From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Tue Jun 18 10:21:36 1996 Received: from jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.193]) by granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA23924 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:21:32 +0100 Message-Id: <199606180921.KAA23924@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk id <14408-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:17:25 +0100 From: Majordomo list server To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #8 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:17:25 +0100 Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 18 June 1996 Volume 96 : Number 008 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7 Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7 Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7 Re: Location of David Jones' index package (TeXhax V96 #7) Re: excalibur TeXhax Digest V96 #6 Writing long formulas Fonts in Latex2.09 [none] EMTeX no longer available from ftp.shsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sebastian Rahtz Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 08:22:44 +0100 Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7 > I would like to be able to increase the > maximum number ``strings'' available to > TeX for processing documents. It may also > be usefull to increase the upper limit > on the number of fonts allowed. yes, you can do it. but its not trivial. current releases of TeX for DOS (emtex) and Mac (OzTeX) allow you to do it dynamically), while Textures and Y&Y TeX claim to just give you unlimited memory (I only say claim because i havent tried it myself). If you have Unix TeX, lets assume you have the web2c stuff. in that case, find the directory web2c/tex and the file ctex.ch. thats the "change file", and near the top you find a set of constants which are set to complicated values. thats where you play, and thats as far as I am going to give a recipe! you have to understand how change files work (read the WEB documentation) and what the values do. NOTE that some values are already at their upper limit sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ From: David Carlisle Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:03:05 +0100 Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7 > Abstract: I want to put a token with catcode 1 in the parameter text > of a macro, and I don't know how. You can't. > Essentially, I would like to define a macro > \def\foo#1\end{largeenough}{...} you have to go \def\foo#1\end#2{... and then check that #2 is `largeenough' and if not search for the next \end. It's a bit of a pain, but that's life. There are examples of this in the ams alignment environments, and tabularx and load of other places. David ------------------------------ From: Matteo Frigo Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:07:58 -0400 Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #7 > \def\foo#1\end#2{... > and then check that #2 is `largeenough' and if not search for the next > \end. It's a bit of a pain, but that's life. There are examples of this > in the ams alignment environments, and tabularx and load of other > places. > > David > Thanks for your answer. In fact, this is what I am doing now. I am glad to hear that there is no better way to do the same thing. Cheers Matteo ------------------------------ From: Robin Fairbairns Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:32:15 +0100 Subject: Re: Location of David Jones' index package (TeXhax V96 #7) Robert Coleman writes: >On page 367 of the LaTeX Companion, the index >package written by David Jones is discussed. >I have, however, not been able to find it on >CTAN. [...] I maintain a file (on CTAN, of course) info/companion.ctan; this aims to list all packages mentioned in the Companion, and to give their location on CTAN. In this instance, it says index macros/latex209/contrib/misc/index.doc As you will note, this is a 2.09 package. A 2e one is in development, and I have a copy of a beta-version. Sadly, I failed to note which MIT machine I got it from, and it's pretty old. Perhaps David Jones himself will respond... (Or even submit a new version for the archive?) - -- Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Home page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html ------------------------------ From: Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie (Dr Alun J. Carr) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:55:33 +0100 Subject: Re: excalibur On Wed, 1 May 1996 11:00:31 +0100 sens@sbphy.ucsb.edu (Pierre Sens) wrote: >Hi Tex users, > >I would like to use the spell checker Excalibur for documents in French on >my Macintosh. I heard about a french dictionnary for Excalibur. Does >anybody know where I could download it. Alun - -- Dr Alun J. CARR Phone: +353-1-7061989 Mechanical Engineering Dept. +353-1-2693244 x1989 University College Dublin Fax: +353-1-2830534 Belfield E-mail: Dublin 4 WWW: Ireland ------------------------------ From: bkph@ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:34:23 -0400 Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #6 > From: Russel Winder > Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100 > Subject: PostScript from other programs > > I regularly need to include PostScript figures in documents. I find > idraw on Unix produces excellent relocatable PostScript descriptions > but it is a little simplistic. There are excellent command language > mechanisms for creating PostScript tricks using LaTeX but I really > want to make use of (essentially) WYSIWYG programs like idraw, > FrameMaker and Word to create images for inclusion in LaTeX2e > documents. Furthermore I often have the requirement to use other > people's PostScript in my LaTeX documents and have no control over the > programs used to create the PostScript. > > In the past I have been able to use PostScript produced by various > Macintosh programs (though judicious editing out of font information > is usually required) and also PostScript produced by the PostScript > driver under Windows3.1. > > At the pther extreme, FrameMaker has always been a pain in the !@#$. > The PostScript produced by this program is totally un-relocatable. It > assumes total control of the page and I have yet to discover the > necessary edits to remove it's dictatorial efforts and hence make the > PostScript relocatable. > > Moreover Microsoft appear to have gone down this same road and this is > my real problem. Word7 with the Apple LaaserWriter plus driver (under > Windows95) now produces code that it not relocatable. Indeed it has > this penchant for trying to enquire of the amount of virtual memory on > a regular basis which makes the PostScript file of a document > un-previewable with ghostscript. I have found the trick for removing > this VM quesry problem but have not found the trick for removing the > manipulations that bind the coordinate system to the page in it's > dictatorial manner. > > Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7 > and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form? > > Thanks for any guidance and/or pointers. > > Russel. > > ======================================================================= > > Dr Russel Winder > > Reader in Software Engineering > Editor-in-Chief, Object Oriented Systems > > Information Systems Research Group > Department of Computer Science Phone: +44 (0)171 380 7293 > University College London Fax: +44 (0)171 387 1397 > Gower Street EMail: R.Winder@cs.ucl.ac.uk > London WC1E 6BT > UK URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/R.Winder/ > > ======================================================================= You must make sure the applications export in EPS format. If you use raw PS, you are asking for trouble, because PS drivers are allowed to use arbitrary PS code including the forbidden-in-EPS operators that are troubling you. Most printer drivers have a check box this produce EPS output. If you can't use EPS because the output is multi-page then you are not using EPS, since that by definition is one page only. Berthold. ------------------------------ From: Dominique de Waleffe Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 15:42:51 +0200 Subject: Writing long formulas In Digital SRC report 119, Leslie Lamport presents a nice way to format long mathematical formulas so that reading is a lot easier. Does anyone know a Latex package which implements those conventions? I'd be very interested. D. - -- Dominique de Waleffe Mission Critical, Wijnegemhofstraat 199, B-3071 Erps-Kwerps (Belgium) Phone: +32 2 759 95 60 Fax: +32 2 759 27 60 email: ddw@acm.org, ddw@miscrit.be PGP key fingerprint: F9 CC 23 74 44 62 7C F3 8C 12 DF 71 BB 60 54 98 ------------------------------ From: "Klaus M. Wendel" Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:56:13 +0200 (MSZ) Subject: Fonts in Latex2.09 Help! I am using LaTex Version 2.09 and i have to print a document in HELVETICA. Is there a (easy) way to do this? Thanks! - --------------------------------------------------- Klaus M. Wendel always :-) E-Mail: a9304890@unet.univie.ac.at WWW: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9304890/ - --------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: David Simpson Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:53:46 +0100 Subject: [none] Does anybody know how to convert LaTeX(2e) files to, dare I say, Word or Wordperfect documents? Apologies to all tex fans for asking this, but unfortunately I can't persuade all my PC-based colleagues to switch to LateX, but I need to send them text for reports. Thanks, Dave Simpson (david.simpson@dnmi.no) ------------------------------ From: Rainer Schoepf Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:14:13 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: EMTeX no longer available from ftp.shsu.edu As ftp.shsu.edu is not properly managed, and the emTeX files there are partially out of date, I removed emTeX at teh request of Eberhard Mattes from ftp.shsu.edu. We are apologize for the inconvenience, but the CTAN team doesn't have the resources to manage a site from across the atlantic. For the CTAN team - -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. 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