UKTeX V90 #06 Friday 23 February 1990
LaTeX to MS Word?
TEX PREVIEW
Problems with _Z files in the archive
Info-Tex from GNU
DVItoVDU, C version 1.0 for Unix
LaTeX enumerate environment, and \@donoparitem yet again
Editor Peter Abbott
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #19
Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N3
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Subject: LaTeX to MS Word?
Date: 16 Feb 1990 10:10:27 GMT
From: chris@uk.ac.york.minster
Message-ID: <swordfish.635163029@minster.york.ac.uk>
Can anyone point me in the direction of such a beast as the above?
A subset of LaTeX is all I would expect.
regards,
chris
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From: VICKERS A J (on Essex DEC-10) <vicka@uk.ac.essex>
Date: Friday, 16-Feb-90 16:18:16-GMT
Message-ID: <135502-533-651@uk.ac.essex>
Address: Dept of Physics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, CO4 3SQ
Phone: (UK) (0206) 872876; (In) +44 206 872876
Subject: TEX PREVIEW
ANTHONY VICKERS HERE FROM ESSEX UNIVERSITY. I WONDER IF YOU CAN HELP ME.
I NEED A TEX PREVIEWER THAT WILL WORK ON AN OPUS PC TO PREVIEW DVI FILES
PROCESSED FROM TEX OR LATEX. THE FONTS I AM USING ARE FOR A LASER DVIPS FILE
THANKS
ANTHONY
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Date: Mon, 19 FEB 90 14:58:24 GMT
From: RALF@UK.AC.RO-GREENWICH.STARLINK
Dear Peter,
I managed to get the ms-dos version of TEX down and running fine. I
am particularly impressed with TE. However, I am after a version
of DV-to-HPLaserJet for MS-DOS. The version in [.drivers]
is in WEB format not .BOO format and we don't have a PASCAL compiler.
Any ideas?
Best Regards
Ralph Martin
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 14:20:00 GMT
From: Chris Thompson <CET1@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX>
Subject: Problems with _Z files in the archive
Message-ID: <A1B25C1E9322CA60@UK.AC.CAM.PHX>
I have been trying to fetch an up-to-date LaTeX from the Aston archive,
but I am having difficulties with the DOC_Z files in the <TEX-ARCHIVE.
LATEX.STYLES> directory.
I can fetch ART10.DOC_Z, and using binary mode transfer I get something
which superficially appears to be a file to which Unix compress has been
applied. We have at least two programs that will uncompress such a file,
and they almost work: The first few lines come out in clear, but then
it collapses into garble. There are indications that something bad is
happening every 132 bytes, even though I avoid creating any record
boundaries at this end.
On the other hand, attempts to fetch BOOK.DOC_Z fail entirely, whether
I specify binary mode or not. I get an error report:
> Invalid value in command: max_storage_record_size for file is 08F9
> - implementation limit is 0800.
> VAX/VMS FTP (80) Version 5.2.
If anyone has any experiences, succesful or otherwise, with fetching
such files from the archive, then I would be very grateful to hear from
them.
Chris Thompson
Cambridge University Computing Service
JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx
Internet: cet1%phx.cam.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 09:54:32 GMT
From: A42JR@UK.AC.NE-LONDON-POLY
Subject: Info-Tex from GNU
I recently acquired the MS-DOS AWK utility (called GAWK) from Lancaster.
This came with documentation in TeX format, but using a macro package
called `INFO-TEX'. I could not find this in the Aston server, neither
could I communicate with you my mail then! I sent a note to PDSOFT news and
by return received copies of the INFO-TEX package, which (after some fixes)
I got to work.
Would you like this for the Aston server? It appears to be used for
documentation by the GNU people.
