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TeXhax Digest Thursday, April 16, 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 006
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
TRANSFER of TeXhax to the UK
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mode_def for NEC Silentwriter2 S60P ??
re: Trademark symbol under LaTeX??
color text using dvips
eqnarray environment
Eplain 2.0 released
Eplain 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord
Sfware programs available on FILESERV/Niord
ENDFLOAT.STY available at FILESERV/Niord
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N N OOOO TTTTTTT EEEEEE
NN N O O T E
N N N O O T E
N N N O O T EEEE
N N N O O T E
N NN O O T E
N N OOOO T EEEEEE
TRANSFER of TeXhax to the UK
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Washington. David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
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has been barely a formality for a couple of years. I cannot find
words adequate to express my appreciation of all the work that Tiina
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discovery that our first attempt to send out the digest from here
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more interesting than pleasurable to remember.
Thank you all for your patience at various difficult times, and an especial
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Date: Tue, 10 MAR 92 10:15:56 GMT
From: CDRCM@CR83.STAFPOL.AC.UK
Subject: mode_def for NEC Silentwriter2 S60P ??
Keywords: mode_def
I think the subject line says it all, can anybody direct me to a the
whereabouts of a mode_def for the NEC Silentwriter2 S60P model.
It seems to print HP Laserjet generated TeX fonts OK, but they are
not ideal ..........
Thanks for your help
Craig Morgan
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 21:18:28 EDT
From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
Subject: re: Trademark symbol under LaTeX??
Keywords: LaTeX, trademark
There is no trademark symbol in any of the standard TeX fonts. However, it's
not hard to build one. I have two definitions that I've used; they differ in
how they adapt when used at different sizes. The first does the obvious thing
and scales along with the current text size. Unfortunately, this doesn't look
good at very large sizes:
%
% A "trademark" symbol. This doesn't look too good at sizes \huge and \Huge.
%
\def\tm{$\m@th^{^{\rm T\kern -.04em M}}$}
The alternative is to fix the size:
%
% A "trademark" symbol, fixed in size.
%
\def\tm{$\m@th^{^{\hbox{\tiny T\kern -.04em M}}}$}
Each looks best in different circumstances; you'll have to try them and see
which works for you.
Notes: The second solution won't work with the New Font Selection Scheme
unless it's used in compatibility mode, as it assumes that \tiny implies \rm.
The fix should be obvious....
In some situations, \sf may look better than \rm.
Both of these definitions are meant to appear in a style file, as they use
an internal macro, \m@th. You can also just put a \makeatletter before the
definition and a \makeatother after it. (Only the definition needs special
treatment, not uses of the resulting macro.)
Use \tm just after the trademarked\tm word; don't put a space before it.
Don't use \tm in math mode. (If for some reason you need it there, put it in
an \hbox.)
-- Jerry
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 18:29:38 EST
From: prange@ironwood (Michael Prange)
Subject: color text using dvips
Keywords: dvips, color text
Is there some \special command I can enclose text in to get dvips to
set the text in a specified color? I'm wondering if this is a simple
thing to do.
Please reply to me as I don't subscribe to this list.
Michael
prange@sdr.slb.com
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 09:19:52 -0500
From: Todd Jay Mitty <todd@cougarxp.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: eqnarray environment
Keywords: eqnarray
Is there a simple way to obtain left-justified text in an eqnarray env.?
If "\lefteqn" is used with a "\parbox", the parbox's left margin appears
to get centered in the environment. Basically, I have three equations
which I'd like to have aligned on the "=" sign. Additionally, I would
like to describe each equation with a few words of text. Thus, my
dilema.
Todd
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 20:13:56 EST
From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
Subject: Eplain 2.0 released
Keywords: Eplain 2.0
I have released Eplain version 2.0. It is available by ftp from
ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z}
ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.0.tar.Z
You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you
cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like
`SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'. (George will be posting a message with more
details soon.)
It has been almost a year since Eplain 1.9. As you might expect, there
are many changes. (Many bugs have concomitantly been introduced, I
expect.) As far as I know, the changes are all upward-compatible.
Here are some of the highlights:
In btxmac:
* generally more configurable
* numeric labels are right-justified
* spaces are ignored before optional arguments
* page breaks are disallowed (by default) before the bibliography
* support for multiple bibliographies
* works (insofar as possible) with AMSTeX
In eplain:
* includes Steven Smith's ``arrow.tex'', a set of macros for producing
commutative diagrams
* includes Nelson Beebe's texnames.sty to define the various names of
TeXware
* a \verbatim macro to typeset inline verbatim stuff
* lists are more configurable
* the justification commands handle text on the same line as the command
* support for subequations like (1.1a), (1.1b)
* a new and (I hope) more robust implementation of \leftdisplays
For those (no doubt many) of you who haven't heard of Eplain: it
is a collection of macros intended to provide relatively low-level
capabilities, regardless of how your document appears. For example, it
has macros to do symbolic cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a
section heading. It also has some definitions that make it easier to
change the conventions of plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you
produce left-justified math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'.
karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1992 10:25:45 CST
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: Eplain 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord
Keywords: Eplain 2.0
In <9203060113.AA09179@claude.cs.umb.edu> (Thu, 5 Mar 92 20:13:56 EST),
Karl Berry <karl@cs.umb.edu> posted:
>I have released Eplain version 2.0. It is available by ftp from
>
> ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z}
> ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.0.tar.Z
>
> You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you
> cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like
> `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'. (George will be posting a message with more
> details soon.)
Since we are the main mail repository (with ftp access for the individual
files or the compressed tar file also), I am appending FILESERV's
description file below. I extend my thanks to Karl for allowing us to work
with him on this project.
--George
===========================================================================
EPLAIN
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The EPLAIN package includes the macros for version 2.0 (March 5, 1992) of
Karl Berry's <karl@cs.umb.edu> Eplain for TeX. The eplain macro package
expands on the definitions in plain TeX. Eplain is not intended to provide
"intensional" typesetting capabilities, like LaTeX or Texinfo. Instead, it
provides definitions that are intended to be useful regardless of the
high-level commands that you use when you actually prepare your manuscript.
To retrieve the complete EPLAIN package of 78 files, include the command:
SENDME EPLAIN
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
If, for some reason, you should only need one of these files, say
EPLAIN.OUTER_TEX, use the command:
SENDME EPLAIN.OUTER_TEX
in your MAIL message to FILESERV. Anonymous ftp users can find these files
on Niord.SHSU.edu [192.92.115.8] in the directory [.EPLAIN]. A compressed
U*ix tar (EPLAIN-2_0.TAR_Z) file is in this directory also.
Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File Blocks Save file as: Directory:
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EPLAIN.ALLREF_TEX 1 ALLREF.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.ARROW_TEXINFO 48 ARROW.TEXINFO Eplain's doc
EPLAIN.BOXES_TEX 1 BOXES.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.BOXIT_TEX 2 BOXIT.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.BTXDOC_TEX 85 BTXDOC.TEX Eplain's doc
EPLAIN.BTXMAC_TEX 68 BTXMAC.TEX Eplain's root
EPLAIN.CENTER_TEX 1 CENTER.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CHANGELOG_ROOT 88 CHANGELOG Eplain's root
EPLAIN.CHANGELOG_TEST 2 CHANGELOG Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CITEALL_TEX 1 CITEALL.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CITEALPH_TEX 2 CITEALPH.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CITEAPA_TEX 2 CITEAPA.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CITECUST_TEX 3 CITECUST.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CITENOTE_TEX 1 CITENOTE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CITEX_TEX 1 CITEX.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CITE_BIB 2 CITE.BIB Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CITE_TEX 3 CITE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.COLUMN2_TEX 5 COLUMN2.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.COLUMN3_TEX 2 COLUMN3.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.COLUMN_TEX 27 COLUMN.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.COMMDIAGS_TEX 9 COMMDIAGS.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.CONTENTS_TEX 2 CONTENTS.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.DISPLINE_TEX 2 DISPLINE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.DOUBLE_TEX 2 DOUBLE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.EMERGNCY_TEX 2 EMERGNCY.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.ENV_TEX 2 ENV.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO 6 EPLAIN.INFO Eplain's doc
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-1_1OF2 78 EPLAIN.INFO-1 Eplain's doc
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-1_2OF2 24 (part 2 of 2)
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-2_1OF2 78 EPLAIN.INFO-2 Eplain's doc
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-2_2OF2 26 (part 2 of 2)
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-3 57 EPLAIN.INFO-3 Eplain's doc
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX 88 EPLAIN.TEX Eplain's root
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEXINFO_1OF3 79 EPLAIN.TEXINFO Eplain's doc
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEXINFO_2OF3 80 (part 2 of 3)
EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEXINFO_3OF3 41 (part 3 of 3)
EPLAIN.EQREF_TEX 8 EQREF.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.ETEX_TEX 1 ETEX.TEX Eplain's root
EPLAIN.FILEXIST_TEX 2 FILEXIST.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.FOOTNOTE_TEX 6 FOOTNOTE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.FRAC_TEX 1 FRAC.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.GCOL_TEX 17 GCOL.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.INSTALL 50 INSTALL Eplain's root
EPLAIN.JUSTIFY_TEX 5 JUSTIFY.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.KNUTH_BIB 2 KNUTH.BIB Eplain's test
EPLAIN.LABEL_TEX 1 LABEL.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.LATEXCITE_TEX 1 LATEXCITE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.LEFT_TEX 7 LEFT.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.LISTING_TEX 1 LISTING.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.LIST_TEX 6 LIST.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.LOGO_TEX 1 LOGO.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.MAKECOL_TEX 1 MAKECOL.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.MAKEFILE 7 MAKEFILE Eplain's root
EPLAIN.MARGIN_TEX 5 MARGIN.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.MDISPLAY_TEX 9 MDISPLAY.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.MERGE 5 MERGE Eplain's root
EPLAIN.NOBIB_TEX 1 NOBIB.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.NONOUTER_TEX 1 NONOUTER.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.OPTIONAL_TEX 2 OPTIONAL.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.OUTER_TEX 2 OUTER.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.PAGE_TEX 1 PAGE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.PCOL_TEX 11 PCOL.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.PROJECTS 3 PROJECTS Eplain's root
EPLAIN.README 6 README Eplain's root
EPLAIN.RULE_TEX 2 RULE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.TEXINFO_TEX_1OF3 80 TEXINFO.TEX Eplain's doc
EPLAIN.TEXINFO_TEX_2OF3 80 (part 2 of 3)
EPLAIN.TEXINFO_TEX_3OF3 56 (part 3 of 3)
EPLAIN.TEXNAMES_STY 23 TEXNAMES.STY Eplain's root
EPLAIN.TIME_TEX 1 TIME.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.USCORE_BIB 1 USCORE.BIB Eplain's test
EPLAIN.USCORE_TEX 1 USCORE.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.VERBATIM_TEX 2 VERBATIM.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.WHITESPC_TEX 4 WHITESPC.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.XAMPL_TEX 1 XAMPL.TEX Eplain's test
EPLAIN.XEPLAIN_TEX_1OF2 79 XEPLAIN.TEX Eplain's root
EPLAIN.XEPLAIN_TEX_2OF2 43 (part 2 of 2)
EPLAIN.XREF_TEX 2 XREF.TEX Eplain's test
Approximate total blocks in full EPLAIN package = 1459
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 12:35:59 CST
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: Sfware programs available on FILESERV/Niord
Keywords: Sfware, soft fonts
Norm Walsh (author of the popular SFPtoPK, PKtoSFP, and MergeSFP utilities
for softfont conversions to and from PK formats) forwarded me his new
Sfware collection for even more extensive font handling. Norm's obsession
with collecting fonts clearly has a benefit for the TeX community. Below
is the FILESERV description file for this new package.
My thanks are extended to Norm for providing them for our distribution.
--George
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SFWARE
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The SFWARE package includes four UUENCODEd ZIP files for Norm Walsh's
(walsh@cs.umass.edu) utilities which allow you to download, rotate,
compress, expand, view, and perform special effects on softfonts. The
effects provided include bold, fill, convert to fixed spacing, halftone,
hollow, invert, mirror, outline, convert to proportional spacing, resize,
reverse, shade, shadow, slant, stripe, three-d, hollow-three-d, and
filled-three-d effects. The effects can be tailored and customized for any
font with various parameters and shading patterns.
Sfware is distributed in four archive files: SFW100P1, SFW100P2, SFW100D1,
and SFW100D2. The 'P' archives contain the programs and the 'D' archives
contain documentation. It is absolutely vital that you have BOTH program
archives before you try to use Sfware.
These programs only work under MS-DOS. The menu-shell requires a hard disk
and 400+kb of memory. The special effects cannot be applied to scalable
fonts. These programs are shareware.
What you need:
SFW100P1.ZIP
SFW100P2.ZIP
These archives contain the programs for Sfware. You must get both of these
archives or Sfware will not work!
SFW100D1.ZIP
SFW100D2.ZIP
These archives contain the documentation. The "D1" archive documents the
full-screen shell. The "D2" archive documents the command line utilities.
It is recommended that you start with the full-screen shell and move on to
the command-line interface if you find a need.
These files are available for retrieval via mail by including the command:
SENDME SFWARE
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
If, for some reason, you should only require a specific file, say,
SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_05OF13, include the command:
SENDME SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_05OF13
in your mail message to FILESERV. The SFW100P1.ZIP, SFW100P2.ZIP,
SFW100D1.ZIP, and SFW100D2.ZIP files are available for anonymous ftp
retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu [192.92.115.8] in the directory
[.SFWARE].
Files added to this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File Blocks Save file as: UUDECODEs to:
SFWARE.SFW100_TXT 2 SFW100.TXT N/A
SFWARE.SFW100D1_UUE_01OF10 79 SFW100D1.UUE SFW100D1.ZIP
through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 9)
SFWARE.SFW100D1_UUE_09OF10
SFWARE.SFW100D1_UUE_10OF10 39 part 10
SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_1OF8 79 SFW100D2.UUE SFW100D2.ZIP
through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 7)
SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_7OF8
SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_8OF8 69 part 8
SFWARE.SFW100P1_UUE_01OF12 79 SFW100P1.UUE SFW100P1.ZIP
through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 11)
SFWARE.SFW100P1_UUE_11OF12
SFWARE.SFW100P1_UUE_12OF12 77 part 12
SFWARE.SFW100P2_UUE_01OF13 79 SFW100P2.UUE SFW100P2.ZIP
through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 12)
SFWARE.SFW100P2_UUE_12OF13
SFWARE.SFW100P2_UUE_13OF13 44 part 13
Approximate total blocks in SFWARE package = 3,312
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1992 14:06:19 CST
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: ENDFLOAT.STY available at FILESERV/Niord
Keywords: ENDFLOAT.STY
James Darrell McCauley <jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu> forwarded me his official
release version (1.0) of his endfloat.sty (a beta version had been posted
to comp.text.tex earlier). The purpose of this style is to put all figures
on pages by themselves at the end of an article in a section named Figures.
Likewise for tables. Reference can be made in the text of where the figure
should have been (only caption appears - see \markersintext and
\nomarkersintext [default] below. \ref and \label always works on the ones
at the end). The default language of this style is English; specific
instructions for using this in a foreign language are provided within the
comments of the file.
To retrieve this file via e-mail, please include the command:
SENDME STY.ENDFLOAT
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
The file is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu
[192.92.115.8] in the directory [.STY] as STY.ENDFLOAT.
Regards, George
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG
College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266
P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612
Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu
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