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From: druide@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Torsten Zirzlaff)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: EmTeX
Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:06:34 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de

In comp.text.tex you write:

>     I have been trying to install emtex on my PC but have not been
>able to discover where the `fli', or even the `pxl', files reside
>on the archive. I have tried unsuccesfully to examine the home base
>of emtex @rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de for these font files.

>     Sorry to bother you with what must be a silly, if not FAQ, question. 
>B. H. Sumida
>University of Oxford
>Department of Zoology

Of course there are no .fli or .pxl -files, but there are some files with the
extension .mf. These files are METAFONT-files an could be used with METAFONT
which is in the EmTeX package. With METAFONT you install the bitmap infomation
for your printer and the extension for each font and font size is .pk. The pk-
files are compressed pxl-files. But don't worry to lean METAFONT, because with
the EmTeX package is a programm which is called "mfjob.exe" this programm 
manage the calling conventions for METAFONT and there is also doc file with a
manual for mfjob. But be carefull if you starting "mfjob all" because all
fonts will be generated and this takes a long time (about 3 days and more
on a 386DX 20MHz).
But if you use a printer which is compatible to a NEC P6 printer with
360x360DPI i could mail the fonts you need. But mostly the operator of your 
cluster could tell where you found the fonts or fontliberies you need for your
printer. In the case of total helpless you could try to get these fonts from
the FTP-server in Stuttgart "ftp.uni-stuttgart.de" or 
"rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de". 
Ok, thats all and i hope this helps you little bit.
--
                                                               Torsten Zirzlaff
				    Technical University Berlin
	                            Department of Physics, Germany
                                    e-mail : druide@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: seeta@eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju UdayaBhaskar Sarma)
Subject: Re: Blanks after a \newcommand!
Reply-To: seeta@eng.wayne.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan, USA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:37:55 GMT


This was something I saved long long ago...

... automatic space correction after italics....
Maybe U can modify it for others situations too...


%
% It ought also to be kept in mind that in certain contexts (Theorems, in
% maths papers, eg) that one wants an "italic correction" at the START of an
% {\em\/bit} of text, since the \em is roman and the surrounding text is
% italic.  So, eg, macros like \newcommand{\eg}{{\em e.g.\/}} are often
% inappropriate.  I have learnt to do this kind of thing by hand, but does
% anybody have a neat elegant solution to this (ie a macro that figures out
% where the \/ should go)?
%===============================================================
% When get \em starting italic text, launch an italic correction aimed at
% the end of the group. When \em ends the italic, do a smart italic correction.

\def\pem{\ifdim \fontdimen\@ne\font>\z@ \rm
  \else \it \expandafter\aftergroup \fi \smartitcor}

\def\smartitcor{\ifhmode \expandafter \itpunclook \fi}
\def\itpunclook{\futurelet \@tempa \itcortest}

\def\itcortest{\begingroup
\ifcat\noexpand\@tempa.% if next character could be punctuation,
   \setbox\z@\hbox{\@tempa}% check its size...
   \ifdim\ht\z@<.3ex % and if it is short,...
      \let\itcordo\endgroup % suppress italic correction
\fi\fi
\itcordo}

\def\itcordo{% Put \/ before any preceding space.
  \skip@\lastskip
  \ifdim\skip@=\z@skip \/\else\unskip \/\hskip\skip@ \fi
  \endgroup}

%======================
%%-- Donald Arseneau          asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: jarleb@athena.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann)
Subject: TeXify for IDL-programs ???
Keywords: IDL, TeX
Reply-To: jarleb@athena.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann)
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:02:07 GMT


I am looking for a way to make IDL programs look "nice", preferably
setting them in TeX. I have at the moment two ways of doing this:

1. Using vgrind/tgrind and write an additional vgrindefs 
2. Using a small IDL procedure (which is quite slow) to format the program.

Has anyone out there any ideas or suggestions for doing this ? Does anyone
use a program which I could copy ? 

					Jarle.



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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: PSFIG with EmTeX
Date: 25 Jan 93 06:55:33 GMT
Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada




Howdy!  I recently copied the psfig.sty file from our Suns here to my
PC at home running EmTeX.  Whenever I insert a PostScript file, everything
compiles fine with LaTeX, but using the v command to view it doesn't show
the picture at all.

Is this supposed to happen...?

The other question I have concerns VPRINTING this file. I wish to printmy
.DVI files to PostScript files.  Is there any way to do this...?

Thanks a bunch!


