cdash@boulder.UUCP (09/18/87)
I have a bunch of previously formatted documents that were formatted by a long lost document formatter. I want to use TeX to embolden a few words here and there, italicize a few words here and there, and the like. I would also like to specify a specific font for the entire document. I do NOT want TeX to rearange line breaks or white space between lines. Our local TeX users have not been much help, so I am turning to the net. Thanks...cdash -- cdash aka cdash@boulder.colorado.edu aka ...hao!boulder!cdash aka ...nbires!boulder!cdash aka (303) 593-3492
mamon@acf4.UUCP (Gary Mamon) (09/18/87)
cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub) writes: > I have a bunch of previously formatted documents that were formatted > by a long lost document formatter. I want to use TeX to embolden > a few words here and there, italicize a few words here and there, > and the like. I would also like to specify a specific font for the > entire document. I do NOT want TeX to rearange line breaks or white space > between lines. Our local TeX users have not been much help, so I am turning to > the net. Although I'm only a TeXnician (instead of a TeXpert) I'll give a try at this one. At the beginning of your file type (ignoring the tabs): \magnification 1200 \obeylines %This should break up the lines as they appear on screen. \obeyspaces %This should force TeX to use your spaces. If you want to use a special font by default you have to load it at the begin- ning. For example if you want the "Caps" font as the default, type: \font\caps=amcsc10 \caps after the line with the "magnification" statement. Whenever you want to have a string come out in bold type {\bf [string]} where [string] is the string. For italics, do the same with "it" instead of "bf". At the end of your file, type: \bye And you're all set! Let me know if it works. Gary A. Mamon ---> Astrophysics Group, New York University Physics Department (212) 998-7721 +++++++ 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA USENET: {allegra|ihnp4|seismo|princeton|topaz}!cmcl2!acf4!mamon ARPANET: mamon@acf4.nyu.edu or mamon@nyu-acf4.arpa
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (09/20/87)
>cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub) writes: >>I have a bunch of previously formatted documents that were formatted >>by a long lost document formatter. I want to use TeX to embolden >>a few words here and there, italicize a few words here and there, >>and the like. I would also like to specify a specific font for the >>entire document. I do NOT want TeX to rearange line breaks or white space >>between lines. In article <12880007@acf4.UUCP> mamon@acf4.UUCP (Gary Mamon) writes: >Although I'm only a TeXnician (instead of a TeXpert) I'll give a try at this >one. > >At the beginning of your file type (ignoring the tabs): > > \magnification 1200 > \obeylines %This should break up the lines as they appear on screen. > \obeyspaces %This should force TeX to use your spaces. Unfortunately, \obeylines does not *really* obey the line breaks in the input file. What it does is redefine control-M (^^M in TeXish, it appears at the end of every input line) to end paragraphs. You can get better line obediance by adding \everypar={\leavevmode} TeX will still break overlong lines. Adding \hsize={1000cm} will prevent that: overlong lines will just disappear off the right hand side of the page, which is not much better. I am sure that it is possible to do what cdash asks---after all, TeX is as much a Turing machine equivalent as is any programming language---but it may not be easy. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris