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From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Subject: Re: Graphing several sets of data points in LaTeX
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:34:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.144327.28008@mcs.kent.edu> pstephan@mcs.kent.edu (Paul H. Stephan) writes:
>I have a bunch of data that I have entered into an Excel Spreadsheet and
>then generated graphs using the Excel functions.  I am preparing a paper
>in LaTex (actually emTeX) that I would like to include these graphs in.
>Is there an easy way to enter the data points and get accurate lines
>out?  The LaTeX manual indicates that only a limited set of line slopes
>are supported - is there any way around this?
>
>Also, I would like to include several sets of data on one graph with
>each set having different line or point symbols; is this possible?

PSTricks can do this -- if you have a PostScript printer. There are
about 10 point symbols to choose from. You can also connect the
points with lines or interpolated curves. The next version will have
nice high-level macros for axes.

PSTricks is available from the /pub directory at Princeton.EDU,
and other archives.

Tim

-- 
Timothy Van Zandt   (609)258-4050  tvz@Princeton.EDU (NeXTMail)
Dept. of Economics,  Princeton University,  Princeton, NJ 08544
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From: gsc@coombs.anu.edu.au (Sean Case)
Subject: Re: Big TeX's -- how hard are they to come by?
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 13 Sep 92 02:07:59 GMT

cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith) writes:

>I don't have the source code to TeX (Volume B of Computers & Typesetting)
>available just now (I returned it to the library; couldn't justify buying
>a copy), and I didn't study it closely when I did have it, but I seem
>to recall DEK's having made a comment that he wasn't happy about
>having to statically pre-allocate tables to hold all of TeX's
>data structures, but that since Pascal implementations were so
>non-standard in their handling of new() he had no choice.

Well, I _did_ buy a copy... and just looked it up.

What he actually said was that he'd avoided pointers (and 'with', 'var'
parameters, local procedures...) so that the code could be easily ported
to _other languages_.

Thus, the problem was not that Pascal implementations handled 'new'
badly, but that it simply wasn't available in some languages. It should
be easy enough to convert TeX to Fortran, f'rinstance, although the
implementation of the data structures would be non-portable.

Sean
--
Sean Case               gsc@coombs.anu.edu.au
"[...] if a poststructuralist doesn't get you,
 a deconstructionist will."--Ursula K. LeGuin
From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Big TeX's -- how hard are they to come by?
Date: 12 Sep 92 22:16:20 GMT
	<ROLFL.92Sep11084644@karl.uio.no>
Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth

On 11 Sep 92 07:46:44 GMT, rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) said:

rolfl> (Ajay Shah) writes:

Shah> I find it hard to appreciate why TeX should not know how to
Shah> dynamically allocate RAM on demand.  Does this have something to
Shah> do with being written in pascal?  I seem to recall that new()
Shah> returns nil if you are out of memory..

Shah> In any case, where is TeX implementation going in the future?

rolfl> When Knuth wrote TeX, he knew what he was doing. This is a
rolfl> fundamental assumption, and all arguments pro or con should be
rolfl> checked against this.

rolfl> Now, Web, I suppose, supports dynamic allocation of memory
rolfl> through Pascal's new() operator, whose behavior in extreme cases
rolfl> is unspecified and the execution speed of which is compiler
rolfl> dependent.

Web is not the problem. Knuth wanted TeX to be maximally portable, so he
wrote it in Web and in a *subset* of Pascal, one that he thought would
be more portable than full Pascal.

For some bizarre reason he thought that new() would not be available
everywhere, so he avoided its use, and the TeX implementation is based
on the assumptions that each record is really an entry in some fixed
size table. This is terrible, not just in terms of flexibility (none...)
but also in terms of paging, because of the separate, fixed size, memory
pools for each record type (on the other hand it helps when one wants to
\dump, as one just writes out the contents of those tables, without
having to traverse pointer chains).

There is a person, Pat Monardo, who has been working on a
reimplementation in C of the entire TeX program, one that does use
malloc() for allocating record types. I have worked a bit on it,
towards the end of making its allocation of memory even more dynamic,
but I had to stop that for the past year or so. In the meantime
the author has published release 3.3 of his CommonTeX, which is
a high quality program, available as:

	isis.cshl.org:/tex/commontex330.tar.Z

I really hope at times that Knuth's TeX just went away. Pascal is
passe`, the subset he used is too restricted, and literate programming
may not be that great an idea...
--
Piercarlo Grandi                   | JNET: pcg@uk.ac.aber
Dept of CS, University of Wales    | UUCP: ...!aber-cs!pcg
Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@aber.ac.uk
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From: knappen@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Joerg Knappen)
Subject: Re: Footnotes
Reply-To: knappen@obelix.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Organization: Institute for Nuclear Physics, Uni Mainz, FRG
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:19:34 GMT

Das geht zum Beispiel mit dem Plain-Makropaket edmac. 

--J"org Knappen
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MULTICOL (1.4L; 17 August 1992) on FILESERV/Niord
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 14:36:08 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

                                 MULTICOL
                                 --------
The MULTICOL package include the complete set of files associated with
Frank Mittelbach's <PZF5HZ@RUIPC1E.BITNET> multicols environment in LaTeX.
The files in this package reflect version 1.4L (17 August 1992).  The main
changes are better support for marks and the possibility to use this
environment inside a box.

The multicols environment allows switching between one and multicolumn
format on the same page.  Footnotes are handled correctly (for the most
part), but will be placed at the bottom of the page and not under each
column.  LaTeX's float mechanism, however, is partly disabled in the
current implementation and will be added in a later version.  At the moment
only floats contributed outside the scope of the environment will find
their way into the actual output.

To retrieve the entire set of 5 files in 7 parts, please include:
 SENDME MULTICOL
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
If, for some reason, you should only require a specific file from this
distribution, such as MULTICOL.MULTICOL_BUG, please include the command
 SENDME MULTICOL.MULTICOL_BUG
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV.  For anonymous ftp retrieval,
the individual files, as well as a ZIP archive, MULTICOL-V1_4L.ZIP, are in
the directory [FILESERV.MULTICOL] on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8).

Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File                          Blocks  Save file as:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MULTICOL.INSTALL_MZ1              10  INSTALL.MZ1  
MULTICOL.MULTICOL_BUG             17  MULTICOL.BUG 
MULTICOL.MULTICOL_DOC_1OF3        75  MULTICOL.DOC 
MULTICOL.MULTICOL_DOC_2OF3        74  (part 2)     
MULTICOL.MULTICOL_DOC_3OF3        41  (part 3)     
MULTICOL.README_MZ                12  README.MZ    
MULTICOL.README_MZ1                7  README.MZ1   

Approximate total blocks in full MULTICOL package = 236
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From: finvers@enel.ucalgary.ca (Ivars Finvers)
Subject: DVIPS for the macintosh
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:13:55 GMT
Organization: ECE Department, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hi,

Has someone ported Rokiki's dvips program to the mac? I've looked 
in the FAQ without success.

I use LaTeX on a sun at school and OzTeX on a mac at bome. I would like
to the be able to use same \specials on both machines.

If dvips has not been ported to the mac yet is this a big job?

Thanks

Ivars Finvers
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
email: finvers@enel.ucalgary.ca
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From: benz@infko.uni-koblenz.de (Hartmut Benz)
Subject: Re: need help with a LaTeX macro
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz (FB Informatik)
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 08:14:46 GMT

David Kastrup writes
> iwsbarke@acs.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker) writes:
[Stuff deleted...]
> >So I defined the macro as:
> 
> >\newcommand{\type}[1]{\verb"#1"\\}
> Well, \verb works by removing all special meaning to all characters,
> then reading its argument. If you define a macro like the above,
> the characters already have a fixed meaning, and \verb can only change
> the meaning of characters not already read in.
Right!
As far as I know it is impssible to use \verb... inside a macro like this  
at all.
If a command with arguments is found (like \type) the arguments are  
scanned *and tokenized* bevore the \verb gets them. Since \verb can only  
change the meaning of *characters* (not already tokenized text), nothing  
of the desired effect can take place.

--
			Tschoe'wa
_______________________________________
Hartmut Benz                          | benz@infko.uni-koblenz.de
D-5400 Koblenz, Germany               |       (NeXTmail ok)
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Big TeX's -- how hard are they to come by?
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:40:36 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <BuEC6r.B47@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith) writes:
> Are there enough free Big TeX implementation available nowadays that
> I can simply tell someone who's running out of memory to go get one?
> [...]
> At any rate, neither of his TeX's is a "big" TeX, and he has been
> getting out-of-memory errors ("Tex capacity exceeded, sorry hash
> size=3000") on both systems.  He has asked whether I can re-code
> my macro package to use less memory so it will run on a non-BigTeX

Running out of hash size does not necessarily mean that you need a 
BigTeX. (Roughly, you have more than 3000 \def's in your example.)  Non-bigtex
emTeX has a hash size of 3500.  

