TeXhax Digest Saturday, April 2, 1988 Volume 88 : Issue 34
[SCORE.STANFORD.EDU]<TEX.TEXHAX>TEXHAX34.88
Editor: Malcolm Brown
Today's Topics:
Immoderate notes: TeXhax to "pause" again
Double-spaced document with single-spaced captions.
TANGLE.P
Tektronix to PostScript for TeX
TeX on Linotronic L300
change the default font
A Little More On Bold Math
Re: bold greek letters
Personal TeX's PTILaser/PS and PSFIG
Doublespacing and singlespacing (v.88, n.23,27,29)
``Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er'' (TeXhax30.88)
TeXhax Digest V88 #30
Footnotes on captions - addendum
Footnotes on captions
TeX and LaTeX
LaTeX Notes (Re: TeXhax Digest V88 #30)
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Date: 02 April 88
Subject: Immoderate notes: TeXhax to "pause" again
From: Malcolm
%%% I'm heading off on a trip on 4 April, so there will be a brief
%%% disruption of digests. I suggest that everybody hold off sending
%%% submissions until April 15th, as I won't be back before then.
%%% onwards...
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 88 09:13:14 EST
From: Michael E. Van Steenberg <"IUE::MEV"@nssdca.GSFC.NASA.GOV>
Subject: Double-spaced document with single-spaced captions.
Several people have asked about double spaceing most of a document
but needing to have figure captions single spaced. I too needed this
for my thesis (sorry L. L. I know it is ugly but, it is hard to take a stand
and not get your degree). Since I did not have to see my thesis again
I made LaTeX do it. On page 155 in the LaTeX book (thank you L. L)
you will find:
`You can produce a "double-spaced" version of the document
for copy editing by setting \baselinestretch to 2, but it will be ugly
and hard to read. Any other changes to the interline spacing should be
part of a complete document-style design, best done by a competent
typographic designer.'
I am not a competent designer but I did look into the style files and the
LaTeX.tex file and found that to change the interline space you need to
do the proper size-changing command \SIZE. I being young and naive tried
to set the baselineskip value in this command. The following comes from
rep11.sty:
% Each size-changing command \SIZE executes the command
% \@setsize\SIZE{BASELINESKIP}\FONTSIZE\@FONTSIZE
% where:
% BASELINESKIP = Normal value of \baselineskip for that size. (Actual
% value will be \baselinestretch * BASELINESKIP.)
%
% \FONTSIZE = Name of font-size command. The currently available
% (preloaded) font sizes are: \vpt (5pt), \vipt (6pt),
% \viipt (etc.), \viiipt, \ixpt, \xpt, \xipt, \xiipt,
% \xivpt, \xviipt, \xxpt, \xxvpt.
% \@FONTSIZE = The same as the font-size command except with an
% '@' in front---e.g., if \FONTSIZE = \xivpt then
% \@FONTSIZE = \@xivpt.
%
% For reasons of efficiency that needn't concern the designer,
% the document style defines \@normalsize instead of \normalsize . This is
% done only for \normalsize, not for any other size-changing commands.
\def\@normalsize{\@setsize\normalsize{13.6pt}\xipt\@xipt
\abovedisplayskip 11pt plus3pt minus6pt%
\belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
\abovedisplayshortskip \z@ plus3pt%
\belowdisplayshortskip 6.5pt plus3.5pt minus3pt}
To be able to switch between double-space and normal single spaced I defined
a new font-size change command, \doublesize, which is the same as \normalsize
except for the baselineskip argument which is set to 26.4pt in place of
13.6pt. NOTE: this is the "competent designer" part, the value I used,
26.4, worked OK for me but, please think about this value given your margens
and main font size. This is OK if you want to add \doblesize at the top
of each of your documents, however if you want to have the doublesize be
the default font then you need to extract the \def\document from LaTeX.tex
and change the font used at the end, this is what I used:
\def\document{\endgroup
\@colht\textheight \@colroom\textheight \vsize\textheight
\columnwidth\textwidth \@clubpenalty\clubpenalty
\if@twocolumn \advance\columnwidth -\columnsep
\divide\columnwidth\tw@ \hsize\columnwidth \@firstcolumntrue
\fi
\hsize\columnwidth \linewidth\hsize
\begingroup\@floatplacement\@dblfloatplacement
\makeatletter\let\@writefile\@gobbletwo
\@input{\jobname.aux}\endgroup
\if@filesw \immediate\openout\@mainaux=\jobname.aux
\immediate\write\@mainaux{\relax}\fi
\def\do##1{\let ##1\@notprerr}
\@preamblecmds
\let\do\noexpand
\doublesize\everypar{}}
In this way the body of the TeXt will be double spaced (I actualy did
something around 1.5 or 1.75 spaced, It looked better and the graduate school
did not catch on) and all captions, quotes, etc. appear single spaced. Now if
you need to you can change in the middle of your TeXt by useing \normalsize
and \doublesize. NOTE: \caption has \normalsize inside of it so what ever
font is \normalsize that is the font that will be used by the \caption
command.
I want to pass on my thanks to Dr. L. Lamport for all his hard work
and good documentation in the LaTeX book and in the source files, without
it my thesis would have taken even longer to write, THANKS !
Take care all,
Michael E. Van Steenberg
SPAN IUE::MEV or 6164::mev
internet MEV@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
NRC-NSSDC
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
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From: AM30360%DHHUNI4.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Rainer Sawatzki)
Date: 88-03-28 16:56:45 MEZ
Subject: TANGLE.P
---------------------------------------------------
Where is TANGLE.P available as a PASCAL-sourcefile?
---------------------------------------------------
I want to start bootstrapping without getting mad in
hand-editing tangle.web.
Rainer
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 88 10:52 EST
From: <S_KRAFT%UNHH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Tektronix to PostScript for TeX
The last time I tried to submit this, it didn't make it ...
Does anyone know of a Tektronix to PostScript translator (and/or REGIS)?
(I know there is such a utility in TransScript, but we don't need that
whole package, and the associated costs for the source license are more
than we can spend just for a graphics translator.)
The ultimate goal is to include such graphics output within a TeX output file
for output to a PostScript printer under VMS. We have the \special handler,
in DVIALW from University of Utah by Nelson Beebe which now, after some
modification, works very well for us. Almost the first question our users
ask about TeX is can they include their graphics files (usually Textronix)
directly in with the text.
We are running the Digital ScriptPrinter software for our LN03R ScriptPrinter
and the PrintServer40 software, which provides Tektronix-4014 and REGIS
translators and works fine for stand-alone graphics files. Unfortunately, the
PostScript output is not available to subsequently include in with TeX output.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 88 23:34:28 EST
From: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu (Dominik Wujastyk)
Subject: TeX on Linotronic L300
The latest issue of the Harvard campus technology newspaper "WINDOW"
(Vol.II, no.8, April 1988) carries the following front page article:
TeX Available on Linotronic
High-quality typesetting for TeX, a text formatting package developed by
Stanford mathematician Donald Knuth, is now available on the Linotronic at
Harvard's William James Hall. After having spent the better part of a year
trying to adjust the Linotronic's PostScript engine's small available
memory capacity to the TeX fonts, which may require up to 200k each, Scott
Bradner and his group are now ready to announce the package's availability
to the Harvard community.
The Linotronic, able to produce output of up to 2540 dots per inch ... is a
professional typesetter (imagesetter) appropriate for academic journals and
books. With the William James Linotronic's ability to provide full support
for the full complement of TeX CM (Computer Modern) fonts, writers and
editors are able to have high-quality typesetting as well as good control
of placement of type on the page available quickly and at competitive
rates.
... The William James Linotronic supports the standard mag steps as well.
In addition, it is also able to support the full complement of PostScript
fonts (including Garamond and Palatino) with the TeX formatting capability.
Members of the Harvard community who want to use TeX on the Linotronic are
advised to preview their copy on a LaserWriter to be certain the page will
print out as they wish. ...
Rates at the William James Linotronic for people willing to do the
typesetting themselves are 45 cents per linear inch, the same as for Troff
or PostScript files. Scott Bradner and the members of his group are
willing to show people how to use the Linotronic, providing they are
typesetting a minimum of 100 pages, or they will be using the equipment on
a regular basis (monthly or quarterly journals). For those requiring fewer
pages of typesetting (a minimum of 10), or who would rather provide a disk
or computer file, there is a 10 percent surcharge.
Also newly available on the Linotronic is a fully pointed Hebrew font and
outline fonts in Troff. For information or to use the equipment, please
call Scott Bradner at 495-3864. Time on the Linotronic can usually be
reserved within a day or two, enabling high-quality typesetting within a
few minutes. (Information for this article was provided by Scott Bradner.)
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The software for the PS RIP which Scott's team has developed allows any
METAFONT generated font to be used. This is important, as it provides one
of the very few ways of printing some of the newer METAFONT fonts at
resolutions above 1000dpi. If you need to print out some weird characters,
say Sanskrit, you will have to provide the fonts at the appropriate
resolution, or let Scott have the MF source, so that the font can be made
available to the Linotronic.
Scott assures me that the service is available generally, not just to the
Harvard community. Scott's e-mail address is
Bitnet: user SOB on the Bitnet node HARVUNXW
arpanet: sob@wjh12.harvard.Edu
csnet: sob@wjh12.harvard.Edu
uucp: ...!ihnp4!wjh12!sob
Dominik Wujastyk
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 88 12:42:23 +0100
From: mcvax!ruuinf!piet@uunet.UU.NET (Piet van Oostrum)
Subject: change the default font
I have a style file to switch to laser-writer builtin fonts. This can be
used as a model for other font changes. It changes only the \rm, \it, \sf
\sl \tt \bf and \sc fonts and not the math mode fonts. It is basically an
edited version of lfonts.tex
%%% Piet's submission is too long for digest distribution. The file can
%%% FTPed from the machine SCORE.STANFORD.EDU by "getting" the file
%%% <tex.texhax>oostrum.txh
%%% As usual, a copy has been forwarded to BITNET. Malcolm
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 88 21:35 EST
From: <KEE%PSUARLC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: A Little More On Bold Math
In the past few issues there has been some discussion on how to use bold math
fonts. We got in to this a few months ago at our site during the preparation of
afile of macros to assist in the production of overhead transparencies where we
wanted the fonts to be both larger and bolder. The portion of this file which
activates these fonts is listed below.
The basic command is "\arlsize?" where the "?" is the magstep and can be from 0
to 8 at our site. For example:
\arlsize5
\centerline{\arlsize7 Introduction}
\vskip12pt
\leftline{\arlsize6 AGENDA}
\item{\bullet}Blah blah blah
\item{\bullet}Etc etc etc
We used Metafont and the design files for CMSSBX10, CMMIB10, CMBSY10 and CMEX10
fromthe Kellerman and Smith distribution tape for VAX/VMS to produce the needed
fontfiles. Note that we have chosen CMSSBX10 to be the "text" font since it has
no serifs and tends to hold up better after copying and projection. Also, note
that after the font is changed, we use the value of "em" and "ex" to recompute
the values for "xspaceskip" and some other TeX parameters since these did not
seemto change appropriately with the font. We haven't run out of memory as some
folks predicted, even when all 9 sizes are used in the same document.
Hope this is of some use!
---- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip ------
\newcount\arlreturn \newcount\arlsizework \newcount\arlpage%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LOCAL MAGSTEP %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\def\arlmagstep#1{\ifnum#1=-4 \arlreturn=482\relax%
\else\ifnum#1=-3 \arlreturn=579\relax\else\ifnum#1=-2 \arlreturn=694\relax%
\else\ifnum#1=-1 \arlreturn=833\relax\else\ifnum#1=0 \arlreturn=1000\relax%
\else\ifnum#1=1 \arlreturn=1200\relax\else\ifnum#1=2 \arlreturn=1440\relax%
\else\ifnum#1=3 \arlreturn=1728\relax\else\ifnum#1=4 \arlreturn=2074\relax%
\else\ifnum#1=5 \arlreturn=2488\relax\else\ifnum#1=6 \arlreturn=2986\relax%
\else\ifnum#1=7 \arlreturn=3583\relax\else\ifnum#1=8 \arlreturn=4300\relax%
\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi}% fee fo fum
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CHANGE THE SIZE OF TEXT AND MATH FONTS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\def\arlsize#1{\arlsizework=#1\relax%
%% Set 4 Styles for Basic Size (text, math italic, math symbols, extensibles)
\arlmagstep\arlsizework\relax%
\font\arltextlarge=cmssbx10 scaled\arlreturn \textfont0=\arltextlarge%
\font\arlmathlarge=cmmib10 scaled\arlreturn \textfont1=\arlmathlarge%
\font\arlsymblarge=cmbsy10 scaled\arlreturn \textfont2=\arlsymblarge%
\font\arlextensible=cmex10 scaled\arlreturn \textfont3=\arlextensible%
%% Set 4 Styles for Subscripts
\advance\arlsizework by -2\relax%
\arlmagstep\arlsizework\relax%
\font\arltextmedium=cmssbx10 scaled\arlreturn \scriptfont0=\arltextmedium%
\font\arlmathmedium=cmmib10 scaled\arlreturn \scriptfont1=\arlmathmedium%
\font\arlsymbmedium=cmbsy10 scaled\arlreturn \scriptfont2=\arlsymbmedium%
\scriptfont3=\arlextensible%
%% Set 4 Styles for Subsubscripts
\advance\arlsizework by -2\relax%
\arlmagstep\arlsizework\relax%
\font\arltextsmall=cmssbx10 scaled\arlreturn \scriptscriptfont0=\arltextsmall%
\font\arlmathsmall=cmmib10 scaled\arlreturn \scriptscriptfont1=\arlmathsmall%
\font\arlsymbsmall=cmbsy10 scaled\arlreturn \scriptscriptfont2=\arlsymbsmall%
\scriptscriptfont3=\arlextensible%
%% Fire up text font and recompute some parameters
\arltextlarge\baselineskip=2.5ex\relax\rightskip=0pt plus 20em%
\spaceskip=.5em\relax\xspaceskip=.5em\relax\parindent=2em}%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% BULLETS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\def\bullet{{\arlsymblarge\raise.2ex\hbox{\char15}}}%
---- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip ------
Kent Eschenberg and Kevin Fox
Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
BITNET Addresses KEE@PSUARLC and KMF@PSUARLC
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From: Z3000PA%AWITUW01.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: bold greek letters
Date: 29 MAR 88 11:09:10
Perhaps I am naive, but from pages 201-202 of the LaTeX manual I guess
that you get bold greek letters simply by
{\boldmath $\alpha$}
and so on. If this is not correct, I would like to know, why not...
Hubert Partl, TU Vienna (Austria)
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 88 12:50:29 PST
From: well!pti@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Bill Kaster)
Subject: Personal TeX's PTILaser/PS and PSFIG
Ted Shapin complains that Personal TeX's PostScript driver, PTIPS,
doesn't work with PSfig. This is odd, because in a readme file that
comes with the PSfig package (and in TeXHaX #5 (1987) for that matter)
Trevor Darrell writes:
>
> Right now only dvips (from TextSet or ArborText or whatever they
>are calling themselves this week) is the only supported postprocessor.
>Porting to [other drivers] should be be easy, trivial for a good
>subset of psfig's features. I plan to tackle dvi2ps sometime in the
>future, but if anyone out there has a good knowledge of what the
>PostScript environment under dvi2ps looks like and a spare day, I'll
>be glad to show what has to be changed.
>
It is clear that Trevor tailored PSfig for the ArborText driver.
Since Personal TeX's PTIPS is not an exact clone of DVIPS, I wouldn't
expect it to work stright out of the box.
Bill Kaster
claimer: Yes, I work for Personal TeX, Inc. makers of PCTeX and PTIPS.
12 Madrona Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415)-388-8853
well!pti@lll-crg.arpa
Fido 125/333 (415)-388-1708
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1988 13:43:17.11 CST
From: <bed_gdg%shsu.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu> (George D. Greenwade)
Subject: Doublespacing and singlespacing (v.88, n.23,27,29)
Tom Schneider's original question (v.88, n.23) regarding his problem in going
from double spacing his text (via \baselinestretch) and the impossibility of
returning to single spacing within figure environments combined with Stephen
Azuma's admittedly crude solution (via \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}...}
(v.88, n.27) and Udaya Bhaskar Vemulapati's request for a method for moving
from double to single to double spacing for purposes of thesis preparation,
there is a simple solution. As I pointed out last year (v.87, n.105), there is
a generally available document-style option called doublespace. To invoke
doublespacing for (say) an article, all that is needed is:
\documentstyle[doublespace]{article}
This option defaults you into double spaced, rather than single spaced, output
but keeps all footnotes in a single spaced environment. To invoke a region of
single spaced output (such as within figure, the various lists, tabular),
simple use:
\begin{singlespace}
To return to double spacing, use:
\end{singlespace}
For Mr. Vemulapati: There are various thesis document-styles available in
general distribution which already contain many of the needed variations which
most schools impose on graduate students as a true final hoop to jump through.
Consult your local TeXnician about what is out there and what you have at your
site.
Moral of this story: Consider consulting the family of existing document-style
options when you face what you see as a problem since there is little need to
re-invent something. It is better (my normative belief) to hack out new
options to share with others or to improve options we already have.
George
George D. Greenwade, Director Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU
Center for Business and Economic Research THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG
Sam Houston State University Internet: BED_GDG@SHSU.BITNET
Huntsville, Texas USA 77341-2056 Voice: (409) 294-1518
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 88 18:49:16 EST
From: jonradel%icecream.Princeton.EDU@Princeton.EDU (Jon Radel)
Subject: ``Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er'' (TeXhax30.88)
STAN-CS-83-977, as all other Stanford Computer Science reports, can be
ordered on microfiche for $2.00 (plus sales tax for CA residents) (prepayment
payable to Stanford University) from:
Attn: Taleen M. Nazarian
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2140
Recent reports are also available as paper copies, until they are sold out.
The price varies, based on length. I'm pretty sure that 83-977 was sold
out as paper (I had someone buy it for me recently, and I think that's
what he told me).
--Jon Radel
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 88 21:52:22 PST
From: mackay@june.cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Subject: TeXhax Digest V88 #30
SliTeX has been part of the Unix TeX distribution for at least a year.
It is in ./tex82/LaTeX/LaTeXslitex. If you don't find it there (and
only a very old tape will lack it) the essential parts can be found
in <TEX.LATEX> on SCORE.STANFORD.EDU
Email: mackay@june.cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay
Smail: Northwest Computing Support Group TUG Site Coordinator for
Lewis Hall, Mail Stop DW10 Unix-flavored TeX
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-6259
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 88 23:41 EDT
From: "Steven H. Gutfreund" <GUTFREUND%cs.umass.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Footnotes on captions - addendum
Oh yes, I only want the footnotes to appear on the caption that is in the
body of the text, not in the list of figures. Indeed, unless one uses the
optional argument form of \caption[]{} and only footnotes the text that
is to appear in the body of the document - then LaTeX will complain loudly.
However, what I wish to do is only footnote the caption under the actual
figure. My problem with the missing footnotetext is occuring even with
the optional form of \caption.
- gutfreund@cs.umass.edu (via csnet/phoneNet)
gutfreund@cs-umass.arpa (via arpanet/milnet)
steveg@umass.bitnet (via bitnet)
yechezkal-shimon@benDovid.haLevi (via gabbai)
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 88 23:23 EDT
From: "Steven H. Gutfreund" <GUTFREUND@CS-UMASS.ARPA>
Subject: Footnotes on captions
I would like to put a footnote on a caption (figure or table) in LaTeX.
The straight-forward solution \footnote{...} in the caption entry produced
the footnotemark, but the text never appeared. Since footnote is fragile,
I tried to \protect it, but this did not change the situation.
So, I assume I should handle footnotes in captions in the same way as
the LaTeX book suggests for section and chapter titles. That is,
I should use the \footnotemark and \footenotetext macros discussed
in section C.2.3. Ok, so now I have a question: Where should I put
the \footnotetext? Obviously, I would like the text near the figure
(wherever it floats to). Can I put the \footnotetext inside the figure
environment? or do I have to guestimate where the figure will end up
and put the footnotetext at that location? Does the footnotetext
need protection?
A related question. I am having real problems holding my figures
(floats) in place, they keep migrating to new pages, or further on
in the thesis. Part of this is probably because of the double
spacing. I have tried giving more suggestions to the page output
macro [htbp], increasing the looseness, more glue in the \baselineskip
and decreasing the penalties for widow lines. Can someone give me
some reasonable guidlines for measures to help LaTeX in squeezing in
figures at the appropriate spots. A ranking of the various parameters
(the order in which to play with them) and reasonable values for them.
I apologize if this has been covered before (it seems as if it probably
has) but I am new to this digest.
- gutfreund@cs.umass.edu (via csnet/phoneNet)
gutfreund@cs-umass.arpa (via arpanet/milnet)
steveg@umass.bitnet (via bitnet)
yechezkal-shimon@benDovid.haLevi (via gabbai)
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 88 09:31:54 CST
From: holle@mcc.com (Kathy Holle)
Subject: TeX and LaTeX
I have a person looking for the TeX and LaTeX distribution. Where
can he write and what is the going price for the distribution?
Do you provide the tape or does he send you one??
Thanks.
Kathy Holle
holle@mcc.com
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 88 09:01:59 PST
From: lamport@src.dec.com (Leslie Lamport)
Subject: LaTeX Notes (Re: TeXhax Digest V88 #30)
I suspect that not all of my messages to TeXHaX are making it in. I
don't have the time to keep track, so I don't know if and when that
happens. However, I always copy the sender of a query on my response.
I would greatly appreciate it if, when someone receives a copy of my
response to their question, they check if that response winds up in
TeXHaX and forward their copy to TeXHaX if it doesn't.
William LeFebvre writes
To change the default separation between two columns in an array
environment, one should change \arraycolsep? Right.
To change the default separation between two columns in a tabular
environment, one should change \tabcolsep? Right.
To stretch out the default separation between two rows (i.e.: lines) in
an array environment, one should change \arraystretch? Right!
To stretch out the default separation between two rows (i.e.: lines) in
a tabular environment, one should change \tabstretch? WRONG!!!
One should change \arraystretch!
Why?
I imagine that there is a very good technical reason why this is, but
from a user-interface standpoint, it is blatantly inconsistent.
This was an attempt to minimize the number of defined commands, which
occupy valuable TeX memory. I felt that a document style designer
might want to define different values of \arraycolsep and \tabcolsep,
but \arraystretch was likely to be changed only as a kludge within an
individual environment. At least that's what I thought on the day
I implemented it.
Vince Pugliese writes
we are interested in occasionally numbering pages in reports
using the convention:
section_# - page_# (e.g. 5-3 , the 3rd page of section 5)
or section_# . page_# (e.g. 5.3 , the 3rd page of section 5)
does anyone on the net know how to set do this in LaTex? our guess
is that one would have to play with the page counters to do this.
any suggestions (macros!) or advice much appreciated!
The LaTeX feature that allows you to define a counter that is numbered
within another counter works only for defining a new counter. However,
inside LaTeX are commands used to implement this feature that should
make it easy to redefine the page counter so it is numbered within
the section counter. Browsing through latex.tex should reveal the
appropriate commands.
David Rhead writes
I'm trying to produce a LaTeX style-option file that would be
appropriate for theses on A4 paper. I'm thinking mostly in terms of
12pt, and hope that Nottingham may follow Oxford (TeXhax V88, #02) in
accepting LaTeX's standard linespacing. I started by looking at John
Pavel's A4.STY in the LaTeX style collection. It includes the
following lines:
% Must preserve "(\textheight - \topskip) divides \baselineskip".
% \topskip always appears to be 10pt.
...
However, in issue 101 of TeXhax vol. 87, Leslie Lamport says that
\textheight needs to be set to accomodate an integral number of lines.
Also, in REP12.DOC,
\textheight is 536.5pt
which doesn't seem consistent with John Pavel's assumptions [since
(536.5 - 10) isn't an exact multiple of 15].
Now 536.5 is an exact multiple of 14.5 (normalsize in REP12.DOC)...
He is looking at an obsolete version of rep12.doc. The "536.5" was
changed in June 1986.
Martin Peim writes
I am writing a mathematical document using LaTeX and need an
environment for proofs. Problem: since my proofs are set in roman type
I want to put a "box" at the end to show where the proof finishes and
ordinary text begins. My current attempt looks like this:
\newenvironment{proof}{\begin{trivlist}\item[\hskip\labelsep{\sc Proof.}]}%
{\nolinebreak\nopagebreak\hfill\rule{1ex}{2ex}\end{trivlist}}
Trouble is, if my proof ends with a displayed formula, the rule box
goes on its own line and I get this big blank space before the next
chunk of text. Even worse, if the last line of the proof is *full* of
text, the box goes at the *beginning* of the next line (I want it just
inside the right-hand margin). Worse still, in a couple of places the
box goes at the top of the next page. The \nolinebreak and
\nopagebreak seem to make no difference.
The line break most likely occurs because of the space between the end
of the proof and the \end{proof}. This can be removed by using a TeX
\unskip command. However, this means that there must not be a blank
line between the end of the proof and the \end{proof} command.
There is no easy solution to the problem of proofs that end with a
displayed equation. I think it can be done, but it would tax my TeX
hacking ability. I suggest that it simply be kludged by entering
special commands for that case. For example, you could have
\newenvironment ...{\EndOfProof}
\newcommand{\funnyend}{\renewcommand{\EndOfProof}{...}}
and let the user type
\[ ... \]
\funnyend
\end{proof}
(Note that the scope of \funnyend's redefinition of \EndOfProof
ends with the \end{proof}.)
Leslie Lamport
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