TeXhax Digest Saturday, August 17, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue #035
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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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
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Date: 11 Jul 91 16:08:15 EDT
From: <PERAKIS%GRPATVX1@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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
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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
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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
}
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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> <your-number-here> |
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Date: 6 July 1991 13:19:42 CDT
From: <U29970%UICVM@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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)
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 91 11:39:22 +0300
From: Malki Cymbalista <VUMALKI@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il>
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
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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 11:51 GMT
From: Peter Flynn UCC <CBTS8001%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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
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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 00:56 MET
From: "Johannes L. Braams" <J.L.Braams%pttrnl.nl@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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
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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
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Date: 2 Jul 91 12:27:17 AST
From: George White <G_WHITE@bionet>
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
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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
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Date: Wed 3 Jul 91 09:46:35-EST
From: Ralph Youngen <REY@MATH.AMS.COM>
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
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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
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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.
Michael Johnson Department of Physics
mdj@physics.ucf.edu University of Central Florida
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