Certainly for PCs with a 386 running OS/2 2.0 or MSDOS, the 
tex386 from the emTeX package provides
a very good bigtex (approx as fast as the non-bigtex texp or tex186 from
emTeX).  However, for PCs with a 286, the big-tex's from emTeX (btex186
and btexp) are quite slow.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: "Daniel H. Luecking" <DL24794@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: No REAL/NATURAL numbers
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 10:41:36 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


On 6 Sep 92, g88m0396@alpha.ru.ac.za (Jon-Dean Mountjoy) said:

 >Hi
 >
 >I have installed AMS for LaTeX, but I cannot find
 >the Natural number or Real number symbols.  There are the
 >BBb symbols (blackboard bold), but they don't look like
 >the symbols I seek.  (You know, the N with a stripe through it?)
 >
I feel compelled to give the lecture I give all my students: The Blackboard
bold symbols were created as an attempt to mimic bold characters in a medium
(namely a chalkboard or blackboard) that does not support ``boldness''. They
are not THE symbols for the naturals/integers/rationals/reals/complexes
/quarternions. The symbols are variously written by different professors as
the given letter [N/Z/Q/R/C/(H or K)] with one (or sometimes 2) added strokes.
The added stroke on the N is usually diagonal, but is sometimes vertical. The
``standard'' symbol for these concepts has for a long time been the
corresponding BOLD letter, and this is still recognized today by nearly all
journals and most mathematicians. However, the Blackboard bold and similar
fonts are also recognized and available at nearly all math journals.

So. If you don't have the AMS fonts, use {\bf R} for reals and you will be OK.
There are good reasons to get the AMS fonts, but if your ONLY reason is to
get the ``symbols for the real, naturals, etc.'', don't bother.

Dan Luecking
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From: navtej@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Navtej Singh)
Subject: How darkrn a box of a table in Latex??
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:47:04 GMT

Hi 
I want to darken a box in a table in latex.
I do not want to write anything but shadow in the box.
Do some body know how to achive this.

Your help will be apprciated.
Thanks.
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From: rhorne@cix.compulink.co.uk (Roger Horne)
Subject: SliTeX font problem
Reply-To: rhorne@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:50:00 +0000


 

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From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: Scientific Word
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 13 Sep 92 22:47:18 PDT

In article <grl.716278230@groucho>, grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Greg Lehmann) writes:
> boris@math10.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Boris Hemkemeier) writes:
 
>>Hi folks,
 
>>we (more exactly: some professors in our department) are looking for a
>>WYSIWYG (La)TeX front end. Who works with "Scientific Word" by TCI
>>Software research, Inc.? Experiences and comments are welcome.
 
> Sorry, haven't heard of this one. I am interested in knowing more. Have
> you looked at The Publisher? It uses TeX and LaTeX as back ends and has
> a preview facility but is not strictly speaking WYSIWYG. It does have a
> very nice equation editor, and has been ranked as the best desktop
> publishing program for mathematics in some reviews a couple of years ago.
> I don't know where it stands in comparison to others now. You get it from
> ArborText.

Well, the Publisher is aimed at the SGML market more than the TeX
market. In fact, I don't think that it really produces LaTeX code
that could be sent to a journal as is the case with Scientific
Word. Also there's a dramatic difference in target platforms and
unit cost for the two products. The Publisher is aimed at Unix
workstations (Suns specifically?) Scientific Word at MS Windows
users. Two completely different products.

Perhaps someone with real experience can fill in my gaps on the
Publisher.

-dh
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: FTNRIGHT (1.0d; 19 June 1992) on FILESERV/Niord
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 14:05:59 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

                                 FTNRIGHT
                                 --------
The FTNRIGHT package include the complete set of files associated with
Frank Mittelbach's <PZF5HZ@RUIPC1E.BITNET> variations to the footnote
placement in multiple-columned LaTeX output.  It was designed to work with
the standard `twocolumn' option of LaTeX. Note that it doesn't work in
combination with the `multicol' option.  The files in this package reflect
version 1.0d (19 June 1992).

The main idea for this layout is to assemble the footnotes of all columns
on a page and place them all together at the bottom of the right column,
Allowing for enough space between footnotes and text, and in addition,
setting the footnotes in smaller type.  This style omits the footnote
separator rule which is used in most publications prepared with TeX,
although instructions are provided if these are required.  Additionally,
the footnote markers in the footnotes (but not the main text) are placed at
the baseline instead of raising them.

To retrieve the entire set of 5 files, please include:
 SENDME FTNRIGHT
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
If, for some reason, you should only require a specific file from this
distribution, such as FTNRIGHT.FTNRIGHT_BUG, please include:
 SENDME FTNRIGHT.FTNRIGHT_BUG
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV.  For anonymous ftp retrieval,
the individual files, as well as a ZIP archive, FTN-V1_0D.ZIP, are
available in the directory [FILESERV.FTNRIGHT] on Niord.SHSU.edu
(192.92.115.8).

Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File                   Blocks  Save file as:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FTNRIGHT.FTNRIGHT_BUG              2  FTNRIGHT.BUG  
FTNRIGHT.FTNRIGHT_DOC             72  FTNRIGHT.DOC  
FTNRIGHT.INSTALL_MZ6               9  INSTALL.MZ6   
FTNRIGHT.README_MZ                12  README.MZ     
FTNRIGHT.README_MZ6                7  README.MZ6    

Approximate total blocks in full FTNRIGHT package = 102
From: graham@cs.man.ac.uk (Graham Gough)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: 2up.ps and dvips-5.493?
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:38:01 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester

Does anyone have a version of Piet van Oostrum's 2up.ps which works
with dvips-5.493? The old one doesn't seem to produce any
output. 

Graham
From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Subject: Re: \edef in LaTeX
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:32:34 GMT
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Keywords: weird problem, LaTeX

>>>>> goldstrn@math.fu-berlin.de (Martin Goldstern) (MG) writes:


MG> Can somebody please explain to me why latex is looking for the file 
MG> .tex
MG> when I tell it to 
MG> \edef\a{\smallskip}

MG> Or is it politcally incorrect to use \edef in Latex?

Apparently the problem is not in the use of \edef, but in the combination
with \smallskip. It is redefined in LateX in such a way that it cannot
withstand an attack by \edef.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl>
From: sas6r@amsun26.apma.Virginia.EDU (Stephanie A. Stotland)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Figure/Table placement within document
Date: 10 Sep 92 18:47:20 GMT
Reply-To: sas6r@amsun26.apma.Virginia.EDU (Stephanie A. Stotland)
Organization: University of Virginia

I would like to have a figure or table placed after it is referenced in the 
text.  I am aware of the [tbh] for top, bottom, and here placements of the
figure/table but this has no affect on the placement after it is referenced.
Does someone know how to handle this?
--
Stephanie Stotland
University of Virginia
From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help with "degree" symbol
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:30:21 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham


 On 4 Sep 92, Ivars Finvers wrote

> I'm stuck. I'm writing a paper where I need to state temperatures in degrees C. I
> can't for figure out how to get LaTeX to generate "degree symbol"C. I've
> tried \symbol{"17}C which generates the degree symbol alright but leaves a space 
> between the symbol and "C". What am I doing wrong?

 I asked this a few moons ago and the (excellent) advice given was to
use the macros defined in the Astronomy & Astrophysics style file
which are:

\def\degr{\hbox{$^\circ$}}
\def\arcmin{\hbox{$^\prime$}}
\def\arcsec{\hbox{$^{\prime\prime}$}}
\def\fdg{\hbox{$.\!\!^\circ$}}
\def\farcm{\hbox{$.\mkern-4mu^\prime$}}
\def\farcs{\hbox{$.\!\!^{\prime\prime}$}}
% apparently the last three are for decimal degrees eg. 10\fdg Celcius

 the last comment was added by one of the posters.

--
Cheers,

	Ian

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ian Fitchet     				      I.D.Fitchet@cs.bham.ac.uk
School of Computer Science
Univ. of Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
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From: collins@ists.ists.ca (Mike Collins)
Subject: building latex-14jan92 with OzTeX
Keywords: OzTeX, latex
Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 14:13:33 GMT

A few days ago I picked up the latest LaTeX distribution from 
labrea.stanford.edu and tryed to install it on a Macintosh running
OzTeX. Here are the details:

* Macintosh LC with 4Mb memory

* OzTeX 1.42 with the following memory parameters taken from the 
    configuration file (range of allowable values in parentheses):
    
	mem_max				= 65534		(mem_top..65534)
	font_max			= 255		(1..255)
	font_mem_size		= 27000		(8..65535)
	max_strings			= 5000		(1300..16382)
	string_vacancies	= 20000		(0..42035)
	pool_size			= 65535		(string_vacancies+23500..65535)
	buf_size			= 32765		(120..32765)
	stack_size			= 200		(1..2000)
	max_in_open			= 6			(1..30)
	param_size			= 60		(1..16382)
	nest_size			= 40		(1..1000)
	save_size			= 600		(1..8190)
	trie_size			= 8000		(1..16382)
	trie_op_size		= 500		(1..8190)

	mem_top				= 50000		(mem_min+1100..mem_max)
	hash_size			= 2500		(325..6550)
	hash_prime			= 2129		(prime about 85% of hash_size)
	hyph_size			= 307		(prime from 1..16382)

* When I ran initex on lplain.tex, it gave the following error message:

     This is TeX, Version 3.14 (INITEX)  9 SEP 1992 21:50
     **lplain\dump
     (:TeX-inputs:lplain.tex
     ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [buf_size=32765].
     l.1 
         % File LPLAIN - Created 29 October 1985 from plain version 1.5CM^...
     If you really absolutely need more capacity,
     try increasing the appropriate parameter in the current config file.

     No pages of output.

* When I ran initex on splain.tex (to get SliTeX) I get the same message.

* I installed the same package on a Sun 3 (SunOS 4.1) at work on 
  monday, and was successful. What's the difference?
  
* I am using a modified version of report.sty (14jan92) to write my
  dissertation and I also using some style files from the TeX archives 
  (apalike,setspace,breakcites,fancyheadings). I guess the latest 
  report.sty is not compatible with the version of LaTeX distributed 
  with OzTeX (last modified 20oct88 according to header of lplain.tex).
  
  
  HELP!!
  
mjc
----
michael collins
institute for space and terrestrial science, toronto, canada
collins@eol.ists.ca
From: ky04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KUN YU)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help with "degree" symbol
Date: 5 Sep 92 23:41:17 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>> can't for figure out how to get LaTeX to generate "degree symbol"C. I've
>> tried \symbol{"17}C which generates the degree symbol alright but leaves a space 
>> between the symbol and "C". What am I doing wrong?
>> 

>> 
>One solution is to use the lowercase letter 'o' superscripted in the roman type
>style.  For example, "The low last night was $65^{\rm o}$F".
>
>Carlos Liceaga
>
I tried this,-- the degree sign appeared too big. \circ is smaller.
-- 



                                                          _                  
ky04@lehigh.edu                                         / _ \
KYu, BioProcessing Institute                          /\ _|_ /\
111 Lehigh University                                    /|\
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From: ryoung@utdallas.edu (Ryu Young)
Subject: pkedit-ing BIG Characters
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:14:18 GMT

Trying to "pkedit" big characters (i.e. school seal),
I got the following message:

	unpack: character too big

Any hope?

Young

p.s. I used version 1.1d of pkedit coming with emTeX.
     The sizes of characters I tried to pkedit are
     1in X 1in (X 0in) and 2in X 2in (X 0in).

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From: rleroux1@sol.UVic.CA (Roger Leroux)
Subject: LATeX -> MS-Word conversion?
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Originator: rleroux1@sol.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 09:07:40 GMT


Sorry if this is an FAQ, but I have some documents that have to be
converted from Latex to MS-Word (because the company I work for has decided
to standardize all their documentation, and the standard is MS-Word. No
flames please). 

Anyhow, any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Note: MS-Word can read and translate WordPerfect files, so if you know of
something that will convert it to WordPerfect, that would be good enough!

Thanks in advance to all,

Roger

-- 
Roger Leroux          | "Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get." Me
rleroux1@sol.uvic.ca  |	"Everybody lies about sex." Lazarus Long
----------------------+ "Six of one, half a dozen of the other." Number 2.
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