UKTeX Digest Friday, 7 Aug 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 30
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Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Re: ieeeconf.sty
Problems with AMSTeX on VMS
Re: Problems with AMSTeX on VMS
Information for BibTeX?
Re: Information for BibTeX?
DRAFT overprint
Re: DRAFT overprint
DRAFT overprint
{Announcements}:
Update to \hhline.sty
Chicago Manual of Style files on FILESERV/Niord
FiloFax document style option
{Archive News}:
chbars for LaTeX in uk tex archive
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Due to an oversight on my part when sending out last week's issue,
it was incorrectly numbered as #29 instead of #28.
--Ed.
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Date: Mon, 03 Aug 92 08:48:07 +0000
From: Adrian F Clark <alien@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Re: ieeeconf.sty
> Hello. tex-index says that you have the latex style file ieeeconf.sty
> on your system, but I can't find it anywhere. Do you have any information
> about where I could find that file? Thanks.
This is my fault: I told the compiler of the index that I was on the
point of putting it into the archive, but then never did! Here's a
copy (it's not very long).
Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex
INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900
BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct)
Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK.
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% I E E E C O N F -- style option for IEEE Conferences, including the
% International Conferences on Pattern Recognition
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Based on the template produced by Matthew Ward of Worcester
% Polytechnic Institute.
% Version 1.00--0 Adrian F. Clark <alien@essex.ac.uk> 17-Apr-1992
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
\typeout{IEEE Conference Proceedings style v1.00--0 17-Apr-1992}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Other style files.
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
\input twocolumn.sty
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Page dimensions.
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
\setlength{\textheight}{8.75in}
\setlength{\columnsep}{2.0pc}
\setlength{\textwidth}{6.8in}
\setlength{\footheight}{0pt}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0.25in}
\setlength{\headheight}{0pt}
\setlength{\headsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-.19in}
\setlength{\parindent}{1pc}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Fiddle about with the appearence of the page, etc.
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
\pagestyle{empty}
\def\title#1{\gdef\@title{\Large\bf#1}}
\date{}
\def\abstract{\thispagestyle{empty}\relax
\subsection*{\centering Abstract}\bgroup\em}
\def\endabstract{\egroup}
\def\subsize{\@setsize\subsize{12pt}\xipt\@xipt}
\def\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}{2ex plus 1ex minus
.2ex}{1ex plus .2ex}{\large\bf}}
\def\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}{1ex plus 1ex}
{.2ex plus .2ex}{\subsize\bf}}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
% End of ieeeconf.sty.
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 92 10:34:00 +0000
From: AGENT COOPER <CENSWM@uk.ac.heriot-watt.vaxa>
Subject: Problems with AMSTeX on VMS
Can anyone help ?
I am installing TeX, LaTeX, AmS-TeX on our VAX VMS system. I am having a
problem with generating a format file for AmS-TeX as described in the read.me
document in [amstex2.amstex] After following the instructions I and running it
thru TEX/INIT I get the following error message:
Error is
! Too late for \patterns
{ % just type <return> if you're not using INITEX
?
)) (WORK_DISK:[APPLICATIONS.TEX.AMSTEX2.AMSTEX]AMSTEX.TEX;1
AmS-TeX - Version 2.0
COPYWRIGHT 1985, 1990 - AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
Use of this macro package is not restricted provided
each use is acknowledged upon publication.
! Font \dummyft@=dummy not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found
<to be read again>
\fontdimen
l.1717 \fontdimen
1 \dummyft=\z@
Can anyone explain to me what has happened? what is this dummyft?
On a more general note, There does not seem to be any sort of overview on
installing TeX etc on VMS or is there? I would like something that explains
about font files, format files, what is WEB, WEAVE etc, all the documentation I
seem to read assumes familiarity with all of these peculiar TeX widgets.
S Munn
Heriot-Watt
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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 92 12:12:00 +0100
From: Max Calvani - Italy <FISICA%it.unipd.astrpd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Re: Problems with AMSTeX on VMS
AMSTEX is now at version 2.1.
