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From: 00r0ravichan@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Problems in FTPing from SHSU site
Date: 22 Jan 93 04:33:04 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

In article <1993Jan21.153023.13908@bsu-ucs>, 00r0ravichan@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
>               Problems in FTPing from SHSU
>               ============================
> 
> I have encountered problems in FTPing files from SHSU site.
> 
> I have used the following procedure to download files from
> SIMTEL site without any problems.
> 
> I have a VAX/VMS account and use FTP to anonymously login.
> I issue the command "binary" to set the transfer the file.
> Then I use the "get" command to get the file.
> I logout from the ftp site and start up VAX/VMS kermit server.
> I then use MS-Kermit to download the file to my PC.
    I do setup the kermit to be in binary file type mode.
> I then use PKunzip to unzip the file.
> Everything so far has worked fine (EXCEPT for SIMTEL index-creation
> and maintenance program for the MSDOS collection).
> 
> However, when I use the above procedure with SHSU, I get 
> the following error message:
> 
>  PKUNZIP: Warning: DVISPELL.ZIP - Error in ZIP use PKZipFix
> 
> When I use the UNZIP utility (that I downloaded from SHSU
> using the same procedure as above) issues the following error 
> message:
  (added the beginning part of error  message)
   Warning: Extra 267 bytes at beginning or within zipfile.
            (attempting to pass anyway)

> 
>   Error: Start of central directory not found; zipfile corrupt.
>    (Please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
>     appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled unzip properly)
> 
> Although the above message seems to make sense, I am lost as to 
> how to solve the problem.
> 
> On a related note, I used the pkunzip and unzip on other .zip files
> that I have downloaded from SIMTEL before. Everything seems to be fine.
> I have not changed any communications parameters on my PC and
> VAX/VMS ends.
> 
> Obviously, I am doing something wrong. HELP!
> 
> Also , How do I use UUNENCODED files and put them together under
> VAX/VMS, PC and UNIX platforms? 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help. Please e-mail your responses.
> 
> 
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From: sts6f@vortex.mech.virginia.edu (Sonya T. Smith)
Subject: Help - Helvetica font 
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:14:40 GMT

I apologize in advance if this is a FAQ; but would someone please tell me how to change
fonts from the default times-roman to helvetica?

Thanks,
Sonya

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From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Subject: Re: LaTeX:  TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=15000].
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:03:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.103924.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
writes:
|> In article <JOHN.93Jan19160650@sekrit.WPI.EDU>, john@sekrit.WPI.EDU
|> (John Stoffel) writes:
|>  
|> > I have a user at our site who it trying to latex his thesis.  He kept
|> > running out of space, so I increased the size of TeX and LaTeX by a
|> > fairly large amount, but it's still running out of space.  Here is the
|> > tail of the lo file:
|> 
|> > ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=15000].
|> 
|> This is an important enough question that it deserves an answer:
|> with the old [default] font selection scheme there is a design
|> choice that requires all font changes to be immediately closed in
|> braces: it's likely that the student's file has a lot of commands
|> like:
|>   \large ... \small ... \normalsize
|> rather than the preferred 
|>   {\large ...}{\small ...}
|> \boldmath can also cause this problem.
|> 
|> There's not enough information in your posting to tell for sure
|> that this is the problem, but every case of the stack size TeX
|> capacity exceeded message I have seen has been because of the
|> above problem.

I am afraid I don't believe it. This seems more likely to cause save
stack overflow than input stack overflow, if it causes any trouble at
all.

Input stack overflow, 999 times out of 1000 (at least), is caused by
indefinite recursion that will exhaust it however large you make it.
The canonical Plain TeX example is

    \def\recurse{\recurse\recurse}  \recurse

and there are of course many ways to do the equivalent in LaTeX with
\newcommand or \newenvironment, defining something in terms of itself
(possibly via other definitions). To diagnose the problem, you look
at TeX's backtrace in the error report (setting \errorcontextlines to
a large value if necessary so as not to miss anything). What is being
shown here *is* the input stack contents. With the above probability,
you will observe a simple repetitive structure in the stack entries.

Chris Thompson
Cambridge University Computing Service
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Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk
From: "Daniel H. Luecking" <DL24794%UAFSYSB.BITNET@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvidrv
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 15:09:21 CST
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List


> From: dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman)
> Subject: Re: need help in dvips (dos-version)
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:49:02 GMT
>
> In article <1993Jan26.203659.19059@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
> ruediger@leland.Stanford.EDU (ruediger dung) writes:
>
> |> I'm using EMTeX which works fine on my PC.
> |> I've also installed the dos-version of DVIPS.
> |> Using the command 'dvidrv dvips foo[.dvi]' leads
> |> only to the remark that this command is not known.
>
> I was puzzled by this also.  I suspect that this command is an error in the
> documentation for dvips, as the dvidrv package has dviscr.exe, dvidot.exe,
> etc., but no dvidrv.exe.  Can someone clarify what was meant in the
> documentation?  I run dvips in order to generate the dvips.mfj file, then

I believe dvidrv.exe is included in the beta test package
for dvidrv 1.4s found at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de in directory
pub/soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex/betatest in the file dvidrv_14s.zip

> run "mfjob dvips" to generate any needed fonts, and finally run "dviscr" to
> preview the dvi file.  I suspect that there is an easier way!
>
> Dave Beeman - dbeeman@dogstar.colorado.edu

Dan Luecking
From: asarti@roma.berkeley.edu (Augusto Sarti)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to buy or to get AMS-LaTeX source to compile on Textures?
Keywords: Textures, AMS-LaTeX
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:47:38 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
NNTP-Posting-Host: roma.berkeley.edu

A few months ago my wife and I got Lighting Textures 1.5 from Blue Sky
Research. Such a program includes among the available formats: plain
TeX, SliTeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, VirTeX and other things which are public
domain, but it does not contain AMS-LaTeX.  I actually don't know
whether this format is public domain as well, but I really would like
to get or to buy the source text file of it. Is there anybody who can
help me find it or who can give me any information about it?

Thank you very much

Augusto
From: dls@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Louis Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: How to interpret this TeX error message?
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:17:56 GMT
Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA


	I just reinstalled TeX and mf et al..I'm using the CRL
distribution.  

	How do I interpret this?

tex /usr/bermuda/local_lib/epoch/etc/refcard.tex
This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3
(/usr/bermuda/local_lib/epoch/etc/refcard.tex [1 column per page]
! Font \titlefont=cmbx10 scaled 1728 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again>
                   \relax
l.99   \font\titlefont=\fontname\tenbf \scaledmag3

?

289 bermuda:/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/tfm (3) :-) ll cmbx10*
-r--r--r--  1 root     daemon       1328 Jan 22 01:32 cmbx10.tfm

	Any such thing as a TeX test suite?  What "well-known" files
should pass with no errors with the CRL distribution?  If this in
the FAQ, clue me - I didn't zero in on anything that looked like this.
Thanks for any hints!

				Daniel

				Daniel
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           formerly dansmith@autodesk.com, changed my login recently
From: madavis@igc.apc.org (Marilyn Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Cut marks for half-sheet docs?
Date: 20 Jan 93 20:42:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1369800004:000:452
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!madavis    Jan 20 12:42:00 1993


I am making a half-sheet document -- 5.5in X 8.5in.  It prints out
on regular paper.  I need to put marks (maybe they're called printer's
marks) outside the half-sheet that show where I should cut the paper
to get the printing exactly square on my half-sheet.

I've been fiddling with LaTEX for a few days on this and am getting
frustrated.  If anyone could help me, I'd be forever grateful.

Thank you.

Marilyn Davis
Frontier Systems
madavis@igc.org
From: dulimart@cps.msu.edu (Hansye S. Dulimarta)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: space inside cite{....}
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:38:59 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ahmeek.cps.msu.edu
Originator: dulimart@ahmeek.cps.msu.edu

I'd like to get a LaTeX style that enables me to write citations like the
following:

\cite{ref1,
ref2, ref3}

That is, the reference could go beyond one line and seperated by space. I
know that {space,break}cites.sty exist, but BiBTeX complains about the
spaced entries in \citation{ref1, ref2, ref3} produced in the aux file. I
would expect that they should produce \citation{ref1,ref2,ref3} in the aux
file.

What am I missing here?

[I really appreciate if you could respond by e-mail, thanks]

Hans.
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From: mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Generate fonts on request
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:10:22 GMT
Organization: Math / CS, State Univ. of N. Y. College at Fredonia
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


	Is it possible to have TeX and MetaFONT  set up in such  a way
that uncommon  fonts or fonts at uncommon magnifications are generated
on demand, used, and then discarded?  I have  seen such a system on an
Amiga and  was  wondering if such a  set up is possible  under SUN OS.
Any  pointers would be welcome.  If you are already implementing it, I
would really like to get in touch with you.

	Thanks.

--
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(internet:) mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu

  >>> Dept. Of Math and C. S.                          <<<
  >>> State University of New York College at Fredonia <<<    
  >>> Fredonia, N.Y. 14063         (716) 673 3459      <<<
From: ykong3@ha10.eng.ua.edu (Yong Kong)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Problems with 2-column
Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:39:26 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Hi,

I have the following questions in LaTeX.

 Q1: How to ajust the space between two columns in the article
     style for twocolumn ?
 Q2: In twocolumn style, how to make part of the page a onecolumn
     for putting a large figure?
 Q3: How to ajust the size of the section title and the space
     between the section number and section title?
 Q4: How to change the size of a table?
 Q5: How to remove the space line between two paragraphs when \par
     is used?
  
Any help will be appreciated.

Please respond to ykong3@buster.eng.ua.edu

Thanks for your attention.
_____
Yong.
From: cvaitsos@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Constantin Vaitsos)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: texcad for unix ?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 20:57:04 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: cvaitsos@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Constantin Vaitsos)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bongo.cc.utexas.edu
Originator: cvaitsos@bongo.cc.utexas.edu

A friend of mine showed me TEXCAD on an IBM-PC.
Is there anything like this for Unix and where can I get it from ?
-- 
Constantin A. Vaitsos
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: Interrupt latex at filename prompt?
Organization: Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo, Norge
	<1443@se.alcbel.be>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:12:26 GMT

In article <1443@se.alcbel.be> cgra@btma74.nohost.nodomain (Chris Gray) writes:
>   StrunkTeX for Atari provides two handy files in the default directory:
>   null.tex is empty and quit.tex just contains a \bye. So instead of hitting
>   ^C (which does work, but kills TeX completely) you just answer with "null"
>   or "quit" and get back to command level. Create yourself these 2 files and
>   you will never have the "can't find" blues again.
>
>

null.tex should contain NOTHING (or a few commented-out lines of comments)

quit.tex should contain \end
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: lones@lones.mit.edu (Lones A. Smith)
Subject: What is \@svsec ?
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:47:35 GMT

latex.tex doesn't define what this and other commands/labels do or are....

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From: edgar@math.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: a better script "I" symbol than {\cal I} for null infinity "scri"
Date: 21 Jan 1993 06:25:03 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
NNTP-Posting-Host: function.mps.ohio-state.edu


The AMS fonts include a script alphabet.  Get them from e-math.ams.org.

Ralph Smith produced some more elaborate script letters, rsfs10 and so on.
Try the archives.
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: asr@insect.cis.ufl.edu (Allen S. Rout)
Subject: Tex for DOS question
Organization: UF CIS Department
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:18:50

Greetings, all.

	I picked up the EMTeX package from the .nl server, and am happily
setting out to use it.  However, I still have a few questions:


	1) How many fonts do I _need_ ?  I've been MFJobbing for DAYS now,
doing the " all" package.  

	2) What is the minimum set of files I would need to take, say dvidot,
to a remote site, pop in my disk, and get my output from it?  ( that is,
without making a full installation of EmTeX there ?

	3) Where in the docs can I find information about precisely what files
I can and can't get rid of for <my configuration> ?


		Thank you for your support.

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From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Blanks after a \newcommand!
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:05:10 GMT

I have put the following line in a LaTeX file.

    \newcommand{\evec}{\mbox {$\vec{E}$}}

along with a lot of commands for symbols I frequently use (so I can 
change the symbol easily if I so decide...

The problem is as follows.  When I say something

    The data base, \evec, is used to ...

all works well.

However when I say,

    The points in \evec are defined by ...

there is no space bewteen the bold "E" and the following word "are". 

I can remedy this by typing 

    The points in \evec\ are defined by ..

adding a space using "\ ".  However, is there any way for me to set
up my command in \newcommand to do this automatically (i.e., leave
a space if there is a following space, else not leave a space..

As, I do this for 50+ symbols in my thesis, it would really simplify
my task to avoid having to add "\ " every time...

Please send e-mail to bharat@cs.uiuc.edu or post in this newsgroup.

Thanks for your help,

bharat

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AI Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801   (217)-333-5978 (O), 337-6498(H)
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana
From: ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (John R Ruckstuhl Jr)
Subject: when is whitespace ignored by LaTeX?
Organization: EE Dept at UF
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 21:36:54 GMT

Would someone give me a few rules of thumb w.r.t. ignorable whitespace?

In LaTeX, I wrote something like:

    \begin{picture}(850,1100)

    \multiput(12,0)(200,0){2}{                  % 2 columns
        \multiput(0,883)(0,-133){7}{            % 7 rows
            \framebox(200,133){\parbox[b]{1.75in}{yakyak}}
        }
    }

    \end{picture}

but the frameboxes were about a character space right of where I wanted
them (relative to edge of the picture box).  Inserting a \noindent,
like:

    \multiput(12,0)(200,0){2}{                  % 2 columns
        \multiput(0,883)(0,-133){7}{\noindent   % 7 rows
            \framebox(200,133){\parbox[b]{1.75in}{yakyak}}
        }
    }

solved the problem, but is \noindent really sensible in a picture
environment?  Also, the following will work:

    \multiput(12,0)(200,0){2}{                  % 2 columns
\multiput(0,883)(0,-133){7}{\framebox(200,133){\parbox[b]{1.75in}{yakyak}}}
    }

but really, what's the right way to be able to use indentation for
readability?
And what about the trailing whitespace in my indentation style, between 
the end of the framebox command and the "}" on the next line.  Is it
ignored as I expected, or is it likely to bite me.

The local guru says this is magic, and after awhile I'll get a feeling
for when whitespace counts and when it doesn't, but I'm hoping someone
here can make the rules simple and clear for me.

Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
ruck
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Dept of Electrical Engineering          ruck@cis.ufl.edu, uflorida!ruck
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From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvilj, gs
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 17:27:14 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

I have a HP LJet IIIp connected to my unix box and want to do TeX output
on it.

One way I'm thinking of is going the way

TeX -> dvips -> gs -> lpr

another way would be

TeX -> dvilj2 -> lpr

Does anyone know how to get gs to produce LJ III output?


--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
*** Error code 1

Stop.

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From: <Healy@space50.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: backslash ?
Reply-To: <Healy@space50.nrl.navy.mil>
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:29:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan17.055312.17451@cs.uow.edu.au> humm@cs.uow.edu.au (Bernhard G Humm) writes:
> How do I print a backslash, e.g. in a \tt type style.

In LaTeX, try \verb, e.g.,
\verb/\/

Liam Healy

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: hatay@spot.Colorado.EDU (Ferhat F. Hatay)
Subject: PS anotated by TeX/LaTeX 
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:55:57 GMT


Is there any public domain or otherwise utility to 
insert TeX typeset anotations to the PostScript files?
Preferably on unix/xwindows or MS Windows.

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University of Colorado, Boulder        || otherwise indicated.      ||
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rjl@fawlty6.eng.monash.edu.au (Russell Lang)
Subject: Re: need help in dvips (dos-version)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:41:32 GMT

dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman) writes:

>In article <1993Jan26.203659.19059@leland.Stanford.EDU>, ruediger@leland.Stanford.EDU (ruediger dung) writes:

>|> I'm using EMTeX which works fine on my PC.
>|> I've also installed the dos-version of DVIPS.
>|> Using the command 'dvidrv dvips foo[.dvi]' leads
>|> only to the remark that this command is not known.

>I was puzzled by this also.  I suspect that this command is an error in the
>documentation for dvips, as the dvidrv package has dviscr.exe, dvidot.exe,
>etc., but no dvidrv.exe.

dvidrv is part of the beta test version of the dvidrv package.
Try getting betatest/dvidrv_14s.zip.

>Can someone clarify what was meant in the
>documentation?  I run dvips in order to generate the dvips.mfj file, then
>run "mfjob dvips" to generate any needed fonts, and finally run "dviscr" to
>preview the dvi file.  I suspect that there is an easier way!

The easier way is to use dvidrv to automate it.
v.bat says something like
   dvidrv dviscr %1 %2 %3 %4 ...
This works as follows:
1. dvidrv is a short program that calls 'dviscr -pjdv1.mfj %1 %2 %3 %4'
   where dv1.mfj is the name of a temporary mfjob file.
2. If there are missing fonts, dviscr writes dv1.mfj and 
   exits with errorlevel 8.  
3. dvidrv then calls mfjob with dv1.mfj
4. dvidrv then calls dviscr again.

Of course, the above only works with the betatest versions of dviscr,
dvidot etc.
dvips does the same thing if called with 'dvidrv dvips ...'

-- 
Russell Lang   Email: rjl@fawlty4.eng.monash.edu.au   Phone: (03) 565 3460
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Monash University, Australia
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: pgh@cs.brown.edu (Paul Howard)
Subject: Re: WANTED:  book on typesetting in general
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:23:07 GMT

In article <727113619snx@n5ial.mythical.com> jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) writes:

   I'm looking for a good book on general typesetting rules.  the intent
   here is to learn more about typesetting itself, which will then allow me
   to do better work with TeX.  I'm not interested in a book that teaches
   me how to run a typesetter, but rather, things to do and not to do when
   typesetting (with whatever you happen to be using).

I just bought a copy of "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert
Bringhurst.  It talks about book layout, page layout, punctuation,
font selection, history of typefaces, etc., in an only mildly
prescriptive way.  It sounds as though this might fit the bill for
you.  It's a new book (copyright 1992), and not too expensive ($14.95
US in paperback).  For what it's worth, on the back cover Hermann Zapf
says that he hopes this book becomes the Typographer's Bible.

One thing Bringhurst does say that caught my attention is that you
should buy ONE typeface family and get to know it very well.  "One good
typeface is better than an infinite number of mediocre ones." or words
to that effect.

-- Paul
--
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email pgh@cs.brown.edu    phone 401-863-7672    FAX 401-863-7657    ham KA1YNE