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TeXhax Digest    Friday,  9 Oct 1992  Volume 92 : Issue 018

Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott

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Today's Topics:
		    translations between Mac and Unix texts
			   4 second delay on startup
	      Macros for formatting scripts for plays and/or film


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Date:    Fri, 25 Sep 92 10:16:39 -0600
From:    phayes@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: translations between Mac and Unix texts

Help. There are two communities growing up which send text files around the
net. One uses TeX on Unix, the other uses things like Word4/5 or Nisus on
Macintoshes. I am trying to find ways to translate back and forth. Does
anyone know of software which can can translate text files between TeX and
RTF (in either direction) and be ported to a mac?

Pat Hayes   <through 1992>
Beckman Institute                                    (217)244 1616 office
405 North Mathews Avenue        	       	     (217)328 3947 home
Urbana, IL. 61801           hayes@cs.stanford.edu    (217)244 8371 fax

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Date:    Tue, 29 Sep 92 14:25:23 -0700
From:    jerry@math.ep.utexas.edu (Jerry)
Subject: 4 second delay on startup

This is my first posting; please be kind.

I built TeX3.14t3 which I got from u.washington.  The only problem (so
far) that I've encountered is a 4 or 5 second delay on startup, before
TeX says

    This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3

I built TeX fairly easily (as these things go) and didn't have this
problem at first.  I rebuilt it a few times (to add amstex and, maybe
this is important, to update the lplain.tex and latex.tex files) and
after that I got this annoying delay on our Sun SPARC 1+, IPC, and 2
workstations running SunOS 4.1.1.  TEXINPUTS only has two directories:

    .:/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs

so I'm curious as to how to get rid of this delay that I somehow
inadvertently introduced.

Please email your reply; I have yet to get postings of this list/group.

Muchas gracias.  -Jerry


                             Jerry Graves
                          UTEP Math Sysadmin
                       jerry@math.ep.utexas.edu
                    PHONE/FAX  (915) 747-5761/5067

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Date:    Tue, 29 Sep 92 16:00:48 -0700
From:    MCCOLLUM DAVID SCOTT <mccollum@spot.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Macros for formatting scripts for plays and/or film


I am interested in creating a play script or a film script using
LaTeX/TeX.  I have scanned several archives without success.  If anyone
is aware of such macros, or where I might find some information, please
let me know.

Thanks.

Dave McCollum
mccollum@spot.colorado.edu
P. O. Box 7083
Boulder, CO 80306-7083
USA
(303) 786-8562

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