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From: BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re:  back issues of tugboat avail?
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:06:40 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

glenn forney (comp.text.tex, 15 august 1992) asks if back issues
of tugboat articles are available via ftp.

a few are, but not too many.  it has long been a tug policy that
articles describing macros, which include the macros, should be
made available for ftp.  however, lack of time and assistance in
preparing them for distribution has prevented the necessary work
from being completed.  those which are available are usually to
be found (in any good archive) in a directory in the tex tree
with "tugboat" in its name.  at labrea.stanford.edu the area is
/tex/tugboat .

the standard for files which are to be used electronically by a
general audience must be considerably higher than that for articles
which are to be seen only in the form of output on paper, in order
to avoid unnecessary questions.  doing the necessary cleanup is the
step that is lacking.  there will be an effort made to get this
work done, but i can't promise when.

full tables of contents for all issues are available in the existing
archive locations.  the file naming convention is
   tbNNYY.cnt  --  contents for an entire year (YY); NN = volume
   tbcvNN.tex  --  a "driver file" that will generate 5 years of
                   contents pages; NN is a multiple of 5 and gives
                   the last volume number of the group
   tbcont.def  --  macros needed to tex the contents
texing this material also requires the plain tugboat style:
tugboat.sty and tugboat.cmn .

all back issues of tugboat are available on paper from the tug office.
send inquiries to
   tug@math.ams.org
(please note the change of address; the old address will continue
to work for some time yet, but people communicating with anyone
@math.ams... should get used to the new address.)
						-- bb
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dat@camis.Stanford.EDU (David A. Tong)
Subject: ucthesis.sty sample files
Followup-To: dat@engr.latech.edu
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:29:19 GMT



Does anyone know where I might be able to find some sample files
that use ucthesis.sty?  I am a new LaTeX user and think that if I
had a sample file as well as the style file, I could figure what is
going on a bit quicker.

Thanks for any help

David A. Tong
From: hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Which .sty for centered sections?
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:41:13 GMT
Reply-To: hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix)
Distribution: na
Organization: Code 1542, DTMB, Bethesda, MD

I read the FAQ, looked at the .sty files available, and was overwelmed
by the choices.  Perhaps some kind soul would tell me a good .sty file
to use to give:

centered section headings in bold but not too large, no numbers
works with \thebibliography
subsection heading at left margin (still no numbers)

single column, 1.5 space, allow abstract.

Oh, I'm using latex version 2.09 with TeX C version 3.14t3.

There are probably 20 different ways to do this.  What's your favorite?

Dane Hendrix                              | email: dane@wizard.dt.navy.mil 
DTMB (a.k.a. Headquarters, Carderock Div.,|  or hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Naval Surface Warfare Center)             |  or hendrix@nas.nasa.gov 
Code 1542, Bethesda, MD 20084-5000        | phone: (301)227-1340
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bruce2@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Bruce Watson)
Subject: emTeX and Windows 3.1
Reply-To: bruce2@morgan.ucs.mun.ca 
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland 
Distribution: World
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:34:46 GMT

I am trying to run emTeX in a DOS window under Win 3.1 in 386 Enhanced
mode. I get the message "DPMI not supported". Is this an emTeX or
Windows message and what does it mean? Is there a workaround?

Sorry if this is a FAQ.

========================================================================
Bruce Watson                        ||          bruce2@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics ||        bruce2@riemann.math.mun.ca
Memorial University of Newfoundland ||           BWATSON@kean.ucs.mun.ca
St. John's, NF, A1C 5S7  CANADA     ||                 
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From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: ps2pk available (and a summary of Re: times.sty and xdvi)
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:49:13 GMT
	<1992Aug10.203905.14548@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
	<1992Aug12.100520.26193@cco.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu
Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst)
In-reply-to: hong@cithe304.cithep.caltech.edu's message of 12 Aug 92 10:05:20 GMT

>>>>> On 12 Aug 92 10:05:20 GMT, hong@cithe304.cithep.caltech.edu (John Hong)
>>>>> said:

John> A while back, I asked:

	>I am able to use Thomas Rokicki's "times.sty" and "dvips" to
	>generate my LaTex documents with PostScript fonts.  However the
	>success is limited to the generation of the postscript file; I
	>am no longer able to use "xdvi" to preview the .dvi files
	>generated with times.sty.  It complains that it can not find
	>the PS fonts.  Does anybody have a solution to this problem ?

John> Thanks to many people who replied.  Some people suggested to use
John> ghostscript, but ghostscript is not quite as user friendly as xdvi,
John> IMHO.  With help from Bruno Hall (bruno@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu), I
John> came to an understanding that one can not use xdvi to preview in
John> Postscript fonts directly, xdvi will substitute the unfound postscript
John> fonts with cmr10.

John> However, that is not the case if one has these fonts in pk format.  The
John> following is a mail from Michael Joswig, stating the availability of the
John> software transforming PS afm fonts into pk format (ps2pk). Since he can
John> not post to the USENET, I am including his mail below.  (Disclaimer: I
John> have not tried this out yet.)

Two quick responses:

1) Using the .pk files works just fine, and allows me to preview PostScript
   fonts using dviscr (the emTeX previewer) on my PC, as well as via xdvi on a
   workstation.

2) Ghostscript is not a previewer, but GhostView *is*, and it is also
   available from prep.ai.mit.edu (in pub/gnu). I find it to be a really nice
   previewer for PostScript. Using a ps previewer does require running through
   dvips (or equivalent) first, but is nice if you are including ps figures.
   Otherwise, xdvi may be faster.
--

		J. Eliot B. Moss, Associate Professor
		Department of Computer Science
		Lederle Graduate Research Center
		University of Massachusetts
		Amherst, MA  01003
		(413) 545-4206, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu
From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Installing TeX at a "secure" site?
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:21:06 GMT
Reply-To: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Urban)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

In article <1992Aug14.184856.9432@uwm.edu> bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu writes:

>There are some other security issues that are relevant. While unprivileged
>software may only be able to do anything the user can do, it may do some stuff
>that he wouldn't. For instance if the user has access to files that he is not
>supposed to show to anyone, running PD software is a risk.

In mail to the original poster, I pointed out that TeX is almost
certain to be the most well documented and well understood program of
its size anywhere, and that if the sysadmin is still paranoid, just
buy a copy of Computers and Typesetting, the volume with the WEAVEd
TeX listing, throw it on the sysadmin's desk and say, `Here...find a
bug.' (does Knuth still pay for them?)

Indeed, it can be argued that a PD program like TeX is far more
trustworthy than some commercial binary with `if it causes damage, we
are not liable' pasted on the shrinkwrap.


	Mike Urban

	urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Yet another update to hangcaption.sty on FILESERV/Niord
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:54:28 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Following the flurry of activity regarding hangcaption.sty in the past few
days, Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> forwarded a patch to the
style David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> worked on and I announced
recently.  David employed this patch in updating the file.  The fix:
 (a) works around a bug in LaTeX, and
 (b) measures the caption correctly by including the room for the colon and
     the space.
The current version number is 1.03.  If Rainer says the LaTeX bug is worked
around, my guess is that it is worked around -- thanks, Rainer and David!

To retrieve the new file via e-mail, include:
 SENDME STY.HANGCAPTION
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
The file is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu
(192.92.115.8) in [FILESERV.STY].

Regards,   George
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From: lars@gsblas.uchicago.edu (Lars Andreas Stole)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: doublespacing in AMSLaTeX
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:38:25 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Is there a version of doublespace.sty that works with AMS LaTeX?  I'd like  
to doublespace my papers but still have the nice equation features of AMS  
LaTeX (e.g., cases, multline, etc.)  Using baselinestretch isn't very  
pleasing.  Thanks in advance. :)

--
Lars A. Stole 
University of Chicago, GSB 
(312) 702-7309  
lars@gsblas.uchicago.EDU (NeXTMail)
From: evc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Edward Van Cura)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Inner/Outer Margins in 2-Sided Document
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:58:07 GMT

Greetings!

   I would like to produce a document which is double-sided with
the inner margins set at 1.0in and the outer margins set at 0.5in.
I am using doublecolumns with eplain-1.9. 

I set the \topmargin and \bottommargin at 0.5in each, then initialize
the \hoffset with 

\ifodd\pageno \hoffset=0.0in \else \hoffset=-0.5in\fi
(an article may start on page 26, for example)

Then I need a way to reverse the margin settings at the end of the 
page in preparation for the next page. First I tried to tack the 
\ifodd statement listed above onto the \headline{} routine, since I
thought TeX would look at it during the \output routine
at the end of every page. This failed to get the desired effect. 
Then I tried to make the margin change by sticking the \ifodd statement
in what I thought was the \output routine token list. No dice.
I've spent 3 days squinting at the TeXbook, TeX for the Impatient, 
the eplain docs, the TeX FAQ file, and searching several ftp sites
for a ready-made macro. 

