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From: njm@thor.inesc.pt (Nuno Joao Mamede)
Subject: HELP on LaTeX macro
Organization: INESC - Portugal
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:24:31 GMT

Dear hackers,

I would like to use a command in LaTeX with an argument specifying how
many times other command shoud be executed.
How can I define such a loop in LaTeX (TeX)?


The idea is to substitute a bunch of commands: 

     \newcommand{\oneline}    {\hspace*{0.1cm} \hrulefill\hspace*{0.1cm}
                                                     \vspace*{0.2cm}\\}
     \newcommand{\twolines}   {\oneline \oneline}
     \newcommand{\fivelines}  {\twolines \twolines}
     \newcommand{\eightlines} {\fivelines \twolines \oneline}
     \newcommand{\tenlines}   {\fivelines \fivelines}

  by a single one:

     \newcommand{\manylines}[1] {  ........}
     % the argument specifies how many times the command \oneline is executed.


Example:
             \manylines{5}  is equivalent to \fivelines



Thank you,
Nuno Mamede

--

Nuno J. Mamede                         INESC - Instituto de Engenharia de
njm@inesc.pt                                   Sistemas e Computadores
Tel: +351(1)3100234                    Rua Alves Redol 9
Fax: +351(1)525843                     1000 Lisboa / Portugal
-- 
Nuno J. Mamede                         INESC - Instituto de Engenharia de
njm@inesc.pt                                   Sistemas e Computadores
Tel: +351(1)3100234                    Rua Alves Redol 9
Fax: +351(1)525843                     1000 Lisboa / Portugal
From: gac@budoe.bu.edu (Giovanni Amelino-Camelia)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: previewer dvi files for pc ?
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:26:47 GMT
Followup-To: gac@budoe.bu.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

I am looking for a previewer (for PC's) for dvi files.
Is there any which is available for anonymous FTP ? where ?
Actually, I would also need TEX and LATEX.
Please email response to
gac@budoe.bu.edu
-------------------G.Amelino-Camelia-----------------------


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Cameron Smith)
Subject: TeX in batch mode
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:56:34 GMT

Another request for help.

One of the goals of a project I'm helping out with is to allow
a computer program to generate nicely formatted reports in response
to remote requests.  For this we are planning to have the program
generate TeX code as its output, then spawn a subprocess to run
TeX to do the formatting, then convert the resultant DVI file
to an appropriate other form and send that to the remote user
for printing.  This means that we need to run TeX in batch mode,
under the supervision of another program, which needs at a minimum
to be able to detect whether a TeX run completed successfully
so that it will know whether it can go on to the next step and
try to deliver a document to the user.  This itself is apparently
a non-trivial proposition, since even a warning telling me that
a page is 2pt overfull causes TeX to deliver an "error" return code,
even though an "error" like that is acceptable for our purposes.
I envision (with distaste) building a parser that reads through
a log file after a TeX run to decide whether errors so serious
that they preclude printing have occurred.

This is very different from the way I've used TeX in the past,
and because my experience with this mode is so limited my question
is quite general (I don't know enough yet to ask anything specific!).
I would simply like to hear any pointers, tips, suggestions, warnings,
and the like from anybody who has tried this kind of thing.  I'd like
to hear from you regardless of whether you did or did not succeed in
getting the results you wanted (perhaps *especially* if you didn't,
since if this is impractical to the point of unfeasibility I'd prefer
to find out now rather than after I've spent six months on it).

Email would be OK, but I'd rather read postings since that way
everyone can join in and either learn from or teach one another.
Thanks in advance for any info.

--Cameron Smith
  cameron@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: gerd@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gerd Neugebauer)
Subject: dvi linker
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:11:18 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: TH Darmstadt


I am looking for (source of) a program which can be best described as
dvi linker. It should take two (or more) dvi files and produce one div
file containg all pages of the input files. Somehow it can be seen as
a reverse to dviselect.

I have looked at the usual places, the FAQ, and resource guide ---
without success.

Has anybody seen such a thing?


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   (___/- (___  /   / (___      Alexanderstr. 10, D-6100 Darmstadt
 _____/_____________________   Phone: (+49) 6151 16-5382
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From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: how many pages ?
Date: 21 Nov 92 18:50:25 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <rob.722273895@dutncp8>, rob@pact.nl (Rob Kurver) writes:
|>
|> While we're at the subject, how do I figure out the number of pages
|> from within (La)TeX?  I want a cover page that indicates the number
|> of pages to follow.

Simple in principle: use \label{last-page} on the last page and 
\pageref{last-page} in your cover page, and apply LaTeX until convergence
occurs. However, if you put the \label just before the \end{document}
you may get a page break before the "whatsit" that \label generates, and
in this case LaTeX's \output routine never sees it. It turns out to be
necessary to weld the \label rather firmly to something that is actually
printed (but is still guaranteed to be on the last page).

Chris Thompson
JANET:    cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx
Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk
From: masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Muhammad Masroor Ali)
Subject: Verbatim Mode
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Comm. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:16:47 GMT
X-Bytes: 954

Dear TeXnicians,

I am looking for a TeX macro to deal with the verbatim mode
for direct insertion  of the, for example, Turbo C program files
to TeX files.

The macros I have at hand put the verbatim text in a vbox, so whenever
text length exceeds one page, you have to break them yourself
between pages to avoid overfull vboxes.

Could anybody please suggest a better verbatim macro which solves
the above problem plus allows occasional TeX commands (like bigskip etc.)
in the verbatim text?

Thanks in advance,


--
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Who says `Nothing' is impossible? I am doing nothing throughout years. 
   _______________________________________________________________________

    masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Muhammad Masroor Ali)
    Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering
    Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
    Fukuoka, 812 JAPAN
From: Mike Higgs <mike@scomp.lancashire-poly.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Help with installation please
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:06:57 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Hi,
	I am trying to install TeX etc. on our HP 9000/730 system.  I ftp'd
the .tar.Z file of TeX 3.15 from freja.diku.dk and have untarred it etc.
	I have read the various README files and have tried to run the
Install_INPUTS script.  However, I have got several errors mainly that it
can't access :-
	../utilityfonts/*		( it isn't there or anywhere in the dist file
)
	../cmfonts/mf/*.mf		( not there either )
	../LaTeXfonts/mf/*.mf    ( again not there ).

I am not subscribed to this list so I would appreciate any replies direct
to my address.  If it is a case of getting these files via ftp any
suggested sites would be very helpful.

Thanks very much.

--
Mike Higgs                                 mike@uk.ac.lancsp.sc
Systems Administrator,
Department of Computing and Electronics,
University of Central Lancashire,
Preston,
PR1 2TQ.

U.K.                                     Tel. +44 0772 893295

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: kruel@phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Thomas-Martin Kruel)
Subject: Re: merging BibTeX bibliographies
Organization: Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie / Uni Wuerzburg
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:44:25 GMT

The proposal seems too complicated to me. Here is how we do it:

1. copying the various bib-files together
2. sorting the common file
3. checking for double entries

You can achieve step 2 and 3 through the tool "btt", which is 
available on "cerberus.cor.epa.gov".
There you can find a lot of other bib-stuff also.

If we find double entries, we add the letters "a,b,c,..." to the cite
key. This does not guarantee backwards compatibility, but occurs only in
few cases.

The mechanism to generate cite-keys is the following:

1. Take the authors initials, but at most 3;
2. If there are more than 3 authors, add a "+"-sign;
3. If there is only one author, take the first 3 letters from his surname;
4. Add the last two digits from the year, e.g. "92" for 1992.


In addition to that, we check the uniqueness of different bib-files
before merging by the shell-command:


#!/bin/sh
#
# report duplicate labels in (multiple) BibTeX files.

args=$*

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
   echo "usage: keycheck [bibfile(s)]" 
fi

echo "The following keys occur more than once in the BibTeX file(s)"
echo $args":"
cat $args | grep @ | awk -F"{" '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -d


Our bib-files comprise somewhat around 2000 entries together, but
despite this big number I found that it is always better to do 
a hand check than to rely solely on automatic tools.

I know this is only of partial help, but better than nothing.

Good luck,
           Thomas.
-- 

Th.-M. Kruel   Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie der Universitaet Wuerzburg
               Marcusstr. 9-11,  D-8700 Wuerzburg (Germany)
               Phone: +49 931 31579
From: puente@sourri.ucdavis.edu (Carlos Puente)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX
Keywords: appendix
Date: 24 Nov 92 01:28:47 GMT
Reply-To: puente@sourri.ucdavis.edu
Organization: University of California, Davis

We would like our appendix to begin with:

Appendix A

and then continue numbering equations as in the
article style file:  A.1, A.2, etc.
We do not want Appendix A to be enlarged
or on its own line as in the book
or report style files.  Can you help?

Carlos Puente
e-mail: puente@sonria.ucdavis.edu
From: muehlenw@ifmsun3.ifm.uni-hamburg.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re^2: DVItoVDU and CU/TCP-Telnet
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:14:36 MET
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Dear Edwin,
>
> #! /bin/sh
> # place this in an executable file named `dvincsa'
> PATH=/.../home/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb
> dvi2vdu -v tek4010 -h /.../home/lib/dvitovdu.hlp $* ;
>
The important is -v tek4010, I know. But, the CU/TCP-Telnet
resets to the VT102 mode, and is back in TEK mode only when leaving
dvincsa (or dvi2vdu ...).

Benjamin Svetitsky <BQS@VM.TAU.AC.IL> told me the following:

BS> I have EXACTLY the same problem.  Local gurus tell me that the unwanted
BS> switching back to VT100 mode is a bug in NCSA Telnet, but they don't
BS> know any more...
BS>
BS> Ben Svetitsky
BS> School of Physics and Astronomy
BS> Tel Aviv University

Does there exist a new version of NCSA Telnet, where this behaviour is
corrected (and where can I get it)? The Telnet Version I use and distribute is:
Clarkson University Terminal Emulator [CUTE:2.2D/TC-D]
and is based on NCSA Telnet 2.2


+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Stefan A. Muehlenweg                    Institut fuer Meereskunde |
| muehlenw@ifm.uni-hamburg.de             Universitaet Hamburg      |
|                                         Troplowitzstrasse 7       |
|                                         D-2000 Hamburg 54         |
|                                         Tel. +49 (40) 4123 2996   |
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From: wolfrum@che09.ncsu.EDU (Ed Wolfrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Tex Capacity Exceeded, Sorry
Keywords: pool size
Date: 22 Nov 92 18:59:05 GMT
Reply-To: wolfrum@che09.ncsu.EDU (Ed Wolfrum)
Organization: North Carolina State University

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:

>(master.aux (intro.aux) (../DD.dir/davis-t.aux) (../homopaper.dir/homo-t.aux)
>(../epr-h2o2/epr-homo-t.aux) (../litrev.dir/litrev.aux) (conclude.aux)
>(../hetero_paper.dir/mie.aux))
>Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
> 912 strings out of 1514
> 8994 string characters out of 9047   <------ almost filled up!!!!!
> 49347 words of memory out of 65531
> 2522 multiletter control sequences out of 3000
> 20023 words of font info for 76 fonts, out of 36000 for 120
> 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 307
> 18i,12n,25p,380b,338s stack positions out of 200i,40n,60p,2000b,2000s
>
>Output written on master.dvi (136 pages, 258228 bytes).

I separated the abstract, title page, and my acknowledgments out, which
total only four pages, and I get:
 
>(front.aux (abstract.aux) (title.aux)
>(personal.aux))
>Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
> 281 strings out of 1514
> 2593 string characters out of 9050  <----- over 1/4 filled in 4 pp. ?????
> 29424 words of memory out of 65531
> 2170 multiletter control sequences out of 3000
> 18996 words of font info for 72 fonts, out of 36000 for 120
> 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 307
> 12i,4n,17p,192b,165s stack positions out of 200i,40n,60p,2000b,2000s
>
>Output written on front.dvi (4 pages, 3780 bytes).

Now, Lamport says (pg. 127) that this error can be caused by too many
cross-referencing labels. There are a lot in MASTER.TEX, but no more than other
PhD theses done in this fine department. There are, however, NONE in FRONT.TEX,
and the string characters is still pretty high.

By the way, each chapter has its own bibliography, thanks to chapterbib.sty.

My questions, therefore, are:

1. Why am I getting this POOL error when I latex the whole show?

2. How can I prevent it, since I have 2 big chapters to add into the
big file, each with 50-60 references.

I am trying to get this done in the next 8 days, so any help would be
greatly appreciated. Send me mail or post to the net, whichever is easier.
I can't get mail reliably at any address except the one below:

					Thanks IN ADVANCE
					Ed Wolfrum
					wolfrum@che.ncsu.edu
	
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ms@lehre24.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Martin Schroeder)
Subject: Re: continued on the next page
Reply-To: l15d@alf.zfn.Uni-Bremen.de
Organization: Universitaet Bremen
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:59:47 GMT

In article <MASROOR.92Nov20170305@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp>, masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Muhammad Masroor Ali) writes:
|> I am posting it over here because my mail to Martin Schroder bounced
|> back.
 ... my mail deleted ...
|> So far as I know, you have got to make two passes
|> to accomplish this. Declare a variable, say \PassIndicator.
|> This variable will change values to 1 and -1 to
|> indicate first and second passes respectively. In the first pass,
|> write  the last page number and any other information you
|> want to save, to a file, say Test.INF,
|> using the write command. And then multiply
|> \PassIndicator by -1 (to change its sign) and save it in a file
|> say Test.EGG. In the second pass, read the informations saved in the 
|> file Test.INF and use them to make  your desired footline
|> or anything you like.
 ... solution deleted ...
Thanks very much, but I would like a one-pass solution (if it is impossible, tell me).
I would like something in the foot like
\ifpagefollowing
   continued on the next page
\fi        

-- 
Martin                  "ZDF, the final frontier. These are the voyages
                         of a buerokratic cencor agency, it's continuing
                         mission to destroy the hopes of their fans, to
                         seek out new threats for their favourite films
                         to boldly cut, where no one has cut a film before ..."

                                                             ;-)

-- 
Martin Schr"oder, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Bremen, Germany
Internet: l15d@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de
--- Wer, wie, was? Wieso, weshalb, warum? Wer nichts fragt bleibt dumm. ---


Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ms@lehre23.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Martin Schroeder)
Subject: Grey shaded areas with text in it -- Summary
Keywords: gray, shading
Reply-To: l15d@alf.zfn.Uni-Bremen.de
Organization: Universitaet Bremen
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:37:44 GMT

I posted the following article:

|> How can I accomplish the following with TeX/Metafont:
|> -------------------------------------------------
|> |  text text text text text text               	|
|> |  text text text text			    	|
|> | text text text text text text text text text	|
|> -------------------------------------------------
|> Which means: normal text on gray background. The text may be any text, the background should be
|> possible in various gray scales and rectangular (a kind of minipage with gray background).
|>
|> It should be TeX, NO POSTSCRIPT!
|> 
|> I am willing to use METAFONT, but would prefer TeX-only solutions.

Geoffrey Tobin (ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au) suggested:
|> In The METAFONTbook (1986), in Appendix H on "Hardcopy Proofs",
|> section 2 discusses "Gray fonts".  You could typeset many copies of a
|> grey character in the shape of the rectangle.  I think that Michael
|> Wichura's PICTeX can do something similar.  Unfortunately, PICTeX can
|> be expensive of TeX's stupidly fixed-size internal memory.
|> 
|> A second way is to use Thomas Leathrum's "mfpic" to make a custom
|> shaded character the size of the grey rectangle.  The drawback here is
|> that "gftopk" may run out of its ridiculously limited memory.

Anthony Starks (ajs%msdrl@uunet.UU.NET) suggested:
|> The mfpic macros and graphbase MF macros can do shaded areas.

And Marc Van.rey (vanrey@hippo.fido.de) suggested using PicTeX and much memory.


The gray fonts from Knuth are for use with GFtoDVI and have just ONE grayscale.
I have not tried mfpic or graphbase but suspect that they eat up my memory quite fast.
So there seems to be no easy solution.


Martin                  "ZDF, the final frontier. These are the voyages
                         of a buerokratic cencor agency, it's continuing
                         mission to destroy the hopes of their fans, to
                         seek out new threats for their favourite films
                         to boldly cut, where no one has cut a film before ..."

                                                             ;-)

-- 
Martin Schr"oder, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Bremen, Germany
Internet: l15d@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de
--- Wer, wie, was? Wieso, weshalb, warum? Wer nichts fragt bleibt dumm. ---
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod)
Subject: Re: german dictonary for ispell
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:18:03 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Keywords: ispell, german

In article <22703@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>, busch@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Pia Busch) writes:
> 
> I am looking for a ispell dictonary for german,

	ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75]
	directory pub/dicts/german
	file german.ispell.Z

You might want to read german.README.1st, it gives some thoughts about
the quality of the dictionaries in this directory.

ispell itself is in pub/dicts/ispell.

--
Joachim

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Joachim Schrod			Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:30:07 -0500 
From: Oswald Wyler <ow0a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Unwanted spacing in \tabbing

When using the \tabbing or \tabular environment in LaTeX, I get unwanted
and ugly-looking vertical space at the places of the \begin{tabbing}
and \end{tabbing} commands.  Another problem is that I have not been
able to align the first entry of lines inside the environment with
paragraph indentation, another source of ugliness in the outcome.
I had to fall back on the \halign feature of TeX to get what I wanted,
as the only way to keep control and not run afoul of Leslie Lamport's
prejudices.  Is there another way, within LaTeX, to control these
unwanted vertical (and sometimes horizontal) spacings?

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jon@radel.com (Jon Radel)
Subject: To people who want copy of "TeX and METAFONT"
Originator: jon@access.digex.com
Reply-To: jon@radel.com
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:55:56 GMT

At the 1992 TUG meeting I beat somebody to Powell's to pick up the used
copy of Knuth's {\sl TeX and METAFONT---New Directions in Typesetting},
that he had also wanted to purchase.

I have no idea anymore what his name was.

If he's reading this and still wants a copy, I have since found myself
a second copy, and am now willing to sell one copy at 5 cents more than
Powell's price=$9.00 plus postage.  If any of the rest of you want to
fill out your historical collection of TeXana with this 1979 publication,
drop me a note and the first of you will get it if whatever-his-name-is
doesn't get back to me.

Sorry for this semi-commercial interruption.

--Jon Radel
jon@radel.com
From: boersma@goldengate.math.orst.edu (Stuart Boersma)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: OzTeX previewer with 72 dpi monitor
Date: 21 Nov 92 19:28:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: goldenga.BOERSMA.92Nov21112851
Distribution: world
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Oregon State Univ.
NNTP-Posting-Host: goldengate.math.orst.edu

I believe this question has been asked, but I haven't seen it answered which
surprises me.  Certaily most of the OzTeX users out there are working of 72
dpi monitors (or something close) and the default 300 dpi pk files that come
with OzTeX just don't look good.  Now on to my question:

Believing thata 86 dpi font set will look best on my monitor (which is a 13"
RGB hi-res), I have used metafont to create some pk files for cmr10 and cmr12.
Thus I have sizes 86, 95, 104, 124,149, and 179 (86 dpi at different
magsteps).  Now when I preview at actual size, the text is much more readable
then the default configuration (300dpi).  However, I can't zoom in past the
actual size point.  i.e. when my confg is set to 86dpi I can view at full
size, actual size, and one size in between.  Can anyone help me?  I can't
believe people are content with viewing their dvi files at 300 dpi!

I first thought the problem was that I didn't have enough pk files.  But
evidently when you zoom in, OzTeX still only reads the basic pk file (in this
case the pk86 file).  I guess OzTeX only need the higher pk files when you
explicitly include a \magstep type command in the TeX document (Or am I
wrong??).

Any OzTeX users out there that can help me?

				Stuart Boersma <boersma@math.orst.edu>
				Oregon State University
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex