HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rjg@christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk (Robin J. Green)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: At last! Heaven found...
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:03:44 GMT
Followup-To: rjg@uk.ac.bham.cs
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

OK, finally a question to tax you, cos it's taxing me.

I want to produce a fully stochastic raytracer, integrating across the picture
plane by jittering pixels, across light source areas and across time. These are
the easy bits. I want to integrate across the reflection function, that is I
want to jitter a ray using IMPORTANCE SAMPLING so that it produces a series
of n jittered rays each with a probability of direction proportional to their
associated reflectance value. How do I do this?

All I want is to be able to produce glossy surfaces and an aparrent effect of
'diffuse transparancy' which I take to mean Tupperware. Please note I am not
asking for a package to solve all my worldly problems, provide 3rd world
relief, cure cancer, produce colour overheads and make an entertaining lunchtime
friend.

As I see it, the reflectance function can be a very complex shape roughly
maximum at the reflected rays direction but certainly not symmetrical or even
a volume of rotation. Erk.

Please email me some insights into this problem. It's just another example of
SIGGRAPH papers saying '...which is left as an exercise for the student...'
God I HATE that!!

- Thank you for reading this. If you have enjoyed this plea for help, please
  share it with your friends, your family or even your pets. No.1 in an
  occasional series...

- RJGreen.
From: louarn@irisa.fr (Philippe Louarn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to test the page value of a float?
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:31:40 GMT
Organization: IRISA, Rennes (France)

In article <1992Sep1.150736.5707@irisa.fr>, I write:
|> I want to be able to test the value of the page number where a floating
|> figure WILL be put.
|> 
|> I tried :
|> 
|> \begin{figure}[p]
|> \ifodd\value{page} <DO_SOMETHING> \else <DO_ANOTHER_THING>\fi
|> \end{figure}
|> 
|> That does not run, cause the \value{page} give me the value of
|> the current page (where the figure is declared) and not the value
|> of the page where the figure will be put.

Thanks to Donald Arseneau <asnd@erich.triumf.ca> for his answer:
using something similar to \pageref

\def\floatpagenum#1{\@ifundefined{r@#1}{{\relax}\@warning
   {Reference `#1' on page \thepage \space
    undefined}}{\edef\@tempa{\@nameuse{r@#1}}
   \edef\thispage{\expandafter\@cdr\@tempa\@nil\space}%
   \ifx\thispage\space\def\thispage{0 }\fi %
}}

\begin{figure}[p]
\floatpagenum{mylabel} % setting the value of \thispage
\ifodd\thispage
 <...>
\else
 <...>
\fi
\caption{...}\label{mylabel}
\end{figure}

-- 
Philippe LOUARN - Projet OPERA / Atelier IRISA
                  IRISA - INRIA, u.r. de Rennes
                  Campus de Beaulieu - F-35042 RENNES Cedex - France 
                  Tel : (33) 99 84 73 66 / Fax : (33) 99 32 38 38
                  louarn@irisa.fr
From: djossou@charly.inria.fr (Coco Djossou)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: bibcard [Re: Interactive BiBTeX-database program?]
Keywords: bibtex
Date: 27 Aug 92 07:40:49 GMT
Reply-To: djossou@sophia.inria.fr
Organization: INRIA Sophia Antipolis


	  From: hm334tu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Tulkenberg)
	  Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
	  Subject: Interactive BiBTeX-database program?
	  Keywords: bibtex
	  Message-ID: <hm334tu.714827218@unidui>
	  Date: 26 Aug 92 11:06:58 GMT
|> is there a program which lets you interacticly create and modify
|> BiBTeX databases. 

bibcard an X11 based interface for BiBTeX databases.
Extr. from man page:
      Bibliographic entries can be displayed for each type of reference 
      defined by BiBTeX. Required fields are listed first, followed by
      the optional fields for that type.  Users can select with the mouse
      the reference type desired. The user interface follows the OpenLook
      style.

Host sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
    Location: /X11/contrib
           FILE -rw-r--r--    1002821  Jun 18 02:16  Bibcard-1.0.tar.Z
 
Host sun8.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
    Location: /X11/contrib
           FILE -rw-r--r--    1002821  Jun 18 00:16  Bibcard-1.0.tar.Z

--
Coco Djossou - INRIA BP 93 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex (France)
From: hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Problem with \d in latex
Keywords: accents
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:03:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Aug31.190302.22263
Organization: Washington State University

The document that I am editing was written by someone else. As it turns out
they had made a definition for \d@nger. This caused \d to stop working.

-- 
Karl Hakimian
hakimian@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
From: raf50@JUTS.amail.amdahl.com (Richard A Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: OZtex and postcript fonts
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:53:50 GMT
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Organization: Amdahl Corp.

I have been trying to use the postcript fonts and OZtex to print
various documents originally built w/ cm fonts.
Everything works ok except: conversion of `` and ` to appropriate
characters.

Can anyone give me the incantation required to make this work?

thanx in advance.
rick
--
richard.frankel@amail.amdahl.com
From: <barr%triples.Math.McGill.CA@VMESA.MCGILL.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re:  TeX to WordDefect
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 22:43:26 EDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

> I have a chapter of a book which is done in TeX (actually LaTeX).
> Unfortunately, the publisher insists that he needs it in WordPerfect
> format. The chapter is full of equations, all carefully crafted in TeX.
> Does anyone know of a way to convert TeX equations into WordPerfect
> equations? Thanks for any suggestions or pointers.
>
> P.S. Please reply directly to me, as I am not yet a subscriber to this list.
>

There is a very easy way to do what your publisher suggests.  Give him a
printout and tell him to retype it in WordPerfect.

Michael Barr
From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: cweave and ctangle on MSDOS
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:02:17 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.


Is there anything special I need to do to install cweave and ctangle
on MSDOS from the sources at labrea.stanford.edu? I can download the
c source and Itry to compile it with the GNU C compiler (i.e. djgcc),
but I notice that there are some kind of change files that people talk
about and I don't know if I have to worry about them.

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
From: jake@skatter.usask.ca
Subject: Displayed equations inside boxes in plain TeX
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:44:34 GMT

I cannot seem to hit upon the proper usage of commands to get displayed
equations wrapped in a box.  I am a novice TeX user, and this may not
be too suprising.  I can get "normal" math mode in a box, but I
would prefer a displayed eq.

I would appreciate any help you TeXsperts may have to offer.

Thank you very much and have a good day.

jake@skatter.usask.ca

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: medrh@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Richard Hockey)
Subject: dvips - help please
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:50:07 GMT

I am trying to convert a dvi file I received into postscript. I have
downloaded dvips for MSDOS but when I try to convert the file it says
the fonts are not available with names like cmbx12 etc. I downloaded
another piece of software called sbmf which is supposed to be able to
create these fonts. Did this and created files with .pk and .tfm
extensions and put them in the directories I thought they should be in.
Ran dvips again this time it found the .tfm files but not the .pk files
and created some sort of parameter file to create same from I don't know
what and said "run mfjob dvips" . what is mfjob? and what do the
parameters in the file mean they do not seem to be the same as those for
sbmf??
Can anyone help?

I only want to print one file I don't want to become an expert on TeX!

-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Richard Hockey                    email:medrh@uniwa.uwa.oz.au               |
| Department of Public Health       phone:+61 9 389-3463        _--_|\        |
| University of Western Australia   fax:  +61 9 389-3648       /      \       |
From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Subject: Paper and fonts (was Re: TeX In Practice)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 25 Aug 92 13:15:42 PDT

In article <l9kqsnINN7kb@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
> In article <1992Aug24.211117.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
 
> |> Someone tell Victor not to use
> |> textured paper with Baskerville or any other Modern. Doesn't
> |> anybody care about paper anymore? Yeesh. All my design books
> |> devote a chapter or more to paper.)
 
> You've got to be joking? (For one, Baskerville is not a modern :-)
> Do you think authors have anything to say about the choice of paper?
> I think I was lucky that they let me veto the first cover design.
> (But the letter that came with the second design told me between the
> lines that 'we will take this one whether you like it or not'.)

Well, most type books classify Baskerville as a transitional, but
it shares enough characteristics with a modern that for the
purposes of paper selection, one can call it one.

But somebody at A-W should have known not to use that paper with
Baskerville (or maybe A-W doesn't care about how its books look).
 
> The closer you get to production of the book, the less an author can do
> about it.

I've heard of authors who've requested and gotten acid free
paper. Personally, I wouldn't care about whether a book on some
piece of software is going to disintegrate in twenty years or
not.
 
> If I would have had any say in the choice of paper I would have
> opted for parchment, in real leather binding :-)

Probably would have taken Baskerville even worse. Today's smooth
papers are largely an outgrowth of the demands of the
transitionals and moderns as well as certain illustrative
printing processes.


-dh

Don Hosek                  
dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu  
Quixote Digital Typography 
714-621-1291
From: refling@sloth.eng.uci.edu (John P. Refling)
Subject: Anybody know how to put a framebox around a figure AND its caption?
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:45:59 GMT

What I want is this:

+---------+
| FIGURE  |
| CAPTION |
+---------+

I tried this:                                       and got this:

\begin{figure}
    \input{figure.eps}                                FIGURE
    \caption{hello.}                                  CAPTION
\end{figure}


\begin{figure}                                      +---------+
    \framebox[\textwidth]{\input{figure.eps}}       | FIGURE  |
    \caption{hello.}                                +---------+
\end{figure}                                          CAPTION


\begin{figure}
   \framebox[\textwidth]{\input{figure.eps}     ! missing \endgroup inserted
      \caption{hello.}}
\end{figure}}


\framebox[\textwidth]{\begin{figure}
    \input{figure.eps}                          ! not in outer par mode
    \caption{hello.}
\end{figure}}


Anybody know how to put the framebox around a figure AND its caption?
Thanks.
--
-----------
John Refling, refling@sloth.eng.uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: fischer@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Phil Fischer)
Subject: Footnotes in Tex
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:18:46 GMT

Is there a simple way of setting the baselineskip for footnotes in
Plain Tex.

Phil Fischer                         | Hamilton, Ont.
Fischer@Physun.Physics.McMaster.Ca   | Canada
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy       | L8S 4M1
McMaster University                  | 416-525-9140 X 4574
From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: dvips bug?
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 14:17:53 +0200
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Rolf Lindgren writes:
	If the postscript file prints fine on your printer then the file's not
	well-behaved Encapsulated PostScript because it has a ``showpage'' command
	at the end. (Unless you printer driver automatically adds ``showpage''...)

That's not correct, Adobe's specifications _explicitly_ allow the
showpage command in Encapsulated PostScript, and dvips handles this correctly.
      ___
|    |   |
| /\ |  \
|/  \|	 \_______________________________________________ Wolfgang Ratzka

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: umarsa00@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (PROF. A.S. UMAR, (615)322-2459)
Subject: wrapping text around figures
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:13:00 GMT

I am looking for LaTeX style files which allow the wrapping of text
around figures. I am currently using a variant of the epsf style file
for importing encapsulated postscript figures. 

Thanks,
=========================================================================
umar@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu         Prof.A.S. Umar
umarsa00@vuctrvax.bitnet                Department of Physics & Astronomy
Tel: (615) 322-2459                     Vanderbilt University
Fax: (615) 343-7263                     Nashville, TN 37235
=========================================================================
From: leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: BibTeX / LaTeX question...
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:34:13 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University Department of Computer Science

In article <Btp4Ms.6EK@news.larc.nasa.gov>, burton@hops.larc.nasa.gov
(John Burton) writes:
| Okay, I know this is probably an easy question, but I just can't
| seem to find an answer. How do I get BibTeX/LaTeX to generate
| a bibliography at the end of a report (report.sty) with NO reference 
| labels in front of the entry ? i.e. what I want is
| 
|   Blow, Joe, "The decline and fall of humor in America",
|   Null Press Inc., 1999.
| 
| what I get is
| 
|  [1] Blow, Joe, "The decline and fall of humor in America",
|      Null Press Inc., 1999.
| 
| My first (obvious) attempt was to use the \nocite{} construct
| but this didn't work...suggestions?

The formatting of the bibliographic entry is defined by the \bibitem macro,
More specifically, \bibitem uses \@biblabel to format the label on a
reference.  Both are defined in LATEX.TEX, and can be re-defined by a style
file.

The following trivial style file will do what you want:

%
% Produce an empty bibliography entry label.  This has no effect on how
% citations are formatted.
%
\def\@biblabel#1{}              % Produces the label for a \bibitem[...]
                                % command. 

Put this in a file, say nobiblabel.sty, and added nobiblabel to the list of
style options in your \documentstyle command.
							-- Jerry
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Saturday, 29 Aug 1992 14:38:54 EDT
From: James MacKinnon <MACKINNO@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dviscr and ATI Graphics Ultra

Has anyone successfully used the excellent dviscr screen previewer from
the emTeX package with the ATI Graphics Ultra in 800 by 600 mode? My current
PC has a Tseng Labs card, and dviscr runs on it in 800 by 600 mode. I will
shortly be buying a new machine and am seriously considering the ATI card.
However, I do not want to go back to only 640 by 480. The documentation for
dviscr does not say anything about ATI cards, or about the IBM 8514, which
the Graphics Ultra emulates. It may be possible to use a custom video mode,
but without documentation for the card and a computer to play with, I don't
know whether it is or not.

If anyone is successfully using dviscr in 800 by 600 mode on an ATI Graphics
Ultra, I would be interested to learn just how they made it work, and how well
dviscr works on that card. Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mwv3776@chenext1.tamu.edu (Mark W. Vaughn)
Subject: author index for LaTex file
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:27:11 GMT


In article <25496@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, schach@csa2.lbl.gov 
(A SCHACH VON WITTENAU) writes:
> 	Is there a STY or BST file that can be used to produce an author
> index?  In addition to producing a bibliography for a book I would also
> like a list/index of the pages on which a particular author/journal article
> was cited.
 
Darrel Hankerson, hank@ducvax.auburn.edu, responded with the following  
suggestion which requires modification to the bibliographical entries:

>This has been discussed recently on the group. I can't remember the best 
>solution, but get DM Jones tex-index from niord.shsu.edu (look for posts from
>George Greenwade). One solution is:
>
>% Copyright 1992 by Charles Frederick Wells.  This file
>% may be freely redistributed as long as it is unchanged and
>% contains this copyright notice.  Please report errors or send
>% suggestions for changes to cfw2@po.cwru.edu or to Charles Wells,
>% Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University,
>% University Circle, Cleveland, OH 44106-7058, USA.
[rest deleted]

I am also interested constructing an author index from the bibliography  
information. 

Unfortunately, I tuned in to this newsgroup too late to see the previous  
discussion.  I looked through the suggested tex index (thank you D.M. Jones!)  
as well as the files at ymir but was unable to find anything that might do what  
I need.  Perhaps I just overlooked something.  Could someone suggest something  
which works with BibTex and one of the author-year citation bst/sty files---we  
are currently using `chicago'.

Thank You

m vaughn mwv3776@chenext1.tamu.edu
From: ccav27@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("Y.Chen")
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Word-forWindows  <=>  LaTex
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:27:30 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde


Hi,


Does anyone know such a software which can convert between W4W and Latex?
Or is this conversion possible at all?



Charles
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.specification.z
From: hossein@unocss.unomaha.edu (Hossein Saiedian)
Subject: Re: A small requests from the users of oz.sty 
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:36:35 GMT

hossein@unocss.unomaha.edu (Hossein Saiedian) writes:


>Could someone send me a copy of oz.tex in PostScript format?

I already received a copy. Please do not attempt to
send another one. Thanks.

Regards,
Hossein
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow)
Subject: Re: Stripping a .dvi down to text, how to...
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:33:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.185939.14991@unixg.ubc.ca>, george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes:
|> Howdy,
|>   I have a largish (~130 pages) .dvi files that I need to convert to text.
|> I don't have access to the .tex source files. Is there any tools available
|> to do this? I've gone through the FAQ and the closest thing I found was 
|> converting [La]TeX to/from various formats.

