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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Looking for a Bibtex .BST format.
From: osherson@uni2a.unige.ch
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:38:38 +0200
Reply-To: EFiesler@IDIAP.CH
Followup-To: EFiesler@IDIAP.CH
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Keywords: Bibtex style file, .bst-format

Dear Bibtex experts,

    I am looking for a Bibtex ".bst" format that will print references in
the form:

1. Last name of the first author (or editor), concatenated with
2. a dash, concatenated with
3. the last two digits of the year of publication;
   plus in case of duplicate labels (same last name & same year):
4. a period, concatenated with
5. an ordinal number (1, 2, 3, ...)

For example:

    [Einstein-92]
    [Jones-88.2]

    The closest I have found (in several TeX archives) is a shell script
called "makebst.sh", which is supposed to create a format called "long",
which is close to what I described above, but without the dash and the
extensions.  Unfortunately, after creating and using "long.bst", it gives
long lists of error messages like:

1 is an integer literal, not a function, for entry Einstein-92
while executing---line 721 of file long.bst

which seems like a bug to me, since it works fine for the standard ".bst's".
Besides that, I prefer the order of the entries in the references themselves
to be the same order as they are listed in the ".bib" files in question.

In case the order has to be "hard coded", this is the order I prefer:

@InProceedings{label-99.1,
%       Key          = "",
        Author       = "",
        Title        = "",
        Journal      = "",
        Special      = "",
        Type         = "",
        BookTitle    = "",
        Editor       = "",
        Edition      = "",
        Series       = "",
        Volume       = "",
        Number       = "",
        Chapter      = "",
        Pages        = "",
        School       = "", 
        Organization = "",
%       Location     = "",
%       Dates        = "",
        Institution  = "",
        Publisher    = "",
        Address      = "",
        Month        = "",
        Year         = "",
%       IEEECN       = "",
%       LoCN         = "",
%       ISBN         = "",
%       ISSN         = "",
%       Language     = "",
        HowPublished = "",
        Annote       = "",
        Note         = "" }

Since I have no experience with Bibtex programming, digging into the
code was to no avail. I am therefore asking for your help.
    Thanking you in advance,
					E. Fiesler

					EFiesler@IDIAP.CH


P.S. I have also looked in the TeX-index, but no ".bst" seems close enough.
From: ep@id.dth.dk (Erik Plesner)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Forcing floats to be printed
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:48:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science

jsmith@mcs.drexel.edu (Justin Smith) writes:

>Is there a command or procedure in LaTeX to force all pending floats to
>be printed immediately?  I know this happens at the end of the document,
>but I would like to be able to do this at the end of a section of
>a document.

\clearpage

Refer to the LaTeX manual, page 192.

Kind regards

Erik Plesner (ep@id.dth.dk)
M.Sc., Research Engineer, Technical University of Denmark
From: hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX too small, what now? <Solution>
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:25:10 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In article <Brr3As.J8z@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) writes:
>When I include a large postscript file TeX (LaTeX) complains . . .
>
>Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=3000
>Please ask a wizard to enlarge me.
>
>What need to be done?  . . .
>
>John Hudson
>Chemical Engineering

Thanks to the many who replied either here or by mail.  As most of you 
pointed out, the problem is that unix expects lines to end with a \cr\lf
combo while pc's generally output only the \lf in order to make text 
processing done more easily.

In my case, the epsf file (included into TeX by epsf and psfig, btw) was
generated on a Mac.  My solution (a painful one) was to use ResEdit to 
change the file type from EPSF to TEXT.  I then used MSWord or other to read 
in the file and save as Text with Line Breaks (making sure that the lines 
are not broken before the \lf).  

btw, I looked at dos2unix available on wuarchive, but it seemed to only 
_remove_ the \lf not replace it with \cr\lf.  Also, Fetch (ftp program for
macs) has a nice feature in tranferring text files called 'Wrapped Text'
which breaks long lines.  The only problem with this approach is that long
comment lines (yes, some are more than 255 chars!) are cut and the ps 
interpretter thinks the part that is cut as a new line is postscript.

I am still looking for a better solution -- may hack the dos2unix.c source.
It would be worth it for the number of these figures I need to do.

Thanks again for the response.

John Hudson
From: me@four.ucdavis.edu (amhastings@ucdavis.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Style for Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:55:29 GMT
Reply-To: me@four.ucdavis.edu
Organization: U C DAVIS

In article 3392@mcs.drexel.edu, jsmith@mcs.drexel.edu (Justin Smith) writes:
> Is there a style for Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Mathematics
> (perhaps from Springer themselves)? They have special requirements 
> for the size of the text-area of the pages, and I am curious as to
> whether anyone has worked out a comprehensive style for these 
> publications. Simply setting the \textheight and \textwidth in LaTeX
> to their values produces horrible results. In addition their 
> 'svsa.sty' sheets do not seem to be appropriate.
> -- 
> Justin R. Smith
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Drexel University
> Philadelphia, PA 19104                    (215) 895-1847

Try:
If you need help please call
the adviser for authors writing their book in \TeX, LaTeX and AmSTeX:
        Urda Beiglbock tel: West-Germany  06221 / 487478
        Please call in the mornings between 9.00 and  13.00.
        FAX: 06221 / 43982 or 487366
!!!    internet: ubeigl@spint.compuserve.com

There is a complete set of files, etc.

Alan Hastings
amhastings@ucdavis.edu
From: wetmore@toadflax.UCDavis.EDU (Brad)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: macros for {flow-diagrams, *}
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:14:13 GMT
Reply-To: wetmore@cs.ucdavis.edu
Organization: UC Davis - Department of Computer Science

In article <2623.109.uupcb@ssr.com>, 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.

Check the \TeX Index.  You will usually find whatever you are looking
for in there.  I don't know how I would get along without it.
David M. Jones, thanks where ever you are.

>Name: flowchart.sty
>Description: LaTeX document-style option which might be useful for
>    drawing flow charts.
>Keywords: LaTeX
>Author: David Chase <dchase@eng.sun.com>
>Supported: ???
>Latest Version: 24 Oct 1988
>Archives: ymir

p.s.  ymir is ymir.claremont.edu

   /
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   \    Help!!!  I've been robbed.  Someone stole my .sig, and sold 
	it back at the UCD used .sigstore.
Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:9499 comp.windows.ms:17991
From: ddb@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Darren Brierton)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.windows.ms
Subject: (La)TeX for windows
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:08:08 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK


Could anybody who has used Scientific Word by TCI Software Research or
TurboTeX for windows by the Kinch Computer Co please send me their
opinions on these products?

Darren.


-- 
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Centre for Cognitive Science,		| Fax: +44 31 650 4587
University of Edinburgh,		|
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From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to ask in TeX whether a TFM exists?
Date: 26 Jul 92 09:41:06 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

In Thomas Leathrum's very handy "mfpic" package, I'd like to test for
the prior existence of a "\graph" font's TFM file, "foo.tfm".  If it
doesn't exist, then I'd like to set the "\graph" font to "dummy.tfm".

The original macros contain the code

    \font\graph=#1

where #1 is replaced by "foo".  (Trust me, it is.)

Later \graph is used as follows

    {\graph \char\code}

The purpose of running TeX is at first to output code to a Metafont
file, so that "foo.mf" can be created.  So, in the first run of TeX,
"foo.tfm" doesn't exist yet, so TeX (C version 3.0) _hangs_.  (Isn't
that a bug?  Don?  Karl?)

So I tried the following to substitute "dummy" for "foo" if the latter
is absent:

    \openin\tfmfile=#1.tfm%
    \ifeof\tfmfile\font\graph=dummy%
    \else\font\graph=#1\fi%
    \closein\tfmfile

Works great when "foo.tfm" is absent,
but still loads "dummy.tfm" when "foo.tfm" is present!

Once I've got "foo.tfm", the original "\font\graph=#1" loads "foo.tfm",
so I'm puzzled!

I knew that `The TeXbook' says that "\immediate" is needed in such
situations for "\openout", but that it doesn't say so for "\openin".
But I know that finding info in `The TeXbook' is like looking for a
needle in a haystack, so I tried it all the same:

    \immediate\openin\tfmfile=#1.tfm%

etc.  Still fails.

