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From: gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer)
Subject: Babel, francais, and the active punctuation characters
Organization: Le laboratoire de robotique de l'Institut de recherche
	d'Hydro-Quebec
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:54:16 GMT

First, thanks to those who pointed out that the "official" version of
francais.sty contains a few typos.  I have sent the corrections to the
maintainers.

I have found something peculiar; francais.sty goes to great lengths in
order to stick to French typographic rules that specify that a little
white space should be added before "double punctuation" characters
(:;!?).  These four characters are made active and their definition
changed to a macro that inserts this white space.  Trouble is, it has
no effect.  Can anybody help?  Here's an excerpt of the code
francais.sty uses.  It doesn't add extra space before the semicolon:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%  Cut here  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentstyle[12pt]{report}

\catcode`\;=\active
\makeatletter
\def;{\french@active@sc}%
\def\french@active@sc{%
    \ifmmode%
      \string;%
    \else\relax%
      \ifhmode%
        \ifdim\lastskip>\z@%
          \unskip\penalty\@M\,%
        \fi%
      \fi%
      \string;%
    \fi}%
\makeatother

\begin{document}

This semicolon should have an extra space before it; but it doesn't.

\end{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


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Varennes, QC, Canada   J3X 1S1
+1 514 652-8412
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Updated lscape.sty on FILESERV/Niord
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:53:48 CST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

David Carlisle <carlisle@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk> kindly
forwarded me an update to his lscape.sty:
  Name: lscape.sty
  Description: LaTeX style defining a landscape option, which rotates
               the pages in its scope through 90 degrees.
               The page head and foot are NOT affected
  Keywords: LaTeX, landscape, rotation
  Author: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
  Latest Version: 2.00, 18 November 1992
  Archives: shsu*, aston
  Supported: yes
  Note: Requires Rokicki's rotate.sty, and his dvips driver
        Documentation requires Mittelbach's doc.sty.
  See also: side.sty, portland.sty, landscape.sty

The update dimension of this file is:
% * Version 2.00 18 November 1992   Support for footnotes and floats.
%                Special thanks to Sarah J. McQuay (S.J.McQuay@ed.ac.uk)
%                for testing preliminary versions of this release.

To retrieve the file via email, include:
 SENDME STY.LSCAPE
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). 
For an annotated listing of style files available, include: 
 DIRECTORY STY
in your mail to FILESERV.

For anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), the file is
in [FILESERV.STY]STY.LSCAPE and the annotated listing of files is in
[FILESERV]STY.DESCRIPTION.

Regards and my sincerest thanks to David,   George
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George D. Greenwade, Ph.D.                            Bitnet:  BED_GDG@SHSU
Department of Economics and Business Analysis         THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration                    Voice: (409) 294-1266
P. O. Box 2118                                        FAX:   (409) 294-3612
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: diagonal hook arrows, e.g.
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:23:18 GMT

In article <ARA.92Nov15193347@camelot.ai.mit.edu>, ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
> I work exclusively with Plain TeX and that is where I want to accomplish this.
> More generally, I would be interested in any techniques for making complicated
> commutative diagrams in Plain TeX. I am already aware of how to use packages

Get xypic from Kristoffer Rose at diku.dk [129.142.96.1]. 
And get DM Jones' tex-index (look at some recent posts to find the location).

-- 
--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: wxc0023@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: ?-(LaTeX): single space verbatim in double space style
Reply-To: wxc0023@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:50:59 GMT

Is there a style or a LaTex command allowed me to insert a program by 
verbatim with SINGLE SPACE when the rest part of document is DOUBLE SPACE?

Any comment will be appreciated.
                                                Wei-chun Chen
From: nzhang@umiacs.umd.edu (Ning Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help Wanted: Epson 24-pin printer driver for DVI
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:09:48 GMT
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Does anyone know if there is a DVI driver for Epson 24-pin matrix
printer on UNIX? 

Please send me email as I don't read this group.

Thanks in advance,

-Ning
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Reply-To: lhb@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Leon Bouwmeester)

Hi all,

Subject says it all. Where can I find the source code of this
package? Please Email me directly.

Regards Leon



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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: phatak@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Aloke Phatak)
Subject: On-line help for TeX/LaTeX
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, On-line help
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:26:44 GMT


On Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:02:13 -0500, I asked G. Greenwade <bed_gdg@shsu.edu> 
> Sorry to clutter up your mailbox with a direct request, but I asked this
> question on Comp.text.tex a while ago, and I recently saw it posted from
> another LaTeX user, without any reply:
>
> Is there a program for on-line help on TeX/LaTeX commands? .... 

George responded with a helpful post about on-line help for VAX/VMS but
MOLLENHAUER Ralf <ensp067%frmrs11.bitnet@utcs.utoronto.ca> replied

>There is an excellent environment for the emTeX PC installation for English
>and/or German speaking users. It provides an On-line help for the most impor-
>tant LaTeX-commands. The help window appears when moving the cursor onto
>a command like \pagestyle and pressing Ctrl-F1. For the moment, only the
>german On-line help is available via anonymous ftp, I think the english
>version is currently in work. However, the program contains a documentation
>describing how to develop a file for on-line help.

For PC users, looks like TeXshell is the way to go.  It's available
at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de in /soft/tex/systems/pc/emtex-texshell
or at niord.shsu.edu in [FILESERV.EMTEX.TEXSHELL]

Thanks for all the helpful responses.  

Aloke Phatak
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA N2L 3G1
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: problems with german hyphenation tables
From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:19:25 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

Erik Wilde's perfectly valid-looking address bounces, so I post.

1.  As someone posted, "virtex &format", where "format" is any format,
works.  I'd use a shell script to call it.

2.  We use Karl Berry's "web2c" C version of TeX.  In this, if the TeX
program is named "fred", it loads "fred.fmt".  Thus we have links to
TeX with the names "tex" (and "tex.fmt" is linked to "plain.fmt"),
"latex" and "amslatex".  So, there's no special executable for each
format, just a special name, by linking.

3.  undump (unnecessary for me) is a Knuth product, found in:

    labrea.stanford.edu : pub


All the Best!
Geoffrey Tobin
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Bernd Raichle <raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Trouble with dvi (fwd)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 09:27:40 +0100
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

mahilata@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de said on Wed, 18 Nov 92 5:05:11 MET:
> barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA uvAca:
>  ... etc ...
> > check if I had another file with the same name, but without the .dvi
> > extension and suggested it might be trying to load that one.  Sure
> > enough, this file was temp.dvi and I had another file called temp (who
> > doesn't?)  When I tried xdvi temp.dvi all was well.  Can I believe that
> > xdvi does not default to a .dvi extension?
>  ... etc ...
> TeX does the same.. when \input bla, and finds a "bla",
> it doe not load "bla.tex" even if present, very much to our
> embarassement some times.

This behaviour of TeX is implementation dependent.
A lot of implementations search first for the given filename without
appending `.tex' to allow filenames like `foo.ltx' or simply `foo'.

-bernd
From: hsg@cs.bham.ac.uk (Howard S. Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Helvetica Condensed -- where are the .afm files?
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:05:06 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, England
Originator: hsg@jemima

I (hsg@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
> I have access to a printer with Helvetica Condensed (which is quite different
> from Helvetica Narrow) as resident fonts.  But where can I find the .afm
> files for these fonts?

Thank you to all who replied to my question -- k7z092@rick.cs.ubc.ca,
bkph@ai.mit.edu, and thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk.  To summarise, the way to obtain
Adobe font metrics files, from which all the information about Postscript
fonts can be generated (except, of course, the font outlines themselves,
which should be resident in your printer or in a .pfa or .pfb file), is to
send email to the Adobe file server

	mail ps-file-server@adobe.com

with a line of the form

	send AFMFiles Helvetica-Condensed Helvetica-Condensed-Oblique

or, for an index

	index AFMFiles

I have one more question, however: what are the `correct' TeX names for the
Helvetica-Condensed family?  I have been using (r)phvrc, (r)phvroc, (r)phvbc
and (r)phvboc.  I'm not sure that these are right, because Helvetica-Narrow
has an extra `r' in two of them: (r)phvrrn, (r)phvrob, (r)phvbrc and (r)phvbon.

+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| howard s goodman   |  school of computer science - university of birmingham |
| hsg@cs.bham.ac.uk  |			     - BIRMINGHAM - B15 2TT - england |
+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: LaTeX: putting stuff in margins.
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:50:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.184721.22491@news.stolaf.edu> johnsonm@amcl12.math.stolaf.edu (Michael K Johnson) writes:
>
>I would like some help with a LaTeX macro, if someone would be so
>kind.  I need to put $\Diamond$ in the left margin of my text, with
>the right edge of the diamond .25 in from the left edge of the text.
>I would like it to be called like this:
>
>\blackdiamond This is a paragraph with a $\Diamond$ off the left side.

Thought #1:
If you are in an itemize environment, and start each paragraph as a
new item, you might try:

\begin{itemize}
\item[$\Diamond$] This is a paragraph...
\item[$\Diamond$] This is another paragraph...
\end{itemize}

Thought #2:
Page 61 of "the book" describes the way of doing marginal notes;
you'd do something like:

\marginpar[$\Diamond$] This is a paragraph...