Toodlepip!
marc 'em.
-- 
  storm@cs.mcgill.ca           McGill P.O.W Camp         "Oh crap---It's not
  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA             random enough"
	Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord
      Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran.
From: joksch@ibt013.ibt.KFA-Juelich.de (Burkhard Joksch)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Problems with floatfig and epsffile style
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:10:17 GMT
Reply-To: joksch@ibt013.ibt.KFA-Juelich.de (Burkhard Joksch)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

hi

i have problems using epsffile inside floatfig env. !
so i can't input postscript-files inside floatfig !
please help !!!!


Burkhard
ibt013.ibt.kfs-juelich.de
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: sundaram@blackmail.eng.uiowa.edu (Subbiah Sundaram)
Subject: Bold face for Figure - How to do it
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:42:48 GMT
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.
Keywords: caption, LaTeX, figure

Hi,
   I have to make the caption in the figure
environment bold face. 
\caption{\bf this is a test}
gives output as 

Figure.X This is a test. 

here the Figure.X is
not bold. I want to make it bold. Is there a way?

thanks,
Subbiah.
From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Blanks after a \newcommand!
Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:19 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <C1IsoM.L6D@cs.uiuc.edu>, bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao) writes...
%  
%     The points in \evec are defined by ...
%  
% there is no space bewteen the bold "E" and the following word "are". 
%  
% I can remedy this by typing 
%  
%     The points in \evec\ are defined by ..
%  
% adding a space using "\ ".  However, is there any way for me to set
% up my command in \newcommand to do this automatically (i.e., leave
% a space if there is a following space, else not leave a space..
%  
% As, I do this for 50+ symbols in my thesis, it would really simplify
% my task to avoid having to add "\ " every time...

The big problem I find with using \  is that I get accidental \, and \..
If it were easy to put something after the commands everywhere, I could
use a global substitution in the editor.

Here are two methods:

1) Put a non-letter at the end of the command name so spaces are not 
ignored:

\def\Ea.{\ifmmode E_a \else $E_a$\fi}

The problems are that \newcommand won't handle names with "syntax"
and those extra characters can be confusing (would the REAL periods
please stand up!)

2) Define the commands normally, but use them with {} after:
\LaTeX{} is easy to use if you like the available formats,
otherwise, you need to know the raw \TeX{}.

Any others?

Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: Aesthetically-pleasing \baselineskip's
Organization: Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo, Norge
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:47:08 GMT

In article <C17JH4.C6C@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu () writes:
>   I am creating an \input file for myself, to
>   define various font sizes -- ninepoint,
>   tenpoint, etc.  (Not that this hasn't
>   already been done by many people before.)
>

1. Double space is not aesthetically pleasing. Period.

2. The aesthethically pleasing \baselineskip is value <depends>, no
vertical glue.

Typographical tradition demands that all lines have the same spacing and
that the space that a graphic or other form of insert occupies (white
space included) equals an excact amount of lines. Only inserts should have
vertical glue. Never, never lines. LaTeX 3 people, are you listening?

In general, any one given font should have leading set to 20% of the
fonts's height. This depends on the height of the ascender. But this is
art, not science unfortunately. Implementing it is science.

Actually, I feel that the ultimate way to write style files for PostScript
fonts is to have a (CWEB?) program that takes an AFM file and generates
commands to switch to its particular family.

Say, 

	afm2sty ACaslon-*.afm should take all .afm's in the current directory
that begins with ACaslon-, and generate a sty file that contains a command

	\Caslon

that sets correct leading and correct information for the \rm,  \bf and
\em commands, and might give more macros \ul for ultra, \lf for light,
etc.  Of course, the user should be able to decide whether \rm means
regular, medium or light, whether \bf means bold or semibold, etc.

Back to the original issue: 20% it is. But only if it looks right. 

--
       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
From: jwarner@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack E. Warner)
Subject: Re: Cents symbol
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:52:46 GMT

Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>Is there a way to typeset the symbol for cents in [La]TeX?  It's the
>symbol that looks like a 'c' and a '/' on top of each other.  I've
>been using (LaTeX)

>\newcommand{\cent}{\,\makebox[0in]{c}\makebox[0in]{/}\,}

>but this is too ugly for words.  What obvious solution am I missing?

look in appendix f of the TeXbook and
\newcommand{\cent}{\char'???} 
  where ??? is the octal number of the cent sign.
From: djk@minnie.nic.kingston.ibm.com (David Klepacki)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX on RS/6000 machines
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 11:15:52 -0500
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Malki writes:

> We run TeX here on a variety of machines including an assortment of
> different Unix boxes.  TeX running on our RS/6000 machines no matter
> what model they are (we have 320, 550, and 970) runs considerably slower
> than on the other Unix machines.  It takes quite a while until the
> banner line appears and it seems that the whole file is processed slower.
> Has anyone experienced similar behavior and if so, is there a fix?
> Thanks for any help.
> Malki

It is hard to say what your bottleneck is without knowing your system
configuration.  As a first guess, assuming you are using the RS/6000
in stand-alone fashion, the problem might be that the system
buffer cache has not been tuned properly.  The default for this parameter
is only 20 pages (80KB).  In almost all cases, this parameter should
be increased to something more substantial (like 1000 pages).  The easiest
way to do this is to use smit (System Environments; Change/Show
Characteristics of Operating System), as root of course.

If you are remotely accessing the RS/6000 machines, the problem could
be with your network configuration, or your X terminal configurations.
If you are using AFS, try increasing its cache size.


David Klepacki
IBM Corp.
Internet:  djk@minnie.nic.kingston.ibm.com
Phone: (914)385-0989
FAX: (914)385-4732
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ecsstw@nuscc.nus.sg (Soon Teck Wong (Dr))
Subject: Re: backslash ?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:57:59 GMT

Healy@space50.nrl.navy.mil () writes:
: In article <1993Jan17.055312.17451@cs.uow.edu.au> humm@cs.uow.edu.au (Bernhard G Humm) writes:
: > How do I print a backslash, e.g. in a \tt type style.
: 
: In LaTeX, try \verb, e.g.,
: \verb/\/
: 
: Liam Healy
: 
Define the backslash character.   For example,
\def\bs{{\tt \char '134}}

Then, to get a backslash in \tt type style, simply use \bs.
-- 
Soon Teck Wong
Department of Economics & Statistics
National University of Singapore
ecsstw@nuscc.nus.sg
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: andy@mercury.cs.clemson.edu (Andrew J. Greenshields N3IGS)
Subject: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
Organization: Clemson University Computer Science Dept.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:16:57 GMT


  I need to get a Tex package for my Mac Plus.  I have used Textures
on a friends Mac and it seemed like a pretty straight forward package
to use, except that sometimes you couldn't quit the application.  I
have heard that OzTeX is a really good package, but before I spend
several hours downloading it I thought I would get some opinions
first.


Thanks in advance.


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LN07 anyone?
From: gordon@chmeds.ac.nz
Date: 24 Jan 93 11:24:35 +1200

We have an LN07 laser printer from DEC, which I would like to use as a
TeX output device (for low throughput obviously).

I cannot get DVI2LN3 to work, despite the fact that the LN07 and LN03 are
meant to work alike.

Is anytone else using an LN07? If so, what output driver are you using?

-- 
Cheers
Gordon
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From: wilde@bernina.ethz.ch (Erik Wilde)
Subject: Re: LaTeX: How to make Chapter heading smaller?
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:19:22 GMT

The font depends on which styles you are using...

If you look into rep10.sty, you will eventually find the macro

\def\@makechapterhead#1{ \vspace*{50pt} { \parindent 0pt \raggedright
 \ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne \huge\bf \@chapapp{} \thechapter \par
 \vskip 20pt \fi \Huge \bf #1\par
 \nobreak \vskip 40pt } }

which tells you that the \Huge font is used for the heading. If you
want to use a smaller font, change the rep10.sty into a style of
your own or redefine the macro in your document (which will make
it exchangeable without also exchanging the new style). But you have
to make all these catcode-things before you can change a macro that
contains a @-sign. Hope this helps,

Erik Wilde (wilde@tik.ethz.ch)
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zuerich)
  Laboratory of Computer Engineering and Networks (TIK)
  ETH-Zentrum, ETZ G61.2, CH - 8092 Zuerich
  Phone: +41-1-254-7009  Fax: +41-1-254-7160
From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Metafont to scalable outline font formats
Date: 28 Jan 1993 04:30 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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In article <1993Jan28.093148.13399@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, christie@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Chris Tham) writes...
>In article <WALSH.93Jan26170650@ibis.cs.umass.edu> walsh@cs.umass.edu writes:
>>In point of fact, resolution enhancement is automatic. 
>I can't see why RET should work on bitmaps (including bitmapped fonts) unless
>there is a little bit of AI in the RET code that guesses which edges need
>to be filled up and how.  If there _is_ some intelligence I would be wary
>on how it would handle images and would probably want to turn it off.

