Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #22
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 12:47:45 +0100

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:  [email-masked]
    Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests:
                    [email-masked]

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Date:    Fri, 29 Apr 1994 12:09:02 -0000
From:    Kieran Parsons <[email-masked]>
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  

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Date:    Tue, 24 May 1994 11:31:45 -0400
From:    AHMED TAHRAOUI <[email-masked]>
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

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Date:    Mon, 06 Jun 1994 13:22:18 +0000
From:    [email-masked] (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

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Date:    Mon, 06 Jun 1994 13:22:18 +0000
From:    [email-masked] (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

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Date:    Tue, 07 Jun 1994 09:22:24 -0000
From:    [email-masked]
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

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Date:    Mon, 06 Jun 1994 13:25:53 -0000
From:    [email-masked]
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)?

              / <expression_1>  <condition_1>      (<label_1>)
              |
   <l_h_s> = <
              |
              \ <expression_2>  <condition_2>      (<label_2>)

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 
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E-mail [email-masked] / [email-masked]

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Date:    Mon, 06 Jun 1994 17:27:16 +0100
From:    [email-masked]
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

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Date:    Tue, 07 Jun 1994 10:11:41 +0000
From:    [email-masked]
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

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Date:    Wed, 08 Jun 1994 11:09:52 +0000
From:    [email-masked] (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

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Date:    Tue, 07 Jun 1994 13:41:43 -0400
From:    "George D. Greenwade" <[email-masked]>
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: [email-masked]
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/).
 The macros/latex209/ hierarchy is designed as follows:
   distribs/ --- the complete LaTeX 2.09 distribution kit, with each
                 component within its own subdirectory.
   contrib/  --- user-contributed styles and packages for LaTeX 2.09.
                 Each multi-file package is housed in its own
                 unique subdirectory.  Single files are retained
                 together in the misc/ subdirectory.

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