Hmm, maybe TeX's "\ifeof" thinks that every _binary_ file is always
at "eof".  True or false?

So how does the poor user ask TeX to check whether a (TFM) file
exists?

Also, is there a way to ask TeX to check whether a character with a
particular _code_ is present in a (TFM) font file?

Alternatively, is there some other way to rewrite Thomas Leathrum's
"mfpic.tex" macros so that they _reliably_ (mark that word) tell TeX
to ignore the "\graph" font in the first run, but to use it in the
second run?

Yes, we can write two different copies of "mfpic.tex", one for the
first run, one for the second.  Another `dodge' is to copy "dummy.tfm"
or some other font to the name of "foo.tfm", which will be overwritten
by Metafont in time for the second run of TeX.  But, somehow, dodges
don't appeal.  Also, in the long run, an accumulation of dodges make
a system unusable.

Someone please be kind enough to help, sehr bitte, s'il vous plait.

Muchas Gracias! (sp?)
(Hope the gentle readers are not all at Barcelona!)

Geoffrey Tobin
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: Changing baselinestretch
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:00:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.170612.1770@ee.gatech.edu>, mjb@eecom.gatech.edu (Michael Bartz) writes...
>Can the baselinestretch be changed between different values within one
>document?  In other words can Section 1 be double-spaced but Section 2 be
>single-spaced?  I have tried several attempts with renewcommand with no
>success.  Thanks.

Yes, but each paragraph has a single baselinestretch.  However, there is
an arcane incantation needed before the changed baselinestretch has any
effect:

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.333}\tiny\normalsize

\baselinestretch isn't checked until there is a font change, but just
\normalsize isn't enough because LaTeX is "smart" enough to see that that
isn't a real change (if you are already at normal size).

I think this is in the TeX FAQ sheet.

Donald Arseneau          asnd@reg.triumf.ca

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf)
Subject: Re: When will Latex 3 be ready ?
Reply-To: Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de
Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:03:33 GMT

In article <1992Jul10.130748.18428@prl.philips.nl> schiller@prl.philips.nl (schiller c) writes:

   When will the new Latex 3 come out ? Is it worth waiting 
   with writing style files until it happens ?

Well, you probably know the standard answer to this kind of question:
always two years from now :-)

Seriously: the project is pretty well within schedule, and two years
from now till release is our estimate. But this relies heavily on the
support we will be getting in the future. I don't necessarily mean
financial support, although this is an important issue as well. We
have prepared a list of supplimentary tasks that need to be done for
the completion of the project. These tasks are of different kinds,
from programming to finding out what people use and need in certain
areas and writing a report about it.

The organisation for this is being set up at the moment; anyone
interested should contact Michael Downes <MJD@MATH.AMS.COM>. (Perhaps
not immediately; remember that the TUG annual meeting takes place in
these days.)

Rainer Sch"opf
LaTeX3 project
--

   Rainer Schoepf
   Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum                       ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn
    fuer Informationstechnik Berlin            sich die Dinge so frueh
   Heilbronner Strasse 10                      am Morgen schon so
   W-1000 Berlin 31                            dynamisch entwickeln!''
   Federal Republic of Germany
   <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de>
From: dlv@dm.com (Dimitri Vulis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Serbian & TeX
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:45:06 GMT
Organization: D&M Consulting Services, Inc., Forest Hills, New York, U.S.A.
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

info-tex@SHSU.edu
Re: Serbian TeX
Michael Barr writes:
>              Moreover, a Serbian alphabet is not the same as the Cyrillic
>alphabet.  There are a few Cyrillic characters it doesn't use and there
>letters not found in Cyrillic.

To remind ourselves some commonly used terminology:

A typeface is called 'Russian' if it includes the 32 Russian letters (and if
it includes it's even better :).

A typeface is called 'Cyrillic' if it includes the Russian letters _as well as_
the Cyrillic letters used in Serbian (e.g., chje, lje), Ukrainian (e.g., yi,
rounded ye), and Macedonian (e.g., gje, kje).

There are plenty of Cyrillic letters that Serbian doesn't use, but all the
letters used in it are, by definition, Cyrillic (but not necessarily used in
Russian!).

