Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:17:52 +0000 From: texhax-admin@tex.ac.uk To: texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest, Vol 1999 #12 - 7 msgs 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 % 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 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 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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