TeXhax@cs.washington.edu (TeXhax Digest) (06/24/89)
TeXhax Digest Friday, May 26, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 55
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
Could we reduce the amount of stuff after the %%%?
Dvipage on 386i still doesn't work
Problem with \hrule
Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #43 (problem with indenting)
Re: \twocolumn[ ] problem
Including TIFF images in LaTeX documents
Extra space after LaTeX "alleqno.sty" usage
Invisible fonts/dvi2ps
Font selection in LaTeX
Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #46
Needed: DVI-to-LA75
Incorrect figure reference
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Date: Mon, 22 May 89 13:04:43 PDT
From: dennis@yang.cpac.washington.edu (Dennis Gentry)
Subject: Could we reduce the amount of stuff after the %%%?
Keywords: suggestions
Gentle Moderators
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 09:15:22 EDT
From: dph@astro.psu.edu (David P. Huenemoerder)
Subject: Dvipage on 386i still doesn't work
Keywords: Sun 386i, dvipage
I have tried the latest release of dvipage (3.0 w/ diffs) with the
modifications purported to support the Sun 386i. When sampled, fonts
are still sliced and flipped on vertical axes. With no sampling, the
display is correct. Are there any real fixes for the 386i version?
David Huenemoerder dph@astro.psu.edu (128.118.30.150)
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 03:17:50 EDT
From: Andrew Arensburger <arensb@cvl.umd.edu>
Subject: Problem with \hrule
Keywords: \hrule
I've been trying for some time now to produce an \hrule
that extends beyond the margins. The effect I'm trying to produce
is something like
\par
\hskip-5cm\hrule width 20cm
but nothing I've tried seems to make the slightest difference. Text
behaves the way it seems it ought to, but \hrule has decided to rebel.
Please help!
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 09:36:43 PDT
From: lamport@src.dec.com (Leslie Lamport)
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #43 (problem with indenting)
Keywords: LaTeX, indenting
Mary Keogh writes:
I've been having some trouble indenting lines in LaTeX. I tried such things
as
\hspace{10mm}
\hskip10mm
~\hspace{10mm}
~\hskip10mm
~~~
none of which worked;
When all else fails, try reading the manual. Looking in the index
under "\hspace" or "space/at beginning or end of output line" leads one
to page 95, which says
TeX removes space from the beginning or end of each line of output
text... including space added with \hspace. The \hspace* command is
the same as \hspace except that the space it produces is never removed.
I have no idea why Ms. Keogh wants to indent lines in this way, but
there is probably a better approach to what she is trying to do than
inserting formatting commands in the text.
Leslie Lamport
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Date: 23-MAY-1989 20:05:37 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY%vax.acs.open.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK
Subject: Re: \twocolumn[ ] problem
Keywords: LaTeX, optional parameters, error message
The problem with the following code
\twocolumn[ ... \\[3ex] ]
is that you have embedded one optional argument within another.
Unlike braces {}, TeX does no balancing of brackets (or anything else)
when looking for the arguments of a macro. Thus it tries to treat the
first ], the one after the 3ex, as the end of the material to be set
over two columns: this results in total confusion and a somewhat
unenlightening error message from deep within a LaTeX macro. The
simplest solution (for \twocolumn and similar commands ONLY) is to put
some braces immediately inside the [] of the optional parameter of
\twocolumn to protect (to coin a phrase) the other []s. Thus
\twocolumn[{ ... \\[3ex] }]
chris rowley
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 22:48:44 EDT
From: achhabra@uceng.uc.edu (atul k chhabra)
Subject: Including TIFF images in LaTeX documents
Keywords: LaTeX, TIFF images
Is it possible to include TIFF (black and white) images in LaTeX
documents? I am using an Imagen laser printer (if that helps).
Please reply by email. I will summarize if there is enough interest.
Thanks,
Atul
Atul K. Chhabra INTERNET: achhabra@uceng.uc.edu (129.137.33.1)
811J Rhodes Hall, ML 030 UUCP: ...!{mit-eddie,hal}!uccba!uceng!achhabra
Dept of Elec & Computer Eng
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Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030 Phone: (513)556-4766
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 20:48:54 PDT
From: Jonathan_Thornburg@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Extra space after LaTeX "alleqno.sty" usage
Keywords: LaTeX, equation, numbering, space
A few months ago, I posted a LaTeX document-style option file to
TeXhax which makes *all* displayed equations numbered by default.
It redefines things so that single displayed equations (equation
environment) are made with \[ ... \], while multiple displayed
equations (eqnarray environment) are made with \[[ ... \]]. It
uses some \futurelet trickery to decide which form of invocation
is being used on any given call.
It works, but it produces an extra space at the beginning of the
first line of text after a \[[ ... \]], i.e.
\[[
2 + 2 & = & 4 \\
2 + 3 & = & 5 %%%\\
\]]
*in this example, the asterisk at the start of this line denotes
the place where extra space is introduced.
I have put "%%%" at the end of each line of the style file to avoid
having the carrige returns ("newline"s) in the file seen by TeX,
but this obviously isn't sufficient. If I don't use this style file,
the usual LaTeX environments,
\begin{eqnarray}
<<<the same stuff>>>
\end{eqnarray}
don't cause any extra space.
Can some macro wizard help me figure out (a) where this is coming
from, and (b) how to get rid of it (while still keeping the short
\[ ... \] and \[[ ... \]] forms)?
The document-style file itself looks like this:
%--- cut here ---
% alleqno.sty -- LaTeX style file to make displayed equations numbered
% by default.
%
% This document style option makes all displayed equations numbered by
% default. In particular, it defines things so that \[, \], \[[, and
% \]] may be used as follows:
%
% \[ ... \] ==> \begin{equation} ... \end{equation}
% \[[ ... \]] ==> \begin{eqnarray} ... \end{eqnarray}
%
% These new commands are short, and they stand out clearly from the
% surrounding text on a terminal screen.
%
% Note that \begin{displaymath} ... \end{displaymath} should *not* be
% used with this style file -- use \[ ... \] instead. To override the
% default and get an unnumbered displayed equation, use a one-line
% \begin{eqnarray} ... \end{eqnarray}.
%
% - Jonathan Thornburg, 25/Sept/88
%
% Dept of Geophysics & Astronomy thornburg@mtsg.ubc.ca
% The University of British Columbia userbkis@ubcmtsg.bitnet
% Vancouver BC V6T 1W5 userbkis%ubc@um.cc.umich.edu
% Canada ubc-vision!ubcmtsg.bitnet!thornburg
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% Thanks to Donald Arseneau for help with the following macro.
\def\mygobbletoken{\let\myjunktoken= }%%%
%
\def\[{\futurelet\mydisplayselect\mydisplay}%%%
\def\mydisplay{%%%
\if\mydisplayselect[%%%
\begin{eqnarray}\let\mynextcommand=\mygobbletoken%%%
\else%%%
\begin{equation}\let\mynextcommand=\relax%%%
\fi%%%
\mynextcommand%%%
}%%%
%
\def\]{\futurelet\mydisplayselect\myenddisplay}%%%
\def\myenddisplay{%%%
\if\mydisplayselect]%%%
\end{eqnarray}\let\mynextcommand=\mygobbletoken%%%
\else%%%
\end{equation}\let\mynextcommand=\relax%%%
\fi%%%
\mynextcommand%%%
}%%%
%--- cut here ---
Thanks 1.0e6,
Jonathan Thornburg
Dept. of Geophysics & Astronomy thornburg@mtsg.ubc.ca
The University of British Columbia userbkis@ubcmtsg.bitnet
Vancouver BC V6T 1W5 userbkis%ubcmtsg@um.cc.umich.edu
Canada ubc-vision!ubcmtsg.bitnet!thornburg
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 22:08:16 EDT
From: tara@gauss.rutgers.edu (Tara Madhyastha)
Subject: Invisible fonts/dvi2ps
Keywords: dvi2ps, fonts, slitex
I recently built slitex on a Sun 3(4.0), and found that although
the invisible fonts (pxl format) preview just fine (the spacing is
correct for color slides and overlays), the dvi2ps output is very
skewed, as if invisible gf fonts are being translated to postscript
with widths just slightly greater than 0. The dvi2ps we are using is
Ld-dvi2ps version 2.3.
