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TeXhax Digest    Friday, 24 Mar 1995  Volume 95 : Issue 07
(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:
                         tex footnote problem
       Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences
                   public-tex installation question
                         Lucida Bright Fonts
                            Typetalk (fwd)

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Date:    Thu, 02 Mar 1995 11:31:00 +0000
From:    "[email-masked],PH 0232-245133-3950" <[email-masked]>
Subject: tex footnote problem

We are having a problem with the footnote symbols printed out below the
last line of text in a document:
e.g.

text lines
:
:
:
last text line
__________________________________
odaggerNumber of lines in program
odoubledaggerUpdated versions available

In the above dagger indicates the sybmol dagger or double dagger 
We would like rid of the zeros before the dagger symbols
any ideas

The tex that generates the stuff is as below:
We are using latex (Northlake Convergent TeX, V3.14b-1) on this file

\documentstyle[twoside,ifthen]{article}        
%
%  preamble for program index
%
%  these declarations set up a reasonable page size for A4.
%  Use by including the line "\input layout " AFTER the \documentstyle{..}
%  declaration (assuming you call this file layout.tex)
%
\pagestyle{headings}
\textheight 23cm 
\textwidth 15.5cm 
\linewidth 15.5cm
\topmargin 0.00in
\footheight 1cm
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\raggedright
%
\parindent 0in                 % no paragraph indent
\setlength{\parskip}{0cm}       % about one line between paragraphs
%
\newenvironment{sublist}{
 \begin{list}{}
 {\setlength{\labelsep}{0.3cm}
 \setlength{\parsep}{0cm}
 \setlength{\labelwidth}{1.2cm}
 \setlength{\leftmargin}{1.5cm}}}{\end{list}}
%
% to print one footnote only per page
%
\newcount\a
\newcount\b
\a=0
%
\newcommand{\pfootnote}{
\b=\value{page}
  \ifnum\a=\b  \else \a=\value{page}
  \footnotetext{\ddag Updated version available.} \fi}
%
%  set footnote symbol to dagger
%
\newcounter{sfoot1}
\setcounter{sfoot1}{2}
\newcommand{\fnlines}{$\fnsymbol{sfoot1}$}
%
\newcounter{sfoot}
\setcounter{sfoot}{3}
%  footnote symbol for superseded programs set to double dagger
\newcommand{\fnsf}{$\fnsymbol{sfoot}$}
%  right arrow symbol
\newcommand{\rtarrow}{$\rightarrow$}
\begin{document}               % PLUS THE \end COMMAND AT THE END.
\oddsidemargin 0.0in
\evensidemargin 0.0in
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\input{index}

Regards
Colin

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Date:    Mon, 06 Mar 1995 15:03:53 +0000
From:    Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: TeX, how to detect already defined control sequences

>> My own solution to the skipped-if problem is not as pretty:

>>   \let\then\iftrue
>>   \def\ifundefined#1\then{\ifx#1\undefined\empty}
>>   ...
>>   \ifundefined\test\then Fail\else Graduate\fi

This is interesting, and is similar to my own `properly nestable user-written
ifs' which also use \then; the difference is that they modify \then on
the fly, unfortunately a manner which prevents the code from being used
in expansion-only contexts.  One of the things I am wondering about
for e-TeX is whether more things could be done in (e-)TeX's mouth...

                                Philip Taylor, RHBNC.

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Date:    Wed, 15 Mar 1995 14:06:01 +0000
From:    George Kiraz <[email-masked]>
Subject: public-tex installation question

I am trying to install the public tex version
(systems/msdos/public-tex) on my PC, and I am having problems.  initex
cannot find tex.poo (although the error message calls the file
tex.pool) . I placed tex.poo in a specific directory and i did SET the
variable for it, but that did not solve th e problem.

I appreciate any help (please reply by email to [email-masked]).

thanks

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Date:    Thu, 16 Mar 1995 14:03:07 +0000
From:    Kieran Parsons <[email-masked]>
Subject: Lucida Bright Fonts

Does anyone know of a UK supplier of Lucida Bright and Lucida Math fonts? 

(or if not, any supplier at all!)

Thanks in advance,

        Kieran
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Date:    Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:35:24 +0000
From:    "R. Allan Reese" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Typetalk (fwd)

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