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From: dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu (David A. Cheslow)
Subject: envelop labelling in TeX?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 11:35:26 EST
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

I remember reading some time ago about a set of TeX macros that would  
address envelopes, including postal barcodes.  does anyone knoow where  
these macros are available?

please reply to 

dcheslow@impact.flint.umich.edu

thanks in advance
=dave=
From: David Osborne <cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: csart.sty
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 12:44:19 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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On 14 Dec 92 18:19:19 GMT, da188@city.ac.uk said:

 > I have been trying to LaTeX a document which specifies a documentstyle
 > of `csart'. I have been unable to locate this style file via archie at all.
 > Does anyone know what this is and where I can obtain a copy?

Well, consulting the UK TeX gopher at ftp.tex.ac.uk, I found a copy in
an unlikely place:
    pub/archive/help/index-texformat/csart.sty
You can fetch this using gopher, or anonymous ftp to ftp.tex.ac.uk
(134.151.44.19)

The top of the file says
    %LaTeX style
    % csart.sty april 28 1987
    % modified `article' style for short texts
    \typeout{Document Style 'csart'. Version 4, released March 18th 1991}

~~Dave
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From: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Subject: picinpar for plainTeX
Reply-To: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Organization: Institut f. Geophysik, Uni Koeln
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 16:48:46 GMT

Hello!

Has somebody already ported picinpar.sty to plain TeX?
I really need it. 

Thanx!


--- Christoph




Christoph Schittel			Internet:
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Universitaet Koeln                       
  F. R. G.           
                     
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From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
Subject: Re: Bug in TeXBook
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:47:55 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

In article <193@steiny.com> steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny) writes:
>
>	Does anyone know why exercise 8.7 in the TeXBook is repeated on
>pages 48 and 49?   
>
>	The book is not indexed too well either.   For instance there is
>no index entry for "margins" something that it seems would be a normal
>thing that document preparers would be interested in.
>
>-don
>-- 
>Don Steiny
>Don Steiny Software
>Santa Cruz, CA 95060
>(408) 425-0382

Not in my edition (Sixth Printing, 1986), where exercise 8.7 is printed only
on p 49.  On the other hand, Bo Derek is not on p 293 (as my Index says)
and the page heading on p 216 is different from that of the rest of the
pages in Chapter 20... Only God (DEK) knows why.


Bo
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From: jaenicke@emserver.ee.tu-berlin.de (Lutz Jaenicke)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Need a LaTeX package for the PC
Date: 13 Dec 1992 16:37:13 GMT
Organization: TU-Berlin, Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen
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In article <MANDAL.92Dec13112518@rose.cis.ohio-state.edu> mandal@rose.cis.ohio-state.edu (Manas Mandal) writes:
>Please give me pointers on which option to follow. Since it is only
>for a short time, I would like something that is easy to use and
>doesn't use too much space. If you can suggest a nice DVI previewer,
>I would be very grateful.

Use the first class EmTeX-package, it contains LaTeX and very good DVI support
for printers and screen. I never heard of Windows support, but since I don't
use Windows, I'm not 100% sure.

	Lutz
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From: lubkt@synergy.CC.Lehigh.EDU (Binod Taterway)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Landscape style in Latex ...
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:31:40 GMT
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Organization: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA


How does one typeset a page in the landscape mode in LaTeX?

Thanks in advance for your replies.
--

- Binod Taterway                     
  Sr. User Consultant (LUCC)
  E-mail: bt00@Lehigh.EDU
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From: A8131DAL@vm.univie.ac.at (Peter Schmitt)
Subject: Re: Parsing
Organization: University of Vienna
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:00:47 GMT

>There are three items per line, say a b c.
>I use  \read0 to \myline
>I wish to parse \myline so that I can print the 3 fields with different
>fonts.
>If the kind reader is interested,  a  is the name, b the first name, c an

You did not mention it, so I assume that a b c are separated by spaces:
defsplit#1 #2 #3eol{defname{#1}deffirstname{#2}defid{#3}}
expandaftersplitmylineeol
should give name firstname and id the desired value
(you could include your commands in the definition of split)

[I hope I did not make some silly mistake - did not test it!]

Peter

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From: alistair@cs.sfu.ca (Alistair Lachlan)
Subject: 600 dpi mode for MF.
Keywords: MetaFont, MF 600 dpi
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:46:57 GMT


  Is there a version of MF available that has a mode for the new 600dpi
HP-laserjet?  If so where can I get a hold of it?  If not how can I modify
MF and MakeTeXPK so that I can generate 600dpi fonts for this printer?

  Thanks,  in advance.

Rob Ballantyne

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From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: A4 and 8.5 by 11 (Was: DVI - WhAT Is IT)
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:24:51 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Dec18.173057.23499@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:

>   [...]                                                    And then
>there's the small matter of files formatted for A4 paper which we don't
>have in North America... 

Ah yes - that reminds me ...

\begin{hobby-horse/flame}

Boy does this bug me! - WHY can't people make sure that their margins lie
inside the min{A4, 8.5x11} limits - especially if they intend their dvi/ps
files to be printed and read by people around the world.  I DO NOT intend to
claim one sheet size is better/worse than the other - just that I do like to
be able to read the whole paper, and this is barely possible sometimes.  I
recently downloaded a (very impressive) paper from a central UK archive site
- the paper had been advertised on an international professional net - and
found when I tried printing either the dvi file or the ps file (no tex source
was provided), that the printing ran right up against the edge of the
paper.  Fortunately, nothing was actually missing - but it came very close,
and looks terrible.  Other papers from this source in the past have been
worse - a big slice off every page.  I realize this is unavoidable sometimes
(I too occassionally have LARGE diagrams that run over reasonable margins),
but there is no reason why the default margins cannot fit within both page
srandards.  If one doesn't distribute tex source or two versions of the paper -
and there are good reasons not to do so - this is a moral imperitive.  So
a PLEA:  please, if you place a paper on some ftp archive and advertise it
on international nets, be sure it will print within the area 8in x 11in, or
20.5cm x 28cm (approx).

\end{hobby-horse/flame}

-rags
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From: wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: Re: DVI - WhAT Is IT
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:43:26 GMT

I think that with the proliferation of macro packages, DVI files have become
at least as portable as the TeX sources. At worst you might have to substitute
some fonts. Of course "specials" create a problem.

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From: simp_fl@pts.mot.com (FLOYD SIMPSON X3272 P6642)
Subject: long equations in twocolumn style
Reply-To: floyd_simpson@pts.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Paging and Wireless Data Group
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:26:07 GMT

Is there any way in LaTeX using 'twocolumn.sty' to have a long equation occupy
two columns as it sometimes appear in IEEE journals?

Maybe a souped up twocolumn.sty exist? or some work-around?

---

Floyd

--

Regards,

Floyd Simpson
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From: walsteyn@fys.ruu.nl (Fred Walsteijn)
Subject: Re: Experiences with DirectTeX (vs OzTeX)?
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:38:07 GMT

In <1992Dec18.160049.16561@mail.cornell.edu> Tim Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu> writes:

>In article <1992Dec18.034506.11066@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> John Zic,
>johnz@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au writes:
>>What are _your_ reasons for using DirectTeX over OzTeX? I need to be
>>convinced that the pain of swapping over is going to be worthwhile...
>1. DirectTeX supports virtual fonts; OzTeX does not.
>2. I have the impression (not measured) that DirectTeX runs faster than 
>OzTeX; however, DirectTeX runs as an MPW shell, so it must launch the TeX 
>compiler, previewer, and printer every time you use one; this launching 
>adds a small overhead to each function.


I believe that a ``launch-overhead'' is present only the first time you
execute an MPW tool.  The MPW Shell keeps tools in memory, so the 2nd time
you TeX your document should be slightly faster.
The remaining overhead is that due to some tiny scripts executed each time
you let DirectTeX do something.


>3. DirectTeX includes the complete suite of TeX programs, including 
>MetaFont, the font format converters, as well as WEB and CWEB.
>4. The TeXShell that I picked up for running DirectTeX can be used for 
>running other MPW utilities, such as MPW GAWK.


In fact, I think that the TeXShell is just the MPW Shell 3.2 with a 
different name (overtyped in the Finder). 


>5. The TeXShell has its own editor; if you like it, then you don't need 
>to run a separate one, as you must do with OzTeX.


Yep, the TeXShell == MPW. (The best editor on the Mac IMHO. I use it
with OzTeX too...)


>6. DirectTeX has a facility for automatically building from MF files the 
>missing fonts that a document requires.
>7. DirectTeX has a nicer \special for working with PostScript.
>Conclusion: If you only want to run TeX itself, and you don't need
>virtual 
>fonts, and you have all the PK fonts you need, don't bother to switch. If 
>you have crashed up against some of the limitations of OzTeX, then 
>consider DirectTeX.
>Tim Larkin
>Federal Nutrition Laboratory
>Tower Road
>Ithaca, New York
>tsl1@cornell.edu
>607-255-7008


A final note: I observed some differences in output from OzTeX and DirectTeX.
For example, both OzTeX and Unix C-TeX produce ROMAN bold digits in:

     {\em  hello this is a bold number:  \bf  12345 }

DirectTeX produces an ITALIC bold number ...

Greetings,
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From: bardo@gonzalesief-paris-sud.fr (Bardo Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MATRIX in ARRAY or TABLE question
Date: 14 Dec 92 13:18:57 GMT
Organization: Universite de Paris


Dear readers,

after having tried different array packages, and setting their
respective parameters,

\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}  % for the array and tabular env.
\setlength{\extrarowheight}{4pt}   % for the array.sty package

I am about to give up. 

Does anyone know how to teach LaTeX to typeset the following
with a reasonable space between the matrix parentheses ?
Fiddling with struts (?) is allowed, but there should
be a more automatic way.

Merci,

Bardo

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$
\begin{array}{c} \\
\hline 
\hline 
C_{\scriptstyle WEEKS} \,=\,     \left[ \begin{array}{rr}
                                        92.24 &  -8.50 \\
                                        -8.50 &  92.24
                                        \end{array} \right]  \\
C_{\scriptstyle PISCES} \,=\,    \left[\begin{array}{rr} 
                                        92.83 &  -9.23 \\
                                        -9.23 &  92.83
                                        \end{array} \right] \\
C_{\scriptstyle CAP} \,=\,       \left[\begin{array}{rr}  
                                        95.62 &  -10.13 \\
                                        -10.13 &  95.62
                                        \end{array} \right] \\
\hline
\end{array}
$
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From: pjmg1@fel.tno.nl (Peter van Oosterom)
Subject: theapa.bst & spacing after et al.
Keywords: spacing theapa
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:04:35 GMT

Is it possible to have normal spacing after an "et al." generated by
theapa bib-style instead of the end-of-a-sentence spacing.
I can not use the "~", because the text is generated by latex.

Kind regards, Peter van Oosterom (email: oosterom@fel.tno.nl)
From: dem@cs.tu-berlin.de (Peter Deussen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Symbols and Fonts not in Manual
Date: 15 Dec 1992 11:29:32 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2.cs.tu-berlin.de
Keywords: empty set, proper subset, P, NP

In article <1992Dec13.024637.25128@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, peg@cs.washington.edu (Pete Granger) writes:

> There are a couple of things that I'd like to be able to use in my
> papers that I can't find in the LaTeX manual. I know they exist,
> because I've seen them used elsewhere. If you have a copy of
> "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation" by
> Hopcroft and Ullman, you can see illustrations of the things I'm
> looking for.

A lot of the things you want can be found in the amsfonts. To use
this fonts it's better, but not necessary , to have the new font 
selection scheme (nfss). The hole stuff in available via ftp at
	ftp.rz.tu-bs.de:/pub/tex/stuttgart/latex-style-supported/nfss
        	        /pub/text/tex/ams/amsfonts-mf-and-doc.tar.Z
(sorry, I can retrive only german ftp servers.)

> I also want the nice script characters, not the \cal font (which I
> have been using so far), so I can type P and NP the way they do in the
> book (see page 320).

This nice symbols are in the rsfs fonts. They are available at
	ftp.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/text/tex/fonts/mf-sources/rsfs.tar.Z

Hope that helps

	Peter

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From: Abderrahim Khaled <khaled@manitou.ensmp.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 17:50:49 +0100
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From: "Uri N. Peled 312-413 2156; fax 312-996 1491" <U32799@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Unnumbered theorem-like environment?
Date: 20 December 1992 00:19:21 CST
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Hello TeXperts,
I would like to create in LaTeX a theorem-like environment called
Problem, but I want it to be unnumbered. I tried the following, but
I get a numbered problem all the same:

\newtheorem{prob}[thm]{Problem}
.
.
\begin{prob}
\renewcommand{\theprob}{}
Does there exist ... ?
\end{prob}


Any help will be appreciated very much.
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From: fsinfko@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Friedbert Widmann)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: DVI-PreView on fullpage-screen
Date: 17 Dec 1992 15:12:46 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz
Distribution: world
Reply-To: fsinfko@infko.uni-koblenz.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: arnold.uni-koblenz.de
Keywords: DVI

Hi!

I'm looking for a DVI-PreView which is supporting the fullpage-screen 
	PageView from Sigma Designs
on a PC with emTeX 3.0.

Ciao and Thanks
	Widi
	
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From: neve@nlm.nih.gov (Leif Neve)
Subject: Novice Question: Unadorned Citations
Reply-To: neve@nlm.nih.gov
Organization: National Library of Medicine
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 21:19:35 GMT

Can someone help me with the commands to create bibliographic
entries like:

	1. ...
	2. ...

instead of

	[1] ...
	[2] ...

Yup, I'm a novice. Thanks,
Leif Neve
From: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: ANNOUNCING: greekTeX Version 3.1 now available
Date: 14 Dec 1992 14:24:19 GMT
Organization: Imperial College, London, U.K.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sophia.doc.ic.ac.uk
Keywords: greek, language support, ancient greek


----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
			ANNOUNCEMENT:	GreekTeX ver 3.1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	After some review work and bug fixes I have realeased the new version 
	of the greekTeX package based on the kd greek family of fonts. Here
	is an extract from the readme file:

	        GreekTeX is a complete package for typesetting greek
        	(modern or ancient) texts within the framework of 
       		plain TeX or LaTeX. It supplies a set of fonts based
        	on the excellent ones originally developed by
        	Sylvio Levi in the States and the modifications made
        	thereafter by Haralambous in France. 
        	The approach adopted is different from both the
        	previous ones since it uses full 256 character fonts 
        	and ligatures as the principal method of accenting
        	or "breathing" letters. This makes the macros more
        	robust and easier to use within TeX and LaTeX 
        	environments.


	The new package has been placed on our local archive in the directory
	pub/tex
		sappho.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.21.14)
		anonymous FTP

	Differences from the Previous release
        * Fixed font bugs in ligatures and added some more characters
          according to suggestions by J"org Knappen  (J"org, thanks for 
          your comments and fixes)
        * Integrated Unix and Dos Release
	* Unix and Dos (emtex) filters for translating greek ISO standard
	  character files to tex input files (for modern greek)

	Thanks to all the people that helped in the way and who contributed
	with their bug reports and suggested fixes.


Kostis

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From: palmerp@math.orst.edu (Paul A Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: A small box
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:31:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: phoebus.PALMERP.92Dec18183121
	<MARTINC.92Dec17171611@grover.cs.unc.edu>
	<1992Dec18.162633.11410@math.ucla.edu>
Reply-To: Paul Palmer <palmerp@math.orst.edu>
Organization: Dept. of Math, Oregon State University
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In-reply-to: jbence@julia.math.ucla.edu's message of Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:26:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.162633.11410@math.ucla.edu> jbence@julia.math.ucla.edu (James K. Bence) writes:

>> Plain TeX does not define \Box (at least the version we have here does not).

True, but see exercise 17.16 in the TeXbook. And here's the definition of \qed
from amsppy.sty:

\def\qed{\ifhmode\unskip\nobreak\fi\quad\ifmmode\square\else$\m@th\square$\fi}



--
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Department of Mathematics     	E-mail: palmerp@math.orst.edu
Kidder Hall 368
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4605
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From: jbence@julia.math.ucla.edu (James K. Bence)
Subject: Re: A small box
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:26:33 GMT

In article <MARTINC.92Dec17171611@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
> In article <1992Dec17.014326.1964@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
>   In article <1992Dec16.231156.23748@math.ucla.edu> dmac@julia.math.ucla.edu (saki) writes:
>   >I'd like to use a small box, about .25in square...
>
>   I use $\Box$ to close proofs.
>
>Slightly slicker version (latex)
>
>\newcommand{\fin}{{\hspace*{\fill}$\Box$\par}}
>
>with the obvious TeX version (untested, so watch it)
>
>\def\fin{\hfil$\Box$\par}

Plain TeX does not define \Box (at least the version we have here does not).
One solution was to find the definition of \Box in LaTeX, and use it to
\def\Box.  I am sure one could put something together with rules, which
would probably be more robust, in that you could say \square{.25in}.  The
first one was faster, and that is what saki ended up using.

James