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From: goldstrn@math.fu-berlin.de (Martin Goldstern)
Subject: lineskiplimit < lineskip ?
Summary: why should lineskiplimit not always be equal to lineskip?
Keywords: lineskip, lineskiplimit, baselineskip
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:50:42 GMT


Does anybody know an example where lineskiplimit < lineskip
(or lineskiplimit > lineskip)  would make sense? 

Plain TeX sets lineskip at 1pt, lineskiplimit at 0pt.  Why?

Martin Goldstern
goldstrn@math.fu-berlin.de
From: clark@odie.ee.wits.ac.za (Alan Robert Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: \filename macro???
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:05:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: odie.clark.177
Organization: Wits Electrical Engineering (Novell Users).

In putting together a .tex template file, I would like to be able to 
generate the file's name (eg \filename) . Any Ideas?
Alan.

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From: ghh@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Gilbert Harman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Footnotes at end in latex?
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:25:06 GMT
Organization: Princeton University Cognitive Science Lab
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

Some publishers continue to insist that notes be collected
at the end of a paper rather than at the bottom of the page.
I would like to be able to be able to switch back and forth
between these two methods.  Is there an easy way to do that?

--

	Gilbert Harman, Princeton University Cognitive Science Lab
	221 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542
	ghh@clarity.princeton.edu
From: gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Input file hangs emTeX
Date: 29 Jul 92 08:30:18 GMT
Organization: Aztec Information Management

Hi all

I was busy preparing overhead slides for a talk last night, and when I ran
my file through emTeX, my 386 hung right near the end. The errors that I later
found were:

* at two points early on, I had constructions of the form {\em xxx)
(that is, `)' instead of `}').

* about 200 lines later I had one unterminated list of items (no \end{itemize}).

It was on the latter that it hung. I got four error messages (Somethings wrong -
perhaps a missing \item), after which it quietly died.

I am posting this just out of interest. In the 1+ year I have been using
emTeX, this is the first time it has hung on me, on quite a trivial error.
Has anyone else experienced this? I am running a reasonably old version of
emTeX (TeX 3.0 compliant, but about 1.5 years old). I can check the version
number if anyone is interested, and perhaps post a shortened form of the input
if I can replicate the error in a few lines.

Happy TeXing!
Graham.

-- 
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Software Systems Engineer/Student  | that which is soft conquers the hard."
Aztec Information Management/UCT   | 		Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching Ch. 78
gram@aim1.aztec.co.za / gram@cs.uct.ac.za 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: llew@coal.WPI.EDU (Lew Yan Voon)
Subject: faq
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:22:31 GMT

In article <AA00408.9207171433.Hassocks@uk.a> da188@city.ac.uk writes:
>
>p.s. Can someone email me the FAQ for this mailing list or point in the
>direction of one?
>--
>

actually, i don't remember having seen the faq for quite a while.
isn't it a monthly? i'm mainly interested in the supplement which
has a listing of sites and what's available. the latest copy i've
is a few months old.

lok
From: malan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Malan)
Subject: Psfig 1.8 and OzTeX 1.42
Keywords: psfig, oztex, latex
Organization: ME Dept., Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 23:52:46 GMT

Has anyone got psfig 1.8 working with OzTeX 1.42? 

I installed the "unupported" file psfig.oz.tex from the 1.8
distribution. LaTex works fine, but on printing I get:

*** POSTSCRIPT ERROR ***
%%[ Error: nocurrentpoint; OffendingCommand: currentpoint ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%

*** CANCELLED ***

I know that the LaTeX file and the .eps file are ok since they work 
fine on a UNIX system with psfig 1.8 and dvips5.47. Is it possible 
that the macros which must be appended to DVItoPS.ps are out of 
date for Oz 1.42 (it says for Oz 1.3 at the top of the file)?. 

Can anyone give me some advice, or even better, steer me towards a 
version of psfig that works with OzTex 1.42?

Thanks,
Paul Malan
malan@leland.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Need help with verbatim.sty
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:00:40 GMT

In article <jesse.712195075@square-crk>, jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee) writes:
> I would like to use the verbatim.sty to input a file and typeset the file
> in 8 or 9 points cmtt. But I do not know how to modify the \verbatim@font
> and the \verbatiminput macros to define my own macros. Would someone
> help me with that?

Perhaps something as simple as
  {\footnotesize \verbatiminput{filename} }
will work, as the font is already set to tt.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: robertb@tarski.mit.edu (Robert Becker)
Subject: Re: emTeX & HP laserjet II
Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 13:18:24 GMT


It looks like you're getting a timeout error.  In this case,
you need to set DOS so that it infinitely retries the printer
port when the printer says it's busy.  Under DOS 5.0,

	mode lpt1 retry=r

Good luck.
-- 

---------------
Robert Becker, Secretary, 2-332      Dept. of Mathematics, MIT
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307            (617)253-1797
From: anik@crhc.uiuc.edu (Sadun Anik)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Postscript with EmTex
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:59:57
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing
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In-reply-to: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov's message of 31 Jul 92 14:53:38 GMT

In article <PRZEMEK.92Jul31105338@rrdstrad.nist.gov> przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
>$>Karl> The Ghostview program (which runs under X) can do these things.
>$>Karl> (It uses Ghostscript as a back end.)

>$>   Yes, but we were talking MSDOS, not UNIX and X ......      Eliot

>   But ghostscript runs under MS-DOS as well!!!
>			   przemek klosowski (przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov)

  But Ghostview doesn't. Ghostscript does interpret Postscript but I
doubt it does anything else like magnification, clipping etc. My guess 
would be that Ghostview modifies a copy of the source file for proper
magnification and runs it through Ghostscript. Plus the bells and
whistles for panning. Ghostscript can only interpret PS and it doesn't
have the facilities for magnification or display control.  Please
correct me if I am wrong.  

--
Sadun Anik, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Center for Reliable and High-performance Computing
e-mail: anik@crhc.uiuc.edu
From: barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA (Michael Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: A feature and not a bug
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 10:08:42 EDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Several people have explained my problem with \mark's.  Basically,
macros inside \mark's are expanded, but \let's are not evaluated.  So
\ucasetrue expands to \let\ifucase\iftrue and, since it is not evaluated
further, this leaves not one but two unmatched \if's.  I am sure there
is a reason for this.

For the immediate problem, there are two workarounds.  The simplest is
to replace the \ifuccase by a \ucase counter:

\let\uc=\uppercase
\newcount\ucase
\def\ss{\ifnum\ucase=1 SS\else\char"19\fi}
\def\aa{\ifnum\ucase=1 \AA\else\accent23a\fi}
\def\ae{\ifnum\ucase=1 \AE\else\char"1A\fi}
\def\oe{\ifnum\ucase=1 \OE\else\char"1B\fi}
\def\o{\ifnum\ucase=1 \O\else\char"1C\fi}
\def\uppercase#1{{\ucase=1 \uc{#1}}}

When something like \oe is used inside \chapter or the like, it must be
\protect'ed.

A different workaround would be to redefine the \ps@... words that use
\uppercase so that it appears _outside_, not inside, the \mark.  For
example, the following works fine.

\let\uc=\uppercase
\newif\ifucase
\def\ss{\ifucase SS\else\char"19\fi}
\def\aa{\ifucase\AA\else\accent23a\fi}
\def\ae{\ifucase\AE\else\char"1A\fi}
\def\oe{\ifucase\OE\else\char"1B\fi}
\def\o{\ifucase\O\else\char"1C\fi}
\def\uppercase#1{{\ucasetrue \uc{#1}}}

\newcount\atcat
\atcat\the\catcode`\@
\makeatletter
\def\ps@headings{\let\@mkboth\markboth
\def\@oddfoot{}\def\@evenfoot{}%       No feet.
\def\@evenhead{\rm \thepage\hfil \sl \leftmark}%        Left heading.
\def\@oddhead{\hbox{}\sl \rightmark \hfil \rm\thepage}% Right heading.
\def\chaptermark##1{\uppercase{\markboth{\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
      \@chapapp\ \thechapter. \ \fi ##1}{}}}%
\def\sectionmark##1{\uppercase{\markright{\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\z@
   \thesection. \ \fi ##1}}}}

\pagestyle{headings}
\catcode`\@=\the\atcat

In this case, the \ifucase is evaluated at the time that the \mark is
compiled, not when it is used, so the control sequences don't have to be
\protect'ed.  This would require rewriting all the style files,
including fancyhed.sty, which have the \uppercase inside.  Since there
is, as far as I know, no negative effects to having it outside the
\mark, I would like to see that done by style file designers.

Michael Barr
From: Zdenek Wagner <WAGNER%CSEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: A feature and not a bug
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 11:22:43 MDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


This is the result of my experiment with \mark... and \uppercase. The
problem is that the argument of \mark... is MOVING, so that EVERYTHING
INSIDE must be protected. I am sending a short sample file (I don't know
how to make myheadings appear on the first page -- I use
fancyheadings.sty instead).

The file demonstrates the use of \uppercase with Danish. In real life I
use the real Danish letters generated by keyboard driver and accepted by
the text editor. However, they will not pass through mailers, so I use <
and > in this file.

