From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #01 Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 18:01:32 +0000 Message-ID: <434.757965692@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 7 Jan 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 01 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Questions & Answers}: Filename compatibility between Unix TeX and Mac Textures AMS-TeX amsppt.sty Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 1994 13:38:30 -0500 From: shay Subject: Filename compatibility between Unix TeX and Mac Textures I use both unix La/TeX and TeXtures on a Mac. I'd like to be able to move input files between the machines without having to edit pathnames in \input and \epsfbox commands. Of course, unix uses / and the Mac uses : in pathnames. I'd like to be able to say something like \platform={unix or mac} in my main file and have a macro that handles pathnames appropriately. Has anyone solved this problem? Thanks. Tom Shay University of North Carolina shay@masc7.chem.unc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 10:59:45 +0000 From: cseofoghlu@bodkin.ucg.ie Subject: AMS-TeX amsppt.sty I have a question about the use of the AMS-TeX amsppt.sty option: We have Decus TeX (PD VMS 3.3) on out VMS (5.5-2) machine. AMS-TeX is set up as VMS DCL command verb. When we try and use the amsppt style in AMS-TeX it gags on the i/p file: \documentstyle{amsappt} \document ..... ..... \enddocument The error message is: This is TeX, Version 3.1 [PD VMS 3.3/DECUS] (preloaded format=plain 90.8.25) ($1$DIA4:[CSE.0020201S.USERS.0000002E]ELLONE.TEX;33 AmS-TeX - Version 2.0 COPYRIGHT 1985, 1990 - AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Use of this macro package is not restricted provided each use is acknowledged upon publication. (TEX_ROOT:[INPUTS]AMSPPT.STY;1 ! Undefined control sequence. l.109 \footmarkcount@ \z@ ? (If one proceeds it also gags on \tenpoint: ...more errors with footnote.... ! Undefined control sequence. \tenpoint ...p 7\p@ plus3\p@ minus4\p@ \textfont@ \rm \tenrm \textfont@ \it ... l.487 \tenpoint ) Being more used to LaTeX I am baffled by this and would appreciate any help. At first glance it seems the style file is incompatible with AMS-TeX, what is much more likely, I feel, is that I am missing some definitions required before I can use the style files. Another possibility is that this STY file is incorrect (possibly the AMS-LaTeX version overwrote the AMS-TeX one?) I went to download a new copy from the archive but the distribution does not indicate which files are in the VMS backup archives, so I thought I'd ask first. (When investigating this problem I was confused by the difference between AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX. I believe We are using the former. From my reading of the documentation with AMS-LaTeX there is no amsppt.sty file which could have overwritten the original.) 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