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From: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune)
Subject: Ans. to R & N symbols and an xy plotter for tex
Keywords: Real, Natural, gnuplot
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:52:57 GMT

For the R & N symbols the easiest solution is to notice that
there is a font that contains these symbols.  I will have to
look through my showfont pages to find it though, but it's there.
Some people prefer to kern them together.

For an xy plotter for TeX the gnuplot program combined with the
epsf macros work well for me.  gnuplot automatically configures
to most standard terminal types.  Once you are done tweeking the
plot you use 'set output' to choose a filename.eps and use the
'set term' command to select encapsulated postscript.  Then 'replot'
to create an encapsulated postscript file.  The epsf macro can
scale the size of the plot and include it easily into your document.
gnuplot is freely available for most standard machines and c source
is also provided.  Furthermore excellent documentation comes with the
package.  I usually use epsf.sty with LaTeX but I think I remember seeing
a separate macro for use with TeX.  The epsf macro is also freely
available (My thanks to the gnuplot and epsf authors).  I think
the epsf macros were part of the dvips package.  The MSDOS version
of gnuplot can be obtained from sites that mirror simtel.  I'm sure
someone will correct me if I have given any incorrect information.

JAF




-- 
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Oakland University             - until you know the truth.  Then there's
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Disclaimer: Not O.U. opinions  - 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf)
Subject: Re: LaTeX \newenvironment and \verbatim
Reply-To: Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de
Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 10:19:12 GMT

In article <QePh2i600WB6MJKENo@andrew.cmu.edu> me12+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc R. Ewing) writes:

   Is it possible to do something like:

   \newenvironment{zcode}{\begin{quote}\begin{verbatim}}%
			 {\end{verbatim}\end{quote}}

   It seems that, once verbatim is turned on, it never sees the \end{zcode}

True. A while ago, I wrote a verbatim style file to get around some of
the problems with verbatim. This is now distributed with AMSLaTeX to
provide the comment environment. 


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From: russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (David Russell)
Subject: Re: faq
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:19:23 GMT

From article <4644@daily-planet.concordia.ca>, by steeve@concour.cs.concordia.ca (HARDY j g steeve):
> 
>  Hi there,
> 	I just joined your group and after sifting through the three hundred
> and some odd articles, I didn't find a FAQ anywhere. Is it either possible for someone to email it to me or even better give me the location where I could
> possibly ftp it.

I too am new to reading this news group and would like to know
where the FAQ is.

> 	Second, I have heard that there is a booklet out there called
> either,
> 	A Gentle introduction to LaTeX, or
> 	A Gentle Introduction to TeX
> I would appreciate any information on this. What I am looking for really is 
> a simple and hopefully well written introduction, any suggestions/comments are more than welcome.
> 			Thanks.
> 					Steeve@cs.concordia.ca

The book I use is

LaTex A document Preparation System User's Guide & Reference.
By. Leslie Lamport
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.  ISBN 0-201-15790-X

It seems to cover all the basics and is fairly easy to follow.
It is always within arms reach. I find it sufficient for most
of my basic questions.

David M. Russell    russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
From: kautz@research.att.com (Henry Kautz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: SliTex query: redefining ^M, etc
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:08:02 GMT
Reply-To: kautz@research.att.com
Distribution: comp
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In using SliTex, I often write things like the following:

\begin{tabbing}
This \= is truly \\
\>	a beautiful day \\[.25in]
\>	{\bf Yesterday,} \= however\\
\>	\>	was rotten
\end{tabbing}

Of course, when I edit things I have to change all the \\ and \>.  I'd
like to be able to define an environment in which end of line
meant \\, end of line followed by a blank line meant
\\[.25], and tab meant \>.  Furthermore, the last end of line in the
environment should simply be eaten, and not turned into a \\.
Then I could simply write

\begin{simpletabbing}
This \= is truly
	a beautiful day

	{\bf Yesterday,} \= however
		was rotten
\end{simpletabbing}

Has someone already created such an environment, or something
similar?  (Please email as well as post responses).
--
---- Henry Kautz

:internet: 	kautz@research.att.com
:uucp:		allegra!kautz
From: yoshi@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (D M Yoshikami)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Greek Text
Summary: How to set Greek in TeX -- It's Greek to me
Keywords: Greek, TeX, .mf, ???
Date: 23 Jul 92 11:39:54 GMT
Organization: National Naval Medical Center


Howdy.  I have a couple papers to set which involve the use of some Greek text
complete with diacritic marks.  To my annoyance, although I can set the Greek
Letters (we have a postscript printer), it doesn't do the diacritics very well,
and you can practically forget about the rough and smooth breathing marks.

