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From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: How to make a macro expand to nothing?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: macro latex tex
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 04:53:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.213015.29910@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, crath@bnr.ca writes...
In article <1992Jul27.213015.29910@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, you write...
>I am using the following latex macro:
> 
>	\newcommand{\Ch}[2]{{#2}}
> 
>When used, it produces the following output from the given input:
> 
>	input:   This is \Ch{G}{a} sam\Ch{C}{ple.} \Ch{G}{}
> 
>	output:  This is a sample.
> 
>This works as expected except ... 
>extra whitespace gets inserted after the paragraph.  

The problem isn't with the macro expanding to a space, or with the 
end of the paragraph.  The extra space is the space between your two 
final \Ch commands.  

        input: This is \Ch{G}{} a sample.
        output: This is  a sample.

If you want this to look nice for whole words and parts of words, you
are probably best including the space in the parameter:

\newcount\plurality \plurality=2  % LaTeX's versions of counters don't work
                                  % well for this.

\newcommand{\pl}[2]{{\ifnum1=\plurality #1\else #2\fi}}

\pl{This}{These} \pl{is}{are}\pl{ a}{} sample\pl{}{s}.
%                          NOTE " a"


Here is a fair attempt at handling the spaces automatically:
(put these in a style file so @ is valid in command names.)

\newcounter{plurality} 
% If LaTeX-style counters are really necessary.

\newcommand{\pl}[2]{\leavevmode{\ifnum\@ne=\c@plurality 
  \plU{#1}\else\plU{#2}\fi}}
% ignore spaces afterwards if blank entry follows a space.
\newcommand{\plU}[1]{\skip@\lastskip #1%
  \ifdim\skip@=\z@\else \if\blank{#1}\aftergroup\ignorespaces\fi\fi}

%==============Conditionals by Donald Arseneau==============================
%  \ifblank --- checks if parameter is blank (Spaces count as blank)
%  \ifgiven --- checks if parameter is not blank: like \ifblank\else
%  \ifnull  --- checks if parameter is null (spaces are NOT null)
{\catcode`\!=8 % funny catcode so ! will be a delimiter
%.. use \if\given, \if\blank, \if\naught (\null already exists)
%
\long\gdef\given#1{\fi\Ifbl@nk#1@@@\empty!}
\long\gdef\blank#1{\fi\Ifbl@nk#1@@..!}% if null or spaces
\long\gdef\naught#1{\IfN@Ught#1* {#1}!}% if null
\long\gdef\Ifbl@nk#1#2@#3#4!{\ifx#3#4}
\long\gdef\IfN@Ught#1 #2!{\blank{#2}}
}
%==================================

TEST: 

\setcounter{plurality}{1}%  
\pl{This}{These} \pl{is}{are} \pl{a}{} sample\pl{}{s}.

\setcounter{plurality}{2}%  
\pl{This}{These} \pl{is}{are} \pl{a}{} sample\pl{}{s}.
\setcounter{plurality}{3}%  
\pl{This}{These} \pl{is}{are} \pl{a}{} sample\pl{}{s}.

Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: ep@id.dth.dk (Erik Plesner)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX question regarding blanking out footnote symbol
Keywords: footnotetext, fnsymbol, thanksu
Date: 28 Jul 92 07:30:48 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science

jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune) writes:

>Here is what I need:

>I am using the LaTeX command \footnotetext to keep the footnote mark
>from being generated in the text and to keep the footnote counter from
>being incremented.  When I use this option I don't want a number to
>appear in the footnote area either. [..] 

>Thanks,
>JAF

The footnote number printed in the footnote area is \hss$^{\@thefnmark}$
It is possible to redefine the footnote-printing command to print the
value of a certain variable e.g. \epmark .

Then I deffine two commands for setting \epmark to either \hss$^{\@thefnmark}$
or {}   (nothing).

You can then use \markson to turn on numbers in the footnote field, and
\marksoff to turn them off.  The foot.sty shown below takes care of the 
definitions and initially turns marks on.
----------------- foot.sty --------------------------
\def\markson{\def\epmark{\hss$^{\@thefnmark}$}}
\def\marksoff{\def\epmark{}}
\markson
\def\@makefntext#1{\parindent 1em\noindent \hbox to 1.8em{\epmark}#1}
-----------------------------------------------------
Example :

\documentstyle[foot,12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Here is what I need:

I am using the LaTeX command ``footnotetext'' to keep the footnote mark
from being generated in the text and to keep the footnote counter from
being incremented.
\footnote{This is a ordinary footnote}
When I use this option I don't want a number to
\marksoff
\footnotetext{This is an unordinary footnote}
\markson
appear in the footnote area either.  The list of nine footnote symbols
\footnote{This is a ordinary footnote}
available using the ``fnsymbol'' command do not include blank.  I wrote
a tiny style file that tried to change the ``fnsymbol def'' (from latex.tex)
to a blank but that didn't work.  I also tried to pull a macro call \ldots
\end{document}

Kind regards 

Erik Plesner (ep@id.dth.dk)
M.Sc., Research Engineer, Technical University of Denmark.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lele@itnsg1.cineca.it (Lele Gaifax)
Subject: Dvi to PS with double-sided printing
Organization: Laboratorio di Fisica Computazionale, INFM. Trento Italia
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:14:33 GMT

Is there any dvi2ps that let me print all the odd sides first, and the all
the even sides? I saw this feature in the dvi2xx package by Gustaf Neumann
and I liked it alot.
Otherwise, is there a way to obtaining double-faced pages?
thanx a lot, 
lele.
-- 
Lele Gaifax - lele@itnsg1.cineca.it
Sicuramente i cattivi hanno scoperto qualche cosa che i buoni ignorano.
						- Woody Allen
From: janhsu@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Loading Fonts
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:47:01 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


If you would like a font to be at a size of 1000, would I have to compile the
font at "1000", or could I compile the font at the normal heigth and believe 
the LaTeX/TeX compiler will automatically scale the font? This is the same for
.pk files. Do I have to compile, for example, METAFONTS at the desired 
magnification, and then convert to .pk? And when I'm using the dvi driver to
print, do the fonts to be used in the file have to be listed in the command
line of the dvidrv program? This would seem to be a pain, wouldn't it be
appropriate for the .dvi file that is being loaded by dvidrv to automatically
call up each .pk file it needs to use? (same thing when using .tfm font 
metrics when compiling .tex files --> .dvi).

Thanks
-- 
    .  .      +-------------------------------+
  --|--|      | Mark Yun Wook Choi            |
   /.\ |      | janhsu@hardy.u.washington.edu |
  --|--|      +-------------------------------+
From: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help with TeX error message
Keywords: typo isolation, group delimiters
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:33:17 GMT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.

In article <1992Jul28.161910.16295@math.toronto.edu> rodney@math.toronto.edu (Peter Rodney) writes:
>Hi. I am using LaTeX and could use some help with the 
>following tex error message.
>
>(\end occurred inside a group at level 1)
>
>In particular, what exactly does this mean? Is there an efficient
>method of locating where the problem is occurring? Any help will 
>be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>-peter

This usually indicates that you failed to match the group delimiters (i.e., 
{ or }) someplace.  If your LaTeX file is large it is often helpful to
comment out clean (matched) sections of your file so that the missing
delimiter can be quickly isolated.  An emacs macro to place % at the
beginning of lines or one of the comment style files should work.

JAF


-- 
James Fortune                  - There are many sides to every question
Oakland University             - until you know the truth.  Then there's
jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu  - only one.  --  C. S. Lewis
Disclaimer: Not O.U. opinions  -
From: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: macros for flow-diagrams
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:55:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Power Software

hasker@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Hasker) writes:

>pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon)  writes:

>>To: ynagel@math.wisc.edu
>>
>>YN>Are there any macro or (latex) style files for typesetting
>>YN>flow diagrams.  What is desired are simple macros which would
>>YN>allow one to insert text into boxes, diamonds, triangles or
>>YN>circles and then link these figures with arrows.

