From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Wed May 29 16:20:12 1996 Received: from jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.193]) by granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA05215 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:20:10 +0100 Message-Id: <199605291520.QAA05215@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk id <25657-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:14:30 +0100 From: Majordomo list server To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #7 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:14:30 +0100 Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 29 May 1996 Volume 96 : Number 007 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 Redefining maximum number of strings, fonts, etc... margins BibTeX/LaTeX2e question BibTeX/LaTeX2e point -- PS Location of index package (by David Jones)??? \def with catcode 1 in parameter text? Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:06:40 +0100 Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 > From: "S. Warde" < > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST) > Subject: Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX > We are currently moving from LaTeX 209 to LaTeX2e. We have > found the hyper and hyperref packages in the contrib/supported > directory. > Though both authors acknowledge each other and say it would be > a good idea to merge they don't say when. Until they do I would tell us if its necessary, and I expect we'll do something about it. > We have obtained the dvihps source from ftp.tex.ac.uk this seems > to be quiet old. Before installing it I was wondering if > a - there was a more recent version the author is working on it > b - anyone had 'ported' it to work with the kpathsea > distribution yes, its moderately trivial to do yourself. but i'll be in the next release of dvipsk > c - knew of any limitations yes, you cant vary the height of the anchor box... > d - knew of other dvips variants for creating pdf files use the nativepdf option of hyperref, and you dont need dvihps at all sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:09:02 +0100 Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 > From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence) > From: Russel Winder > Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100 > Subject: PostScript from other programs > Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7 > and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form? my generic solution is Acrobat Distiller. its an excellent (obviously) PostScript interpreter. Use that to make a PDF (ie clean!) version of the file, then use Acrobat Exchange to write out a new .ps version. i havent tried this per se with Frame files, but the principal should be sound. sebastian ------------------------------ From: mse@sdr.utias.utoronto.ca (Manfred D. M. Sever) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:51:46 -0400 Subject: Redefining maximum number of strings, fonts, etc... Hello All! I would like to be able to increase the maximum number ``strings'' available to TeX for processing documents. It may also be usefull to increase the upper limit on the number of fonts allowed. I think this should be possible to do since Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin discuss this on page xi of their book. I believe that increasing these limits also involves recompiling TeX. However, I can't find the file that these limits are set in. How do I proceed? Thanks in advance, Manfred. ------------------------------ From: Mr Marcilo Alves Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:11:57 +0100 (BST) Subject: margins Hi, That's Marcilio from Liverpool. I am using book class in Latex2e with the option [a4paper,twoside]. Yet, my output shows different margins; that is there is a horizontal and vertical shift of one side of the output in relation to the other side. Is this a problem with the book class or with the printer. The printer is in the computer centre and I do not know how to eventually set margins, etc... Could you help me? - - --------------------------------- I am using fancyheadings to set the head of the page. It works fine but it seems that the commands \listoffigures \listoftables \tableofcontents uses its own formatting for the heads. How can I set my own head in conjunction with the above commands? - - --------------------------------- I do appreciate your help in advance! Thank you marcilio ------------------------------ From: Russel Winder Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:31:37 +0100 Subject: BibTeX/LaTeX2e question I am wondering whether there is a solution to this or whether it is "just one of those things you have to hack around". The background: Using the Harvard family of citation styles with BibTeX and LaTeX2e. Two references are different papers in the same tome. Cross-referencing is used to avoid duplication of information. Both references are used in the same document. The tome itself (item C) has no author or editor. @InCollection{A, ... crossref = "C" } @InCollection{B, ... crossref = "C" } @Book{C, ... } The problem: Because the tome is cited in two difference references, three entries get written to the bbl and auxiliary files. Because the tome has no author or editor, the title is used as the citation mark (both short and long form) -- and here is the problem -- this is emphasized, i.e. there is a \emph in the parameters of the citation entries in the .aux file. When the aux file is read in, the error: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 72. \fi occurs. There are three hack solutions: 1. Manual edit the .aux file -- totally unacceptable. 2. Do not use crossref but suffer the replication of information -- unacceptable but... 3. Force BibTeX not to generate the third reference item but to replicate crossreference information in all entries -- I haven't investigated this and therefore do not know how to do it. Have others seen this and found other solutions? Russel. ======================================================================= Dr Russel Winder Reader in Software Engineering Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems Information Systems Research Group Department of Computer Science Phone: +44 (0)171 380 7293 University College London Fax: +44 (0)171 387 1397 Gower Street EMail: R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk London WC1E 6BT UK URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/R.Winder/ ======================================================================= ------------------------------ From: Russel Winder Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:48:19 +0100 Subject: BibTeX/LaTeX2e point -- PS I forgot to note the obvious point about using the key field in the bibliography item, I suppose that should be solution 0. My point was: Has anyone got an answer to the problem of \emph appearing in the .aux file, even if accidently? ------------------------------ From: coleman@trillium.phys.uregina.ca (Robert Coleman) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 15:28:01 -0600 (CST) Subject: Location of index package (by David Jones)??? On page 367 of the LaTeX Companion, the index package written by David Jones is discussed. I have, however, not been able to find it on CTAN. From where can this package be ftped? Thanks for the help. A direct reply would be appreciated. Robert - -- Robert Alan Coleman Department of Physics University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan Canada S4S 0A2 Tel: (306) 585-4260 Fax: (306) 585-4894 email: coleman@cas.uregina.ca ------------------------------ From: Matteo Frigo Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:41:45 -0400 Subject: \def with catcode 1 in parameter text? Abstract: I want to put a token with catcode 1 in the parameter text of a macro, and I don't know how. Problem: I wrote a macro \largeenough which takes one argument, and formats it in the largest possible font so that the argument fits in one page (I use it for slides). The macro works by trial and error, and some other hackery. Now, I want to define a LaTeX environment \begin{largeenough} text \end{largeenough} to accomplish the same effect --- since the environment seems more elegant to me. The problem is: how do I capture all text preceding the \end{largeenough} ? I need it for the trial-and-error procedure. So far, I use a simple-minded loop to accomplish this effect, but I wonder if there is a better way. Essentially, I would like to define a macro \def\foo#1\end{largeenough}{...} where I have a { *with catcode 1* in the parameter text. Changing the catcode doesn't work, because I want to keep the original catcode of { in the normal text (inside the environment). Any idea? Thanks, Matteo ------------------------------ From: Michael Doob Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:39:09 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 > From: mclem@medphys.ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Clemence) > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:52:03 BST > Subject: "Standard" Font sizes > > I am maintaining a TeX system here at ucl, and like many others I suspect > am allowing the system to generate all the fonts as needed (via MakeTeXpk). > All of these end up jumbled together in the texmf/fonts/tmp/pk directory > (under either cx or ljfour). I would quite like to shift the common ones > into the appropriate sub directory (texmf/fonts/public/cm/ ..) so that > tmp can be deleted on a regular basis. Can someone tell me the > standard/most common sizes required ? You could run a cron job that deletes pk files that haven't been accessed recently. What's left over will be (by definition) the popular ones, and they could be moved out to a more permanent location periodically. Cheers, Michael ------------------------------ From: David Carlisle Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:32:12 +0100 Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST) You'd get a quicker information turn around by asking on comp.text.tex newsgroup (or the equivalent info-tex mailing list). > b - anyone had 'ported' it [dvihps] to work with the kpathsea > distribution I'm not sure, but if you use the [nativepdf] option to the hyperref package you can use a standard dvips(k). The pdfmark operators are written straight to the PS file via literal postscript specials. > on hypertex hosted at snorri.chem.washington.edu . This machine > does not seem to exist the mailing list is now reachable via .... This mailing list will ensure that you are notified of new releases and other major developments to HyperTeX, the hypertext extensions to TeX. 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