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UKTeX Digest    Friday, 12 Aug 1994    Volume 94 : Issue 30

Today's Topics:
                      Re: Problems with LaTeX 2e
                      Re: Problems with LaTeX 2e
                       BibTeX field size limits
         Re: Q: preface & bibliography in table of contents ?
            Re: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager
            Re: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager
   Re: File handle problems in DOS (was in emTeX and Novell Netware
                        MuTeX - does it work?
                      LexiTeX / LexiBib release

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Date:    Sat, 06 Aug 1994 19:57:12 -0000
From:    R A Bailey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Problems with LaTeX 2e

Whenever you install a new format file you can expect to have
to remake all the auxiliary files (*.aux, *.toc, *.lof, etc)
because those are written by each format in such a way that it
can read it itself. So the reported problem is neither nor
surprising nor a problem.
- -- 
R. A. Bailey
Snail: Department of Mathematical Studies   Tel: (+44) 81 692 7171
       Goldsmiths' College     
       New Cross                            Email: [email-masked]
       London SE14 6NW

Please note that I am moving to Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London, on 1 October 1994. After that date the
above address, eaddress and phone number will not find me.

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Date:    Mon, 08 Aug 1994 14:16:00 -0000
From:    [email-masked] (Alan Jeffrey)
Subject: Re: Problems with LaTeX 2e

>>I have found that by deleting all the output files (.toc, .idx, .aux,
>>.lof etc) the document formats.  But I need to run it through LaTeX
>>at least twice for the contents and tables to be incorperated into
>>the document!

>>What am I doing wrong?

Nothing!  I'm afraid that .toc, .idx etc. files aren't compatible
between versions of LaTeX.  You should regenerate the files.  The good
news is you only need to do this once per document.

Alan.

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Date:    Sat, 06 Aug 1994 20:05:55 -0000
From:    Frank Bennett <[email-masked]>
Subject: BibTeX field size limits

Does anyone know whether it is possible to expand the field size
limits in BibTeX?  I am preparing an annotated bibliography of
Japanese commercial law cases, and the summary of facts for complex
cases may run beyond the normal limit of 3,000 characters.

Cheers,
- -------------------
Frank Bennett, Jr
Law Department
School of Oriental and African Studies
(University of London)
Thornhaugh Street
London WC1H 0XG
Tel: (071)323-6351
Fax: (071)436-3844
email: [email-masked]

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Date:    Sat, 06 Aug 1994 20:19:28 -0000
From:    R A Bailey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Q: preface & bibliography in table of contents ?

The best way to get headings of funny `sections' like
prefaces in the the table of contents is to use the
counter secnumdepth described on pages 157 and 160 of the
Manual. I use
     \setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}
     \chapter{preface}
Of course, you have to set secnumdepth back to its usual value
(which is 2 in the standard styles, I think) before you do 
any `section' which you want to be numbered.

This is why it works. \chapter without the star does
   (i) put something in the toc file
   (ii) write the chapter title
   (iii) if secnumdepth \geq 0 then increase the counter for the
        chapter and write it out.

The above behaviour is much more predictable than \addtocontents,
which, IMHO, should be avoided if at all possible.
- -- 
R. A. Bailey
Snail: Department of Mathematical Studies   Tel: (+44) 81 692 7171
       Goldsmiths' College     
       New Cross                            Email: [email-masked]
       London SE14 6NW

Please note that I am moving to Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London, on 1 October 1994. After that date the
above address, eaddress and phone number will not find me.

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Date:    Mon, 08 Aug 1994 09:13:23 +0100
From:    [email-masked]
Subject: Re: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager

B. Pevzner  ([email-masked]) writes:

>I am looking for a bibliography database manager for either UNIX or
>DOS or Windows that can:
>
>(1) import bibliography files in an arbitrary (but fixed, of course) format
>        according to a user-defined template
>
>(2) export bibliography files according to a user-defined template
>        (e.g. let me export files in BibTeX format)
>
>(3) search by the field(s)
>
>(4) be programmed to detect and merge duplicate entries
>        according to a "key" field
>
>Could you suggest any program (either free- or share-ware or commercially
>available) that would come as close as possible to doing all this?
>Or maybe someone has written an MS-Access application to do this?
>
I use "Idealist" a free text database system available for DOS and Windows (I
have only used the Windows version) from 
Blackwell Software
Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd.
Osney Mead
Oxford  OX2 0EL
UK

Fax:
        International           +44 865 791738
        UK                      0865 791738

It certainly satisfies your requirements (1), (2) and (3), and it might be
possible to do (4), but there isn't a proper macro language, simply a facility
for attaching a series of commands to a button on the button bar.  So this
might have to be done manually.
I had very few problem importing my files from LocoFile, and no problem geting
TeX output for the bibliography of my thesis (using Plain TeX, not BibTeX). 
Length of text is no problem for Idealist, the wife of a colleague works for
Blackwell, and tells us that they store the entire text of books using their
mainframe verson.

Andrew

Dr. Andrew Millard                                         
Research Laboratory for Archaeology    Phone  +44-865-283930  
  and the History of Art,              Fax    +44-865-273932
Oxford University,                     E-mail [email-masked]
6, Keble Rd,
Oxford.  OX1 3QJ  
U.K.                         

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Date:    Mon, 08 Aug 1994 12:32:11 +0000
From:    Bernard Treves Brown <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager

> Date:    02 Aug 1994 20:56:17 +0000
> From:    [email-masked] (Boris Pevzner)
> Subject: [WANTED]: A Bibliography Database Manager
> 
> I am looking for a bibliography database manager for either UNIX or
> DOS or Windows that can:
> 
> (1) import bibliography files in an arbitrary (but fixed, of course) format
>         according to a user-defined template
> 
> (2) export bibliography files according to a user-defined template
>         (e.g. let me export files in BibTeX format)
> 
> (3) search by the field(s)
> 
> (4) be programmed to detect and merge duplicate entries
>         according to a "key" field
> 
> Could you suggest any program (either free- or share-ware or commercially
> available) that would come as close as possible to doing all this?
> Or maybe someone has written an MS-Access application to do this?

Papyrus from Research Software Design should be able to cope with all 
the above. In practice, a number of people use it to generate references 
for direct import into (La)TeX. I have written a few macros to aid 
this process. However, I have read of people preparing BiBTeX files 
with it. It will happily generate the appropriate TeX codes for 
accents and the like.
Best Wishes,
Bernard Treves Brown

Bernard J. Treves Brown
Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science
UMIST, Manchester. UK
Email: [email-masked]
Tel:   061-200 4899   
Fax:   061-200 4911

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Date:    08 Aug 1994 10:46:45
From:    Mike Piff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: File handle problems in DOS (was in emTeX and Novell Netware

%%>Date:    Mon, 25 Jul 1994 10:11:59 -0000
%%>From:    Paul Doyle <[email-masked]>
%%>Subject: Re: File handle problems with betatest emTeX and Novell Netware
%%>
%%>> Some of my files contained the combination
%%>>
%%>> call xxx > nul
%%>>
%%>> where xxx might be an .exe file.  n repetitions of that causes DOS to get
%%>> screwed up, in that it loses all its file handles, where n is as set in
%%>>
%%>> FILES=n
%%>
%%>Using > nul is only a problem if you're loading TSRs - the
%%>file handles are released when the program exits.  No exit, no
%%>release.
%%>
%%>Paul.
%%>

Have you tried it?  Here is an example to illustrate the problem.  The
behaviour exhibited here should never happen, but it does!
(I assume that attrib is an external command in your version of MS-DOS.
chkdsk or mem work equally well, as does TeX. :-)

rem ScrewUpDOS.bat
:loop
call attrib > nul
goto loop

Notice the File Creation Error messages after n repetitions in the loop.
Now break in and try running LaTeX, and you will see the weird error
messages my users were getting.

Mike Piff

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% Dr M J Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %%
%% Sheffield, UK.                    e-mail: [email-masked] %%
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Date:    Wed, 10 Aug 1994 12:05:33 +0000
From:    [email-masked] (Jake Palmer)
Subject: MuTeX - does it work?

Does anyone have a working version of MuTeX?
(a deluge of negative answers will not be appreciated)

In the one I've got there seems to be an error in 
the metafont file noten16.mf in that the flags for 
downward pointing stems are generated as invisible.
If your version of MuTeX produces flags for downward stems
please please e-mail me so I can find out what's wromg 
with mine.

Jake Palmer
Imaging Technology Research Group

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Date:    Thu, 11 Aug 1994 22:45:13 +0100
From:    Robin Fairbairns <[email-masked]>
Subject: LexiTeX / LexiBib release

The following message was posted to the wrong list by mistake, and
Frank asked archive maintainers to forward it, having deleted his
own copy.  (Not that I'm an active archive maintainer yet...)

- ------- Forwarded Message

From: Frank Bennett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 18:53:19 BST
Subject: LexiTeX / LexiBib release

Two `doc' files have been placed in the UK CTAN `incoming' directory.
These are:

lexibib-1.0c.doc: This is a BibTeX style that exports a *.bbl file
whose entries are in the format required by LexiTeX.  This is a
bare-bones alpha release, which provides only incomplete support
for a few entry types (books, articles, and Japanese law cases).
A test database and a sample file are included.  Apart from the
fact that there is no user documentation (yet), highlights of 
the package are the modular design of functions, and fairly
clear documentation of how the sub-functions used to build 
output in the entry-type functions operate.

lexitex-2.0f.doc:  This is a further upgrade of the LexiTeX style,
with the essential inner workings needed to cooperate with LexiBib.
An added, as yet undocumented feature is support for leading
volume numbers for multivolume works.  The syntax for this is:

  \lexicite:1:{citenickname}

Where `1' stands for whatever the volume designation is meant
to be.  Any LexiBib book entry with a non-empty volume or
number field is open to the appending of a volume number with
\lexicite:?: syntax.

Comments on these files will be most welcome.

Enjoy!
- - -------------------
Frank Bennett, Jr
Law Department
School of Oriental and African Studies
(University of London)
Thornhaugh Street
London WC1H 0XG
Tel: (071)323-6351
Fax: (071)436-3844
email: [email-masked]

- ------- End of Forwarded Message

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