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From: masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Muhammad Masroor Ali)
Subject: Where to find the FAQ file for TeX ?
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 03:22:50 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Comm. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
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Can somebody please tell me where can I find the FAQ file for
TeX? It is not currently posted in comp.text.tex


Thanks in advance,

Muhammad Masroor Ali


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    Faculty of Engineering
    Kyushu University
    Fukuoka, 812 JAPAN

    Telephone number: (81)-(092)-641-1101 ext. 5398 [O]
                      (81)-(092)-632-0969           [R]
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: HELP: LaTeX on VMS
From: claridge@wronz.org.nz
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:28:38 +1200

In article <1992Aug25.162203.14815@midway.uchicago.edu>, trgs@quads.uchicago.edu (T.R.Gowrishankar) writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> May be this is a question beaten-to-death on this newgroup. Nevertheless, here
> it goes.  Where do I find the LaTeX savesets for VMS.  Do I need to install
> TeX before I install LaTeX?  Is there a command procedure to install LaTeX
> on VMS.  Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Gowrishankar
> 
> 
-- 

Contact DECUS, local people will have address, etc.  They have a La/TeX
distribution including everything available on one of the library tapes (sorry,
I couldnt find which one, if you cant find more info locally drop me a e-mail
and I will hunt up the info here.

Hope this helps, Robert

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From: yangze@acf3.NYU.EDU (Ze Yang, , , )
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: METAFONT/strange problem
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:42:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

This is my program (modified one), this one works:
	font_size 1in#;
	mode = qms; 
	mag = magstep 1;
	mode_setup;
	def my_draw(expr s_line)=
  	draw s_line scaled (w/900);enddef;
	beginchar("A", .5in#, .5in#, .5in#); "The first logotype";
	pickup pencircle scaled .4pt;
	my_draw ((357, 0){down}..(350,  -52)..(292, -208));
	my_draw ((180, 206)..tension2..(51, 0){down}..
		tension1.2 and 4..(240, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((190, 206)..tension1.5..(102, 0){down}..
		tension1.2 and 3..(247, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((198, 206)..(153, 0){down}..tension2..(257, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((207, 230)..(204, 0){down}..(266, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((215, 206)..(255, 0){down}..(275, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((222, 206)..(306, 0){down}..(283, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((408, 0)..(415,  51)..tension1.2..(494, 206)) ;
	my_draw ((502, 206)..(459, 0)..(522, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((512, 230)..(510, 0)..(532, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((520, 206)..(561, 0)..(540, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((529, 206)..(611, 0)..(548, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((538, 206)..tension2..(654,  51)..tension1.5..(662, 0)) ;
	my_draw ((545, 206)..tension5 and 1.2..(713, 0){down}..(780, -208)) ;
	my_draw ((555, 206)..tension4 and 2..(764, 0){down}..(790, -208)) ;
	endchar;
	showit;
	tracingstats:=1;
	end;

This program is also ok:
	font_size 1in#;
	mode = qms; 
	mag = magstep 1;
	mode_setup;
	def my_draw(expr s_line)=
  	draw s_line scaled (w/900);enddef;
	beginchar("A", .5in#, .5in#, .5in#); "The first logotype";
	screenstrokes;
	pickup pencircle scaled .4pt;
	my_draw ((565, 206)..tension6 and 2..(816, 0){down}..(797, -208)) ;
	endchar;
	showit;
	tracingstats:=1;
	end;
Notes that the only difference of the two programs is the "my_draw"
part, when I append the "my_draw" line to the "my_draw"
part of the first programm, "dvips" does't work. it's really strange, 
my program is so short, so any kind of overflow is out of the question 
(I also checked the .log file, it confirmed this), note if I change
magestep or the number to a certain range (large or small)
appeared after "scaled", then everything is ok. But I just
want this size, that's the problem.

Any suggestion,  would be very appreciated, I really spent alot of
time on this.

Best Wishes.

Ze Yang
the first programm
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Matthias Imhof <gondwana@basalt.mit.edu> 
Subject: Re: Bibliographic Formats
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:05:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.215407.22911@PA.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)  
writes:
>>  |> Can anybody tell me what the format is for references 
>>  |> of the following type ?
>>  |> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>  |> %A A.H. Barr
>>  |> %T Ray Tracing Deformed Surfaces
>>  
>>  This is UNIX refer format.  The "addbib" man page lists these tokens:
>>  
>>            %A   Author's name
>>            %Y,Z ignored by refer
>>  
>>  Refer is a (somewhat) primitive set of tools for editing, sorting, and
>>  printing bibliographies that use these tokens.  It comes free with most
>>  UNIX
>>  systems.  Type "man refer" on a UNIX system for more info.
>>  

now the new question is, is there a way to go from refer to bibtex? is there
a tex-utility which generates a *.bib file out of a refer/addbib bibliography?

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From: arrigo@cube.sublink.org (Arrigo Benedetti)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Italian TeX User Group???
Date: 1 Sep 92 09:26:38 GMT
Reply-To: arrigo@cube.sublink.org
Organization: Arrigo Benedetti

Just two questions:

Is there any TeX User Group in Italy ?
Is anyone from Italy planning to attend EuroTeX 92 in Praha?

-Arrigo

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University of Bologna                benedett@deis01.cineca.it
undergraduate student (EECS)         
Via S. Agata, 11               Tel:  (home)   +39 59 224929
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From: skyvington@republique.ilog.fr (William Skyvington)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help writing a macro that expands to \verb
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:36:18 GMT
Reply-To: skyvington@ilog.fr
Organization: ILOG (Software Intelligence), Gentilly, France

In article <1992Sep1.123134.7107@cs.cornell.edu>, raman@cs.cornell.edu
(T. V. Raman) writes:

|  I would like to have a macro of the following type:
|  \term#1 which expands to \verb|#1| but do not know how to write it.

I've been using the following hack for years now, and I would find it
difficult to live without it when writing software manuals:

%~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
%  Verbatim term
%~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

%%%  Write \|word| to typeset "word" in verbatim \tt font.

\def\|{\begingroup \catcode``=13 \@noligs 
\tt \let\do\@makeother \dospecials 
\obeyspaces \frenchspacing \def\@tempa ##1|{##1\endgroup}\@tempa}

%~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My borrowing the "\|" signs to indicate the start of a verbatim term
means that there's some kind of sophisticated mathematical thing (I've
forgotten what it is) that I can no longer do. Naturally, the only sign
that cannot appear in a verbatim term is the vertical bar. But they're
not all that common in programming languages. It goes without saying
that this "\|verbatim|" construct is only used for short in-line terms.

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          Tel 33 (1) 46 63 66 66     E-mail skyvington@ilog.fr
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From: wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Beta of EMTeX
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:36:57 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


   I have seen recently on info-tex mention of beta versions of EMTeX
   including a 386 version, etc.  I couldn't find them at the standard
   archives.  Is there a particluar site where these are located.

You will find it at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de in /soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex/betatest

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From: gcrc!spinosaj@riscsm.scripps.edu (John Spinosa/MS219 4-9937)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Beta of EMTeX
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 13:02:50 PDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I have seen recently on info-tex mention of beta versions of EMTeX
including a 386 version, etc.  I couldn't find them at the standard
archives.  Is there a particluar site where these are located.

Thanks,

John Spinosa, M.D., Ph.D.
spinosaj@riscsm.scripps.edu
From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: darker Courier?
Date: 29 Aug 92 02:26:58 GMT
In-reply-to: kesich@acf3.NYU.EDU's message of 27 Aug 92 19:37:00 GMT


In article <61060005@acf3.NYU.EDU> kesich@acf3.NYU.EDU (John Kesich,321wwh,998-3047,) writes:

   I have a user who is TeXing a book containing programming examples in Pascal.
   The examples are set in Courier with Courier-Bold for key words.  The problem
   is that Courier is far too light, and we would like to darken it a bit.

Your best bet it to get the Courier in Type 1 form from BitStream. It is
much darker than Adobe Courier.

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
From: YoungPa So <frege@engin.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TrueType fonts for Macintosh Textures
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 08:38:28 -0400
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


   Are there TrueType fonts available for Texture 3.0?

   Thanx in advance.

- Young-pa So (frege@crim.eecs.umich.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: barbehen@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Barbehenn)
Subject: Re: dvips bug?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:23:35 GMT

My original post:
>   I have a postscript file which prints fine on our postscript
>   printer.  I am trying to include this file into a LaTeX
>   document as a figure.  I run dvips and try to print the new
>   postscript file.
>   The printer aborts printing the new file.

>   (A little debugging has pinpointed the source of the ``error''
>    on an apparent encoding of text that appears in the file as
>    a large block of numbers and letters...possibly hexadecimal
>    run together.  When I comment the block out, the lines of the
>    figure are printed ok -- no text)

>   So I am concluding that there is some negative interaction
>   with dvips and my file.  Is it possible that the postscript
>   file is a different `version' than what dvips assumes?

rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
>What's the make and model of your printer and computer, and which version
>of dvips do you use?

