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From: bruno@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX footnotes in Helvetica
Date: 6 Apr 92 05:33:21 GMT
Organization: McGill University, McRCIM

Hi TeXperts!

I am attempting to generate latex output in Helvetica on a Postscript
printer.  I accomplish this by using a a .sty file which redefines
\rm, \it, \sl, and \bf.  This works fine, except when I do a footnote.
The physical footnote size is the same as the body.  Also, the
footnote numbers are coming out in cmr.  I can manually fix up the
wrong size with "\font\footnotesize=helvetica at 8pt".  However,
nothing I do gets rid of the cmr numbers.

Can some kind soul point out where I've gone astray?

Thanks,

Bruno.

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From: willing@pantheon.icsl.ucla.edu (Scott Willingham)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: drawing lines with PostScript
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:50:34 GMT
Organization: University of California at Los Angeles, EE Dept.

In article <1992Apr9.155715.10826@news.cs.indiana.edu>
  edrbtsn@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Ed Robertson) writes:
>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.

You should get Rokicki's dvips program from some archives.  The
included manual describes such things in sufficient detail to do
what you require.

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From: Theo Tzouros <tzouros@iesl.forth.gr>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: section numbers starting with 0
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 15:56:03 +0300
Organization: IESL-FORTH, P.O.Box 1527, Heraklio, Crete, Greece 711 10 tel:
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Greetings|

I am preparing a syllabus and using a course number as a section number
definied with the \setcounter{section{nnn} where nnn is a three digit number
identifying the course.

I have run into a problem as I realized I also wanted to have courses
starting with 0 for example 011. English I. Is there any easy way to simulate
the zero in the output? This number also appears in the table of contents.

Thanks
theo Zouros
U. of Crete
Heraklio Greece
From: mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Eberhard Mattes)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: New emTeX beta test packages
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:12:24 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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The following new emTeX beta test packages are now available for
anonymous ftp on rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
in the directory soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex/betatest:

  tex386b8.zip      emTeX386 3.141 [3c-beta8]

  mfjob11j.zip      MFjob 1.1j

  btexb8.zip        big emTeX 3.141 [3c-beta8]

  dvidrv_14r.zip    dvidrv 1.4r, includes dvipm, the previewer for
                    OS/2 Presentation Manager

  dvidrv87_14r.zip  Ditto, for machines with coprocessor

If you get dvidrv 1.4r, you should also get MFjob 1.1j. Don't forget
to read README.TST.

Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: picano@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Silvio Picano)
Subject: Spanning 2 columns for one imported figure
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 16:25:29 GMT

In twocolumn mode, I would like to reserve space in 
both columns to include a wide figure.  [I thought I'd
find it in the faq, but did not.]

Thanks to all
Silvio
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,su.computers
From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Subject: Floating footnotes together with a table?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 17:01:25 GMT

I need to provide footnotes to a few entries of a table.  If I put
\protect\footnotetext{num}{text} inside of the \begin{table}..\end{table}
pair, then {text} won't even show up.  If I place \protect\footnotetext 
outside of the table pair, {text} shows up at the the bottom of a page,
but not necessarily the same page as the table.  I can't use minipage
because of style constraints (not imposed by me), so I am stuck for now.

Either I have footnote at the *wrong* place or no footnotes at all :(
I would appreciate a hint about floating footnotes for table entries together
with the table.

Thanks in advance for any help.  Please email.  Summary promised.

Chin Fang
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu
From: akc@research.att.com (abhijit kumar choudhury)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: psfig with dvips
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:06:57 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

We have dvips version 5.47 installed. It recommends that we use
epsf.sty to include ps-files. Could you tell me if there is a later
version of dvips that can handle both psfig and epsf ? Where can I
find it ? What is the latest version of psfig ? We have psfig version
1.9.

abhijit choudhury
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From: maw@netcom.com (Martin Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: DVI drivers for TeX 3.141
Keywords: dvi laser tex
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:45:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.xwpj3la.maw
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Hello all.

I have just finished compiling TeX 34.141, the first version of TeX I
have personally compiled. It works fine, and trip and trap are all kosher.
However, when trying to print to my LaserJet IIP using dvilj2p, I get
garbage characters all over the text, and no font size changes.

Where, oh where (and I've looked EVERYWHERE - just about every site on
the FTP list) can I get LaserJet drivers which WORK! I'm using SCO Unix
3.2.4 with SCO DevSys 3.2.4 or GCC 2.1. If anyone has working
drivers for SCO, I'd appreciate it if you could mail me the source
you compiled..

Any help at all would be GREATLY appreciated. Please respond via
mail.

Regards,
Kean Johnston
maw@netcom.netcom.com
From: RFW@MATH.AMS.COM (Ron Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TUG institutional membership
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:35:23 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

This note is a reply to Janusz Bien's feeling that TUG academic
institutional membership should be priced at a rate lower than the
corresponding number of individual memberships.

Historically the inequality has always been in the direction you now
see it.  Perhaps an argument for reversing this is that TUG's overhead
for membership service should be reduced by dealing in bulk, but the
true reduction in overhead would be very small and memberships have
never been entities which TUG has offered at quantity discount.
Instead, institutional memberships have been regarded as a different
form, and in certain ways a higher level, of support for TUG and the
TeX community.  Institutional members do get benefit of reductions for
TUG courses and meetings.  For those organizations balking at the fee
levels, we can offer just straight individual memberships.

Certainly one of the underlying issues here is the great difficulty that
our colleagues in eastern Europe have in coping with exchange rates
between their local currencies and currencies such as the US $.
While we can recognize the problem, developing a responsive and fair
solution is another matter.  This is an issue with which the TUG Board
is concerning itself now.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Subject: Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX
Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 12:52:08 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.031655.590@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (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.

However, you should be able to click a mouse on a spot in the preview, and
automatically go to the corresponding spot in the TeX source...



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From: guenther@tigger.csc.wsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Where is asisformat?
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:38:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: tigger.1992Apr9.143829.1
Organization: Washington State University

In article <2076@cypress.UUCP>, rbv@cypress.com (Roger Vanderveen) writes:
> 
> I am attempting to TeX the file ipaman.tex from the directory [tex.mf.ipa]
> at ymir.claremont.edu.  The file makes use of a series of macros, the first of
> which is '\asisformat'. 
> 
> According to the file '00readme.txt' in the directory, all the needed macros
> are in [tex.inputs.plain-contrib]ipamacs.tex, however, this doesn't seem to
> be the case.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions? I cannot ftp, so file transfer is fairly time-
> consuming and painful.
> 
> rbv

The manual ipaman.tex was written in the TEXT1 macros. You can get TEXT1 from
cougar.csc.wsu.edu, but its easier to pull over lipaman.tex (written in LaTeX)
and print out that file. Or even better, just pull over ipaman.dvi and then you
don't even have to bother formatting the file. All of this, including the
necessary fonts, are located at the cougar machine be anonymous ftp to the
directory TEXT1.WSUIPA -- Dean


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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: beck@cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
Subject: Re: xfig, dvips and $special$
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:05:12 GMT

salehi@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Masoud Salehi) writes:

>I use  xfig to generate  figures for my LaTeX files. My figures contain 
>some math and I use the "special" command from the edit window of xfig to 
>make it interprete them as LaTeX math formulas. After saving the fig file,
>if I use transfig with pictex, latex, epic, or any other option  other than ps
>and psfig, the result is as I intended, all math formulas appear OK. However, 
>if I use ps or psfig options and after LateXing use dvips to generate the 
>ps file and view it with a PS viewer the math formulas appear exactly as they
>were typed with $ and \ ,...etc.

There's really no way around this - LaTeX formatting commands are only
understood by LaTeX, and when you translate directly to PS there is no
opportunity for them to be interpreted.  The "special" property on an
XFig text object means the same thing as the TeX \special command - pass
the text through to the driver without interpretation.

Micah Beck
Cornell CS
From: grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Mats G L|fdahl)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: The possibility of almost WYSIWYG TeX
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:07:02 GMT
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	<1992Apr8.192622.15065@u.washington.edu>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Originator: grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se


David Howell writes:

   OK, about this editing. First of all, Why? 

Because I lake the TeX way of doing things. I just happen to think
that it could be improved by adding some of the benefits from a
wysiwyg environment.

   If you want to kind of look at it
   while editing, do t in WordPerfect, for example. You get to see all your
   changes, and the majority of functions (including lists, headers, and sectioon
   markers) could be translated into TeX source by a (reasonably sophisticated)
   macro.

No no, then you don't have the ability to quickly switch from one mode
of editing (TeX source) to the other (wysiwyg) and back.

   But hey, let's say you really want TeX editing. OK, first of all
   assume a far more powerful computer than just about anybody has sitting
   on their desk right now, powerfull enough to TeX 2 pages of
   text 100 times a second. Oh, and lots of memory.
   [...]

What if you don't care about page breaks until at the end of your
editing session? Then it would be enough to reformat the current
paragraph. 

	/Mats

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Defining a new list environment
From: sl0k3@pluto.ee.usu.edu (Saturn)
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:04:02 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Utah State University

I need to  define a list environment that should look like the 
following,


	a)   Text goes here ................
	on this line it starts as shown.

	b)   Text .........
	text..............

	c)   .........


In the latex manual I came across trvlist(spelling) environment.
This is supposed to be not indented from the margin. How would I
redefine a new list environment to do the thing shown above.

Please email. Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: stuart@techunix.technion.ac.il (Stuart Wolf)
Subject: figure placement
Reply-To: stuart@techunix.technion.ac.il
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:56:51 GMT

Does anyone know how I can get LaTeX to place all figures mentioned
in a section, at the end of the section and before the start of the new
section. I don't want the figures tyo be at the end of the chapter or
placed arbitrarily in the text.

Thanks

Stuart

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From: asingh@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Addendum: Font Question...
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:00:39 GMT

Sorry about the earlier posting (RE: Font Question...).
Am not used to this editor. 

What I would like to find out is how to use Helvetica font
in a latex document instead of the standard Times Roman font.

Thanks.

-Ajay
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: andrew@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andy Biewer)
Subject: Range of entries in headers, rephrased
Originator: andrew@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: UofWisc.--Milwaukee - Language Resource Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:37:17 GMT

My most recent post was a query about inserting a range of page entries into
the header of each page.  After digging through the TeX book, I have come up
with half of the solution.

If I \mark each entry, I can then use \firstmark and \botmark to insert them
into the headers.  This works fine for single column documents.  However, in
double column documents, each column is treated as a separate page, so the
real \firstmark is lost by the time the header is built:

HEADER: range = XN+1 - XN+M

          COLUMN 1                                      COLUMN 2

          \mark{X1}                                     \mark{XN+1}
              .                                            .
              .                                            .
              .                                            .
          \mark{XN}                                     \mark{XN+M}

Thus, as you can see, the header will contain the range XN+1 - XN+M, where
what I really want is X1 - XN+M.

I'm using latex, and so in experimenting with the \output routine, I get
some strange results, since latex does some redefining.  Does anyone know
how I can adapt latex's output routine to do this properly?

Andy Biewer
From: moore@forty2.enet.dec.com (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Where can I find a DVI to Epson LQ printer driver?
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:27:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: rdg.1992Apr6.174054.8517
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

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. 
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From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: PostScript.TeX: PS insertions for ArborText's DVIPASER/PS
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:13:23 CDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

On Tue, 14 APR 92 17:15:02 BST, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@Vax.Rhbnc.Ac.Uk>
posted to me:
> George --- I have sent the following in response to a message in
> CTT-digest; perhaps you could include just the text of the answer and the
> first few lines of comment/usage information in a forthcoming issue, and
> archive the rest ?
>
>                                       ** Phil.

Done (and thanks!).  The file Phil sent has been cut from this to save some
bandwidth.  It is available by including the command:
 SENDME STY.POSTSCRIPT_TEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.edu (FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET). 
Anonymous ftp users of Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) need to look in the
[.STY] directory to get it.

--George
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Michael ---

>>> I am a novice user of both TeX and PostScript coding, but I am trying to
>>> include a screen captured encapsulated post script file into a .tex file
>>> "inline"...  It would be ideal if it could be centered left-to-right also.

>>> I almost have it working, but it is very slow and difficult.  I'm using
>>> Arbor_Text's packaging of TeX with its own dvips that supports a different
>>> \special command.

>>> I was told by some to lose the Abrob Text implementation.

There's no need; it is an excellent product which I use all the time.

>>> Any suggestions ???  I have had to modify the c screen grabber to get the
>>> encapsulated postscript in a form to make it work.  I am also using, and
>>> had to modify, the 'epsf.tex' macro from stanford.edu to work with the
>>> different \special command of dvips.

>>> Note:  This is eventually going to be used with texinfo, so LaTeX is not
>>> a possibility.  Everything I do has to work with normal TeX.

The following should do everything you require; I just wish Arbortext
would distribute it, so I didn't have to keep sending it to people !

[This is now on FILESERV/Niord, so maybe you won't have to! 8-) -GDG]
From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX for DOS
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:42:41 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <UdtA3hi00WAJMUUB18@andrew.cmu.edu> tp1l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas W. Pope) writes:
 
|  Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I am looking for a version of LaTeX
|for MSDOS based machines.  I know of (but have not seen) the DOS TeX
|on simtel, but am more familiar with LaTeX...  

The DOS TeX on simtel contains a latex.bat file for creating a preloaded
version of latex.exe.  It was easy to do once I had my paths set up right.

I used to use a latex style file which would create cassette labels.  Since
I just installed DOS TeX at home I would like to get a copy of this style
file again.  Could someone point me the ftp site which contains this style
(as well as other style) files.  Email please,  I don't read this group
much.

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From: bet@cyclone.sbi.com (Bennett E. Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX on HP LJ IIIP
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:15:20 GMT
Organization: Salomon Brothers, Inc

In article <20002@castle.ed.ac.uk> robin@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.101147.27505@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> hohndel@teutonia.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Dirk Hohndel) writes:
>>Can anybody give me any pointers to a _working_ dvidriver ?
>>Beebe dvijep doesn't !
>dvijep works perfectly well for us......

dvijep works for me too....

Perhaps the person who is having trouble with it is actually having
difficulties ramming binary data down into the printer?

I haven't been able to make the PRINT spooler that comes with DOS 3.3 spool
a binary file. However, I tried

	C>copy/b foo.dvi/b prn:/b

and that worked. You may not need all the ``/b'' options, and there may be
better ways to do it, but I can't say I really care... I'm gonna be running
386BSD soon as I can and won't need to worry about it:-).

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gaston@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Gaston Groisman)
Subject: Superscript size in LaTeX.
Followup-To: gaston@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Organization: U. of Calgary Computer Science
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 92 00:39:09 GMT


I there a way of preventing the superscripts from getting any smaller?
I know it doesn't look good, but I'm writing a thesis and have e raised
to a big expression, and some of the numbers in the expression get so small
people may complain about how well it will reproduce...

Thank you

 Gaston Groisman          +-------------------------------------+
 Computer Science Dep.    |      gaston@cpsc.ucalgary.ca        |
 University of Calgary    |      groisman@uncamult.bitnet       |
 Alberta, CANADA          +-------------------------------------+
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 University of Calgary    |      groisman@uncamult.bitnet       |
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