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TeXhax Digest Monday, July 23, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 52
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Today's Topics:
IBM 4019 LaserPrinter
Re: TeXhax Digest V90 #50
DVI Previewers for DEC Windows
TeX drivers
Geneology macros
Dvi and a HP DeskJet+
Looking for a cweb change file for crudetype
help I want to get Tex and LaTex for a sun 3/50 & sun 4
Paragraph first line
fonts, TeX, LaTeX
Centered last line of paragraph
File SHADOW.STY
subeqn style file
\topmark in LaTeX
TeX bug in make_accent?
TeX 3.00 and hyphenation
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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 90 09:34:14 PDT
From: probert%cs@hub.ucsb.edu (Dave Probert)
Subject: IBM 4019 LaserPrinter
Keywords: mode_def for IBM 4019
We have a couple of these and have been able to print
TeX on them using both HP Laserjet II emulation mode
and postscript. However the fonts we generated for
our Apple Laserwriters don't look so good on the IBM.
Does anybody know if the IBM 4019 is a write-white
engine? Does anybody have a good "mode_def" entry
for this printer?
Thanks.
Dave Probert
probert@cs.ucsb.edu
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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 90 08:11:07 PLT
From: Dean Guenther <GUENTHER%WSUVM1@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V90 #50
Keywords: Word for Windows, TeX
> Date: Fri, 11 May 90 12:42 EDT
> From: "Robert S. Smith" <RSSMITH%MIAVX1.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
> Subject: Word for Windows & TeX
> Keywords: TeX, WWord for Windows
>
> Are text files prepared in Word for Windows sufficiently plain so that they c
> be TeXed in LaTeX? Please relpy directly to me. Thank you.
Yes, if you save them as an ASCII file.
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 11:22:41 GMT
From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
Subject: DVI Previewers for DEC Windows
Keywords: DVI Previewers, DEC Windows
Some collegues of mine run DECWindows on VMS 5.3. They are looking for
TeX/DVI previewer that run under DECWindows. Does XDVI work for
DECWindows? How about if they don't have C (it's not standard equipment
for VMS systems...).
Thanks.
Mike Jipping Internet: jipping@cs.hope.edu
Hope College BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE
Department of Computer Science Voice: Hey!
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 90 15:30:40 GMT
From: Rui Dil
Subject: TeX drivers
Keywords: dviware
Do you know about PD TeX driver's for DEC printers
LN03 (LASER)
LN03 (LASER)
LN03 (LASER)
LA210 (dot printer)
Thanking you in advance
Rui Dilao
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 90 14:08:48 PLT
From: Dean Guenther <GUENTHER%WSUVM1@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Geneology macros
Keywords: macros, geneology
Has anyone generated or know of some \TeX\ macros for handling
geneological information. thanks -- Dean Guenther
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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 90 20:16:16 -0500
From: swansonc@acc.stolaf.edu
Subject: Dvi and a HP DeskJet+
Keywords: dviware
I have a problem. I just inherited a DJ+ w/ 256K RAM. I would like to
print DVI files with it. Where can I get a DJ+ compat. driver?
Either one that spit out a bitmap, or one that downloaded fonts would be
great. I have heard that a LaserJet drivverr would work, but I got
badly formatted page when I tried that. The char's were too big and all
scrunched in the lower-right corner.
Someone had mentioned a DJ+ driver that downloaded fonts, but said it
was an MS-DOS executable. I will be running this under Unix, so I was
wondering if there was a Unix version of the source (or MS-DOS source)
out there?
Please reply by e-mail to the above adress. Thank's in advance
-Chris
Chris Swanson, Summer Address: Comp. Solutions, 1502 N. 59 st., Omaha, NE 68104
INTERNET: swansonc@acc.stolaf.edu UUCP: swansonc@stolaf
AT&T: Work: (402)-449-4894 Home: (402)-551-0766
I would deny this reality, but that wouldn't pay the bills...
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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 90 15:04:25 NZT
From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz
Subject: Looking for a cweb change file for crudetype
Keywords: crudetype, cweb change file
Has anybody produced a cweb change file for crudetype ? I am on a SV.3 unix
system ( IRIX ) and our pascal does not support conformant arrays which are
used in crudetype.
Alternatively anybody got any other suggestions on how to get crudetype going
under system V?
Thanks, Russell.
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 90 10:18:00 mdt
From: esunix!sim.dnet!kpoppleton@cs.utah.edu
Subject: help I want to get Tex and LaTex for a sun 3/50 & sun 4
Keywords: SUN 3/50, SUN 4, TeX, LaTeX
Please tell me how I can get LaTex code for a sun 3/50 and sun 4 machine
Thanks for any help.
Ken Poppleton (Evans & Sutherland)
Ps. we may also port it to our new ESV machine.
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 90 15:20:03 MET
From: Victor Eijkhout <U641001%HNYKUN11@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Paragraph first line
Keywords: Pararaph, LaTeX
It took me a while to figure this one out.
Among the overfull hboxes that I get, a relatively high
percentage occurs on the first line of the paragraph.
One reason for this is that the first line is often special.
Consider for instance the LaTeX description environment,
or bibliografies where the first line of a paragraph contains
proper names, which are usually longer than the average word.
But there is another reason. I found that TeX acts as if
each paragraph has a zeroeth line which has badness zero.
Therefore the first line can be set with at most tight or
loose glue, but never very loose. This procedure makes sense,
because a very loose first line is rather more ugly
than a very loose line somewhere inside the paragraph.
Afterthought: note that the last line of a paragraph is
set with glue at natural width (because \parfillskip has
usually infinite stretch), so the line before that can
also not be very loose.
For the fanatics: here is a piece of evidence.
%input.
\tracingparagraphs=1 \tracingonline=1
\spaceskip=10pt plus 1pt \parindent=0pt
\linepenalty=0 \tolerance=10000 \hyphenpenalty=10000
\adjdemerits=4711
\setbox0=\hbox{aaaaa bbbbb}
\hsize=\wd0 \advance\hsize by 2pt
aaaaa bbbbb ccccc\end
%log output
@secondpass
[]\tenrm aaaaa
@ via @@0 b=10000 p=0 d=100004711
@@1: line 1.0 t=100004711 -> @@0
bbbbb
@ via @@0 b=800 p=0 d=644711 %twice the available stretch
@ via @@1 b=10000 p=0 d=100000000 %gives badness 800
@@2: line 1.0 t=644711 -> @@0 %demerits are badness squared.
cc-ccc
@\par via @@1 b=0 p=-10000 d=4711
@\par via @@2 b=0 p=-10000 d=4711
@@3: line 2.2- t=649422 -> @@2
You see that the \adjedemerits are added twice: one for the
transition from zeroeth to first, and one for first to last
line.
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University of Nijmegen
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 90 10:07:17 +0300
From: Malki Cymbalista <VUMALKI%WEIZMANN@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: fonts, TeX, LaTeX
Keywords: fonts, TeX, LaTeX
How do I increase the number of fonts that TeX can load? I am trying
to use REVTEX and apparently the number of fonts defined by LaTeX plus
those defined by REVTEX are too much. Any help would be appreciated.
Malki (BITNET: vumalki@weizmann
INTERNET: vumalki@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il)
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 90 07:54:57 EDT
From: Stephen Moye <SMOYE@brownvm.brown.edu>
Subject: Centered last line of paragraph
Keywords: TeX, lines, centering
The answer to this question is probably very simple, but has so far eluded
me. If a paragraph is justified, how do you tell *plain* TeX that you
want the last line of the paragraph to be centered? This is a format
requirement that has been imposed on me and I have had no luck in finding
a solution. Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 18:19 N
From: <ORLANDIN%ITSSISSA.BITNET@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: File SHADOW.STY
Keywords: shadow.sty
%
% File: SHADOW.STY
% (adapted from the file dropshadow.tex by drstrip@cd.sandia.gov)
%
% Creation date: 6 June 1990
%
% Abstract: The command \sbox has the same meaning of the LaTeX command
% \fbox except for the fact that a "shadow" is added to the
% bottom and the right side of the box.
% It computes the right dimension of the box, also if the text
% spans over more than one line; in this case a warning message
% is given.
% There are three parameters governing:
% 1. the width of the lines comprising the box -> \sboxrule
% 2. the separation between the edge of the box
% and its contents -> \sboxsep
% 3. the dimension of the shadow -> \sdim
% To use this file put it in the preamble, as usual:
% \documentstyle[...,shadow,...]{...}
%
% Sintax: \sbox{<text>}
% where <text> is the text to be put in the framed box
% Example: \sbox{This is an example.}
%
% Author: Mauro Orlandini
% International School for Advanced Studies - Trieste - Italy
% ORLANDIN@ITSSISSA
% 38007::ORLANDINI
%
\newdimen\sht \newdimen\shw \newbox\shbox
\newdimen\sboxsep \newdimen\sboxrule \newdimen\sdim
\sboxsep = 10pt
\sdim = 4pt
\sboxrule = .4pt
\def\sbox#1{\setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1}
\shw\wd\@tempboxa
\ifdim\shw<\textwidth
\leavevmode\setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{#1}
\else
\typeout{Warning. Box dimension greater than textwidth.}
\setbox\@tempboxa\vbox{\hsize\textwidth\advance\hsize-2\sboxsep
\advance\hsize-2\sboxrule \advance\hsize-\sdim#1}
\fi
\setbox\shbox\hbox{\@tempdima\sboxrule
\advance\@tempdima \sboxsep \advance\@tempdima \dp\@tempboxa
\hbox{\lower \@tempdima\hbox
{\vbox{\hrule \@height \sboxrule
\hbox{\vrule \@width \sboxrule \hskip\sboxsep
\vbox{\vskip\sboxsep \box\@tempboxa\vskip\sboxsep}\hskip
\sboxsep\vrule \@width \sboxrule}
\hrule \@height \sboxrule}}}}
\sht\ht\shbox \advance\sht-\sdim
\leavevmode\vbox{\baselineskip0pt\lineskip0pt
\hbox{\copy\shbox\vrule width\sdim height\sht}
\hbox{\kern\sdim\vrule height\sdim width \wd\shbox}}}
%
% End of SHADOW.STY
%
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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 90 13:31:24 CDT
From: "Erica Harris" <GA.EMH@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: subeqn style file
Keywords: subeqn style file
Some time ago I resubmitted my subeqn style option file which had been updated
to handle labeling. It has become obvious that it got lost somewhere so here it
is again. Hope it proves useful.
Erica Harris Bitnet: ga.emh@isumvs.bitnet
Iowa State University Internet: ga.emh@isumvs.iastate.edu
%% FILE: subeqn.sty in SYS2.TEX.PUB.ISULATEX.STYLES
%% AUTHOR: Erica M. S. Harris
%% DATE: March 1990
%% DESCR: A style option for use in any style. It provides three declarations
%% for turning subequation numbering on and off and for stepping the
%% equation number for a new set of subequations. The commands are
%% \subequations, \nosubequations and \newsubequation respectively.
%% These commands should only be used inside the eqnarray and equation
%% environments and should be used at the start of the equation line
%% from which the change should take effect. This means that, for
%% example, \subequations could appear in one eqnarray environment
%% and \nosubequations or \newsubequation in a subsequent one.
%% \label and \ref (or \pageref) can be used as normal with
%% subequations. To refer to the whole equation use \eqlabel to
%% generate the label. \eqlabel can be used on any of the subequation
%% lines belonging to the equation.
%% The following code skeletons provide some illustration of the
%% possibilities:
%%
%% a) \begin{eqnarray}
%% ... \\
%% ... \label{ }\\
%% \subequations ... \label{ }\\
%% ... \label{ }\\
%% ... \label{ }\\
%% \nosubequations ... \\
%% ...
%% \end{eqnarray}
%%
%% b) \begin{eqnarray}
%% \subequations ... \eqlabel{ }\label{ }\\
%% ... \label{ }\\
%% \newsubequation ... \label{ }\\
%% ... \label{ }\\
%% ... \eqlabel{ }\label{ }
%% \end{eqnarray}
%% ...
%% \begin{equation}
%% \nosubequations ...
%% \end{equation}
%%
%%
%% MODS:
%%
\newcounter{oldequation}
\def\subequations{\setcounter{oldequation}{\c@equation}%
\setcounter{equation}{1}%
\global\let\oldtheequation\theequation%
\@ifundefined{chapter}%
{\gdef\theequation{\theoldequation\alph{equation}}
\global\let\thewholequation\theoldequation
\gdef\@currentlabel{\theoldequation\alph{equation}}}
{\gdef\theequation{\thechapter.\theoldequation\alph{equation}}
\gdef\thewholequation{\thechapter.\theoldequation}
\gdef\@currentlabel{\thechapter.\theoldequation\alph{equation}}}
\global\let\@currenteqlabel\thewholequation}
\def\nosubequations{\setcounter{equation}{\c@oldequation}%
\stepcounter{equation}
\global\let\theequation\oldtheequation
\global\let\@currentlabel\theequation}
\def\newsubequation{\stepcounter{oldequation}
\setcounter{equation}{1}}
\def\@currenteqlabel{}
\def\eqlabel#1{\@bsphack\if@filesw {\let\thepage\relax
\xdef\@gtempa{\write\@auxout{\string
\newlabel{#1}{{\@currenteqlabel}{\thepage}}}}}\@gtempa
\if@nobreak \ifvmode\nobreak\fi\fi\fi\@esphack}
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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 90 11:24:56 EDT
From: dan@bu-chem.bu.edu
Subject: \topmark in LaTeX
Keywords: LaTeX4, \topmark
I am writing a document style for a book that requires the heading on right
pages to be the section current on the first line of the page. I have done
this in plain TeX using \topmark, by placing the \mark{...} immediately before
the section break, as discussed in the TeXbook, p. 260.
In trying to do the same thing in LaTeX, I first had to extract the section
part of the mark. I did this with
\def\thetopmark{\expandafter\@rightmark\topmark}
\def\@oddhead{\hbox{}\footnotesize\rm\hfil\thetopmark\hskip.5in\thepage}
This seems to work, with one exception, namely when a new section starts at
the top of a page.
I think the problem is that \...marks are inserted by \@sect, (with \csname
#1mark\endcsname) *after* vertical space is inserted by \@startsection (with
\par \@tempskipa #4\relax). This means
...
\newpage
\section...
has \topmark determined by the previous \section. I am using
% LATEX VERSION 2.09 <9 Mar 1987>
Is there a way to do what I want?
Thanks,
Dan Dill
dan@bu-chem.bu.edu
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 90 13:02:13 +0300
From: Tor Lillqvist <tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Subject: TeX bug in make_accent?
Keywords: TeXm bug, make-accent
I was reading the code for the procedure make_accent and the section
@<Append the accent with appropriate kerns, then set |p:=q|@> when I
noticed that the actual code does not correspond to the comment in
front of make_accent:
Given an accent of width |a|, designed for characters of height
|x| and slant |s|; and given a character of width |w|, height |h|,
and slant |t|: We will shift the accent down by |x-h|, and we will
insert kern nodes that have the effect of centering the accent
over the character and shifting the accent to the right by
$\delta={1\over2}(w-a)+h\cdot t-x\cdot s$.
OK, I understand that this assigns the slant of the font to s:
s:=slant(f)/float_constant(65536);
But what is the slant of a character? The actual code calculates the
same value as s:
t:=slant(f)/float_constant(65536);
These values are used in calculating delta:
delta:=round((w-a)/float_constant(2)+h*t-x*s);
As t = s, couldn't this expression be simplified to:
delta:=round((w-a)/float_constant(2)+(h-x)*s);
and forget about t?
Or should we use the italic correction of the character instead of
h*t?
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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 90 09:37:40 PDT
From: probert%cs@hub.ucsb.edu (Dave Probert)
Subject: TeX 3.00 and hyphenation
Keywords: TeX, hyphenation
We picked up TeX 3.00 off of labrea, and had
no problems compiling and installing it. However
hyphenation appears to be terribly broken. 'All'
gets hyphenated as 'A-ll'.
Did we do something wrong in the installation or
it this some kind of defect in 3.00?
Thanks.
Dave Probert
probert@cs.ucsb.edu
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