TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 6 Jan 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 001 % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: Re: epsf figure boxes Page-selection on duplex PostScript printer TeX for a 386 PC Re: TFM to AFM LaTeX for the Mac? PLEASE note mispelled SUBSRIBE to SUBSCRIPE Thanks Size of foo after typesetting Translators to TeX Problem with Textures 1.2 ASAETR, version 1.1 on FILESERV/Niord Tib in LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation Administrivia: Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 92 15:11:37 +0000 From: spqr@minster.york.ac.uk Subject: Re: epsf figure boxes > > Has any one gotten a nice boxed figure from epsf.sty ? > I need also to just draw the borders of the eps inserted figure > instead if waiting for the entire bit map to print. how about using psfig instead? i have taken James Darrell's psfig1.8 and emended it to use the macros in epsf.tex wherever possible (it \input s epsf.tex). this lets you use psfig syntax for just printing the name of the figure instead of the contents. as for boxing it, i do (in LaTeX) \framebox{\psfig{figure=foo.ps}} - - how about \framebox{epsffile{foo.ps}} ?? ************ > > I am currently using SBTEX for the IBM PC but it is limited by the infamous > 640K limit. hat I would like ideally is a public domain version compiled > in flat memory (DOS-extended) mode. The next step would be a convenient > place to find the source already in C form. the famous and widely used emTeX package has a 386 version which has its own DOS extender, and will be just what you want (assuming you have a 386 or better). you can get emTeX via ftp from any TeX archive sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:15:56 +0100 From: Wolfgang Ratzka Subject: Page-selection on duplex PostScript printer I don't think it is a particularly good idea to put the information what to print on which side into the dvi file. In most of the cases, the algorithm to accomplish this should be rather straightforward, i.e. options given to the dvi translator at run time should do the job. Wolfgang Ratzka X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de ratzka@vax1.rz.uni-regensburg.dbp.de SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de Phone: +49 941 943 2085 Paper mail: Wolfgang Ratzka \\ Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik \\ Lehrstuhl Prof. Weise \\ Universit\"at Regensburg \\ W-8400 Regensburg \\ GERMANY ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:22:55 +0100 From: Wolfgang Ratzka Subject: TeX for a 386 PC I am not a regular so please be patient in explaining where this question REALLY should have gone, and please reply directly yo me by email. I am currently using SBTEX for the IBM PC but it is limited by the infamous 640K limit. hat I would like ideally is a public domain version compiled in flat memory (DOS-extended) mode. The next step would be a convenient place to find the source already in C form. Not PD but free of charge: emTeX is a rather complete package for PCs (in fact the best one in the market) and with it there comes a beta-Version of a 386-DOS-extender-TeX available. Sadly however it's not compatible with DPMI, but only with VCPI. On the other hand it also runs under OS/2 2.0. Where to get it: all major TeX-oriented ftp-sites should have it. Wolfgang Ratzka ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 11:14:34 -0500 From: bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) Subject: Re: TFM to AFM > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 92 14:59:33 -0700 > From: Brett Perkes > Subject: TFM to AFM > > I have been looking around for a TFM to AFM converter. I haven't been very > successful. Does anyone know of such a utility or a possible round about > way of achieving the same results? I would appreciate any help that can > be given. TFMtoAFM comes with some software packages from Y&Y. It is, for example, in the `Font Manipulation Package' along with AFMtoTFM, PFMtoAFM, AFMtoPFM, SCRtoAFM, AFMtoSCR and more than a dozen other goodies. TFMtoAFM not only generates the usual AFM file, but also inserts comments describing the extra information found in TFM files (like how to make large delimiters out of pieces) that is not normally found in AFM files. These comments are used by AFMtoTFM. Hence AFMtoTFM can even make TFM files for math fonts! *********** Disclaimer: respondent has connnections with Y&Y ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 10:41:46 -0800 From: rbhumbla@ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla) Subject: LaTeX for the Mac? anonymous ftp midway.uchicago.edu. The package is called OzTeX and is public domain. Ravi ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:19:12 -0500 From: Anita Zanolini Hoover Subject: PLEASE note mispelled SUBSRIBE to SUBSCRIPE It was brought to my attention that SUBSCRIBE was mispelled for the new e-mail discussion list, you should use To subscribe to this list, send the following two lines to "listserv@ens.fr" on the Internet: SUBSCRIBE METAFONT $<$Your name and affiliation$>$ SET METAFONT MAIL ACK Sorry for the mistake, please make note of it!!!! Thanks to Paul Howard for bringing this to my attention. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 08:49:44 -0600 From: jhandler@penguin.ils.nwu.edu (Jonathan B. Handler) Subject: Thanks to all of the nice folk that sent me info on LaTeX for the mac. If anyone else was interested (and didn't already know, OzTex is currently available (at least) at midway.uchicago.edu Thanks again, Jon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 10:50:28 -0500 From: pat@po.CWRU.Edu (Paul A. Thompson) Subject: Size of foo after typesetting Friends: I need help in deTeXting a problem in the TeX FM. I would like to determine the size of a fragment like "foo" after typesetting. Reason: I am using LaTeX to typeset a table. I wish to use vertical rules to separate tables. I also want the column information to be almost tangent to the vertical rules, much closer than the normal \tabcolsep allows. - - I have determined that I can use \tabcolsep to make a very small space around the table entries, so that I get the spacing desired - - However, unless I use the p{wd} construction in the \begin{tabular}{p{1in}p{23pt}etc.etc.} construction, I do not get the vertical rules lined up, but rather all jagged. - - If I set the columns to have a length which is long enough to typeset the longest string + a little, then things all work out. - - So I need the length of the longest string If I could figure that out internally, this would save unending fudging and adjusting (is there some term for the process of playing with parameters until stuff comes out right - if not, I suggest the term "quidge"). On the other hand, I may be squashing a sow bug with a large rock - is there an easier way? Reply privately if possible. Paul Thompson, Ph.D. | Department of Psychiatry | (216) 844-7463 Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH 44106 When I hear "family values," I reach for my revolver. - para. Hans Jonst ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 13:17:17 +0700 From: "Z. Rubinstein" Subject: Translators to TeX Hello, Does anyone know of translators from Microsoft Word to TeX(or Latex etc.). On the same subject does there exist an assembled list of translators available today and the relevant addresses from which to acquire them. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 12:18:38 -0500 From: Leandros Perivolaropoulos Subject: Problem with Textures 1.2 I would appreciate your help in the following problem I have with the program Textures 1.2 (TeX on the Mac). I am using a DeskWriter C to print a document and the only way to get the printout at the right size is to use a reduction at the Page Setup of the File menu, by about 25%. Could ATM solve the problem? How can I obtain ATM? This problem does not appear with other programs like Word 4.0. Thanks for your help. Leandros ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 10:54:12 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: ASAETR, version 1.1 on FILESERV/Niord In <1992Dec22.180745.27490@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> (comp.text.tex, Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:07:45 GMT), mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) posted: > Announcing ASAETR 1.1, a set of LaTeX and BibTeX styles (+ a font), with > documentation, for authors associated with the American Society of > Agricultural Engineers. This is the package described at my presentation at > the 1992 International Winter Meeting of ASAE held in Nashville recently > (ASAE Paper No. 92-3572). > > It is temporarily available via anonymous ftp from > Name: pasture.ecn.purdue.edu > Addresses: 128.46.161.85, 128.46.133.85, 128.46.129.85 > Directory: pub/mccauley/tex/asaetr > but I hope to update the version on shsu.edu soon. I have placed the files on Niord for your access. Attached for reference is the description file. - -George ========= ASAETR ------ The ASAETR package includes the a UUENCODEd ZIP archive containing the 11 files for version 1.1 (22 December 1992) of James Darrell McCauley's ASAETR file set. This package includes a set of LaTeX and BibTeX styles, with documentation and samples, to make your articles look like those in Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE). Also included are the metafont source file, precompiled PK (at 300dpi) font, and TFM file for the font cmcscsl10. This is not official and not (yet) an accepted way to submit articles to ASAE. The American Society of Agricultural Engineers editorial staff encourages authors to submit electronic manuscripts in the following formats: MacWrite, MS-Word, MS-Works (preferably Version 2.0), WordPerfect (Version 5.0 or later), and WriteNow. Though LaTeX is not an accepted format to submit articles to ASAE, it does have utility when predicting page length and appearance of an article that you submit. Predicting page length is especially important when submitting "Technical Notes" (which cannot exceed two pages) and when trying to avoid unnecessary page charges. You may retrieve the package of of 4 UUENCODEd files by including: SENDME ASAETR in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For users of anonymous ftp, the ZIP file is available from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.ASAETR] as ASAETR-1_1.ZIP; the individual files are available in [FILESERV.ASAETR.ASAETR-1_1]. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: ASAETR.UUE ASAETR.UUE_1OF4 This file UUDECODEs to ASAETR-1_1.ZIP through ASAETR.UUE_4OF4 78 (each) Approximate total blocks in full ASAETR package = 311 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 23:15:20 +0000 From: David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk Subject: Tib in LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation From browsing through James Alexander's documentation about Tib (a TeX bibliographic preprocessor), I have the impression that Tib was designed for production of fairly short documents (e.g., an article), rather than for the production of long documents (e.g., a book). Have I got the right impression? In particular: * it looks as though one should go tib book.tex and get book-t.tex Having 2 big .tex files may be expensive in filestore. * it is not clear to me what one is supposed to do if one is using LaTeX's "root file + \include-d files" approach (typically with one \include command per chapter). Can the Tib-ing be parcelled up into a shell script that makes the whole process as painless as using BibTeX would be? (E.g., would you have a Tib index for each chapter?) Does anyone have any experience that they'd like to share of using Tib in the LaTeX "root file + \include-d files" situation? David Rhead ------------------------------ Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX Users Group, and the latest software versions is available in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. 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