There is a style on SHSU called NASS_MAN that does flow charts and
Nassi-Schneiderman diagrams.

-- 
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CP Software Export Pty Ltd,      Before you are six or seven or eight,
19 Cato St., East Hawthorn,      To hate all the people your relatives hate,
Melbourne, Australia, 3121       You've got to be carefully taught."  R&H
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: k0s8160@chenext1.tamu.edu (Kenji Seto)
Subject: poster.tex (addendum)
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:54:06 GMT


Sorry, but we are having mail problem.
Please send any e-mail on the poster.tex
problem to 

k0s8160@chenext1.tamu.edu


and not ....@chenext5....

Thanks,  Kenji
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: crath@BNR.CA (Christopher Rath)
Subject: How to make a macro expand to nothing?
Keywords: macro latex tex
Reply-To: crath@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Woodline, Ottawa
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 21:30:15 GMT

I am using the following latex macro:

	\newcommand{\Ch}[2]{{#2}}

When used, it produces the following output from the given input:

	input:   This is \Ch{G}{a} sam\Ch{C}{ple.} \Ch{G}{}

	output:  This is a sample.

This works as expected except when the line is very long. If the last
word in a paragraph butts directly against the right margin, then
extra whitespace gets inserted after the paragraph.  I believe this is
because the final "\Ch{G}{}" macro (from the above example) is
actually taking up space instead of disappearing.

In the macro definition, the second parameter is enclosed in braces so
that any font changes remain local to the parameter.  Even if I remove
the extra braces around #2, an empty parameter appears to take up
space.

Can anyone help me out?  How do I make this macro disappear when the
second parameter is left empty?

Thanks,
Christopher
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From: DEA@HYDRA0.CALTECH.EDU (AUERBACH)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:44:01 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Dear Sir/madam,
              I have just bought Arbortext's microtex for PCs. I
have the following problem about which I told them. They said it was a TEX
problem and that I should ask you.

I am working on a book and find it easier (for editing reasons) to keep it
in one file than break it up into many. The method I have found easiest is
to define the various entries with \def\....{} and then use this when I
need it. This means that most of the TEXT is stored as a series of
definitions. Apparently microtex only allocates 65 Kb of space to
defintions.

How can I enlarge this value?

I do hope that you will either be able to help me or tell me who can.
                                   With thanks and waiting for your reply,
                                               David Auerbach
                        Thanking you in anticipation,
                                  David Auerbach
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee)
Subject: Re: Need help with verbatim.sty
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:27:26 GMT

hank@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:

>In article <jesse.712195075@square-crk>, jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee) writes:
>> I would like to use the verbatim.sty to input a file and typeset the file
>> in 8 or 9 points cmtt. But I do not know how to modify the \verbatim@font
>> and the \verbatiminput macros to define my own macros. Would someone
>> help me with that?

>Perhaps something as simple as
>  {\footnotesize \verbatiminput{filename} }
>will work, as the font is already set to tt.

>--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu

I tried it but it does not explicitly use cmtt8 or cmtt9. My main tex
file is using article style and 12pt option. 

Jesse Lee
jesse@cs.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gandalf@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Subject: Re: Setminus but not quite
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:41:44 GMT

[titan.rice.edu seems to have vanished from my name server tables]

What about setminus with a singleton? I don't see why we need a new
operator here. I haven't seen any in the literature, either.

