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From: jsm@camsci.com
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Multiple Document Index
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 07:51:21 EDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Hi folks,
     My big question for this year: Does anybody know of anyway to hack
LaTeX to produce a
single index for multiple documents ? I have both Texindex and MakeIndex.

     Thanks,

Jim


"Managing programmers is like herding cats"
         - Not mine but I can't remember whose it is -

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Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
875 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge MA, 02139
(617) 491-6862
From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: weird \special syntax
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:11:44 GMT
	<29427@life.ai.mit.edu> <ROLFL.92Oct16083121@ulrik.uio.no>
In-reply-to: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no's message of 16 Oct 92 07:31:21 GMT


In article <ROLFL.92Oct16083121@ulrik.uio.no> rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:


	....

   There are, basically, two ways for things to become standard. Either by
   general preference of the users, or, by decision of some appropriate
   standard maker.

	.....

   Now, there are tpic- and PostScript-oriented extensions for both PiCTeX
   and epic, and they are used pretty much. So every once in a while,
   especially if you are running a DVI driver service bureau, you'll bump
   into somebody who wishes to use tpic specials.


I generally agree.  Useful \special commands should spread in the world of
DVI drivers, and the TPIC \specials are useful.  Now, how do you get DVI
driver authors to implement this nice sentiment.  At the moment how many
drivers support the specials?  Isn't it just DVIPS and DVIT?


Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gambhir@cs.cornell.edu (Navindra S Gambhir)
Subject: Re: Need help on paragraph indentation
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:32:52 GMT

In article <Oct.14.14.09.36.1992.15632@math.rutgers.edu> kuplinsk@math.rutgers.edu (Julio Kuplinsky) writes:
>
>************IN ORDER TO GET THIS ....  ************************
>
> [...]
>
>*********** ... I USE THIS***********************************
>
>\parindent=0pt
>\parskip=\smallskipamount
>\everypar{\hangindent=10 ex \hangafter=0}
>\def\title#1{{\medskip\hangindent=0ex \hangafter=0 \bf#1}}
>
> [...]
>
>This works fine as long as I don't begin a paragraph with
>
>{\bf text} text text text text text text text text text y text text
>
>Is there any way to change
>the definition of the macro so that I always get the desired effect?
>
>In particular, why doesn't \everypar{\global\hangindent=10 ex
> \global\hangafter=0} work? The effect of 10ex should be cancelled when
>\title is invoked, right?

Wrong.  \everypar tokens do not get inserted until horizontal mode
material is seen (in this case the first character of the #1 parameter).
So the assignments in \title macro get overruled by the ones
in \everypar.

I think someone had mentioned a solution the last time you posted this.
Here it is:

\parindent=0pt
\parskip=\smallskipamount
\everypar{\global\hangindent=10ex \global\hangafter=0 }
\def\title#1{\medskip\leavevmode\hangindent=0ex \hangafter=0 \bf#1}


I made four changes:

1.  added \leavevmode in \title.
2.  stripped away the extra grouping in \title
3.  used \global in \everypar
4.  added a blank after the final 0 in \everypar

Hope this is what you had in mind.

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From: todd@chocolat.princeton.edu (Todd J. Mitty)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Clipped and Rotated figures in PSFIG
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:29:23 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@nimaster

Many months ago I tried to rotate AND clip a figure with psfig.
Clipping a figure OR rotating a figure work well alone, but
the combination of the two screws-up.  I think that what
causes the problem is that the clipping plane is not being
rotated properly.  Thus, when the figure is rotated, it falls outside
of the clipping path and no figure appears.

I wonder if anyone else has experienced this problem?  Also,
if this is a problem with psfig, can someone fix it?

Todd
From: masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Muhammad Masroor Ali)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help wanted for macro.
Date: 7 Oct 92 08:23:12 GMT
Distribution: comp.text.text
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Comm. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
X-Bytes: 1350

Hello all,

I am looking for a TeX macro for flexible placing the lines of its argument
in two columns. That is whenever any line (of argument)
exceeds the width of a column,  that line (of output)
will have only a single column. Total number of lines in the 
argument is unknown.


Say for example,

\def\PlaceInTwoColumns#1{
	First column
        Second column
	Short One 
	Short Two
	This is long long  long, so only single column
        Short three
        Text
        This is short but next is long
        Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long 
	}
	


The desired output is,
	
First column                        Second column
Short One                           Short Two
This is long long  long, so only single column
Short three                         Text
This is short but next one is long
Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long 
	




Thanks in advance,
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: robert@solan.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Subject: LaTeX style for algorithms
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 14:13:54 GMT


I'm new to LaTeX, so please bear with me if the question is silly.

I'm going to write a report with lots of algorithms in it, and with like
a style like

\begin{algorithm}
\algorithmname{Heap-Sort}
\if $i>1$\\
\then $i=${\sc Parent}$[i]$
\end{algorithm}

The style should trap keywords like if, then, while and return and print
them in bold.  The name of the algorithm should be printed small caps.

Each line should have a number in front of it.  Keywords like 'then' and
'while' should indent the following lines.  ++  (I could go on forever.)

Is this hard to make myself, if a style doesn't already exist?

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From: hedegard@nbivax.nbi.dk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Bug in amstex.sty?
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:12:55 GMT
Organization: Niels Bohr Institute and Nordita, Copenhagen

I think I have found a bug in amstex.sty. It appears in connection with
\newenvironment when using the amstex option. If you have (in the simplest
case)

      \newenvironment{neweq}{\begin{equation}}{\end{equation}}

and later in the document

      \begin{neweq}
            some equation
      \end{neweq}

then you will get an errormessage saying that a new paragraph is started 
before the equation started, which is illegal. What to do??

Per Hedegard
Physics Laboratory
University of Copenhagen
email: hedegard@fys.ku.dk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gnpaulle@bluebox.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Paulley)
Subject: Re: Can one extend BibTeX field size?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:10:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.055550.19512@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> penubart@horton.Colorado.EDU (Mohan N. Penubarti) writes:

   Is there any way to extend the field size in BibTeX to more than 3,000
   characters? I have some long annotations for the ANNOTE field and for
   annotations over 3,000 characters BibTeX gives a warning that the field
   cannot be more than 3,000 characters and just ignores the field. I am
   generating the annotated bibliography using ANNOTATION.BST.

I had the same problem- until my sysadmin pointed out (quite rightly) that
BibTeX is not a general-purpose TeX source repository. Instead, do the
following:

@article{kn:AHO79a,
        title = "Efficient Optimization of a Class of Relational Expressions",
        author = "A.V. Aho and Y. Sagiv and J.D. Ullman",
        journal = tods,
        pages = "435-454",
        year = "1979",
        month = dec,
        volume = "4",
        number = "4",
        annotation = {\input{/u/gnpaulley/thesis/bib/annotate/AHO79a.tex}}}

The annotated text won't be TeXified until Latex is run after Bibtex.

Best Regards.

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From: ling@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TEXSIS and SLITEX installation help needed
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:13:28 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

Hello, TeX gurus,

I have installed the latest TeX software (from ymir.claremont.edu) on my 
VAX VMS platform.  Now I want to install sliTeX and TeXsis.
I am grateful if someone can offer some help on how to install them.

SLITEX
------
I got all the files from the abovementioned site.  But, I could not find 
any installation guide and userguide.  Can you please tell me how to install 
it and how to use it to generate slides?  The verb SLITEX has been setup
with all the qualifiers through the TEX.CLD file.

TEXSIS
------
Got all the files from the ymir.claremont site.  The installation guide
is not very clear.  Here are the steps I propose to do:

1. Mod the TXSsite.tex.  The mods are difficuit.  Can I opt not to use it?
2. $DEFINE TEXSIS_LIB disk:[dir]   containing all the files
3. $DEFINE TXSPATCHES TEXSIS_LIB:TXSpatch.tex
4. $INITEX &PLAIN TEXSIS           where INITEX is TEX/INIT/NOFORMAT
   This will create a new format file, texsis.fmt in the TEX_FORMATS directory.
5. Set up the command verb TEXSIS that comes with the TEX.CLD command file.
   Do I have to define other logicals fro qualifiers such as TEXINPUTS,
   TEXFORMATS and TEXFONTS for that command verb?
6. Test it against TXSdoc.doc

Q. How easy to use compare to PHYSE and PHYZZX?  Do I have to install the 
   later two?

Thanks in advance,

How-Hie Ling.
Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane,
Queensland,
Australia.
Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:30:12 -0400 
From: Oswald Wyler <ow0a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: titlepage.sty

The titlepage.sty file available to me has some odd features, some of which
create error messages when I use it.
1. It uses a \titlepage environment which does not seem to be defined in
   all document styles for which titlepages might be desired.
2. It uses commands \@title \@author \@thanks which are used inside
   \maketitle, redefined at the end of \maketitle, but undefined at the
   time they are encountered in the process of setting up the titlepage.
3. It produces what must be a footnote number in the middle of the page,
   even if \thanks is left undefined.  This can be most annoying.
O.K. I can fix all this, but why does LL force me to do so?  And why
this nonsense of undefined (and undefinable in a document) \@...
commands?
Another beef about the file: putting the title block smack in the middle
of the page, as LL does, is downright ugly.  It belongs at about 1/3 to
2/5 of the \textheight.


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From: shan@ms.uky.edu (Minghua SHAN)
Subject: dvips on D: - what enviorenment string to set?
Keywords: dvips, tex, latex
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:22:20 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

I'll be installing dvips for DOS/OS/2 on D: drive. I remember
someone mentioned a certain env. string needs to be set, but
I can not recall exactly what. I'm using EmTeX and everything
(EmTeX and texfonts) is on drive D:.

Thanks in advance.

Minghua Shan
From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Increase emTeX memory size
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:02:19 GMT
Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens

In article <1992Oct15.193520.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> hank@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>On a 286, get btexb8.zip from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/all/emtex/ and
>uset btex186 (MSDOS) or btexp (OS/2 1.x--2.0). Be very patient...
>
>On a 386, get tex386b8.zip. Runs approx as fast as tex186, but is a bigTeX.

    ^^^^^ DOS or OS/2?


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From: ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: NFSS for SliTeX?
Date: 11 Oct 92 03:33:46 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

Re "seminar.sty", I've recommended this to some readers (I
alternatively suggested "lslide.sty"), who fetched and installed it
in very short order, and replied within a few hours to say that they
were very pleased with it.

Even without PostScript, I think seminar.sty can replace functions of
SliTeX.

A big advantage of seminar is that no new format is needed, the
LaTeX's lplain, with all its features (which SliTeX's splain lacks),
can be used in slides.

As to finding LaTeX style files and TeX macros in general:

``This looks like a job for the TeX Macro Index.''

David M. Jones, dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu, has compiled a list of TeX
macros and LaTeX styles.

The originating site is

 theory.lcs.mit.edu         pub/tex/TeX-index
 [18.52.0.92]

Frank Perske posted on 5 Sep to say that it is available at the
following locations.

 ftp.uni-stuttgart.de       /soft/tex/documentation/TeX-index
 archive.cs.ruu.nl          TEX/DOC/TeX-index.Z
 ftp.th-darmstadt.de        pub/tex/documentation/styles-and-macros.Index.Z
 ftp.math.utah.edu          pub/tex/tex-index
 ftp.diku.dk                pub/TeX/misc/TeX-Index.Z
 NIORD.SHSU.edu             [listserv.tex-index]tex.index
 TeX.ac.uk                  [tex-archive.doc]tex-index.txt
 ymir.claremont.edu         [anonymous.tex.documentation]tex-index.txt

David M. Jones posted on 25 Aug:

    To retrieve it by mail, send a message containing only the line

        send tex TeX-index

    to archive-server@theory.lcs.mit.edu.

All the Best!
Geoffrey Tobin
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lltg0878@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Li-Yin Lin Torng)
Subject: dvi previewer
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:28:03 GMT
Keywords: dvi viewer, XT, 

Hoping that someone can direct me to somewhere.
I got a .dvi file, I believe it is made Through emtex/Latex, from my friend
and need to see it on my XT/CGA. I have no any tex related program installed
on my machie. I did got a program called dviscr.exe from my friend. But it
always gives me some files not found. Where can I get a program that I can 
view it on my XT/CGA? 
Thanks
- Liyin
From: sowa@amdew.llnl.gov (Erik C. Sowa)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: NFSS for SliTeX?
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:54:59 GMT
	<1992Oct8.205025.1@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Organization: LLNL Chemistry and Materials Science
In-reply-to: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu's message of 9 Oct 92 01:50:25 GMT

>>>>> "hank" == hank <hank@ducvax.auburn.edu> writes: 

hank> It appears that PSTricks by tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU (Timothy
hank> Van Zandt) together with the 'seminar' package might be a very
hank> nice combination. It is a postscript solution, but the ghostscript
hank> converter is widely available.

I have tested this and heartily recommend it. Note that you can use
seminar w/o postscript and PSTricks, but I use the postscript stuff.

anonymous ftp to princeton.edu
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From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: rotating tables
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:03:21 GMT
Organization: LAAS-CNRS France
In-reply-to: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au's message of 7 Oct 92 08:35:13 GMT

I just learned to do this.  By the way landscape.sty would fail for
me.  You need rotate.sty.  Here's an example:

\begin{table}
\vspace*{\fill}
\rotate{\vbox{\squish
\vsize=\textwidth
\hsize=\textheight
{\small\verbatimfile{foo.bar}}
\caption{\label{foo}}Foo bars}
}}
\end{table}

The secrets are the \hsize and \vsize specs.

Enjoy,

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From: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk (David Carlisle)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LATEX CHANGES ITS MIND MID-DOCUMENT!!
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:58:03 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
In-reply-to: lones@lones.mit.edu's message of 6 Oct 92 23:29:11 GMT


In article <1992Oct6.232911.3219@athena.mit.edu> lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones Smith) writes:


Lones> Please tell me if you get a messed-up symbol too, and if it's not dvips at  
Lones> fault, what is it????

 it's not dvips, its you! 
 ....

Lones> \def\gl{\mathrel{\vcenter{\hbox{$>$}\kern-9pt\hbox{$<$}}}}

Lones> $\gl$  
is OK, but
...

\begin{array}{c}
\gl
\end{array}

is not.

The reason is that normally the box you have defined, has the
baselineskip, as well as the explicit kern of -9pt between the two
symbols. array, for its own good reasons sets baselineskip to 0pt.

Looking at the box produced by \hbox{$\gl$} you will see:

\hbox(9.07+3.07)x9.1388
.\mathon  <<--------------------------- start math
.\hbox(9.07+3.07)x9.1388 <<------------ `internal' hbox
..\vbox(9.07+3.07)x9.1388 <<----------- the \vcenter
...\hbox(6.32+0.32)x9.1388 <<---------- The first row
....\mathon                               .
....\cmm/m/it/12 >                        .
....\mathoff                              . 
...\kern -9.0 <<----------------------- your kern
...\glue(\baselineskip) 7.85999 <<----- more skip added by TeX
...\hbox(6.32+0.32)x9.1388 <<---------- The second row
....\mathon                               .
....\cmm/m/it/12 <                        .
....\mathoff                              .
.\mathoff <<--------------------------- end math math

Thus the total space between the symbols is more or less 
  -9 +7.86 = -1.14pt

So to make a definition that works whatever the setting of
baselineskip, set it to 0pt, locally like so:

\def\gl{%
  \mathrel{\baselineskip=0pt\lineskip=0pt
  \vcenter{\hbox{$>$}\kern-1.14pt\hbox{$<$}}}}


David
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it (Massimo Campostrini)
Subject: Problems with METAFONT making eufm fonts
Keywords: METAFONT Euler
Reply-To: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it
Organization: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa, Italy
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:24:22 GMT

   I have troubles building eufm (at 300dpi) fonts using metafont. Is
anybody able to build these fonts cleanly? If I run metafont (2.0) on
my Unix system I get e.g.:

sunthpi3% cmmf '\mode=localfont; \magnification=1.0; input eufm5'
This is METAFONT, C Version 2.0
(/usr/local/lib/mf/inputs/eufm5.mf (/usr/local/lib/mf/inputs/eufmch.mf
(/usr/local/lib/mf/inputs/eubase.mf
! Inconsistent equation (off by 0.00162).
<to be read again> 
                   ;
l.48 h# = ptsize * xscale_factor / programem;
                                             
followed by several dozen other messages. The results is printable, but
I'm not confident it's right. Do I have an old METAFONT? Old .mf
sources?  

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From: andy@cs.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: speed of tex on various workstations?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 22:14:07 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: kodiak.cs.caltech.edu

Since this discussion started with a question about the NeXT, let me
add it to the following list:

In article <1992Oct14.014829.10438@CS.ORST.EDU> @prism.cs.orst.edu writes:
>machine   Man     Model            time     pages/second
>--------------------------------------------------------
>crystal2  Sun     Sparc 10/30        63.9     7.73
>fire      HP      9000/710           87.0     5.68
>agate     HP      9000/705          126.3     3.91
>russia    Sun     Sparc 2           135.2     3.65
>energy    Sun     Sparc 1+          216.6     2.28
>solar     Sun     Sparc 1           262.0     1.89
>storm     Sequent Symmetry          527.8     0.936
>mist      Sequent Balance          2735.4     0.181

The numbers I get for the NeXT would put it 3rd in the above list:
    NeXTstation Turbo (This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.141)
    105.6u 3.5s 1:52 97% 0+0k 26+269io 0pf+0w

The number I get for an IPX is better than the Sun numbers above, and
slightly better than the NeXT:
    Sparcstation IPX (This is TeX, C Version 3.141)
    114s real  100.820s user  1.940s system  88% tex texbook
[Different compiler, perhaps?]

Andy Fyfe					andy@cs.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: kalki@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
Subject: dvidot.exe
Organization: Lakes Public Access
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 14:54:41 GMT

Does anybody know where I can get a copy of DVIDOT.EXE ?? You know, the 
program for printing TEX documents on dot-matrix printers.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: vardi@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Moshe Y. Vardi)
Subject: Address Filed in BibTeX
Originator: vardi@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:46:58 GMT

According to the LaTeX book, The Adress field in a Bib file
is for the Publisher's address. All .bst files that I have examined
use Address as the conferences' address for an Inproceedings entry.
Any explanation? Is that a bug or a feature?

Moshe Vardi
vardi@cs.stanford.edu