I'm using Interleaf V to generate the postscript and am printing the
file on an Imagen 5320 Turbo printer.
When I start latex it says:  This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3
Similarly dvips says:
This is dvips 5.490 Copyright 1986, 1992 Radical Eye Software

My tex file is:
\documentstyle[12pt,fullpage]{article}
\input{psfig}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centerline{\psfig{figure=test.ps,height=3.0truein}}
\caption{This is the caption.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

--
-Michael Barbehenn
 AI Group/Beckman Institute
 U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: koen@cv.ruu.nl (Koen Vincken)
Subject: Re: DVI to HP problem - fonts?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:20:32 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Utrecht, 3D Computer Vision Research Group

In <2SEP92142336@thisbe.ece.arizona.edu> chd@thisbe.ece.arizona.edu (Chris De Young) writes:

>I'm having a problem using DVIJET with TeX Version 3.1 [PD VMS 3.3/DECUS]....
>A few questions:
>
>Will DVIJET work for a LaserJet series II?  (once I get it working at all that
>is).  If not, where can I find a DVIHP that will?

I'm sorry, I have worked with dvidjp (Deskjet stuff), so I can't answer 
this one.

>
>DVIJET <filename>.DVI results in the following errors:
>
>%Font file [cmbx10 [mag 868]] could not be opened; 0 font files are open
>Proceeding with zero size characters for this font
>Current TeX page counters: [0]
>

I had a similar problem. If you look carefully in one of the readme documents
(or one of the text-files, I believe) you can see that you have to set an
environment variable. Out of my head, I think it was TEXFONTS, or
something like that. Set it to your local tex-font directory where
dvijet looks for fonts (for instance, TEXFONTS=/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pk/)
If you don't have such font-directories, get them first from colleagues,
ftp-sites, whatever.

>Chris DeYoung
>chd@hermes.ece.arizona.edu

Koen Vincken

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson)
Subject: Re: Help with "degree" symbol
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:45:49 GMT

pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan) writes:

>cal@air7.larc.nasa.gov wrote:
>: In article <92Sep04.161618.22661@acs.ucalgary.ca>, finvers@enel.ucalgary.ca (Ivars Finvers) writes:
>: > I'm stuck. I'm writing a paper where I need to state temperatures
>: > in degrees C. I
>: > can't for figure out how to get LaTeX to generate "degree symbol"C. I've
>: > tried \symbol{"17}C which generates the degree symbol alright but leaves 
>: > between the symbol and "C". What am I doing wrong?
>: One solution is to use the lowercase letter 'o' superscripted in the roman
>: style.  For example, "The low last night was $65^{\rm o}$F".
>I prefer to use $65^\circ$F.

Obviously neither of the two above solution will solve the problem.
The plausible solution is $17^\circ$C.
-- 
Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet.  Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.windows.x
From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
Subject: Re: xdvi character colour problem
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:16:51 GMT

I wrote:

#Sun4 X11R5 xdvi patchlevel 15 gives nothing but trouble when
#displayed on an X11R3 RS/6000 model 730.
#All character are shown in reverse video. Its not the -rv option, since
#the paper itself is white, as it should be. The characters are drawn as
#a white symbol on a small black square.
#'xdvi -fg red' Gives me a black-and-white image, but the above problem
#has gone. The characters turn red if I zoom or Shrink1.

After taking a closer look at the displayed image, it seems that it's
not a truely b&w one, but the characters are drawn a little greyish.
(But this is the default behaviour, isn't it?)

#'xdvi -fg black' Gives the reverse video characters.
#'xdvi -fg gray10' Gives me outline (!) characters (which they shouldn't be).

After reading the man pages again, and trying some more options, I found
that all above problems are solved if I 'xdvi -nogrey'.
However, another option, '-thorough' made 'xdvi -thorough -fg red' act
just as bad as plain 'xdvi' without '-nogrey'
BTW. On a Sun4 displayed, 'xdvi -thorough -fg red' also does not produce
the correct image: it has black characters instead of red ones, unless I
zoom/Shrink1.

#'xdvi -fg white' Results in a Segmentation fault.

This still happens, even on a Sun4, no matter what I try.
It appears that xdvi always produces a "Segmentation fault" if the
foreground (-fg) and background (-bg) colour are one and the same.

Marcel.
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|X|	     Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science	
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: orloff@surya4.cern.ch (Jean Orloff)
Subject: Re: /input or /include or ... ?
Organization: CERN, European Research Center for Particle Physics
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:13:16 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 24 Aug 1992 20:17:34 GMT, osalazar@dcc.uchile.cl
SALAZAR> (SALAZAR CERNA OSCAR MAPOCHO) said:
SALAZAR>      I want to include a C program file using \input{file.c}
SALAZAR> in this way: \begin{vertabim} \input{file.c} \end{verbatim}
SALAZAR>  
SALAZAR>  but the output is:
SALAZAR>             \input{file.c}
SALAZAR>  How can I do this without modifying the contents of file.c ?

The easiest way to have contr.sequences identified BEFORE verbatim is
on is through the stupid-looking macro:

\def\execute#1{#1}%!!!!!!!!!!

To get what you wanted, you just have to do:

\execute{\begin{verbatim}\input file.c}
\end{verbatim}   % you have to keep it out of \execute because of
%   the funny \begin...\end implementation of LaTeX.

Good luck!
Jean

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Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:10553 gnu.emacs.sources:629
From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.sources
Subject: Re: BibTeX - Sorting Bibliography Entries
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:58:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Organization: LAAS-CNRS France
In-reply-to: redel@shannon.ee.wits.ac.za's message of 20 Aug 92 12:38:40 GMT

I use the following under emacs.  The only problem that I've ever
noticed showed up a bug in emacs 18.55, in which *very* large BibTeX
entries (on the order of a couple hundred characters) would be skipped
during the sort.

Here is sort-BibTeX.el:

;;; File: sort-BibTeX.el
;;; by Ralph P. Sobek (ralph@laas.fr) --  May 18, 1990

(require 'bibtex-mode)

(defconst bibtex-reference "^@.*{\\(.*\\),\\\n\\(^[^}].*\\\n\\)*}$")

(defun sort-BibTeX ()
  (interactive)
  ; A BibTeX record entry here is defined to be:
  ; @name{key,\n...\n}$
  ; For the moment, the key is
  (sort-regexp-fields nil bibtex-reference "\\2"
		      (point-min) (point-max))
;  (set-visited-file-name (concat (buffer-file-name) ".sorted"))
)

That's all folks.  If there are any improvements or suggestions,
please let me know.

--
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Ralph.Sobek@laas.fr			   Addresses are ordered by importance.
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: naren@cs.UAlberta.CA (Narendra Ravi)
Subject: Re: PIC type line slopes in LaTeX
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:37:26 GMT

In an earlier article I write:

: LaTeX picture environment limits the slopes for lines. But the PIC
: language provides a decent mechanism for drawing lines of any slope in the
: troff environment. Is there something similar in LaTeX?

: I will summarize if I get additional information via email.

: Thanks,

:  -- Naren
:     Narendra Ra[a]vi     Email : naren@cs.ualberta.ca

I received email indicating the following solutions.

1. EEpic macros which can draw lines of any slope. The limitation being
   the slope has to be specified as integers.

2. Using xy-pic which allows line slopes of the order of 0.7

3. Using bezier.sty and giving appropriate control points for generating
   lines.

Thanks to Michael Barr, Jim Hefferon and ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au.

--

 -- Naren
    Narendra Ra[a]vi     Email : naren@cs.ualberta.ca
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: samh@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Sam Huxham)
Subject: where is TeXShell 2.5 ?
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 07:29:20 GMT
Keywords: emTeX MS-DOS

I have read that version 2.5 of  J Schlegelmilch's TeXShell (ts25.zip) is now 
available.  I suspect it is on the stuttgart server (129.69.1.12) but
I currently get no response from that site.  Is it available elsewhere?

Thanks in advance
--Sam
From: levy@maputo.berkeley.edu (Silvio Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Latex software (geom style)
Date: 26 Aug 1992 04:22:28 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: maputo.berkeley.edu

I have created a set of Latex programs, collectively called geom,
that work with Lamport's book and article styles and provide
a number of additional features:

- Inclusion of PostScript figures in the document,
  and of TeX text within figures.
- Automatic creation of index entries and cross-reference labels.
- No restriction on the use of macros and special characters in
  titles, cross-references, captions, etc. (i.e. no need to worry
  about fragile commands in almost all situations).
- Greater versatility in defining theorem-like environments.
- Proofing aids such as version numbers and a running index.
- TeX labels in Mathematica figures.

There are also purely esthetic differences,
many of which can be controlled by the user.

You can get the package by anonymous ftp from geom.umn.edu,
in directory pub/geomsty.tar.Z.

For more information, send e-mail to levy@geom.umn.edu.  Comments and
bug reports are welcome.

Silvio Levy
levy@geom.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Tim Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: A question for a TeXnician about \shipout
X-Xxdate: Fri, 4 Sep 92 19: 23:25 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: tsl1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:17:23 GMT

In article <9224813.24368@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Stephen Edward Simmons,
simmons@krang.vis.citri.edu.au writes:
>Is there any way to convince \writes on the left hand pages to occur
when the
>page is complete and stored in the temorary box rather than when both
pages
>are shipped out?  

Have you tried preceeding the \write with \immediate? That should cause
an immediate
expansion of the \write argument.
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