27-Feb-2000 18:22:34-GMT,15667;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from nottingham.ac.uk (jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.193]) by csc-sun.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05125 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:22:31 -0700 (MST) From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk) by nottingham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #2) id 12P8G7-0004vK-00; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:17:53 +0000 Subject: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #12 - 7 msgs Reply-to: texhax@tex.ac.uk X-mailer: Mailman v1.0 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Sender: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk X-Mailman-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-Id: TeX and LaTeX typesetting and related software X-BeenThere: texhax@tex.ac.uk Message-Id: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:17:53 +0000 TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 1999 : Number 12 Today's Topics: 1. two-line header & footer (George A. Stewart) 2. Printing Labels/Envelopes via LaTex (Miles, Mark (Toronto - 22 Front)) 3. TUGboat 20(3) was shipped to the printer last week (Mimi Burbank) 4. Full page figure in a two column article (Yan Wong) 5. Help Windvi (tu@math.uu.nl) 6. Text, pictures, floating and stuff like that (Max Schäfer) 7. gif/bmp/jpeg files for LaTeX (Paul Langdon) ---------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:32:47 -0500 To: heck@cdsxb6.u-strasbg.fr From: "George A. Stewart" Subject: two-line header & footer Cc: texhax@nottingham.ac.uk % Here is a demonstration \def\makeheadline{% \vbox to 0pt {\vskip -25.2888truept % \line {\vbox to11.2888truept {}\the \headline } \vss }\nointerlineskip} \headline={% \tenrm\hbox{% \vbox{% \centerline{Running headline} \vskip 2truept \hrule}}} \def\makefootline{% \baselineskip=24truept \line{\the \footline}} \footline={% \tenrm\hbox{% \vbox{% \hrule \vskip 2pt \centerline{\folio}}}} Sample text follows: This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages 255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages 255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages 255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages 255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages 255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages 255-257 (1986 edition). This material is explained in The TeXbook at pages 255-257 (1986 edition). \vfill\eject\end ---------- Message: 2 From: "Miles, Mark (Toronto - 22 Front)" To: "'texhax@tex.ac.uk'" Subject: Printing Labels/Envelopes via LaTex Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 14:59:29 -0500 charset="iso-8859-1" I wonder if you help with a problem I'm having with a 3rd part vendor's software that uses LaTex to print labels and Envelopes. The software we use access a database to pull a list of names and address to print labels, when we print the resulting output produced for 11,000 labels reaches 317mb BUT if we performed the same task from Word and a Visual Basic app the resulting spool file is only 13mb for the same number of files. The vendors has said its how LaTex works and there is nothing that can be done but I can not accept that as an answer. If this is true then we will have to skip using LaTex and write our own code. Could this be a bug that was fixed? The vendor has not told us what version there using but I found this string in one of the log files. (format=latex 96.9.25) 25 SEP 1996 09:53 **port0.tex (port0.tex LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3 if you can reply to the return address and to milesfam@idirect.com Thank You Mark Miles ---------- Message: 3 From: Mimi Burbank Subject: TUGboat 20(3) was shipped to the printer last week To: tug-board@tug.org, tub-prod@mailer.scri.fsu.edu, office@tug.org, texhax@tex.ac.uk, tex-eds@nic.surfnet.nl, tug-pub@tug.org Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:31:15 -0500 (EST) Hello everyone - Merry Christmas and Happy New year! I didn't get this together last week, but the files were shipped to Cadmus on Thursday the 22nd of December... Mimi Burbank (for the TUGboat production team) -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -- TUGboat Volume 20, Number 3 / September 1999 ================================ Editorial Overview Christina~Thiele Vancouver in August 155 TUG'99 Program 160 TeX and Math on the Web Stephen A. Fulling Keynote: TeX and the Web in the higher education of the future: Dreams and difficulties 162 Patrick D.F. Ion MathML: A key to math on the Web 167 Douglas Lovell TeXML: Typesetting XML with TeX 176 Paul Topping Using MathType to create TeX and MathML equations 184 Chris Rowley Models and languages for formatted documents 189 D.P. Story TeX: Acrobat and TeX team up 196 Customizing Document Layout Jean-luc Doumont Doing it my way: A lone TeXer in the real world 202 Peter Flynn The vulcan package: A repair patch for LaTeX 208 David Carlisle, Frank Mittelbach, and Chris Rowley New interfaces for LaTeX class design, Parts I and II 214 TeX in Publishing Kaveh Bazargan Multi-use documents: The role of the publisher 217 Frederick H. Bartlett Very like a nail: Typesetting SGML with TeX 221 Harry Payne Making a book from contributed papers: Print and Web versions 222 Robert L. Kruse Managing large projects with PreTeX: A preprocessor for TeX 227 Arthur Ogawa Database publishing with Java and TeX 231 Paul A. Mailhot Implementing dynamic cross-referencing and PDF with PreTeX 232 Hu Wang A Web-based submission system for meeting abstracts 237 Petr Sojka Hyphenation on demand 241 Jonathan Fine Active TeX and the DOT input syntax 248 Fonts, Graphics, and New Developments Jean-luc Doumont Drawing effective (and beautiful) graphs with TeX 255 Wendy McKay and Ross Moore Convenient labelling of graphics, the WARMreader way 262 Sergey Lesenko and Laurent Siebenmann Viewing DVI files with Acrobat Reader---DVIPDF gives birth to AcroDVI 272 Alan Hoenig MathKit: Alternatives to Computer Modern Mathematics 282 Fabrice Popineau fpTeX: A teTeX-based distribution for Windows 290 Jeffrey McArthur Managing TeX software development projects 299 Timothy Murphy Java and TeX 309 Poster Exhibition Christina Thiele Text of `The Apocalypse' as graphics by Prof. Alban Grimm 316 Prof. Alban Grimm Text of `The Apocalypse'as graphics 318 Workshops Eitan Gurari and Sebastian Rahtz LaTeX to XML/MathML 320 D.P. Story How to create quality interactive PDF documents for the WWW using LaTeX 321 Michael Doob Writing class files: First steps 322 Anita Hoover Converting a LaTeX 2.09 style to a LaTeXe class 323 Panels Stephen A. Fulling, Moderator TeX and math on the Web 324 Kaveh Bazargan, Moderator TeX in publishing 325 Arthur Ogawa, Moderator The Future of LaTeX 326 News & Announcements Calendar 329 TUG2000--- The 21st Annual Conference 154 GUTenberg 2000---LaTeX and XML: Cooperating with the Internet 331 Cartoon Roy Preston An Analogy with Web Sites 330 TUG Business TUG'99 Attendees 327 Institutional members 332 TUG membership application 333 Advertisements TeX consulting and production services 334 Cambridge University Press 335 Y&Y Inc. 336 Blue Sky Research c3 ================================ ---------- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:38:51 -0700 (MST) From: Yan Wong Reply-To: Yan Wong To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Full page figure in a two column article Hello, I'm wondering if anybody can help me with a problem I'm having. I cannot find the solution to this problem anywhere on the web. I'm trying to write a two-column article using LaTeX2e and I'm having trouble outputting two things within the article: a title that spans both columns, and a full page figure (that also, obviously, spans both columns). For the figure, I tried inserting the /onecolumn command just before my figure but the previous page breaks at an awkward spot. I know the /afterpage package doesn't work in the two-column mode. Is there anything else I can do? As for the title that spans two columns, I am clueless. Thanks in advance for any help that is offered or for any nudge in the right direction. Yan ---------- Message: 5 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:49:02 +0100 (MET) From: To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Help Windvi Cc: tu@math.uu.nl Dear Sir, I have installed Texlive from CD-Rom (the newest version)into my PC, under Windows 98 including WinEditor program. Everything was going well, except that I could not view dvi file inside Texshell (I could run Tex succesfully) as well as inside Winedt. 1) After running Tex, I click into Preview icon, windvi opened and closed immediately, although Windvi can run well independently (means outside Texshell or Winedt). Looked at Programs Call, everything fixed well. 2) Inside Winedt, after runing tex successfully, I clicked into the "Dvi Preview" line in the Accessories menu, nothing happended. Then I clicked "Dvi Search", it said that the program "yap.exe" could not be found. I went into the files Winedt.ini in the Winedt directory and changed the lines contating those programs. Namely, I changed "yap.exe "into "windvi.exe" and "YAP" into "WINDVI". Then, running Winedt again, but Dvi Preview still did not work. This time, when I clicked into "Dvi Search", the error line did not appear, but Windvi opened and closed immediately ( it looked as the same problem as Texshell). I do not know how to solve this. Could you please be so kind to help me to correct this problem? If anything is still not clear, please let me explain more. Thank you very much in advance. Yours respectively, N. Tu ---------- Message: 6 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:37:49 +0100 From: "Max Schäfer" To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Text, pictures, floating and stuff like that Hi folks! I'm using pdfTeX with MiKTeX under Win32, but I think my problem ain't pdf-specific. One smallish remark ahead: Maybe this problem isn't such a problem at all, just a typical, foolish newbie-question, maybe it has been around on this mailing list a couple of times already, but perhaps even you TeX-gurus remember the time when you were new to TeX, so, could you please reply nevertheless? ThanX ;-) OK, here we go: I'm trying to format text in three columns (in landscape, but that's the smallest problem) and to put in a picture at a fixed position. Now I want my text to float around that picture, which means that the first column has to be slimmed down in its middle, the middle column has to be interrupted and the right column has to be indented. Perhaps this explanation isn't too clear, so I'll try to include a rough ASCII-draft ('T' representing text, 'P' representing picture) of how it should look like: TTT TTT TTT TTPPPPPPPTT TTPPPPPPPTT TTT TTT TTT First, I considered using \parshape, but besides that I couldn't persuade it to leave some lines blank (in the middle column), the alignment of the right- resp. left-indented columns was awful, some words even sticked out into the picture. So I dropped that idea (and also dropped multicol, which I was using, too) and began fiddling around with the \output-routine. My idea was to make TeX believe it was writing to a set of relatively small pages and thus letting it perform pagebreaks according to this imagination, then save those small pages to boxes and finally putting them together to a real page. The individual sub-pages would have been: +---+---+---+ |TTT|TTT|TTT| +---+---+---+ +--+ +--+ |TT| |TT| |TT| |TT| +--+ +--+ +---+---+---+ |TTT|TTT|TTT| +---+---+---+ Now you all surely have begun to feel pity with me (I hope :-) because you already know what pitfall I dropped into. Well, I _knew_ that I couldn't just change the pagesize inside the output routine and hope it would fit. I had read in the TeXbook that, to make these changes take effect, I had to unpack \box255 and put it back onto the vertical list. I also found a macro there, which claimed to do the box-unpacking, but I failed to make it work :-( Now, do you think I'm heading in a completely wrong direction? Is there any simpler solution? Please tell me if you know one! But if there isn't, would anybody be so kind to give me at least a sketch of an \output-macro, that, after setting the pagesize, does unpacking and pushing back? That would be really great! -- Max PS: You know, it is kind of urgent and if I can't find a solution soon, I'll perhaps have to use some WYSIWYG-tool ... urghhh =:-() ---------- Message: 7 From: "Paul Langdon" To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: gif/bmp/jpeg files for LaTeX Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:12:46 GMT Hi LaTeX gurus, Can a GIF/BMP or JPEG file be incorporated into a LaTeX document much like an EPS or eepic file generated via xfig could be inserted in \begin{figure} \psfig{figure=file.eps,width=...,height=...} It's easy to do this under Word, Adobe, etc but I wonder if there is an equivalent for using file.gif, file.bmp, file.jpg in LaTeX ... Thanks Paul ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------- About TeXhax... 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Send TeXhax mailing list submissions to texhax@tex.ac.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the web, visit http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/texhax or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to texhax-request@tex.ac.uk You can reach the person managing the list at texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk End of TeXhax Digest 1-Jun-2000 8:48:27-GMT,16402;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from nottingham.ac.uk (jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.40.193]) by csc-sun.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA01232 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 02:48:25 -0600 (MDT) From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=jess.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk) by nottingham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #2) id 12xQZg-0001SQ-00; Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:43:49 +0100 Subject: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #13 - 9 msgs Reply-to: texhax@tex.ac.uk X-mailer: Mailman v1.0 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Sender: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk X-Mailman-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-Id: TeX and LaTeX typesetting and related software X-BeenThere: texhax@tex.ac.uk Message-Id: Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:43:49 +0100 TeXhax Digest ________________________________________ Volume 1999 : Number 13 Today's Topics: 1. Re: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #12 - 7 msgs (Donald Arseneau) 2. Re: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #12 - 7 msgs (Dr Engelbert Buxbaum) 3. theorem.sty (Serkan Impram) 4. Global variables (Roger Price) 5. Plain text from LaTeX (Roger Gawley) 6. LaTeX printing question (Goode, Kenny) 7. Migration form WBiBdB to what (on Linux) ? (Massimo Pinto) 8. Roman type Greek letters (Igor Katkov) 9. psfonts (andrej t. hocevar) ---------- Message: 1 To: Yan Wong , texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #12 - 7 msgs Organization: TRIUMF: Canada's national meson facility From: Donald Arseneau Date: 28 Feb 2000 01:39:34 -0800 The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.text.tex as well. In Texhax Volume 1999 : Number 12, "Max Schäfer" wrote: > format text in three columns > put in a picture at a fixed position. Now I want my text to > float around that picture, which > means that the first column has to be slimmed down in its middle, the > middle column has to be interrupted and the right column has to be > indented. Using wrapfig to span multiple columns ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wrapfig can't automatically make matching cutouts in adjacent columns because it doesn't know which text will land in just the right place in the column next-door. It certainly can't handle floating in such situations! Here are some methods for doing such layout "by hand". They are practical for one or a few such figures where you can tweak the layout for the final copy. It is too painful to do this for long or frequently-revised documents. If you do have multiple fiddling, fix the first one in each chapter (or after any forced page break), rerun, then fix the second, etc. (These examples use calc.sty to evaluate overhangs in place.) Cutouts in Matching Columns ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Y ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Initially, write the document without the wrapfigure, and locate the desired natural linebreak at "X". (This first step is used for all methods described here.) Then change to ~~~~~~~~X \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{r}[.5\width+.5\columnsep]{6cm} ... \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~.... and run LaTeX again. This will print the figure overlapping the right column, but no matter. Use this run to locate position "Y" in the text. For the final run, switch to: ~~~~~~~~X \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{r}[.5\width+.5\columnsep]{6cm} ... \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~.... ...~~~~~~~Y \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{l}[.5\width+.5\columnsep]{6cm} \vfill \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~~~~~~~~ Taking a whole column plus a cutout ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Y ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Locate "X" first, without any figure, as above, then write the document like: ~~~~~~~~X \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{r}[\columnwidth+\columnsep]{9cm} ... \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~.... and ignore the overprinting of the right column. Then, after locating "Y" in the text, switch to: ~~~~~~~~X \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{r}[\columnwidth+\columnsep]{9cm} ... \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~.... ...~~~~~~~Y\vspace{6\baselinskip} ~~~~~~~~~~~ for the final layout a whole column preceding a cutout ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Y ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After locating "X", write the draft document like: ~~~~~~~~X\vspace{6\baselinskip} ~~~~.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ run LaTeX to locate "Y", and then switch to: ~~~~~~~~X\vspace{6\baselinskip} ~~~~.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~Y \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{l}[\columnwidth+\columnsep]{9cm} ... \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~~~~~~ Spanning (parts of) three columns ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Z ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This uses a combination of the above. First locate X, then use ~~~~~~~~X \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{r}[.5\width+.5\columnwidth+\columnsep]{12cm} ... \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~.... Locate Y from this, and change to ~~~~~~~~X \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{r}[.5\width+.5\columnwidth+\columnsep]{12cm} ... \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~Y\vspace{6\baselineskip} ~~~~~~~.... which allows you to locate Z, to end up with ~~~~~~~~X \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{r}[.5\width+.5\columnwidth+\columnsep]{12cm} ... \end{wrapfigure} ~~~~.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~Y\vspace{6\baselineskip} ~~~~~~~.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~Z \begin{wrapfigure}[6]{l}[.5\width+.5\columnwidth+\columnsep]{12cm} \vfill \end{wrapfigure} Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca ---------- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:05:25 +0300 From: Dr Engelbert Buxbaum To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #12 - 7 msgs > Subject: Printing Labels/Envelopes via LaTex > The solution which I prefer is to print the address onto the letter and then use envelopes with windows, through wich the address can be seen (available from any good stationary store in all common formats). The KOMA-Script package contains a scr-letter class that does this nicely, including use of address data banks for serial letters. Compared to the label solution this saves a lot of hassle, prevents a letter from being baged into an envelope with the wrong label (I have recieved those!) and gives a much more professional looking result. > Subject: Help Windvi > WinEdt is set up by its author to work with MikTeX (and its DVI viewer YAP), and it does so quite flawlessly, as I can attest from constant use. So if you have a good Web access, I would suggest you download MikTeX from your friendly neighbourhood CTAN server and use that. I am sure that there is a way to set everything up with other TeX distributions, but I have never done it. > Subject: gif/bmp/jpeg files for LaTeX > This depends on the DVI driver you are using. I have used JPEG pictures with dvipdfm, which creates PDF-files from DVI. As I use TeX to create student manuals for publication on the net, this is ideal for me. If you want to go this route, you have to convert any EPS files you may still have left into PDF first (as dvipdfm can not use EPS). This can be achieved with epstopdf from the Ghostscript site or with Photoshop and has the additional advantage of creating much smaller files. But now I have two question of my own: How can I tell LaTeX to put an image on a given position of the page (specifically topmost left corner for a logo)? Idealy, TeX should then forget that the picture is there at all, and typeset the rest of the page as if it were not. Can this be done? Also: In report class, can a picture be placed on the title page? The obvious solution \begin{abstract} \begin{figure} \includegraphics{titlepicture.eps} \end{figure} \end{abstract} \maketitle leads to the picture printed on a separate page before the titlepage, even with the H option of the float package. Definetly not what I want. Thanks for any ideas Engelbert Buxbaum ---------- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 11:40:10 +0000 From: Serkan Impram Organization: csc, umist To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: theorem.sty hi, i'm using the theorem.sty file but i cannot change the line spacing settings it uses by default - the spacings it leaves before and after a , say a theorem or lemma. how can i force it to leave exactly one blank line before and after the theorem (or lemma or definiton) irrespective of what is before and after the theorem ? could you please help me if you know a solution ? thanks in advance, serkan. ---------- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:13:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Roger Price To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Global variables Dear List, I use teTeX (tetex-0.4pl8-11.src.rpm). I am trying to define a LaTeX class in which two environments A and B communicate via global variables (booleans). I wish to check that the environments are being used in the correct order. In the main code section of the class file (see the LaTeX Companion p.468) I declare three booleans: \newboolean{P@rt0} \setboolean{P@rt0}{true} % Initial value = true \newboolean{P@rt1} % Initial value = false \newboolean{P@rt2} % Initial value = false and a command which will check that A and B are in the correct order. The first argument is the number of the previous part, the second is the number of the current part. \newcommand{\CheckOrder}[2]{\ifthenelse{\boolean{P@rt#1}} {\setboolean{P@rt#2}{true} \typeout{Correct order.} } {\setboolean{P@rt#2}{true} \typeout{Incorrect order.} }} The environment declarations are \newenvironment{A}{\CheckOrder{0}{1}}{} \newenvironment{B}{\CheckOrder{1}{2}}{} The document instance contains the environments in the correct order: \begin{document} \begin{A} Hello \end{A} \begin{B} World \end{B} \end{document} xdvi shows the correct "Hello World", but the console output is: Correct order. Incorrect order. Why can't environments A and B communicate with each other? Is this because P@rt0, P@rt1 and P@rt2 are not global variables? How does one create global variables in LaTeX? My apologies if this is a FAQ. Any help would be much appreciated. Roger rprice@cs.uml.edu ---------- Message: 5 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:10:32 +0100 (BST) From: Roger Gawley To: texhax@nottingham.ac.uk Subject: Plain text from LaTeX We have a demand to word-count LaTeX documents. Leaving aside issues like just what is a word, we have several thoughts involving such routes as dvitype of latex2html. Does anyone have or know of either a program to count the word in a latex document or (even better) a program to extract a plain text representation from a dvi file? Roger Gawley IT Service Durham University ---------- Message: 6 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:55:38 -0400 From: "Goode, Kenny" Subject: LaTeX printing question To: "'texhax@tex.ac.uk'" To someone smarter than me, Is there a way to add a printer to the list of printers found in the Windows NT version of LaTeX? In other programs, such as PageMaker, you add a PostScript Printer Definition file to the program directory structure and it picks up the printer to add to the list. I'm trying to print to a Xerox DocuTech 65 laser printer. It wants to use 1200 dpi graphics support. If I select a 1200 dpi printer such as a Varityper, my printed text is correct, but it's white text in black boxes. If you have a suggestion, I'd be very pleased to hear back from you. Thanks much in advance, Kenny Goode ---------- Message: 7 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:40:02 +0100 To: texhax@tex.ac.uk From: "Massimo Pinto" Subject: Migration form WBiBdB to what (on Linux) ? Hello, as I am beggining to use LaTeX on my laptop running Linux, I was wondering what' your opinion on a Bibliography data base package, holding BiBTeX archives, that does approximately the same job as WBiBdB for Windows32s. I have also used EndNote just for downloading a reference from a Web-medical database, PubMed. This feature is very convenient and it would be nice to know whether the application that you will suggest has got such a functionality as well, or may be it can be implemented? All the best Massimo -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- Massimo Pinto Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust P.O. box 100 Mount Vernon Hospital Northwood Middx HA6 2JR United Kingdom ph: +44(0)1923.828611 fax: +44(0)1923.835210 pinto@graylab.ac.uk -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------- ---------- Message: 8 Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 12:02:30 +0400 (MSD) From: Igor Katkov Reply-To: Igor Katkov To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Roman type Greek letters Hello! Could anyone tell whether it's possible to make Greek letters look like Roman type? Should I look for special font (if it exists?) with such symbols or are there other ways to settle the problem? Thank You very much. All the best, Igor ---------- Message: 9 From: "andrej t. hocevar" To: Subject: psfonts Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 16:26:32 +0200 charset="iso-8859-1" hey, could someone, please, tell me how to configure my emtex latex2e to understand that i want to use ps fonts? i have downloaded several packages for this reason but i somehow don't seem to be smart enough to make them work. the readmes and other documentation usualy says something like move the ... files to a directory, where tex can find them and so on. i cannot do it. i won't work. which are the directories? which directory structure is to be used? or do i simply move the files in question to the _ directory? and what are the commands, then? thank you very much. i know this can be a painful question. thank's again. ---------- About TeXhax... 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