--Juergen Wagner
J_Wagner@iao.fhg.de
gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann)
Subject: Re: macros for flow-diagrams
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:53:24 GMT

NASSFLOW is on shsu server, if I remember correctly.  I think that
it should do it.
  --mj
From: leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 17 Jul 92 22:17 MDT
Subject: Re: ligatures, kern pairs, and \relax
Nf-ID: #R:life.ai.mit.edu:25545:1992Jul17.141706.1@zodiac.rutger:1742244653:001:1318
Nf-From: zodiac.rutgers.edu!leichter    Jul 17 22:17:00 1992


In article <25545@life.ai.mit.edu>, bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
writes:
	Suppose there is a font that has a ligature --  ==>  endash

	Now suppose I have a keyboard that doesn't have a -, but does have a +
	key. So I decide to make + active and redefine it to generate the
	appropriate character code for minus, something like

	\catcode`\+=\active  \def+{\char45}

	Now I can type ++ and have it print endash, but...
	if a number follows the endash I am in trouble - for example:

	pp.~23++67

	`cause now TeX complains about bad character code since it expands
	into pp.~23\char4567  

	So I can add a \relax to the definition

	\catcode`\+=\active  \def+{\char45\relax}

	Now I don't get the complaint about bad character code, but the
	ligature doesn't work anymore!  What is the solution? (Assume that the
	character code of the desired character may actually be > 127, so that
	using the desired character in the definition isn`t an option).

Ligature substitution takes place very early, long before TeX can know the
\relax is a no-op.  For ligature substitution (or kerning) to take place, the
characters must be immediately adjacent.

There is, however, a simple way to do what you want.  Try:

	\def+{\char45 }

which works because a single space is discarded after a number.

							-- Jerry

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: moorthy@ferrari.cs.rpi.edu (Moorthy)
Subject: Three column text
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:44:18 GMT

I want to type-set only one page (we could it a figure) 
in three columns in a manuscript. Is this a well known problem, for
which solutions are known. Please email me your comments and solutions.
I will summarize the response.

Thanks,
Krishnamoorthy
(moorthy@cs.rpi.edu)
From: cupak@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 17 Jul 92 21:11 MDT
Subject: Exceeding TeX stack
Nf-ID: #N:1992Jul17.171158.27814@rapnet.sa:820358971:001:1119
Nf-From: rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com!cupak    Jul 17 21:11:00 1992


While processing my TeX files under VMS Version 5.3 on a 16Mb MicroVAX-II, 
I received the following dreaded message:

   This is TeX, Version 3.0 [PD VMS 3.2/DECUS]
   ...
   ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=200].
 
   Here is how much oof TeX's memory you used:

     422 strings out of 2326
     4861 string characters out of 28557
     43332 words of memory out of 327146
     2254 multiletter control sequences out of 5000
     20083 words of font info for 76 fonts, out of 50000 for 150
     14 hyphenation exceptions out of 503

     200i,15n,19p,227b,336s stack positions out of 200i,40n,60p,200b,1500s
     ...
     Output written...(53 pages, 73676 bytes)

I have partitioned the input into separate .tex files,
and use \input{foo} and \includeonly{...}, but still get the error
message!

Now what do I do? 
-- 
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From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: moving figures
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:37:15 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

On Mon, 27 Jul 92 10:27:58 MDT, Zdenek Wagner <WAGNER@CSEARN.BITNET> posted:

> I wrote a text in LaTeX using multicol.sty v1.3a dated <90/05/20> and
> doc.sty v1.7d dated <92/04/25>. However, the behaviour was the same with
> newdoc.sty. The file has the following form:
>.....
> \begin{multicols}{2}[\section{section name}]
> Some text
> 
> \begin{figure*}[hp]
> some figure definition commands
> \end{figure*}
> 
> some more text
> \end{multicols}
>.....
> I know that the figure takes the whole page so I would expect it on page 2.
> However, it is moved to the very end of the document. I tried different
> positioning options after \begin{figure*} (also no options) but the result
> was always the some.
> 
> Is there some way to put the figure on the page 2 without the necessity of
> making the adjustment manually?

I don't have the version of multicol you specify, but the newest (to my
knowledge, anyway) version of multicol.doc ( \fileversion{v1.3c},
\filedate{91/04/08}, \docdate {91/03/14}) states in its abstract:
> %   This article describes the use and the implementation of the {\sf
> %   multicols} environment. This environment allows switching between
> %   one and multicolumn format on the same page. Footnotes are handled
> %   correctly (for the most part), but will be placed at the bottom of
> %   the page and not under each column.  \LaTeX{}'s float mechanism,
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> %   however, is partly disabled in the current implementation and will
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> %   be added in a later version. At the moment only floats contributed

      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> %   outside the scope of the environment will find their way into the
> %   actual output.

What seems to happen in the multicolumn mode is exactly what you report --
the floats are processed, if at all, and put at the end.  I have
successfully used \end{multicols} \begin{float} .... \end{float}
\begin{multicols} a few times and gotten away with it -- however, this only
works for full-page floats in my experiments.  Hopefully, Frank or Rainer
or someone else with more experience in this area will respond (probably
after the TUG meetings, though).

Regards,   George
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: strick@mamura.ee.mu.oz.au (Larry Strickland)
Subject: subscripts
Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne 
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:08:09 GMT

I was wondering whether anybody could help me with the following
problem.  I am writing up a PhD thesis which is getting fairly large,
and as a result I am running out of parameter space.  The problem arose
when I tried to convert my subscripts to non-italicized letters.  That is
rather than use $t_{start}$ I used $t_{\mbox{\scriptsize start}}$. 

Can any body give me a fix.  I see two possible solutions;  one increase
the parameter space, however, since the problem seams to occur early in
the run this may not be practical; or maybe there is another way of
making non-italic subscripts that doesn't chew up the parameter space.

The error also seems to occur when the above appears in a figure
caption.  Could that be a problem?  I'm not exactly sure but it looks
like the problem occurs when the lof file is written to. I performed the 
function by using a \newcommand ie:
\newcommand{\subs}[1]{{\mbox{\scriptsize #1}}}
Does this need to be protected in some way?  

Any replies would be appreciated by email.  Since I am witting up I find
I spend less time reading news. (email strick@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au)

Cheers Larry
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jcgehin@athena.mit.edu (Jess C Gehin)
Subject: Help with tables
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:00:25 GMT

I am having two problems producing tables in LaTeX:

   1. How do I produce columes of the same width?

      I have tried using the p{} column specifier but
      then all of my table entries are left justified.


   2. How do I produce footnotes in my table?

      I tried to produce the table in a minipage
      environment but the then the placement of the
      tables and captions were screwed up (I'm trying
      to center the table).


Any help with these problems would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Jess
From: treinen@dfki.uni-sb.de (Ralf Treinen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX: how to force two figures onto the same (floating) page?
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:24:42 GMT
Organization: DFKI - German Research Center for AI

In article <FRITZZ.92Jul30154520@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu>, fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:

|> 
|> In words, I'd like to float the two figures together. I want to have
|> two figure, because I want seperate captions and labels.
|> 

A quick solution (but this will of course apply to all of your document) is to
increase the fraction of a page that might be used for a figure:

\def\textfraction{.01}
\def\topfraction{.99}

Ralf.

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From: hm341ne@uni-duisburg.de (Thomas Neumann)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: MusicTeX fonts
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:50:03 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Duisburg

Why not calculate them?? (METAFONT!!)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker)
Subject: LaTeX: how to force two figures onto the same (floating) page?
Originator: fritzz@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, New
	York
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:45:20 GMT


Hi there,

in LaTeX, I'd like to do something like the following:


\begin{samepage}

  \begin{figure}
	\caption{Bla bla 1}
	\label{fig1}
  \end{figure}

  \begin{figure}
	\caption{Bla bla 2}
	\label{fig2}
  \end{figure}

\end{samepage}

In words, I'd like to float the two figures together. I want to have
two figure, because I want seperate captions and labels.

The above construct doesn't give an error, but the figures don't
necessarily stoick together either.

Any solutions?

Thanks,
Fritz
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