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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Wanted: the paragragh shape in TeX
From: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:43:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <1992Apr9.145118.14359@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> wangfei@rocky8.rockefeller.edu (Fei Wang) writes:

>    Does any one who knows how to produce (in TeX) a paragragh whose shape 
>is a diamond?
>    I mean if the paragragh is big, the shape of this paragragh (diamond) 
>will be big, if the paragragh is small, the diamond will be small.

Try it once and see if it works; if not, choose a different paragraph
shape and try again. To see if it works, format it in a box take the box
apart again.

Jeremy

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee)
Subject: Re: BoxedEPS macros: New version available
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:14:51 GMT

rbhumbla@ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla) writes:

>Larry Siebenmann, the author of the BoxedEPS macro package has asked
>me to pass on the following information:

>	There is a new version of BoxedEPS, available by anonymous
>	ftp on rsovax.ups.circe.fr  [130.84.128.100].  It is (I
>	believe) in the directory siebenmann.

>It supports OzTeX (1.41 and previous versions) besides other features.

>For those who don't know about BoxedEPS, it is an excellent macro for
>including Encapsulated Postscript Files into TeX (and LaTeX) documents
>in a highly portable way.  Moving the TeX (LaTeX) file from one
>PS-driver to another involves little more than a minor change at the
>top of the document.

>-Ravi-
>--
>Ravinder Bhumbla	rbhumbla@ucsd.edu    U. of California, San Diego

Is it the same as the one in midway.uchicago.edu?

P.S. Don't e-mail to me to tell me the answer. 

Jesse Lee

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From: li@GAUSS.CASR.FAU.EDU (Charlie Li)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Automatically Breaking Multi-Line Equation in LaTeX?
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:25:00 GMT

Sorry for just post an empty message by mistake.

I have a long equation (multiple lines), but how can TeX automatically wrap
to next line?  Do I have to manually control where to start a new line (by
testing where to add "\cr")? I looked at some booklet and FAQ in TeX group,
couldn't find the answer.

Thanks.

Charlie

I have a simple TeX file (output from Mathematica) like this:
$$......
.....
.....
.....
.....
.....
.....
.....
.....
.....
.....
.....$$
\bye
From: schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Rainer Schoepf)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: "Weird error" in SHOWIDX.STY.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 11:15:14 +0200
Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

"Erik Thaysen, Dev.Dept." <ERIKT@odin.uniras.dk> asked:

   I have come across a "weird error" when using SHOWIDX.STY.  If an
   indexed document contains index entries like \index{width},
   \index{depth}, or \index{height}, then TeX halts with a "Missing
   number, treated as zero" error.  If one asks for more help you are
   told to look up "weird error" in the TeXbook.

   My question is, has anybody heard of this before, and is there a
   bugfix out there somewhere?

Yes, your showidx.doc/sty is out of date. The most recent version is
dated June 16, 1991. From latex.bug:

   48. Certain keywords like "height" caused an error in an \index
   command with the showidx style option.  (Reported by Joachim Schrod,
   corrected 11 Oct 89.)

May I recommend that you get an up-to-date LaTeX (March 92)?

Rainer Schoepf
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jchen@sct.gu.edu.au (Jinghong CHEN)
Subject: .mf --> .tfm how?
Originator: jchen@tomahawk.sct.gu.edu.au
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 23:21:24 GMT

I try to use mf for producing the .tfm file from .mf file.
However it only gives me the .*gf file. Do I need some special
options for obtaining the .tfm file? The following is what I doing:

	mf "\mode=localfont \mag=magstep1 input" file.mf

Thank you in advance.

J.CHEN (jchen@tomahawk.sct.gu.edu.au)
From: D.M.Johnson@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: The email address of the TeX user group
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:31:23 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

Could some one tell me th emial address of the TeX user group please


Dave Johnson

D.M.Johnson@newcastle.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: LaTeX stuff on OS/2 2.0....
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:55:29 PDT

In article <1992Apr6.115353.4768@odin.diku.dk>, fedtmule@diku.dk (Jens Markussen) writes:
> Hello outthere, 
 
> 	I've been running TeX (emTeX vers. 3.0[3a]) on my 286 PC with 640 kB
> for a while now. I'm considering buying a new computer (386 or 486) and
> maybe changing to OS/2. Now my question is: Is there an TeX version running
> OS/2 vers 2.0 (and is it an 32-bit application?).

Shame on you for not reading your emTeX docs. emTeX was, in fact,
developed _for_ OS/2. The fact that it is also available in DOS
versions is just a happy side-affect

> 	Also I would like to know is there is a DVI-file viewer for OS/2 2.0
> and if so, does this viewer use OS/2's font-capabilities (Adobe stuff) or do
> you still have to keep massive amounts of font-files lying around ??

The only OS/2-specific drivers I have listed are the emTeX ones.
I'd be glad to hear of others.

> 	How about printer output - will the Adobe stuff help here?? Would 
> DVIPS work under OS/2? Would GhostScript?
 
I imagine that the DOS version of dvips would at least run in a
DOS compatibility box. On the other hand, getting Zortech C++ or
the next version of Borland C++ (I think that OS/2 support is
still in the future tense for them) would allow you to readily
port dvips to OS/2.

-dh

Don Hosek                  
dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu  
Quixote Digital Typography 
714-621-1291


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.laptops
From: shen@athena.cs.uga.edu (Mingzuo Shen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: conditional inclusion or selection of texts
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:20:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

Hi all,

    I wonder if it is EASY to conditionally select
portion of a text to be included in one document
based on some defined variable. I have no programming
expertise in TeX (I am only interested in a solution in 
Plain TeX).

    Say I have a citation. For papers to be published in
journals, i do not
need the title of the citation. Just the authors,
name, journal name, page number, and year are needed.
But when I prepare a document for local use, 
I would like to also include the title of the citation
in my document. 

    Thanks in advance (sorry if this is a FAQ; I read the
FAQ some time ago and do not recall such a technique; I
have the TeXBook here but ...),

mingzuo shen
From: zeke@reed.edu (Zeke Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:54:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Apr9.055455.11171
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

Mats G L|fdahl writes:
>   Jeremy Gibbons writes:
>
>   I still think this is a misguided desire. The kind of editing you can
>   reasonably *expect* to be able to do in terms of the printed page---
>   correcting spelling mistakes, adding an extra word, etc---are just as
>   easily done in terms of the TeX source code.
>
>Well, there is a lot of things I'd like to be able to do in the
>wysiwyg way. Building formulas, for example, by clicking on buttons.
>
>Clicking on a summation sign would then not just insert a Sigma
>bitmap (or whatever) but actually enter the \sum control sequence into
>the TeX file. With the cursor on a symbol (e.g. the Sigma), clicking
>on a superscript symbol would perhaps move the cursor to the
>superscript position and allow you to build a superscript (or, in case
>of the \sum control sequence, an upper limit of the summation).

I haven't played with it yet, but on the mac there is a program called 
Expressionist which does exactly that.  I played with version 2.0 which only
put out a bitmap, but the 3.0 is supposed to be able to output TeX.

>What if you had a button that would pop up a window with a list of the
>parameters of the current paragraph (or the current list or the
>current environment)? Editing that list could put changes to those
>parameters in that paragraph (if necessary inside a group).

I was thinking that perhaps a plain text mode where you could play with
all of the parameters would accomplish the same thing.

[great list of ideas deleted]

At least the rudaments seem very do-able.  I don't know how far it could
go though.


Zeke Koch
-- 
                           zeke@reed.edu 
"NeXT has made it possible for Tiny Tim to over-extend himself and buy
a Ferrari for the price of a Hundai and now Tiny Tim is pissed because
the gas station attendant won't sell him gas for 3 cents a gallon."
From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Highlighting previewer
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:48:56 GMT
In-reply-to: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu's message of 14 Apr 92 18:58:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.185800.16193@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:

   In article <1992Apr14.113509.28235@kub.nl>, stephan@kub.nl (Stephan Raaijmakers) writes:
   |> I am looking for a DVI previewer allowing 
   |> specified portions of text to be highlighted,
   |> either by greyscale or raster. 

   Something this smart may be able to take some sort of descriptor 
   file combined with a dvi file and form the basis of a hypertext 
   system. Hmm... idx, toc, and glo files could be integrated 
   nicely. I guess the trick would be flagging portions of the dvi
   file...

There is something very crudely approximating this in DVIWindo.  You can
call DVIWindo from another Windows application.  It remembers the handle of
the Window of that application so it can talk back to it later. When 
started from the other application, DVIWindo can be asked to go to a specified
file, on a specified page.  

You can use \specials to set up identifiable sensitive areas (buttons).
When the user clicks in such an area, a message is passed to the calling
application identifying that area. The calling application could then
conceivably do `hyper-text' like things, such as telling DVIWindo to go to a
different page.

The senstive areas can be invisible, or, more usefully, made apparent to the
user by using \specials for reverse video in text, or for colored text, or
for colored rules, or by having an image there, for example, using an
inserted TIFF image (or EPSF or EPSI).

Still, somebody would have to write the `driving' application that embodies 
the `hyper-text' (or whatever) logic to be used...

* *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Disclaimed of lack of bias: respondent has connections with Y&Y.

* *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 13:16:25 EDT
From: Vincent M. Tkac (SR) <SR190504@ysub.ysu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: fonts for EmTeX

Greetings,

   I would like to add some font to collection but I can't seem to find
fonts that are in .fli format.  Is there a way to take the fonts out of
fli format or to add new fonts to the .fli format?  If I take them out
of the .fli format what should my directory structure look like?

Thanks in advance,

   Vincent M. Tkac
   savince@macs.ysu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: moore@forty2.enet.dec.com (Paul Moore)
Subject: RESPOST: Where can I get a DVI to Epson LQ driver?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 10:29:45 GMT

Oops, I forgot to specify which system I have when I posted this request the
first time. I'm running ISC-2.2 UNIX on a 386 box, with the version 3.14 of
tex386ix.

Repost of original request...
I've just installed TeX on my system. Unfortunately, I only have an Epson LQ
printer available. Is there a driver available that will alow me to directly
print my DVI output on this printer?

I've already tried accessing the internet site ymir.claremont.edu, but I
have problems accessing it.

Please email your response.

Thanks,
- Paul

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From: duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Duty Programmer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: xdvi vs. xtex
Date: 7 Apr 92 02:05:22 GMT
Reply-To: rab@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU
Distribution: world,local
Organization: School of Physics, University of Melbourne

In article <1992Apr3.101249.2856@arizona.edu>, krueger@galileo.uucp (Ted Krueger) writes:
|> In article <1992Mar31.171514.2567@csi.uottawa.ca> dominic@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca writes:
|> >
|> >
|> >I have found that xdvi is easier to use, in my particular environment.  I
|> >usually have xdvi, an xterm running vi, and a small xterm for executing the
|> >latex commands from, all up on the screen at once.  Hence I have found the
|> >the automatic updating and the keybindings coinside very nicely with the vi
|> >editor.  
|> 
|> >dominic
|> >
|> How do you do that?
|> 
|> My version of xdvi does not allow this option, so I am forced to close 
|> and re-open the xdvi viewer every time I re-compile the TeX file.  This 
|> is quite frustrating.
|> 
|> Ted

I've been running xdvi for more than 2 years now, and it's always had the update
feature! What's really great about this is that you don't need the xterm window
open to run TeX, LaTeX or whatever: just map some sequence (I use F1) to save the
file and run TeX. Then, to view your just-typed changes, all you need to do is
hit the F1 key, and move your mouse into the xdvi window. xdvi sees that the dvi file
has been updated, and voila! You see the new output. The whole sequence takes a
few seconds on an RS/6000.

rab
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dbarnes@heretic.mentorg.com (David Barnes)
Subject: WANTED: IEEE style file
Originator: dbarnes@heretic
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:21:00 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics 
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 


I've received a request for an IEEE style file called "ieee.sty".
Never seen it, myself, but presumably it's a two-column article
format.

Does such a file exist?  If so, where in ftp-land does it live?

Thanks.
-- 
David Barnes                             David_Barnes@mentorg.com
Mentor Graphics Corp.                    Wilsonville, OR
From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Steve Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: drawing lines with PostScript
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:12:30 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University
In-reply-to: edrbtsn@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu's message of 9 Apr 92 20:57:00 GMT

A package that draws both dotted and solid lines, curves, with and
without arrowheads, etc. is the tree-dvips package which you can get
by anonymous ftp from csli.stanford.edu (36.9.0.46). It's in
~ftp/pub/TeXfiles/tree.tar. This was developed (by Emma Pease) to help
linguists draw syntactic tree diagrams, but it should work for
non-linguists too :-)

The \special's these macros emit are understood by current versions of
Tom Rokicki's dvips package. For other dvi to PostScript packages, you
may have to hack some....

--Steve Anderson
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: moore@forty2.enet.dec.com (Paul Moore)
Subject: Problems with installing MusicTeX fonts
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:28:40 GMT

Hello,

I've just tried to install MusicTeX.

When installing the music fonts on my ISC-2.2-based UNIX box, I have errors
installing the fonts musicd16 and musicd20:

  Make TeXPK musicd16 300 300 magstep(0.0)
  mf \mode:=localfont; mag:=magstep(0.0); scrollmode; input musicd16 \>/dev/null
  This is METAFONT, C Version 2.7
  (/usr/local/lib/mf/inputs/musicd16.mf)
  *
  !Emergency stop
  <*> ... g:=magstep(0.0); scrollmode; input musicd16
  Font metrics writtem on musicd16.tfm
  Transcript written on musicd16.log
  Metafont failed for some reason on musicd16.300gf

  Ditto for musicd20...

