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From: gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler)
Subject: Bug in makeindex?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:25:39 GMT
Organization: Aztec Information Management

Hi TeXers

I am having problems with makeindex. I find that it produces a large
number of warning messages (approx 20% of my \index entries have warnings
about unmatched range opening and closing). Furthermore, it messes up
a lot of the ranges, and seems to interpret |(} as a special in some cases
as I get entries backslashes and braces where there shouldn't be any.
LaTeX chokes on the results with lost of `missing $ inserted' messages.
This occurs with the makeindex that is shipped with the Dell SVR4 TeX
distribution, as well as the version I have under DOS (emTeX). The .idx
file produced by LaTeX is perfect; it is the .ind file produces by makeindex
that is full of rubbish.

Has anyone else experienced this problem, and is there an easy solution
other than going in by hand each time and fixing the .ind file?

BTW, I have checked the ranges in the .idx file very carefully, and there
are *no* unmatched ranges. The problem is definitely with makeindex.

Thanks in advance
Graham


-- 
Graham Wheeler                     | "That which is weak conquers the strong,
Network Systems Programmer         | that which is soft conquers the hard."
Aztec Information Management       | 		Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching Ch. 78
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From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Help with LucidaMath fonts
Date: 23 Jan 1993 13:14:49 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov's message of 22 Jan 1993 18:33:07 GMT


In article <1jpel3INN2mn@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> dundas@chip.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (John Dundas) writes:

   I have the Adobe Lucida Math fonts and their .pl files but have not been
   able to get all of the math characters to print properly (I am using
   pltotf and dvips V5.495).  Can anyone offer any pointers?

You need to note that Adobe doesn't believe in the `control character'
positions, so all of the characters you'd expect to be in in the 0 -- 31
range appear instead in the 161 -- 195 range.  They also like a space in
position 32. One way to fix this is to reencode the font.  That is, change
the assignments in the Encoding vector to correspond to those in Computer
Modern math fonts.

How to do this is a function of what platform you are on - something you
don't mention.  On Unix, with PFA files you can edit the file directly,
since it is plain ASCII.  You need to change the AFM file also if you are on
NeXT using Display PostScript. 

On the PC you have to convert the compact binary PFB file to PFA form, edit,
and convert back to PFB (using PFBtoPFA and PFAtoPFB say - or just use
REENCODE directly).  If you are using the font in MS Windows, you'll have to
make up a new PFM metric file (using AFMtoPFM say).

For the Mac version, use EdMetrics to tell TeXtures the font uses `Lucida
math' encoding.  Or convert to PC format and proceed as above (using
MACtoPFA and PFBtoMAC).  Of course, you'll also have to modify the `screen
font' then (using AFMtoSCR say).  Similarly, ...

Life is MUCH easier if you get instead the Lucida New Math fonts from Y&Y.
They are all set up to have the expected encoding and come with appropriate
metric files.  Aside from that, they have TWICE as many glyphs, hence
cover not only CM, but LaTeX math symbol, and AMS math fonts as well...

Disclaimer: respondent has connections with Y&Y, obviously...

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tas@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Tas van.Ommen)
Subject: Installing TeX/MetaFont: Where is mf ?
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:25:35 GMT

I am installing TeX/MetaFont on a group of Sun machines
and am having trouble with the make of MetaFont.  It
creates iniMF and virMF, but no mention of MF itself.
Am I missing something obvious here?

Tas
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: kubipdal@uts.uni-c.dk (Peter Dalg}rd)
Subject: Re: NFSS: How change mathcodes?
Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:19:57 GMT
Keywords: NFSS, mathcode

Sorry about following up on my own postings, but noone else did and I
did find at least a partial solution.

In <1993Jan20.161638.7096@uts.uni-c.dk> kubipdal@uts.uni-c.dk (Peter Dalg}rd) writes:

>a) How would one know that \bffam is the family corresponding to
>	\mathbf{} (In fact it is, but suppose I wanted do it for
>	another alphabet)?