Thanks for all the replies. The concensus is the dvi2tty program which actually is
mentioned in the FAQ, in the previewer section. I also found a program called dvitty
which did the same. Thanks.

George
From: malek@lamaleph.inria.fr (Malek BOUALEM)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: numbering subsubsection titles in the text body ????
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:55:14 GMT
Reply-To: malek@lamaleph.inria.fr (Malek BOUALEM)
Organization: MALIN Project (MultiAlphabetism and multiLingualism in INformatics)   -- INRIA/Sophia Antipolis


 Somebody knows how to number subsubsection titles, both in the body of the text and in the table of contents, with a book.sty document style (fbook.sty, or another document style, ...)  ??????

 I need in my text both the following sections:

 - \chapter
 - \section
 - \subsection
 - \subsubsection


PS.
  the option:   \setcounter{tocdepth}{4}
  puts the subsubsection titles only in the table of contents,
  the subsubsection numbers don't appear in the body of the text.


 If there is any help, please mail to:
    
           malek@lamaleph.inria.fr


  Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf)
Subject: Re: TeX In Practice
Reply-To: Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de
Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
	<l9kqsnINN7kb@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> <2074@usna.NAVY.MIL>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:24:41 GMT

In article <2074@usna.NAVY.MIL> dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC)) writes:

   And it would have looked terrible :-} (the curly for us old people
					   with wrinkles.)

No, :-} is already reserved for the bearded ones :-)
--

   Rainer Schoepf
   Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum                       ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn
    fuer Informationstechnik Berlin            sich die Dinge so frueh
   Heilbronner Strasse 10                      am Morgen schon so
   W-1000 Berlin 31                            dynamisch entwickeln!''
   Federal Republic of Germany
   <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de>
From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: greek circumflex
Date: 30 Aug 92 03:34:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Organization: Ag Engineering Dept, Purdue University

In article <1992Aug28.185322.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
|> In article <1992Aug28.213404.28565@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:
|> > I'm using Levy's greek fonts and at the same time am learning classical
|> > Greek.  My text, by Harvard Univ Press, uses a rounded '^' for a circumflex,
|> > but Levy uses a '~'.  Which is more common in classical greek texts?
|> 
|> They're interchangable and depend primarily on the font used. My

Thanks for such a speedy answer. Now for another accent question:
Since I'm just beginning to learn Greek, it's useful to use other
pronunciation keys. In particular, \v for short vowel and \= for long
vowel.  Is this possible with this Levy's fonts? 

  \input greekmacros
  \greekdelims % changes $ for greek, \math is old meaning
  $grayous$\v{$i$}  % I want the accent over the iota, but this puts the
                    % accent over white space, then prints the iota

Also, here's a related question that I should probably know the answer to:
How do you make a vowel long (i.e., \={o}) withing the LaTeX tabbing environ?
No real problem here that I can't overcome, but pass the info along if you
know.
Thanks!
-- 
James Darrell McCauley                    Dept of Ag Engineering, Purdue Univ
internet: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu         West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1146
bitnet: mccauley%ecn@purccvm              UUCP: mccauley!pur-ee
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: zaccone@rigel.cs.bucknell.edu (Rick Zaccone)
Subject: SliTeX Logo?
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:46:56 GMT
Reply-To: zaccone@bucknell.edu

Is there an official (whatever that means) definition of the SliTeX
logo?  I've come up with the following on my own.

\newcommand{\slitex}{{\sc Sli\kern-.1em\TeX}}

It looks pretty good, but I want it to be the same as in the Lamport's
LaTeX manual.  Does anyone have it?

Rick
--
zaccone@bucknell.edu

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: schwartz@rtsg.mot.com (Steven R. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Anybody know how to put a framebox around a figure AND its caption?
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:45:28 GMT

How can you make fpbox not span the entire textwidth? For example if
the contents are a table, how can you make it fit tightly on both the
left and right sides?

-Steve
 schwartz@rtsg.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex