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Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Friday, 9 Oct 1992 09:25:47 +01
From: Igodt, Paul G. <FZAAC02@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MSP files to MF/TFM/PK ???

 We have the following problem for which a solution would be interesting
 to us.

 Frequently, end-users, wanting to use their own letter-logo, are creating
 a TIF or MSP (MicroSoft Paint) file containing this logo to be included
 in a Word-Processing or Driver file.

 Is anybody aware of software to convert these files into metafont format
 so that TFM and PK files can be created for inclusion in TeX documents.
 Help is welcomed very much.    Answers can be posted to the net or
 sent to me directly.

 Grateful.

 -Paul Igodt -- KU Leuven, Belgium
  igodt@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to \input{whole-latex-file}
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:06:57 GMT
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA

I have a similar problem.  I have a largeish number (50+) of files
which I would like to typeset *either* individually *or* as part of
one or more larger documents.  Is there a trivial way to conditionally
ignore \documentstyle{}...\begin{document}, and \end{document}?
I suppose one could define a variant of \input that redefines them
inside a group...
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From: img@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Ian Green)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Running MakeTeXPK setuid: a note
Date: 17 Oct 92 01:05:15 GMT
Organization: Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh


The MakeTeXPK distributed with dvips5.495 (+ maybe earlier) has a
feature that gives ``Can't stat .'' error under SunOS when run setuid.

The problem is caused by the `pwd` to add the directory to MFINPUTS.
If MakeTeXPK can't read the directory pwd gives the stat error.

So, the motto is to either delete the `pwd` part of the MFINPUTS, or
don't run MakeTeXPK setuid.

	-ian
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: knappen@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Joerg Knappen)
Subject: Re: IPA font needed.
Keywords: international phonetic alphabet font
Reply-To: knappen@obelix.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Organization: ONO (Organisation der Nicht-Organisierten)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:15:18 GMT

There is an IPA font for TeX, called wsuipa, available from the famous TeX
servers (e.g. Stuttgart under soft/texfonts/metafont/ipa). There are also
macros for its use.

--J"org Knappen.
From: masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Muhammad Masroor Ali)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Request for name of book on TeX
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:20:25 GMT
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Comm. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
X-Bytes: 966

Hello all,

I have been using TeX for a period of one year. For learning
TeX, I bought the Bible, The TeXbook by Donald E Knuth.  While 
there is no question about the quality of this book, sometimes 
I feel the necessity of a second one, often for clarifying my
idea about tricky macros.

Could anybody please suggest some good book on TeX? Please 
don't forget to include the name of the writer and publisher, english
versions are not easily available in Japan, I have got to order
them at the bookstore.

Thanks in advance,

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    Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
    Fukuoka, 812 JAPAN
From: pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon) 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Parsing a line read from a file
Date: 11 Oct 92 13:48:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon) 

To: All
Reply-to: acc1bbs!pierre.darmon@ssr.com

I am trying to read a line from a file and parse it but am not
successful. Here is what I am doing:

\def\parser#1, #2 #3-#4{
\immediate\write16{1 = #1}
\immediate\write16{2 = #2}
\immediate\write16{3 = #3}
\immediate\write16{4 = #4}
}

\read\myfile to\myline    %\myfile has been defined and opened
% let's assume that \myline contains "New York, NY 10011-0000"
% I want to get at the zip code

\parser\myline

The above fails as \myline goes into #1 completely as one single token
instead of being parsed. What can I do to achieve what I want? Any
pointers appreciated. I am using TeX, not LaTeX, if that matters.
I think the problem is that the \read will put the line as one single
token in the control sequence follwing the "to" but what can be done to
avoid that?

I apologize if this is a repost, but my feed site had problems for the
past 10 days (no news nor mail) and I was told to repost everything I did
not get answers for.

Pierre Darmon
acc1bbs!pierre.darmon@ssr.com
From: garys@homer.ds.boeing.com
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Dingbat, how to use?
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:52:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: homer.1992Oct9.075241.1
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group

I got the archive dingbat.mf file
and created the fonts.
Is there a short exposition you could point me to
on how to use them simply for borders as they are apparently
intended?        thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: shhong@dbserver.kaist.ac.kr (Seok-Hee Hong)
Subject: Help ! : Mac PS -> EPS
Organization: KAIST
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 16:43:46 GMT

Hi, X-Perts

	I am trying to convert Mac PS file to EPS file.
	But, I can't insert Bounding Box into Mac PS file,
		because Mac PS generally is one-line.

	Do anybody Knows How to insert Bounding Box into Mac PS file ?

