep 
getting ("slide too big") error messages. 

I'd appreciate any help.
From: dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: basic interpreter -- *not* folklore
Date: 13 Nov 92 13:52:09 GMT
Organization: U. S. Naval Academy

In article <721582209.862497.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) writes:
!darrell mccauley asks (comp.text.tex, november 10) if it's true
!that someone actually wrote a basic interpreter in tex.
!
!andrew marc greene of mit wrote such an interpreter, and presented
!a paper about it at the 1990 tug meeting.  the paper appears in the
!proceedings of that meeting, published in tugboat 11 #3 (september
!1990), pp 381-392.  the interpreter is called basix.tex, and the
!full macro listing is given in an appendix -- all 477 lines of it.

Does it conform to the ANSI standard for BASIC?

Dave Rogers
From: PCD <duggan@siam.org>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re[2]: tex problem with long formula
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:18:51 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Barbara Beeton writes:

>see the texbook, p. 196, first "dangerous bend" paragraph, for a
>specific example.  (note that suitable \phantom's can be used
>instead of the \bigg shown there to assure that the sizes of the
>delimiters come out the same.)

Just a minor point: \vphantom will come in more useful,
as it will not leave spurious horizontal space.

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From: kim@uful07.phys.ufl.edu (Jaewan Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 13:36:58 -0500
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

help
From: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: "Input Stack Size" Problem
Date: 7 Nov 92 14:38:38 GMT
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago

I run a job on two different systems. One one (new machine, new TeX),
it flies. On the other (old machine, old TeX):

	TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=200].

Going back to the new set-up, with \tracingstats=1, I managed to get:

  253i,13n,10p,400b,274s stack positions out of 300i,40n,60p,3000b,4000s

So it is the first one (253i) that is coming close to capacity on the
newer system (300i), and exceeding it on the old one (200i).

Now my question: what exactly is this "*i" stack parameter? How is it
being used in the job, which would tell me how to conserve it? (Knuth
says something about "simultaneous input sources" in the TeXbook but
I find that less than transparent.)

BTW another paper I was trying to TeX (with comparable number of pages,
equations, as well as references), scores only 110i!

Any comments and words of experience and wisdom most appreciated!
Kindly send email, as I would be away for a few days.

Thanks!

-----
From: wsienel@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Wolfgang Sienel)
Subject: Problem with TeX's special
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:48:20 GMT

Hi:

I need some help with TeX's \special. The following doesn't work:

    \documentstyle{article}
    \special{header=my.pro}
    \begin{document}

    % Just a test.

    \begin{figure}[ht]
    \vspace*{3cm}
    \caption{Caption}
    \end{figure}

    \end{document}

\special doesn't have any effect. However, if I uncomment the line 
'% Just a test.' it works fine. Any idea how I can solve this problem?

Thanks in advance, Wolfgang

PS: Please respond by email.

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wsienel@balboa.eng.uci.edu
From: koslowj@cis.ksu.edu (Juergen Koslowski)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Elvish fonts?
Date: 11 Nov 92 07:19:45 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Hello there,

I recall seeing a reference to the metafont source for the elvish fonts
(from J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings") a while ago, but cannot seem to
find it anywhere. If I remember correctly, they were located in Edinburgh.
Any pointers? Thank you in advance!

	J"urgen Koslowski
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lasmith@athena.mit.edu (Lones A Smith)
Subject: GREEK/ROMAN ENUMERATION IN ewtheorem ==> HOW??
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:54:46 GMT


Hi,
     (Forgive me if this article has already appeared.)
     I want a .sty file which will allow me to use \newtheorem to define
perhaps Propositions, but have them numbered with roman or Greek or whatever leters, rather than arabic numerals. How can this be done? That is,
I want an enumerate.sty for the \newtheorem environemnt, rather than
the enumerate one.

     Any takers (I'm sure folks out there have used Proposition VII, etc, 
before),

Lones Smith
Economics MIT
lones@lones.mit.edu
--
Lones Smith
Dept. of Economics
MIT E52-252C
Cambidge MA 02139
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,sci.physics,sci.math
From: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Subject: Re: Script L in LaTeX?
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 07:51:35 GMT

goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard) writes:

 > I would like to have a script L (for use with Laplace Transforms)
 > The \cal L isn't quite what I want.  I'd like it to more like the 
 > L on Laverne's sweater.  Please resond via email (soon). Many thanx.

A very nice script font (Caps only) has been developed by Ralph Smith,
a UC San Diego physicist. It is called Ralph Smith's Formal Script or
"rsfs" font. One anonymous FTP site which has it is:

	lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu: texsis/rsfs/*

Good luck!

-----




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From: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Subject: Re: WANTED: Beginner's Guide to LaTeX
Reply-To: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Organization: Computer Science & Information Engin., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:45:39 GMT

In article <Bx0L2B.3EE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> droth@silver.ucs.indiana.edu  
(David Roth) writes:
> So, I accept the fact that I need Leslie Lamphart's book, but do I also
> need a book about TeX alone?  Like the TeX book? or can I learn Latex
> from the Latex book alone?

Yes. U'll be fine without the TeX books.
I used them for programming purpose ONLY.

--

Yuan
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From: carlip@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Walter C3arlip)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: What Replaces amssmc40?
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:15:55 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Ohio University Mathematics


A colleague of mine has been using one of the old 'almost modern'
fonts, amssmc (at 40pt), for the title page of his journal.  Our new tex
setup does not have this font and I wonder: Is there a replacement
for it in the cm series?  Is there, perhaps, an Adobe Postscript
equivalent?

The font is a rather bold looking san serif font with rounded edges --
quite unusual looking!

Thanks,

--Walter
_____________________________________________________________________________
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From: nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX bib style to produce (e.g. Beck 1992)
Date: 9 Nov 1992 21:53:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu

Didn't notice this in index.tex, sorry if I just stupidly missed

but

I often want to produce

As many (see e.g. Beck 1992) have argued

but standard cites give

As many (see e.g. (Beck 1992)) have argued or

As many (see e.g. Beck (1992)) have argued

Now I have nothing against double parens (or periods!) but my
editors do. This is also easy to fix by hand, but leaves me to
remember to do this, something that laTeX is supposed to take care
of.

Anyone have a style or fix to do this

Thanks in advance

neal


-- 
Neal Beck 
Dept of Politcal Science, UCSD
beck@ucsd.edu
Dislaimer: The Regents pay me (in scrip?) to distribute my opinions!
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: peta@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Peter Whaite)
Subject: LaTeX blind review style.
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 00:04:11 GMT

I need a style for double blind conference paper submissions (ieee
conferences).  I can't find anything like this in the TeX-index, though it may
be an option in one of the many styles listed there.  The style should..

1. Generate a title page with, abstract, authors names and addresses.
2. Generate another title page with title and abstract only, i.e. authors
   names and addresses suppressed.
3. Do "the right thing" in the bibliography to those papers that can obviously
   be linked to the author's names.  I've never been sure what this is --
   supress the names, or the entire reference.  I guess this would need a
   special bibtex style file, and maybe a \blindcite def.

I can do (1) and (2) right now, but I'd like to see if anyone has a (3).  

I do have a couple of problems handling the abstract though.  The first is
that it has to be specified before \maketitle, and the second is that I have
to use a \abstract{...text...} construct when I'd prefer to stick with the
standard \begin{abstract}....\end{abstract}.  No big deal but it's kinda
bugging me I cant do the second.  Problem is the text in the environment has
to be saved (in \@abstract) so it can be included in the two title pages.  My
best effort so far is...

\long\def\abstract#1\end{\gdef\@abstract{#1}\end}
\def\endabstract{}

but this doesnt allow me to put any other environments in the abstract text.
I'm sure there is a simple, TeX-elegant solution to this, but it eludes me.
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