Any advice or pre-fab macros would be greatly appreciated.

Edward Earl van Cura
evc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Friday, 14 Aug 1992 03:02:01 EST
From: <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Sauter for BASH?

   Hello TeX'ers.  I want to use the Sauter utils, but I am using the Bash
shell.  The Sauter utilities use csh scripts, so... I can switch to another
shell, but that is a problem for me.  Does anyone know if the scripts have
been converted and are available?  Thanks in advance. Michael.
From: nad@phys.canterbury.ac.nz (Dr Noel Doughty University of Canterbury)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Blackboard Bold unity for AMS-LaTeX
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:02:30 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

The following macro works well for LaTeX for Blackboard Bold unity:

   \def\bbbone{{\mathchoice {\rm 1\mskip-4mu l} {\rm 1\mskip-4mu l}
   {\rm 1\mskip-4.5mu l} {\rm 1\mskip-5mu l}}}

but to use it in AMS-LaTeX, replace each l (ell) by \text{l} as in:

   \def\bbbone{{\mathchoice {\rm 1\mskip-4mu \text{l}}
   {\rm 1\mskip-4mu \text{l}}
   {\rm 1\mskip-4.5mu \text{l}} {\rm 1\mskip-5mu \text{l}}}}

I appreciate several hints as I groped my way to this solution
using the AMS-LaTeX guide.

Noel Doughty
nad@phys.canterbury.ac.nz
From: JUL@MATH.AMS.ORG (jul)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: \boldsymbol (et al.)
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:09:32 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

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From: jonathan@chpc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Thornburg)
Subject: Re: getting width of {\tt xxxxxxxx} in the *current* font size
Summary: correction, I want it in a \newskip, not a \newdimen
Keywords: TeX LaTeX box dimension register font \tt verbatim tab width \hbox
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 08:36:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.072029.18770@chpc.utexas.edu>
jonathan@chpc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Thornburg) writes [I asked]:
>In a LaTeX style file, how can I set \dimen\tabwidth to the width
>of {\tt xxxxxxxx} in the *current* size?  All of my attempts so far
>yield \normalsize\tt.

Oops, I need a \skip, not a \dimen.  To rephrase my question:

In a LaTeX style file, how can I set a skip register \tabwidth
to the width of {\tt xxxxxxxx} in the *current* size, i.e.

	\newskip\tabwidth%%%
	\setbox0=\hbox{\scriptsize\tt xxxxxxxx}%%%
	\tabwidth=\wd0%%%

except using whatever the current size is, not hard-wiring in
\scriptsize?

Thanks,

- Jonathan Thornburg
  <jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu> or <jonathan@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu>
  University of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity
  and (for a few more months) U of British Columbia / {Astronomy,Physics}
From: jscotti@lpl.arizona.edu (Jim Scotti x2717)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Multi-page tabular environment.
Keywords: pagebreaks, tabular environment.
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:43:22 GMT
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.

I have had the problem of building a tabular environment longer than
one page in length in LaTeX.  Is there a simple way of having a pagebreak
automatically happen within the environment?  I've had to manually break
the tabular environment (which causes problems when an additional entry
has to be inserted...) with a \newpage.  Is there something I've 
overlooked?  I'd use a tabbing environment, which will pagebreak on
its own, but I found another bug with that while trying to put accents
over characters.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: elmar@uni-paderborn.de (Elmar Schalueck)
Subject: Re: dynamic parbox in tabular env - is it possible?
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:21:40 GMT

maassen@kreon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Maassen) writes:

>I would like to have a table (created with tabular environment) with
>one (or maybe more than one parbox) columns (p{...}). The width of this
>(or these) parbox columns, however, should not be fixed but rather be
>dynamically adjusted to the space not used by the other columns.
>For example, with textwidth 15cm, \begin{tabular}{|l|p{***}|}, and
>the longest entry for the left column being 5cm long, *** should be
>automatically set to 10cm (minus the space needed for separating the
>columns, of course). Is anything like that possible?


Yes, try the tabularx package, available at any better archive!

>Andreas
>(maassen@parsytec.de)

-- 
Elmar Schal"uck                   email: elmar@uni-paderborn.de
Uni-GH Paderborn                  phone: ..49-5251-602621
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
Subject: Re: Seek collaboration on dvi-to-PCL (HP LaserJets etc) driver writing.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:16:23 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

I should add that "dvi2pcl" is based on an older driver ("pk_dvilj",
written by Helmut Kopka, which in turn was based on an older version
from Texas A&M, originally written in Pascal) so it has been used by a
number of people for many years.  What I have done is to clean up the
code quite considerably and prepared for upgrades to PCL5.  The present
version of "dvi2pcl" works OK with LaserJet+, LaserJetII, LaserJetIIP,
and LaserJetIIIP but it does not yet utilize all the fancy capabilities
available in the LJIIIP.

The popular "dvi", written in C++ by Parag Patel, is much slower in
comparison (typically 4 to 5 times slower) and does not support all the
things I need.  Also, it does not work well together with 'pclcomp'.

Bo

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From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: back issues of tugboat avail?
Date: 15 Aug 92 18:57:06 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu

In article <9809@fs3.cam.nist.gov>, gpfrn@cam.nist.gov (Glenn_P._Forney_x6884) writes:
|> are back issues of tugboat articles available
|> via ftp? if so where? 

Tugboat was until recently only available on paper. Tugboat@math.ams.com
can still deliver you all back issues. Contact them for the price.

Some tugboat articles are on servers or describe software that
is available for grabs. Contact the author. 

It seems that tugboat will be copy-lefted in future, so maybe all
of this will become a bit more consistent.

|> glenn forney

Victor

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jkwiatko@mtu.edu (Kwiatkowski)
Subject: solutions: superscripted citations.
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:35:20 GMT


   Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me. The solution to my problem is the
   style file : overcite.sty. 

   It can be obtained from niord.shsu.edu by anonymous ftp.

                               John K.
From: schach@csa2.lbl.gov (A SCHACH VON WITTENAU)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Author index
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:28:39 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: schach@csa2.lbl.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.197
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   


Hi there;
	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.
				Thanks.  ASvW  (AESCHACH@LBL.BITNET)
From: evc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Edward Van Cura)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help with inner/outer margins on 2-side document
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:58:40 GMT

Help...Help...Help

   I would like to produce a document which is double-sided with
the inner margins set at 1.0in and the outer margins set at 0.5in.
I am using doublecolumns with eplain-1.9. 

I set the \topmargin and \bottommargin at 0.5in each, then initialize
the \hoffset with 

\ifodd\pageno \hoffset=0.0in \else \hoffset=-0.5in\fi
(an article may start on page 26, for example)

Then I need a way to reverse the margin settings at the end of the 
page in preparation for the next page. First I tried to tack the 
\ifodd statement listed above onto the \headline{} routine, since I
thought TeX would look at it during the \output routine
at the end of every page. This failed to get the desired effect. 
Then I tried to make the margin change by sticking the \ifodd statement
in what I thought was the \output routine token list. No dice.
I've spent 3 days squinting at the TeXbook, TeX for the Impatient, 
the eplain docs, the TeX FAQ file, and searching several ftp sites
for a ready-made macro. 

Any advice or pre-fab macros would be greatly appreciated.

Edward Earl van Cura
evc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.lang.postscript
From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Size independant Computer Modern PostScript fonts wanted
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:53:02 GMT

We've been looking around the net for Computer Modern PostScript
fonts.  There are a number of variations on a theme, which boil down to
having a separate postscript font for every point size and variant of
CM.  Many megabytes to download and burns up lots of vm.  Has anyone
got a freely redistributable set of size-independant cm*.ps and cm*.afm
files?  Failing that, is there a commercial package available?
-- 
"If life were fair, the acquisition of a large bosom or a massive inheritance
 would have no bearing on your ability to attract the opposite sex, and Dan
 Quayle would be making a living asking runny-nosed children, `Do you want
 fries with that?'"     -- John Cleese, "Corporate Computing" magazine
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker)
Subject: Re: Installing TeX at a "secure" site?
Originator: fritzz@ko.ldgo.columbia.edu
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, New
	York
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:43:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.184856.9432@uwm.edu> bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III) writes:

   There are some other security issues that are relevant. While unprivileged
   software may only be able to do anything the user can do, it may do
   some stuff that he wouldn't. For instance if the user has access to
   files that he is not supposed to show to anyone, running PD
   software is a risk. 

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.

Fritz

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