Thanx

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From: kommu@eng.uiowa.edu (V. Kommu)
Subject: References in Latex
Originator: kommu@sabotage
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:21:39 GMT
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.

Hi, 

When I am including many references, I use the statement
\cite{refa,refc,refd,refx,refy,refz}. Sometimes, I have many consecutive
references, which after processing look like [1,2,3,4,5,10].
Instead, I would like the output to be [1-5,10]. Any suggestions.

Regards
Kommu
(kommu@eng.uiowa.edu)
From: dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: speed of tex on various workstations?
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:03:39 GMT
Organization: U. S. Naval Academy


!In <JIM.DAVIES.92Oct12102727@pierrot.comlab.ox.ac.uk! Jim.Davies@comlab.ox.ac.uk (A Wooden Fish on Wheels) writes:
!!In article <...! arif@stat.fsu.edu (Arif Zaman) writes:
!
!!   |! I am particularly interested in comparisons with the "NeXTstation Turbo".
!
!!   A Gateway 80486/66 DX2 with 8MB RAM and 300MB Hard disk with emTeX 
!!   and full purchase price of Maple (far better than Mathematica - or 
!!   you can by Mathematica if you want) will still save you at least 
!!   $1000. 
!
!!If you're going to be using PostScript fonts (and most people want to, sooner
!!or later) then there's a lot to be said for buying a NeXT.  

After seven books I still haven't and probably won't because the
PostScript fonts are really not book quality. Sorry.....

!!A few seconds here or there in the time taken to TeX a document isn't that
!!important: a lot depends upon the speed and convenience of the
!!edit-TeX-preview-edit cycle (or the edit-TeX-dvips-preview-edit cycle).

In a production environment I disagree--a few seconds when you are doing
the task hundreds of times IS important.

Please explain what is more advantages about the edit-TeX-preview-edit
cycle on the NeXT in comparison with batch files and command history
stacks on a 486.

Dave Rogers
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Subject: Regarding Ghostscript/Ghostview 
Organization: Ag Engineering Dept, Purdue University 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:16:57 GMT

To people asking about ghostscript/ghostview:
try posting to gnu.ghostscript.bug instead of comp.text.tex
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From: dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: speed of tex on various workstations?
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:08:38 GMT
Organization: U. S. Naval Academy

In article <ROLFL.92Oct13114034@karl.uio.no> rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
>In article <2245@usna.NAVY.MIL> dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC)) writes:
>>
>>   After seven books I still haven't and probably won't because the
>>   PostScript fonts are really not book quality. Sorry.....
>>
>>
>
>Please elaborate.
>
>If you mean that the standard Roman LaserWriter PostScript fonts (Times,
>Bookman, Palatino, New Century Schoolbook) are poorer than Computer Modern
>I tend to agree with you, in particular if you use a phototypesetter for
>the final copy.

Yes, these are terrible.

>Do yourself a favor and check out Janson, Caslon, New Century, or one of
>the Garamonds. Those are real fonts for real books. If you still prefer
>Computer Modern then that's a matter of taste and I won't discuss that.

Yes, I have done that, but since we do mostly mathematical books,
finding a good math font that mixes well is VERY difficult.So far
my typesetters eye says the best compromise is computer modern.
Like all things in life font selection is a compromise.

One thing you can do to improve the `look' of computer modern is
to instruct the phototypesetter people to generate a somewhat
denser image than normal, but then you have to be careful that
they don't over do it.

Dave Rogers
From: lhuynh@sloth.Reed.Edu (Falcon Feather)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: some nice tables
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:18:38 GMT
Reply-To: lhuynh@reed.edu
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

I'm looking for TeX codes that will do some nice tables.
I would appreciate a lot if someone could send me a
few different tables.  

Thanks.
Danny

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From: beaudoin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Beaudoin)
Subject: LaTex Fax header style
Organization: Le laboratoire de robotique de l'Institut de recherche
	d'Hydro-Quebec
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:15:50 GMT

I am looking for a Fax header style for LaTex. The kind of header that
specify your name, address, phone number, the destination, the number
of pages transmitted, etc.

I searched on ymir.claremont.edu and with archie, without luck.

We already have something similar in TeX, but it is not as practical
as a LaTex style.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you!
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Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec    mbeaudoin@ireq-robot.uucp
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: romano@pimac2.iet.unipi.it (Romano Giannetti)
Subject: WANTED: window.sty-like package for plain TeX
Keywords: plain, window.sty
Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:09:27 GMT

Does anyone know if exists a package that do the same things that window.sty
do (put figures in any places of the page, with text floating around) for
plain TeX?

