Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #7

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TeXhax Digest              Wednesday, 29 May 1996       Volume 96 : Number 007

(incorporating UKTeX Digest)

Today's Topics:

    Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
    Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
    Redefining maximum number of strings, fonts, etc...
    margins
    BibTeX/LaTeX2e question
    BibTeX/LaTeX2e point -- PS
    Location of index package (by David Jones)???
    \def with catcode 1 in parameter text?
    Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6
    Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6

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From: Sebastian Rahtz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:06:40 +0100
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6

 > From: "S. Warde" <
 > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST)
 > Subject: Creating Adobe pdf files from LaTeX
 >   We are currently moving from LaTeX 209 to LaTeX2e. We have
 >   found the hyper and hyperref packages in the contrib/supported
 >   directory.
 >   Though both authors acknowledge each other and say it would be
 >   a good idea to merge they don't say when. Until they do I would
tell us if its necessary, and I expect we'll do something about it.

 >   We have obtained the dvihps source from ftp.tex.ac.uk this seems
 >   to be quiet old. Before installing it I was wondering if
 >     a - there was a more recent version
the author is working on it

 >     b - anyone had 'ported' it to work with the kpathsea
 > distribution
yes, its moderately trivial to do yourself. but i'll be in the next
release of dvipsk

 >     c - knew of any limitations
yes, you cant vary the height of the anchor box...

 >     d - knew of other dvips variants for creating pdf files
use the nativepdf option of hyperref, and you dont need dvihps at all

sebastian rahtz

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From: Sebastian Rahtz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:09:02 +0100
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6

 > From: [email-masked] (Matthew Clemence)
 > From: Russel Winder <[email-masked]>
 > Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 02:50:36 +0100
 > Subject: PostScript from other programs
 > Is there a pool of experience on (or even tools to help forcing Word7
 > and FrameMaker PostScript into a relocatable and hence usable form?

my generic solution is Acrobat Distiller. its an excellent (obviously)
PostScript interpreter. Use that to make a PDF (ie clean!) version of
the file, then use Acrobat Exchange to write out a new .ps version.

i havent tried this per se with Frame files, but the principal should
be sound.

sebastian

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From: [email-masked] (Manfred D. M. Sever)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:51:46 -0400
Subject: Redefining maximum number of strings, fonts, etc...

Hello All!

I would like to be able to increase the
maximum number ``strings'' available to
TeX for processing documents.  It may also
be usefull to increase the upper limit
on the number of fonts allowed.

I think this should be possible to do since
Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin discuss
this on page xi of their book.  I believe
that increasing these limits also involves
recompiling TeX.

However, I can't find the file that these
limits are set in.

How do I proceed?

Thanks in advance,

Manfred.

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From: Mr Marcilo Alves <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:11:57 +0100 (BST)
Subject: margins

Hi,

That's Marcilio from Liverpool.

I am using book class in Latex2e with the option
[a4paper,twoside].

Yet, my output shows different margins; that is there
is a horizontal and vertical shift of one side of the output in
relation to the other side.

Is this a problem with the book class or with 
the printer.

The printer is in the computer centre and I do not
know how to eventually set margins, etc...

Could you help me?

- - ---------------------------------

I am using fancyheadings to set the head of the page.
It works fine but it seems that the commands

\listoffigures  
\listoftables
\tableofcontents

uses its own formatting for the heads.

How can I set my own head in conjunction
with the above commands?

- - ---------------------------------

I do appreciate your help in advance!

Thank you

marcilio

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From: Russel Winder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:31:37 +0100
Subject: BibTeX/LaTeX2e question

I am wondering whether there is a solution to this or whether it is "just one 
of those things you have to hack around".

The background:  Using the Harvard family of citation styles with BibTeX and 
LaTeX2e.  Two references are different papers in the same tome.  
Cross-referencing is used to avoid duplication of information.  Both 
references are used in the same document.  The tome itself (item C) has no 
author or editor.

@InCollection{A,
  ...
  crossref = "C"
}
@InCollection{B,
  ...
  crossref = "C"
}
@Book{C,
  ...
}

The problem:  Because the tome is cited in two difference references, three 
entries get written to the  bbl and auxiliary files.  Because the tome has no 
author or editor, the title is used as the citation mark (both short and long 
form) -- and here is the problem -- this is emphasized, i.e. there is a \emph 
in the parameters of the citation entries in the .aux file.  When the aux 
file 
is read in, the error:

! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 72.
<inserted text> 
                \fi 

occurs.

There are three hack solutions:

1. Manual edit the .aux file -- totally unacceptable.
2. Do not use crossref but suffer the replication of information -- 
unacceptable but...
3.  Force BibTeX not to generate the third reference item but to replicate 
crossreference information in all entries -- I haven't investigated this and 
therefore do not know how to do it.
 
Have others seen this and found other solutions?

Russel.

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From: Russel Winder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:48:19 +0100
Subject: BibTeX/LaTeX2e point -- PS

I forgot to note the obvious point about using the key field in the
bibliography item, I suppose that should be solution 0.  My point was:
Has anyone got an answer to the problem of \emph appearing in the .aux
file, even if accidently?

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Coleman)
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 15:28:01 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Location of index package (by David Jones)???

On page 367 of the LaTeX Companion, the index
package written by David Jones is discussed.
I have, however, not been able to find it on
CTAN. From where can this package be ftped?
Thanks for the help. A direct reply would be
appreciated.

Robert

- -- 
Robert Alan Coleman
Department of Physics
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada S4S 0A2

Tel: (306) 585-4260
Fax: (306) 585-4894
email: [email-masked]

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From: Matteo Frigo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:41:45 -0400
Subject: \def with catcode 1 in parameter text?

Abstract: I want to put a token with catcode 1 in the parameter text
of a macro, and I don't know how.

Problem: I wrote a macro \largeenough which takes one argument, and
formats it in the largest possible font so that the argument fits
in one page (I use it for slides). The macro works by trial and
error, and some other hackery.

Now, I want to define a LaTeX environment

\begin{largeenough}
  text
\end{largeenough}

to accomplish the same effect --- since the environment seems more
elegant to me. The problem is: how do I capture all text preceding the
\end{largeenough} ? I need it for the trial-and-error procedure.  So
far, I use a simple-minded loop to accomplish this effect, but I
wonder if there is a better way.

Essentially, I would like to define a macro

\def\foo#1\end{largeenough}{...}

where I have a { *with catcode 1* in the parameter text. Changing the
catcode doesn't work, because I want to keep the original catcode
of { in the normal text (inside the environment).

Any idea?

Thanks,
Matteo

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From: Michael Doob <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:39:09 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6

>  From: [email-masked] (Matthew Clemence)
>  Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 15:52:03 BST
>  Subject: "Standard" Font sizes
>  
>  I am maintaining a TeX system here at ucl, and like many others I suspect
>  am allowing the system to generate all the fonts as needed (via MakeTeXpk).
>  All of these end up jumbled together in the texmf/fonts/tmp/pk directory
>  (under either cx or ljfour). I would quite like to shift the common ones
>  into the appropriate sub directory (texmf/fonts/public/cm/ ..) so that
>  tmp can be deleted on a regular basis. Can someone tell me the
>  standard/most common sizes required ?

You could run a cron job that deletes pk files that haven't been accessed
recently. What's left over will be (by definition) the popular ones, and they
could be moved out to a more permanent location periodically.

Cheers,
Michael

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From: David Carlisle <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:32:12 +0100
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #6

> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:55:34 +0100 (BST)
You'd get a quicker information turn around by asking on comp.text.tex
newsgroup (or the equivalent info-tex mailing list).

>     b - anyone had 'ported' it [dvihps] to work with the kpathsea
>      distribution 

I'm not sure, but if you use the [nativepdf] option to the hyperref
package you can use a standard dvips(k). The pdfmark operators are
written straight to the PS file via literal postscript specials.

>   on hypertex hosted at snorri.chem.washington.edu . This machine
>  does not seem to exist
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