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From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: Hunter Goatley's fine NEWSLETTER_FORMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:08:45 GMT

seeta@eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju UdayaBhaskar Sarma) writes:

...
>How do I shrink an included postscript file, so that ``it fits''...

What I usually do is to edit the PostScript file and add the following line
somehere at the begining of the file, after a bunch of %%

%!
%%BoundingBox: a b c d
%% lots of lines started with %%
...
%%
0.5 0.5 scale

That will scale it 50 %. The only problem now, the "BoundingBox" number
is not right.
Use a program called "bbfig" to find the correct "BoundingBox" numbers
and replace "a", "b", "c", "d" with the numbers from the output of
bbfig.


Now inside the text, this is what I usually do :

\begin{figure}[htb]
\centerline{\psfig{figure=filename.ps}}
\caption{Nice figure}
\end{figure}

Hope this could help.

-- budi
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mfreid@hkuxa.hku.hk (Mike Reid)
Subject: Re: Variable-sized \int ?
Organization: The University of Hong Kong
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:25:48 GMT

Hua Yang x2538 (hyang@pion.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: Hope this is not a FAQ. Is there a way to make the \int symbol variable in 
: size? I want something similar to \left( or \right) which can change size 
: vertically according to the formula behind (or before) it. 

It's my understanding this is a rule of math typesetting. i.e. \int and
\sum do NOT change size in properly set books, and therefore don't
change size in TeX. One of the nice things about TeX is that it knows
the rules, thus preventing the user from making a mistake. 

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From: crcc6@Rosie.UH.EDU (Message from the Starship Enterprise)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How hard is to install TeX
Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:18:03 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Reply-To: crcc6@Rosie.UH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu


  Hello TeX People

     I bet a lot of you have a lot of experience installing TeX. Do you have
any recommendations ? I'm planning to get the latest version of TeX and I'm
trying to convince my chairman that I can install it with not a lot of
difficulty - Our computer is a Vax/VMS. I never done any project of this sort
before, as I'm always been a 'plain ol' user. Any input anybody ???



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From: pak@cs.ucsd.edu (Suehee Pak)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: A simple question about postscript files in LaTeX: upside down?
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:50:23 GMT
Organization: =CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego

One more LaTeX question.
I succesfully imported PostScript files into my LaTeX paper
with one problem. It is

I want ___________   this shape
       |   ^     |
       |   |     |
       |         |
       ----------- 

but the results look  ____   
                     |     |
                     |     |
                     | <-- |  ROTATED.
                     |     |
                      ------
or  ________________
   |               |
   |       |       |   UPSIDE DOWN.
   |       v       |
   |               |
   -----------------  . 

That is, they are rotated and upside down. 
How can I  correct it?

Thank you very much for your help in advance.
From: asnd@erich.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Also: LaTeX, twocolumn, wide tables
Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:33 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1js2ufINNcue@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, dulimart@pixel.cps.msu.edu 
(Hansye S. Dulimarta) writes Re: wide tables in LaTeX twocolumn...
> 
>I'm also interested in knowing how to do this. So please, respond to the
>newsgroup. 

There are two easy solutions.  

1) If you need the tables to appear in the text, get the multicols package
from an archive.  Put [multicol] in as a documentstyle option, and switch
between 1 and 2 columns at will; even in the middle of a page.

OR

2) For tables that float, Use {table*}, which fills the whole page width.
See Lamport's book.

These solutions are mutually exclusive because multicols does not support 
full width floats.

Donald
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: smith@minerva.harvard.edu (Steven Smith)
Subject: Re: Super/subscripts -- what formula does TeX use to position?
Organization: Harvard Robotics Lab, Harvard University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:38:46 GMT

bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:

> > kelley@cs.dal.ca (Dan Kelley) writes:
> > 
> > I need to know the formula used by TeX to position superscripts and
> > subscripts.
> 
> See `TeX: The Program' by D.E. Knuth.

The algorithms are also described in a (slightly) less abstruse
reference: Appendix G of The TeXbook.

Steven Smith
From: parkes@uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help with LucidaMath fonts
Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:25:43 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
              University of Illinois
Distribution: world
Reply-To: parkes@uiuc.edu
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In article <1jrgc9INNoo7@life.ai.mit.edu>,
bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:

|> Life is MUCH easier if you get instead the Lucida New Math fonts from Y&Y.

Be aware that Y&Y, unlike Adobe, licenses fonts for displays and printers;
Adobe licenses for printers only and their fonts can be used on any number of
displays.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hebert@lusignan.inra.fr (Yannick Hebert)
Subject: GNUPLOT ftp-site ? 
Reply-To: hebert@lusignan.inra.fr (Yannick Hebert)
Organization: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:45:40 GMT


I am looking for gnuplot for use on a SUN 4/60 server. Could I have
informations on the ftp-sites it is available on ?

Thanks in advance.



- Y. Hebert -
From: arrigo@cube.sublink.org (Arrigo Benedetti)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Unwanted bottom margin in first page (LaTeX)-Please HELP!!!
Date: 14 Jan 93 13:29:12 GMT
Reply-To: arrigo@cube.sublink.org
Organization: Arrigo Benedetti

In article <1993Jan13.212946.423@cube.sublink.org> arrigo@cube.sublink.org  
(Arrigo Benedetti) writes:
> Hello folks.
> 
> Does anyone know how to remove the extra white space that LaTeX
> puts at the bottom of the first page of every document? We need
> to solve this problem as we're writing an abstract that must fit
> into 2 pages. Please send any reply to this address:
> 
> benedett@deis01.cineca.it
> 
> I will summarize any reply.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Arrigo
I forgot to mention that this happens with the article style.

-Arrigo
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From: moreaux@litsun22.epfl.ch (Michel Moreaux)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:50:25 GMT
Organization: Laboratoire d'informatique technique
In-reply-to: jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 25 Jan 93 14:23:49 GMT


OzTeX has a multi-language extension called Euro-OzTex allowing hyphenation of
most "non-english" languages. For instance, Euro-OzTeX allows to write in 
Greek, French, German and even Russian. Maybe that sounds useless for you, but
for me, European people speaking different languages, it is very important.
I think it is very sad that the basic "TeX" has be developped only thinking of
english. Really poor design (please no flame) ! Our Unix version of LaTeX
required some patches in order to allow hyphenation of words containing 
characters encoded on 8 bits. I do not know if TeXture allows hyphenation of
"non-english" languages.

_Michel Moreaux

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From: ky04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KUN YU)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to view a page with Ghostscript?
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:51:44 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I want to view a document page by page or go to a specific page on 
workstation. If I use 
	gs file.ps
I only see page 1. If I use 
	cat file.ps | gs -
it scans all the pages too fast non-stop.
How can I control the page output?
-- 



                            
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman)
Subject: Re: need help in dvips (dos-version)
Reply-To: dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:49:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.203659.19059@leland.Stanford.EDU>, ruediger@leland.Stanford.EDU (ruediger dung) writes:

|> I'm using EMTeX which works fine on my PC.
|> I've also installed the dos-version of DVIPS.
|> Using the command 'dvidrv dvips foo[.dvi]' leads
|> only to the remark that this command is not known.

I was puzzled by this also.  I suspect that this command is an error in the
documentation for dvips, as the dvidrv package has dviscr.exe, dvidot.exe,
etc., but no dvidrv.exe.  Can someone clarify what was meant in the
documentation?  I run dvips in order to generate the dvips.mfj file, then
run "mfjob dvips" to generate any needed fonts, and finally run "dviscr" to
preview the dvi file.  I suspect that there is an easier way!

