TeXhax Digest Wednesday, July 13, 1988 Volume 88 : Issue 63 Moderator: Malcolm Brown Today's Topics: Immoderate Notes: new version of the FONTMEMO available \halign question LaTeX footnotes Re: DVIEW previewer NSF Proposal Tools LATEX: For what paper-sizes are standard styles/options designed? TeX for VAX/VMS and an LN01 Re: marks Crudetype changes for NOS/VE Don Knuth's Oration problem with caption in LaTeX TeX for a PC without hard disk DVI previewer for PC/MS-DOS TeX source for PC/MS-DOS Cyrillic fonts for LN03 printer Driver for a Printronics P600? DVI to Postscript for CMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Malcolm Date: 12 July 1988 Subject: Immoderate Notes: new version of the FONTMEMO available %%% Dominik Wujastyk has submitted a new version of his font memo. It has %%% been prepared for printing with LaTeX. The entire file is nearly %%% 100K in length and is available for FTP via Internet from the machine %%% score.stanford.edu. The file lives under the TOPS20 directory %%% and the file name is "FONTMEMO.TXH". The file contains %%% a total of four submissions to TeXhax: the first two are Dominik's %%% notes on the memo, the third is a LaTeX style and the fourth is the %%% memo itself. %%% I have sent a copy on to the list server at TAMVM1 for the folks on %%% BITNET. %%% Since this version supercedes an earlier version, I'll be deleting the %%% file WUJASTYK.TXH on Score, which contains the previous version. ------------------------------ Date: Mon 4 Jul 88 15:40:41-MDT From: Brent Carruth Subject: \halign question I am trying to typeset an example for a linear algebra class that shows a linear system of equations and the augmented matrix of the linear system side by side. I wish to typeset the linear system using \halign and the augmented matrix using \begin{array}...\end{array}. This is what I do \halign to{preamble \cr ...........................\cr ...........................\cr} % $\left( \begin{array}{rrrrr} ...........................\\ ........................... \end{array} \right)$ where is the width needed to typeset the linear system. However, instead of appearing next to each other horizontally they appear next to each other vertically. A not-so-elegant way of getting the two to line up is to type \hskip \vskip -. How do I tell TeX (or LaTeX) to align the two horizontally by itself? Many thanks Brent Carruth MA.CARRUTH@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 09:06:54 EDT From: HOOVER Subject: LaTeX footnotes I sent this on June 13th but it never made, so here it is again. I am trying to change the placement of footnotes when there is not enough text to fill to the bottom of a page. In the example below I force the figure to start at the top of the next page, there is now white space that occurs on the first page. I would like LaTeX to always flush footnotes to the bottom of the page, instead of putting the footnote right after the text. Has anyone successfully changed this. The output routine for TeX seems to do what I want, but I can not find the appropriate change to do the same in LaTeX. I have been looking at the ouput routines for LaTeX, but am taking the advice about the warning on page 204 of the LaTeX manual regarding \output parameter changes. Here is the example I am using to try to get the footnote on the first page to be flushed at the bottom, rather than right after the text. Anita Hoover University of Delaware Internet : anita@vax1.acs.udel.edu Bitnet : ACS03174 at UDACSVM -------------- \documentstyle [12pt] {report} \begin{document} \chapter{MyDots} The coercive force, $H_{C}$, and the remnant magnetism, $B_{R}$, have been investigated\footnote{This the first note so I will try to make it a long one so that we can see the spacing for footnotes---spread 1, spread 1 for each footnote. This will be the test case for long footnotes.} as a function of temperature and post manufacture processing. A microcomputer based data acquisition system was developed to record and analyze the AC hysteresis cycle as the amorphous materials under go the investigated phase transition from the ferromagnetic state to paramagnetic state. The investigated coercive force is known to be a structure sensitive parameter and is shown A microcomputer based data acquisition system was developed to record and to provide information of microstructural changes occurring. \pagebreak \begin{figure} \vspace*{4in} \caption{A really interesting picture} \end{figure} Materials of the composition $Fe_{X}Ni_{80-X}P_{14}B_{6}$ are studied in the\linebreak as-quenched state and then subjected to thermal annealing and irradiation with 2 MeV protons. \end{document} ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 12:29:38 -0400 (EDT) From: James Zurlo Subject: Re: DVIEW previewer I have been using DVIEW on my PC and am quite pleased with it. My only complaint is that it won't recognize the subdirectories where my .PXL files are stored. Could some one place the source code in some FTPable place? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 11:27:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Morris Subject: NSF Proposal Tools As part of the NSF-sponsored EXPRES project we have created some tools for producing NSF proposals that you may find useful. There is a program that will produce all the standard NSF forms in PostScript. These forms look nicer than a typewriter would produce and can be incorporated into PostScript produced by other systems. With a little work you can produce complete proposals in PostScript and transmit them electronically. The software is written in C, has been tested under Berkeley UNIX, and runs on IBM RT's, SUNS, and VAXes. We have Scribe and TEX templates that incorporate those forms into a complete proposal. If you are interested in getting copies of the software please reply to James.Morris@cs.cmu.edu or Chao-Ping.Yang@andrew.cmu.edu ------------------------------ Date: 6-JUL-1988 12:04:50 GMT From: CCZDGR%VAXH.NOTT.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Subject: LATEX: For what paper-sizes are standard styles/options designed? The following text is a repeat of an entry I submitted in March. I realize that no-one is under any obligation to answer anything but, since I'm still puzzled, I thought I'd re-submit it in the hope that someone might have time to enlighten me this time round. David Rhead ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leslie Lamport (or the typographer he consulted) seems to have gone to a lot of trouble to design the various aspects of the standard LaTeX styles as appropriate for various point sizes. However, I'm not clear about the size of paper for which they were designed. There are various references in TeXhax to 11x8.5 paper, there are references to "margin dimensions measured from a point one inch from the top and side of page" in files like BK10.DOC, and LPLAIN.TEX sets \hsize and \vsize as for 11x8.5. So perhaps the standard styles are designed to do as well as can be expected on 11x8.5 paper. On the other hand, perhaps the styles were designed for reproduction onto paper that is smaller than 11x8.5. For example, \documentstyle[10pt],book- seems to give a text area that is similar to that in "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System". Perhaps the output from \documentstyle[10pt],book- is intended for reproduction onto paper that is similar in size to the paper that Addison-Wesley use for the book. If the standard styles (or some of them) were designed for reproduction onto paper that is smaller than 11x8.5, would it be possible for Leslie to provide us with: - a matrix giving the paper-size for which each of the 4 standard styles and 3 standard point-size option-files were designed - instructions for placing the "text area" onto the specified paper in such a way as to give the effect that the designer intended? (I suppose that, strictly speaking, it may also be necessary to specify the type of binding that the designer assumed.) To avoid future problems, would it be possible for this information to be put in comments in future editions of ART10.DOC, ... , BK12.DOC? I apologise if I'm asking for information that is available in the book or in the relevant files: I've not been able to find it. I also apologise for the quantity of information that I'm requesting: but the designer's work may be wasted if the finished document isn't placed on the paper in the way that the designer intended. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 11:49 EDT From: Subject: TeX for VAX/VMS and an LN01 Hello, I'm new to this list and have never used TeX. Is there a place to get an introduction to it? Also, if possible, I'd like to get TeX for VAX/VMS and an LN01 laser printer. How does one go about it? Thanks in advance, Ted Corning UMass/Boston Computing Services SYSMGR@UMBSKY.BITNET ------------------------------ Subject: Re: marks Date: 5 Jul 88 20:15:49 EDT (Tue) From: harvard!bu-cs!encore!cloud9!jjmhome!lmann@rutgers.edu (Laurie Mann) The problem with marks is not as bad as I thought. My chronic problem with the wrong marks for multi-column text was caused by the fact the each column was treated an a separate page---the text wasn't split by a vsplit. We still have a slight problem when a leveltwoheading appears at the top of a page. The new running head fails to automatically kick in-- we need to force it by doing the following: \vfill\eject \usefirstmarktrue \mark{Foo} \leveltwoheading{Foo} \* We could be killed and our bodies devoured! *** Should we go home? *** No, this is much more exciting! Hacking net address: {harvard,ulowell}!m2c!jjmhome!lmann ** lmann@jjmhome.UUCP Working net address: harvard!anvil!es!Laurie_Mann (Stratus Computer) uS(n)ail: Laurie Mann, Stratus, M22PUB, 55 Fairbanks Blvd, Marlboro, MA 01752 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 88 14:23:51 BST From: Dr R M Damerell (RHBNC) Subject: Crudetype changes for NOS/VE G-H Knauf of the University of Hannover has very kindly given me 2 change files for NOS/VE. Unfortunately these are for Crudetype Version 0, which I discarded in January. I have tried to adapt them so they "ought to" work with Version 1, but I have no facilities for testing the result. All I know is that the program Tangles. When I offer the resulting .PAS file to our (VMS) compiler, it gives only the sort of error one might expect if you try to compile a good program on another machine's pascal compiler. I hope to be at Exeter with a set of discs. After that, I propose to offer copies to the archives at Aston and Stanford and Washington (unless the archive-keepers object, of course). Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jul 88 10:03:10 BST From: stoy%prg.oxford.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK Subject: Don Knuth's Oration Malcolm, I'm happy to try again to send you the ``official'' translation of Don Knuth's Honorary Degree oration. Of course, it may by now be unnecessary, as you may have received several more elegant versions from TeXhax readers! joe stoy ---------------------- PRESENTATION BY THE PUBLIC ORATOR ================================= There is much academic talk in our laboratories and Senior Common Rooms about the computers we use for research. As Juvenal put it, {\it nobody knows his own house better\/} than we know the software we use to programme these machines, Inserting orders in their entrails from without. Such conversations are only gossip, mere swallows twittering in a concert hall. But they have as their foundation the elaborate science of computation which we must master to programme our computers correctly. I said a `science' of computation, but our honorand would rather call it an art. For it is characteristic of an art to work out elegantly an ingenious program which inspires a pleasurable intellectual excitement in the programmer himself and in the critics who review his work. So the honorand I now present should Mathematics and Computation will be awarded. I present Professor Donald Knuth for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science. ADMISSION BY THE CHANCELLOR =========================== Leader of computing scientists, who have taught theory to the mathematicians and conferred widespread practical benefits, I, acting on my own authority and that of the whole University, admit you to the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science. ------------------------------ From: mcvax!crin.crin.fr!masini@uunet.UU.NET Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 12:03:24 +0300 Subject: problem with caption in LaTeX I've got a problem with LaTeX, but maybe I'm just a stupid LaTeXnician (in fact I'm not a smart one). I want to indent the second line of the caption in a figure environment, like this: left margin right margin | | | Figure 3.2. First line of text: | | Second line of text. | So I used a minipage environment included in a mbox: \begin{figure} \vspace{8cm} \caption[]{ \mbox{ \begin{minipage}[t]{5cm} First line of text: \\ Second line of text. \end{minipage} } } \label{f3:code2} \end{figure} When I run LaTeX on a small test file (book style) including two sections, some text around the figure, and another figures before and after this one, everything's ok: I get what I want. But when I insert the figure at its place (i.e. almost the end) in the file containing the real text (about 150 pages) and run LaTeX on the file, the caption looks like that: left margin right margin | | |Figure 3.2.| | First line of text: | | Second line of text. | I don't use any locally defined commands, just LaTeX built-in ones. Anybody has an idea to help me or... another way to get a caption as I've described it ? Please E-mail eventual answers. Thanks in advance, Ge'rald MASINI CRIN (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy) uucp: masini@crin.crin.fr post: CRIN B.P. 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex FRANCE phone: +33 83.91.21.45 ------------------------------ From: kuo%skatter.USask.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 23:15:38 CST Subject: TeX for a PC without hard disk Steve, Regarding your query in TeXHack v88 n59 about getting TeX (or LaTeX) running on a PC without a hard disk. I think it is possible. I am using MicroTeX v1.51 from Addison-Wesley and its manual describes how one can install MicroTeX on a floppy-based system. It says you need a two-floppy system, but for 720-k disks as in your case, I think you can have the minimal files all fit on one disk. The trouble is that A-W is now out of the TeX game (not sure if they no longer deal with TeX programs or just no further support), so I am not sure if you can still order v1.5 from them. I have no experience with PC-TeX (or other p/d or shareware TeX such as CTeX or DosTeX or Turbo-TeX etc) but I would imagine it would be possible to install it without a hard disk. Usually a hard disk is needed when you install a DVI driver as the fonts take up LOTS of room. However, the memory/disk hog might well be LaTeX. Best of luck. Peter/ Peter Kuo | Bitnet (VMS) : KUO@SASK Accelerator Laboratory | Internet : kuo@skatter.USask.Ca (a.k.a. The Beam Warehouse) | uucp (Unix) : !alberta\ Univ. of Saskatchewan | !ihnp4 -- !damask!skatter!kuo Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | !utcsri / CANADA S7N 0W0 | (Earth) | Ma Bell : (306) 966-8528 Disclaimer: I don't know what I am saying, I'm only a physicist. Don't quote me on anything! I speak only for myself. Opus: "Why, fer cryin' out loud..research physicists need Porsches, TOO!!" -- Bloom County ------------------------------ From: kuo%skatter.USask.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 23:18:17 CST Subject: DVI previewer for PC/MS-DOS Just to follow up on a comment by Daniel Keizer (BUSU@Uofmcc.Bitnet) in TeXHack v88 n59 about DVI previewers on PCs. I am not aware of the Dview program, but I have been using a program called CDVI from Wayne Sullivan of the University College in Ireland. I have enclosed below a description of his package and hope is of some interest to other. Following is an edited version (including my own comments) of the mail message I received (June 1987) from the author of the CDVI* programs, Wayne Sullivan (WSULIVAN@IRLEARN.BITNET): ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CDVICGA, CDVIO and CDVIH are programs for making making TeX DVI output visible on the graphics screen of compatible PC's. CDVICGA is for CGA graphics; CDVIO, for Olivetti/ATT 640 by 400 graphics; CDVIH, for Hercules 720 by 348 graphics. Many graphics cards will handle CGA graphics, but the relatively low resolution does not allow much on the screen at one time. If you have access to TeX and can copy DVI files to your PC, then you can see the output with CDVI. The included versions have the 16 Plain TeX fonts built in. These versions will not handle other fonts or too large page size, but magnified Plain TeX fonts are simulated. [easily done using Kermit on PC and VMS.] DVI files are 8 bitbyte files. If they are transferred as text files, CDVI may produce "post error" or IO error 99, indicating that information has been lost. The most common source of trouble with CDVI is a "bad" DVI file. Make sure you have a valid DVI file before you blame CDVI. [make sure you "set file type bianry" in Kermit.] To run the program enter (e.g.) CDVICGA and "CR". If the current screen is not the graphics screen the program will halt as will also happen if there have been errors in transmission of the program file. Otherwise a title page followed by a list of DVI files in the current directory appears. To select a file enter its number as one or two digits and "CR". Instead, one can enter the filename (with or without .DVI). One can change directory by entering . followed by "CR" and following instructions. By entering "CR" by itself one exits the program. Once the program is processing a DVI file, one can use page movement commands and the commands Q (for quit) and N (for New DVI file). These commands do not require "CR". CDVI truncates images outside its page. Some macro packages like to use negative sp unit coordinates, which causes CDVI to truncate the top or left margin of the page. By setting xoffset and voffset in the TEX file it should be possible to correct this, but not if the page dimensions are excessive. See the references to hoffset and voffset in the TeXbook. [I have used a previewer from Textset before and the CDVI programs are *almost* as good, if the author allows font/magnification substitution etc.; this is in the works as I was told. I like the scrolling mode in CDVI *MUCH* better. The programs are written in Turbo Pascal and the author is not prepared to release the source (too bad!).] LDEV1.DVI is a demo file. It is two pages long. Peter Kuo | Bitnet (VMS) : KUO@SASK Accelerator Laboratory | Internet : kuo@skatter.USask.Ca (a.k.a. The Beam Warehouse) | uucp (Unix) : !alberta\ Univ. of Saskatchewan | !ihnp4 -- !damask!skatter!kuo Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | !utcsri / CANADA S7N 0W0 | (Earth) | Ma Bell : (306) 966-8528 ------------------------------ From: kuo%skatter.USask.ca@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Date: Wed, 6 Jul 88 23:21:20 CST Subject: TeX source for PC/MS-DOS I echo Daniel Keizer's (BUSU@Uofmcc.Bitnet) plea for a source of TeX for PC/MS-DOS machines in TeXHack v88 n59. We have heard a lot (both in TeXHack and in TUGBOAT) about all these (neat) ports, but no one seems to know where and how one can get the programs (needless to say the sources!). I have tried to connect some of these authors (for example, Pat Monardo for his Common TeX) but never heard back. Therefore, I (and am sure many others) would appreciate hearing about where and how we can get these programs, especially for sites WITHOUT FTP access. I am also interested in getting the full set of files necessary for doing a TRIP test. Thanks very much. Peter/ Peter Kuo | Bitnet (VMS) : KUO@SASK Accelerator Laboratory | Internet : kuo@skatter.USask.Ca (a.k.a. The Beam Warehouse) | uucp (Unix) : !alberta\ Univ. of Saskatchewan | !ihnp4 -- !damask!skatter!kuo Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | !utcsri / CANADA S7N 0W0 | (Earth) | Ma Bell : (306) 966-8528 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jul 88 13:58:29 GVA From: "John M. Jowett" Subject: Cyrillic fonts for LN03 printer Does anyone have the AMS cyrillic fonts (plus TFM files etc.) for the DEC LN03 printer ? We have the Kellerman and Smith TeX under VMS. Address: LEP Division \\ CERN \\ CH-1211 Geneva 23 \\ Switzerland Telephone: (022) 83 66 43 OR 83 50 86 (secretary) OR 833254 (Division) Telex: 419000 CER CH Telefax: (022) 82 02 21 Location in CERN: Building 30 Room 6-014 (former ISR building) ------------------------------ From: HORNS%DHVIFW1.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Date: Thu, 07 Jul 88 11:06:01 MEZ Subject: Driver for a Printronics P600? WE HAVE JUST INSTALLED A PRINTRONICS P600 LINE PRINTER WHICH HAS LOW- RESOLUTION GRAPHICS CAPABILITIES USING SOME PRINTRONICS PRIVATE GRAPHICS PROTOCOL. CONSINDERING TO USE THIS DEVICE AS A TEX OUTPUT DEVICE FOR PROOF SHEETS ETC., WE ARE INTERESTED TO HEAR WHETHER THERE IS A SUITABLE TEX DRIVER ANYWHERE AVAILABLE ON FREE DOMAIN. WE ARE RUNNING TEX 2.09 ON A VAX COMPUTER SYSTEM UNDER VMS 4.7. A.HORNS INSTITUT FUER FERTIGUNGSTECHNIK UND SPANENDE WERKZEUGMASCHINEN UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER 3000 HANNOVER FRG --- WEST GERMANY ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jul 88 08:47:14 +0300 From: Malki Cymbalista Subject: DVI to Postscript for CMS Does anyone know of a DVI to Postscript driver that runs under VM/CMS? Any information will be appreciated. Thanks. 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