Is there an FAQ which has the information on how to cheat the so-called "Symbol"
font into setting Greek, or is there a metafont file kicking around which has
the appropriate characters to accomplish this?  I am sure that I cannot be the 
only person who has to do this.  

Please send me Electronic mail, I don't get a chance to read this newsgroup
very often.

Thank you in advance!!

DY :-)

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From: csas400@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
Subject: ? on "How to install LaTeX for beginners."
Date: 31 Jul 92 05:47:54 GMT
Organization: Minnesota State University System

I hate to show my ignorance but I am below user level for the understanding of
TeX/LaTeX/....  Is there a FAQ file to guide me through the installation of a
LaTeX set.  If not would some kind soul tell me the steps to follow for
setting up LaTeX from the ground up on a IBM-PC running DOS 5.0 useing a 80386
without a math co-processor driving a PostScript laser-print or HP laserjet.

If I will compile, polish, and repost the results if I get positive feedback.


				Thanks!


				-Jeffrey E.Hundstad
				Mankato State University
				Mankato Minnesota
				USA
From: llew@wpi.WPI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 18 Jul 92 06:19 MDT
Subject: another font qu
Nf-ID: #N:1992Jul18.021914.26216@wpi.wpi.e:798277353:001:1261
Nf-From: wpi.wpi.edu!llew    Jul 18 06:19:00 1992


another font question:

what's the purpose of the numbered dir in tex/fonts?
i haven't checked them all but they seem to be all different.
here's a sample of what i've on my machine (a decstn) for
some random file cmbx10.pk:

/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/100/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/121/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/145/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/174/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/208/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/250/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/300/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/329/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/360/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/432/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/518/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/622/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/fonts/746/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/518/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/622/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/300/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/180/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/250/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/210/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/329/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/360/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/432/cmbx10.pk
/usr/users/local/lib/tex/white/746/cmbx10.pk

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune)
Subject: And the fontname with |R and |N is ...
Keywords: real, natural
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:40:11 GMT

msym

JAF


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From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: Justifying lines in LaTeX (hyphenation, \linebreak)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  hyphenation \linebreak \\ \hypenpenalty
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 08:32:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul25.043158.29496@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) writes...
> 
>Can anyone tell me how to break a line in LaTeX and still
>have it justified?  The line looks as follows:
> 
>The residuals give rise to est-   <- bad line break
>imates of ...

Really!?  TeX knows that estimates is hyphenated as es-ti-mates.

>after inserting linebreak (\\):
> 
>The residuals give rise to	  <- ragged right margin
>estimates of ...

You said it yourself "linebreak"  give rise to\linebreak estimates

But this is a last resort in fixing the appearance.

You should have \sloppy in effect.  
Then to reduce the frequency of hyphenation,  say
\hyphenpenalty=200  (NOT \setcounter{hypenpenalty}{200} !!!*)

A good way to prevent a particular hyphenation is to say \mbox{estimates}
or estimates\/.


(*) \setlength{\command}{123pt} vs \setcounter{nameonly}{123} is one
of the worstest syntax decisions I have ever seen!


> 
> 
>I am using SliTeX macro package with LaTeX, so I have a
>lot of these!  Is there a way to write a macro to justify
>the right edge, perhaps by equally inserting \vspace between
>the words, to justify the lines?
> 
>Please help!
> 
>Email to vrr@cbnewsj.att.com.
> 
> 
>Thanks very much,
>Veenu
From: pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon) 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: macros for flow-diagrams
Date: 25 Jul 92 22:09:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon) 

To: ynagel@math.wisc.edu

YN>Are there any macro or (latex) style files for typesetting
YN>flow diagrams.  What is desired are simple macros which would
YN>allow one to insert text into boxes, diamonds, triangles or
YN>circles and then link these figures with arrows.

If you ever get responses on this, I'd be very interested. Thanks in
advance for any info you get.

