From: texhax-request@tex.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax digest, Vol 2002 #4 - 8 msgs Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:05:05 +0100 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 4 Today's Topics: 1. ALternate images in a PDF file (Joel Coltoff) 2. TUG 2002: further call for papers (Robin Fairbairns) 3. Side by side (Roger Gawley) 4. Re: Side by side (Hartmut Henkel) 5. Q: \time command? (Andreas Hadjiprocopis) 6. Re: Q: \time command? (Robin Fairbairns) 7. Re: Q: \time command? (Nelson H. F. Beebe) 8. Re: Q: \time command? (John W. Shipman) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:33:57 -0500 (EST) From: Joel Coltoff To: Subject: ALternate images in a PDF file Hi, I think I know what I want. I'm just not sure if it can be done or how to get there if it can. What I want to do is have two versions of each image in a file. If the printer is color capable then I want to use image A. If not then use image B. Sound simple enough. I can even do it in postscript. The problem is that when you distill it the black and white stuff gets thrown away. I've not used pdftex but as best as I can tell it supports the alternate image capabilities of PDF. Does this give me what I want/need? All I've gotten so far is the PDFTeX User Manual. Is there something else that shows some examples of how to do this? A gentle nudge down the correct path would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Joel Coltoff Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot --__--__-- Message: 2 To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@csit.fsu.edu, office@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl cc: tug2002@tug.org.in, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: TUG 2002: further call for papers Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:02:25 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Followup call for papers -- TUG 2002 Annual Meeting and Conference September 1-7, Trivandrum, India ====================================== Even though the official deadline has passed, there is still time to submit a proposal for a paper to be presented at 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. 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/ Proposals for papers should be sent to papers@tug2002.tug.org.in We can accept proposals for a further two weeks (until the end of March 2002), and will notify authors of the acceptance at the end of that period. Other dates are: * 12 April 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 Email addresses 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: 3 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:41:23 +0100 (BST) From: Roger Gawley To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Side by side Can anyone help? I am trying to format a document using plain TeX. There any many instances of a structure like this: Concertina Workshop Now out of print but Tutor for the English Concertina excellent if you can by Alistair Anderson get it. Folk oriented. Topic Records Ltd Accompanying record 50 Stroud Green Road used to be available, but London N4 3EF not necessary.(Authorised) England photocopies available from Andy's Front Hall, Voorheesville, NY . I have tried to adapt a macro that I have used for addresses for years (if you are the long-forgotten contibutor of this macro, many thanks) \def\address#1=#2={\hbox{\hsize3truein\vtop{#1}\hfil\vtop{#2}}\bigskip} {\obeylines \address Tony Young Mowbray House Crook Co. Durham DL15 9JG = Roger Gawley 17 Dryburn Road Durham DH1 5AJ = }% stop obeying lines But I really want lines to be obeyed in the lefthand box, #1, but not in the righthand, #2, box. It seems that \obeylines is more subtle than I though because no ammount of moving it around seems to produce what I am after. Can anyone spot what I am missing, or more positively, tell me how to get the effect I am after? --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:01:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Hartmut Henkel To: Roger Gawley cc: TeXhax Subject: Re: Side by side Dear Roger, with inspiration from Salomon's Advanced TeXBook I found the following: {\obeylines \gdef\aaa#1=#2\endblk{ \hbox to 140pt{ \vtop{\hsize=50pt \parindent=0pt #1} \hss \vtop{\hsize=90pt \parindent=0pt \let^^M\space #2}} \endblk } } \def\startblk{\hrule\bgroup\obeylines\aaa} \def\endblk{\egroup\hrule} \startblk Hello You out there in a Stack! = Hello You out there in a Paragraph! \endblk \bye Best Regards Hartmut On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Roger Gawley wrote: > Can anyone help? I am trying to format a document using plain TeX. There > any many instances of a structure like this: > > Concertina Workshop Now out of print but > Tutor for the English Concertina excellent if you can > by Alistair Anderson get it. Folk oriented. > Topic Records Ltd Accompanying record > 50 Stroud Green Road used to be available, but > London N4 3EF not necessary.(Authorised) > England photocopies available from > Andy's Front Hall, > Voorheesville, NY > > I have tried to adapt a macro that I have used for addresses for years > (if you are the long-forgotten contibutor of this macro, many thanks) > > \def\address#1=#2={\hbox{\hsize3truein\vtop{#1}\hfil\vtop{#2}}\bigskip} > {\obeylines > \address > Tony Young > Mowbray House > Crook > Co. Durham > DL15 9JG > = > Roger Gawley > 17 Dryburn Road > Durham > DH1 5AJ > = > }% stop obeying lines > > But I really want lines to be obeyed in the lefthand box, #1, but not in > the righthand, #2, box. It seems that \obeylines is more subtle than I > though because no ammount of moving it around seems to produce what I am > after. > > Can anyone spot what I am missing, or more positively, tell me how to get > the effect I am after? > > _______________________________________________ > TeXhax mailing list > TeXhax@tex.ac.uk > http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Henkel von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH Schlossplatz 8, D-68723 Schwetzingen, Germany E-Mail henkel@vh-s.de WWW http://www.vh-s.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:32:40 +0100 (BST) From: Andreas Hadjiprocopis To: TeXhax Subject: Q: \time command? Hello texhackers, I was wondering whether the \today command may be adjusted so as to give me the current time as well (e.g. the time the document was formatted with latex) many thanks, Andreas Hadjiprocopis livantes@soi.city.ac.uk Computer Science Department www.soi.city.ac.uk/~livantes/home.html On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Hartmut Henkel wrote: > Dear Roger, > > with inspiration from Salomon's Advanced TeXBook I found the following: > > {\obeylines > \gdef\aaa#1=#2\endblk{ > \hbox to 140pt{ > \vtop{\hsize=50pt > \parindent=0pt > #1} > \hss > \vtop{\hsize=90pt > \parindent=0pt > \let^^M\space > #2}} > \endblk > } > } > > \def\startblk{\hrule\bgroup\obeylines\aaa} > \def\endblk{\egroup\hrule} > > \startblk > Hello > You > out there > in a > Stack! > = > Hello > You > out > there > in a > Paragraph! > \endblk > > \bye > > Best Regards > > Hartmut > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Roger Gawley wrote: > > > Can anyone help? I am trying to format a document using plain TeX. There > > any many instances of a structure like this: > > > > Concertina Workshop Now out of print but > > Tutor for the English Concertina excellent if you can > > by Alistair Anderson get it. Folk oriented. > > Topic Records Ltd Accompanying record > > 50 Stroud Green Road used to be available, but > > London N4 3EF not necessary.(Authorised) > > England photocopies available from > > Andy's Front Hall, > > Voorheesville, NY > > > > I have tried to adapt a macro that I have used for addresses for years > > (if you are the long-forgotten contibutor of this macro, many thanks) > > > > \def\address#1=#2={\hbox{\hsize3truein\vtop{#1}\hfil\vtop{#2}}\bigskip} > > {\obeylines > > \address > > Tony Young > > Mowbray House > > Crook > > Co. Durham > > DL15 9JG > > = > > Roger Gawley > > 17 Dryburn Road > > Durham > > DH1 5AJ > > = > > }% stop obeying lines > > > > But I really want lines to be obeyed in the lefthand box, #1, but not in > > the righthand, #2, box. It seems that \obeylines is more subtle than I > > though because no ammount of moving it around seems to produce what I am > > after. > > > > Can anyone spot what I am missing, or more positively, tell me how to get > > the effect I am after? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TeXhax mailing list > > TeXhax@tex.ac.uk > > http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Henkel > von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH > Schlossplatz 8, D-68723 Schwetzingen, Germany > E-Mail henkel@vh-s.de > WWW http://www.vh-s.de > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TeXhax mailing list > TeXhax@tex.ac.uk > http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax --__--__-- Message: 6 To: Andreas Hadjiprocopis cc: TeXhax Subject: Re: Q: \time command? Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:28:18 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns the ctan catalogue isn't terribly clever, but with the keyword "time" returned (amongst lots of stuff about "times fonts") time Defines a macro \now to macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff/ print the current time. --__--__-- Message: 7 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 06:29:42 -0600 (MDT) From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" To: TeXhax Subject: Re: Q: \time command? Andreas Hadjiprocopis asks on Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:32:40 +0100 (BST) >> I was wondering whether the \today command may be adjusted so as to >> give me the current time as well... Instead of the \today command, use the \time command. Here is a solution lifted from a style file that I've used for years to get a timestamp in typeset letters: % ---------------------------------------------------------------------- % % TIME OF DAY % \newcount\hh \newcount\mm \mm=\time \hh=\time \divide\hh by 60 \divide\mm by 60 \multiply\mm by 60 \mm=-\mm \advance\mm by \time \def\hhmm{\number\hh:\ifnum\mm<10{}0\fi\number\mm} Use it like this in a LaTeX document: \date{\today{ }\hhmm} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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, 110 LCB 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 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:38:04 -0600 (MDT) From: "John W. Shipman" To: Andreas Hadjiprocopis cc: TeXhax Subject: Re: Q: \time command? On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Andreas Hadjiprocopis asked: +-- | I was wondering whether the \today command may be adjusted so as to | give me the current time as well (e.g. the time the document was | formatted with latex) +-- Below my .signature you will find the macros I use for timestamping documents in the ANSI standard order (year-month-day hour:minute). Best regards, John Shipman (john@nmt.edu), Applications Specialist, NM Tech Computer Center, Speare 128, Socorro, NM 87801, (505) 835-5950, http://www.nmt.edu/~john ``Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.'' --Dave Farber ================================================================ % today.tex: Macro to print today's date %-- % Author: John W. Shipman, NM Tech Computer Center, % Socorro, NM 87801; john@nmt.edu %-- % EXPORTED FUNCTIONS: % \today: Outputs today's date as ``yyyy-mm-dd'' % \now: Outputs the current time as ``hh:dd'' % \timestamp: \today, plus one space, plus \now %-- \newcount\minute % Current minute within the hour \newcount\hour % Current hour (24-hour type) \newcount\hourMins % Temporary for taking hour modulo 60 % % - - - \ n o w - - - % \def\now% {% Displays today's time as ``hh:mm'' % The \time macro gives the minutes since midnight. Compute % the whole hours by dividing this by 60, then find the % minute by effectively taking the minutes modulo 60. % \minute=\time % Number of minutes since midnight \hour=\time \divide \hour by 60 % Get hours \hourMins=\hour \multiply\hourMins by 60 \advance\minute by -\hourMins % Hours modulo 60 % \zeroPadTwo{\the\hour}:\zeroPadTwo{\the\minute}% }% --- \now --- % % - - - \ t i m e s t a m p - - - % \def\timestamp% {% Displays ``yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm'' \today\ \now }% --- \timestamp --- % % - - - \ t o d a y - - - % \def\today% {% Displays today's date and time as ``yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm'' \the\year-\zeroPadTwo{\the\month}-\zeroPadTwo{\the\day}% }% --- \today --- % % - - - z e r o P a d T w o - - - % \def\zeroPadTwo#1% {% Left zero pad of the argument to 2 digits. The argument % should be a number between 1 and 99. This macro outputs % a `0' if the argument is less than ten, then it outputs % the argument. % \ifnum #1<10 0\fi % Conditionally output a zero #1% Then output the argument }% --- \zeroPadTwo --- --__--__-- 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