Can anyone help? I tried to apply the patches in the subdirectory
./karlmusic/mtexfont.diff to musicd16 and musicd20, but patch failed to 
on two of the four patch hunks for each file.

Thanks in advance, Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Ken Yap)
Subject: Re: Where is PicTeX documentation?
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 01:44:47 GMT

|Unless something has changed, this is only available
|to TUG members. If anyone sends you a dvi file, you
|are asked to delete it (a while back someone carelessly
|made one available by anonymous ftp).

Well, more correctly, it's published as a book and one should buy the
book to get the documentation. No restriction to only TUG members.
From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: index.tex  (was: Anyone have indexing with eplain?)
Keywords: index, Plain TeX, MakeIndex
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:37:52 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt

In article <70174@ut-emx.uucp>, myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) writes:
> 
>   A while back Samir Varma (varmint@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) put out here a
> general request for info on indexing packages.  I believe he found that
> there were several things available for LaTeX but that support for Plain
> TeX was somewhat lacking.  He also found a very nice program called
> MakeIndex which can do the actual sorting, merging and such required for
> making a truly good index.  MakeIndex can be configured for almost any
> text processing markup language (including troff) but the default is set
> for LaTeX.

Support for Plain TeX (and AmS-TeX!) is included in MakeIndex. Check
the directory lib/ for files idxmac.tex and idxmac-amstex.tex (the
former for Plain, the latter for (guess what :-)).

--
Joachim

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Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: chow@sdc1.ssc.gov (Ivan Chow,,6212)
Subject: problems with OzTeX
Reply-To: chow@sdc1.ssc.gov
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:38:46 GMT

Hi, 
    Recently I downloaded OzTeX from the net.  It looks fine.  However, I can't print
the dvi file to any laserwriters on my apple-talk net.  The error message is that:
Failed to open printer resource file: LaserWriter.

How to config OzTex so that it prints?  Thanks for any info.

Ivan
From: edrbtsn@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Ed Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: drawing lines with PostScript
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:57:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr9.155715.10826
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.

I am looking for TeX macros which would generate PostScript,
using \special, to draw lines.  I know that this makes it machine
specific, but since all of the printers in our department are
PostScript printers, I feel pretty safe.

From the TeX side, I would expect a macro something like
  \linene(x,y)
that would create a box with dimension x X y with a line drawn
from the SW to the NE corner.  A similar macro \linenw would
draw lines with negative slope.  Of course they could be
fancier, but this is about the simplest thing I could think of.

There are alternatives: LaTeX's picture environment provides something
like this, but because it uses fonts for the line segments, the
number of possible slopes is limited.  It's also possible to
actually draw the lines dot-by-dot.  But since PostScript already
has lines and a lot more, it seems foolish not to use that capability
directly.



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	Computer Science Dept
	Indiana University		812-855-4954
From: Bronwen Heuer <BRONWEN%SBCCVM.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Pagestyle without resetting pagecounter
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 10:22:24 EDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Has anyone developed a pagestyle that does NOT set the pagecounter
back to 1?

I was hoping to use the same \def\ps@newstyle........ format
So that I can just say \pagestyle{newstyle}

I see that invoking \pagenumbering{arabic, roman or whatever}
automatically sets page counter back to one.  I have removed this
and it still sets the counter back.

Any suggestions?

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: aswx266@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
Subject: Re: dvi previewer on vt100
Keywords: DVItoDVU, dv
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 00:41:47 GMT

In article <VANNI.92Apr12194511@fft.mit.edu> vanni@fft.mit.edu (Giovanni Aliberti) writes:
>
>
>Many years ago I saw a tool which allows to preview DVI files
>on a regular terminal like a VT100.   I can't recollect where it come
>from.  
>Can anyone give a pointer to where I can get it.
>

The thing you want is probably DVITOVDU which displays on dumb VT100's 
and very well on Tek like terminals.  It is a *very* useful tool.  Here's 
an excerpt from a FAQ list:


DVItoVDU        augean.ua.oz.au         original by Andrew Trevorrow
                129.127.4.2             C port by idall@augean.ua.OZ.AU 
                                        (Ian Dall)
                                        pub/misc/dv.tar.Z
                                        patches in pub/misc/dv.patch.Z

    Mr. Dall says, "dvi previewer for tek, regis and other terminals".

The original was written in Modula and there is a C and Pascal version
floating around.  We have the Pascal version working but it's buggy.  
The original Modula/VMS version is excellent.  I would be interested if 
someone has a better version than that what we have on our Unix boxes.

Michael

Michael Lemke
Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
(michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
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