>b) Math alphabets do not seem to be defined unless there is reference 
>	to them in a formula (??) As it is now, $X_i$ gives me an
>	error that textfont 4 is undefined, but $X_i+\mathbf{z}$
>	works. How do I enforce definition of the relevant fonts?

Part b) is easily disposed of by creating a dummy formula with a font
selection inside, e.g.
\setbox0\hbox{$\mathbf\relax$}

Part a) is tricky. If the math alphabet has been created with 
\new@internalmathalphabet or \newmathalphabet, then the control
sequence expands to something that starts with a call to 
\select@group, whose second argument is the math family that I
was after. The first argument is the command sequence itself.
(I.e. \mathbf ->\select@group \mathbf \bffam ....)
So I need to extract the third token of the expansion of the
math alphabet control sequence. I ended up with this (setfam is my
original macro):

\newcount\h@ckedf@mily
\def \getthirdtoken#1#2#3#4***{#3}
\def \@wfulf@milyh@ck#1{
        \h@ckedf@mily\expandafter\getthirdtoken#1***
        \setbox0\hbox{$#1\relax$}
}
\def \mathletter#1#2{
        \@wfulf@milyh@ck{#1}
        \setfam{\h@ckedf@mily}{#2}
}
\def \bfmathletter#1{\mathletter{\mathbf}{#1}}

This doesn't work for rm and mi since they are set up differently
in newlfont.sty. However, they are in their usual places, so one can
just:

\def \mimathletter#1{\setfam 1 {#1}}
\def \rmmathletter#1{\setfam 0 {#1}}

Something tells me that this can't be the right way, but it's the best
I can do!

	Peter

PS: Please note that I routinely \catcode RET SPC and TAB to 9 (ignored)
in my macros, people who prefer the usual TeX style need to delete a few
spaces and insert some % signs in various places.
From: sendouk@phakt.usc.edu (Hippocrates Aristides Sendoukas)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: New DVI driver for Windows 3.x available
Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:21:26 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

Hi netters:

I have written a free DVI previewer and printer for MS-Windows 3.x; I
have seen quite a few requests for such a program in this newsgroup, so
I thought it might be a good idea to announce it here. Here is a brief
description of the driver:

DVIWIN is a screen and printer driver for TeX DVI files under Windows
3.x. Its main features are:

  * Fast previewing (uses 386-specific code if it finds a 386/486)
  * Supports graphics for TeX documents: no more cutting and pasting
  * Absolutely WYSIWYG: no surprises when printing
  * Uses any standard PK font files with up to 256 chars per font
  * Can use many paper sizes including the European standard sizes
  * Works with most screen and printers supported by Windows

The memory requirements depend on the screen or printer resolution.
To print on a 300 dpi laser printer, you will need about 4M. To view
and print DVI files, you will also need a collection of PK fonts
(available at many ftp sites).

The program is completely free for any individual or non-commercial
organization. Please contact me for any comments, suggestions, bug
reports, etc.

The program is available under the name dviwin20.zip at the following
places:

FTP site                 Directory
--------                 ---------
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil   pd1:<msdos.windows3>
oak.oakland.edu          pub/msdos/windows3
wuarchive.wustl.edu      mirrors/msdos/windows3



I hope that you find it useful,

Hippocrates Sendoukas  (sendouk@scf.usc.edu)
From: gmaltby@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Gavin Maltby)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: latex notes: what to do with them!
Keywords: latex notes
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:59:31 GMT
Organization: University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
NNTP-Posting-Host: pc038.cc.unp.ac.za

Hi again,

If anyone is confused, here's how to get those four posts into one document:
1) Save each of the four parts in separate files, or append in that order
if your newsreader allows
2) Remove all news header lines from the beginning of each part (the From:
etc lines)
3) You should now have one long LaTeX file (about 4000 lines).  Each part
was about 1000 lines.  Run this through latex.  I used LaTeX with the
NFSS, but it shouldn't give any surprsises on the original LaTeX.