Thanks,
	Romano.


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Tilde under a char in LaTeX?
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 13:11:42 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.152310.461@unislc.uucp>, joanna@unislc.uucp (Joanna Liu) writes:
> Does anybody know how to put a tilde under a character in LaTeX?

A solution from a master-TeXnician follows below. First, everyone should get
DM Jones' excellent tex-index before posting to this group.
 archive.cs.ruu.nl:TEX/DOC/TeX-index.Z
 ftp.th-darmstadt.de:
        pub/tex/documentation/styles-and-macros.Index.Z
 ftp.math.utah.edu:pub/tex/tex-index
 ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/soft/tex/documentation/TeX-index
 ftp.diku.dk:pub/TeX/misc/TeX-Index.Z
 Niord.SHSU.edu:[fileserv.tex-index]tex.index
 TeX.ac.uk:[tex-archive.doc]TeX-index.txt
 ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.documentation]tex-index.txt

Get the index, and look up 'accent'.

Subject: SOLUTION: under-accent macro
From: david@mobius.msri.org (David Mostardi)
Date: 16 Dec 91 20:13:01 GMT
Organization: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

In article <20159@dog.ee.lbl.gov> david@mobius.msri.org (David Mostardi) writes:
>I need a generalized (math-mode) macro which will put a given symbol 
>*under* a given character.  For example, my immediate need is an 
>undertilde, like this (undertilde to an X):
>
>		\ / 
>		 x
>		/ \  
>		 ~


Here's a good solution.  Many thanks to Raymond Chen of UB Berkeley:

% 20 Jul 90
\def\mathunderaccent#1{\let\theaccent#1\mathpalette\putaccentunder}
\def\putaccentunder#1#2{\oalign{$#1#2$\crcr\hidewidth
\vbox to.2ex{\hbox{$#1\theaccent{}$}\vss}\hidewidth}}

\def\ttilde#1{\tilde{\tilde{#1}}}


$\mathunderaccent\tilde x^{\mathunderaccent\ttilde y}$.
\end

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From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Need help on paragraph indentation
Date: 14 Oct 1992 17:14 -0700
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: msr.triumf.ca
Keywords: \everypar
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1992Oct14.193252.14256@cs.cornell.edu>, gambhir@cs.cornell.edu (Nav
% In article <Oct.14.14.09.36.1992.15632@math.rutgers.edu> kuplinsk@math.rutgers
% >\everypar{\hangindent=10 ex \hangafter=0}
% >\def\title#1{{\medskip\hangindent=0ex \hangafter=0 \bf#1}}
% >
% >In particular, why doesn't \everypar{\global\hangindent=10 ex
% > \global\hangafter=0} work? The effect of 10ex should be cancelled when
% >\title is invoked, right?
%
% Wrong.  \everypar tokens do not get inserted until horizontal mode
% material is seen (in this case the first character of the #1 parameter).
% So the assignments in \title macro get overruled by the ones
% in \everypar.

   That's not the whole story.  The values used are those in effect when
\par is read.  Since the title is done in a group, the special settings
disappear before \par is read.

% \everypar{\global\hangindent=10ex \global\hangafter=0 }
% \def\title#1{\medskip\leavevmode\hangindent=0ex \hangafter=0 \bf#1}

% 1.  added \leavevmode in \title.    --- good
% 2.  stripped away the extra grouping in \title  --- may be bad because of \bf
% 3.  used \global in \everypar  --- good
% 4.  added a blank after the final 0 in \everypar --- keen eye


I think the braces should be put back, and a \par put after the title:

\def\title#1{{\medskip\leavevmode\hangindent=0ex \hangafter=0 \bf#1\par}}

Donald Arseneau       asnd@reg.triumf.ca
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: knappen@methusalix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Joerg Knappen)
Subject: Re: problem with greek letter hi
Reply-To: knappen@obelix.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Organization: ONO (Organisation der Nicht-Organisierten)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:28:47 GMT

In article <w#8-68A@engin.umich.edu>, oliveria@caen.engin.umich.edu (Roque Donizete de Oliveira) writes:

:I wondered why the symbol chi appears so small and shifted down ?
The \chi is looking all right. It {\em should} descend the base line.
However, if you don't like it...
you can use a box construction to raise it. If I remember right, the TeXsis
macro package has raised chi by this procedure.

You also may want to learn METAFONT and create a chi of your taste.

Yours, J"org Knappen.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it (Massimo Campostrini)
Subject: Wanted: .bst bibtex styles for Phys. Rev.
Keywords: bibtex
Reply-To: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it
Organization: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa, Italy
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:26:40 GMT

Has anybody seen bibtex styles (.bst) for Physical Review and 
Nuclear Physics?  Thanks.

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Piazza Torricelli 2, I-56126 Pisa, Italy  ||  Phone: (+39)(50)42093
Internet: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it    ||  Fax:   (+39)(50)48277
From: kiru@grok111.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (kirubakaran P)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: 3.14 LaTeX for SVR4
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:59:02 GMT
Organization: NCR Corp
Originator: kiru@grok111.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM


The LaTeX sources that come with TeX3.14 mention only the undumping way of
creating the Latex binary. But the undump utility provided can work only on
coff format files. Is there a straight forward way to generate the latex
binary ? This is required since SVR4 uses elf not coff. 

Any pointers is this regard (like ftp sites etc ) will be helpful.
I'd appreciate if responses are  emailed to me directly.

Thanx,
- kiru

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From: arif@stat.fsu.edu (Arif Zaman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: What are invisible fonts?
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:51:28 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, Florida State University

The subject line says it all. What are they,
why/how are they used? What purpose do they
serve?
From: "Phillip E. Parker" <PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 15:38:23 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

       Re: LATEX: labels in \itemize

Use \item[label] where label is whatever you want. LaTeX book p.26f and
p.166.

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From: bruce@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Need to write 40-80 points letters in latex
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:18:12 GMT
Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK

>>>>> On 8 Oct 92, DH01@music.mus.polymtl.ca (Bodzio Dlugogorski) said:

> Specifically, how to
> include 40-80 points characters in articles written with latex.

If it's just a single font you want, then do something like

    \font\reallybigfont=cmr10 at 40pt     % use a bigger font, eg
                                          % cmr24 if you have one
and then you can write {\reallybigfont Hello!}.

The baselineskip will be wrong, and other things may mess up.  If you
want to use lots of fonts, then define a new size using \@setsize,
there are lots of examples in art10.sty for example.

That keeps LaTeX happy; for your driver, you'll need to actually
generate the raster information.  If you're using dvips, and it's set
up correctly, then it should generate the fonts automatically.
Otherwise, a line like
    % mf '\mode=localfont; mag=40/10; input cmr10'
followed by
    % gftopk cmr10.1200gf
ought to work.  (You may need to move the resulting file to a special
directory, or alter an environment variable like TEXFONTS.)

--
Bruce Stephens.  Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Liverpool Univ.
Internet: bruce@uxb.liv.ac.uk     JANET: bruce@uk.ac.liv.uxb
From: anthonyb@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Bloesch)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Changebars for LateX
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:50:09 GMT
Reply-To: anthonyb@cs.uq.oz.au

In <1992Oct7.215743.4496@PA.dec.com> silk@ocean.enet.dec.com (Nina Silk) writes:
>Does anyone know can we put changebars into a LateX file 
>whose output is PostScript?

changebar.sty.Z  is available from archive.cis.ohio-state.edu  in  the
directory  /pub/style-files.   If you don't  believe in  UNIX compress
then you can  get changebar.sty from fionavar.mit.edu in the directory
/pub/latex-styles.  I use it and find it works fine.

                              Anthony
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Increase emTeX memory size
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:35:20 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <1992Oct15.162908.12604@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, tsou@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Po-Yu Tsou) writes:
> Hi, dear netter:
>    Can someone tell me how to break the memory barrier of emTeX on PC?
> Since emTeX restricts it's word memory to 64K, I had trouble to compile
> a large document. Thank you for your attention.

On a 286, get btexb8.zip from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/all/emtex/ and
uset btex186 (MSDOS) or btexp (OS/2 1.x--2.0). Be very patient...

On a 386, get tex386b8.zip. Runs approx as fast as tex186, but is a bigTeX.

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From: hedegard@colding.fys.ku.dk (Per Hedegaard)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Bug in amstex.sty
Date: 14 Oct 92 09:52:45 GMT
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Copenhagen

I think I have found a bug in amstex.sty. I has to do with
\newenvironment. If you do (in the simplest case):

	 \newenvironment{\neweq}{\begin{equation}}{\end{equation}}

and then further down in the document

	\begin{neweq}
	  some equation
	\end{neweq}

you will get an errormessage saying that a paragraph ended while
processing an equation. What to do??

Per Hedegard
Physics Laboratory
University of Copenhagen
email: hedegard@fys.ku.dk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex