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From: bgitv@termo.unit.no (Bard Grimsmo)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Easy way to have text floating around ps-figures?
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:07:59 GMT
Organization: SINTEF, The Norwegian Institute of Technology

Is there an easy way to make the text floating around a postscipt figure.
I want to have a figure which fills half the page-with and the text
should fill continuously around the figure filling up the avaiable
space. (Or said in another way, is it possible to leave an open space
filling half the page to fill in an figure by using the
"\special"-command.)

Help is much appreciated!
Bard
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From: bbeeton <BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: re: fancybox.sty
Date: 08 Jan 1993 11:51:39 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

george ross (comp.text.tex, jan 7) asks why fancybox.sty is giving
him an error message about a "missing number" for the "\@i" part
of "\@ifundefined".

the answer is that fancybox.sty must be read in while the @ is
catcoded to be a letter.  this can be accomplished most easily by
including fancybox among the \documentstyle options thus:
   \documentstyle[fancybox,12pt]{article}
rather than reading it in later with \input .
						-- bb
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: drich@sandman.lerc.nasa.gov (Daniel Rich)
Subject: TeX 3.14 on AIX 3.2
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:58:09 GMT


Has anyone successfully compiled TeX 3.14 on AIX 3.2 (running on an
RS6000)?  The make completes successfully with AIX and ANSI defined,
but everything falls apart when I run 'make formats'.  Here is the
output:

[50] [spruce] /TeX/TeX3.14 :make formats
        cd tex; TEXPOOL=.; export TEXPOOL; make formats="tex.fmt latex.fmt slite
x.fmt" fmts
        ./initex plain \\dump
This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (INITEX)
(/usr/appl/TeX/lib/tex/inputs/plain.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.6 \catcode
            `\{=1 % left brace is begin-group character
? x
No pages of output.
Transcript written on plain.log.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Make Quitting.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

Make Quitting.

Can anyone offer some suggestions?

-- 
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Sr. Systems Engineer        | "Danger, you haven't seen the last of me!"
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jrowney@arco.com
Subject: What is DOCSTRIP
Organization: ARCO Exp. and Prod. Tech.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:16:42 GMT

 Hi,

I have seen references to "doc.sty" and "docstrip", what are they and where are
they available?

Thanks in advance.

John

jrowney@arco.com
From: oz@ursa.sis.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: missing fonts?
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:39:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: York U. Student Information Systems Project

Could someone tell me whether or not these fonts should exist?
If not, how can I deal with this mess?

> dvips: Font cmss10.300pk at 432 not found; scaling 300 instead.
> dvips: Such scaling will generate extremely poor output.

Please send e-mail. thanks...	oz
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From: rafia@ravel.udel.edu (Rafia N Bhore)
Subject: SunWrite ---> LaTeX
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:25:02 GMT

Hello,

Does anybody know, how to convert SunWrite to LaTeX?

I checked the FAQ's of TeX and found that pcwritex.arc found at    
wuarchive.wustl.edu in the directory  ./mirrors/msdos/tex converts PC-Write
to TeX.  I tried anonymous ftp to this archive, but couldn't find any 
Sun equivalent of pcwritex.arc .

Any idea, whether such a thing exists and if so, where is it available?

Thanks for any kind of help.

Rafia Bhore
From: Petr Novotny <NOVOTNYP%CSEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Macro for new fonts
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 12:11:32 MDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Hello everywhere,

I've got the following problem. I'm still using LaTeX with old font selection
scheme. I would like to know if there are the two following macros or I have
to make them: The first should be something like
     loadfonts{abbrv}{fontname}
which should tell something like  fontxiiptabbrv=fontname at 12pt
for all possible sizes; The other should extend commands large,tiny etc.
so that it would select abbrv to be the correct sized font (just the way
it does with rm, bf etc....).

Can I find these macros anywhere?


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Subject: re: question about parsing numbers
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:29:07 GMT

In article <726603701.528921.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>, BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) writes:
|> 
|> take a simpler example:
|>     \newcount\num
|>     \def\newnum#1#2.{\num=#1 \def\rest{#2}}
|>     \newnum12345.
|> this will end up with \num=12345 and \rest empty (with a delimited
|> string, the part between delimiters need not contain anything).

Ahem. No it won't. The splitting into '1' and '2345' occurs at macro
argument parsing time, and is no different for this fragment than in
the one you give later:

|>     \newcount\num
|>     \def\newnum#1#2.{\def\xnum{#1}\num=\xnum \def\rest{#2}}
|>     \newnum12345.

You are thinking of some case when the assignment is seeing the whole
string of digits and will gobble as many as it can, e.g.

       \newcount\num
       \def\newnum{\afterassignment\newnumrest \num=}
       \def\newnumrest#1.{\def\rest{#1}}
       \newnum12345.

Chris Thompson
Cambridge University Computing Service
JANET:    cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx
Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk
From: ajay@cgl.ucsf.EDU (Ajay)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Left justifying inside itemize
Date: 4 Jan 93 03:58:50 GMT
Reply-To: ajay@cgl.ucsf.edu
Organization: CGL

Hi Folks,

    i would like to leftjustify the \item entries within the itemize
environment. Usually there is an indentation.

    Could anyone help me please? Thanks.

	---ajay
From: kaleva@osmo.ee.tut.fi (Osmo Kaleva)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: emtex - help needed
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:10:37 GMT
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology / Dept. of Math.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: osmo.ee.tut.fi
Keywords: emtex,os/2

Hello TEX gurus,

I think I need a helping hand with a tex problem. I've tried to make
an EmTeX environment for OS/2 ( service pack installed ). 

I installed tex386b8, but got the following error message

 (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

The same message appeared also under native DOS. Tex386B6 worked fine
under DOS but doesn't work at all under OS/2, I guess.

The PLAIN.FMT was remade with tex386b8.


And another problem: DVISCR does't find dvidrv.err if I run it from
desktop but works fine under dos-box.

I'm confused with this behaviour, so help is really appreciated.
Thanks

Osmo Kaleva	                           INTERNET: kaleva@rapola.cc.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology	   
Department of Mathematics                  
P.O. Box 692, SF-33101 Tampere Finland
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MVS Implementation
From: aubord@uni2a.unige.ch
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:40:38 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

I am looking for an implementation of TeX for MVS desesperately.

I want to introduce TeX in my new job where we are running on an IBM
mainframe with MVS.

I need essentialy all the executable files and the operating system
dependencies. I can use all the source for the formats and the fonts
from my SUN and PC implementation.

Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

A.Aubord

My address:
  Bitnet: AUBORD@CGEUGE51.bitnet UUCP:aubord@cui.UUCP  
  X.400:aubord@uni2a.unige.ch Path:   mcsun!cui!aubord
  Surface Mail:
    A.Aubord
    Centrale de Compensation
    Services Informatiques
    18 av. Edmond-Vaucher
    1203 Geneva
    Switzerland.
 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: alexis@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Alexis Wieland)
Subject: using /looseness in LaTeX
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:16:27 GMT


Using \looseness (described on pp 103-104 in The TeXbook) 
in a LaTeX document does not seem to have any effect,
even when this is coupled with an increased \tolerance.
Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong,
or is this useful tool not available in LaTeX ? 

  - alexis.                    <alexis@cs.ucla.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: huff@bach.ecn.purdue.edu (John E Huff)
Subject: Style file for Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Keywords: style file
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:14:36 GMT

I am trying to find a LaTeX style file for the Journal of Applied Polymer
Science.  I would appreciate any pointers to an FTP site or if someone
would mail me a copy (huff@ecn.purdue.edu).

Thanks,
John 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mtaw621@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: slides.sty??
Organization: University of Texas @ Austin
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:49:31 CST

I know there is a file called: slides.sty
What does it do and where can I get it from?
Thank you,
Constantin
From: mclean@math.tamu.edu (Robert Mclean)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Row vector times a matrix alignment, followup
Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:50:26 GMT
Organization: Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: math.tamu.edu

In article <1ifgo0INN20p@tamsun.tamu.edu> mclean@math.tamu.edu (Robert Mclean) writes:
>Howdy, (requisite Aggie salutation.) I have a question which I probably
>shouldn't be worrying about. TeX is good at making us worry about little
>texnicalities.
>
>I would like to have a row vector times a matrix to look like this:
>
>(x,y,z) (a1,a2,a3)
>        (a4,a5,a6)
>        (a7,a8,a9)
>
>rather than how TeX usually spits it out as:
>
>        (a1,a2,a3)
>(x,y,z) (a4,a5,a6)
>        (a7,a8,a9)
>
>Any, suggestions how to get it to align them at the top?
>
>T.I.A.
>
>robert mclean
>

I received two suggestions on how to do this: (1) Use LaTeX or AMS-LaTeX
where this is an option for the array environment. (I use AMS-TeX.)
(2) Look at the plain.tex file's \matrix command and change a \vcenter
to \vtop. Here's the modified code:

