From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #44 Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1883.785769865.1@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 13:24:27 +0000 Message-ID: <1884.785769867@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 25 Nov 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 44 Today's Topics: Re: latex2e for dos Better way of including Ps file? re: LOOKING for ``\multirow'' in TABULAR environment Questions about dvi drivers and previewers MusicTex - need help! Re: pfe as shell for LaTeX Wanted: TeX/LaTeX Installation and Training Parskip into footnotes Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (UK TeX Users Group) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe uktex" or "unsubscribe uktex", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 16:57:14 +0000 From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: latex2e for dos In article , Mark Higgins wrote: >This is I hope the right place to ask this.. Near enough. There is a corresponding mailing list which might have got you a quicker answer -- uktex@tex.ac.uk >Is LaTeX2e in the public domain ?? It is, in the sense that you don't pay a fee to run it, and that the source is available. >if so where can I get a version (I need everything TeX,xdvi,dvips > the lot) that will run on a PC ? Are you talking about a PC running MS-DOG? If so, what X server are you running? There _is_ an xdvi for PCs, but I've no idea what it's capable of. If you're running MS-DOG or Windoze, the gtex distribution (on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex) is well spoken of. I use emtex (.../emtex) which runs under MS-DOG or OS/2 out of the box. If you go for that, upgrade *immediately* with the betatest stuff if you've a 386 or better. The betatest tex386 runs with the stuff in .../dpmigcc under Windoze, though I've never tried it. There's a previewer (not xdvi) with both of those versions. dvips is available from .../msdos/dviware/dvips >I need simple instructions on how to get a copy as I know very little >about installing software !! All the things come with a fair bit of documentation. For emtex there are, in addition, tex-archive/info/setting-up-emtex.tex and installing-emtex.txt. No warranty expressed or implied... LaTeX2e is on tex-archive/macros/latex/base (you need the whole directory). One thing there is emtex.txt, which is emtex-specific installation instructions. >I have looked in the faq at ftp.tex.ac.uk but couldn't find an answer There's a new faq (work in progress, mind you) on tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/faq/newfaq.ps (actually, there are several formats there...). Some of this answer came from my sources of that stuff. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 10:31:10 +0000 From: "S.C. Billy Wu" Subject: Better way of including Ps file? Hi, In LaTeX older than 2.0e, it is always 'fun' to place a PS file in proper postition in a document, using \special. Is ther any better way of locating PS file in a document? Regards, _/_/ Billy Wu Janet: s.c.wu@geo.hull.ac.uk _/ _/_/_/ School of Geog. & Earth Resource _/_/ _/_/_/_/ University of Hull Fax: - 44 - 482 - 466 340 _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ Hull HU6 7RX Telephone: - 44 - 482 - 46 6065 _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/ England, U.K. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 10:20:41 -0400 From: Jerry Leichter Subject: re: LOOKING for ``\multirow'' in TABULAR environment Gabriele Kotsis asks for a way "to produce a table like this in LaTeX:" - ----------------------------- | text | text | text | text | - ----------------------------- | text | | text | text | - -------- text --------------- | text | text | text | text | - -------- text --------------- | text | | text | text | - ----------------------------- My multirow style file does exactly that. Available in the standard archives; runs with either LaTeX Classic or LaTeX2e. -- Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 12:04:17 +0000 From: Jeremy Henty Subject: Questions about dvi drivers and previewers Imperial Software Technology is developing a tool which generates hardcopy using LaTeX and included PostScript. Naturally we would like this output to work on as many TeX systems as possible, so I would be grateful for answers to a few questions. * What are the commonly used previewers and dvi drivers we should aim to support? * Do any of these programs not support either the "psfile=" or "header=" specials? * Is the LaTeX2e "graphics" package going to become the standard graphics interface? Will other packages support its syntax for compatibility? * According to the manual page, xdvi does not "as yet" support "header=" specials. Will it? If so, how soon? * What (if any) are the significant differences between xdvi and xdvik? dvips and dvipsk? Please email responses. Thank you in advance, Jeremy C. Henty jch@ist.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: 21 Nov 1994 15:37:18 +0000 From: zc7t1122@rpool2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Enno Baars) Subject: MusicTex - need help! I'm having some real trouble using Daniel Taupin's MusicTex under LaTex and I thought one of you could perhaps help me... As long as I just typeset music, there's no problem at all, but as soon as I try to put any text into the document as well, LaTex screws up my typeset music. What I tried to do e.g. is this: \input musicnft \documentstyle[bigmusic,musictex,german]{article} \begin{document} \section{Noten} \subsection{Sopran-Solo und Chor} \begin{music} \parindent 2cm \def\nbinstruments{1}\relax \def\instrumenti{Sopran} \generalmeter{\meterfrac 24}\relax \debutmorceau \normal \temps\Notes\ibu0e2\qh0 e\tbu0\qh0 f\enotes\barre .... \finmorceau What happens is that LaTex screws up the first line of music after the \section or \subsection command - the lines of the staff are too short, i.e. the staff ends but there are still bars and notes displayed... Further lines of music are generated correctly. When I leave out the \section or \subsection commands, everything is done correctly, too - but I'd really like to have headings above the score... If you have any ideas on how to solve this problem, please contact me via e-mail, as I unfortunately do not have the time to read this group regularly. Thanks, Enno. /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Enno Baars baars@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de | | Student of Physics, 3rd year | | University of Stuttgart, Germany | \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 13:19:25 +0000 From: M.Piff@shef.ac.uk (Mike Piff) Subject: Re: pfe as shell for LaTeX In article <585.785179441@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.ukD>hsc@eng.cam.ac.uk write s: > Has anyone configure Professional File Editor (a very very good editor >and is free) as a shell for latex? > > Anyone who have configured PFE as a shell for latex, please share your >experience with others like me. Thank you very much. Please post or email >hsc@eng.cam.ac.uk > Our computing services have installed this, but there appear to be problems in adapting it for LaTeX or indeed any other programming language. As far as I can see, it doesn't have a programming language built into it, which is what you would need to program it for something else. Mike Piff ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 18:24:00 +0000 From: Jonathan Fine Subject: Wanted: TeX/LaTeX Installation and Training Here is the text of a letter I received today. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Photo-graphics 184 High Street, Honiton, Devon, EX14 8LA Tel: 0404 44417 Fax: 0404 41539 { 21st November 1994 Dear Mr Fine We are a trade typesetting house in urgent need of help in setting up a TeX department, including the installation of software and training of 2 member of staff. Are you able to put us in touch with someone in our area who could help us, or recommend another means of getting training? I look forward to hearing from you. yours sincerely Jon Hebert - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are able to help yourself, or can recommend someone, please do contact Mr Hebert directly. I have spoken to the production manager, and their main requirement is to have sufficient skills to use clean author supplied LaTeX for production, as an alternative to rekeying. { I have also recommended that they join the UK TeX Users Group, and sent them the forms! Jonathan Fine 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, CB1 3HY Tel: 0223 215389 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 18:27:57 +0000 From: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) Subject: Parskip into footnotes I am getting increasingly allergic to paragraph indents in text that is broken up with many display items, such as technical documentation. The parskip package gets rid of most of these, but footnotes still come a paragraph indent and no paragraph separation space - grrr Does anybody have a style file that addresses this ? 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