TeXhax@cs.washington.edu (TeXhax Digest) (07/20/89)
TeXhax Digest Wednesday, July 5, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 66
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
clarkson.edu not known to uunet.uu.net.
texhax subscription address in UK
WEAVE CMS-CHAN problem in the VM/CMS TeX distribution
DECUS TeX Collection being updated
Optical character Reader software to generate TeX code?
RE: TeXhax #55, \hrule and \ref's
RFCs in LaTeX
Footnotes in LaTeX tables
Looking for an annotation style option
About fillin...
OzTeX (Version 1.1) Available by Anonymous FTP
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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 89 17:50:17 met
From: Bo Thide' <bt@irfu.se>
Subject: clarkson.edu not known to uunet.uu.net.
Keywords: Rochester, Clarkson, archives, LaTeX style file
Trying to use e-mail to get latex-style files from the new repository at
clarkson I found out (the hard way) that clarkson.edu is not a known
network node. Asking postmaster@uunet.uu.net about it I go a (quite
abrasive) reply confirming this deplorable state of affairs. Is it
still possible to use the old Rochester address?
Bo
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Date: 30 Jun 89 00:04:54 bst
From: G.Toal%EDINBURGH.AC.UK@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: texhax subscription address in UK
Keywords: TeXhax, subscriptions, UK
Could you add texhax-request@uk.ac.nsf to your list of subscription sites
at the bottom of texhaxes; this is best for JANET users in the UK who are
not on Bitnet. Other European sites may also feed from here I suspect.
Also, uktex - the UK's own texhax (not a rival - its more for 'who has
DoSteX on floppy in the UK' sort of questions :) ) can be subscribed
to at info-tex-request@uk.ac.aston -- with submissions to
info-tex@uk.ac.aston. Uktex has a faster turnaround time for technical
questions for readers in the UK.
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Date: 28 Jun 89 20:37:42 EDT
From: Robert Bernstein <ROCKY@ibm.com>
Subject: WEAVE CMS-CHAN problem in the VM/CMS TeX distribution
Keywords: VM/CMS, TeX
The (current?) WEAVE CMS-CHAN file for VM/CMS has an error in it.
The first line of the file (dated 86/06/11) reads:
This is WEAVE.CMS-CHANGES in text format, as of May 13, 1986.
(A minor point:
the file is *not* called ``WEAVE.CMS-CHANGES'' but ``WEAVE CMS-CHAN''.)
Lines 142-143 of this file read:
{reset(term_in,'INTERACTIVE'); {open |term_in|, don't do a |get|}}
@=termin@>(term_in); {don't ask me why the above line didn't work!}
First, the problem:
After weaving WEAVE, TeX
barfs because it thinks that the underscore is introducing a subscript.
Solutions:
In a comment, term_in should be surrounded by `|' for verbatim as is
done later on in the line. Alternatively, if the outer comment is removed,
everything is fine because term_in is known to be an identifier, and
as such WEB turns _'s into to \_'s.
(This code is not normally output in the TANGLEd Pascal source, because
it is conditionally included when debugging is turned on.)
I am posting this note so other innocent users will not stumble on the
problem. From the back level of a number of the programs in the
current VM/CMS TeX distribution, (the latest version of WEAVE is 2.9
although 2.8 seems to be in this distribution) it may a while before a
fix makes it to the general public.
R. Bernstein
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 17:05 EST
From: Ted Nieland - SRL <@AAMRL.AF.MIL:TNIELAND@FALCON>
Subject: DECUS TeX Collection being updated
Keywords: TeX, DECUS
The DECUS TeX Collection is currently being updated.
The DECUS TeX Collection is a TeX and TeXware for computers found in a DEC
computing environment. The operating systems covered include VMS, Unix, DOS,
and MAC OS.
If you have TeXware item you would like to include in the collection, please
send it to me, or a notice on how to get a copy of it, ASAP.
