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From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Installing TeX at a "secure" site?
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:02:45 GMT
Organization: Me? Organized? Hah! :-)

In article <FRITZZ.92Aug14174337@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu>
fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu writes:

> Wasn't there a virus spread by legally sold software for the Mac?  By
> the way, an older version of GNU Emacs (which is running at the site
> who requested that info) installed some program as setuid root by
> mistake and created a major security hole.

can't speak for the Mac bit, but I can say that some commercial software
I got was quickly recalled by the company when they discovered that the
machines that do their bulk copying were infected with a rather nasty
virus.  the copy I had checked out clean, but (obviously) they didn't
want to take any chances....

people who insist on using only commercial software are simply being
drawn into a false sense of security.  it's as simple as that.  yes,
there are risks when using any software, PD, shareware, commercial,
or anything in between.  the solution is not banning such software....
the solution is a good backup strategy (this covers hardware failures,
too).

as for the problem of software containing security holes, compare the
number of CERT advisories that deal with the commercial UN*X OS code
to those dealing with software from the net.  the higher visibility
most certainly plays a role in this, but.....

still, the worst security hole on UN*X systems is by far a combination
of bad system administration and users who aren't concerned about
security.  on my workstation at work, which is already protected by a
couple of firewalls, I frequently run (some via cron, some manual)
checks on the system.  I do things like checking for easily guessed
passwords (I have the system hard-coded not to reveal the password
that was guessed...just that it WAS guessed), .rhosts files, entries
in /etc/passwd that shouldn't be there (like a user with a UID of 0,
a user with NO password, etc.), and so on.

gee, I've really gotten off the topic, haven't I?  well, I've spent
too much time here reading/typing news.....I suppose it's time to
look at the other half of the newsgroups, then get onto something
better, like the latest book I just bought to add to the long queue
of books I want to read.....

to the original poster:  good luck.  sounds like you'll need it.
   --jim

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From: cc3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher N. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Flush left captions?
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:33:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.ceYHFPa00WBMI3AEdr
Organization: Doctoral student, Architecture, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I'd like captions to be flush left, regardless of their length.  Can
anyone tell me how to do this?

--Chris Carlson
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: strike-through and underline
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:56:00 GMT

In article <92Aug20.005113cdt.15602@utdallas.edu>, ivor@utdallas.edu (Ivor Page) writes...
> 
>A few days ago I asked if anyone had a set of macros for underline
>and strike-through (congressional style amendment procedure for papers.)
>Donald Arseneau kindly sent me his ulem.sty macros which work with
>both plain TeX and LaTeX. I found them perfect for my application.


Glad to hear it.  By the way, ulem.sty is available by FTP from 
niord.shsu.edu, or through mail by sending the mail message
send sty.ulem
to fileserv@shsu (.bitnet).  It is in other archives, but the 
current version is 

%  Version 1992: ...

>In memorium for all those senators of universities that once dreamed
>of doing nothing but research and teaching the world's very brightest
>students.

And to those faculty members who dream at night of misconduct with their
students.

Donald
From: 754clifton@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: WANTED: spell for LaTeX
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:23:27 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Aug21.162554.26904@news.clarkson.edu>, russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (David Russell) writes:
>    Is there a spell cheking routine out there for LaTeX files, which
> runs on a SUN system, (UNIX), similar to 'spell'. The problem is
> that 'spell' has problems when encountering 'TeX' commands. (eg.
> '\put' returns 'ut' as an unknown word, and '\section' returns
> 'ction' as unknown.) I would just like a spell checker which does
> not have this problem. Developing a supplimental dictionary with
> all these non-words could be dangerous. What are my options...
> 

Try an archie search for spet (spell tool) this is a nice spelling 
package from a guy in Europe (Norway?). Anyway, it features compressed
dictionaries, is portable across most common machines (I'm sure Sun
included) and has dictionaries for TeX/LaTeX source and others specialty
files.

/Doug
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Author index
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:45:25 GMT

In article <25496@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, schach@csa2.lbl.gov 
(A SCHACH VON WITTENAU) writes:
> 	Is there a STY or BST file that can be used to produce an author
> index?  In addition to producing a bibliography for a book I would also
> like a list/index of the pages on which a particular author/journal article
> was cited.

This has been discussed recently on the group. I can't remember the best 
solution, but get DM Jones tex-index from niord.shsu.edu (look for posts from
George Greenwade). One solution is:

% Copyright 1992 by Charles Frederick Wells.  This file
% may be freely redistributed as long as it is unchanged and
% contains this copyright notice.  Please report errors or send
% suggestions for changes to cfw2@po.cwru.edu or to Charles Wells,
% Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University,
% University Circle, Cleveland, OH 44106-7058, USA.
%
% This file should be saved as "xbib.tex".  It causes a list of
% the pages on which a bibliographic entry is cited to be printed
% after the entry.  The document must be TeX'd twice to make
% this work.
%
% To use this file, you have to do two things:  (1) Type "\input
% xbib" in the preamble of your LaTeX document.  (2) Enclose each
% bibliographical entry in braces.  Thus, instead of
%
% \bibitem{LG} Leonard Gillman, {\bf Writing Mathematics
% Well}.  Mathematical Association of America, 1987.
%
% you should write
%
% \bibitem{LG}{Leonard Gillman, {\bf Writing Mathematics
% Well}.  Mathematical Association of America, 1987.}
[rest deleted]

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
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From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:45:00 GMT

In article <713536311snx@n5ial.chi.il.us>, jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes...
>In article <1992Aug6.203536.17392@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie writes:
> 
>> With apologies to TeXperts ...
>                    ^^^^^^^^
> 
>or do people who type this simply mis-spell TeXnician?
>   --jim
> 

And how do people expect to get any help when they reveal that they haven't 
even BEGUN to read the TeXbook, and have not done any of the exercises!?

D
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: linden@me.utoronto.ca (Karl-Erich Lindenshmidt)
Subject: German Dictionary
Keywords: German spell checker
    linden@me.utoronto.ca
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:54:06 GMT

Thank you.

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: AMSLaTeX vs LaTeX 2.09
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:26:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.171922.2321@wuecl.wustl.edu>, kevin@rodin.wustl.edu (Kevin Ruland) writes:
> The big question: Is AMSLaTeX (using oldlfont.sty or whatever) roughly
> backwardly compatible to LaTeX 2.09?  I realize that stylefiles may not
> be portable, but could the typical user *easily* port his papers from
> the old to the new?

You've mixed up the ideas of NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) and the AMS
stuff. It is true that you have to use NFSS if you wish to use the
AMS-LaTeX stuff. The incompatibilities you describe are due to NFSS, not
AMS-LaTeX. The one that usually catches folks is the use of \rm. It is easy
to fix these.

If a file runs under the NFSS correctly, then you can add AMS stuff with
  \documentstyle[amstex]{article}
Your file will still LaTeX correctly (of course, you haven't really used 
the AMS-LaTeX stuff in this example). If you are currently using a hacked
scheme to get the symbols from AMSFonts, there may be a few changes needed.

If you use the amsart style, then a few small changes to the "topmatter"
stuff (such as \author) may be needed.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
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From: rhorne@cix.compulink.co.uk (Roger Horne)
Subject: Re: ps2mf
Reply-To: rhorne@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:42:44 +0000

 
  > If your hints.mf is the one I wrote: 
 
Indeed it is. I discovered both ps2mf and ps2pk from something Sebastian 
Rahtz wrote in UKTeX some weeks back. I tried ps2pk first but had some 
problems with it. At the moment it still produces characters which contain a 
certain amount of rubbish; I do not have a unix machine (I use an Acorn 
Archimedes risc machine) and getting the program to run at all was not easy. 
The accompanying files refer to there being difficulties on the Amiga and, I 
think, msdos machines; it would seem that there may be something in the UNIX 
code which does not work well on other os's.) 
 
On the other hand ps2mf compiled on my ansi C compiler with virtually no 
modifications. The text it prints with hinting:=0 is very bold and with 
hinting:=1 it is again not perfect---diagonals are over-heavy---but it is
still better than having letters  with odd marks underneath them...
 
