(Message texhax/v92:12) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 18:24:15 BST To: TeXhax Distribution: ; From: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #012 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world TeXhax Digest Thursday, 25 Jun 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 012 Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: Typesetting for Theses (TeXhax Digest V92 #009) Overlaying postscript figures with LaTeX fragments Latex or Tex in Japanese Download fonts from unix Use of the FAQ posting (was: LaTeX hyphenation problems) DeskTop and Electronic Publishing in Astronomy and Space Sciences LaTEX Re: LaTEX Re: Not exactly a submission ... Bibtex is driving me nuts Problems with PiCTeX in LaTeX Re: dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC, Re: PC version of tex Looking for files Looking for a few things plain.tex won't INI !!! Regulations for theses: microfilming dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC Re: Fonts - need 17th century font set Style updates on FILESERV/Niord MS-DOS compiled versions of ZIP/UNZIP on FILESERV/Niord SPAN access to FILESERV/Niord FLOAT on FILESERV/Niord ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 17:16:45 -0800 From: mackay@edu.washington.cs Subject: Typesetting for Theses (TeXhax Digest V92 #009) Keywords: theses, regulations To follow up on David Rhead's very useful remarks, I should like to ask whether any antiquarians within reach of TeXhax can locate some history of the fight (which must have occurred) over allowing the grubby mechanical typescript to be submitted as a final copy of the thesis in the first place. I'll bet it was fierce, and it is richly comic to have Graduate School Bureaucrats now standing firmly in the way of a return to typesetting quality---and they do. Properly spaced typesetter fonts look terrible when printed with typewriter linespacing. If that is what your Graduate School insists on, you might just as well set everything in Adobe Courier, and have done with it. Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software should be sent primarily to: elisabet@max.u.washington.edu Elizabeth Tachikawa otherwise to: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay Smail: Northwest Computing Support Center TUG Site Coordinator for Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10 Unix-flavored TeX University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-6259 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 18:11:49 -0800 From: Craig Barratt Subject: Overlaying postscript figures with LaTeX fragments Keywords: LaTeX, postscript, overlay, ghostscript, dvips I have written some LaTeX macros that make it easy to overlay postscript figures with fragments of LaTeX. I use these macros to place nice LaTeX equations and math symbols on top of postscript figures. The macros are available via anonymous ftp as described below. Description: * PsFrag is a set of LaTeX macros for overlaying postscript figures with fragments of LaTeX. More precisely, the PsFrag macros allow specific pieces of postscript text in a postscript figure (included via \epsfbox or \special) to be replaced with arbitrary fragments of LaTeX. When your document is latex'ed and dvips'ed, each piece of postscript text is replaced by the LaTeX text. The postscript file might be produced, for example, by xfig, idraw, matlab, xmath, etc. Each string displayed by postscript's show operator is a candidate for replacement by LaTeX text, math symbols, equations, pictures etc. For example, you can include a matlab plot in a LaTeX document with the title, axis labels, and legend generated by LaTeX. The LaTeX fragments can be optionally rotated, scaled, and repositioned relative to the text being replaced. The LaTeX fragments automatically track the postscript text position as the scaling and offsets of the \special or \epsfbox are changed. * PsFrag consists of four files: - epsf.sty: a slightly modified version of the original epsf.tex that supports PsFrag. It's upward compatible with the old version, so it should work just the same when used without PsFrag. - psfrag.sty: contains the psfrag macros. - ps2psfrag: a shell script that uses ghostscript to find out the position, orientation and content of each piece of text that a particular postscript file displays (shows). This has to be run once for each postscript figure. - ps2psfrag.ps: a postscript file used by ps2psfrag. * PsFrag is available via anonymous ftp from isl.stanford.edu (36.60.0.10). After logging in, cd to the directory pub/boyd/psfrag, and set binary mode. Get the compressed tar file psfrag.tar.Z, uncompress it, and tar xvf it: uncompress psfrag.tar.Z tar xvf psfrag.tar (The uncompressed tar file occupies about 60K.) See the files README, USAGE, INSTALL for detailed information. * Note: PsFrag uses ghostscript (gs) and assumes that your dvi to ps driver is Tomas Rokicki's dvips. Nothing will work if you don't have these programs. Craig Barratt craig@isl.stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 22:34:33 -0800 From: aotani@edu.berkeley.math (masayasu aotani) Subject: Latex or Tex in Japanese Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, Japanese, languages Does anyone know how to typeset Japanese using Tex ? Our local gurus cannot provide any help on this one. Please help us. - -M. AOTANI ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Jun 92 16:25:26 -0600 From: glenn@com.wri Subject: Download fonts from unix Keywords: fonts, PostScript, download Is there a way to download fonts to an apple laser printer from a unix file server? What would this way be, how could I obtain it? thanks. glenn@wri.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 15:09:55 +0000 From: Chris Thompson Subject: Use of the FAQ posting (was: LaTeX hyphenation problems) Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, hyphenation, FAQ In TeXhax digest #10, Rachelle Edmond writes: > ... A particular problem arose when a LaTeX file > was processed on an Ultrix machine, running TeX v3.14: the > hyphenation mechanism broke words in parculiar places: > > (i.e.: ... application of geostatistical method- > ==> s, we invite you to...). > > This is not the case on any of the other machines I tested > running TeX v3.1 or v3.14 (Suns, SGIs & DECs). This a golden oldie (well, middle-agedie, perhaps) for many of us, of course: No criticism of the poster implied. It is succinctly covered in the monthly comp.text.tex FAQ ("frequently asked questions", for the acronym-challenged) posting: > 28) TeX and LaTeX are hyphenating words weirdly. What can I do? > > You have a version mismatch problem. The hyphenation algorithm changed > between version 2.9 and 3.0. If you are using TeX version 3.0 or > later, make sure that you have plain.tex and lplain.tex files with > a version number of at least 3.0. The technical details: in TeX 3.0 and later there are integer parameters \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin which must be set to 3 and 2 to achieve the same effect as in earlier versions of TeX. As a result of an unfortunate (IMHO) design decision, INITeX leaves them set to zero; hence you need an (l)plain.tex that sets them properly. If you don't know what (l)plain.tex your format file was made with, check \fmtversion (and/or the values of \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin directly). Of course, the observed effect could theoretically be due to some other problem with (La)TeX. But it never is... I would recommend that even those who don't, can't, or won't follow all of comp.text.tex (and I have been in all three categories myself at various times) should get their hands on a copy of the FAQ. If you don't have access to USENET, then you can use anonymous ftp from pub/usenet/news.answers/tex-faq at pit-manager.mit.edu (18.172.1.27) or send an e-mail message containing the line ``SENDME FAQ.'' to fileserv@shsu.edu (or fileserv@shsu.bitnet) Acknowledgement: the FAQ posting is maintained by Bobby Bodenheimer , to whom many thanks are due. Chris Thompson Cambridge University Computing Service JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 15:06:44 +0000 From: Andre HECK Subject: DeskTop and Electronic Publishing in Astronomy and Space Sciences Keywords: Conference, proceedings The proceedings of the colloquium "Desktop Publishing in Astronomy and Space Sciences" held in Strasbourg, France, from October 1 to 3, 1991, are now available from World Scientific, Singapore (Ed. A. Heck, xii + 240 p., ISBN 981-02-0915-0). Refer to TeXhax Disgest issues V91 #014 & #026 for announcements of this meeting. The proceedings offer also the results of the survey carried out beforehand (refer to TeXhax Digest issue V91 #027). The returned questionnaires concern about 3,700 persons from more than 160 institutions in 23 countries. They point to a majoritarian use of TeX and associated packages on machines approximately equally distributed among PCs and compatible machines, DEC computers and SUN stations. This rough tendency has however to be nuanced by the discussion presented in the proceedings and by the comments reported from the questionnaires. Next September, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is organizing another conference entitled "Astronomy from Large Databases - II" with sponsors including NASA, ESA, ESO, CNRS, CNES, IAPR and other institutions. A specific session will be devoted to intelligent information retrieval with reports on the latest status of desktop and electronic publishing in astronomy and space sciences. Interested persons can receive more information on both the proceedings of last year DTP meeting and this year ALD-II conference by contacting A. Heck at heck@ccsmvs.u-strasbg.fr or heck@frccsc21.bitnet or by fax at +33 (France) - 88.49.12.55. Please provide fax number and/or postal address if you wish to receive full documentation on paper. Andre HECK -+- * Phone (direct) +33-88.35.82.22 Observatoire Astronomique * Phone (Secretary) +33-88.35.82.18 11, rue de l'Universite -+- * Fax (direct) +33-88.49.12.55 F-67000 Strasbourg * -+- Fax (Secretary) +33-88.25.01.60 France -+- * * Telex 890506 starobs f ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 12:07:51 -0500 From: charlie@com.grumman.gdstech (Charlie Cusenza) Subject: LaTEX Keywords: LaTeX, archives Hello, Where can I access the latest version of LaTEX? What Anonymous FTP sites exist? thanks Charles Cusenza ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 18:03:57 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: LaTEX Keywords: LaTeX, archives, FAQ In message <9206151607.AA20378@gdstech.grumman.com> of 15 Jun 92 12:07:51 EDT, Charlie Cusenza said: > Hello, Where can I access the latest version of LaTEX? What Anonymous > FTP sites exist? This is covered in item 22 of the TeX Frequently Asked Questions list, posted regularly in USENET newsgroup comp.text.tex. You can get a copy using anonymous ftp to pit-manager.mit.edu, fetching file pub/usenet/news.answers/tex-faq; or by mail to fileserv@shsu.edu, sending a message containing "SENDME FAQ." (without quotes). - --David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 10:43:50 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: Not exactly a submission ... Keywords: archives, ftp, UK TeX Archive, Aston In message <9206141031.AA14090@netcom.netcom.com> of 14 Jun 92 3:31:11 PDT, Harry Bartholomew said: > Rather more a question, I've tried to get back issues as described on the > last page of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 9]. The following is a captured > log of my failure. What is my mistake ? > > Terminal type is vt100 > {Netcom:52} ftp tex.ac.uk > Connected to tex.ac.uk. > 220 TeX.ac.uk CMU-Tek FTP for UCX (V1.3-2, 11 Nov 1991) ready. > Name (tex.ac.uk:bart): anonymous > 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. > Password: > 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. > ftp> cd .tex.digests.texhax.90 tex.ac.uk is a VAX running VMS, which means (unfortunately) you have to use VMS directory syntax to navigate the filestore. You should enclose the directory spec in square brackets... cd [.tex.digests.texhax.90] for example. Changing up a directory level is accomplished by "cd [-]" or your ftp client probably supports the syntax-independent command "cdup". - --David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 07:47:54 -0800 From: carlos@edu.berkeley.argon (Carlos Mastrangelo) Subject: Bibtex is driving me nuts Keywords: BibTeX, IEEE, numbered references Hi There TeXFolks, I am trying to use latex to prepare all my written documents. I use bibtex very often to do the automatic sorting and numbering of references. I use the ieee format ieeetr.sty. One problem that is a big nuissance is that when numbering multiple references, the program inserts [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] instead than the much better way of [1-7] Have you solve this problem ? Is there something easy that can be done to fix this very bad bug ? Thanks a lot Carlos H. Mastrangelo Ford Motor Co. Scientific Research Labs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 17:44:25 +0100 From: sven@se.gu.ling (Sven Stroemqvist) Subject: Problems with PiCTeX in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, PiCTeX Hi, I'm a devoted LaTeX user since 1989. I'm associate prof of linguistics at the Univ of Gothenburg, Sweden, where we have a net with SUNs and Sparcs and, of course, TeX for those of us who like that sort of thing. Now to my problem: I've recently started to work on a SparcBook and everything works to my satisfaction except that PicTeX won't work for me. When I try to process my old TeX documents which have prepictex, pictex and postpictex as include files, the process stops when it is in the middle of the pictex.tex input file. More precisely, there are two lines in that input filea in relation to the which there is an error message: 1) the line starting "\setplotsymbol... " and the line "\setshadesymbol...". The error message is: "!Undefined control se quence" But, why?! I need a Wizard to help me out on this one. Yours, Sven Stromqvist Dept of Linguistics, Univ of Gothenburg sven@ling.gu.se ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 16:26:01 +0100 From: Wolfgang Ratzka Subject: Re: dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC, Re: PC version of tex Keywords: TeX, PC, implementation, DVI, dot-matrix, printers, drivers > I am looking for the cheapest possible combination of > dot-matrix printer and driver for PC-compatibles. - -------- > Does anyone know where I can get a freeware version of the above? You might want to try emTeX, which comes with a collection of drivers It is free and supports virtually any dot-matrix printer on the market. (It can be configured to work even with exotic models --- as long as they are capable of printing graphics.) emTeX should be available around the usual FTP sites, e.g. (I copied the following from an emTeX README file). at rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de in soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.emtex] archive.cs.ruu.nl in TEX/emtex utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp in TeX/emtex ponder.csci.unt.edu in pub/TeX/EmTeX It will save you time if you don't even try to use DOSTeX. ______________________________________________________ Wolfgang Ratzka X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de ratzka@vax1.rz.uni-regensburg.dbp.de SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 13:48:09 -0800 From: carlos@edu.berkeley.argon (Carlos Mastrangelo) Subject: Looking for files Keywords: LaTeX, styles Subject: Looking for a few things Hi There, Thanks a lot to all of you who responded to my earlier request. I am looking for the following : rangecite.sty and citesort.sty I am also looking for the IBM_PC EXECUTABLES of the dvi driver for the canon printers. Do you know where I may get these from ? Unix system is prefered. Carlos Mastrangelo carlos@nectar.srl.ford.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 11:59:39 +0000 From: pflynn@ie.ucc.curia (Peter Flynn) Subject: plain.tex won't INI !!! Keywords: TeX, installation, INITEX, plain.tex <*scream*> Having pestered the life out of Sebastian trying to get src-5.851c TeX to compile on my Sun, and *finally* got it bodged to work, I now try make formats and it gags on plain.tex. I really can't believe this: curia# make formats cd tex; TEXPOOL=.; export TEXPOOL; make formats="tex.fmt latex.fmt etex.fmt" fo r mats ./initex plain \\dump This is TeX, C Version 3.141 (INITEX) (/usr/local/lib/tex/macros/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions, Runaway definition? - ->{\vbox {\ialign {$\m@th \scriptstyle ##$\crcr \not \mathrel ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000]. l.792 \not\mathrel{ \mkern14mu}\crcr No pages of output. Transcript written on plain.log. *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `tex.fmt' Current working directory /tools/tex/src-5.851c/tex *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `stamp-formats' curia# Everything was compiled with gcc-2.2 and worked fine, once I'd got the hang of using -traditional and running gcc's fixincludes. The plain.tex I'm using came from Aston yesterday: it INITEXes just fine under emTeX on my PC. Help! ///Peter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 13:13:18 +0000 From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nott.vme Subject: Regulations for theses: microfilming Keywords: theses, regulations In TeXhax V92, #011, Ralph Johnson suggests that Cornell, U. of Illinios, and perhaps other places specify double-spacing because the authorities at these places imagine that double-spacing is "necessary" for microfilming. In the UK, theses are microfilmed by the British Library. The British Library was represented on the committee that recently re-drafted the relevant British Standard, BS 4821, and the standard was drafted with microfilming in mind. It says "at least one [copy] should be of a quality suitable for microfilming, and therefore should follow the recommendations in 4.2 to 4.6 and 7.1". Section 4.2 is concerned with colour. Section 4.3 is concerned with quality of reproduction. Sections 4.4-4.6 say (in effect) "use white A4 paper that is sufficiently opaque". Section 7.1 says "size of character used in the main text ... should be not less than 2.0 mm for capitals and 1.5 mm for x-height". Thus line-spacing does not seem to be a matter of specific concern for microfilming. (For "typeset" theses, the BS requires "enough space between lines to allow people ease of horizontal scanning" and "the space between lines at any point should be not less than the space between words". But these requirements are there anyway, not specifically for microfilming.) So, on this limited evidence, it looks to me as though UK micro-filmers are concerned about SOME ASPECTS of a thesis that wouldn't concern "normal readers" --- but inter-line spacing ISN'T ONE OF THESE ASPECTS that are of extra concern to micro-filmers. Also microfilm-ers microfilm newspapers (e.g., you can get "The Times" on micro-something), so I assume that standard typesetter line-spacing is OK in that situation. If the British Library, as represented on the British Standards committee, doesn't wish to specify any extra requirements for line-spacing for microfilming (over and above the line-spacing requirements for "ordinary reading"), I'd guess that University Microfilms too would say that they are more concerned about character size and print quality than about having line-spacing that is different from that for "ordinary reading". Is there a TeXhax reader who is geographically close to University Microfilms' headquarters and could (as Jerry Leichter puts it) "talk to the people who actually make the decisions" and find out whether their requirements for TYPESET theses are really what the rumours circulating at Cornell and U. of Illinois say they are? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 21:27:31 +0100 From: Peer.Stritzinger@de.TU-Muenchen.Physik Subject: dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC Keywords: TeX, drivers, PC, dot-matrix Take any cheap dot-matrix printer that suits you. Get the excelent dvidrv package contained in em-TeX (which is an excelent PD implementation of TeX and all the other stuff (Metafont, BibTeX etc.) for the PC. The dot matrix driver is fully configurable via a Parameter file. I can't think of a dot matrix printer it wouldn't support. Here a part of the description listing some configurations already included. - ------------------------------------------------------------ dvidrv includes the following drivers: dviscr screen previewer (CGA, EGA, VGA, HGC, and other adapters) dvivik screen previewer (Viking I) dvimsp create graphic file (MSP or PCX) dvihplj HP LaserJet+, HP DeskJet and Kyocera F-1010 dvidot dot-matrix printers (configurable) The following parameter files for dvidot are supplied: Param. Printers Resolution Environ. /pf* file (incomplete list) h x v DPI variable default setting - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- fx80 EPSON FX and RX series 240x216 DVIFX \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi fx100 EPSON FX and RX series 240x216 DVIFX \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi lql EPSON LQ series 180x180 DVILQL \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi lqm EPSON LQ series 360x180 DVILQM \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi lqh EPSON LQ series 360x360 DVILQH \emtex\pixel.p6h\$rdpi lqwl EPSON LQ series (wide) 180x180 DVILQL \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi lqwm EPSON LQ series (wide) 360x180 DVILQM \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi lqwh EPSON LQ series (wide) 360x360 DVILQM \emtex\pixel.p6h\$rdpi p6l NEC P6 180x180 DVIP6L \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi p6m NEC P6 360x180 DVIP6M \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi p6h NEC P6, Panasonic KX-P1124 360x360 DVIP6H \emtex\pixel.p6h\$rdpi p7l NEC P7 180x180 DVIP6L \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi p7m NEC P7 360x180 DVIP6M \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi p7h NEC P7 360x360 DVIP6H \emtex\pixel.p6h\$rdpi itoh C.ITOH 8510A 160x144 DVIITOH \emtex\pixel.ito\$rdpi aiw Apple Imagewriter 160x144 DVIAIW \emtex\pixel.aiw\$rdpi dmp130 Tandy DMP-130 240x216 DVIDMP \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi ibm4201 IBM Proprinter 4201 240x216 DVI4201 \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi ibm4202 IBM Proprinter 4202 240x216 DVI4202 \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi ibm4207l IBM Proprinter 4207 180x180 DVI4207L \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi ibm4207m IBM Proprinter 4207 360x180 DVI4207M \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi ibm4208l IBM Proprinter 4208 180x180 DVI4208L \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi ibm4208m IBM Proprinter 4208 360x180 DVI4208M \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi - ------------------------------------------------------------ You can get emTex via - - Anonymous ftp: rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23] [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.emtex] archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] TEX/emtex utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.11] TeX/emtex ponder.csci.unt.edu [129.120.3.16] pub/TeX/EmTeX - - Mail-Server: mail-server@rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de mail-server@cs.ruu.nl texserver@uk.ac.tex (UK) texserver@tex.ac.uk (outside UK) If you have problems getting it, drop me a mail and I will help you. Peer Stritzinger Phone: +(49)8141-90613 Internet: stritzi@physik.tu-muenchen.de ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 21:36:31 +0100 From: Peer.Stritzinger@de.TU-Muenchen.Physik Subject: Re: Fonts - need 17th century font set Keywords: fonts, old French, old German I think you can use Yannis Haralambous excellent Fonts for old German. There is a Fraktur, Schwabacher, Gotisch and big Initials. See his article in TUGboat Vol. 12 Num. 1 (March 1991) p. 129 He has done serveral other old-languages fonts since then, perhaps he has one especialy for old French. Peer Stritzinger Phone: +(49)8141-90613 Internet: stritzi@physik.tu-muenchen.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 16:38:03 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: Style updates on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, style, archives, FILESERV/niord Donald Arseneau kindly forwarded me four style updates recently. The affected files are cite.sty, overcite.sty, tabls.sty, and ulem.sty. Briefly: CITE -- Compress ranges of citation numbers; adjust spacing; allow spaces in input; \citen gives just number(s). OVERCITE -- Like cite.sty, but superscripts; handles punctuation. TABLS -- Keep text in {tabular} & {array} from touching vertically ULEM -- Underlining for emphasis (\em). Define \ULine{..} also. In [over]cite, he added % Version 1992: Use \@citepunct for commas so it is easier to change. Now, where commas are used as delimiters (i.e., [4-7,9,8,Einstein,6]), you have control over whether or not a space exists. Also, in overcite (only), he added \/ to allow hyphenation of the previous word -- looks better in italics. In tabls, the version is raised to 3.1 from 3.0. 3.1 adds some braces to match some updates to LaTeX. In ulem, the most work appears -- now it is acceptable as a plain TeX macro! % Version 1992: make " {} " give two spaces, as it should; support \newline % and \\, \nolinebreak and \linebreak; add definitions necessary for % plain TeX use. Support various types of `underline'. Quite a few options are now available. To retrieve these files via e-mail, include: SENDME STY.CITE SENDME STY.OVERCITE SENDME STY.TABLS SENDME STY.ULEM in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp retrieval, the files are in the syntax associated with the SENDME commands above in the [.STY] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). The TeX community ought to extend its thanks to Donald for his continuing efforts on these useful and popular files, as well as the others he is responsible for creating. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 09:22:10 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: MS-DOS compiled versions of ZIP/UNZIP on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: archives, utilities, ZIP, MS-DOS I've had a few private posts from people on MS-DOS machines which, for various reasons, cannot create the UNZIP and ZIP utilities I announced last week (most of them have created it on their larger system and want it for the PC now that they're hooked on its performance and platform independence). I have created yet another package for your access, which contains the pre-compiled MS-DOS executables for your use. Attached is the description file. - --George =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= ZIP_PC_COMPILED --------------- The ZIP_PC_COMPILED package includes UUENCODEd files which include the MS-DOS executables and documentation for Info-Zip's ZIP (v. 1.0) and UNZIP (v. 4.2) utilities. This set is built entirely from the source files distributed in the ZIP and UNZIP packages and is completely compatible with the wide variety of platforms under which those utilities can be compiled. This implementation is largely compatible with the widely-used PK*ZIP suite of utilities, although there are some differences. The UNZIP variant of this distribution UUDECODEs to UNZIP42.EXE, a self-exploding executable which creates the UNZIP executable under MS-DOS, as well as the accompanying documentation. The ZIP variant of this distribution UUDECODEs to a ZIP archive file, which may be unzipped with UNZIP or with most versions of PKUNZIP. The ZIP archive file includes the MS-DOS executable and documentation for ZIP. To retrieve the package of two files distributed in three parts, include: SENDME ZIP_PC_COMPILED in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve a specific file, such as ZIP_PC_COMPILED.UNZIP42_UUE, include: SENDME ZIP_PC_COMPILED.UNZIP42_UUE in your mail message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp retrieval of these files, they are available in their original form from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [.ZIP_PC_COMPILED]. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZIP_PC_COMPILED.UNZIP42_UUE 72 UNZIP42.UUE ZIP_PC_COMPILED.ZIP10EXX_UUE_1OF2 79 ZIP10EXX.UUE ZIP_PC_COMPILED.ZIP10EXX_UUE_2OF2 49 (concatenate to part 1, then decode) Approximate total blocks in full ZIP_PC_COMPILED package = 200 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 14:09:40 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: SPAN access to FILESERV/Niord Keywords: archives, access, SPAN, FILESERV/niord As usual, I overlook the simple and obvious. Michael Lemke , who was assisting me on an entirely unrelated topic, pointed out that the archives available on FILESERV and Niord can also be accessed via SPAN since THENET (the Texas Higher Education Network) is SPAN-connected via UTSPAN::UTADNX. Users on SPAN can access SHSU's root archive area in UTSPAN::UTADNX::SHSU::MX_ROOT:[FILESERV] You can then set default to any of the directories built off of the [FILESERV] root, backup, copy, or view the file(s) or directories you wish. Thought I'd pass this along. My thanks to Michael for pointing out this interface tool which we can painlessly make available. Regards, George ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 16:01:42 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: FLOAT on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, style, archives, FILESERV/niord Maybe I've overlooked something very seriously, but I never recall this being announced previously anywhere and didn't find it it anywhere but Stuttgart (didn't look real hard though). I came across a great LaTeX style option while looking around in the rusinfo archives, which I have used a few times and am very pleased with -- Anselm Lingnau's float package. Attached is the description file from FILESERV. - --George =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= FLOAT ----- The FLOAT package includes the files of Anselm Lingnau's float package -- An Improved Environment for Floats -- (version 1.0b; 28 January 1992). This style option improves the interface for defining floating objects such as figures and tables in LaTeX. It adds the notion of a `float style' that governs appearance of floats. New kinds of floats may be defined using a \newfloat command analogous to \newtheorem. Among the features of LaTeX are `floating' figures and tables that drift from where they appear in the input text to, say, the top of a page. The contents and formatting of floats is pretty much up to the user, except that there is a \caption command that governs formatting of the caption -- it is centered if it is short, and formatted as a paragraph if it is longer than a single line of text. Sometimes other types of floating objects, e.g., algorithms or programs, are desirable, but they must be defined by analogy to the existing floats since there is no simple command for doing this. This goes beyond the knowledge or inclination of the average LaTeX user. This style option presents an interface to floating objects that attempts to fix some of these shortcomings. First of all, it introduces the notion of a `float style'. A float style governs the appearance of a class of floats like a page style governs the appearance of a page (LaTeX has page styles plain, empty and headings, among others). This style option provides some exemplary float styles: o plain -- This is the float style that LaTeX normally applies to its floats, i.e., nothing in particular. The only difference is that the caption comes out below the body of the float, regardless of where it is given in the text. o boxed -- The body of the float is printed inside a box. The caption goes below that box. o ruled -- This float style is patterned on the table style of Concrete Mathematics. The caption is printed at the top of the float, surrounded by rules; another rule finishes off the float. The most important command in float.sty is the \newfloat command. As mentioned above, it is patterned on \newtheorem. The use of \newfloat allows the user to create their own floats, as well as supporting a user-defined \listof listing for these floats (analogous to \listoftables), sectional numbering, default positioning by float, the standard LaTeX positioning parameters, and the standard *-forms which produce doube column floats. To retrieve the entire package of 5 files, include: SENDME FLOAT in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve a specific file, such as FLOAT.FLOAT_DOC, include: SENDME FLOAT.FLOAT_DOC in your mail message to FILESERV. For users desiring anonymous ftp retrieval, these files, along with a ZIP archive file containing this package, are available in the [.FLOAT] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FLOAT.DOCSTRIP_CMD 2 DOCSTRIP.CMD FLOAT.FLOAT_DOC 54 FLOAT.DOC FLOAT.FLOAT_TEX 6 FLOAT.TEX FLOAT.FLTEST_TEX 5 FLTEST.TEX FLOAT.README 8 README Approximate total blocks in full FLOAT package = 75 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This package is built using docstrip and multicol. If you require these files, include the message SENDME MULTICOL in your mail to FILESERV. 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