HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Subject: Re: basic interpreter -- *not* folklore
Organization: Ag Engineering Dept, Purdue University 
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:00:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.145305.26801@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>, mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller) writes:

|> Is this thing available on the net somewhere for ftp (or could someone 
|> send a copy to me)?  This sounds extremely interesting!
|> 
|> Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)

faui80.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
	/pub/tex
		-rw-r--r--      19074  Aug 31 1991  basix.tar.Z
ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
	/pub/TeX
		-rw-rw-r--      19074  Aug  5 1991  basix.tar.Z
ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de
	/pub/tex/utilities
		-rw-r--r--      19074  Aug  5 1991  basix.tar.Z
kth.se
	/kth/tex/stuttgart/utilities
		-rw-r--r--      19074  Aug  5 1991  basix.tar.Z

-- 
James Darrell McCauley                Dept of Ag Engineering, Purdue Univ
internet: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu     West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1146, USA
bitnet: mccauley%ecn@purccvm          UUCP: pur-ee!mccauley
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: UPP201@rhrz.uni-bonn.de (Michael Burschik)
Subject: NFSS problems (yes, I RTFM)
Organization: RHRZ Uni-Bonn
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:57:08 GMT

I have successfully dumped a plainfsl.fmt, which will work fine with
the fonts defined in fontdef.*. However, it won't accept the fonts I
defined myself (with \new@fontdef or whatever). I tried loading the
new definitions with \input and I tried dumping them into the format.
Neither worked. Now, I read the manual (the TUG-boat article) and I
tried to do everything just like it seemed to be done in fontdef.*.
Has anyone got a clue what I might have done wrong?
 
Cheers,
        Mike.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: VUMALKI@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL (Malki Cymbalista)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: amslatex, amsart.sty, authors and addresses
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:05:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: MVB.9216307
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

One of my users is using AMS-LaTeX.  He is using the amsart style.
His paper has 2 authors and each author has an address and an e-mail
address.  According to the AMS-LaTeX User's Guide (version 1.1
21 Jun 1991), the file should read:
\author{first author's name}
\address{first author's address}
\email{first author's email address}
\author{second author's name}
\address{second author's address}
\email{second author's email address}

When I do this, I get both authors names as expected.  However,
at the end of the paper, I only get the second author's
address and e-mail address and nothing for the first author.
How can I get the first author's info?
Also, the \\ command in the address is ignored and all lines
are printed running together.  I noticed that amsart redefines
\\.  Why is this?
Thanks for any help.

Malki
From: CANFIELDRA@VTCC1.CC.VT.EDU (Bob Canfield)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Inserts do not stay in order!
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:45:47 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Donald Knuth writes in "The TeXBook" on page 116: "If you have two
or more topinsert, pageinsert, or midinsert commands in quick
succession, they ... will retain their relative order when they are
carried over [to subsequent pages]."

However, when I placed four midinserts at once for figures 6,7,8,
and 9 in my text, they appear in the order 6,9,7,8. The vbox created
for figure 9 was shorter than for figures 7 and 8, so it seems to
have floated ahead of them. (Figures 6 and 9 appear on the same
page, followed by the figure 7 midinsert on the next page, and the
figure 8 midinsert on the page after that.) But doesn't this
contradict Knuth's statement? How do I ensure their order?

I'm using TeXtures with Karl Berry's EPlain format. TIA to anyone
who can help.

Bob Canfield, Internet: canfieldra@vtcc1.cc.vt.eu
From: RATZKA@phyth1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DVItoVDU and CU/TCP-Telnet
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:39:24 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

> From:       muehlenw@ifmsun3.ifm.uni-hamburg.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg)
>
> CU/TCP-Telnet knows the terminal types VT102 and TEK 4014.
> Running DVI2VDU in VT100-mode works correct, but looks ugly.
> Running DVI2VDU with -v tek4010 resets the terminal back to VT102 and does
> not show the tek-output. Does anybody know, whats incompatible between the
> Tektronix-Emulation of CU/TCP and DVItoVDU, and what's to modify?

I can add that it does not work with MS-Kermit either....

                                                       Wolfgang Ratzka
      ___    ---------------------------------------------------------
|    |   )   Institut f\"ur theoretische Physik \\
| /\ |  \    Lst. Prof. Weise \\ Universit\"atsstra{\ss}e 31 \\
|/  \|   \   W-8400 Regensburg \\ Germany \\ Phone: +49 941 943 2085
----------------------------------------------------------------------
eMail:       ratzka@rphnw2.ngate.uni-regensburg.de
             ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: M.A.Hearnden@lut.ac.uk (MAHearnden) 
Subject: Help needed with NFSS installation
Reply-To: M.A.Hearnden@lut.ac.uk (MAHearnden)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:28:32 GMT
From: dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Tex Capacity Exceeded, Sorry
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:34:27 GMT
Organization: U. S. Naval Academy

In article <1992Nov23.040513.6515@cs.wright.edu> sdawalt@cs.wright.edu (Shane Dawalt) writes:
!From article <2425@usna.NAVY.MIL!, by dfr@usna.navy.mil (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC)):
!! In article <1992Nov22.185905.6271@ncsu.edu! wolfrum@che09.ncsu.EDU (Ed Wolfrum) writes:
!! !Greetings,
!! !	I hope somebody can help me. I am laying out my PhD thesis, which
!! !consists of six papers, an intro, and a conclusion. When I put the whole
!! !mess together, I get a "Tex capacity Exceeded" error, which turns out to 
!! !be the "pool size". With only 4 of the six papers included, I have (from the
!! !master.log file:
!! 
!! Why would you want to TeX and print the whole thing as a single file.
!! 
!! There are always logical breaks in any document. Break the single
!! file at these logical points and TeX and print in pieces.
!
!  How do you keep the page numbers straight between pieces?
!For example, what if the third document changes and a page is
!added or deleted.  Although I didn't have the pool size problem, I
!printed my thesis in one large job rather than 5 separate jobs as it
!should have been done.  I couldn't come up with a way to
!automatically determine starting page counts of each section.  (I
!can do it manually, but automatic page counts would have been
!much better.)

You wait until you do it the final time. Do the first piece,
read the last page number from the log file, change the
pageno command on the second piece, do that one etc.

Why do something like this automatically when it is simple and
quick to do it manually. Who cares what the page numbers are
until the final printing!

Dave Rogers

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: schneid@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Schneider)
Subject: HELP: attack of \vbox and \hbox
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:11:56 GMT

I need a plain TeX solution for this problem.  I want to have
text displayed on the page like this:

 blah blah qwe qwa asd asdf asdf asdf 			$1000
 asdf asdf asdf asdf sadf adf asdf 

 asdf asdf asdfasd asdf asdf adf asdf			$1500

 asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf			$3000
 asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asdf asf
 asdf asd asdfas asdfasdf asdfasdf

Of course the text I am using isn't really "blah asdf etc."
My problem is that the whole thing need to be in a vertical box
and one can't specify the *width* of a vbox, right?  I want the
text in each subsection to be in paragraph form.  Let's say
textwidth of 5 inches, .5 inch between text and $amounts,
pagewidth of 6.5 inches.  HELP!
-- 
!!! Mike Schneider *** schneid@jerry.stat.uiuc.edu !!!
!!!     Assistant Manager of Systems Services      !!!
!!!            Department of Statistics            !!!
!!!   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   !!!
From: dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: location of toc title definition
Date: 18 Nov 1992 20:49:06 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1ee4m9INNkvh@golem.wcc.govt.nz>, wright@med.wcc.govt.nz (Steve Wright  Phone +64 04 801 3735) writes:
>Hi all
>      Can someone please tell me where I can find the definition for
>the heading for the table of contents for the article style.
>
>Suprise suprise .....   I'd like to change it!!
>

A quick search through the files art*.sty reveals the following at
line 79 of article.sty:

  \def\tableofcontents{\section*{Contents\@mkboth{CONTENTS}{CONTENTS}}

As a guess, I'd say you need to change all three words 'contents' to
whatever you want it to say.

Section 5.1.4 of the LaTeX manual talks about changing chapter headings
in a similar way.

Chris Dennis                      dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:13456 gnu.misc.discuss:3618
From: mse@ttsi.lonestar.org (Mark Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Latexinfo: \input{of_a_file_name_with_underscores}
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:53:58 GMT
Organization: Tandem Telecommunications Systems Inc. Plano, Tx.

Hi

I'm tearing my hair out, as a LaTeX novice, trying to figure out some
magic to make underscore an acceptible filename character in a
latexinfo document.  Underscore gets redefined as having an active
catcode and is defined to be a macro.  Is there an easy way to 
write a wrapper for \input that would temporarily reinstate 
underscore to its default behavior, do the \input, and then restore
the active definition?

Many thanks
-- 
Mark S. Evans                 Tandem Telecommunications Systems Inc.
Phone: 214-516-6201           1255 W 15th St.
Fax:   214-516-6805           Plano, TX 75075
Mail:  mse@ttsi.lonestar.org
From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de (J%org Knappen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Bold and blackboard bold together
Date: 18 Nov 92 02:42:40 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Well,

first, using blackbord bold for q.m. operators is not an conventional
notation. Conventional notations are:
* Adding a \hat as a diacritic to denote operators
* Using upright type for operators (e.g. Landau/Lifschitz, Lehrbuch der
  theoretischen Physik), including the distinction bold math italic
  (vectors) vs. bold roman (vector operators).

However, everything can easily be done with TeX, especially with the
AMS-LaTeX macro package. In this macro package the relevant control
sequences are:
\boldsymbol{A} % bold math italic A
\bold{A}       % bold roman A inside math mode
\bbold{A}      % blackbord bold A (indeed rather an outlined A), only
               % available for uppercase letters.

With the bbold fonts by Alan Jeffrey and the style option bbold, you can
use a complete blackbord bold set, including lowers, numbers, and other
things you might not need. Those fonts look like the traditional blackbord
bold (sans serif-style).

Yours, J"org Knappen.
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Tim Larkin <tsl1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: HELP on LaTeX macro
X-Xxdate: Fri, 20 Nov 92 20: 00:07 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: tsl1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:55:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.112431.7525@inesc.pt> Nuno Joao Mamede,
njm@thor.inesc.pt writes:
>How can I define such a loop in LaTeX (TeX)?

Why not use the \loop command? See page 217 of the TeXBook. For your 
example,

\def\manylines#1{%
	\count0=#1%
	\loop\ifnum\count0>0 \oneline\advance\count0 by -1\repeat
}

Tim Larkin
Federal Nutrition Laboratory
Tower Road
Ithaca, New York
tsl1@cornell.edu
607-255-7008
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: zhao@nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Subject: pc-DOS TeX and pc-UNIX TeX
Reply-To: zhao@nmsu.edu
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Distribution: comp.text.tex
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:05:53 GMT

I have both DOS 5.0 and Coherent UNIX on my ibm pc 386. Now I am
looking for a TeX, but cannot be sure which version of pc TeX is 
better.

There are too many different TeXs, TeX, LaTeX, AMS, WEB, ...
What I need are a TeX processor and a TeX viewer. Can anybody here make
some suggestions about what is your favorite SMALL package of TeX and
TeXviewer, and why?

ZiZi
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: ?-(LaTeX): single space verbatim in double space style
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:51:15 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <1992Nov19.045059.3161@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, wxc0023@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
> Is there a style or a LaTex command allowed me to insert a program by 
> verbatim with SINGLE SPACE when the rest part of document is DOUBLE SPACE?

\documentsytle[verbatim,doublespace]{article}

\begin{document}

{\singlespace
\verbatiminput{myfile}
}
...

or, if you are not using 'doublespace.sty', then replace '\singlespace' with
'\renewcommnand{\baselinestretch}{1}\small\normalsize'

-- 
--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: dmac@julia.math.ucla.edu (saki)
Subject: Typesetting with vboxes or hboxes
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 20:53:11 GMT

I must end up with a form like the following. The design shown takes
up the top half an 8 1/2 x 11 page, and is followed by horizontal 
elements.

The broken vertical lines actually represent \vrule elements.

As you may note, the three boxes are not equal. The first box is
smaller in width than boxes 2 and 3.

I thought of defining these as \hboxes but the \hsize is not
uniform. I hadn't considered using settabs because the page
layout seemed much more ammenable to \vbox-\hbox definition and
because of the vertical rules.

The trouble is that I can't seem to keep these three boxes on the 
same page. Boxes 2 and 3 always end up on the second page. I also
must end the boxes mid-way down the page and include regular
text.

Any suggestions?

--------------------------top of page-------------------------------------------

Lines of text  | More lines____________________ |  More lines _________________
and more       |                                |
and more       |                                |
and more       |                                |
and more...    |                                |
               |                                |
               |                                |
               |                                |
               |                                |
	       

etc....
----
dmac@math.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,rpi.text.tex
From:  wrf@ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
Subject: Using PS Symbol fonts in LaTeX
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: net
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:06:31 GMT


I would like to use PostScript fonts in LaTeX since cmr is too faint
for camera-ready copy.  So I read afm2tfm(1) etc, and created the
virtual fonts.  Then I hacked lfonts.tex and rebuilt a new format
file.  The problem is what to do about math italic.  If I leave it,
then all the equations are much lighter than the surrounding text.  If
I replace cmmi by cmmib, then it's better, but not perfect.  First,
since cmmib is scaled, it looks bad in places.  More important, this
still leaves other symbols as much too light.

So then I try to use a PostScript symbol font instead of TeX's symbol
font.  However PS is missing some critical info, and nothing works.

Any suggestions?  Thanks for the help.

My net access is tenuous (I'm really logged in from Italy with all
packets passing thru 20 machines), so email is better; I'll summarize
any useful responses.


BTW, what fonts are rcommended for 300dpi printers when the output
will be copied for several generations?  I'm trying
NewCentury-Schlbk since Lucida is not available.  Is there a better
choice?


-- 
---------------------
Wm. Randolph Franklin,  wrf@ecse.rpi.edu, (518) 276-6077;  Fax: -6261
ECSE Dept., 6026 JEC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy NY, 12180 USA

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish)
Subject: line spacing in footnotes?
Summary: in plain TeX...
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:33:07 GMT

Greets,

I was wondering if there is a way to set the linespacing on footnotes
to single in plain TeX. To be more precise, I'm working on a paper for
school in 12 pt cmr--the main text of the paper has \baselineskip=24pt
(double spaced). The footnotes also come out double spaced (I'm using
the simple auto-numbered footnotes described by Knuth in the TeXbook
p. 318). I tried everything obvious (I think), but the footnotes kept
coming out double spaced...

Since the paper is due tomorrow, I don't really have time to play with
TeX. My quick'n'dirty solution was to change "plain.tex" and run
fmt.bat (I'm using EmTeX here at home). I simply added an additional
line to vfootnote: \baselineskip=12 pt. This seems to work fine,
vertical spacing looks great... but for future reference, I'd like to
know if there's a way to do this without resorting to changing
"plain.tex" (just in case I need to do it at work, where I'm not the
only one using the basic style, for instance).

Just wondering... since my paper will look okay, it's no longer a
crisis.

Nick (who forsook Word for Windows 2.0 for TeX) Vargish

-- 
|  Nick Vargish       |                N O N   S E R V I A M                  |
|  SURAnet Operations +-------------------------------------------------------+
|  vargish@sura.net   |  I wasn't hired to speak for SURAnet, and if my boss  |
|  h: 301 474-1863    |  thought I was trying to do so, she'd laugh at me...  |
From: llew@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Lok C. Lew Yan Voon)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: how many pages in a dvi file
Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:03:48 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <721931672.294909.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG (bbeeton) writes:
>we frequently receive dvi files that are to be printed on one of
>our typesetters.  it would be quite useful to be able to determine
>quickly how many pages are in a particular dvi file.
>

there's probably a direct answer to that. however, for an ignorant
like me, i'd either use a dvi previewer (like xdvi or view) and count,
or use dvips to convert dvi -> (a redundant) ps file, but in the
process, dvips counts the no. of pages for me.

lok
From: estes@ece.ucdavis.edu (Robert Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Any utilities to hightlight included comments?
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:48:33 GMT
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Originator: estes@azalea.cipic.ucdavis.edu

I'm working on my thesis, and have been keeping a mirror file, which
contains comments associated with different sections of the thesis.  Rather
than maintain this separate file I would like to include the comments in the
original text.  Then, what would be ideal, is to have all my comments printed
out with a box around them, or some sort of postscript highlighting (I
imagine a light gray background to indicate comments.)  I guess an added 
feature would allow the comments to be printed out, or not.

Am I making any sense?  Anyone got/seen such a thing?

Thanks, Robert Estes
-- 
Robert estes@eecs.ucdavis.edu

Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC)
University of California, Davis
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: kevin@sherman.pas.rochester.edu (kevin mcfadden)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: xdvi and landscape view
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:24:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Rochester

Is there a way to force xdvi to view a tex file written for landscape
printing?  If not, is there a viewer that allows this?  It is for
a 11x8 1/2 piece of paper.

Thanks,

kev
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jon@vostok.mit.edu (jonathan how)
Subject: labeling figures
Reply-To: jon@sputnik.mit.edu (jonathan how)
Organization: M.I.T.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:01:40 GMT

I am having a problem in latex with the labeling of parts of a figure. I
would like the numbering to be:

1.1
1.2a
1.2b
1.3 etc.

I don't need to be able to refer to parts a and b separately, but would
like to have them correctly added to 
a list of figures. I have a manual hack to do this, but was wondering if
anyone had a better way?

jonathan
From: NOVOTNYP%CSEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Petr Novotny)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: hsize problem
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:32:14 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Thank you all for solving my problem. The idea is just to FINISH a paragraph
before the box is ended.

By the way, I learned that some of the MAILERs convert backslashes. Do you
often encounter this problem?


+--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--+
Petr Novotny                          BITNet: NOVOTNYP@CSEARN
Prague                        InterNet: NovotnyP@earn.cvut.cs
Czechoslovakia                    Tel (voice): (42-2) 8550778

  "Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add:
     the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song
       until the last day of Arda."
                            J.R.R.Tolkien -  The Silmarillion

+--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--+
From: harrison@src.dec.com (Stephen Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: where mathtime.sty
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:03:37 GMT
Reply-To: harrison@src.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center


In article <ntomczak.721776720@vega>, ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann) writes:

> Some days ago there was a posting indicating that a new, corrected,
> version of mathtime.sty can be found on ymir.claremont.edu
> (as of 8 November 1992).  Last night I tried to retrieve this file
> and could not find it at all.  It was not listed in 00last30days
> nor in 00last7days nor in any other indices I tried to search.
> Does anybody knows anything about more precise location of this file?

It's in local:[anonymous.tex.inputs.latex-contrib] on ymir.claremont.edu.  It
was last updated on 8-nov-92.

How hard would it be to make ymir team up with archie a bit?

/Stephen

--
Stephen Harrison              | harrison@pa.dec.com
Systems Research Center       | harrison@well.sf.ca.us
Digital Equipment Corporation | work +1 (415) 853-2140
130 Lytton Avenue             | fax  +1 (415) 853-2104
Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA      | home +1 (408) 739-7734
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: bernt@Kimura.Stanford.EDU (Bernt Guldbrandtsen)
Subject: Re: HELP: LaTeX equation problem
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 03:30:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov24.113611.295@lincoln.ac.nz>, brownt1@lincoln.ac.nz writes:
|> 
|> I have a problem with a simple equation
|> 
|> \[ \sqrt{ \vec{m}\cdot\vec{n} } < \sqrt{ \vec{a}\cdot\vec{b} } \]
|> 
|> because the b is taller than either the m or the n, it keeps doing this
|> 
|>                                      _________
|>                   _________         /     
|>                  /  -   -    <     /  -   -
|>                \/   m . n        \/   a . b
|> 
|> I want both sqrt signs the same size, i've tried raisebox and rule, like 
|> it says in Lamport, but they keep stopping LaTeX with a 
|> Missing $ inserted message
|> 
|> Any help much appreciated, cheers -tb
|> 
|> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
|>      Terry Brown, INTERNET brownt1@lincoln.ac.nz, 
|>                   UUCP     tb@tbnode.equinox.gen.nz,
|>                   /earth is 98% full ... please delete anyone you can.
|> 
|> 

Try:

\[
\sqrt{\vphantom{\vec b} \vec m \cdot\vec n} < \sqrt{ \vec{a}\cdot\vec{b} }
\]

This seems to do the job.

Hope this helps!

Bernt Guldbrandtsen

bernt@weinberg.pop.bio.aau.dk