TeXhax Digest Saturday, August 17, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue #035 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: Problems in TeX 3.1 installation (VMS) A better `verbatim' environment? Index Re: TeXhax Digest V91 #030 BOLD in LaTex that isn't so large Using HP internal fonts with TeX Run-on footnotes Update to the babel system of style files 8 bit input JGR Oceans style wanted ImakeTeX 2.02 for TeX 3.14 released new versions of AMS-TeX, AMS-LaTeX, and AMSFonts TeX -> RTF conversion program? detex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 11 Jul 91 16:08:15 EDT From: Subject: Problems in TeX 3.1 installation (VMS) Keywords: TeX 3.1, installation We downloaded TeX1 (TEX.WEB and the change file) from ymir.claremont.edu and - after changing the parameters stated in vms_tex_notes.txt to get it "tangled" properly - we proceeded with the installation. This is what we got: >From Tangle : @d VAX_ss_normal == @= sts$k_success @> *1444 ! This identifier has already appeared. (change file 1.3237) >From Pascal Compiler : 00386 1 1 FOR I = 1 TO 8 DO POOLNAME[I + FORMATAREALE]:=POOLFNAME[I]; 1 2 (1) Operands are not assignment compatible. (2) Syntax : start of new statement expected. Does anybody know why do we get these msgs? . Have we done anything wrong? Is it the compiler's fault? Any suggestions will be appreciated . Thanx is advance . Minas Perakis Computer Technology Institute Patras , Greece . Please reply to PERAKIS@GRPATVX1.BITNET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1991 18:30 PST From: ANDREW@UCLAUE.MBI.UCLA.EDU Subject: A better `verbatim' environment? Keywords: LaTeX, verbatim, environment I need to incorporate DNA sequence information into LaTeX documents. The `verbatim' environment works fine for unlabelled sequences, since the non-proportional typeface used allows for correct vertical alignment of actual sequence with sequence position numbers, i.e. 1 tagggcgaat tcgagctcgg tacAAATTGA AGAGTTTGAT CATGGCTCAG 51 ATTGAACGCT GGCGGCAGGC CTAACACATG CAAGTCGAAC GGTAACAGGA 101 AGAAGCTTGC TTCTTTGCTG ACGAGTGGCG GACGGGTGAG TAATGTCTGG would come out with the bases all correctly aligned vertically in the `verbatim' environment. What if I want to get fancy and add over and underscores, * and other special characters (arrows especially), and I want it to look better than the rather ugly *** ______ 1 tagggcgaat tcgagctcgg tacAAATTGA AGAGTTTGAT CATGGCTCAG * | 51 ATTGAACGCT GGCGGCAGGC CTAACACATG CAAGTCGAAC GGTAACAGGA 101 AGAAGCTTGC TTCTTTGCTG ACGAGTGGCG GACGGGTGAG TAATGTCTGG i.e. where the inter-line spacing is wrong because of the introduced characters and the positioning of those characters is bad. Is there any set of LaTeX macros, or some drawing program that will work? I have already tried Corel Draw, but since it only allows a few hundred characters, it isn't very useful for my purposes. Dr. Andrew Scheinman University of California, Los Angeles andrew@uclaue.mbi.ucla.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 91 11:22:02 PST From: DOCUMENTS@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV Subject: Index Keywords: TeX, index macros I've been having a problem with my index macros---the ones at the end of this message. They write out the index fine, but space gets inserted in the document too, not much but its noticeable. For instance, if the TeX file contained the following If I use \FLAG{flag}, flag will appear in the .dvi file and the index; but if I use \INDEX{index}, index will not appear in the .dvi file, but will appear in the index. would yield something like this in the output file If I use flag , flag will appear in the .dvi file and the index; but if I use , index will not appear in the .dvi file, but will appear in the index. Even when I write only to the index file, I'm getting this extra space. I don't understand why. Any ideas? fam@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov ***************************************************************************** % % Now we only want to make an entry for the index in the table of contents % if there is an index, and there can't be an index without use of \INDEX, % and we'll know if there can be an index when \INDtrue is set. % \newif\ifIND \INDfalse \def\CSEQINDEX#1{\csname CSEQ \endcsname \string{#1\string}} \def\CVSEQINDEX#1{\csname CVSEQ \endcsname \string{#1\string}} \def\CXSEQINDEX#1{\csname CXSEQ \endcsname \string{#1\string}} \def\INDEX#1{ \ifIND % Nothing special to do, its been done. \else \immediate\openout\INX=\jobname.index \immediate\write\INX{\csname def \endcsname \csname DOCUMENTNUMBER \endcsname \string{ \DOCUMENTNUMBER \string}} \immediate\write\INX{\csname def \endcsname \csname DOCUMENTTITLE \endcsname \string{ \DOCUMENTTITLE \string}} \ifLEFT \immediate\write\INX{\csname LEFTtrue \endcsname} \fi \ifDRAFT \immediate\write\INX{\csname DRAFTtrue \endcsname} \fi \immediate\write\INX{\csname BEGININDEX \endcsname} \INDtrue \fi {\let\CSEQ=\CSEQINDEX \let\CVSEQ=\CVSEQINDEX \let\CXSEQ=\CXSEQINDEX \if\pageno<0 \xdef\RIGHTNOW{\noexpand\write\INX{#1,\noexpand\romannumeral\pageno}} \else \xdef\RIGHTNOW{\write\INX{#1,\noexpand\number\pageno}} \fi} \ignorespaces\RIGHTNOW\ignorespaces } % % And if you just want to flag a word to be in your index and in your % document. % \def\FLAG#1{\ignorespaces\INDEX{#1}#1 } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 91 14:48:25 EDT From: karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu)) Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V91 #030 Keywords: TeX, 3.1, 3.14 I have 3.1. Do you have patches to 3.14 ? What was changed ? Cheers! dan. | karron@nyu.edu (e-mail alias ) Dan Karron, Research Associate | | Phone: 212 263 5210 Fax: 212 263 7190 New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue Digital Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 <2> 10896 <3> | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 July 1991 13:19:42 CDT From: Subject: BOLD in LaTex that isn't so large Keywords: LaTeX, Bold I would like to know if there is a way (other than altering the font size) in LaTex to produce boldface type that isn't so large, ie a boldface like \bf that is a 'poor man's bold' or a 'double strike'. If anyone has a macro for this, I would be most thankful. Neil (U29970@UIVM.BITNET) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 91 11:39:22 +0300 From: Malki Cymbalista Subject: Using HP internal fonts with TeX Keywords: HP internal fonts, TeX I would like to print my TeX documents using the internal printer resident fonts of the HP LaserJet III. CG Times, Univers, Courier and Line Printer are the resident fonts. How do I get the TFM files TeX needs? Do I also need gf or pk fonts that my driver (dvijep) normally uses? If yes, where can I get them? Any info will be appreciated. Malki bitnet: vumalki@weizmann internet: vumalki@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 11:51 GMT From: Peter Flynn UCC Subject: Run-on footnotes Keywords: LaTeX, run-on footnotes Dominik and Chris kindly sent me a LaTeX solution to making footnotes in run-on paragraphs, but I really do need this to work with EDMAC. To simplify the problem: all that is needed is for each footnote ***NOT*** to start a new paragraph/line in \footins, but to skip (say) 2pc and continue from there. Anyone got a simple fix to do this? Like removing the implicit \par which seems to follow (or is it precede) each operation of \footnote? If there's not time to reply before Tuesday 9th, tell me in Dedham, cos I'm leaving here on the 10th. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 00:56 MET From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: Update to the babel system of style files Keywords: babel, style file Hi, A couple of minutes ago I've put a new version of the babel system of style files on LISTSERV@HEARN. The differences with the previous release are: - cured behaviour with respect to groups - various small fixes - many more language specific files. Available now are files for the following languages: - Esperanto, - Dutch, English, German, - French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish (with Catalan), - Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, - Finnish, Hungarian, - Croatian, Czech, Romanian, Slovene, - Russian (beware, the transliteration is not yet completely fixed as far as I'm concerned). Regards, Johannes Braams PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl Fax : +31 70 3326477 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 21:22:42 EDT From: barr@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Michael Barr) Subject: 8 bit input Keywords: 8 bit input I had thought that the new TeX 3 was required to accept 8 bit input. A vendor of value-added TeX packages has informed me that TeX 3 _may_ accept 8 bit input, but is not required to. He added that the latest trip test does not test for 8 bit input (by which I mean input whose high bit is set) and barbara beeton confirms this latter fact. There is nothing in the TeX book (seventeenth printing, January, 1990) that directly contradicts the assertion about 8 bit input, but there are certainly passages that appear to. Look, for example, at page 45, the double dangerous bend paragraph that begins about 3/4 of the way down the page. Knuth made the most minimal changes in the TeX book necessary to accomodate the change to TeX 3 and appears not to have actually settled this point. Does anyone out there know what the true situation is with respect to TeX 3? Michael Barr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2 Jul 91 12:27:17 AST From: George White Subject: JGR Oceans style wanted Keywords: JGR Oceans style, TeX We just got a bill for $2500 for typesetting an article that was prepared in TeX for JGR Oceans. They will accept camera-ready manuscripts--so we are looking for a TeX/LaTeX style file for the JGR Oceans format. Has anyone done this yet, and is it available via anonymous ftp? George White, Biological Oceanography Division, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 1006 Dartmouth, N.S. Canada B2Y 4A2 Tel: (902)426-8509 FAX: (902) 426-9388 Internet: g_white@bionet.bio.ns.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 91 13:49:07 -0400 From: ramsdell@linus.mitre.org Subject: ImakeTeX 2.02 for TeX 3.14 released Keywords: ImakeTeX, TeX 3.14 ImakeTeX 2.02 for TeX 3.14 is available by anonymous FTP from june.cs.washington.edu in the directory tex. ImakeTeX differs from previous versions in that it translates pascal source using web2c 5.84b. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed 3 Jul 91 09:46:35-EST From: Ralph Youngen Subject: new versions of AMS-TeX, AMS-LaTeX, and AMSFonts Keywords: AmS-TeX, AmsFonts, AmS-LaTeX I am pleased to announce the release of new versions of the three major AMS-supported TeX products. AMS-TeX 2.1, AMSFonts 2.1, and AMS-LaTeX 1.1 have all been posted to our TeX archive on the Internet node e-MATH.ams.com (130.44.1.100), and are now available for immediate retrieval by anonymous FTP. Also available is information (both guidelines and documentstyle files) for authors who may wish to submit something to the AMS in electronic form for publication. This is the first major upgrade to the files on the AMS's e-MATH archive since its inception over a year ago. Announcements of future incremental or major upgrades to any of these products will be posted to the normal TeX discussion lists. The files in this release have also been changed to incorporate a file identification block in the form of a BibTeX-like entry at the start of each TeX or Metafont file. This was a suggestion Nelson Beebe posted to the tex-archive list about a year ago. The AMS staff worked with Nelson over the past several months and settled on the scheme found in these files. We do not necessarily feel that the structure we've chosen is final, and would like to hear comments and/or suggestions for improvements. As in the past, we are suggesting that those of you responsible for maintaining a TeX archive copy the entire /ams tree from e-MATH and set up a corresponding /ams tree on your own archive. Some of the READ.ME files refer to files in other directories using the notation "/ams/...". (We realize that you may not want to copy all of the resolutions of the AMSFonts PK files to your area because of space considerations.) We wish for these files to replace all previous releases of AMS-TeX, AMS-LaTeX, and AMSFonts for as many users as possible. We are especially concerned about the dissemination of AMSFonts 2.1, but strongly encourage users to upgrade AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX as well. Details follow. AMSFonts 2.1 (/ams/amsfonts/... and /ams/tfm-files): ==================================================== Sometime after AMSFonts 2.0 was released, it was brought to our attention that there was a bug in the Metafont code for the AMS extra symbol fonts (MSAM and MSBM) that caused different TFM files to be produced when these fonts were run at different resolutions. This has been fixed in 2.1. Another significant enhancement in the MSBM font is much improved character rendering for the Blackboard Bold characters at low resolutions. (Thanks to Stefan Lindner for the Metafont help with the Blackboard Bold characters.) Additionally, through several communications with Knuth we are pleased to release improved versions of the Euler and extra CM fonts. All of the Euler bold fonts have been made more bold and extended. In previous versions of Euler, it was very difficult to distinguish the bold from the non-bold versions of these fonts. Knuth also reviewed the parameter listings for the additional point sizes of the CM fonts that we created and we have incorporated his suggestions into this release. Another change with AMSFonts 2.1 is that we are now distributing more resolutions of PK files. Previously, e-MATH contained only 118 and 300 dpi fonts. We have now posted 118, 180, 240, 300, and 400 dpi fonts to the /ams/amsfonts/pk-files/... area of e-MATH. As before, Metafont sources for all of the AMSFonts are also available. AMS-TeX 2.1 (/ams/amstex): ========================== This is mainly a bug-fix version, with some minor enhancements. A new file, amsppt1.tex, has been added to provide backward compatibility with documents written under amsppt.sty version 1 but run with AMS-TeX 2.0 or later. AMS-LaTeX 1.1 (/ams/amslatex): ============================== Again, this is mainly a bug-fix version with some enhancements. In an effort to keep this area current we are now distributing the complete Mittelbach/Schoepf font selection scheme in the /ams/amslatex/fontsel area. When new versions of these files become available, we will attempt to quickly verify their compatibility with AMS-LaTeX and post them to e-MATH. Please direct any problems or questions concerning the TeX archive on e-MATH to: Technical Support Group American Mathematical Society 201 Charles Street P.O. Box 6248 Providence, RI 02940 USA (800) 321-4AMS (321-4267) ext. 4080 (401) 455-4080 Internet: tech-support@math.ams.com Thank you. Ralph Youngen Supervisor, Technical Support American Mathematical Society Internet: REY@MATH.AMS.COM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 17:42:19 -0700 From: stuart@previous.ADS.COM (Stuart Crawford) Subject: TeX -> RTF conversion program? Keywords: TeX, RTF Can anyone point me to such a beast? Stuart ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 08:44:46 EDT From: mdj@phys.physics.ucf.edu (Michael Johnson ) Subject: detex Keywords: detex Where can I get a copy of 'detex' which, at least in a unix environment, strips the TeX commands out of a file? Thanks. 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