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From: hamlin@aps.org (Chris Hamlin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: REVTeX test version
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:36:43 EDT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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  The APS, in cooperation with some other US physics societies, are working
on a new version of REVTeX. REVTeX is a LaTeX style that can be used to
submit articles electronically to Physical Review and Physical Review Letters.
Announcements from other societies will be made upon final release.

  We (APS) are interested in having authors test out the new APS macros before
they are released. Any authors who use LaTeX or REVTeX can try them out.
I'm especially interested in having the OFSS/NFSS/AMSFonts stuff tested.
The differences from the present version:

        More LaTeX-y syntax. The style is now a superset of article style.
        LaTeX capabilities are supported, even if not needed for APS (e.g.,
        table of contents). Exception: tables and figures do not float.

        Style options to support the AMS fonts (amsfonts option) and symbol
        names (amssymb option). These should work similarly on the OFSS and
        NFSS. (On the NFSS they use the AMS style files with the same names.
        On the OFSS they use APS macros.)

        Extra symbols.

        Automatic table footnoting. Tablenotes work just like footnotes.

        A BibTeX style file for Physical-Review-style bibliographies.

        A tool for authors that type in their bibliographies by hand. It
        is a TeX file that reads the aux file and tells you if you have
        any uncited bibitems or undefined cites, and tells you if you have
        the bibitems in order of first citation. If the bibitems are out
        of order, it gives you the correct order. (This is Phys Rev style.)

        Simple alignments on decimals in tabulars.

        Journal-specific style options. This mainly affects PRB authors,
        who can now get superscript citations. Other journal options use
        the usual on-line citations.

        Plus the capabilities of the last version: Phys Rev style, equation
        numbering, both submission and final output options.

  Documentation is in LaTeX article style, but a little primitive. No new format
need be compiled. Support is available directly from APS. These macros are not
for permanent/global installation or redistribution. If you are interested,
please contact me at the address below.

Thanks.


Chris Hamlin
hamlin@aps.org

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: pstephan@mcs.kent.edu (Paul H. Stephan)
Subject: Graphing several sets of data points in LaTeX
Originator: pstephan@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu
Organization: Kent State University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:43:27 GMT

I have a bunch of data that I have entered into an Excel Spreadsheet and
then generated graphs using the Excel functions.  I am preparing a paper
in LaTex (actually emTeX) that I would like to include these graphs in.
Is there an easy way to enter the data points and get accurate lines
out?  The LaTeX manual indicates that only a limited set of line slopes
are supported - is there any way around this?

Also, I would like to include several sets of data on one graph with
each set having different line or point symbols; is this possible?

If I can't do the above I'll probably just end up printing the Excel
graphs and paste them into my final paper.

Please respond via e-mail.

Thanks,
Paul H. Stephan (pstephan@mcs.kent.edu)
From: Karl Berry <karl@claude.cs.umb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: IBM Pennant Systems survey
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:51:14 -0400
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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I just got a note from Gail Renick at IBM explaining the purpose of the
survey which I urged people not to cooperate with before (because IBM
refused to tell me what they'd do with any documents I contributed):

    The purpose of the survey was intended to help us do a better job of
    testing our products by developing an understanding of how customers
    would most likely use them.  With a variety of documents and typical
    printing scenarios for constructing test cases, we can come closer
    to simulating the customer's printing environment and expectations.
    So far, the responses have been very helpful.

So, if you want to help make IBM's products better, cooperate with the survey.
(That was intended to be a complete non-judgemental sentence; please
take it as such.)

karl@cs.umb.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hubertc@cs.berkeley.edu (Hung-Hsien (Hubert) Chang)
Subject: Latex's figure environment
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 04:15:20 GMT


I was told that I can use the "figure" environment to include 
the postscript file into the latex file. I tried and the figure
doesn't locate at the place I put my command

\begin{figure}
\epsfbox{example.eps}
\cpation{exmaple}
\end{figure}


example.esp file is generated by xfig program.

Is there a way to place the figure at the place I want?
( I would rather not to use 
\epsfbox[ 0 0 30 50 ]{filename.ps} 
and mess around with the \hskip and \vskip

Thanks.


e-mail:hubertc@cory.berkeley.edu 
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: DVI2TTY Executable for DOS?
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 12:47:13 GMT

In article <715677086snx@sgmlinc.com>, brian@sgmlinc.com (Brian E. Travis) writes:
> I am looking for an executable version of DVI2TTY that runs in 
> DOS or OS/2. I downloaded the source, but I don't have the 
> patience to work out the inconsistencies between ANSI vs. MS C.

You might try dvispell, part of the emTeX release. It takes a dvi file and
writes a text file (as best it can). This is the same as dvitty, right?

dvispell can be found at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/all/emtex/betatest/.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu

P.S. ftp-os2 also has dvips 5.490 and dvidvi, both for DOS and OS/2:
  pub/os2/2.0/emtex/dvips549.zoo   OS/2 2.0 port by Sinha
  pub/os2/all/emtex/dvips549.zip   DOS/OS2 add'l files (I did these)
  pub/os2/all/emtex/dvidvi.zip     Rokicki's dvi-to-dvi for DOS/OS2

You will need Sinha's stuff to use my DOS and OS2 (1.x--2.0) port (use Sinha's
port if you have OS/2 2.0). 

Note: my files are currently in pub/downloads/. I am guessing at the final
resting place.
From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Buy a manual!  (Re: MetaFont for Beginners.)
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:18:46 GMT
Reply-To: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England


In article <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.92Sep9110443@pierrot.comlab>,
Damian.Cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) writes:
|> <10665@spark.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski):
|> 
|>    I'd be glad to RTBMFBook, but some colleague of mine
|>    appears to have withdrawn the only copy from the library.
|> 
|> So buy a copy!  There is no point trying to make serious use of TeX or
|> METAFONT without your own copies of the manuals.
|> 
|> Just a suggestion.  Damian.

And a good one.  They're not _that_ expensive.  Howwever, I would
nevertheless claim that a `beginners' guide' is necessary.  I read the
manual for some time before even starting to try with mf, and still
found I needed to learn several things before I could make a go of it.
--
Robin (dump Brian Kay) Fairbairns                    rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
[Finally back in work - what a relief!]
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee)
Subject: How to make the top margin to be exactly 1 inch ?
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:47:36 GMT

I am using the following settings in the preamble of my thesis:
%
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{0pt}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0pt}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0pt}
\setlength{\marginparsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0pt}
\setlength{\textwidth}{6in}
\setlength{\hoffset}{0.5in}% Shift 0.5in to the right
\setlength{\topmargin}{0pt}
\setlength{\headheight}{0pt}
\setlength{\headsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\textheight}{8.9in}% Just like Plain TeX
%
because I want the left margin to be 1.5in and the rest of the margins to be
1in exact. However it turns out the top margin is not exactly 1 inch. Its
height is about 1in + approximately 1 baselineskip. 

My question is why I cannot get the top margin to be 1 inch exactly.
How can I remove that extra space?

Thanks in advance.

Jesse Lee
jesse@cs.ualberta.ca

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From: gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (Gregory Lampshire)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: getting display math mode inside a LaTeX caption
Date: 12 Sep 92 16:35:09 GMT



I am sure someone has figured this out by now:


I want to get display math mode inside a caption like:


\begin{figure}
<stuff for my graphics>
\caption[caption for table]{This is a caption with display mathematics in  
it
$$x^2+y^2=9$$
As you can see the circle formula yields the above graph etc. . . . }
\end{figure}

I tried playing around with leaving vmode and hmode and hbox and ...  
nothing seemed to do it correctly




--
Gregory Lampshire 
Virginia Tech 
Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering
gbol@rglnext.geol.vt.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
------------------------
My opinions are my very own and do not reflect the opinions of any  
employer
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.os.vms
From: zapantis@uvphys.phys.uvic.ca (Nik Zapantis)
Subject: Need DVI to HP laserjet driver
Keywords: DVI,HP,HPPCL,VMS
Reply-To: zapantis@uvphys.phys.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Physics & Astronomy
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 21:10:18 GMT



Could someone please point me to an FTP site that has a DVI to HP laserjet
driver for VMS? 

thanks,

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: trafton@reason.Princeton.EDU (Greg Trafton)
Subject: Table Headings
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:39:07 GMT

Hi, all.  I am currently working on a table that I would like to have
independent headings for both the rows and columns.
For example:
			Number of Subjects (x)
      1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15 16 ...
n 0            ----     numbers     ----
u 1
m 2            ----     numbers     ----
b 3
e 4
r 5            ----     numbers     ----
  6
o 7
f 8            ----     numbers     ----
  9
m .
i .            ----     numbers     ----
n .
u
s


I have been able to get the "Number of Subjects (x)" heading using
multicolumn format in tabular.  However, an atractive way of
presenting the "number of minuses" row-headings has eluded me.  Does
anyone have an attractive way to present table headings?  It doesn't
have to be this way!  Any way to do it would be fine with me!  (I've
used rotate, so I know how to make the "number of minuses" heading
sideways, I just don't know of a comparable "multirow" macro, but
maybe I'm just being dense).

thanks!
Greg Trafton
(trafton@clarity.princeton.edu)
From: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Joachim Schrod)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: style docs and doc.sty {bf EXACTLY} where are you?
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:56:46 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt

In article <1992Sep12.200507.27984@athena.mit.edu>, lasmith@athena.mit.edu (Lones A Smith) writes:
> 
>      I'm sure many novices must share these frustrations:

We'll remind this sentence...

> 1. You have a style file which turns out not to include sufficient or any
>    documentation in it (current example: enumerate.sty ===> how does this
>    work anyway? My guess: \begin{enumerate}[I]  failed).
>    Where do the archives hide the documentation?  (eg. where is
>     enumerate.doc??? ---I don't see it inthe TEX INDEX)

What does this mean: It does not have sufficient or any documentation
in it? enumerate.sty is documented with the doc-option, and it tells
at the very top:

% If you have Mittelbach's doc.sty, this file may be formatted with a
% command like:    latex enumerate.sty
% (You do not need doc.sty to {\em use} this style.)

If you do not have the style, read the comments. 198 comment lines
vs. 55 code lines isn't a ratio too bad, is it? The LaTeX input
should not be too hard to read. The abstract is IMO enough to
understand how to use this style.

> 2. You have style.doc that needs doc.sty.  Where is it? Supposedly
>    at stuttgart.  But WHERE at stuttgart. The file system there resembles
>    a messy desk, and all the obvious heaps don't contain it.

C'mon, get real:
 -- If you connect to Stuttgart and cd to soft/tex, there are two
    directories with LaTeX styles: latex-style-supported and
    latex-style-unsupported. Guess, where it is?
	Right: in latex-style-supported.
 -- And now guess where the doc style is?
	Right: in a subdirectory doc.
 -- And now guess how you do avoid fetching all these files one by one?
	Right: You fetch doc.tar.Z a level above.

And you say that this is too complicated? I can not imagine a more
sensible place than latex-style-supported/doc/.

Let's look at the top again:

>      I'm sure many novices must share these frustrations:

I have frustrations from these kind of questions. Please don't ask
me what I think of folks who are not capable to find a style within
a directory named latex-style-supported; and who are either not able
to read the comments within a style file just because it's LaTeX
input or who think that 2/3rd of a style file isn't documentation
enough...

--
Joachim

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Joachim Schrod			Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

	``How do we persuade new users that spreading fonts across the page
	like peanut butter across hot toast is not necessarily the route to
	typographic excellence?				-- Peter Flynn
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Subject: Re: a "memo" document style
Reply-To: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:07:30 GMT


In article <1992Sep14.213451.5948@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>,
ewu@.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Elsie Wu) writes:
|> I am looking for a "memo" document style which has the following format:
|> 
|>    Company/School Logo
|>    
|>        Date:  <Today's date>
|>          To:  
|>    Location:
|> 
|>        From:
|>    Location:
|>   Telephone:
|> 
|>     Subject:
|> 
|>    The memo text begins here...
|>    ...
|>    ...
|>    ...
|> 
|> I know about the \letter style, but that's not what I am looking for.  I
|> would appreciate any style file that does something similar to the format
|> above.

Elsie's Reply-To: in her posting is obviously a joke, so (with marked
laack of invention) I'm posting the following basis for what she
wants.  I'm (mostly) responsible for it, though a couple of the ideas
came from other people at Laser-Scan (which I've now been made
redundant from).

========================================================================
% Memo.sty - by various authors at Laser-Scan
% Last edited, 15 Sep 1992, Robin Fairbairns (after leaving Laser-Scan!)
%
% Usage:  \documentstyle[...,memo,...]{article}
% 
%         \begin{document}
%         \memo ....
%         <text of memo>
%	  \end{document}
%
% Format of \memo call:
%         \memo{<to>}[<cc>]{<From>}{<Subject>}{<Date>}
%         \memo*{ ...as above... }
%
% The unstarred form leaves space at the top of the page, which is not
% to everyone's taste: so we have the starred form.  As implied above,
% the [<cc>] is optional.
%
% a jiffy memo format, derived from age-old TeX stuff
\font\title@font=cmbx5 scaled 2986 % expanded boldface font for title line
				  % NB this is \magstep6, which doesn't exist!
\def\memo@title#1{#1\centerline{\title@font MEMORANDUM}\vspace{1cm}%
                  \memo@body}
\def\memo@headline#1#2#3{\hbox{\hbox to 2.54001cm{\bf #1\hfil}#2}\vskip#3cm}
\def\memo{\@ifstar{\memo@title{}}{\memo@title{\vspace*{1cm}}}}
\def\memo@body#1{
\@ifnextchar[{\memo@cc{#1}}{\memo@nocc{#1}}}
\def\memo@nocc#1#2#3#4{   \memo@headline{To:}{#1}{0.2}
                          \memo@headline{From:}{#2}{0.2}
                          \memo@headline{Subject:}{#3}{0.2}
                          \memo@headline{Date:}{#4}{0.75}\hrule\vskip0.5cm}
\def\memo@cc#1[#2]#3#4#5{ \memo@headline{To:}{#1}{0.2}
                          \memo@headline{cc:}{#2}{0.2}
                          \memo@headline{From:}{#3}{0.2}
                          \memo@headline{Subject:}{#4}{0.2}
                          \memo@headline{Date:}{#5}{0.75}\hrule\vskip0.5cm}

--
Robin (dump Brian Kay) Fairbairns                    rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge  CB2 3QG, UK
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: need help with a LaTeX macro
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:37:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep07.081446.192@infko.uucp>, benz@infko.uni-koblenz.de 
(Hartmut Benz) writes:
>>[...]
>> >\newcommand{\type}[1]{\verb"#1"\\}
>
> As far as I know it is impssible to use \verb... inside a macro like this  
> at all.

There have been several recent posts on this subject. Arseneau's response
follows. 

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu


From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Re: Help writing a macro that expands to \verb
Summary: How: \def\term#1{\verb|#1|}
Keywords: Macro \verb Latex
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:43:00 GMT


In article <1992Sep1.123134.7107@cs.cornell.edu>, raman@cs.cornell.edu 
(T. V. Raman) writes...
>I would like to have a macro of the following type:
>\term#1 which expands to \verb|#1| but do not know how to write it.
> 
>Clearly \def\term#1{\verb|#1|} is not the solution.

Haven't there been a lot of requests like this lately?
Here's how:

\def\term#{% not #1 but just #
   \afterassignment\Term \let\TErm= }% remove {. final space is necessary

There's more. How to do the rest depends on how braces should be treated.

If:  \term{a{b} should give \verb"a{b" then use:

\edef\Term{\noexpand\verb \string}}

If:  \term{a{b}} should give \verb"a{b}" then use:

\def\Term{\bgroup \tt \let\do\@makeother \dospecials \makeactbraces}

\begingroup
\catcode`\(=\catcode`\{ \catcode`\{=\active
\catcode`\)=\catcode`\} \catcode`\}=\active
\gdef\makeactbraces(\catcode`\{=\active \catcode`\}=\active
  \edef{(\bgroup\string{)\edef}(\egroup\string}))
\endgroup

That's it.  \term cannot be used in the argument to another command, 
just like \verb.

Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: WAGNER%CSEARN.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Zdenek Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: sorry
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:21:57 GMT
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I touched a wrong key so I mailed "set nomail" to the list instead of
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From: schuele@ubeclu.unibe.ch
Subject: Japanease TeX-Fonts
Reply-To: SCHUELE@HIST.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Bern, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:12:30 GMT



Looking for TeX-Fonts for Japanease Langugage (wji...fonts)
============================================================

I work on an international climate history database, that does allow to
print the results in any language the coding scheme has bee translated to
(including Russian Cyrllic, Greek etc) and to print remarks (foonotes) in any
original language. 

Unfortunatly our collaborator from Tokyo has never woked with TeX and is not
specialised in computing. I've tried to get Japanease fonts from several
servers, such as miki.cs.titech.ac.jp and poorman's Japanease from Washington
(blackbox.hacc.washington.edu), but there are just the makros to handle
Japanese, but NO FONTS. 

Yoshio Tagami uses SHIFT-JIS on DOS5.0/V and I easealy could include his text
in {\beginJapanease .... \endJapanease}, if the fonts would be available
somewhere. 

I work both on VAX/VMS and on DOS (for test-printouts). 


Can anyone help me with fonts? 


With all my regards and thanks in advance

Hannes (10-Sep-1992:19:56 MET)


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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Jgraph recommendation (Was Re: Graphing several sets of data)
Date: 7 Sep 1992 10:47:52 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

pstephan@mcs.kent.edu (Paul H. Stephan) writes:

>Also, I would like to include several sets of data on one graph with
>each set having different line or point symbols; is this possible?

>If I can't do the above I'll probably just end up printing the Excel
>graphs and paste them into my final paper.

I should recommend Jgraph here.
Jgraph is a excellent Unix tool for producing {e,}ps plots out
of script files.  It's easy to use for default-looking pictures,
and every detail can be controlled.  I've routinely used it
for > a year now for publication-quality graphics.  The author
regularly releases new versions (including bugfixes) and is very
helpful on email.

The eps it produces goes into LaTeX documents effortlessly.

Grab it from princeton.edu

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu