From texhax-digest-outgoing-request@nottingham.ac.uk Wed Jan 17 16:13:03 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 QAA10736 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:12:53 GMT Message-Id: <199601171612.QAA10736@granby.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Received: from nottingham.ac.uk by jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk id <06297-0@jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:54:48 +0000 From: Majordomo list server To: texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #2 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:54:48 +0000 Sender: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 17 January 1996 Volume 96 : Number 002 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: TeX/LaTeX on Windows Re: LaTeX2e latex2e IEEEtran macro wanted. EmTeX printing to Canon BJ200ex printer gtex installation help TUGboat 16 #3 is being mailed New problems from a newcomer... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sam Nelson (CO)" Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:27:33 +0000 (GMT) Subject: TeX/LaTeX on Windows Not being a beginner, this is going to sound a bit weird, I suppose, but despite having used TeX and LaTeX around here for more than a decade, I've never been asked (very much) to put them up on PC platforms, which are in little use in this department. However, I've just been asked about running LaTeX on a Windows platform, and it occurs to me that I know nothing whatever about this. Starting from scratch then, in an early-1996 Windows environment, where should one go to get the ideal TeX/LaTeX setup? I assume there are `commercial' solutions (we use Textures on Macintosh already) but I don't know how much money might be available, so a price spectrum from zero to lottery-winner is appropriate, I think. Thanks for any suggestions, Sam. - -- Sam Nelson, Comp Sci, Stirling U, FK9 4LA, Scotland ,->0->M Email: sam@cs.stir.ac.uk Pager: 0839 456640 I->3-+->2->R=->-+->4->O Tel: +44 1786 467443 Fax: +44 1786 464551 `->1->S=->-' URL: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~sam R$+@$+ $@smtp$#$2$:$1@$2 ------------------------------ From: David Carlisle Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 17:33:17 GMT Subject: Re: LaTeX2e > I currently possess just LaTeX, > ... > However, I notice that LaTeX2e is mentioned a great deal. What are > the advantages, if any, of switching to this? I think this question is the result of a misunderstanding. LaTeX2e is not an `alternative to LaTeX' but rather is just the current version of LaTeX. The previous version (2.09) is now obsolete. Specifically if you should decide to re-install a complete emtex on your PC (This is probably a good idea anyway, as emtex was significantly re-organised and improved earlier this year) then the LaTeX version that you will get by default will be LaTeX2e. emtex (including LaTeX, and suitable previewers etc) is available from ctan sites such as ftp.tex.ac.uk in tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex. You can make a basic installation by following QUICK.ENG (quick English instructions) to be found in that directory. David ------------------------------ From: "Dr. Ke Chen" Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:11:18 +0800 (GMT+0800) Subject: latex2e IEEEtran macro wanted. I found the previous IEEEtran.sty did not work in LaTex2e. Some days ago, a person sent me his own new IEEEtran.sty but there are a few problems such as that the title of section is always typeset with a small font, etc. As a result, I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me where a complete IEEEtran macro in latex2e is available. Ke Chen #========================================================================# # Dr. Ke Chen, Associate Professor Tel: +86-10-2751935(O) # # National Lab of Machine Perception +86-10-2585703(H) # # The Center of Information Science Fax: +86-10-2563883,2552779 # # Peking University Email: chen@cis.pku.edu.cn # # Beijing 100871, China chenke@pku.edu.cn # #========================================================================# ------------------------------ From: maues@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:51:00 +0000 (GMT) Subject: EmTeX printing to Canon BJ200ex printer I am absolutely a beginner as you can tell. I have successfully installed emTex onto my PC and now is the Printer. (use under DOS) I have a Canon BJ200ex printer. Q1. When the time I use the commands: 1) latex2e sample2e OKAY (where sample2e is the file name) 2) v @bj samples2e OKAY 3) prtbj10e samples2e ===> 6 blank pages 4) prtbj300 sample2e ==> 6 blank pages 5) prtp6h samples2e ===> there are some pages print out, which is the original BUT for each line of the orginal document, it comes out twice and into four separate parts. By the way, p6h is not the printer I am using, but every time I used the print command, a file for the p6h fonts created under the font directory. Do you know what is it about? And what should I do now? What command should I use? Thanks __\/__ . / ^ _ \ . |\| (o)(o) |/| #---------------.OOOo--oo--oOOO.--------------# # Trevor Jonathan Yuen # # Mathematics Institute # # University of Warwick # # Phone: (0973) 345 457 # #_________________________Oooo._______________# .oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_) ------------------------------ From: Joao Luis Cardoso Soares Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:59:41 -0500 (EST) Subject: gtex installation help I've installed gtex 2.2 (by Young U. Ryu) on a Pentium machine running windows 95, but I keep getting two error messages which might be related: 1) After running \tex\set-tex.bat I get Sharing violation - c:\tex\set-tex.bat 2) When trying to open a DVI file whose fonts are to be created, I get Cannot find the file ". Make sure that the file exists on your system and that the path and filename are correct. Does anyone have a suggestion, or at least let me know the email address of the author. Many thanks, Joao - -- Joao Luis Cardoso Soares E-mail: jsoares@groucho.gsb.columbia.edu Columbia University Tel : (212) 749-6222 (Home) 804 Uris Hall Fax : (212) 864-4857 (PhD student) New York, NY 10027 http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~jls55/ ------------------------------ From: bbeeton Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:44:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: TUGboat 16 #3 is being mailed i'm pleased to announce that tugboat 16#3 will be mailed from the printer tomorrow. the table of contents for this issue is attached. tugboat 16#4 will be sent to the printer within the next few days. the schedule calls for mailing three weeks after the printer receives the copy. the next issue, 17#1, will be dated march 1996 and should be delivered to the printer within that month. thanks to all the members of the production team who have made very great efforts to get this back on schedule. -- barbara beeton -------------------- TUGboat Volume 16, Number 3 / September 1995 ================================ Contents (128 pages) Robin Fairbairns Production notes 222 Opening Address Michel Goossens President's words 223 Fonts Jiri Zlatuska 227 When MF does it alone Richard J. Kinch MetaFog: converting MF shapes to contours 233 Alan Hoenig The Poetica family: fancy fonts with TeX and LaTeX 244 Michel Goossens Using Adobe Type 1 Multiple Master fonts with TeX 253 Jeremy Gibbons Dotted and dashed lines in MF 259 Sergey Lesenko Printing TeX documents with partial Type 1 fonts 265 LaTeX Matthew Swift Modularity in LaTeX 269 Dennis Kletzing A multienumerate package 276 Hyphenation Petr Sojka and Pavel Sevecek Hyphenation in TeX --- Quo Vadis? 280 Petr Sojka Notes on compound word hyphenation in TeX 290 Literate programming Wlodek Bzyl Literate Plain source is available! 297 Bart Childs, Deborah Dunn and William Lively Teaching CS/1 courses in a literate manner 300 Methods T.V. Raman An audio view of (La)TeX documents --- part II 310 Sebastian Rahtz Another look at LaTeX to SGML conversion 315 Robin Fairbairns Omega --- Why bother with Unicode? 325 Gabriel Valiente Feruglio Modern Catalan typographical conventions 329 News & Announcements TUG'96 Announcement 339 Calendar 340 TUG Business TUG'95 --- List of Attendees 341 Institutional members 344 Advertisements TeX consulting and production services 345 %% END OF FILE ------------------------------ From: gabriele@dtovf1.roma2.infn.it (gabriele migliorini) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 13:12:34 +0100 Subject: New problems from a newcomer... Dear readers, at the very beginning, I have to thank all of you for reading my previous post, an trying to give me sensible replies. To summarize, the best answer to the bold greek letters is to simply get and run amsbsy, that's part of the amslatex distribution. It gives two new commands: a \boldsymbol that embolden a char in a font having a correspondent bold-face, and a 'ppor men's bold', that overstrikes a normal font, emboldening it even if there is not a bold typeface for printing it. As I got asmlatex, I got many new useful functions, like an extendable arrow symbol for writing limits, and a couple of new strange (?bugs?): in the manual, I read that there are a couple of operator redefining commands, that should make a log-like operator, with eventual _{text} printed at bottom right of the operator, and a lim like one, with text printed under the operator. But, in my printed version, they look exactly the same, and therefore, something is not doing it job. Furthermore, when I latexed the testmath.tex document, I got some \i command undefined in math mode, about lines containing a \begin or a \end... Are those signs of an incompatible behavior of a) the latex release of december'95 and amslatex b) TeX 3.1415 and the other programs c) the test documents, and amslatex (sure enough, I'm joking here!) Now, I'm crying for help another time: You know, I was writing down some lecture notes for a course I attended In march, and I started using latex after a disaster with the copy of word on the computer I used: the equation editor suddenly decided not to run anymore. Now, I have half of my work in Latex, and another half in Word 6 format. Is there anybody who does know how to convert the latter? I read, in the documentation about programs on ctan, that such a program cannot be public domain... But does there exist a commercial program doing the job? If it does exist, does some of you own a copy of it, and can be so nice to let me send him my document, and convert it for me? I'll be, as usual, grateful 'till the end of my life to anybody helping me. 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