Note the \protect command in the middle of the word. Without it,
\uppercase inside \mark... doesn't work. For the same reason you can use
neither \def\fyr{\uppercase{fyrt<jet}} nor \def\fyr{fyrt<jet}
\markright{\uppercase{\fyr}} -- they won't work but
\def\fyr{\uppercase{fyrt\protect<jet}} works.

Zdenek Wagner

footnote: Fyrt{\o}jet is a Danish word for tinder-box

                O
                 \ /
------------------X-----------cut here---------------------------------
                 / \
                O

\documentstyle{article}
\catcode`<=\active  \def<{\o}
\catcode`>=\active  \def>{\O}
\lccode`<=`<  \uccode`<=`>
\lccode`>=`<  \uccode`>=`>
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{myheadings}
\markright{\uppercase{fyrt\protect<jet}} % It must be protected though
                                         % it looks nasty!
Uppercase of Fyrt<jet is \uppercase{fyrt<jet}
\clearpage
Uppercase of Fyrt<jet is \uppercase{fyrt<jet}
\end{document}
From: ajtd@st-andrews.ac.uk (Antony J. T. Davie)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: alignment
Date: 22 Jul 92 11:12:38 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.

Here's a little challenge from one who seldom uses TeX because of the
frustration of not having a local guru to ask how to do
moderately complicated things. The answer may be easy. If it
is I apologise.

I wish to typeset something like the following

1. Item 1                                 Explanation 1
2. Item 2                                 Explanation 2
3. Item 3 \
4. Item 4 |                               Explanation to 3,4 and 5
5. Item 5 /
6. Item 6                                 Explanation 6

where some of the items are bracketted as shown.

The trouble is that I want the lefthand ends of all the items to be
aligned and similarly with the explanations. To get the bracket I have to
go into math mode. How do I align items 1, 2 and 6 (outside math mode)
with 3,4 and 5 (in math mode)? LaTeX preferred but TeX would do.

Tony Davie
From: nad@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Dr Noel Doughty University of Canterbury)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Big integral signs
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 14:22:26 NZS
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


I know this has appeared as a question recently but I had no need
of it then (nor now) but a colleague wants a big integral for a
conference poster paper.

I'd appreciate a direct reply by email if there is an easy solution.

Noel Doughty
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Canterbury
Private Bag
Christchurch 8001
New Zealand

TEL: 064 3 667-001 (Extn: 6877)
DDI: 064 3 642-877
FAX: 064 3 642-469 (Physics)

Internet: nad@phys.canterbury.ac.nz

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: goossens@dxcern.cern.ch (Michel Goossens)
Subject: Problems with Textures
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:15:09 GMT

When installing System 7 on our Macs recently, on one of the
machines we seem to be getting problems with the kind of the
font used in the text and log windows. As explained in the 
TexTures User's Guide, the default font should be Monaco 9.
I am getting however a boldish italic 20 pt like font, where
the backslash is shown as ``, { like - } like the ff ligature,
> as an inverted ? and < as an inverted !.

When Texing the document, everything comes out correctly on 
the preview window and on the printer.

Did anybody on the net experience a similar problem or have 
a hint about what is going wrong? 
B.T.W. when I choose "by hand" any other Monaco size or 
another font via the Font... command in the Edit menu,
everything is allright.

Thanks for your help.

__________________________________________________________________________
| Dr. Michel GOOSSENS                | Phone  : (+41 22) 767-3363        |
| Documentation and Text Processing  | Fax    : (+41 22) 767-7155        |
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|         for Particle Physics       |          (preferred email address)|
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gaissmai@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Karl Gaissmaier)
Subject: xdvi and fonts for 100dpi and 75dpi screens?
Followup-To: gaissmai@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.d
Keywords: xdvi, TeX, mf
Organization: Universitaet Ulm
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:22:42 GMT

Hello

i'm building TeX from the scratch, and i will use TeX only in
combination with xdvi for previewing and dvips for printing.
xdvi takes for default 300dpi fonts and shrunks by 3 for displaying.
my question is now:

would it be better to create 100dpi and 70dpi fonts for xdvi
and with shrunking-factor of 1, and are there mode-def's for
mf for 100dpi and 70dpi Screens, especially Sony's?

thanks for any hints

Charly
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: howell@blegga.u.washington.edu (David Howell)
Subject: Re: ".dvi"-aware Print Shops?
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:16:29 GMT

It's not the print shop _per_se_ that needs to be .dvi aware, but
a service bureau. You have a couple of choices:

1. Find one of the printers/publishers that is .dvi aware.

2. Find someone who can print a .dvi file to a high-resolution
	printer, and take the output to any one of a number
	of small-run printers. (Me, for example :)

3. Use dvips to create a postscript file that can be set at a
	local service bureau, then proceed as step 2.

This assumes that 300dpi output isn't good enough.