Dave Beeman - dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu
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From: burra@eesun1.ee.ttu.edu (Gangadhar Burra)
Subject: Posting distribution
Organization: Texas Tech University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:00:36 GMT
Reply-To: burra@eesun1.ee.ttu.edu
X-Posted-From: eesun1.ee.ttu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Hello,

I usually read the newsgroup comp.text.tex on our machine hydra.acs.ttu.edu. I wanted
to ask the group some questions and so I used our machine to write the post. The problem
is that it showed up on our machine but when I looked at the group using sol.ctr.columbia.edu,
I could never find it even though I specified the distribution to be world. Can somebody
help me out in this matter?

Thanks
Gangadhar Burra

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From: fea@ornl.gov (FREELS J D)
Subject: Request for dvi2lj4
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:03:53 GMT



Is there available a dvi-to-HP laser jet 4, i.e., dvi2lj4, to
execute on DOS machines.  This dvi2lj4 would also take advantage of
all the features of the lj4 including 600 dpi and preloaded fonts.
Where could this be obtained along with related font files and


Thx in advance

J. D. Freels
fea.rrd.ornl.gov
128.219.17.49
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: aet@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (bert thompson)
Subject: TWO ACCENTS ON A LETTER: HOW?
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:24:56 GMT


hi!

could someone please tell me how i'd put two accents on 
a single letter in latex.

i have tried:

	n\u{\"{u}}

but latex put only the umlaut on the letter: the breve was
placed immediately before the u.

note that the breve should be on top of the umlaut on the u.

thanks for any help,

	bert.

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From: mclean@math.tamu.edu (Robert Mclean)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:45:46 GMT
Organization: Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: math.tamu.edu

One advantage of OzTeX is that it is "standard" TeX, meaning if one wants
to grab fonts from the local main frame, one can. Also, one can configure
it much more extensively. 

robert mclean
tamu
From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Pictures in LaTeX in the 90's
Keywords: LaTeX, pictures, postscript, fig, PK, bm2font, mfpic.
Date: 28 Jan 93 06:44:43 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

>spiff@math.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:

>-+>what is the latest on getting diagrams into LaTeX?  I remember using
>-+>figs before and converting them using fig2latex.  Is fig2latex still
>-+>around ftp-able from somewhere?  Is including postscript files inside
>-+>LaTeX documents now more reliable?  

For PS figures, I currently use psfig 1.9 and Rokicki's dvips.

fig2latex is part of Transfig by Micah Beck, now maintained by Brian
V. Smith.

For non-PostScript printers, PK fonts are useful to hold bitmap
pictures.

bm2font is a C program by Friedhelm Sowa for converting bitmaps to PK
fonts.

mfpic 0.2 by Thomas Leathrum draws PK pictures using MetaFont.

fig2mfpic (under development; testers are welcome) is a C program to
convert fig code to mfpic.

Think drawing and figure inclusion merits an FAQ file of its own.

In the meantime, you can obtain the available FAQ files by ftp:

    ftp niord.shsu.edu
    cd faq

or by email:

    mail fileserv@shsu.edu
    sendme FAQ

Geoffrey Tobin
From: dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help with LucidaMath fonts
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:33:23 GMT
Organization: Information Systems Engineering Grp, JPL
NNTP-Posting-Host: chip.jpl.nasa.gov

To follow up on my own post, yes I am using Lucida with Unix and dvips.  I
was able to find Karl Berry's work on ftp.cs.umb.edu, in the file
lucida-1.2.tar.Z (don't remember the directory, proabaly pub/tex).  Looks
like this will to the trick.

Thanks to all!
From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Variable-sized \int ?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:23:00 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: kauai.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: hyang@pion.rutgers.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 02:10:47 GMT


In article <Jan.25.21.10.46.1993.19546@pion.rutgers.edu> hyang@pion.rutgers.edu (Hua Yang x2538) writes:

   Hope this is not a FAQ. Is there a way to make the \int symbol variable in 
   size? I want something similar to \left( or \right) which can change size 
   vertically according to the formula behind (or before) it. 

There is an extensible integral in LucidaNewMath-Extension.  It's not quite
as simple as you might expect, since \int is not a delimiter,
and wants to be able to take limits...

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: A8131DAL@vm.univie.ac.at (Peter Schmitt)
Subject: Re: what use is a scaled point?
Organization: University of Vienna
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:14:14 GMT

> From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
> Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:59 PST
>
> >>From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn)
> >>\divide\lines by\baselineskip
> >>
> >>and you have the approximate number of lines in the box, because the
> >>calculations were done in sp's.
> >>
> >
> >Sorry, but I don't see what this has to do with the fact that TeX
> >internally calculates in sp:
> >height+depth / height of line
> >will always give the number of lines (approximately, if lines are
> >not fixed spaced) - regardless of the length unit used.
>
> Yes it gives a number (integer).  But it is in a length register.
> So what length is it??  If the number is 5, the length is 5sp.
>
> Continuing, if you want to subsequently set \lines to have a minimum
> value of 2,
>   \ifnum\lines<2 \lines=2sp \fi
>
> If you want to increment the line count,
>   \advance \lines 2sp
>
> Donald
>
Just in order to complete the discussion of this topic:
Yes, I overlooked that the result of the division is in a dimension
register (I just calculated length divided by length is a dimensionless
number)

Nevertheless, in essence my statement is true:
-- a dimen-counter may be used in the context of a number:
      ifnumdimen0=2  (e.g.)
-- and by setting count0=dimen0 you may transform the dimension to
   a number
(otherwise it would be complicated --- though possible --- to
extract the number of lines)

Peter
From: edgar@math.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:46:56 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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In article <EIJKHOUT.93Jan26121248@cupid.cs.utk.edu> eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>In article <ROLFL.93Jan26102735@ulrik.uio.no> rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
>
>   It's a drawback that there's no simple way to convert bitmap (pk) fonts
>   to Textures fonts.
>
>Is there really a Textures font format, or is that just general Macintosh?
>In that case it is somewhat amazing that no one has written a convertor.

The converter (pktor) that I wrote many years ago is far from ideal.

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From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: TeX-based music notation program query
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:55:25 CST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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This really isn't an answer, but...... In
<1993Jan24.194759.22708@en.ecn.purdue.edu> (comp.text.tex, 24 Jan 93
19:47:59 GMT), John M Davison <davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu> posted:
> Would someone please either post or send me some information regarding the
> variety and availability of public-domain TeX-based musical notation
> software?  The only programs of which I am currently aware are Glenn Lewis'
> (glewis@fws204.intel.com, glewis@pcocd2.intel.com) SMUS2TeX program and
> Daniel Taupin's (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides) MusicTeX, and I
> haven't had any experience with either.  Help!

I was checking a few archives last Friday to see if SHSU was out of synch
with some of the authoritative archives it attempts to mirror.  Sure
enough, there was an update to MusicTeX sitting there (now at verison
4.91).  I have placed the ZIP file in [FILESERV.MUSICTEX] on Niord.SHSU.edu
(192.92.115.8) for anonymous ftp retrieval and have UUENCODEd the file and
split it into 13 mailable parts which can be retrieved by including:
 SENDME MUSICTEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
There are some sample files in this distribution.

Regards,   George
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From: Dominique Dumont / GND <domi@desire.grenoble.hp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Word -> LaTeX ? FrameMaker <-> LaTeX ?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 10:23:52 +0100
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Does anybody know if we can translate Word text to LaTeX ?

And are there any tools available to translate from Framemaker to LaTeX and
vice-versa ?


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From: riehm@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Subject: M.Reid's Latexhlp for MS Windows
Organization: McMaster University, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Distribution: all
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:51:08 GMT

 I downloaded M.Reid's latexhlp file for MS Windows from niord.shsu.edu but 
can't figure out how to use it. Can someone help?  Thanks, Carl Riehm.