Roger Horne
From: JUL@MATH.AMS.ORG (jul)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re:  \boldsymbol (et al.)
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:02:27 GMT
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From: jon@sed.stel.com (Jon Radel)
Subject: Re: "risky" PD software
Organization: Stanford Telecom, SED, Reston
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 21:30:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.033022.273@hemlock.cray.com> marc@hemlock.cray.com (Marc Bouron) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug17.010336.4750@uwm.edu>, bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III) writes:
>> From article <7796821@MVB.SAIC.COM>, by "Phillip E. Parker" <PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU>:
>> > 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.
>
>Funny you should say that...  In an article at the weekend in a most reputable
>British newspaper, it was alleged that some software houses were deliberately
>introducing errors and `time bombs' into their software, some simple, some 
>malicious, in order to secure future "business" from their clients.  (Extortion, 
>basically.)
>
>[M][a][r][c]

And over the years there have been some really charming bits of code 
inserted by programmers who suspect that they're about to be fired.....

However, everyone in this thread has missed the real distinction between
commercial software and PD software.  One type has somebody to
sue over problems and the other doesn't.  If this distinction is unclear
to you, try looking at it from the viewpoint of a manager who knows full
well that he doesn't have the knowledge to make technical judgment calls
on this; as a fallback position he'll pick the one where there is a nice,
clean legal relationship with somebody who takes responsibility for the
performance of the software.

--Jon Radel


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen)
Subject: TeX Documentation
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:40:18 GMT

We have TeX on our system here but we don't have the documentation available.
As I am a new TeX user I would really like to have some of that available. I 
would like to be able to download the current TeX docuementation without having
to download all of TeX as well. Does anyone know a site that has the            documentation in a seperate file that I could download? Thanks much , Ted
From: gpfrn@cam.nist.gov (Glenn_P._Forney_x6884)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: back issues of tugboat avail?
Date: 15 Aug 92 03:08:45 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

are back issues of tugboat articles available
via ftp? if so where? 

glenn forney
gpfrn@cfr6.cfr.nist.gov
From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Can pc users benefit from DosTex?
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:56:19 GMT
Organization: Me? Organized? Hah! :-)

In article <168o34INNghl@wupost.wustl.edu> ad@fermi.wustl.edu writes:

> I'm very happy writing my thesis using emTeX (shareware) on my 386-33. 
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^

uh, since when is emTeX shareware?  last time I checked, there was no
registration fee required....that, or I'm missing some documentation.

from what I've been told, emTeX is *FREEWARE*, meaning it requires no
fee for registration, etc...  this is *NOT* the same as shareware,
which, by definition, requires a registration fee.

just trying to set the records straight (or find out if I'm missing
documentation)....
   --jim

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From: roong@pucs3.poly.edu (Roong-Ko Doong)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Summary: emTeX + HP Deskject 500 in OS/2 2.0
Keywords: emtex, Deskject 500, OS/2
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:55:48 GMT
Organization: Polytechnic University

Hi, I like to thank everyone who replied to me.

The driver to use Deskject 500 with emTeX is:

dvihplj /od+

Thanks again,

Roongko Doong
From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: tex v. WP5.1
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:06:37 GMT
Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics

In article <714102154snx@n5ial.chi.il.us> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.023630.7178@disk.uucp> tony@disk.uucp writes:
>
>[I] make a photocopy of my printer's output (to take care of
>the fact that the darkness isn't 100% uniform), and you basically can't
>tell which is which, even looking very close.  not just my opinion, but
>the opinion of lots of people who I've asked to tell me which was
>which......and those who refuse to believe that my documentation was
>printed on a dot-matrix printer, period.
>

I know this doesn't belong here, but I HAVE to say this.  A laser printer 
IS a dot matrix printer.  360 dpi is 360 dpi.  The photocopying to make the
darkness uniform (assuming that it is a high quality copier) should make the
outputs fairly indistinguishable.  Laser printers have their advantages, but
they're not magic.  They are dot matrix printers.  (Sorry, but it's a pet
peeve of mine that people don't think of laser printers as using a matrix
of dots.)

Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
From: mjm@spekl.as.arizona.edu (Mark McCaughrean)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Finding width of on-going \halign
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:08:40 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ


     In the middle of an \halign, I want to use \noalign to set a
paragraph of text (say). I want this paragraph to have the same
width as the table I'm setting using \halign. How do I get TeX
to tell me what the width of the table is, i.e. the width of the
vertical box I'm currently in the middle of? (I don't want to use
\multispan, by the way: I want the exact width of the table, and 
I don't want to have to know how many columns to span).

     I figured I could make a \setbox with an \hrule inside it,
hoping the \hrule would be the width of the table, and that then
I could use \wd to get the width of the box. I can't get it to
work. Seems like TeX must know the width though, or does it only
work it out when it has digested the whole table?

     Any ideas? Thanks,
                          Mark
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From: robert@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Robert Inder)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Using an input file with a letter template file
Date: 12 Aug 92 09:49:22 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
In-reply-to: suchitra@cpsc.ucalgary.ca's message of 8 Aug 92 04:54:21 GMT


In article <BsnEyo.6st@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> suchitra@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Suchitra Chander) writes:


   Hi,
     I do not have much information on the letter document style. 
   I know how to set it up, but how would I incoporate the use of several 
   different (recipient) addresses, so that I can generate several form-letters
   (simultaneously), using one file?
     Is it possible to make one input file with recipient addresses and use it 
   with a letter template file as in WordPerfect and common word-processors ?
     Thank you,

I've done this reasonably painlessly.  I won't swear that I did it
the best way, but it worked.  Instead of just putting the text of the
letter between "\begin{letter}" and "\end{letter}", I put the whole thing
within another command, which I called "\arecipient", that took more
arguments.  Then I used those arguments to re-bind various parameters used
within the letter.  Then, the actual mailing list was simply a list of
calls to "\arecipient" with the relevant details.

So the whole thing looked roughly like this:


    \documentstyle[12pt,a4wide]{letter}
    \begin{document}
       .
       .
       normal command definitions and other gubbins
       .
       .
    \newcommand{\Who}{Formal Name}
    \newcommand{\who}{Name}
    \newcommand{\company}{Company Name}
    \newcommand{\where}{Company Address}
    \newcommand{\what}{Company Products}

    \newcommand{\arecipient}[5]{
    \renewcommand{\Who}{#1}
    \renewcommand{\who}{#2}
    \renewcommand{\company}{#3}
    \renewcommand{\where}{#4}
    \renewcommand{\what}{#5}
    \begin{letter}{\Who \\ 
		   \company \\
		   \where}
    \opening{Dear \who,}
    Here is a letter to ask for details about \what.  I hope you
    can supply them.
    \closing{Cheers, squire}

    \end{letter}

    \include{mailing-list}

    \end{document}


With the mailing list file looking something like

    \arecipient{Mr. Pooh Bear}{Pooh}
	    {WTP Enterprises}
	    {Under the name of Saunders, 100 Acre Wood}
	    {your course on Honey Eating for beginners}
    \arecipient{Mrs. Roo}{Kanga}
	    {Roo and Offspring}
	    {100 Acre Wood}
	    {your range of pouch liners and fasteners}
	.
	.
	.


Hope this helps.

Robert.
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From: gong@dutw34.tudelft.nl (GONG Sunrong)
Subject: Another problem with LaTeX typesetting equation
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:45:49 GMT

Hi all,  my problem is with typesetting a ordinary sencond order 
differential equation in LaTeX, for which I typed in the source file the 
following lines:
	
	\boldmath
	\begin{equation}
		M_n \ddot{U}_{n} + C_n \dot{U}_{n} + K_n = F_n
	\end{equation}

To my supprise, the output is not what it should be --- the two dotted U_n
didn't come out right! The output of \ddot{U}_{n} is a hatted U_n. The 
output of \dot{U}_{n} is even stranger, it was U_n printed over by a 180deg 
rotated ")".

When I deleted the \boldmath, everything comes out fine. But I need to have 
the equation typesetted with boldface (but not the subscripts). I can use {\
bf...} inside the equation enviroment, the output are alright but the 
subcripts are also bold.

Can someone tell me what I did wrong?

Thanx in advance.


-gong
From: JUL@MATH.AMS.ORG (jul)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: \boldsymbol
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:07:38 GMT
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