From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2002 #1 - 11 msgs Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:05:09 +0000 Send TeXhax mailing list submissions to texhax@tex.ac.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to texhax-request@tex.ac.uk You can reach the person managing the list at texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of TeXhax digest..." TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2002 : Number 1 Today's Topics: 1. A change of direction for TeXhax (David Osborne) 2. font problems with new TEX installation (Steve.Esson@esa.int) 3. TUGboat 21-4 shispped to the printer (Mimi Burbank) 4. TUG 2002 (Robin Fairbairns) 5. Re: font problems with new TEX installation (Robin Fairbairns) 6. unusual reference (Jonathan Myles) 7. BibTeX formatting of an unusual reference (Nelson H. F. Beebe) 8. LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (da blak sheap) 9. formatting a booklet with passage numbers on the margins (Andreas Hadjiprocopis) 10. Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (Fred K Ollinger) 11. Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files (Robin Fairbairns) ---------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:07:27 +0000 From: David Osborne To: texhax@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: A change of direction for TeXhax Happy New Year to all TeXhax subscribers. As it has been several months since the last item was posted to TeXhax, the start of a new year seems a good time to make a change in the way in which TeXhax operates. For many years, TeXhax has operated as a digest: questions posted to it accumulated into monthly (or less frequent) digests which are circulated to the subscribers, with responses to the questions becoming part of the next digest, and so on. This does introduce a delay before questions are answered, which, as the quantity of postings has dropped, seems to have become self-reinforcing, further discouraging use of the list. As an experiment, I plan to remove this delay and circulate questions and answers immediately to all subscribers. TeXhax will then operate as a normal mailing list, though with the option of continuing to receive it in digest format. The digests will continue to be available in the usual locations and archives. You can change your subscription settings via the Mailman web interface at http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax You will need your list password before making changes but, if you have forgotten it, you can request that your password be mailed to you via the above web page. If you have any questions or requests please contact me at texhax-admin@nottingham.ac.uk I hope that this change will make TeXhax more responsive to the needs of its subscribers and encourage you to make use of it as a place to ask and answer questions and make announcements on all TeX-related matters. With best wishes for a happy and prosperous 2002 David Osborne University of Nottingham -- TeXhax maintainer --__--__-- Message: 2 From: Steve.Esson@esa.int To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:56:48 +0200 Subject: font problems with new TEX installation I've installed a new version of Tex on the systems here for the first time in about 10 years. Documents which previously processed OK, now produce errors like this:-) ! Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10.95=cmr10 at 10.95pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. What does this mean? I'm an amateur at this and there doesn't seem to be enough info around to find what the real problem is. The TEX directory, for example, contains a file called "cmr10.tfm", which is identical to the file of the same name in the old TEX installation which works. Anybody any idea what I should be doing next to sort this out? Thanks, S. --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Mimi Burbank Subject: TUGboat 21-4 shispped to the printer To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mimirh.csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl, tug-pub@tug.org, tug-editorial-board@tug.org Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:52:15 -0500 (EST) I'm glad to announce that TUGboat 21-4 was shipped to the printer on December 19, 2001. We apologize to our members for the unusually long delay in receiving their issues of TUGboat, and we are working to correct the situation as fast as we can. Enclosed are the contents of the issue: TUGboat Volume 21, Number 4 / December 2000 ==================================== Editorial Comments Barbara Beeton 315 Micro-typographic extensions to the TeX typesetting system 317 Han The Thanh News & Announcements TUG '2001 Announcement 435 Calendar 436 TUG Business Institutional members 437 TUG membership application 438 Advertisements TeX consulting and production services 439 IBM techexplorer 440 Blue Sky Research c3 ------------------ Mimi Burbank (For the TUGboat production team) --__--__-- Message: 4 To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mimirh.csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: TUG 2002 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:00:01 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns TUG 2002 Annual Meeting and Conference September 1-7, Trivandrum, India ====================================== We are pleased to announce that the most exciting TeX event of 2002, the international conference of TeX Users Group is scheduled to be conducted in India during September 1--7, 2002 at Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala. This is going to be the first of its kind in the subcontinent and we are hoping for excellent participation. You are warmly invited to participate and/or offer a presentation at this most exciting event. We want to make this a big success, and we want lots of high-quality presentations. The theme for TUG 2002 is `Stand up and be proud of TeX!'. Show us why it is still the typesetting tool of choice, the range of material it can handle, and especially how it can coexist with the new world of XML. We want to hear about * using TeX to typeset XML * multilingual typesetting using Omega * high-quality hyperdocuments using pdfTeX * fonts for non-Latin languages * new directions for Metafont and Metapost Full conference details can be found at http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/ suffice it to say here that Kerala is a very beautiful part of India, where you will be sure of very warm hospitality and excellent facilities. This is a marvellous opportunity to visit one of the most interesting countries in the world. The TUG 2002 program committee chair is Sebastian Rahtz of Oxford University and organising committee chair is Satish Babu of InApp, Trivandrum. Proposals for papers shall be directed immediately to papers@tug2002.tug.org.in. Dates * January/February 2002: send in abstracts for papers * end of February 2002: notification of acceptance of paper * end of March 2002: preliminary program available * May 2002: send first version of full paper * July 2002: send final version of full paper * 