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TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2003 : Number 2

Today's Topics:

   1. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Herbert Gintis)
   2. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Philip G. Ratcliffe)
   3. Re: Primer (Tom Schneider)
   4. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Robin Fairbairns)
   5. case conversion (Michal Kaut)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:58:29 -0500
To: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <[email-masked]>
From: Herbert Gintis <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP

At 10:14 PM 2/13/2003 +0100, Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
>Your problem is that BibTeX simply runs out of memory and therefore stops
>reading the bib file at some random point.  You need to run BibTeX8 (the
>so-called eight-bit version), which is more configurable and allows for a
>much larger database.
.
>If you are using MiKTeX or the like, then you should already have it and its
>documentation, otherwise you can downlaod from CTAN.
>
>One word of warning: if you are using a bst that orders alphabetically,  you
>may find a slight difference in the output between the standard and the
>eight-bit versions.
>
>Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe
         How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
and otherwise cryptic, sites.

Herb

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Message: 2
From: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <[email-masked]>
To: "Herbert Gintis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:56:52 +0100

> How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
> and otherwise cryptic, sites.

Well, the CTAN archives is the obvious place to look:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html

However, if you have MiKTeX, for example, you should already have everything
(and the documentation) and you can just substitute the comand BibTeX with
BibTeX8.  If the default settings are still not sufficient, it is completely
configurable.

Chees,  Phil Ratcliffe

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Message: 3
From: Tom Schneider <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Primer
To: [email-masked] (Axel Kielhorn)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:16:33 -0500 (EST)

Axel:

Thanks for your notes.  I would prefer to avoid adding fonts outside
the standard distribution for my papers because that forces others to
do the same.

To recapitulate the problem:

I have found that if I convert from ps to pdf:

echo "quit" | gs -q -r2000x2000 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$name.pdf $name.ps

the pdf looks horrible on the screen (Sun workstation, acrobat) but it
prints ok.

So I have been using:

\usepackage{pslatex} % Times New Roman Font
or
\usepackage{times}

This displays well on the screen but when sent to our printer
it loses all the dashes!  That is completely unacceptable.

Isn't there a system that works well in all directions????
This is frustrating.

Tom

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
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  http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/

> Hi Tom!
>
> > Ah ha!  I know that the pdf file is rather bad on the screen (though it
> > prints fine) but don't know why or what to do about it.
> >
> > > If you have control over your toolchain I suggest using the Type 1
> > > version of the CM fonts. Depending on your TeX installation adding
> > > "-PCMPS" to your DVIPS options may be sufficient.
> >
> > It doesn't work:
> >
> > dvips: warning: no config file for `CMPS'
>
> Sorry, this was my fault. I am using some files not included in the
> standard distribution. You may have the fonts already installed, but
> with different support files.
>
> If not, you can get them from your nearest CTAN mirror, for me it is
> ftp.dante.de, for you that may be tug.ctan.org. The fonts will be at
> /tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/cmps-unix.tar.gz
> (or similar, I have the CD here.)
>
> Put the pfb files into a directory searched by DVIPS (you sysadmin will
> know).
>
> There are several ways to treat the psfonts.cmz file:
>
> You can add the contents to the psfonts.map file, this file is read by
> DVIPS when it looks for fonts.
>
> You can rename the file to psfonts.CMPS and add the command
> "p +psfonts.CMPS" (without the quotes) to config.ps. This looks like the
> best idea when you always want to use the PS fonts, even for printing.
>
> You can rename the file to psfonts.CMPS and create a file called
> config.CMPS which consists only of one line:
> p +psfonts.CMPS
> This is what I did. To use the PS fonts you have to specify -PCMPS when
> invoking DVIPS. Without this option bitmaps will be used which may be
> neccesary for old printer with low memory.
>
> After installing the fonts you may have to call texhash to tell TeX
> about the changes, your administrator will know.
>
> > % dvips -v
> > This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
>
> That is the same version I have.
>
> > I use ghostscript to convert to pdf,
> >
> > echo "quit" | gs -q -r2000x2000 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> > -sOutputFile=$name.pdf $name.ps
>
> You tell GhostScript to use 2000 DPI resolution but the fonts are
> already turned into bitmaps by DVIPS, normally at 300 DPI (laserwriter).
> When using PS fonts, you don't have to specify a resolution at all.
>
> > % gs -v
> > Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17)
> > Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
> >
> > Do we need to upgrade?
>
> I have used the same version untill recently, it should do.
>
> I hope this helps, please feel free to ask more questions.
>
> Axel

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Message: 4
To: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <[email-masked]>
cc: "Herbert Gintis" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:37:26 +0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <[email-masked]>

> > How does one get bibtex8? Google gives a bunch of mostly defunct,
> > and otherwise cryptic, sites.
>
> Well, the CTAN archives is the obvious place to look:
>
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/alpha.html
>
> However, if you have MiKTeX, for example, you should already have everything
> (and the documentation) and you can just substitute the comand BibTeX with
> BibTeX8.  If the default settings are still not sufficient, it is completely
> configurable.

the sources, if that's the way you choose to go, are to be found on
ctan in

  biblio/bibtex/8-bit

that directory is full of zip files with cryptic 8+3 filenames for
users subject to brain-dead operating systems.

i don't see a bibtex8 in my current tetex distribution, and am in
between builds of tetex 2.0* so can't check that.

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:44:43 +0100
From: Michal Kaut <[email-masked]>
Organization: Molde College university
To: [email-masked]
Subject: case conversion

Hello,

Does there exist any LaTeX macro/package for converting text to
upper- or lower-case?
What I need is a macros \uppercase{} and \lowercase{}

Thank you very much

Michal Kaut

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