John Rostron,
Division of Environmental Sciences,
Polytechnic of East London,
Romford Rd.,
LONDON E15 4LZ
A42JR @ PEL
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Subject: DVItoVDU, C version 1.0 for Unix
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 10:34:42 GMT
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From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nott.clan>
thanks to sterling work by Mark J.Hewitt and his colleagues at Kernel
Technology, Leeds, England, a C version of Andrew Trevorrow's DVItoVDU
previewer is now available for Unix systems, heroically hand-translated
into C from the Unix Pascal version by Marc Hadley.
the program has been tested on both System V and BSD variants.
thanks are extended to Mark and his company for their generosity in
making it publically available.
the sources are held in the archive in the directory
[TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.DVITOVDU.UNIX.C]
dave osborne.
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 10:13:22
From: Mike Piff <PM1MJP @ UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA>
Subject: LaTeX enumerate environment, and \@donoparitem yet again
Has anyone out there noticed that if you try to use \newtheorem to produce an
Example/Question type environment, and the very first thing after
\begin{Examples} is \begin{enumerate}, then, correctly, LaTeX produces
Example 1 (a) First item
(b) Second item
but the problem is a rather ugly space between 1 and (a). I noticed this some
time ago, but was more worried by the fact that (b) was in the left margin, due
to a faulty definition in the list environment. However, after correcting
this, the problem still remained.
As a one-off job, I wanted to get LaTeX to format our examinations. The
default with an enumeration, after changing round the second and third
counters, is that you get the following:
1 First question.....
wrapping to here
(i) First part...
wrapping here
(ii) Second part...
to here
(a) Subpart...
wrapping here
etc, which I was satisfied with, but the Head of Department wasn't. He wanted
1 First question.....
wrapping to here
(i) First part...
wrapping here
(ii) Second part...
to here
(a) Subpart...
wrapping here
or something similar, which looks better if your questions aren't too
fragmented.
After duly changing the definition of \enumerate, a problem arose. What I got
was correct, except that if the whole question was in two parts, I got
1 (i) First part...
wrapping here
(ii) Second part...
to here
(a) Subpart...
wrapping here
with an ugly indentation of part (i). Try the following, with and without the
commented section, to see the difference.
Will the next version of LaTeX make it easier to achieve this sort of effect,
without having to redefine its private parts? Also, is that extra indentation
really necessary? It looks awful in a theorem.
Mike Piff
\documentstyle{article}
\makeatletter
\parindent 2.5em\relax%don't change type size!
\leftmargini=0pt\relax
\leftmarginii=\parindent\relax
\leftmarginiii=\parindent\relax
\leftmarginiv=\parindent\relax
\leftmarginv=\parindent\relax
\leftmarginvi=\parindent\relax
% %remove the LH `%'s and compare the effect
%\def\@donoparitem{\@noparitemfalse
% \global\setbox\@labels\hbox{\hskip -\leftmargin
% \unhbox\@labels
% \message{Remove \string\hskip \string\leftmargin}%
% }\if@minipage\else
% \@tempskipa\lastskip
% \vskip -\lastskip \advance\@tempskipa\@outerparskip
% \advance\@tempskipa -\parskip \vskip\@tempskipa\fi}
%
\def\enumerate{\ifnum \@enumdepth >3 \@toodeep\else
\advance\@enumdepth \@ne
\edef\@enumctr{enum\romannumeral\the\@enumdepth}\list
{\csname label\@enumctr\endcsname}{\usecounter
{\@enumctr}\labelwidth\z@ \itemindent\z@ \listparindent\parindent
\labelsep\z@ %now redefine \makelabel
\def\makelabel##1{\hbox to\parindent{##1\hfill}}}\fi}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\noindent Left margin here
\begin{enumerate}
\item
\begin{enumerate}
\item First subitem
\item Second subitem
\item Third subitem
\end{enumerate}
\item Second item
\item Third item
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
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From: Dr M. J. Piff,
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield,
The Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, SHEFFIELD S3 7RH, England.
Telephone SHEFFIELD(0742) 768555 Extension 4431.
JANET address: PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM
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