Thus, WNCY*, developed by Tom Ridgeway at U Wash, are Cyrillic, because they
include Serbian and Ukrainian characters. The CMCYR* family developed by
Alexander Samarin & Nana Gonti at IHEP is Russian-only, as are a few other
commercially available Russian typefaces I've seen (none worth the $$$ asked).

There are differences in the traditional italic forms of a few letters common
to Russian and Serbian (g, t, p, etc): the Russian forms are more cursive and
the Serbian forms are just slanted. WNCYI* has only the Russian forms.

There was an article in TUGBoat a while back describing Serbocroatian
hyphenation ppatterns; I suspect they were geared toward Croatian writing.

A really useful Cyrillic typeface would also include some obsolete letters
(like yat', fita, & izhitsa used in Russian before 1918; I need them and WNCY*
have them, and there are many more obsolete letters that some folks I know
could use) and the extra letters used in non-Slavic languages whose
writing is Cyrillic-based (like Mongol, Tatar, and Uzbek; there's a list of
those and I've been begging Tom Ridgeway literally for years to add them :).
TeX would be a terrific tool for processing these curious languages.
--
Dimitri Vulis       DLV@DM.COM

"Glokaya kuzdra buldanula bokra i buldachit bokryonka."
From: jcn@rice.edu (Jeff C. Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: suppressing section numbers in LaTex
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:55:28 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas

I couldn't find this question in the FAQ so here goes.

Is there a way to suppress the numbers that are generted in the 
\documentstyle{article} when you use the \section{} command?

I.e. I would like to have sections and subsections but without the 
numbers associated with them.

Please e-mail any responses as our news server hasn't been working 
very well lately.


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jmadow@juliet.caltech.edu (Madow, Jessica)
Subject: fontsizing problem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:40:00 GMT

Hello.  I've been typing mathematics in TeX for a couple years and have not
yet found a way to use various characters from different font families so
that they automatically adjust their size in context.  The following example
will help illustrate my problem:

  I try to use what the AMS refers to as a \Bbb G, in plain TeX (uTeX v3.1a),
without inputting the AMS macros.  I define the font, say \msbm=\msbm10 and
use \magnification=1200.  I need to use the character in both full and
superscript sizes.
   1.  {\msbm\char'107}             gives the expected \Bbb G in 12pt
   2.  $\msbm\char'107$             gives a regular math mode G, that is, a
                                       slanted G in 12pt
   3.  $2^{\msbm\char'107}$         gives 2 with math mode G superscript (the
                                       latter is slanted and proper sized for
                                       a superscript)
   4.  $\hbox{\msbm\char'107}$      gives the expected \Bbb G - 12pt
   5.  2^{$\hbox{\msbm\char'107}}$  gives 2 with \Bbb G in superscript
                                       position, but 12pt

  If I do 1-3 above with regular roman font, that is use \rm\char'107 I can
get "proper" G's and superscript-size.  (4 & 5 of course yield enlarged
superscripts due to the \hbox).  In the past, I've defined different fonts
at the beginning of the papers, i.e., \msbm=\msbm10, \msbn=\msbm8, etc., and
referenced them at appropriate places.  Now I'm facing a book, with unknown
end magnification, and will use many different characters from different font
groups at many different sizes. (And, of course, I spend LOTS of time
in math mode.)  Is there any way to get TeX to treat these other characters
the way it treats roman ones?  Sigh....
   Any help GREATLY appreciated.

            --jessica m.
From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: And the fontname with |R and |N is ...
Keywords: real, natural
Date: 23 Jul 92 06:11:51 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

In AMSFonts 2.1  (e-math.ams.com, and shadows)

    msbm

Geoffrey Tobin
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: robertb@tarski.mit.edu (Robert Becker)
Subject: Windows / OS/2 previewers (was Re: Scientific Word)
Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 13:28:51 GMT


Oddly enough, I have found three program sets to be very useful:

	Under OS/2 I use the emtex package's texp.exe to create
	dvi files.

	I use either dvimswin.exe for preview or
		Y&Y's DviWindo (works very well, no need for .pk files)

	I run the editor in one window (Freemacs), shell out and
	run texp, and then have DviWindo running as well.

	Under Windows, I use either of the above two previewers along
		with the 8086 version of emtex's tex program.

	Granted, I use a 486/33, so speed isn't really a problem here.

-- 

---------------
Robert Becker, Secretary, 2-332      Dept. of Mathematics, MIT
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307            (617)253-1797
From: dak@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Where is (1in, 1in) specified?
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:52:20 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen

cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith) writes:

>I once said I didn't want to read Volume B of the Computers
>and Typesetting series (TeX: The Program), and that I was waiting
>for the movie to come out.  Well, I take it back.  I have long
>wondered why the reference point for DVI files, instead of being
>at the upper left corner of the page, is 1 inch down and 1 inch
>in from the corner.  I finally resolved to go to the library and
>check out the source and find out.

>  the standard convention for output on normal size paper is
>  to position each page so that the upper left-hand corner is
>  exactly one inch from the left and the top

>It does not say (in that section at least) *why* this is the
>convention, or what in the DVI file (if anything) specifies this,
That is the recommendation you should adhere to if you write a DVI
driver or viewer, simply because everybody else does it that way,
because Knuth recommends it in order that everything looks the same.

It has no compelling reason other that everybody else does it that way
and that standard formats adhere to that convention.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: pcjg7045@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Pramod C. John)
Subject: Pagination problems and problems with LOF and LOT 
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:42:20 GMT

HI,
	I have been trying to do my thesis on LaTeX (emtex on PC).  I have been 
having some problems with the pagination of the intro pages.  The page numbers
are always off by +1.  Another problem I have been having is trying to get the
LOF and LOT to put in my figure and table entries.  The TOC works fine but not
the LOF and LOT.
-- 
Pramod John, Dept. of ECE at UIUC 
email: Pramod@uiuc.edu
"Blessed are the peacemakers"- Jesus Christ
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: pierre@diku.dk (Christian Schytt)
Subject: pstricks: where is tvz@Princeton.EDU ?!
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:22:06 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

I have desperately tried to get in touch with tvz@Princeton.EDU
supposedly the e-mail address of the author of the pstricks TeX
package. So, with no alternatives, I turn to comp.text.tex.

I am calling to comment on the PSTRICKS package, v0.91.

The package is GREAT, and I'm gonna use it a lot --- no question about
that!

The installation of PSTRICKS went smoothly. I used

	dvips, version 5.41 (C) 1986-90 Radical Eye Software

to convert the dvi/\special output into postscript. I have tried a few
things out and printed the manual. Everything seems to work right,
except...

I have some diagrams that vary in size, pretty much so, and I would
like to clip the \pspicture environment (I use LaTeX).

So, I replaced the \pspicture command used with \pspicture* and got
the following TeX error dump as a consequence:

 --------------

! Undefined control sequence.
\@clipbox ...er \wd #1 \tx@ClipBox }\box \pst@box
                                                  }
\endpspicture ...boxa =\hbox {\@clipbox \pst@boxa
                                                  }\fi \ifx \pst@tempa \@emp...
l.23 \endpspicture
                  *
?
 --------------

OK, something seems to go wrong and therefore I tried some other
clippings:

I could get your page 42 example up and running without any problems,
but when I tried another self-made example, I failed to get any
clipping done. In

---------------

\begin{center}
\psclip{\psframe(0,0)(2,2)}
\psline(0,0)(4,-4)
\endpsclip
\end{center}

---------------

I would have thought that the \psline was clipped to
the \psframe bounds, but that is not the case.

What have I missed ?


With thanks for a great TeX product and in the hope that you can help
me out,

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From: sh2v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen Hathorne)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dostex problems
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:27:02 GMT
Organization: Statistics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



Hello-

I got a copy of dostex from wuarchive.wustl.edu. I installed this for
a friend, it did not install properly it complained about not enough
disk space, (the program requires 4.5 meg), My friend has a 205
meg hard drive, and only 4.5 meg is full. Does anyone have any
idea about the problem.

it is a 486/50P
Dell pc clone.

Please respond directly via email

thanks in advance for your help.


Stephen Hathorne