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From: vashti@concave.cs.wits.ac.za (Vashti Galpin)
Subject: line numbers in LaTeX
Keywords: line numbers
Organization: CS Dept, University of the Witwatersrand
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:20:59 GMT

As my supervisor and I are going to be discussing my Master's
thesis by email, I would like to print a copy for him with 
line numbers, for example

    text....
    text....
    text....
    text....
 5  text....
    text....
    text....
    text....
    text....
10  text....
    text....
    .
    .

Is there some way that I can do this (or something similar) in LaTeX?
Please email any responses as the news at this site is not very
reliable. I will summarise if there is enough interest.

Thanks

Vashti
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Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand
2050 Wits, South Africa.  Tel 27(11)716-3295 Fax 27(11)403-1926
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (David Russell)
Subject: WANTED: spell for LaTeX
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:25:54 GMT

   Is there a spell cheking routine out there for LaTeX files, which
runs on a SUN system, (UNIX), similar to 'spell'. The problem is
that 'spell' has problems when encountering 'TeX' commands. (eg.
'\put' returns 'ut' as an unknown word, and '\section' returns
'ction' as unknown.) I would just like a spell checker which does
not have this problem. Developing a supplimental dictionary with
all these non-words could be dangerous. What are my options...
--
David M. Russell, Mechanical Eng. Dept.
Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13676
(315) 268-9806 
russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: Finding width of on-going \halign
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:09:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.020840.20852@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, mjm@spekl.as.arizona.edu (Mark McCaughrean) writes...
> 
>     In the middle of an \halign, I want to use \noalign to set a
>paragraph of text (say). I want this paragraph to have the same
>width as the table I'm setting using \halign. 

A backwards answer: Use 
  \halign to <dimen>{...}.

>How do I get TeX
>to tell me what the width of the table is, i.e. the width of the
>vertical box I'm currently in the middle of? 

You can't.  The width is undefined until the box is wrapped up.

>(I don't want to use
>\multispan, by the way: I want the exact width of the table, and 
>I don't want to have to know how many columns to span).

\multispan doesn't tell you the width of the table anyway, and you
need to know the width in order to break the paragraph.

> 
>     I figured I could make a \setbox with an \hrule inside it,
>hoping the \hrule would be the width of the table, and that then
>I could use \wd to get the width of the box. I can't get it to
>work. 

It will never work.

>Seems like TeX must know the width though, or does it only
>work it out when it has digested the whole table?

Yes, of course!  It can't know the width of the table until all the entries 
are processed!

>     Any ideas? 

Check the width of the table after it is finished, and write the width to 
a file so the paragraph can be set properly the next time.  Or reprocess
the table with paragraph immediately.

Donald Arseneau         asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Stephan Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX -> ASCII, RTF -> LaTeX
Date: 13 Aug 92 07:07:46 GMT
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich


I urgently need to locate two programs, both as executables for PCs:

- Something that strips the formatting and math from a LaTeX-file and only
leaves ASCII behind.

- A program that converts RTF to LaTeX. I've only found pointers to the C
source, but no executables.

Any help appreciated,
thanks for pointers,
Stephan



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From: sastry@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (RAVI)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help with resume.sty file needed
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:32:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.41607
Distribution: usa
Organization: O Gee I'm in oregon


	Hi,
		I facing a problem with resume.sty file( this is Mr.Stephen 
		Gildea's file). If I want something like this, how do I get it?

	_______________________________________________________________
		SOME TITLE:
			O  blah blah 
			O  blah blah    (read those big Os as bullets)
	 _______________________________________________________________
		In order to get this I used the following structure.
    
		\sectiontitle{some titile}
		\begin{items}
			\item blah blah 
			\item blah blah 
		\end{items}

		The problem with the above structure is it introduces
		additional newline after the section title and befor the
		first item. The output is some thing like this.
       	_______________________________________________________________
    		SOME TITLE:


			O  blah blah 
			O  blah blah    (read those big Os as bullets)
 	 _______________________________________________________________
		 My question is how can I eliminate this 
		additional new line? In otherwords, what changes do I 
		need to make to the resume.sty file? I am no TeXhacker. 

		Thanks in advance. Please reply your suggestions to 
		my e-mail address. 

	Ravi.
	(sastry@cse.ogi.edu)
From: cww@ee.nthu.edu.tw (Cheng-Wen Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help: all citation numbers are 0???
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:52:29 +0800
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

 When I run LaTeX and BIBTeX on documents with citation, I always
have the result with all citation numbers reset to `0'. This can
be seen in the .aux file, in which all \bibcite entries appear to
be of the form: \bibcite{...}{0}. Repeating latex does no good.

 I am using LaTeX 2.09 (and TeX 3.0) on SUN Sparc1.

 Could anybody who knows the possible problem and solution give
me a hand? Thanks in advance.

Cheng-Wen Wu
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu, Taiwan 30043
R.O.C.
cww@ee.nthu.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: pcjg7045@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Pramod C. John)
Subject: Problems with size of headings
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 19:49:08 GMT

Hi, 
	I would appreciate it if someone could give me a hand with some
problems I have been having in formatting a latex document.
Currently, I am writing my thesis using a .sty file which is supposed to be the
approved format of the dept. that I am in (uiuc).  The problems are as follows:

1. The chapter, section etc, headings are too large.  If I try to make them
smaller using the smallchapters.sty, the headings are no longer centered,
rather they are left justified. How do I either, make the headings smaller, or
center justify the headings from smallchapters.sty ?

2. Table captions are below the tables. I need to place them above the table.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Pramod John

 
-- 
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email: Pramod@uiuc.edu
"Blessed are the peacemakers"- Jesus Christ
From: "Phillip E. Parker" <PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: GNU
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:09:49 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

My thanks to all the people who kindly told me what GNU is and sent me
many documents giving the history and philosophy. There were too many to
thank individually, so I hope this general thanks will suffice.
    To summarize VERY briefly, GNU is a free software project of the
Free Software Foundation. The official archive site is prep.ai.mit.edu
and information and history can be found there in pub/gnu/GNUinfo.
    Thanks again to the many people who responded.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%          Phillip E. Parker
%  __ 2    Math. Dept.                 Bitnet: pparker@twsuvm
% |__)     Wichita St. Univ.         Internet: pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
% |        Wichita KS  67260-0033         Fax: 1-316-689-3748
%          USA

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: martin@weigele.de (Martin Weigele)
Subject: S: Replacement for msx/msy old AMS fonts or archive site
Organization: M. Weigele
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:18:43 GMT

Does anyone know where the OLD AMS fonts msx/msy might still be available?                             
                          ^^^^^
They are no longer supported. An archive site should preferably be non-ftpable  
and European.

Even better would be a kind of "1:1" replacement by some new fonts. I need them  
for an old style file that cannot be changed easily. Any suggestions?

Thanks.
-- 
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phone +49 228 333252 home, +49 228 9866385 office
email: martin@weigele.de
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: sulkanen@xanth.msfc.nasa.gov (Martin Sulkanen - NRC/ES65)
Subject: "more-xxx" PK files for OzTex at midway?
Summary: where are "more-xxx" PK files for OzTeX at midway?
Keywords: tex,oztex
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:36:15 GMT

hi: I've recently downloaded OzTeZ from midway.uchicago.edu.
The install notes for 1.42 mention the files "more-622" and
"more-746" folders whose contents should be placed in the
622 and 746 PK folders. I could not find the "more-" folders,
and upon texxing the user guide I got a lot of "can't find
font xxx" messages. I followed the 1.42 installation notes
exactly. Any ideas what's wrong here? Thanks.

|_________________________________________________________________|
| martin sulkanen      ][ internet: sulkanen@xanth.msfc.nasa.gov  |
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo)
Subject: Subfigure style on  multiple pages 
Organization: Columbia University Department of Mechanical Engineering
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:24:29 GMT
X-Posted-From: cumesb.mech.columbia.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu



More on subfigure.sty...

Is it possible to have the subfigure.sty go across multiple pages?

At the current moment, if I have Figure 5 (a)-(c), with each one
being of \vspace{4.0in}, I get problems (the main caption doesn't go to
the next page, but just vanishes).  Any fixes, or is this a limitation
of  subfigure.sty  ?

-A.


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates)
Subject: ChiWriter->(La)TeX converter?
Keywords: ChiWriter LaTeX TeX converter
Organization: Physics Dept. The University of Queensland
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:26:58 GMT

I remember that at one stage ChiWriter was going to provide (La)Tex
output, but I'm not aware that that was ever more than vapour-ware.  If
there is such a thing as a ChiWriter to (La)TeX converter, it would save
me a lot of retyping, thanks, so please let me know.
	Thanks in advance,
							Tony.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: poulain@dragon.unl.edu (Dana E. Poulain)
Subject: zcatting compressed PS to epsf + APOLOGY
Keywords: epsf, compress, zcat
Organization: Center for Electro-Optics, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:57:59 GMT

I apologize for the multiple postings of this same subject
that occurred last week, our univ. switched to a new server
and there were some complications.

I am still having the problem of not being able to use the
following command with "epsf.sty" and "dvips"

     \epsffile[llx lly urx ury]{"`zcat filename.ps.Z"}

Any ideas on this would still be appreciated.
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___________________________________________________________________
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 poulain@piris1.unl.edu                  University of Nebraska
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ericj@teal.csn.org (Eric Jacobsen)
Subject: Re: tex v. WP5.1
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:09:10 GMT

barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA writes:

>Tony Safina wants to know the difference.  Perhaps on a 9 pin dot matrix
>printer, there is no advantage to using TeX and such a printer is
>dreadfully slow for decent output.   On the other hand..., I just printed
>out for my wife on my HPLJ IIP a WP5.1 document and I was frankly
>astonished by the poor appearance it made compared with any TeX
>document.  It could have typed on any typewriter with a bold key
>(if such exists), while the TeX documents look like something produced
>by a printer with somewhat low res fonts.
>Michael Barr

Tell Tony that the difference is that, for stock WP51,
 - EmTeX downloads its own fonts (and presumably all other TeX's)
 - WP51 uses built-in fonts or cartridge fonts
In fact, a PostScript printer should use identical fonts, while
output from an HPLJ III will look better with WP51 than TeX
(to me, at least, since I like the built-in fonts better
than Computer Modern).

If you're considering upgrading, these are some options:
 - Buy a cartridge (I'm presuming the IIP can have cartridges)
   I like the "Z" cartridge; gives Times Roman in 8,10,12,14 pt
 - Trade in your IIP for a II; faster paper output
 - Trade in your IIP for a IIIP; scalable fonts for WP51
 - Trade in your IIP for a PostScript or get a PS cartridge
 - Get BitStream FontWare; slow but works most of the time

Eric Jacobsen
From: Guenther Neue <UCH018%DDOHRZ11.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: scientific word
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:33:13 SET
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List




Hello,

recently I found an advertisement for a program that is claimed to
combine latex with wysiwyg under Windows. Has anybody experience with
that program which is called "SCIENTIFIC word" ?


Guenther
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: guenther@tigger.csc.wsu.edu
Subject: machdefs.h for cms
Organization: Washington State University
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:29:53 -0800

Has anyone created a machdefs.h for Nelson's dvijep/dvialw program for running
on CMS/ESA? -- Dean

Dean Guenther          		Internet: guenther@tigger.csc.wsu.edu
Washington State University	Bitnet:   guenther@cougar
Pullman, WA. 99164-1220         AT&T:	  509 335-0433
				fax:      509 335-0540
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (David Russell, CAD Lab,268-3997,265-1000)
Subject: Re: Another problem with LaTeX typesetting equation
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:47:46 GMT

From article <gong.50.713634349@dutw34.tudelft.nl>, by gong@dutw34.tudelft.nl (GONG Sunrong):
> Hi all,  my problem is with typesetting a ordinary sencond order 
> differential equation in LaTeX, for which I typed in the source file the 
> following lines:
> 	
> 	\boldmath
> 	\begin{equation}
> 		M_n \ddot{U}_{n} + C_n \dot{U}_{n} + K_n = F_n
> 	\end{equation}
> 
 I'm not an expert but here is my 2nd order ODE.

 {\bf M}_e {\bf \ddot{\vec Q}}_e  \; + \; {\bf C}_e {\bf \dot{\vec Q}}_e
 \; + \; {\bf K}_e {\bf {\vec Q}}_e \; = \; {\bf {\vec F}}_e

M, C, K, F and Q come out bold, subscripts don't and \; is there just
to add some spacing for readablity. I know it may not be standard but
it works and looks like I want it to.

--
David M. Russell, Mechanical Eng. Dept.
Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13676
(315) 268-9806 
russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: austin@eecom.gatech.edu (Mark D. Austin)
Subject: dvi to Epson-9 or 24 pin dot matrix for a PC compatible ?
Organization: Computer Engineering Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:52:01 GMT


I am using a 386 pc to run latex and I am looking for a public domain
program to convert the dvi  file to something my Epson compatible 9 or
24 pin printer can handle. Does anyone know of any?
thanks again,
Mark
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From: schmitt@apap4.pap.univie.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: WANTED: 14pt book style
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:07:58 GMT
Organization: Vienna University Computer Center

In article <maassen.714052318@kreon>, maassen@kreon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Maassen) writes:
> I want to write a manual on A4 which is to be reduced to size A5 later.
> In order to have 10pt characters in A5, I need something like 14pt
> characters in A4. The main style I use is "book".
> 
> Did anybody ever write a style that can do this job?
> 
> Andreas
> (maassen@parsytec.de)
> 
I think that the appropriate thing is to use magnification (1440) on
a 10pt style, because this is the desired format, and it produces
a font designed for 10pt size.
With many drivers it is also possible to do the magnification when	
printing the document, so that writing can be done using a 10pt style

A reduced true 14pt style would not look good!

Peter Schmitt
From: rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX In Practice
Date: 22 Aug 92 21:37:48 GMT
Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

In article <1992Aug21.164653.21756@sed.stel.com> jon@radel.com writes:
>   >Stefan v. Bechtolsheim's book, "TeX in Practice", has been announced by 
>   >Springer-Verlag. It is in  fact a four volume set. Details below, from 
>   >the ad in the latest TUGBoat.
>
>   Almost here.  I just called Springer-Verlag New York, and the official
>   shipping date is October 30.  People in the U.S. can order it from
>   them at 1-800-777-4643.
>
>

I should like to introduce a new practice among the members of the Usenet
community, intended to diminsh the blatant cultural imperialism implicit
(on often not so implicit) in many of the postings:

When posting a 'phone number, also post a fax number and/or a non-800
number. Those of us who reside outside the USA cannot call US toll-free
numbers. If there is no fax/tollfree number, or if you don't know, inform.

All the same, thanks for the info.

--
       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
       N-0589 OSLO 5           |           rolfl.lindgren@usit.uio.no
From: brad@sol.nwc.navy.mil (Bradford Clark ( Brad ))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: Drivers for self-documenting files
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 08:53:32 PDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

>From: Phil Hirschhorn <PHIRSCHHORN@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU>
>
>I'd like to print out the documentation contained in the comments of
>the file latex.tex.  I've got the multicol package, but it seems to
>require a "driver" file to correctly format the documentation.  Does
>anyone know where I can get the driver for the latex.tex
>documentation?
>
>More generally, does anyone know where I can find an explanation of
>how this whole docstrip/documentation producing business works, and
>how I write the "driver" to produce the documentation in other
>self-documenting files?
>
>Thanks,
>Phil Hirschhorn
>phirschhorn@lucy.wellesley.edu
>

Ditto, please post answers to the net for us new LaTeX enthusiasts.


Thanks,
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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Installing TeX at a "secure" site?
Date: 14 Aug 1992 18:15:04 GMT
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: icsib30.icsi.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug13.221040.2123@almserv.uucp>, alufml@purple.fnma.com (Francois-Michel Lang) writes:
|> 
|> I just received a tape of the Unix TeX distribution from the
|> Northwest Computing Support Center and handed it over to the
|> sysadmin folks at my site for installation.  Now they tell me
|> that they will *not* install it because TeX is public domain
|> software, which is verboten here.  (Why, given this policy,
|> we can still use GNU Emacs is another matter...)
|> 
|> In an effort to convince the sysadmin folks that installing and
|> running TeX will not destroy the world as we know it:
|> 
|> (1) I'd very much appreciate hearing from anyone who has TeX running
|> at a site where security is a real concern (e.g., military, defense,
|> or government "agencies").  If TeX is safe enough for such sites, it
|> should be safe enough for us!
|> 
|> (2) Has anything been written/published showing/arguing that TeX is
|> indeed safe, and will not introduce the latest and most fiendish
|> viruses into our network?

You said UNIX, not PC, right?  So it should be sufficient to tell your
sysadmin people that TeX doesn't include a single program requiring
setuid/setgid priviledges.  There is no safety issue here because
there is nothing a user can do running TeX he or she couldn't do
using your standard UNIX commands or maybe a C compiler.

People have become so paranoid about security they don't even stop
to think what is really at issue.  When this happens to sysadmin folks
they come up with silly generalizations like "PD software is evil."
What a pity.

-- 
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