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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)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:33:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Joel Coltoff <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
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

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Message: 2
To: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
    [email-masked], [email-masked]
cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Subject: TUG 2002: further call for papers
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:02:25 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <[email-masked]>

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 [email-masked]

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:

   [email-masked]         -- General information
   [email-masked]  -- Submission of papers
   [email-masked] -- Financial matters
   [email-masked]  -- Travel information
   [email-masked]   -- 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.]

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:41:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Roger Gawley <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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?

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:01:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: Hartmut Henkel <[email-masked]>
To: Roger Gawley <[email-masked]>
cc: TeXhax <[email-masked]>
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
> [email-masked]
> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Henkel
von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH
Schlossplatz 8, D-68723 Schwetzingen, Germany
E-Mail [email-masked]
WWW http://www.vh-s.de
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:32:40 +0100 (BST)
From: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <[email-masked]>
To: TeXhax <[email-masked]>
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                         [email-masked]
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
> > [email-masked]
> > http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Henkel
> von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH
> Schlossplatz 8, D-68723 Schwetzingen, Germany
> E-Mail [email-masked]
> WWW http://www.vh-s.de
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> TeXhax mailing list
> [email-masked]
> http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax

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Message: 6
To: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <[email-masked]>
cc: TeXhax <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Q: \time command?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:28:18 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <[email-masked]>

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.

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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 06:29:42 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[email-masked]>
To: TeXhax <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Q: \time command?

Andreas Hadjiprocopis <[email-masked]> 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}

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- 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: [email-masked]  -
- Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB        [email-masked]  [email-masked] -
- 155 S 1400 E RM 233                       [email-masked]                    -
- Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA    URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe  -
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:38:04 -0600 (MDT)
From: "John W. Shipman" <[email-masked]>
To: Andreas Hadjiprocopis <[email-masked]>
cc: TeXhax <[email-masked]>
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 ([email-masked]), 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; [email-masked]
%--
% 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 ---

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