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From: beynon@nnn.crd.ge.com (Michael D. Beynon)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: texinfo and postscript included screen captures
Keywords: texinfo ps postscript
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:51:28 GMT
Reply-To: kolb@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady, NY

I am a novice user of both TeX and PostScript coding, but I am trying to
include a screen captured encapsulated post script file into a .tex file
"inline"...  It would be ideal if it could be centered left-to-right also.

I almost have it working, but it is very slow and difficult.  I'm using
Arbor_Text's packaging of TeX with its own dvips that supports a different
\special command.

I was told by some to lose the Abrob Text implementation.

Any suggestions ???  I have had to modify the c screen grabber to get the 
encapsulated postscript in a form to make it work.  I am also using, and
had to modify, the 'epsf.tex' macro from stanford.edu to work with the
different \special command of dvips.

Note:  This is eventually going to be used with texinfo, so LaTeX is not
a possibility.  Everything I do has to work with normal TeX.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  I could post what I have done so far
if anyone wants to see it.

     Michael D. Beynon
     beynon@nnn.crd.ge.com
From: edf@sm.luth.se (Ove Edfors)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Scientific Word, TeX for MS-Windows
Keywords: tex, windows
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:00:20 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden


Hi,

  There were a few articles (5-6 months ago) in this newsgroup on a
TeX implementation for MS-Windows, "Scientfic Word", by TCI Software
Research. I just heard that SW has been released.

  Is there anyone out there that have experience in using SW? I'd like
to hear a few comments on the performance and the TeX compatibility of
this software!

  Thanks in advance!

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From: jongill@lilac.bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: I don't understand Knuth's answer to ex. 3.4
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 16:47:12 -0600
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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In exercise 3.4 of the TeXbook, Knuth says that there are 128 (now
256) control sequences of length 2 (including the escapechar) and up
to 128^2 (now 256^2) of length 3 (if I play with catcodes. I don't see
how he gets this.  Don't you need to leave at least one character
whose <catcode> is not equal to 11 to delimit the cs? I thought about
using \csname ... \endcsname, but you still need an escape char to
tell TeX that \endcsname is a cs and not part of the name. Anyone got
an answer?

---Jon
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 09:08:22 EDT
From: <JHB106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX: Margin questions

I am a new user of LaTeX and have recently completed a simple document
using the "article" style file.  I have recently started using the
"ucthesis" style file and I have a few questions about the top and bottom
margins.  For the ucthesis style file, the documentation indicated them top
and bottom margins were both 1 inch and I assume similar margins for the
article style file.  However, when I print the document(s) on an HP Laserjet
2P printer in either PCL mode or with a PostScript cartridge, the top and
bottom margins are nowhere near 1 inch and are around 2 inches.  I have
several questions:
1.)  What is causing this margin problem?
2.)  How can I find out where the margins are set for a particular style
file?
3.)  How can I set the margins to what I want?

Both documents are double spaced, but I don't think that should have any
effect on the margin settings.  Any information on this anomaly would be
appreciated.  Thanks.

                                 - John Beggs
                                  jhb106@psuvm.psu.edu
From: asingh@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Font Question...
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:55:11 GMT

Hi:

I am trying to figure out how to use different fonts in a 
latex document. Specifically, I wish to use helvetica instead
latex document. Specifault. I am sure this is a trivial matter
for all the 'texperts' out there. Any help would be appreciated.

Would like responses mailed to asingh@sml1.ecs.umass.edu.

Thanks.

-Ajay
From: dj7@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Dev Joneja)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: drawing lines with PostScript
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:36:48 GMT
Reply-To: dj7@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Dev Joneja)
Organization: Columbia University

Use the pspic.sty that comes with the dvips package (and is also
available from other style file archives). It offers replacement for
LaTeX picture environment commands with postscript equivalents that
do not have slope etc. restircted.

-Dev.
From: joerd@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Wayne Joerding - Economics)
Subject: trouble with table
Originator: joerd@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 17:55:12 GMT

I'm having trouble with \table{} and hope for some help.  I use \documentstyle{article} with several \section{} satements.  In section 3 I use references like \ref{tbl:poly1nSS} and \ref{tbl:poly2} to refer to tables with labels \label{tbl:poly1nSS} and \label{tbl:poly2} placed inside the \table{begin}...\table{end} commands.  The tables are sequentially numbered 1,2, etc.  Just as desired.  But the text references all produce the number 3, presumably because the references are in section 3.  That is, ever






y reference in the text to a table, "Table ref{tbl:poly1nSS}", produces "Table 3".