Some of the new updates already in store for the DECUS TeX Collection include:
TeX for the Macintosh
Updates for TeX, WEB, TeXSiS, DVI2LN03
Update of the LaTeX style collection
XDVI for DEC Windows
SPIDER
MAKEINDEX for VMS
Ted Nieland
DECUS TeX Collection Editor
TNIELAND@AAMRL.AF.MIL
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 15:17:34 PDT
From: Bruce_L._White@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Optical character Reader software to generate TeX code?
Keywords: TeX, OCR
I have used OCR's to input text into the standard format
of eg Wordperfect. Question: Is there software which will
generate TeX code from OCR input?
Bruce White
Physics, University of British Columbia
BITNET USERASBW@UBCMTSG
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 09:01 MET
From: "Johannes L. Braams" <BRAAMS%HLSDNL5.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: RE: TeXhax #55, \hrule and \ref's
Keywords: LaTeX, \hrule, \ref
Andrew Arensburger writes about having problems with getting
a rule to extend beyond the margins. He doesn't describe what
he does get, but I suppose he get's overfull box messages.
In that case, have a look at LaTeX.tex (or the TeX-book for
that matter) in the definition for the figure environment.
There you'll find and example of the fact that you can alter
the dimensions of a box, def'd by a \newbox command, after
you've put something in it.
Jerry Keiper as a probem with referencing figures in an appendix.
The same problem has been discussed here before, you have to put the
\label command right after the \caption command in order to get
the figure's number as a reference, in stead of the section number
(in this case an appendix)
Johannes Braams
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 09:55:33 +0100
From: Steve Kille <S.Kille@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: RFCs in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, DARPA RFC
Does anyone have a reasonable approach to mapping LaTeX documents onto the
DARPA Request for Comments (RFC formats). The requirements on this
text format are (brief summary)
- Pages max 60 lines
- Pages max width 80 chars
- ^L between pages, but otherwise only ASCII printable chars
- Fixed format headers and footers (2 line header)
- Endnotes in <1> style
Ideally, I would also like to be able to produce a decently typeset
versions, with the same pagebreaks as the "official" version.
Steve
Phone: +44-1-380-7294
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 11:15:50 MST
From: cashdan@ARSUN.UTAH.EDU
Subject: Footnotes in LaTeX tables
Keywords: LaTeX, footnotes
What is the best way to put notes in tables? Currently, I'm using the
footnote command like this:
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{tabular}{cccccccc}
Group& Hunt& Gather& Fish& Garden& Food prep.& Other& Total \\ \hline
1.\footnote{Lizot 1978:89--90}
& 38& 40& 45& 38& 54& 136& 357 \\
2.\footnote{Hames 1989: Table 1-a}
& 61& 56& 55& 43& 41& 104& 359 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}
The problem is that the footnote command generates an unwanted horizontal
rule at the bottom of the minipage, so the table looks something like:
Group Hunt ... Total
---------- ... -----
a
1. 38 ... 357
b
2. 61 ... 359
---------- ... -----
--------
a
Lizot ...
b
Hames ...
My husband avoids this problem by defining a "superscript" macro to do all
this by brute force. Surely there is a better way. Any suggestions?
Elizabeth Cashdan (cashdan@arsun.utah.edu)
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 17:10:11 EDT
From: lacey@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU (John Lacey)
Subject: Looking for an annotation style option
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX
I have two (related) TeX problems. LaTeX solutions are preferred
(for reasons that will become clear---I want to use the twocolumn style
option). I am writing a paper, and it needs to be written in an annotated
style.
1. How can I annotate text, so that, for example, the
annotations appear on the left of every even-numbered page, and
on the right side of every odd-numbered pages, in smaller type
(that is, different type), in a different column width, and
with rendezvous points, where, if possible (by inserting glue
in the annotations column) the main text and the annotations
are started together again?
2. Same basic idea, except now I want the main text to appear
only on every other page, say the odd-numbered ones, and
the annotations to appear on the others. The way in which
the texts are specified should be the same as in the first
problem. Rendezvous' should be supported here as well.
Also, this format should work with the twocolumn style
option (if LaTeX is used), so that we might place both of
the sequences on every page---one in each column.
Before I invest a lot of time in working out how to do this,
has anybody tried to do this before, or something like it?
I would of course appreciate any ideas (solutions?) that anyone has.
Also, if anyone can think of a better way to organize the file,
I would appreciate hearing from you.
I have in mind writing something like the example that follows.
\begin{document}
This is the main text. There is nothing unusual about it.
It may contain the usual LaTeX commands.
:
:
:
This is the end of this section of text.
\begin{annotation}
This is the first annotation. It will be lined up with the
line beginning ``This is the main text.'' In general, an
annotation will be lined up with the start of the first
text falling after the last annotation environment, or
with the first text of the file.
\end{annotation}
This is more text.
:
\annote Here I want the notation to match this line.
:
\begin{annotation}
This annotation will, because of the \annote `rendezvous'
command, be lined up with the text following the last
\annote command. Note that the \annote command behaves
just like an empty annotation environment, in that it
resets the placement of the following annotation.
\end{annotation}
\end{document}
John Lacey | Internet: lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
running unattached | BITnet: lacey@crnlthry
| UUCP: cornell!batcomputer!lacey
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent." ---Wittgenstein
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 13:02:24 CDT
From: Don Hosek <U33297%UICVM.UIC.EDU@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: About fillin...
Keywords: fillin. mode def
I'm putting together an article on how to develop mode_def's and I'm
trying to illustrate the effects of fillin using a simple MF file along
the lines of:
smode="specmode";
mode_setup;
beginchar(0,0,0,0);
penpos1(5,45);
penpos2(5,45);
z1=(0,50);
z2=(20,0);
penstroke z1e--z2e;
endchar;
with the file specmode.mf reading:
blacker:=0;
pixels_per_inch:=300;
proofing:=2;
fontmaking:=0;
tracingtitles:=0;
fillin:=-3.0;
"fillin -3.0";
o_correction:=1;
xerox_pixel;
(xerox_pixel sets the grey font so that it is a font with each pixel
represented by a bitmap resembling:
.....
.XXX.
.XXX.
.XXX.
.....
in this way, each pixel can be clearly distinguished on the proof sheet).
I've tried changing the value of fillin to values in the set
{-3, -1.1, -.7, -.4, -.2, -.1, 0, .1, .2, .4, .7, 1.1, 3) and printed
proofsheets of the whole thing and cannot find any difference in
the bitmaps produced.
I presume I am correct that the effect of fillin is to cause
pixels near something like
XXXYY
XXXYY
XXXXX
XXXXX
to change from X to Y. So why do I not see any differences in the
proof sheets? How can I get some printed sheets to demonstrate the
effect of fillin?
Thanks in advance,
dh
Don Hosek | Internet: U33297@UICVM.UIC.EDU
3916 Elmwood | Bitnet: U33297@UICVM.BITNET
Stickney, IL 60402 | DHOSEK@YMIR.BITNET
Work: 312-996-2981 | UUNet: dhosek@jarthur.claremont.edu
ERASE * SCRIPT * | JANET: U33297%UICVM.UIC.EDU@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY
Never give a gun to ducks
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 89 16:49:56 -0500
From: c3ar%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Subject: OzTeX (Version 1.1) Available by Anonymous FTP
Keywords: OzTeX, Mac
Thanks to the generosity and hard work of Andrew Trevorrow, a free, public
domain (in as much as TeX is ever public domain) version of TeX for the
Macintosh is now available by anonymous ftp. The program is called OzTeX
(Version 1.1) and includes Modula-2 source and all necessary fonts and
input files. The ftp address is
Name: tank.uchicago.edu
Address: 128.135.4.27
In the near future (thanks to Craig Ruff), OzTeX might also be available from
Name: handies.ucar.edu
Address: 128.117.64.4
As usual, use the login name "anonymous" and use your own login id for a
password. Once logged in, you will find the parts of OzTeX in
subdirectories of pub/sources/OzTeX. Everything has been preprocessed with
Stuffit-1.5.1 and binhex. You will need at least version 1.5.1 of Stuffit,
since the archives contain folders. The subdirectory
/pub/sources/OzTeX/binaries contain copies of the stuffit archives before
stuffing. Other subdirectories contain the OzTeX program, OzTeX sources,
OzTeX inputs (e.g., AMSTeX, LaTeX, etc.), and Font binaries of various
sizes in binhex'd stuffit archives. Of course, Stuffit-1.5.1 and binhex4
are available by anonymous ftp from the info-mac archive, at
sumex-aim.stanford .edu (36.44.0.6).
Here is some more detailed information about the program and implementation:
OzTeX is a public domain version of TeX for the Macintosh written by Andrew
Trevorrow. TEX is the typesetting system developed by Donald Knuth at
Stanford University. OzTeX was written by translating Knuth's original
code to Modula-2 and then porting to the Macintosh.
The OzTeX delivery includes the OzTeX program; a complete set of TFM files
for the computer modern font set and TFM files for selected Adobe fonts;
input files of LaTeX and AmSTeX; full Modula-2 source code for OzTeX; and a
complete set of font files (in PK format). OzTeX includes a screen
previewer and the capabilities of initex to create new format files.
OzTeX should work on any Macintosh Plus, SE, II or newer model. It will
not work on a 128K or 512K Mac. OzTEX was developed on a Mac Plus with 1
Meg of RAM and a 20 Meg hard disk. This is just about the minimum hardware
configuration, given the large amount of memory required to run OzTEX and
the large amount of disk space needed to store all the font information.
OzTeX can only print on a PostScript-compatible printer.There is currently
no support for other types of printers. If you plan to use an Apple
LaserWriter (any model) the installation should be straightforward.
- Source code will be supplied. Everything is written in
TML Modula-2 (which requires MPW). There is about 35,000 lines of
code.
- The application includes a DVI previewer, a PostScript
driver, and of course TeX (actually IniTeX so users can create their
own formats, although Plain and LaTeX will be supplied).
The TeX module passes Knuth's trip test (for version 2.0
at least).
OzTeX is designed to be an open and expandable TeX system. It reads font
information from standard TFM and PK files, and creates standard DVI files.
If you have access to a Unix or VMS mainframe then you'll be able to Kermit
such files to and fro without any extra processing. A basic set of TFM
files and 300dpi PK files will be supplied. PostScript printer fonts are
also supported.
The author says that OzTeX is somewhat below TeXtures 1.0 and MacTeX 1.1 in
features, somewhere between in seed of typesetting/previewing/printing and,
of course, way ahead in cost.
There is currently NO integrated text editor (and I'm not sure that one is
really necessary, what with MultiFinder and good DA editors available).
Support for inclusion of graphics is currently minimal.
The previewer ignores \special commands and the PostScript driver only
allows inclusion of a file, along with optional PostScript code.
OzTeX can be used with AMSTeX and LaTeX and the appropriate input files are
part of the OzTeX delivery.
Now some more details about the delivery:
The OzTeX delivery is stored here packed as Stuffit-1.5.1 archives
(Version-1.5.1 is necessary, as the stuffit files contain folders), which
have been run through binhex and broken into pieces. The index below
indicates what parts of OzTeX reside in what directories here.
pub/sources/OzTeX
/oztex: OzTeX binaries (stuffit/binhex)
/ozsrc: OzTeX sources " "
/ozinp: OzTeX inputs " "
/pk300: OzTeX fonts " "
/pk329: " " " "
/pk360: " " " "
/pk432: " " " "
/pk518: " " " "
/pk622: " " " "
/pk746: " " " "
/binaries OzTeX stuffit files pre-binhex
Any inquiries about OzTeX can be sent to oztex@tank.uchicago.edu.
I am still looking for a bitnet-server site that is willing to accept this,
for those of you on bitnet who are unable to ftp.
Walter
Walter C3arlip c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu
(the "3" is silent) c3ar%zaphod@UCHIMVS1.bitnet
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