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TeXhax Digest    Thursday, 18 Aug 1994  Volume 94 : Issue 06

Today's Topics:
                       LaTeX to Microsoft Word
                     Re: LaTeX to Microsoft Word
                     Looking for Tex/LaTex Editor
               Wanted help about previewing epf files.
                         Postscript converter
                   wanted help: Latex with epsf.sty
                           blackboard_font
                   Announcing patchlevel 18 of xdvi
                    Announcing xdvi patchlevel 18
                        Announcing gsftopk 1.7
                Announcement: Sauter tools Version 2.2
   Online AsTeR Demo on the WWW (oral rendering of LaTex documents)

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Date:    Thu, 28 Jul 1994 18:08:39 +0000
From:    [email-masked] (Durgesh S)
Subject: LaTeX to Microsoft Word

Is there a way of converting a LaTeX document to
Microsoft Word? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
My email address is : [email-masked]

Thanks in advance.

Durgesh.

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Date:    29 Jul 1994 11:48:15 +0000
From:    [email-masked] (Volker Bosch)
Subject: Re: LaTeX to Microsoft Word

Durgesh S ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Is there a way of converting a LaTeX document to
: Microsoft Word? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
[...]

Hallo,

the only way I know, is to convert the LaTeX file into a RTF file. MS-Word
should be able to handle RTF-Files. 

I used the program TeX2RFT, which is availible by ftp. I've got it from
ftp.dante.de. You might find it on other ftp servers as well. 

In the august issue of the german computer magazine 'iX' (Heise Verlag
Hannover) you will find an article, describing programs to convert TeX files 
(p. 74).  

- --

Viele Gruesse

  Volker

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Date:    06 Aug 1994 02:45:08 -0400
From:    Bruce Graham <[email-masked]>
Subject: Looking for Tex/LaTex Editor

I am looking for a full-feature Tex/LaTex editor for Macintosh that would allow
me to transfer files to/from Microsoft Word. So far, I've only heard of
"Scientific Word" for Windows and a French product called "Mator Mac." 
I work in the South of France as a technical translator and editor for
researchers wishing to publish in English and would appreciate any suggestions
about where I can purchase such an editor.
      Bruce Graham - Marseille

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Date:    Mon, 08 Aug 1994 16:37:25 +0800
From:    Chen Ke <[email-masked]>
Subject: Wanted help about previewing epf files.

I just found my latex can't deal with eps file. That means latex did work
when a .eps file is inserted in the tex file though I have eps.sty in lib.
- ----------------
pics82:/home/pics82/chen/Ideas>33>latex memo1.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
(memo1.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <25 March 1992>
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.sty
Standard Document Style `article' <14 Jan 92>.
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/art11.sty))
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/epsf.sty) (memo1.aux)
! Undefined control sequence.
l.51  \EPSfile
              {file=eg1.ps,height=8cm,width=14cm}\\
- --------------------------------
As a result, I wonder whether some other files should be added to lib
so that latex can work to deal with inserting a .eps file in tex file.
Any other advice will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

KE
[email-masked] or
[email-masked]

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Date:    Mon, 08 Aug 1994 21:11:31 -0400
From:    Frank Marchese <[email-masked]>
Subject: Postscript converter

I am a new user to LaTex and have a question.  Is there
a LaTex to postscript or DVI to Postscript converter
that runs on Intel platforms?  Please respond to
me directly...thanks in advance for any help that
can be given.
email: [email-masked]

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Date:    Fri, 12 Aug 1994 09:44:07 +0800
From:    Chen Ke <[email-masked]>
Subject: wanted help: Latex with epsf.sty

I am a new netter and want to use type Latex to typeset a paper.
I have installed Tex 3.1415 in my machine(Tatung workstation compatible
with Sun SPARC classic). I found there is no epsf.sty in ~/tex/latex/base.
So I can't deal with .eps file using Latex. However, I have achieved an
"epsf.sty" from a friend of mine in Canada and put it in the aforementioned
directory. But it doesn't work as follows:

- --------------------
pics82:/home/pics82/chen/Ideas>33>latex memo1.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
(memo1.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <25 March 1992>
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.sty
Standard Document Style `article' <14 Jan 92>.
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/art11.sty))
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/epsf.sty) (memo1.aux)
! Undefined control sequence.
l.51  \EPSfile
              {file=eg1.ps,height=8cm,width=14cm}\\
- --------------------------------

As a result, I would appreciate it if you would give tips to deal
with this problem

Best Regards,

Ke Chen
[email-masked]

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Date:    Sat, 13 Aug 1994 18:45:21 +0700
From:    david dureisseix <[email-masked]>
Subject: blackboard_font

  As I was used to write scientific texts with "Word" on
a MacIntosh, I have got several habits...
  In particular tensors like stress and strain are denoted
by lowercase Greek letters \sigma and \varepsilon, with a
style named "relief" (en Francais dans le texte); it does
something like doubling drawings of letters. As I tried to
reproduce it with LaTeX, I installed Blackboard-bold font
(bbold.mf). But the characters are a bit rough to be used
frequently in the text.
  Does someone know the name of a font more suited for my
purpose, i.e. that looks more like Word's one ?

  Thanks a lot.
- --
David DUREISSEIX
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Date:    Sun, 31 Jul 1994 19:38:14 -0700
From:    [email-masked] (Paul Vojta)
Subject: Announcing patchlevel 18 of xdvi

From: [email-masked] (Paul Vojta)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Announcing xdvi patchlevel 18
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Keywords: 

OK, so this is a little late, but:

This is to announce that patchlevel 18 for xdvi, a previewer for .dvi files
under the X Window System, has been released.  This is a full release,
as opposed to a patch, due to the extent of the changes.  It is available
via anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org in the file contrib/applications/xdvi.tar.Z
(and coming soon to a mirror site near you...).  It is also available on
the R6 contrib tape.

This version adds:
   o    Support for PostScript specials.
   o    Checking of checksums in the .dvi file vs. the .pk or .gf file.
   o    Non-square magnifying glasses.

As was mentioned in the announcement of patch 17, it removes support for X10
and for the pxl font format.

- --Paul Vojta, [email-masked]

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Date:    Mon, 08 Aug 1994 15:22:43 -0700
From:    [email-masked] (Paul Vojta)
Subject: Announcing gsftopk 1.7

This is to announce the availability of Version 1.7 of gsftopk.
gsftopk is a package whose purpose is to allow use of PostScript<TM> fonts
with xdvi.  It consists of:

    1.  A program called gsftopk.c which creates pk font files for the
        PostScript fonts.  The bitmaps are obtained from ghostscript.
    2.  A script called xdvimakepk which is to be used in place of
        MakeTeXPK in xdvi.

The package requires the use of a dvips-style psfonts.map file.

The package is available via anonymous ftp from math.berkeley.edu
in the file pub/Software/TeX/gsftopk.tar.Z.  To upgrade from version
1.6 you may use pub/Software/TeX/gsftopk.patch7.Z instead.

gsftopk is also released as a subpackage of xdvi.  Version 1.7 of gsftopk
(or a later version) will be part of patchlevel 19 of xdvi.  Patchlevel 18
of xdvi includes only gsftopk 1.6.

Version 1.7 adds the ability to do subdirectory searching, using the same
// semantics as the web2c release of TeX, et. al.

- --Paul Vojta, [email-masked]

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Date:    Mon, 15 Aug 1994 18:26:50 +0100
From:    [email-masked]
Subject: Announcement: Sauter tools Version 2.2

Today, the Version 2.2 of the Sauter parameter files have been installed 
at the german CTAN site and should propagate to the other ones in the 
next 24 hours.

The Sauter tools allow you to generate any font out of the cm family at an 
arbitrary design size by interpolating between the Knuthian parameters or
extrapolating them. The Sauter fonts can be used to replace any scaled 
fonts used by LaTeX and plain TeX.

Version 2.2 contains mainly some bug fixes:

c-cmb:        now produces characters of the same width as in cmr
b-wasy:       inputs c-cmmi instead of the outdated c-cmsy
b-bbold:      now gets the right design_size into the tfm file
suatercm.fd:  LaTeX2e support 

Thanks to all the people, who send in the bug reports and suggested fixes.

- --J"org Knappen.

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Date:    10 Aug 1994 20:39:59 +0000
From:    [email-masked] (TV Raman)
Subject: Online AsTeR Demo on the WWW (oral rendering of LaTex documents)

AsTeR --Audio System For Technical Readings-- is a computing system that
exploits the display-independent nature of electronic information to orally
render technical documents marked up in La)TeX.
 
You can experience an interactive  demo of AsTeR on the World Wide Web at
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/aster/demo.html
 
This hypertext document presents a collection of math examples rendered in
audio by AsTeR and in Postscript by LaTeX/DVIPS.
 
It aptly brings out the power of the Web in publishing multimedia documents:
none of my journal publications come with online demos.
 
It also emphasizes the display-independent nature of electronic markup
documents; both the audio formatted version and the visually laid out
Postscript were generated from the same LaTeX source.
 
- --Raman
email: <[email-masked]>
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/raman.html

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