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From: gerd@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gerd Neugebauer)
Subject: Re: questions about .bst language
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:30:44 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

>>>>> On 17 Nov 1992 01:29:50 GMT, llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lok C. Lew Yan Voon) said:
In article <1e9hueINNqo2@bigboote.WPI.EDU> llew@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lok C. Lew Yan Voon) writes:

LCLYV> NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

LCLYV> i've a slight understanding of the .bst language from reading the
LCLYV> style files and the doc.
LCLYV> however, i've a couple of problems.

Maybe you should consider reading the following document:

@Manual{ Patashnik:Designing,
  title = 	"Designing {\BibTeX} styles",
  author = 	"Oren Patashnik",
  year = 	"1988",
  month = 	jan,
  note = 	"The part of \BibTeX's documentation that's not meant for
	         general users"
}

It explains a lot. Nevertheless I can give some hints.

The bst language is stack oriented --- like PostScript or Forth.
Arguments are passed to procedured via the stack and results are placed on 
the stack.

LCLYV> 1. i don't understand a statement like
LCLYV> 	{ duplicate$ empty$
LCLYV> can someone try to explain it?

duplicate$ takes the top of stack and duplicates it. I.e. its twice on the 
stack afterwards.

empty$ takes the top of stack and compares it against the empty string.
It places one of the boolean values 0 or 1 on the stack depending on the
result.

I am pretty shure that this construct is part of a conditional. I.e. lateron 
you can find a if$.

LCLYV> 2. somewhere else i see
LCLYV> 	{ ":" * pages
LCLYV> don't we need 2 variables to the left of '*'? i only see one?

Same trick again. The concatenation operator * takes two arguments
fron the stack and places the concatenated string back. The arguments
need not to be given just before the * but can be computed or pushed
to the stack earlier.

LCLYV> 3. i've been playing around with unsrt.bst and the article functions.
LCLYV> i need to output pages as, e.g., 1120 instead of 1120-1124.
LCLYV> i think i only need to modify 2 functions (reproduced below):
LCLYV> format.pages and/or format.vol.num.pages
LCLYV> what are the required modifications? i can't see how to access
LCLYV> the initial page number.
LCLYV> i occasionally see (e.g. in n.dashify)
LCLYV> 	t #1 #1 substring$ "-" =
LCLYV> so it seems like t starts with "-" (if present). whatever happened
LCLYV> to the initial page number?

Well, in n.dashify t is defined and used as variable. A loop graps the
first character until a - is found. This is the place where you want
to jump in and simply discart the remaining charaters in t. In the
meantime the top of stack contains the initial string.

It should be rather simple to understand once you have mastered the document
mentioned above.

Note: the .bst language is as easy as other programming languages once
      you have a (usable) manual.



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From: alexp@sci.kun.nl (Alex Priem)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: centering {tabular} entries vertically
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:09:34 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

I've made a nice-looking table in LaTeX which looks something like this:

1 /------\    data     more data       more data...
  |      |
  |      |
  \------/    

2 /-------\    data     more data       more data....
  |       |
  \-------/   

But I want something like this:

 /------\   
 |      |
1|      |    data       more data      more data ....
 \------/

After '1' follows a big \box. I want the 'data' vertically centered in
a row, but I don't know how to do it. \vcenter doesn't seem to work;
If I use \lower 10pt \hbox{data}  I get my data lowered, but for each
new row I have to find out how big my 'big \box' is, plus that I've to
say ' lower ...' for each entry.
(Well, I tried something like 
\newdimen\tspaces    \tspaces=10pt
\def\tcentr#1{\lower\the\tspaces #1}  
so I could say \tspace{data}  (works!)
but then I've to say \tspaces=40pt (or 30 or whatever..) each time I start
 a row with a different sized \box.
(of course, \def\settspace#1{\tspaces #1} doesn't work like I 
thought it would...:)



Too be short: Does anybody know a package or environment that includes
a new feature to {tabular}: vertical centering of the individual entries
on a row?

Any help would be appreciated,

ALeX

 
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From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: DPMI conflict: 386MAX and EmTeX386
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:53:48 GMT

I just switched to 386 to the MAX as my memory manager and now, when I
try to run emtex386, I get the msg: DPMI not supported.
I tried to temporarily disable 386max (per the documentation) with
386max off
but it won't let me.  Any helpful comments would be appreciated.
Patrick

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From: yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Kanji/Chinese TeX
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:42:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Organization: The Tofu Society of Singapore
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61539.student.cwru.edu

Is there such a thing?

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: (HELP) create .pk/tfm from scanned image/logo
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:26:35 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.121824.12081@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>, eljcao@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (L.J. Cao) writes:
> After run through scanner, I have obtained the university logo 
> in WMF/PCX/GIF/CGM/EPS... format. How do I create a .tfm and .pk
> file from that, so I can use them in LaTeX without \special and
> DVIPS?

bm2font. Look in the FAQ and the FAQ supplement. MSDOS version avail for
some time; compiled fine using EMX/gcc for OS/2 and MSDOS.

-- 
--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: snowbell@techunix.technion.ac.il (Michael J. Snowbell)
Subject: Bibliography to References?
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:15:53 GMT

How does one change the 'Bibliography' heading to 'References' when using
thebibliography? 


Thanks for the help

Michael J. Snowbell
snowbell@techunix.technion.ac.il
From: carlip@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Walter C3arlip)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Question: What to do about linefeeds?
Date: 19 Nov 92 06:08:10 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Ohio University Mathematics

Ok, here's a dumb question.
One of my colleagues is using TeX on two platforms: Macintosh and
(yuk) IBM-pc.  Evidently, the IBM-pc likes Carriage-Return *and*
Linefeed at the end of each line, and when he ports the files to
the mac, the linefeeds appear as characters in the file and TeX
hates them.  

I suggested inserting the line:
\catcode`^^J=9
to tell TeX to just ignore the linefeeds, but this did not seem
to help.  Anyone know why?  Is there an elegant solution to this
problem?  Is there any reason that IBM-pc's behave in such an anti-social
manner?

Thanks,

--Walter



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From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Subject: Re: custom styles
Reply-To: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Organization: Snake Island Research Inc, Toronto
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 16:58:27 GMT

Keywords: 

I am seeking a modified version of the \cite macro, which enables
citations of the form:
   [Glotz: 179-181, Frog: 18-19, Toad 42]
where:
a. The page numbers appear as text in the \cite, so that several citations
   can point to the same bibliographic entry, and avoid the dreaded 
   ibid disease.

  Vanilla LaTeX supports text, but only for a single entry, it appears.
  If I use multiple \cite entries, I get brackets rather than commas
  between entries.

b. Is there a way to get the citations to break in mid-citation? Two-
   column format stuff looks lousy because of LaTeX apparent refusal
   to break a citation across two lines.

c. Is there a simple way (other than modifying the \bibitem macro) to 
   replace the brackets with some other character, such as nothing?

THanks. Bob

ps: Still seeking a source for .ps files of Egyptian heirogryphics.
 



Robert Bernecky      rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com  bernecky@itrchq.itrc.on.ca 
Snake Island Research Inc  (416) 368-6944   FAX: (416) 360-4694 
18 Fifth Street, Ward's Island
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2B9 
Canada
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From: perera@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Lord Of CyberSpace.)
Subject: LaTeX as a Language
Originator: perera@pollux
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:08:51 GMT


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From: sbonnema@rtsg.mot.com (Stuart D. Bonnema)
Subject: Missing BiBTex style file
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:59:26 GMT


I seem to be having trouble in locating the
style files required to create a bibliography.
Am I have looked at all files in our /tex
directory and see nothing with a .bst extension.
Am I missing part of LaTeX? Where can I fpt what
I need and where to do I put it once I get it?

---------------------------------------------------
AFTER LATEX-ING THE FILE, I TRY TO BIBTEX IT...
---------------------------------------------------

bsd4.3 % bibtex h
This is BibTeX, C Version 0.99c
The top-level auxiliary file: h.aux
I couldn't open style file unsrt.bst
---line 2 of file h.aux
 : \bibstyle{unsrt
 :                }
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
I found no style file---while reading file h.aux
(There were 2 error messages)


---------------------------------------------------
CONTENTS OF STUART.BIB
---------------------------------------------------

@BOOK{m123,
     @AUTHOR    = "Motorola",
     @TITLE     = "CMOS Logic Data",
     @ADDRESS   = "PO Box 20912, Phoenix Arizona 85036",
     @PUBLISHER = "Motorola Techincal Information Center",
     @MONTH     = "March",
     @YEAR      = "1989",
     @VOLUME    = "DL129",
     @EDITON    = "Revision 4"
     }

---------------------------------------------------
CONTENTS OF H.TEX
---------------------------------------------------
\documentstyle[11pt]{article}

\begin{document}

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
\nocite{*}


\bibliography{stuart}
---------------------------------------------------

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From: edgar@riemann.math.mun.ca (Edgar Goodaire)
Subject: \address in AmS-LaTeX
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:43:18 GMT

I've seen this question recently, but not an answer.  When there are
multiple authors, the AmS-LaTeX manual says to use several \author,
\address, \email, etc. commands.  But when I do this - as apparently
others have discovered - only the information concerning the last-named
author appears at the end of the paper, when using amsart.sty.  This
would seem to be a bug.  Is there an easy way around it?

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: wilde@bernina.ethz.ch (Erik Wilde)
Subject: Re: Newbie question: where do the fonts go in UNIX TeX installation ?
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:21:04 GMT

Charles Roten (roten@CUBA.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: Once the cmfonts are unpacked ( cat cmfonts.tar.Z.* | zcat | tar xf - ), 
: where do I _put_ the subdirectories pk118/, pk300/, and tfm/ ?  Not to 
: mention gf/ ?  When I 'mv' them to the TEXFONTS directory, TeX does not 
: seem to see them ?  

I just installed TeX on our system, so I simply describe the way I made
it here, and for me, it works...
The tfm (TeX font metrics) files are the only ones needed by TeX, and
they *should* go to the TEXFONTS directory. TeX looks into all directories
defined in TEXFONTS when it's looking for tfm files, at least my TeX does.
The pk files go where your driver wants them to be, I use dvips and
created a pk subdir in the TEXFONTS directory where all pk files are
stored. But this is entirely a question of which driver you will use,
so refer to it's installation instructions. gf files are not needed, since
all information contained within these files is available via the pk files.
There is a utility gftopk, if you want to convert the gf files, but this
is only necessary if you generated new font files using metafont. You
will probably only need the pk300 files, because they are made for 300dpi
devices (most laserprinters have 300dpi), but that is also specific for
your installation.
Hope this helps.

Erik Wilde
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zuerich)
Institut fuer Technische Informatik und Kommunikationssysteme (TIK)
ETH-Zentrum, ETZ G61.2, CH - 8092 Zuerich
Phone: +41-1-254-7009   Fax: +41-1-254-7160   Mail: wilde@tik.ethz.ch
Organization: Doctoral student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:27:13 -0500 
From: Ravi Anupindi <ra1l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: problems with newapa.bst


I have used newapa.bst / newapa.sty (by Stephen Spencer and Young Ryu)
for a while now. Actually, I had modified it for use with the TIMS/ORSA
publications like Management Science and Operations Research. However,
the problem doesn't seem to be with my modification but in the original
newapa.bst. I have confirmed this already by running the file using
newapa.bst. The problem:

In the bib file if the author list is long (more than 4-5 authors or 100
characters) bibtex gives an error message.

The version of newapa.bst that I modified was posted on this netnews on
May 3, 1991. If later modifications have fixed this, please let me know.
Since the changes I made was quite sometime back, I would really appreciate
if you tell me how to fix the bug in the old version. Please respond by
email.

Thanks.
From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Character coding for Postscript fonts
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:04:33 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

In article <BxLMyx.8A7@cs.bham.ac.uk>, Howard S. Goodman <hsg@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:
|> Is there a standard character coding scheme for using Postscript fonts with
|> TeX?

Yes.  It's defined in the TeXbook.

|> I ask because it seems a bit arbitrary where we put certain characters.
|> [examples deleted]

_All_ character codes are arbitrary.  ASCII is just as arbitrary as
Adobe encoding, or as Knuth's encoding.  I don't myself hold much of a
candle for Knuth's effort, but at least he did do something, and it's
been stable for a long time, and it would be madness to go against it
now...

|> This isn't desperately important, but it does seem more than a little
|> arbitrary.  Is there a convention for Postscript to TeX character coding,
|> and, if so, what is it?

If you define a code table (as both Knuth and Adobe did), you get to
say what goes where in it.  Matching code tables has become a serious
problem (i.e., it _is_ desperately important); it was in response to
this that Knuth introduced his "standard mechanism" of virtual fonts.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Tim Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: continued on the next page
X-Xxdate: Mon, 23 Nov 92 16: 32:02 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: tsl1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:27:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.125947.10381@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Martin
Schroeder, ms@lehre24.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE writes:
>Thanks very much, but I would like a one-pass solution (if it is
impossible, tell me).

My TeX intuition tells me that a one-pass solution is impossible, but I 
can't prove it. Consider an attractive possibility. Define a boolean 
variable, initialize it to false, then set it to true just before \end. 
Your footline routine then looks at the variable to decide if the 
document has come to an end. However, this won't work because TeX reads 
ahead of the page maker; thus the flag will very probably be true when 
the page maker constructs the penultimate page.

I think you need two passes. In fact, make one pass, count the number of 
pages, then provide that number to the footline routine. 

Tim Larkin
Federal Nutrition Laboratory
Tower Road
Ithaca, New York
tsl1@cornell.edu
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From: UPP201@rhrz.uni-bonn.de (Michael Burschik)
Subject: IPA fonts: metafont chokes on igreekl
Organization: RHRZ Uni-Bonn
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:47:38 GMT

I recently downloaded the *.mf files for the WSU IPA font(s). Whenever
I try to compile them, metafont chokes on igreekl.mf. Now, the interesting
thing is that the error messages depend on the fontsize. 11pt seems to
work best, 10pt complains about a wrong turn and the other sizes start
dumping error messages and don't stop (not within the next five minutes
at any rate). Has anyone successfully compiled these fonts and, if so,
how?
 
Cheers,
Mike.
From: busch@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Pia Busch)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: german dictonary for ispell
Keywords: ispell, german
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:48:12 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Informatik

Hallo,

I am looking for a ispell dictonary for german,
any hint.

You may post the anser here in the newsgroup, because I think it is of general
interest.

	Pia

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Recommend a dvi previewer for Open Windows 3
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:30:22 GMT

Michael Covington (mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu) wrote:
: What is the best dvi previewer to use under Open Windows 3?
: We are still using texsun, which is a carryover from Sunview.
: Recommendations welcome.

<insert your favourite dvi->ps processor here> file.dvi | pageview

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From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Bold and blackboard bold together
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:14:53 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


(I sent a longer reply to the original poster of this topic, but I guess
there is a misconception (mine - or others?) about having blackboard and 
ordinary bold together, so here is a short version of my answer.)

The following works for me - I just tested this little file as an example,
and it went fine.  So you can have both styles of bold.

\documentstyle{article}
\font\Bbb=msbm10 
\newcommand{\C}{\mbox{\Bbb C}}
\newcommand{\bC}{\mbox{\bf C}}
\begin{document}
\C \bC
\end{document}

If you want to include both kinds of font in the same expression, just do
this as with any other font combination.

- rags
From: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk (David Carlisle)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: SliTeX under NFSS
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:20:55 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
In-reply-to: ghsu@critical.nswc.navy.mil's message of 16 Nov 92 21:04:05 GMT


>>>>> On 16 Nov 92 21:04:05 GMT, ghsu@critical.nswc.navy.mil said:

ghsu> Hi, there, 

ghsu>    I somehow remember seeing statements about "there is no need to use
ghsu> SliTeX under NFSS".   Is that correct and why?  (You can see that I
ghsu> don't understand NFSS.  Please aim your explanation to starter.)
ghsu> Thanks in advance!    

To use slitex with the NFSS, the easiest way is to get the psnfss
package, this is available from most places. at aston (tex.ac.uk) it
is the directory
[TEX-ARCHIVE.MACROS.LATEX.STYLES.BASE.NFSS.PSNFSS]

apart from defining some macros to use PostScript fonts, it also has a
nfss-slitex setup.

You were probably `somehow remember'ing anouncements about 
lslide.sty
and
the seminar package.

these two give *latex* style options for producing OHP slides. There
are certain advantages in using LaTeX, in that all the normal
article.sty options and environments work.

these two are available from all the usual archives.

David.

PS.
Apologies to anyone who saw my recent post about accents, before it
got cancelled. As should have been clear, it was only intended for
Manchester distribution...
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From: dak@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
Subject: Re: problems with german hyphenation tables
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 21 Nov 92 23:28:27 GMT

wilde@bernina.ethz.ch (Erik Wilde) writes:

>I am currently installing TeX on our system, and everything went ok until I
>tried to install german hyphenation patterns. What I want is a gtex and a
>glatex with preloaded german pattern dictionaries. I successfully got the
>patterns from the server in Stuttgart and also succeeded in making the
>format files gplain.fmt (or gtex.fmt) and glatex.fmt. But now I don't
>know how to make executable files. A readme suggested to use virtex to
>load the formats and then to core dump and undump the core, but I had to
>discover that our System (Sun 3's under SunOS 4.0.3) does not have an
>undump command, so what can I do? I believe it is now big deal to make
>executables out of the formats, but can someone please help me? Thanks,

The format files are the last stage of the installation in most Unix
systems. Most installations do not use a dumped format.

One way to use the formats is to say virtex &formatname filename
The unix installation I use has a sneaky little feature. The virtex
looks under what name it was called, and if that is not virtex, it
tries to use the format of that name.

So, for example, there is a link called glatex.fmt to lplaing.fmt,
and a link called glatex to virtex (in the appropriate directories).
That way, calling glatex will use lplaing as a format.
From: "Maurizio Ferconi" <PHYSFERC@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX macro
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:00:23 CST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I would like to know how to produce in LaTeX a symbol  which
combines the greater than sign together with the \sim tilted
in order to represent  what roughly speaking is: greater
than or almost equal to..
Thanks in advance,
                   maurizio
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