[comp.text.tex] Picturewindows in TeX

d89mb@efd.lth.se (Magnus Bodin) (09/08/90)

 
I know that I've asked before, but I didn't get any resonable answers...
 
Question:  How to manag ``windows'' in ordinary TeX?
           I want to typeset a twocolumn text with 
           a photo/picture within, like this:
 
          aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaa                 bbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaa                 bbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaa                 bbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaa                 bbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
          aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
 
 
Is there anyone that have routines for this? (I do not read 
TUGBoat, so if you've got access to TUGBoat #2/Vol 8, it is
supposed to contain such routines. Is it ftp-able? Or from
a mail-server? Or by any chance photocopied by a kind person
and sent to me?
 
   Magnus Bodin
   Institute of Tychology
   Box 5127
 S-220 05 Lund
   SWEDEN
 
 
 
 

wolf@fb14vax.sbsvax.uucp (Wolfgang Huwig) (09/12/90)

In article <1990Sep8.074539.25886@lth.se> d89mb@efd.lth.se (Magnus Bodin) writes:
   I know that I've asked before, but I didn't get any resonable answers...

   Question:  How to manag ``windows'' in ordinary TeX?
   [...]
   Is there anyone that have routines for this? (I do not read 
   TUGBoat, so if you've got access to TUGBoat #2/Vol 8, it is
   supposed to contain such routines. Is it ftp-able? Or from
   a mail-server? Or by any chance photocopied by a kind person
   and sent to me?

      Magnus Bodin
      Institute of Tychology
      Box 5127
    S-220 05 Lund
      SWEDEN

Seems as if you didn't get any reasonable answer this time, too.
Your message is a few days old and I didn't see any reply to it
in this group. 
I've seen a collection of line-oriented macros, which are able
to create paragraphs with windows in it, using \parshape. 
Perhaps they are able to make columns with windows, I don't know.
The macros are in the book 'TeX: applications, uses, methods',
(M. Clark (ed.), published by Ellis Horwood), which is the
proceedings of TeX 88 conference. There, I've found them in the
appendix of Alan Hoenig's article about line-oriented typesetting
in TeX. I also found a notice, that these and some of the other
macros published in the book are collected at the UK TeX Archive.
As I'm very interested in the window macros, I tried to ftp
tex.aston.ac.uk on Internet, but no chance, I always got a
'hostname lookup failure' message.
PLEASE, can anyone give some advise how to reach the Aston archive?
(the correct name, if the above is false, or its IP)
Oh, why didn't I buy the book in our university book store?
Because it's too expensive (at least for me, I'm just a poor student :-)
I remember that it caused a discussion about expensive books in this
group, a few weeks ago.

A related question: is it strictly impossible to use such window macros,
e.g. to integrate some graphics in a text, together with LaTeX, i.e.
do they cause some trouble which I can't avoid by integrating them
carefully? I know, p.204 LaTeX Book: "For example, don't use a Plain TeX
command such as \hangindent that modifies TeX's paragraph-making
parameters inside one of LaTeX's list-making environments." But I've
hacked an environment which accepts a paragraph and an Encapsulated
PostScript Picture as a figure. It seems to work, if one accepts some
restrictions. To have some more powerfull window macros run with
LaTeX is quite interesting, at least for me and some other guys here.

Greetings

Wolfgang

Wolfgang Huwig
Computer Science/AI-Lab
University of Saarbruecken
Germany                        Internet: wolf@cs.uni-sb.de

spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (09/17/90)

   in TeX. I also found a notice, that these and some of the other
   macros published in the book are collected at the UK TeX Archive.
   As I'm very interested in the window macros, I tried to ftp
   tex.aston.ac.uk on Internet, but no chance, I always got a
   'hostname lookup failure' message.
   PLEASE, can anyone give some advise how to reach the Aston archive?
in general, the UK academic sites are not on Internet. dont complain
to us, its a high-level political business which may be resolved in
the next year or so. in the meanwhile, mail a message saying HELP in
the body of the message to
 texserver@uk.ac.aston.tex
and read what it tells you. if you get no reply, feel free to contact
me direct (I am one of the Aston archive working group)

sebastian rahtz

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