Any assistance will be appreciated.

Thanks, Wayne
From: fumekem@uts.uni-c.dk (Knud Erik Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Fast LaTeX preview on PC?
Date: 10 Apr 92 11:37:00 GMT
Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education

Thanks for the answers that I have received by mail. Now I have tried
emTeX and I find it a fairly good solution, even though it takes quite
some space on the harddisk. But still I am dreaming about a preview as 
fast (and small?) as e.g. WordPerfect. I does not matter if the fonts
would not be perfect. 

I have included the answers here: 

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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)


>I am looking for a good previewing solution for LaTeX on PC. I have
>seen the faq with the public domain programs (sbtex and EmTeX), but
>I have not tried them. I presently use LaTeX on a unix-system, and I
>will probably still do my printing there. But I would like also to
>be able to edit, "compile" and preview on PCs. My question is therefore:


I have tried many and like the Emtex previewer the best, it has
built in rulers, page outline, gray scaling, and will also preview graphics
files (msp paintbrush files).  It has resolution up to VGA only.

There is an 8514 (1024 x 768 pixels) previewer available (look in TeX FAQ for
source, I have forgotten) but I found it slow and crude (not even 
a page outline).  There's is also one that runs under windows
on DVIWIN I think (source in FAQ) but no page outline either.

All the previewers require standard PK TeX fonts  so 
expect to use 5-8 Mbytes of disk space. Emtex uses font library
files (.FLI) which use less room than the usual PK files but 
even they are  large( 5MB of files).

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu

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From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au

Dear Knud,

What kind of PC have you?  I use a 286, which is far too slow
(I think) to permit "simultaneous" edit/compile/preview.

There is/was a commercial package called VorTeX that may or
may not do what you ask.  See the STI (Supp. TeX Info.) or is
it the FAQ ?

As for PD packages for the PC:  I don't know.  Is there one for
the Sun?  (I don't count X Windows thingies, as on a Sun 3,
waiting half an hour to see X Windows start up isn't what I call
"simultaneous" edit/compile/preview.  I don't have dedicated
use of any Sun, so I cannot justify having my account ruling
the roost for long enough to get X Windows started.

gt

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From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)

Are you aware of Texshell that is compatible with emtex?  It is not part of
the emtex package, but is also available at the Stuttgart node:
rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de       Carl Riehm.

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From: PCD <duggan@siam.org>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: glossaries
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 11:14:54 EST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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          We have the idx.tex file for making indexes. Is there a
          corresponding file for glossaries?  where can it be found.

          paul duggan
          SIAM
From: jeschke@wobbegong.cs.indiana.edu (Eric Jeschke)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: BibTeX annotated bibliography .bst file wanted (FAQ?)
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:15:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr14.161610.5349
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington


I am looking for a BibTeX style (.bst) file for generating annotated
bibliographies.  The best thing would be a simple extension to the
"plain" or "unsrt" style.

If anyone has hacked one or obtained a copy would you please mail me?

I apologize if this has come up here before.  I haven't been
following this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Eric Jeschke                      |          Indiana University
jeschke@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu      |     Computer Science Department
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: balemi@aut.ethz.ch (Silvano Balemi)
Subject: Framemaker2LaTeX
Reply-To: balemi@aut.ethz.ch (Silvano Balemi)
Organization: Institut fuer Automatik, ETHZ
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:50:25 GMT

Does anybody know of a program converting framemaker to LaTeX on either McIntosh
or unnder UNIX?
Thankx

Silvano Balemi
Automatic Control Laboratory
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland
From: aj4640@euler.math.usma.edu (Robertson J.S. MAJ)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX3.14 under AIX 3.2
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:03:57 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.aix
Organization: U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY

I'm trying to install TeX3.14 on an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.
I've taken only the recommended defines in site.h.

Everything compiles OK, but this perplexing situation arises at the
make formats point:

# 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/local/lib/tex/inputs/plain.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.6 \catcode
            `\{=1 % left brace is begin-group character
? 



Nothing I've tried gets me past this step.  Can anyone help?

Jack

aj4640@usma2.usma.edu

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From: howell@blegga.u.washington.edu (David Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:26:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Apr8.192622.15065
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

OK, about this editing. First of all, Why? If you want to kind of look at it
while editing, do t in WordPerfect, for example. You get to see all your
changes, and the majority of functions (including lists, headers, and sectioon
markers) could be translated into TeX source by a (reasonably sophisticated)
macro.

