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TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 2003 : Number 1

Today's Topics:

   1. TUGboat 2001 Proceedings being shipped today (Mimi Burbank)
   2. tds 1.0 available (Karl Berry)
   3. I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Dr. Tarynn M. Witten)
   4. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Karl Berry)
   5. Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP (Philip G. Ratcliffe)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:01:36 -0500
To: TUGboat announcement <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
	[email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
	[email-masked]
Subject: TUGboat 2001 Proceedings being shipped today
From: Mimi Burbank <[email-masked]>

The TUG 2001 Proceedings are being shipped to the printer
today.  The contents are as follows:

                                 TUGboat
                  Volume 22, Number 3    September 2001
                  ========================================

TUG 2001 Program					     	115
Participants at the 22nd Annual TUG Meeting			117

A TeX Odyssey
  Hans Hagen
	Where will the odyssey bring us?			118
  Mimi Jett
	Future of publishing, Part 2				119
  William Richter
	Integrating TeX into a document imaging system		120
  Arthur Ogawa
	REVTeX version 4.0, an authoring package by the
                  American Physical Society			131
  Anita Schwartz (Chair)
	The TeX History Panel					134
  Hans Hagen
	Using TeX for high end typesetting			136
  Peter Flynn
	TeX---a mass market product? Or just
         	an image in need of a makeover?			137
  David Tulett
	LaTeX for Windows: a user's perspective			140

PDF and TeX
  Han The Thanh
	Margin kerning and font expansion with pdfTeX		146
  Ross Moore
	PDF presentations using the Marslide package		149
  Hans Hagen
	Using TeX to enhance your presentations			160
  Donald P. Story
	Techniques of introducing document-level JavaScript 	161
	    	into a PDF file from a LaTeX source
  Ross Moore
	Online self-marking quizzes, pdfTeX, exerquiz		168
  Martin Schroder
	Using pdfTeX in a PDF-based imposition tool		180
  Nelson Beebe
	pdfTeX Panel						181

Graphics, XML, and MathML
  Ross Moore
	Adobe plugin for WARMreader				188
   Stephen Oliver
	 The TeXspec tool for computer-aided
		  software engineering				197
   William Hammond
	 GELLMU: A bridge for authors from LaTeX to XML		204
   Bob Caviness
	 Creating Math Web Documents (Workshop)			208

 Fonts and Tools
   Alan Hoenig
	 Typesetting Hebrew with TeX				209
   Alan Hoenig
	 Modernizing Computer Modern				216
   Nelson Beebe
	 Fonts Panel						220
   Michael Downes
	 Managing multiple TDS trees				228
   Michael Doob
	 Installing a CTAN mirror on your desktop		238
   Richard Koch
	 Installing TeXshop					240
   William Adams
	 Font installation: Agfa/Eaglefeather
			to Linotype Zapfino			247

 News &  Announcements
   Calendar							251
   TUG 2003 Announcement					253
 TUG Business
   Institutional members					254

 Advertisements
   TeX consulting and production services			255
   Kluwer
     Just Published: TeX Reference Manual by David Bausum	256
   Blue Sky Research						cover3

                  ========================================

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:24:43 -0500
From: [email-masked] (Karl Berry)
To: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
   [email-masked], [email-masked]
Subject: tds 1.0 available

I have released version 1.0 of the TeX directory structure (TDS)
document.  The only substantive change since 0.9996 (several years ago)
is adding fonts/enc and fonts/map subdirectories (for encodings and map
files, respectively).

You can view it online (HTML) at http://tug.org/tds/ and retrieve it in
many other formats from ftp://tug.org/tds/.

It should be mirrored to ctan shortly.

Email [email-masked] if comments, questions, or suggestions.

Thanks,
karl (for the TDS working group)

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Message: 3
From: "Dr. Tarynn M. Witten" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:01:02 -0500
Subject: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
To: [email-masked]

Hi Everyone:
I am writing a book and I have a very large number of references
(almost 1000). I have created a bibtex database and have gone through
it with a fine tooth comb. No matter what I do, I keep getting the
following BibTex error whenever I try to call Bibtex:

This is Big BibTeX version 0.99c
Implementation:  EMX/GNU C 32 bit for Win32
Release version: 3.71 (18 Aug 1996)

The top-level auxiliary file:
C:\pctexv4\MyAgingBook\LatexAgingBookStructure.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: agingbook_master_macropak.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: FontDefinitions.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: Definitions.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: TitlePage.aux
A level-1 auxilliary file: LegalPage.aux
The style file: plain.bst
Database file #1: allrefs.bib
 Illegal end of database file---line 38789 of file allrefs.bib
 : }
 :

I could really use some help with this because I cannot get all of the
references into the book. It stops at 100 references. The bibtex file
is called allrefs.bib and my code call for the bibliography within the
tex file of the book is

\bibliographystyle{plain}{9999}
\bibliography{allrefs}

I am running on PCTeX 4.0

The log file allrefs.log states the following:

PTITeX 3.4, (c) Personal TeX, Inc. 1985-1998
This is TeX 3.14159 (preloaded format=LATEX 3.1.4)  11 FEB 2003 17:27
**&LATEX C:/pctexv4/MyAgingBook/allrefs.bib
(C:\pctexv4\MyAgingBook\allrefs.bib
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, loaded.

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.1 @
     preamble{ "\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{} "
? x
.
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 6 strings out of 845
 235 string characters out of 7711
 9801 words of memory out of 57344
 3024 multiletter control sequences out of 10000
 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 20000 for 255
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 607
 5i,0n,4p,1b,14s stack positions out of 200i,40n,60p,5000b,600s
No pages of output.

What is interesting about the log file is the fact that the actual
database has no preamble code in it anywhere and there is no other
bibtex related code in the main program.

Thank you
Please direct responses to me at [email-masked]
Dr. Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D., FGSA, FCSBC, MSW(c)
Senior Fellow and Director of Research and Development
Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
VCU Life Sciences, Academic Campus, Suite 111
1000 West Cary Street
P.O. Box 842030
Richmond, VA 23284-2030
(p) 804-827-7371
(f) 804-828-1961
(e) [email-masked]
(w) http://www.people.vcu.edu/~tmwitten

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:13:36 -0500
From: [email-masked] (Karl Berry)
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP

    **&LATEX C:/pctexv4/MyAgingBook/allrefs.bib

Run bibtex, not latex, on the .bib file.
That is:
  latex yourbook  -> creates yourbook.aux
  bibtex yourbook -> reads yourbook.aux and allrefs.bib, writes yourbook.bbl
  latex yourbook  -> reads yourbook.bbl

Hope this helps,
karl

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Message: 5
From: "Philip G. Ratcliffe" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: I NEED SOME SERIOUS BIBTEX HELP - HELP HELP
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:14:36 +0100

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

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