From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #22 Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 12:47:45 +0100 Message-ID: <29585.771248865@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 10 Jun 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 22 ``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}: TTF Chemical drawings in LateX? Re: Incorporating PS files ??? Re: 600 dpi fonts re: 600 dpi fonts Displayed equation with labelled alternatives tex and latex LaTeX questions multiple input directories {Announcements}: macros/latex* changes on CTAN 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: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 12:09:02 -0000 From: Kieran Parsons Subject: TTF Could you please send me details of subsciption and the services provided by UKTeX. Whilst I'm mailing - has anybody produced a conversion program from TeX fonts to Windows 3.1 Truetype fonts (or have any idea how to do it) ? Thanks Kieran ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 11:31:45 -0400 From: AHMED TAHRAOUI Subject: Chemical drawings in LateX? I would be eternally grateful if you can help me getting the files.sty which would allow me to make chemical drawings. I tried the public domaine but was unable to get any information. I am very familiar with latex and my whole thesis has been typed using latex but cannot submit it right now as I failed to complete my chemical drawings. Thank you very very much for your help. Yours sincerely Tahraoui ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 13:22:18 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: Incorporating PS files ??? > I'm using latex on a Unix (Sparc) box and I need to include postscript > files. Currently I'm using \epsfbox{file.ps} to include them and that > works ok. But I like to use captions. This isn't possible, as far as I > know, with epsf. I tried: > > \begin{figure} > \epsfbox{file.ps} > \caption{Caption} > \end{figure} > > but in this case, the boundingbox wasn't changed, which means that the > figure was put at the place specified in the postscript file, instead > of being changed by the epsf package. I hope this makes sense to > somebody. Is there a way of including captions around postscript files > within latex??? what you describe should work perfectly. the figure should be translated on the page to the point where you instery, not as it was when it was created. I suggest you have very badly behaved PostScript. what generated it? sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 13:22:18 +0000 From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Subject: Re: 600 dpi fonts > I would like to create some 600dpi fonts, so I can get a better > quality when I use postscript with my HP 4M printer. If anyone can > tell me how to do this (with MF?), I would be most greatful. TIA. if you have a standard Unix (web2c) setup or emtex with mfjob, just changing the resolution should build fonts on the fly. eg dvips -D600 foo.dvi should force the system to do whats needed sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 09:22:24 -0000 From: SJ.Cahill@ulster.ac.uk Subject: re: 600 dpi fonts I generated my own 600 dpi fonts some two years ago for use with an IBM 4029 Postscript laser printer. So far they have been used to produce CRC for two books. If you want to see what they look like, get a copy of "Digital and Microprocess or Engineering", Ellis Horwood/Simon & Shuster, 2nd Ed., 1993; or "C for the Mi croprocessor Engineer", Prentice-Hall, 1994. If Karsten wants a zipped copy of the .fli library files, then send me eight formatted (please) high-density 31/4" discs plus sufficient return postage. I will also enclude details on how they were generated using metafont, together with the appropriate auxillary files. Cheers, Sid ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 13:25:53 -0000 From: David.Handscomb@comlab.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Displayed equation with labelled alternatives Can anyone suggest an elegant way of setting displayed equations like the following (in LaTeX or, failing that, in TeX)? / () | = < | \ () Requirements: The labels to be vertically aligned with the corresponding right-hand sides and horizontally flush with the right margin; the remainder to be horizontally centered on the page. The left brace to be of sufficient size to cover the two (or possibly more) right-hand side expressions. Without the labels, this is easy. The problem is where one puts the labels in the box hierarchy. [The author uses this construct several times in a work - don't ask me why.] David Handscomb Numerical Analysis Group Oxford University Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QD ENGLAND tel. (national) 0865 273891 (international) +44 865 273891 FAX (national) 0865 273839 (international) +44 865 273839 E-mail dch@comlab.ox.ac.uk / na.handscomb@na-net.ornl.gov ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 17:27:16 +0100 From: pettifer@trebor.phys.warwick.ac.uk Subject: tex and latex Dear Mr. Abbott, Following our telephone conversation this morning I would like to summarise my problems. 1) I have an alpa workstation running open vms 1.51h1 and I would like to run latex using macros such as revtex. I have subscribed to deccampus so that in principle all of decs layered products are available, although I dont want to install things that we never use such as pascal, bliss or c. We are exclusively fortran in our coding. Thus any installation of tex or latex is best done with executables if possible. 2) I have logged on to ftp.tex.ac.uk and spent quite a few hours searching through the archives. Under tex-archive/systems/vms there is a readme. vmstex by C Spieler, and I have tried to follow this. I have unzip working but I cannot find initex or tex.exe files. 3) Is it possible to find someone who has done what I want to do and just copy the files from them? Or can you help? Thanks Robert Pettifer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 10:11:41 +0000 From: derek@mathematics-and-computer-science.leicester.ac.uk Subject: LaTeX questions I need some help with (La)TeX and its TooLs: 1. Are there any tools for managing BibTeX files? I would like to sort, check for duplicate entries etc. etc. Note that I am not a UNIX expert and suggestions to write things in AWK (is that short for Awkward?) will be met with a large rasberry!. I am a dedicated Macintosh/Textures User, but can use UNIX in a very (very) simple way if I have to. Please note that the Bibliography file(s) are large (they won't Bib TeX on UNIX but will on my Mac!). 2. Some time ago I asked for help with using a double-sided printer, the help was very useful, but the need to use the printer went away and I forgot how the problem can be solved. We now have a double-sided printer in the department which I would like to use. (La)TeX seems to be very clever and when you are doing twosided it doesn't seem to print totally blank pages -- all very well unless you are using a double-sided printer! The LateX 3 people might like to think about this, double sided printers are now becomming quite common! Has anyone any straight forward fixes for ``twosided'' that works? 3. I need to produce a document with \documentstyle[12pt,...]{book}, but with the mathematics set in 11pt. HELP ...... What do I need to fix? (yes I know I shouldn't do this, but the alternative is even worse...). 4. I need to build some composite mathematical symbols using overprinting, an evening with three TeX books produced the following: \def\#1#2{% \setbox0=\hbox{$#1$} \dimen0=\the\wd0 \divide\dimen0 by 2 #1\kern-\dimen0\#2 } There must be a better way! 5. Does anyone know were the LaTeX macros for the Z specification language are hidden on the archive? Many thanks for your help and attention! regards derek andrews Smail: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH UK Tel: (+44) 533 523401 Fax: (+44) 533 523604 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 11:09:52 +0000 From: vogel@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Carl Vogel) Subject: multiple input directories howdy. suppose you're editing a book, which is a consolidation of papers which have appeared elsewhere. so, you've got directories containing the skeleton file for each of these papers -- something like main.tex in each of the directories -- which may or may not each have different bibliographic or other style specifications. but each of those skelaton files is called main.tex, and a lot of the files that those things input are called things like intro.tex, defs.tex, discuss.tex... where the semantic content is put into the directory name. suppose you've also got something in each directory called newmain.tex which inputs each file without naming style stuff. now, you're editing a book, so you want to just suck in each of the papers into the unfied style of the book. but, you want to do this by creating a new master file that points to each of the newmain.tex files without having symbolic links or copies of the files in the book directory. alrighty. so here's the problem -- if you do this, latex looks for all the inputs in the directory that the book file is located -- so even if you name the directory in the input that picks up each newmain.tex, any figures, tables, etc. that the files input by chapter/newmain.tex are unknown to the system since they're not in the book directory. nor do you want to go in hardcoding all of the directory specifications. since the system isn't recursive in that fashion (i've just picked up a file from directory-X, therefore look for any inputs during the processing of that file in directory-X regardless of the directory the output is being written to), you might be willing to just change the directory more directly: \setinputdirctory{Chapter3} \input{newmain} \setinputdirctory{Chapter4} \input{newmain} and so on. so the question is this -- does anyone out there know how to change the default input directory during document processing? TEXINPUTS doesn't work because there's good reason to have duplicate file names in across the various directories. i can't find anything likely in the latex manual, and i don't own the texbook (which i reckon is more likely....) any ideas? thankya carl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 13:41:43 -0400 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: macros/latex* changes on CTAN The release of LaTeX 2e as the officially supported version of LaTeX has led to a change in directory naming on the CTAN hosts. The message displayed upon cd'ing into selected directories in the CTAN macros hierarchy is appended below my sig for reference. Briefly: 1. macros/latex/ has been moved to macros/latex209/ 2. macros/latex2e/ has been moved to macros/latex/ 3. macros/latex/ has been linked to macros/latex2e/ temporarily to facilitate version migration Regards, George George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Effective Tuesday, June 7, 1994, the CTAN macros/latex/ directories contain the distribution and related files for LaTeX 2e --- the presently-supported version of LaTeX (previously macros/latex2e/). The macros/latex/ hierarchy is designed as follows: base/ --- the complete LaTeX 2e distribution kit. packages/ --- officially provided and supported 2e extensions, with each component in its own subdirectory. contrib/ --- user-contributed styles and packages for LaTeX 2e. Each multi-file package is housed in its own unique subdirectory. The CTAN macros/latex209/ directories contain the distribution and related files for LaTeX 2.09 (previously macros/latex/). 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