\marginpar[$\Diamond$] This is another paragraph...

Due to the fact that marginal text USUALLY goes on the right side, and
I'm invoking a little bit of a hack (C.8.2, page 178) to force the
note to the left side, the value of this may be a little questionable.

I'm a LITTLE disappointed here that the options allowed on pg 179
allow only 2 options: \reversemarginpar and \normalmarginpar.  I'd
like to see the "other way" of doing it: \leftmarginpar and
\rightmarginpar, which forces marginal paragraphs to go to a
particular side, rather than just reversing things.

If you want a particular distance (you mention 0.25 in) you'll have to
fool with the style parameters:
  \marginparwidth,
  \marginparsep, (the one most likely to need changing)
and
  \marginparpush (probably irrelevant - or needs to be set to zero)

You might want to take a quick look at ``The LaTeX Book'' for more
details.

-- 
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cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca           |===================================
University of Ottawa              |  The Personal Computer:  Colt 45
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Subject: Re: basic interpreter -- *not* folklore
Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:53:05 GMT

>In article <721582209.862497.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) writes:
>!darrell mccauley asks (comp.text.tex, november 10) if it's true
>!that someone actually wrote a basic interpreter in tex.
>!
>!andrew marc greene of mit wrote such an interpreter, and presented
>!a paper about it at the 1990 tug meeting.  the paper appears in the
>!proceedings of that meeting, published in tugboat 11 #3 (september
>!1990), pp 381-392.  the interpreter is called basix.tex, and the
>!full macro listing is given in an appendix -- all 477 lines of it.

Is this thing available on the net somewhere for ftp (or could someone 
send a copy to me)?  This sounds extremely interesting!

Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,aus.tex
From: ross@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Ross Moore)
Subject: ftp site for xyps
Originator: ross@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au
Organization: School of MPCE, Macquarie University, Australia.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:29:35 GMT

Left out of the announcement earlier this week...

	xyps -- Extensions to XY-pic

available from ftp site:  ftp.mpce.mq.edu.au:/pub/maths/TeX/xypic/xyps.2.6

Sorry, and thanks, to those who had to mail me to enquire.


The directory /pub/maths/TeX/xypic  also contains a copy of  xypic , 
as well as font suitcases for the XY-fonts for Macintosh/Textures.
These fonts come in 11 point sizes each, except for  xymisc in 7 sizes.


With a bit of luck, and spare time, version 2.7 will be ready by the end 
of the month :-) .


-- 
Ross Moore                        Phone : + 61 2 805-8955
School of Math,Phys,Comp,Elec     Fax   : + 61 2 805-8241
Macquarie University  NSW  2109   Also  :  
Australia                         EMail : ross@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au
From: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: how many pages in a dvi file
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:37:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: mips.21539.722021831
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

In message <721931672.294909.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG>  of 16 Nov 92 11:34:32 EST,
bbeeton said:

 > we frequently receive dvi files that are to be printed on one of
 > our typesetters.  it would be quite useful to be able to determine
 > quickly how many pages are in a particular dvi file.

We need this in our script which users use to print a DVI file, so
they can be told how many pages will be printed (and the cost, since
laser output is chargeable), and asked for confirmation of the print
request.

 > it shouldn't be difficult to extract from dvitype the code to
 > perform this check.  but (1) we don't want to reinvent any wheels,
 > and (2) we haven't really got the time.  if anyone out there has
 > already created such a utility, we'd really appreciate learning
 > about it.

Since we work in a PostScript environment, we took the easy way out,
by translating the DVI to PostScript (using dvitops) and using grep to
count the number of times '%%Page:' occurs.  This suits our needs,
since the user might use the page-selection options in the DVI driver
to print only a subset of the pages in the DVI file, and might also
select many-up printing for proofing.  By scanning the processed
PostScript, we can find how many real pages will be generated.  We
haven't yet decided on how duplex printing fits into this scheme...
two pages duplexed onto one sheet are charged as for two separate sheets.

~~David Osborne
  Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: HELP on LaTeX macro
From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:23:11 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

Timothy van Zandt has written a generic TeX loop macro, called
"multido".  It's as "multido.tex", archived in:

    princeton.edu : pub/multido-v1.tar.Z

All the Best!
Geoffrey Tobin
Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:13207 comp.specification.z:467
From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.specification.z
Subject: zed.sty and psfig.sty
Date: 17 Nov 92 10:49:42 GMT
Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland

Someone just had a problem on using zed.sty and psfig.sty together. I had
similar problem. The problem was, psfig could not read size of the picture in
a Postscript file. This size is normally told using a BoundingBox comment in
the file.

I started to search a reason for the problem. It turn out, that zed.sty
defines a macro (or a character, I think) called \empty, which is used to
typeset the empty set mark. Problem is, LaTeX defines a macro called \empty
(in lplain.tex, so its kind of build in to TeX), which is defined as

	\def\empty{}

Psfig uses the macro to check, whether after %BoundingBox comes numbers for
the coordinates of the picture, or '(atend)', which means that the real size
is defined at the end of the file.

Since \empty seems to be part of the TeX, I suggest that zed.sty's \empty is
renamed, for example to \Empty or \emptyset. I know, that zed.sty is a part
of the fUZZ package, which is used to check the specification, but Mike
should have been checked the TeXbook first ;-)
--
Arto V. Viitanen				               email: av@uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	           av@cs.uta.fi
Finland
From: wilde@bernina.ethz.ch (Erik Wilde)
Subject: problems with german hyphenation tables
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:14:38 GMT

I am currently installing TeX on our system, and everything went ok until I
tried to install german hyphenation patterns. What I want is a gtex and a
glatex with preloaded german pattern dictionaries. I successfully got the
patterns from the server in Stuttgart and also succeeded in making the
format files gplain.fmt (or gtex.fmt) and glatex.fmt. But now I don't
know how to make executable files. A readme suggested to use virtex to
load the formats and then to core dump and undump the core, but I had to
discover that our System (Sun 3's under SunOS 4.0.3) does not have an
undump command, so what can I do? I believe it is now big deal to make
executables out of the formats, but can someone please help me? Thanks,

Erik Wilde
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zuerich)
Institut fuer Technische Informatik und Kommunikationssysteme (TIK)
ETH-Zentrum, ETZ G61.2, CH - 8092 Zuerich
Phone: +41-1-254-7009   Fax: +41-1-254-7160   Mail: wilde@tik.ethz.ch
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Subject: Re: how many pages in a dvi file
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:06:34 GMT
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

>>>>> BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) (BB) writes:

BB> we frequently receive dvi files that are to be printed on one of
BB> our typesetters.  it would be quite useful to be able to determine
BB> quickly how many pages are in a particular dvi file.

BB> it shouldn't be difficult to extract from dvitype the code to
BB> perform this check.  but (1) we don't want to reinvent any wheels,
BB> and (2) we haven't really got the time.  if anyone out there has
BB> already created such a utility, we'd really appreciate learning
BB> about it.

Here is something from one of the shell scripts I have:

  ( dvips $DVIF > $TMP1 ) 2> $TMP2

  COUNT=`awk '
  {
    for ( i = 1 ; i <= NF ; i++ )
    {
      if ( $i ~ / *\[[0-9]+\] */ )
      {
        Count++ ;
      }
    }
  }
  END { printf "%d", Count }
  ' $TMP2`
-- 
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Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31 30 531806   Uucp:   uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet
Telefax:   +31 30 513791   Internet:  piet@cs.ruu.nl   (*`Pete')
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: M.A.Hearnden@lut.ac.uk (MAHearnden) 
Subject: Help needed w installing new version of Latex
Reply-To: M.A.Hearnden@lut.ac.uk (MAHearnden)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:04:37 GMT



i'm trying to install a new version of Latex on our HP machines -
running Unix v8.
Running through the instructions in the Latex.ins dicument,
I've copied the new versions of the files to the relevant directories,
and run initex to create a new version of lplain.fmt.

The next step is to run virtex to produce a core dump: OK.

The 'undump' command which follows this fails.
The documentation says that the current release of WEB-to-C no longer uses undump,
'follow the instructions in the WEB-to-C documentation'.

Hence my question: I can't find said instructions - I didn't install
Latex, I've had a poke around, but cant see anything likely.

Can some kind person tell me either what instruction I should
use to create a new Latex which implements NFSS fonts, 
or where I can find the information?

Mavis
(a very new Latex 'administrator')
 
 
PS
And NOW I find that Latex complains about /bf in article.sty!!
Seems that I'm half way to installing NFSS, but not far enough.
From: mahilata@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Earthworm society)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Trouble with dvi (fwd)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 5:05:11 MET
Organization: Institut fuer Freies Rechnen
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA uvAca:
 ... etc ...
> check if I had another file with the same name, but without the .dvi
> extension and suggested it might be trying to load that one.  Sure
> enough, this file was temp.dvi and I had another file called temp (who
> doesn't?)  When I tried xdvi temp.dvi all was well.  Can I believe that
> xdvi does not default to a .dvi extension?
 ... etc ...
TeX does the same.. when \input bla, and finds a "bla",
it doe not load "bla.tex" even if present, very much to our
embarassement some times.

 --mahilata