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From: hernes@math.berkeley.edu (David A. Hernes)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Subscribe info-tex
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 08:11:28 PDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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I have just found out about your group and wish to subscribe to it. My
email address is hernes@math.berkeley.edu.  Please enter me into your
system and send me more information regarding it.

Thanks,
David Hernes
University of California
Berkeley Campus
Department of Mathematics
966 Evans Hall
Berkeley, CA  94720
From: ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl (Ronald Aarts)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Online help for LaTeX ?
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:28:47 GMT

Recently I read something about a online help for LaTeX for a VMS system.
Is there a Public Domain online help for LaTeX for Unix systems ?
--
Ronald Aarts
Eindhoven University of Technology  | Internet: ronald@lowt.phys.tue.nl
Physics Department, P.O. Box 513,   |    Phone: +.31.40.474213
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands  |      Fax: +.31.40.453587
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mstoecke@AFIT.AF.MIL (Michael G. Stoecker)
Subject: Re: mathematical symbols?
Keywords: natural numbers, real numbers, LaTeX
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB OH
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:39:14 GMT

In article <4918@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:

>In article <4330@drsrv1.hmi.de> dej@drsrv1.hmi.de (Andreas Schulz-Dieterich) writes:
>>We're looking for the symbols of natural and real numbers in LaTeX:
>>                              __
>>             | |\   |      | |  \
>>             | | \  |      | |__/
>>             | |  \ |      | | \
>>             | |   \|      | |  \
>>
>>(ASCII offers very poor capabilities but you will understand.)
>>
>>Any hints appreciated. Thanks in advance,
>>-Andreas

>Try: \newcommand{\RR}{\mbox{I\hspace{-1ex}R}}
>and \newcommand{\NN}{\mbox{I\hspace{-1ex}N}}

>If you prefer the symbols in italics, symply remove the \mbox and
>use them in math mode.

>***********************************************************************
>* J.C.A. Wevers          *       _\       /e+  _\   _   /e+           *
>* johan@stack.urc.tue.nl *    1  u \  X  /     d \  X  /           2  *
>**************************  P=-|    >---<    +    >---<   + ......|   *
>* Physics is really all  *    N    /     \       /     \              *
>* there exists.  Me.     *        /d     u\     /u    d \             *
>***********************************************************************


Better yet, retrieve the bbold fonts from one of the archive sites.
The bbold font is blackboard style letters and symbols, precisely what
the original poster wants.

Mike Stoecker
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid)
Subject: Re: Justifying lines in LaTeX (hyphenation, \linebreak)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:08:46 GMT
Keywords: hyphenation \linebreak \\ \hypenpenalty

In article <25JUL199201320450@msr.triumf.ca> asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau) writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.043158.29496@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) writes...
>> 
>>Can anyone tell me how to break a line in LaTeX and still
>>have it justified?  The line looks as follows:
>> 
[... stuff deleted ...]

>But this is a last resort in fixing the appearance.
>
>You should have \sloppy in effect.  
>Then to reduce the frequency of hyphenation,  say
>\hyphenpenalty=200  (NOT \setcounter{hypenpenalty}{200} !!!*)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Bingo!  I did a \hyphenpenalty=10000 and all my problems went away...
(well, almost all:  now I have to figure out how to get a footnote
(say, a copyright message) on every page..)

>
>A good way to prevent a particular hyphenation is to say \mbox{estimates}
>or estimates\/.
>
>
>(*) \setlength{\command}{123pt} vs \setcounter{nameonly}{123} is one
>of the worstest syntax decisions I have ever seen!
>
>
>> 

Thanks for the reply!  If anyone knows how to tackle the second problem
(same footnote on all the pages)  please email me.  My email address is:

vrr@cbnewsj.att.com

I have tried \footnote{\copyright{...  but this only prints the message on
the first page..

Veenu
From: duggan@siam.org (PCD)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX hbox overfills
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:49:29 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I'm tring to process a LaTeX file using our siam
style macro (based largely on article.sty). It's never
given me problems before.

I tex it once, no problem. The second time I get these
huge overfull \hboxes and \vboxes that end up doubling the
length of the paper and stretching things out (lots of
white space).

It seems to be begining to occur around a theorem environment
(a lemma). The style file I'm using does theorems in
small cap proclaims with italic text. I can't for the life of
me locate the source of the error.  Can anyone suggest a
course of action?

paul duggan
duggan@siam.org
From: dan@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Setminus but not quite
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:43:01 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

gandalf@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Juergen Wagner) writes:
: [titan.rice.edu seems to have vanished from my name server tables]
: 
: What about setminus with a singleton? I don't see why we need a new
: operator here. I haven't seen any in the literature, either.
: 
: --Juergen Wagner
: J_Wagner@iao.fhg.de
: gandalf@csli.stanford.edu

OK... I quite like the idea so:


== [X] ==================================
| _ sminus _ : |P X x X -> |P X
+----------------------------------------
|forall S:|P X;t:X .
|  S sminus t = { x:X|x in S and x neq t}

where sminus is typeset as, say, \heartsuit.

There you go. Now \heartsuit is your set-minus operator.
Happy?

-- Daniel
From: janhsu@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Printers
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:18:33 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Hello. I must now buy a new printer that I hope will work successfully with
the EmTeX package. My two main choices are the Hewlett Packard IIp, and the
QMS 410 Postscript. I realize the main advantages in the QMS 410, but I am
wondering how both printers would read the fonts. Would I need to download 
the .pk font to the QMS? If so, how would I get the HP IIP to internatally
digest the .pk driver fonts? Or would the HP IIp just take instructions from
the driver? I do not want to end up buying font cartdridges for the EmTeX
package in the end. If the HP IIp would take instructions from the driver,
how does it work? Does the driver send the font maps from the .pk files to
the HP IIp? If so, I thought the HP IIp can't download fonts. How much memory
on the printer would I then need for it to handle the instructions from the
driver?

Thanks
-- 
    .  .      +-------------------------------+
  --|--|      | Mark Yun Wook Choi            |
   /.\ |      | janhsu@hardy.u.washington.edu |
  --|--|      +-------------------------------+
From: spahnv@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Volker Spahn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX and PicTeX problem
Date: 23 Jul 92 10:38:38 GMT
Organization: Aston University

I have a problem concerning LaTeX and PicTeX.

I use xfig to draw a picture and export it as PiTeX macro. 

So far, so good. it is also no problem to import it then using
LaTeX \figure enviroments.

My problem is now, that LaTeX puts the figure as a float where
it thinks that there is a good place for it. Normally at the end of the
current chapter. But I want to have the picture at the place where 
it should be. Near to the reference of that picture.

I use mathemathical symbols in the pictures, so I have to use PicTeX 
and I also want to \ref the pictures on the report.

Using a \mbox does it at the right place, but I can`t put a label in
that \mbox.

Has anyone a idea how I can fix that problem?


Volker


-- 
Volker Spahn    	Internet: spahnv@cs.aston.ac.uk
Aston University 
Birmingham, UK
From: nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Scientific Word
Summary: Anyone use it
Date: 27 Jul 92 01:11:39 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu

I just saw a review of Scientific Word (wysiwyg tex?). It looks
interesting. I seem to recall some recent traffic on SW, which, of
course, I ignored. Can people either post or email me their
experience with SW (assuming it isn't vaporware!).

Thanks in advance

Neal

-- 
Neal Beck 
Dept of Politcal Science, UCSD
beck@ucsd.edu
Dislaimer: The Regents pay me (in scrip?) to distribute my opinions!
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mnb2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Nathan Broadie)
Subject: Changing hsize on different pages
Reply-To: mnb2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Mark Broadie)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:27:16 GMT

I would like to create documents that have a narrow first page
and a wider later pages.  I have modified the output routine
described on page 257 of the TeXbook to change the hsize after
the first page.  The problem is that on the beginning of the
second page, the narrower hsize is still in effect for the
first few lines of the page.  I think that I somehow need to
send this material back to the main vertical list, but I 
don't know how to do it.  Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Mark Broadie  (mnb2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)



Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: trivedi@yukawa.uchicago.edu (Anil Trivedi)
Subject: A Gentle Introduction To TeX (was Re: faq)
Organization: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:54:05 GMT

steeve@concour.cs.concordia.ca (HARDY j g steeve):
>> 	Second, I have heard that there is a booklet out there called
>> either,
>> 	A Gentle introduction to LaTeX, or
>> 	A Gentle Introduction to TeX
>> I would appreciate any information on this. What I am looking for really is 
>> a simple and hopefully well written introduction, 

russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (David Russell) writes:

>The book I use is
>
>LaTex A document Preparation System User's Guide & Reference.
>By. Leslie Lamport
>Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.  ISBN 0-201-15790-X
>
>It seems to cover all the basics ...

"A Gentle Introduction To TeX" by Michel Doob, though not a substitute
for Knuth's encyclopedic and uniquely authoritaive "TeXbook",
is nevertheless an extremely well written and FREE beginners manual for
Plain TeX. It covers basics of TeX which you should learn no matter which
macro package you use. You can FTP it from many places, one I can recall
offhand is
	lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu
in the directory
	/pub/tex ;
the file is called gentle.tex .

If you are using LaTeX, then of course you should also get the above
mentioned book by Leslie Lamport (the author of LaTeX). It does cover
all the basics, so to speak---but only of the LaTeX macro package,
not of TeX itself. (As one might guess from the mention of Addison-
Wessley there, it is not free.)

One problem with LaTeX is that it is not compatible with Plain TeX. So
whatever you learn, e.g., in the "TeXbook" or in "A Gentle Introduction"
may or may not work with LaTeX.

One Plain-compatible alternative to LaTeX that I know of is a macro
package named TeXsis, written by Eric Myers and Frank Paige. Ignore
their description of it as "a macro package for physicists" which is
a misleading misnomer. You can also get it from lifshitz mentioned
above; unlike LaTeX, it comes with a free manual! For more information
on TeXsis, contact Dr Eric Myers (myers@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu).

(TeXsis is a large package, however, not the kind that belongs in the
personal directory of each user who likes it. Therefore, if there are
many TeX-users on your system, then I'd suggest that you ask your
system administrator to install it for everyone.)
----
From: assist@unocss.unomaha.edu ( )
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: xdvi header files: Command.h & Viewport.h - where are they?
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:06:59 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha


I am installing xdvi on a DECstation 2100.
"make" doesn't go very far. Certain header
files referenced in xdvi.c, e.g., Command.h
and Viewport.h are missing in the default
directories. Where can I obtain them from?

Many thanks...
From: newlin@lucky.ecn.purdue.edu (Johnny N.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Where to get TeX
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:03:49 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

I need to get TeX compiled on an Apollo 425 running Domain/OS 10.3
Could someone point me to where I can find the source and warn me of
any potential difficulties there may be with the above mentioned machine.

I do not read this newsgroup, so please respond via e-mail...

Thanks,

-John
 newlin@ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones)
Subject: Re: Page numbering
Reply-To: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones)
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:40:29 GMT

In article <1360@MVLASA.INFN.IT>, PIERINI@MVLASA writes:

>I am writing a rather long document in the {report} style. Can anybody
>point me how to number the pages with the chapter number as a suffix and
>resetting the page counter at each chapter?
>That is n-m, where n is the chapter number and m starts from 1 at each
>chapter.

Grab a copy of the TeX Macro Index and search for the keyword and look
at the entry for chappg.sty.  It does what you want.

The TeX Macro Index can be gotten by anonymous ftp from
theory.lcs.mit.edu in the file tex/TeX-index.  To obtain a copy by
mail, send a message to archive-server@theory.lcs.mit.edu containing
the line "send tex TeX-index".

Cheers,
David M. Jones                      "The earth's a prison -- one can't
dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu           get away from it.... I'm still
                                     too young to lack desires, Not
                                     young enough now for mere play."
From: <barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: A bug in \mark?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 18:50:00 EDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

That bit at the end of my recent post should have read
\newif\iftest
\mark{\testtrue}
^^^^^
\bye

Michael Barr
From: brueni@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Dennis Brueni)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Typesetting proceedings
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:49:31 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA


Does someone have information on typesetting {\em entire} 
conference proceedings using \LaTeX?  

I am aware of proc.sty, acmproc.sty, decusproc.sty, etc, but
these do not appear to address the same problem.  They are
designed for typesetting articles for submission to conferences
as {\em camera ready copy}.  I am looking for styles for doing
the whole proceedings.  Thus I have requirements such as generating
a table of contents of all articles in the proceedings, room for
a foreword, continuous pagination, etc.

Thanks in advance,

--Dennis Brueni                       brueni@csgrad.cs.vt.edu

"You can lead a horse to water, but you have to be damned strong 
 and determined if you plan on drowning it."
-- 
--Dennis Brueni                       brueni@csgrad.cs.vt.edu

"You can lead a horse to water, but you have to be damned strong 
 and determined if you plan on drowning it."
From: rcbamgh@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Marcel Heemskerk)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Multi-Line comments wanted...
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:38:37 GMT
Reply-To: rcbamgh@urc.tue.nl



The best answer I got from Sherif El-Kassas, elkassas@eb.ele.tue.nl :


---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---

% Save file as: COMMENT.STY            Source: FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET  
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Comment.sty   version 1.0 2 November 1990
% to be used with plain TeX or LaTeX
%
% Author
%    Victor Eijkhout
%    Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
%    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
%    305 Talbot Lab
%    104 South Wright Street
%    Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
%
%    eijkhout@csrd.uiuc.edu
%
% Usage: all text included in between
%    \comment ... \endcomment
% or \begin{comment} ... \end{comment}
% is discarded. The closing command should appear on a line
% of its own. No starting spaces, nothing after it.
% This environment should work with arbitrary amounts
% of comment.
%
% Basic approach: take every line in verbatim mode as macro
% argument, then don't do nothing with.

\def\makeinnocent#1{\catcode`#1=12 }

\def\comment{\begingroup
    \let\do\makeinnocent \dospecials
    \makeinnocent\^^L % and whatever other special cases
    \endlinechar`\^^M \catcode`\^^M=12 \xcomment}
{\catcode`\^^M=12 \endlinechar=-1 %
 \gdef\xcomment#1^^M{\def\test{#1}
      \ifx\test\plainendcommenttest
          \let\next\endgroup
      \else\ifx\test\lalaendcommenttest
          \def\next{\endgroup\end{comment}}
      \else
          \let\next\xcomment
      \fi \fi \next}
}

{\escapechar=-1
 \xdef\plainendcommenttest{\string\\endcomment}
 \xdef\lalaendcommenttest{\string\\end\string\{comment\string\}}
}

\endinput
---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---cut-here---


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Getting DVIPM to recognize font libraries.
Organization: INMOS architecture group
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 10:51:48 BST

In article <rstanton.402.0@garnet.berkeley.edu>, rstanton@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>Parameters: @LJ.CNF -fl=-1 -o3 -oucm %**N (I don't know what -oucm does)

displays units in cm (rather than default pt) i think

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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Dvi to PS with double-sided printing
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:43:53 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: CONVEX Realtime Development, Colorado Springs, CO
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel):
:I know that there is something better than these minimal awk-scripts, but it
:is a perl-script and I haven't got perl but awk. So I just did something.
:Since the awk-scripts are pretty simple, it would be possible to convert them
:into C-programs or similar for those who don't have awk either.

Acquiring perl is very, very easy.

--tom
-- 
    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist


        Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: \indent fails to work in article style
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:38:33 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


	A journal I'm preparing an article for requires all 
paragraphs to be indented.  Apparently the article style in LaTeX does not 
indent the first paragraph of a new section.  As per page 155 of Lamport I've 
tried to use \indent to force indentation but without success.  The following 
is a typical sample of the problem.  Indenting fails whether I put \indent on 
the line before the start of the new paragraph or on the line where the new 
paragraph starts.

\section{The Markov Process Model and Non-Identical Players}

\indent
We have extended our model to handle non-identical 
players. Here the
matrix ${\bf P}$ is different for each player reflecting that 
player's


	I'll try to read comp.text.tex for awhile but E-mail replies are 
appreciated. 


Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Applied Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07103
From: elo9246@zeus.tamu.edu (LaNelle Ohlhausen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MusicTeX fonts
Date: 23 Jul 1992 23:55:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I am looking for the MusicTeX fonts for an Epson FX printer.  I have the 
laserjet fonts necessary for previewing.

Is there somewhere where these are archived or, alternatively, could someone
who has already generated them share them with me?

Thanks--

LaNelle Ohlhausen
From: me12+@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 17 Jul 92 19:16 MDT
Subject: \samepage
Nf-ID: #N:YeNiFZe00WB6EflURS@andrew.cmu.ed:-1388107431:001:408
Nf-From: andrew.cmu.edu!me12+    Jul 17 19:16:00 1992


Thanks for the responses on \backslash.

I have the following:

\begin{quote}
\begin{verbatim}
...
\end{verbatim}
\end{quote}

which happens to occur over a page break.  So, I wrapped it in
\begin{samepage}
...
...
\end{samepage}

and it still breaks in the middle.  I tried sticking a \samepage inside the
\begin{quote}, and also tried a \nopagebreak, without success.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Marc
From: horst@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Horst Hogenkamp)
Subject: \bibliography, \printindex, etc.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 14:31:14 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.


I want an appendix with bibliography, index, etc. to look like

    +----------------+
    | A Bibliography |
    |  [1] ref. one  |
    |  [2] ref. two  |
    |                |
    | B Index        |
    |  item one, #   |
    |                |
    | C List of ...  |
    |                |
    | etc.           |
    |                |
    +----------------+

But with the following input

	\begin{appendix}
	
	%\chapter{Bibliography}
	\bibliographystyle{alpha}
	
	%\chapter{Index}
	\printindex
	
	\end{appendix}

all I get is

    +----------------+        +----------------+
    | A Bibliography |   or   | Bibliography   |
    | Bibliography   |        |  [1] ref. one  |
    |  [1] ref. one  |        |  [2] ref. two  |
    |  [2] ref. two  |        |                |
    |                |        |                |
    | B Index        |        | Index          |
    | Index          |        |  item one, #   |
    |  item one, #   |        |                |
    |                |        |                |
    | C List of ...  |        | C List of ...  |
    |                |        |                |
    | etc.           |        | etc.           |
    |                |        |                |
    +----------------+        +----------------+
    chapter names twice       chapters not numbered A, B, ...


Who can help?

Horst