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TeXhax Digest    Tuesday, 11 Aug 1992  Volume 92 : Issue 016

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Today's Topics:
                      Weird behaviour of floats in LaTeX.
                               LaTeX 2.10: when?
                             tex + postscript logo
                       Problems formatting TeX documents
                     Re: Problems formatting TeX documents
                Chicago Manual of Style files on FILESERV/Niord
                     New version (2.15) of TeXsis released
                       Info on publishers using TeX/LaTeX


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Date:    Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:31:25 +0100
From:    Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: Weird behaviour of floats in LaTeX.
Keywords: LaTeX, floats

Does anybody out there share my observation, that using the floats in
standard LaTeX is generally a pain (stuff tends to end up neatly at
the end of the chapter... behaviour is sometimes dependent on what
happens in previous chapters etc.).  

Is there a simple way to cure
this (Newer LaTeX version, betterfloats.sty or the like) ?

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Date:    Tue, 28 Jul 92 13:39:09 -0800
From:    Darrell Long <darrell@cse.ucsc.edu>
Subject: LaTeX 2.10: when?
Keywords: LaTeX, 2.10


I keep hearing rumors of LaTeX 2.10 with NFSS and other good things.  Does
anyone know when it's expected to be out?

Thanks, DL

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Date:    Thu, 30 Jul 92 12:41:46 -0800
From:    cheng (Benny Cheng) <cheng%bernoulli@hub.ucsb.edu>
Subject: tex + postscript logo
Keywords: Drivers, dvips, PostScript

Hello,

    I have a file containing a logo which I wrote in Postscript
and would like to incorporate it into my tex files. Is there a
way to do this without having to hack the .ps files coming out
of dvips ? Please reply to my e-mail address directly as I don't
subscribe to this newsgroup. Thanks and sorry if this has been
discussed before.

Dr. Benny Cheng

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Date:    Wed, 05 Aug 92 01:42:58 -0600
From:    "Dr. Laurence Leff" <mflll@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
Subject: Problems formatting TeX documents
Keywords: TeX, TFM, LaTeX, overfull hbox

We are having some trouble with TeX.   Specifically, we are trying to
print out some of the texinfo documents associated with some software
we are trying to install.  We are having trouble printing out the
texinfo documents involved.  (We also tried printing some small document
we received and received additional problems.)  These files all
came from net and were not modified by us.  Thus, there is an
installation or invocation file.

The following problem happened on two different texinfo documents.

Script started on Fri Jul 31 20:53:12 1992
uxa% tex texinfo
This is TeX, C Version 3.0
(texinfo.tex Loading texinfo package [Version 2.30]:  Basics, fonts,
! Font \tenbf=cmb10 scaled 1095 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
\magstephalf ->1095 
                    
l.440 \font\tenbf=cmb10 scaled \magstephalf
                                           
? quit
OK, entering \batchmodeuxa% chmod 755 /tmp/screwup
uxa% exit
uxa% 
script done on Fri Jul 31 20:53:41 1992

Confused, I tried to print some of the technical report lists I
received and sent out via trlist.--they were prepared with TeX.

I discovered that they were latex documents.  When I tried both of them,
I was informed I had hbox overflow errors.  Below is the script from one
of the two files.

The document is  the TRlist file tech.kent.Z


Script started on Fri Jul 31 21:27:45 1992
uxa% latex k
This is TeX, C Version 3.0
(k.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <7 Dec 1989>
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/report.sty
Document Style `report' <13 Nov 89>.
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/rep10.sty) (/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/titlepage.sty)
) (k.aux)
Overfull \hbox (20.06345pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 17--111
[][] 
[1]
Overfull \hbox (20.06345pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 114--220
[][] 

Overfull \vbox (36.29872pt too high) has occurred while \output is active
[2]
[...]
Overfull \hbox (16.17455pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 678--778
[][] 
[8] [9] (k.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on k.dvi (9 pages, 39516 bytes).
Transcript written on k.log.
uxa% exit
uxa% 
script done on Fri Jul 31 21:28:09 1992

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Date:    Wed, 05 Aug 92 11:00:09 +0000
From:    David Osborne <cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Problems formatting TeX documents
Keywords: TeX, TFM, LaTeX, overfull hbox

In your message of 5 Aug 92 1:42:58 CDT, Laurence Leff said:

 > We are having some trouble with TeX.   Specifically, we are trying to
 > print out some of the texinfo documents associated with some software
 > we are trying to install.  We are having trouble printing out the
 > texinfo documents involved.

From the log, you appear to have a copy of texinfo.tex, which defines
the macros TeX needs to understand the TeXinfo documents, and is
\include'd by documents written in the TeXinfo format..  You also
appear to be formatting a document called texinfo, which I imagine is
the texinfo.texi document from the GNU Emacs distribution.

 > The following problem happened on two different texinfo documents.
 > 
 > Script started on Fri Jul 31 20:53:12 1992
 > uxa% tex texinfo
 > This is TeX, C Version 3.0
 > (texinfo.tex Loading texinfo package [Version 2.30]:  Basics, fonts,
 > ! Font \tenbf=cmb10 scaled 1095 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.

This is a basic problem, related to your TeX installation, not to
TeXinfo.  There's a section of texinfo.tex which defines names of
fonts, one of these being cmb10 scaled at \magstephalf, to give an
approximate 11pt font (\magstephalf = sqrt(1.2)).  When TeX reads the
command

\font\tenbf=cmb10 scaled \magstephalf

from line 440 of texinfo.tex (according to your log), it needs to find
the metrics file (cmb.tfm) for the font and complains when it can't be
located, hence the error message above.  Check that the directory
where your TFM files are stored contains cmb10.tfm and regenerate it
using METAFONT from the Computer Modern font sources, or fetch it from
an archive on the network.

This is what it should look like:

 {34}% tex texinfo.texi
 This is TeX, C Version 3.1
 (texinfo.texi (texinfo.tex Loading texinfo package [Version 2.29]:  Basics,
 fonts, page headings, tables, indexing, sectioning, toc printing,
 environments, defuns, cross reference, and turning on texinfo input format.)
 (texinfo.aux) [1] [2] (Licensing Information) Chapter 1 [1] [2] [3] [4]
 ....
 [-6] )
 Output written on texinfo.dvi (110 pages, 325748 bytes).
 Transcript written on texinfo.log.

 > Confused, I tried to print some of the technical report lists I
 > received and sent out via trlist.--they were prepared with TeX.
 > 
 > I discovered that they were latex documents.  When I tried both of them,
 > I was informed I had hbox overflow errors.

Were they technical documents containing either technical words,
computing acronyms or fragments of program code?  Overfull hboxes are
very common with this sort of material and usually occur because TeX
doesn't know how to hyphenate one of the words on the line where the
overfull hbox is located.  Either tell TeX how to hyphenate some of
the words using hyphenation exceptions, change the layout of the
document (wider margins, for example), or rewrite the document.

 > Overfull \hbox (20.06345pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 17--111

This is only about 1/3 inch, not too bad if a long technical word
couldn't be hyphenated.

- --Dave

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Date:    Wed, 05 Aug 92 10:48:25 -0600
From:    "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: Chicago Manual of Style files on FILESERV/Niord
Keywords: BibTeX, Chicago style

Any number of times, people have asked for a Chicago Manual of Style
(Turabian) citation format in BibTeX.   I would like to thank Glenn Paulley
<gnpaulle@maytag.waterloo.edu>, who has forwarded me a set of three files
to do this, which are now available from SHSU.  I have not tested these
exhaustively, but it appears that they are somewhat LaTeX specific in
design, although I am sure that the LaTeX sub-style option, chicago.sty,
can be tweaked to operate in TeX.

The citation formats supported include: 
      (author-last-name year)
      (author-last-name and author-last-name year)
      (author-last-name et al. year)
      (author-last-name)
      author-last-name
      author-last-name (year)
      (author-last-name and author-last-name)
      (author-last-name et al.)
      (year) or (year,year)
      year or year,year
The reference list ordering is alphabetical by author or whatever passes
for author in the absence of one.  Support for abbreviated author lists and
for year-only citations are provided by having the citations actually look
like:
      \citeauthoryear{full-author-info}{abbrev-author-info}{year}

The chicago.sty LaTeX file is required to use the BibTeX styles chicago.bst
and chicagoa.bst.

Features of chicago.bst:
========================
 - full names used in citations, but abbreviated citations are available.
 - if an entry has a "month", then the month and year are also printed
   as part of that bibitem.
 - book, inbook, and manual use "location: publisher" (or organization)
   for address and publisher. All other types list publishers separately.
 - "pp." are used to identify page numbers for all entry types except
   articles.
 - organization is used as a citation label if neither author nor editor
   is present (for manuals).
 - "et al." is used for long author and editor lists.

Features of chicagoa.bst:
=========================
 - supports an "annotation" field for annotated bibliographies.
 - all other features of chicago.bst.

To retrieve these three files via e-mail, include:
 SENDME BST.CHICAGO*
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
The files are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu
(192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.BST], either individually or
packaged together in the ZIP archive CHICAGO.ZIP.

Regards,   George
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Date:    Thu, 06 Aug 92 13:57:23 -0600
From:    texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu
Subject: New version (2.15) of TeXsis released
Keywords: TeX, macros, TeXsis

Dear TeXsis user,

   The latest version of the TeXsis macro package (version 2.15) 
of TeX macros for physicists is now available.  

The most notable changes or additions are:

     *  Added support for including PostScript figures in a document
        using the macros known as epsf.tex.  The file epsf.tex is
        included in the TeXsis distribution.  The use of these macros is
        well documented in the TeXsis manual. 
        
     *  Added support for Ralph Smith's Formal Script fonts, assuming
        that they are available. Just use \scr in place of \cal.
        The rsfs fonts are available from lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu.

     *  The macros for making lists of figures and tables have been
        improved (along the lines of the table of contents macros).

     *  A \PhysRev style has been added.  This is autoloaded from the
        style file PhysRev.txs.

     *  The definition of \thesis has been moved to a style file
        called thesis.txs, which makes it easier to customize.  Examples
        from both Yale University and the University of Texas are included. 

     *  Added to the distribution a separate file called Example.tex
        which contains a short example physics paper which uses the
        TeXsis macros.  A shortcut around the manual. 

     *  Added \Footnote to act like \footnote but with the text of the
        footnote singlespaced and in 10 pt. type. 

     *  Improvements to the list-making environments.

     *  Added a \twinout layout which puts two pages on one piece of
        paper, printed sideways (landscape mode).  Also improved the 
        double column macros.

     *  Lots of other small additions.  Many improvements and additions 
        to the manual.


   An index has been added to the manual, using the index making macros
of index.tex and the MakeIndex program.  We have included index.tex in
the distribution of TeXsis, but the only documentation at present is
that contained in the source file.  Still, that's enough to get started.

  
  To make it easier for the casual reader of electronic preprints
("e-prints") to print a TeXsis document we have also put all of the core
TeXsis macros into one source file (called mtexsis.tex), with all the
comments and blank lines removed.  A reader who does not have TeXsis on
his/her system can then (usually) simply get this file, add "\input
mtexsis" to the manuscript file if needed, and print the paper with
Plain TeX.


   The code and documentation for TeXsis 2.15 can be obtained via
anonymous ftp over the Internet from lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu.  
To copy the files, run ftp on your computer and connect to
lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu (or 128.83.131.57).  Give the login name
"anonymous" and your e-mail address as the password.  The TeXsis files
for Unix machines are in a (possibly compressed) tar file in the
directory /texsis, or in shar bundles in the directory /texsis/Unix.
For Vax/VMS machines the files are available in DCL bundles (.COM files
which unpack themselves into many files) in the subdirectory /texsis/VMS.
The code is the same in any case, it's just packed differently.  [If you
can't use anonymous ftp we can arrange send you the files via e-mail.
Please specify VMS or Unix, if possible.]


Note also: 

  - The macros for making ruled tables with Plain TeX known as ruled.tex
        are available independently in the subdirectory /texsis/tables.   

  - The macros for making an index using Plain TeX and the MakeIndex
        program are available in /texsis/index.  

  - Ralph Smith's formal script fonts are available in /texsis/rsfs.


   Comments, suggestions, and bug reports can be sent to us at
texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu.


Eric Myers
                
Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
myers@landau.ph.utexas.edu  |   myers@utaphy.bitnet   |   myers@ut-emx.UUCP

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Date:    Fri, 07 Aug 92 15:43:00 -0500
From:    "DR. JIM WALKER @CRL" <WALKERJ@crl.aecl.ca>
Subject: Info on publishers using TeX/LaTeX
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, commercial use

Can anybody give me (or direct me to) any information on commercial 
publishers and/or technical journals that use TeX and/or LaTeX. I wish to 
make an argument to my management that we should be using LaTeX for a 
series of reports, and I would like to be able to give examples where 
TeX/LaTeX is used commercially.

Thanks,

Jim Walker

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