But hey, let's say you really want TeX editing. OK, first of all
assume a far more powerful computer than just about anybody has sitting
on their desk right now, powerfull enough to TeX 2 pages of
text 100 times a second. Oh, and lots of memory.

Now, when TeX sets a text, it takes snapshots at every page break.
When you're typing along, every time you enter a character it resets
the last two pages to accurately reflect pagebreaks, linebreaks, spacing,
etc. All slash commands would be invisible, I assume, but their effects
would be visible. There shouldn't be a problem with cutting and pasting, 
this is what WP does now. (In case you hadn't guessed, WordPerfect is my
WYSIWYG editor of choice :) I think you'd have to have *another* set of 
windows available for popup to do things like select fonts, change spacing
parameters, and whatnot, and some special functions would still have to 
be written directly.

As for point-and-click equations, I don't work with the nasty things
at all, so I refuse to speculate.

Dave Howell
howell@blegga.cac.washington.edu
From: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help me with \def and verbatim (in LaTeX)
Date: 17 Apr 1992 01:53:11 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alhena.usc.edu

I get this message from latex:

Runaway argument?
 double *dvector(int low, int high) \end {verbatim} \normalsize ^^M^^M\ETC.
File ended while scanning use of \@xverbatim.
<inserted text>
                \par

I'm trying to \def something which uses \begin{verbatim} and \end{verbatim}.
How should it be done?

Here is the input file.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}

\def\fndef#1#2{
\item \index{Library Function {\tt #1}}
\small \begin{verbatim}
#2
\end{verbatim} \normalsize
}

\begin{enumerate}

\fndef{dvector}{double *dvector(int low, int high)}

This allocates vectors.

\fndef{dmatrix}{double **dmatrix(int rl, int rh, int cl, int ch)}

This allocates matrices.

\end{enumerate}

\end{document}
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

How would I deal with function prototypes which run over many lines?
Is \newenvironment any good?  I couldn't make it work well in this problem.

        -ans.

-- 

Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
From: ard@fat-controller.cs.bham.ac.uk (Antoni Diller)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: \jobname etc
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:55:58 GMT
Organization: Birmingham University Computer Science

The TeX command \jobname gives you the extensionless name of the
current file; if you are running on Unix, is there are TeX command
that gives the full pathname of the current file?  Is there an
easy way to do this or not?


Antoni Diller
A.R.Diller@cs.bham.ac.uk
From: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: BibTex question
Summary: NOTE field in BibTeX
Keywords: BibTeX
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:20:17 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus

I am currently using the NOTE field in BibTeX to summarize articles 
now. What I would like to know is if there is any way to tell bibtex
not to use the NOTE field when producing references.

I would like to be able to switch b/w Lit Review mode, and normal
references output.

The only way I can think of is by editing the style file for bibtex
and swapping them when i need each mode.  Is there an easier way?
From: jongill@lilac.bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Answers to my question (ex 3.4) (SUMMARY)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 16:03:59 -0600
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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In article <9204092247.AA21316@lilac.csd.bldrdoc.gov> I wrote:
   In exercise 3.4 of the TeXbook, Knuth says that there are 128 (now
   256) control sequences of length 2 (including the escapechar) and up
   to 128^2 (now 256^2) of length 3 (if I play with catcodes. I don't see
   how he gets this.  Don't you need to leave at least one character
   whose <catcode> is not equal to 11 to delimit the cs? I thought about
   using \csname ... \endcsname, but you still need an escape char to
   tell TeX that \endcsname is a cs and not part of the name. Anyone got
   an answer?

Thanks to (in the order I received their replies)

Raymond Chen <rjc@math.princeton.edu>, who pointed out that I can
change the escape character to access different control sequences.
(use \ for everything that doesn't have \ in it, use | for everything
with \ and not |, and use ! for everything with \ and |.

David Kastrup <dak@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> has an elegant
solution, noting that I can say \csname \char27 \endcsname.

Andrew Dobrowolski <aed@arbortext.com> replied with a similar answer
to Raymond's.

Thanks all for your prompt responses and your patience with my
simplemindedness.

---Jon
From: yfongli@mechanics.ucsd.edu (Yeou-Fong Li)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MACRO FORMAT
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:04:31 GMT
Distribution: usa


Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to make a macro (for each page) with the following
format in TEX?


  ABC--------------------------( straight line)--------------
   C                                                        .
   D                                                        .
   .                                                        .
   .                                                        .
   .                                                        .
(straight line)                TEXT                (straight line)
   .                                                        .
   .                                                        .
   .                                                        .
   .                                                        A
   ----------(straight line)-------------------------------ABC
                                                            C


Thanks in advance.


Y.F. Li
yfongli@ames.ucsd.edu
From: wangfei@rocky8.rockefeller.edu (Fei Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Wanted: the paragragh shape in TeX
Reply-To: wangfei@rocky8 (Fei Wang)
Organization: Rockefeller Univ.,N.Y.C 10021
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 14:51:17 EDT

    Does any one who knows how to produce (in TeX) a paragragh whose shape 
is a diamond?

    I mean if the paragragh is big, the shape of this paragragh (diamond) 
will be big, if the paragragh is small, the diamond will be small.

wang@physics.rockefeller.edu


regards,

Wang Fei
From: "Arthur Ogawa" <ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX's file handling
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 14:16:37 -0700
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Thanks, Dan.

As a style designer using LaTeX, I have desired to do the very thing that Dan
pointed out:

> ....a style file designer might conceivably want
> to create temporary files....or perhaps back-up a previously
> created file (by renaming) before writing a new version

In fact, I may even wish to invoke shell scripts of a general nature.
Apart from the fact that TeX is now frozen, these capabilities
certainly are worth discussing. Knuth had suggested that \write16 might
send its output to a stream that the OS would interpret and execute.
There is even an existing TeX (VP/CMS) that has this capability
(tracing, I believe, back to Chris Thompson (?)). Of course,
exercising this capability makes the macro package or, resp. document
instance system-dependent. There is even the possibility of a
TeX-driving virus or trojan horse if this were done.

An interesting parallel is the Mathematica application, which has a
shell escape on Unix systems, and a general message-passing interface
(MathLink) implemented under Unix via named pipes (I believe), and
under Win, NeXT, and Mac via IAC.

I certainly encourage implementors to consider the ramifications of a
capability for TeX to communicate outside itself, the most robust and
functional way to implement such a capability, and some means of
making the system as implementation independent as possible. The future
of computing certainly includes much interapplication communication, and
the future TeX will certainly benfit from participating.

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From: hohndel@teutonia.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Dirk Hohndel)
Subject: TeX on HP LJ IIIP
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 10:11:47 GMT

Hi,

I've got a problem with printig DVI files on a HP LJ IIIP :-(

Can anybody give me any pointers to a _working_ dvidriver ?
Beebe dvijep doesn't !

Thanks

		Dirk

-- 
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 Lehrstuhl Informatik I, Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, D-8700 Wuerzburg
Organization: Valencia University - Computer Center
Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 11:35:48 EST
From: Werenfried Spit <SPIT@EVALUN11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: boldface \LaTeX

Hello,

Is there anyone with an elegant solution for the following: when
in a boldface text (e.g. in a title) the word \LaTeX occurs it
does not show up as it should: LaTeX complains about not finding
a boldface small-caps font (I use the M-S fontselection). Instead
it uses a lowercase boldface `a'. I could think of two ways to
improve this: install a boldface small caps font -- but I don't
have one -- or redefine \LaTeX in such a way that it substitutes
{\sc a} by {\onesizesmaller A} .

Any suggestions on how to achieve the latter? Or any pointers to
a \bx\sc font?


Thanx,

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Werenfried Spit
  Departamento de Fisica Teorica        tel: +34-6-386 4551
  Universidad de Valencia
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  E-46100 Burjasot                      spit@evalun11.bitnet
  Valencia
  Spain
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From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Subject: footnote for table entries?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 23:54:36 GMT

Is there a way to provide a footnote to an entry of a table?  I 
have tried everything in Appendix C.2.3 in Lamport's book without
any success.  I only got the footnote mark, but the text
portion never showed up at the bottom of the page the table resides.

Please email any hints to me.

Thanks,

Chin Fang
fangchin@leland.$tanford.edu B-(
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From: Anita Zanolini Hoover <anita@ravel.udel.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Update:  13th Annual TeX Users Group Meeting
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:37:13 -0400
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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                                 UPDATE

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                  * 13th Annual TeX Users Group Meeting *
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                              July 27-30, 1992


                      T  e  X    i  n    C o n t e x t


                      P o r t l a n d ,   O r e g o n



Benson Hotel:
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The phone number for the Benson Hotel is (800) 426-0670 or
(503) 228-2000 Reminder:  A Continental Breakfast is provided for
Benson Hotel guests free of charge.


Meeting:
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All meeting and course attendees will receive a full lunch at the Benson
Hotel free of charge.

Dinner Cruise on the Columbia Gorge Sternwheeler has been cancelled.
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