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From: PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU (Phillip E. Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:33:30 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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       Re: LaTeX Numbered examples (like equations not in math mode)

You could put what you want in an \mbox{\rm } inside math mode and use
e.g. eqnarray. Perhaps there's a better way?

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From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX: Why is this counter incremented twice?
Date: 10 Oct 92 22:14:54 GMT
Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens

Here's a macro that works fine except that the counter gets incremented
twice for each item (including the first):

\newenvironment{example}%              % define "example" environment
{%%%\refstepcounter{equation}%         % use equation counter
\begin{list}{(\exampleno)}%            
{\setlength{\listparindent}{0pt}%
\def\makelabel##1{##1\hfil}%           % put labels flushleft in space available
}%
\item%
}%
{\end{list}}

\newcommand{\exampleno}{\refstepcounter{equation}\theequation}

This is for numbered examples in linguistics papers.  I'd like to be able
to display a single example like this,

\begin{example}
here it is
\end{example}

and display multiple examples together, each with its own number, like
this:

\begin{example}
the first one
\item
the second one
\item
the third one
\end{example}

But right now the counter gets incremented *twice* every time a number is
generated.  What do I need to do to fix it?

Many thanks to anyone who can assist.
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From: kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Kurhajetz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: quote question in OzTeX
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:03:13 GMT
Reply-To: kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Kurhajetz)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Hello - I am asking a very basis question about OzTeX-


How is it that you can get standard open quotes and close quotes
when using a standard mac keyboard - I know this is basic but
I have not had any luck with the documentation in sorting this
out. Thanks  Bob Kurhajet
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CODE 341
Bethesda, MD 20084
e-mail kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil
From: johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Supertab
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:56:57 GMT

I've a problem using supertab. It doesn't make a header on the first page
of a table. Does anyone know how to change this?
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From: lambert@cs.concordia.ca (Francois Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: equation numbering
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:57:43 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Concordia University

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.

Anybody can help?
Thanks
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From: schneid@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Schneider)
Subject: Re: DOS tex(t) editor
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:48:17 GMT

I agree with QEDit suggestion.  You can map keys so that you coulds
use ALT-a for \alpha, for example.  Sure, you say you could use 
\def\a{\alpha}, but that causes TeX to run slower.  Better to
use a good key map instead.
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From: GERDESJH@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Incorporating Graphic Files into Emtex
Date: 01 Oct 1992 06:50:03 -0500 (CDT)
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Could someone give me some pointers on the technique needed to insert a
graphic file into tex.  Specifically I want to insert a graph made by
quattro into emtex.  Quattro can output .PCX, .PIC, and .EPS formats.  I
have been able to import the .PCX and print it using \picture, however the
graph is only about 1 1/2 by 2 inches.  I would like to scale the graph to
a larger figure.

I also have a rather basic question.  Do I need a postscript printer to
utilize the .EPS (encapulated PostScript) files?

John
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From: tlm@iastate.edu (Dr. T.L. Marchioro II)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: speed of tex on various workstations?
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:17:46 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

In <JIM.DAVIES.92Oct12102727@pierrot.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Jim.Davies@comlab.ox.ac.uk (A Wooden Fish on Wheels) writes:
>In article <...> arif@stat.fsu.edu (Arif Zaman) writes:

>   |> I am particularly interested in comparisons with the "NeXTstation Turbo".

>   A Gateway 80486/66 DX2 with 8MB RAM and 300MB Hard disk with emTeX 
>   and full purchase price of Maple (far better than Mathematica - or 
>   you can by Mathematica if you want) will still save you at least 
>   $1000. 

>If you're going to be using PostScript fonts (and most people want to, sooner
>or later) then there's a lot to be said for buying a NeXT.  

>A few seconds here or there in the time taken to TeX a document isn't that
>important: a lot depends upon the speed and convenience of the
>edit-TeX-preview-edit cycle (or the edit-TeX-dvips-preview-edit cycle).