Pierre Darmon
acc1bbs!pierre.darmon@ssr.com
                                       
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,soc.culture.yugoslavia
From: dmatic@athena.mit.edu (Davor Matic)
Subject: Re: Serbian language
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:41:29 GMT

|> >
|> >That's interesting - I wasn't previously aware of a language called Serbian.
|> >I had been told it was called Serbo-Croat.
|> 
|> Yeah, but some picky-nasty people (mostly of a croatian background) said
                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Why do they automatically have to be nasty if they disagree with you.

|> that they have their own language - i.e. Croatian. they argued that
|> Serbo-Croatian does not exist and any attempt to convince them that Croatian
|> is actually Serbo-Croatian, they welcomed with the preaching
|> 'you-wanna-tell-me-I-speak-non-existant-language' and etc.
|> 
|> Hence now we have Serbian and Croatian language.
|> 
|> Anyway, we all know those two are soooo different... like Australian and
|> American versions of English... but if those young democracies wish to
|> exercise their right to develop new language, make artificial 52-letter
|> words, let them have it, no biggie... at least I don't care [no more...]
|> 
|> Nik
|> --

The only reason Serbs and Croats understand each other is because they grew up 
together and hear both languages spoken all the time.  There exist many 
differences between Serbian and Croatian.  Coratian has lots of Germanic
influences, while Serbian has lots of Turkish words.  The letters are different. 
Gerund formation is used diferently.  And finally it sounds quite different. 
Coratian uses ije and je where Serbs use long and short e in some words.  Croats
typically don't distinguish hard and soft ch, and hard and soft dj as much as
Serbs do.

I thought that the languages weren't all that different untill I met my Serbian
friend that grew up in Germany.  He knew Serbian because it was spoken in his
house.  But he never learned Croatian, because his parents would speak Serbian
only.  So when I tried talking to him, he wouldn't understand more than half the
words I was saying sometimes.  So I had to force myself to speak Serbian in
order for him to understand me.  Forexample, the following sentence would sound 
like a foreign languane to him:

	"On je nosio hlace i dolcevitu kad je bio u ducanu."

The Serbian equivalent is:

	"On je nosio pantalone i ??? dok je bio u prodavaoni."

??? = turtleneck.  I don't know how to say it in Serbian.

Another problem is that while there was Serbo-Croatian, you would always
learn Serbian, not Croatian, if you took the course in an educational
institution.  Croatian was treated as a less important version of Serbian.  
That is not right however similar the languages might be.  Croatian is a
beautiful language, and it has the right to its autheniticity.

And I'd like to see some Serbs try to understand Croatian with all the
new-old words that were reintroduced into Croatian after the seccession.

				Regards,
				--- Davor
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dorai@cs.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram)
Subject: Setminus but not quite
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:31:57 GMT

Is there a standard or semistandard notation for depicting the removal
of a (single) element from a set?

If A = {1,2,3}, then A <operator> 1 should be {2,3}.

(Note setminus (\) isn't what I'm after.)

Thx.

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From: IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Stephan Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: HELP with PS->PCX translation wanted
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:17:46 GMT
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich


Hi!

I've designed a little letterhead in PostScript I'd like to incorporate
directly into the LaTeX-code of letters. Since I usually don't use
PostScript printers, I need to convert this piece of PS-code to
something like a PCX-file and to subsequently include it with a
special command to print it on standard HP-LaserJet compatibles with
dvihplj from the emTeX-package. This driver should be able to handle
PCX and MSP files.

Anybody got some hints on how to go about that? Of course I'd like to
have the same size and resolution (standard 300x300) like the original
PS output.

Thanks for any pointers,
Stephan



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From: kesich@acf3.NYU.EDU (John Kesich,321wwh,998-3047,)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to define this environment ?
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:49:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

Perhaps the following will help:

\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{.05\textwidth}
\newcommand{\E}{\\[\baselineskip]}
\begin{tabular}{p{.3\textwidth}p{.6\textwidth}}
This should be left justified over here &
This should be done as normal for a page
and cd ncdscnd ndfnvjdfnvjkndf jvndfdvf v
fv fdnfdn vdfvdfvdfjkndfjkvn jdfnv dfjnvv
vnfjnvd fjkvndj fvndfjn jdfnvjd fnvjvn n
fvndj nvndf jkdfjkvjkdfvjk njvnfj fjvnvnv
fkmvklvdfmvkdfm dfkvmvcvc,mv,cxm .,xcmv x \E

This is the second item &
This is the second items description
which djcnsdjn cjksdncn sdjknc sdjcn sdjd
cccds ds, every Tuesday ate three burgers
at about Three O'Clock ?
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: amlogan@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Adam M. Logan)
Subject: Re: Help with TeX error message
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Keywords: typo isolation, group delimiters
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:55:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.223317.10113@vela.acs.oakland.edu> jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.161910.16295@math.toronto.edu> rodney@math.toronto.edu (Peter Rodney) writes:
>>Hi. I am using LaTeX and could use some help with the 
>>following tex error message.
>>
>>(\end occurred inside a group at level 1)
>>
>>In particular, what exactly does this mean? Is there an efficient
>>method of locating where the problem is occurring? Any help will 
>>be appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>>-peter
>
>This usually indicates that you failed to match the group delimiters (i.e., 
>{ or }) someplace.  If your LaTeX file is large it is often helpful to
>comment out clean (matched) sections of your file so that the missing
>delimiter can be quickly isolated.  An emacs macro to place % at the
>beginning of lines or one of the comment style files should work.