I had no problem in creating fmt file with tex/init/nofor on VMS.
Max
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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 92 20:00:09 -0500
From: matthias mann <MATTHIAS%earn.dosuni1@uk.ac.earn-relay>
Subject: Information for BibTeX?
Matthias Mann
Dept. of Physics
University of Osnabr"uck
Barbarastr.%7
W -- 4500 Osnabr"uck
- --------------------
Germany
Mail: MATTHIAS@DOSUNI1.BITNET
Does anyone know where I can find informations concerning the programming
language for BIBTEX. We are trying to create a proper bst-file which yields
the citation layout for the journals of the OSA (Optics Letters ..).
Thanks in advance.
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Date: 05 Aug 92 08:16:45 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Information for BibTeX?
>
> Mail: MATTHIAS@DOSUNI1.BITNET
>
> Does anyone know where I can find informations concerning the programming
> language for BIBTEX. We are trying to create a proper bst-file which yields
> the citation layout for the journals of the OSA (Optics Letters ..).
you BibTeX distribution should include the file btxhak.tex, which
contains the details of the language. its not very clear, but thats
all there is. if you dont have that file, its in any decent archive of
bibtex. on tex.ac.uk its in [TEX-ARCHIVE.BIBTEX.STYLES]
good luck. you'll need it. the BibTeX language is `fun' after a
while, but before that its a sod
sebastian
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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 92 11:03:57 +0000
From: Bernard J. Treves Brown"Bernard J. Treves Brown"
<MCNBJTB@uk.ac.manchester-computing-centre.cms>
Subject: DRAFT overprint
Can someone please tell me if there is a way of overprinting "DRAFT"
greyed on a postscript document? I am using ARBORTEXT's DVILASER/PS
which seems to have a prewritten prolog to ensure that the overprint
appears on each page, but being new to postscript I have no idea how
to generate text, still less how to grey it out (if indeed that is
possible)
Thanks in advance,
Bernard Treves Brown
DIAS, UMIST, Manchester.
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Date: 05 Aug 92 10:33:11 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: DRAFT overprint
LIST_SERVER@UK.AC.TEX writes:
> Can someone please tell me if there is a way of overprinting "DRAFT"
> greyed on a postscript document? I am using ARBORTEXT's DVILASER/PS
> which seems to have a prewritten prolog to ensure that the overprint
> appears on each page, but being new to postscript I have no idea how
> to generate text, still less how to grey it out (if indeed that is
cant help you with dvilaser/ps; but for others who have the same
question and who use dvips, this is what I use; put in a file called
eg draft.pro and use with dvips -h draft.pro
sebastian
%% Put the word "DRAFT" (or a specified word) on each page of a postscript
/DRAFTSTRING { (DRAFT) } def
/bop-hook { gsave
initmatrix
/Helvetica-Bold findfont setfont
DRAFTSTRING dup stringwidth pop 8.875 exch div dup 72 mul dup scale
52.3 rotate 2.5 exch div -.35 translate
0.95 setgray
0 0 moveto show
grestore } def
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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 92 14:59:08 +0000
From: Bernard J. Treves Brown"Bernard J. Treves Brown"
<MCNBJTB@uk.ac.manchester-computing-centre.cms>
Subject: DRAFT overprint
Thanks very much Sebastian, your routine works excellently
with the standard DVILASER/PS overlay system with a couple of obvious
amendments. If anyone else uses DVILASER/PS, the command needed is:
\special{ps: overlay draft.ps on}
to invoke the following file (named draft.ps)
%! Overprint DRAFT on the current page
%! by Sebastian Rahtz, amended B.J. Treves Brown 5/8/1992
/DRAFTSTRING { (draft) } def
/OVERLAY{
gsave
initmatrix
/Helvetica-Bold findfont setfont
DRAFTSTRING dup stringwidth pop 8.875 exch div dup 72 mul dup scale
52.3 rotate 2.5 exch div -.35 translate
0.95 setgray
0 0 moveto show
grestore } def
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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 92 15:22:01 +0700
From: Allan Reese <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull.cc.sequent>
Subject: Update to \hhline.sty
Mark Roth has sent me an update to \hhline. I specifically asked about
using \cline with it. I found version 1 in the archive yesterday; maybe
you could insert the following in the archive and put a brief note in the
digest.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\iffalse
hhline.sty
%%%%%%%%%%
\hhline produces a line like \hline, or a double line like
\hline\hline, except for its interaction with vertical lines.
David Carlisle
carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs
Version 2 6 November 1991
{ In the UK TeX Archive in
[tex-archive.latex.contrib]hhline.sty
--Ed. }
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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 92 10:48:25 -0600
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@edu.SHSU>
Subject: Chicago Manual of Style files on FILESERV/Niord
Any number of times, people have asked for a Chicago Manual of Style
(Turabian) citation format in BibTeX. I would like to thank Glenn Paulley
<gnpaulle@maytag.waterloo.edu>, who has forwarded me a set of three files
to do this, which are now available from SHSU. I have not tested these
exhaustively, but it appears that they are somewhat LaTeX specific in
design, although I am sure that the LaTeX sub-style option, chicago.sty,
can be tweaked to operate in TeX.
The citation formats supported include:
(author-last-name year)
(author-last-name and author-last-name year)
(author-last-name et al. year)
(author-last-name)
author-last-name
author-last-name (year)
(author-last-name and author-last-name)
(author-last-name et al.)
(year) or (year,year)
year or year,year
The reference list ordering is alphabetical by author or whatever passes
for author in the absence of one. Support for abbreviated author lists and
for year-only citations are provided by having the citations actually look
like:
\citeauthoryear{full-author-info}{abbrev-author-info}{year}
The chicago.sty LaTeX file is required to use the BibTeX styles chicago.bst
and chicagoa.bst.
Features of chicago.bst:
========================
- full names used in citations, but abbreviated citations are available.
- if an entry has a "month", then the month and year are also printed
as part of that bibitem.
- book, inbook, and manual use "location: publisher" (or organization)
for address and publisher. All other types list publishers separately.
- "pp." are used to identify page numbers for all entry types except
articles.
- organization is used as a citation label if neither author nor editor
is present (for manuals).
- "et al." is used for long author and editor lists.
Features of chicagoa.bst:
=========================
- supports an "annotation" field for annotated bibliographies.
- all other features of chicago.bst.
To retrieve these three files via e-mail, include:
SENDME BST.CHICAGO*
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
The files are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu
(192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.BST], either individually or
packaged together in the ZIP archive CHICAGO.ZIP.
Regards, George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU
Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266
P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612
Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net
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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 92 20:28:52 +0000
From: Peter J Knaggs. <cmr02@uk.ac.tees-poly.scm>
Subject: FiloFax document style option
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% %%
%% FILOFAX style option %%
%% %%
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______________
Our computer systems have been down for a few days | |
recently (due to upgrades). As a result I have | o |
not had access to my thesis, thus I decided to develop | o |
a FiloFax style. This is a style option (for the | o |
article document style). | |
| o |
It provides a number of new environments that allows | o |
you to set individual pages, including section titles | o |
and full section body's quite simply. |____________|
I have uploaded the files:
filofax.sty - The style option description.
filofax.tex - A description of the filofax style. If you are
interested, I suggest you get this file and read
it. It does not need the filofax style to be
processed.
filosong.tex - An example usage of the filofax style. This is
the song "Help One Another".
to the directory: [tex-archive.latex.contrib]
- --
Peter J. Knaggs. School of Computing and Maths, University of Teesside,
pjk @ scm.tees.ac.uk Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England. +44 (642) 342673
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Date: 04 Aug 92 12:55:49 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: chbars for LaTeX in uk tex archive
Rocky Bernstein has forwarded me his changes to Joachim Schrod's
macros for doing changebars in TeX without any need for \special
commands, for use in LaTeX. The system can be found in the UK TeX
Archive in
[tex-archive.latex.contrib.chbars]
Sebastian Rahtz
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