4th-7th September 2002: TUG conference in India Pre-conference Tutorials (1 to 3 September 2002): * Introduction to TeX * LaTeX to SGML/XML/MathML conversion * XML and XSL transformation procedures * TEI XML * Generation of hyperlinked documents with pdfTeX and ConTeXt * Multilingual typesetting using Omega Email ids for contact: tug2002@tug.org.in -- General information papers@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Submission of papers finance@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Financial matters travel@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Travel information media@tug2002.tug.org.in -- Media contact Robin Fairbairns For TUG 2002 Organising Committee [please circulate this as widely as seems appropriate; in particular, if you have membership mailing lists, please consider forwarding this message, or a pointer to the conference web site, to the list.] --__--__-- Message: 5 To: Steve.Esson@esa.int cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: font problems with new TEX installation Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:30:36 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns > I've installed a new version of Tex on the systems here for > the first time in about 10 years. Documents which previously > processed OK, now produce errors like this:-) > > ! Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10.95=cmr10 at 10.95pt not loadable: > Metric (TFM) file not found. > > What does this mean? it means exactly what it says. what's interesting is _why_ it can't find it. > I'm an amateur at this and there > doesn't seem to be enough info around to find what the > real problem is. The TEX directory, for example, contains > a file called "cmr10.tfm", which is identical to the file of the > same name in the old TEX installation which works. it's probably an indexing problem. if your old systems were that old, they likely didn't use an index; modern systems use variants of ls-R files as a sort of simple-minded database of the files available. modern systems _don't_ therefore look up files in directories. > Anybody any idea what I should be doing next to > sort this out? tell us what systems you're talking about --- the answer is different for different systems. if it's tetex-based, you may get some help from http://ctan.tug.org/installationadvice/ (though be aware that this page isn't deemed quite "ready" yet) --__--__-- Message: 6 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathan Myles To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: unusual reference I sometimes have to refer to a paper which it has become traditional in my field to reference as: Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting. "Breast Cancer screening with mammography in women aged 40-49 years". Int J Cancer 1996; 68: 693-9 . (obviously with slight variation according to the particular journal). I'd like to be able to put this in a BibTex file. Is there any way of putting "Organising .... Meeting" as the Author Field and persuading BibTex to leave it as it is? Or is this, as I fear it might be, a style-file-specific issue, if solvable at all? Thanks, Jonathan Myles Dept of Maths, Stats and Epidemiology, Imperial Cancer Research Fund --__--__-- Message: 7 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:03:41 -0700 (MST) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: BibTeX formatting of an unusual reference Jonathan Myles asks on Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT) about formatting the reference >> ... >> Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting. "Breast Cancer >> screening with mammography in women aged 40-49 years". Int J Cancer 1996; >> 68: 693-9 >> ... in BibTeX. Here is what I'd do for this one: @Article{OCCFM:1996:BCS, author = "{Organising Committee Collaborators, Falun Meeting}", title = "Breast Cancer screening with mammography in women aged 40--49 years", journal = "Int. J. Cancer", volume = "68", pages = "693--699", year = "1996", OPTmonth = "??", OPTnumber = "??", } Bracing text in the author field prevents its being further manipulated by BibTeX. I also used proper en-dashes for ranges, and put the periods back into the journal abbreviation (it is a particular journal style to remove them). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 322 INSCC beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --__--__-- Message: 8 From: "da blak sheap" To: Subject: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:38:24 +0100 hi everybody, if someone could help me with this, i were very grateful: we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to reconfigure? any help appreciated... tia ronald --__--__-- Message: 9 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:44:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Andreas Hadjiprocopis To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: formatting a booklet with passage numbers on the margins Hi all, 2 problems: 1) i would like to format something like, say, the bible, or ancient greek texts where you have the passage number. So I will have a paragraph and on the right margin (or left margin if it is an odd/even page) would like to have at the height=middle of paragraph a number printed e.g. para pa apapapa apapapa ap ap a apapa pa ap p p apap apa pa paa aja191919191919 I tried to do it with marginpar but ... it is float and moves up and down. any idea on that? Secondly, this is not much latex but rather postscript Would like to print that into A4, 4 pages on one side of A4, 4 pages on the other side. so that i fold it in four and then bind it, just like books, I tried pstops and psbook BUT: it seems that it 'eats' the top of my pages (all 4 of them) I used a scaling of 0.48 To cut the short story long, is there a pointer to doing that because i check the net but they have only 2up and pstops options are so cryptic. thanks in advance, and sorry for the trouble andreas. --__--__-- Message: 10 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:55:09 -0500 (EST) From: Fred K Ollinger To: da blak sheap cc: Subject: Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files > we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make > it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put > it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are > found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to > reconfigure? as root: texhash Fred --__--__-- Message: 11 To: "da blak sheap" cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: LaTeX2e doesn't find .sty-files Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 21:02:36 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns > we use latex2e on our unix machine and we're trying to make > it using a new .sty-file. no matter in which folder we put > it, it doesn't work (any other .sty-files of that folder are > found!). is there a kind of global mapping file, we have to > reconfigure? see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages+wherefiles --__--__-- About TeXhax... 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