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From: guptar@ecf.toronto.edu (GUPTA PAWAN RAMGOPAL)
Subject: Changing font in captions
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 03:07:08 GMT

Hi!
	I need help from the LaTex gurus in changing the the font of caption. in
report.sty. It is easy to change the font of the caption but the part where 
LaTex assigns the figure or table number does not change.  I know that LaTex 
uses a macro    \@makecaption to print both the parts of the caption.  I would 
like to modify the command without having to make another report.sty.  Some 
similar command like \renewcommand to change the macro would be ideal. Is there
a way to do something like this in Latex? 
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Pawan 
guptar@ecf.toronto.edu
From: IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Stephan Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: WANTED: 2D CAD program for use with LaTeX
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:23:56 GMT
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich


Can anybody recommend a PD/shareware 2D CAD program for use with LaTeX?
Preparing my Ph.D. thesis, I need to inlude a few technical drawings.
Nothing fancy or complicated though. If possible I'd like to be able to
get/convert the resulting drawings in PCX and EPS format. I guess TeXCAD
is limited concerning circles and arbitrarily inclined lines, since it
relies on LaTeX syntax. Anything else out there that's worth giving it a
try?  (Whoops, I forgot to mention: I'm working with emTeX under DOS)

Thanks for any hints,
Stephan



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From: Phil Hirschhorn <PHIRSCHHORN@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Drivers for self-documenting files
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:43 EDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I'd like to print out the documentation contained in the comments of
the file latex.tex.  I've got the multicol package, but it seems to
require a "driver" file to correctly format the documentation.  Does
anyone know where I can get the driver for the latex.tex
documentation?

More generally, does anyone know where I can find an explanation of
how this whole docstrip/documentation producing business works, and
how I write the "driver" to produce the documentation in other
self-documenting files?

Thanks,
Phil Hirschhorn
phirschhorn@lucy.wellesley.edu
From: Damian.Cugley@comlab.oxford.ac.uk (Damian Cugley)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Finding width of on-going \halign
Date: 19 Aug 92 10:25:53 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK
In-reply-to: mjm@spekl.as.arizona.edu's message of 18 Aug 92 02:08:40 GMT

You can't find the width until its all been set, because it is not until
then that TeX know how wide each column needs to be.

You might try the following though:

Start up a vbox with the halign in it.

Set a counter to 0 before the \halign.

In the preamble, globally increment the counter each row

Where the paragrap will go, do a noalign of (a) a -ve penalty and (b)
globally set a second counter to the value of the first

Now you have a vbox which contains the halign, so \wd<N> is the width
you want.  Also the 2nd counter gives you the info you need to vsplit
the vbox into the parts of the table before and after your paragraph.
AFter thus spliting box<N>, you can unvbox the two halves with your
paragraph inbetween.

Hope tghis helps
Damian
From: rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: "risky" PD software
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:58:43 GMT
	<1992Aug17.033022.273@hemlock.cray.com>
Organization: Human Communication Research Center
In-reply-to: marc@hemlock.cray.com's message of 17 Aug 92 08:30:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.033022.273@hemlock.cray.com>, Marc Bouron (mb) writes:

mb> Funny you should say that...  In an article at the weekend in a
mb> most reputable British newspaper, it was alleged that some
mb> software houses were deliberately introducing errors and `time
mb> bombs' into their software, some simple, some malicious, in order
mb> to secure future "business" from their clients.  (Extortion,
mb> basically.)

I would have thought that this was v.dodgey for the company since they
would likely be on the wrong end of a fraud suit if found out. Even if
they argued that it was an accident they're going to be vulnerable to
`merchantable quality' claims, so they don't get extra business, just
a requirement to fix everything free.

Of course, there is no requirement that software companies have
collective IQs above single digits and, in fact, some well known
examples of the reverse :-).

--
rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk			_O_
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From: eric@Turing.ORG (Eric Prestemon)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: AUC-TeX & TeXsis interaction problem
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:23:42 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.


	I have a problem with these two packages, and I was wondering
if anyone out there has tackled this before I try.

	When I run LaTeX or TeX from AUC-TeX, the output file is given
the correct name, i.e. input.dvi (or whatever). However, when I run
TeXsis from AUC-TeX, the output file is texput.dvi. 

	AUC-TeX doesn't specify the input file on the command line,
instead using an \input command. How come TeX and LaTeX handle this
right and TeXsis (and I assume other pre-loaded formats) don't? I am
relatively new at all of these packages, so bear with me if this is a
simple mistake on my part.
-- 
Eric Prestemon (ecp2z@virginia.edu) 
"Jesus saves! Gretzky steals! Gretzky scores!"
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DVIps (OS/2) : no memory message
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:26:04 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <1992Aug17.092435.23658@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, funka@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Funk) writes:
> some days ago i got dvips for os2. 
> After installing it i tried to convert some simple 
> dvi-files, but always the mesage:
> "dvips: !no memory" occured.

I've been able to use the new 32-bit dvips for OS2 2.0 on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
 This is dvips 5.490 Copyright 1986, 1992 Radical Eye Software
     Usage: dvips [options] filename[.dvi]

I also compiled this easily with MSC 6.00A for DOS/OS2 to obtain a version
for OS2 1.3 (and DOS).

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: opbibtex@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Oren Patashnik)
Subject: Re: BUG in chicago.bst
Organization: /u/opbibtex/.organization
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:40:08 GMT

fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes:
> I found a problem in chicago.bst:
> . . .
> I get this error message from BibTeX:
> Warning--you've exceeded 100, the entry-string-size, for entry dan-ea-82
> while executing--line 1541 of file chicago.bst
> *Please notify the bibstyle designer*

This is a plea to bibliography-style designers (.bst programmers):
Please follow the advice, about how to handle string variables, given
at the beginning of Section 5.3 of "Designing BibTeX Styles".  The
standard styles, along with apalike.bst, for example, show how you
might do it with the sort.key$ variable.  The writer of chicago.bst
should contact me by e-mail to solve any remaining problems.
From: john@klein.Mines.Colorado.EDU (John Stockwell)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Bold Math Greek
Keywords: boldmath, greek
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:52:29 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

In article <1992Jul29.174002.24185@ccsun.strath.ac.uk>  
cabr07@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("G.N.Sinclair") writes:
> 
> Is there any way of including bold greek characters within the math
> environment of LaTeX without having to built a new font?
> 
> Gordon.

Here at CWP, we have defined these two commands to permit
users to have \mathbold characters for both \normalsize
and a smaller size for sub and superscripts..


% define: \fat to make \mathbold  \normalsize characters
\newcommand{\fat}[1]{\mbox{\protect\boldmath$#1$}}

% define:  \sfat  bold \small characters
\newcommand{\sfat}[1]{\mbox{\footnotesize\protect\boldmath$#1$\normalsize} 
}

Example:
\[     \fat{\beta} = f ( \fat{x} ) e^{\sfat{y}} \]

Here, the "\beta" and "x" are normalsize bold math italic
and the "y" is \footnotesize bold math italic. Hope this helps.

				John Stockwell
				Center for Wave Phenomena
				Colorado School of Mines
				Golden, CO 80401
		john@dix.mines.colorado.edu
From: xuzhiqin@usc.edu (Xuzhi Qin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Gnuplot/EEPic/LaTex
Date: 13 Aug 1992 15:05:13 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sal-sun125.usc.edu

I just hacked Gnuplot (MSDOS port) and tried to use its EEPic driver
(or interface). I have EmTex intalled on my 386/PC. After I input the EEPic
output file of GnuPlot to my .tex file and run LaTeX, everything seems
perfect except the y-label of the picture/plot is horizontally placed instead
of vertically alone the y-axis.

Is there any body on the net using Gnuplot/EEpic(or latex)/LaTeX combination?
How do you solve the problem of horizontal y-label? Any comment will be very
much appreciated
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From: "Phillip E. Parker" <PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Boldmath question
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 16:27:26 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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You have to bold the desired characters individually.
Or change to NFSS!

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Web2c and subdirectory searching
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:28:51 GMT

tfb@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes:

>What I did find was that the code is incredibly bright about working
>out if a directory *has* subdirs -- it counts the links and assumes
>that if there are only 2 then it hasn't.  I don't see how it could do
>significantly better than it does, unless there is something obvious
>I'm missing.

As a temporary hack I've done the following.
I created a directory CACHEDIR,
and put it at the start of TEXINPUTS.
Then any input file requested in TARGETDIR is linked
to a file with the same name in CACHEDIR.

============= in lib/site.h =============

#define TEXINPUTS  ".:/usr/local/lib/tex/tmpinputs:/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs//"

=========================================

=========== in lib/ourpaths.c ===========

!#define TARGETDIR "/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs"
!#define CACHEDIR "/usr/local/lib/tex/tmpinputs"

...

boolean
testreadaccess (name, path_index)
  char *name;
  int path_index;
{
  string found;  
  
  make_c_string (&name);

  found = find_path_filename (name, path_dirs[path_index]);
  if (found != NULL)
! {
!   if (strncmp(found, TARGETDIR, strlen(TARGETDIR)) == 0) {
!     char cmd[256];
!     sprintf(cmd, "ln %s %s/%s", found, CACHEDIR, name);
!     system(cmd);
!   }
    strcpy (name, found);
! }
  
  make_pascal_string (&name);
  
  return found != NULL;
}
=========================================

Just an idea ...

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
From: zoo@cygnus.com (david d 'zoo' zuhn)
Subject: Re: "risky" PD software
X-Md4-Signature: 70bbe12ff212e8ce57458e51ab546903
Organization: Cygnus Support -- +1 415 322 3816
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:02:01 GMT


   > I don't understand: how is running PD software risky if the user has access
   > to files he is not supposed to show to anyone? Specifically, why is it more
   > risky than running Wordperfect etc.?

   Running any software is risky. However I feel that commerical
   software companies are less likely to produce code that has trojan
   horse code in it.  Also commercial software is normally obtained
   through a more secure method than PD software is.

Huh?  I don't see how you can get more secure than source code.  You
have every opportunity to check the code, in something that's
readable.  You compile it with your own compilers (which I hope you
trust).  

If you're talking about the pc world, where people grab binaries left
and right, well, I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw the
disk that they came on.  I rarely pulled down pd/shareware programs
that I didn't have the source to.  When I did, I always checked them
very carefully.  

   A shrink wrapped disk or a tape is less likely to have been
   tampered with than a copy of a PD program obtained from a bulletin
   board.  I doubt there is anything funny about the copy of TeX at U
   of Washington. A lot of people have gotten a copy from there and if
   there were problems with it, something would have been posted about
   it by now.

Please make the distinction between source offerings and binary
offerings.  In the Unix world, most packages are distributed as
source, and don't present much risk for hidden virii or trojan horses.

  david d 'zoo' zuhn |  
    cygnus support   |  "Man made it, man can fix it."
    zoo@cygnus.com   |  		-- anonymous biker in South Dakota
From: bjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William A Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: PostScript to .DVI converter -- Is there such a beast??
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:37:33 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

Well, the subject line pretty much says it all.  I have a large postscript
file that I would like to print out but don't have a PS printer and
ghostscript doesn't seem to work with my HP laser jet (or, more likely
I am unable to glean from the dozen or so pages a documentation how to
make it work).  So, I was hoping that a PS to .dvi converter was lying
around somewhere.  I've tried archie with the logical (at least to me)
program names but came up empty.

Thanks for your help

Bill
From: rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Ties, a standard needed.
Date: 15 Aug 92 17:55:31 GMT
Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Arizona

I've found that in order to improve the look of my TeX documents, I use
ties (tildes) quite heavily, to join words inseparably together.

Is there any agreed-upon convention, in the typesetting world, for when 
two words should not be separated by a line break?

I've developed the following rules of thumb:

	1. A one-letter or two-letter word which begins a sentence,
	   or which follows a comma or other punctuation symbol within
	   a sentence, should be tied to the next word. 

	   The same is true for one-symbol or two-symbol mathematical
	   expressions (e.g. $a$ or $a\cdot b$), although of course
	   it isn't good style for them to appear at the beginning
	   of a sentence.

	2. A one-letter or two-letter word which ends a sentence
	   should be tied to the preceding word.

	   The same is true for one-symbol or two-symbol mathematical
	   expression.  (It's OK for them to appear at the end of 
	   a sentence.)

These rules seem pretty good to me, but does anyone have a longer set?

-- 
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Dept. of Math.    | UUCP: uunet!arizona!amethyst!rsm
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From: osin@sel.izmiran.troitsk.su (Andrei Osin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to \include in cycle ?
Keywords: include includeonly
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:24:55 GMT
Reply-To: osin@sel.izmiran.troitsk.su
Organization: IZMIRAN

I want to TeX only separate pages of a book by typing in their numbers.
What's wrong with the following structure:

\documentstyle[ifthen]{book}
\typein[\pages]{}
\includeonly{title,\pages}
\begin{document}
\newcounter{pag}
\setcounter{pag}{1}
\include{title}
\whiledo{\value{pag} < 170}
	{ \include{\thepag}\stepcounter{pag} }
\end{document}
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: svihura@enel.ucalgary.ca (Mike Svihura)
Subject: Resume styles
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 05:56:36 GMT
Reply-To: svihura@enel.UCalgary.CA (Mike Svihura)
Organization: Electrical Engineering, U of C, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

	I'm looking for a TeX or LaTeX format style for a resume. 
Rather than hack one together myself, I was wondering if anyone 
has made one or knows the whereabouts of a good one. This would
be greatly appreciated.

			Thanks in advance,

-- 

----------------------------
Mike Svihura
svihura@enel.UCalgary.CA
From: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk (David Carlisle)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: AMSLaTeX vs. LaTeX
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:29:47 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
In-reply-to: PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU's message of 13 Aug 92 21:21:18 GMT

>>>>> On 13 Aug 92 21:21:18 GMT, PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU (Phillip E. Parker) said:

Phillip> The closest compatibility I think is AMSLaTeX with LaTeX 2.09 + NFSS.
Phillip> It would be possible for almost any user to transfer .tex files from
Phillip> one to the other, but very time-consuming and tedious, and just more so
Phillip> with LaTeX 2.09 without NFSS.

AMSLaTeX *is* LaTeX 2.09 + NFSS. Or rather amslatex is a suite of
style options which work with such a format.

Clearly if a document uses some commands which are defined in a
document style or style option, then it will not work without some
modification if you choose not to use that style option. However this
applies to any latex style that defines commands rather than just
altering the formatting.  To say an `amslatex' file is not a `latex'
file is the same as saying that a file calling on, say, `fancyheadings'
is not latex.

David
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: boie@prince.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (Markus Boie)
Subject: dvi 2 fax
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 20:47:42 GMT

How can I convert a DVI file to something FAXable (faxmodem)? I suppose
there's a way using the PBM utilities. It doesn't matter if it's not fast.

any hints welcome,

Markus
From: PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU (Phillip E. Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: GNU
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:14:46 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

This is not really a TeX question, but this is where I read about GNU
stuff.

What is GNU?
Is there a FAQ file somewhere that explains what GNU is? If so, please tell
me where and I'll go ftp it. If not too inconvenient, please be as precise
as you can in exactly where (including directories) it is.

Thanks for your patience.

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: beigel-richard@CS.YALE.EDU (Richard Beigel)
Subject: penalty inside a macro, problems with punctuation
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:53:54 GMT


I would like to discourange line breaks inside a certain macro.
Somewhat naively I put negative penalties at the beginning and end of
the macro.  This does a good job of discouraging line breaks inside
the macro, but it has an unpleasant side-effect.  If the macro is
followed immediately by a period or comma, the new line starts with a
period or comma.

Question 1: is there a way to make the negative penalty effective
iff the next character is white space?

Here is the macro I used:
\newcommand{\machine}[1]{\penalty-500{\rm machine~[#1]}\penalty-500}

Things like "...\machine{control,input,stack}." often result in
"...machine [control, input, stack]
."

Question 2: is there a completely different may to do this?  Something
like \mbox{}, but which merely discourages line breaks, rather than
forbidding them?

-- 
Richard Beigel			telephone:  (203)432-1268
Dept. of Computer Science	email:  beigel-richard@cs.yale.edu
P.O. Box 2158, Yale Station	campus mail:  A. K. Watson Hall
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: vashti@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Vashti Galpin)
Subject: Line numbers in LaTeX
Keywords: line numbers
Organization: Wits University Electrical Engineering
Date: 13 Aug 92 07:50:31 GMT

As my supervisor and I are going to be discussing my Master's
thesis by email, I would like to print a copy for him with 
line numbers, for example

    text....
    text....
    text....
    text....
 5  text....
    text....
    text....
    text....
    text....
10  text....
    text....
    .
    .

Is there some way that I can do this (or something similar) in LaTeX?
Please email any responses as the news at this site is not very
reliable. I will summarise if there is enough interest.

Thanks

Vashti
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Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand
From: "Dr. T. L. Marchioro II" <tlm@antioch.chemistry.McMaster.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Math Pi Fonts
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 11:42:51 -0400
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


I've recently discovered that one of the NeXTs in our research group has a
font on it called Adobe Mathematical Pi, which is actually a set of four
fonts containing a huge collection of mathematical symbols.  I would like to
be able to use this font occasionally in TeX documents, both because it's
postscript, and because it contains several characters which I would like
to use and no satisfactory alternatives for (in particular, the "curly script
Dee, Ell and Aitch" used in functional integrals).  Unfortunately, the
encoding scheme of the four fonts is rather unusual, with the curly script
letters, in particular, being mapped into MathPiTwo in only a semblance of
order.  I'm able to access the individual characters I most want through the
use of \def{} or \mathchar"xxxx, but would like to use the whole font
family without having to go through this for each character.  Has anyone
written (or know of) a set of macros for using AdobeMathPi in TeX?

Any help would be appreciated.

Another somewhat related question:  I'm planning to buy a copy of the
Lucida text/math fonts from Y & Y.  Does anyone have any opinions to offer
on these Type 1 Postscript fonts?

Thanks in advance --- tom