TeXhax@cs.washington.edu (TeXhax Digest) (01/15/90)
TeXhax Digest Sunday, January 7, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 6
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
optional argument to the \bibliography command?
BibTeX & Makeindex for Macintosh
DVI Pgm. for Postscript on MSDOS
PC TeX -- Epson driver fonts
ChiWriter and (La)TeX, summary
How to do program text in LaTeX/man page style for LaTeX
Adobe Fonts and TeXTures
Wanted: Metafont code for Feynman graphs
How do I change \vec into boldface?
TeX 3 for Dec-20s
C and C++ pretttyprinters
Recursivity in TeX
TeX v.3
D. Hoseks idea about file names
Re: TeXhax114, TeX \count's in LaTeX
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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 12:31:11 GMT
From: "D.Ballance" <gnma76%sun1.eng.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: optional argument to the \bibliography command?
Keywords: BibTeX, optional arguments
Recently I have been compiling a report and wished to have a list of
publications relating to the project. I have all the references in a
BibTeX database and have referenced them with \nocite{ }. The problem
that when I use \bibliography{} and \bibliographystyle{} I get a heading
`References' which I don't want. I have modified the \thebibliography
definition in this particular instance and it works fine, but it would
be nice to have an optional argument to the \bibliography command
to be able to specify the heading for the references/bibliography/citation
list/publications...
Any comments?
Anyone able to produce what I want?
Thanks
Donald
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 90 19:13:47 N
From nebel@fb14vax.cs.uni-sb.de Tue Jan 2 11:10:01 1990
Subject: BibTeX & Makeindex for Macintosh
Keywords: BibTeX, MakeIndex, Macintosh
Hi,
I'm looking for BibTeX and Makindex running on a Macintosh. Is there
anybody who knows where to get it?
Bernhard Nebel
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 90 12:46:39 EST
From: jrv@sdimax2.mitre.org
Subject: DVI Pgm. for Postscript on MSDOS
Keywords: PostScript, MS-DOS
> Jim: Do you know of an available dvi program by FTP anonymous transfer
> for DVI file on MSDOS to Postscript for use with DosTex.
> Thanks
> Dave Nicol
I am using a beta test version of a driver by Nelson Beebe at the
University of Utah. Use anonymous ftp...
host plot79.utah.edu (128.110.192.33)
user anonymous
passwd {your own address}
directory ~ftp/pub/dvi
files dvialw.arc
betadocs.arc
I've found no problems, but since it's a beta test version please {\it don't}
upload it to other hosts.
- Jim Van Zandt
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 90 13:57:15 EST
From: jrv@sdimax2.mitre.org
Subject: PC TeX -- Epson driver fonts
Keywords: dviware
> I downloaded the DVI printer driver for my EPSON FX-80+ that I
> have at home. Unfortunately, it doesn't work (obviously) without the
> proper printer DVI font files. How do I get these? Is there an ftp site
> from which I can dowload these files? Will any *.pk file do? I am really
> new to this subject, so if you can help me, I would greatly appreciate
> it.
>
> mani@ocf.berkeley.edu
> Mani Varadarajan
Try anonymous ftp...
host science.utah.edu
user anonymous
passwd {your own address}
directory <tex.cm>
file cmr10.250pk {for example}
- Jim Van Zandt
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 90 10:17 MET
From: "Johannes L. Braams" <JL_Braams%pttrnl.nl@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: ChiWriter and (La)TeX, summary
Keywords: LaTeX, ChiWriter
Hi all,
Prompted by a request for info, I was reminded that a couple of months
ago I posted a request for information about a conversion tool from
ChiWriter to LaTeX. As I didn't receive any replies like "Well yes,
ask him or her at somplace, they have something ready" the text
that needed conversion has been retyped, now with LaTeX tags. :-)
Because of this I more or less forgot about the question.
Most of the few replies I've got come from the Netherlands, so
I had to translate them into english for you.
One of the first replies I got was from Frans Sporrel, of the
K.V.I. (RuG) in Groningen, The Netherlands (email : sporrel@kvi.nl)
He wrote (my translation):
>
> At Horstmann Software Design Corporation,
> P.O.Box 5093, San Jose, CA 95150
> tel (408) 298-0828
> fax (408) 298-6157
> people are working on it since last year (1988 JB)
> (announcement in The ChiWriter Chronicles).
Then Peter Flynn (CBTS8001@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE) wrote:
> Here at UCC we have a campus company, FreeText Technology, who are
> developing a programmable wordprocessor converter. One of the output
> options will be TeX (plain, I'm afraid, not LaTeX). We don't have ChiWrite
> built in yet, but I would be interested to do so. Can you or your
> colleague send me a ChiWrite file (ARC'd and UUencoded) and then fax me
> a copy of what it should print out as (+353 21 277194) 'cos I don't
> have a copy of ChiWrite yet. I will see if we can build it into the
> alpha release. Would your site be interested in being an alpha pilot
> site for this s/w?
And again from Groningen Erik-Jan Vens (VENS@HGRRUG5.BITNET)
reported (again I translated):
> I have a tool available to convert from one format to another.
> A friend of mine, Gerben Wierda, wrote program called TRANS.
> This program has the following subtitle:
> A Universal Byte Oriented Translation Program.
> It can translate from <something> to <something else>, with the use of a
> configuration file.
>
> The problem is that we have cfg-files for Atari 1st word
> to TeX or LaTeX, or from LateX to Lotus Manuscript (ca. 40K !!!),
> but not from Chi-write to TeX. Translation to TeX is rather straightforward
> most of the time, but to read from Chi-write, you have to have
> very good knowledge of this program.
>
> If you are interested, we have versions for Un*x, DOS and Atari
> available.
>
Johannes Braams
PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421,
2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands.
Phone : +31 70 435051 E-mail : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl
E-mail was :
EARN/BITnet : BRAAMS@HLSDNL5 UUCP : hp4nl!dnlunx!johannes
SURFnet : DNLTS::BRAAMS INTERnet : BRAAMS%HLSDNL5@CUNYVM.cuny.edu
PSS (DATAnet1) : +204 1170358::BRAAMS
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 90 11:24:57 EST
From: Peter Schroeder <peter@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Subject: How to do program text in LaTeX/man page style for LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, program text
Hi,
I am writing my thesis in LaTeX and need to include some examples of my code
in it. I found out about tgrind. Here are the questions:
1) Once you have a tgrind'ed document, how do you include it in a LaTeX
document? I found tgrindmac.tex which apparently is for TeX and I found
tgrind.sty. I tried the latter but immediately received an error from LaTeX
about some macro not defined. So, does anybody have an example of including
a tgrind'ed page in a LaTeX document? Maybe I have an out of date tgind.sty.
2) Assuming that I know how to include a tgrind'ed page, how do I hack the
tgrind program to grind C++ correctly. I.e. how do I add keywords? Apparently
tfondedpr is the program that does this. We don't seem to have sources for
it (where can I find those, in case I have to hack the code to allow for
other keywords). Also I need to be able to specify how many spaces a tab stop
is. It assumes 8 spaces, but I need 3 spaces, `cause that's how my program
will look pretty.
Does someone have macros to include pages in a LaTeX document that look like
Unix man pages? I need to document some commands, and the Unix man page has
the right sort of format, but I need to do this in a LaTeX document.
Any and all help is much appreciated!
Peter `in thesis hell' Schr\"oder
peter@media-lab.media.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 89 14:30:00 EST
From: may@zariski.harvard.edu (Michael May)
Subject: Adobe Fonts and TeXTures
Keywords: TeXTures, Adobe fonts
I have been using the TeXTures implementation of TeX on a Mac. However
the laserprinter I have access to does not have a hard disk so the
output is not of high enough quality when I use the CM fonts.
Is there a stylesheet out there to make the adobe fonts default, even in
math mode?
Mike May
may@zariski.harvard.edu
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 89 13:26:46 IST
From: "Jacques J. Goldberg" <PHR00JG%TECHNION@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Wanted: Metafont code for Feynman graphs
Keywords: METAFONT, Feynman graphs
Does anyone in TeXhax world know anything about the availability of
Metafont code to generate Feynman graphs?
Jacques
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 89 13:24:04 MET
From: Bo Thide <bt@irfu.se>
Subject: How do I change \vec into boldface?
Keywords: LaTeX, \vec, boldface
Some (in fact, most) physics journals represent vectors as boldface
characters instead of a rightarrow over a normal (math) character.
For the lack of anything better I have used the following in LaTeX:
\renewcommand{\vec}[1]{{\bf #1}} %This only works porperly in \normalsize
Has anybody come up with a clever solution to this? My solution does not
work in exponents, subscripts etc.
Also, I would need a \tensor that produces sans serif boldface in math mode.
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Date: Sun 24 Dec 89 15:05:17-PST
From: Len Bosack <BOSACK@MATHOM.CISCO.COM>
Subject: TeX 3 for Dec-20s
Keywords: TeX 3.0, DEC-20
Some of us still run these fine old soldiers; is anyone doing a port
of the 2.99+ versions?
Len Bosack
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 89 20:52:53 MST
From: carlos@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Carlos A. Felippa)
Subject: C and C++ pretttyprinters
Keywords: WEB, WEAVE, TANGLE
I would be interested to know if there is a stand-alone
(that is, TANGLE-less) WEAVE that can prettyprint
"raw" ANSI C and C++/2.0 code using TeX.
The underlying reason for this query is that I have my
own language preprocessors that support programming in the
large (programs with over 100,000 lines). I have
briefly experimented with CWEB (generously made available
by Silvio Levy) but I found two deficiencies.
First, TANGLE is "all or nothing" making quite
difficult to extract code selectively to update object
libraries. Second, it does not support several languages in
the same source; I work with a mixture of C, C++, C*
(CM-2 extended C), Fortran 77, and some assembler.
But I like WEAVE listings, so I thought of writing an
optional filter to selectively extract C and C++ code
(Fortran and assembler being out of the question),
inserting WEB formatting tokens automatically and
passing it to WEAVE. But the task would be easier if
out there was a version of WEAVE (SUSHI_WEAVE?) that can
"eat" raw C code.
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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 90 10:12:50 +0100
From: Christophe Cerin <cerin%FRLRI61.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Recursivity in TeX
Keywords: TeX
Is there anybody for pointing up a general discuss about recursivity
in TeX ? (some articles, books, revues ...)
More precisely :
1- How do you specify a syntaxic procedure declaration ?
2- How TeX schedules the parameter's stack ?
3- Is it possible to write a recursive procedure with N parameters
(N > 1) ? R.Seroul in "cahiers GUTenberg n 3 page 57" gives an
example of a recursive procedure with 1 parameter. Here it is :
\def\toto#1{\def\head{(}\def\trailer{)}%
\def\TOTO##1{%
\ifx##1]%
\def\next{\head\trailer}%
\else%
\ifx##1,%
\edef\head{\head(}%
\edef\trailer{\trailer)}%
\else%
\edef\head{\head##1}%
\fi%
\let\next=\TOTO%
\fi%
\next}
\TOTO}
Ex : \TOTO[1] --> (1)
\TOTO[1,2,3] --> (1(2(3)))
For us, we would like to write the procedure TOTO with
2 parameters :
declaration ----------------\def\TOTO##1##2{%
recursive call ?----------------\TOTO??????
with parameter ##2 advanced by 1 at each call,
for example.
Thanks a lot.
Christophe C\'erin
Universit\'e de Paris Sud
L.R.I bat 490
91405 Orsay--France
mailing address : cerin@lri.lri.fr or CERIN@FRLRI61.BITNET
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 90 21:12:14 -0500
From: Ryan Monaghan <ryanm@dorothy.csee.lehigh.edu>
Subject: TeX v.3
Keywords: TeX
Hi there,
Could someone give me a clue as to the nature of TeX 3.
It seems it might be multi-lingual. What other features/
changes will have in comparison to TeX 2.x? Also, how
outdated will the T&C manuals A and C become (not to mention
B and D)? Will new versions of the books be forthcoming?
And finally, are there any ballpark estimates as to the arrival
of TeX 3?
Any answers I'd appreciate being sent to the following:
<kwjrmon@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu>
Thank you much!
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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 90 21:16:08 MEZ
From: Konrad Neuwirth <A4422DAE%AWIUNI11@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: D. Hoseks idea about file names
Keywords: TeX
I like the proposed standard very much, although there is at least
one thing I would do. I think the order of the whole system has to
be changed so that HYPH (or at least HY) appears at the beginning.
We here have a VERY, VERY large TeXinputs directory and I think it
would be a nice idea to have all hyphenation files together in a
directory listing. Now if each file from the same group starts with
a different letter, this is not easily possible in a alphabetical
directory listing. (did I hear you talk about subdirectories? Hey,
we're talking CMS here!). Or another idea would be to have the file
EXTENSION a standard like HYP. But then something comes into my mind
immediately. We german (or austrian) speaking people have two different
GERMAN hyphenation files, one GHYPHEN.MIN and the other GHYPHEN.MAX.
If such a situation comes up again, again comes a problem. Or is the
last letter supposed to be used for such distinctions? But then, we
would have to have a standardized list again for all of that, as
the file naming conventions do not really allow speaking names, do they!
So I would say lets just have
HYllsver.HYP (ll=language,s=special characters 0/1, ver=version).
but as we read in Mr. Breitenlohners suggestion, not only these files
are required so we should have LSM files as well (Language Specific
Macros). I propose this as the second new file extension.
Maybe these should have a simmilar naming scheme, but with some other
fields:
LSllmave.LSM (ll=language,ma=macro packet (LA,AM,PH), ve=version).
What about that?
///konrad
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 90 11:28 MET
From: "Johannes L. Braams" <JL_Braams%pttrnl.nl@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: TeXhax114, TeX \count's in LaTeX
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, \count
Hi,
Mik Bickis complains about a counter being reset to zero by LaTeX
when he ends his enumerate environment. This is perfectly
documented behaviour of TeX (not LaTeX), because he made a local
assignment to his counter \jaut. Local assignments are
reset when a group ends and an environment is (amongst others)
a group.
So if he makes his assignment global, I think he will have the
desired effect.
Happy newyear,
Johannes Braams
PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421,
2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands.
Phone : +31 70 435051 E-mail : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl
E-mail was :
EARN/BITnet : BRAAMS@HLSDNL5 UUCP : hp4nl!dnlunx!johannes
SURFnet : DNLTS::BRAAMS INTERnet : BRAAMS%HLSDNL5@CUNYVM.cuny.edu
PSS (DATAnet1) : +204 1170358::BRAAMS
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