Cheers

Gavin
--
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gmaltby@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za, maltby@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za
Any opinion expressed is mine and mine alone.
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From: anita@astro.as.utexas.edu (Anita Cochran)
Subject: Rotating tables -- the title
Organization: Univ. of Texas McDonald Observatory
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:56:22 GMT

I am using LaTeX for all which follows.

I have a table which is wider than the page so I need to rotate it.
I have found several different rotate macros and settled on using
the one that Paul Davis posted to this group some time ago.  It is
the one which has  \begin{turn} and \begin{rotate} commands, for
reference.  I don't know if this is the best but I could understand
it and get it working.  Anyway, I have a table which is set in a 
table environment (to float) and then uses tabular.  I figured out
early on that since table is a floating environment and fragile, the
begin/end{turn} commands had to be inside the table environment so
that it was only working on the box created by tabular.  This worked great
EXCEPT....  The table caption is then not rotated.  I could easily just
use the multicolumn and put the caption there and float the table myself
(since the tables in a manuscript for this journal appear at the end)
but then I lose the ability to cross-reference.  I tried putting the
caption inside the tabular but LaTeX did not like that.  I finally
kludged it by defining a newcounter, incrementing the table counter,
setting the newcounter to the table counter and referencing that.
Unfortunately, it does not put this in the aux file like with a label
so the counter operations have to be before you reference it the
first time.  This means that the counter and table are separated in the
manuscript and I lose the ability of LaTeX to automatically keep
track of things.  It works but...

So,
1)  Could someone suggest how I use the table environment with this
rotate package and actually rotate the caption?

or

2)  Is there a way to set a label if I only use the tabular command?

or

3)  Any other good ideas.

I will try to see any posted answers but I have not had much chance to
read news lately with working on the manuscript so if you could e-mail
me answers, that would be best.
-- 
 Anita Cochran  uucp:  !utastro!anita
                arpa:  anita@astro.as.utexas.edu  
                snail: Astronomy Dept., The Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, 78712
                at&t:  (512) 471-1471
From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Inputting accented characters (postpositive accents)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 17:55:36 -0800
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


  > First of all, the TeX3 parameters \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin are
  > spoilt by ligatures (a single accented letter to be cut of...arghhhh).

Well, I'll have to push on OTEP Turkish a little harder to see if I can
make it happen.  It hasn't happened yet.

Wait a minute!! There is no reason why it should ever happen.  The
{\it relatively} few patterns with a boundary character on one side and a
trigraph in the middle can be protected in the hyphenation file.  Now
that I think of it, that is what I do.  I haven't done much with the
kerning problem yet because kerning tables are such a time-consuming
bore, but I think I am getting distinct kernings for some accented
Greek characters.  I'll have to check with dvitype to see if it is
really happening.

  > The best way of inputting accented letters is direct input of the right
  > code and to have them ready in a font. The Cork encoded dc-font allow this.

That's like the advice I was given to switch to UNICODE at once.  But
in what editor?  I kind of like dear old emacs which I can run on
dozens of different terminals without getting tied in knots by the
requirements of proprietary software, single-purpose graphics display
hardware and expensive proprietary fonts.  When something like
Howard Gayle's ropes and glyphs are built into general versions
of Emacs I will use them with delight, but I know that I and my
impoverished colleagues haven't a hope of coming near useful
16-bit wide character software in the foreseeable future.

  > Second best is accessing them via macros or active characters, like many
  > national styles do. This approach is also adopted by the Babel system of.

OK, but that still leaves the question, in what editor?  Which
return to my main point.  The relation between keystrokes and
input codes to TeX is the province of an editor, not of TeX.

I may be the only user of multi-lingual text who is constantly forced
to migrate among hardware platforms of differing capabilities, but
I rather doubt it.  The availability of digraph and trigraph
conventions has solved several other communications problems for
us.

Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software should be sent primarily
to:	elisabet@max.u.washington.edu           Elizabeth Tachikawa
otherwise to:  mackay@cs.washington.edu		Pierre A. MacKay
Smail:  Northwest Computing Support Center	Resident Druid for
	Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10		Unix-flavored TeX
	University of Washington
	Seattle, WA 98195
	(206) 543-6259
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mnikunen@geom.helsinki.fi
Subject: NewGen TurboPS and dvips output
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Helsinki, Finland
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:03:53 GMT

A friend of mine recently bought a NewGen TurboPS laser printer.
Everything else works fine, but he cannot print DVI files with
dvips (v. 5.495). Using error handler he gets the following error
messages
ERROR: invalidfont
OFFENDING COMMAND: setfont

STACK: 

-dictionary-

Any ideas?

--
Martti Nikunen
Department of Mathematics
University of Helsinki
mnikunen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: andre@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Andre Roberge)
Subject: Re: Introductory LaTeX notes: covering post
Keywords: latex, notesn
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:14:58 GMT

In <1993Jan28.054222.19763@coe.montana.edu> imsgtcar@sinc.oscs.montana.edu (Tim Carlson) writes:

>In article <1993Jan28.021809.8789@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons) writes:

>>There's a missing percent that makes the environment "mathegs" not work. It
>>should be

<< stuff deleted >>

>>Thanks for your effort, Gavin!

>Yeah, I'll say that.  I think we all appreciate your work.  I've 
>scanned through it (70+ pages) and think its just great!!!!!

I'll join my voice to those thanking you Gavin!

I've had to do a few more modifications like putting
the "\label" for sections inside the section title (with a \protect)
to make things work properly.  Also, I spotted a type on page 72
where you have a "\sinh" instead of "\sin h"  (this is done twice...).

When are we going to see chapter 4?

Andre Roberge
Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:15499 comp.fonts:4035
From: walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norman Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Metafont to scalable outline font formats
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:06:50 GMT
Reply-To: walsh@cs.umass.edu
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst)
In-reply-to: christie@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU's message of 26 Jan 93 10:39:51 GMT

>>>>> On 26 Jan 93 10:39:51 GMT, christie@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Chris Tham) said:
Chris> Just a thought, but has anyone considered writing a program that
Chris> translates METAFONT fonts into Adobe Type [13], HP PCL5 scalable font
Chris> format or Apple/Microsoft Truetype font formats?

The mf2ps program translates Metafont outlines into Adobe Type1 fonts.  
I don't have any personal experience with this translation, however.

Chris> Just think of the possibilities: for example by converting METAFONT to
Chris> PCL5 we can have TeX documents that take advantage of Resolution
Chris> Enhancement!  

In point of fact, resolution enhancement is automatic.  Any LJ driver that
sends output to the LaserJet III printer (or any other HP printer with
res. enh.) automatically gets the benefit of HP's efforts to make the
300dpi LJ printer look better.

Chris> Not to mention being able to incorporate TeX fonts in
Chris> Windows word processors, etc.

Most word processors can use HP LaserJet softfonts, so the TeX fonts are
already available to you.  Simply translate TeX PK files into LJ softfonts
with (for example) PKtoSFP.  Not a perfect solution, perhaps, but purists
would argue it was better than a linearly scaled Type1 font anyway...

                                                  Be seeing you...
                                                    norm
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<walsh@cs.umass.edu> | CMPSCI Dept., LGRC A210 | Standard disclaimer applies
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: PM-TEX: A TeX-Shell for OS/2 Presentation-Manager
Date: 22 Jan 1993 20:06:15 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:

>I've just switched to OS/2, and I'm trying to find an OS/2 2.0 version of
>TeX.EXE. (I've now only the TeXP.EXE from emTeX for OS/2 1.3). Does anyone
>know were to find it?
>Further I try to find an OS/2 previewer for dvi files. Any suggestions?

EmTeX is available on the ftp-os2.nmsu.edu server.  You will want to
use the 386 version of TeX that runs fast under OS/2 2.0.  Although
still called a beta, it has been out for a long long time and I have
never encountered a problem with it.  There is a great previewer too
for OS/2.  It comes with the Emtex package and is called dvipm.  The
latest revision is 1.4s I believe.  It will run at the resolution of
your desktop.

Since you are new to OS/2, you should download the file 00Index from
ftp-os2 in /pub/os2 and see all the stuff they have... it is extensive
and growing fast.



-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: dheitjan@biostats.hmc.psu.edu (Daniel F. Heitjan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE:  Color documents
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:07:39 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Dave Love correctly pointed out that dvilaser/ps
*can* handle colors.  You simply say

 \special{ps:: <red level> <green level> <blue level> setrgbcolor}

and you get the specified color from that point
onward in the printed text.

My lone remaining problem is how to change the
background color.  I suspect this isn't that hard
either, but my knowledge of PostScript is very
limited.  I would appreciate any suggestions.

By the way, I'm afraid my first message left the
false impression that I'm using a Mac.  I'm not--
I'm using a Sun SPARCstation ELC, and I can
preview my output in pageview on either my
monochrome monitor or my neighbor's color monitor.
The only reason I mentioned a Mac is that the
slide printer is driven from a Mac.  I get to it
by copying my PostScript file to a DOS computer,
thence to diskette, thence to the Mac.  Networking
here is rudimentary.

Thanks again for all your suggestions.
From: Richard P Hayes <CXEV@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Vedic accents in TeX
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 06:27:41 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

This question is directed to the teeming masses of people who use
TeX to typeset Sanskrit using Frans Velthuis's DNMACS: Is there any way
to get the accent marks for Vedic svarita and udatta accents? As you
know, if one doesn't print the accents correctly, the mantras won't be
efficacious, so I hope it is not necessary to sacrifice accuracy in
printing passages from the Veda.

Richard Hayes                                      cxev@musica.mcgill.ca
Religious Studies           McGill University           Montreal, Quebec
From: goossens@dxcern.cern.ch (Michel Goossens)
Subject: Printing on the Xerox Docutech engine
Summary: Questions related to PS fonts and MF for the Docutech
Keywords: XEROX DOCUTECH METAFONT FONT POSTSCRIPT
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:45:00 GMT


At the beginning of this week we finally got our Xerox Docutech
printer connected to the PostSCript Engine, and we can now happily
generate output at a "real" 600 dpi.

The quality is really good, but there are a few problems:

The Blue Sky type 1 PostScript renderings of the Computer Modern 
fonts come out too thin. Has anybody on the net have the same 
impression (B.T.W. the same is true for the same fonts on their
4050/4090 300dpi printers). I talked to Xerox, and they say they
are preparing a "patch" for this kind of behaviour (being a write-white
engine, it seems that there is too little "black" output on the page, 
and so the gray is too white, leaving shading barely visible in some cases.
Does somebody else have a similar experience, and could it be
solved more or less easily (w/o having to wait for Xerox).
Why would the type 1 Blue Sky fonts come out too light, when
the other PS fonts (Times and friends) come out more or less normally?

On the other hand I am using some MF fonts, for which I do not have the
PostScript fonts, so I have to generate the fonts at 600 dpi for that
printer. Does anyone on the net already the MF mode-setting parameters
for the Docutech (or the 4135) of Xerox?

Thanks for your help.

Michel Goossens

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From: CENDFI65%BRUFPB.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Emilio C. Lopes)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Page numbers
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:38:39 GMT
Organization: Laboratorio de Fisica/DF/UFPB --- BRAZIL
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


Hi, help me in this plain TeX problem. When I'm making a cover I use
\nopagenumbers, but in the rest of the paper, obviously, I want pagenumbers.
So after a \eject of the coverpage I say \pageno=1; It DOESNOT work.
One way to "solve" this is putting the coverpage at the end of the paper,
but I dont like this. Can anyone help me? This is an old trouble to me....

Emilio.

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