TeXhax@cs.washington.edu (TeXhax Digest) (06/02/89)
TeXhax Digest Monday, May 15, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 47
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
Needed: GFtoDVI
Decus Tex collection available for ftp
Is there a Spanish TeX users group?
T-shirts, anyone?
TEX and INITEX CMS-Changes
Needed: dvialw.ps (without ftp)
VMS 5.xx and TeX
TeX opinions
TeX and LaTeX for DG AOS/VS
Landscape printing from TeX or LaTeX
Using \futurelet give optional parameters
10pt extension font in 12pt LaTeX
Possible LaTeX Bug
Emacs and TeX-mode
BibTeX .bst cross reference generator
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Date: Tue, 9 May 89 08:36:35 EDT
From: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Needed: GFtoDVI
Keywords: gftodvi
I recently ftp'ed the Unix distribution from LaBrea and tried to make
gftodvi. However, I soon discovered that there was no .ch file for it.
Does anybody have either C source for gftodvi, or a .ch file?
Thanks,
Andrew Marc Greene
<amgreene@athena.mit.edu>
SIPB Secretary and
Project Athena Watchmaker
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 13:28 CDT
From: "K. SANKARA RAO" <SYSTEM@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu>
Subject: Decus Tex collection available for ftp
Keywords: Decus, TeX, ftp
Decus Tex collection compiled by Ted Nieland is availble for
anonymous ftp from power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu (192.33.18.40). Please note
that there is no connection between this computer sie and DECUS and the
package is made available for ftp only as a service to the network
community. If any organizer of DECUS objects to my making this directory
available for ftp, it will be withdrawn forthwith.
The tape of backup set can be ordred either through DECUS
Library or your LUG Tape Librarian.
The diectory is disk$ftp:[tex]
K. Sankara Rao
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
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Date: 8 May 89 16:02 +0100
From: Walter Brunswig <mcvax!iram.es!brunswig@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: Is there a Spanish TeX users group?
Keywords: TeX, Spanish
Dear TeXhaxers (?),
Do you know if there is a spanish TeX users group ?
Thank you very much for your help. Best wishes & saludos
Walter Brunswig
Instituto de Radioastronomia Milimetrica
Granada - Spain
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Date: Sun May 07 17:02:34 1989
From: microsoft!leefi@beaver
Subject: T-shirts, anyone?
Keywords: TeX t-shirt
A non-technical question: Does anyone know where to get a TeX t-shirt?
I saw one a few years ago at some seminar and just now thought about
getting one... If anyone sells one or knows where to buy one, I would
appreciate any purchase information. Thanks in advance.
Lee Fisher, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA, +1(206)882-8621
leefi@microsoft.com.UUCP, leefi%microsoft@uw-beaver.MIL,
{uw-beaver,decvax,decwrl,intelca,sun,tikal,uunet}!microsoft!leefi
leefi@microsoft.beaver.washington.EDU, Compu$erve: 72357,1451
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 16:13 SET
From: Renzo Beltrame <BELTRAME%ICNUCEVM.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: TEX and INITEX CMS-Changes
Keywords: TeX, Initex
I generated TeX and INITEX on our IBM 3081 with VM/CMS. So I had to modify
the CMS-CHANGES files.
If it would be useful I can send these files to score.stanford.edu.
Please give me some suggestion to avoid unpleasant characters conversion.
Thanks. Beltrame
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 16:31 EDT
From: <ZHANGZ%MUSC.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Needed: dvialw.ps (without ftp)
Keywords: dvialw.ps
Can somebody tell me where to get a copy of "dvialw.ps", the header file
used by dvialw.exe (without using ftp)?
I appreciate any help.
Zhen Zhang (bitnet address: zhangz@musc )
Medical Univ. of South Carolina
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 16:33:18 cdt
From: "Commins,Paul P" <COMMINS%GRIN1.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: VMS 5.xx and TeX
Keywords: VMS 5.xx, TeX
We are about to upgrade our VAX operating system from VMS 4.7 to 5.1. We're
worried that our old version of TeX, version 2.01, will not function under
VMS 5.xx. Does anyone have first hand experience with the VMS 5.xx/TeX 2.01
combination? Please send replies to me since we're a Bitnet site and
sometimes miss a digest here and there. Thanks,
Paul Commins
Grinnell College Computer Services
COMMINS@GRIN1.BITNET
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Date: SUN 07 MAY 1989 19:19:00 EDT
From: INHB000 <INHB%MCGILLC.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: TeX opinions
Keywords: TeX
I would like to add a few comments to those of Douglas Miller in TeXhax
#33. Although I essentially agree with him, I don't think TeX is
perfect. For example, I think that TeX's arithemtic is terrible. The
inability to give an expression as numerical parameter is very
troublesome. Macro writing would be much simplified if you had the
ability to look ahead at the next token (\futurelet gives an awkward way
of doing this, but is not really satisfactory). Numerical (not just
integral) and string variables would be extremely useful. (I don't
understand how token variables work, but they don't do what I would
want.)
My publisher wanted the book I am writing set in such a way that if
facing pages are the same length, then the left hand page is the longer.
I'm not sure why they consider this important, but I am not a book
designer. At any rate, I had to tell him that if they insist on that,
then they are going to have to typeset it in the traditional way, for I
see no way of coercing TeX into doing that. I don't say it can't be
done; I suppose it might be possible to make TeX think it is doing
two-column style and cut the page myself, but this is far beyond my
ability of TeX programming. I also think I would run out of memory.
Finally, I don't disagree with his remarks on hand-formatting. In fact,
I think that TeX still leaves too much of it to the user. I have
published a book that includes some 600 diagrams, all done with LaTeX
picture mode. But the Latex book suggests that the way to prepare
diagrams is to lay them out on graph paper and read off the coordinates!
This is as far from logical typesetting as possible. WYSIWYG would
certainly be an improvement on that! Fortunately, I have made some
macros that make the process semi-automatic.
Michael Barr
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Date: Wed, 3 May 89 12:44+0500
From: <zifrony%TAURUS.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: TeX and LaTeX for DG AOS/VS
Comments: If you have trouble reaching this host as MATH.Tau.Ac.IL
Please use the old address: user@taurus.BITNET
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, DG AOS/VS
Hi to you all, I am interested in getting TeX and LaTeX for AOS/VS on
a Data General MV-20000 computer.
Does it exist? Is there a public domain version? Where can I get it from?
Please mail me directly, as I am not a reader of "comp.text".
Thank you very much for your trouble.
Doron Zifrony E-mail: BITNET: zifrony@taurus.bitnet
Msc. Student INTERNET: zifrony@Math.Tau.Ac.IL
Dept. of CS ARPA: zifrony%taurus.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Tel Aviv Univ. UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!humus!taurus!zifrony
Israel CSNET: zifrony%taurus.bitnet%cunyvm.cuny.edu@
csnet-relay
Disclaimer: I DON'T represent Tel Aviv University. The opinions hereby
expressed are solely my own.
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 16:43:41 EDT
From: Jason D. Blue <jblue@mwunix.mitre.org>
Subject: Landscape printing from TeX or LaTeX
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX
I am trying to print some VuGraphs in LaTeX, but I can't figure out the
commands to tell LaTeX that the document should be printed in Landscape. I am
using an IBM PS/2 model 50, on which TeX and LaTeX are installed, and I am
printing to an Apple LaserWriter II.
Can LaTeX or TeX print in landscape mode? If so, how would I go about doing
it?
Please mail all correspondence directly to the address below as I do not
have access to TeXHAX.
Thank you,==================================================================
Jason D. Blue = User Services =
User Support Center Specialist = Washington Center =
Internet: jblue@mwunix.mitre.org = The MITRE Corporation =
Bitnet: jblue%mwunix.mitre.org@cunyvm.BITNET = 703-883-7999 =
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Date: THU 04 MAY 1989 17:17:00 EDT
From: INHB000 <INHB%MCGILLC.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Using \futurelet give optional parameters
Keywords: \futurelet
In a recent TeXhax, there was an interesting explanation of how
\futurelet could be used to give optional parameters. Although correct,
the code allows no way of recovery if the first non-blank character
following the test word must, for some reason having nothing to do
with parameters, be a brace. So the following would work much better:
\def \test {\futurelet \next \usedefaultifnotleftbracket}%
which will need the following additional definitions:
\catcode `\@ = 11 % so we can use `@' as a letter ...