It's worth mentioning in this regard that there are several NeXTstep
applications to help in this cycle:  auc-tex is available for the NeXT
(and is quite good if you're an Emacs fan) and there is also a "unified"
TeX environment using the NeXT's own text editor (which they quite 
creatively named Edit :-) called TeXmenu.  There are 2 versions of TM, 
one is public domain and quite useful (for example, it provides "one button"
spell checking) while the latest version, which I use, is a "shareware"
product but has many nice features added.  Overall I rate the NeXT
TeX environment as good as any I've used, and I've used a lot, particularly
for any kind of interaction with postscript graphics or fonts (no need
for Ghostview etc.).  It's quite speedy, even as workstations go,
though if you want it to really hum a RAM upgrade would be useful.

Overall, I think worrying about the raw "speed" of TeX is one of the
worst criteria though.  Doesn't matter how fast something is if it can't
do what you need, so think about what you want from the package, then
find people who use it and ask them how their set-up is for what you want
to do.  I'd be glad to provide, via E-mail, more information about what
I do wiht *my* NeXT/TeX/Mma suite and I think it's far superior to anything
you can do with emTeX (itself a fantastic package, but lacking the 
interconnectivity to other applications of the NeXT) but your needs may
(and probably will) differ.

Hope this is somewhat helpful --- Tom
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX to ASCII
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:44:02 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <9210131831.AA15915@pokey.cs.pitt.edu>, perkusic@pokey.cs.pitt.edu (Angelo Perkusic) writes:
> How can I obtain an ASCII output from a LaTeX file?

If you mean "how can I strip the TeX-stuff from a source file", then you
might try detex. Get the FAQ and supplement regularly posted to this group.

If you mean "how can I get a plain ascii file from a dvi file" then you might
look for solutions such as emTeX's dvispell which does a fairly nice job
of converting. You cannot expect a perfect conversion, and math will require
heavy editing.

-- 
--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: weird \special syntax
Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
	<29427@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 07:31:21 GMT

In article <29427@life.ai.mit.edu> bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
   In article <ROLFL.92Oct15100915@ulrik.uio.no> rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
>
>      >   Naturally, the author is astonished that I can't print his file with all the
>      >   pretty inserted PostScript illustrations --- after all, it works just fine
>      >   on his platform!
>      >
>
>      For once, I agree with the user - those are TPIC specials, which any good
>      dvi driver should support....
>
>   Well, if there was an approved standard for \specials I might agree with
>   you.  But then everyone has their favourite \specials, that `any good DVI
>   driver should support'. 
>
>

There are, basically, two ways for things to become standard. Either by
general preference of the users, or, by decision of some appropriate
standard maker.

Of course, everyone has their favorite standard, I for my case wish I had
a special so I could write 

	\special{solution: heriatbility of schizophrenia} 

and the driver would write my report. 

Now, there are tpic- and PostScript-oriented extensions for both PiCTeX
and epic, and they are used pretty much. So every once in a while,
especially if you are running a DVI driver service bureau, you'll bump
into somebody who wishes to use tpic specials.

I'm not saying they are any good or anything, but they are a standard by
consencus, and any good dvi driver (good in the sense: that supports ...
stuff ... that people actually use) should support tpic specials.
So is it with emtex specials. 

Of course, one might want users that understand that there's a world
larger than their own world, so that one should always tell which version
of who's program one is using, and also what versions of what extensions
one is using. I see your user violated that.

But again, this is no problem so long as one compiles dvips for tpic and
emtex specials. If only the macros that produce tpic specials were
error-free... 



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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ridgeway@carson.u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway)
Subject: Re: Poorman's Chinese TeX
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:42:24 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.104050.29992@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> wunderli@apelc10.inf.ethz.ch (Martin Andre Wunderli) writes:
>
>Can anyone tell we where I can get Poorman's Chinese TeX or another way to typeset Chinese in TeX?
>
>And: On wuarchive.wustl.edu in pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS there have been some additional
>resolutions of the Chinese fonts ("wccs360dpi.tar.Z" and "wccs100dpi.tar.Z"). Unfortunately the seem to be removed. Is there a another place from where I can get them?

  The original version of poorman's is still available at
     blackbox.hacc.washington.edu [128.95.200.1] in pub/poorman
  tfms and 300dpi pk for the wccs series ONLY are also available
  on blackbox in pub/poorman/tfms and pub/poorman/300dpi respectively.
  Blackbox, btw, has a less than enormous drive: it is realistic to
  suppose that the tfms and bitmaps will disappear while we are still
  alive.  (I.e., if you want them, get them NOW)

  The site for more recent versions of poorman's (supporting
  Korean and ETen's Big5) are at clr.nmsu.edu 

cheers,
Tom

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: icking@gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Subject: Re: MusicTeX mailing list
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:21:04 GMT

In <1992Oct14.192426.14847@cs.umb.edu> jboor@mote.cs.umb.edu (Joan Boorstein) writes:

>I thought that I'd been told that there were mailing lists dealing
>with MuTeX and/or MusicTeX.  The FAQ does not mention them.  Does anyone
>know if these exist?  If so, how does one subscribe?

send your request to    mutex-request@stolaf.edu

Hope this hilft.

Werner
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Subject: Re: Problems with ruled.tex
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 07:00:29 GMT

ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson) writes:

 > I have this in my latex document, Im trying to use Eric Myers
 > (no email address?) ruled tables.
	[TeX error message deleted]

LaTeX? LaTeX?!?!?! I am not sure if ruled.tex, which is a part of 
the TeXsis macro package, is even *meant* to be usable with LaTeX. 
I have not used ruled.tex myself, but here is how the file I have
begins:

  %  % file: ruled.tex            TeXsis                  version 2.15
  %  $Revision: 15.1 $  :  $Date: 92/06/17 14:57:03 $  :  $Author: myers $
  %======================================================================*
  %  RULED TABLES.  Plain TeX macros for making nice ruled tables.
                    ^^^^^^^^^

I am sure it would work with Plain TeX. If you must use LaTeX, ask a
LaTeX expert for suitable macros. OR, just learn TeXsis :-). 

The official contact address for TeXsis is 

	texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu

but it would be pointless in my opinion to ask someone there to help you
use TeXsis macros with LaTeX; TeXsis was not written with that in mind,
and they probably can't help even if they wanted.

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: irakliot@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Leo J. Irakliotis)
Subject: tgrind filter for Matlab (beta version)
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 20:29:13 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
Keywords: tgrind, matlab

I have a "beta version" of a *grind filter for matlab ready 
for use. However I am not feeling confortable of giving it
away to the public domain yet, because of two problems:

(a) Unlike programming languages, matlab has an extensive
    set of reserved keywords, especially if one uses any
    toolbox (a rough estimate of the number of keywords for
    plain matlab + neural nets toolbox + dsp toolbox is
    about 250 items --- that's a moderate estimate).
    In most installations this will cause a "too long
    vgrind definition" warning. Therefore one has to 
    recompile the code after increasing the capacity for
    handling more keywords. That's fairly easy.
(b) A more tricky problem is this: in matlab the right
    single quote (') has a dual use: text string delimiter
    and matrix transpose operator. Is there a way to
    distinguish the use of (') each time? I have no 
    problem to give up on the \tt format of my strings
    but on the other hand, if (') is denoted as a string
    delimiter then the matlab sequence:

	A=A*P'+B
	C=inv(A+W)
        ...

    will cause everything after the P' to be printed in
    \tt fonts as if it was text string.

Suggestions are more that welcome, especially for problem (b).

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: alexp@sci.kun.nl (Alex Priem)
Subject: Complicated chemical structures & (La)TeX:How?
Keywords: Latex, structures
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:52:41 GMT

Does anybody know how to draw (chemical) structures like

            O
  O-Me      ||     Me-O
  |         C         |
  C        / \        C
 / \ /C- N     N- C\ / \
C   C     \   /     C   C
| O |   Ph-C-C-Ph   | O |      (1)
C   C     /   \     C   C
 \ / \C- N     N     \ /
  C        \ /        C
  |         C         |
  O-Me      ||     Me-O
            O


(and even worse...) in (La)TeX?

I've seen some packages, (ChemTeX) who could do things like

Ph-CH3COOH , but things like (1) are no fun with those packages.
(make a part of the figure, put another part of the
figure against it....whoops, need more space. whoops, less space. etc..)
Meantime, my colleague who's working on the Mac is already busy with 
something else .... 
Making the pictures on the Mac & converting them to .eps is another 
solution, but I prefer to have it all done in (La)TeX. 
Does anybody know how to deal with this?

Greetings, ALeX
From: prisant@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael G. Prisant)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: SPARC Printer
Summary: Problems with dvips and Sparcprinter
Keywords: dvips, printers, sparcprinter, postscript
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:40:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Organization: Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.

We have recently installed a Sparcprinter with Newsprint.  
We are using TeX/LaTeX and printing dvi files with dvips 5.493. 
The print quality of our TeX/LaTeX documents on the SparcPrinter
at 400 dpi is (in our opinion) markedly inferior to that of our older 
Apple Laserwriter IINTX at 300 dpi. Specific differences include
the antialising of lines in individual characters and heaviness
of print.

We have already tried the following with corresponding changes to NewsPrint's
.params file: 1) Upgrading to OpenWindows 3
and using the associated fonts; 2) building the appropriate 400 dpi fonts
with MetaFont and invoking 400 dpi resolution with dvips. 

Has any one else encountered this problem?  What advice would you offer?

Michael G. Prisant
prisant@romeo.cs.duke.edu
919-660-1549

Department of Chemistry and Computer Science
Duke University
Durham NC 27706
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich)
Subject: Building AMSLaTeX with ImakeTeX?
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:57:24 GMT

I have looked through the (very sparse) ImakeTeX documentation but could not
figure out how to get it to also build amslatex.  The subdirectory exists,
but a format does not get created.  If anyone has succeded in build amslatex
with ImakeTeX I would appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks.
--
Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science
"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of
 realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: richard@cs.anu.edu.au (Richard Walker)
Subject: OFFICIAL NOTICE:  DVIPS 5.490--5.493 USERS READ THIS!
Summary: versions of dvips from 5.490 to 5.493 are BROKEN
Keywords: dvips, bugs
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Australian National University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:10:15 GMT

Tomas Rokicki (author of dvips) asked me to post this news item
because he can't (he has no UseNet access).

It seems that I discovered a rather big bug in dvips versions
5.490 through to 5.493.  Basically, if your document has more than
21 fonts, you will get extremely weird output.  The problem
is in tex.pro (find it if you can!).

Tomas asks everybody using 5.490, 5.492 (especially!), and 5.493
to STOP using them, and pick up 5.495 from
labrea.stanford.edu, pub/dvips5495.tar.Z and pub/dvips5493lib.tar.Z
(the library for 5.495 is the same as that for 5.493).

At the time of writing, you may find that the file emspecial.c
doesn't compile because the symbols SEEK_END and SEEK_SET are
not defined.  Just put an appropriate #include at the top
of emspecial.c.  On Suns, that is
#include <unistd.h>
Everything else compiles smoothly.

If you are using really old versions of dvips, such as 5.47, then
I especially recommend the upgrade because those old versions do
not produce conforming PostScript.  The newer versions do, so you
can use programs such as psnup and psselect to play with the
output.

Oh, and if you're not using dvips at all, then now's the time
to start!

Good luck!

Richard.
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From: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Putting PostScript files into a LaTeX document.
Summary: How do I do it?
Date: 13 Oct 92 03:22:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: iskut.1bdfdtINNs7a
Distribution: world
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: theory.chem.ubc.ca

Hi Everyone,

I'm sure this must be an FAQ, but I don't know how to do it, and I don't
have time to follow this newsgroup and still have what little life I do, so
here goes:

I am using emTeX (the 286 version) in combination with LaTeX to produce my
thesis.  I would like to put pictures in it which can be output in any one of 
the following formats:

1) HP Printer Control Language

2) PostScript

3) HP PaintJet 

4) HP Graphics Language (plotter control language, I think).

I would like to know how this is done.  What I really need is a point-by-point
description of how to do it so I can go off and do it.  If there is a book
(or some part of the LaTeX manual that comes with emTeX) that describes this
in sufficient detail (and I do mean lots of detail), please let me know and 
I'll go look there.  In the meantime, any pointers you can provide will be 
very greatly appreciated.  

Please E-Mail replies, as I don't have time to read this group.  Thanks very
much in advance.
-- 
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From: gilpin@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX w.o. hyphenation?
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:46:59 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

  I'm a novice LATEX user.  I'm interested in turning off hyphenation
completely--not just for particular words.  Is there an easy way to do this?

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