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TeXhax Digest Friday, August 11, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 74
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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TGRIND?
Needed: general information regarding graphics
Needed: a way to display the sign for per thousand
DVI to Postscript (HELP!)
Re: TeXhax Digest V89 # 71 (IBM 3820, dviware)
Bug in MacKay's "mode special" routines
Bug in MacKay's "mode special" routines--a fix
Problem with LaTeX tabular
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 89 10:53 EST
From: Henning Schulzrinne <HGSCHULZ@cs.umass.EDU>
Subject: TGRIND?
Keywords: TGRIND, information
Somewhere, I have heard about a program called TGRIND that converts
C-program files into their typeset (TeX/LaTeX) equivalents. I have
looked in all the standard repositories (Clarkson, Washington,
Score,), but found no trace of it. I would appreciate if someone could
direct me to the proper place or a utility that serves a similar
purpose.
Henning Schulzrinne (HGSCHULZ@CS.UMASS.EDU)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003 - USA
phone: (413) 545-3179 (EST) FAX: (413) 545-0724
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 89 13:49:41 PDT
From: Nachum Shacham <shacham@spam.istc.sri.com>
Subject: Needed: general information regarding graphics
Keywords: graphics, information
Let me describe to you what I'm looking for.
Today, when I write a paper using LaTex, I leave empty space in the file
for the figures (using \figure environment), generate the figures by other
means, and integrate the graphics by hard-copy cut-and-paste approach.
UC Berkeley has a nice software package, Gremlin, by which they can create
free-drawing figures and XY graphs, and integrate them with the text,
using TROFF, though. What I'm looking for is an equivalent package for TeX
or LaTeX. The picture environment in LaTeX is of course too restrictive,
and I thought that since this is such a common requirement (after all,
EVERYONE in academia generates papers), someone, somewhere must have done
it right, maybe as an M.Sc. thesis or something. Do you know of any such
software package that upgrade LaTex or Tex to have graphic drawing and
integration capability?
An alternate approach I am willing to take (see, I'm flexible) is to
generate drawings on line by using UNIX commands graph/plot, and free
drawing software such as interleaf. What I would like to know is, how to
integrate these graphics files with a TeX file. Looking at it in a
different way: if I generate PostScript or dvi files independently of TeX,
how do I include those files in the Tex output so that the laser printer
will issue the complete version of the paper including the text and
graphics.
Nachum Shacham
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 89 10:07:11 MET
From: WMH@DERRZE0
Subject: Needed: a way to display the sign for per thousand
Keywords: TeX, percentage
%% He is looking for a way to display the sign for per thousand (just like the
%% percent sign, only with two zeros at the bottom).
Hallo TeX-Gemeinde,
hat sich schon jemand am Promille-Zeichen versucht ?
Wenn irgendwo ein LaTeX-Makro oder eine elegantere Loesung existiert,
waere ich sehr an einer Kopie oder einem entsprechenden Hinweis interessiert.
Viele Gruesse
Werner
Werner Heinrich Bitnet: WMH@DERRZE0
Lehrstuhl f. Elektrische Energieversorgung
Universitaet Erlangen
Egerlandstr. 9
8520 Erlangen
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 16:49:06 PDT
From: tcipro!ramu@Sun.COM (Ramu Iyer)
Subject: DVI to Postscript (HELP!)
Keywords: dviware, PostScript
I encountered the following problems while creating drivers in my TeX installation:
I am running on an Apollo DN3000 under SR10.0.
I am installing Unix TeX it under BSD4.3.
Problem A:
~~~~~~~~~~
While creating the driver for my Imagen printer, I encountered the following
break while 'make'ing
/TeX/DVIware/laser-setters/umd-dvi/dev/Makefile.local
The break that I encountered was " ../lib/lib.a -- not found --". I checked to
see that TeX/DVIware/laser-setters/umd-dvi/lib has no file called lib.a.
Any clues or ideas? I did run $make conf.sh before doing the make on Makefile.local.
Problem B:
~~~~~~~~~~
I also tried to create dvi2ps for my Postscript printer [since my Imagen driver had
problems because of Problem A].
I did the following before doing the make on
/TeX/DVIware/laser-setters/dvi-to-ps/Makefile :-
Put tex.ps in /usr/local/lib/tex
$ mkdir /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/gf300
$ cd /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/gf300
$ make -f /TeX/DVIware/laser-setters/SUBDIRmakefile /* to install the hierarchy of fonts*/
However, after all this, when I run dvi2ps foo.dvi > foo.ps, then it gives me the
following error message:
$ dvi2ps foo.dvi > foo.ps
[usr/local/lib/tex/tex.ps]
dvi2ps : FATAL -- no font cmbx10.300
My FONTAREA = /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/gf300 in the Makefile for dvi2ps.
I also find that cmbx10.300pk is present under ../fonts/gf300/cmbx.
Any suggestions will be gratefully acknowledged. Thanks in advance.
Ramu
Email: ramu%tcipro.uucp@unix.sri.com
...rutgers!sri-unix!tcipro!ramu
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 89 08:36:36 PLT
From: Dean Guenther <GUENTHER%WSUVM1.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 # 71 (IBM 3820, dviware)
Keywords: IBM 3820, dviware
> Does anyone know where I can get an DVI to IBM3820 program?
>
> I would prefer that it run on VAX/VMS so I can ship the file
> to the IBM for printing. Otherwise, I will be satified with
> it running under MVS...(ug!)
>
> Louis McDonald
> louis@aerospace.aero.org
Craig Platt at the University of Manitoba (PLATT@UOFMCC) has the MVS
3820 drivers. I don't know of anyone as yet who have done the conversion
to VMS.
Dean Guenther
TeX IBM VM/CMS Site Coordinator
Washington State University
Pullman, Wa.
99164-1220
phone: 509-335-0411
BITnet: GUENTHER@WSUVM1
Internet: guenther@wsuvm1.wsu.edu
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 89 14:08:12 CDT
From: Don Hosek <U12921%UICVM.UIC.EDU@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Bug in MacKay's "mode special" routines
Keywords: bug, mode special
I recently encountered a bug in Pierre MacKay's routines for producing
specials in the GF file indicating the mode used to generate the font:
if one runs MF using MF \smode="something"; input file, then there
is an error when the macro nmode_setup attempts to write the name of
the mode to the GF file. This is due to the attempt to read the string
mode_name[mode] while mode has a string value itself. I corrected the
code to omit writing the name of the mode when smode is used since
a mode indicated by smode is generally temporary anyway and the
only important part of it is the actual values for the various parameters.
Here is my revised nmode_setup routine:
def nmode_setup =
p_p_i=pixels_per_inch/mag;
if fontmaking > 0:
begingroup; save d,s,p; save pixels_per_inch;
string p;
pixels_per_inch:=p_p_i;
special jobname;
mode_special(mag);
if not string mode:
p:=substring(0,length(mode_name[mode])-1) of mode_name[mode];
special "mode:="&p&";";
fi
mode_special(pixels_per_inch);
mode_special(blacker);
mode_special(fillin);
mode_special(o_correction);
endgroup;
fi
enddef;
dh
Don Hosek | Internet: U12921@UICVM.UIC.EDU
Platt Campus Center | Bitnet: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET
Harvey Mudd College* | DHOSEK@YMIR.BITNET
Claremont, CA 91711 |
* Despite the address, I am actually at Pitzer College
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 15:40:19 PDT
From: mackay (Pierre MacKay)
Subject: Bug in MacKay's "mode special" routines--a fix
Keywords: bug, mode special
You must have an old version. I got that fixed a while ago
while working with Doug Henderson. My fix is very like yours.
if string mode: p:=mode;
else: p:=substring(0,length(mode_name[mode])-1) of mode_name[mode]; fi
special "mode:="&p&";";
I will claim that my correction is a little better, since the mode
name special always gets written.
I just used it, so it is definitely working.
Pierre
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 89 18:23:40 -0700
From: kerner%poseidon.uucp%trwarcadia.uucp@usc.edu
Subject: Problem with LaTeX tabular
Keywords: LaTeX, matrix, tabular
Dear LaTeX/TeX Experts,
I have a problem with the last few versions of LaTeX. I have been
maintaining a matrix using the tabular mode of LaTeX for several
years. Each entry consists of 5 fields, each with varying numbers of
words in it, and the format for each field is a different fractional
number of inches, such as p{1.70in}.
When I first started using LaTeX for this matrix (about 1986), it
worked fine. Then another version was released that sometimes
produced unexpectedly long gaps between words to fill a box in the
matrix, when there was clearly enough space to put more words on each
line and avoid this large gap. This large gap produces a somewhat
ragged-looking effect, and takes up more lines, too.
The matrix is published regularly and I want it to look neat, so what
I have been doing till now is using the old version of LaTeX, because
one group was kind enough to maintain that version for me on their
system. But that machine has been taken down now, so I need a way to
get current and future versions of LaTeX to fill the fields the way
the older versions did, not the way the last few versions do.
Samples of the problem follow. Thanks in advance for any help. I can
be reached at:
kerner@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu or
trwarcadia!kerner@usc.edu
Judy Kerner.
P.S. For a sample of the whole matrix, the last published matrix
appeared in the May-June 1989 issue of ACM SIGAda's Ada Letters,
beginning on Page 31.
%=================================================================
Samples:
%===================================================================
Sample LaTeX input fragment (note: I have included only one entry, but
all of the stuff at the top and bottom of the document; the material
itself is copyright ACM):
\sloppy
\documentstyle{article}
\setlength{\textwidth}{8.0in}
\setlength{\textheight}{6.5in}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0in}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0.0in}
\newcommand{\br}{\hfill\break}
\begin{document}
\small
\pagestyle{myheadings}
\newpage
\flushright{3/17/89}
\center{\underline{Commercially Available Ada Design Language Products}}
\vspace{.25in}
\begin{tabular}{p{1.025in}p{1.225in}p{1.70in}p{2.825in}p{1.225in}}
\underline{Organization} & \underline{Contact} &
\underline{Resemblance of language to Ada} & \underline{Scope of tool
development effort} & \underline{Availability} \\[.25in]
Harris \br Computer Systems & Georgeanne Chitwood 305-977-5573 & Full
Ada with analyzable structured English comments and program unit
templates. & Users Guide, template editor, prettyprinter, PDL
analyzer, cross-referencer, requirements traceability analyzer,
documentation generator, and testing assistant in use; other tools
TBD. All software runs under HAPSE. Tools are written in C. &
Available through Harris Corp. Computer Systems Division. \\[.25in]
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
%========================================================================
Sample output as I prefer it to appear, also as it is produced by the
old version of LaTeX (Note 1: I have put ... for the 2nd field and the
long 4th field. They both came out identically in both versions.
Note 2: Obviously the following is at best an approximation; in the
actual output, the lines in all fields except the first field were
neatly justified both right and left, with neat fractional adjustments
between the letters as well as between the words, and there appear to
be some differences in the size of the page margins.):
Harris ...Full Ada with analyzable struc-...Available through Har-
Computer Systems tured English comments and ris Corp. Computer
program unit templates. Systems Division.
%===========================================================================
Sample output as it is produced by the latest version of LaTeX (same
notes as above):
Harris ...Full Ada...Available through
Computer with analyzable structured En- Harris
Systems glish comments and program Corp. Computer Sys-
unit templates. tems Division.
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