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From: rantapaa@s6.math.umn.edu (Erik E. Rantapaa)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: drawing lines with PostScript
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:34:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: s6.rantapaa.703186492
Organization: University of Minnesota

edrbtsn@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Ed Robertson) writes:

>I am looking for TeX macros which would generate PostScript,
>using \special, to draw lines.  I know that this makes it machine
>specific, but since all of the printers in our department are
>PostScript printers, I feel pretty safe.

Check out a package called 'texdraw'.  It is available on most of the
TeX archives (especially the European ones). You won't be able to preview
it with 'xdvi', but you can preview it on, say, a NeXT (because it
has display PostScript.)

>-- 
>	Edward Robertson		robertson@cs.indiana.edu
>	Computer Science Dept
>	Indiana University		812-855-4954
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: aras@eceris.ece.ncsu.edu (Caglan M. Aras)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Error in OzTeX DVI previewer and BoxedEPS?
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:44:09 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Hi,

I have just upgraded to OzTeX 1.41. In OzTex 1.4, while viewing EPSF
files, they would appear on the screen without a warning. Now, I get a
"Couldn't read Bounding Box comment in \special file:" error. I am using
the EPSF converter that comes with Claris CAD. 

The second question is related to BoxedEPS. With the \special command,
the EPS figures appear correctly, although with a high baseline. With
BoxedEPS, they are shifted too much to the left, infact,the figures are
partially off the page.  The \ShowDisplacementBoxes command is active
and the displacement box is located on the text margin, which is a valid
position. Could this be due to the EPSF file format or are there any
other solutions to this problem?

Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

Caglan M. Aras			| Robotics and Intel. Systems Lab.	
RISL- Box 7911			| aras@eceris.ece.ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University | ph: 919-515-5405
Raleigh, NC 27695		|
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Update to LONGTABLE.STY on FILESERV/Niord
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 10:08:07 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

On Thu, 9 Apr 92 12:31:36 +0200, Ronald Kappert <fuggle@sci.kun.nl> posted
privately to me:
> could it be that the file STY.LONGTABLE is corrupt? On ftp-ing, I get
>
> [OK until this part]
>
> %    \begin{macrocode}
> \newskip\LTpre        \LTprF!in{macro}{\?LTchunksize}
[junk lines deleted -- GDG]
> [Lot of lines containing nothing]
>
> I tried to ftp the file multiple times, through at least two different
> channels, but the file seems corrupt. Could you check?

Ooooops, when I verified the file, I used the prior version.  Yes, this
file is corrupt (around lines 471 to 548, give or take).  David is being
cc'ed on this.  I am requesting (1) that he re-submit the file to me, and
(2) that anyone who has retrieved the file please forgive me for not
following our local policy on checking files prior to placing them in the
archives (i.e., rename the old version prior to testing before doing any
checks on the revised submission).

I am immediately placing a notice in the file stating that it is not
available (i.e., we will not be distributing any versions of this until a
correct one gets here).  As soon as I have a non-corrupt file in place
(yes, I will check and double check every file from now on), I will
re-announce it.  Sorry for any and all bandwidth wasted in the
announcement, as well as retrievals, as well as time you may have used.  I
will make every effort to send the corrected file to those I have FILESERV
records on between the time of the announcement yesterday and the present
time.

Regards and apologies once again,   George
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From: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Subject: Re: drawing lines with PostScript
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:39:44 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.155715.10826@news.cs.indiana.edu> edrbtsn@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Ed Robertson) writes:
>I am looking for TeX macros which would generate PostScript,
>using \special, to draw lines.  I know that this makes it machine
>specific, but since all of the printers in our department are
>PostScript printers, I feel pretty safe.
>
>From the TeX side, I would expect a macro something like
>  \linene(x,y)
>that would create a box with dimension x X y with a line drawn
>from the SW to the NE corner.  A similar macro \linenw would
>draw lines with negative slope.  Of course they could be
>fancier, but this is about the simplest thing I could think of.

I have a PostScript package in development that does that and
much more. Get the file pstricks.tar.Z from the /pub director
at Princeton.EDU. It is still unstable, both because the features
and interface may change some, and because it is still being
debugged. However, it is pretty complete and just about
everything works.

The command

\psline(x,y) draws a line from the current point to the coordinate
(x,y). It does not create a box; for that you can put it in a
picture environment. I find that there is little point in putting
every graphics object in its own box.

By specifying a few parameter changes, you can do much more. E.g.,

\psline[linestyle=dotted,linecolor=gray,linearc=.1in]{<-|}
  (2,3)(6,7)(4,-2)(0,1)

draws a gray, dotted line through the coordinates and with the
corners "bent" to a .1in radius. The {<-|} argument means that
the line starts with an arrowhead, and ends with a T-bar. Since
the unit was not specified for the coordinates, the value of
a dimension register \psunit is used as the unit.

The package contains oodles of graphics objects with a similar
interface, as well as support for color, a picture environment,
a special loop macro, something called a \dbox, overlays,
rotation macros that let you get nested material right side
up, etc.

Tim
 
-- 
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Dept. of Economics,  Princeton University,  Princeton, NJ 08544
From: phs265y@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Feynman diagram package ?
Date: 6 Apr 92 06:11:00 GMT

In article <69318@ut-emx.uucp>, myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) writes:
> In article <1992Mar25.163206.88428@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
> voros@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Faust) writes: 
>>And I can recommend it very highly indeed....
> 
>>  ...The only thing it can't do is do photon loops. 
> 
> I assume that this means it can't do gluon loops either?  
> Then it's not really all that useful except for limited applications.
> Too bad.  Anybody konw of any other package which can do photon/gluon
> loops?  

  Actually, it can do gluon loops.  I also specifically need photon loops.
  If anyone knows how I would also like to know.  Maybe the author can be
  talked into a version two. :-)

              Tony Hartin
              Physics Dept.
              Monash University
              Australia
From: myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: index.tex  (was: Anyone have indexing with eplain?)
Summary: making an index with plain TeX
Keywords: index, Plain TeX, MakeIndex
Date: 12 Apr 92 20:00:54 GMT
Organization: Center for Relativity, University of Texas

In article <MCGLK.92Apr9115838@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
mcglk@cpac.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes about eplain:
>The only thing that it seems to be lacking is any sort of indexing.
>Before I go off and write one, has anyone already done so?


  A while back Samir Varma (varmint@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) put out here a
general request for info on indexing packages.  I believe he found that
there were several things available for LaTeX but that support for Plain
TeX was somewhat lacking.  He also found a very nice program called
MakeIndex which can do the actual sorting, merging and such required for
making a truly good index.  MakeIndex can be configured for almost any
text processing markup language (including troff) but the default is set
for LaTeX.  Nonetheless it seemed to Samir (and seems to me) that
MakeIndex is the right way to produce a good index.

  Since I prefer to use Plain TeX (or extensions to it, like TeXsis) I
put together some simple macros for making an index using MakeIndex with
Plain TeX.  The best part is that with a little fancy footwork I was
able to make it possible to use MakeIndex in its default configuration!
You don't have to use any alternate "setup" file because you choose to use
Plain TeX.

  The macros are called index.tex, and I've made them available via
anonymous ftp from lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu (128.83.131.57) in the
directory texsis/index.  The comments at the begining of the file should
be enough to get you started.

  I suspect that these macros will work with eplain as well, but since
I've only got eplain up an running recently I have not been able to
completely test it.  I'd welcome any feedback from anyone using eplain.

  If you don't have MakeIndex it's also possible to take the raw index
output file produced by these macros and create the index "by hand."
However, MakeIndex is so good that you really should consider the extra
effort of getting it (not hard to install at all, I found).  I've
therefore also put in the ftp directory mentioned above a PostScript
copy of the paper "Index Preparation and Processing" by Chen and
Harrison, which describes the process of making an index and the basics
of MakeIndex, and a compressed tar version of the MakeIndex distribution.

  Those of you familiar with TeXsis will be happy to know that index.tex
will be included in the next release, and because of it the manual will
have a very nice index.  Nevertheless, for those who don't really care
about TeXsis, the index.tex macros can be used completly on their own
with just Plain TeX.

  Comments, suggestions or bugs can be sent to me or to
texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu 
-- 
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Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
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From: 00prneubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Where is asisformat?
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:48:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: bsu-ucs.1992Apr10.154843.6102

In article <2076@cypress.UUCP>, rbv@cypress.com (Roger Vanderveen) writes:
> 
> I am attempting to TeX the file ipaman.tex from the directory [tex.mf.ipa]
> at ymir.claremont.edu.  The file makes use of a series of macros, the first of
> which is '\asisformat'. 
> 
> According to the file '00readme.txt' in the directory, all the needed macros
> are in [tex.inputs.plain-contrib]ipamacs.tex, however, this doesn't seem to
> be the case.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions? I cannot ftp, so file transfer is fairly time-
> consuming and painful.

I believe that the macros you need (including, but not limited to
\asisformat) are in TEXT1 (see the recently posted FAQ file for
location(s)).  I simply translated a lot of that stuff to LaTeX for
myself, since I had to do something with the IPA macros to deal with
putting them into LaTeX documents instead of TEXT1 documents anyway. 
(Not that IPAMACS.TEX is a problem, mainly I was thinking of the size
macros that are described in irrelevant detail in IPAMAN.TEX)  I
thought (but have not checked) that a LaTeX version of IPAMAN was
announced to be available on YMIR now.  Was I hallucinating?

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dshin@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Dongil Shin - CS Grads)
Subject: HELP!! Good Reference Manual for LaTex???
Originator: dshin@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 23:33:06 GMT



	Hi!

	Is there any good and easy-to-follow latex reference manual? Lampart's 
	manual is really hard to follow. Any suggestion will be appreciated.


p.s. Direct e-mail works better for me!

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From: ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Hash table size not big enough!  Are YOU a LaTeX Wizard?
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:56:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr9.185616.7466
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories

I'm searching out a LaTeX Wizard for this one.  I know someone who is
running into a hash table limit on LaTeX.  He is compiling his PhD
thesis and has a large amount of references and cross references
within the document.

Is there some recompiled version of LaTeX that avoids this table size
limit or has a much larger limit than whatever the present limit is?

Any help would be appreciated!  Any ftp sites that might have a VAX or
decmips version?

Thanks.

-- 

Andrew Karanicolas
MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
ankleand@mtl.mit.edu
From: youngryu@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Young U. Ryu)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: the*apa: for plain TeX (new), LaTeX (updated), & BibTeX (updated)
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:51:02 GMT
Reply-To: youngryu@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Young U. Ryu)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: youngryu@bongo.cc.utexas.edu

The following APA macros are available:

	theapa.tex Version 1.0  (New)
	theapa.sty Version 2.5  (Updated)
	theapa.bst Version 2.5  (Updated)

from:

	anonymous@ftp.cc.utexas.edu
	pub/young

1. theapa.tex is a plain TeX version for APA citation.

2. theapa.sty is an (AmS)LaTeX version for APA citation,
   section heading, and seriations.

3. theapa.bst is a BibTeX style file supporting theapa.tex
   and theapa.sty

theapa.sty Version 2.5 Update Notes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    - Citation macros are rewritten and simplified.
         \cite, \citeA, \citeauthor
         \fullcite, \fullciteA, \fullciteauthor
         \shortcite, \shortciteA, \shortciteauthor
         \citeyear

      \citeB, \citeC, \fullciteB, \fullciteC, \shortciteB, and
      \shortciteC are dropped. But, to maintain compatibility
      with Version 2.4:

          \citeB = \citeA (also full and short versions)
          \citeC = \citeauthor (also full and short versions)

    - \BUcase is dropped. It means that BibTeX always
      changes cases of article titles.
      Thus, \NoTitleCaseChange is dropped.
      If you don't want to change cases of article titles,
      see Version 2.5 Update Notes in `theapa.bst'.

    - APA section heading macros are re-written.
      \theapasectioning is dropped.

    - Three types of seriations are provided:
         seriate env.
         APAenumerate env.
         APAitemize env.
From: nipkow@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Tobias Nipkow)
Subject: \verbatim input
Originator: nipkow@sunbroy29.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:32:56 GMT


Does anyone have a LaTeX macro for including the contents of a file
{\em verbatim}?

Pls reply by email to

Tobias.Nipkow@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.De

Thanks a lot in advance,

Tobias
From: honoo@titncj.nc.titech.ac.jp (Honoo Suzuki n-2423)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MIDI to musictex converter
Date: 17 Apr 92 10:17:01 GMT
Reply-To: honoo@nc.titech.ac.jp (Honoo Suzuki n-2423)
Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology

HI,

Is there a program which converts MIDI files to musictex .tex files?  If there
is, please tell me how to obtain it (FTP site or mailing address).  

Thanks.


  Yours,  Honoh Suzuki                   "I love you madly, Miles"
  Ishiguro Lab., Dept. Electronic Chem., 
  Tokyo Inst. Tech. at Nagatsuta          honoo@nc.titech.ac.jp
From: jhardin@data.tamu.edu (James Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX 3.14/MF 2.7
Keywords: MakeTeXPK, Metafont
Date: 13 Apr 92 00:54:31 GMT
Reply-To: jhardin@data.tamu.edu (James Hardin)
Organization: Department of Statistics, TAMU

I finally got around to ftp'ing the TeX version 3.14 and Metafont 2.7
from byron.u.washington.edu and am in dire need of assistance from the 
net. I naively underestimated the complexity of installing TeX products
and my only excuse is that I did not do the original installation on 
our site. I am trying to update from TeX 3.0 and MF 2.0. I managed to 
read all of the documentation, edit the makefile and site.mf files and
even got everything to compile. Once completed I noted several differences
between the old and new versions like tex and latex appear to be hard 
links to the same file that figures out which format file to use based 
on the command line (tex fname will use tex.fmt (linked to plain.fmt),
latex fname will use lplain3.fmt, etc.) To make a long story short, 
tex works but metafont barfs. Since I wanted to test both programs, I did
not install any pk files (only tfm's) and after successfully tex'ing and
latex'ing sample files, I then invoked dvips which calls the MakeTeXPK 
script to make any fonts for which pk files are not found. Anyway, 
even though the only font needed in the sample file is cmr10.300pk, 
metafont complains about the input files. Specifically, it chokes on
roman.mf stating that "no end of statement" or some such trash. 

Thank God I did not delete the old version or I would have several
grad students here trying to graduate without any way to get their 
dissertations complete and I would be in no shape to type this plea!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Regards,

  James

Details:
   Sun4 - Sparcsattion 1+
    SunOS 4.1.1

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From: sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Extending mem_max
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:31:49 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications Ltd., Birmingham, England



Can someone please tell me how to extend mem_max and mem_top in virtex
as I'm getting out of memory errors on one of my pictures.

I have tried changing the declarations in ctex.ch but then I get 
"Ooops my internal constants have been clobbered" when I run the new
executable.

The TeXbook says that the memory can be extended but doesn't hint as
to the correct procedure for doing this.

Thanks for any advice on this.

The current setting of mem_max and mem_top is 262140L

Cheers.

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From: moore@forty2.enet.dec.com (Paul Moore)
Subject: Question about installing dvips on ISC-2.2 UNIX
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:51:05 GMT

I've just begun to learn about TeX. Trivial question I suppose, to the 
cognoscenti. 

I've downloaded dvips and have installed it on my machine. Why is it necessary
to download dvipsafm and dvipslib? Surely, since a TeX document is defined with
reference to the various TeX fonts (cmr, etc) available, why would it be 
necessary to supply dvips with postscript font details? Is it because 
postscript doesn't know about TeX fonts? 

The real reason I ask is because disk storage on my system is limited, and I
would rather not install these fonts, unless it's absolutely necessary.
Assuming that I have them, the fact that nearly all the .afm file names exceed 
14 characters in length causes afmtotfm to fail when I use the Makefile in the 
afm-extra directory. Has anyone else installed these fonts on ISC UNIX? Can I
still use dvips if I don't install them?

Confused, Paul

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From: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu (George D. Greenwade)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Fixed LONGTABLE on FILESERV/Niord
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:30:14 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

David Carlisle promptly forwarded me a non-corrupt version of longtable
which is now available from SHSU.  The version has moved from 3.1 to 3.2,
however as:
% Version 3.2 9-April-1992
%
%  *  That man Goossens again! All previous versions of longtable have used
%     the table counter internally. This fails if table is reset during a
%     document. report.sty resets the table counter for each chapter. Now
%     use an internal counter, but still increment table so \caption and
%     \label work out right.
(so maybe the corrupt file was a blessing in disguise).

To retrieve the file via e-mail, please include the command:
 SENDME STY.LONGTABLE
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.edu (FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET). 
For anonymous ftp rtrieval, the file is in the [.STY] directory on
Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8).

If you retrieved the file from FILESERV during the window of corruptness, I
am in the process right now (on another node) of forwarding the new file to
you.

Regards,   George
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