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Subject: Re: Importing ps files into WordPerfect
From: edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Edwin Ng)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:29:16 GMT
 <1992Nov13.152444.27446@Princeton.EDU> <1e1oq6INN15v@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <32898@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

jcao@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Jingbin Cao ~{2\>01r~}) writes:

>I've tried to convert some .ps or .eps files created by Mathematica to
>.wpg files without success. I tried the conversion on both wp and the
>wp graphics program (don't have the name at the moment). After the
>conversions, I still got the message sounding like "graphics for
>postscript printer" when previewing the graphics on the screen.
>Obviously, the graphics are still written in postscript, which wp
>cannot render, not in wpg. Though I can get the graphics printed
>nicely on postscript printers. Am I missing something? I have wp
>version 5.1.

>Thanks in advance for any enlightments.

I don't use Mathematica but I had the same problem with eps
files from Harvard Graphics.  I found out that WP expects
only plain eps ascii text files that begins with %!
while some applications have additional codes before
the %!  (WP does that to convert to wpg) so just use 
your favourite editor and removed everything before the
%! before converting and it should work fine.

Hope this helps.

Edwin
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From: jciliber@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jon Ciliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Quark style error
Keywords: quark
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:05:46 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii

I'm having this problem with Quark 3.1. When i apply a style (for Body text 
which contains italics, bolds, etc.) to a chunk of text, Quark changes all of
the text to "plain" (no italics, no bold). this is very annoying. is there a way
to set a style to be neither plain nor italic nor bold but a little of each
(as the text demands)?


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From: mazzucch@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (massimo mazzucchi)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: dtp programs
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:35:41 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University


HI 

i am Max from Milan Italy

i will know if exist a PD program (not windows) or commercial

like publisher/page maker that:

- there aren't the difficultes to use it

- max 1 Mb di program

- and it can write A4 (21x29) ruotate (29x21) in which way 

 i can write on 2 page (15x21) but that left page must be

 an object and right page another object.

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From: jcao@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Jingbin Cao ~{2\>01r~})
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,bit.listserv.wpcorp-l
Subject: Re: Importing ps files into WordPerfect
Date: 19 Nov 92 06:07:48 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.desktop
Organization: NYU Stern School of Business

[Note: I'm reposting this because my previous post was not complete.]

In article <1e1oq6INN15v@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> leffler@physics.ubc.ca (Steve Leffler ) writes:
=>afarkas@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew Farkas) writes:
=>
=>>Piece of cake.  In your graphics box specify the file name of your
=>>postscript file (assuming it's eps, of course), e.g. d:\pictures\123.ps.
=>
=>>This is far superior to converting to .wpg format.  As an earlier
=>>posting noted, you will only see the phrase Postscript information when
=>>you view the document.  When you print the document (on a ps printer),
=>>you will get the high-quality ps output you want.  Converting to wpg
=>>will allow you to view the graphic, but output quality goes way down.
=>
=>   PostScript files should be converted to .WPG files just like everything
=>else, at least with WP 5.1 for DOS (I assume other versions are the same).
=>When a PS file is converted from within WP (load, then switch to "graphic
=>on disk" and resave the image to a WPG file), the original PS codes are 
=>preserved (and you still can't view the image), but the resulting file loads
=>a LOT quicker than the original .PS file.

I've tried to convert some .ps or .eps files created by Mathematica to
.wpg files without success. I tried the conversion on both wp and the
wp graphics program (don't have the name at the moment). After the
conversions, I still got the message sounding like "graphics for
postscript printer" when previewing the graphics on the screen.
Obviously, the graphics are still written in postscript, which wp
cannot render, not in wpg. Though I can get the graphics printed
nicely on postscript printers. Am I missing something? I have wp
version 5.1.

Thanks in advance for any enlightments.
From: zebee@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Ghostscript
Date: 19 Nov 92 04:03:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: sirius.zebee.722145804
Distribution: world
Organization: The University of Adelaide
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I've got Ghostscript for MSDOS, and also the Windows version.
  
As I understand it, the idea is that it can take Postscript code and
translate it into several things incl. HP Laserjet.
  
However, I've read the instructions, and I'm still baffled.  

Does it have a screen previewer in the normal distribution, or is
that extra?

Could someone who is conversant with this program please take pity
on me and email me with some help?  A simple "how to convert a basic
postscript file into HP Laserjet" set of instructions would be wonderful.
  

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From: robie@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. William Robie; POSI (GRAD))
Subject: Typesetting Codes -- How to Strip Them?
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:29:05 GMT

I recently had the fortune of getting a manuscript published -- that's the
good news.

The bad news is that, after having gone through a rather lengthy series of
editing passes, the only "finished" copy of the manuscript that I now have
in magnetic format also has *numerous* codes imbedded by the company that
prepared it for type.  The company said that they would be happy to send
me a "clean" copy of the manuscript, but for a "modest" price.  As a grad
student, I don't find $100 especially modest.  It is my understanding that
all of this typesetting was done on a high-classed PC program, and that
the software they used to insert the codes will very easily strip them
right away.  Any ideas what software they may have used, where to get it,
who else might have it, etc.?  All of the codes are set into < >, but I don't
know how to interpret them, so I can't just do a search 'n' replace sort of
conversion.

E-mailed responses would be most appreciated!

Bill
From: GRANTH@brownvm.brown.edu (Grant Hogarth)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Is Society for Technical Communicatiors worth joining?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:07:14 EST
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
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In article <1992Nov21.232045.6816@a.cs.okstate.edu>, munn@a.cs.okstate.edu
(MUNN THOMAS JOSEPH) asks:
>
>Is the Society for Technical Communicators worth joining, and if so
>what benefits do they offer???
>
Thomas, here is another voice to say "yes, STC is worth joining."
Binion Amerson posted the shopping list of benefits, but missed
an important one...more and more, membership in the STC is being
comnsidered as a statement of the professionalism and integrity
of a technical writer. STC is not a certifying/licensing body
(not yet at least), but it *is* a professional organization, and
one that can stnad you in good stead when looking for a job,
looking for information about courses, training, etc., or
just finding a fellow writer to bitch about over beers about how
dumb users can be and how engineers don't truly appreciate writers. :-)
As a student, the cost for joining is minimal, and the benefits
immense.  My membership has more than repaid the cost of my dues.

Grant Hogarth, STC member, Silicon Valley Chapter.
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From: sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen)
Subject: Re: \mathop and \limits
Organization: New York University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:45:29 GMT

In article <9211140128.AA06789@triples.math.mcgill.ca> barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA writes:

>Someone posted a query how to get a subscript under a character in an
>inline equation.  The posted solution is the left side of the file in
>the following, but that is incorrect although the right hand side
>works:
>
>$\mathop{T}_{p\in X}(x,y) =\mathop{T}\limits_{p\in X}(x,y)$
>\bye
>
>It is \limits (limitswitch) that gives the desired outcome.  Now can
>anyone answer the following question.  That file, run on my UNIX
>machine tex'xed without difficulty, but the previewer xdvi would not
>display.  It gave an error message that went something like, ``No
>preamble, aborted'' and quit.  I came home and ran it on my PC
>(emtex, both tex and the viewer) and had not the slightest problem.
>The file sizes of the .dvi files are about the same size, 428 on the
>pc and 460 on the UNIX.  Actually, I am surprised they are not
>closer in size.
>
>Michael Barr

I have noticed that sometimes xdvi gets confused when I am re-TeXing a 
files already opened by xdvi.  It gives a message like "bad preamble" and 
aborts, usually resulting in a core dump.  The solution, apparently, is to 
minimise the xdvi window while I am reprocessing the .tex file.  After the 
TeX run is finished, I can maximise the xdvi window and view the file 
without any problem. It even remembers what page I was viewing.  Could this 
be your problem?  I did try the sample you provided under both DOS and Unix 
and the results were identical.

Sincerely,

Sunando Sen
sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
From: muehlenw@ifmsun3.ifm.uni-hamburg.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: DVItoVDU and CU/TCP-Telnet
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:11:18 MET
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Hi there,
does anybody has experiences with DVItoVDU Screen previewer (C-Port)
running on a UNIX-machine (SUN, RS6000 or Apollo), the terminal
is a MS-DOS-PC connected via CU/TCP (a modification of NCSA Telnet, done
at Clarkson University).

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?

Many thanks for your help in advance,
Stefan

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From: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Subject: TeX3.141 for NeXTStep2.1
Reply-To: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Organization: Institut f. Geophysik, Uni Koeln
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 13:37:41 GMT

Hello!

I'm looking for the binary of TeX 3.141 for NeXT running
NeXTStep 2.1! Where can I find?


--- Christoph



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From: depken@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Craig Depken)
Subject: Re: DVI driver for IBM QuietWriter III 
Organization: University of Georgia Economics Department
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:28:27 GMT

Just about says it all. Is there a dvidot driver or other available
driver for the QWIII. Have an Epson 9pin piece, and I want to use my
beautiful IBM (blah, but it's all I have got!!)

FTP-able file would be great.

Thanks in advance,

	Craig
	depken@rigel.econ.uga.edu


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From: karypis@milli.cs.umn.edu (George Karypis)
Subject: Problems with dvips and psfig/epsf. It doesn't print.
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:51:47 GMT


Hello there

I've been having a problem with eps figures generated by xfig and tgif.
I usually export (or transfig or print) the figures in eps format
and then use psfig or epsf to incldue them in my LaTeX document.
I have encountered the following problems:

With XFig
The eps file doesn;t have a 'drawpage' command at the end, thus
when I print the ps file obtained using dvips nothing comes out and
the printer blows up (ie. it doesn't print the remaining of the
paper). When I include the drawpage command everything works fine.

With Tgif
The eps file it doesn't also contain the drawpage command, but the
printer refuses to print the page (and then the remaining of the file)
regardless if I inlcude drawpage or not.

I should note that I can preview the ps file using ghostview,gspreview
and pageview under openwin.

Does anybody has any ideas why this is happening.
Does it have to do with the printer installation and what do I have
to do to fix this problem.

Thanks in advance
George Karypis
e-mail: karypis@cs.umn.edu


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From: legrady@ug.cs.dal.ca (Tom Legrady)
Subject: Help installing TeX
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:32:45 GMT

I want to install TeX  on a system at work, but am having problems.
Can anyone direct me a clear, straightforward set of instructions?

I started by fetching WEB2C and trying to make it. Following the
instructions in the README file, I modified a file and then tried
to run <configure>. Whatever, I did, however, <configure> would not
run, claiming it could not find source.

Help!
From: mehta@mgmt.purdue.edu (Shailendra Mehta)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: (None)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 10:30:50 -0500
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

SET INFO-TeX NOMAIL
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From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Subject: diagonal hook arrows, e.g.
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:33:47 GMT


In the TeXbook, Knuth explains how to make long rightrarrows, hook right 
arrows, etc. In Exercise 18.46, he shows how to make some commutative diagrams.
However, it is not clear how to adapt what he does to making diagonal
hookarrows and long diagonal hookarrows or long nearrows, for that matter.

If someone knows how, please explain it to me.

I work exclusively with Plain TeX and that is where I want to accomplish this.
More generally, I would be interested in any techniques for making complicated
commutative diagrams in Plain TeX. I am already aware of how to use packages
that do this in LateX. I want to do it in Plain TeX.

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
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From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
Subject: Re: WANTED: deTeX
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:30:19 GMT


Try "LameTeX". I wrote the comp.lang.postscript FAQ with it, if you
want an example, including the below plug for it. ;)

-Jon

    LameTeX
      can convert simple LaTeX to PostScript or to ASCII.

      It specializes in complete versatility of the printed page. The
      standard model for text formatters is that every page is
      necessarily rectangular. LameTeX will let you format text inside
      a triangular page, or a circle page. Just like professional
      magazine editors, you can include pictures of any shape and ask
      the text to flow around them or inside them.

      These flexible arbitrarily-shaped margins are PostScript paths.
      If you don't know PostScript, it contains a big library of
      interesting LameTeX page margins. With LameTeX you can fit
      several ``pages'' onto one 8.5x11 inch piece of paper, so you can
      easily make index cards, labels, and half-pages of text.

      Also, if you know how to write programs in PostScript, LameTeX
      allows you to very tightly integrate your LameTeX commands with
      your PostScript code. In fact, the PostScript that LameTeX
      outputs is nicely formatted and commented so that you can modify
      it yourself and see how it's done. LameTeX is written with
      PostScript version 1, so it should run on all PostScript
      printers.

      Finally, everything about LameTeX is set up to be compatible with
      LaTeX. LameTeX can't do everything that LaTeX can, but the
      special stealth commands guarantee that your fancy LameTeX
      document can be processed by normal LaTeX. This allows you to
      share it with anyone who doesn't happen to have LameTeX.

      By Jon Monsarrat, jgm@cs.brown.edu.


      What:
         Converts-LaTeX-to-PostScript, Text-Formatter,
         Converts-LaTeX-to-ASCII.


      Status:
         free


      Platforms:
         UNIX, any C++ platform


      Get-From:
         wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/lametex.tar.Z
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From: hhlin@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (Hsiu-Hsu Lin (LING G794706) TEL.(035)715131-4966)
Subject: Query for IPA fonts running on TeX
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:34:08 GMT


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From: monkey@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Xinbing Liu)
Subject: Help: Macintosh generated figures won't appear with \psfig!
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:07:35 GMT


I used to use MacDraw or Claris CAD to make drawings to include in my LaTeX
documents using the \psfig command.  That was Mac System 6 (You had to press
clover-T (?) while clicking the print box, but it worked).  Now Mac's here on
campus have gone to system 7, and you generate a ps file in the print dialog
box directly.  However, I've never had any success generating any ps file
that \psfig likes and the figures never appeared on the document.  Is this a
bug with Mac's System 7?  Does it generate bad ps codes?  Is there is simple
way around it?

Here is a sample file trying to include a Mac drawing (ran bbfig to get a
bounding box for it):

\documentstyle[psfig,12pt]{article}

....

\psfiginit
\macdrawinit

\begin{document}

....

\begin{figure}[h]
\centerline{\psfig{figure=f20cm4plt.eps,height=7 in}}
\end{figure}

....

\end{document}

This works fine for other software generated drawings, such as IslandDraw on
unix machines.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: \b \d and ISO 6937 Latin Diacriticals
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:42:27 GMT
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK

In article <6769@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> jk@fiveg.icl.co.uk writes:
>The most common accents for the Latin alphabet are available in (La)TeX,
>how about the less common ones: ring (currently only available on a and A),

It is available on anything, but there is no predefined macro.
You may say

  \def\ring#1{{\accent23 #1}}

>ogonek,

Argh.  You have to MF it if you need it.  Or you may kern/llap a left
single quote into the appropriate place.

The same is true for two of the Croatian accents, the cap (long
falling) and the double grave (short falling).

>stroke (for t, T, h, H, D).

What kind of stroke?

>How about some of the less common special characters: thorn, eng, eth.

Get Julian Bradfield's Old English founts (ymir.claremont.edu,
[anonymous.tex.mf.cm.oe]).

>What are the \d (dot under) and \b (bar under) accents used for?

\d: retroflex consonant (Indic), emphatic consonant (Semitic),
   glottalised consonant (Caucasian).

\b: dental consonant (Indic), fricative consonant (Semitic).

There are a few other uses as well.

-- 
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Ivan A Derzhanski   (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk;  iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
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