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From: br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (Peter C Tam)
Subject: Tex Installation
Organization: Research Libraries Group, INC.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 06:01:39 GMT

Hi,
  I try to install the lastest WEBtoC & WEB tex in Sun OS 4.1.1. I choose
the default configuration, which is X11. When the make get to mf directory
that is the MetaFont directory and execute inimf plain; input modes; dump
it hits an error. I already copy the modes.mf from source.
It hit an error complaining '=' is missing in the line:

def mode_param (suffix v) (expr e) =
	if unknown mode_guard_.v:
		v := e;
		mode_guard_.v := 1;
	fi
enddef;

Seems like it does not like " (suffix v) (expr e) " before  the =.

  Thanks for any info.

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith)
Subject: Re: Markers on page corners
Organization: none
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 05:33:09 GMT

In article <5897@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl
(Johan Wevers) writes:
>Hello, does anyone know a way to put markers on the 4 page corners of
>each page in LaTeX (or TeX-codes which are compatible with LaTeX)?

My "pageframe.sty" (stored at some archive sites as "pgframe.sty"
in deference to MS-DOS) provides the following services for LaTeX
documents:

  -- a "tag line" on every page, placed outside the "trim area",
     containing
     -- the job name
     -- the date and time the job was run
     -- the LaTeX page number (which may be a roman or arabic numeral,
        or whatever, and which may re-use the same number several
        times in a document)
     -- an absolute sequence number that starts at 1 and
        increases for every page of the document (handy in case the
        pages get dropped and have to be re-sequenced, or for
        unambiguously identifying pages if some are spoiled and
        have to be re-printed)

  -- corner marks to indicate the "trim size" when a document
     is being printed on paper bigger than the ultimate document size

  -- an optional "frame" outlining the trim edges of the page
     (useful for visualizing margins, etc., when designing a
     document style)

  -- an optional "page skeleton" outlining the header, footer,
     and text rectangle (page body), making it even easier to
     measure document style parameters and judge the effects of
     changing them

  -- an optional grid of user-specified dimensions laid over the
     text rectangle, useful for measuring space around figures
     and displays, above and below section heads, etc.

The style file, a user manual, and a test document make up the
"pageframe" distribution.  I hope to release a new version by the
end of the year that will add some additional features requested
by some users (but my font code comes first).

Forgive the "advertisement", but it's been nearly a year since I
released this and I thought there might be people who hadn't heard
of it.  I find it very useful in designing new document styles and
in producing pages for books.  Available from SHSU and "other fine
archives".

Hope this helps--
--Cameron Smith
  cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
From: schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: When does TeX use ^^X notation?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 11:20:11 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
Reply-To: schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: lamothe

In article <Bvznn8.AFu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith) writes:
|> This may be a simple question, but I couldn't find the answer in
|> a reasonably careful search of The TeXbook.  How does TeX decide
|> which characters to convert to the "^^X" notation in a \write
|> or \message operation?  I was working on a macro that needed to
|> read part of a file verbatim and write it off to another file for
|> later processing.  One of the characters I wanted read and written
|> was the ASCII tab character.  I catcoded tabs to 12 ("other"), and
|> TeX read them as expected but wrote them out as "^^I".  Since
|> the files that TeX is writing may need to be processed by other
|> programs than TeX, I'd really prefer to have TeX write an actual
|> tab character.  Is there a way I can get it to do that (without
|> editing the TeX source and re-compiling)?  A table of codes (similar
|> to delcodes, sfcodes, catcodes, and the like) that I can modify?
|> I know that DEK foresaw the use of certain "control characters" as
|> special input characters in national TeX variants (I'm thinking
|> of the example of the "ae" character input as a single character
|> on a Norwegian keyboard, as described on page 45 of The TeXbook).
|> It puzzles me to think that he meant TeX to be able to *read* the
|> control sequence "\saertrykk" (with "ae" as a single letter) but
|> intended TeX only to be able to *write* "\s^^Zrtrykk".  What controls
|> this?  Any pointers would be most welcome.
|> 
|> Thanks in advance--
|> --Cameron Smith
|>   cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu

This is implementation defined, and built into the TeX source. More
exactly, there is a WEB macro called `char_is_printable' (or something
like this), and all characters which are not printable as defined by
this macro are printed as ^^X or ^^xx (for characters > "80).

--
Andreas Schwab
schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Subject: Re: Wrapping text around figures
Keywords: picintex.sty
Organization: Ag Engineering Dept, Purdue University 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:46:17 GMT

In article <AFL7LWG@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de>, knappen@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Joerg Knappen) writes:
|> Your problem is dealt with in an article by F. Sowa in the most recent issue
|> of the ,,TeXnische Komm"odie'' (the newsletter of DANTE e.V.). The soulition
|> is to use picintex.sty, available from the Stuttgart server.

After getting rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:/ls-lR and 
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:/soft/tex/INDEX, I still could not find this
file. Archie couldn't find it either. Can anyone give a more direct
pointer?
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From: marcus@drdhh.hanse.de (Marcus Olk)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Audio cassette label printing
Summary: Printing Audio Cassette lables using TeX
Keywords: labelling
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:32:55 GMT
Organization: Digital Island


  Hi there!

  Is there a TeX-macro available that allows one to print
  nice labels for audio Compact Cassettes?
  
  Thanks in advance,
  Marcus

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From: Karl Berry <karl@claude.cs.umb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: web2c port to encore 2.4.1?
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:39:36 -0400
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

If anyone has succeeded in porting web2c (or any TeX distribution, I
suppose) to an Encore XPC (ns32532) box running the Encore UMAX_V
O/S release 2.4.1 (a System V.3-like Unix), and you would be willing to
pass along a binary for pltotf, please let me know.

Thanks.

karl@cs.umb.edu
From: arif@stat.fsu.edu (Arif Zaman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: speed of tex on various workstations?
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:28:21 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, Florida State University

In article <1992Oct5.132745.19988@unlinfo.unl.edu>, jaffe@hoss.unl.edu (David Jaffe) writes:
|> Does anyone have data on how fast TeX runs on various stand-alone workstations?
|> I am particularly interested in comparisons with the "NeXTstation Turbo".
|> With 8MB RAM and a 250 MB hard disk, these are priced at about $4700 (for 
|> academic users).  I also want to use Mathematica, which comes bundled with the 
|> NeXT.  What competitors are there in this price range?

A Gateway 80486/66 DX2 with 8MB RAM and 300MB Hard disk with emTeX and full purchase price
of Maple (far better than Mathematica - or you can by Mathematica if you want) will
still save you at least $1000. (sorry I have no speed numbers for comparison).
From: akgul@trbilun.bitnet (Mustafa Akgul)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Problems with METAFONT making eufm fonts
Keywords: METAFONT Euler
Date: 10 Oct 92 14:30:37 GMT
Reply-To: akgul@firat.UUCP (Mustafa Akgul)
Organization: Bilkent University Ankara-Turkey

You should have use plain.base not cm.base.
if you just call virmf without any &, that would do.

Actually, with today's fast machines, you don't need to bather
with
cmmf or cm.base; since cm base mf files will load necessary
.mf
files anyway.

Regards
From: asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Uppercasing accented characters
Date: 14 Oct 1992 16:21 -0700
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: msr.triumf.ca
Summary: Need definition for active E
Keywords: accent uppercase active
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <4191.109.uupcb@ssr.com>, pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon) writes...
> 
>% I am trying to define accented characters and uppercase them 
>\catcod\.=\active \gdef.{\relax\eaccentaigu}
 ^^^^^^^
 \catcode `\. ??

>% It works fine but I also want to have \uppercase to give E for
>% \uppercase{.}, so I define:
> 
>\uccode`.=`E

This should give an error because it expands to  \uccode`\relax\eaccentaigu
It should be \uccode`\.=`\E.  I assume these are just typographical errors
in the message.
> 
>% Now the problem is that I get:
>%
>% ! Undefined control sequence.
>% <recently read> E

The problem is that \uppercase{.} converts the active . to an active E,
which is undefined.  If you want an ordinary E for uppercase, do

{\def\\{E} \catcode`\E=\active \xdef E{\\} }

If it is not E but some other character eaten by the mailer, then

{\def\\{\noexpand\Eaccentaigu} \catcode`\E=\active \xdef E{\\} }


Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: mviala@chouette.saclay.cea.fr (Marc Viala)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvi-to-CalComp
Keywords: drivers
Date: 14 Oct 92 14:08:59 GMT
Organization: C.E.A DEIN/SLA Gif/Yvette France


In our lab., we use a CALCOMP (MasterPlot) to get color transparencies. So I'm looking for
a driver dvi-to-CALCOMP to produce color slides, etc, with LaTeX and the PSTricks package.

Thanks,
Marc

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: zougas@me.utoronto.ca (Tom Zougas)
Subject: times.sty, helvetica.sty,...
Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:54:50 GMT

I've been using the style files for accessing the postscript fonts on our
laser printer. Unfortunately, it appears the math fonts only work when
I use the 'times.sty' style. Has anyone figured out how to have all the
math symbols available with other psfont styles besides times.sty,
such as helvetica.sty?

Please e-mail response.

Thanks.

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Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto,      Toronto, CANADA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: oneill@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (John O'Neill)
Subject: FTP site
Reply-To: oneill@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (John O'Neill)
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:59:50 GMT

Could anyone recommend a good FTP site to get information on LaTeX and 
some style files, thanks,
		John O'Neill
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: merk@unislc.uucp (John Merk)
Subject: RE: Underlined Headings? (Never mind)
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:51:47 GMT

I've downloaded fancyheadings.sty from ymir.claremont.edu and got
just what I needed.  My thanks to those who have posted questions
and answers to related questions recently.

John

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: wunderli@apelc10.inf.ethz.ch (Martin Andre Wunderli)
Subject: Poorman's Chinese TeX
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 10:40:50 GMT


Can anyone tell we where I can get Poorman's Chinese TeX or another way to typeset Chinese in TeX?

And: On wuarchive.wustl.edu in pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS there have been some additional
resolutions of the Chinese fonts ("wccs360dpi.tar.Z" and "wccs100dpi.tar.Z"). Unfortunately the seem to be removed. Is there a another place from where I can get them?

Thanks
Martin
From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX to MS Word, to MacWrite, etc (translators in general)
Date: 12 Oct 92 03:09:00 GMT
Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens

Let me add that WP2LATEX is in the anonymous ftp library of
aisun1.ai.uga.edu, directory /ai.tex (if memory serves me right).

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson)
Subject: Re: Centering and framing a verbatim file
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 07:12:29 GMT

ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson) writes:


>I am using the verfile macro from misc.sty and I wish to
>have the entire block of text centered and framed.

>I currently am trying this.

>\begin{figure}[h]
>\centerline{\hbox{
>\psframebox[framearc=.15,linewidth=.5pt]{%
>\verbfile{Example.h}}}}
>\caption{Example.h - Objective-C class interface file}
>\end{figure}

>This produces the entire file on one line in a psframebox (pstricks)

>I don't want each line centered I want the whole block centered

>How???


The following did the trick, if anybody has a better solution , yell me

\begin{figure}[h]
\centerline{
\psframebox[framearc=.15,linewidth=.5pt]{%
\parbox{200pt}{
\verbfile{Example.h}}}
\caption{Example.h - Objective-C class interface file}
\end{figure}

I particularly don't like the way I have to nominate the size of the
parbox.
From: jboor@mote.cs.umb.edu (Joan Boorstein)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: MusicTeX mailing list
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:24:26 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS

I thought that I'd been told that there were mailing lists dealing
with MuTeX and/or MusicTeX.  The FAQ does not mention them.  Does anyone
know if these exist?  If so, how does one subscribe?

Thanks

Joan Boorstein (jboor@cs.umb.ed)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann)
Subject: Re: Catch-22
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:57:18 GMT

male@xerox.com (Ron Male 73628 - SST/SETA) writes:

>I've read the FAQ and FAQ supplement; my question isn't addressed there.
>It goes like this:  I'm trying to read some documentation on a tool; I'm not
>a user of Tex where I try to develop my own docs.  I ran into files with
>extensions like .tex., .info, .dvi, .texinfo, ....  So I asked questions
>around work; some people knew it was all related to Tex, but nobody here
>seems to use it.  So I was sent to this news group.  What I need is a simple
>intro doc(s) in text format that tell me about file format conversion, the 
>tools to use, the converters, viewers, etc., a basic how-to-get-started-for-
>the-casual-user.  This would be a good FAQ; I'm sure it's been asked before me.


I tried to repy by e-mail but Xerox mailer consistently replies:

The enclosed message could not be delivered to the following recipient:

	male.PARC@Xerox.com -- no such user

- - - - - - - - -
Why "male.PARC" - beats me.  I did not write it.

Ok, here is the beef:

It sounds like you have some files written in Texinfo macro package
(maybe not only, but obviously some).  Texinfo was written specifically
to provide a way to typeset your documentation (you need TeX for that)
or to display it on-line on simple character based terminals (or to
print on fixed pitch printers).  If you just want to view docs get
texinfo???.tar.Z from prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu, recompile and read
docs.  You will be for a nice surprise. :-)
Basically programs from this package do the following things:
  makeinfo - formats texinfo files into .info files
  texindex - processes indices for (both for .info and .dvi)
  info     - display and browse through info files (GNU emacs can
             do the same thing; info is stand-alone)
There are ports of Texinfo to non-Unix machines.

If you have already formatted .dvi files you want to view without
installing TeX system get dvi2tty (or somethis similar).  You will
get rough approximation of (most of) formatted text.

If you really want nicely typeset stuff - you need TeX for that.

   Michal Jaegermann
   ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
  

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: asarti@bellini.berkeley.edu (Augusto Sarti)
Subject: Can anyone explain me how fonts are described in OzTeX for Mac?
Summary: is it a postcript description? 
Keywords: OzTeX
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 08:09:16 GMT

I bet my question is one of the usual ones posted in this newsgroup,
and I hope there will be not too many flames for my request of
information.  I'm intentioned to use LaTeX on my mac and I have a
PostScript Printer. Before I start the long process of
downloading/installation of OzTeX, I'd like to know whether the
description of the fonts is really PostScript (and not bitmap, like in
the old version 1.2 of Textures that I happened to see long ago) and
whether all the most used fonts are available in the version we can
find in midway.uchicago.edu or in other ftp sites.

Thanks to all who will reply...
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: knappen@methusalix.kph.uni-mainz.de (Joerg Knappen)
Subject: Re: 'mathematical' symbol
Keywords: LaTeX, fonts, MetaFont
Reply-To: knappen@obelix.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE
Organization: ONO (Organisation der Nicht-Organisierten)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:06:27 GMT

The shape you are looking for is definitely in the standard cmfonts, allthough
I cannot tell you by heart where it is located. To give you a clue, search for
the \copyright macro in lpain.tex or plain.tex. The (c) is composed from a c
and a circle around it.

Yours, J"org Knappen.
From: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk (David Carlisle)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: longtable.sty
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:09:44 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester


Version 3.04 of longtable.sty (A style for making multi-page tables,
with a syntax based on the standard LaTeX tabular environment) has
recently been  released.

The file is part of Frank Mittelbach's ARRAY package, and the new
version is already installed at (at least) SHSU and Stuttgart. It
should appear at other servers which carry the ARRAY package in due
course. 

There are no new features in this release, but some of the
undocumented features (there are no bugs in my styles :-) of the
previous release have been removed. The file says:

% Version 3.04 12-October-1992
%
%  *  (Jean-Pierre Drucbert) Longtable failed when used with
%     \includeonly. Fixed by replacing the \newcount\LT@tables by
%     \newcounter{LT@tables} as LaTeX counters are correctly preserved
%     by \include. (This bug was introduced in V3.02, as previously the
%     LaTeX counter `table' was used.)
%  *  Fix bug which stopped \kill working correctly in headings.
%  *  (Graham Gough) Made \setlongtables issue a warning message.
%  *  (Sebastian Rahtz) longtable ran out of memory on really long
%     tables. Another bug introduced in V3! I had forgotten to call \par
%     to force the page-breaker to consider page breaks after every
%     chunk.

Thanks to the named people for reporting the `features' and apologies
to everyone else for the inconvenience of having to fetch and install
the file again.

David

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From: knapp@cs.purdue.EDU (Edgar Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: NFSS for SliTeX?
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:52:05 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

I converted recently to the NFSS and AMSLaTeX which involved (among
other things) substituting lfonts.new for lfonts.tex. I would like to
use all the new features in SliTeX as well as LaTeX. Is there a
similarly modified sfonts.tex (or any other method) that I can use to
generate a SliTeX format that takes advantage of the NFSS?

Edgar

(knapp@cs.purdue.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lms@rle-vlsi.mit.edu (Luis Miguel Silveira)
Subject: LaTeX to MS Word, to MacWrite, etc (translators in general)
Reply-To: lms@rle-vlsi.mit.edu
Organization: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of
	Technology
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 00:28:18 GMT



Hi.

I am tring to find out what is out there in terms of "translators".  I
would like to know/get translators

        . LaTeX/TeX -> MS Word
        . MS Word   -> LaTeX/TeX
        . MacWrite  -> LaTeX/TeX
        . LaTeX/TeX -> MacWrite

or any other translators involving LaTeX/TeX and other known PC/Mac
word processors.

The type of translation/convertion we are interested in is at the text
level.  Support for figures would be a plus but not necessary.

Any help will be *greatly* appreciated.  Please reply by e-mail as I
do now read this newsgroup very often.

Thank you very much

-Miguel



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