You could also try Emacs's validate-TeX-buffer command.  It isn't perfect,
and its results are displyaed in a confusing fashion, but it still is better
than nothing.

Adam
From: schaefer@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Classical Greek Makro Package Wanted
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:43:41 GMT
Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D-W 6600 Saarbruecken
In-reply-to: iigsa01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de's message of 22 Jul 92 07:00:48 GMT

In article <iigsa01.711788448@convex> iigsa01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Schilling) writes:

   Is there a possibility to write texts with some words in 
   Greek (with accents...) with LaTeX?


The Greek fonts by Silvio Levy include all combinations of accents and
breathings (spiritus asper/lenis) used in classical Greek.
There are METAFONT sources for roman, bold and typewriter style
plus a macro package which makes it easy to write long texts in greek.

The sources can be found in

 princeton.edu [p]       by Silvio Levy
 ymir.claremont.edu      [anonymous.tex.babel.greek.levy] 
 xydeco.siemens.com
 129.73.1.101
 (Extract from TeX-FAQ)

I got it from the GERMAN SITE rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12)
in directory /soft/tex/fonts/metafont/greek-Levy.

I have installed it on a SUN with dvips and also on a 286-AT under MS-DOS 
with emTeX and dvips, and it works fine.
The fonts are very good except the "iota subscriptum" which looks rather
like a black square than like a iota. There also seems to be a bug in the
lowercase gamma METAFONT source, but only in the typewriter style.

>  P.S.  We ultimately want to produce a postsctipt file....

There will be no problem with dvips (by Tomas Rokicki). It will 
automatically call METAFONT to produce new font sizes (e.g. for 
\magstep5 or other resolutions than 300dpi).

Ulrich
 
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From: shan@ms.uky.edu (Minghua SHAN)
Subject: Help! How to use SliTex?
Keywords: tex, latex, slitex
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:09:59 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

Hi all,

I've got the Emtex package installed and latex works fine.
But I don't know how to use SliTex. I found two files
"\emtex\texinput\slides.sty" and "\emtex\texinput\slitex.tex",
but I couldn't find slitex.exe anywhere.
Does anyone know whether EmTex has SliTex? How do I use it?

Thanks in advance.

Minghua Shan

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: epm@shubshub.canberra.edu.au (Errol Martin)
Subject: An upside-down iota logic symbol
Summary: What do I have to do to get an upside-down iota symbol
Keywords: logic symbol
Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:26:20 GMT

I would like to use the 'definite description' operator of 
Whitehead and Russell.  It is, effectively, an upside-down
iota, just as the exists and forall operators are upside-
down E and A.  Examples are in Whitehead and Russell's Principia
Mathematica, e.g. there are several uses at the bottom of 
p.66 of Vol. I of Principia Mathematica (same pagination as
the paperback "to *56").

What do I have to do to get this symbol?  If it is part of a 
regular font set then I will be embarassed at having asked the 
net, but pleased to get an answer.  If I need to use Metafont
to create such a symbol, has anyone already done this?

Thank you,

Errol Martin
epm@shubshub.canberra.edu.au
Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineeering
PO Box 1 Belconnen ACT 2602 Australia
Ph: +61 6 201 2153 Fax: +61 6 201 5041

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gt@rundart.demon.co.uk (Giles Todd)
Subject: emTeX & HP laserjet II 
Distribution: world
Organization: Rundart Limited
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:17:17 +0000


In article <RONNOW.92Jul17105830@mao.iesd.auc.dk> ronnow@iesd.auc.dk writes:

>I'm trying to print my tex documents on a "HP laserjet II p" but it
>wont work !? I'm using dvidrv from the emTeX package (sorry, don't
>remember the version, but pretty new, I guess). When i print it works
>the first time (sometimes), but if I try again it reports an error and
>nothing happens (well, actually it has printed out something even it had
>reporyted an error, STRANGE!). 
>I have tried a lot of options but none seems to solve the problem.
>
>If you know something that maybe will help me then I will be glad if
>you mail me!
>
>BTW, the error is (mostly) "... on PRN, disk full?"

You need to tell MS-DOS to use infinite timeouts on the parallel port. 
The following line in my autoexec.bat works for me:

c:\dos\mode lpt1:,,p

I remember answering this here before - one for the FAQ perhaps?

Giles.
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