If you don't actually have a problem with output (you can 
get it into hardcopy), then all you need is a printer.
Go to your nearby library, and look in Literary Marketplace
(LMP), from Bowker's. This will guide you to a plethora
of printers, many of which are set up for runs of books
as few as 10 or less.

Dave Howell
SnarkWorks Typesetting
From: janhsu@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX grammar question
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:28:53 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


This is a simple question to many, but why doesn't TeX recognize a space
as a non-character? (such as the line, "/tex program" would appear 
"TeXprogram" when run through the formmater). Why doesn't the formatter
recognize the space between /tex and "program" as being a non-character,
therefore recognizing that the command name is finished?

Thanks
-- 
    .  .      +-------------------------------+
  --|--|      | Mark Yun Wook Choi            |
   /.\ |      | janhsu@hardy.u.washington.edu |
  --|--|      +-------------------------------+  
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: wolf@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andy Wolfsberg)
Subject: lscape.sty  -  where is it archived?
Reply-To: wolf@hydro.stanford.edu
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 17:42:08 GMT

Hello,
I recently posted requesting information about printing tables in landscape mode.
A very kind soul from the UK sent me lscape.sty.  Unfortunately, in crossing
the ocean, the file became riddled with unwanted control characters and does not
"compile" with latex.  In messing around with it, I accidently deleted his/her
name and address so I can't even thank them.
Can someone tell me a site from which I can download
lscape.sty
and rotate.sty
or if you have them, please e-mail them to me and maybe it
will work next time.

Thanks!!!
Andy Wolfsberg
wolf@hydro.stanford.edu
From: "Peggy A Ravitch" <CENTER@UNC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Discussion on reading LaTeX files
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 09:49 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Dear folks-
  I have noticed that when I read a LaTeX file using word6 editor
I press alt + r  (to read)   and then type in filename.tex.
Well, if you have flying fingers and haven't had that morning cup
of java (coffee) yet, it can easily come out filename.texz
and the file will be read and appears on screen.  I do corrections
as required, then save using alt + w (to write).  The problem is
the file is saved as filename.texz and if you're sleeping at the
wheel, so to speak, you will do corrections on filename.texz
and can easily miss this subtle change in name.   Of course, there
are more corrections, and without realizing it, the filename.tex is
read, and you do corrections to the *OLD* version.   Is there a way
of avoiding this?  Can improvements be made to LaTeX that will
ensure you can't call up a file that has been (slightly) mistyped?
Has anyone out there encountered this before?
  In short, I hate to have to do any job twice.
  Regards,
  Peggy Ravitch
  UNC Statistics LaTeX Woman   (That's with a capital "W")
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: anita@ravel.udel.edu (Anita Zanolini Hoover)
Subject: twoup.ps
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:54:57 GMT


I retreive from this newsgroup some PostScript code that was
suppose to create 2up pages with dvips.  I thought I tried
this and it worked before, but now it appears it was so long
ago I can't get it to work.  I am also interested in the
US 8.5 X 11in paper constants.

I have used successfully the 2up.sty generic macros from
Timothy Van Zandt, but was also looking for a PostScript
solution.

Here is the code I originally retreived:

% twoup.ps for dvips 5.47 by Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
% the constants are for A4 paper.
% Use with dvips -h twoup -t landscape 
/isoddpage true def
/orig-showpage /showpage load def
/factor 0.707106781187 def
/showpage {
        isoddpage not { orig-showpage } if
        /isoddpage isoddpage not store } def

/bop-hook {
        /vsize 1 factor add neg def
        isoddpage {factor factor scale}
                 { 0 544.283799804 translate} ifelse
        } def

/end-hook{ isoddpage not { orig-showpage } if } def

/start-hook {/eos{ isoddpage {clear SS restore /isoddpage true store}
		{clear SS restore /isoddpage false store}
				 ifelse} B
	/bos{/SS save N
		isoddpage not {factor factor scale} if} B
} def
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: kehr@rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Roger Kehr)
Subject: Formatting \tableofcontents
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:05:20 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Keywords: tableofcontents

	Hi 

I've got a problem with the formatting of \tableofcontents.

Having a two-digit sectionnumber and a two-digit 
subsectionnumber the output of these two numbers in
the table of contents collides with the name of the
\subsection. There is too less space between number and text.

Question: Is there an easy solution in LaTeX ?


	Thanx Roger

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