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From: rrkeuche@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Rainer Keuchel)
Subject: LaTeX-\hrule bug ?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 11:15:12 GMT

Is it possible that there is a bug in the definition of
'\hrule' in the LaTeX macro package distributed with PasTeX ?
I get strange error messages and am not able to fix it.
It seems a little weird using strange ifs and brackets.

Anybody had similar problem and solved it ?
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Rainer
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From: ewilts@mr.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: I want an editor...
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:24:30 -700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <DEREKN.92Apr7194601@vw.ece.cmu.edu>, derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Derek B. Noonburg) writes:
> Does anyone know of an editor for the Amiga that has all (or most) of
> the following:
> 
> - opens a custom screen
> - opens a window for each document
> - has scroll bars in each window (preferably both horiz. and vert.,
>   but horiz. is not necessary)
> - supports mouse selection, i.e., dragging the mouse over a piece of
>   text highlights it (after which, it can be copied/cut/etc.)*
> - allows arbitrary key bindings (i.e., I can set up my gnu-emacs key
>   bindings)
> - an AREXX port
> 
> *About the mouse-dragging: I've seen at least a couple of editors in
> which you have to alt-click (or whatever) to set the "mark", and then
> click to move the cursor.  I use gnu-emacs on UNIX machines, so I'm
> used to this, however I happen to think that dragging is more
> intuitive.  Are there *any* Amiga editors that support this?
> 
> If anyone knows of an editor that satisfies all/most of these
> criteria, please let me know.  Also, let me know if there's a demo
> version I can get, or better yet, if it's PD or shareware.
> 
> Derek Noonburg                                derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu

TurboText supports all of these features.  In my opinion, it's an absolutely
superb product.  There's a demo (v1.0 - currently shipping is v1.3) on Fish
445; the complete product is commercial, distributed by Oxxi, and available for
most good retailers and mail-order houses.  There's an upgrade from TxEd+ to
TurboText available that I took advantage of.  There are a bunch of key
mappings supplied (I used the EDT keypad one as a base but there's a Emacs one
as well).  I doubt that I'll ever use TxEd again.

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From: buu@aphrodite.enst.fr (Emmanuel Buu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Using Compugraphic Fonts (form ab20)
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:00:59 GMT
Organization: Telecom Paris, France

>  I just downloaded the compugraphic font archives from ab20 
>(amiga/graphics/fonts/compugraphic if memory serves) and was wondering
>how to install the properly.

It may be a transmission error. I have downloaded these fonts too then installed them with fountqin without aniy problem.
From: n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: ProPage CGFonts -> 2.04 DOS Fonts?
Date: 13 Apr 92 08:34:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Apr13.083448.6475
Organization: Western Washington University

mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu writes:


>	I was wondering if anyone had any success converting CG Font packages
>for Professional Page to work as AmigaDOS CG Fonts under WB 2.04.

>	I bought two CG font packages for Professional Page giving me several
>more CG fonts, but I would like to use them the way that CGTimes and
>CGTriumvirate can be used under 2.04.

I was able to install several disks of them sucessfully as 2.04 system
fonts.  I just used Gold Disk's utility font installer program that
came on the font disk.  And then ran the fonts through C='s Fountain
utility.  The fonts work quite nicely with ProWrite 3.2.

-Barry
From: jfoust@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (James C. Foust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: HotLink is "GREAT"
Date: 5 Apr 92 06:21:00 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens

In article <1992Apr5.041055.6292@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin) writes:
>maxc0471@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Bill Chiu) writes:
>>Has anyone tried the "HotLink" feature in PageStream?  It's excellent!
>
>At least one person get his to work correctly.  I can't even seem to
>get the tutorials to work.  Whenever I import a sample Pageliner text,
>I get a lot of formatting or tag info in the first 20 lines of the 
>Pagestream file.  Anyway, I then publish the text.  I then go back 

There is apparently a mistake with that tutorial.  Before you do the tutorial,
you need to load the file pageliner.dtxt into Pageliner, then save it as an
ASCII file (In FILE menu).  THEN, you import THAT file into PageStream to
begin the tutorial.  The problem is that PageStream does not currently
support DTXT format.

This info comes from the S-L bulletin board.  (314) 894-0057.

Good Luck!

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      "Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story."
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From: hibrown@thor.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: SAXON registered users
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 20:58:45 GMT

Are you a Saxon Publisher registered user? If so, have you received an
upgrade notice to version 1.2? Why am I feeling so paranoid about this???

Herb


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From: trygvea@stud.cs.uit.no (Trygve Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: RE: Lharc vs. LZ
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:12:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: mack.1992Apr9.161212.4005
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway

>LZ is _definitely_ the faster one.  I have noticed significant speed
>increases using it--and no CRC check problems!

>It will handle .lzh *and* .lha !!!!

>-Greg 

What version of LZ are you using? I have LZ 1.92 and LhA 2.11.
My opinion is that LhA is faster than LZ and better in every way, but that, is
ofcourse, depending of what version you are using.

Trygve A.
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PageStream2.2: Importing EPS and DRAW formats + MULTIPLOT V
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:15:14 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

PageStream will import EPS graphics. In order to print them, a PostScript
printer is required. Some EPS graphics (such as those produced by Adobe
Illustrator) will import into pageStream and print to any printer. If
the Import requester gives you the Adobe Illustrator as an option, take
it and you will see the graphic on screen and can print it as well.

The Aegis import format supported is Aegis Draw 2000. This format should
both display on screen and print to any printer.

An alternative to is print to PostScript (on disk) and run the result
through the POST 1.7 program which provides excellent postscript inter-
pretation and high quality. I think there is either a DeskJet driver or
a special version for the DJ.

You currently cannot print a bitmap to the HPGL plotter. (Bitmaps and
plotters are kinda strange anyhow if you think about it). Only structured
objects such as any text, anything drawn in PageStream and structured
imports from Aegis Draw 2000, Adobe Illustrator, IFF DR2D and Pro Draw
clips print to the plotter driver.

 
Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PostDJ.lzh
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:34:27 GMT
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

In article <kttau6INNdu7@phakt.usc.edu> dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie) writes:
>	I saw a file on AB20 (/amiga/utilities/postdj.lzh) called postdj
>that interprets and prints postscript files on a deskjet. Unfortunatly it

Grab /incoming/amiga/postscript/post17b.lzh, instead.  It's an update to the
postscript driver that PostDJ used and the PostLJ program it includes now has
a switch that makes it generate DeskJet compatible output, making PostDJ
obsolete.

-=> CAW

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Christopher A. Wichura                Multitasking.  Just DO it.
caw@miroc.chi.il.us  (my amiga)                          ...the Amiga way...
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From: rittle@hew2.cs.uiuc.edu (Loren Rittle)
Subject: Re: Distant Sun 4.1
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 08:41:46 GMT

birjt@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.174842.29727@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick) writes:
>> In article <1992Apr14.035042.22580@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP) writes:
>>>I was wondering how much I need to upgrade from Distant Sun 4.0 to 4.1?
 
>> I beleive that it is something like $10 + $3 s&h and your old disk, but
>> don't quote me on that.

>I paid $10 + $10 p&h, but I probably live further away than you.

Humm, something tells me that you are *a lot* further away than Mike. :-)

Loren

PS, sorry inside joke.  Mike is the author of `Distant Sun'. :-)
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: HotLink is "GREAT"
Date: 6 Apr 92 00:37:01 GMT
  <1992Apr5.041055.6292@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>At least one person get his to work correctly.  I can't even seem to
>get the tutorials to work.  Whenever I import a sample Pageliner text,
>I get a lot of formatting or tag info in the first 20 lines of the
>Pagestream file.  Anyway, I then publish the text.  I then go back
>into Pageliner and subscribe to it and all I see is the first two lines
>of nonsense that appeared in Pagestream.
>

Following is a short synopsis of longer e-mail correspondence on this
subject:

The PageLiner manual is in error when it says that you can import IFF
.DTXT files into PageStream 2.2. You can import these in PageLiner, publish
then and subscribe to the text in PageStream. My guess is that the lack of
a .DTXT import module for PageStream is an oversight. If one becones 
available, I'll let you know.

Also BE SURE THAT BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE HOTLINKS WITH PAGESTREAM THAT
YOU INSTALL THE 2.2HL PATCHES WHICH COME WITH THE HOTLINKS EDITIONS DISK
SET. Otherwise, it won't work worth a darn.

 
Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
From: caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: HDToolbox doesn't work!
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:34:27 GMT
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.28 2/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

In article <epang.702449256@sfu.ca> epang@fraser.sfu.ca (Eugene Pang) writes:
>kopnicky@flammulated.rice.edu (kopnicky) writes:
>>[...]
>>	I tried several possible cures.  First, I got the
>>"Malibu.device" driver off of the Malibu disk and put it in my
>>Expansion drawer, and typed BindDrivers.  It didn't complain, but
>>HDToolBox still didn't work.
>>[...]
>
>If you got "Malibu.device" from the Expansion drawer of your Malibu disk,
>make sure you also got the "Malibu.device.info" file, also.  That's required for
>BindDrivers.  If you got it from devs/ you should copy it to devs:.

Not having seen the original post, I don't know if the user did this or
not, but you must also edit the tooltypes for HDToolBox to tell it
SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=Malibu.device (at least I think that's what the tool
type's name is -- it's been a while).  Then HDToolBox ought to work,
assuming that the Malibu device driver fully supports RDBs properly (these
days I think that's pretty much the case, but you never know).

-=> CAW

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caw@miroc.chi.il.us  (my amiga)                          ...the Amiga way...
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From: warren-matthew@CS.YALE.EDU (Matthew S. Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps,bit.listserv.wpcorp-l
Subject: Amiga WordPerfect 4.1 File --> PC WordPerfect 5.1
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:44:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr7.234418.15287
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158

Hi.

Oh boy, is this a doozie.  I am trying to help a user translate 
a file from WordPerfect 4.1 on an Amiga 2000 to Microsoft Word 4/5
on a Macintosh.  The Amiga has a modem, the Mac is net connected.
The file is very long and contains many footnotes, so preserving 
formatting would be nice.  Saving as text is an option, but 
only if the footnotes would come out at the end for easy reinsertion.

I envisioned the steps as the following:

1.  Save the file on the Amiga.  Upload it to my mainframe account
    using Handshake, which was on his harddrive.  Use the Kermit
    protocol in E,7,1 mode.

2.  FTP from a net-connected IBM AT.  Get the file (binary transfer)
    and stick it on the PC harddrive.  Load it using WP 5.1.  (Word
    Perfect tech support said this would correctly convert).

3.  Save it in WordPerfect 5.1 on a PC floppy.  Carry it to a Mac
    with a SuperDrive and Apple File Exchange running MacLink/Plus
    translators.  Translate to Word format.

I tried this with a test file, about 5K, with two footnotes.  Sad 
to tell, step (2) failed; WordPerfect 5.1 said that it was converting
the file, but displayed the text along with many garbage characters.
The footnotes were not in the right place.

Since WordPerfect tech support told the user that it would convert,
I suspect I am doing something wrong in step (1).  Does the Amiga
have an equivalent to MacBinary that I should know about?  Is there
a special way to upload the file?  Can I just do a text dump of the 
WP file, or must I use an error-checking protocol? (I assume the 
latter).

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

-- Matt

P.S.  I have crossposted to several newsgroups as well as 
bit.listserv.wpcorp-l.  I don't read that mailing list (the traffic
is HUGE) and I don't think replies to it will appear in the newsgroups,
so if you get this on the list, please send a copy of any reply
to me as well.  Thanks again.

-- 
Matthew S. "Opie" Warren       warren-matthew@yale.edu
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
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From: dannie@coplex.com (Dannie Gregoire)
Subject: Converting true type fonts to compugraphic, HOW?
Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:58:00 GMT

Does anyone know how to go about converting Window's True Type
fonts for use on the Amiga?  I would like to be able to use them
as Workbench fonts as well as Pagestream fonts.  Thanks-ahead-of-time...
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From: blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter)
Subject: Re: ProPage CGFonts -> 2.04 DOS Fonts?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 08:29:57 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.183841.580@beach.gal.utexas.edu> mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu writes:
>	I was wondering if anyone had any success converting CG Font packages
>for Professional Page to work as AmigaDOS CG Fonts under WB 2.04.
>	I bought two CG font packages for Professional Page giving me several
>more CG fonts, but I would like to use them the way that CGTimes and
>CGTriumvirate can be used under 2.04.

Nothing is easier than that ;-)
Just fire up the Fountain program and install those fonts. They are already
in the required format (Intellifont library with Motorola byte order).



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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Font Editor
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:06:32 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

bell@pokie.enet.dec.com (Mike J. Bell) writes:
>Is there a PD regular font editor out there?  The only one I could find on the
>Fish Disks was on # 30 and it's very limited.
>I'd appreciate any suggestions...

Well, last time I looked there was something called WBFed on Ab20, though
it might be 2.0 land.(I've used it). I guess you'd call it a bit limited too,
and it had quite a few bugs in it. But on the other hand, it looked like
a promising product, where version 2 and version 3 would be nice to use...

>Thanks!
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From: Greg_Dawson@mindlink.bc.ca (Greg Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: PPage 3.0 and MakeGuides Genie
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:22:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.11272
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

Hi,

I noticed that the function genie "MakeGuides" doesn't work
properly if the page margins are uneven. I don't know much about
Arexx but I took a look at the script anyway and I think I found
the problem. The right and top margins are not being set
correctly. They should be changed from:


rmarg  = pwidth - word(margins, 2)
tmarg  = word(margins, 3)

to:

rmarg  = pwidth - word(margins, 3)
tmarg  = word(margins, 2)


For those with little or no Arrex experience (such as myself)
these are the 43 and 44 lines of the script.

BTW has anyone been able to get the AutoSave genie to work?


Greg Dawson
From: sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: ProWrite 3.2 crashing on exit !
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:29:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: rigel.SDL.92Apr14122935
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA


In article <1992Apr6.164751.20223@hemel.bull.co.uk> igreenaw@hemel.bull.co.uk (ian greenaway) writes:

> When exiting from prowrite 3.2, I get a guru.  My setup is an A500 with 1/2 meg
> fast & 1/ meg chip + an A590 with 2Mb expansion RAM.
> 
> This didn't happen before I had the A590.
> 
> Gomf 3.0 reports the crash as a corrupted <something or other> list.

I started having the same problems with ProWrite 3.2 on my A2000, as
soon as I applied one of the patches New Horizons has posted to bring
ProWrite 3.2 up to version 3.2.2.  It crashed after even minor edits
to an existing document file.  So I went back to my original ProWrite
3.2 (off the original disk) and all is well.  Did you apply any of the
patches to ProWrite?



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Subject: ProWrite 3.2.2UK
From: hoffmann@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:06:31 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University

HI, 

Could someone please  tell me the difference between ProWrite version 3.2.2 and
version 3.2.2UK.

Thanks.


Arthur
From: stern+@pitt.edu (Eric G Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: multidos crashes system
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:19:46 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: stern@pmax1.cis.pitt.edu


I downloaded the most recent version of multidos (1.30) that I could find,
both from ab20 and a BBS.  After extracting the files from the archives,
brik said that all the files were identical between downloaded versions.
Given that history, I installed according to directions:
	copied MultiDosFileSystem to L:
	copied multidos.device to DEVS:
	placed PcMountall and the other files in SYS:SYSTEM

After I mounted multidos with the command PcMountall,
the system still reads and recognizes Amiga format disks
and will show an icon for a PC disk, but when I try to access
the PC disk with DIR for example, or any other command, the system
GURUs.  Am I doing something wrong?  The docs didn't say anything
about Mountlist entries like the messydos documentation did.

Here's my coniguration:
	Amiga 2000
	Kickstart 1.2
	AmigaDos 1.3
	2 MB SupraRam board
	GVP 20 MB hard disk

					Thanks for your help,
					Eric Stern
From: Rob_Prior@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
Subject: Re: WANTED: Mol. Wt. program
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:14:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.11466
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

] Rich Holland writes:
] 
] Does anyone know of a program that will give me molecular weights if I input
] a chemical formula?  What I want to do is something like this:
] 
] Level 1:  AlCl3
] 
] then, run the program, and it would parse the string.  It would pull the A,
] then the "l", and since it's a lowercase letter, make "Al" and then lookup
] the molecular weight in a lookup table.  Then it would do the same thing
] with the "Cl" and when it saw the 3, it would multiply the last looked-up
] number (accumulator minus Al) by 3, then add everything together and give
] you a "grams/mole" weight for the formula.  I want it to be able to handle
] formulas such as this as well:
] 
] Level 1:  CH3(CH2)5OOH

From the Periodic Table's MOLW command (on the HP Equation Library):

AlCl3 [MOLW] ==> 133.34054
"CH3(CH2)5OOH" [MOLW] ==> 118.1754

I'll leave it to you to check if these are accurate, but they look okay.

TTuL,
Rob
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