Has anyone else encountered such a problem?
Tara Madhyastha tara@rutgers.edu
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 16:31 N
From: "SCHOEPF@DMZNAT51.BITNET"
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PLEASE REPLY TO <SCHOEPF@DMZNAT51.BITNET>!
Subject: Font selection in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, fonts
To whom it may concern!
In recent TeXhax several people have asked how to change the
font selection mechanism of LaTeX to be more flexible, e.g.,
to typeset the whole document in a sans serif typeface, with \bf
switching to sans serif bold, \it or \em to sans serif italic,
using the Euler fonts or DEK's concrete roman family, etc.
We have implemented such a scheme which will be published in the
forthcoming issue of TUGboat. This scheme is not limited to
LaTeX, although we do not provide an interface to other macro packages
yet.
Characteristics:
- Space requirements of about the same size as the original
lfonts.tex
- Takes about the same time to switch fonts as standard LaTeX
- Preloaded and load-on-demand fonts are treated exactly the
same way, even in math mode
We are planning to make the relevant files available at the usual
places (Clarkson, etc.) in the near future. Interested parties
(i.e. server managers) should contact us and specify which format
they prefer (BITNET file transfer, UNIX or VMS shell archives).
The code is documented with the `doc' option developed at Mainz,
(cf. TUGboat) which will be distributed via the same channels.
Frank Mittelbach
Rainer Sch\"opf
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 09:11:23 PDT
From: lamport@src.dec.com (Leslie Lamport)
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #46
Keywords: LaTeX, \topnewpage
Bo Thide' writes
In the "COMMAND LIST" and "USER COMMANDS THAT CALL OR AFFECT THE OUTPUT
ROUTINE" portions of the latex.tex file (LaTeX 2.09) \topnewpage is
mentioned. However, this command is not defined anywhere. I had hoped
that this command could have been used to modify \section so that the
section title would span the full page also in two-column output. Now,
my section titles span only one column.
Apparently, \topnewpage became \@topnewpage, and its function was
subsumed by the optional argument of \twocolumn. The \twocolumn
command makes it straightforward to define a sectioning command in a
two-column style that starts a new page with a full-column heading.
Leslie Lamport
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Date: 24 May 89 8:30 -0600
From: Jim Walker <walkerj%wnre.aecl.cdn@relay.ubc.ca>
Subject: Needed: DVI-to-LA75
Keywords: DVI-to-LA75
Can anybody let me know where I can find (or preferably send me!) a program
to print dvi files on a dec la75 printer. I can't ftp from here. I am
running vms and I know that the resolution will be less than superb. I have
a set of pk and pxl files that John Sauter was kind enough to send to me.
Thanks,
Jim Walker
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 14:31:55 CDT
From: keiper%caviar.cs.uiuc.edu@a.cs.uiuc.edu (Jerry B. Keiper)
Subject: Incorrect figure reference
Keywords: TeX, figure references, error
It seems that figure references in an appendix don't work properly.
In particular the following source, aux, and log files are associated
with an occurance of this phenomenon in which the reference in the text
comes out as "A and A" although the figures themselves are labeled
as "A.1" and "A.2".
Source:
\documentstyle[11pt,twoside]{report}
\voffset=0pt
\hoffset=0pt
\vsize=9truein
\textheight 600pt
\textwidth 450pt
\topmargin 0pt
\oddsidemargin 20pt
\evensidemargin 20pt
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document} {
\setlength{\baselineskip}{20.4pt}
\pagestyle{plain}
\appendix
\chapter{A picture}
Look at the two pictures. ({\em cf.\/} figures \ref{fig1} and \ref{fig2})
% ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
% The above two references just come out as A and A
\begin{figure} \label{fig1}
\setlength{\unitlength}{0.01 in}
\begin{picture}(235,344)(-217,465)
% origin is at (80,760)
\put(245,540){\circle*{14}} % this is the bob
\put(245,527){\vector( 0,-1){ 45}} % force of gravity vector
\put(65,760){\line(-1, 0){260}} % x-axis
\put(70,760){\line( 1, 0){ 20}} % short x-axis
\put(95,760){\line( 1, 0){260}} % short x-axis
\thicklines
\put(80,760){\line( 3,-4){165}} % pendulum string
\put(60,774){\framebox(40,20){}} % mounting block
\put(70,774){\line( 2,-3){ 10}}
\put(80,759){\line( 2, 3){ 10}}
\thinlines
\put(80,770){\line( 0,-1){ 20}} % vertical line (-y axis)
\put(80,745){\line( 0,-1){260}} % vertical line (-y axis)
\put(90,700){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\twltt $\theta$}}}
\put(255,540){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\twltt $(x,y)$}}}
\put(250,505){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\twltt $mg$}}}
\put(165,650){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\twltt $r$}}}
\end{picture}
\caption{Simple Pendulum}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure} \label{fig2}
\setlength{\unitlength}{0.01 in}
\begin{picture}(235,344)(-217,465)
% origin is at (80,760)
\put(245,540){\circle*{14}} % this is the bob
\put(245,527){\vector( 0,-1){ 45}} % force of gravity vector
\put(65,760){\line(-1, 0){260}} % x-axis
\put(70,760){\line( 1, 0){ 20}} % short x-axis
\put(95,760){\line( 1, 0){260}} % short x-axis
\thicklines
\put(80,760){\line( 3,-4){165}} % pendulum string
\put(60,774){\framebox(40,20){}} % mounting block
\put(70,774){\line( 2,-3){ 10}}
\put(80,759){\line( 2, 3){ 10}}
\thinlines
\put(80,770){\line( 0,-1){ 20}} % vertical line (-y axis)
\put(80,745){\line( 0,-1){260}} % vertical line (-y axis)
\put(90,700){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\twltt $\theta$}}}
\put(255,540){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\twltt $(x,y)$}}}
\put(250,505){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\twltt $mg$}}}
\put(165,650){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\raisebox{0pt}[0pt][0pt]{\twltt $r$}}}
\end{picture}
\caption{Simple Pendulum}
\end{figure}
}
\end{document}
aux:
\relax
\@writefile{toc}{\string\contentsline\space {chapter}{\string\numberline\space {A}A picture}{1}}
\@writefile{lof}{\string\addvspace\space {10pt}}
\@writefile{lot}{\string\addvspace\space {10pt}}
\newlabel{fig1}{{A}{2}}
\@writefile{lof}{\string\contentsline\space {figure}{\string\numberline\space {A.1}{\ignorespaces Simple Pendulum}}{2}}
\newlabel{fig2}{{A}{2}}
\@writefile{lof}{\string\contentsline\space {figure}{\string\numberline\space {A.2}{\ignorespaces Simple Pendulum}}{2}}
log:
This is TeX, C Version 2.93 (preloaded format=lplain 88.9.24) 24 MAY 1989 14:14
**&/usr/local/lib/tex82/fmt/lplain bug
(bug.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <26 Feb 1988>
(/usr/local/lib/tex82/macros/report.sty
Document Style `report' <16 Mar 88>.
(/usr/local/lib/tex82/macros/rep11.sty)
\descriptionmargin=\dimen99
\c@part=\count78
\c@chapter=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
(/usr/local/lib/tex82/macros/titlepage.sty)) (bug.aux)
Appendix A.
[1
] [2] (bug.aux)
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
167 strings out of 1480
1606 string characters out of 28811
29151 words of memory out of 65531
2123 multiletter control sequences out of 3000
22508 words of font info for 84 fonts, out of 36000 for 150
14 hyphenation exceptions out of 307
15i,8n,15p,184b,202s stack positions out of 200i,40n,60p,2000b,2000s
Output written on bug.dvi (2 pages, 2020 bytes).
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