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From: RATZKA@phyth1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX macro
Date: 18 Nov 92 02:05:50 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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> Date:       Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:00:23 CST
> From:       "Maurizio Ferconi" <PHYSFERC@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
> Reply-to:   "Maurizio Ferconi" <PHYSFERC@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
> To:         INFO-TeX@shsu.edu
> Subject:    LaTeX macro

> I would like to know how to produce in LaTeX a symbol  which
> combines the greater than sign together with the \sim tilted
                                    not easily possible ^^^^^^
> in order to represent  what roughly speaking is: greater
> than or almost equal to..
These are mine:
%
\newcommand{\lapprox}{%
\mathrel{%
\setbox0=\hbox{$<$}
%\setbox1=\hbox{$\sim$}
\raise0.6ex\copy0\kern-\wd0
\lower0.65ex\hbox{$\sim$}
}}
%
\newcommand{\gapprox}{%
\mathrel{%
\setbox0=\hbox{$>$}
%\setbox1=\hbox{$\sim$}
\raise0.6ex\copy0\kern-\wd0
\lower0.65ex\hbox{$\sim$}
}}
%
> Thanks in advance,
>                    maurizio
You're welcome

                                                       Wolfgang Ratzka
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From: heller@heller.slip.uiuc.edu (Helmut Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: line break after every character, how?
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:32:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bxx79J.JMt
Reply-To: heller@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Hello,

I want to allow TeX to break lines after every character, without inserting  
hyphenation characters (hyphens). This should only happen in a controlled  
environment.

The background is that I would like to print the labels of figures and  
equations (if in draft mode) in the margin of a paper-to-be to make  
referencing easier. This works quite well so far, but whenever labels are  
longer that the margin is wide (and this is most of the time), then they just  
stick into the body of the text. I would prefer it if they were broken over  
several lines without hyphenation. Of course, labels do not contain spaces  
and so TeX does not wrap them around even if I put them in a parbox of  
appropriate width. Therefore my quest for methods to make TeX break a line  
after every char as if it were a space(?). 

Any help greatly appreciated. And if anyone cares, I can also post my  
label-macro (with or without line breaking, depending on your response).

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From: siqvel@hsr.no (Ola Kjetil Siqveland)
Subject: grayfilling with mf
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:05:02 GMT

Is there anybody that have a routine for fillin a cyclic path with
gray with different gray level.

O.K Siqveland                  ola@hauk.hsr.no
Rogaland Universiti Center
Stavanger
Norway
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hhlin@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (Hsiu-Hsu Lin (LING G794706) TEL.(035)715131-4966)
Subject: Query for IPA fonts running on \TeX
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:17:27 GMT

Hello Everyone:  I am a graduate majoring linguistics. If anyone
should know any IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) fonts for
\TeX running on PC, please inform me. My output device in an HP
LaserJet 3. I also have to draw lines diagonally like what follows:
               S
             /   \
            NP   VP
           / \   / \
         Det N  V  NP
                  /  \
                 Det  N
As the diagram shows, some node recurs. If any one knows where to
get macros ready for use (annonymous FTP preferrably), please
inform me at:
             hhlin@uz.nthu.edu.tw
Your kind help will be highly appreciated.
                              Hsiu-hsu Lin
                              Graduate Institute of Linguistic
                              National Tsing Hua University
                              Hsin-chu, Taiwan
                              R.O.C.
From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Subject: Re: Changebar style
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:16:02 GMT

In article <01GR7X3RRAOY8WWB69@crl.aecl.ca>, WALKERJ@crl.aecl.ca (DR. JIM WALKER @CRL) writes:
|> This has probably been asked before...
|> 
|> I'd like to use changebars in LaTeX. I've retrieved "changebar.sty" from
|> sun.soe.clarkson.edu, but I've run into a few problems. I'm using dvips386,
|> and it doesn't seem to like the "\special{ln03:... }" commands that exist
|> in changebar.sty.

The latest version of changebar.sty has a \driver command that enables
you to select which DVI converter you're using.  One option is dvips,
which is what you need (the others are dvitops and dvitoln03; I have a
still more recent version that claims to support the emTeX DVIDRV
\special commands, but haven't got it to work yet).  I got my copy of
the working changebar from aston.
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jlu@cs.umr.edu ( Eric Jui-Lin Lu )
Subject: Looking for WYSIWYG word processor which import/export TeX format
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:47:09 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: jlu@mcs213i.cs.umr.edu

Hi *,

I'm looking for a WYSIWYG word processor which can import/export TeX
file.  Either DOS/OS2/window3/386BSD version is acceptable.

I have looked thru the faq but only found a product called FrameMaker
which can import TeX file.  Has anyone used this product?  And your
comments on this?

Any sugguestion/comment is welcomed.  Please email to me
and I'll post a summary about what I get.  Thanks!


  --Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
Subject: Re: Alternatives to FrameMaker
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:02:09 GMT

bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt) writes:

>In article <1992Nov16.032553.3507@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> psrc@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>>>>If you want a word processor, you can get [MS] Word (yuck!)
>>>Not on a Sun.  Microsoft doesn't sell Word for Suns.
>>
>>No, but WordPerfect(R) sells WP for Suns (and other UNIX(R)-based
>>systems).  They now sell WP for UNIX 5.1, which is about as WYSIWYG as
>>WP for [MS] Windows.

>Don't want to start the "WordPerfect is awful" thread all over again,
>but do want to warn anyone seeing the above:  Thoroughly evaluate
>WordPerfect before you buy it.  (Actually, this should be done for
>all software, but most particularly software that has a bad reputation,
>which WP for UNIX does.)  Particularly evaluate printing from both
>local and remote systems, and terminal support, and what a user can do
>to quit from WP if s/he starts it using the wrong WPTERM, and whether
>you routinely need to reboot the UNIX system or even just make sure
>that no one on the network is using WordPerfect before killing the
>license/print manager when problems arise (which they will).

>I haven't seen 5.1, but we have WordPerfect 5.0 for Suns, and WP 5.0
>is the reason we're looking for a different word processing package.

Look before you speak.  5.1 is virtually a complete re-write from 5.0. 
It comes in two flavors, but the most useful is an X version - no need
to worry about WPTERM, etc. - > it uses pure X for the display (none
of this Open Look only or Motif only stuff).

>Bryan Curnutt, Systems Administrator, Stoner Associates, Inc.
>bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
>Any opinions above are mine, not SAI's.
From: S.Hodges@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Steve Hodges)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: References and spacing in troff
Date: 21 Nov 92 17:20:22 GMT

1. Does anyone know of a utility to convert Bibtex files into refer format,
for subsequent use in troff/groff?

2. Can I change the inter-letter spacing in troff/groff, whilst retaining
proportional spacing?

Thanks, 

Steve Hodges
seh@eng.cam.ac.uk
From: harv@cis.ksu.edu (Harvard Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Grammar checker for Unix
Date: 23 Nov 1992 15:59:30 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: depot.cis.ksu.edu
Keywords: Grammar checker Unix SPARC

Does anyone know of a grammar checker like Grammatik or RightWriter,
etc. that is available on a Unix platform, especially SPARC SunOS?
I have only found AT&T's Writer's Workbench which I can get source for
and port to SunOS. Thanks,
-- 
Harvard Townsend, Kansas State University Dept. of CIS
Internet: harv@cis.ksu.edu    UUCP: rutgers!depot!harv
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd)
Subject: Re: Alternatives to FrameMaker
Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:57:27 GMT

>(Richard Warner) writes:
>>>If you want a word processor, you can get [MS] Word (yuck!)

>In article <1992Nov14.031018.11000@uhura1.uucp> bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
>(whose name, I believe, is Bryan Curnutt) writes:
>>Not on a Sun.  Microsoft doesn't sell Word for Suns.

(Paul Chisholm) writes:
>No, but WordPerfect(R) sells WP for Suns (and other UNIX(R)-based
>systems).  They now sell WP for UNIX 5.1, which is about as WYSIWYG as
>WP for [MS] Windows.  WP is *not* FrameMaker(R); in particular, it has
>no drawing tools.  (Unless some were added for WP/UNIX 5.1.)


You can also get Island Write/Draw/Paint.  Suppsedly very nice.  The
3 sections are apparently very well integrated.  The package has won
awards and stuff.  And it's $895 per node (i'm not sure what kind of
license restrictions/options are available).


John

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From: mazzucch@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (massimo mazzucchi)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: dtp programs
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:33:15 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University


HI 

i am Max from Milan Italy

i will know if exist a PD program (not windows) or commercial

like publisher/page maker that:

- there aren't the difficultes to use it

- max 1 Mb di program

- and it can write A4 (21x29) ruotate (29x21) in which way 

 i can write on 2 page (15x21) but that left page must be

 an object and right page another object.

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Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.multimedia
From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Wanted to licence -- rich text display software for various platforms
Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:31:32 GMT

We are electronic publishers, and a new venture we're planning for the near
future involves us distributing text to readers on a wide variety of machines.

We will be needing "reading" programs for the users to display this text.
We will want these reading programs to handle more than just ASCII -- a
limited rich text format is desired, with support for basic formatting,
italics, bold, underlining, headers and foreign characters.  Royalties will
be paid to software authors.

I haven't decided if we'll define our own format or use MIME or Microsoft
RTF or some other semi-standard.

In addition to reading programs for the various platforms, we'll also
want translation programs to translate into the existing rich text and
multimedia formats for use by existing word processors and display
software. 

All the above is likewise true for printing -- we'll want programs to
let people print their text on laser printers, good dot matrix etc., or
to translate it into troff, TeX or other formatting languages to broaden
the support.

The reading programs will do more than display.  It would be nice if they
featured "bookmark" faciliites and other nice reading features.

We're willing to pay royalties for these programs, or at least the ones
distributed to paying users.  We would have to work out other schemes for
translation programs run only on our machines, though those things are simpler
and we can probably write them ourselves, unless they already exist.
Pointers to existing software are welcome.

We want reading programs for at least DOS, the Mac, Windows and Unix/X,
though we'll probably generate our own for DOS and Unix/Curses.

We'll want printing programs to handle HP Laser printers, Postscript
and so on.

Contact me via E-mail for more details, and to learn what this exciting
project is about.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Include EPS in troff
Date: 23 Nov 92 03:51:17 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <By0yp1.F05@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umwan010@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nga T A Wan) writes:
<
<	I am wondering if any one knows how to include Encapsulted
<PostScript in a document to be formatted by troff.

If you are using olf C/A/T troff I suggest that you upgrade to a device
independent troff, like AT&T's DWB 3.0+ (Documentor's WorkBench) or the
GNU freeware groff.

DWB troff and groff have much better facilities for including PostScript.
But, if you insist on staying with the old out-of-date troff, then get the
Chris Lewis psroff suite of programs.  He has support for including Post-
Script.
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From: munn@a.cs.okstate.edu (MUNN THOMAS JOSEPH)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Is Society for Technical Communicatiors worth joining?
Date: 21 Nov 92 23:20:45 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University

I hope this is an appropriate group for this question, but being a
technical writing major, and this being a question relating to document
design, I wanted to know something:

Is the Society for Technical Communicators worth joining, and if so
what benefits do they offer???

Thanx,
THomas
Newsgroups: comp.text
From: sverre@rc.nokia.fi (Sverre Slotte Jr.)
Subject: SUMMARY: groff: copy/clone environments
Keywords: groff, environment
Organization: Nokia Research Center, Espoo, Finland
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:03:48 GMT

In my original query I discussed the need to clone environments (in groff),
and asked for ideas and thoughts on the subject.

I got two answers, one of which was posted to then net. In his response
Mark Bergman (bergman@panix.com) recommended me to source (.so) the 
definitions of a particular environment whenever I need it. This doesn't 
quite do what I want, unfortunately.

The great guru and *roff-wizard James Clark (jjc@clark.com) advised me to
stick to the method of pushing and popping on/off a variable stack (the
way it's done in -mgm).

Environments contain ``unnecessary'' information that possibly could 
mess up my text if I clone and pop environments at will. Environments are
apparently best for non-text-flow processing such as headers and footers.

The environment constructor I mentioned wouldn't do what I wanted, anyway.
It's for creating temporary environments for \w etc. processing.

I guess I'll follow the advice James gave me.

Sverre

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From: csci180b@cl2.cl.uh.edu (Bill Fay)
Newsgroups: comp.text.interleaf
Subject: Document names
Date: 21 Nov 1992 10:21 CST
Organization: University of Houston - Clear Lake
Distribution: world
Reply-To: CSCI180B@cl.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: uhcl2.cl.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  

In the past, the readers of this group have been extremely helpful
and understanding as I've never had my hands slapped for posting
(silly) questions.  I especially like how the folks at Interleaf
monitor this newsgroup for our benefit (not necessarily theirs) and
almost always respond to questions posed on this net via private
email.

Now my question and forgive me if it has already been covered.  Is 
it possible to insert the name of the document in the document 
itself (other than just typing it in)?  For example let's say that
I've got several Ada source code files that I want to bring into
an Interleaf document and I want the unit name (which is also the
file name) to be in the page footer.  Any way to do this?

Bill Fay --------------------------
University of Houston/Clear Lake --
-----------------------------------

P.S.  Can someone give me the pointer to the Lisp script that maintains
      the current date in a document.  I remember seeing this a while
      back and of course I didn't need it then but would like to have
      it now.  Advance Thanks...
From: nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Magnanimous throwaway condiment samples" Neilski)
Newsgroups: comp.text.interleaf
Subject: More font problems
Date: 23 Nov 92 11:34:17 GMT
Reply-To: nrp@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk
Organization: University of Reading


Well, I got to use the PostScript fonts (change document Page Props to ps
from ileaf in some field or other), but now I have another problem.  I
can't seem to use any of the PostScript fonts I put in position 2 above
20pt.  I put Palatino in position 1 and it works fine.  Interleaf complains
(almost instantly) that it has run out of memory.  

I used the AFM files from OpenWindows 3.  This is on a SPARC SLC with 8Mb
of memory.

-- neilski

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Newsgroups: comp.text.interleaf
From: tice@anapest.rtp.dg.com (Anne Tice)
Subject: Re: Help with FMU
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:04:50 GMT
Reply-To: tice@rtp.dg.com (Anne L. Tice)
Organization: Data General Corp, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

In article <nrp.722100697@reading>, nrp@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk ("Philanthropic division complicators" Neilski) writes:
>I'm trying to install Interleaf 5 on a SPARC 1+ with a PostScript printer and
>I'm having more than a couple of problems.  Everything works fine - except
>that I can't add the PostScript fonts with the FMU.  I've used AFM files
>from both TranScript and OpenWindows 3 - addfont threw up on TranScript's
>files but not on OW3's.  So I ran the Tabler, restarted the desktop ...
>and no new fonts appeared.
>
>Oh yes - and addfont complained about a bad device in ps_h - this
>disappeared when I removed the line "proof device: cx" from ps_h.
>
>What am I doing wrong?  I've been at this since Friday and it's driving me
>potty.
>
>-- neilski
>i only want to use palatino :-(
>
>-- 

Sounds like a problem for Interleaf support.  They've been quick to help
us with installation and printing. Good luck. 
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Data General Corporation 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Newsgroups: comp.text.interleaf
Subject: importing graphics
From: <ODULGERO@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 14:24:37 EST
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

hello, everybody.
i'm having trouble importing PC screen snapshots into interleaf.
i captured the pictures with pcx format, and used the software ALCHEMY
to convert the .pcx files to .tiff files.
 
then i transferred those .tiff files into my interleaf desktop directory.
but when i run the TIFFFILT conversion program, it tells me that there are
NO STRIP OFFSET TAGS in my tiff files...
 
could somebody help me ????!!
 
thanks in advance,
 
onur dulgeroglu.
 
 
 
 
 
Newsgroups: comp.text.interleaf
From: sehamb01@rigel.spd.louisville.edu (Steve Hamburg)
Subject: Inline Frames
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:51:38 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

I have created some inline frames.  These inline frames contain equations.
Several of the expressions contain variables with subscripts.  When Interleaf
creates the inline frames, the bottom of the subscript text is placed flush
against the bottom of the line, therefore causing the text to be elevated 
from the line.  How can I tell the frame to make the text flush with the line
and have the subscript appear normally, therefore a distance below the line?

All help would be appreciated.  It is somewhat difficult trying to convey the
problem.  If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks in advance-

Steve 

sehamb01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu