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From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Latex & HP LaserJet III Si
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:49:43 GMT
Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

In article <1992Nov5.173028.19564@tamsun.tamu.edu> peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram) writes:
>   We have a HP Laser Jet III Si working in the postscript
>   mode.  We use dvips for generating postscript from Latex.
>   Some of the PostScript files do not print on this
>   machine, whereas they seem to do fine on a QMS printer.
>   How can I fix this problem ?  Any pointers/solutions
>   are greatly appreciated.
>
>   Suresh
>

Try to pick up a good errorhandler and see what it tells you.

I had similar problems with Macintosh PostScript that would print to
almost any printer (QMS, DEC LN03, Kodak Lionheart, Apple LaserWriter,
Linotronic) but choked the stack of the HP LJ III Si. Apparently, the
stack isn't high enough.

When I called HP they told me they couldn't help me because HP (that's HP
Norway) doesn't support the Mac. Until I get a positive answer as to what
the cause of the problem is, and how it can be fixed (apparently it can't,
the stack size is machine-dependent and hardcoded) I plain don't recommend
the HP LJ III Si.

If the cause of your problem turns up to be the same, and if you or HP
find a solution, I'd be glad to know.


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From: pcolsen@super.org (Peter C Olsen)
Subject: Using Font Libraries in EmTeX
Organization: Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:07:22 GMT


Can someone give me a pointer or two about configuring dvihplj to use
font libraries?  I've been trying like mad, but I seem not to have
found the trick.  My program finds the *single* files fine, but it
will not find the fonts in the libraries.  (I'm pretty sure the
libraries are OK because I downloaded them from Stuttgart.)

Peter

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From: melvin@math.psu.edu (Richard Mansfield)
Subject: TeX source for 386 DOS
Reply-To: melvin@math.psu.edu
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:16:35 GMT

I have the C language source files for TeX made by web2c tweaked to compile
with the MS-DOS gcc compiler.  The resulting initex and virtex run maybe a
little faster than the 16 bit versions of TeX (sbtex and emtex) but have the
full capacity of Unix TeX. They run only on 386 or 486 machines and require
the go32 DOS extender supplied with gcc.

If you want these source files use anonymous ftp to ftp.math.psu.edu and look
in directory pub/melvin/pctex. Get the files read.me read.me2, and tex.zip.
initex.exe, virtex.exe, tex.pool, set-tex.bat are the executables.
From: zubair@venus.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: help expand memory on latex
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:50:06 GMT
Organization: Yale Computer Center (YCC)


I have a question for a LaTeX wizard.


I have been running into the following memory problem when using LateX. 
I have gone through the manual but it seems I couldnt reduce the memory 
allocation perhaps because of a large number of cross-referencing which I 
need. How do you increase the memory allocation of  LateX or do you know 
where I  can find the documentation. 

I have looked at the pertinent section of the FAQ but was still unable to 
figure out what I should do. I figure that some alterations have to be made 
to some input files and that then I have to recompile the executable files. 
I am however ignorant on many aspects of the setup because I did not set it 
up. Could some wiz enlighten me on what I should do.

This is the pertinent section from the .lis file. 
--------------------------------------------------------------
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=2500].
\@testdef ...ndafter \ifx \csname #1@#2\endcsname
                                                  \@tempa \else \
@tempswatru...
l.692 \bibcite{UJ91}{20}

If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.


Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 679 strings out of 2509
 8735 string characters out of 29443
 48626 words of memory out of 65501
 2500 multiletter control sequences out of 2500
 19304 words of font info for 73 fonts, out of 35000 for 100
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 307
---------------------------------------------------------------





Thanks,
Lareef
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: HELP - installation of rsfs fonts
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:59:54 GMT

pmisra@desire.wright.edu writes:

>I downloaded Ralph Smiths rsfs*.mf fonts from labrea and have
>successfully installed them (well almost). While the system
>has all the necessary files for TeXing documents with rsfs
>fonts, it tends to print the letters about 1 in. high. Could
>someone who has them working drop me a line telling how to
>fix this. Thanks in advance for your help.

I use the following style file (with LaTeX + NFSS),
which I cogged (stole) I think from euler.sty.
Then I can just say (in math mode) eg \rsfs{C} .

================== rsfscript.sty =======================

\typeout{Style Option: `rsfscript'}
\@ifundefined{selectfont}
     {\@latexerr{`rsfscript' style option can only be used
                  with the new font selection scheme}\@eha
      \endinput}{}
\new@fontshape{rsfs}{m}{n}{%
   <5>rsfs5%
   <6>rsfs5 at6pt%
   <7>rsfs7%
   <8>rsfs7 at8pt%
   <9>rsfs7 at9pt%
   <10>rsfs10%
   <11>rsfs10 at10.95pt%
   <12>rsfs10 at12pt%
   <14>rsfs10 at14.4pt%
   <17>rsfs10 at17.28pt%
   <20>rsfs10 at20.74pt%
   <25>rsfs10 at24.88pt}{}

\extra@def{rsfs}{}{\noaccents@}
\def\RsfScript{\protect\pRsfScript}
\def\pRsfScript{\RIfM@\expandafter\RsfScript@\else
                 \expandafter\nonmatherr@\expandafter\RsfScript\fi}
\newmathalphabet\RsfScript@
\addtoversion{normal}\RsfScript@{rsfs}{m}{n}
\addtoversion{bold}\RsfScript@{rsfs}{m}{n}
\def\RIfM@{\relax\protect\ifmmode}

\endinput

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: MF font tweaking for photo-reduction?
From: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Jeremy Gibbons)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:03:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
Cc: jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz

In <1dgun4INN4fb@uwm.edu> andrew@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andy Biewer) writes:

>I am currently working on a document which, when published, will be a
>photo-reduced version of a 300dpi printed copy.  Thus, 12pt will be reduced
>to approximately 10pt (I don't know the exact percentage of the reduction.)
>
>What I would like to know is if anyone has tweaked the cm fonts (and others)
>for such a process, such that, when the 300dpi fonts are reduced they don't
>look so rough?  If not, which parameters within METAFONT should I play with?
>Or, what other suggestions might you lend?

I don't see why you need to change any MF parameters. If X is the type size
that photographic reduction transforms to 10pt (so your reduction is by
10/X), you just want to produce cmr10 at (300*X/10)dpi, so that when it is
reduced it comes out at 10pt (assuming you want the final version to be
10pt). Something like

   mf "\mode:=localfont; mag:=X/10; input cmr10"

Jeremy

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From: jaffe@hoss.unl.edu (David Jaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: mathtime.sty: subscripts in toc bomb
Date: 8 Nov 1992 19:47:54 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
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When using mathtime.sty, how does one get subscripts into the table of 
contents?  I tried to use \addcontentsline with something involving $K_0$,
and got an error message about \subscript being undefined.

David Jaffe (jaffe@hoss.unl.edu)
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
From: jcb@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvips-5.495 and Linotronic (buggy tex.pro?)
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:26:41 GMT
Reply-To: jcb@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

I'm trying to use dvips-5.495 with the supplied config.lino to produce
output for a Linotronic, using -t film1 -T 12in,9.5in .
Unfortunately, it bombs with undefined command hsize. This is
reasonable, since as far as I can see, /hsize and /vsize are defined
by the @start macro, and the page setup is done before @start is
called. Before I try to do it myself, does anybody have a working
tex.lpro for the variable paper size setting?
From: <MELCHIOR%CFRUNI52.BITNET@CEARN.cern.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Seeking PSFIG and DVIPS for Mac
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 16:16 N
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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Is there some Macintosh version of the packages PSFIG and DVIPS ?
(probably running under MPW, the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop!!!).
Thanks for any hints.

Melchior Ndarugendamwo
LIUF-Laboratoire d'Informatique
Universite de Fribourg
Chemin du Musee 3
1700 FRIBOURG (Suisse)

e-mail : melchior@cfruni52.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Subject: Re: Getting to put figures at the back of every section
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:16:46 GMT
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

>>>>> anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo) (APA) writes:


APA> I'm using article.sty for a medium sized document, and I'd like to 
APA> put all the figures at the end of each section, starting on a new page.
APA> I would also like to ensure that each section starts on a new page, so the
APA> effect will be:

APA> Section 1: TEXT

APA> Section 1: FIGS

APA> Section 2: TEXT

APA> Section 2: FIGS

APA> etc.

You can use endfloat.sty for this. By default it puts all floats at the end
of the article, but it has commands like \processfigures that I think you
can use.


APA> Help.  My prof. is complaining that the style I'm using (report.sty) puts
APA> too much space in everything!

there is a (dutch) sober.sty that gets rid of most of the superfluous white
space.

How to get endfloat.sty and sober.sty from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

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    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
      Don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
      compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get TEX/latexstyle/endfloat.sty
    get TEX/NTG/sober.sty

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
    send TEX/latexstyle/endfloat.sty
    send TEX/NTG/sober.sty
    end

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From: carson@cs.columbia.edu (Carson A. Gaspar)
Subject: HELP: I can't figure out \mark
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:16:09 GMT

Can some kind soul give me a simple example of how to use \mark?
Nothing I try seems to work, and the TeXbook is very sketchy about it.

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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Backward Letters in TeX?
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 23:57:21 GMT

   I want to print a short piece of English text backwards, including
having each letter facing the wrong way.  I assume there's no way to
do this in plain TeX without defining a special font containing
"backward letters"...?  Does such a font exist?

   Email to siegman@sierra.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.hp
From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
Subject: How does PStricks work?
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:35:16 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

I would like to know the idea behind PStricks.  Am I right in assuming
it is extending the TeX/LaTeX repertoire by using \specials's?  If so,
how do these specials look?  I have seen \special{ps:...} type of
specials in some LaTeX files but don't know if they belong to PStricks.

Unfortunately I have been unable to LaTex and print out the PStricks
documentation I have.

Thanks in advance for any (short) info.

Bo
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From: schneid@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Schneider)
Subject: equation numbers in LaTeX
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:31:35 GMT

I am using \documentstyle[12pt]{article} and a quick glance 
at the LaTeX book doesn't help me figure out how to get
equation numbers the way I want (a quick glance at that book
never helped anyone with anything).

I want equation numbers like 1.1, 1.2, etc. instead of 
1, 2, 3 etc.  I am setting the equation counter to 0
and the beginning of each section but of course all that
does is 1,2,3,0,1,2,3,4,0,1...

HELP!  A quick fix is all I need. (TeX fix that is)
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From: asnd@reg.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to lower a subscript?
Date: 12 Nov 1992 04:57 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <lestrade.721513005@Ra.MsState.Edu>, lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade) writes...
>In an in-line equation, viz., $t_\theta$, the theta is a bit to high
>(for my taste).  I have tried to lower it through $t_{\lower
>1ex\hbox{\theta}}$, but that obviously doen't work.  Any help
>would be appreciated.

Two (no, three) answers.

First, John's approach fixed:
  $t_{\lower 1ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle\theta$}}$

Which is not a good approach.  Better is: 

  $t_{\theta}^{\vphantom{+}}$

where the \theta moves down for the imaginary +.  This gives ragged subscripts
though.  Here is the approach I use for getting nicely even subscripts in 
chemistry; and since they are lower, I like them better in math too!

%   Constant height subscripts for chemistry:
%      #1 = font
%      #2 = minimum subs lowering 
%      #3 = minimum super raising
\def\ScriptHeight#1#2#3{\fontdimen16#1=#2 \fontdimen17#1=#2 %
     \ifdim \fontdimen15#1<#3 \fontdimen15#1=#3 \fi%
     \ifdim \fontdimen14#1<#3 \fontdimen14#1=#3 \fi%
     \ifdim \fontdimen13#1<#3 \fontdimen13#1=#3 \fi%
     }

   \ScriptHeight\tensy{2.08pt}{4.86444pt}%
   \ScriptHeight\sevsy{1.706pt}{3.94955pt}% 
   \ScriptHeight\fivsy{2.3pt}{3.35555pt}% 
   \ScriptHeight\twlsy{2.5pt}{5.83333pt}%
   \ScriptHeight\egtsy{2.04666pt}{4.74pt}% 
   \ScriptHeight\sixsy{2.76pt}{4.02666pt}% 


-- Using the old LaTeX font names.

Donald Arseneau        asnd@reg.triumf.ca
From: Bernd Raichle <raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX for the IBM RISC 6000 workstn
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 09:54:47 +0100
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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muehlenw@ifmsun3.ifm.uni-hamburg.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg) said on
Thu, 12 Nov 92 10:49:44 MET in a reply to "ron miller" at Nov 11, 92 3:05 pm:
>> Does anyone know of a company that sells TeX and LaTeX for the IBM RISC
>> 6000 workstations?  Thanks.

> You can use the normal UNIX-Distribution for TeX and MF
> (src-5.851) --- TeX 3.141 + MF 2.71 = 5.851
[..]
> If you compile with IBM xlc 1.2.0.0 it is important to compile
> *WITHOUT* optimization. I did so, and all is working.

Either use a newer version of `xlc' or when compiling TeX, recompile
the file containing the function `getnext()' (it is in `tex/tex2.c')
without optimization.  Compile all other parts *with* optimizations.
I have done this following these steps:
  - in the toplevel directory of `web2c' say `make' (or `make TeX')
    to compile all (or TeX only)
  - use `rm tex/tex2.o' to delete the object file
  - make TeX with `make "coptimize=" TeX'

(A TeX version compiled by a C compiler with this optimizer bug
reports an undefined control sequence error when the first control
sequence is read.)


As compiler use `bsdcc' ("To use the compiler as bsdcc, link /bin/xlc
to /bin/bsdcc."...) with the following change in `Makefile' after the
configuration step of web2c:

	CC = bsdcc -DSCHAR_TYPE="signed char"

(the definition of SCHAR_TYPE should be unnecessary in newer versions
of web2c)


> In some programs in "texware" --- pltotf.web, tftopl.web for example ---
> is defined "class", but its predefined by xlc 1.2.0.0, so you have to define
> @d class==newclass
> and all will work.

There is a problem while compiling pltotf.c and vftovp.c (perhaps
there are more programs), because there is a collision between "extern
int class();" (declared in <math.h>) and the field "class[..]" in
these programs.

My quick&dirty fix: Compile it with -D_POSIX_SOURCE, but with this
definition, `ushort' is undefined for mf/MFwindow/x11.c.


-bernd
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From: wk@isys-hh.hanse.de (Wolfgang Kramper)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: null
Date: 10 Nov 92 04:22:10 GMT
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From: flabes@parsytec.de (Oliver Imbusch)
Subject: Distance to right margin
Summary: How to find out the distance to the right margin
Keywords: TeX LaTeX
Organization: Parsytec Computer GmbH
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:45:10 GMT

  I want to draw a \framebox from `the actual cursor position' to the
  right margin. How can I find out the right value?

Thanx in advance

Oliver Imbusch, flabes@parsytec.de
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
Subject: Re: Query: kerns, accents, ligatures
Organization: Institutt for Humanistisk Informatikk, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:53:58 GMT

In article <11396@leonard.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski) writes:
 	[ Stuff about ligatures and kerning deleted ]

... and that's why I use PostScript fonts. In (most of) them, the accented
characters are supplied as letters in their own right, complete with
kerning information. 

One common problem with the \'e-like constructs stems from thir being
tailored for Computer Modern - \AA in Times doesn't look right (try it).  

Why TeX ignores kerning, and avoids hyphenation in the \'e -like macros I
don't know, but I sure would like to.

:-(*) Oh, and a final note: In Danish and Norwegian, \aa, \ae and \o are
not ligatures, they're letters. They are very common. Designing a
256-glyph font that lacks these three characters is a crime. :-()
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From: barr@triples.Math.McGill.CA
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: HPLJ4
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:21:58 GMT
Organization: Info-Tex<==>Comp.Text.Tex Gateway
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HP is now selling a reasonably priced 600dpi printer.  What is this going
to mean for the TeX world?  How much better than 300dpi is 600dpi?
Will all printer drivers have to be rewritten?  Will I now have to
devote 40Meg of disk space to fonts, instead of 10?  Will this finally
lead to the end of .pk files and the rise of automatic ps (or other)
font scaling?  I'd like to hear what some others have to say
on these questions.

Michael Barr
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: orloff@surya4.cern.ch (Jean Orloff)
Subject: \inserts Was: Psfig/TeX with plain TeX
Organization: CERN, European Research Center for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:33:57 GMT

>>>>> On 5 Nov 92 19:26:05 GMT, khbg2313@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kenneth H. Beown) said:

K> Does anyone use psfig/TeX to include postscript figures in TeX
K> documents?  I'm trying to include figures, and I would like to be
K> able to give the command for inserting the figure \psfig{...} and
K> then have TeX place the figure at the top of the current or
K> succeeding page and have TeX appropriately wrap text around the
K> figure, e.g. if the figure is going to be place at the top of the
K> next page, TeX should pull text from after the command \psfig{...}
K> to fill the preceding page.  Can someone tell me home to do this
K> please.  Thanks in advance.

What you want is precisely what \insert's are made for (read the
TeXbook). However \inserts are sometime surprising. For instance,
\midinsert is supposed to put your figure at the current point
(between 2 paragraphs) if there is enough vspace, or at the top of the
next page otherwise (if there is no \insert coming from the previous
page). Apparently, I heard of deviations to this: things like finding
the insert 2 pages away for no apparent reason.

If what you want is really wrap the text around the figure, like what
you commonly see in WHYSIWHYG's like Word, the problem is more
serious, and to my knowledge, nothing really solid exists. So come on
TeX-hackers, you don't want your baby to be beaten by WHYSIWHYG's,
come up with something!

Jean
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