\let \then = \relax % so we can use \if ... \then ... \else ... \fi
\def \usedefaultifnotleftbracket
{\ifx [\next
\then \let \next = \t@st
\else \def \next {\expandafter \t@st \d@fault}%
\fi
\next
}
\def \t@st [#1]{<whatever you wanted \test to do>}%
\def \d@fault {[<the default value or action>]}%
\catcode `\@ = 12 % restore normal \catcode of `@'
As usual, LaTeX makes it all much easier. The code
\makeatletter
\def\test{\@ifnextchar [{\t@st}{\t@st[\d@fault]}}
\def \t@st [#1]{<whatever you wanted \test to do>}%
\def \d@fault {<the default value or action>}%
\makeatother
accomplishes the same thing without having to delve into the arcana of
\futurelet and \expandafter. There is a minor difference between the
two approaches. In the first, the brackets have to be built into the
definition of \d@fault; in the second, they are put into the definition
of \test. I have not understood enough of what is actually going on
with \@ifnextchar to know why. But it all works and works as well if
\test has other parameters (although they shouldn't be delimited with
brackets, of course).
Michael Barr
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Date: Sat, 6 May 1989 03:17:42 EDT
From: Peter Golde <ST501432%BROWNVM.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: 10pt extension font in 12pt LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, TeX, fonts
I have been using TeX and LaTeX for occasional documents for about
4 months now (so I'm certainly no expert), and a noticed an odd thing
today when looking at the print-out for a LaTeX document formatted
with the 12pt document style -- the large integral and summation
signs were smaller than they should have been. Careful examination
indicated they were being formatted in the the 10pt size while the rest
of every formula was in 12pt. I looked through LFONTS.TEX, and
sure enough, the definition of xiipt and xipt indicate use of the
10pt extension font cmex10. Wishing to correct this defect, I added
the lines
\font\elvex = cmex10 \@halfmag
\font\twlex = cmex10 \@magscale1
and changed the def of xipt to have
\textfont\thr@@\elvex
and xiipt and higher sizes to have
\textfont\thr@@\twlex.
After one test it seems as though this solves the problem and large
operators are the correct size with respect to the rest of the formula.
I'm curious as to why this wasn't in LaTeX to begin with. Have I
discovered a bug, is my LFONTS.TEX out of date (mine is dated
11 Nov 86), or is there some reason what I have done is bad or
undesirable? (I suppose some people might like the smaller
characters, but to me they look out of sync with the rest of the
formula).
Peter Golde
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 10:44:27 BST
From: Jon Warbrick <C20222%prime-a.poly-south-west.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK>
Subject: Possible LaTeX Bug
Keywords: LaTeX, bug
The following LaTeX behavour may constitute a bug. On the other
hand, since it is a bit obscure, it may just be something that should
be documented. Or I may have missed something in the manual...
Within an enumerate enviroment if the text for an `item' is in
a center enviroment then the lable for the item is centered along
with the text. The following demonstrates the problem:
\begin{description}
\item[This one works]
and its text is printed OK.
\item[But this doesn't]
\begin{center}
because the label and the text get centered!
\end{center}
\end{description}
If the center forms the second or subsequent paragraph of the item
everything works as expected, but you can't convince LaTeX that the
center *IS* the second paragraph just by adding a blank line before
it, because it seems to ignore \par's directly after an \item. You
seem to get similar effects with itemize and enumerate (as you might
expect), and also if you use flushright in place of center.
Jon.
Jon Warbrick, Computing Service,
Polytechnic South West,
Drake Circus,
Plymouth PL4 8AA UK. JANET: J.Warbrick@UK.AC.POLY-SOUTH-WEST
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Date: 05/05/89 at 17H
From: UCIR001%FRORS31.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
Subject: Emacs and TeX-mode
Keywords: TeX, emacs
A question of a poor colleague that can't reach Washington.
Please don't answer to me. Thanks, Bernard GAULLE
His BITNET address is: <BROUARD@FRINED51>
From: TOKAY::BROUARD 18-APR-1989 14:30
To: EARN::"TeXhax@cs.washington.edu",BROUARD
Subj: Emacs and TeX-mode
GNU-emacs from R.Stallman has a very useful command within TeX-mode:
it compiles and views a selected region of a larger TeX
source file. Its mainly use is for big equations, large tables or LaTeX
figures. Let us show briefly how the command works:
Your current buffer must have two (comments) lines which will
correspond to the header of a temporary file:
%**start of header
\documentstyle...
\def\toto...
\begin{document}
%**end of header
Then the command appends your selected region and a last line like
"\end{document}" (which can be easily changed) to that temporary
file. Once the temporary file is created, the command is a simple
push command which can be either a compilation of the temporary file
or, if you have a bitmap screen, a compilation and a viewing of the
dvi file.
On X/windows, it is nice to have the viewing of your
selected region on another small non overlapping window. A simple
keystroke Control_c Control_r does the all thing in the background.
If you don't really trust in the display of your mathematical equations
it is then very easy to have the screen proof. WYSIWYG arguments
against TeX are then very poor in my opinion.
This facility was not possible on MS/DOS until now because of the
memory used by TeX. Even with a powerful emacs-editor like jove (public
domain) or epsilon (distributed by Lugaru Software), which can push a
DOS command from editor the free memory was too small. With the new
version 4 of epsilon, the push command give the same amount of memory
than before loading the editor (it needs place on hard disk or
virtual disk to swap), it is then possible to push a make command
(pcmake public domain from N. BEEBE et al.) with a TeX compilation
and a fast previewing (cdvi 1.2 public domain from W. Sullivan)
without leaving the editor and its environment.
I have then written some codes (epsilon macros are written in a C
language) to compile and views a selected region of LaTeX source from a
big file without leaving the editor.
People interested in receiving the "tex.e" file can ask me. This file
includes also other commands:
The most important command is "tex-nexterr" which looks at the log
file output by a compilation by TeX or LaTeX and finds in a first pass all
the errors (line beginning with "!"), and edits and points to the
wrong line of the corresponding file (even if the error ocurred in
another file than the current one). In a second pass it looks at LaTeX
warnings (citation, cross reference, etc). In a third pass it looks at
over/underfull boxes. For second and third passes the command works
well only if the information on single lines or paragraph lines are
available from Knuth's log file.
This macro command has not been translated to Lisp for GNU emacs, if
someone is interested in translation...
I have also written a LaTeX mode for epsilon and GNU emacs which
is widely used here at INED. It consists in simplifications for
writing \begin{} \end{}, etc and some templates for initializations
of latex (article, letter and slitex), for tables and figures, etc. Other
templates and help concern bibtex.
The C code for epsilon and Lisp code for GNU can be requested to:
Nicolas BROUARD
Institut National d'Etudes D\'emographiques
27, rue du Commandeur
75675 PARIS Cedex 14
Bitnet or Earn <Brouard@frined51>
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 21:04:12 EDT
From: Rick Zaccone <zaccone%sol.bucknell.edu@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: BibTeX .bst cross reference generator
Keywords: BibTeX
The following awk script will generate a cross reference listing of
all of the functions in a BibTeX style file (.bst file). I wrote it
using new awk (nawk). It's real handy if you intend to do any BibTeX
style hacking.
Please send me any comments or bug fixes.
Rick Zaccone
zaccone@bknlvms.bitnet
zaccone@rigel.bucknell.edu
# This awk script will create a list of functions and the line numbers
# on which they are used (for bibtex .bst files).
# To run: awk -f create.xref file.bst > xref
# Note that the first number for each entry is where the function is
# defined. This script creates and destroys a temporary file called
# "create.xref.temp".
# This is version 3.0, 5/5/89 . Rick Zaccone
# zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu
# zaccone@bknlvms.bitnet
BEGIN {
# braces, spaces and tabs are field separators.
FS = "[\{\} \t]+"
}
{
if ($1 == "FUNCTION"){
idx[$2] = NR
} else {
for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++)
if (index($i,"%"))
break # ignore comments
else if ($i in idx)
idx[$i] = idx[$i] " " NR
}
}
END {
# Print results. Wrap lines longer than 80 bytes.
for (name in idx)
print name, idx[name] | "sort > create.xref.temp"
close("sort > create.xref.temp")
while (getline < "create.xref.temp" > 0){
if (length($0) < 80)
print
else{
temp = ""
line = ""
for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++){
temp = temp $i " "
if (length(temp) >= 80){
print line
temp = " " $i " "
}
line = temp
}
print line
}
}
system("rm create.xref.temp")
}
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