From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2002 #2 - 15 msgs Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:40:07 +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 2 Today's Topics: 1. formatting (Jan-Martin Wagner) 2. Euro symbol in LaTeX (John Simmie) 3. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk) 4. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (da blak sheap) 5. Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX (Robin Fairbairns) 6. Re: unusual reference (Ken Smith) 7. pdflatex --ipc (da blak sheap) 8. Re: pdflatex (Jan-Martin Wagner) 9. Re: pdflatex --ipc (Tomas G. Rokicki) 10. Re: pdflatex --ipc (Joan Boorstein) 11. Re: pdflatex --ipc (da blak sheap) 12. The latest TUGboat (Andrew Marlow) 13. Re: The latest TUGboat (Robin Fairbairns) 14. automatic document production (Peter Kravanja) 15. RE: automatic document production (Jeff Rankin) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:59:21 +0100 From: Jan-Martin Wagner To: livantes@soi.city.ac.uk Subject: formatting Have you already tried "psnup -4 "? Have you succeeded with a 2-up command without "eating" something, and then applying it twice? For 2-up, I use the follwing pstops command (adjusted for A4 paper): pstops 2:0L@.7\(21cm,0\)+1L@.7\(21cm,14.85cm\) If you want to make it 4-up, use something like pstops 4:0@.5\(,)+1@ [etc.] up to +3@.5[as before] - ok? Good luck! Jan-Martin --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:41:07 +0000 From: John Simmie Subject: Euro symbol in LaTeX To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Hi: What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex= documents? Thanks, Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland --__--__-- Message: 3 From: M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX To: john.simmie@nuigalway.ie (John Simmie) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:47:14 +0000 (GMT) > > Hi: > What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex= > documents? > Thanks, > > Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department > National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland > > _______________________________________________ > TeXhax mailing list > TeXhax@tex.ac.uk > http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax The easiest way to do this is to download and install the package eurosym from CTAN. Regards, Khurram. -- M.K.Wadee@exeter.ac.uk Tel.: (+44 || 0)1392 263654, FAX: 217965 http://www.ex.ac.uk/~mkwadee/ School of Engineering and Computer Science, /* Life */ University of Exeter, North Park Road, mind *intelligence; Devon, EX4 4QF. intelligence=malloc(sizeof(brain)); For PGP public key, type main(){do_something_useful(intelligence);} finger mkwadee@ne136.ex.ac.uk --__--__-- Message: 4 From: "da blak sheap" To: "John Simmie" , Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:22:23 +0100 if you don't happen to find anything else, you can use \kern.17em{}C\kern-.95em\raise.19ex\hbox{\it =\/}\kern.17em{} it looks pretty good until \LARGE (including that), but from \huge and higher you should modify it a bit. if you use it more often, you can define it as a command for more comfortable access. hope that helps... regards, ronald -----Original Message----- From: John Simmie To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Date: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:56 PM Subject: Euro symbol in LaTeX Hi: What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, €, into latex documents? Thanks, Dr. John M. Simmie::Chemistry Department National University of Ireland, Galway::Ireland _______________________________________________ TeXhax mailing list TeXhax@tex.ac.uk http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax --__--__-- Message: 5 To: John Simmie cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: Euro symbol in LaTeX Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:39:46 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns > What is the best way to incorporate the euro symbol, =80, into latex= > documents? for a start, don't try using a feelthy m$ encoding for it (=80, above). this abomination for a character code (i don't know which code page it appears in) doesn't yet figure in any of the latex inputenc definition files. the euro does appear in the latin9 (iso/iec 8859-15) character set, and that is properly covered in inputenc. you've had two suggestions so far: to use the eurofont package, and to use a rather nasty looking macro-coded overstrike combination. i would advise against both. i worked rather hard to produce http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=euro which explains why i don't like eurofont, and makes positive recommendations as to how you should proceed. (the faq answer doesn't deal with =80 or with the macro solution, since both have popped up in my ken within the last week or so and i have a reorganisation in hand which discourages me from putting up interim versions of the faq.) --__--__-- Message: 6 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:25:40 +1000 (EST) From: Ken Smith To: mylesj@icrf.icnet.uk, texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: unusual reference Jonathan Myles posted to texhax and the following was forwarded on Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:02:24 +0000 (GMT) > 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? You can always use additional braces to make BibTeX leave things alone. author = {{Organising Committee and Collaborators, Falun Meeting}}, title = {...} journal = {...} etc. will ensure that the author is taken as "Organising Committee ... " and it will be sorted accordingly. A fairly detailed description of how to enter unusual items into a BibTeX database can be found in "The LaTeX Companion", by Goosens, Mittlebach and Samarin. > Thanks, > Jonathan Myles > Dept of Maths, Stats and Epidemiology, > Imperial Cancer Research Fund Ken Smith kgs@maths.uq.edu.au --__--__-- Message: 7 From: "da blak sheap" To: Subject: pdflatex --ipc Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:29:51 +0100 hello everybody, per default [pdflatex .tex] produces .pdf, but i need to have the pdf-output sent to stdout. in the manpages the option --ips is mentioned, but there are only two lines of explanation and i have no idea how to use this option. i thought, that it may be possible to get the output to stdout somehow via this ipc option, maybe by simply passing it to echo or something. has anyone an idea on how to manage this or what this ipc option means? thanks a lot in advance! r. schaffhirt --__--__-- Message: 8 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:12:07 +0100 From: Jan-Martin Wagner To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk, dablaksheap@web.de Subject: Re: pdflatex Hallo schwarzes Schaf (hello black sheep)! > per default [pdflatex .tex] produces .pdf, but i > need to have the pdf-output sent to stdout. This has recently been discussed in the pdftex section of TuG. See "redirecting tex dvi output" and the corresponding thread at http://tug.cs.umb.edu/ListsArchives/pdftex/2002-January/thread.html Read carefully through all postings, this seems to be a tricky problem. Have a nice day, Jan-Martin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dipl.-Phys. Jan-Martin Wagner Institut fuer Festkoerpertheorie Tel.: + 49 - 36 41 - 94 71 67 und Theoretische Optik, Fax: ... - 94 71 52 Fr.-Schiller-Universitaet Jena IFTO, Max-Wien-Platz 1, jmw@ifto.physik.uni-jena.de D-07743 Jena, Germany www.ifto.uni-jena.de/~jmartin --__--__-- Message: 9 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:24:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Tomas G. Rokicki" To: dablaksheap@web.de, texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc Put it in a script, have the script write a temp file and then echo that temp file. -tom --__--__-- Message: 10 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:44:06 -0500 (EST) From: Joan Boorstein To: dablaksheap@web.de, texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc I can find no man entry for pdflatex on my local network so can't help with the options you mention. However pdf files are standardly displayed using the Adobe Acrobat reader. This is freeware and is easily downloadable, if it is not available to you on your machine. Hope this helps, Joan Boorstein --__--__-- Message: 11 From: "da blak sheap" To: Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:46:05 +0100 that is the thing i wanted to avoid. that has too many side-effects. i want to use it with a web-server and there may be numerous connections at the same time from the same ip. thanks though! ronald -----Original Message----- From: Tomas G. Rokicki To: dablaksheap@web.de ; texhax@tex.ac.uk Date: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:24 PM Subject: Re: pdflatex --ipc >Put it in a script, have the script write a temp file and then >echo that temp file. > >-tom --__--__-- Message: 12 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:34:04 +0000 Subject: The latest TUGboat To: texhax@tex.ac.uk From: Andrew Marlow When will the latest TUGboat be sent out please? I got an email from the US in early December but I have not yet received my copy. Regards, Andrew Marlow (member of TUG and UK TUG). --__--__-- Message: 13 To: Andrew Marlow cc: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: The latest TUGboat Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:34:46 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns > When will the latest TUGboat be sent out please? I got an email from the > US in early December but I have not yet received my copy. i think the mail back then was to say the sources had gone off to the printer. i'm told the issue has started arriving in us subscribers' mailbags and things. it's probably reasonable to expect it to arrive over here quite soon. --__--__-- Message: 14 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:47:19 +0100 From: Peter Kravanja To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: automatic document production Hello, I'm facing the following problem. An association has about 700 members and keeps information about them (name, address, language skills, hobbies,...) in a database. Once a year this association wants to produce a book with all this information, to be published and distributed to the members. How can this be done in an efficient way? Does anyone know of some sort of interface between a database (which format??) and (La)TeX, so that with a few commands the relevant data gets extracted from the database and turned into a file that (La)TeX can process? Thanks for your help! Peter Kravanja -- Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be --__--__-- Message: 15 From: "Jeff Rankin" To: "Peter Kravanja" , Subject: RE: automatic document production Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:27:15 -0500 Hi: We use perl connect to MS SQL Server database, retrieve the required information through SQL, and output LaTeX using a combination LaTeX templates for headers, footers, etc., and outputting the body information through perl. We're currently outputting parts catalogs using this technique, and it has proven to be reliable and very fast, almost to the point that parts catalogs can be requested though a web interface on demand. This technique doesn't do it with "a few commands", I dont' know of any techniques that will allow this. HTH Sincerely, W. Jeffrey Rankin Lead Publications Programmer O'NEIL & ASSOCIATES, INC. 495 Byers Rd. Miamisburg, Ohio 45342-3662 Phone: (937) 865-0800 ext. 3504 Fax: (937) 865-5858 E-mail: jrankin@oneil.com -----Original Message----- From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk [mailto:texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Peter Kravanja Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:47 AM To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: automatic document production Hello, I'm facing the following problem. An association has about 700 members and keeps information about them (name, address, language skills, hobbies,...) in a database. Once a year this association wants to produce a book with all this information, to be published and distributed to the members. How can this be done in an efficient way? Does anyone know of some sort of interface between a database (which format??) and (La)TeX, so that with a few commands the relevant data gets extracted from the database and turned into a file that (La)TeX can process? Thanks for your help! Peter Kravanja -- Peter.Kravanja@cs.kuleuven.ac.be _______________________________________________ TeXhax mailing list TeXhax@tex.ac.uk http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax --__--__-- About TeXhax... For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to office@tug.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1466 NW Front Avenue, Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820 USA (phone: 1 503 223 9994, fax: 1 503 223 3960). End of TeXhax Digest