I wouldn't call it AI, but there is smoothing code.  When I've plotted 
graphs with nearly vertical lines, the bitmapped lines are staricases 
with steps too far apart for RET to notice:

##
## = 1 pixel

          Bitmap      -->    RET         I want

             ####           ****           OOOO
             ####           ****           OOOO
             ####           ****           OOOO
             ####           ****          OOOO
             ####           ****          OOOO
             ####          ****           OOOO
           ####            ****           OOOO
           ####           ****            OOOO
           ####           ****            OOOO
           ####           ****            OOOO
           ####           ****           OOOO
           ####           ****           OOOO
           ####           ****           OOOO
           ####           ****           OOOO
           ####           ****           OOOO
           ####           ****           OOOO
           ####           ****          OOOO
           ####           ****          OOOO
           ####           ****          OOOO
           ####          ****           OOOO
         ####            ****           OOOO
         ####           ****            OOOO
         ####           ****            OOOO
         ####           ****           OOOO
         ####           ****           OOOO
         ####           ****           OOOO


RET does a good job of smoothing the edges of {\it I}.

Donald Arseneau       asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: the virtual font craze
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 10:21:17 +0100
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I'm  not  so   sure wether Christoph   Kukulies' longing for   `a good
collection of  virtual fonts' is not  based on a misunderstanding.  As
much as I understand  (please correct me), virtual  fonts are mainly a
means to

- utilize internal fonts of an output device (e. g. PostScript)

- rearrange the encoding of a font and do fancy things with accented
  characters.

Most VFs I have seen up to now are of the first kind and hence kind of
device dependent.  So just displaying the trophies of a archie hunt
for "\.vf$" may not be very useful.

But anyway, an overview over the different applications of VFs would
be interesting.
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From: rcb2@wswiop12.win.tue.nl (Harold Weffers (HG6.64))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Chapterbib.sty
Keywords: help info
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:29:28 GMT
Reply-To: rcb2@win.tue.nl

Hello,

I have a little question to y'all. I want to create more bibliographies
in one document. I have tried chapterbib.sty, but when I use BibTeX in
combination with chapterbib.sty, BibTeX complains about an already
encountered file. Even when I only use include-commands.

If someone has a solution to my problem, or when someone has some 
examples of the use of chapterbib.sty I would very much appreciate it.

Thank you very much in advance.


Harold Weffers

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From: Malki Cymbalista <VUMALKI@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX on RS/6000
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:23:37 +0200
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

We run TeX here on a variety of machines including an assortment of
different Unix boxes.  TeX running on our RS/6000 machines no matter
what model they are (we have 320, 550, and 970) runs considerably slower
than on the other Unix machines.  It takes quite a while until the
banner line appears and it seems that the whole file is processed slower.
Has anyone experienced similar behavior and if so, is there a fix?
Thanks for any help.
Malki
From: 00r0ravichan@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Problems in FTPing from SHSU site
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:30:23 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's


              Problems in FTPing from SHSU
              ============================

I have encountered problems in FTPing files from SHSU site.

I have used the following procedure to download files from
SIMTEL site without any problems.

I have a VAX/VMS account and use FTP to anonymously login.
I issue the command "binary" to set the transfer the file.
Then I use the "get" command to get the file.
I logout from the ftp site and start up VAX/VMS kermit server.
I then use MS-Kermit to download the file to my PC.
I then use PKunzip to unzip the file.
Everything so far has worked fine (EXCEPT for SIMTEL index-creation
and maintenance program for the MSDOS collection).

However, when I use the above procedure with SHSU, I get 
the following error message:

 PKUNZIP: Warning: DVISPELL.ZIP - Error in ZIP use PKZipFix

When I use the UNZIP utility (that I downloaded from SHSU
using the same procedure as above) issues the following error 
message:

  Error: Start of central directory not found; zipfile corrupt.
   (Please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
    appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled unzip properly)

Although the above message seems to make sense, I am lost as to 
how to solve the problem.

On a related note, I used the pkunzip and unzip on other .zip files
that I have downloaded from SIMTEL before. Everything seems to be fine.
I have not changed any communications parameters on my PC and
VAX/VMS ends.

Obviously, I am doing something wrong. HELP!

Also , How do I use UUNENCODED files and put them together under
VAX/VMS, PC and UNIX platforms? 

Thanks in advance for your help. Please e-mail your responses.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)
Subject: GHOSTSCRIPT for PC's ???? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Job hunters use Parachute
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:44:28 +0000


In article <c2l3_pg@rpi.edu> kostas@pluto.ral.rpi.edu writes:

> Is there any tool like "GHOSTSCRIPT" available for PC's ? and ...
> how can I have access to that ?

There is an implementation of GhostScript for PC. I have the Windows
version installed and sort of working. Sort of being that the examples of
graphics work fine; tiger.ps has to be seen to be believed. The problem is
that any ps program that includes text dies on my saying that it cannot
find the requested font and that ugly will be substituted but then it
complains about ugly and the whole thing dies. :-(

Regards, Trevor.

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