\catcode`@=11
\def\tmatrix#1{\null\,\vtop{\normalbaselines\m@th
    \ialign{\hfil$##$\hfil&&\quad\hfil$##$\hfil\crcr
      \mathstrut\crcr\noalign{\kern-\baselineskip}
      #1\crcr\mathstrut\crcr\noalign{\kern-\baselineskip}}}\,}
\def\tpmatrix#1{\left(\tmatrix{#1}\right)}
\catcode`@=12
$$
\pmatrix{x & y & z}
\tpmatrix{a_1 & a_2 & a_3 \cr
          a_4  & a_5 & a_6 \cr
          a_7  & a_8 & a_9 \cr
}
$$
\bye

Unfortunately, this produces:

        (        )
        (        )
        (        )
(x,y,z) (a1,a2,a3)
        (a4,a5,a6)
        (a7,a8,a9)

Aack! Any suggestions.

robert mclean
From: ngervae@next.com (Nik Gervae)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX -> RTF?
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:50:09 GMT

Does anyone out there know of a program that converts "straightforward"
TeX into RTF? Any clues or leads will be greatly appreciated.

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From: CBS%CEBAFVAX.BITNET@SHSU.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX spell checker
Date: 04 Jan 1993 18:22:42 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

This posting concerns finding a TeX spell checker to be used on documents
created by Textures Lightening on the Macintosh IIci.

Running the files through the Word v5.0 spell checker is an option, but all
backslash commands would be inconveniently highlighted.  This option is
terribly time consuming and exhausting just to think about it.

Anyway, what does exist out there?  Please state whether it is public domain
(and how to get it) or where to get it and how much it costs.

Thank you so much.

cbs@cebaf.gov
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
Subject: BM2FONT for MAC?
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:54:27 GMT


Header says it:  I showed output from BM2FONT to a collegue recently and he
was impressed - but then he asked "is there a version for the Mac?"  Well -
the manual suggests the author would like to see BM2FONT ported all over the
place, but it sounded as if this had not yet been done.  Does anybody have
any other information about this?  (Planned or existing ports, or even
equivalent but different programs.)  I will see replies posted here (and I
imagine this might be of general interest) - or reply by email and I'll
summarise.  Thanks.

-rags
From: sanders@mars.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Michael Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:41:32 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: tms.physics.lsa.umich.edu
Keywords: detex spell amspell

In article <samh.726198770@zen> samh@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Sam Huxham) writes:
>From: samh@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Sam Huxham)
>Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
>Date: 5 Jan 93 01:52:50 GMT

>In <1993Jan2.040345.1500@midway.uchicago.edu> hsue@ellis.uchicago.edu (yung chang  hsueh) writes:

>>I have just installed emTeX on my PC and it works fine.  I 'd like to thank 
>>everyone who replied to my previous post.  Now I need a spell-checker for 
>>my PC which runs on MS-DOS.  Could someone have any suggestion as to
>>what spell-checker I should use and where I could get them.

>I use amSpell version 2.03 in amspel20.zip (by A. Merkens),
>available on simtel.  It's free.  I don't know how it compares to
>Microspell (which, I understand, is not free).

One feature of amspell which may be liked or disliked is that it
will not check files \input or \include ed. Those must be checked
separately. detex does strip such files for spell-checking.

Michael Sanders                                Internet: sanders@umich.edu
Physics Department                             Bitnet: sanders@umiphys
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From: djossou@charly.inria.fr (Coco Djossou)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: twoup.ps [Re: LaTeX: two pages in one???]
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:09:56 GMT
Reply-To: Coco.Djossou@sophia.inria.fr
Organization: INRIA Sophia Antipolis


	  From: stig@staff.cs.uit.no (Stig Johansen)
	  Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
	  Subject: LaTeX: two pages in one???
	  Message-ID: <1993Jan6.123432.18436@news.uit.no>
	  Date: 6 Jan 93 12:34:32 GMT

|> Is there an easy way to put two pages from a LaTeX report or book on the 
|> same physical page, rotated 90 degrees and translated appropriate?

My mailer is unable to reach <stig@staff.cs.uit.no>, I follow up my reply
to the newsgroup.

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
While talking to hpserv0.cs.uit.no:
>>> RCPT To:<stig@staff.cs.uit.no>
<<< 554 <stig@staff.cs.uit.no>... "Unknown User.  Contact postmaster@cs.uit.no"
554 stig@staff.cs.uit.no (Stig Johansen)... Service unavailable

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:02:04 +0100
From: Coco Djossou <Coco.Djossou@sophia.inria.fr>
Message-Id: <199301061402.AA15586@charly.inria.fr>
To: stig@staff.cs.uit.no (Stig Johansen)
Subject: Re: LaTeX: two pages in one???

|> Is there an easy way to put two pages from a LaTeX report or book on the 
|> same physical page, rotated 90 degrees and translated appropriate?

Greetings,
Your problem is a PostScript problem, if you have Tomas Rokicki's dvips
version 5.47 (or >) you just have to use the following filter <twoup.ps>

dvips -h twoup.ps -t landscape file.dvi|lpr


=== SAVE AS twoup.ps===
% 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
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
From: ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl (Ronald Aarts)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Palatino comma in math (How to ??)
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:45:55 GMT

When I use e.g. the palatino style to change the major font of my document
into Palatino, then e.g. the comma in math mode doesn't change and still
looks very similar to the one I had in combination with the cmr fonts.

I'ld like to change all these math-commas into Palatino commas. Is there
a simple trick to do this in e.g. a (personal) style file, or do I really
have to put all my math-commas in \mbox{}.

--
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Eindhoven University of Technology  | Internet: ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl
Physics Department, P.O. Box 513,   |    Phone: +.31.40.474213
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands  |      Fax: +.31.40.453587
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: junzhu@fish.Princeton.EDU (Jun Zhu)
Subject: Re: looking for PC LaTex package
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: DOS PC Tex LaTex
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:18:18 GMT

You can do "archie emtex" in unix machine.  Then you may find a list of
places where emtex is stored.  You can ftp all the files in emtex
directory.  I just installed the emtex package in my PC.  It works very
well.

Good luck.

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Subject: Re: letter with fancyheadings.sty?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

>>>>> mzwang@yorick.UVic.CA (mzw) (M) writes:

M> fancyheadings.sty does not seem to work with 

M>         \documentsty[fancyheadings]{letter}.

M> Can someone help? Thanks.


If you want to use fancyheadings with the letter style, you must put the
following command in the beginning of your document:
\mark{{}{}}

You may also want to retrieve the latest version. It contains some more
doc (actually the above is part of it) and some bug fixes.

How to get fancyheadings.doc, fancyheadings.sty and
from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.

    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
      Don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
      compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get pub/TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.doc
    get pub/TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.sty

(or first cd to the directory, and then get the local filename part, to
avoid "permission denied" on your system)

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
    send TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.doc
    send TEX/latexstyle/fancyheadings.sty
    end

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: vmtkac@macs.ysu.edu (Vincent M. Tkac)
Subject: PC DVI driver for a HPLJ Series III
Keywords: driver
Reply-To: vmtkac@enterprise.macs.ysu.edu
Organization: Math & Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:21:58 GMT

Greetings,
   Does anyone have any informatino on a PC DVI driver for a Hewlett Packard Laser
Jet Series III?  My Series II driver isn't even comming close to working.  I have
looked all over the place and can't seem to find one.  

Any help is greatly appreciated...

Vincent M. Tkac
Math & Computer Science
Youngstown State University
vmtkac@enterprise.macs.ysu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,mcgill.unix
From: CCYG <CCYG@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: LeTeX: How to modify eqn. label in "eqnarray"?
Organization: McGill University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:10:06 GMT

Hi,

I was trying to modify the equation label in "eqnarray" environment
by redefining the "\theequation" command. It worked for the "equation"
environment, but not for the "eqnarray". A sample tex file is attached.

Any suggestions?

Herong Yang
CCYG@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA
-------------------------------------------------------------------
\documentstyle{report}
\begin{document}
.....
From: pflynn@ccvax.ucd.ie (Peter Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: what use is a scaled point?
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:48:06 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

In article <9988996@MVB.SAIC.COM>, DL24794%UAFSYSB.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Daniel H. Luecking) writes:
> 
>> In article <1993Jan5.143540.15048@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>,
>> des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
>> > 1sp *is* useful sometimes when you need something to be different from
>> > 0pt but not visibly so! i.e. giving a font a slant of 1sp makes
>> > LaTeX think that it is an italic font when using \em - this can
>> > sometimes be useful.
>>
>> How so?  LaTeX doesn't really care what the actual font is that \em
>> uses.  `Giving a font a slant' requires running off a special version
>> of the font using Metafont.  If you don't want that font to actually
>> look different, why not just \let\em\relax ?

You can also use a dimen to grab a linecount, such as in
\setbox0=\vbox{...some text...}
\newdimen\lines
\lines=\ht0 \advance\lines by\dp0
\divide\lines by\baselineskip

and you have the approximate number of lines in the box, because the
calculations were done in sp's.

///Peter