TeXhax@CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (TeXhax Digest) (04/15/91)
TeXhax Digest Sunday, April 14, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 018
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
4up style in LaTeX
Two TeX questions
TeXCAD, AmSTeX
Printing wide text on wide-carriage dot-matrix printers
RE: TeXhax Digest V91 #014
Splitting an 8-bit PK file into two 7-bit PK files
lpr -d: the solution
e-mail address for Doug McDonald
male & female symbols
Bug off (\expandafter)
A small bug in oldlfont.sty of New Font ... and
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 09:02 EST
From: "From the screen of Deneva... 28-Mar-1991 0859" <HELLER@cs.umass.EDU>
Subject: 4up style in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX, 4up style
I would like to format a document using four small "pages" on a single
8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. Something like two column, but with 4 4x5
mini "pages". I expect this to work something like how \twocolumn
does it (by using boxes to save the intermediate parts of the output).
Has anyone actually done this? And is the .sty file available?
Thanks for any help.
Robert Heller
ARPANet: Heller@CS.UMass.EDU
BIX: locks.hill.bbs
GEnie: RHeller
FidoNet: 1:321/153 (Locks Hill BBS, Wendell, MA)
CompuServe 71450,3432
Local PV VAXen: COINS::HELLER
UCC Cyber/DG: Heller@CS
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 11:02:03 EDT
From: Naji Younes <NAJI@gwuvm.gwu.edu>
Subject: Two TeX questions
Keywords: TeX
Hi,
I have two \TeX\ problems and you be grateful for any suggestions
on how to solve them:
1. I often have strings of displayed equations with short paragraphs of
text between them. In fact the paragraphs are typically {\it very}
short, often a single line, which brings me to my first question: is
there a way to instruct \TeX\ to automatically suppress the paragraph
indentation if the paragraph consists of a single line? I've been
using \noindent on such lines but it's not always easy to guess
whether something will take more than one line and it means that
every time I rewrite such a line, I have to go back and check
the indentation.
2. Is there a way to build a tab macro that positions the text
following it at a certain distance from the left margin? For
example
{obeylines
some text tab2in more text tab5in text
etc...
Would ensure that "more text" starts 2 inches from the left margin
and "text" starts 5 inches from the same margin. It would be great
if this could be done without having to add something at the
beginning of the line.
I would appreciate any suggestions. Also, please assume that I am
extremely ignorant and not very bright: you won't be proven wrong!
Thanks in advance / Naji
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 13:09 GMT
From: Peter Flynn UCC <CBTS8001%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: TeXCAD, AmSTeX
Keywords: TeXCAD, AmSTeX
I am using the TeXCAD program which came with emTeX. This produces
LaTeX PICTeX code for simple diagrams and seems to work fine with
one exception.
There are references in the generated file to \emline{}{}{}{}{}{}
with six numerci arguments. When I process it, it gagas on \emline
as an unknown control sequence. I have PICTeX, PrePIC and PostPIC
loaded OK, and can't find any reference to \emline in them anywhere.
Has anyone an idea on this? I am assuming the PIC s/w that came with
emTeX is up to date (but I got new copies from Aston and they gag on
the same thing).
///Peter
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 12:01 GMT
From: Peter Flynn UCC <CBTS8001%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Printing wide text on wide-carriage dot-matrix printers
Keywords: dot-matrix, wide-carriage
A user has a requirement to provide double-size (eg 1.44x) output for
a journal, who then reduce with a copier/camera setting of 70% areal
to get crisper quality onto A4. The exact sizes are not critical, just
the principle.
TeX can of course produce the goods, but we have to find (a) a dvi driver
which will accept and print text where \hsize is up to 11truein wide;
and (b) a printer which will print wide [graphics] onto A3 sheets recto.
I just tried emTeX's DVIDOT, which seemed to want to do the job, but was
aware of the 1920px max width of an Epson FX (only printer around right
now) and thus gagged. Does anyone know of a printer/dvidriver combo
which will satisfy this need? It seems that the printers, despite
their wide carriage, cannot handle graphics lines wider than 8truein.
///Peter
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 10:54 EST
From: SOOFI%PO8600@dupont.com
Subject: RE: TeXhax Digest V91 #014
Keywords: TeX, Amiga
I need some help in setting up TeX for my Amiga. Are there any Amiga
users out there who can help?
Soofi
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 17:50:10 +0300
From: Dov Peter Grobgeld <CFGROB@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il>
Subject: Splitting an 8-bit PK file into two 7-bit PK files
Keywords: fonts, PK, TFM
I have a font without any MF source in 8 bit PK font format. I would
like to use this font with our old laser printer driver which only
supports 7 bit fonts. I wonder if someone could either guide me to
a program which could split the PK and the TFM files, or give me the
format of the PK and TFM files so that I can write such a program
myself.
Dov Grobgeld
Department of Chemical Physics
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Email: cfgrob@weizmann
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 19:23:50 CST
From: Paul A. Scowen <uk1@spacsun.rice.edu>
Subject: lpr -d: the solution
Keywords: dviware, lpr -d
Hi there,
after mucho help from Claus Assman, I've fixed the -d filter in our Adobe
Transcript. The fix is to put some of the dvi2ps definitions into the
psint.sh generic filter file (usually hardlinked to all the other files, pscf,
psdf, etc..) like:
DVI2PS_PROLOGUE_FILES_PATH=/spacsun/local/lib/dvi2ps/pro
export DVI2PS_PROLOGUE_FILES_PATH
...
and then include the sort of command sequence in the psdf entry as:
case $prog in
psif) exec $comm ;;
...
psdf) tmp=/tmp/df.$$.dvi; cat >$tmp; /spacsun/local/bin/dvi2ps -q $tmp
| comm; rm $tmp;;
...
this seemed to work OK but all this is a BIG function of the form of dvi to
Postscript converter you're using.
Hope this helps any other poor souls out there who're trying the same thing.
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 22:32:02 EST
From: AHLQUIST@METSAT.MET.FSU.EDU
Subject: e-mail address for Doug McDonald
Keywords: address, Doug McDonald, TeX, previewer
Does anyone know how to reach Doug McDonald,
author of the DVIVGA and DVIMSWIN TeX screen previewers?
The latest version of DVIMSWIN gives his address as
mcdonald@aries.cso.uiuc.edu (mcdonald@128.174.90.55).
E-mail sent to either address is returned with the message
"Unknown host," even though "finger @128.174.90.55" does give a reply.
(finger @aries.cso.uiuc.edu gives "Unknown host.")
Jon Ahlquist, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University
(904) 644-1558
Internet: ahlquist@met.fsu.edu
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 08:16:37 MST
From: Alan R. Rogers <rogers@anthro.utah.edu>
Subject: male & female symbols
Keywords: LaTeX, male, female symbols
Has anyone figured out how to generate male and female symbols
O /
+ O
in LaTeX?
Alan R. Rogers
INTERNET : rogers@anthro.utah.edu
USMAIL : Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Utah, S.L.C., UT 84112
WORK PHONE: (801) 581-5529
HOME PHONE: (801) 486-6013
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 00:05:57 PST
From: asnd@erich.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau)
Subject: Bug off (\expandafter)
Keywords: bug report, \expandafter
Thanks to all who responded to my bug report
("\input BUG.\expandafter\string ABC").
It is clear that this was fixed quite some time
ago as nobody running a modestly recent version
of TeX could reproduce it.
Time for me to put pressure on the people "responsible"
here.
Donald Arseneau asnd@triumfcl (.bitnet)
asnd@jack.triumf.ca
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 12:50:10 +0200
From: akgul%TRBILUN.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Mustafa Akgul)
Subject: A small bug in oldlfont.sty of New Font ... and
Keywords: bug report, New Font, oldfont.sty
I found a small bug in oldlfont.sty of AMS distribution
of the New Font Selection Scheme of FMi & RS.
If you try to load oldlfont.sty at dump time you will get
an error message stating that `\@undefined' is really UNDEFINED
at that point. It is defined in LaTeX.tex which is read later.
To remedy one should change the line
\@ifundefined{ds@oldlfont}{\let\ds@oldlfont\@empty}{\endinput}
with
\expandafter\ifx\csname ds@oldlfont\endcsname\relax
\let\ds@oldlfont\@empty \else \endinput \fi
and everything works fine.
When you use fontdef.ori, preload.min and modified
oldlfont.sty ( which is called oldlfont.xxx by me),
you will get essentially the lplain.fmt with added
capacity to switch to new font selection scheme.
You only need to pay in time for the loading of actual fonts,
which is mainly minimal.
I have compared the size of this .fmt, say lams0, and lplain.fmt
in various environment. Here are the results:
Environment lplain lams0 plain
ctex 2.991 on SUN4 459K 308K 246K
ctex 2.991 on SUN3 492K 341K 274K
TeX 3.1 on DG MV20000 AOS/VS 583K 432K 335K
SB30TEX on XT 283K 213K 140K
ctex has main memory of 100K and TeX 3.1 has 112K main memory,
several other parameters are also increased.
Clearly it pays to switch to new font selection scheme even if
you do not use it. These is important especially if you do not
have bigTeX at your location.
%%%%%%%%%%%%
For convience to some of the readers I am including oldlfont.xxx
below:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% OLDLFONT.XXX March 1991 %
% Modified from ... by M. Akgul <akgul@trbilun.bitnet>
% to be able use instead of basefont.tex or newlfont.sty
% at the dump time.
% Check sums are not correct !
% OLDLFONT.STY July 1990 %
% %
% This file is part of the AMS-LaTeX Version 1.0 distribution %
% American Mathematical Society, Technical Support Group, %
% P. O. Box 6248, Providence, RI 02940 %
% 800-321-4AMS (321-4267) or 401-455-4080 %
% Internet: Tech-Support@Math.AMS.com %
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%%
%% This is file `oldlfont.sty' generated
%% on <1990/6/30> with the docstrip utility (v1.1k).
%%
%% The original source file was `oldlfont.doc'.
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%% Copyright (C) 1989,1990 by Frank Mittelbach, Rainer Schoepf.
%% All rights reserved.
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%% der Universit\"at Heidelberg
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%% D-6900 Heidelberg
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%% Bitnet: <BK4@DHDURZ1>
%%
%%
\def\fileversion{v1.2i}
\def\filedate{90/06/29}
\def\docdate {90/06/29}
%% \CheckSum{220}
%% \CharacterTable
%% {Upper-case \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z
%% Lower-case \a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\l\m\n\o\p\q\r\s\t\u\v\w\x\y\z
%% Digits \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9
%% Exclamation \! Double quote \" Hash (number) \#
%% Dollar \$ Percent \% Ampersand \&
%% Acute accent \' Left paren \( Right paren \)
%% Asterisk \* Plus \+ Comma \,
%% Minus \- Point \. Solidus \/
%% Colon \: Semicolon \; Less than \<
%% Equals \= Greater than \> Question mark \?
%% Commercial at \@ Left bracket \[ Backslash \\
%% Right bracket \] Circumflex \^ Underscore \_
%% Grave accent \` Left brace \{ Vertical bar \|
%% Right brace \} Tilde \~}
%% Copyright (C) 1989,1990 Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Sch\"opf,
%% all rights reserved.
%\expandafter\ifx\csname mdqon\endcsname\relax
\expandafter\ifx\csname ds@oldlfont\endcsname\relax
\let\ds@oldlfont\@empty \else \endinput \fi
\immediate
\write\sixt@@n{Style-Option: `oldlfont'
\fileversion\space <\filedate> (FMi and RmS)}
\immediate
\write\sixt@@n{English Documentation
\@spaces\@spaces\space <\docdate> (FMi and RmS)}
\def\newfont#1#2{\@ifdefinable#1{\global
\font#1=#2\relax}}
\def\symbol#1{\char #1\relax}
\def\@gobbletwo#1#2{}
\let\load\@gobbletwo
\new@mathgroup\bffam
\new@mathgroup\sffam
\new@mathgroup\ttfam
\new@mathgroup\itfam
\new@mathgroup\scfam
\new@mathgroup\slfam
\new@internalmathalphabet\mathbf\bffam{cmr}{bx}{n}
\new@internalmathalphabet\mathsf\sffam{cmss}{m}{n}
\new@internalmathalphabet\mathtt\ttfam{cmtt}{m}{n}
\new@internalmathalphabet\mathit\itfam{cmr}{m}{it}
\new@internalmathalphabet\mathsc\scfam{cmr}{m}{sc}
\new@internalmathalphabet\mathsl\slfam{cmr}{m}{sl}
\def\prm{\family\rmdefault
\series\default@series
\shape\default@shape\selectfont
\mathrm}
\def\psf{\family\sfdefault
\series\default@series
\shape\default@shape\selectfont\mathsf}
\def\psl{\family\rmdefault
\series\default@series
\shape\sldefault\selectfont\mathsl}
\def\pbf{\family\rmdefault
\series\bfdefault
\shape\default@shape\selectfont\mathbf}
\def\psc{\family\rmdefault
\series\default@series
\shape\scdefault\selectfont\mathsc}
\def\pit{\family\rmdefault
\series\default@series
\shape\itdefault\selectfont\mathit}
\def\ptt{\family\ttdefault
\series\default@series
\shape\default@shape\selectfont\mathtt}
\def\em{\protect\pem}
\def\pem{\@nomath\em \ifdim \fontdimen\@ne\font >\z@
\rm \else \it \fi}
\def\@setsize#1#2#3#4{\@nomath#1\size{#4}{#2}%
\family\default@family
\series\default@series\shape\default@shape
\selectfont}
\let\math@bgroup\@empty
\let\math@egroup\@empty
\ifx\lyfam\undefined
\new@mathgroup\lyfam
\define@mathgroup\mv@normal\lyfam
{lasy}{m}{n}
\define@mathgroup\mv@bold\lyfam
{lasy}{b}{n}
\edef\@tempa{\hexnumber@\lyfam}
\mathchardef\mho"0\@tempa 30
\mathchardef\Join"3\@tempa 31
\mathchardef\Box"0\@tempa 32
\mathchardef\Diamond"0\@tempa 33
\mathchardef\leadsto"3\@tempa 3B
\mathchardef\sqsubset"3\@tempa 3C
\mathchardef\sqsupset"3\@tempa 3D
\mathchardef\lhd"3\@tempa 01
\mathchardef\unlhd"3\@tempa 02
\mathchardef\rhd"3\@tempa 03
\mathchardef\unrhd"3\@tempa 04
\fi
\endinput
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%% End of file `oldlfont.sty'.
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