TeXhax@Score.Stanford.EDU (TeXhax Digest) (06/09/88)
TeXhax Digest Wednesday, June 8, 1988 Volume 88 : Issue 54
Moderator: Malcolm Brown
Today's Topics:
TeX/LaTeX training
Re: TeXhax Digest V88 #52 (LaTeX notes)
PCTeX and OS/2
TeX Headline
Unix_TeX undump for Tahoe System V
amstex documentation
ArborText's TeX fixed
ArborText TeX is fixed
Line numbering paragraphs
Re: amstex documentation
Using LaTeX \index in a \newcommand
marks
Re: marks
Problems recompiling MF for VAX/VMS
TeX for the Archimedes?
dvidvi
Wanted: WEB-source for DVI-CANON driver
dvi2ps : how can I get a better version??
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 88 15:55:56 EDT
From: Betsey Crockett Shay <bcs@rti.rti.org>
Subject: TeX/LaTeX training
WANTED: the solution to our particular TeX/LaTeX training problem.
We are a research and development group that is converting to LaTeX
for government contract reports, journal articles, proposals,
viewgraphs (slides), letters, memos, etc., etc. We are looking for
two kinds of training: 1) general LaTeX training and 2) specific
training in LaTeX style modifying and style file writing.
General Training -- We are looking for suggestions for a LaTeX
teacher/consultant for our document support group (about 15 people).
We already have Dr. Lamport's list of interested folks, and we are
seeking others who have an interest. We would also welcome recommen-
dations from other companies who have successfully used a consultant.
Specific Writer Training -- Our writer has some self-taught experience
with LaTeX and TeX. We are seeking advice on what training options are
available that might help her gain a more comprehensive understanding
of existing LaTeX style files and how to modify them; for example,
consultants, courses, video materials, or other teaching materials. We
understand that we missed the TUG course, LaTeX Style Files, and would
like suggestions for a reasonable alternative. Additionally, we're
seeking advice on which steps would offer the most comprehensive and
appropriate training. For example, an alternative might include a
combination of 1) TUG's advanced TeX courses with 2) a consultant to
focus on the finer points of LaTeX.
Betsey Crockett Shay
bcs@rti.rti.org
...{decvax,uunet,philabs}!mcnc!rti!bcs
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 88 13:43:51 PDT
From: lamport@decwrl.dec.com (Leslie Lamport)
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V88 #52 (LaTeX notes)
Toby Howard writes:
Does anyone have any experience of using LaTeX to produce a complete
magazine/newsletter? I'm about to embark on an experimental venture,
but before I do, I'd love to hear from anyone who's tried this, and
might have some advice (or even macros!) to share.
The journal "Complex Systems", edited by Stephen Wolfram (Univ of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana), is typeset using LaTeX.
Jerry Leichter's "Bizarre LaTeX Problem With \{ \} In Section Names and
Such" appears to be a bug, but one that is rare, hard to fix, and easy
to work around--e.g., by using explicit "\ " commands, as in
\section{abc \{def\}x \{\ ghi \}\ cba}
So, I'm not sure if I will try to fix it.
Shamim Naqvi writes
I have found the following incomprehensible LaTeX behavior.
The source file is
% start
\documentstyle[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
Figures~\ref{One} and \ref{Two} show examples of the bug.
\begin{figure}
\label{One}
\vspace{.2in}
\caption{One}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\label{Two}
\vspace{.2in}
\caption{Two}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
%end
and LaTeX produces:
[I'll leave it as an exercise to the readeer to figure out what LaTeX
should produce. LL]
Does somebody know why this is happening?
I am doing a book using LaTeX and this happens a few times (but not
always) in a few of the chapters.
Please respond to "shamim@mcc.com" directly.
I read Texhax occasionally. Thanks in advance.
He should try reading the LaTeX manual occasionally. A good place to start
would be with the index entry
\label
in figure environment
Leslie Lamport
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 88 11:55:46 CDT
From: loh@stat.wisc.edu (Wei-Yin Loh)
Subject: PCTeX and OS/2
I have a colleague who wants to know if PCTeX runs under OS/2 on the
IBM PS/2 machines. If it doesn't, he wants to know if it will run
without problems in the MS-DOS window of OS/2 (he understands that not
all software that runs under MS-DOS also runs in the MS-DOS window of
OS/2). He tried calling PCTeX, but they apparently didn't know for
sure themselves.
Is anyone on this distribution running PCTeX (or MicroTeX) on an IBM
PS/2? We would appreciate any help or information you can provide.
Thanks.
Wei-Yin Loh
Dept of Statistics
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
(loh@stat.wisc.edu)
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Date: Thu, 2 Jun 88 13:41:24 EST
From: Daya Atapattu <daya@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: TeX Headline
I am TeX-formatting a dictionary. The dictionary has two columns per page.
The headline I am trying to get looks like:
| board <pageno> boat |
| |
| <left column> : <right column> |
when the first "main-word" in left column is "board" and the last in the
right column is "boat".
I use the output routine in page 257 of The TeX book to get two columns. When
all the main-words are "\mark"ed, reference to \firstmark within \makeheadline
gives me the first word of the *right* column. I tried to grab the \firstmark
within the scope of the first column by \global\let but failed.
Does anybody has a solution ?
Thanks in advance.
Daya Atapattu.
Indiana University ARPA: daya@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Dept. of Computer Science UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,purdue}!iuvax!daya
Bloomington, IN 47401 PHONE: (812) 334-2386
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 88 00:51:24 PDT
From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTT.VAXH
Subject: Unix_TeX undump for Tahoe System V
I've tried twice to contact Lou Salkind <salkind@acf8.nyu.edu>
about this, but as I've had no reply, perhaps someone else might
have tried this and could help...
I'm setting up the Unix TeX distribution on a CCI Power6/32 (Tahoe),
sold in the UK by ICL as a Clan7 [ours runs a sort-of "System V.2"
which also has some Berkeley features in the kernel and a Berkeley
fast filesystem]. I have problems compiling the Salkind SysV undump.
Some #include files weren't present ( <sys/psw.h>, <sys/pcb.h> and
<sys/fs/s5dir.h> ) but I think I found their equivalents (<ml/psl.h>,
<ml/pcb.h> and <sys/dir.h>, respectively).
However, I'm now faced by two undefined constants: USIZE and
PAGESIZE, which are obviously defined in one of the #include files
on the 3B2 which was used to develop the SysV undump. I'd be *very*
grateful if someone, somewhere, could tell me what the definitions
mean and what the Tahoe values are.
I can guess that the definition NBPG (number of bytes/page ?) on the
Clan could be equivalent to PAGESIZE, but can't find anything
resembling USIZE.
Thanks in advance,
Dave Osborne
| Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK |
| JANET: cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064 |
| BITNET: cczdao%uk.ac.nott.vaxa@ukacrl.bitnet |
| ARPA: cczdao%uk.ac.nott.vaxa@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk |
| or %ukacrl.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu |
| UUCP: ,...!mcvax-!ukc!nott-cs!vaxa!cczdao Voice: "Dave!" |
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Subject: amstex documentation
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 88 12:38:56 PDT
From: Richard Roy <dick@java.Stanford.EDU>
Does anyone have any documentation for the amstex macros currently
available from score.stanford.edu. It's version 1.1c according to the
comments in the package itself. An old amsman.tex file written by M.
Spivak in 1983 and the associated amsman.hdr are woefully inconsistent
with the newer release of the amstex.tex macros and amsppt.sty files.
RR - <dick@isl.stanford.edu>
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 88 15:52:40 EDT
From: cld@arbortext.com
Subject: ArborText's TeX fixed
We regret that there indeed was a bug in ArborText's version of
TeX for Sun workstations, in which \topmark was not updated
properly as reported last week in TeXhax. It affected copies of
TeX sent out only from January 23 to March 24 of this year. We've
corrected the problem and confirmed that the new version passes
the trip test. We're sending out new copies of TeX to all of
our customers who we believe received the erroneous version, but
feel free to contact us if you'd like to confirm that you're on
our list.
Cheri DeRosia
ArborText
cld@arbortext.com
(313) 996--3566
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 88 15:22:55 EDT
From: oravax!norman@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu (Norman Ramsey)
Subject: ArborText TeX is fixed
Thanks to all the people who responded to my report of a bug with \mark in
ArborText TeX. The ArborText people were very prompt and courteous in
fixing the problem; apparently a few tapes that were distributed early in
January had this problem, and then it was fixed. So a new tape is on its
way to us.
By the way, I am told the TRIP test exercises \mark in a number of ways,
so it seems to action is necessary on that score.
Norman Ramsey
norman%oravax.uucp@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 88 15:19:53 EDT
From: oravax!norman@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu (Norman Ramsey)
Subject: Line numbering paragraphs
I saw the question about how to do line numbering in \TeX.
There is a way, but it's ugly. The way is to take a whole paragraph,
and use \vsplit to pull off the individual lines, and then attach
numbers to the lines.
A while back I had a need to pull apart paragraphs so I could attach
an icon to the left side of each paragraph. I don't have time to
comment this properly, but if you run it through and study the output
you should get an idea how it works, and you should be able to use the
idea to build line numbering.
Norman Ramsey
norman%oravax.uucp@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
---- cut here for markpar.tex ----
\def\refbox#1{\hbox to 0pt{\rlap{\vrule height\ht#1 depth\dp#1}\vrule
width\wd#1 height0.2pt depth0.2pt\llap{\vrule height\ht#1
depth\dp#1}\hss}} % I think this constructs the box outline for any
% box. I used it for debugging
\def\frame#1{\setbox0=\hbox{#1}\refbox0\box0} % prints a framed box
%\let\frame=\relax
\newbox\window % paragraph to be disassembled
\newif\ifmarkdo % used to \loop properly
\newdimen\markh\markh=.83333333\baselineskip
\def\markpar#1#2{%
\setbox\window=\vbox{\hbox{This line will get peeled}#2}%
% put extra line at top
\vbox{
\splittopskip=\markh\vbadness=10000
\setbox0=\vsplit\window to\markh % peel first line
\loop \ifvoid\window\markdofalse\else\markdotrue\fi
\ifmarkdo
\hbox{\strut\frame{{\tt #1}}\quad\frame{\vsplit\window to\markh}}%
% print a line with plenty of debugging
\repeat
}}
\parskip=\baselineskip
%\tracingmacros=1\tracingcommands=1
\markpar{--:}{I don't quite understand why B. C. Dull is being considered for a
software engineering position. While she says she is a competent
programmer, she also says that she does not want a programming job;
she wants to do research in software engineering methods. Discovering
this took up most of my time with her.
}
\markpar{--|}{
B. C. Dull wants to ``improve communication in the engineering
environment.'' This seems to mean that she wants to figure out how to
enable programmers to read one another's code. She is also interested
in ``improving the computer interface to the human,'' by which she
seems to mean questions of how to design screens, how to design user
interfaces in general, and how to write user manuals.
}
\markpar{==>}{I don't know how much we could use a person to do research in software
engineering methods, or how much she would be listened to by the
people writing code. If we were to hire such a person, I am not
convinced B. C. Dull is the best one we could hire. She uses words like
``communication,'' ``environment,'' and ``software engineering,''
which are popular but not very precise. Although she claims to want to
solve the problem posed by programmers' unwillingness to read
documentation, she is not familiar with Don Knuth's work on
interleaving code and documentation (WEB) despite it's having been
featured in Jon Bentley's column in CACM at least twice in the
last year.}
\bye
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Date: Fri 3 Jun 88 19:17:07-PDT
From: Barbara Beeton <BEETON@Score.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: amstex documentation
the documentation for the amstex macros is the (paper-only) joy of tex,
published by the american mathematical society. any copies of the files
amsman.* should be destroyed -- they are thoroughly obsolete.
it is highly unlikely that the documentation will ever become available
as ftp'able files. the only copies in existence are still in mike
spivak's possession.
-- barbara beeton
american math society
p.s. oh, if "joy" isn't at your local college bookstore, write to the
math society at p o box 6248, providence, ri 02940.
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Date: Fri, 3 Jun 88 16:33:24 PDT
From: langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Bruce Langdon)
Subject: Using LaTeX \index in a \newcommand
How does @{\tt turn into @{\ptt in the following, and how does one
prevent it?
\documentstyle[11pt,makeidx]{article}
\makeindex
\begin{document}
% both of these generate \indexentry{number@{\ptt number}}{1} !!!
\newcommand{\indextta}[1]{\index{#1@{\tt #1}}}
\def\indexttb#1{\index{#1@{\tt #1}}}
Attempt to make a macro that prints index entry in tt font, like verbatim.
\indextta{one}
\indexttb{two}
What we want is the effect of \index{three@{\tt three}}.
\end{document}
Bruce Langdon L-472 langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
Physics Department 339650%d@nmfecc.arpa
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94550 (415) 422-5444
UUCP: ..{ihnp4,qantel,ucdavis,pyramid,harvard,topaz}!lll-lcc!langdon
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Subject: marks
From: harvard!bu-cs!encore!cloud9!jjmhome!lmann@rutgers.edu (Laurie Mann)
I saw a recent posting about someone having trouble setting marks
with two-column text. I've been working on a guide and index
which has NEVER had proper running heads in a three-column format.
There seems to be a major bug in TeX's mark-setting capabilities
because TeX cannot handle multiple marks on a page in a way a
user would expect.
\* This is the way the future is...
Hacking net address: {harvard,ulowell}!m2c!jjmhome!lmann ** lmann@jjmhome.UUCP
Working net address: harvard!anvil!es!mann (Stratus Computer)
uS(n)ail: Laurie Mann, Stratus, M22PUB, 55 Fairbanks Blvd, Marlboro, MA 01752
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Date: Sat 4 Jun 88 11:27:53-PDT
From: Barbara Beeton <BEETON@Score.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: marks
if you think about it carefully, you will realize that the way tex
handles marks on multi-column pages is a feature, not a bug. remember
that tex considers each column to be a separate "page". \botmark will
always give you the last mark on the "real" page, but \firstmark and
\topmark will give you the respective marks for the column most recently
completed, which, although not exactly what {\sl you} had in mind, does
conform to tex's ideas about the world. what you have to do is trap
the \firstmark and\or/or \topmark from the first column on the page;
i usually do this by means of an appropriate \xdef in the output routine
at the beginning of column 1. there are still some niceties to be
tended to when generating marks, such as making sure that the \mark
instruction isn't separated from the item being marked by any vertical
space, and the presence of some accents (particularly the cedilla) in
the marked text is sure to cause headaches, but setting a trap for the
first-column top-of-page marks will get rid of the most obvious problem.
-- bb
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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 88 18:28 GMT
From: <INFORMA%EB0UAB51.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Problems recompiling MF for VAX/VMS
I have had some problems when trying to recompile METAFONT in
our VAX 8800 running VMS V4.7. I am trying to do it in order to expand
the memory space of MF.
The .EXE file we got from Stanford works fine (apart form its
"small" memory), but when I recompile and re-link the program (even
whith NO modifications to the change file) I get a program that
doesn't work properly.
An example follows:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This is METAFONT, Vax/VMS Version 1.0 (no base preloaded)
**\relax
*draw (20,40)..(50,25)..(80,40);
%PAS-F-SUBASGVAL, subrange assignment value is out of range
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
module name routine name line rel PC abs PC
MF SMOOTHMOVES 1568 00000038 000528F0
MF DUALMOVES 2569 00000A38 000617A8
MF FILLENVELOPE 2635 000010B9 00062901
MF DOADDTO 5095 000008AD 000812FD
MF DOSTATEMENT 5417 000003AE 000830F2
MF MAINCONTROL 5430 00000015 000832ED
MF MF 6177 000004C9 00042089
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
As I said above, that was with NO modifications to the change
file.
I had no apparent problem with INIMF.
We have VAX Pascal V3.5-196 and the command line to compile MF was
$ pascal/check=all/nooptimize mf
If anyone knows what is going on please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Goncal Badenes
Goncal Badenes |
Centre Nacional de Microelectronica |
Bellaterra, Barcelona |
SPAIN |
Bitnet/EARN: INFORMA@EB0UAB51.BITNET |
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From: munnari!latvax8.lat.oz.au!ccmk@uunet.UU.NET
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 88 13:01:14 EST
Subject: TeX for the Archimedes?
Does anybody know of a port of TeX (and LaTeX) to the Acorn Archimedes
(a supposed 4 mip RISC PC)? If not, how do I get a hold of common TeX,
bearing in mind I cannot FTP!?
Thanks
Mark Kosten ACSNET: ccmk@latvax8.lat.oz
Computer Centre ARPA: ccmk%latvax8.lat.oz@UUNET.ARPA
La Trobe University BITNET: ccmk@latvax8.lat.oz
Bundoora 3083 or via return address on mail header
Australia phone: +61 3 479 2766
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 88 01:06:18 PDT
From: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: dvidvi
There have been a few postings about programs which do fancy
pagination, like selecting odd pages and reversing them, and
then selecting even pages, or printing multiple pages on one
sheet. Here's one I did over the weekend in C; enjoy!
%%% Tom's submission is too large for digest distribution. It is
%%% available for FTP access from machine "SCORE.STANFORD.EDU",
%%% under the TOPS20 directory "<TEX.TEXHAX>". The name of the
%%% file is "ROKICKI.TXH".
%%% A copy has been forwarded to TEX-L for BITNET access.
%%% Malcolm
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Date: 3 Jun 88 15:14 +0800
From: Stein-Aksel Basma <basma%rose.uib.uninett@TOR.nta.no>
Subject: Wanted: WEB-source for DVI-CANON driver
I'm in desperate need of a DVI-Canon driver written in WEB. I do know of
the DVICAN and DVICA2 written in C, but the thing is our system doesn't
have a C-compiler.
Thanx in advance
Stein-Aksel Basma
Dept. of Information Science
University of Bergen
NORWAY
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Date: Sun, 05 Jun 88 18:03:24 CST
From: Robert Coleman <COLEMAN%UREGINA1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: dvi2ps : how can I get a better version??
I am running on a Sun3/50 and I wish to print dvi files on an
apple LaserWriterIINT. I am aware of the dvi2ps driver on the Unix
TeX distribution; however, I would like to know if there are more
up-to-date versions available. In order of importance, the features
I am looding for are the following.
1. Use of pk rather than pxl fonts in order to save disk space.
2. Support for a reasonably flexible \special command for the
inclusion of postscript diagrams.
3. Support for other drawing facilities.
I cannot ftp. Please indicate indicate some other means of aquiring
the software such as tape. Also indicate the cost if appropriate.
Send replies either to TeXhax or to me directly.
Robert Coleman
coleman@uregina2.bitnet
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